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I f r 1 18,436 READERS ■ i i i ni t in «■ - -r !• 1 ■■■ nappy N«w Y#or fc.! I 1 ■■Um M Number 209: Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, THKKs. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27,' 1956 Price Five Cents 1 1 Small Nations Alter S It! rid Power Balance ■ft;. l-W It l f ^ ^ * t v Santa Believer Keeps Faithful Thrtfu"h Years lu' ^ Western Nation 9 s Gain Not Certain NEW Once upon a tlttne there was a little girl narnM Virginia O'HanUMn who l>efsive<t in Santa Claus Her faith wart a rtmme of ar«*at <W^||rht. but <>ne day h«r faMmis ath^ted teaai^a her. “Thereta! no Santa ('taua. It'* V'-ur, m<|pkr ami father, M they t<»ld her. || Virinneli «n« abaken, but *h« waa not cf|e to ht K" lightly any thing aolMmou* aa her belief in flanta. ||> So ahe‘K>naulted h*r father, I>r Philip F,JO’Hanlon Then ahe aat down ana arnbbied in a rhiidiab hand th4, following letter to the My JOHN M HIGHTOWER Politicos Move From Election To Congress JGTON — I WASHINGTON (ifh—The yetr 1956 in going into hi*- tor>- a.a the year of the amall nations. Surging tides of defiance from subordinate or satelite states liattered and twisted the patterns of great power con flict which have locked the world in two armed camps for a decade. Moscow and Washington, the atomic titans, have strug gled mainly to ride the floods of nationalism and freedom w hich lioiled up in Warsaw, Budapest or Cairo. Each great power capital couki try to profit from a world in turmoil but neither as the year ended could decisively control the tur bulence. It remains for 1957 to show> how profoundly the upheavals “YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT LS THE SAME PLACE," is the general feeliag stu dents have for the many changes at their College hospital. DeWitt Morrow, junior from Houston, sample* a bit of the friendly service while hospitalized with a cold, Mrs. Evelyn Arnold stands by to offer help. (See story . Page 4.) In Business * — -I—I—— ■ IW SI Records Fail; Boom Continues of 1956 have shaken the foun dations of the Atlantic alli ance and the Soviet empire. At the out»«t of the new year it seem* rertiua that the firat tank of ea<h of the gnat power* la to re- I am $j year* olg. Rome of my 1 *hape it* p<4iriea to deal with the little fn^dd* *ay there 4* no Santa new realities of the international riaun INa»a *ay* 'If you see it in »cene. the Sun jit* ao.’ ITeuae tell me 1 Far revhaag adjustment* are the truth.,I* there a Santa Claus? | nece**ary in the Soviet *ystem if hand the following okl New Nork Sun: “Dear ^diU>r: Hr WALTER HR FED F. JR. NEW YORK, t**—-Staft apot*" popped up In the economy in ISM but total buaineaa activity arnaab ed all prior rerorda All *igm* in (Heated it would throat atiil high •r in 1M7. There were two main fbrrea he bind the boom. One wm* the rec ord rate of spending by hesinea* firm* an new facto He*, new ma chine* and new equipment The other waa the record rate of spend Wig by Mr. and Mrs. John Q Consumer on neceaaitiee and hix ■rtae of many kinds. Wage boosts and record employ ■tent powered tbe consumer spend ' tog splurge. C’oa—tera* buying haMta hi ItM teak a new twist, however, and it wm this changed pattern that accounted la part far “soft ■pots'* here aad there. PeopU spent lees on automobiles, tetavia ion seta, borne appliances and bought fewer bootee; but they ■pent mere on food, clothes, gaso line, entertainment, madical aerv tees, education and travel The result waa more eser-all Conservation Plan fins Of final Okay ■pending, but lea* In *ome field*. "Tight credit*’ wa* blamed by some economists for slowing down the housing boom. It will unque* tionabiy influence businc** trend* in the year ahead. Hanker* and industrialist* were pretty well agreed that the pinch on credit would probably get worse before It got better. The tight credit policy of the Federal Resent Board wa* tie arribed by banking expert* a* un pleasant but effective medicine for the economy'* inflationary ilia. Its most vividly apparent outward sign waa Ahe rise in interest rates. Another big “if" in 10f>A wa* the tangled foreign situation War jitters in the Middle F.aat and the Mocking of the Sues Canal posed difficult problems for many businessmen. Uncertainties over "tight" mon ey and a potentially explosive in ternational situation had a re sounding impart on Wall Street. Stock prices eased bock from pre vious peak* Traders wondered if the great postwar bull market had finally run its course, or wa* get ting set for another long riaa. The auto industry wa* plagued ia moat of 19M by a surplus of new ears and a lack of eager buy arm. This situation reversed itself in late fall when tbe aleek, new An to the low-slung 1!»f>7 model* fame out Sale* perked up Immedigtely; for the first time in months, dealer* had more customers t|an cars. Looking ahead. Detroit predicted jubiantly that ivr>7 w»nld be a banner year with American* buy ing <1,750.000 new cars against the past year’s total of lesa than six million. % Record Emptaymmit F^nployment reached new high* in 15»M with some million American* holding jobs. Settle ment of a month-long stnel strike triggered a new round of wage in creases. Fay of industrial work ers aet record*. Consumer price* a I no touched new highs Here are some other figures in the 1PM business box sefara: Gross national product (total dollar volume of goods gnd sen ice* produced)—estimated at 4J2 billion dollars, up S per rent from ’W». Forecast for ’ST, about 41H to 420 billion*. Retail trade—IMV* billions, up 4 per rent Steel production (hobbled by a five-week strike in JJuJIf)—116*4 million tons, down 1 S per cent Housing — 1,100,000 new home* started, down 16 per cent Total new construction spending 44‘w billion dollar*, up S per cent Mfornia O'Hanlon, US’{West PMh Street" Virginia g"t her answer in one of the t^iHit famous newspaper editorials iever w ritten. “Ye*, tlrginta. there is a Santa Claus," |pe editorial by Franeis I‘ha reel lug Church began. "He ex ista as (Ctlauily as love and gen eeweity add Jpwdtaa exist . . * That brae in lft»7 Today Virginia ki Dr. laara V. D»wgla*. principal'of Hrwklyn P, S. 401. She ia tjlh mother of a daughter and , ..*1 not her of seven chil dren, alllsf whom believe in Santa Claua. fi M Arts, Sciences Juniors Take Tests February All junior Arts A Science major* imu.Ht pa*rt an F.nglidh prof i< u-nev examination scheduled for the second week in Febttytry. This decision wa* reached by tbe Art* d Sciences Executive Com mittee after a report from a special committor Head»d by J. Q. Hays, of the English I >> part ment. The txsmiiuit ion will consist primarily of a (500 word theme, tbe subject of which will be cjwmen by tbe 1 individual departments Thia thefne will be graded on tfo ability of cxpreMum in a student * cboaen field, and knowledge of the English language Tbe exam may also be *upp!*mer ted by aa ob jective (i 1 by the separate depart ment*, if they wish. Moscow ui not to turn hack to tbe total tyranny of Stalin’* time. On the Western side, the Atlantic alliance split a* never before by the British - French attack <>n Egypt probably will have to be given some new reason* for exis tence and shored up with freeh un demtandinga if it is te eureive aa aa effaeUva barrier to Soviet pow- er , Tbe forces that shook tbe world ia IfM were neither new nor un • xpecU'd. H waa the violence with which they struck which stunned leaders on both side* of the Iron Curtain and threatened to reshape the ’’course of history by greatly strengthening the third fore* camp of neutralism. West Gains On balance the United States and other power* which hove op posed Soviet tyranny and under- further soil and wut lien far Taxaa withm of effort has bean ap Top offldnla of the AAM Cot leg* System and the Tom State vice chancellor In n stranger artl and water rm eorratisn pregrnni for the Mate. , wMek is offeeth • Weal level for Mgatef by ■entnftvM e# the M Offtetete working level of te a C.E. Department Moves Quarters From Nagle CivR engineering students will toad ciaaaes in the old Veteri nary Hospital and the reconstruc ted horse stables after the hoii- gn, aaya 8. R. Wright, head of e department The ,department la presently oviag te the new quarters from N^ta Hall wrhece ft has been to- Dean of the Graduate School Work explained the fariUtiea ef the Wright aaya HI he reaMdek Nagle HaB a after R ts He aaya he thinks the wiU be need by ktetory, ac the office ef the will probably not be completed un til auiemer ciaaaes, W right aaya. He emphasised that the C E Departmeat it net moving into old, rwadewn building*. “Thene buildings have been ra- ewdaled aad reworked mi are ia maeh hotter conditaon than the building presently occupied," aaya Wright. The atobtae behind the main betiding are eery good bnck build ings aad have also b. fit reworked, he Mid. Wright Mid that tbe stable, will hones several laboratories aad be Nation’s Oldest Magazines No Itonger Printed By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK (^) _ TTie largr reading audience wa* rturpri*ed within the week to learn of the death of two of the nation’* olde*t magazine* Collier’s and the Woman’s Home Companion. The much smaller com munity of freelance writer* was ■hocked. License te comment on the sit uation in a department devoted te television la provided by tbe pri vate comment of a Madison ave nue advertising agency executive. Television killed the magaxlnee, he believes. No such remark has been heard from executive* of the two magazines. Yet the agency man may have a point. baring the find year* of teta- vieion’a phenomenal growth, near ty all branches of the publishing ndurtry feared that It represented dangerous and, In some e poadibly fatal competition. written the cause of political free dom wherever possible during the (’old War seemed likely to be the big winners from the 196d upbeav I ala. But thia was by no means a certainty for Western weakness and division had opened tbe way for Soviet penertation on an un paralleled scale in the strategic Middle East Shod Id Russia ever succeed -in taking over the oil rich lands of that restless region it would have the power to strangle the industry and transport of Western Europe to death. Yet the Soviet Unioa waa itself faced with a different aet of prob lem*, born of its relation* with its satellite* which at the least Im pose sever* limits on .Its freedom of apmatioa aad may la the long ran help te wrack the dO-yoar-eld Kremlin dream of world conquest, the peaceful revolt in Poland and the violent explosion In Hungary against Moscow’s imperialism has done more than any single event had ever done before to destroy the Soviet dream that workers and peasant* inevitably find a happy new way of life In the Communist system. , The Soviet response to the up rising in Hungary also ronstltu ted a devasting Mow ^ Russia’: praotige. The Western j were quick to denounce the Soviet use of force hut they lost much of their moral petition and thoir "propaganda advantage when Brit ain and France used force against Egypt ia an evident effort to •mash the power of President Nea ter and ret tore international con trol of the Sues Caaal. WASHINGTON G¥>> — Tin politico* are shifting their •kirmiahing and scuffling now from the national arena to the halla of Congreea. Thia ia the traditional aftermath of a presidential election—an elec tion that produced strangely para doxical victories which kept Pres ident Eisenhower in the" White House and Democrats ia ^con trol of Congrsaa. Probably the moot impressive political event of 19M waa tho way Elsenhower won a second term with n massive margin of nine million votes. But from tho standpoint of future impact, aa squally important development y wed be the way paapln split their tickets aad rafuaad to give the President a Republican Congreea with which to work. Aa a rasnlt Republicans and Democrats will be straggling to hang their own party labels aa major legislation—trying to stake out claims to items to which they caa point with pride in the IIU and 1M0 elections. The 1M7 political maneuvering *•_ He says the hydraulics lab instruments will be Hi the long (table, which is about M0 feci long and 40 feet wide. The con crete Lo and strength ef materials lab will he ia the abort stable The h ’ utmoous tab Mid drafting rooms will te ta the two story building, formerly the diasectiag lab, behind the building. Main Hbmm and off wee asm* late win be ta the main I tag. Sanitary lab wfl) te n set of the Chemistry Building aad made a part ef tte G E. Depart- Short Course Set For Jan.S-9 The Agronomy Department la sponsoring a short course la fertiliser Jan. 6-t with J. F. Fudge Parallel Couraee The coincidence of the two plosions, one ia the Middle East and the other in Hungary, waa typical of a parallel course of de velopment which had gone on both areas throughout tho year. One of the curious by-products of the period of upheaval was that the United Nations and particular ly the small countries of the Uni ted Nations suddenly achieved a new power and prominence. Tile United States sought to work through the United Nations, both to support the freedom movement in Hungary and to get the British and French oat of Egypt Ik the ease of Egypt, Canada took the lend in getting a U N. police force med aad only small nations contributed troops to thia unprac ■denied body. Some officials thought thia first use ef such a U.N force to police the peace In Egypt mights Iq the tang run prove to te one of the rear’s grant accomplishments. If aa, the rota ef the onall p or would te ta tine with one of the yunr’a notable characteristics — ia b- und to catch up individuals In spectacular fashion aa iaaaea, ■ key Agues ea Capitol Hill, the fld-ap will be starting for tte m presidmHal etasttom VImm ■ ■ 1 it I III d yy: * ■—* - a ▼ w rTMMMm riivMi oorumuj pnssIhlMty for top spot on tte GOP ticket next time, appears likely to be assigned an increasing ly broader rota. Sen. Eataa Kef sever of Taw- ueoe, who ran against Nixon, can bo expected te try Co remain is the public eye, ton. Investi* gallons of one kind or another have kept him there before aad may again. Kefauver has the stamp of de feat upon him, thongh, and may be unable to n nstahllsh him self aa a real contender for IM0. Adlai £. Stevenson, the Demo crats’ two-time loser in the praaT dentin] race, can’t te exported te sink into political tileries, The Democrats may begin look ing around la 1067 for noma freak young talent te promote suck men aa Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who came within an eyelash of testing out Kefauver for the vice presidential nomination In 1964, or Son. Joseph 8. Clark ef Pennsylvania and Gov. Edmond 8. Muskie of Maine, who have prorad their vote-palling power la Re publican territory. Browsing Library Gets New Records v* Y - \ . 'a rw m rrl, Hhv* b*--fi r**<'^t\**ii hi tte M8C Browsing library, an- , Mrs. Gwendora Magna, l.ibrxrsn Long playing raeorda now prail- >lo to ftadmts are "High So ciety," •Giant," Tte Lonely Oiri" by Jnlie London and “Night Winds" by Jackta Gtaaaon. Also, Tte Boy Heart Door" by Roger Williams, Tte Art" by Tte Art Van Damme Quintet, Tte Eddie Dnckin Story,” "Manic far tte Fi reside" by Pool Weston, "Lest ta S Cloud" by Ken Griffin. M Rf rxvvtbwt • tv{mW i"* wtH.n«h py aWxwm by Harry Beta- will the wfll te tte spotlight ef history by t most derisive events of tte period were men from tte amaO sea tries The as a symbol of deflar of Mooeow, Gomnlka as an archi mS mn^mMb^Mo ten MMvE 01 IrwBOVTi in jrcniiiKi, Naaaer as a determined lender ef tbe Araks and perhaps a danger- one aae for tbe free world and, above all, tte common man ef Turning fee 1 Ingoo said, “Wo want ta Mm. Tte library k array for tida reaaaa," ate anid. Foams may te found on tte book ta writs ta library wfll