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Money Not Only Problem/
Blocking A&M Future
Old Revolutionary Holds Big
Role in Red China Government
TOKYO (AP)—Almost buried
in the list of major appointments
announced by Red China Monday
was the "name of Hsu Teh-li, a
snaggle-toothed old revolutionary
of 82, re-elected to the standing
committee of the National Peo
ple's Congress.
This brightTeyed former
school teacher, long past his
prime, but regularly elected to
important party and state posts,
has two assets worth more than
gold in China’s tightly knit Com
munist society.
He is from Hunan, the home of
Mao Tze-tung. He is a veteran
of the long march, the bitter
4,000-mile retreat by Communist
forces in the 1930s.
Men from Huan and men who
made the long march form a
brotherhood thicker than blood in
Peiping. Their closeness may ex
plain why the Chinese leadership
is able to present to the world
an unbroken, monolithic front,
undisturbed by public quarrels.
A survey of the top men who
rule behind the thick, red walls
of the forbidden city in Peiping
shows that almost all shared the
dangers and hardships of the
withdrawal, under Chiang Kai-
shek’s guns, from central China
to Yenana, between 1934 and
1936.
Liue Shao-chi, China’s No. 2
man who was elevated to the
presidency Monday, did not. But
he was especially exempted to
do dangerous underground work.
He is, however, from Huan and
with his confirmation as heir-
apparent of Chinese communism,
SAFETY FACTOR
MIAMI, Fla. (A > ).—Twenty-seven
years ago, taxi driver Howard
Vaughan lost his right arm by
amputation after a cut became in
fected.
As soon as he left the hospital,
he returned to taxi driving. Now,
more than a million miles later,
the 49-year-old Vaughan can boast
a no-accident record.
He thinks the loss of his arm
actually made him a better driver
because he realizes that if he had
an accident “I’d have two strikes
against me so I am always think
ing of what could happen and I’m
ready to stop, swerve or do what’s
necessary.”
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PAGE 2 Wednesday, April 29 1959
CADET SLOUCH
AT A f M
Lack of money is not the only stumbling block to the
realization of A&M’s hopes of becoming a great school.
It needs to create an academic atmosphere that is a
selling point to both prospective students and professors.
A lot of work and planning must be done before this
goal can begin to be attained.
First, the college needs to set itself a goal as to what
its dreams and aspirations are and let them be known. It
must be decided if it is going to continue expanding in all
fields of education or if it is going to work toward achieve
ment of perfection in one major area—technical, agriculture,
liberal arts or military.
Secondly, professors and students need to re-dedicate
themselves to the real purpose of A&M as it now is and
should always be—education.
The college needs more professors dedicated to sharing
their knowledge with students.
It needs more students who are here not simply to re
ceive a degree, but to gain an education.
More students should be concerned with gaining know
ledge from their courses and making the best possible grades
than they are with what rank they can get in the Corps, what
they plan to do this weekend or just simply how much of
nothing they can do.
This also needs to be extended to the faculty.
A&M must have faculty members who are so dedicated
to their purpose That they aren’t constantly concerned with
how much more some other department is going to receive
in the current or planned appropriations, what other instruc
tor is going to get a raise or how many transfer students his
department can get from another area.
The future of A&M rests upon how well these challenges
are met by the present and future faculty members and stu
dent body.
The Men of Aggieland must decide how they will meet
this challenge and what will come of it.
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will be tonight at 7:30 in the
Hillel Building. The topic of the
meeting will be “Folk Music”
given by Dr. John Q. Anderson
of the Department of English.
COMBINATION OF COLETTE
NEW YORK (A 5 )—Two of the
best-known stories by Colette,
famed French novelist, have been
tabbed for combination into a
Broadway drama.
“Cheri” and “The End of Cheri,”
which concern the escapades of a
handsome young fortune hunter,
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the “hunan clique” has become
even even more powerful than
ever.
Hunan is a province noted over
the centuries as a breader of rev
olutionaries. Mao once told this
writer that the peppery, spice
laden food the Huanese eat ac
counted for this.
Teachers may have been more
important than hot food in 1908 1 ,
when Hsu Teh-li was teaching
in the Hunan provincial first nor
mal school. One of Hsu’s pupils,
in those faraway days was Mao.
Another was Li Wei-han, now
a top member of the Politburo
and chief of the united front
work department.
These were years of groping
for new ideas and Hsu, who later
joined Sun Yat-sen in over
throwing the Manchu dynasty,
guided his students toward revo
lution and communism.
NEW YORK (AP) — Field
Marshal Montgomery said Tues
day night American leadership of
the free world under President
Eisenhower is “suspect.”
He said Britain is coming for
ward to supply what he describ
ed as the “consistency” needed by
the Western alliance.
In an hour-long filmed broad
cast prepared for CBS, the out
spoken British war hero and
commander said American lead
ers are “people who are not very
Wee Aggies
well,” and that this is “no good”
that U. S. leadership has per
haps slipped a bit.
In this reference to poor
health, he named directly Eisen
hower, Secretary of State Christ
ian A. Herter and former Secre
tary John Foster Dulles.
Declared Montgomery: “Now,
of course, after the war, the
leadership of the free world pass
ed to the United States. Well, I
think that history is going to
say that the United States’ lead
ership has been very intermit-
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as good as it might be. Perhaps
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag-
rhen a wee one arrives, call VI
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gles.
A future Aggie date, Grace
Suzanne Pollard, was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Terry W. Pollard,
’59, April 8 at St. Joseph’s Hos
pital in Bryan. Suzanne weighed
7 lbs., 7% ozs. at birth. The
Pollards live at B-5-A, College
View.
A future member of the Class
of ’80, James Edward Taylor,
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Taylor, ’62, April 25 at 4:02' p.m.
at St. Joseph’s Hospital in
Bryan. James Edwards weighed
7 lbs., 9% ozs. The Taylors live
at 109 Mobile Ave. in Bryan.
Another prospective member
for the Class of ’80, William B.
Waters III, was born to Mr. and
Mrs. William B. Waters Jr., ’601,
April 24 at 2 a.m. at Glen Rose,
Texas. The parents live at 706-A
Park Place. William weighed 7
lbs., 10 ozs.
there’s been a lack of decision
in the top level.
“Anyhow, it’s—I think you’ve
got to admit the fact, rightly or
wrongly, that American leader
ship, of recent years, has been
rather suspect, and if — why it’s
been rather suspect, you’d prob
ably know better than I would.”
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PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schulz
PEANUTS
SOMEHOU) IT D0ESN T SEEM. RIGHT
TO ORGANIZE A baseball TEAM,
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(B) their intelligence and adaptability?
2. Which of these two famous men would
you most prefer to be like: (A) .King
Midas, or (B) Ludwig van Beethoven?
3. If neither party’s candidate in an
election was satisfactory to you,
would you (A) not vote, or (B) vote
for the “lesser of two evils”?
4. If your performance in a group effort
was being unjustly criticized, would
you (A) settle the score directly with
your critic, or (B) ignore it and let
the group decide its merits?
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bank or invest it and spend only the
income, or (B) take a year off to
travel around the world?
7. Do you think the saying “It never
rajns, but it pours” is (A) generally
untrue, or (B) invariably true?
8. Would you rather invest money in:
(A) great art, or (B) diamonds?
9. Are you influenced more in your
choice of filter cigarette by
(A) your own taste and judgment
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