THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, May 19, 1960
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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Deserves Success— Fears God and Honors Man; Is
Stoutly Independent, Unmoved by Pride of Opinion
or Creed of Power . , . Walter Williams
Overlooked...?
An excellent illustration of cooperation and considera
tion has been displayed this week by Texas A&M students
in the gift donations taken for the bereaved family of Miss
Carole Shirley. Miss Shirey was killed en route here for
the Senior Ring Dance last weekend.
Student reaction to the impromptu collection was some
what phenomenal as an excess of $800 was contributed in a
few brief hours. The donation drive has been continued
throughout the week and the final amount collected wilt be
announced tonight. The family of Miss Shirley will be
presented with the gift either Friday or Saturday.
The success of the drive can be attributed mostly to
Cadet Col. of the Corps William Heye and the incoming
president of the Civilian Student Council, Mike Carlo. Their
efforts have been instrumental in making the collection pos
sible.
The purpose and the intent of the drive to aid the Shir
ley family are most commendable. But in the rapid form
ulation of this drive, the possibility of employing the Campus
Chest in this emergency may have been overlooked. The
Campus Chest is at the disposal of students for just such
emergencies. That is not to say the drive was unnecessary,
or inappropriate, or that the efforts of the student leaders
have been lacking, or that student reaction has been poor.
Such is not the case at all.
However, each year the Student Senate promotes a
Campus Chest drive to aid students in the event of emer
gency. Last fall the Campus Chest totaled slightly over
$1,500 and of that, only 30 per cent was allotted to outside
organizations, leaving approximately $1,000 at the disposal
of students for emergencies.
There is also the possibility that the funds collected in
the drive may exceed what the Campus Chest could have
appropriated to the family. Incoming president of the Stu
dent Senate Roland Dommert asserted nevertheless that the
Campus Chest could have been employed for the emergency.
Heye, Carlo and the entire Texas A&M student body in
particular are to be commended for their efforts in the drive.
The. students participation has been as good as can be found
on any college campus anywhere. And if the drive exceeds
what the Student Senate could have allotted through the
Campus Chest, the drive will be even more successful.
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Robbie Godwin V. Managing Editor
Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor
Bob Sloan, Alan Payne News Editors
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle College Events
The following clubs and or
ganizations will meet tonight, all
at 7:30:
The History Club will hold an
organization meeting in Room 113
of Nagle Hall for all history and
government majors interested.
.The meeting is slated to last 30
minutes.
The Aggie Band Wives Club
will meet in the home of Mrs.
Joy Anderson.
The El Paso Hometown Club
will meet in Room 203 of the
Academic Building.
The Wichita Falls Hometown
Club will meet in the Memorial
Student Center.
The Bell County Hometown
Club will meet in the Student
Senate Chamber of the MSC to
elect officers and watch a foot-
... th’ way I figure it, I’m gonna be th’ first Aggie to leave when finals are over.”
The Firing Line
Not A Man
Editor,
The Battalion:
Obviously the boy — I do not
call him a man—who broke into
the Chemistry Office and stole
the chemistry test recently did
not realize the seriousness of his
act or the number of people he
was affecting.
At the present time, the Depart
ment of Chemistry is anticipating
relinquishing this test and sub
stituting a new one in its place.
This causes all people who spent
long hours preparing for this test
to have to forfeit their grades
and take the new test. The per
son who stole this test from the
Department of Chemistry gladly
went his way and seemed to have
let as many people as he could
know about the test.
State Farm Saved
Texans Money
We aim to insure careful
drivers only. Savings here
have allowed us to pay divi
dends to Texas policyholders
. Call
year after year.
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CIRCLE
TONIGHT
Kirk Douglas
Anthony Quinn
“LAST TRAIN FROM
GUN HILL”
Also
Jack Palanee
Jeff Chandler
‘TO SECONDS TO
HELL”
TODAY THRU SATURDAY
Kirk Douglas
“ ULYSSES”
Also
“CHANCE MEETING”
Obviously, there will be many
perfect papers on this test. It
is indeed a shame that one person
can cause so much dishonor to
SUMMER JOBS
The following organizations
will interview students for sum
mer employment:
The Southwestern Co. will have
a group meeting of students who
are interested in summer sales
employment in Room 101 of the
YMCA Friday at 1:30 p.m. The
company will then interview per
sonally those who are interested
in the positions.
The first meeting will be a
group session and individual in
terviews will be held later. In
the Tuesday issue of The Bat
talion, it was stated that the
company would interview students
at the 1:30 meeting, which was
incorrect.
The Southwestern Co. does
business exclusively in the sum
mer with college males.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
“THE JAYWALKERS”
With Jeff Chandler
Also
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SOME SERGE SHIRTS AVAILABLE.
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LOUPOT'S
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THE EXCHANGE STORE
“Serving Texas Aggies”
ball film from Michigan State
University.
The Dallas Hometown Club will
meet in the Biology Building.
Members of the Baytown Home
town Club will hold a meeting
in Room 228 of the Academic
Building.
The Lavaca County Hometown
Club will meet in Room 109 of
the Academic Building.
’use the
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Beginning next week, LIFE will
present a five-issue series on
America’s National Purpose, and
whether or not one is needed. They
will bring out some of the people
who .have made the nation what
it is now, and show some of the,
things that could be defined as
America’s purpose.
To college , students, this pur
pose should be of utmost impor
tance, and the best way we can
approach it now is to look at
America and the world f um an
educational standpoint. Behind us
lie years of gathered knowledge
and the future holds promise of
man learning even more. What
better way is there, then, to deter
mine what our nation stands for
and where we want to go than
through a well rounded education?
From its very beginning the
America we know today has been
based on the furthering of knowl
edge. The earliest pioneers gained
their knowledge in the forests,
getting to know the ways of the
country and its inhabitants. They
had to deal with the weather,
clearing land and learning the
ways of the Indian so they could
better deal with him. They fitted
their knowledge to their environ
ment.
When we became a nation, the
most educated men that could be
gathered in the colonies met in
Philadelphia to dra^y up our Con
stitution. They knew what the
nation needed and they wrote the
document so that it has lasted over
the years, virtually unchanged
from its original text. They took
the wording of the document and
the basic philosophy of Democracy
from another learned man, adding
their own beliefs to make it better.
America has always had men
who could compare with any in
the world in educational back
ground, and working under a free
government, these men have been
able to call on their knowledge in
the development of the many lux
uries we know today. Television,
radio, electricity and many modern
conveniences owe their develop
ment to the educated man of the
past.
But through the centuries man
has sometimes been called upon to
turn his knowledge to producing
the means for his own destruction,
waging two world wars, and today
we are working steadily on new
weapons. The newest of these
are the nuclear weapons, developed
in our lifetime. Their great de
structive power has already awed
the world twice.
After each of these wars mar
has taken his knowledge and
turned it to peaceful purposes and
, made the best use of it. Will it
take another war to again put the
impetus to furthering our nation?
In the college student’s life
time have come added means of
transportation that have broaden
ed his scope of knowledge and un
derstanding. These inventions
have given him a better chance
to know- the people with whom he
will soon be dealing; their accomp
lishments, their hopes and their
dreams.
All these advances, both technical
and politka , - . on educa
tion. khey h.a/e education as their
basis, in the formation, and in their
fulfillment, for what is research
hut furthering man’s knowledge.
What is America’s purpose? Is
it merely survival, which some sci
entists feel is an adequate goal in
itself? Is it world peace, the
spreading of self-government 4 to
the world, or world law? What
ever it is, and however it is ac-.
complished, its backbone will be
the educational system and its,
lifeblood will be the men and wo
men coming from the educational
institutions of America.
Through education and learned
men America has grown, and
through them its dreams of the
future will be fulfilled. With the
future of America so bright, we
can not afford to ignore our edu
cational systems as a large part
of America’s purpose.
PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schui
PEANUTS
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