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THE BATTALION PAGE 2 Friday, January 22, 1960 College Station, Texas BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best Deserves Succtz&s— Fears God and Honors Man; Is Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion or Creed of Power . . . Walter Williams REMEMBER ('! SHAFFERS Will Buy ALL YOUB BOOKS For CASH SHAFFER’S BOOK STORE OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 5:30 WE WILL BE OPEN BETWEEN SEMESTERS THE BATTALION Oymions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers 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. Members of idee K. J. Koenig, E. D. Hf the Student Publicati chairman ; Dr of Engineering Student Publications, oenig. School of Engi McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. lications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of . A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. g; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. student newi The Battalio: ,l *» tion, September through May, and once an, a Station. Texas, daily except Satu spaper at Texas A.&M. is published rday, Sunday, and Monday, and holid i week during summer school. ay periods. ered as second-class tter at the Post Office College Station, Texas, ler the Act of Con- ss of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n. Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago. Los An geles and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled epontaneou in are alsi he dispatches cred onta ted to it or not otl ous origin published herein, are also reserved. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semest Advertising rate furnished on request. College Station, Texas. news of ere- er, $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Address: The Battalion Room 4, 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 1 EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor Bob Weekley Sports Editor Robbie Godwin News Editor Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor Ben Trail, Bob Sloan Assistant News Editors Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Saile, A1 Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers Joe Jackson Photographer Russell Brown. CHS Correspondent CADET SLOUCH II by Jim Earl* Old Goodnight College in Panhandle An Ex Speaks It would behoove all students at Texas A&M—freshmen, sophomores and perhaps juniors and seniors—to read and weigh closely the contents of the letter below. ^ The letter was written by an Aggie-ex, Bill McLaughlin of the Class of ’58 who is now a landscape architect in Hous ton. It was addressed primarily to the freshman class in the Corps of Cadets, but the letter emphasizes numerous truths for all classes to consider. The letter: “To Those Concerned: “I hear some of you young men are planning on ending your career at Aggieland. May I ask why? “Are your studies somewhat harder than they were last year, or last week, or even yesterday? Did someone do or say something that made you realize that you were not as great a guy as you thought? Are your problems just too great for you to handle? Is your sweetheart or love too far away? “How very sorry I am for you young gentlemen. Do you really, honestly and deeply believe that your studies, hurt pride, or other trivial problems at Aggieland will be the worst you have to encounter in future days? If you do, you have a rude awakening coming. “And that girl: are you going to expect her to turn away from every problem as you do when you face them to gether later in life? “So you are going to throw away all you have worked for up to now, simply because you cannot face a problem squarely and solve it by yourself. Such an early start in life to begin running away from life’s problems.! But it is always easier for ‘little boys’ to run away from something that is hard to encounter. “You came to Texas A&M to become a man. So stay at Texas A&M in the Corps of Cadets and become a man or be the boy you are and start running away. And the heck with you.” Sincerely, 1 William McLaughlin, ’58 Many factors which are employed as legitimate reasons for leaving after devoting an entire semester of time and money are noted in the letter—grades, pride and a little girl. In addition, the letter runs a close parallel with the address given by President Earl Rudder to the Class of ’63 last Saturday morning in Guion Hall. President Rudder de clared good grades come not from changing schools but from correcting something within the individual. Both stressed the facing of problems present and omit ting “unjustifiable complaints” against the college. Virtually every student will be confronted with final examinations tomorrow and throughout the coming week. And an excellent performance on final exams often results in satisfactory reports for the course. It is the most oppor tune period of the semester to convince professors and in structors some knowledge has been derived from the course. A measure of accomplishment may still be garnered from the closing semester. But success cannot be achieved by enunciating the dero gatory virtues of the college and entering the final exams with a similar attitude.- ■■■ ■■ Former West Texas College To Reopen for Delinquents “I think I’ve found the answer to the grading problem! Next semester I’m going to use my same grade book with this semester’s grade and merely change the names. „ 12-15 Per Day Many Companies Hold Interviews By BOB SAILE Battalion Staff Writer One hundred and eleven inde pendent companies and 25 gov ernment agencies held job inter views on the campus during the fall semester, interviewing an average of 12 to 15 students per company per day, according to Wendell R. Horsley, director of the Placement Office. Horsley said this semester’s in terview program has been bigger and more intensive than in pre vious years, with more employers holding interviews. Approxi mately 30 companies interviewed this year which had not done so in the past, he said. The Placement Office director said he had no way of knowing how many students actually re ceived jobs, but that probably five to ten per cent of those in terviewed were employed. Average Salaries Average starting salary for en gineering and science majors with B.S. degrees was $525.per month, according to Horsley. For busi ness administration, agriculture and liberal arts majors with B.S. degrees, the average starting sal ary was $400 to $425 per month. Those graduating with a mast ers degree in engineering and science have been receiving $50 to $100 more in monthly salaries than those graduating with B.S. degrees, said Horsley. Those holding Ph.D. degrees averaged Texts by Groneman In Foreign Writing The McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. has announced that two textbooks by Chris H. Groneman, head of the Department of Industrial Educa tion, are being translated into for eign languages. One of Groneman’s books, “Gen eral Woodworking”, is currently being translated into the Arabic language for use in the Near East countries. “General Shop”, of which Grone man was a co-author, is being translated into the Serbo-Crote language for use in the Balkan Countries. A&M MENS SHOP 103 MAIN — NORTH GATE AGGIE OWHED $750 per month starting salary. Salaries Higher Average monthly starting sal aries are running two to five per cent higher than last year, he added. Horsley said graduates in elec tronics, electrical engineering, physics, applied math .and ac counting are sought most by em ployers. One hundred and thirty-one in dependent companies and 32 gov ernment agencies are scheduled to hold interviews on the campus during the spring semester. From 6,500 to 7,000 individual inter views will probably have been conducted here by the end of the spring semester, according to Horsley. Job interviews are being held in the Placement Office on the second floor of the YMCA and a schedule of interviews has been and will continue to be carried in The Battalion as they come up. GOODNIGHT, Tex. <dP)—Good night College, the pride of this Texas Panhandle ranching town at the turn of the century, may be back in operation soon as a school for young troublemakers. A plan advanced by Judge Jer ry Kolander of the Potter County (Amarillo) Court of Domestic Relations calls for renovation of the long-abandoned college build ings for service as a school for “pre-delinquents.” Kolander defines a pre-delin quent as a child “who exhibits delinquent tendencies but has not expressed them in such a way as to damage society or himself.” “They aren’t bad enough to send to state institutions but they need close supervision,” he explained. The Amarillo Junior League, a women’s civic group, is consid ering a campaign to raise funds for the project. The Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce al so has expressed interest. $250,000 Cost Renovating the buildings and adding facilities designed for ju venile use would cost around $250,000, Kolander said. Children sent to the school from the 26 Panhandle counties would be given supervision and training designed to steer them back on the path of law-abiding, u&eful lives, he said. Kolander said he wrote to the county judge in each county to get the local reaction to his plan. He received 19 favorable re plies, and failed to hear from the other 7. Kolander said the judges who didn’t reply were in sparse- Police Try Device To Lessen Injuries BALTIMORE, Md. (A>)—Three Baltimore police cars are being used to test a safety device de signed to lessen the chance of auto passengers being hurled against the dashboard in a collision. The gadget is attached to the front and rear bumpers. When the bumper is struck, a spring is tripped causing the car seats to move backward. The backward movement of the seat at • the moment of impact is planned to take up the concussion of the crash and check the forward plunge of passengers. ly-settled counties which have few juvenile problems. Self-Supportin g The school would be self-sup porting after the initial campaign to establish and equip it, Ko lander said, with operating costs paid by the counties who send children to the institution. Each county would pay accord ing to the number of students it sent. Col. Goodnight Founder The college was established by Col. Charles Goodnight, Indian fighter and pioneer rancher for whom the town of Goodnight was named. Goodnight first set up school in the back yard of his home in 1890, with one teacher holding classes for the town’s youth. The college was chartered by the state in 1898. Goodnight do nated two sections of land and spent an estimated $80,000 on buildings including a four-story girls’ Dormitory, an auditorium and four homes used as boys’ dormitories. Deadline Saturday For Room Requests Noon tomorrow is the deadline for the payment of room reser vation fees for rooms now occu pied, according to an announce ment by Harry L. Boyer, hous ing manager. Students wishing to retain the rooms they now occupy should meet the deadline in order to in sure assignment to those rooms, Boyer said. Beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, rooms not already reserved will be available on a first come, first served basis. Those students transferring from a Corps dormitory to a ci vilian dormitory must secure room change slips with their tac tical officer’s signature. All students who plan to change dormitories must turn in their mattress covers tp the place where they -were issued and re ceive covers for the new area. Boyer emphasized that it was important that students pay fees and reserve rooms before regis tration. 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He then offered the school to the Baptist Church, which took over operation of the school in 1905 and ran it until 1917, when the college closed. Miss Miller said the college, which had a maximum enrollment of 200, faded because of World War I, the addition of high schools to Panhandle school sys tems and the establishment of West Texas State College in Can yon. Once Orphans’ Hoipe The girls’ dorm was operated as a branch of Dallas’ Buckner Orphans home for two years, af ter which the buildings were turned over to the Goodnight school system. The buildings have been vacant since 1953, when consolidation sent Goodnight students to schools in nearby Clarendon and Claude. Kolander said Goodnight’s deed requires the property to be used for educational purposes, so “we feel quite sure we can get the property for that use.” He said the institution would not compete with Cal Farley’s famed Boys Ranch at Tascosa, also in the Panhandle. 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