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Pag* 2 Soilage Station, Texas Tuesday March 7,1961 THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “ . . do you ever get th’ feeling that some of these guys take advantage of the fact that they have th’ right of way?” Soviet Newspaper Links Stevenson With Lodge By The Associated Press MOSCOW — The government newspaper Izvvestia Monday criti cized U. S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson on the eve of the open ing of the U. N. General Assembly in New York. “We must note,” Izvestia said, “that the new representative of the United States at the United Nations has a tendency ... to have some features of his prede cessor, Henry Cabot Lodge. Yet it was this same Stevenson who claimed the policy of the former American government was a policy of failure.” The newspaper based its criti cism on a speech by Stevenson in New York last week warning of the dangers of the big powers meddling in Africa. He urged the Soviet Union to “stay your inter ventions.” Until Stevenson took the U. N. post he was regarded here with a certain amount of favor. Lodge was repeatedly assailed in the strongest language by the Soviet press. Linking Lodge with Ste venson, therefore, represents a measure of annoyance with the new ambassador’s performance at the United Nations. Social Calendar The Pre-Vet Society will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Am phitheater of The Veterinary Hospital. The Industrial Education So ciety will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Room of the Biological Science Building. Fea tured speaker will be Mr. Herb Lanier of the Waco Safety Coun cil. The A&M Marketing Society will meet Tuesday in room 3-D of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Skrabanek will speak on “Population and Its Re lation To Marketing and Mar kets”. — Sound Off — A Petition Editor, The Battalion: “The controversy over the film ‘Operation Abolition’ demands the considered attention of all mem bers of the academic community to engage in a pursuit of truth for the sake of truth.” With this somewhat impractical statement a few members of the faculty open ed a letter to the editor of The Battalion recently. The letter contained no facts, the stuff of which truth is made, but it did contain some sources of opinion. With these meager references to work with one might begin a quest for truth for the sake of finding out what is going on in this country. In this letter it was stated that religious groups were against the House Un - American Activities Committee. It is true that the National Council of Churches is against HU AC. It is also true that the NCC is in favor of rec ognition of Red China, world gov ernment, and is cited in a current Air Force Manual as controlled by members of communist front organizations. On Aug. 28, 1958, The New York Times reported that a 14 member commission of the World Council of Churches, parent group of the NCC, said that, “if all out war should come, Christians should urge a cease fire, if necessary on the enemy’s terms.” The National Council of Churches is being investigated by some of its member church groups. The letter stated that the “la bor movement” is against the committee. Now what is that all about? Is the “labor movement” a person? Are the workers in America in favor of allowing com munist infiltration into the labor unions? Impossible! Is Harry Bridges against HUAC ? Sure he K^rV UM&nRS N bow'' Wk 1 T" f tfERB ., vu e Oct. w' d Nov -'' 9M I : „„w cvotoW. „. ONE CINGOID I ^ VJrtH HtRNrtONi WW*' Ne V urn« ;,r^ RNATI °»A L TALENT ASSOCIATES Inr 527 Madison Ave. 914 Kearny St New York 22, N. Y. San Francisco, Cal Pi t-3344 EX 2-2574 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. is, but he is not the labor move ment. The letter lists several publica tions which have made statements against the committee and the film “Operation Abolition”. Each of these publications, without ex ception, has a long record of pam pering communists and denounc ing anti-communists. A promi nent example is The New York Times. In 1949 The Times thought Mao Tze Tung was an “agarian reformer”. In 1959 The Times lauded Fidel Castro as an “agra rian reformer”. Based on their record it is safe to assume that The New York Times is an “ag rarian reform” news sheet. It is also prudent to ignore their opin ion on matters involving loyalty to the U.S. Outbursts from pub lications of this type do not cre ate controversy, but merely con firm the, obvious. It is probabld that most of the people who saw the film in ques tion saw enough which is irre futable with their own eyes, that no substantial question can be raised as to the authenticity of the film. According to Rep. Fran cis E. Walter the only error is a mistake in editing which caused Harry Bridges to appear out of sequence. This certainly is no justification for the pitiful acts recorded in the film. The letter further states: “ . . . honest and loyal men disagree over the desirability of the con tinued existence of the commit tee.? Honest and loyal by whose pronouncement? Are those who wish to eliminate all means of protecting the American govern ment from subversion honest and loyal ? The undersigned believe that the freedom of one individual ends where the freedom of other individuals begins. Individual freedom does not include the right to advocate overthrow of the legally constituted govern ment of the United States. Con cerning one question there should be unanimous agreement among all citizens of the United States. All should agree to support the constitution of the United States. Individualism can exist only un der a limited government estab lished under a sound constitution strictly interpreted. There are petitions circulating around many campuses around the nation, which solicit signa tures from faculty members, which state the following: STATEMENT AND PETITION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES We, the undersigned, publicly endorse the purposes and proce dures of the House Un-Ameri can Activities Committee under the chairmanship of the Hon. Francis E. Walter, and emphati cally recommend that the com mittee receive all appropriations and powers necessary for a more searching investigation of the In ternational Communist Conspira cy in the United States. We believe that the great ma jority of our colleagues, the MRS. RICHARDS DINING HALL “Where College Meets Bryan” Home Cooked Meals—4410 College Main k LUNCH—11:00 a. m.-2:00 p. m. DINNER 5:00 p. m.-8:00 p. m. “SERVED FAMILY STYLE” ADULTS $1.00 CHILDREN UNDER 10— 50c 3 BLOCKS FROM NORTH GATE Get a flying start on Continental! WASHINGTON scholars and teachers i» Ameri can Colleges and universities, are loyal to the United States and that they deplore, as we do, the efforts of a vociferous and evi dently organized minority to give aid and comfort to the enemies of our country by attacking, in the name of the academic profes sion, the investigative committees of congress that alone have the power to expose subversion and treason. This letter is a plea for circula tion of such a petition among the faculty members of Texas A&M. Harold D. Piper ’62 Y. Douglas tCherry ’62 Michehl H. Gent ’62 Clarence R. Pennington, ’62 George J. Fix ’62 ★ ★ ★ Why Is It? Editor, The Battalion: ! Why is it that these liberal newspapers and their supporters (well represented among the “ac ademic community”) get much more excited over a technicality in the production of a film show ing the student riot in Califor nia than the fact of the riot it self? The fact is that there were Communist leaders in the group, and that they were rioting in and around the building where the HCUA was investigating Communist activities. I suppose their reasoning is that we citizens may be duped by the HCUA or its supporters. They might do well to worry more about how many students in this country are being duped by the Communists and their supporters. I do not recall any (let alone two dozen) professors writing The Battalion about the threat to our American way of life when this riot took place. Could it be that the real threat to our country in not the HUAC or even these open riots in Cal ifornia ? John G. Walker, ’60 *TcHItWtW UNDEPI2ACS' VRtfe Tuesday “G I BLUES” with Elvis Presley plus “MARDI GRAS” with Pat Boone Job Interviews The following organizations will hold job interviews in The Placement Office: Mar. 7 Lybrand, Ross Bros, and Mont gomery, for seniors majoring in accounting. ★★★ Merit System Council, State of Texas, for seniors majoring in ag ricultural economics and sociolo gy, biochemistry and nutrition, dairy science and food technolo gy, entomology, accounting, biolo gy, chemistry, education and psy chology, history and government, chemical, civil, and nuclear engi neering, and veterinary medicine. ★★★ Prudential Insurance Co. of America, for seniors majoring in accounting, agricultural econom ics, business administration,' eco nomics and mathematics. ★★★ Rath Packing Co., for seniors majoring in animal husbandry, business administration and mar keting. ★★★ Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area, for seniors majoring in aeronautical engineering, mechan- ieal engineering, electrical engi neering and industrial engineer ing. ★★★ Mar. 7 and 8 Caterpillar Tractor Co., for sen iors majoring in chemical engi neering, civil engineering, electri cal engineering and mechanical engineering. ★★★ Ford Motor Co., for seniors majoring in business administra tion, accounting, data processing, electrical engineering, industrial Coming LAST DAY “A Fever in The Blood” Starts Tomorrow LAST DAY ' Frank Sinatra in “Kings Go Forth” & “Thunder Road” PALACE Brawl t-SSIS engineering, industrial technolo gy and mechanical engineering. ★★★ Otis Elevator Co., for seniors majoring in electrical engineer ing, industrial education, indus trial engineering and mechanical engineering. ★★★ Mar. 8 U. S. Industrial Chemicals Co., for seniors majoring in chemical engineering. ★★★ Uarco Inc., for seniors major ing in industrial engineering and mechanical engineering. Mar. 8 and 9 Phillips Petroleum Co., for sen-' iors majoring in chemical engi- neering, civil engineering, electri. cal engineering, mechanical engi neering, industrial engineering, petroleum engineering, chemistry, mathematics and physics. ★★★ Texas Electric Service Co., fol seniors majoring in electrical en gineering and mechanical engi neering. 0 s jiys dev inching a ■ re if qualit dialysis c The pi'' jttivatioi nolves t. throng ilectronic (lectronic The cla Bee and jaterials |y chemic dialysis : ilements jaantitati nination il elenien Accord! ilo is he iualysis 1 saccurat siming ai &§Kp3 with MaxSiuhan (Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf"The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.) - I WAS A TEEN-AGE SLIDE RULE In a recent learned journal (Mad) the distinguished board chairman (Ralph “Hot-Lips” Sigafoos) of one of our most important American corporations (the Arf Mechanical Dog Co.) wrote a trenchant article in which he pinpointed our gravest national problem: the lack of culture among science graduates. Mr. Sigafoos’s article, it must be emphasized, was in no sense derogatory. He stated quite clearly that the science student, what with his gruelling curriculum in physics, math, and chem istry, can hardly be expected to find time to study the arts too. What Mr. Sigafoos deplores—indeed, what we all deplore —is the lopsided result of today’s science courses: graduates who can build a bridge but can’t compose a concerto, who know Planck’s Constant but not Botticelli’s Venus, who are familiar with Fraunhofer’s lines but not with Schiller’s. Mr. Sigafoos can find no solution to this hideous imbalance. I, however, believe there is one—and a very simple one. It is this: if students of science don’t have time to come to the arts, then we must let the arts come to students of science. til itwtittethiijfolNfeJ'fort™, For example, it would be a very easy thing to teach poetry and music right along with physics. Students, instead of merely being called upon to recite in physics class, would instead be required to rhyme their answers and set them to familiar tunes —like, for instance, The Colonel Bogey March. Thus recitations would not only be chock-full of important facts but would, at the same time, expose the student to the aesthetic delights of great music. Here, try it yourself. You all know The Colonel Bogey March. Come, sing along with me: Physics ., Is what we learn in class.. Einstein Said energy is mass. "* Newton Is highfalutin And Pascal’s a rascal. So’s Boyle.' Do you see how much more broadening, how much more I uplifting to learn physics this way? Of course you do. What? L You want another chorus? By all means: Leyden He made the Leyden jar.' Trolley He made the Trolley car. Curie Bode in a surrey, ? And Diesel’s a weasel. So’s Boyle. \ Once the student has mastered The Colonel Bogey March, he f can go on to more complicated melodies like Death and Trans- I figuration, the Eroica, and Love Me Tender. And when the student, loaded with science and culture, leaves the classroom and lights his Marlboro, how much more he will enjoy that filter, that flavor, that pack or box! Because ; there will no longer be an unease gnawing at his soul, no longer a little voice within him repeating that he is culturally a dolt. He will know—know joyously—</tat he is a ftdjilled man, a whole man, and he will bask and revel in the pleasure of his Marlboro as a colt rolls in new grass—content, complete, truly educated—a credit to his college, to himself, and to his tobac- I conistl , / © 1961 Max Shulmsa • ♦ • And while he is rolling, colt-wise, in the new grass, perhaps he would stop long enough to try a new cigarette from the makers of Marlboro—unfiltered, king-size Philip Morris Commander. Welcome aboard! j \ I'ofessor Activati Hast, e urate, he Kt likely d them: Associa iualysis Itrek Gi tor in' istry and dentist a Sir a yea What julysis ] le follov Any me ; radioai tliicli tel First a t placed i ii accele MSI lab i:,derate (large ti lien of th itom sms While ample i tons, an Student Willard I. Dr. E. > D. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director < Pnblicakiooa, chairman; Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences • Tmettner, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture • and McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in College Sta tion, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods, Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office In College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. Mail subscriptions are $3.60 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA, College Station, Texas. 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