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Friday, January 9, 1959 &L<UUL.H
by Jim Earle
Interpreting
t;
Soviets’’ ‘Sheep’s Clothing
Not Foolin/g U.S. Officials
By J. M: ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The United States has issued a
general indictment of Soviet chi
canery and double dealing in'the
affairs of Europe to remove the
cloak • of reasonableness with
which Khrushchev, Mikoyan &
Co. are trying to coyer its designs
on Germany.
The indictment is in reply to
the Soviet note claiming the Wes
tern powers have vitiated the
Potsdam agreement and demand
ing an end to four-power control
of Berlin. It is merely coinci
dence that the State Department
issued it while Soviet Dep. Prem
ier Anastas I. Mikoyan is visit
ing the United States.
On the day following its pub
lication, President Eisenhower is
sued an appeal for courteous
treatment of Mikoyan, who is be
ing greeted at almost every stop
by anti-Communist hecklers, pri
marily of Hungarian extraction.
The State Department speaks
officially of the hopes for peace
which have been dashed by the
Soviet actions.
The demonstrators remind un
officially that in Hungary the
Soviet army, always held up as
the liberator and protector of the
working class, became its exe
cutioner.
Both aie overlooking facts
which cannot be overlooked be
cause of any pious hope, as Jim
Hagerty expressed it for the
President, that Mikoyan will go
home with “an accurate picture
of our good manners, as well as
our strength, our confidence and
our determination in the cause of
freedom and peace.”
Mikoyan has not come. to the
United States for the purpose of
learning more about its good
points so he can go home and
promote good feeling here for
America.
He has come to pick up com-
cercial ideas which it may be
possible to apply in the Soviet
Union to help make the people
believe they are headed for Uto
pia in spite of all their troubles.
He would like to promote a re
laxed American attitude toward
world trade with the Soviet bloc
to further the Kremlin campaign
of world domination through eco
nomic hegemony.
He would like to set the stage
for bilateral negotiatiohs with
the United States on numerous
points at issue, to drive a wedge
between America and her allies,
to enhance the appearance of im
portance of'the Soviet Union and
its leaders, and to make people
think the Russians can’t be so
bad.
Courtesy to a visitor is not
something extended because of
his merits, but bcause it is part
of the maintenance of a civilized
character by the host.
No amount of it will change
fundamental relations with the
Soviet Union, because those rela
tions are a 1'esult of deliberate
international Communist policy.
That fact is inherent in the
State Department report, which
goes back many years to make
its point.
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Congressmen Start Talking
But Accomplish Very Little
By ARTHUR ED SON
WASHINGTON OP)—Here it
is the second day of a new Con
gress, and already the Senate
has shown midseason form.
Nearly all of us, after a vaca
tion, need a little time before we
can operate at full speed.
But a senator is not like us
other mortals. He returns, ton
sils on the ready, prepared for
instant action, to use the word
loosely.
As you know, the Senate has
the problem of deciding what its
ground rules are to be. Shall it
continue filibuster unlimited, or
shall it try some form of limited
debate ?
To give this question the time
it deserves, Sen. Lyndon B. John
son (D-Texas), who calls the sig
nals for his party, had the Sen
ate convene two hours early yes-
Profs Say Texas Prison Improved,
Clean, With Emphasis o n Training
Three professors in the De
partment of History and Govern
ment who recently returned from
a tour of the Texas Department
of Corrections in Huntsville found
the facilities “clean—improved—
with emphasis on rehabilitation.”
The tour was arranged by J. C.
Roberts, who is chief of the Bu
reau of Records and Identifica
tion. The professors made the
tour in order to gain first-hand
information concerning the penal
institutions of Texas.
The fact most remarkable to
Roberts, who was already famil
iar with the prison system due
to his father’s position, was the
“tremendous improvement that
has been made in the prison sys
tem in the past few years.” The
Texas penal system has moved
from behind as being one of the
nation’s worst to one of the na
tion’s best, he said. The new
penal system, now known as the
Texas Department of Corrections,
is gaining national and also in
ternational fame as being one of
the model penal systems.
Professor Duncan was highly
impressed at the “cleanliness,
good food, high morale, and the
educational and recreational fa
cilities.” This was his second
isit to the prison, his first made
twenty years ago. He stated that
the only part of the prison that
had not undergone much change
between his visits was the huge
outside wall.
Dr. Benton said “great empha
sis placed upon rehabilitation of
prisoners” was one of .the things
he observed. Under the new pe
nal system the percentage of re
turnees has been reduced, he
noted.
Boyd Procter Gets
Achievement Prize
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Bob Weekley Sports Editor
Boyd S. Proctor, junior agron
omy major from De Kalb, was
awarded a $200 Agronomy
Achievement Award this week by
Dr. Robert L. Beacher, Southwest
regional director of the National
Plant Food Institute.
According to Dr. W. O. Trog-
don, head of the Department of
Agronomy, Proctor, was present
ed the award for outstanding
work. He was a Distinguished
Student in the spring of ’57.
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ROBERT TAYLOR
DOROTHY MALONE^
UPON
A DEAD
JOCKEY
in CINEMASCOPE
Plus
terday, at 10 a.m.
Many senators feel deeply on
this question, and you might ex
pect a .full and eager attendance.
But at 10:03, immediately after
the opening prayer, Johnson said
he didn’t think a quorum was
present. And he was so right.
A reporter counted 19 senators.
The conference, by the way,
may show one problem facing the
self-styled liberals in the Senate:
Too many quarterbacks, and not
enough linemen.
The conference finally broke
up, and at 10:40, Senate Leader
Richard M. Nixon announced that
a quorum was now present.
But apparently something still
was wrong. Johnson asked for
another quorum call, and he made
a motion with his hand to show
the clerk that this time it was to
be a quick one.
At 10:43 Sen. Mike Monroney
(D-Okla.) got the floor, and we
were off. Or were we ?
This brought the new Republi
can leader, Sen. Everett M. Dirk-
sen (111.), to bis feet to say that
many senators had made previous
committments, and it would be
embarrassing to the senators if
we ran to an unseemly hour.
Meaning: Many of us have
planned to go to parties, and this
would louse it up terribly.
Johnson remained calm. “I
hope,” he said, “it will not last
so long as to inconvenience sen
ators who have important respon
sibilities elsewhere.”
Meaning: We’ll try to wind it
up before the goodies run out.
No matter what, the Senate
won’t be hurried. *
Social Whirl
Monday
Aero Wives Club will meet Mon
day at 7:45 in the home of Mrs.
Monroney apparently didn’t Bess Wells, 4204 Culpepper Dr.
have a long speech, but he scarce- Officers will be installed, followed
ly had begun before he was be
sieged with requests. Would he
yield for a parliamentry inquiry?
Naturally each parliamentary
inquiry was preceded by a speech
in which a great to-do was made
about finding out the will of the
Senate. Then came a hypotheti
cal question.
This went on and on, until
shortly after noon Johnson broke
in to say he hoped for a vote
“early tonight.”
by a guest speaker, Mrs. Emmette
Wallace.
Industrial Education Wives
Club meets at 7:30 g.m. at the
Lone Star Gas Co., 201 E. 27th
St., Bryan. > Miss Billie Stevens
will give a cooking demonstra
tion.
Aggie Wives Council meets at
7:30 in the MSC Social Room.
This is the last meeting of the
fall semester. Election of new
officers will be held.
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THE DATING SEASON
I have recently returned from a tour of 950,000 American col
leges where I made a survey of undergraduate dating customs
and sold Zorro whips. I have tabulated my findings and I am
now prepared to tell you the simple secret of successful dating.
The simple secret is simply this: A date is successful when
the man knows how to treat the girl.
cl Ititeiitr,
And how does a girl like to be treated? If you want to know,
read and remember these four cardinal rules of dating:
1. A girl likes to be treated with respect.
When you call for your girl, do not drive up in front of the
sorority house and yell, “Hey, fat lady!” Get out of your car.
Walk respectfully to the door. Knock respectfully. When your
girl comes out, tug your forelock and say respectfully, “Good
evening, Your Honor.” Then offer her a Marlboro, .for what
greater respect can you show your girl than to offer Marlboro
with its “better makin's," fine flavor and new improved filter? It
will indicate immediately that you respect her taste, respect her
discernment, respect her intelligence. So, good buddies, before
going out on a date, always remember to buy some Marlboros,
now available in soft pack or flip-top box at your friendly
vending machine.
2. A girl likes a good listener.
Do not monopolize the conversation. Let her talk while you
listen attentively. Make sure, however, that she herself is not
a good listener. I recollect a date I had once with a coed named
Greensleeves Sigafoos, a lovely girl, but unfortunately a listener,
not a talker. I too was a listener so we just sat all night long,
each with his hand cupped over his ear, straining to catch a
word, not talking hour after hour until finally a policeman
came by and arrested us both for vagrancy. I did a year and a
day. She got by with a suspended sentence because she was
the sole support of her aged housemother.
S. A girl likes to be taken to nice places.
By “nice” places I do not mean expensive places. A girl does
not demand luxury. All she asks is a place that is pleasant and
gracious. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, for example. Or
Mount Rushmore. Or the Taj Mahal. Or the Bureau of Weights
and Measures. Find places like these to take your girl. In no
circumstances must you take her to an oil-cracking plant.
J. A girl likes a man to be well-informed.
Come prepared with a few interesting facts that you can
drop casually into the conversation. Like this: “Did you know,
Snookiepuss, that when cattle, sheep, camels, goats, antelopes,
and other members of the cud-chewing family get up, they
always get up hind legs first?” Or this: “Are you aware,
Hotlips, that corn grows faster at night?” Or this: “By the
way, Loverhead, Oslo did not become the capital of Norway
till July 11, 1924.”
If you can slip enougfi of these nuggets into the conversation
before dinner, your date will grow too torpid to eat. Some men
save up to a half-million dollars a year this way.
© 1050 Max Shulman
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Girls, men—everybody, in fact, likes mild, natural Philip
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