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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Thursday, June 21, 1962 BATTALION EDITORIALS Morrill Act Was Signed Almost 100 Years Ago Progress Project QUITO, Ecuador (IP)—Looking for a do-it-yourself Alliance for Progress project? There’s a ready-made one in Ecuador, and the cost is next to nothing—as much as the cost of a teacher’s desk or two, some textbooks, tablets and pencils and perhaps castoff children’s cloth ing. There are more. than 30 pri mary and high schools in Ecuador which bear North American names, simply because the local people wanted such names. They are not asking to be adopted. The thought has never occurred to them. But some U. S. citizens who have visited the schools think it might be a good idea. There is, for example, the John D. Rockefeller Primary School in Guayaquil. Paradoxically, it is probably the most impoverished little school in all Ecuador. Other schools are named Wash ington, Lincoln, Jefferson and for other U. S. heroes, all of them in need of simple equip ment, most of their young pupils in tattered rags. High in the Andes, about 10,000 feet above sea level, is a remote place—it could hardly be called a village—called La Paz del Rosal. It has a primary school which was built from nothing by the labor of the villagers them selves. They call it The School of the United States of North America. Lida Moscoso, 20 years old and a high school graduate, is the teacher in the one-room building made of adobe bricks. It has only the first and second grades. Miss Moscoso is a remarkable teacher, in one respect. She teaches reading and writing to 43 first graders and 43 second graders without benefit of text books, because there are no text books. A textbook would cost the child’s parents 10 sucres, which is the equivalent of 50 cents. But the average father in this com munity earns only 20 cents a day on a nearby hacienda, so buying books is out of the question. Miss Moscoso uses a black board. She puts it in the center of the room, to separate first and second graders. One class does its writing exercises on the board while the other recites lessons, and vice versa. On the law books of Ecuador it says that education is compulsory for all children. But that is only on the lawbooks. About 65 per cent of the people—almost half of all Ecuadoreans are of Indian stock—is illiterate. And to talk of schools in the remote fast nesses of the Andes is often to talk of impossibility. There are no schools, for one thing. For another, Indian families have all they can do to scratch out a meager living. But many crave education for their children, and the craving is strong enough in some areas to move them to action. That was the case in La Paz del Rosal, whose menfolk put up the school building in 1946. Their proudest boast now is that one of the pu pils of the school of the United States has gone as far as a colegio (high school) in Quito. That was achieved by his eight uncles, between them earning $1.60 a day, who hoarded their savings for his education and intend to send him on to the university. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent writers only. The Battalipn is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a journalism laboratory and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&.M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences ; Willard I. Truettner, School of Engineering; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agri culture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published In College Sta- cei and once a week during summer school. dent newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published In College don, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods. Septem her through May, The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter hara- in are also reserved. at College Station. MEMBER: The Associated Pre»* Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail All subsc: Address: subscriptions are $3.60 per semester; $6 per school year, sriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furn The Battalion. Room 4, YMCA Building. College Static: $6.60 per full year, ished on request. Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, YMCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6416. LARRY B. SMITH .. EDITOR CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Gov. Price Daniel of Texas has signed a proclamation declaring the 1961-62 academic year “suitable for the ob servance of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Land- Grant Act of 1862.” The Texas governor signed the papers in Austin Nov. 2 as college officials from Texas A&M and Prarie View A&M served as witnesses. Actual date of the signing of the Morrill Act, which pro vided for the establishment of the two Land-Grant schools, was July 2, 1862. Provision has been made for a national celebration of the Centennial by the United States Congress. “Texas has benefitted greatly from the educational programs and the training for citizenship and leadership in the development of agriculture and industry afforded stu dents by these institutions,” Gov. Daniel said, in signing the proclamation. Texas A&M, the state’s oldest tax-supported institution of higher education, was opened Oct. 4, 1876, as a land grant college on a 2,416 acre tract of land near Bryan. Since then, the 85-year-old institution has grown in physical size to 5,200 acres in Brazos County, 3,192 acres in adjoining Burleson County, and 411 in Kimble County for the Junction. The physical plant is valued now in excess of $47-million. Its fields of instruction not only includes agriculture and engineering but also liberal arts, science, teacher education, business administration and veterinary medicine. The college also offers an extensive graduate program. Prairie View A&M began operation March 11, 1878, when eight students were enrolled. Now in its 83rd year. Prairie View’s campus has grown from an original appropria tion of $20,000 to over $10-million in physical facilities. Enrollment at the school has shown a steady increase. At present, some 2,920 are enrolled. Both Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M are a part of the A&M College System. Other institutions and services that make up the A&M System are Arlington State at Arlington, Tarleton State at Stephenville, Agriculture Extension Service, Agriculture Ex periment Station, Engineering Experiment Station, Engineer ing Extension Service, Texas Transportation Institute, Texas Forestry Service and other services. HOWDY from PAR/S, FRANCE “ so he bought this tape recorder so he wouldn’t have td come to class!” Texas Say In Hep Has Spending By TEX EASLEY Associated Press Special Service Ecuador Has Real WASHINGTON (A>) _ Demo cratic Rep. George Mahon of Lubbock has a major say in the government’s spending of billions. As chairman of the House Ap propriations defense subcommit tee, he usually has the last word on the biggest single money bill that Congress considers. The money this measure appropriates amounts, in most recent instance, to about $50 billion for the year starting July 1. The tall and affable Mahon, who keeps trim and brown with an occasional game of golf, ranks second to Chairman Clarence Cannon, 83-year-oid Missouri Democrat, on the full Appropria tions committee. Generals and Admirals wearing two, three and even four stars, come almost meekly before Mahon and his subcommittee to plead for dollars. When the House passed a bill increasing the national debt ceil ing from 300 billion to 308 billion, Mahon voiced telling support for the measure. If Congress wants to do some thing about cutting down the nation’s debt, he declared, it should do it through reducing appropriations. Simply putting a debt ceiling at a lower level than the sum of appropriations would, in effect, empower the executive branch of the government to make the de cisions as to where programs be cut back, he argued. He also related that his sub committee had carefully de termined how much money the Defense Department should spend in the next fiscal year, and that if there was to be a cutback in defense pi’ograms it should be decreed by Congress and not the executive branch of government. Shortly after the house passed the debt ceiling bill President Kennedy phoned Mahon and thanked him for the help he had given in getting the measure through. Mahon said he told Kennedy he CITY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 348 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE QUESTION OF REZONING A STRIP OF LAND IN THE GORZYCKI ADDITION 115* X AP PROXIMATELY 1,400’ FROM DISTRICT NO. 2. SECOND DWELLING HOUSE DISTRICT, TO DISTRICT NO. 5, SECOND BUSINESS DISTRICT. BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas: WHEREAS, the City Zoning Commission after consideration has recommended the rezoning of certain areas of land herein after fully described : now therefore. It is hereby ordered that a public hear- ■ aMd ■ City Hall ing shall be held in the City at 7:00 p. m. on July 20, 1962, on the question of rezoning areas within the city limits as follows: 1. A 115’ strip of land in the Gorzycki Addition beginning at a point 175’ NE of the intersection of FM 60 and Meadow- land Street and paralleling Meadowland sion Street and extension Thereof in a NW ■ -— :r — - ,4,...... of approxim idai N lately ection for a 1,400’ to the A. & M. College property. ' Notice of said hearing shall be publish *in the official city newspaper at least fifteen days prior ' ” 1 —iring 'spapi _ id date of said public hea _ Passed and approved this the 15th day of June, 1962. APPROVED: s/Ernest Langford Mayor ATTEST: s/K. A- Manning City Secretary had been inclined at first to vote against the measure, but decided not to because of the importance of the defense money angle. He then urged the president to do his best in trying to bring about a reduction in the government’s non-defense expenditures. By J. DONALD DELIZ PARIS AT LAST Here we are in Paris whose nickname is “the City of Light.” Why? Well, I found out that in the Middle Ages the light was learning, and people came here for the university. Nowadays the light is “la dolce vita” (high liv- ing)—the night clubs and the sidewalk cafes. The weather has been surpris ingly mild with lots of rain, cool evenings and mornings. It doesn’t seem like summer at all. 1 was struck particularly by the misty mornings which are kind of poetic. The city takes on a strange glow. Everything seems bluish-gray. This is due to the fact that the buildings are made of a type of limestone which turns bluish-gray as it ages. I always had wondered what had become of “No Man’s Land” from World War I. Now I know, for I am living on it. In 1928, as a symbol for peace, the nations of the world built student dorms for their students attending the Sorbonne (The University of Pai’is) on it. Each nation has a dorm which is called a pavillion. This is a fancy name for dorms like those we have at A&M. The only dif ference is that here we have chambermaids and bedding is supplied. The most outstanding struc ture that one notices here is the 'Eiffel Tower which every tourist knows symbolizes Paris. It is eyecatching because it is so tall compared to all of the buildings which are all five or six stories sat there. I paid him. me thinking how strar; foreigners are, and then, myself. They are notfof”"^ yc high at the most. This in its day was like the Needle in the World’s Fair at Seattle, it was the symbol of an Exposition and today remains as just a tourist attraction. For about only twenty cents, you can take the elevator to the top where there is. a res taurant. The city lies under you like a land of dreams. It is so nice that I have met many people who are genuine Parisians there having dinner and taking in the view. Yesterday I was sitting in a park chair near the Champs- Elysees, a park-like boulevard. I was thinking to myself about how funny the streets look over here. You really don’t expect modern cars to be coming from them. Most of the streets are cobblestone and are very narrow. The ones that are wide are so wide that the tiny cars that they have here look silly on the wide streets. Then there are so many big town squares and famous churches that break up the order ly flow of traffic, that it makes a strange confusion for the I am. 1 went to the Gallerie' ette, a department store; town Paris. They call dt A 1 ' stores galleries, because 406 ' ‘ made up of many fbPu r P ( balconies which look doe 4041,11 1 main floor. T De l I saw a group of hat; 1 c f' 01 pers crowding around i 1 ^ 68 and my curiosity got tin me. I pushed and sk inc ^ '■ the best of t hem, and w!f£ S ' H ’' to the counter I saw if aI P’ were selling. It wase^ 0 ' 14 ' leather luggage import! a-Ttl - the United States. Igii n * I f a ^ like imported things too. ons( 1 n jfeit. When Fire Tools, Ws stranger who is just observing. You really expect Marie An toinette to come down them in a tumbril or something like that. Suddenly I was disturbed in my musing by a fellow in a uni form coat with a badge. He asked me for fifty centimes (about two cents) for sitting in the chair. I was going to refuse, but he ex plained that the city licensed him to put the chairs there and keep the place clean. For this service, he charged those who Who Answer KANARRAVILLE, I'ti When the fire whistle Six J this country town of 2%ve be it’s the women who anutions call. ser mi The full complemeai ^ volunteer fire departmeiag- nari dinarily 20 women. i ac( , C( “However, four of oi al | and teers are taking time o&jg ma babies,” says Mrs. Che; eer; j nf ,. Hams, the energetic leat. The all-women fire, , ms wer was organized a year! explains, because too e were occupied with cl ’’ ^ irs farms and ranches, and' Ca ^ en of town when the fires SAN The town already engine at its disposal, 1;^^ ' n sat idle through too k ^ 11 for lack of an organizei JlFNl ment. Ul: ‘ n ’ D 1 When a weed fire !,<) two homes the ladies k ^°n-t gether and asked a mer 8 *' weI train them in the use BOUf fighting equipment. °cke, i —•jrfetu re McGE (rOB CUTTING THUCK COSTS THHOUGBOUT THE SOUTHWEST) w ,, J I1 FOBS PICKUPS if!) WM WJ Ml III ITtv © Come in and c!aim your reward! 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