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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, May 1, 1962 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle 3,000 ’62 mmmmimsm mmmimsmmMmimm&mmm “ BATTALION EDITORIALS Thursday General Election Most Important Of Spring Twenty-eight students completed filing Monday for positions on next year’s Student Senate and for civilian yell leader. The decision is now up to the remainder of the student body to fill these positions in Thursday’s general election and the following run-off. Only last week, the student body elected class officers for the fast-approaching new year. Doubtless, many feel these are the most important positions to be filled in next year’s list of student government participants. The Student Senate, however, easily is far more im portant than the officers of any class. All matters pertaining to student government, regardless of class, must first be approved by the Senate. Also annual occasions, such as Muster, Mother’s Day and Corps trips, are planned and co ordinated by the Senate. Heading the Senate is the newely-named Student Body President, who not only presides over the Senate, but is the official A&M representative in all Southwest Conference af fairs. Heads of each committee are equally important in the functioning of the Senate. Matters are handled by commit tees in the over-all functioning of the Senate, therefore each committee head will have a direct hand in’ at least three or ; four important issues during the school year. In addition he j ' will have his influence and vote in all other matters regard- j less of the committee that works up the final details’ The other positions on Thursday’s ballot can be viewed L with no amount of lesser importance. Results of each win- i. ner’s work will constantly be brought to light next year and A ^ ^ imtsmmuz no one can rightfully complain or praise the result of an “ . . . let’s agree right now to keep our mouths shut! Our issue it he didn t help elect, or vote against, the person in reputations will be shot if anyone finds out we weren’t question. thrown in jail!” Grads Sought By Insurers Special to The Battalion The nation’s property and cas ualty insurance companies have jobs for some 3,000 men gradu ating from colleges and univer sities this June. This need for personnel was disclosed in a recent survey of recruiting needs in property and casualty insurance. The industry wide survey, first of its kind, was conducted among companies af filiated with the American Mu tual Insurance Alliance, the In surance Information Institute and the National Association of In dependent Insurers. Questionaires returned by 157 companies and groups of com panies with a total of 225,001 em ployees indicated that these com panies hope to hire 2,898 men graduating from colleges and un iversities in the Class of 1962. This would amount to nearly one per cent of the total number of 1962 male college graduates. Bulletin Board Departmental Clubs History Society will meet at 7:30 Tuesday night in Room 3-B of the Memorial Student Center. Election of next year’s officers is on the agenda. Sound Off- (Editor’s Note: Letters from general election candidates will be printed in The Battalion Tues day and Wednesday. None will be accepted for publication after 7 p.m. Tuesday.) Vice President Position Sought Editor, The Battalion: I, Bryom T. Wehner, am privi leged to be a candidate for vice president of the Student Senate. If elected, I will fairly re present the various interest groups in the student body, striv ing to effectively promote the welfare of the student body. In so doing, I will strive to bring needed representation to civilian students and earnestly attempt to better civilian-Corps relations. I will maintain the integrity of the student body and defend students’ rights in any possible way. I will greatly appreciate the support of my fellow students. I believe that I, Jimmy Carter student — civilian or Corps — to vote in the general elections. Students government affects every student in some way. There fore, each student is responsible for its actions or inaction. Byrom T. Wehner, ’61 Carter Wants Parliamentarian Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON NEW ORLEANS CHICAGO NEW YORK Convenient connections at DaBaa and Houston with tmm$ 4-engine non-stops east. For reservations, call your TVa^tl Age«t or Continental at VI 6-47*9. CDNTl&g£Mrjlii ASS5LISSES 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 journalism laboratory and 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. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman ; Allen Schrader, School of Arte and Sciences; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering:; Otto R. Kunze, School oi! Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. Editor, The Battalion: The office of parliamentarian of the Student Senate demands a person of the highest qualifi cations. He must be thoroughly familiar with the Student Senate and its constitution, as well as the rules of parliamentary proce dures. Since the parliamentarian is also a voting member of the Senate and the Senate executive committee, he must be in close contact with all aspects of stu dent life in order to democratical ly represent the various interests in the student body of the college. Finally, he should sincerely want to work in and for student gov ernment. I beliveve that I, Jimmy Carter, adequately fulfill all. of these qualifications. I have served for the past three yeai*s on the Stu dent Senate, during which time I have served on the issues com mittee, student welfare commit tee, public relations committee and the executive committee. This past year I served as chairman of the public relations committee, and in that position I worked for the Southwest Con ference Sportsmanship trophy, conducted guided tours around the campus, worked for the re cruiting of high school students of academic achievement and am at present working on the Facul ty Distinguished Achievement A- ward Program. In past years I have worked on the 12th Man Bowl, Aggie Mus ter, Mother’s Day program, Ag gie Blood Drive, Students’ Ac cident Insurance Plan and the Campus Chest. My other activi ties include the history society, election commission, Distunguish- ed Student and Air Force Re serve. I believe that this background plus my major in history and government gives me the quali fications to be parliamentarian of next year’s Student Senate. Your support and vote will be sincerely appreciated. James W. Carter, ’63 ★ ★ ★ (See SOUND-OFF On Page 3) PALACE Bryan Z‘$$79 LAST DAY Pat Boone In “STATE FAIR” STARTS TOMORROW ITS Hi-Hi-LARioUS! Walt Disney^ The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all new* dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Second-class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBERt The Assoeiated Pren* Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion. Room 4, YMCA Building. College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the •ditorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. ALAN PAYNE EDITOR Ronnie Bookman Managing Editor Van Conner Sports Editor Gerry Brown, Ronnie Fann News Editor Kent Johnston, Tom Harfover, Bruce Shulter Staff Writers Jim Butler, Adrian Adair Assistant Sports Editors Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor Johnny Herrin, Ben Wolfe Photographers TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY “COLOSSUS OF RHODES” with Rory Calhoun “LAST TIME I SAW ARCHIE” with Robert Mitchum Also “How Now Doing Doing”, * Cartoon STARTS TODAY Chuck (The Rifleman) Conners In “GERONIMO” (In Color) CIRCLE LAST NITE 1st Show 7:20 “FLOWER DRUM SONG” & “TAMMY & THE BACHELOR” Your Vote and Influence Appreciated RE-ELECT B. H. DEWEY, Jr. STATE REPRESENTATIVE Brazos County LAWYER, VETERAN AND LEGISLATOR WITH SENIORITY Member of Legislative Budget Board, Southern Regional Educa tion Board, and Vice-Chairman of Appropriations Committee. B. H. DEWEY’S RECORD SHOWS: Average salaries at A&M raised from $4100. to $7400. in 1963. in 1952 A&M Consolidated School received credit from A&M College land lying within district. Passed bill validating warrants for underpass on Sulphur Springs Road. Helped obtain Bryan Field, Texas Maritime Acadey and formula approach for legislative appropriation. Subject to the Democratic Primary, Sat., May 5, 1962 (Paid Pol. Ad.) Don’t forget Aggies, Eve is com ing for the 12th Man Bowl. COLLEGE MASTER VI 6-4988 “Sports Car Dealers for Renault-Peugeoi British Motor Cm Sales—PErts-Ser^ “We Service All Fore® ^ 1416 Texas Ave. Ti M 4 jLwaaajRijuLiJijujLmu SALE WELGRUME COMFORTABLE WEARING KNIT SHIRTS Reg. $3.95 NOW ONLY $2.50 A.&M. MEN’S SHOP ‘HOME OF DISTINCTIVE MEN’S WEAR” North Gate lath £ For Pr The annu: examination wrist watch |be held Tut to 9:30 p.m. oi the Acac Don’t for| ing for the 0a Campos Pf You’l The WIi You Cj CL1 (A uthor of “/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf”,“The hp Lovea of Dobie Cillis", etc.) CRAM COURSE NO. 4: BATHYMETRII *8* Continuing our series of pre-final exam cram courses, today take up bathymetry — the study of ocean depths, Admittedly, this is not a terribly popular course on n campuses. And small wonder. In the whole world thereisa one bathyscape, and only two people can get into it. Nevertheless, the study of ocean depths is of great im tuner. Why, do you realize that the ocean is by far the ’ largest biological environment? The ocean has more thanli humlred times as much living room as all the continentis islands combined! Unfortunately, only fishes live in it. And small wonder. Who’d want to live some place wheif: couldn’t smoke? Surely not I! I wouldn’t give up my?®] Marlboro Cigarettes for the Atlantic and the Pacific gether. Nothing could induce me to forego Marlboro's f mellow flavor, Marlboro's clean white filter, Marlboro’s I box that really flips, Marlboro’s soft pack that’s really s I>et others repair to the spacious deeps. Me, I will sticks my Marllioros and the tiny garret I share with a tymp But I digress. Back to the oceans. The largest, as we knp| is the Pacific, which was discovered by Balboa, a Spams great vision. To give you an idea of Balboa’s vision, he! saw the Pacific while standing on a peak in Darien, which» in Connecticut. Even more astounding, when Balboa reached San Francis he clearly saw the Hawaiian Islands! Being, as we know,! friendly cuss, Balboa w’aved merrily to the Hawaiians i shouted, “Great little ocean you got here, kids!” The Hawaik also, as we know, friendly cusses, waved back, declared 81 holiday, organized a luau, built a cheery fire over which thcy| prepared several gallons of poi, a suckling pig, and Capte[ Cook. This, of course, was the origin of Cooking. 3-in< Delu: Only Hho'd mf blvltikv? - - If, But I digress. The Pacific, I say, is the largest ocean and also the deepest. The Mindanao Trench, off the Philippines, measures more than 5,000 fathoms in depth. (It should be pointed out here that ocean depths are measured in fathoms—lengths ol six feet—after Sir Walter Fathom, a noted British sea measurer of the seventeenth century who, upon his twenty-first birthday, was given a string six feet long with which he used to ?o scampering all over England measuring sea water until he was arrested for loitering. A passion for measuring seems to have run in the family; Fathom’s cousin, Sir Sol Furlong, spent all his waking hours measuring race tracks until Charles II had him beheaded in honor of the opening of the London School of Economics.) But I digress. Let us, as the poet Masefield said, go down to the seas again. (The seas, incidentally, have ever been a favorite subject for poets and composers.) Who does not remember Tennyson’s “Break, break, break”? Or Byron’s “Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean, roll”? Or the many hearty sea chanties that have enriched our folk music—songs like “Sailing Through Kansas” and “I’ll Swab Your Deck If You’ll Swab Mine” and “The Artificial Respiration Polka.” My own favorite sea chanty goes like this: A girl loved a sailor and he. did jiU her, A nd she did weep and roar-hal Until she found a perfect filter, ■. And a perfect smoke—Marlboro! Sing hey, sing ho, sing ring-a-ding-ding. Sing tars and spars and, patches, Sing pack and box and lots to like. And don’t forget the matches! © iguSMasMau 2403 The landlocked makers of Marlboro wish you smooth kail- ing through your final exams and smooth smoking—with Marlboro, of course. Have YOU settled back with a Marlboro lately?