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Page 2 THE BATTALION Thursday, June 4, 1953 Eisenhowes Says (Continued from Page 1) Treasury Secretary the balance, said: 1. By raising more taxes. 2. By cutting expenses. “Well, of course we don’t want to raise taxes,” he said. “We want to reduce taxes. To the way left is to cut expenses.” The President himself had launched the program with word that he and the Cabinet members wanted to bring up points of inter est to every family. He got up and went over to a big basket crammed with letters—said they run 3,000 a day in an average week at the White House. And he picked out one he said was “challenging,” from a P a w - tuckett, R.I., housewife who has four children. From it he read ex cerpts. She said the sums involved in government operations and balanc ing the budget are so huge “I really find it almost impossible to grasp them.” The President said he has the same trouble. “I wonder how you ever know where to begin,” the letter said. “Won’t you please explain to me in words I can understand just how you are going to have our money keep its value and at the same time make our country strong and secure.” Eeisenhower said he picked that letter because it brings up the great problem of security and its cost. He went on to say that the government has gone into debt in seventeen of the last twenty years. “Borrowing cheapens m o n e y,” he said. “That is like water in your coffee.” At about that point, the Presi dent asked Humphrey to tackle the question in more detail. Humphrey did, with charts to help out. The deficit, Humphrey said, has got to be stopped. And Eisenhower chimed in that “of course, George, we know we are going to stop it.” He said he has promised the people they are going to be secure and that the expensive establish ments'are going to be operated as economically as possible. “You are going to get one dol lar’s worth,” the President as sured his audience, “for every dol lar we spend. 1 am going to keep that promise.” Eisenhower reverted to the ques tion of security and peace at the very end of the unprecedented pro gram. “Our effort,” he said, “is to se- cui'e peace, and prosperity in peace.” Right at the beginning he had referred to his projected meeting next month with Prffne Minister Winston Churchill of England and the Premier of France. He said he is going to Bermuda to talk over with “some of our friends” problems of preventing a modern war and a new Munich. “But remember,” he cautioned, “in these vast problems that af fect every one of our lives, there is no thought that you can cut the NCAA Opens Investigations KANSAS CITY, MO., June 4— The NCAA will open three-day investigation Thursday into infrac tions of regulations of the Nation al Collegiate Athletic Association. NCAA Executive Director Wal ter Byers said the subcommittee on infractions is meeting here to pre pare its mid-year report for pres entation to the membership com mittee in J uly. The subcommittee is charged with investigating any “reason ably-substantiated” charge from a responsible source relative to vio lation of NCAA i-egulations. Byers said the subcommittee would treat all cases before it con fidentially. Announcements of ac tion will come later from the 17- fpember policy-directing body of the NCAA. The subcommittee is composed of Frank N. Gardner, Drake; King Hendricks, Utah State; Ralph W. Aigler, Michigan, and Byers. knots you must untie them slowly and laboriously.” Four Cabinet members joined the chief executive in this precedent breaking TV production. Carried by all networks to an industry es timated fifty million viewers, the show marked a change from the era of the “fireside chat” to the age of the “video round table.” Wednesday night’s premiere pro duction flashed on the screen smack on schedule at 8:30 p.m. (Dallas time) after the partici pants threaded their way through a mass of cables on the floor of a conference room-studio adjoining the President’s office. Eisenhower spoke first — “Good evening, everybody.” He said he and his colleagues would discuss “points of interest” —especially of interest to the se curity of the family. The President was seated at a desk and from time to time he leaned across it presenting a full- face picture on the TV screen. TOO MUCH NOISE CAN CAUSE AN AVALANCHE m M ipi mmm Texas Congressmen Have Trouble Pleasing Voters Like colleagues from other parts of the country, Texas congressmen are having trouble pleasing consti tuents who want taxes cut, but don’t want services curtailed. Recent newsletters the Texans have written to their home dis tricts reflect thought over the budget situation that is second on ly to peace-or-war as a subject of discussion on Capitol Hill. “I am setting up a file on the requests 1 receive not to cut funds for this, that and the other,” said Rep. Omar Burleson of the Abi- lene-Anson district. “It seems most of us are for cutting funds which affect the oth er fellow, but not for expenditures for those things in which we are particularly interested. Usually letters and telegi'ams start off with T am for economy, but—’ ”. Rep. Frank Ikard of Wichita Falls, pointing to an economy move to reduce soil conservation funds by 55 million dollars, during con sideration of the Agriculture De partment appropriation bill, wrote: “There was an effort in the House to seriously cripple the soil conservation program. This was defeated, however, in an extfemely close vote of 201 to 196.” Rep. W. R. Poage of Waco, writ ing about the debate on the same bill,«whicla totaled 712 million dol lars for the Agriculture Depart ment, made this comment: We Must Accept “I think we must all accept some reduction of the items in which we ai-e interested, but I don’t think agriculture should take more than its share of the reductions.” The Secretary of Defense has ad vocated a five billion dollar cut in funds for the Air Force. “We all recognize the importance of balancing the budget,” said Rep. O. C. Fisher in a statement car ried in the Congressional Record. “We all are aware of the need for relief from burdensome taxes. But we : also recognize that if the worst comes to the worst it is im perative that we have the most powerful air force in the world. “There are many places to cut in this very desirable economy pro gram without clipping the wings of the most important branch of our military services. There is a lot of waste that can be eliminated. It would be a tedious task to document it, but there is little doubt but that the votes of most of the 435 congressmen on budget cutting issues have been influenc ed by the presence or absence of big federal programs, projects or installations in their individual dis trict. Committee Voting for Hears Minors WASHINGTON, June 4—(A’i—It was an unusual Senate hearing. Often these congressional hear ings drag on for weeks, taking thousands of words of testimony. This one, on a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to permit 18-year-olds to vote, lasted less than ten minutes. Witnesses, many of them with an ax to grind, usually beg to be heard. Here there were so few— one, to be exact—that the chair man, Sen. William Danger (Rep.) of North Dakota, asked for volun teers. And, by golly, he got one! But let’s start at the beginning: Danger and Sen. Hubert Humph rey (Dem.) of Minnesota intro duced resolutions calling for the amendment to give the vote to 18-yeai’-olds. Geting the Constitu tion amended is a long process, and in the past similar resolutions have got nowhere. I But the first step is a hearing. So a Senate judiciary subcommit tee took the first step. Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (Dem.) of West. Virginia, who is sixty years old, said he’s for the bill, and always has been, but he asked to be excused. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. 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News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. JERRY SENNET, ED HOLDER • Co-Editors Senator Humphrey, who is forty- two, sent word he would write out why he favors the amendment. Only one veterans’ organization, Amvets, responded to an invita tion. Its legislative director, Rufus H. Wilson, was there. He is twenty- six. Wilson said the natural argu ment is, “if a man is old enough to fight he’s old enough to vote.” But Wilson said the argument is far broader than that. The kids are smart he said, and— “In the thinking of these youths could well lie the preservation of our national ideals.” # “Anyone else have anything to say on this?” Danger asked. Whereupon a yonng man with a pipe bounced out of a chair and said he had just dropped in to lis ten, but he wouldn’t mind saying a few words. So he said a few words. He said he was Philip Wilder, an associate professor at Wabash Col lege in Indiana, and that there has been considerable agitation for a lower voting age out his way. The Indiana Legislature, he said, has favored giving the vote to 19-year- olds, but the deciison isn’t final. Wilder, who is twenty-eight, is all for lowering the age- bar. “It will help the general conduct of the nation’s political life,” he said. It seemed it might be a good idea to ask a couple of the 6,700,000 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds if they wanted to vote. But there weren’t any in the committee room, so the meeting broke up. Callicott Named Texas Instructor AUSTIN, Texas—Colonel James M. Callicutt, artillery expert re cently returned from Ankara where he served as a member of the American Military Advisory Commission to Turkey, is the new Senior National Guard Instructor for Texas, according to an an nouncement this week by Colonel M. E. Jones, Chief of the Texas Military District. He succeeds Colonel H. McE. Pendelton who recently retired from active military service. Most of the flood control proj ects in Texas, as elsewhere, were trimmed from the amounts which officials planned before President Eisenhower took over. , Unhappy with the reductions, delegations from several parts of Texas came heer urging congres sional committees to make an ex ception in regard to their particu lar projects. There were similar groups from many other parts of the country. Came To See A county judge from the Texas gulf coast, accompanied by his county engineer, came up to see if he couldn’t get some funds to help drain flood waters from lowlands in his area. “Everybody else seems to be do ing it,” he said, “so I thought we might as well. We have a good case.” He learned, howevei", that Con gress first has to authorize a proj ect before it can provide funds to actually do the work. 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