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PAGE 2 Tuesday,April 28, 1959
Letters To The Editor
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Editor,
The Battalion:
I would like to speak for that
15 per cent of “people” who
turned out for the Aggie Muster
and address this to whom it may
concern.
How many of your “true” Ag
gie Corps boys turned out to one
of the greatest traditions here at
Aggieland because they were un
der tension, or because they felt
themselves as part of the tradi
tion ?
We, as non-regs, went not as
a body but as brothers. This is
the true Aggie Spirit.
I cannot defend those who did
not attend, but those who did go.
Their devotion to the tradition
can not be counted in percent
ages, but as brothers.
What were you doing counting
the number of men present? And
you, who are playing judge and
jury, say that we are the shame,
the dirt—look again!
Think if you are able, that
many of the “people”, those non-
regs, the “skeletons-in-the-closet”
are veterans of World War II
and/or the Korean War. These
men, a very meek word for them,
were ready to give their all that
we may still live in the land of
the free and attend the greatest
school in the land—Texas A&M!
A. A. Hunzicker ’60
Editor,
The Battalion:
After reading the letter by the
C Armor junior, I started think
ing whether these people could
be called men.
They call themselves men, but
I call them children. They are
agitated and very narrow-minded.
Most of the civilians have been
in the real army and not the
make-believe army these men are
in.
A lot of these “sack-rats” have
served in the service during a
real war where their buddies
were shot down next to them. If
they feel like sacking out, let
them. This is supposed to be a
free country.
I hope those narrow-minded,
childish C Armor juniors grow
out of their handicap some day.
The world outside won’t baby
them the rest of the night.
If these children want to bomb
me, drown me out or any other
of their childish pranks, I’ll save
them the time and tell them that
I live in Bizzell 154.
Grandon Harris ’61
Editor,
The Battalion:
I, as an individual, was amused
and chagrined to note that some
of the Corps boys attended the
Aggie Muster, not to pay tribute
to fallen comrades, but to find
out how many of us civilians did
not attend.
I believe that most of us do
know “The Spirit”, say “howdy”
to friends we respect, and refuse
to display the Aggie spirit which
the Southwest Conference thinks
is the most unsportsmanlike in
the conference. I also realize
that any cadet would have gotten
four “hours” if he had not at
tended the muster. But I believe
it was Lincoln who said that the
world will not long remember
what is said at musters. The
goal of any man should be to do
everything which will build his
self-respect and the respect of
others toward him, and not ne
cessarily to imitate a revered
hero.
The GI’s at Corregidor had al
ready gone “above and beyond”
the call of duty in defending
their country. The world did not
demand that they pause to re
member the heroes who had fall
en before them. Yet they were
humble enough to offer their re
spects in the middle of turmoil.
We, the students, have not yet
even begun to serve our country
and fellow man. Therefore, I
cannot deduct any analogy be
tween us and that group of stal
warts. Instead of knocking
every non-conformist, we should
try to follow good rules; not ne
cessarily the rules laid down by
exes, but the Golden Rule and the
rule of'loyalty to our ideals.
Nieves Soto ’61
Editor,
The Battalion:
As you all know, the college,
as well as various independent
agencies on the campus, often in
vites distinguished citizens of
foreign countries to lecture so as
to give the students a broader
knowledge of life, whether in sci
ences, arts, politics, or social wel
fare. This is done for your good
and benefit. Attending these
speeches is very important. Many
of you might find excuses for not
attending, such as having class
assignments or quizzes that are
important to you. Others might
say, “Why should we go to listen
to someone who wants to talk
about politics. We are not going
to become politicians.”
I believe that every student
should attend these speeches,
from which he can learn things
that he cannot learn in class.
Everyone of us should realize the
fact that although he is a single
individual, he is a vital factor in
the nation. All you need is a
small pebble to keep a big rock
in equilibrium, and it could be
you who might be this small
pebble for your people.
Having carried arms in five
years of fighting in the Middle
East, I feel the necessity of every
student’s attending these lectures.
Attend and learn the facts of
life. The present leaders of the
United States are not immortal,
and you may be among those who
take their places. Be prepared.
Sulieman Dejani ’61
Palestinian Refugee
“I don’t think I’m gonna enter the rodeo this year!’
General Tax Bill Passed
By Texas Senate Monday
FROM BURLESQUE TO
BROADWAY
NEW YORK (A 5 )—Bert Lahr,
who made his name in burlesque
and slapstick musical comedy, is
becoming a leading interpreter of
French drama.
He began the cycle with an ap
pearance in “Waiting for Godot,”
and moved on last season to the
classic farce, “Hotel Paradiso.”
Next season he is booked to ap
pear in “Moodbirds,” a new drama
by Marcel Ayme.
IMOGENE RETURNS TO
BROADWAY
NEW YORK (A>)_Once again at
liberty from television, Comme-
dienne Imogene Coca has been
signed for one of the two feminine
leads in “The Girls in 509,” an up
coming Broadway offering by How
ard Teichmann.
The play is being produced by
Alfred de Liagre Jr., who captured
Miss Coca for her previous stage
outing in the 1956 hit “Janus.”
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AUSTIN (A 5 )—The House passed,
by a 74-70 vote, the skeletonized
general Aax bill, HB 727, late
Monday.
Then representatives turned to
other deficit erasing measures.
After two minutes of talk, the
House approved 112-33 the pro
posed one-year raise in state fran
chise taxes, HB 238.
The two measures were urged
as emergency measures that could
erase the 65 million dollar current
deficit—if approved by the Senate.
There was no talk, in debating
the two bills, that both the deficit
and the 1960-61 spending problem
will be satisfied at this regular
session ending May 12.
“A special session is a must,”
said Rep. H. J. Blanchard, Lub
bock, in arguments for the tax
bill.
“The tax bill that came before
this House was the height of ir
responsibility and folly,” said Rep.
Doon Kennard, Fort Worth. He
said that by passage of the bill
the House is telling the Senate
“that we were a bunch pf damn
fools who didn’t know what we
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Frank Sinatra in
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were doing when we passed that
big appropriations bill and sent it
over to you.”
Both the House and Senate have
acted on next biennium’s spending
bill, HB 216. It is back in the
House for approval of Senate
amendments.
The general tax bill was tenta
tively approved 73-72 last Thurs
day.
The measure was attacked in
closing debate as an admission that
the House could not write a work
able tax bill. Opponents said the
House was passing the buck to the
Senate.
Defender^ of the bill said it was
essential to pass it now, at least
to retire the current 65 million
dollar general fund deficit. They
said responsibility for slashing it
from its original 290 million to 77
million lay with those who opposed
it.
JOKE THAT BALLONED
SEARCY, Ark. (A*)—Jack Rober
son was baffled when the first
person came into his grocery store
and said, “Here’s your balloon,
where’s my hundred dollars.”
And he was^more confused when
others followed, including a man
who had driven 16 miles from
neighboring Beebe and a woman
who phoned from Concord, 30
miles away.
Finally, he figured it out. He
had given gas-filled balloons to
scores of youngsters as part of an
anniversary celebration for his
store. Apparently some of the
youngsters had though up the trick
of tying notes to the balloons,
promising the $100 payments, and
then released them.
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Social Whirl
University Dames Club will
meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the
South Solarium of the YMCA.
PARIS (A*)—Taking up his first
foreign assignment as U. S. sec
retary of state, Christian A. Her-
ter arrives in Paris Tuesday to
help shore up weak points in the
Western front for Geneva talks
with the Soviet Union.
Herter will begin formal talks
with his French, British and West
German counterparts Wednesday
in the French Foreign Ministry.
Diplomatic sources said those
talks scheduled to last three days,
will be under three general head
ings: Berlin, German reunified
tion, European security.
American and French sources
professed optimism for a solid
Western position before the East-
West foreign ministers talks open
in Geneva May 11.
A top French diplomat said:
“We have found the basis for a
general agreement.”
A highly informed American
source said: “Pd be surprised if
we didn’t have it wrapped up
beautifully before Geneva.”
The four Western ministers
will work on secret recommenda
tions drawn up by their experts
in meetings which ended in Lon
don last Friday. They will also
have suggestions of their North
Atlantic Alliance allies who stud
ied the experts’ dossiers in Paris
Monday.
In addition, they may have a
fresh presentation of the Soviet
position from the Warsaw Pact
foreign ministers session, which
just opened in the Polish capitol.
A surprise development came
from Warsaw in a communique
item noting that Red China’s Dep.
Foreign Minister Chang Wen-tien
sat in as a full participant. His
government is not a member of
the pact.
It was announced earlier that
Chang, formerly Peiping’s am
bassador to Moscow, would at
tend as an observer. His assign
ment to delegate ranking might
be aimed to show that European
Communists want to give Red
China full recognition in world
policy.
He attended along with Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy
ko and foreign ministers or dep
uties of the other pact powers—
Poland, Czechoslovakia, East
Germany, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria and Albania.
Allied sources in Paris insisted
that there is no real clash among
the Western partners on the
broad outlines of a package plan
to be handed to the Soviets at
Geneva.
This includes a resolve to main
tain Western occupation rights
in Berlin, steps to advance the
long-delayed reunification of East
and West Germany, and tension
easing moves in central Europe.
The trouble arises, one source
said, only when it comes to ap
plying tactics, emphasis and al
ternatives.
Most of the political dynamite
in the Western camp was tied up
in the matter of European secu
rity. Suspicion cropped up ear
lier this year when British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan and
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev suggested that further study
be made of increasing security
“by some method of limitation of
forces and weapons, both conven
tional and nuclear.”
West German and French gov
ernment figures and top Atlan
tic Alliance military commanders
viewed this darkly as the begin
ning of disengagement—a with,
drawal of the Western military
shield. They talked instead of i
freeze or ceiling on central Eu<
ropean forces.
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