1 ta fa ab lif C ech tioi ma tioi istt we vis: for pre Car we ity, che qn f £ he idi co ta th fd sti ad ( die Fii thi coi me gri A S' a as Vi th erf bi| th ti< th lei 01 es tt b£ ti fa ta ti ai IK ai sj la a: si t'c 91 tl t P ij si ti b a t Nehru’s Daughter Supports Birth Control Idea In India ried woman, other women often ried ten years and have only two Nehru’s report acted merely as approached her when she was tray- children they are amazed. They a basis for the Congress election eling. think me some sort of Goddess or manifesto. In the final draft all “Very few know who I am,” she magician or I do not know what.” reference to birth control or family explained. “They only want to Whether or not Nehru’s plain planning was scrapped. But it re- know how long I have been mar- speaking will show immediate re- mains an important part of the i'ied and how many children I have, suits is held debatable by many Indian government’s five - year When I tell them I have been mar- interested Indian citizens. plan. | By J. C. GILLIAM Bangalore, South India —■ Aug. 30—• (A’)—tPrime Minister Pandi Nehru’s demand for an Indian birth control program has received strong support from his only daughter, herself the mother of two children after ten years of marriage. few individuals in India,” Nehru had said, “this has become one of the important issues before the country and it seems clear that the state must encourage this family planning or birth control.” Black-eyed Indira Gandhi back ed her father’s stand, especially from the viewpoint of an Indian Our women just do not have the WO man. She predicted, however, stamina to bear five, six, or more children,” said Mrs. Indira Qandhi. She was commenting on her that his fight for planned families will not be an easy one. “There is always the religious father’s support of birth control as orthodox Hindu block to beat down a means of checking India’s grow- my father on this issue,” she said, ing population and solving its prob- “There is also this fanatic desire lem of recurring food shortage. Prime Minister Nehru support- for sons among Indian families.” On the latter question Mrs. ed family planning and introduc- Gandhi explained that an Indian tion of a planned system of birth must produce a son. control for India, both in his re port to the All-India Congress Party conference in Bangalore and as chairman of the commission of India’s five year economic plan. “From being a fad of some Battalion Editorials Many of our people still do not like having daughters,” she said Thus the wife, even if she bears six or seven children must go on bearing if there has been no son. She must produce a son, or produce until she dies.” Mrs. Gandhi says there are many snags to planned families. Artificial contraceptives in In- Page 2 THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1951 A Shortage of New Cars? Old Cliches For New, Or, New Similes Wanted iTHERE’S much talk of a new car shortage these days. The National Automobile Dealers Association, which may or may not have anything to gain by a new car shortage, expects a shortage within the next few months. After a study of car registrations, popu lation, and production records, the associa tion concludes that the expected decrease in car production, increase in demand for trans portation by defense workers, and- increase All the level of employment will cause the shortage. The way we look at it, the NADA is right when they say there’ll be a shortage of new cars. But it won’t be a very noticeable shortage. With the cutbacks in steel allocations for new cars, with the employment of some auto manufacturing capacity for tanks and guns An educator suggests that the av erage American has forgotten how to read—as if he ever kneiv. And Now, Mr. Nehru UyO ONE can blame our State Department 1 ^ with being irritated at the refusal of Neh- ;tu’s Indian Government to take part in the ■•Japanese Peace Conference. They have sent "regrets because they don’t like American "ideas of how to insure peace and security in the Japanese home area, b Irritation at Nehru’s fuzzy attitude is a 'mild way to put it. Most Americans, frankly, bare fed up with the line taken at New Delhi. bNehru makes a great show of being “neutral” ‘;js between the Soviet bloc and the West. *;But he wants Formosa handed over to the Chinese Reds, he wants the Ryukyu and Bon- -in Islands returned to a defenseless Japan and he demands that our troops get out of Japan itself. He wants, in other words, a perfect setup by which Communism may -take over in Japan. That is being “neutral” ‘against us with a vengeance. ‘ If Nehru were openly pro-Communist, it Jwould not be so hard for the rank and file of Americans to take. He probably doesn’t honestly know where his sympathies lie. • Certainly he has no idea where the true in terests of his own people lie. But the down- •right maddening aspect of his stand is the -bland and even unctious way in which he -cloaks his indecision with pretended moral "superiority. It is bad enough to find your- -iself in a fog; it is stupid to make a sacred cow out of that handicap. —(Dallas News.) The big netvs does not always make the headlines. By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP Writer What this country needs, among other things, is a new set of pop ular similes, or—to be more exact —a modernization of its compara tive cliches. This thought occurred during a recent conversation when the per son under discussion was referred instead of cars, and, with the slow (if any) increase in production facilities, a shortage could develop. That is, assuming demand re mains constant or increases. But factors work to reduce demand. One factor is the tough credit restrictions on pur chases of cars. Another is higher taxes. Another is the high, and rising cost of liv- to as “dull as dishwater.” Maybe ing. There are other factors, but these are j. 1 ? ? e °i d days of homemade soap a few of the main ones. would say that dishwater is about So, unless, wages and income rise at a pwsTreJsTp noticeably quicker rate than taxes and the mountains of phony foam, gives cost of living can drain off the increase, a beautrSeatlenf ItTiTtken shortage of new cars is likely to be scarcely over the old-fashioned chores of noticeable rinsing and drying. * . 1 A hasty and incomplete run- through of our fixed phrases — ^ those trite ones which rise irre- sistably and effortlessly to the av erage tongue—indicates that most old favorites just don’t stand up under modern living. Some of them are pretty much without meaning. “Straight as a die” is one of these. I’ve looked carefully through my desk diction ary and fail to find any definition of “die” or “dye” which would show straightness. “Slick as a whistle” is another. Somebody said ‘My Blue Watch’ 66JAMES, lay out my dinner jacket tonight. And I believe I’ll wear my watch with the midnight blue dial and blue suede band. And James . . . Tomorrow I’ll wear my dark gray- that probably comes from the hab nin-strine to the office so lav out mv 2’rev ^ ^ country boys to make.whis- pm-sinpe io cne oxnce, so iay oui my grey tleg out of fresh cut wi]low WQod> watch to go with it. . . And, James! This These, when stripped of bark, had time bp sure to wind it ” a sli PP er y> moist feel to them - This time oe suie to wma It. T wouldn’t know, on account I don’t Now most of US don’t have a valet, know my willow whistle makers. Neither do most of US have the kind of Many, modern pipe-stems aren’t plain; pins aren’t particularly negt. money it takes to buy a different color watch Hedge - fences aren’t homely in to match each ensemble. But those who these days of , floribunc,a . rose s, ev ergreens and even privet. Old don’t have to “watch” their pennies can put Croesus and his kingly wealth their pennies into watches of seven colors, probably wasn’t hall as rich as a 1 modern industrial executive even They’re green, blue, gray, two shades of red, after taxes. I know a couple of very unsober judges. black and white. And they range in price from $71.50 to $250. A well-known maker of timepieces is manufacturing them. These watches are made for men and women. Most of the popular similes con structed around the animal king dom have been disproved by mod ern research or we’re just assum ing things to be true. Who says though I’ve heard of alcoholic cats and dogs. Beavers don’t seem so eager to me, and I’m sure that mice Some women, according to infor- 03 i en d . um b ? Owls aren’t so ,. „ ; , r. i • wise, they just look that way. I ve mation from the manufacturer, are buying never encountered a tight tick, al- three or four watches at a time to go with their different ensembles. The colors are bright for sports, subdued for office wear, aren ’ t P 1116 ^ , In these days of ex terminators, church mice are rare, and of course, ultra-correct for formal I understand that elephant’s mem- events. ory has been vastly overrated, and m . we have materials which are the manufacturer is hailing these van- tougher than its hide. colored monitors of time as the new fashion Larks may sound happy, but a , , competent psychiatrist undoubted- trend. And though a new venture, these ]y could find some sad, maladjusted many-hued time-tracers, the company appar- °, nes \ Swans are graceful while ,, . . .. „ floating, but they are awkward and ently expects milady to dish out quite a few bad-tempered on land. Bats, I un shekels for the novelties. For glamor, they derstand, are not completely blind. Say, and for smart costume-coloring . their rating as a fertility compar- But we predict that the fashion in watch- isori , ar >d fIeas do i um P- , , , . ,i - -n , • . i Perhaps we might quietly drop es, at least in this area, will continue to be plain old gold ... whenever anyone can afford a watch, that is. Eh “watch”, James? some of our monetary comparisons. Gold is still good, but much of the •world has abandoned it as a stan dard. Exactly how sound, I’d like to ask, is the dollar? Bigness is not a crime, even in busi ness, but rascality and fraud are, whether called “trade customs” or something else. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, nnder he Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. 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