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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 7, 1962
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
GUEST EDITORIAL
Students ’ Vote Criticized
(Editor’s Note)—Actually, the civilian—Corps student
ratio is almost even, and the Battalion did not sponsor the
straw vote.
In a commendable display of journalistic enterprise the
A&M College student newspaper, The Battalion, recently
conducted a straw poll of student sentiment on three issues
now topical at the school. The vote was of interest here
because there are probably more Aggie alumni in Metropoli
tan Houston than in any other spot on earth.
The students were asked if they would like to have
girls on the campus (coeducation), if they would like to do
away with compulsory military training, (no more reveille,
no more drill), and how they felt about changing “college”
in the school’s name to “university.”
Naturally they voted for girls and no drill. Given a chance
to vote, any regiment of the Army, Air Force, or Marine
Corps would have done the same. No need to hazard a guess
on how any Navy crew might have voted.
The students also favored the more prestigious “univer
sity” in place of “college,” a change which has been well
earned by A&M and is long overdue.
Tradition-imbued Aggie alumni throughout the length
and breadth of the land will certainly raise shocked laments
about the death of “the Aggie Spirit,” as reflected in the
vote on the first two issues.
Before the howls reach hurricane proportions it is well
to emphasize that on both issues the vote was close. Even
more to the point is the fact that an analysis of the vote
shows that nonmilitary students, of whom there are a relative
few at A&M, helped supply the majority on both.
We doubt if there has been any substantial erosion of the
famed Aggie spirit in the cadet corps itself. And we certainly
hope not. That spirit, acquired by Aggie freshmen when they
set foot on the campus and sustained by Aggie alumni forever
after, has made A&M unique, and an asset to Texas. Pride
in the school and its traditions ; pride in the cadet corps which
has furnished this nation’s armed forces more officers than
any other school in the country, including the service aca-
emies; pride in the high quality of the thousands of engineers
and agriculturists produced there, is shared by all Texans.
The Battalion-sponsored straw vote had some interesting
results but, after all, it has little real meaning. Any changes
in A&M policy still have to be determined by the board of
regents. And no doubt the regents will give more considera
tion to the matter than some of the students did.
Bond For Freedom Drim
“Somehow I feel my grades are going to hit an all-time
low this summer!”
The U. S. Treasury’s Freedom
Bond Drive in May and June is
the first nation-wide drive for
Savings Bonds since 1951, during
the fight against communist ag
gression in Korea. Why have
one now?
Certainly it isn’t due to any
lag in bond buying or holding.
In 1961, sales were up, redemp
tions down compared to 1960.
Holdings of Series E a n d H
bonds rpse by over a billion dol
lars. The amount outstanding—
some $44 Vz billion—is at an all-
time high. But the threat to the
free world needs no spelling out
today. More Savings Bond sales
are needed to help meet the
heavy cost of strengthening our
defenses, military and economic.
Selling Savings Bonds helps
our Treasury meet the mounting
costs of keeping the peace* in
way that also braces our econo
my against the strains that de
fense puffe upon it. In its job of
managing the debt, the govern
ment needs flexibility, and it
needs the stability provided by
widespread individual holdings of
its securities. Series E and H
bond holdings represent some 15
per cent of the total debt—a poi’-
tion which is anti-inflationary,
working to preserve the buying
power of all our dollars.
Buying these bonds also helps
morale by giving Americans who
are asking how they can help our
country, the opportunity to do
something effective in the cause
of freedom. The bond drives of
1942 - 45 certainly helped to
strengthen us in all these ways.
The billions of dollars put into
Savings Bonds in the past 21
years have greatly helped tt||
vent the boom and bust fagi
quepces produced by pastip
Fed into the economy since®
bond savings have benefited
people beyond measuring it
lars and in
ways.
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COLLEGE MASTE1
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There Is Basic Reason For
US High hiring Standards'
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Tom Harrover News-Editor
By E. B. GERMANY
Special to The Battalion
All of us know that Ameri
cans enjoy the highest standard
of living ever experienced by
any nation at any time in the
history of the world. We have
more conveniences, more work
saving machines, more fabulous
methods of transportation and
communication than have ever
before existed on the face of the
earth. ' *
All of us know these things,
but how many of us ever stopped
to think just why this is so ?
Few of us give much thought to
the reasons that the. United
States has made more mechani
cal and technical and scientific
progress within the past century
than entire civilizations made in
the thousand years preceding.
There is a reason, a yery basic
one, but one which is consistently
overlooked.
I read a little article the other
day in one of the reading rack
booklets that are distributed
down at the plant. It gives such
an effective illustration of this
simple truth that I want to pass
it along to you.
The article is called “Compe
tition Does It,” and is printed
from a booklet entitled “Select
ed Reading,” printed by the Na
tional Research Bureau.
It says, “Suppose, in the year
1861, you had been asked to
choose the easiest among the
following projects:
1. Deliver letters and pack
ages to the country’s population.
2. Deliver the human voice
around the earth in less than
onQ twenty-fifth of a second.
3. Deliver an event, like a
Shakesperian drama, into any
American living room, in motion
and color, at the time it is taking
place.
4. Deliver 115 individuals from
Los Angeles to Baltimore in
three hours and nineteen min
utes.
5. Design and build a horse
less carriage like the ones de
scribed in 1961 advertisements.
Which of the five would you
have chosen as the easiest to
accomplish? The first, for cer
tain. The other four would, in
1861, have been looked upon as
dreams of a Jules Verne. Yet a
century later, the last four are
so commonplace that we take
them for granted. Only the first
remains substantially as it was
a hundred years ago, inefficient
as always, and incurring a $2
million daily deficit!
Government planners have had
charge of the first. It is their
monopoly. Men acting competi
tively, cooperatively, voluntarily
— in economic freedom — have
wrought the four miracles and
countless thousands of others.”
So s it is competition and the
American free enterprise system
which it makes possible, that has
brought this land of ours the un
told riches, the unequalled com
forts and the wondei^ul life we
enjoy.
Competition has proved what
it can do for’ a country, when
allowed to function freely.
Future Plans, Law Should
Guide Young Job - Seekers
Future plans and federal law
should be the twin guides on
summer jobs for the host of
Texas youngsters who hit the
labor market as soon as schools
closed.
That’s the advice of Regional
Director William J. Rogers of
the U. S. Department of Labor’s
Wage and Hour and Public Con
tracts Divisions, the agency
which administers the Fair La
bor Standards Act and its child-
labor provisions.
“When looking for summer
employment, try to find a job
that will be of value in your fu
ture career, and be sure that it
is performed under conditions
not harmful to your health and
welfare,” he urges.
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