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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, February 9, 1961
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
INTERPRETING
Kennedy Cabinet
Brews Trouble
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
President Kennedy is having
the first but by no means the
last troubles with his strong-
minded Cabinet members and
top advisers who have been ac
customed to speaking for them
selves and continue to do so.
This is a problem in every ad
ministration. In a group such as
Kennedy’s official family, com
posed of so many people who
have acquired the habits of lead
ership, it’s a price you pay for
talent.
Now and then, under these cir
cumstances, an official will say
something regarding a particu
lar matter which cuts across
broader policy or seems to con
tradict someone at a higher level.
Then there’s confusion, and fre
quently trouble.
Some officials react by shying
away from the newsmen-trying
to avoid trouble at any cost.
Adlai Stevenson got ahead of
the President with some pious
hopes about relations with Rus
sia’s Khrushchev and Red China,
expressed at the United Nations,
which caused no great stir.
But after Kennedy’s campaign
and State of the Union expres
sions of belief that the Soviet
Union is ahead and moving fas
ter than the United States in the
missile race, the foulup over
what’s in a Pentagon study of
the subject created a furor.
At a briefing, subsequently
disclosed to have been by Sec
retary of Defense McNamara, re
porters got the unanimous im
pression that a study team
would report no missile gap.
Kennedy, well aware of the un
official but highly essential role
of the press in the American po
litical system, said at his news
conference Wednesday he didn’t
want this to happen.
All presidents have sought to
prevent these crossups through
administrative coordination, but
mostly they’ve just had to grin
and bear it. And Kennedy seems
likely to need his full share of
grins.
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Social Calendar
The following organizations
will meet Thursday, Feb. 9.
The Red River Valley Home
town Club, at 7:30 p.m. in Room
Now Kennedy and McNamara
say the report has not progress
ed to the point where conclusions
can be drawn. There is disturb
ance in Congress, and where it
will all wind up remains to be
seen.
Un-American
Committee
Urged Killed
In the meantime, the impres
sion has got out that either the
President or the Pentagon is ap
proaching the study with an eye
to proving preconceptions. This
may not be true. But it leaves
the public up in the air. It
makes more difficult the mobili
zation which Kennedy seeks in
his effort for aunified front
against both the economic and
military problems which face
the nation.
Background briefings to give
reporters an idea of official
thought, with the information to
be used on the reporter’s own re
sponsibility, are commonplace in
Washington. They play a valu
able part in keeping the country
informed of policies and tenden
cies without committing officials
and stripping them of flexibil
ity.
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK—A petition with
the names of more than 400 citi
zens urging the House of Repre
sentatives to abolish its Un-
American Activities Committee
was published Wednesday night
in the New York Times.
The list of names, published
with the petition in a paid ad-
vertisment, includes leaders of
business and labor, churchmen,
educators, writers, actors,. civic
leaders and public officials.
Among them are Dr. Reinhold
Niebuhr, theologian; publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, California long
shoremen’s leader Harry Bridges,
retired Judge J. Wates Waring,
scientists Harold Urey, Linus
Pauling and Harlow Shapley;
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevvelt,
writers Elmer Rice, Louis Un-
termeyer, Thornton Wilder, and
Lewis Mumford, and Dr. Martin
Luther King, Southern Negro
leader.
LEGAL HOLIDAY
Monday, February 13, 1961 being a Holiday, in ob
servance of Lincoln’s Birthday, the undersigned will
observe that date as a Holiday and not be open for
business.
First National Bank
City National Bank
First State Bank & Trust Company
College Station State Bank
Bryan Building & Loan Association
Community Savings & Loan Association
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the Memorial Student
2-D of
Center.
The Northeast Texas Home
town Club, at 7:30 p.m. in Room
2-A of the Memorial Student
Center.
The Deep East Texas Home
town Club, at 7:30 p.m. in Room
2-C of the Memorial Student
Center. Members must wear
Class “A” winter uniforms as
pictures for The Aggieland will
be taken.
The Johnson County Home
town Club, at 7:30 p.m. in Room
208 of the Academic Building.
All members must be present be
cause plans for taking the club
picture will be discussed.
The Guadalupe Valley Home
town Club, at 7:30 p.m. in Room
2-B of the Memorial Student
Center.
The Brush County Hometown
Club, at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA
Reading Room. i
The Texarkana Hometown Chib
at 7:15 p.m. in Room 305 of the
Academic Building.
The Aggie Band Wives Club,
at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Jane
Cherry, 1900 Echols, College Sta
tion.
I Big Russian
Moon Plays
Hide- n-Seeii
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The new
seven-ton Soviet Sputnik Wed
nesday took on some of the as
pects of a “where’s-nik.”
Some space officials here and
abroad indicated that thus far
they had been unable either to
see the bigy Soviet satellite or
pin down definitely that they had
heard radio signals from it.
The Defence Department de
clined to say whether it had
tracked it.
However, President Kennedy
told his news conference Wed
nesday that, “We have, of course
some information” about the
rocket. Noting that a good deal
of this information has appear-
' ed Iq, the press, Kennedy said it
is a large rocket and ^t may be
part of their experiments lead
ing up to placing a man in
space.”
As of now, however, he said,
“We have no evidence that there
is a man in there.”
Editor, _
The Battalion:
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to disagree with a state
ment made by Mr. Malcom Har
dee in his letter to John Farrell
of the University of Colorado.
Hardee made the statement
that Texas A&M “is not a uni
versity; this is a military college.
Its primary purpose is to turn
out military officers to serve in
the Armed Forces of this great
United States of America.”
If, as Mr. Hardee claims, the
purpose of A&M is to turn out
military officers, why is it that
roughly 3,000 of the students
here, nearly one-half of the total
enrollment, do not participate in
the military program ? Are these
students being duped by the ad
ministration into believing that
it is possible for them to obtain
from A&M a first-rate education
when, in truth, this school is “pri
marily” concerned with educa
ting the youth of our state in
the finer points of professional
killing? I hardly think this can
be true.
If Mr. Hardee is going to take
it upon himself to be a voice of
Texas A&M and our representa
tive, if only in a letter to some
other school, it would perhaps be
wise of him to make sure he
speaks for a majority of the stu
dents, faculty and administra
tion, and not just for himself.
A&M has many good points and
its share of bad points. Perhaps
the worst of these bad points is
the militaristically inclined stu
dent, such as Mr. Hardee, who
would place the importance of the
regimented mob before the im
portance of the individual. If any
great number of students felt
this way about the education they
are npceiving from Texas A&M,
this would certainly not be a uni
versity, college, nor even much
of a school.
The “question mark’ referred
to by Mr. Farrell in his editorial
would vanish completely from
our campus and with it would go
the students who are seeking
something more than “out,” the
profs who are trying to give their
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students an inquiring mind and
an individual spirit, and that part
of the administration which be
lieves, contrary to Mr. Hardee’s
opinion, that Texas A&M should
be an institution of higher learn
ing and not a four year “boot
camp” for prospective military
officers. That condition does not
exist here now and I hope to God
that it never will.
Donal R. Simpson, ’61
★ ★ ★
Gung-Ho
Editor,
The Battalion:
In recent weeks a great deal
of speculation and controversy
has arisen over an organization
known as “Gung-Ho.” A short
article appeared in The Battal
ion about the group, but appar
ently failed to impart sufficient
explanatory information. Since
that time discussion has seem
ingly become more and more con
fused, and some pretty unfair
misconceptions have been devel
oped concerning the purposes of
the organization.
The unit is not a “fraternity,”
nor is it in any way a selected
group of individuals. All that is
required is determination. Mem
bership is open to any student
attending Texas A&M.
By way of clarification, I
might explain that the group
is designed primarly to produce
a superior standard of physical
fitness, combined with a thorough
knowledge of the principles of
survival and self-defense.
One needs to take but a brief
glance at the Korean War sta
tistics to see what inaequate
preparatory training has cost the
United States and her people in
terms of casualties an prestige.
The honorable record of Amer
ican fighting men since the Rev
olution has reflected the highest
standard of loyalty, courage and
sacrifice for the common cause.
Korea was a significant blow to
this enviable record. - The atti
tude of individuals seems to have
shifted away from belief in any
thing but personal security.
The members of “Gung-Ho”
are learning the value of work
ing together toward a common
goal. An appraisal over the last
few months of their efforts in
dicated a great improvement in
attitude and in self-confidence.
Many of us could well learn a
lesson from the determination
and intestinal fortitude demon
strated by these men.
We should like to iussue an
open invitation to students, fac
ulty and staff to support this ac
tivity. I do not mean to imply
that this program will mean the
salvation of the American herit
age, but it is a step in the right
direction, and we need the sup
port of interested parties.
J. C. Smith, ’61
★ ★ ★
Un-American
Activities
Communism has hurt many
pie, some of whom are 1% J_
of any wilfull wrong, jjh
in any war, “hot” or “cold;* A n
is why wars are fought only : terial,
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That the House Un-Anift^g i nt
Activities Committee is iljministr
by some and hated by ott f Chiej
due to its position as a sized”
of an embattled govetr-the dec
That any Congressional a (; tor is
should exist as such a wear, such as
an unfortunate but neats Thou
happening in a national t ^ew to
gency such us the one in; houses
we now find ourselves. States
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A&M has produced a nnilj
of Capable fighting menfa, JTffi
defenre of the country. Itj, * '**'
uates have distinguished j
selves often for patriotisij
valor. May The Battalia;
ways display courage and-
ment in speaking for thedt 1
of the nation which then
are trained to serve.
I
Editor,
The Battalion:
1 would like to commend The
Battalion for its courage and
judgement in defending the
House Un-American Activities
Committee.
Without impugning the mo
tives of all those who agitate for
the abolition of the Committee,
I would like to point out that
Congressional investigating com
mittees have proven an effective
means of identifying members of
the Communist Party, whose al
legiance is to a foreign power
committed to the overthrow of
the U. S. Government.
I’m sure that the “cold war” }
which this nation wages against
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