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THE BATTALIOlN
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 4, 1962
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Civilian Interest
It is highly possible that this year’s rapidly approaching
student elections may prove to be some of the liveliest con
tests ever to hit the campus if a group known as the Civilian
Student Government Interest Committee has anything to say
about it.
Recently organized, this committee is the brain child of
a number of Civilian Student Council officers and members
who through it, hope to arouse the interest of civilian stu
dents in participating in student government.
One of the primary goals of this group is to urge civilian
students to run for positions in the upcoming elections. In
this way the committee hopes to gain more representative
voice of the civilian element on the campus in the student
affairs of the campus as a whole.
The committee points out that although the number of
civilian students, as a percentage of the total student body
has become very significant, its representation in student
government is out of proportion from a diminutive stand
point.
In looking ahead, a movement of this type, once out of
the foundling stages, could easily result in increased promo
tion of cooperation between various interests of the campus
in achieving goals necessary to bring about a better A&M.
In any case, it appears to represent one more step in the
direction of the objectives of student government; "To act
as the official voice of student government, to promote the
welfare of the student body and to provide opportunity to
train students in the responsibility and mechanics of demo
cratic government and citizenship.
G. B.
INTERPRETING
Red Ag Problem
Shows Elsewhere
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
American experts are now esti
mating that the general failure
of the Communist agricultural
system, worst in Red China but
prevalent throughout the bloc, is
having or will soon have an ef
fect on the bloc’s military posi
tion and influence on the out
side world.
Ways and means of turning the
non-Communist front in the cold
war are being considered. There
is also wonderment whether it
may produce desperation policies
in Moscow and Peiping.
The late Wendell Willkie once
remarked that the principal thing
wrong with communism was that
it wouldn’t work. Certainly it has
not worked with regard to agri
culture, and in industry Red Chi
na’s great leap forward has turn
ed out to be a few toddling steps.
In the Soviet too, the world is
beginning to realize that industri
alization may be more the prod
uct of natural 20th century grow- *
th in the footsteps of more mod
ern nations, rather than a result
of communism.
Despite all the bragging, the
Soviet economy is still under ex
treme ’ pressure because there is
more money than consumer goods
on which to spend it. The im
provements which appeared two
years ago have not kept pace, and
American visitors now call the
situation extremely drab.
Certainly it is a fact that in
the five years before World War
I Russian industrialization ad
vanced far more rapidly under
the czar than it does today. The
1909-14 gains, .produced in part
by an audience in liberal thought
regarding labor after the 1905
revolution, have been estimated
at 50 percent.
The idea that totalitarian gov
ernments could be put on the de
fensive with their own people
through offers of food gifts is
now getting greater attention.
George Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO, has suggested such
gifts through an organization
similar to the one which Her
bert Hoover established for Rus
sia after World War I,, super
vised by American relief teams.
He points out that by selling to
the dictators, as some of Ameri
ca’s Allies have been doing in
Red China, the governments are
permitted to make themselves
look good. They even indulge in
cheating their own hungry popu
lations by reshipments for politi
cal purposes, as has happened to
Canadian wheat sold to Red
China which turned up in Al
bania.
SHE'S COMING
TO THE M.S.C.
BALLROOM APRIL 6
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BOB SLOAN EDITOR
Tommy Holbein 1 Managing Editor
Larry Smith Sports Editor
Alan Payne, Ronnie Bookman, Robbie D. Godwin News Editors
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CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle ‘Prayer In SchooV
Case Is Heard
By Supreme Court
Sound O/y-'f
By PAUL M. YOST
WASHINGTON <A>) _ The Su
preme Court heard Tuesday an
attack on constitutionality of the
reciting daily of a 22-word prayer
in New York’s States public
schools.
Governor Candidates
Look For Primary Votes
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gubernatorial canditdates scur
ried through North and East
Texas Tuesday looking in every
nook and cranny for primary
election votes.
Democrats Will Wilson and
Marshall Formby were in East
Texas hunting support.
Formby advocated at Longview
that Texas build a psychopathic
hospital for the criminally insane.
From there he went on to Glade-
water Gilmer, Daingerfield and
Mount Pleasant.
Wilson spent Monday in Dallas
taping a 30-minute television
speech to be broadcast Tuesday
night. He spent all day Tuesday
on a series of talks and hand
shaking in the Tyler vicinity.
Republican Jack Cox and Dem
ocrat Don Yarborough were in
North TexaSi Cox spoke to pre
cinct workers in Dallas while
Yarborough made quick stops in
Commerce, Honey Grove, Bon
ham, Sherman and Denison.
Gov. Price Daniel took the day
off from campaigning to fly with
his wife to Corpus Christi to at
tend the funeral of their nephew,
Dudley Bryan Foy III. "G 16 three-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dud
ley Foy drowned Sunday. Mrs.
Foy is Mrs. Daniel’s sister.
John Connally started off the
week in touring industrial plants
in Hillsboro, but took his cam
paign to Beaumont luesday
where he stayed all day.
Edwin A. Walker left his cam
paigning behind to travel to
Washington for an appearance
before a Senate subcommittee
Wednesday. The former Army
general will testify on the so-
called “muzzling” of high mili
tary officers.
Counsel for five parents who
objected to the prayer argued
that the effect of the prayers
was to aid religion in violation of
the constitutional principle of
separation of church and state.
Opposing lawyers replied that
recognition of God in public pray
er is part of the national herti-
tage and that the Constitution’s
first amendment was intended to
prohibit a state religion but not
to prevent the growth of a re
ligious state.
The New York State Board of
Regents, governing body of the,
public school system, recommend
ed to local school boards that this
prayer be spoken daily in open
ing exercises: “Almighty God, we
acknowledge our dependence up
on Thee, and we beg Thy bless
ings upon us, our parents, our
teachers and our country.’
Two parents of the Jewish
faith, one member each of the
Unitarian Church and the Socie
ty for Ethical Culture and one
professed nonbeliever objected to
use of the prayer in schools at
tended by their .children in New
Hyde Park, N. Y.
WEDNESDAY THRU FRIDAY
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In the lieutenant governor’s
race:
Democrat Preston Smith and
Republican Bill Hayes spent the
day campaigning in Austin, while
Democrats Bob Baker and Jar-
rard Secrest both took their cam
paign to Galveston.
James A. Truman and Craw
ford Martin were in the northeast
part of the state with Martin
in Dallas and Tui’man in the
Sherman-Denison area.
Republican Kellis Dibrell met
with Republican leaders in Vic
toria.
They appealed to the Supreme
Court after New York State
courts ruled the use of the pray
er in school did not violate the
U. S. Constitution.
NO PATIENT IS HOPELESS:
me Menninger
approach to
mental illness
From all over America, mental pa
tients have pinned their last hopes
on the Menninger Clinic. In fact, it is
often considered the psychiatric
capital of the world. In this week’s
Saturday Evening Post, you’ll meet
the remarkable Menninger brothers.
Learn why they feel there is hope
even for psychotics. And read case
histories of some of their patients.
The Saturday Evening
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(Editor’s note: Filings for
class elections closed Tuesday
at 5 p.m. The election has been
scheduled for April 11 with
the run-off set for April 17.
(The Battalion will publish,
as space permits, letters from
candidates, provided the letters
are concise and neatly written.
Letters must be in the Batta
lion Office, Room 4, YMCA
Building, by 5 p.m. Thursday.)
Candidate Tells
Qualifications
Editor,
The Battalion:
I, Eddie Duncan, am a candi
date for vice president of the
Class of ’64. Having previous
leadership experience, I am a-
ware of the responsibilities of
this office and feel qualified to
accept them.
I will work with the president
of our fine class to overcome past
difficulties and make the ideas
and desires of the Class of '64
felt in the Student Senate, the
MSC Directorate, the Civilian
Student Council and the campus
in general.
I will act as a go-between for
the civilians and members of
the Corps to increase class unity
between these groups. I plan to
do this by promoting a more at
tractive and better itr
junior banquet and ball, ha
I believe the Class of’ft) E ac
become better acquaint^ A
its members. To this end, ]■ 1
gest more class meetings
fall picnic or barbecue. th
Our class needs unity,tH
guidance, more friendships,;]
er association, and therefortl
ing memories through theJ
emlships and associations,!
these ends I will present ni;|
and effort. |
Eddie Duncan ’B4 I
Candidate for
vice president
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A TOWN HALL PRESENTATION
HENRY L. SCOTT
Piano — Pantomime — Humor
Monday, April 9 and Tuesday, April 10
at
8 P. M. — GUION HALL
Admission: By Season Tickets or Student Activity Card
Tickets will only be sold at the door
Reserved $3.00 — GeneraT Admission $2.50
High School Students and Under $1.00
Doors Open At 7 P. M.
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By Charles M. Sctwii