THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, November 14, 1961
BATTALION EDITORIALS
GUEST EDITORIALS
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If the United States Travel Service still finds the going
a bit rough in promoting foreign travel in this country, it is
undeniably making some progress. This is still largely a low
gear operation, but enough tangible success has been reported
to warrant optimism of better future results.
All-out encouragement of foreign travel in the United
States is a new government venture. It is a business opera
tion with a number of built-in handicaps. They can be sum
med up in two words: Cost and convenience. Europeans like
to travel. They do travel. But they tend to think more than
once before investing in a trip to the United States. The cost
of ship or air transportation is the large consideration. Once
in this country they are faced with the additional cost of
hotel, meals and bus, air or train travel. Many Europeans
can afford this. Those in this class spent $1 Billion in this
country in 1960.
One objective of the government’s travel program is to
increase the number of foreign tourists to close the gap
between the $1 Billion spent here.last'year and the more than
$2 Billion spent by American citizens traveling abroad. The
prospective foreign traveler must be offered a travel package
within his means. This is not easy. Nevertheless, something
is being accomplished.
Two American bus lines have offered foreigners 99 days
of unlimited travel in the United States for the equivalent of
$99. No one can quarrel with the cheapness of this package
at $1 a day. The snag is that the foreigner must add to this
the cost of an airline flight. This produces another obstacle.
The 17-day airline excursion rate is $350. The time limiation
obviously cancels the advantage of the 99-day bus transpor
tation package. However, travel interests, both private and
government, believe a solution to the problem can be found.
Certainly, it will have to be, if there is to be any worthwhile
stimulation of tourism in this country.
On the score of convenience some recent experiences of
foreign tourists emphasize the importance of languages. A
group of 400 Swiss reported a bang-up time in various areas
of the country. Their sole complaint concerned the nuisance
of having everything translated for them on sightseeing
buses. The problem is not so acute in metropolitan centers
where foreign language speakers can be found. But when
foreigners move into the interior of the country, unless they
are accompanied by a guide who speaks one or two European
languages, the handicap is a very real one.
—Houston Post
Automation
Grocery check-out clerks may declare Nov. 3 an annual
holiday. On that date it was announced that an engineer has
invented a device that automatically counts trading stamps
and hands them to customers with each supermarket pur
chase. The machines are connected to cash registers by elec
tric cable, and the first units are expected to appear soon.
Whate next, as technology continues its headlong plunge?
One dreams of a machine that would automate the sticky
chore of pasting trading stamps into books for redemption.
Such stamps as can Jbe sorted out after a search through
kitchen drawers and cabinets, that is.
—Dallas Morning News
McCarty Jewelers
North Gate
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BOB SLOAN EDITOR
Tommy Holbein Managing: Editor
Larry Smith Sports Editor
Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman News Editors
Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Job Calls
The following firms will inter
view seniors in the Placement
Office in the YMCA Building:
Wednesday
Arthur Anderson and Co.—
Accounting (all degree levels).
American Cyanamid Co.—
Chemical engineering (all degree
levels) and chemistry (M.S.,
Ph.D.).
California Oil Co., Western
Division—Chemical, civil, mech-
ical and petroleum engineering
(B.S., M.S.), geology and geo
logical engineering (M.S., Ph.D.).
Schlumberger Well Surveying
Corp. — Electrical engineering
(B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), geology, geo
physics, physics, and geological,
mechanical and petroleum engi
neering (B.S.).
Schlumberger Well Surveying
Corp., Overseas—Electrical engi
neering (B.S., M.S.).
U. S. Army Engineering Dis
trict—Civil, electrical and me
chanical engineering (B.S., M.S.).
Internal Revenue Service, U. S.
Treasury Department —- Account
ing.
The California Co.—Chemical,
civil, electrical, mechanical and
petroleum engineering (B.S.,
M.S.).
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“Gettin’ about time to start on th’ bonfire!”
Sound Off-
Editor,
The Battalion:
Your article in the Tuesday,
Nov. 7, Battalion describes work
on the outdoor pool and states
that the pool “will probably be
come one of A&M’s most popular
facilities.”
This may or may not be true,
but your article does not fully
describe the loss of what was, in
fact, one of A&M’s most popular
facilities. To provide room for
the outdoor pool, the handball
courts were torn down. Thus all
the sections of physical training
in handball had to be canceled
for lack of facilities, the entire
intramural handball program was
Canceled for lack of facilities,
there is no means of training a
handball team to compete in
extramural activities (including
the National Collegiate Handball
Tournament held annually), and
all individuals interested in play
ing handball for exercise or sport
are deprived of the opportunity
unless they wish to drive 100
or so miles to the nearest hand
ball courts available.
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Anyone using the old courts
would readily admit they were
not of the best quality, but they
were considerably better than
what is available now. To attest
the popularity of the courts, one
has only to compare the records
of the use of the handball courts
and the use of the gymnasium
swimming pool for the past sev
eral years.
The new pool will probably be
all your article states, but in
attaining this duplication of fa
cilities the .athletic prog-ram at
A&M has been seriously de
terred.
Loyd Hampton
Apt. 1-B, Project House
Wee Aggies
Four future Aggies and nine
Aggie dates were born at St.
Joseph hospital last week.
Twin girls to Mr. and Mrs.
James L. Struthwolf, C-5-Z Col
lege View.
Boy to Mr. and Mrs. W. Read,
V-2-F Hensel.
Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Delivan, C-15-Z College View.
Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Briggs, 100 Carl Street.
Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Rudsill, 803 Oak Drive, Bryan.
Boy to Mr. and Mrs. Neal
Hitchcock, B-ll-C College View.
Boy to Mr. and Mrs. Jerrel
Jones, 805 W. 27th, Bryan.
Girl to Captain and Mrs. J. C.
Dimski, 400 Olive Street, Bryan.
Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Morris, D-8-C College View.
Boy to Mr. and Mrs. John
Edwards, A-10-B College View.
Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Thomas, D-5-Y College View.
Girl to Mr. and Mrs. Haskell
Monroe, 503 Bulletin Avenue.
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Wherever you may be on the
Thanksgiving Holidays be sure to
see the exciting Limeliters.
Here’s where you can see The
Limeliters in person:
Austin Municipal Auditorium
Wed., Nov. 22nd
Dallas State Fair Music Hall
Fri., Nov. 24th
Houston Music Hall
Sat., Nov. 25th
FOLK ra/O v -
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Wednesday and Thursday
Ingersoll-Rand Co.—Chemical,
civil, electrical, industrial, and
petroleum engineering; chemistry
and physics (B.S.), and mechan
ical engineering (B.S., M.S.,
Ph.D.).
Wednesday-Friday
Central Intelligence Agency—
Agricultural, aeronautical, chem
ical, electrical, industrial, me
chanical, nuclear and petroleum
engineering; entomology, ac
counting, chemistry, English, his
tory, mathematics, modern lan
guages, oceanography and meteo
rology, physics, geology, geo
physics, and industrial tech
nology (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.).
Bulletin Board
Professional Clubs
Spanish Club will meet at
p.m. in Room 128, Academii
Building.
Health and Physical Educatioi
Club will hear Robert L. Hun
Jr., head of the Century Studj
program, in Room 231, G. Rollii
White Coliseum at 7:30 p.m.
Marketing Society will heai
Donald M. Stott, a divisioaa
merchandise manager wit)
Foley’s of Houston, in Room
2-A and 2-B, Memorial Student
Center at 7:30 p.m.
RICHMOND, Va. <#>—A nen
firm with the down-to-earth jiami
of Dirt, Inc., has been chartera
in Virginia. It will have its offi«
at Woodridge and will lease lani
as a dumping area for fill dirt.
On Campus
with
MaxMman
(Author of "I Was a Teen-age Dwarf", "The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis", etc.)
SAIL ON, SAIL ON!
I suppose October 12 is just another day to you. You get up in
the ordinary way and do all the ordinary things you ordinarily
do. You have your breakfast, you walk your ocelot, you go to
classes, you write home for money, you burn the dean in effigy,
you watph Howdy-Doody, and you go to bed. And do you give
one little thought to the fact that October 12 is Columbus
Day? No, you do not.
Nobody thinks about Columbus these days. Let us, there
fore, pause for a moment and retell his ever-glorious, endlessly
stirring saga.
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa on August 25,1451.
His father, Ralph T. Columbus, was in the three-minute auto
wash game. His mother, Eleanor (Swifty) Columbus, was a
sprinter. Christopher was an only child, except for his four
brothers and eight sisters. With his father busy all day at the
auto wash and his mother constantly away at track meets,
young Columbus was left pretty much to his own devices.
However, the lad did not sulk or brood. He was an avid reader
and spent all his waking hours immersed in a book. Unfortu
nately, there was only one book in Genoa at the time—Cure of
the Horse by Aristotle—and after several years of reading Care
of the Horse, Columbus grew restless. So when rumor reached
him that there was another book in Barcelona, off he ran as
fast as his fat little legs would carry him.
The rumor, alas, proved false. The only book in Barcelona
was Cuidar un Caballo by Aristotle, which proved to be nothing
more than a Spanish translation of Care of the Horse.
Bitterly disappointed, Columbus began to dream of going
to India where, according to legend, there were thousands of
books. But the only way to go to India was on horseback, and
after so many years of reading Care of the Horse, Columbus
never wanted to clap eyes on a horse again. Then a new thought
struck him: ]>erhaps it was possible to get to India by sea!
Fired with his revolutionary new idea, Columbus raced to
the court of Ferdinand and Isabella on his little fat legs (Colum
bus, though six feet tall, was plagued with little fat legs all his
life) and pleaded his case with such fervor that the rulers were
persuaded.
On October 12, 1492, Columbus set foot on the New World.
The following year he returned to Spain with a cargo of wonders
never before seen in Europe—spices and metals and plants and
flowers and—most wondrous of all—tobacco! Oh, what a sensa
tion tobacco caused in Europe! The filter had long since been
invented (by Aristotle, curiously enough) but nobody knew
what to do with it. Now Columbus, the Great Discoverer,
nfade still another great.discovery: he took a filter, put tobacco
in front of it, and invented the world’s first filter cigarette!
Through the centuries filters have been steadily improved
and so has tobacco, until today we have achieved the ultimate
in the filter cigarette—Marlboro, of course! Oh, what a piece
of work is Marlboro! Great tobacco, great filter, great smoke!
And so, good friends, when next you enjoy a fine Marlboro
Cigarette, give a thought to the plucky Genoese, Christopher
Columbus, whose vision and perseverance made the whole
lovely thing possible. © mi Maishuim»«
And thank Columbus too for the king-size Philip Morris
Commander. If unfiltered cigarettes are your choice, you’ll
hnd Commander the choice of the unhltered. Welcome
aboard.
PEANUTS
LAST NI6MT HE
ROLLED A 102
102?! NO WONDER
HE'S DISC00RA6ED..
By Charles M. Schulx
THAIS NOT A 0OUJLINS SCORE,
THATS A TEMPERATURE f
All of earths creatures
HAVE, HIDDEN WITHIN THEIR
BEINGS, A WILD UNCONTROLLABLE
URGE TO PUNT i
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