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
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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.
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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.
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“HOME BEFORE DARK”
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STARTS TODAY
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Bring your roommate in free
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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!
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you a question—Would you rather
just get your money’s worth from
another Aggie, or cheat a Teasip
blind?
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“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.
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Waiting to testify forthestj ie p a r£
are 39 witnesses, 13 of tie
Jews who met
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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.
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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.)
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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>
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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. Welcome aboard!
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PEANUTS
By Charles M. Schuh
PEANUTS
I CAN'T so oun
THERE TODAV.LUC/..
I'M NO S0OD ASA
MANAGER.. I'M t
SCARED! /
SCARED?
WHY, YOU ,
BLOCKHEAD,'
VOU COANTED TO BE THE
MANASER.AND YOU'RE GOINS
TO BE THE MANASER.'NOW.VOU
6£T OUT THEREAMO MANAGE!//
HI, CHARLIE BROWN j GUHERE
HAVE VOU BEEN ?0JEVE BEEN
tCAlTlNS FOR you...
WELL, AT FIRST 1 THOUGHT I
WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO MAKE IT,
BUT I FINALLY SOT HERE UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF INFLUENCE!
That
l'M NO MANASER...I CANT RDM
A BASEBALL TEAM..'.EVERVBODY
KNOWS (M A LOUSY MANAGER...
NOBODY EVEN PAYS ANY ATTENTION
TO ME...THEYALL HATE ME... ??
I THINK I'LL JUST STAY IN BED...
MAYBE IT'LL RAIN...MAYBE NO
ONE ELSE WILL SHOW UP EITHER..
I'LL JUST STAY IN BED, AND...
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