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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 11, 1961 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle “ . . . it’s not that I have anything against Tripod—I just don’t think it’s necessary for us freshmen to call him ‘Mr. Tripod!’” Sound Off Editor, The Battalion: Just before filing time for can didates’ names for the election of class officers, The Battalion offered to print letters from all candidates submitting them. This was to get to know the candidates and their platforms. After the primary elections, The Battalion ran another edi torial criticizing the students for not voting, and saying that it had not printed the letters which 11 of the 170 candidates had turned in because it was a farce. What I want to know is: shouldn’t the students be allowed to judge that for themselves ? Did The Battalion ever consider that those 11 letters might have been the very ones which de served printing the most? Elev en candidates took enough time to consider and write their quali fications and platforms for of fice. They were willing to let everyone know where they stood. Yet these 11 candidates who se riously took interest in the elec tion and their office, and who therefore might have been our best class officers, were refused the offer which had been extend ed to them, and their letters were not printed. According to College Regula tions, candidates for school-wide office may not spend funds, or print, or post any printed cam paign literature, other than that which is offered by The Battal ion. Therefore, if a student wants to be heard by the entire student body, it is the responsi bility of The Battalion to print his letter. Will the students be informed in the next general election, or will we again have to vote in the dark ? James W. Carter, ’63 AGGIES, GET YOUR * Khaki Uniforms * Fatigue Uniforms * Dress Shirts and Pants Expertly laundered and finished In ONLY ONE DAY W. L. 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BILL HICKLIN EDITOR Joe Callicoatte Sports Editor Bob Sloan, Alan Payne, Tommy Holbein News Editors Jim Gibson, Bob Roberts Editorial Writers Larry Smith .— Assistant Sports Editor Bob Mitchell, Ronnie Bookman, Robert Denney, Gerry Brown Staff Writers Johnny Herrin Photographers Russell Brown Sports Writers INTERPRETING South Africa Sets 1 For Major Move By HENRI JONKER The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG, South Af rica—South African Prime Min ister Hendrik Verwoerd’s Nation al party machine apparently is preparing this country’s ruling whites for a major maneuver aimed at offsetting criticism of racial segregation policies. There is an indication that the government hopes to break the wave of worldwide disapproval, not by giving in to U. N. demands to grant political rights to non whites, but by opening full steam his master plan of developing separate black territories within. South Africa. Last week a surprising editor ial in the Johannesburg Trans- valer, a Verwoerd-controlled newspaper, said South Africa could no longer shrug off U.N. censure as unjustified interfer ence. The Transvaler said something would have to be done now about race relations here to prevent “outside intervention.” It gave no specific word of what Ver- woerd might plan. But Dagbreek, a national Sun day paper under Verwoerd’s con- Social Calendar The following organizations will meet on campus: Tonight The History Society will meet in Room 113 of Nagle Hall at 7:30 p.m. The PreMedical-PreDental So ciety will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Biological Sci ences Building. Dr. H. C. Mc- Quaide of Bryan will show a film on surgery. The American Foundrymen’s Society will meet in the Foundry of the Mechanical Engineering Shops at 7:30 p.m. Thursday The Bell County Hometown Club will meet in the Memorial Student Center in Room 2-D at 7:30 p.m. Job Interviews The following organizations will hold job interviews for grad uating seniors in the Placement Office: Apr. 11-12 Mason Hanger-Silas Mason Co., Inc., will hold interviews for sen iors majoring in industrial engi neering, mechanical engineering and physics. Positions in proc ess engineering, plant and tool design, explosive engineering, re search and development are avail able. ★ ★ ★ National Supply Division, Arm- co Steel Corp., is interviewing seniors majoring in industrial en gineering, industrial technology, mechanical engineering and pe troleum engineering. ★ ★ ★ The Tyler Pipe and Foundry Co. will interview seniors major- ling in electrical engineering and mechanical engineering for posi tions in the design and produc tion of gray iron pipe and foun dry equipment. trol, indicates his answer lies in his partition scheme of develop ing Bantustans or black state in dependent homeland areas for the nation’s blacks. This is in effect a black-white land partition scheme which Ver- woerd has long espoused as the only ultimately fair solution to- this country’s racial conflicts. It is doubtful if the blacks will now be satisfied with anything like this—with less than political rights and integration, in view of what has happened in the rest of Africa. Bantustan homelands would contain at least five million of this country’s 11 million blacks. The government would try to per suade private industries to build industries near them and also invest public funds and find them jobs. The remainder of the blacks and most of this country’s IVs million coloreds—people of mixed blood—and 500,000 Asians would form another entity, most ly urban, whose interests would link chiefly with the country’s three million whites. In such a setup the whites presumably would not feel so outnumbered as they are now, a IV. Calls For Punitive Action By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.— The U.N. special political com mittee today called for punitive action against South Africa for its racial policies. This included an African demand for an eco nomic and diplomatic boycott. The boycott proposal won ma jority approval, but failed to get the required two-thirds margin needed for final ratification in the General Assembly. This meant that the assembly probably would wind up by adopting only a mild er Asian resolution which simply called on all countries to consid er “separate and collective ac tion” against the South African government. The vote on the boycott plan was 47-29 with 18 abstaining. The United States was among those voting against the proposal. Most of its support came from African, Asian and Soviet bloc countries. While the African-sponsored resolution got more support than was generally expected, it Avas not conceded much chance of gaining enough votes to get it through the assembly. The vote on the milder reso lution was 93-1 with none ab staining. This assured its final approval by an overwhelming margin. Only Portugal voted against the proposal. The United States voted for it. This proposal did not spell out what action should be considered by the member nations. The Af rican plan, however, specifically recommended rupture of diplo matic relations and a complete economic quarantine. Some dele gates argued this was too harsh. Fly there it's faster by far! DALLAS Lv. 11:31 A.M. 6:11 P.M. QUICK CONNECTIONS TO EL PASO, ALBUQUERQUE VIA JET POWER VISCOUNT DJ far rewmrifotw, cot yoor Trwrf Afl—f «r Coatinantd at 10 6-478^ CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, Day Of Reckoning For Eichmann p< By The Associated Press JERUSALEM — The day of reckoning came Tuesday for Adolf Eichmann, accused as the master executioner of Hitler’s Reich. The slight, balding man accused of complicity in the slaughter of six million Jews will take his place in the prisoner’s dock, shielded from possible avengers by sheets of bullet proof glass. Justice Moshe Landau, presi dent of the three-judge Israeli court, will turn to Eichmann and isay: “Adolf Eichmann, stand up.” On the trial of the man run Tshombe Wants Troop Withdrawal By The Associated Press ELISABETHVILLE, the Congo —President Moise Tshombe of Katanga today asked U.N. Sec retary-General Dag Hammer- skjold to remove Ethiopian sol diers from the north Katanga town of Kabalo, asserting they were committing “acts of aggres sion.” • He warned that unless the Ufnited Nations took action, eco nomic sanctions already applied in Elisabethville will be enforced more strictly and will spread to other parts of Katanga. An Ethiopian soldier was killed in a clash with Katanga soldiers at Kabalo last week. Tshombe accused the Ethiop ians of firing on Katanga soldiers Avho landed in a plane at Kabalo airfield to clear the town of rebel Baluba tribesmen. Tshombe said the Ethopians did not wear the usual U.N. blue helmets and drove Khaki-colored vehicles instead of the normal white painted trucks of the United Nations. He said because of this Katanga soldiers mistook the Ethopians for members of a rebel force from Stanleyville which held Kabalo with the Ba- lubas. to earth by Israeli agents in Ar gentina last May will be on. Eichmann must stand for the reading of the indictment, a for midable document of 15 counts. The indictment accuses him of “crimes against the Jewish peo ple and crimes against human ity.” The maximum penalty is death. Eichmann was chief of the Ges tapo’s Jewish affairs section in World War II. To him—in the cold, impartial words of Nazi bu reaucracy—was assigned the job of finding “the final solution of the Jewish problem.” The prosecution charges the so lution was the Nazi death camps. Eichmann will be asked how he pleads once the indictment is read. And before he answers, his West German attorney, Robert Servatius, is expected to rise and challenge the legality of the pro ceedings. Servatius is expected to argue that Eichmann was kidnaped in Argentina and therefore that his trial is illegal; that Israel did not exist as a nation at the time the crimes allegedly were committed, and is without jurisdiction; that he is being tried under a law passed after the crimes were committed. As the trial once more focused the glare of world publicity on Hitler’s Reich, Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer of West Germany declared Naziism has been purged “from our social life and souls.” “We wish that in this trial the whole truth will come to light and that justice will be served,” Ade nauer told the West German na tion in a TV address from Bonn. Noting Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion of Israel said recently young Germans should not be held responsible for wrongs of the past and Israel wants friendly relations with Germany, Ade nauer added: “For these words at the beginning of the trial against Eichmann we are sin cerely grateful.” Small crowds scrambled for the BY Eugene Rush, TU ’33 He also said that a steamejr and barge had been sunk by mortar fire by the Ethopians and that a whole company of Katanga sol diers was missing as a result. VWKERE-THE-MST-PICTURES-PUW'l TUESDAY “FLAMING STAR” with Elvis Presley Plus “HOME BEFORE DARK” with Jean Simmons STARTS TODAY Don’t Forget Roommate Matinee. Bring your roommate in free with one ticket. Good Mon. thru Fri. till 6 p. m. Jack, Lemmon, Henry Fonda, James Cagney In “MR. ROBERTS” STARTS THURSDAY mwm COLOR by DELUXE 1st Aggie: I bought a life insur ance policy from that fellow Rush at the North Gate last week. 13th Man: You mean that you bought from a Teasip rather than one of the many Aggie agents around here! 1st Aggie: I did. And let me ask you a question—Would you rather just get your money’s worth from another Aggie, or cheat a Teasip blind? Rev: Wulf! Wulf! PALACE Brcjan 2‘8$J9 LAST DAY “JET OVER THE ATLANTIC” STARTS WEDNESDAY WILLIAM FAULKNER’S SANCTUARY /• A CinemaScope- Picture Pmhired bp Varrul F. Zanuck Productions, Inc. QUEEN NOW SHOWING 2 SHOWS DAILY 2 P. M. & 8 P. M. “THE ALAMO” 80 tickets still available for the screening of the trial on a closed TV circuit in a 1,000-seat audi torium. Only 20 of the 746 seats in the court room itself were available to the public and these were taken weeks ago. The trial is being held in the Beit Ha’aro—community center. Outside the court room, blue- clad Israeli soldiers patrolled along the wire fences thrown up as a security measure. But the atmosphere around the building and in the ancient city was calm. Following the opening legal preliminaries, the chief of the Israeli prosecution, Atty. Gen. Gideon Hausner will deliver his opening statement. Running to about 50,000 woi the statement will set forth j main points of the state’s ^ against Eichmann and is exp# ed to probe deep into the fe recesses of the Nazi regime. B; The nd P Waiting to testify forthestj ie p a r£ are 39 witnesses, 13 of tie Jews who met N< Eichmann at|j or w it time he was riding high asanij colonel of the Gestapo. Servatius has said he has unable to find any witnesses testify on behalf of Eichna; Some might fear arrest in Isrij Others do not want to test| Still others are hunted andt!;; be hiding in neighboring At| countries. OuCmus with feShukn {Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”,“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.) curses ‘This tartinj cry n jithar ors to stud lours,” Inti THE DEAN YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN j Now in the waning days of the school year when the hardest i heart grows mellow and the very air is charged with memories, ; j let us pause for a moment and pay tribute to that overworked j and underappreciated campus figure, your friend and mine, the i dean of students. Policeman and confessor, shepherd and seer, warden and I oracle, proconsul and pal, the dean of students is by far the | j most enigmatic of all academicians. How can we understand I him? Well sir, perhaps the best way is to take an average day in the life of an average dean. Here, for example, is what hap pened last Thursday to Dean Killjoy N. Damper of Duluth A and M. At 6 a.m. he woke, dressed, lit a Marlboro, and went up on the roof of his house to remove the statue of the Founder which had been placed there during the night by high-spirited under graduates. At 7 a.m. he lit a Marlboro and walked briskly to the campus. (The Dean had not been driving his car since it had been placed on the roof of the girls dormitory by high-spirited under graduates.) K At 7:45 a.m. he arrived on campus, lit a Marlboro, and climbed the bell tower to remove his secretary who had been placed there during the night by high-spirited undergraduates. At 8 a.m. he reached his office, lit a Marlboro, and met with Derther Sigafoos, editor of the student newspaper. Young Sigafoos had been writing a series of editorials urging the United States to annex Canada. When his editorials had evoked no response, he had taken matters into his own hands. Accom panied by his sports editor and two copy readers, he had gone over the border and conquered Manitoba. With great patience and several excellent Marlboro Cigarettes, the Dean persuaded young Sigafoos to give Manitoba back. Young Sigafoos, how ever, insisted on keeping Winnipeg. At 9 a.m. the Dean lit a Marlboro and met with Erwin J. Bender, president of the local Sigma Chi chapter, who came to report that the Deke house had been put on top of the Sigma Chi house during the night by high-spirited undergraduates. At 10 a.m. the Dean lit a Marlboro and went to umpire an intramural softball game on the roof of the law school where the campus baseball diamond had been placed during the night by high-spirited undergraduates. At 12 noon the Dean had a luncheon meeting with the presi dent of the university, the bursar, the registrar, and the chair man of the English department at the bottom of the campus swimming pool where the faculty dining room had been placed during the night by high-spirited undergraduates. Marlboros were passed after lunch, but not lit owing to the dampness. At 2 p.m., back in his office, the Dean lit a Marlboro and received the Canadian minister of war who said that unless young Sigafoos gave back Winnipeg, Canada would march, Young Sigafoos was summoned and agreed to give back Winni peg if he could have Saskatoon. The Canadian minister of war at first refused, but finally agreed after young Sigafoos placed him on the roof of the mining and metallurgy building. At 3 p.m. the Dean lit, a Marlboro and met with a delegation from the student council who came to present him with a set of matched luggage in honor of his fifty years’ service as dean of students. The Dean promptly packed the luggage with his clothing and Marlboros and fled to Utica, New York, where he is now in the aluminum siding game. © wei M«shuimai> * * * To the dean of students and all you other hard-working academic types, here’s the new word in smoking pleasure from the makers of Marlboro—king-size unfiltered Philip Morris Commander. 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