THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 15,1960
CADET SLOUCH by Ji m Earle More Meds INTERPRETING
BATTALION EDITORIALS
An Idea
The Civilian Student Council may have come up with an
idea.
Civilian student leaders last week proposed to seek a
“summit” meeting with student leaders in the Corps of Ca
dets to put in writing certain precedents concerning Civilian-
Corps relationship to be followed in the future.
A meeting of this nature has long been lacking on the
Texas A&M campus. It might be well to add that such a
meeting, if so arranged, often tends to be a rather formal
affair where the participants simply shake hands, gather
around a table, smoke a few cigarettes, say little and ac
complish less.
The “summit” should be conducted in a manner dedicated
to close—or open—the gap between the two groups. For
many years there has been a visible friction between the
Corps of Cadets and the Civilian Students. This meeting,
if it is arranged, could perhaps serve as a formal declaration
of what the relationship between the two groups will actually
be.
The Battalion is not saying what should be decided at
the “summit”, but we are encouraging such a meeting. What
is decided is up to the student leaders.
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What’s
Still To Go Happening?
$4,065 to go with less than a
day remaining.,
That’s the current status of the
College Station United Chest as
it stands on the verge of being
a reversal of last year. Reports
yesterday revealed the total col
lected for the Drive was $11,065
—slightly over $4,000 to be col
lected in one day if the $15,150
goal is to be attained.
This record is quite a contrast
to the past year when College
Station surpassed the $13,000
goal by some $2,000. It appears
that College Station will not be
arriong the other Texas cities—
there are 12 now—with above 100
per cent participation.
Moreover, it forces the 14
agencies that would benefit Col
lege Station with their financial
support to turn elsewhere for
monetary aid. Perhaps it can
still be done, but it would take
a sudden change in the closing
moments.
There is a big question mark
hanging over the Texas A&M
campus.
Is the Texas A&M Band going
to Washington D. C. for the Pres
idential Inauguration, Jan. 17-20 ?
The Band was invited some six
weeks ago by the adjutant gen
eral of Texas, but still no answer
—^affirmative or negative—has
been released by any faction on
the campus.
Certainly Texas A&M is a
large enough institution to send
its Band to the Inauguration, es
pecially with the national acclaim
and the prestige that will ac
company it.
Word comes that the Faculty
Executive Committee voted ap
proval of the jaunt, but provi
sions concerning grades and final
examinations that conflict with
the Inauguration could eliminate
the Band from going.
The consensus of the Texas
A&M Band and the student body
is 100 per cent in favor of the
trip. And why shouldn’t it be?
What’s happening?
Face Draft? Latin - America Showing
Signs Of Fighting Back
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON— The Defense
Department threatened Monday
to resume drafting of doctors un
less more medical school grad
uates volunteer to serve in uni
form for two years.
Assistant Secretary of Defense
Frank B. Berry backed up the
warning with letters to more
than 4,500 hospital interns giving
them until Dec. 1 to complete
application forms which he said
they have ignored until now.
The letter added the Defense
Department will not hesitate to
order the drafting of 650 medical
graduates next spring if volun
teers do not meet the needs. The
interns were reminded the pre
sent physicians’ draft law ex
tends into 1963.
There has been no drafting of
physicians since early 1957. Berry
told reporters the volunteer plan
he started in 1954 apparently has
worked so well up to now that
many young medical students
have the idea that “everything is
smooth and easy and that there
is no more worry about being
drafted.”
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Americans with connections at
the grass roots of Latin-Ameri-
can affairs say that Cuba repre
sents a Moscow-financed coup,
but that Spanish refugee Com
munists represent the real core of
revolution in the area.
The Spanish Communists have
made Latin America ther base
ever since their defeat in the
Spanish civil war. Their cultural
ties have made them peculiarly
affective agents of subversion in
Latin America. Their ideological
and financial ties with Moscow
have been hardened over 25 years
of constant use. Some of them
arrived with considerable money
from Spain.
It has been easy for them to
work themselves in with revolu
tionary elements in the Spanish
speaking countries.
Latin America is now showing
signs of fighting back.
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“ ... first it was ‘Tie the Hell Out of Baylor;’ then ‘Party
the Hell Out of Rice;’ and now ‘Bonfire the Hell Out of
T.U.’ Don’t you ever give up?”
Job Interviews
Social Calendar
The following clubs and organ
izations will meet on campus
this week:
Tonight
The Marketing Society will
meet tonight at 7:30 p. m. in
Room 3-D of the Memorial Stu
dent Center. Guest speakers will
be A. R. Wisenbaker, zone man
ager of five states for Sears,
Roebuck and Co.
Thursday
The Richardson Hometown
Club will meet in Room 204 of
the YMCA Building at 7:30 p. m.
The Baytown Hometown Club
will meet in Room 128 of the
Academic Building at 7:30 p. m.
The Big Thicket Hometown
Club will meet in the lounge of
Puryear Hall at 7:30 p. m.
The Wichita Falls Hometown
Club will meet in the Social
Room of the Memorial Student
Center at 7:30 p. m.
The Law Society will meet the
first Tuesday after the Thanks
giving holidays, Nov. 29, in
Rooms 2-C and 2-D of the Mem
orial Student Center. An an
nouncement carried last Friday in
The Battalion, saying that the
meeting would be held tonight,
was in error. The Society plans
the same program as announced
in The Battalion: application^
for the Law School entrance ex
aminations will be discussed and
Judge W. C. Davis of the Bra
zos County Court will be the
featured speaker.
The following firms will inter
view seniors at the Placement
Office in the YMCA Building
Wednesday.
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The American Cynamid Co.
will interview majors in chemical
engineering (BS, MS, and PhD)
and chemistry (BS, MS, PhD)
for positions in research and de
velopment in analytical, inorgan
ic, organic, and physical chem
istry.
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The American Institute of For
eign Trade will interview majors
in agricultural economics, agri
cultural education, agricultural
engineering, agronomy and ani
mal husbandry. Also majors in
dairy science, entomology, poul
try science, range and forestry,
wildlife management, aeronauti
cal engineering, chemical engi
neering and civil engineering.
Also majors in electrical engin
eering, geology, industrial edu
cation, industrial engineering,
mechanical engineering, petrol
eum engineering, business ad
ministration and economics. Pos
itions will be the executive type
with American companies having
overseas branches.
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The Cities Service Research
and Development Co. will inter
view majors in chemical engin
eering, petroleum engineering,
chemistry, mathematics and phy
sics. Jobs are in the research
and development of petroleum
products and petrochemicals.
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The Firestone Synthetic Rub
ber and Latex Co. will interview
majors in chemical engineering
for positions in process control.
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The Security First National
Bank of Los Angeles will inter
view majors in accounting, busi
ness administration, economics
and finance for positions in their
management training program.
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Guatemalan and Nicarauguan
governments both are claiming to
have quelled new uprisings in
which the Communists-Castro-
Communists, the governments
claim-sought to take advantage
of local disaffections.
More significant, perhaps, is
the positive move for democratic
procedures made by the three
countries after the El Salvador
coup last month. Failure of the
junta to announce election plans
has caused Brazil, Chile and Ar
gentina, acting in concert, to
withhold recognition.
These countries were reported
ly nervous after what they saw
as undemocratic tendencies and
an early recognition by Cuba.
They are trying to pressure the
El Salvador junta into free elec
tions.
It can be assumed that the
Guatemalan disturbance is, as
the government claims, Commun
ist-inspired or at least Commun
ist-supported, on either a local
or an international basis. The
residue of Communist power left
there after the 1954 revolution,
which had the backing of the
United States, has been showing
its hand more and more frequent
ly in the last year.
The situation in Nicaragua is
more complex. There you have a
long standing dictatorship and an
internal contest for power, com
plicated by the quickness of the
Communists to take advantage of
every opportunity to remote lo
cal disturbances. Throughout
Central America the refugee
Spaniards and original support
ers of the Castro movements are
waiting for these opportunities
—and creating them where they
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On Campus
with
Maxfihulman
(Authorof “I Was"a Teen-age Dwarf”, “The Many
Loves of Dohie Gillis”, etc.)
HOW TO BEAT THE BEAT GENERATION
My cousin Herkie Nylet is a sturdy lad of nineteen summers j
who has, we all believed until recently, a lively intelligence and
an assured future. Herkie’s father, Walter O. Nylet, is as every- ,,
one knows, president of the First National Artificial Cherry 'v
Company, world’s largest maker of artificial cherries for ladies’ *
hats. Uncle .Walter had great plans for Herkie. Last year he '
sent Herkie to the Maryland College of Humanities, Sciences, p
and Artificial Cherries, and he intended, upon Herkie’s gradu-
ation, to find him a nice fat wife and take him into the firm as
a full partner.
Could a young man have more pleasing prospects? Of course
not. But a couple of months ago, to everyone’s consternation,
Herkie announced that he was not going into the artificial cherry
business. Nor was he going to stay in college. “I am,” said .
Herkie, “a member of the Beat Generation. I am going to San
Francisco and grow a beard.”
Well sir, you can imagine the commotion in the family when
Herkie went traipsing off to San Francisco! Uncle Walter would
have gone after him and dragged him home, but unfortunately
he was right in the middle of the artificial cherry season. Aunt
Thelma couldn’t go either because of her old leg trouble. (One
of her legs is older than the'other.)
So I went. I searched San Francisco for weeks before I found
Herkie living under the counter of a Pronto Pup stanch “Herkie,
how are you?” I cried, looking distraughtly upon his tangled
beard, his corduroy jacket, his stricken eyes.
“Beat,” said Herkie.
I offered him a Marlboro and felt instantly better when he
took it because when one smokes Marlboros, one cannot be too
far removed from the world. One still has, so to speak, a hold
on the finer things of life-like good tobacco, like easy-drawing
filtration, like settling back and getting comfortable and enjoy
ing a full-flavored smoke. One is, despite all appearances, basi
cally happiness-oriented, fulfillment-directed, pleasure-prone.
“Herkie, what are you doing with yourself?” I asked.
“I am finding myself,” he replied. “I am writing a novel in
the sand with a pointed stick. I am composing a fugue for
clavier and police whistle. I am sculpting in experimental ma
terials-like English muffins.”
“And what do you do for fun?” I asked.
“Come,” he said and took me to a dank little night club
where men in beards and women in basic burlap sat on orange
crates and drank espresso. On a tiny stage stood a poet reciting
a free-form work of his own composition entitled Excema: The
Story of a Boy while behind him a jazz trio played 200 choruses
of Tin Roof Blues.
“Herkie,” said I, “come home with me to the artificial cherries.”
“No,” said Herkie, so sadly I went home to tell Uncle Walter
the bad news. He was less distressed than I had feared. It seems
Uncle Walter has another son, a quiet boy named Edvorts, about
whom he had completely forgotten, and today Edvorts is i»
business with Uncle Walter and Herkie is beat in San Francisco,
and everyone is happy.
© 1960 MaxShulmaQ
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