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The Battalion College station (Brazos (Bounty), Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 25, 1959 BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson Not ‘Recommended’ Duncan Hines still would not recommend A&M dining halls. The food generally is satisfactory, as college dining hall food goes, but the atmosphere is still almost the same as that condemned last week by Vice President Rudder. Students either cannot or will not adapt to a messhall situation free of “tension.” Yet it is necessary that harrass- ment while eating be stamped out, for this is one of the chain of changes designed to make A&M more liveable. It is a long range shot to keeping students, for “tension” in the messhalls is one of the primary reasons listed by “fish” as they bid farewell to Aggieland. Blunt figures shout that enrollment has plunged regular ly since 1951, except for a slight upswing in ’55. Another group of figures show that there are now 890 Corps sopho mores whereas there were over 1,200 at this time last year. Numbers in all classes are at an ebb. They cannot get much lower. Therefore the college is racking its brains in hope of coming up with some new measure that will help the situation—yes, even ease ten sions—and return A&M to the promised land it used to be. The messhall decision is one of these measures and it isn’t a bunch of “baloney.” The attempt at cutting harrass- ment there is an attempt to make life at A&M a little more livable. It is an attempt to make Aggies like Aggieland rather than regard it with a skeptical eye. Yet the Corps is not going along with it as well as it could. Harrassment in the messhalls has been cut down a lit tle but it still lurks in every corner, threatening freshmen as they enter the double doors. Theatening A&M. . . “What are they trying to prove?” Ask tradition-bound seniors and juniors echo their queries. “They” are not trying to prove anything. They are trying to DO something. If the move—and other like it—had come earlier, per haps the hundreds of ex-freshmen would still be here. In stead they are at home, spreading around the gloomy picture of A&M as seen by a “fish.” So what’s the score? Well, we can still salvage what we have. Or if we do lose some more, maybe the picture those who leave paint for others—like high school seniors—won’t be so bleak. It is no secret that the college gets its monetary ap propriations according to enrollment. With fewer students there is limited pay for teachers; consequently, there are fewer top-notch teachers. It’s all working downhill, and this is the problem we must solve. The dining hall change, for instance, is not so hard. Take the Anti-Aircraft Artillery battalion for example, command ed by Grady Barr and its company commanders Ed Jamail, Paul Voinis and Bill Markillie. The only time their freshmen depart from “normal” table etiquette in the messhall now is when they are asked a single “cush” question. These men did it and you can, too. A&M needs it - and you need it because A&M is yours. GET IN ON THE-- 1c SALE CLOSE OUT OF ★ Long Sleeve SHIRTS * Slacks & Ivy League PANTS GET THEM NOW! 2 FOE THE PRICE OF 1 PLUS 1c AT LOUPOT'S IT PAYS TO TRADE WITH LOU 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 edMcational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Due wall, director of Student Puh’ications, chairman ; J. W. 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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. Might* of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the Jditorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOE KUSER EDITOR Fred Meurer Managing Editor Gayle McMitt. Executive News Editor CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle After ‘Coming Alive’ Man Finds Son ? s Salary Too High for Replacement Interpreting Nikita Tells MaeMillian ‘Don 11 a lk \hout Germ a ny * By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev has chosen a strange time and an oblique method for telling Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan that he’s not going to sell any Allied ideas about Germany during his Moscow visit. He uses the occasion of a pub lic speech. It’s as though he had closed the door in the British envoy’s face before he could get well started. P’uture discussion of the principal matters occupying the mind of the allied leader will now be in a cold atmosphere. The Soviet Union, says Khrush chev, repeating the line with which he has been violating the only agreement of importance leached at the Geneva summit conference in 1955, is not going to talk about reunification of Germany. That, he says, further cement ing his idea of gaining recogni tion for East Germany as a sep arate entity, is a matter between the two Germanys. He throws further cold water on the Allied suggestion for a four-power conference of foreign ministers by saying that about the only thing they could discuss would be suppression of militar ism in a new Germany formed by agreement of the subdivisions. He reiterates his suggestion for a 28-nation summit confer ence to draw up a peace treaty for a new Germany, a sort of bait to get the West Germans to deal with the East. But Khrushchev, like Stalin, has displayed disdain for anything except great power agreements on major issues, and he would be likely to settle for a four-power summit conference if that were offered. Khrushchev, in his Tuesday speech, ignored Macmillan’s Mon day night plea for peace and a return to wartime relationships. Because the Soviet Union al ready has the kind of peace it wants, holding the initiative in a new type of international con flict which keeps the West on the defensive. WASHINGTON (^—Picturing himself as a man who has just found life again, Rep. Steven V. Carter (D-Iowa) said Tuesday he’ll decide in a few days what to do about his 19-year-old son’s $11,873 salary. Carter said he may decide to reduce the salary or take his son off the congressional payroll en tirely. But he said he wants to keep him as an assistant if at all possible. The 43-year-old Carter told newsmen also of his bout with a recurrence of cancer, which orig inally struck him in 1957. He got word from doctors at nearby Bethesda Md. Naval Hospital earlier this month it was back again. But he said it has been treated successfully so far. “I had a private guess,” Car ter said, “that I didn’t have too long to live. Now doctors tell me I have not a sure chance but a good one to live out a normal life span.” Carter’s son, Steven A., works in his fathers office. He also is a freshman pre-law student at George Washington University here. After he went on the payroll at $11,873 last Jan. 3, and the word got around, the question was rais ed whether it was proper for any one so young to get such a big government salary, particularly in a part-time job. The Des Moines Register Tues day quoted Rep. Carter as saying he had made a mistake in judg ment and “I’m going to correct it.” Talking to reporters here, Car ter said doctors described his can cer as lympho blastema, one of a class of tumors of varying ma lignancy which involve the lymph system. He originally spent from Jan. 30 to Feb. 18 in the hospital for treatment. A derivitive of mus tard gas was injected into his system then. He said this check ed the growths doctors had found. “It’s a type of cancer like heart disease,” Carter said. “It can’t be cured hut it can be contained. This came as wonderful news to me.” As for his son’s status, Carter said “getting the picture in prop er perspective is what’s tough.” He said a good stenographer in his home town of Leon probably could be hired for about $2,400 a year but the same one in Wash ington would receive between $5,- 000 and $8,000. “I agree the cost of govern ment i§ too high,” Carter said, “but the cost of living in Wash ington justifies the difference in salary standards.” “Nepotism has become a dirty word,” Carter said. “But if a man and wife or man and son are a good team they give better service to the taxpayer” than some other employe would give in the relative’s place. HOPEWELL, Ohio <£>>—Sign on a truck traveling U. S. 40 near here: “Don’t hug me. I’m going steady.” The name Eve is the Hebrew word for- “life.” Wee Aggies We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI 6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi tor A future fightin’ Texas Aggie, Randall Wayne McNulty, weigh ed in at l x /z lbs. in St. JJoseph’s Hospital Sunday morning. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Alton McNulty ’59, of 2116 College Ave. SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR Lv. N. Zulch 10:08 a.m. Ar. Dallas • . 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch Ar. Houston Burlington Route 7:28 p.m. 9:15 p.m. FORT WORTH and DENVER RAILWAY N. L. CRYAR, Agent Phone 15* NORTH ZULCH A&M MENS SHOP 103 MAIN — NORTH GATE AGGIE OWNED SAVE EAT AT HOTARD’S Cafeteria STATE FARM INSURANCE FOR INSURANCE CALL U. M. ALEXANDER, JR., ’40 215 S. Main Phone TA 3-3616 Slate farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co!| State Farm Life Insurance Co. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. r HOME OFFICE—BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIB" TUXEDO RENTAL SERVICE In STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY FOR: Weddings Parties Socials Dances Either In White Coats and Black Pants or all Dark ZUBIK'S UNIFORM TAILORS North Gate PEANUTS PEANUTS By Charles M. 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