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n The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Thursday, February 13, 1958 Aii Editorial CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle — Economy Lower Serious unemployment hasn’t hit Brazos County yet— but it could if President Eisenhower doesn’t do more than urg-e Congress to modernize the postal system. With 414 million workers out of jobs, Ike has only made a weak attempt at bolstering the sagging economy with this plan. In fact, it would bolster private investors’ pocketbooks rather than the economy. The 3-to-5-year program includes: 1. Private investors would put about $114 billion dol lars into new and renovated buildings which the Post Of fice Department would rent. 2. About $175 million a year in federal funds would go for modernization of mail handling methods. The above plan is a g'ood example of the famous Re publican “trickle down” theory as are other projects where the federal government works in partnership with private enterprise. Ike has said, optimistically, that March should see the economy begin rising again. If he expects this, he is kidding himself and the public. That rise will begin only after the following two remedies are undertaken at least: 1. Public works should be instituted immediately in areas of high unemployment and continued until private in dustry can once again assimilate workers. 2. The tight money policy, relatively high taxes on the low income brackets and the Eisenhower-Benson soil bank plan need correction to remove money concentration from big interests and into the hands of the consuming public. I: L TRS. cars bv “Sir, now that we’ve got a satellite, why can’t we slack up a little in this course?” Job Calls Friday Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, Calif., interviews electrical and mechanical engi neers and physics majors who are principally interested in elec tronics, communications, systems analysis and other related dis ciplines. Jefferson Chemical Company, Inc., Houston, interviews organic chemistry Ph.D.’s, chemical and mechanical engineers. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp., Oakland, Calif., interviews chemical, electrical, and mechani cal engineers, and majors in busi ness administration, accounting, purchasing and traffic, and in dustrial relations. Wright Air Development Cen ter, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, interviews majors in mathematics, Physics, and aero nautical, chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Letters To The Editor What’s Cooking 7:30 Wichita Falls Hometown Club meets in Room 105, Academic Building. Galveston Hometown Club meets in Room 125, Academic Building, to discuss High School Day. Wheeler - Collinsworth Home town Club meets in the Ander son Room, YMCA, to have pict ures taken. Editor, The Battalion: I have just finished your Wed nesday editorial on the import ance of the student vote on co education at A&M. The advan tages you have listed are very general and not very concrete. 1. A very noted news com mentator rebuked the scare of many who are afraid that col leges and universities are so scarce that their children won’t get an education. 2. Enrollment dropped very sharply this semester due to more factors than A&M being all male. A few of the reasons were flu, good profs with high standards and those not wishing to accept the responsibility of a college ed ucation. 3. Aggies like women no less than any other group of men and appreciate them more than most. An Aggie has the opportunity to improve socially as much as time permits and still stay in School, ffavirig girls around all the time won’t help your business. I quote and reply to a letter earlier in the week; “Prairie View is co-ed why shouldn’t A&M be co-ed”, and I’d like to remind the veteran of one year of “old Army” and T.U. that there is still a difference in the two schools. 4. The recruiting problem is a problem when a boy doesn’t want to be an Aggie. How many all-Americans and other great m' i| * Tj "- ■ Jr 8S< sujbh 3!S £S< uuuijoo uiaiv oaoig aSueipxg aqx w SaiODY IBM P I P ) JDARFhl am Aupox ^90 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a community neivspaper and is gov erned by the student-faculty Student Publications Board at Texas A. & M. College. The Battalion, Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sund September through a student newspaper at. Texas A & M., is published in College y except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, May, and once a week during summer school. Ity Chairman; Prof. Donald D. Burchard; Prof. Robert M. Stevenson; and Mr. javui ty, Bennie Faculty members of the Student Publications Board are Dr. Carroll D, Laverty, ird; Zinn. Student members are W. T. Williams, John Avant, and Billy W. Libby. Ex- officio members are Mr. Charles A. Roeber; and Ross Strader, Secretary and Direc tor of Student Publications. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n Associated Collegiate Press Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. ray be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office, Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call' VI 6-6415. News contributions JOE TINDEL ..Editor players have come to A&M with out girls and were in the Corps? Just to name a few of these teams like the one from 11)54 to 1957. We might have been out scored but not beaten and still Aggies. Perhaps you saw some of their games as they went to the top. John Bullard presented a letter that many other girls would write if asked their feelings to ward A&M. We are all proud of the young lady who withheld her name but is going to T.U. She will find that even T.U. has traditions and A&M would like to keep theirs. It isn’t a question of our want ing another military academy, because we don’t. A&M offers an excellent education, an oppor tunity to fulfill a military obli gation in the status of an ed ucated man and advance because of past training and how to asso ciate with your fellow man. The Ags take a break to associate with the much appreciated fairer sex. Check on our number at a formal dance in Austin (T.U.) this weekend. A pat on the back to Fred Meurer for his article on our lack of military facilities. The air force cadets don’t want to wear the regular air force blue, just a better Aggie uniform. Check the summer camp records for our qualifications even with present facilities. Jack Heald ’58 And everywhere there was snow. And the stuff barely hit the ground before the playful Aggies rushed out of their warm dorms, to grab it as it fell from the sky and throw it at one another. According to the college hos pital, the harmless looking stuff isn’t. Harmless. At least one Ag required some sewing on his face, as an indirect result of the day-long campus fracas, one Frank Robinson by name. Several other members of the khaki-clads were .sporting new gauze eye patches, Sammy Davis Jr. fashion, apparently also the results of well placed snow balls. ★ ★ ★ Which reminds me of the freshman I saw today with his bicycle basket filled with snow balls, riding in front of the Academic Building. Mounted freshmen are a new weapon, but the sophomores surely will come up with an effective combatant for this campus menace. ★ ★ ★ With the co-ed question solved and resolved: Girls, Don’t Come to Us—We’ll Come To You, things are sure to get dull here. But if the Committee for the Advancement of an Increased Amount of Coffee per Cup in the MSC gets their way, Ags will once again get to express their views on high level campus issues. ★ ★ ★ Among the Profs This Week: Are the students. Naturally. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves to be great. —Emerson THE CARTER OIL COMPANY Research Laboratory Tulsa, Oklahoma Affiliate of Standard Oil Company (IN. J.) Will Interview Students on February 24-25, 1958 We Have Positions For: Physicists, Chemists, Mathematic ians, and Chemical, Mechanical and Petroleum Engineers. Make an appointment through your placement office. U.S. Students Say Ike Not Too Bus Being President of the United States is not too much of a job for one man! At least that’s the opinion of two-thirds of the college students interviewed in a recent Associated Collegiate Press Poll. “Some people have advanced the theory that the job of being president of the United States is too much for any one man. Do you agree, or do you disagree, with this idea. Why?” This was the question asked a representa tive group of college students across the nation. Of the number interviewed, one-fifth of the men agreed with the statement and over a third of coeds were in agreement, but the majority of both disagreed. Only a few were ^ndecided on the is sue. Something New For A Delicious Treat? TRY OUR— SPUD SUNDAE The TRIANGLE 3606 So. 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