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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, January 12, 1960 CADET SLOUCH Solon Advocates Keeping Service Dependents Home By TEX EASLEY Associated Press Special Service WASHINGTON, D. C. —lo west Texas Rep. J. T. Ruther ford, a World War II combat Ma rine, says the high cost of main taining U. S. forces abroad could be greatly reduced without sacri ficing security. One way, he says, would be to keep Army and Air Force wives and children at home—a policy followed by the Marines with re spect to its personnel overseas. Another would be to cut down or eliminate what he called “luxury frills and teen-age canteens.” “We are required by our own people to keep up these costly practices,” he said. Although not a member of the House Armed Services Commit- Anderson Writes Article for Book A paper by Dr. John Q. Ander son, professor in the Department of English, is the title article in And Horn on the Toads, a book of folklore published recently by the Texas Folklore Society. Anderson’s study of the facts and folklore of horned toads is the first of 21 articles on Texas, Spanish and Southwestern folk lore by well-known Texas folk lorists and students. And Horns on the Toads is the twenty-ninth volume of folklore issued by the Texas Folklore So ciety and is the largest collection of its kind in the nation.- The book is edited b Dr. Mody Boat- right and Dr. Wilson Hudson, both of the University of Texas, and Allen Maxwell of Southern Methodist University and is pub lished by the SMU Press. Andersens, a specialist i n American literature, is the au thor of books and articles on lit-. erature, history, and folklore, and was president of the.Texas Folk lore Society in 1955-56 when its annual meeting was held on the A&M campus. He is the repre sentative of the group to the Texas Heritage Foundation. tee, Rutherford, a resident of Odessa, keeps himself informed on the military situation. A cap tain in the Marine reserves, he attends a weekly reserve meeting when Congress is in session. He recently returned from a two- week active duty tour which took him to American military bases in Germany, Spain and Turkey. A consistent foe of foreign aid, Rutherford said he saw nothing abroad which would cause him to vote for such appropriations next year. “That isn’t in my field of study, however,” he continued. “ I did not go into the expenditures of European countries with military aid money we appropriate. My tour was limited to operations at our own bases.” Acknowledging that the idea of requiring families of Army and Air Force personnel to remain at home would stir protests, Ruther ford suggested this objection could be partially met by reduc ing the leng'th of time a man is required to serve abroad. Under the present . order of things, he said, location of a large Air Force or Army base abroad results also in creation of a vir tual American city . . . housing for the families, schools for the children, hospital care, and serv ices found in any community. He said still another reason for the high cost of maintaining American forces overseas is be cause “foreign powers where we locate requires us to spend much more than we should. We over build and we take up lands in ex cess of our needs.” He would get around that cost by putting more money into com bat-ready naval units, such as the Mediterranean fleet. “The seas are free,” he declar ed. “We would have to ask per mission of NO one, pay NO rent. “There are also some other ad vantages in addition to economy. A moving fleet would NOT be near the target as is a fixed in stallation. Yet, with missile launching ships it constitutes a powerful strinking force.” 'nmdjmtA Follow the AGGIES at home and away...over ■d)/7\ 1240 kc. (JouAe, mileA ahead wick | Mobil THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent winters only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Member Student Pui K. J. Koenig, School E. D. McMurry, School rs of the Student Publications Board are L. rblications, chairman ; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School lig. School of Engineering ; Otto R. Kunze, Schc of V, ' ■ R. eterinary Medicine. L. A. Duewall, director of of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. School of Agriculture; and Dr. The Battalion Station, Texas, September through n, a student newspaper at Te: daily except Saturday, Sunday, gh May, and once a week durii at Texas A.&M. published in and Monday, and holida y. ng summer school. 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YMCA, News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor Bob Weekloy Sports Editor Robbie Godwin News Editor Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor Ben Trail, Bob Sloan Assistant News Editors Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tomrhy Holbein, Bob Saile, Al Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers Joe Jackson..-. Photographer “Why couldn’t we have a Sixth Man in basketball like we have a 12th Man in football so we could stand up during the basketball games, too?” On Other Campuses By Alan Payne Baylor The Baylor “frat rats” really had a big time last weekend while we were all sitting around in the dorms thinking about our girls back home (or maybe just girls in general). . They observed what is known as “Corrigan Weekend.” This is a weekend, held annually, in which the girls date the boys and all other leap year customs are observed. The girls called up the boys for any and all dates, made ar rangements for them, picked the boys up, opened all doors, pro vided all transportation (even did the driving) and picked up the bills. A Daisy Mae-Li’l Abner race, a basketball game and two all college dances were scheduled for the weekend. Meanwhile back at the ranch, we just kept sitting around and thinking (or cogtating, which ever the case may be.) TWU Our “sisters” up at Denton are also getting pretty worked over leap year. They have even looked up the history of the custom and AGGIES We Will Buy For CASH All Second Semester Books cjCoupot J '^MIUJREN UNDE*I2Y€A8S-f R£E TUESDAY “CAST A LONG SHADOW’ With Audie Murphy Plus “MARDI GRAS” With Pat Boone TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY 2a Show Opens 6 p. m. TODAY THRU THURSDAY JobfUjw «Urrtnc iv RQBERT STACK ^ MARINA pavan MACDONALD CAREY ERIN O'BRIEN found that it was a law back in the 1660’s that a woman had a right to make any advances she wanted to during leap year and a man HAD to respect this right. Can’t you just imagine how torn up the men were over this fact ? The Tessies don’t have any pos itive plans announced for the year but they might not find too many objections down here if they want to try to bring back the good ’ole days (the 1660’s.) Social Whirl Tuesday The University Dames Club will have their PHT (Putting Hubby Through) Party at 8 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA. Plans for the sweetheart dinner dance will also be discussed. WRONG TIME, SITE NORMAN, Okla. (A 5 )—An em barrassed coed at the University of Oklahoma is driving a car with the sign “Just Married” lettered in almost unremovable paint. She attended the wedding of a friend and her car was decorated by mis take. Six members of the Depart ment of Plant Physiology and Pathology faculty will take part in a series of technical confer ences to be held today through Friday at Memphis, Tenm They are Dr. W. C. Hall, head of the department; and Dr. Joseph Hacskaylo, Dr. Charles Miller, Dr. L. S. Bird, Cyrill Blackmon and Jim Hefner. The meetings include the Cot ton Disease Council, Cotton De foliation and Physiology Confer ence, Cotton Improvement Con ference and the Beltwide Cotton First Baptist Picks Interim Pastor The First Baptist Church of College Station has invited Dr. John P. Newport, professor of philosophy of religion at South western Baptist Theological Sem inary in Fort Worth to serve as pastor during the interim period in which the church seeks a pas tor. The Rev. Dr. Newport will maintain his teaching duties at the seminary during the week and be with the church for pas toral duties on the weekend. Elected to serve on the pulpit committee to seek a permanent pastor are Dr. Vance Edmond son, Dr. R. O. Berry, Bill Lancas ter, Mrs. A. B. Kennerly and Mrs. Bardin Nelson. Serving as alternates are Jim Lawhon and Mrs. A. M. Sorenson. Civilian Student Portrait Dates Set Civilian Students will have their portrait made for The Ag- gieland ’60 at the Aggieland Studio between the hours of 8 a*m. and 5 p.m. according to the following schedule. Coats' and ties should be worn. Civilian Senior and Graduates (Including Jr. and Sr. Vet Med., 5th Year Architects) Jan. 11-12 E-K Jan. 13-14 L-R Jan. 18-19 S-Z WEDNESDAY ONLY 2 TRIANGLE Dinners For The Price Of One Clip The Below Coupon And Your Koomate, Date, Wife, Etc. Will Eat FREE Good For Any Dinner On Menu TONIGHT 5 P.M. - 8 P.M. ONLY COUPON ENTITLES HOLDER O 9 TRIANGLE DINNERS FOR “ The Price Of One Offer Good For Dinners Only Triangle Restaurant 3608 S. College Production and Mechanization Conference. flail will present a paper on “A Ten-Year Survey of Harvest Aid Chemicals and Guides for Use on Cotton in 1960”; Hacs kaylo will discuss “Phorate Ac cumulation by Cotton Plants and Its Recovery from the Soil”; Miller will talk on “Radiochem ical Studies with Ethylene”; and Bird will give papers on “De veloping Cottons Immune to Bac terial Blight” and “Do We Have A Bacterial Wilt Or A Bacterial Decline Disease of Cotton?” See The Amazing Otis McDonald’s OLYMPIA Typewriter TA 2-1328 Bryan Business Machines with MKShuiman (Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, ‘ Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) The Many HAIL TO THE DEAN! Today let us examine that much maligned, widely mistiwter- stood, grossly overworked, wholly dedicated campus figure-— the dean. The dean (from the Latin dednere—to expel) is not, as many think, primarily a disciplinary officer. He is a counselor and guide, a haven and refuge for the troubled student. The dean (from the Greek deanos—to skewer) is characterized chiefly by sympathy, wisdom, patience, forbearance, and a fondness for homely pleasures like barn-raisings, gruel, spelldowns, and Marlboro Cigarettes. The dean (from the German deangemacht —to poop a party) is fond of Marlboros for the same reason that all men of good will are fond of Marlboros—because Marlboro is an honest cigarette. Those better makin’s are honestly better, honestly aged to the peak of perfection, honestly blended for the best of all possible flavors. The filter honestly filters. Marlboro honestly comes in two different containers—a soft pack which is honestly soft, and a flip-top box which honestly flips. You too will flip when next you try an honest Marlboro, which, one honestly hopes, will be soon. But I digress. We were learning how a dean helps under graduates. To illustrate, let us take a typical case from the files of Dean S. of the University of Y......... (Oh, why be so mysterious? The dean’s name is Sigafoos and the Univer sity is Yutah.) §.:M wm Jr Wise, kindly Dean Sigafoos was visited one day by a fresh man named Walter Aguincourt who came to ask permission to marry one Emma Blenheim, his dormitory laundress. To the dean the marriage seemed ill-advised, for Walter was only 18 and Emma was 91. Walter agreed, but said he felt obligated to go through with it because Emma had invested her life savings in a transparent rain hood to protect her from the mist at Niagara Falls where they planned to spend their honeymoon. What use, asked Walter, would the poor woman have for a rain hood in Yutah? The wise, kindly dean pondered briefly and came up with an answer: let Walter punch holes in the back of Emma’s steam iron; with steam billowing back at the old lady, she would find a rain hood very useful—possibly even essential. Whimpering with gratitude, Walter kissed the dean’s Phi Beta Kappa key and hastened away to follow his advice which, it pleasures me to report, solved matters brilliantly. Today Emma is a happy woman—singing lustily, wearing her rain hood, eating soft-center chocolates, and ironing clothes— twice as happy, to be candid, than if she had married Walter. .. . And Walter? He is happy too. Freed from his liaison with Emma, he married a girl much nearer his own age—Agnes Yucca, 72. Walter is now the proud father—stepfather, to be perfectly accurate—of three fine healthy boys from Agnes’s first marriage—Everett, 38; Willem, 43; and Irving, 55—and when Walter puts the boys in Eton collars and takes them for a stroll in the park on Sunday afternoons, you may be sure there is not a dry eye in Yutah.. . . And Dean Sigafoos? He too is happy— happy to spend long, tiring days in his little office, giving counsel without stint and without complaint, doing his bit to set the young, uncertain feet of his charges on the path to a brighter tomorrow. @ I960 Max Shulmao We don't say that Marlboro is the dean of filter cigarettes, but it’s sure at the head of the class. Try some—or if you prefer mildness without filters, try popular Philip Morris from the same makers. PEANUTS By Charles M. SchuLs PEANUTS (ooTOVSEOSiy HAPPV'!J Y