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■ ■ ■■;' • r . •" • . "• . •' /. ■ ; ; 7 f i'; ‘ Center” for ugeot r Can -Senict 'oreipi Ci TA U imuuui nvicii iDS ml A&M POLITICAL CLUBS Conservative Club Serves In Educational Capacity ™l !L By TOMMY HOLBEIN Battalion Manapins Editor Editor’s note: Thas is the last in a series of articles concerning political clubs with which stu dents at A&M are affiliated. Hav ing covered the democratic and republican organizations, we turn now to a third group, the A&M Conservative Club. Serving completely in an edu cational capacity, and laying solid foundations in conservative think ing among students, the A&M Conservative Club has been func tioning on the campus since the beginning of the fall semester. Headed by Doug Cherry, its membership is composed of both democratic and republican conser vatives. Many of these are also members of their own respective political organizations. With about 40 members, the club holds meetings on the first and third Mondays of each month in the Memorial Student Center. Meetings include regular business followed by speakers of general interest to the group. Last week, Dr. Alfred F. Chalk, head of the Department of Eco nomics, spoke on the “Common Market,” presenting a philosophi cal approach to the controversial topic. His address drew approxi mately 60 students and faculty members. “The basic difference between our organization and the other two major student political clubs is that they are dedicated to poli tical action, where we are in formative in purpose. “We feel that we can provide a basis of thought for later con servative action, but our present goal is to provide and stimulate conservative thinking,” Cherry said. The conservative club is the first student organization on the cam pus ever to begin a literary per iodical publication, sponsored by private solitication among inter- Doug Cherry . . . heads conservatives ested contributors within a 300- mile radius of the college. Entitled “Viewpoint,” the first issue will be “off the press” in March, and it is planned that the magazine be published twice a semester. It will contain interpre tative political writing by stu dents at A&M and other schools. For example, the first issue will carry an article by the president of the senior class at Georgia Tech. Other contents will include reprints of conservative thought pieces, cartoons and political sa tire. Circulation for “Viewpoint” will encompass 150 colleges in the United States, and it will be cir culated in five foreign countries. The magazine will be available on newstands in the Bryan-College Station area soon after publica tion. Other efforts of the A&M Con servative club will be seen in coming weeks with conservative literature made available at Shaf fer’s Book Store, the Exchange Store and at Loupots. Consera- tive reading table's will be set up in the Browsing Library of the Memorial Student Center, and also in Cushing Memoi'ial Library. Making available this literature to students, and encouraging its reading is one way to reach the public with conservative ideals,” Cherry said. “We can provide a means by which students who de sire supplementary literature on consei-vative thought can obtain it, through us,” he added. According to Cherry, the A&M Conservative Club “promotes re sistance against attack on the American Republic from two fronts; Communism and centraliz ed government.” He continues in a brief out line of the organization’s purpose: “Communism threatens to des troy the moral foundations of our great country. The United States is attempting to deal with an immoral group using moral meth ods. We must wake up and realize that the United States is involved in a war as i*eal as a shooting war. A “no-win” cold war stra tegy certainly can lead to no more than temporary safety. “Socialistic trends destroying individual initiative have become evident in the increasing cent ralization of our federal govern ment. The belief that the constitu tion is no longer a sound basis for our increasingly complex socie ty is false. Whether men are liv ing in caves or flying jet planes, the same principles of the free market economy, check and bal ance of power in government, so cial relationship and morality must prevail, or our civilization will stray from an orderly society re gulated by law to a society de pendent upon the judgement of whoever is in power. “As patriotic young Americans, we must recognize our duty to defend our Judeo-Christian ideolo gy presented to us in the Constitu tion as well as the rights guaran teed us by it. We are slowly losing our freedoms through apthy and complacency.” '* hi ' •' ‘ Si Humble to hold job interviews February 19-21 do you qualify? • Accounting, Business Administration, Mar keting, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical En gineering, Industrial Engineering, Electrical En gineering, Petroleum Engineering and Geologi cal Engineering majors (Bachelors’ or Masters’ degee level) graduating in 1962 will be inter viewed for permanent employment. To schedule an appointment with the inter viewing teams from the Southwest Region of Humble Oil & Refining Company, check now with your Placement Bureau. The interviews will be held on the campus. Humble is the largest domestic oil company in the United States, and is completely inte grated. Its opportunities for growth and ad vancement are unlimited. For a rewarding career in the petroleum industry, discuss your future with the South west Region interviewing team. A quick look at the Southwest region Area of Operation: Texas, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Washing ton, Oregon, Nevada and Oklahoma. Retail Sales: Texas, Nevada, California, New Mexico and Arizona. Leading Texas Marketer of gasoline. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY America's Leading ENergy COmpany On the Alert in South Viet Nam A U. S. Air Force gunner mans a machine gun poked through the open door of a helicopter during a mission flown by the U. S. Air Force in South Viet Nam. Two U. S. Army air support companies have arrived in South Viet Nam, bringing the total to about 4,000 U. S. service person nel stationed there to aid in the jungle war against Com munist guerillas. (AP Wirephoto) Read Battalion Classifieds THE BATTALION Thursday, February 15, 1962 College Station, Texas Page 3 READ BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS eusam TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE ! NEW’62 CELEBRITY NYLON EXTRfll RIDE THE KELLY mm KELLY JOE FAULK AUTO 220 E. 25th TA 2-1669 YOUR KELLY CAR SAFETY CENTER Anniversary Sale! 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