The Battalion
Volume 59
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1959
Number 44
Dr. Bower Talk,
Lawrence Wrapup
Remain on SCONA
The heavy docket of SCONA V ica’s most outstanding- economists.
continues today, Friday and Sat
urday with speeches by Dr. How
ard Bowen tonight and by Wil
liam H. Lawrence Saturday top
ping the agenda.
Bowen, ' president of Grinnell
College in Iowa, will address the
student assembly at S p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom
in “Expanding Our Economy in an
Economic World.”
The Saturday addi-ess by Law
rence, White House correspondent
for the New York Times, will be
a wrap-up of the week's events at
SCONA V.
Schedule for the final three days
of SCONA V:
Tonight
6-7:30 p.m.
Texas-Style Barbecue
(Back Lawn—MSC)
8-10 p.m.
Speech by Dr. Howard Bowen
(MSC Ballroom)
Reception Immediately Following
(Assembly and
Birch Rooms—MSC)
Friday
6-7 p.m.
Buffet Supper
(MSC Ballroom)
Speech by Sir Leslie Munro
(MSC Ballroom)
Reception Immediately Following
(Assembly and
Birch Rooms—MSC)
I
Saturday
8:30-10 a.m.
Review of Corps of Cadets
(Main Parade Ground)'
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Luncheon and Final Speech by
William H. Lawrence
(MSC Ballroom)
Bowen is noted as one of Amer-
He has been a consultant to a num
ber of state and federal agencies
and in 1949 he was a member of
the United States tax mission to
Japan which reorganized their tax
system. He was also president of
the American Finance Assn. Bowen
is also a trustee of the. National
Opinion Research Center and of
the Shattuck School, member of
the Research Advisory Board of
the Committee for Economic De
velopment, chairman of the Gov
ernor’s Commission of Economic
and Social Trends in Iowa, and a
director of General Telephone Co.
Iowa.
Following a review of the A&M
Corps of Cadets Satui*day morning
at 8:30, William H. Lawrence,
president of the National Press
Club and New York Times corres
pondent in the Washington Bureau,
will give the final wrap-up talk on
the week’s events at the noon
luncheon closing out the confei’ence.
An international traveler who
has worked in his chosen field from
numerous areas of the world Law
rence has been in the Washington
Bureau office since 1951. Among
his outstanding reporting achieve
ments are General Douglas Mac-
Arthur’s release from Far Eastern
Command, the Army-McCarthy
hearings, Air Force Secretary Har
old E. Talbott’s hearings before
the Senate Committee investigat
ing his alleged outside business
activities and the national political
conventions of 1948, 1952 and 1956.
Round-Table Chairmen
Nineteen distinguished “round
table” co-chairmen from the United
States and Mexico will round out
the student sponsored event with
informative sessions and discus
sions.
Gunewardene Bases Talk
uman Understanding
Ambassador Says
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SCONA V Moderators
Dr. H. O. Kunkel, Student Senate Adviser,
and Frank Buchanan, Chairman of the SCO
NA V planning committee are shown moder
ating a question-and-answer period following
Gen. John B. Medaris’ talk in the Ballroom
of the Memorial Student Center yesterday
at 1:30 p. m. Medaris answered questions
from delegates and others after his presen
tation.
Ike Shows U. S.
Obligation to Disarm
NEW DELHI, India (^—Pres
ident Eisenhower said today the
United States is committed to a
ceaseless search for genuine dis
armament, but “weakness in arms
often invites aggression or sub
version or externally manipulated
revolution.”
“Controlled universal disarma
ment is the imperative of our
time,” Eisenhower told India’s
Parliament in what was probably
the most important speech of his
22,000-mile peace journey.
“The demand for it by the hun
dreds of millions whose chief con
cern is the long future of them
selves and their children will, I
hope, become so universal and in
sistent that no man, no govern
ment can withstand it.”
The President, still exhilarated
by India’s colossal welcome, ad
dressed 600 members of Parlia
ment in joint session after talking
over world problems with Prime
Minister Nehru for more than four
hours. There was little question
that Red China was a key topic.
In his address, Eisenhower made
no direct mention of Nehru’s
troubles with the Peiping regime
over disputed border territory. But
he said the United States has built
up adequate armed forces.
‘They serve not only for ourself
but our friends and allies who, like
us, have perceived this danger,”
he added. “They so serve for de
fensive purposes only.”
The danger Ensenhower had ir
mind was clearly that posed b>
international communism. He said
a long series of harsh alarms had
caused anxiety and suffering ir
the past decade.
“These alarms invariably had
their source in the aggressive in
tentions of an alien philosophy
Hacked by great military might,”
he said. “Faced with this fact, we
in America have felt it necessary
to make clear our own determin
ation to resist aggression through
the provision of adequate armed
forces.”
In an indirect slam at commun
ism, Eisenhower said Americans
and Indians think alike because
“you and we never boast that ours
is the only way.”
“We both seek the improvement
and bettermen of all our citizens
by assuring that the state will
serve and not master its own peo
ple, or any other people.”
Short of Last Year’s
Aggie Campus Chest Totals
$1,490 As Deadline Nears
Collections for the Aggie Cam
pus Chest as of last night totaled
$1,490, accox’ding to Maxwin Schnei
der, chairman of the Student Sen
ate Welfare Committee.
The major collections have been
completed and Schneider said the
collections are not quite as good
as they wei’e last year.
The goal is a dollar an Aggie.
“Last year just under $2,000
was collected,” Schneider said.
Members of the Welfare Comit-
tee said they still expect money
to be turned from random places.
The deadliae to contribute is Fri
day.
Contributions to the Aggie Cam
pus Chest started in the Corps last
Saturday morning. Each military
unit commander was responsible
for the collection within his own
unit. Money collected was turned
over to Brigade or Wing staffs
and then forwarded to Schneider
or Wade Dovei', a member of
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Conference
R. S. S. Gunewardene, Ceylon’s ambassa
dor to the United States spoke to SCONA
,V delegates, the Corps of Cadets and other
visitors last night in G. Rollie White Coli-
Speakers
seum at 8. He told delegates that world
peace must be a united effort based on
human understanding.
Schneider’s committee.
On Monday and Tuesday of this
week collections wei’e taken in the
civilian dorms. William H. Brown
of Puryear and Roland Dommert
of Walton are in chai’ge of collec
tions in civilian areas this yeai\
Results of the civilian collec
tions, according to Schneidei’, show
the civilians contributed less money
this year compared with last year.
Final results of this yeai’’s col
lections will not be known until
sometime Friday. Aggies can still
contribute their money in recepta
cles located at the end of the coffee
lines in the MSC, or by contacting
any member of the Student Senate
Welfare Committee.
Sixty per cent of this year’s
Aggie Campus Chest will be re
turned dii’ectly to the student body,
Schneider said. In the past several
checks have been sent to deserving
Aggies or their families.
The remaining forty per cent
goes to such deserving oi’ganiza-
tions ,as the World University
Service, the Brazos' County Tubei’-
culosis Assn., The College Station
Community Chest and the March
of Dimes.
“The Welfare Committee wishes
to express its appi’eciation to the
CO’s, the doi’m presidents and the
Civilian Student Council for their
support,” Schneider said.
The Hon. R. S. S. Gunewardene, Ambassador to Ceylon
to the United States, told 140 student delegates at the Fifth
Student Conference on National Affairs last night that
human understanding and definitely not force should be
the ruling factor in keeping peace in the world today.
Speaking in G. Rollie White Coliseum, Gunewardene,
a founder-member of the Ceylon National Congress which
led the country through the path of constitutional develop
ment to ultimate independence in 1948, stressed that America
and Russia will control the destiny of mankind and it will
be America’s duty to convey the thoughts and ideologies of
the founder of America to every country in the world.
“Human nature is the same"*
whether you live in Asia,
Europe or South America,”
he said. “The only change
in human nature will occur
thi’oxigh geogi’aphical and political
ideologies.’
Not ‘Neutral’
He pointed out that Asian and
African nations are not necessari
ly “neuti’al” just because they have
not openly aligned (themselves with
the Communist and Free World
blocks.
In a demanding tone the Am
bassador asked why independent
nations with sovereign powers com
mit themselves to ideology accept
ed by another society. “Customs,
background, religion and form of
government determine the accept
ance or denial of committments,”
he pointed out.
A Positive Approach
“The world must develop a posi
tive appi’oach to problems of to
day. This can be accomplished not
by any one nation, but by all
nations taking a stand for peace.”
He said that a showdown is
inevitable between the two lading
powex-s of the woidd today—Russia
and the United States. That i’e-
gardless of the number of coun-
ti'ies of the Free World and the
Communistic World who stand with
their x’espective sides, the final
reckoning will be that of America
and Russia.
A Talking War
“Personally. I pi’efer neither a
cold war, nor a hot wax’, but
rather a talking war,” he said.
In closing Gunewardene said,
“Your counti’y and mine are both
working for the preservation of
independence, fx-eedom and our way /"M _ TJ
of life. Still the bulk of the bur- tSODtlTU
den lies in the hands of Ameiica,
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tor have led to a hope of peace ^1^9(18 IdYllKUl
m the world today.
Meet Tonight
A Campus Chest report and a
report on Bonfii’e Week will top
the discussion tonight at the Ci
vilian Student Council meeting at
7:30 in the Senate Chamber of the
Memorial Student Center.
New business will consist of a
discussion on the Civilian Week
end. The Civilian Weekend Com
mittee is made up of Lari’y Clark,
Mike Carlo and Jim Ci’ouch.
Marine Officer
Selection Team
Seeking Aggies
The Marine Coi’ps Officer Selec
tion Team will be in the Memorial
Student Center from 8 a.m.-4:30
p.m., through Friday, to interview
and administer the Resexwe Officer
Candidate Selection Test, without
obligation to interested students.
Presently the Maxdne Corps has
the Platoon Leaders Class (gx-ound
or aviation available to college
freshmen, sophomores and juniors
while the seniors and recent gradu
ates can choose between the Offi
cer Candidate Course (gi’ound or
aviation). Neither of these pro
grams entails training or instruc
tion during the school year’.
In addition to the above, a new
program is now being offered —.
The Platoon Leaders Class (law).
This program is designed for
college juniors, seniors and law
students who can complete sum
mer ti’aining requirements prior to
their final year of law school.
Any student desiring further in
formation on the pi’ograms offei’ed
should contact the Officer Selec
tion Team in the MSC or the Of
ficer Selection Office, 1902 Old
Spanish Trail, Houston.
Veterans May Sign
December Payroll
Students attending A&M un
der the G.I. Bill may sign up
now for December pay at the
Veterans Advisers Office
YMCA, prior to the Christmas
Holidays, Bennie A. Zimx, vet
erans adviser, announced today
f These forms have to be in to
the Veterans Administration on
Jan. 4.
Affirms Appearance
Munro Speaks Friday
Sir Leslie Munro, United Nations
Special Ambassador to the State
of Hungary, announced last night
he will be able to speak to the
student assembly of SCONA V.
The ambassador’s appearance is
slated Friday night at 8 in the
Memorial Student Center Ballroom.
UN Debate Delay
Munro was originally scheduled
to talk last night in G. Rollie
White Coliseum, but was delayed
due to the current Hungarian amd
Algerian debates in the United Na
tions. He was x’eplaced by The
H©n. R. S. S. Gunewai’dene, am
bassador of Ceylon, who spoke on
the expanding of economy.
Dr. Nabor Caridllo, president of
the Academy of Sciences, was also
originally docketed to appear Fri
day, but cancelled his appearance
due to “pressing university busi
ness in Mexico.”
Alliances in UN
Munro will speak on “Maintain
ing Effective alliances within the
United Nation Fi’amework.”
Since axriving in the United
States in 1952, Sir Leslie has held
the positions of New Zealand Rep-
x’esentative on the U. N. Trustee
ship Council; pi’esident of the
Ti’usteeship Council; president of
the Security Council three times;
delegate to the 7th, 8th, 10th and
11th Sessions of the General As
sembly; chairman of the New Zea
land Delegation at the 9th Session;
chairman of "the First (Political)
Committee of the Assembly; presi
dent of the 12th Regular Session
of the Genei’al Assembly of the
U. N. in 1957; and presiding offi
cer over the 3i’d emergency session
in August, 1958.
Final Address
Mxxnro’s address will be the final
for SCONA V, with William Law-
I’ence, White House cori’espondent
for the New York Times, wrapping
up the annual event at a luncheon
in the MSC Ballroom at 12:15
p.m.