THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, November 8, 1961
I BATTALION EDITORIALS
Guest Editorials
Research Welcome
Abraham Ribicoff, secretary of health, education and
welfare, has stated that not one dollar now being- used for
research on cancer or any other disease will be eliminated.
His assurance that reduced spending, as requested by Presi
dent Kennedy, will come elsewhere in his department, is
welcome. Research, private and public, has proved to be the
key to advancement in virtually every field. Two current
examples in widely different areas are:
Substantial progress toward better understanding of
diseases of the heart is reported by Life Insurance Medical
Research Fund. Since 1945, life-insurance companies have
invested over $13,500,000 in this research.
Cotton is regaining lost markets and expects to win back
more markets with new products developed by research, says
the National Cotton Council. More than $22,000,000 will
go into cotton research in 1962.
Research gives consumers better, more-useful products.
It reduces costs and increases sales for business and agricul
ture. Research created the weapons that defend us today.
Despite these contributions, research often is the first thing
eliminated in economy programs. It is endangered now, when
federal spending should be cut; department heads are likely
to sacrifice science instead of people or payrolls.
American insistence upon economy should include a
demand that research essential for health, defense, business
and agriculture be maintained. Properly planned research
by private industry and by the government is a sound in
vestment in the nation’s future.
—Dallas Morning News
Wa terHea ter A in’t
It takes the French Academy 100 years to pass on a new
word and authorize it for the language and the dictionary.
This is the way Richelieu set up the institution in 1635.
The queen’s English takes it linguistic sanctions from
the Oxford Dictionary which has been issued in new editions
three times since 1933. American English comes unofficially
but authoritatively from Webster’s International, which now
has a 1961 edition, its first since 1934. The new Webster
has just approved “ain’t” for polite usage. Many technical
terms since the war are now in Webster.
The French are still in trouble. It has taken the Academy
23 years to work its way to “chauffe-eau,” or “water heater.”
The Academy is 77 years from its deadline and there are
signs now that water heaters are going out of existence.
By 2038 A.D. either a person will not need a water heater
or will carry one around in a pill box.
—Dallas Morning News
6 I Say, What 9
Now it is a safe bet that if you have a son in high
school and suggest to him that he carry an umbrella to school
on the next rainy morning—if one ever comes—he’ll look at
you as though you are insane.
However, a few days ago, a student wrote home asking
if he might buy one. “It rains a lot up here,” he explained.
Fancy, on the other hand, his reaction to the suggestion
a year ago, if his parents had said: “It’s raining outside
today.”
Well, a man changes. And the college campus trend
toward umbrellas is a sign that education is doing more for
kids all the time. It hasn’t been long since a lad would go
forth bareheaded into a cloud burst, but wearing a rain coat
that allowed the water to trickle down his neck.
With the umbrella fad underway I visualize some mirks
from the rugged types at Texas A&M. Robstown haber
dashers, be prepared! RHS freshmen fall in line!
—The Robstown Record
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Celanese Chemical Co.—Chem
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M.S.).
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and government, industrial tech
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Sound Off-
Editor,
The Battalion:
In partial reply to a letter in
“Sound Off” Tuesday, I would
like to inform Mr. Tim O’Neil
that the civilian students at
President Rudder’s testimonial
dinner in Dallas were asked to
stand and be recognized. I know
because I was there.
As far as recognition of civil
ian students on the campus goes,
look back four or five years. At
this time the word “non-reg”
was spoken with a great deal of
distaste. The civilian students
have come a long way since then
and by continuing to work in
harmony with the Corps we can
go a lot farther.
Since your class number indi
cates you haven’t been here very
long I’m telling you this, Mr.
O’Neil, so that you may have a
little clearer picture of civilian
student standing on the campus.
Hank Farrow, ’61
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