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ll , / ' ■ " V r- Battalion Editorials FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1960 The Seniors Recognize a The Senior Class took ovpr a worth while project Monday when a large num ber of its members started giving ten minute classroom lectures on manners and social customs. The lectures, which are given in military science classes, will con tinue for a five week period. During that time every student taking military science wlirhear the talks based on four “mas- .ter" lectures given by ladies of the com- r munlty and the Director o| the Place ment Office. I i- v'- i We said the Senior Class “took over" this project. Actually the classroom lec tures on manners and social customs were begun last? year. A large number of ca dets, assisted in the planning stages {by faculty members and local residents, gave the first in what we hope wjill be a long line of the manners talks. These inaug ural talks were so successful the seniors decided to given them again this year. Need A lot of pro partition w f fore the talks could be classroom. First, the had to brush etiquette! by "master" talks, *«c ranged foif speakers prepared. Often the aid of the “master" IS necessary be- started in the student lecturers fine points of attending the iules were ar- talks had to be its enlisted the in propar- talks have be- O 1 " - 1 J | I , Certainly such a course is not a guar antee of social success. However, it does serve to reucquitfnt every student who hears the lectures — master, classroom or both—with the necessity for correct so cial behavior. | The Senior Class is to be congratula ted on its efforts. Constructive undertake ings such as this course are a real con tribution/to the college i dents. ■p: A ' ' ' A ' \ I In America No One Below A Mini Outright i 'p f- • U .- j - I* Economic forces act on people and communities as effectively and omnipo tently as the likewise unseen forces bf nature and God. Little people are car ried along on the economic tide as help lessly as the oceans carry driftwood. ’■*» ■ t . . The economic seas wash some of our people upon gold mixed sandy beaches. These people become prosperous and possess themselves with all the material gadgets and oniaments that we claim be long to the great American standard of living. * f\. '*•_ J 1 __ Other people, of the same race, of the J'achcal step. ' 5 Recent r< pie living in similar cam if no better way is found, are better than lotting American men and women and little girls iand boys wallow in filth and hunger. Thfere is a minimum standard below which our people should not be allowe To achiev against none racy; it woulj istic philosopl along lines o: be national mum living same stock, are washed upon hostile shores barren of Wealth, and stripped of all but the bare necessities. These peo ple are cast in an environment of poverty gnd bound there by forcet; above their control. Whatever the causes, their lot i* one of the constant striving for meager eKistance. ■% “ In increasingly numerous cases Cbeir strife merits them les$ than subsM»- tjmeo living for themselves and their children. - What to do about thess people who chtim the same citizenship t.s those more fortunate is a •question being pondered by the man-in-the-street and the legislator alike. What responsibility does the com munity owe to its citizens to assure them Q)at no one will starve, and no one will be inadequately dressed? Z Hasty answers range from “let’em starve if they can’tisupport themselves” 1J> “let the community take care of every- qpe ! by dividing the wealth.” More thoughtful replies fall somewhere between thoseutwo extremes. ' - This country possesses wealth enough that no one should be permitted to starve. fW;; to sink. { this minimum standard is jf the institutions of democ- not espouse any commun es. Division of the wealth any near equal basis would uicide. But assured mini- .ndardado not require that irts of Conditions of peo- rizona farm labor camps and in California should stir most sympathetic AmeHcans to demand action toward the elimination of destitu tion and squalor of such low levels as has befallen these people. {There are thous ands in as dire circumstances about whom we have heard nothing. We would like to se<i the public, work ing as individuals and through private in- stitutions, use its initiative and resources tb care for these people and correct the conditions uijidcr which; they exist. How ever, if we cannot or will not devise an effective means of correction, then the government should aid these jobless im migrant workers and others whose lots are as bad. Call this governmental action who kiss and tell not half as what you like, if wc as private citizens can not do the job, the government action should be taken. It must be taken. How can we give tons of food away to foreign countries? How can we burn our own crop surpluses? How can we so arbitrarily destroy our produced, goods when Americans in uncounted thousands need them to decently: satisfy 1 their mini mum requirements for life? whp kiss and exaggerate. The Battalion 'Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of cl ' - / raditiom lie Associated Press is to it or not otherwise ed herein. Rights of republics exclusively to the use for »d in the paper and local t .U lntT titled credited m me paper ana jocj tion of all | other matter herein cation of of spent reserved. The Battalion, official nev spaper of the Agricultural and City of College Station, Texas Biiday afternoon, except duri ig ‘ ‘ cn Briday afternoon, except dui tolion is published tri-weekly j*-ar. Advertising rates fun is published five times a week 'holidays and examination — Monday, Wednesday and Fi furnished on request. 1 1 1 ' made by telephone (4-6444) or News contributions may odwin Ball. Classified adn may be placed by fice, Room 200, Goodwin. Hi II news dispatches origin publish es! College of Texas and the ted every Monday through During* the summer The Bat- riptiop rate 66.00 per school iten To The Editor ra to h do ha** will i at tjhe editorial office. Room 801. at the Stuudent Activitiea (All totUr* and "Which Utitng to ' th— namofl _ _ oUm* than Um adlton.) LARGE OR SMALL? Editor, The Battalion: Why don’t you check your geo graphy? Look here: Nevr Zealand; British self governing dominion; South Pacific Ocean; i 103,415 sq. mi.; pop. 1,422,000 including Maris 1,489,000 people; capital Welling- iton. Oklahoma; state , South cen tral USA; 69,414 sq. ; mi. plus 70,057 sq. miles, pop. ! 2,396,000, capital Oklahoma City. : Why do you call it “rather small island”? Why don’t you compare it with Cuba, Puerto jRica, San Domingo, Trinidad, Philippine Is lands, Hawaii, etc? William Zaragoza Enclosed on post edrd above was this clipping frpm Moriday’s edi- toriol: “Our observation: New Zea land being a rather small island is' not as large as the state of Ok lahoma. Consequently, not as many people are need to hunt leopards there ap in Oklahoma.”! (Editor’s note: We fare both right, and we’re both wjrong. New Zealand is an island group con sisting of two large islands (North Island (with 44,281 so. mi. an.. South Island with 58,0^2 sq. mi.) Lookin’ Bad From the Battalion File* of 15 Years Ago The Nov. 7, 1931 Battalion had n front pi»K«! picture jof uu Ag- 1 gic ox who was u inenjber of Ad miral ! Byrd's oxpoditlpn to the South ! Pole. (i»y IIu|cheson '33 who now lives in Arlington, was shown: seated at the jcontrola of a short wave transmitter at Littlo America, Byrd’ij polar camp. ★ A student body election showed the eok ps ^vas tWo to qne in favor of adding^white gloves: to the Ag gie uniform. ★ Two hundred sixty three juniors were scheduled to attend ROTC summer camp ih 1935. The cavalry was headed for Fort Clark, Brack- etvilld; engineers to {Fort McIn tosh, Laredo; ajnd the! coast artil lery to Fort Crocket, Galveston. Three branches sent cadets to Camp Bullis, fjan Aqtonio. They wore infantry, field artillery, and signal corps. No mention j was made of the Air Force. Bible Verse I 1 ! . He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than ;he that tak- eth a city. | —Proverbs 16: 32. J J Official Notice NOTICE TO VETERINARY MEDICINE SCHOOL APPLICANTS AH currently! enrolled: pre-veterinary medicine students who exipect to qualify as applicants forj admission into the School of Veterinary Meidicine in September. 1950, should file their! application in the Reg istrar's Office hot later than April t. Forms to be used in making application foe admission toJ the School of Veterinary Medtaine are available at;the information desk in the Registrar's Office. H. L. HEATON Reglitrar th* editor which not obscene or lb*lr naima# withheld from publication may raquaat *Uch action atxncd by ■ atudent or employ** of th* ’ Ubaloua malarial will b* publlahad. From publication may roqueat auch a i of th* writer, ba dlvulcad to My paraoua and numerous smaller islands. The leopard escaped in Wellington, North Island. By your comparisons, either of the larger islands of the New Zea land group is fairly large. By ours, it’s small. We thought of Madagascar (228,707 sq. !mi.) Bor neo (282,416 sq. m.), Celebes (72,- 679 sq. mi), Greenland (837,620), Honshu (Japan) with 87,500 st|. mi., New Guinea (432,2^2 sq. mi) and Sumatra (163,138 sqj mi.). Our geographer who gave us the bum poop has been put in chains and whipped in the face 103 times with editorial pages from the Battalion. Thanks for your card. We both had to dig pretty deep ■ in the atlas to prove our points, didn’t WHAT BEAUTY? [: Editor, The Battalion: i I In your number ono /editorial of Monday’s Batt yoy neglected to mention any of the! “beauty” which we Fish enjoy opt here at Bryan Field. Why? r A Cynical Fjsh (Editor’s Note; There .just isn’t any reason why, but ym can take consolation in the faet that Bryan Field and all its “beauty" will go back to the Air Force ifext year.) Counseling Jobs Open for Students .Summer work ns cump coutmel- oi* 1* made available (n xtudetitN of A&M by the iJallaH Big Broth- urn. Thin orgAnltntion operate* Camp Tnmmi Bahi for the benefit of underprivileged boy* between the age* of ten and sixteen. Camp Tnmmi Bald iit located about twenty mile* *outhwo*t of Dallas near the town of Cedar Hill. Both senior counselor* and jun ior counselors are needed for the period from June 3 to August 11. Senior counselors are offered 5160 plus room and board and junior counselors are being offered $120 plus room and board for the camp period. ii- j Students should send applica tions to Austin G. Scott, Director, Dallas Big Brothers, 1517 Com merce, Dallas 1, Texas. Applications should include name, age, college and home ad dress, academic classification, church affiliation, three references, date available, and *my previous camp experience or related work. Model Airplane Supplies Gomplete Stock of — Balsa Wood — Sheets Sticks — Blocks Airplane Models Plastics & Solids Control and Free Flights New Kits Arriving Daily SHAFFER’S Book Store 1 TI;,.. !> Arms Below Safety Mark Eisenhower Talk Warns (AP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- tonight America me lormer under set it program settlement hower said has slashed her armaments below the danger point in a world that has not yet attained true peace. i At the same time, the former allied supreme commande forth his own four-point for achieving a world a that is bettor than that “other peace that Is something of an armed truce.” “Wo know the formula «(. suc cess," ho said. “First—Justice, freedom and op portunity for all msn. "Second Intenuilioiml under- Mtonding. "Third—'Disarmament. “Fourth—a United Nation* with a police power Ntrong enough to earn universal respect.” But until trus peace is at taint'd, the sotdicr-proMidsntiof Col- umblt University declared that wMkneM in the face of Hovlst stningth la “well nigh aa criminal as war itself." * Eisenhower’s address, a! major one, was prepared for a Columbia Possible Shift For Symington Key West, Fla., March 24 —(AP) — White House si lence yesterday served to in crease speculation President- Truman is considering a new assignment for Secretary of the Air Force Symington. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross passed up an opportunity to quiet the speculation when he was asked at a news conference if Symington may be shifted to the chairmanship of the National Secunty Resources Board. “I am not discussing any! pending . appointments,” he said. He also repeatedly made it clear he did not want to be questioned about the possibility that Thomas K. Finletter, former EC A chief in London and author of I the so- called- “Finletter Report” on air power, succeed Symington as Air Force secretary. Nor would he say whether the president has Symington in mind for any other post. Other White House officials said Mr. Truman may nojt name a new chairman of the Atomic Ener gy Commission until after his re turn to Washington next month. The appointment yesterday ol Thomas E. Murray brought the rommiHsion to it* full 9 quota of five. The president i* ddntinulng Sumner T. Pike a* ucti(ig chair man. A hew vacancy will mjour April 15 When Lewi* Straus* i*ten* out. Hi* Muccesnor may bo i|c*lgnatod a* chairman. PALACE Bryan TODAY — SATURDAY , Mickey Rooney “Quicksand” series dedicated to international “America," he said, “has already disarmed to the extent—in some di rections even beyond the extent— that I, with deep concern for her present safety, could possibly ad-' vise, until we have certain know ledge that all nations are doing llKMmmO , T| j | ij"Only by deliberate lies can the propagandist—foreign or domestic —stretch our arms program into more than the reasonable posture for defenae which George Wash ington urged on his countrymen. “And the heads of state every where, even the most suspicious and fearful, know that it is be low «von that ieval." T jFMnly referring to Russia, Ei- aenhower declared that when even one power "build* and i maintains ;mQitory machine beyond the recognised needs of reasonable se curity, a war of aggression remains a constant threat to peaceful na tions." / Th# former supreme allied com mander cautioned against “a ten dency to write off our friends In the western nations because they are Weak in nutpbars and wea pons." ^ This country, Eisenhower said, mua^ bo able to hulp its allies as wcll as defend itself. Only America, he said, can lead the way to peace. And America can do nothing, he dedlnred, Unless she is strong. Eisenhower declared it is‘“re pugnant absurdity” to give up hopes for peace “because there is one towering force in the world that often seems bent upon en gulfing as much territory and as many people as it can.” At the same time he said: “Far bettor risk a war of possible an nihilation than grasp a peace which would be the certain extinction of free man’s ideas and ideals.” | — U—$ — Papers Presented At Chemical Meet Fpiir papers written by mem bers of the Poultry Husbandry! Department will be presented a the American Cl]iemical Society’: National meeting in Housti March 26 through 30. The papers aro “A Growth In- hibitor in Dehydrated Alfalfa Leaf Meal” by Dr. Jj R. Crouch and H. L. German, “Vitamin B-12 Con!} tent- of" the Blo(xl of Birds and Maipalia” by Dr. J. R. Crouch ami Orlando Cleese (Department of Biochemistry andj Nutrition), “The Amino Acid Deficiencies .of Milo + Gluten! Meal,” by B. G. Zander* f and Dr., J. R. Crouch, and-UThe Efficacy of Different APF Con centrates for Clicks” by J. R. Rcqd, Jr. and Dr. J. R. Crouch. Anti-Histamines Get TU Backing Galveston, Tax., March 23—<** : —Relief from..Common colds ,has been obtained in 76 per cent Of antihistamine tests at the Uni versity of Texas Medical School, ; one of, its staff said today. Tests of th*. new:: drugs during two years were announced by Dr. John Middleton, asflatent! profes sor of internal medicine.' (Earlier this weejc, the Federal Trade Comm isslon / charged that vo anti-histamine drugs are not ■ cure for the common cold and my be unsafe for public use.) Some of the 75 per cent reporting Mlef in Uu- cold teats here said were completely relieved, Dr. ‘leton reported.; aw pit TODAY — SATURDAY j - -Feature* Itart - 61 - 3:26 * 5:2i) • 7:20 • 0:11(1 BRIAN DQNUVY Macdonald Carey - Mert Preston X ttat Mta • Mb* h* • M* M pkwetod kg J«fc« fern** • town Ffog by W. ft. 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