The Battalion College station (Brazos County), Texai
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
. . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the
Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being
Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson
Editor,
The Battalion:
Perhaps about 75 per cent of
our what-to-do and how-to-do-it-
right editorials could be scrapped
or taken with a grain of salt.
But if yesterday’s (April 7) was
followed 100 per cent of our en
rollment would increase and no
telling how much. People might
stop leaving, too.
Sure it’s good bull to say “I
hate this place.” But how
many upperclassmen stopped to
think that they just might be in
fluencing somebody’s state of
mind. It was a proven fact in
Germany that “if you yell a lie
loud enough and long enough
that most people will begin to
believe it.” If we talk negative
ly we’ll think the same way and
the reverse is just as true.
New ai’my? Old army? Haz
ing? No hazing? Which one is
the answer ? Anything if you’re
convinced that it will make you
proud of your reputation instead
of ashamed of it. How many of
you have made an unintentional
remark against A&M in front of
a high school student ? The
trouble is they take it seriously
and maybe help next fall to cause
another million dollar budget
cut. Everything we say against
A&M on campus or off, jokingly
or seriously, hurts us one way
or another.
Why don’t we read that editor
ial just once more.
Robert L. Williams, ’59
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Fred Meurer Managing Editor
Gayle McNutt - Executive News Editor
Bob Weekley Sports Editor
Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis Reddell....News Editors
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim EarU> Adenauer Not Really Retiringfrom Politics
‘Murals Put in Place ’
Although House Bill 216 slapped a severe cut to A&M’s
requested budget for the next two years, the bill did have
at least one good point. It put intramural athletics where
they belong—off the handout from taxpayers. i
In one of the better pieces of Legislative thinking on
education in some time, the House Appropriations Commit
tee deleted the program because “it was neither educational
in nature nor was it among the things colleges were created
for,” They went further saying “intramurals are not akin
to supervised play, nor did they fall within one of the func
tions of a college ...”
And it’s about time—nay, it’s way overtime—for some
one, somewhere to recognize athletics for what they are.
It is high time that athletics took a back seat to the real
reason for educational institutions in the first place.
This is not to say that the current intramural program
here is not without some merit. Possibly the play period
from 5-6 p. m. can be justified as receation, spirit-generating
activity or just good clean fun. But it is hard to justify the
co-existence of the intramural office and the plush Required
Physical Education system within a block of each other—
particularly when in many cases there is duplication in per
sonnel, equipment and purpose. It is equally difficult to
justify the expense of the two when one could do both jobs.
★ ★ ★
With the funds cut off, possibly some reorganization in
the program will take place if it is to be continued. If so,
one area to look into might be the emphasis placed on in
tramurals in the awards given at Mothers’ Day.
In several areas, the competitive games have digressed
from good, clean fun to required activities for underclass
men.
When a freshman is “selected” to play football, basket
ball, tennis, bowling, handball, cross country, softball, horse
shoes, golf and table tennis—all in one year, he may loose
any benefit he might get from just one or two sports.
The program need not be scrapped—if it can be operated
economically and if it is truly recreation and not just “re
quired” outfit activity for underclassmen.
Letters To The Editor
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for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for
publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published...
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I’ve got th’ perfect solution to our enrollment problem—
let’s draft students!
Office Payroll Dispute Continues
WASHINGTON —(A 5 )— Sen.
Frank J. Lausche (D-Ohio) said
Wednesday senators are inviting
suspicion through “seemingly
clandestine efforts to conceal”
the facts about their office pay
rolls.
His remarks in favor of a pro
posal to compel public disclosure
of payroll data set off a spirited
Senate debate.
Sen. Norris Cotton (R-NH) re
torted that “the Senate is not a
factory.” He said it would be
nonsense to attempt either to in
stall a uniform pay schedule, or
to make public the amounts paid
without uniformity.
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R~
111.), Senate Republican ledder,
opposed the compulsory dis
closure idea, and told his col-
leages spending is scrutinized
closely by the secretary of the
Senate.
WhaVs Cooking
The following clubs and organ
izations will meet tonight:
7:30
Angelina Hometown Club will
meet in the YMCA.
Denton County Hometown Club
will meet in the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
El Paso Hometown Club meets
in Room 105 of the Academic
Bldg.
Fayette and Colorado Counties
Hometown Club will meet in
Room 3B of the MSC.
Marshall Hometown Club meets
in Room 105 of the Academic
Bldg.
Milby Hometown Club will
meet in Room 2A of the MSC to
discuss High School Day Activ
ities.
Northeast Texas Hometown
Club meets in the Fountain Room
of the MSC to discuss High
School Day plans.
Trans-Pecos Hometown Club
will meet in the Business Admin
istration Bldg.
Wichita Falls Hometown Club
will meet in Room 106 of the
Academic Bldg.
Yankee Hometown Club meets
in the Reading Room of the
YMCA. Films of the 1952-56
Olympics will be shown.
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Cary Grant in
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Social Whirl
Animal Husbandry Wives Club
meets Thursday, in the South
Solarium of the YMCA at 7:30
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SLAXATORIUM
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press ’News Analyst
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
has made it plain that while he
may be retiring from active pol
itics, he has no intention of re
tiring from the affairs of West
Germany.
He speaks of the presidency
which he expects to assume as a
position containing full possibil
ities for continued influence. He
also speaks with certainty of
the continuation of his foreign
policies by his successor as chan
cellor.
He speaks of thos policies as
something inherent in the West
German international position,
not as something attributable to
the will of one man as the world
has been inclined to view it be
cause he had made them so much
his own.
Adenauer, with his unyielding
faith in the possibilities for a
cooperating Europe, has attain
ed leadership in that community
of a type which is almost unbe
lievable for a German so soon
after World War II.
When the Allies sponsored a
constitutional convention in Bonn
in 1948 with a view to establish
ing an autonomous West German
government, Adenauer was just
one of a group of seedy-looking
old men. They were expected to
act primarily as caretakers un
til new and younger democratic
forces could be mobilized for the
purposes of government.
Soviet fighters flew menacing
ly along the edges of the air cor
ridors to Berlin that summer as
the American planes broke the
Berlin blockade. Europe was full
of fear of a new war.
Max Reimann, West German
Red leader whose gray plaid suit
contrasted with the somber black
of most of the older men, ap
peared to be the only truly vig
orous delegate at the convention.
But Adenauer took over. He
fought Reimann tooth and nail,
and the influence of communism
in West Germany was soon kill
ed.
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