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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, January 31, 1957
Advertising Texas
Legislators noisily hailed Governor Price Daniel’s plan
of advertising Texas as a wonderful idea.
But what will they advertise about Texas? Will any
thing be said about these facts? Facts that in themselves
will accomplish just as much as advertising.
Texas is 47th in prison systems.
Texas ranks in the 20’s in school systems.
Texas has an unsatisfactory rating in eleemosynary in
stitutions.
Texas ranks 40th in expenditures per college student.
More than likely all of these prideful facts will again be
ignored as the legislators clamor through the business of the
state with all the balance and forethought of a pack of pup
pies.
The primary responsibility of any government is that
it first fills the needs of its people.
And now when many members of the legislature have
said they would not consider any measures of increasing
state income and would spend only the expected revenue,
how can thejr even think of using the money to advertise
when we need the other things so badly. Our state income
is spread thin enough as it is now.
This shows real progression. They want more people to
move to Texas to keep up with the rapidly growing industries
but they fail to consider the basic principles which give the
state a good reputation and make people want to live there.
How can legislators advertise a progressive Texas when
they prove they have very little interest in the forerunner
of progress—education ?
It’s good to be proud and to show people the great op
portunity to be had here but first we need to be sure that
Texas is such a great place to live.
Who Has Best Case?
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
When the experts disagree over
technical matters about all the
public can do is sit back and see
who puts up the most plausible
case.
And remembering at the same
time that plausibility is not al
ways connected with the right.
All during the Eisenhower ad
ministration there has been a
sizable section of opinion which
questioned the attitude of the
money-savers toward the national
defense program.
They haven’t agreed with the
optimistic expressions which crop
out every now and then about the
state of the world. They have
wanted the United States to be
prepared for the outside chance.
At first the administration rep
resented the cuts in the defense
budget as being possible because
of the acquisition of new weapons,
eliminating the need for strength
through size.
Now the cost of new weapons
and the need for developing more
has run the budget back up.
In the meantime, there have
been constant warnings—mostly
from the various military branches
which always are seeking more
money-that Russia is getting ahead
in one or another branch of pre
paredness.
The report of the Symington
Committee on Air Power is anoth
er of these.
Aside from its unfavorable com
parison of American and Russian
airpower in its various branches,
the report makes one charge
which is very serious, if true. It
says insufficient attention is being
paid to intelligence reports about
Russia’s progress.
No layman is in a position to
judge this report. He can only
know that the nation should have
had sufficient experience with fail
ures in intelligence, and in evalua
tion of intelligence, as regarding
Pearl Harbor, Korea and other
matters, to keep it on the alert.
He also suspects there isn’t
enough real intelligence informa
tion from Russia to give any sort
of reliable picture of her military
position.
It is unfair to judge the Syming
ton report by the fact that the
committee split along political
lines, or because Sen. Symington
himself developed a special inter
est while secretary of the Air
Force.
It would be just as unfair to
the administration not to consider
these facts in trying to determine
who is right.
What the public is interested in
is not who is right, but what is
right and safe for the nation.
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Air Force Official Objects
Over Cartoon In Battalion
Air Force officials objected Fri
day to the cartoon in Thursday’s
Battalion which showed a ragged,
starved-looking AF ROTC junior
begging a comfortably reclining
sergeant for his contract check.
Major Rufus K. Conoley, adju
tant, said there was no factual
basis for the cartoon since in act
uality, the AF cadets were paid
five days in advance. Their checks
came in Friday.
GOFER
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EUGENE RUSH- - COLLEGE STATION,TEXAS
The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
The Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students in the Office of Student
Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications
Is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the A.&M. College
of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Dr. Carroll D.
Laverty, Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard, Prof. Tom Leland and Mr. Bennie
Zinn. Student members are John W. Gossett, Murray Milner, Jr., and Leighlus B.
Sheppard, Jr., Ex-officio members are Mr. Charles Roeber, and Ross Strader, Sec
retary. The Battalion is published four times a week during the regular school year
and once a week during the summer and vacation and examination periods. Days of
publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year and on Thursday
during the summer terms and during examination and vacation periods. The Battalion
Is not published on the Wednesday immediately preceeding Easter or Thanksgiving. Sub
scription rates are $3.50 per semester, $6.00 per school year, $6.50 per full year,
or $1.00 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request.
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archives office was established,
many thousands of pieces of price
less material have been collected
including letters, reports, scrap
books, pictures, uniforms, text
books, papers, diplomas, yearbooks
and catalogues. He is reluctant to
name the greatest single contri
bution received, but Gofer does ad
mit the contents of the Louis L.
Mclnnis attic trunk was the most
unusual and fruitful.
Mclnnis was a member of the
A&M faculty under Thomas S.
Gathright, first president of the
college, and was re-appointed by
the second president, John Garland
James.
One letter from Gathright to his
friend Mclnnis was writtsn in 1880
on plain white wrapping- paper
strips five inches wide and 22
inches long, and discusses prelimi
nary plans to establish a school in
Palestine. In addition to many
letters from early faculty mem
bers of the college, the trunk also
contained an invitation to the first
“Lx-cadets” meeting in June 1879
on the campus. Chairman of the
committee handling the meeting
was E. B. Cushing, for whom the
college library was named.
Much of the material the
archivist has collected shows clear
ly the currents and cross-tensions
present during the college’s early
days and has been published in five
books titled First Five Admini
strators of Texas A. and M. Col
lege, Early History of Texas A
&M College through Letters and
Papers, Fragments of Early His
tory of Texas A&M College, Sec
ond Five Administrators of Texas
A&M College, and Supplement to
First Five Administrators of Texas
A&M College.
Able assistant to Cofer during
the entire history of the archives
office has been Mrs. John H. Bin
ney, who has catalogued and filed
all the authenticated historical
data contributed by former stu
dents, former faculty members and
many other friends of the college.
Scheduled to go on retirement in
May, Cofer will leave behind him
an archives office already bursting
at the seams from the enormous
amount of material collected in
six and one half years. Much of
the data is on file because Cofer,
through his long service with the
college, knew where to seek it out.
Born near Elizabethtown, Ken
tucky, he received the B. A. degree,
magna cum laude, from Centre
College in 1907 and the M. A.
degree from the University of
Wisconsin in 1927. He has been
listed in Leaders in American
Education; Who’s Who in Ameri
can Education; Presidents and Pro
fessors in American Colleges and
Who’s Who in Texas.
In addition to the five archives
publications, he has published a
number of writings dealing with
English studies, especially on
Thomas Carlyle, literary philosop
her of the 19th Century, and is
a member of several professional
societies and organizations.
This came in contrast to what
AF juniors had been saying about
their checks being overdue.
Maj. Conoley said that AF ca
dets were paid on a quarterly basis
and that the checks had to be
mailed into AF ROTC headquar
ters in Montgomery, Ala. ten days
after the close of the pay period
which ended Dec. 31, 1956.
Entered as second-claae
matter at Post Office at
Collette Station, Texas,
under the Act of Cen
tres* of March 8, 1870.
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Texas Press Association
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the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights
of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved.
News contributions may be made by telephone (VI 6-6618 or VI-
6-4910) or at the editorial office room, on the ground floor of the
YMCA. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (VI 6-6415) or at
the Student Publications Office, ground floor of the YMCA.
JIM BOWER .. .Editor
Dave McReynolds Managing Editor
Barry Hart Sports Editor
Welton Jones City Editor
Joy Roper 1 Society Editor
Leland Boyd, Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel News Editors
Don Bisett, J. B. McLeroy Staff Photographers
C. R. McCain, D. G. McNutt, John West, Val Polk,
Fred Meurer Reporters
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Dr. Bardin Nelson
Speaks at Bonham
Dr. Bardin H. Nelson of the Ag
riculture Economics and Sociology
Department will speak Monday "at
a vocational agriculture conference
in Bonham.
His subject is “How Teachers of
Vocational Agriculture May As
sist in Improving Rural Family
Living.”
On Feb. 13 he will appear on the
program of the East Texas Agri
cultural Conference in Nacogdo
ches. His subject is “Attitudes of
Rural Youth Toward Farming and
Other Occupational Opportunities
in East Texas.”
Last week Dr. Nelson spoke on
the subject of “The Use of Coun
seling a n d Guidance Techniques
in an Extension Program” at the
annual Agriculture Extension Ser
vice Conference for Negroes at
Prairie View A&M.
Ife said the checks were sent by
air mail on Dec. 8, 1956.
He said that the regulations
state that checks can ordinarily be
expected on or about 30 days after
close of the pay period which
would have made them due here
Jan. 30. Since they came on Jan.
25, they were five days early
which was one day ahead of last
year, he said.
Several AF juniors had told The
Battalion that the checks were
overdue because they hadn’t been
sent to headquarters in time and
also that they had been told in
class earlier in the year they
would receive their checks “around
the middle of December.”
Maj. Conoley said he had sent
a letter to all instructors explain
ing the full procedure of when the
checks could be expected.
He asked Jim Bower, Battalion
Editor, if he knew that had he
been on one of the professional
papers such as in Houston, he
could have gotten in trouble for
printing the cartoon.
He added that “‘we have been
subject to some ridicule by the
Army because of the cartoon.”
Broadway, New York’s center of
theatrical and night life, was first
named by early Dutch settlers as
“de Herre Straat,” which means
grand or lordly.
Senate Authorizes
Union Investigation
WASHINGTON (A 5 )—The Senate The measure creates a special
by unanimous voice vote yesterday
passed a resolution authorizing a
nationwide $350,000 investigation
of alleged racketeering in labor
unions and industry.
Kiwanis Furnished
Folio Show Judges
Judges for the Teen Agers Drive
for Polio Talent show in Bryan
were supplied by the College Sta
tion Kiwanis Club Monday night.
All of the prize money that was
collected for the winners was turn
ed over to the polio drive. Num
bers of novelty, instrumental and
vocal nature were judged by Char
les LaMotte, Hershal Burgess, Roy
Wingren, Isaac Peter and Wayne
Stark.
eight-member committee to con
duct the inquiry, thus resolving a
jurisdictional problem presented
by rival claims from the perma
nent Senate Investigations sub
committee and the Labor Com
mittee.
Leaders from both groups denied
any controversy ever had marked
their claims to the right to conduct
the inquiry.
Senate leaders did not immedi
ately announce who would be as
signed to the special committee,
which is expected to be headed
by Sen. McClellan (D-ark), the in
vestigations subcommittee chair
man.
The Senate acted shortly after
the resolution had been approved,
also unanimously, by the Rules
Committee. That action was an
nounced by Sen. Hayden (D-Ariz),
the acting committee chairman.
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