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-l - Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 2, 1962 Russian Headaches Make U. S. Problems Diminish By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News. Analyst Bedeviled as it'1A‘by tuba and a raft of other complex prob lems, Washington can find con solation in the knowledge- that the Kremlin, too, is having se vere headaches. This has been made clear by a recent decree halting the Krem lin’s program for gradual aboli tion of income taxes. There is no dopbt that the decree was un popular. The Soviet propaganda machine demonstrated this. The really significant aspect of the decree was that income taxes are not and have not been an important source of Soviet government revenue. Such taxes have accounted for only 7 per cent of revenues. The rest came from hidden taxes. Thus, one gathers that the So viet Union is investing so heav ily in such enterprises as the space race, the arms race and the economic cold war that it must scrape the bottom of the barrel. Its fiscal difficulties constitute only one of a long list of troubles. It has agricultural failures throughout the Red bloc to.worry about. It has; the problem of in vesting in the Fidel Castro-Com munist regime in Cuba, which is expensive and dangerous. It has investments in subversion all over the world. It has its fight with Red China, now being in tensified because of the new courtship by the Soviet party of Yugoslav President Tito’s “de- viationists.” The Soviet press had carefully prepared the people for the bad tax news. But once the bomb was dropped, the propaganda machine fell silent on the subject. The next day there was no mention of the decree in any Moscow pa per, except the government organ Izvestia, nor did the radio men tion it despite the fact that gov ernment decrees ordinarily get massive publicity. The decree explains the vio lence of recent Soviet domestic propaganda against the United States, the scare campaign to persuade the Soviet people that was because of Cuba, Berlin or some other isShe was a possi bility. This conditioning was accom panied by a parallel campaign demanding more labor productiv ity and warning against such “remnants of capitalism” as in dividualism and the hankering for private property. The public was told that be cause of the war threat it should work harder to make the Soviet Union impregnable. Then came the tax decree, with an explana tion that the “imperialists” were on a rampage of war preparation and thus the government had to postpone tax relief. The public was told it would have to wait “until the international situation changes.” This was one more in a series of broken promises. The public already was jolted by sharp hikes in butter, meat and milk prices. It was disappointed by the slowness of the housing program. It was told also there would be a halt to private building of one- family homes. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stvr dent writers only. The BattaUpn is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated by students as a college and community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas AnM College. Members of the Student Publications Board are Allen Schrader, School of Arts and Sciences : J. A, Orr, School of Engineering; Dr. Murray Brown, School of Agri culture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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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. ALAN PAYNE - - EDITOR Ronnie Bookman Managing Editor Van Conner - - Sports Editor CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle BATTALION EDITORIALS Dormitory, Library Plans Give Cause For Gladness People can easily be excited by plans for what really may be the far-distant future, but we can’t help but rejoice at announced plans to extensively expand Cushing Memorial Library and build three new dormitories. In addition, air-conditioning and other renovation is on the drawing boards for Dorms 14, 15, 16 and 17 in the cadet area adjacent to the North Gate. The long-range results of each planned project can’t really be realized at the present, but they literally can be compared to un-tapped riches. The combined costs of $6.-6.5 million could prove redicuously lucrative investments. Library additions and remodeling will more than double existing space at a projected cost of $1.5 million. In addition later stages of construction will provide two additional stories that would meet the library’s heeds through 1996. The upcoming first stage, due for completion in 1965, will provide 650,000 volumes and seat 1,500 students. Key to the proposed interior plan is the opening of book stacks and more individual seating. The plan provides a minimum of fixed walls between the volumes and study areas. Also consideration is being given an open round-the-clock air-conditioned study area. Other innovations will be the availability of individual study areas with lockers for grad uate students, a rare books section, micro photograph section, typing rooms and seminar rooms. Even more attractive at a quick glance are the new dormitories, which may be completed as early as the fall of 1964 for slightly more than 2,000 students. Revenue bonds for between $4.5-5 million will be sold to finance the building. Immediate objective of the new dorms is the attraction of more students—both during regular and summer sessions. The prestige factor that would attract new students indeed can not be overlooked. We view as extremely favorable the exterior halls for the new dorms—even for corps students. No one can really deny that the large, single hallways in the present corps dorms do not produce a certain amount of congestion at all hours. « Other features of the proposed housing units include lounges, a bath between every two rooms, acoustical ceilings, rubber tile floors and other built-in features. Like present facilities, each room will house two students. Naturally all the work is far from done—but a good start has been made. The only requirement now is a build-up of momentum that will carry each new facility to instant success. Sound Off- (Editor’s Note: The following letter concerning A&M was printed in Sunday’s editions of The Dallas Morning News.) TODAY (Vol. 1, No. 3) issued by the A&M College Information 0ff m*u ^^nsWtfMesting facts about the aid A&M is giving in setting up a similar agricultural college pattern in Tunisia. It sounds fine. I agree that we have piade many mistakes in our govern nent foreign aid programs, but 1 am sure we are legrping to do a bet ter job in helping $e£nple to'help themselves. The A&M Tunisia program is an example. It is a source of satisfaction to me to see A&M take pride in something more than football teams and the military records of its graduates. I have always thought it was a fine school on the basis of tech nological study in agriculture, engineering, scientific lated subjects. It can go fa the foreign aid field, Carl Bn: ft Iths rr-™::-., r “ . . . And with eyes painted on them nobody can tell when you’re steepin’ in class!” Bulletin Board Professional Societies Society of Professional Engi neers will meet at 7:30 in Room 229 of the Chemistry Building. Institute of Aerospace Sciences will sponsor the meeting. Speak er will be C. W. Rogers, project structures engineer, General Dy namics, Fort Worth. American Institute of Indus trial Engineers will meet at 7:30 in Social Room of MSC. Michael D. Keen of P.M. Machine Co. will speak. Pre-Yet Society will meet at 7:30 in auditorium of Veterinary Medicine Building. Veterinary Dean Dr. A. A. Price will speak. Industrial Education Society will meet at 7:30 in Room 107 of the M.E. Shops. Today’s Thought Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do to others what he would have them do to him. —Anthony Eden Society of American Military Engineers will meet at 7:30 in Rooms 3-B, 3-C of MSC. Wives Clubs Civil Engineering club will meet at 8 in the YMCA Building. Agriculture, horticulture and floriculture eliib will meet at 8 in the home of Mrs. W. O. Trog- don, 307 Greenway in Bryan. Future Dates TODAY/ Texas Peach and: Plum G^ow^ ers‘ Conference f WEDNESDAY Special speaker, F Chapel r- r- vt ^ Texas Nutrition Obrifh'f^hcb Freshman football, TCU, Fort Worth THURSDAY Student Senate FRIDAY Stereo dance. Memorial Stu dent Center SATURDAY Varsity football, Texas Tech, here SUNDAY Registration, Texas Junior Col lege Press Association MONDAY Southern Regional Poultry Technical Committee i m - PALACE Bryan 2’8f$79 NOW SHOWING Elvis Presley In “KID GALAHAD’ . v,_ L I iy > imni mm, cmh “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars 1416 Texas Ave. TA 2-451 GARZAS Restaurant GENUINE MEXICAN & AMERIC1 FOODS 803 S. 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She was a real Englishwoman who lived in Elizabethan times and, indeed, England is forever in her debt, During the invasion of the Spanish Armada, Dame Fashion- not yet a Dame but a mere, unlettered country lass named Moll Flanders—during the invasion, I say, of the Spanish Armada, this dauntless girl stood on the white cliffs of Dover and turned the tide of battle by rallying the drooping morale of the British fleet with this stirring poem of her own composition! Don't be gutless, Men of Britain. Swing your cutlass, We ain't quiltin’. Smash the Spanish, Sink their boats. Make 'em vanish, Like a horse makes oats. For Good Queen Bess, Dear sirs, you gotta Make a mess Of that Armada. You won’t fail! Knock'em flat! Then we’ll drink ale And stuff like that. in i&g the As a reward for these inspirational verses Queen Elizabeth dubbed her a Dame, made her Poet Laureate, and gave her the Western Hemisphere except Duluth. But this was not the extent of Dame Fashion’s service to Queen and country. In 1589 she invented the laying hen, and she was awarded a life time pass to Chavez Ravine. But she was not to end her days in glory. In 1591, alas, she was arrested for overtime jousting and imprisoned for thirty years in a butt of malmsey. This later became known as Guy Fawkes Day.) But I digress. Let us get back to campus fashions. Certain to be the rage again this year is the cardigan (which, curiously enough, was named after Lord Cardigan, who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada. The sweater is only one product of this remarkable Briton’s imagination. He also invented the glottal stop, the gerund, and the eyelid, without which winking, as we know it today, would not be possible). But I digress. The cardigan, I say, will be back, which is, I believe, cause for rejoicing. Why? Because the cardigan has nice big pockets in which to carry your Marlboro Cigarettes- and that, good friends, is ample reason for celebration as all of you will agree who have enjoyed Marlboro’s fine, comfortable, mellow flavor and Marlboro’s filter. So why don’t you slip into your cardigan and hie yourself to your tobacconist for some good Marlboros? They come in soft pack or flip-top box. Cardi gans come in pink for girls and blue for boys. © inez m»xsmbu Cardigans or pullovers—it’s a matter of taste . .. And soil Marlboro a matter of taste—the best taste that can possibln be achieved by experienced growers and blenders—by sci ence, diligence, and tender loving care. Try a pack. PEANUTS By Charles M. Sc!" 11 V0U DON! KNOW IT. BUT V0UR i TROUBLES ARE JUST BEGINNING! J m ill'.