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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, January 24, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle State’s U. S. Bulletin BoarA
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Dormitory Janitor Jobs
To Aid Working Students
The administration decision to expand a program of
student janitor service in college dormitories should come
as good news to many of the A&M students who find it neces
sary to hold a part-time job while in school. Now still an
other avenue of possible employment will be open to the
sizeable portion of students seeking some form of employ
ment on or near campus.
Dean of Students James P. Hannigan and Walter H.
Parsons Jr., head of the Department of Buildings and Utili
ties, announced last week that a pilot experiment conducted
this semester had been successful and that more students
jobs would be available during the spring semester.
The fact that the initial experiment was a success should
be just as encouraging as the disclosure that more positions
will be available. Hannigan and Parsons both praised what
they called “student cooperation” 1 during the experiment
this semester, when two students worked for three floors
in Dorm 13.
Positions opened for the spring semester will be in Law
and Puryear Halls. The number of daily hours a student
janitor works will depend upon each student’s amount of
free time. The two students who worked during the fall
semester spent an average of 18 hours a week on the job.
How many positions will be available is still unknown,
but the work can be divided into as many jobs as possible.
Also unknown are plans for possible further expansion. At
present, the trend seems to be to use student janitors in
dorms with ramps and not long hallways.
Of course many other small technicalities are still to be
worked out, but the program seems to be off to a good be
ginning and surely deserves full student support.
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“ . . . I thought I told you to keep quiet about our quiz file!”
BY BOTH U. S., BRITAIN
French - German Pact Viewed Dimly
Institutions
Rank Second
WASHINGTON (A 1 ) _ A re
cent report by the House govern
ment operations committee de
tails the extent of the govern
ment’s huge holdings in Texas.
There are 762 federal install
ations in the state—second only
to California, which has 949.
Total value of all federal property
in Texas, land and improvements,
is $2.4 billion. But California is
first with $5.5 billion. And, be
cause of Atomic Energy install
ations, Washington state is sec
ond with $3 billion and Tennes
see third with $2.5 billion.
The government’s 2,735,515
acres in Texas, which cost $206,-
187,000, is large compared with
holdings east of the Mississippi
River but much less than what
Uncle Sam holds in many public
domain states in the west.
Federal holdings in Alaska, for
example, total 365 million acres at
a cost to the government of only
$1,638,000. The better territor
ial lands went to Alaska when it
became the 49th state to displace
Texas the biggest state.
The report said the govern
ment’s 29,869 building in Texas
have a total value of $1,188,811,-
000.
Military real estate owned by
the government in Texas totals
684,325 acres, which costs $1.8
billion of the total. The Army
controls 523,548 acres, the Navy
19,735, and the Air Force 141,-
042.
Animal Husbandry Wirati
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Ty|
day in the South Solarium of*
YMCA Building. Nita McLtl!
will present a program on flit,
er arranging and making t
sages.
GOOD!
They’re the Goodest!
STUBBLEFIELDS
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PARDNER
You’ll Always Win
The Showdown
When You Get
Your Duds Done
At
CAMPUS
CLEANERS
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of
Germany has signed a group of
accords with France at a moment
when both Britain and the United
States would have preferred that
he delay.
Nevertheless, he is reported to
have persuaded President Charles
de Gaulle to think some more
about the possible consequences
of his attitude toward those coun
tries. At least he did some of the
bargaining the U. S. and Britain
desired.
De Gaulle seems to think that
if he can maintain sufficient ties
with Germany he can. ignore the
wishes of the smaller, members
of the Western European commu
nity, and bar British and Ameri
can influence from the continent.
But Germany is not with him
on that point, and the new proto
cols themselves depend for their
ultimate value not on their writ
ten word, but on the spirit in
which they are applied.
Both De Gaulle and Adenauer
can remember clearly the Locar
no Pacts of 1925, by which, a-
mong other things, nearly all the
countries of Europe set what they
thought was a historical preced
ent by renouncing their national
right to make war. It turned out
to be a cruel and useless gesture.
There is a belief in Europe now
that European negotiations with
Britain over her Common Market
entry will last far beyond Mon
day, when De Gaulle originally
intended to break them off. If
they are broken, Adenauer and
many West Germans who oppose
any diminution of their ties with
Britain and the United States
can only conclude that their voice
in the new Franco-German en
tente is smaller than they though.
By keeping the market situa
tion o nice for a period of study
and reflection, De Gaulle would
have more time to consider sev
eral possibilities.
The United States already is
having trouble with her trade
balances, and Britain is going
through a truly revolutionary
changfe in her world economic
position.
If no true Atlantic Community
emerges from their decisions to
adjust some of their most cher
ished policies, there will be great
pressure on them for formation
of a separate entente, including
the old sterling bloc and the
European non-members of the
Common Market.
That could be disastrous for
Europe, and a heavy blow against
full mobilization of forces in the
economic war declared by the
Communist sphere.
As an alternative to that, there
would be a strong revival of
American isolationism which so
very nearly permitted the whole
world to go to pot once before.
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On Campus
with
MaxShuIinan
{Author of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf”, “The Many
Loves of Dobie Gillis”, etc.)
CALPURNIA, HERE I COME
Now, as the college year approaches its mid-point, one fact
emerges clearly: you are all going to flunk everything.
There are two things you can do about it. First, you can
marry money. (I don’t n^ean you marry the money itself; I
mean you marry a person who has money. Weddings between
people and currency have not been legal anywhere in the United
States since the Smoot-Hawley Act. Marlboro Cigarettes, on
the other hand, are legal everywhere and are, indeed, smoked
with great pleasure and enthusiasm in all fifty states of the
Union. I bring up Marlboro Cigarettes because this column is
sponsored by the makers of Marlboro, and they are inclined to
brood if I omit to mention their product.)
But I digress. I was saying you can marry money but, of
course, you will not because you are a high-minded, clean
living, pure-hearted, freckle-faced American kid. Therefore, to
keep from flunking, you must try the second method: you must
learn how to take lecture notes.
According to a recent survey, 123.6% of American under
graduates do not know the proper way to take lecture notes. To
illustrate this shocking statistic, let us suppose you are taking
a course in history. Let us further suppose the lecturer is lec
turing on the ruling houses of England. You listen intently. You
write diligently in your notebook, making a topic outline as you
have been taught. Like this:
L House of Plantagenet.
IL House of Lancaster.
III. House of York.
Then you stop. You put aside your pen. You blink back a
tear, for you cannot go on. Oh, yes, you know very well that the
next ruling house is the House of Tudor. The trouble is you
don't know the Roman numeral that comes after III.
i.
mx
CPL
'ifey M lo zirdtim.
(It may, incidentally, be of some historical interest to point
out that Americans are not the only people who don’t know
Roman numerals, The Romans didn’t know them themselves.
I suppose they could tell you how much V or X were or like
that, but when it came to real cubes like LXI or MMC, they
just flang away their styluses and went downtown to have a
bath and take in a circus and maybe stab Caesar a few times.
(Yon may wonder why Rome stuck with these ridiculous
numerals when the Arabs had such a nice, simple system. Well
sir, the fact is that the Emperor Vespasian tried like crazy to
buy the Arabic numerals from Suleiman the Magnificent, but
Suleiman wouldn’t do business—not even when Vespasian
raised his bid to 100,000 gold piastres, plus he offered to throw
in the Colosseum, the Appian Way, and Charlton Heston.
(So Rome stuck with Roman numerals—to its sorrow, as it
turned out. One day in the Forum, Cicero and Pliny got to
arguing about how much is CDL times MVIX. Well sir, pretty
soon everyone in town came around to join the hassle. In all
the excitement, nobody remembered to lock the north gate and
—wham!—before you could say pecca fortiter, in rushed the
Goths, the Visigoths, and the Green Bay Packers!)
Well sir, that’s the way the empire crumbles, and I digress.
Let’s get back to lecture notes. Let’s also say a word about
Marlboro Cigarettes. The makers would be so pleased! And is
it not fitting that we should please these honest tobacconists—
these fine men, fond of square dancing, water sports, protein,
and tattoos—these tireless perfectionists who spend all of their
days trying to please us—searching everywhere for the best of
all possible tobaccos, aging them with patience, blending them
with tender, loving care? Marlboros are available in soft pack
and flip top box. You will find XX cigarettes in each package.
© 1963 Max Shulman
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Marlborum amo, Tom Marlborum amat, Dick Marlboruin
amat, Harry Marlborum amat, June Marlborum amat,
Joan Marlborum amat, Jean Marlborum amat, Jane Marl-
amat ’.y ui( l ue Marlborum amant—et Marlborum
quoque amabitis.