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The Battalion College Station (Braxos County), Texat PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 15, 1959 BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson CADET SLOUCH . _ by Jim Earle WE GOOFED... We goofed. In yesterday’s editorial, “Look for Forests, Not Trees,” The Battalion commented on Sen. William T. Moore’s state ment that “there are 1,500 empty beds on the campus.” It was noted that “an actual count showed a little more than half that number of vacant rooms . . .” Well, now, as any whiz-kid on a slipstick can tell you, two beds to a room multiplied by half the number of vacant rooms would equal his number of empty beds. Actually, this is not the case at all. There are about 1,000 empty beds. Who knows how many empty rooms? Thanks to the many sharp-eyed readers who caught this bit of redundant nothing. They are to be congratulated for discovering a most noteworthy fact: newspaper Aggies are human—like everyone else, they make mistakes. Red Progress Not Worth Getting Alarmed .Over By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The Soviet Union and Commu nist China have just issued si multaneous reports of important progress in economic production. Every time this happens peo ple begin to moan that the West is going to lose the cold war if it keeps up. It’s something to be on the alert about, but not something to cause such deep pessimism. Despite the good fortune by which it was able to pick up processes and systems already highly developed over long years by the industrial West, the rate of Communist economic growth in the past 30 years has been no greater than the initial impetus of the West. Where the Soviet production now increases something less than 10 per cent per year, be ginning with a backlog of some two hundred million people to serve, the United States growth years ago was in the neighbor hood of 12 per cent with less than half that number of peo ple. The dangers inherent in the Communist system of producing first for the state—war mater ials, primarily, and heavy ma chinery—work bith ways. As long as the Communists can stave off their people with a short supply of consumer goods, using the stick to beat them while giving them only a nibble of the carrot, they will be able to compete with the West for power. “In the past, freshmen have stolen the sophomores’ uniforms before the Sophomore Ball. We’ll be the very first to steal the sophomores.” Socia lJ^ hirl Berlin Air Travel Disputed Civil Engineering Wives meets at 8 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA for a program on flower hints for the homemaker by Nita McLeroy. Newcomers Club will hold its annual guest day tea at 2 p.m. in the MSC Assembly Room. There is no charge for members and guest tickets may be pur chased from the officers or at the desk for 50 cents. Geology Wives will meet at 8 p.m. in Room 2-C of the MSC. Guest speaker will be Mrs. Elsie Coffee. Thursday Aggie Wives Bridge Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in'the MSC. By SEYMOUR TOPPING BERLIN —The East-West dispute over air access to isola ted Berlin sharpened Tuesday with disclosure that Soviet jet fighters have buzzed a second U. S. Air Force transport plane. A U. S. Embassy spokesman in Bonn said that on April 3 two Soviet MiG’s conducted very dan gerous maneuvers in harrassing a big propeller-driven cargo plane in one of the three air corridors CATHOLICS COMPLIMENTED linking Berlin with West Ger- CHARLOTTE, N. C. (ffl-Harry man ^‘ Golden, editor of the North Caro- The Soviet fighters flew within lina Israelite, writes that “the Ro- 100 feet of the C97 transport and man Catholic Church has shown flew over it and under it be- that it can desegregate parochial er safety center in Berlin, which controls flights in the corridors, swapped oral protests after the incident, the embassy disclosed. Each side accused the other of dangerous air tactics. The U. S, State Department said in Washington the Ameri can representative again asked the Soviets to stop harassment of planes in violation of corridor regulations and flight safety. in disregard of Nine million tons of fill were dumped to form the 4,200-foot-long causeway across which automobiles and trains pass from Nova Scotia to Cape Breton Island. cause it was flying at an alti tude of 12,000 feet in defiance of Moscow’s' warning that West ern planes .must stay below 10,- 000 feet. Of course, you can RENT Summer Formats ... and inexpensively! Choose from our large selections of white and pastel formats, all freshly cleaned and pressed, and expertly fitted! They're Stain Shy, Crease Resist* ont, and coolly lightweight! A few dollars rents them, for a most enjoyable evening! We Are Happy To Announce That Mrs. Margaret Kosek Has Returned As Manager Gf LEON B. WEISS NEXT DOOR TO CAMPUS THEATER THE BATTALION f Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational 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. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman ; J. W. Amyx, School of Engineering; Harry Lee JKidd, School of Arts and Sciences ; Otto R. Kunze, School McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M., is published in College tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Sei ber through May, and once a week during summer school. Sta- eptem- Entered as second - class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, and San Francisco" Mail subscriptions are 53.50 per semester, 56 per school year, 56.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, Col lege Station, Texas. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited Co it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Bights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. News contribution* may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the Jlitorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. JOE BUSER.. EDITOR Fred Meurer Managing Editor Gayle McNutt Executive News Editor Bob Weekley Sports Editor Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis Reddell.—News Editors Bill Hicklin Assistant Sports Editor Robbie Godwin, Ken Coppage, Bob Edge, Jack Harts- field, Joe Callicoatte, Bob Saile, Jim Odom, Sam Spence, Leo Rigsby, Bob Roberts Staff Writers Ray Hudson Circulation Manager schools without all these dire con sequences.” The Jewish editor says the Catholic Church offers a “Southern ‘showcase’ of compliance The United States and Soviet with the Supreme Court decisions.” representatives at the four-pow- The FINEST in food . . . HOTARD’S Cafeteria 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. — 5 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. SERVING BRYAN and COLLEGE STATION ^ SAM HOUSTON ZEPHYR Lv. N. Zulch 10:08 a.m. Ar. Dallas • . 12:47 p.m. Lv. N. Zulch . 7:28 p.m. Ar. 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The other day as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil, (Marlboro, incidentally, has the best tinfoil, which is not surprising when you consider that they have the best ciga rettes, which is not surprising when you consider that they take the best filters and put them together with the best tobaccos and rush them to your tobacco counter, fresh and firm and loaded with smoking pleasure). The other day, I say, as I was walking down the street picking up tinfoil, (I have, incidentally, the second largest ball of tinfoil in our family. My brother Eleanor’s is bigger—more than four miles in diameter—but, of course, he is killer than I). The other day, as I was saying, while walking down the street picking up tinfoil, I passed a campus and right beside it, a movie theatre which specialized in show ing foreign films. Most campuses have foreign movie theatres close by, because foreign movies are full of culture, art, and esoterica, and where is culture more rife, art more rampant, and esoterica more endemic than on a campus? Nowhere; that’s where. I hope you have all been taking advantage of your local foreign film theatre. Here you will find no simple-minded Hollywood products, marked by treacly sentimentality and machine-made bravura. Here you will find life itself—in all its grimness, its poverty, its naked, raw passion! Have you, for instance, seen the recent French import, Le Crayon de Mon Oncle (“The Kneecap”), a savage and Uncom promising story of a man named Claude, whose consuming ambition is to get a job as a meter reader with the Paris water department? But he is unable, alas, to afford the flashlight one needs for this position. His wife, Bon-Bon, sells her hair to a wigmaker and buys him a flashlight. Then, alas, Claude discovers that one also requires a leatherette bow tie. This time his two young daughters, Caramel and Nougat, sell their hair to a wigmaker. So now Claude has his leatherette bow tie, but now, alas, his flashlight battery is burned out and the whole family, alas, is bald. Or have you seen the latest Italian masterpiece, La Donna E Mobile (I Ache All Over), a heart-shattering tale of a boy and his dog? Malvolio, a Venetian, lad of nine, loves his little dog with every fibre of his being. He has one great dream: to enter the dog in the annual Venetian dog show. But this, alas, requires an entrance fee, and Malvolio, alas, is penniless. However, he saves and scrimps and steals and finally gets enough together to enter the dog in the show. The dog, alas, comes in twenty- third. Malvolio sells him to a vivisectionist. Or have you seen the new Japanese triumph, Kibxdzi-San (The Radish), a pulse-stirring historical romance about Yamoto, a poor farmer, and his daughter Ethel who are accosted by a warlord one morning on their way to market? The warlord cuts Yamoto in half with his samurai sword and runs off with Ethel. When Yamoto recovers, he seeks out Ethel’s fianc4, Red Buttons, and together they find the warlord and kill him. But, alas, the warlord was also a sorcerer and he whimsically turned Ethel into a whooping crane. Loyal Red Buttons takes Ethel home where he feeds her fish heads for twenty years and keeps hoping shedl turn back into a woman. She never does. Alas. © 1959 Max Sbulmaa If there’s smoking in the balcony of your theatre, we hope you’ll be smoking Philip Morris—or, if you prefer filters, Marlboro ... Marlboro—new improved filter, fine rich flavor —from the makers of Philip Morris. PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz mrs going ON HERE? You're supposed to be PlAYlNS SECOND BASE. NOT LOOKING AT ROCKS!! ILL BET CASEY STENSEl DOESN'T SHOUT AT HIS Pi AVERS I j