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The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, February 13, 1958
Aii Editorial
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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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.
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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
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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
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