The Battalion College Station (Brazos County^ Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, November 5, 1957
Aii Editorial
Cadet SloucK
U.S. Sputnik — When?
As Russia nears achievement of reaching the moon, the
United States sits back without having even launched a
satellite.
Why has America been so outstripped in the rocket
field? That’s the big question in the minds of so many
Americans these days.
These are the possibilities:
1. The Eisenhower administration has failed to lead
in formulating an effective rocket program.
2. Inter-service rivalry between the Army and Navy
could have caused the reportedly successful Army Jupiter
C from being launched instead of continuing research on
the Navy’s Vanguard.
3. Big business, handling the Navy contracts, could
have used influence on the Republican administration to
squelch use of the Jupiter C, handled by the U. S. govern
ment, so the Navy research .could continue.
4. The administration could have been so busily em
ployed arguing with states on the “horse and buggy” states
rights issue, they didn’t have time to devote to the present
age of moon-bound rockets.
Whatever the cause the United States is losing prestige
all over the world and stands to lose much more if some
thing is not done quickly.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said Sunday
that the United States is “losing the contest for the minds
of men.”
Evidently referring to President Eisenhower he said:
“Our thinking has been too military—as a general and
not as a Thomas Jefferson or an Abraham Lincoln.”
The President has evidently been giving too many
military orders and not leading his people like a president
should.
The American people need another Franklin D. Roose
velt or even a Harry S. Truman to take some positive action
rather than a man who too often frequents the golf course
and possibly thinks America will always be safe because it is
America.
A news analyst, soon after Sputnik I’s launching, said
he had discovered that the Army had a rocket capable of
sending a satellite into space but it had not been used. He
advanced the theory that inter-service rivalry was causing
the delay.
In that same report he noted that the Army’s project
was being conducted by civil service and the Navy project
through private contracts with big business. It’s entirely
possible big business influenced holding back the Army
launching to swell its pockets with government contracts.
Impossible? Look what big business did during the
Spanish-American War when no restraints were on them.
They virtually poisoned their own troops with bad meat to
make ^ profit.
The fourth possibility if contributive is more pitiful
than any. Why can sensible people constrict their minds to
such petty issues as “states rights” and prejudices against
their fellow man, when they are preparing to enter the age
of space travel ?
Why can’t they see that what, we should be working fqr
is one world rather than the minute interests of a few states
in the ever shrinking earth ?
Regardless of the reasons for our dilemma, we are in
it and it seems all we can do is pray to the good Lord that
our leaders, however incompetent, may be able to lead us out
and enable us to regain our lost prestige.
by Jim Earle 1AL f Ni ] |c
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Man to Man
BY JOE TINDEL
Who says coffee, nicotine and liquor cause people to
die young? It’s football!
There’s a path worn in the floor of The Battalion office
during the Arkansas game Saturday while I was listening
to the game.
However, what’s important is our winning and what’s
more important is our winning the SMU game this Satur
day.
-fc -K -K
Aggies Monday were actually more interested in learn
ing how the Aggies came out in the AP poll then they were
in what was happening to Russia’s newest satellite, Mutt-
nick.
Speaking of Muttnick, the AP was sending out pictures
yesterday of a dog looking through a telescope at the new
Red satellite which carries a canine.
-K * -fc
The next three Aggie games will be played with the
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Editor:
The Battalion
I’d like to commend the author
of the editorial “Ignoring the
Law,’’ which appeared in last
Thursday’s Battalion, for h^s
Christian, patriotism, courage
and cogency of expression.
• Fred E. Ekfelt
English Department
Editor:
The Battalion
So you’ve done it again! In your
editorial in the Oct. 30 Battalion,
you stated that “Once again
they’ve (the legislature) tried to
keep the federal government out
of the racial question because they
still foster the prejudices of
earlier days.”
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Just who can determine whether
these motives which you call pre
judices really are prejudices? The
members of the legislature are
representing the people, if you
can remember. These so called
“prejudices” are shared by those
who elected these members.
According to your editorial you
class yourself with those who say
“it’s coming, so there’s nothing
to do but rationalize.”
John D. Crews ’59
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