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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.
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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:
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“ . . . 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
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WHAT TO WEAR TILL THE DOCTOR COMES
Now that you have enrolled and paid your fees and bought
your books and found your way around campus and learned to
hate your roommate, it is time to turn to the most important
aspect of college life. I refer, of course, to clothes.
What does Dame Fashion decree for the coming school year!
(Incidentally, Dame Fashion is not, as many people believe, a
fictitious character. 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.
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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
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