THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, January 17, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Open ’TilMidnight
With the help of the students of Texas A&.M, a new
precident in study facilities will have been set by the end
of this week. For the first time, Cushing Memorial Library
will remain open until 12 midnight through final week.
Unless students take advantage of this experimental
service, it will cease. If the effort proves successful, however,
the library will once again be available until midnight during
the last two weeks of the spring semester.
No-one should need a large amount of encouragement to
study in the library, especially during dead and final week.
However, past study habits of average A&M students were
taken into consideration, and the stipulation that the library
either be used or not be open longer than usual, was injected.
Whether or not this will be a motivating force compelling
students to use the library’s facilities during the added time
remains to be seen.
A second question which has caused the concern of many
regular library users is, “If the Aggies take advantage of the
library during dead & final weeks, will they use it in the
right way?”
Frequent complaints are voiced about the noise and non-
studious atmosphere existing in Cushing Library during the
day.
For example, students will often use the library as a
place to discuss their last class together; or to verbally “go
over” the quiz they had during the last period. Another com
plaint from civilian and Corps upperclassmen alike is enforce
ment of the “whipping out” tradition by Aggie freshmen in
the library, even if it means rousing everp person from their
studies seated within at least a table’s radius to do so.
The ripping of paper from notebooks, wadding up sheets
of expended “scratch paper”, verbal expressions of anguish
when discovering a mistake on a problem—all these tend to
tear down the essential environment of concentration.
As distractions decrease, learning increases; A&M stu
dents taking advantage of the library this week and next
should keep this in mind.
The scholary environment of Cushing is directly de
pendent upon each individual using it; working collectively,
it could be converted during the next two weeks from a
“brothel of confusion” to a “temple of learning.”
Sound Off
UN Is Best Hope
For Human Race
Editor,
The Battalion:
In opposition to Charles Wede-
myer’s letter to the editor of
Jan. 5 advocating - U.S. with
drawal from the U.N., I contend
that the U.N., or some equiva
lent, is the best hope for the
continued existence of the hu
man race. I am sure that Mr.
Wedemyer realizes that U.S.
withdrawal from the U.N. would
destroy the organization or put
it completely under communist
domination. I don’t believe this
is desirable.
The U.S. cannot survive iso
lated in today’s world. Without
markets and raw materials of
the uncommitted nations our
economy and military strength
would rapidly deteriorate. There
are only two ways to keep these
vital nations out of the Soviet
orbit. One way is to work
through a world organization to
try and help them to help them
selves to stay free and advance
economically.
The other way is to use Amer
ican military force to police the
world, to send our troops over
seas to unseat all anti-American
governments and to combat all
communist advances outside
their present territorial bounds.
Without the U.N. as a moral and
physical force the number of in
cidents like Korea, Cuba, Viet
Nam and Laos would quickly in
crease. Every such conflict be
tween the U.S. and the commun
ists incurs the risk of escalation
into a total nuclear war.
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BOB SLOAN EDITOR
Tommy Holbein - Managing Editor
Larry Smith - Sports Editor
Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman, Robbie D. Godwin News Editors
Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor
Bob Roberts - Assistant Sports Editor
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle Hall Had Lots Of Help
Waving Rebel Flags
Student Senate President Mal
colm Hall said today the Fort
Worth Star Telegram was unfair
in implying he and “some of his
buddies’’ were guilty of display
ing bad SWC sportsmanship at
the Texas University-Mississippi
football game in the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas Jan. 1. They were re
ported to have been waving
Rebel flags and yelling for Mis
sissippi.
Hall was accused of poor
sportsmanship in a letter quot
ing the Fort Worth paper’s
story and signed by a University
of Texas coed which was printed
in Tuesday’s “Sound Off” col
umn.
Hall, who was in Dallas for
the game as head of the A&M
delegation to the Southwest Con
ference Sportsmanship Commit
tee, admitted waving the flag,
but added his “buddies” included
parts of the TCU, Baylor and
Texas Tech delegations also.
“In fact,” said Hall, “it was
the president of the SWC Sports
manship Committee himself
(from Texas Tech) who bought
the Rebel flags for us.”
1 9 6 2 A G G I E LAN
Texas A&M College
College Station, Texas
Civilian Yearbook
Portrait Schedule
Civilian students will have the
portrait made for the AGG
LAND ’62 according to thefol
lowing schedule. Portraits ri
be made at the Aggieland Stuitj
between the hours of 8 a. nuii
5 p. m. on the days schedule!
COATS AND TIES SHOULD
BE WORN.
Sr. and Grad. Civilians
Jan. 16-17 R-S
17- 18 T-V
18- 19 W-Z
Gen. Jack Named
4th Army Head
WASHINGTON <A>>—-The new
commander of the 4th Army at
San Antonio is Maj. Gen. Carl
Henry Jark, head of operations
in the U.S. European Command.
President Kennedy appointed
him Tuesday, adding a star rais
ing him to lieutenant general.
The Senate "^must confirm both
appointments.
Jark will succeed retiring Lt.
Gen. Donald Booth.
The 4th Army is spread over
Texas and surrounding southwest
states.
.. and every time a teasip would hit me. I’d win th’ fight!” Bulletin Board
Total war is the route to Ar
mageddon. President Kennedy
i-ecently said that war today
would kill 50 million Americans,
but a small minority of scientists
contend that war today would
mean the end of civilization and
even the end of the human race.
Advancing military technology
dictates an ever increasing quan
tity and power of H-bombs. Any
informed person realizes that the
arms race will reach a point in
the next decade or two when the
number of megatons stockpiled
would mean truly total destruc
tion.
Aggressive communism is not
the only possible means for war
and the “nuclear club” is grow
ing. Rapprochemet with or de
feat of the Russians would not
remove the threat of war. We
don’t even have to be involved
in a war for it to be fatal for
us. Twenty years from today a
war between India and China,
or Argentina and Brazil, could
spread fallout that could be just
as lethal to Houston, Tex., as a
Russian H-bomb would have
been. A strong world govern
ment with worldwide support
could prevent this.
The prospect of surrendering
a portion of our national sov
ereignty and wealth to a world
government may be unpleasant,
but the alternative is suicide.
Richard Bean, ’63
Wives Clubs
Aero Wives Club will meet at
8 p.m. at MiLady Beauty Salon,
1414 S. College Ave., for a dem
onstration in hair styling and
make up.
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memo
rial Student Center.
MEN WHO KNOW CHOOSE
Bernie Lemmons ’52
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Friday, January 19, 1962 being a Legal Holiday, inob
servance of Robert E. Lee’s Birthday, the undersigned
will observe that date as a Legal Holiday and not be
open for business.
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