The Battalion College station (Brazos (Bounty), Texas
PAGE 2 Wednesday, February 25, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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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.
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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.
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