The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texat
PAGE 2 Thursday, Apriil 2, 1959
BATTALION EDITORIALS
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Laugh Until You Cry
“Poor boy” school may be a most fitting- title for Texas
A&M if the Legislature passes HB 216 calling for a million
dollar cut in requested appropriations for each of the two
years in the next fiscal period.
In two years this college will be “poor boy” all right.
It’ll be ragged at the sleeves financially.
The cutback in requested monies for teachers’ salaries
amounting to $278,307 won’t help pay the bills next year,
much less attract the caliber of instructors needed desperate
ly.
The million dollar cut didn’t come as a result of an
evil plot to set the college back another 10 years. It was a
simple problem of numbers, or rather the lack of them.
Both teacher salaries and general appropriations are
directly tied to enrollment. Very simply stated, we get so
much money per student, based on the number that can be
expected to enroll during the next biennium. The college’s
requests were based on projected enrollment of 7,700 stu
dents expected next year.
It is easy to see why the House Appropriations Com
mittee laughed out the side of its mouth and slashed the
figpre by one-eighth. A&M’s enrollment dropped by four
hundred students this year. Anticipation of a big, fat in
crease next year does appear a little ludicrous, doesn’t it?
It’s funnier yet when we realize that each of us here
has contributed in some way to stagnation of progress at
Texas A&M.
There is not a man on the campus, professor, student
or staff member who has not undersold this school a little.
Each is a little guilty of not making an all-out effort to work
out minor internal problems in the school. Each is also
guilty of not pushing Texas A&M to the state in general
and to prospective students in particular. Some are guilty
of embittering students already here and making it so dis
tasteful they have no desire to remain.
Every man on this campus can share the blame for
the cut in A&M’s budget for next year. Each can share in
the million dollar laugh—until they cry . . .
Talk on Indonesia Planned Monday
“Agriculture in Indonesia” will has been with the International Co-
be discussed Monday at 4 p.m., in
Room 105 of the Agronomy Build
ing.
Particular emphasis on corn and
rice production will be stressed.
The speaker will be Dx 1 . Robert
I. Jackson, agronomy adviser (seed
improvement) United States Ovex--
seas Mission, Indonesia. Jackson
opex*ation Administration Mission
in Indonesia since 1951.
In the position of agronomy ad
viser, Jackson guides and works,
with Indonesian cereal bx-eeders to
increase their skill and efficiency
in producing varieties of rice and
corn that will bring an increased
yield and be better adapted to lo
cal Indonesian conditions.
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Fred Meurer Managing Editor
Gayle McNutt Executive News Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
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’58 Good Year for Common Man — Social Whirl —
According to Report from UN
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The United Nations reported
Tuesday, on the basis of infor
mation furnished by member gov
ernments, that the period 1957-
58 was a fairly good one for the
material well-being of the world’s
common man.
On Wednesday it was disclosed
that the commanding general of
United States forces in Japan
called back an American-bound
plane carrying a vacationing col
onel and his family, bumped them
off and reinstated five emergen
cy-leave GIs who had been bump
ed in favor of the colonel.
Observers, even those who
could recall the taste of Army
brass, found no direct connection.
On the serious side, one of the
statistics in the United Nations
report on the improved lot of the
world’s common man is that the
world population in 1957 was 2,-
759,000,000 and growing at the
rate of 1.6 per year. Many stu
dents of the subject will question
the propriety of such a statistic
in such a report. They contend
the increase is actually threaten
ing the common man’s entire fu
ture.
The common man is supposed
to be better off because of im
proved diet, more doctors, more
money—espepially in the form of
foreign aid for underdeveloped
peoples—^and more housing.
There are always exceptions.
Wednesday’s papers carried
word that common men were dy
ing of thirst in Tibet and Nyasa-
land. Their thirst was for liber
ty-
Common men were being de
ported from Tibet. Their hous
ing problem had become acute.
Common men and women in
Red China have been removed by
the million from their homes in
to segregated barracks, and their
children taken away to nurseries.
The U.N. report did not con
tain figures from the Soviet Un
ion and China.
The "South African government
reported that it was really work
ing for the independence of the
common man there, who is large
ly black. It planned to relocate
him in strictly segregated com
munities and make him free of
the white man’s economy and
give him his own—though some
what limited—political institu
tions.
Minority groups in the United
States—particularly Negroes and
Indians at this moment—contin
ued to fight for the right merely
to be common men.
There were no indications that
the United Nations planned to
follow its economic report with a
formal report on the spiritual
standing of the common man.
The United States Coast Guard
was founded in 1790. It was pro
posed by Alexander Hamilton, then
George Washington’s Secretary of
the Treasury.
Saturday
Industrial Engineering Wives
Club will have a bake sale at Orr’s
Minimax in the Ridgecrest Shop
ping Center starting at 9 a.m.
Monday
The B. A. Wives Club will meet
at 8 p.m. in the home of Mrs. T.
W. Leland, 1307 Walton Dr.
Electrical Engineering Wives
Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the
YMCA Brooks Room for a pro
gram in eating habits.
Mechanical Engineering Wives
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
YMCA South Solarium.
Freshman Veterinary Medicine
Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Kraft Homestead House in
the Miller’s Shopping Center for
a tour and refreshments.
The Chemistry Wives Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of
Lo June Vigneault, 1609 South Col
lege, Bryan. Members are remind
ed to bring articles for the rum
mage sale April 10-11.
Ag Education Wives Club will
meet in the Agricultural Extension
Building at 7:30 p.m. for a talk by
Dr. Nena Harris.
Ag Eco and Rural Sociology
Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Social Room of the MSC.
Guest speaker will be Mrs. Fred
Hale
Agricultural Engineering Wives’
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the
home of Mrs. Dan Scoates, 401
Dexter.
Tuesday
Handicraft and Rug Group of
the A&M Social Club will meet at
9:30 a.m. in the home of Mrs.
George Summey, 408 Brookside.
The Alaska town and island of
Wrangel was named for Swedish
Admiral Ferdinand Wrangel. His
grandnephew, Baron Claus Von
Wrangel, recently became a United
States citizen in Seattle.
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Architecture Gets
Two $500 Awards
The Division of Architecture has
received two memorial awards to
taling $1,000 for awarding to win
ners of competition for fifth year
architectural design students.
T. R. Holleman, head of the Di
vision of Architecture, has an
nounced that th6 “Otis A. Felger
Memorial Award” of $500 is from
the Life Slab Management Corp.
of San Antonio, and the “Lynn Al
lison Porter Memorial Award” of
$500 is from Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Porter of San Antonio. Porter is
president of the Lift Slab Manage
ment Corp.
The first award is in memory of
Otis A. Felger, ’46, who was as
sociated with the Lift Slab Man
agement Corp. at the time of his
death in June, 1958. The second
award is in memory of the infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Porter.
Award winners will be an
nounced at the annual banquet of
the Division of Architecture in
May.
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