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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 14, 1964 BATTALION EDITORIALS A Fine Machine The word was out last week that Shelby Metcalf had a pretty good roundball machine playing for him. Last Sat urday afternoon thousands had a golden opportunity to see the word become action. And the best part of it all was that several thousand University of Texas fans had ringside seats for the affair. It doesn’t take a sports authority to recognize the fact that the Aggie basketball team has been rounded into a smooth, competent and cool group of athletes that are hell bent on a Southwest Conference championship this year. Congratulations on the fast come-on you have made so far this year and the best of luck to you in the future. We’ll see you in Houston on Jan. 28 against U of H and then on Feb. 1, when you beat the feathers off the Rice birds and add one more to the conference record. Someone’s Kidding About These Wars The frequent use of the term “cold war” almost sounds like laughter being directed at the thousands of American fighting men who are facing the hottest kind of wars—the kind that kill. There are few occassions when a person can sit through a 30 minute news show on either radio or television, or read the front page of any metropolitan newspaper without seeing references to the cold war. On that same page or during that same program he can also read or hear anywhere from two to six stories based on very hot wars. The one big issue that so many American people seem to be overlooking everyday is that those little “brushfire wars” involve more that “those people over there.” They also involve these people over here. They involve us. And everytime another American is killed in Viet Nam or any other part of the world we become more deeply involved and the brushfire grows hotter. It’s about time we stop kidding ourselves. We’re not in volved in a cold war. We’re in the big middle of a hot war, a real hot war. It appears that people have decided that there can be no complete peace for the American people. If we have accepted as fact that some of the United States of America’s fighting men must be under fire somewhere in the world then let’s quit doping our consciences with the cold war serum. Maybe, just maybe, if we lay out cards on the table and call the clubs clubs. We might just see how big our club is and we could certainly let others get a look at our hand. We’ve gbt a lot of chips in a lot of pots. The U. S. sits at the world table as the big winner so we can’t fold. The only thing for us to do is start playing an all-out game to bring the entire pot home. Bulletin Board TUESDAY The Association of Graduate Student Wives will meet at 8 p.m. on the second floor of the Richard Coke Building. Dr. Chris tiansen will be the speaker. Pre-Med Pre-Dent Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Biological Science Building. Soil and Crop Sciences Student Wives Club will meet at the Bryan Sewing Machine Company, 3515 Texas Ave., at 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY BahaT World Faith will spon sor a discussion in the Ander son Room of the YMCA Build ing at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Hometown Clubs Corpus Christi will meet in the Lobby of the Memorial Student Center at 7:20 p.m. Laredo will meet at 8 p.m. in front of the Memorial Student Center. Wichita Falls will meet in the Biological Sciences Building at 7:30 p.m. Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Invites You To Try Our AGGIE SPECIAL Also, try PIZZA, Spaghetti, Raviola, Mexican Food, and Seafood. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. Accomodations From 10 to 200 Persons THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivriters only. The Battalion is a non tax-supported, non-profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and operated by students as a university and community news paper and is under the supervision of the director of Stu dent Publications at Texas A&M University. Members of the Student Publications Board are James L. Lindsey, chairman ; Delbert McGuire, College of Arts and Sciences ; J. A. Orr, College of Engineering ; J. M. Holcomb, College of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, College of Veterinary Medicine. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A&M is published in College Sta tion, Texas daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods. Septem ber through May, and once a week during summer school. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter here in are also reserved. < Second-Class postage paid at College Station, Texas. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Assn. Represented nationally by National advertising Service, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and San Francisco. Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester; $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. All subscriptions subject to 2% sales tax. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 4, YMCA Building; College Station, Texas. News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the editorial office. Room 4, Y'MCA Building. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. DAN LOUIS JR EDITOR Ronnie Fann Managing Editor Glenn Dromgoole, John Wright News Editors Jim Butler Sports Editor Marvin Schultz Asst. Sports Editor Mike Reynolds, Robert Sims, Bob Shulz Staff Writers Herky Killingsworth Photographer CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle U. S. Court Rules Twice WASHINGTON (A>) _ The Su preme Court has outlawed any requirement that ballots in an election indicate the candidate’s race. The court Monday unanimous ly struck down a Louisiana stat ute which required a racial la bel on names of candidates for all elective officers in the state. Justice Tom C. Clark, speak ing for the court, said: “By placing a racial label on a candidate at the most crucial stage in the electoral process- the instant before a vote is cast —the state furnishes a vehicle by which racial prejudice may be so aroused as to operate against one group because of race and for another.” The high tribunal also agreed to rule on a protest that At lanta’s grade-a-year school de segregation, which is taking 12 years to carry out, does not com ply with the Supreme Court’s mandate for integration with “all deliberate speed.” WRIGHT by John Wright Violent incidents around the world have over shadowed prob ably the most important event on the international scene today — the negotiations between rep resentatives of West Berlin and East Berlin. It cannot be deni ed that considerable emotional intensity lies at the back of the negotiations, for the presence of the Berlin Wall has forced emo tions of separated loved ones to reach a fever pitch intensity. Willie Brandt, mayor of West Berlin, has stated that the nego tiations between the West Ber lin Senate and members of the East German regime were not a party political affair, nor did they imply a change of policy. The permit agreement that al lowed almost a million West Ger mans to visit East Berlin, was according to Brandt, a matter of common German concern. AGGIE PLAYERS (Continued from Page 1) . You don’t look like you should be cold!” Smokers May Get Liberal Education WASHINGTON (A>) — A mas sive educational program aimed at smokers — and teenagers who haven’t started — may be the first federal step following a sci ence panel’s indictment of cig arette smoking as a threat to life and health. A panel of 10 doctors and sci entists reported to the surgeon general Saturday that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer and is as sociated, at least statistically, with other malignancies and heart ailments. The committee called for “appropriate remedi al action.” Informed sources said Monday that the most obvious first step would be a government-backed campaign against smoking, pat terned after the all-out effort made by the Public Health Serv ice to get Americans vaccinated The campaign would be in ad dition to possible action by the Federal Trade Commission and Congress. Sources said the FTC believes it has authority to require that cigarette packages bear health hazard labels — if the health service so recommends. There were no indications that Congress would seek prohibition of cigarettes. But several mem bers introduced or seconded bills requiring that cigarettes life attempt is simply not as good as the original. THE PLAY IS A STUDY in hu- at m 11:1311 traits and emotion. Doing sWM *\r W W'. outstanding work for the Players J. vJL W US in portraying this emotion were David White, Judith Nobles, Lee Hance, Paul Bleau, Bob Hipp and Rhea Smith. White is the self- centered, intellectual father, Judith Nobles the arrogant step-daughter, carry labels that they might in- a nd Lee Hance the grief-stricken jure health. mother. The campaign would be aimed Bleau played the part of the os- The latest reports indicate that Walter Ulbricht’s trip to Mos cow was made for the purpose of co-ordinating East German and Soviet terms for reaching an agreement with West Berlin au thorities. primarily at teen-agers, with a theme somewhat along these lines: “Quit if you are a cig arette smoker — don’t start if you haven’t.” tentatious manager-director of the company. Hipp was his leading man, and Rhea Smith the leading lady. Presented in three acts, the play Presumably, such a campaign had its points of high emotion, but would include use of newspaper, it also has its moments of what radio and television; speeches might be considered sermonizing, by health authorities; and post- However, it was apparent from the ers and pamphlets. There might conversations that took place dur- be testimonials by sports fig- ing intermission that it was a chal- ures who never smoked or who lenge readily taken by the audi- had quit. ence. Russia desires to form a three part Germany consisting of the independant states of West Ber lin, East Germany and West Ger many. Now this very policy of the Soviets has been vigorously opposed by West Germany ever since the Bonn Basic Law went into effect. The aim of the West Germans is eventual total unifi cation of all of Germany. This unification desire on the part of West Germany also includes the lands East of the Oder-Neisse. This area was given to Poland and taken over by the Soviets in 1945. The question is, just how far are the West Germans willing to go in an effort to bring the dream of unification closer ? 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