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THE BATTALIOts Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, June 28, 1962 HOWDY from PARIS, FRANCE By J. DONALD DELIZ The Tempo of Paris I’m lavishing in the good old Paris life! It isn’t that it’s “easy living”, but the fact that no one seems to be too much in a hurry that is what is so appealing. The French essayist, Montaigne, said, “cherish the trifle”, and that is what the French seem to do. The people savor life and enjoy every action. Here I sit in a cafe on the left bank called “Les Deux Maggots”, the two maggots. Many students come here- because it is near the Sorbonne. Odd names like these seem to appeal to the French. You can sit in a cafe like this either inside or on the terrace. That is what they call the part that is on the sidewalk. I have been sitting here for two hours with one cup of coffee and no one sefems to want to rush me. One can sit for hours at a sidewalk cafe drinking a cup of coffee, lemonade, or orangeade. But be careful, for they call these beverages by the English name. Instead of ade, the Eng lish say, Squash. So it’s Orange Squash or Lemon Squash. It sounds like a SBISA vegetable plate or something. One charming thing that one gets to watch while sipping cof fee, or lemon squash, is the pass ing fashion parade of the co-eds. The Sorbonne is coed and one can easily make friends with the groups of lady students who sit at ' nearby tables ordering re freshments. Especially with the comment about COKES. It gets them everytime. That is, by now, a universal drink, but in France they serve it at room tempera ture, instead of ice cold. This is a nice comment to begin a new friendship with a French girl. How come they don’t serve Cokes ice cold here, mademoiselle ? (Equivalent to Baby back in Ag- gieland) They will tell you how ice even in water stops the digestive proc esses. However, this is a good start and soon you’ll be talking about something much to your advantage. Parisians savor life and enjoy every little action—just as Mon taigne says, they cherish the trifle, or little things, in life. There is their bread, for instance, it has unique taste. Why? Well, they say it’s the water and the climate that makes the special flavor. It is very special. People have tried to copy the recipe, but it never tastes the same as it does in Paris. I have seen people line up in front of a bakery, attracted by the aroma, waiting for the bread to be baked. Then, they buy small rolls and walk down the street eating them, as we would candy or ice-cream. Last evening I watched the shoppers in a small neighbor hood grocery. The trend toward Supermarkets is present, but they are slow in catching on, for the French love the intimacy of the small neighborhood store where you can argue and com plain to the proprietor. People coming home from work were buying the bread and wine for supper. Wine is sold almost like milk. You take your own bottle to the merchant to be filled or you leave a deposit for the one he lends you. The bread to be sold in the grocery stores is baked in long thin loaves. They are too long to be wrapped, so the purchaser points at where he is going to hold it. A piece of paper is giv en to him and he carries it home that way. I saw many people carrying a wine bottle in one hand and a long skinny loaf of bread in the other. The bread seemed almost like a cane or staff, but then they used to call bread the staff of life. Around five in the evening, Paris hums with the slow paced tempo of people getting home from work and preparing to sa vor the sweet summer hours at home and in cafes. That’s the Paris I’m reporting from. Pulitzer Prize Winner Fits Classic Description BETHLEHEM, Pa. bP)—Out wardly, Dr. Lawrence Henry Gip son fits the classic description of •the unassuming little man who is lost in a crowd or is kept wait ing by haughty clerks. But the mild, almost shy man ner is misleading. And although the man is no bigger than a jockey, he is a giant of learning. He won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize in arts and letters. Gipson is a hearty 81, seem ingly forever on the go. More than ever since he won the prize, he is something of a popular hero, cheered by austere profes sors, regarded affectionately by students. He writes history in the grand manner. His project is a sweep ing, multivolume series called “The British Empire Before the American Revolution.” It was for the 10th volume of the series, "The Triumphant Empire: Thun der Clouds Gather in the West, 1763-1766,” that the prize was given to him. He has two more volumes to go, taking perhaps five or six years to complete. Hardly ever missing a day, Gipson puts in a six-day week, commuting 70 miles from neigh boring Montgomery County to the Lehigh University Campus. He has been doing this for 22 years. He’s usually up at 6 a.m., and after a good breakfast he’s off for work, arriving here about 9:30. Until late in the day he is immersed in the past, poring over books, old manuscripts and let ters. Saturday apart, he gets back home about 7 p.m. On Saturday it is 8:30. His daily commuting, each way, is done on two trains, a bus and a taxi on the home end. Once home Gipson, an ardent gardener, loses no time getting into something suitable for cul tivating flowers and trimming hedges. So long as light remains he keeps at it. Dinner comes last, and only after the dishes are washed do the Gipsons—childless in their big house—say that day is done. Gipson’s other hobbies range from good music to hiking. “I never ride when I can walk,” he says. And that goes for the four flights of stairs to his work rooms in the university library. THE BATTALION Ovinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The BattaUpn 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 Alien Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences ; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agri culture ; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is Boo, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and her through May, and once a week during summer schooL published in College Sta- holiday periods, Septem- The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the nse for republication of all news 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 her*. In are also reserved. Second-class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER! The Associated Preas Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mall subscriptions are All subscriptions subject Address: The Battalion. $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.60 per full year, to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Room 4, YMCA Building. College Station. Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. LARRY B. SMITH EDITOR Lincoln Didn’t Realize Morrill Act’s Importance Tourist Get Double Thr ^ When Johnson’s In Sen^ By TEX EASLEY Associated Press Service Service To Abraham Lincoln, July 2, 1862, must have seemed like any other day in that dark Civil War summer. He signed a paper pardoning a private of the 25th New York Volunteers who v^as serving a prison sentence for desertion. He called for 300,000 more vol unteers from the North in the light of the recent disastrous re treats by Union troops. He wrote a letter tinged with exasperation to General George McClellan, ultracaptious c o m - mander of the Army of the Po tomac. “The idea of sending you fifty thousand, or any other con siderable force promptly,” he said, “is simply absurd.” The day’s most far-reaching event, however, was not a war time measure. It was the sign ing by President Lincoln of a congressional bill that created America’s Land-Grant system of higher education. The legislation provided that federal grants of land should be made to all the states, says the National Geographic Society. Sale of the land was to provide funds for founding at least one college in each state “to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts.” Not excluded were other scientific and classi cal subjects. Study of military tactics was specifically added. The military provision eased the bill’s passage at a time when the Union’s green troops pain fully showed lack of training. Since then, the colleges’ Reserve Training Coips has proved its value again and again in na tional emergencies. But the major contributions of the Land-Grant institutions have been made in the peaceful arts of economics, science, and cul ture. By speeding and broaden ing the country’s development, they played an impressive part in the United States’ attainment of wealth, strength, and influ ence. Americans were still pioneers at Civil War’s end. As the West was occupied, the state colleges and universities taught efficient ways to farm and raise live stock, to improve engineering and industrial skills. Their ex tension courses brought training and education to millions who representative who proposed the bill and shepherded it through Congress — could have foreseen the extraordinary future of their educational project. The two men shared, however, a common faith in the value of providing knowledge to an ener getic people opening up a new continent. While still a congress man in 1859, Lincoln gave a talk at a Wisconsin state fair empha sizing “book-learning” as the key to agricultural success. “Knowledge of botany assists in dealing with the vegetable world,” he said. “Chemistry as sists in the analysis of soils . . . and in numerous other ways. The mechanical branches of na tural philosophy are ready help in almost everything; but espe cially in reference to implements in machinery.” Like Lincoln, Morrill was a self-taught man whose respect for learning was all the greater because of his own lack of for mal education. The son of a blacksmith, he acquired a small fortune as a village storekeeper before striking out on a 35-year career in Congress. As repre sentative and senator, Morrill gained laurels in Washington for his grasp of finance, his efforts in behalf of the Library of Con gress, the beautification of the capital, and, eventually, for his Land-Grant Act. CADET SLOUCH fay Jim Earle WASHINGTON <A>> — The thousands of tourists who file in and out of the Senate galleries, indicate by their whisperings and gestures that they get a dou ble thrill if Vice President Lyn don B. Johnson is in the cham ber. During debate on the House- passed bill to establish a com mercial communications satellite, Johnson, who much of the time is out of the city or otherwise un able to attend 'Senate sessions, was very much on hand. So, • with the summer tourist tide reaching record proportions the Senate for a time proved a double tourist attraction. Not only did the sightseers get to see the vice president in his x’ole as presiding officer of the Senate but they also heard debate on a subject of interest and impor tance. On the Senate floor were scale models of satellites orbit ing the earth and lines indicating how the audio and picture sig nals would be bounced back to earth. Texas’ Senior Sen. Ralph Yar- boi’ough, Democrat, joined with Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., in attacking the bill as it was pre sented to the senate. They op posed provisions to give private companies authority to operate the satellite system and urged creation of a government-owned corporation to direct its opera tions. Tower’s first year in the: fell on June 15. And ii' Dr, have gone unnoticed if been for a fellow Republ^ iner _ 3 ' 1 the House side 0 f the { ; ,rn P e titi ety of rr«*«■■■■*■■*rrmnn Smerd< “Snorts Car Center 16 artlc Dealer f M |? . Fo1 RenauiUp eugeo t British Motor Cm Sales—1 Serrtii ■•We Service All Foreign L"— 1416 Texas Av ft Til ill IW r 4 ry, . 196 ngineei r AROUND THE CAPITAL: The anniversary of Sen. John PAKDNEliJ You’ll Ahv a y g Wi, | I he whcn Vqu Get Your Done ; A t CAMpus | CLEAIVER5 li AIRLINE and STEAMSHI& pan - t at Sa- RESERVATIONS AND TICKETS LET US ARRANGE YOUR BUSl^gs AND PLEASURE TRIPS jf WE HANDLE ALL THE DETAILS — Yqu E 0 YOUR TRIP — WORRY FREE* CALL TA 2-3784 FOR FAST RELIABLE SERVICE day W P< 4 B Robert HaisetS Travel Serv : : : : ■ . ..... W W :... . W , “My brother said I could see lh’ animals up here!” 1411 Texas Avenue would never see a campus. At the same time, the publicly supported Land-Grant schools of fered students everywhere a chance to gain cultural and basic scientific knowledge once re served for the well-to-do. Today, 68 Land-Grant univer sities and colleges are scattered across the nation—with one or more in each of the 50 States and Puerto Rico, says National Geographic. Among them are Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, Cornell, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, many of the state universities, and most agricultural and mechanical col leges. Though representing only about 5 percent of all United States institutions of higher learning, they enroll some 20 percent of all students, and con fer nearly 40 percent of the doc toral degrees. Twenty-five of America’s 42 living Nobel Prize winners at tended Land - Grant colleges. They earned the awards by con tributions to literature and peace, and for advancement of pure science and new techniques in chemistry, physics, and medi cine. Land-Grant research led to the discovery of streptomycin for treatment of tuberculosis, to development of the television tube, control of deadly botulism in the canning industry, and the production of disease-resistant bread wheats. Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Justin Morrill — the Vermont NOTICE TO BIDDERS The City of College Station, lexas, will receive sealed bids at the City Hall, Col lege Station, Texas, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. on the 20th day of July, 1962, on the following revenue bonds of said City: $35,000 City of College Station, Texas, Electric Lii Revenue E able from igr nd ht and Power System Series 1962, to be pay- secured by a pledge of the electric Ugh said City, and to be issued for the revenues ric light and power system of purpose of constructing improvements and extensions to the existing sanitary sewer system of said city. Said bonds er system of said city. 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