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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 14, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
U. N. QUESTION
To Buy Or Not?
(Editor’s note: A more con
troversial organization than the
United Nations would be hard
to find. Particularly with Pres
ident Kennedy’s request that
Congress buy $100 million in
U.N. bonds to get the world or
ganization back on sound finan
cial ground have the arguments
grown both loud and long.
On the one side, critics claim
the United States, almost single-
handedly, is supporting an un
thankful stepchild. Some go as
far as to call the U.N. a “key
tool of the Communists.” Others
merely point to the seemingly
unfair practice of giving large,
wealthy countries such as the
U.S. no more vote than the poor
er underdeveloped countries.
Others praise the United Na
tions, calling it the “best hope
for the continued existence of the
human race.” They point out
that without the U.N., “brush
fire” wars and “police actions”
in such world troubles spots as
Korea, Laos and the Congo
might flare up into World War
III.
The answer to the question,
“What if there were no U.N.?”
may come soon with the decision
of the Congress to accept or re
ject the President’s request to
buy the U.N. bonds. In the fol
lowing article. Associated Press
writer William N. Oatis explains
the United States’ past role in
U.N. finances.)
By WILLIAM N. OATIS
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
The United States has supplied
almost half the money the United
Nations and related agencies
have spent since 1945.
Critics of the United Nations
or its financing are asking how
long this can continue. On the
other hand, U.N. supporters call
the total U.N. expenses a minor
thing compared to what the
United States itself spends on
its own far-ranging activities in
a single year.
U.S. congressmen are getting
both sides of the story as they
study U.N. spending in the light
of a proposal from President
Kennedy for some extraordinary
U.S. spending on the United Na
tions.
He wants Congress to approp
riate $100 million to buy half the
bonds the LTnited Nations seeks
to sell to get out of the red. It
is an item in the budget the
President submitted Jan. 18.
That budget calls for the United
States to spend $92.53 billion for
everything in the financial year
starting next July 1.
The spending of the United
Nations, its specialized agencies
and its aid and peace-keeping
operations has totaled $3.43 bil
lion for the years 1946-61. Of
that, the United States has con
tributed $1,617 billion, or 47 per
cent.
It has contributed $256 million
of annual budgets of the United
Nations totaling $784 million,
and $168.6 million of annual bud
gets of nine specialized agencies
totaling $594.12 million.
In addition the United States
has given $1.03 billion of the
$1.75 billion spent through the
years by U.N. programs depend
ing on voluntary governmental
contribution—m a i n 1 y technical
assistance and refugee relief.
It has paid $52 million of the
$110.87 million laid out since 1956
on the U.N. force in the Middle
East and $77.47 million of the
$160 million laid out since mid-
1960 on the U.N. force in the
Congo. It has also given $28.5
million of the $37 millions gov
ernments have contributed to a
voluntary economic fund for the
Congo.
The military operations have
put the United Nations in debt.
All 104 U.N. members are as
sessed to pay for them, but only
about 40 of the members pay for
the Middle-East force and only
about 35 for the Congo force.
At the end of 1961 the non
payers owed the United Nations
$80.77 million. The United Na
tions owed governments, private
firms and its own funds $113.9
million that it had no cash to
cover. Of this deficit, $100 mil
lion was on account of the two
military operations.
U.N. members were 86 per
cent paid up on their assessments
for the 1961 regular budget. But
they wei’e paid up only 72 per
cent on their Middle-East and 65
per cent on their Congo assess
ments for that year.
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Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
With due respect, I beg to for
ward these few lines of mine and
I have much faith in you that
you will help me to publish my
name and my address in your
newspaper.
For your information, I am an
African boy; western part of Af
rica. I am 18 years of age and
five feet six inches tall.
I am seeking for pen pal in
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some things found in West Af
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what you can get from us are
ebony carved in shape of human
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stick, ebony daggers, ebony can
dle holders, handbags, slippers
for women and girls, wallets, ti
ger skin, leopard skin, snake
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And what I want in exchange are
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khaki jeans, shoes, cameras,
socks, belts, underwear, and other
items.
I will appreciate letters fi’om
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Yaba Estate
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B.W.A
(Editor’s note: Another letter,
almost identical in wording, was
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unmi, One Akintan Street, Mu-
shin.” No further address.)
How To Lie
With Statistics
AUSTIN (A 1 *—you can prove
anything with statistics and
Texas politicians are proving it.
Texas’ public school system, a
favorite topic for campaigning
politicians, has been pictured as
all the way from third to 48th
in the nation—and statistically
they both are correct.
It all depends upon what as
pect of Texas education is com
pared with other states.
Texas is 30th in state expen
ditures per pupil on the basis of
average daily attendance, but
3rd in actual size, number of full
time pupils in public elementary
and secondary schools.
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DEFIES KHRUSHCHEV!
“You have poured dung over me,
Comrade Hoxha. One day you will
have to wash it off yourself.”
That’s what Khrushchev screamed,
they say, at the Red boss of Al
bania. In this week’s Post you'll
read why the smallest satellite
dares to defy the Kremlin. And how
Stalin’s ghost still rules this land.
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with
MaxShukl/i
(Author of “/ Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS COLDER
The academic world, as we all know, is loaded with dignity and
ethics, with lofty means and exalted ends, with truth and beauty.
In such a world a heinous thing like faculty raiding—colleges en
ticing teachers away from other colleges—is not even thinkable.
However, if the dean of one college happens—purely by
chance, mind you—to run into a professor from another college,
and the professor happens to remark—just in passing, mind you
—that he is discontented with his present position, why, what’s
wrong with the dean making the professor an offer? Like the
other afternoon, for instance, Dean Sigafoos of Gransmire
Polytech, finding himself in need of a refreshing cup of oolong,
dropped in quite by chance at the Discontented Professors
Exchange where he discovered Professor Stuneros from the
English Department of Kroveny A and M sitting over a pot of
lapsang soochong and shrieking “I Hate Kroveny A and M!”
Surely there was nothing improper in the dean saying to the
professor, “Leander, perhaps you’d like to come over to us. I
think you’ll find our shop A-OK.”
(It should be noted here that all English professors are named
Leander, just as all psychics professors are named Fred. All
sociology professors are, of course, named Myron, all veterinary
medicine professors are named Rover, and all German professors
are named Hansel and Gretel. All deans, are, of course, named
Attila.)
But I digress. Leander, the professor, has just been offered a
job by Attila, the dean, and he replies, “Thank you, but I
don’t think so.”
“And I don’t blame you,” says Attila, stoutly. “I under
stand Kroveny has a fine little library.”
“Well, it’s not too bad,” says Leander. “We have 28 volumes
in all, including a mint copy of Nancy Drew, Girl Detective.”
“Very impressive,” says Attila. “Us now, wc have 36 million
volumes, including all of Shakespeare’s first folios and the Dead
Sea Scrolls.”
“Golly whiskers,” says Leander.
“But of course,” says Attila, “you don’t want to leave
Kroveny where, I am told, working conditions arc tickety-boo.”
“Oh, they’re not too bad,” says Leander. “I teach 18 hours
of English, 11 hours of optometry, 6 hours of forestry, coach the
fencing team, and walk Proxy’s cat twice a day.”
“A full, rich life,” says Attila. “At our school you’d be some
what less active. You’d teach one class a week, limited to four A
students. As to salary, you’d start at $50,000 a year, with
retirement at full pay upon reaching age 29.”
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“Sir,” says Leander, “your offer is most fair but you must
understand that I owe a certain loyalty to Kroveny.”
“I not only understand, I applaud,” says Attila. “But before
you make a final decision, let me tell you one thing more. We
supply Marlboro cigarettes to our faculty—all you want at all
times.”
“Gloryosky!” cries Leander, bounding to his feet. “You mean
Marlboro, the filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste—
Marlboro, the cigarette with better makin’s — Marlboro that
comes to you in pack or box—Marlboro that gives you such a
lot to like?”
“Yep,” says Attila, “that’s the Marlboro I mean.”
“I am yours,” cries Leander, wringing the Dean’s hand.
“Where do I sign?”
“At the quarry,” replies Attila. “Frankly, we don't trust
paper contracts any more. We chisel them in marble.”
* * * © 1962 Max Shulman
Stonecutters cut it in stone, woodcutters cut it in wood,
seamstresses embroider it in doilies: you get a lot to like
in a Marlboro—filter, flavor, pack or box.