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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 1, 1960 BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Journalism Which Succeeds Best —and Best Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion or Creed of Power • . . Walter Williams The Initial Step. At long last, some of the interested citizens in College Station and Bryan are taking steps to make one community of the two cities. The merger of the Bryan and College Station Chambers of Commerce into the Brazos County Chamber of Commerce approved last week by the boards of directors of the two organizations and now being* voted on by members of the two civic bodies will be highly beneficial to both cities in volved as well as Texas A&M. Leadership in the two organizations has come under control of the type of businessmen who have proved across the country that under their leadership great progress can be made. If the merger becomes effective, no longer will the two chambers be doing overlapping and conflicting work, but will be-working hand in hand for the benefit of all concerned. I The next logical step is a plan for the combination of Bryan and College Station into one city—one large and pro gressive enough to move forward. Under one government and one plan of city organiza tion, the two cities could have enough population and capital to expand even further and at the same time be able to offer its;citizens more civic benefits. The Battalion realizes there are technical problems to be conquered, but if the same type of leaders can come into power in the two city governments who now lead in the cham bers of commerce, the future of the two cities as one muni cipality would be unlimited. Unified police and fire departments would aid the cities as would other unified city government operations. Perhaps as one city the two communities would progress rather than remain stagnant. Once again, The Battalion salutes the progressiveness and foresightedness of the leaders of the chambers of com merce for their merger. We trust this same type of think ing-will begin to work out the possibilities of merging the two cities. N ★ ★ ★ Dark Ages -SOPHOMORES —SUMMER SERGE TIME IS APPROACHING— —Finest Materials — Finest Workmanship- DEPENDABLE SERVICE ZUiifC’S UNIFORM TAILORS Second Generation Of Tailors THE BATTALION Opinions 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 the Student Publications Board are L. lent Publications, chairman ; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. Student K. J. Koi E. D. A. Duewall, director of of Arts and Sciences; Dr. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in Colli Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, am September through May, and once a week during summer school. and holiday peril lege ods. red as second-class -■r at the Post Office illege Station, Texas, ' the Act of Con- 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 dispatches credited to it or not ot spontaneous origin published herein in are also reserved. republication of all news and local news of other matter her Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year, vertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion Room 4. YMCA, Advertising rate furnis College Station, Texas. News contributions may editorial office, Room 4, Y1 may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the 'MCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR Bill Hicklin Managing Editor Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor Robbie Godwin News Editor Ben Trail, Bob Sloan Assistant News Editors Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Saile, Al Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers Joe Jackson Photographer CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle JQg INTERVIEWS The following companies will interview graduating seniors Wednesday in the Placement Of fice on the second floor of the YMCA Building: Fairbanks-Morse & Co. will in- SUMMER JOBS The following company will in terview juniors or seniors who plan to do graduate work Wed nesday through Friday in the Placement Office on the second floor of the YMCA Building: Bell Telephone System will in terview juniors majoring in, or seniors, who plan to do graduate work, in aeronautical, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering and in dustrial technology, economics, business administration, mathe matics and physics for summer employment. “Mr. Haze, remember the blouse that you misplaced before the Sophomore Ball? Well guess what? We found it for you!” For a city that boasts one of the state’s largest institu tions of higher learning, College Station is certainly in the dark. One of the avowed early purposes of education—both secondary and higher—was to pull the people of medevial times out of the Dark Ages. While Texas A&M is constantly working to pull and keep young citizens of Texas out of the Dark Ages, College Sta tion remains mired in the darkness. Boasting few street lights in residential areas, College Station is indeed fortunate not to have been overrun with vandals operating in the darkness of unlighted areas. In order to pull itself from the Dark Ages and to catch up with the enlighting going oh at Texas A&M, College Sta tion is going to have to initiate a residential street lighting program. As long as it remains unlighted, College Station is a haven for followers of the Dark Ages—an interesting con trast for the home of Texas A&M. . A&M Profs To Participate In Conference Five A&M professors will par ticipate in the 10th annual Con ference On Diseases In Nature Transmissable To Man to be held March 17-18 at Austin. They are Dr. Alvin A. Price, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine; Dr. R. R. Bell of the Department of Veterinary Para- . sitology; Dr. Ted Franklin of the Department of Veterinary Micro biology; Dr. F. P. Jaggi, head of the Department of Veterinary Public Health; and Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the Department of Wildlife Management. Price will deliver a welcome ad dress and he and Jaggi will pre side at two of the program ses sions. Bell will present a paper on “The Incidence of Helminth Par asites of Dogs in the College Sta tion Area and Their Possible Re lations to Human Health; Frank lin, “Anaplasmosis Antigen Pro duction Methods,” and Davis, “The Identification of Rodents.” The conference is sponsored by A&M, Baylor University College of Medicine, Texas Animal Health Commission, Texas State Department of Health and the University of Texas. smart* {^people are / a S • I 0 8 THE ONE AND ONLY A&M Town Hall Friday 1 Evening 8:00 White Coliseum ss # DRIVE-IN ^THEATRE TUESDAY “CAREER” With Dean Martin Plus “INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS” With Ingrid Bergman Today Thru Wednesday INTENSE SUSPENSE! METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYERp An ANDREW and VIRGINIA STONE Pro LAST VOYAGE' ROBERT STACk’-ToROTHY MALONE GEORGE SANDERS-EDMOND O'BRIEN in MurnocOLCR • v * MMYM ‘ RIHl f H y On Other Campuses By Alan Payne SMU SMU’s student Arden Club pre sentation of Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie,” under the di rection of Dr. Edyth Renshaw, lost a student character due to illness last week. This doesn’t seem too peculiar until you hear Dr. Renshaw has lost a member of the cast in the last three plays she has produced. The other drop-outs occurred on Halloween and Friday the 13th. TWU Our sisters up at TWU cele brated their 59th birthday (the school, not the girls) last week exactly three weeks after the of- fical anniversary. The school was officially founded Feb! 4, 1901, but the anniversary observ ance was held Feb. 25 as if no thing at all was out of order. Then a poll published in the Tessies’ school paper revealed on ly four out of every five London ers ever take a bath. The poll said the ancient Romans could boast of a cleaner population than this. TU’s ever-popular weird humor magazine, The Railger, seems to be better off every day. It looks like the Teasips would be fight ing each other for positions on the editorial staff, but a total of exactly NO students filed for the editor position in the spring elec tion. It would certainly be a shame if the Ranger were to go out of circulation—what would there be to keep everybody in such a hilarious mood? The Teasips are also having a tough time keeping up with their toothbrushes. In Carothers Dormitory, a girls’ dormitory, 100 of the 120 girls living in the dorm reported their toothbrushes missing last Monday. They turn ed up in a shoe box late Wed nesday afternoon. Whoever had taken them had simply mixed them all up in a shoe box and mailed them back to the dorm. And then a total of 17 Teasips are running for posts in the Tex as House of Representatives. Usually as many as 25 or 30 file for positions, but the number was smaller this year because the pri mary was moved up to May 7. Surprisingly enough, several of the students actually get elected for each term. What’s this world coming to . . .? Social Whirl Wednesday Civil Engineering Wives Club will hold a business meeting in the South Solarium of the YMCA at 8 p.m. Refreshments will be served by Jeanne Tolleson, Mar tha Porterfield and Pearl Harper. Wildlife Wives Club will hold their monthly business meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Cashion Room of the YMCA. Saturday The Aggie Wives Council and the MSC Dance Committee are co-sponsoring an informal dance for all married Aggie student couples in the MSC Ballroom from 7:30 p.m. to 12 p.m. Tickets are available from all Wives clubs on the campus, the Aggie Wives Council members and at the door for 75 cents per couple. Free baby sitting can be obtained at the A&M Methodist Church from 7:15 p.m. until 12 p.m. Dr. Thames Attends Plant Meet in East WESTINGHOUSE REVOLVING AGITATOR LAUNDROMAT • WASHES CLEANEi • RINSES BETTER • CLEANS ITSELt Terms: $10.00 Down $10.00 Per Month KRAFT FURNITURE CO. Downtown Bryan *dllO imuma Show Opens At 6 P. M. HERE’S A SWITCH MIAMI, Fla. UP) — Now there’s a college course in musical comedy acting and singing. It’s offered by the University of Miami which regards musical com edy as a “distinctive American art form.” The instructor is Ladislao Vaida, a former opera singer who doesn’t think his old profession offers many career opportunities to young the development of soil Americcans. ganisms. Dr. Walter H. Thames, associate professor in the Department of Plant Physiology and Pathology, attended the annual meeting of the Southern Region Technical Com mittee on Plant Parasitic Nema todes held recently at the USD A Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Md. The scientist presented a paper on the effect of soil structure on micro-or- FLY TO / V , CONTINENTML l Amums / \ K - I V* Quick connections to ALBUQUERQUE EL PAS© VIA JET POWER Call your Travel Agenl, or Continental at VI 6-4789. terview students who will receive B.S. degrees in mechanical engi neering. U. S. Army Ordnance Missile Command will interview candi dates for degrees in aeronautical engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), chemical engineering (M.S., Ph.D.), electrical and mechanical engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) and chemistry, mathematics and physics (M.S., Ph.D.). Hughes Aircraft Co. will inter view candidates at all degree lev els in electrical engineering and physics. United States citizen ship is required for employment. U. S. Ordnance Coordinated Recruitment Program will inter view civil, electrical, industrial and mechanical engineering de gree candidates and mathematics and physics. Applicants' must be citizens of, or owe allegiance to the United States. Texas-U. S. Chemical Co. will interview candidates for degrees in chemical engineering. Jones and Laughlin Supply Division will interview candidates for degrees in agricultural eco nomics, business administration, economics, industrial distribution, electrical, mechanical and petrol eum engineering. Bell System will interview can didates for degrees in aeronaut ical, chemical, civil, electrical, in dustrial and mechanical engineer ing and industrial technology, buinsess administration, econom ics, mathematics and physics. On tans with Ma&§hulman (Author of “I a Teen-age Dwarf”,‘‘The Many Loves of Dohie Gillis”, etc.) THE THUNDERING MARCH OF PROGRESS Today, as everyone knows, is the forty-sixth anniversary of the founding of Gransmire College for Women, which, as everyone knows, was the first Progressive Education college in the United States. Well do I recollect the tizzy in the academic world when Gransmire opened its portals! What a buzz there was, what a brouhaha in faculty common rooms, what a rattling of teacups, when Dr. Agnes Thudd Sigafoos, first president of Gransmire, lifted her learned old head and announced defiantly, “We will teach the student, not the course. There will be no marks, no exams, no requirements. This, by George, is Progressive Education!” Well sir, forward-looking maidens all over the country cast off their fetters and came rushing to New Hampshire to enroll at Gransmire. Here they found freedom. They broadened their vistas. They lengthened their horizons. They unstopped their bottled personalities. They roamed the campus in togas, lead ing ocelots on leashes. And, of course, they smoked Marlboro cigarettes. (I say, “Of course.” Why do I say, “Of course”? I say, “Of course” because it is a matter of course that anyone in search of freedom should naturally turn to Marlboro, fbr Marlboro is the smoke that sets the spirit soaring, that unyokes the captive soul, that fills the air with the murmur of wings. If you think flavor went out when filters came in—try Marlboro. They are sold in soft pack or flip-top box wherever freedom rings.) But all was not Marlboro and ocelots for the girls of Grans mire. There was work and study too—not in the ordinary sense, to be sure, for there were no formal classes. Instead there was a broad approach to enlarging each girl’s potentials, both mental and physical.. Take, for example, the course called B.M.S. (Basic Motor Skills). B.M.S. was divided into L.D. (Lying Down), S.U. (Standing Up) and W. (Walking). Once the student had mas tered L.D. and S.U., she was taught to W.—but not just to W. any old way! No, sir! She was taught to W. with poise, dignity, bearing! To inculcate a sense of balance in the girl, she began her exercises by walking with a suitcase in each hand. (One girl, Mary Ellen Dorgenicht, got so good at it that today she is bell captain at the Deshler-Hilton Hotel in Columbus, 0l,i0 ' ) ' <5 When the girls had walking under their belts, they wen allowed to dance. Again no formality was imposed. They wen simply told to fling themselves about in any way their impulse dictated, and, believe you me, it was quite an impressive sigh to see them go bounding into the woods with their togas flying (Several later joined the U.S. Forestry Service.) There was also a lot of finger painting and sculpture witl coat hangers and like that, and soon the fresh wind of Progres sivism came whistling out of Gransmire to blow the ancient dus of pedantry off curricula everywhere, and today, thanks to tb pioneers at Gransmire, we are all free. If you are ever in New Hampshire, be sure to visit the Grans mire campus. It is now a tannery. © ism Max shuima * * * If you like mildness but you don’t like filters—fri/ Marlboro’ sister cigarette, Philip Morris. If you like television but yoi don’t like cowboys—try Max Shulman’s “The Many Love of Dobie Gillis” every Tuesday night on CBS. PEANUTS PEANUTS