i
Page 2
THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, November 10, 1964
Reynolds 9 Rap
by Mike Reynolds
Grade reports are in and al
though most people wouldn’t be
lieve it, the holidays are getting
closer every day. The time is
coming again when the Aggies
hit the road for home and a Yule-
tide reunion with their cookie-
pusher buddies.
And I will wager a dollar to
a donut that more than one of
them will confide with the high-
school hurrys that they hate this
place. Believe it or not, this
is no way to get more students
at A&M. I preached last year
about trying to sell A&M to high-
school students and it did no
visible good since the freshman
enrollment is still down. Army,
it is time to sell A&M again.
It reminds me of the preacher
who was new at his church and
was preaching his first sermon.
It was great and everyone was
talking about it until the follow
ing Sunday when he preached the
identical sermon.
The deacons decided that he
was green and just forgot and
they wouldn’t say anything about
it: They reached the breaking
point the following Sunday
though, when he preached the
same sermon for the third time.
They sat on their hands and fum
ed until after the service when a
group of the elders confronted
him.
“We are sorry, Brother Jones,
but we must know why you
preached on the same sermon
for three weeks in a row.”
The pastor smiled and said,
“When the congregation starts
doing what I preached about in
the first sermon, then I will go
on to another subject.” Talk up
the school you love. The Corps
you save may be your own.
NOTES AND QUOTES:
Old Army Lou told a group of
reporters in Dallas that he would
be very “shocked if any of the
Aggies are responsible for drug
ging Peruna.” By the way, if
anybody got up in time to get
a copy of the Sunday Dallas
Morning News, they certainly
can’t say they were against the
Aggies. For example: “After
the hat stealing incident, the
SMU band chanted, ‘Beat the hell
out of A&M.’ They were in an
ugly mood.” I wonder if the
character that stole the hat rea
lizes that the Yell Leaders and
the OD’s were not trying to sur
round him to get the hat back.
He is lucky that they were try
ing to save his life.
It looks like there is not a
freshman on campus. The Trigon
saw fit to give them sophomore
privileges in the messhall on
top of not having to carry fish
matches. What DO they have to
do ? It might make somebody
think that things are going to
pot, but when were they ever not
going to pot? The 1936 Long
horn, the forerunner of the Ag-
gieland, shows a picture of the
Grove with the following words
across the back: “Old Army has
gone to hell.”
Is it true that an English prof
threatened to give any of his
class members an F if they wrote
a letter to The Battalion against
co-education ? Aw, come on now.
Remember we still have some
rights.
Home Economist Calls
For ‘Total’ Poverty War
By G. K. HODENFIELD
UP) Education Writer
WASHINGTON UP) _ Unless
the war on poverty is fought
simultaneously on many fronts
there can be no real hope of
success, a North Carolina educa
tor said Monday.
Minnie Brown, assistant state
home economics agent, said an
•estimated 40 million Americans
are handicapped by poor physical
or emotional health, low levels of
basic education, and have work
ing skills that either limit them
to poorly paid, precarious, em
ployment or skills made obsole
scent by technology.
Mrs. Brown told the Associa
tion of State Universities and
Land Grant Colleges that there
is another major factor which
tends to make poverty self-per
petuating.
Many of those who live in
poverty for a long time, she said,
tend to become part of the “cul
ture of poverty.”
Those who accept this culture,
she said, no longer make the
strenuous effort required to over
come poverty, and their children
learn to accept it as a normal way
of life.
The culture of poverty, Mrs.
Brown said, “is characterized by
a sense of despair and hope less-
ness, by low levels of aspira
tion, by suspicion of others, and
by a set of values that empha
size taking advantage of what
ever immediate gratifications are
possible with little regard for a
future that is as sumed to be as
bleak and hopeless as the pre-
ent.”
Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant
Invites You To Try Our
AGGIE SPECIAL
Also, try PIZZA, Spaghetti, Raviola, Mexican Food,
and Seafood.
Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early.
Accommodations From 10 to 200 Persons
THE BATTALION
Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the
student ivriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported,
non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and
operated by students as a university and community news
paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu
dent Publications at Texas A&M University.
Members of tne Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert
McGuire, Collette of Arts and Sciences; J. A. Orr, Collette of Engineering: J. M.
Holcomo. College of Agriculture; and Dr. R. S. Titus, College 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.
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use 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 here
in are also reserved.
Second-Class postage paid
at College Station, Texas.
MEMBER:
The Associated Press
Texas Press Assn.
Represented nationally by
National advertising
Service, Inc., New York
City, Chicago, Loe 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^r 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
editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415.
EDITOR
Managing PMitor ..
Day News Editor ..
Sports Editor
Night News Editor
Asst. New Editor ..
Staff Writer
RONALD L. FANN
... Glenn Dromgoole
... Michael Reynolds
Lani Presswood
.. Clovis McCallister
Gerald Garcia
.... Tommy DeFrank
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Sound Off
agam/,
“ To him, one game’s a winning streak!”
Middle-Aged Americans Forgotten
By Government, Poets, Posterity
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK <A>) _ Curbstone
comments of a Pavement Plato:
Everybody gets a helping hand
today from the government ex
cept middle-aged people.
Uncle Sam has laws to safe
guard children. He has Social
Security and welfare programs
for the aged and needy. He
protects the widow, the manu
facturer, the cattle rancher and
the farmer. He extends aid to
college student, the veteran —
even the Indian.
But America still has one or
phan that no government — local,
state or federal — is rushing to
protect. That is the middle-aged
persons. He is the Forgotten
Man to Congress, his state legis
lature, and to City Hall.
When you get right down to it,
the middle-aged man is pretty
well forgotten by everyone else,
too.
No national day, week, or
month has been declared in his
honor. No statues to him have
been erected in the parks, and
no boulevards — or one-way
streets — have been named for
him. Nobody even bothers to
write love songs for him any
more.
The only ones who bother to
pay any attention to middle-aged
people are doctors, dentists, tax
collectors, used car salesmen,
and other pocket pluckers.
Bulletin Board
TUESDAY
College Station Chapter of the
American Meteorological Society
will meet at 7:45 p.m. in Room
306 of Goodwin Hall.
Geological Society will meet at |
7:30 p.m. in Room 105 of the
Geology Building.
American Institute of Chemi
stry will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 107 of the Biological Sci
ences Building.
Soil and Crops Science Stu
dent Wives Society will meet at
7:30 p.m. in Room 105 of the
Agronomy Building.
Oceanography and Meteorology
Wives Club will play bridge at
8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Caro
lyn Pickett at 404 Cooner Street.
Texas Student Education As
sociation will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 402 of the Academic
Building.
Pre-Med and Pre-Dent Society
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
113 of the Biological Sciences
Building.
Band Wives Club will meet at
7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Charles Kuenemann at C-8-Z Col
lege View.
Editor,
The Battalion:
“Those who aren’t in the Corps
aren’t Aggies; You can’t be an
Aggie without being a fish in
the Corps; A&M is the Corps;”
Blanderdash! This seems to be
all you read in Sound Off these
days, and I would like to voice
a few opinions on the matter.
I am a Civilian and have been
for all of my four years, and I’ll
match myself being an Aggie
with any of the so-called “men”
in the Corps. I came to A&M
to be an Aggie, and that didn’t
entail playing Boy Scout on Sat
urday morning. I’ve been to yell
practice and midnight yell prac
tice; I yell my guts out at foot
ball, basketball and baseball
games; I’ve sweated with the
bonfires; I get chills in my
spine when I sing the “Spirit”;
I’ve fought with Aggies and cried
with Aggies too, and I say “How
dy” because I want to and not
because I have to. I’ve put more
into my school and gotten more
out of it than 95 per cent of the
guys in the Corps. But still ac
cording to some people I’m a
deadweight and not an Aggie.
Let’s see what you’ve got on
your record son.
If being an Aggie is play
ing big-shot in the Corps, then
I guess I’m not one by choice.
I used to think that the old adage
of all Aggies being gentlemen,
etc., was true until I started look-
—Job Calls—
WEDNESDAY
Arthur Anderson & Company
— accounting.
Coast & Geodetic Survey, U. S.
Department of Commerce — civil
engineering, electrical engineer
ing, mechanical engineering, geo
physics, mathematics, oceano
graphy, physics.
Welex, A Division of Hallibur
ton Company — electrical engi
neering, industrial education.
Southwestern Life Insurance
Company — accounting, business
administration, economics, mathe
matics.
Great American Insurance
Company — agricultural econo
mics, business administration,
marketing, finance and manage
ment.
Cabot Corporation — chemical
engineering, electrical engineer
ing, mechanical engineering.
ing at the kakai uniforms around
me. How can a guy be as rude
to young ladies as I’ve noticed
with our co-eds and still be a
gentleman? Notice who makes
the crude comments at Guion or
on campus. And take a look at
football games at the boys in the
riding boots that stand up shout
ing and waving, trying to impress
a certain somebody. Put a flash
light in his hand and he’d look
perfect out in the lot directing
traffic. If you need a uniform
to impress people, then the per
son inside must not be much him
self.
I’m proud to be an Aggie and
I’ll wear my Texas A&M Univer
sity ring from now till dooms day
with pride, and I’ll be willing to
match the education I’ve gotten
here against anyone.
What would A&M be without
the Corps ? It would remain
Texas A&M, a great educational
institution, because there are
still enough of us around that
realize the real purpose here is
education and preparation for a
success in life, and not in a Boy
Scout Troop.
Tom Matthews, ’65
★ ★ ★
Editor,
The Battalion:
In our opinion there should be
an appropriate show of con-
graduations from A&M toward
Randy Matson for the tremendous
accomplishment he has made at
the Olympics. There should also
be an appropriate show of appre
ciation for the national and world
attention he has focused on A&M
and the clean spirit in which he
did this.
We feel this “show” should be
made by having an officially de
clared Randy Matson Day on the
A&M campus.
It would be fitting for The
Batt staff with their influence of
the press to get behind a move
like this.
B. Bell, Jr., ’62
H. P. Boy, ’64
PALACE
Bryjin 2‘$$79
LAST DAY
‘THE VISIT’
STARTS TOMORROW
JOSEPH E
LEVINE
PRESENTS.
HOUSE IS
NOT A HOME
starring
SHELLEY WINTERS : :-
And Co-Starring
ROBERT TAYLOR .
QUEEN
TONIGHT 8 P. M.
“MAD, MAD, MAD,
“MAD WORLD”
NOW SHOWING
...and between
them was ;'a 1
conceived
murder
SINAI0LL03RI6IM
SEAN CONNERY
RALPH RICHARDSON
■Mtf
EASTMANCOLOR
Released thru
UNITED ARTISTS
CIRCLE
LAST NITE
Lee Marvin
In
“THE KILLERS”
&
Audie Murphy
In
“6 BLACK HORSES’
FOR YOUR
HOLIDAY
ENGAGEMENT
CORA $400
ALSO $250 TO 1975
livelier lather
for really smooth shaves!
1.00
A:
brisk, bracing
the original
spice-fresh lotionl 1.25
<S==^>
lasting freshness
glides on fast,
never sticky! 1.00
Die
* DEO
nee
AfT E* SHAv'f lOT'O*
SHU LTO N
that crisp, clean masculine aroma!
PEANUTS
ESEBZEj
By Charles M. Schulz
D I ^ <Z> r^i D R I v^l <3 S
. . . each with a guaranteed
perfect center diamond (or re
placement assured),
price range, no ring
than a Keepsake.
In an
is fine
Rinst c^tla^Krd^ lo^thow detail.
SANKEY PARK
Jewelers
111 N. Main
Bryan
IF I OJERESWRMOTHER, IP
SWATCH IT AUJAV FROM YOU, AND
THROIO IT IN THE TRASK BORNFRi
V<". *•< V- V O*.—Ail tifMa r«,«r*«4
Cap'. 1**4 kf U»ita* iaataf# Sya^iaala, lac
11 THE TACTIC OF
EXTREMISM”
THIS 15 THE SEASON (OMEN
ALL THE mOS FLV....
^