THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 17, 1963
Legislature Civil Rights Group Asks
cadet slouch by Jim Earle Tax Habits JFK To Cut U. S. Aid
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BATTALION EDITORIALS
Senate Election Debate
Reveals Need For Color
The hearty call for more colorful election campaigns on
campus in a recent Student Senate meeting was most re
freshing.
In recent years election rules, and the application of
those rules, have placed an increasing number of restrictions
on candidates. Election rule changes calling for more strict
policies, were presented to the Senate in the April 4 meeting
and rejected by a two-thirds vote of the senators.
During the discussion of the rule changes one rep
resentative stated, “It seems we have reached the point
where we must decide whether we want strict election rules
or more interesting campaigns.”
We feel that this remark was backed up by the embrass-
ing lack of candidates for student offices which forced the
election commission to re-schedule filing and the election
date for the up-coming general election.
Elections on the A&M campus have lacked the color and
excitement that usually accompanies any election and
especially those on college campuses. At the same time there
has been a noticable lack of enough qualified candidates to
really offer the voters desirable slates.
We realize that it is probably too late to make any
changes in campaign policies to effect this year’s general
election, but we sincerely hope that the idea of better cam
paigns on the A&M campus will not be forgotten.
We feel there definitely must be some rules for any
election. However, if students seeking student government
offices cannot completely express themselves during a cam
paign, when will they have the opportunity?
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AUSTIN — While legislators
begin consideration of tax in
creases to help finance state
government activities, mainly the
growth in higher education, two
industries are about to get tax
cuts.
Both houses of the legislature
have passed a bill to reduce the
tax on sulphur producers.
The House also has passed, and
favorable Senate action is ex
pected, on a bill to exempt state
banks from the sales tax and the
corporation franchise tax.
Both groups are putting up per
suasive arguments. Sulphur lob
byists say that Louisiana’s tax on
sulphur is only $1.03 a ton, so
Texas should cut its rate to that
level.
Owners of state-chartered banks
argue that national banks are
exempt from states sales and
franchise taxes, so state banks
ought to be, too.
Apparently, the tax progrni£y)f
Gov. John Connally for the rest
of the Texans is gathering sup
port. It calls for expansion of
the new sales tax by eliminating
exemptions on low-cost 'clothing
and farm implements, and for ex
tending the corporation franchise
“surtax” which has been in ef
fect on a “temporary” basis for
four years.
New Texas
Congressmen
Disagree
WASHINGTON GP) — The
battle of the salt cedars con
tinues between two Texas House
freshmen — Reps. Joe Pool, De
mocrat, and Ed Foreman, Repub
lican.
The issue is whether the fed
eral government or local residents
should finance eradication of the
water-consuming scrub from
along the Pecos River.
Pool was asked by those who
want the government to do the
work to introduce legislation on
the subject. In complying, Pool
contended the project is too big
and too costly for local interests.
Pool, a Dallas lawyer, said he
introduced the bill because Fore
man, who represents the Pecos
Valley, turned down the pleas of
his constituents to back it.
Foreman, at 29 the youngest
member of Congress, said the
people who would benefit from
the salt cedar clearing job — the
irrigation farmers and ranchers
— should do the work.
His mail, Foreman said, is
about 40 to 1 in support of his
position.
Pool, asserting he could ’’stir
up 90 to 1” mail in support of his
bill if he tried, has made public a
report describing how the spread
of salt cedars along the Pecos
in Texas and eastern New Mexi
co has had disastrous effects.
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WASHINGTON (A 5 )—The
Civil Rights Commission called on
President Kennedy Tuesday for
an all-out effort—possibly in
cluding the withholding of fed
eral funds-—to force Mississippi
to protect the rights of its Negro
citizens.
“There is an overriding consti
tutional obligation to make cer
tain that federal funds are ex
pended in a manner which bene
fits all citizens without distinc
tion,” the commission said in a
special report to the President
at his Palm Beach, Fla., vaca
tion home.
The commission has been study
ing the Mississippi situation
closely for several weeks. Staff
Director Berl I. Bernahard flew
to Jackson Tuesday for a special
session of the Mississippi Ad
visory Committee.
There was no immediate reac
tion from the vacation White
House.
“Since October 1962,” the re
port said, “the open and flag
rant violation of constitutional
guarantees in Mississippi has
precipitated serious conflict
which, on several occasions, has
reached the point of crisis . . .
Each week brings fresh evidence
of the danger of a complete
breakdown of law and orUcr.”
The report cited a long list of
incidents and said that despite
vigorous action by federal author
ities, “the nation must be con
cerned that the pattern of unlaw
ful activity shows no sign of abat
ing.”
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HOW TO SEE EUROPE
FOR ONLY $300 A DAY: NO. 1
Summer vacation is just around the corner, and naturally all
of you are going to Europe. Perhaps I can offer a handy tip
or two. (I must confess that I myself have never been to
Europe, but I do have a French poodle and a German shepherd,
so I am not entirely unqualified.)
First let me say that no trip to Europe is complete without
a visit to England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Germany,
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Lichtenstein, Holland, Belgium, Luxem
bourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Po
land, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia,
Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Crete, Sardinia, Sicily, Hungary,
Rumania, Bulgaria, Lapland, and Andorra.
Let us take up these countries in order. First, England,
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The capital of England is London—or Liverpool, as it is
sometimes called. There are many interesting things to see in
London—chiefly the changing of the guards. The guards are
changed daily. The old ones are thrown away.
Another “must” while in London is a visit to the palace of
the Duke of Marlborough. Marlborough is spelled Marlborough,
but pronounced Marlboro. English spelling is very quaint, but
terribly disorganized. The late George Bernard Shaw, author
of Little Women, fought all his life to simplify English spelling.
They tell a story about Shaw once asking a friend, “What does
g-h-o-t-i spell?”
The friend pondered a bit and replied, “Goatee.”
Shaw sniggered. “Pshaw,” said Shaw. .“G-h-o-t-i does not
spell goatee. It spells fish.”
“How is that?” said the friend.
Shaw answered, “Gh as in enough, o as in women, ti as in
motion. Put them all together, you get fish.”
This was very clever of Shaw when you consider that he was
a vegetarian. And a good thing he was. As Disraeli once re
marked to Guy Fawkes, “If Shaw were not a vegetarian, no
lamb chop in London would be safe.”
But I digress. We were speaking of the palace of the Duke of
Marlborough—or Marlboro, as it is called in the United States.
It is called Marlboro by every smoker who enjoys a fine, ricli
breed of tobaccos, who appreciates a pure white filter, who likes
a soft pack that is really soft, a Flip-Top box that really flips.
Be sure you are well supplied with Marlboros when you make
your trip abroad. After a long, tiring day of sightseeing there
is nothing so welcome as a good flavorful Marlboro and a foot
bath with hot Epsom salts.
Epsom salts can be obtained in England at Epsom Downs,
Kensington salts can be obtained at Kensington Gardens,
Albert salts can be obtained at Albert Hall, Hyde salts can be
obtained at Hyde Park, and the crown jewels can be obtained
at the Tower of London.
The guards at the Tower of London are called Beefeaters
because they are always beefing about what they get to eat.
This is also known as “cricket” or “petrol.”
Well, I guess that about covers England. In next week's
column we will visit the Land of the Midnight Sun—France.
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