THE BATTALION
Pag-e 2
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, December 5, 1961
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
It’s Far You, Tool
Contrary to popular belief among much of the student
body, The Student Conference On National Affairs is NOT
an elite organization designed to hold conferences only for
students of other schools.
Every single student at A&M College has the right,
privilege and opportunity to participate in this year’s con
ference !
In the past, lack of interest on the part of the student
body toward SCONA plenary sessions has been attributed
to various causes. Some say the majority of students at A&M
just simply aren’t interested in governmental affairs and in
ternational relations.
However, any student taking the slight trouble and ef
fort to discover what SCONA VII has to offer him would
find a wealth of opportunity opening tomorrow afternoon.
Besides the plenary sessions, featuring top speakers of
note a second and possibly even greater opportunity for
learning is available to all students during the conference:
the right to sit in on any round-table discussion group, any
time during the conference.
Here, the true core of the conference can be seen mani
fest in the expression of multiple ideas from a full cross-
section of students representing three countries.
Because of the value to students held by the plenary
sessions and roundtable discussions, some professors are
excusing their classes to attend the events.
No, SCONA VII isn’t just for a select group of students
and faculty receiving formal invitations to attend; it is for
all students, that they might broaden their scope of knowl
edge about national and international conditions and issues
today.
Those who take advantage of the opportunities it offers
should hold no regrets when conference time ends.
Job Calls
The following firms will inter
view seniors in the Placement
Office of the YMCA Building:
Bulletin Board
“Atta’ way to get in there and block those punts, fish
Squirt!”
Sound Off
YRs Explain Their
GOP Conservatism
Editor,
The Battalion:
We feel that citizens of the
United States, in order to pre
serve representative government,
need to be more vitally con
cerned with political questions.
So that you, the reader of this
newspaper, may know our posi
tion we offer this for your con
sideration.
If you believe that govern
ment spending is the answer to
all of our problems, then we are
not with you.
If you are not interested in
constitutional government and
private enterprise or the two-
party system, or if you favor
more government controls, fed
eral aid to education, then we
are not with you.
In foreign affairs, if you
would have Outer Mongolia or
Red China admitted to the United
Nations ... if you thing we can
tolerate Fidel Castro and his
communist masters on our door
step and prefer peace at any
price . . . then don’t join us.
On the other hand, if you be
lieve in peace with justice, strong
national security, a much firmer
stand in Cuba and financial in
tegrity in government, then we
are for you.
If you believe that the first
function of a good government
is to protect the liberty of the
individual citizen—not to take it
away—then you believe as we
do.
We believe that ours is a con
stitutional government and the
Congress of the United States
is a powerful branch of this gov
ernment—in many ways more
powerful than the executive
branch. This is all the more
reason to select the members of
Congress with extereme care and
deliberation. Each candidate’s
Aggie Talent Show
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Thursday, Dec. 14th, At 8 p. m.
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BOB SLOAN EDITOR
Tommy Holbein Managing Editor
Larry Smith Sports Editor
Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman, Robbie D. Godwin News Editors
Sylvia Ann Bookman Society Editor
Ronnie Fann, Gerry Brown Staff Writers
views on public education, fiscal
policy, medical care, agriculture,
juvenile delinquency, racial and
religious relations and scores of
other pressing problems must be
examined.
It is often said that “Con
servatives” are against progress.
This is utter nonsense and the
“Liberals” know it. We are con
servative because we know the
only sure way to get better
schools, better health, better
wages—all the things Ameri
cans want—is through the dili
gent application of conservative
principles which bring out the
best in people—instead of sur
rendering their responsibility—
and finally, their freedom, to a
government way up in Washing
ton, D.C.—this is our kind of
conservatism.
Texas A&M Young
Republicans’ Club
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Answer To YRs:
Be Specific!
Editor,
The Battalion:
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Texas A&M Young Republicans’
Club have presented the readers
of The Battalion with a typical
politician type series of ringing
generalities that sound just dan
dy, but in reality stand for very
little that would enlighten the
reader as to what the Republican
party would actually do when
confronted with our nation’s un
ending stream of governmental
problems.
Of late, it appears that the
Republicans have confined their
“doings” to obstruction and criti
cism of the Kennedy administra
tion that is now introducing
some new ideas and changes in
hopes that these reforms will
cure some of the weaknesses
of our system that are resulting
from antiquated policies and in
stitutions of the past.
I believe that rather than try
ing to woo the reader of this
newspaper with phrases that are
obvious necessities for the suc
cess of any American political
party (not just the Republicans),
the Texas A&M Young Republi
cans should explain to the read
ers what programs they plan to
institute to preserve these funda
mental necessities and exactly
how these programs differ from
the policies now being practiced
by the Democratic party.
James L. Long, ’62
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with Diane McBain
Plus
“THE 39 STEPS”
with Kenneth More
CIRCLE
LAST NITE 1st Show 6:45
“CIMARRON”
(In Color)
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In
‘SQUARE JUNGLE’
Professional Societies
Student Chapter of the AIIE
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
3-C, Memorial Student Center.
William Richard, industrial en
gineer for Gulf States Utilities,
will speak on “Industrial Engi
neering in the Utility Industry.”
Industrial Education Society
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room
107, Industrial Education Build
ing.
Student Chapter of the Amer
ican Meteorological Society will
meet at 7:15 p.m. in Room 306,
Goodwin Hall. Program will be
a review of two papers given at
the recent Radar Meteorology
Conference at Kansas City.
PALACE
Bryan Z-SS79
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Wednesday
Texas Power and Light Co.—
Electrical engineering (B.S.),
business administration (B.B.A.,
M.B.A.), mathematics and eco
nomics (B.A., M.A.).
Data - Design Laboratories —
Electrical engineering with
strength in electronics (B.S.).
Kordite Co. — Electrical and
mechanical engineering.
Wednesday and Thursday
United States Civil Service
Commission — Accounting, busi
ness administration, agricultural
economics, agricultural education,
agricultural engineering, agron
omy, animal husbandry, range
and forestry, wildlife manage-
•ment; aeronautical, chemical, tii
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trial, mechanical and petroie®
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mathematics, physics and ea
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agricultural engineering, agroi
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range and forestry.
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ministration — Agricultural eo
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bandry, dairy husbandry, hori
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On Campus
With
MaxQhulm
(Author of “Rally Round The Flay, Boys”, “The, Many j
Loves of Dohie Gillis”, etc.)
"HAPPINESS CAN’T BUY MONEY”
I have asked the makers of Marlboro—an enterprising and
aggressive group of men; yet at the same time warm and lovable;
though not without acumen, perspicacity, and drive; which does
not, however, mask their essential great-heartedness; a quality
evident to all who have ever enjoyed the beneficence of their
wares; I refer, of course, to Marlboro Cigarettes, a smoke
fashioned with such loving care and tipped with such an easy-
drawing filter that these old eyes grow misty when I think upon
it—I have asked, I say, the makers of Marlboro—that aggregate
of shrewd but kindly tobacconists, that cluster of hearty souls
bound together by the profit motive and an unflagging deter
mination to provide a cigarette forever Jlavorful and eternally
pleasing—I have asked, I say, the makers of Marlboro whether
I might use today’s column to take up the controversial question:
Should a coed share expenses on a date ?
“Yes,” said the makers simply. We all shook hands then and
squeezed each other’s shoulders and exchanged brave smiles,
and if our eyes were a trifle moist, who can blame us?
To the topic then: Should a coed share expenses on a date?
I think I can best answer the question by citing the following
typical case:
Poseidon Nebenzal, a student at Oklahoma A and M, major
ing in hides and tallow, fell wildly in love with Mary Ellen
Flange, a flax weevil major at the same school. His love, he had
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maidenly blushes, was not entirely unrequited, and by and by he
mustered up enough courage to ask her the all-important
question: “Will you wear my 4-H pin?”
“Yes,” she said simply. They shook hands then and squeezed
each other’s shoulders and exchanged brave smiles, and if their
eyes were a trifle moist, who can blame them?
For a time things went swimmingly. Then a cloud appeared.
Mary Ellen, it seems, was a rich girl and accustomed to costly
pleasures. Poseidon was bone-poor and he quickly ran out of
money. Unable to take Mary Ellen to the posh places she
fancied and too proud to tell her the reason, he turned surly and
full of melancholy. Soon their rony*nce, so promising at the
beginning, was headed for a breakup. But at the last moment,
Poseidon managed to blurt out the truth.
“Oh, beloved agrarian!” cried Mary Ellen, grappling him
close. “Oh, proud husbandman! Oh, foolish reaper! Why have
you not told me before? I have plenty of money, and I will
contribute according to my ability.”
Poseidon, of course, protested, but she finally persuaded him
of the wisdom of her course. From then on they split all expenses
according to their incomes. Rather than embarrass Poseidon by
handing him money in public, a joint bank account was set up
to allow him to write checks. Into this account each week they
faithfully deposited their respective allowances—35 cents from
Poseidon; $2300 from Mary Ellen.
And it worked fine! They were happy—truly happy! And
what’s more, when they graduated they had a nice little nest
egg—eight million dollars—with which to furnish a lovely
apartment Sn Lubbock, Texas, where today they operate the
local laundromat.
So you see? You too can salvage your failing romance if you
will only adopt a healthy, sensible attitude toward money.
© 1961 MaxShuIman
Lucre is no obstacle when it comes to popular-priced
Marlboro, or to Marlboro’s popularly priced partner in
pleasure—the unfiltered, king-size Philip Morris
Commander. Get aboard. You’ll tind long enjoyment for
short money.
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