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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 11, 1963
CADET SLOUCH
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Welcome To A&M
SCONA Participants
A big Texas Aggie “Howdy!” to all the participants
of the ninth annual Student Conference on National Affairs.
We mean this welcome to include everyone who has been
attracted to our campus by any phase of SCONA, whether
they be delegates, speakers, co-chairmen, news people or
what have you—we’re just glad that you, are here.
We are proud of the heights that SCONA has reached
in its short nine years. We want to say now that this growth
would have been impossible without the concentrated efforts
of hundreds of individuals in the past and again this year.
The students who serve on the SCONA committee have tried
to once again present an outstanding program for your
benefit as well as theirs.
There is one thing that you can do for the SCONA
Committee, and all the students of Texas A&M University.
If you would simply “tell an Aggie” if there is anything
that can be done to make your visit to our campus more
pleasant. If you think something can be done to assist you
in getting more out of SCONA, tell a SCONA Committee
member.
This is simply an effort to encourage all SCONA partici
pants, especially the delegates, to do something that so many
people directly associated wth shaping the future of our
country and our world fail to do so often. Say what you
think. If you have an idea, speak up. This is your confer
ence and everyone on the A&M campus wants your time
to be well spent.
Once again, WELCOME TO TEXAS A&M UNI
VERSITY.
by Jim Earle Military To Remain Strong A&l
Off*
WASHINGTON (A>) — Presi
dent Johnson has assured con
gressional leaders of both par
ties that he intends to keep
American military power strong
enough to survive a surprise at
tack and be able to destroy the
enemy.
While he is pressing for econ
omies in the Pentagon and all
Bulletin Board
“ . . . He thought it was a cake, but evidently his mother
heard about his grades!”
President Johnson,
A Supreme Egotist
Take-Charge Guy,
-Good or Bad?
By RAYMOND J., CROWLEY
WASHINGTON UP) — Re
flecting, a long-time observer of
Lyndon B. Johnson says:
“You know, any man who as
pires to the presidency must have
a liberal coating of egotism. But
Lyndon has been double-dipped.”
There is no doubt that the
new President is a take-charge
guy, a supreme egotist. Is this
bad or good ? Make up your own
mind, with due consideration to
the problems he faces.
Read the text, for example, of
his impromptu “coffee hour”
meeting with the press last Sat
urday. Note how the pronoun
“I” tends to change to “we”.
“We think that we have made
very good progress- We plan to
see Erhard West German
chancellor in our home,” etc.
What does the “we” signify
here ? Is it the kind of royal
“we” that Louis XIV used? Or
is it simply a folksy attempt to
spread the credit around; an
other stress on the Johnson uni
ty theme ?
If you look at it right, this
budget question is a drama, with
a couple of weighty characters
off-stage, in the wings.
One of them is Sen. Harry F.
Byrd, D-Va., an apostle of fru
gality. He wants to see a carbon
copy of the next budget before
he makes the faintest move to
ward going along with an $11-
billion tax cut.
tightwad. Our feeling is that we
waste as much by doing nothing
as we do by doing too much.”
Thus, Johnson put himself in
the position of going down the
middle, a position he prefers.
So, by chance or design, there
appears in the other wing a
man making noises like a great
economizer. This is Robert S.
McNamara, secretary of de-
wense, proclaiming that he will
lop 25,000 jobs off the civilian
employment of the Pentagon.
This seems like an enormous,
almost heartless cut—until you
realize that it is pretty small
percentagewise, since the civil
ian employment of the defense
establishment is more than one
million.
Before passing judgment, let’s
review some of the President’s
problems. Take the budget.
Anyway, it appears that the
budget is going up, as it prac
tically always does. Maybe
something over $101 billion, as
compared to $98.8 billion this
year. But the fixed charges are
heavy and increasing, and Pres
ident Johnson could explain:
The problems are crowding in
on him, however. How to get
Congress to enact a civil rights
bill without a grand, unity-bust
ing fight? How, in general, to
advance the hopes of the New
Frontier, pretty thoroughly sty
mied in the administration of
the late President John F. Ken
nedy.
Abroad, too, the issues are
vast. Aside from what Nikita
Khrushchev and the Red Chi
nese may do next, there is the
problem of President Charles de
Gaulle of France, a country the
United States had to succor in
two world wars. De Gaulle
shows certain tendencies to go
it alone.
right soon, to talk in depth. Now
this has become vague. Sugges
tions even emanate from abroad
that, to satisfy the niceties of
protocol, maybe Johnson ought
to go see De Gaulle.
Which may help explain why
our “can do” President, the su
preme egotist, looks at times a
little red-eyed for want of sleep.
WEDNESDAY
Aerospace Engineering Wives
Club will meet in the YMCA
Building at 8 p.m.
Baha’i World Faith will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in the Anderson
Room of the YMCA Building.
THURSDAY
Hometown Clubs
Abilene will meet in Room 208
of the Academic Building at 7:30
p.m.
Amarillo will meet at 7:30
p.m. in the lobby of the Memorial
Student Center.
Brazoria County will meet in
Room 204 of the Academic Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
Corpus Christi will meet in
Room 127 of the Academic
Building at 7:30 p.m.
Deep East Texas will meet at
7:30 p.m. in the lobby of the
YMCA Building.
Laredo will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 207 of the Academic
Building.
Mid-County will meet in Room
207 of the Academic Building at
7:30 p.m.
San Angelo-West Texas will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 304
of the Academic Building.
Spring Branch will meet in
in the lobby of the Memorial
Student Center at 8 p.m.
Waco-McLennan County will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Gay
Room of the YMCA Building.
through the government, he was
reported on good authority to
have told Republican and Dem
ocratic chiefs of the Senate and
House that any economizing in
no way will damage basic mili
tary power of the nation.
Johnson set up and attended
a briefing for the congressional
leaders on the latest estimates
of the relative strength of U. S.
and Soviet military forces now
and as forecast through the
1960s.
Washington County will meet
in the lounge of Puryear Hall at
7:30 p.m.
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the Kenfledy funeral, the word
passed that he would be back
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“The President,” a White
House statement said, “empha
sized that the United States mili.
tary program will continue to
provide for a strategic force suf
ficiently large to absorb a sur
prise attack and survive with
sufficient power to be capable ol
destroying the aggressor.”
This has been fundamental
American policy for years. But
Johnson chose to stress it again
at a time when he is getting the
federal budget into shape for
transmitting to Congress next
month.
On tempos
with
MaxShuIman
(Author of “Rally Round the Flag, Boys!”
and “Barefoot Boy With Cheek”)
TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY
If you have been reading this column—and I hope you have; I
mean I genuinely hope so; I mean it does not profit me one
penny whether you read this column or not; I mean I am paid
every week by the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes and my
emolument is not affected in any way by the number of people
who read or fail to read this column—an act of generosity
perfectly characteristic of the makers of Marlboro, you would
say if you knew them as I do; I mean here are tobacconists gray
at the temples and full of honors who approach their art as
eagerly, as dewy-eyed as the youngest of practitioners; I mean
the purpose of the Marlboro makers is simply to put the best of
all possible filters behind the best of all possible tobaccos and
then go, heads high, into the market place with their wares,
confident that the inborn sense of right and wrong, of good and
bad, of worthy and unworthy, which is the natural instinct of
every American, will result in a modest return to themselves
for their long hours and dedicated labors—not, let me hasten to
add, that money is of first importance to the makers of Marlboro;
all these simple men require is plain, wholesome food, plenty of
Marlboros, and the knowledge that they have scattered a bit of
sunshine into the lives of smokers everywhere; if, I say, you
have been reading this column, you may remember that last
week we started to discuss Christmas gifts.
We agreed, of course, to give cartons of Marlboro to all our
friends and also to as many total strangers as possible. Today
let us look into some other welcome gifts.
Do you know someone who is interested in American history!
If so, he will surely appreciate a statuette of Millard Fillmore
with a clock in the stomach. (Mr. Fillmore, incidentally, was
the only American president with a clock in the stomach.
James K. Polk had a stem-winder in his head, and William
Henry Harrison chimed the quarter-hour, but only Mr. Fillmore,
of all our chief executives, had a clock in the stomach. Franklin
Pierce had a sweep second hand and Zachary Taylor had
seventeen jewels, but, I repeat, Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Fillmore
alone had a clock in the stomach. Some say that Mr. Fillmore
was also the first president with power steering, but most
historians assign this distinction to Chester A. Arthur. How
ever, it has been established beyond doubt that Mr. Fillmore
was the first president with a thermostat. Small wonder they
called him Old Hickory!)
But I digress. To get back to welcome and unusual Christmas
gifts, here’s one that’s sure to please—a gift certificate from the
American Chiropractic Society. Accompanying each certificate
is this winsome little poem:
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,
Joyous sacro-iliac!
May your spine forever shine,
Blessings on your aching hack.
May your lumbar ne’er grow number,
May your backbone ne’er dislodge,
May your caudal never dawdle,
Joyeux Noel! Heureux massage!
© 1063 MaxShulmao
The makers of Marlboro, who take pleasure in bringing you
this column throughout the school year, imuld like to join
with Old Max in extending greetings of the season.
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