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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 18, 1964 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle WRIGHT by John Wright “Before you take your blindfold off I’ll give you one more hint of what I’ve done to decorate your room! Remember that photography experimentation I’ve been doin’ . . . !” State School Enrollments To Show Large Increase AUSTIN <A>) _ In less than a decade, more than 60 per cent of the 367,090 persons enrolled in Texas colleges and universities will be attending state-supported institutions of higher learning, say education administrators. The Texas Commission on Higher Education predicts an en rollment of 2i29,064 by 1972 in state-supported institutions, 62.4 per cent of the state’s total col lege enrollment. There are now 132,504 persons, or 58.3 per cent of the total col lege enrollmnet, in 20 state-sup- ported schools. The projected figures include the addition in September, 1965, of Pan Ameri can and Angelo State Colleges. They were added as four-year, state- supported schools by the last legislature. The total enrollment of 367,090 represents 42 per cent of the total college-age population of 873,400, which the commission forecasts for 1972. Remember Next Tuesday, February 18, 1964 is the LAST DAY to register for DANCE CLASSES for the spring Semester for only $5.00 per semester Learn Ballroom and Contempory Dancing Instructor — Manning Smith Registration — 7:30 to 8:00 p. m. in the M.S.C. Ballroom Classes every Tuesday Beginners Advanced 8:00 to 9:00 P. M. 9:00 to 10:00 P. M. An M.S.C. Dance Committee Presentation Ferrerrs Triangle Restaurant Try Our New SECRETARY SPECIAL Monday Thru Friday The SECRETARY SPECIAL is a quick, low calorie meal which gives you time to shop during your noon hour. Book Your Banquets and Special Parties Early. Accomodations From 10 to 200 Persons THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the studeyit writers only. 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DAN LOUIS JR EDITOR For the past seven weeks al most 4,000 English paratroopers and riflemen have trod the dusty roads and narrow streets of Cy prus warily watching for snip ers and potential fights between the warning Greek and Turk com munities of the Island. But the patience of the Bri tish is fast waning. They have been willing to act as a police force, but only temporarily. They do not wish to become permanently involved in the island dispute, for their manpower is badly needed in other parts of the world. The British have two big bases in Cyprus, and are only inter ested in defending them against and all-out civil war in the is land. Several of the British commanders, and indeed the Prime Minister himself, have ex pressed the opinion that should a British Tommy be killed or should all out civil war break loose then the British will sim ply leave the neutral zone and retire to the defense of their bases. British troops are stretched thinly around the globe. Besides maintaining a 50,000 man Army of the Rhine in Germany, garri sons around the world from Aden to British Guianea, there has to be maintained a “strategic res erve” in England itself. All this besides training establishments, depots and maintenance facilities Bulletin Board TUESDAY B’Nai Brith Hillel Club will meet in the Newman Club at 7:30 p.m. to hear Rabbi Khan lecture. LAST DAY DOUBLE FEATURE ‘‘MOUSE ON THE MOON” & ‘WRONG ARM OF THE LAW STARTS TOMORROW VAN RITA HEFLIN MORENO james MacARTHUR PALACE Brynn LAST DAY LILLIES OF THE FIELD” STARTS TOMORROW Features 1 :45 - 4:15 - 7:00 - 9:15 Cary, Audrey Grant Hepburn Charade A STANLEY D0NEN Product™ A Universal Release TECHNICOLOR WRONG g ;X •>: Sound Off have to be maintained with 175,- 000 soldiers. Many critics have argued, in cluding the U. S., that it is ridi culous to expect 175,000 men to carry out this duty. It is argued that England’s peacetime army is stretched to the limit, and that there is no more to give. The last few months have been extremely hard. Yet, with sup- risingly few men revolts have been turned back, order has been maintained, and even in Cyprus peace on the whole still prevails. The big question mark on the horizon is the border between Malaysia and Indonesia. To this area the British have committed some 6,000 troops. But the Bri tish realize only too well that if war erupts here they will never hold against some half million Communist equipped troops whose arms have no doubt in some measure been financed with U. S. aid. The irony of the sit uation is that should a war break out in this area, the U. S. is cer tain to be in it, for the recent agreement between Prime Mini ster Home and President John son has already announced this fact. To those who wonder why the British don’t maintain larger forces the answer is relatively simple. First and foremost the Conservative Party now in power in England has committed itself to use of voluntary enlistment only. Secondly, if this policy is reversed and the draft re-in stituted it may well be the one factor that will cost the Conserv atives the national election. —Job Calls— WEDNESDAY Central Intelligence Agency — Agricultural economics, business administration, biology, chemis try, physics, economics, modern languages, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engi neering, geological engineering, geology, industrial education, in dustrial engineering, mechanical engineering, entomology, geo logy, physics, mathematics, pho- togrammetry, geodesy. Colgate-Palmolive Company — Chemical engineering, industrial engineering and mechanical engi neering. Connecticut Mutual Life In surance Company — Accounting, business administration, agricul tural economics and economics. Editor, The Battalion: I am writing with reference, to Religious Emphasis Week, the news article by Glen Dromgoole on February 12, and the editorial of February 13. The reporting of services for the week of Febr uary 17-20 is not exactly ac curate. The A&M Church of Christ is not the only church conducting a program that week. The First Baptist Church of College Station, after learning that the Campus Religious Work ers Association had decided not to co-operate with the Admini stration’s restricted and limited suggestions for R.E. Week (main ly, no Guion Hall services on campus, plus no released time from classes), decided to take ad vantage of the “light schedule load” of the week and have a series of Bible Study conferences Monday through Thursday, 6:45- 8:15 p.m. nightly. Technically speaking, since our local congregation is not organ ically related to the Campus Re ligious Workers Association, we did not feel that we could call our program “R. E. Week.” How ever, we are having services and our Baptist students are involv ed. I conveyed this to Glen Dromgoole by phone just before he wrote his article, but I must not have been clear. I know we all regret this misunderstanding. A news article (about our serv- ives) was given to your office on Wednesday, February 12, for release on Friday, February 14. I feel that the whole story about the R. E. Week this year has not been told in The Batta lion. I would like to ad, in de fense of the Baptist Student Un ion, which we support, that a special series of services will be sponsored by this organization March 16-18 with a variety of outstanding ministers, along with the annual Baptist Athletes’ Ban quet on March 12. This had to be scheduled later because of the apparent collapse of R. E. Week February 16-21 made known back in the fall of the year. Good speakers cannot always be secur ed whenever you want them. Moreover, the students should not expect President Rudder and his administration to champion Religion on campus. He is a religious man who actively sup ports his church. He is trying to lead the University to develop what he often speaks of as “the whole man,” a student who in An Engineering CAREER With FISHER GOVERNOR COMPANY Interviews will be held on February 25, 1964 on the campus. See your placement office now for an appointment FISHER GOVERNOR COMPANY Marshalltown, Iowa Manufacturers of Automatic Control Equipment mentally, socially, emotionally, morally, and religiously balanc ed. And he co-operates with the religious leaders as far as he can. I think I speak as one who knows. However, the accomplish ment of the University’s total ob jectives does not hinge upon R. E. Week. A. iCt I seriously wonder if those who bemoan the R. E. Week collapse are consistently faithful to their local church programs perennial ly. In other words, where will you and other students be next Sunday morning, and the next, and the next, and the next, etc ? Religion was here a long time be fore R. E. Week began, it will be here long after R. E. Week be comes history. If the student chaplains and the YMCA wish to sponsor a R. E. Week each year with ad ministration backing, power to them. I’ll be there and help in any way I can. But let’s not g forget that all of the local gtudi churches together with the cam-: n mar j pus religious organizations carry. er maj on a full time program of minis-^g rp r j try to students and faculty dajjp enec j after day, week after week, in year out. This is our main job. Rece / ;lass, h Guy F. Greenfield, Pastor lssoc i a i First Baptist Church College Station nanage i series ;his ser The earth’s atmosphere serves, as a shield against dangerous^ radiation, including far-ultraF GCi violet and cosmic rays fronj space. “TiiThe Holt On Campus with MaxShulman {Author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys!” and "Barefoot Boy With Cheek".) ECONOMICS CAN BE CHUCKLES Many of you have been avoiding economics because it is so widely known as “the dismal science.” Oh, good friends, stop cheating yourselves of many a laugh and cheer, because eco nomics is a positive riot! True, it is called the dismal science, but that is only because it was invented in 1681 by Walter C. Dismal. It is easy to understand why Mr. Dismal’s discovery of economics is today almost forgotten, for the fact is that he himself only stayed with the subject for two or three days. After that he took up embonpoint, which means fatness. It is said that at his apogee, Mr. Dismal reached 1200 pounds. This later became known as Guy Fawkes Day. It was not until 1776 when Adam Smith published his Wealth of Nations (or Ozymandias, as it is usually known as) that the world came to realize what a rosy, twinkly, fun subject eco nomics is. As Mr. Smith showed in his jocular little treatise, there is nothing complicated about economics. Wme hmdsik Jpuima fmkitf When there is a great demand for a product, a great supply is placed on the market. When there is a small demand, there is a small supply. Take, for example, castanets. You walk into any average American town today and I’ll wager you won’t see more than eighty or ninety castanet shops. That is because the demand is small. For Marlboro Cigarettes, on the other hand, the demand is great. Thus, you will find Marlboros—with all their yummy rich tobacco flavor and pure white Selectrate filter and pliable soft pack and unpliable Flip-Top box—at any counter where cigarettes are sold in every one of our fifty great States and Duluth. To Adam Smith, I say, belongs the distinction of popularizing economics. Mr. Smith was followed by David Ricardo. In fact, everywhere he went he was followed by David Ricardo. Mr. Smith finally got so annoyed that he summoned a bobby, as British policemen are called, and had Mr. Ricardo arrested. This later became known as the Louisiana Purchase. Upon his release from gaol, as a British jail is called, Mr. Ricardo reported to his parole officer, Thomas Robert Malthus. They soon became fast friends, and one night over a game of whist they invented the stock exchange, or chutney, as it is called in England. Well sir, with the British having, you might say, a corner on economics, the French decided that they wanted some eco nomics too. Being, however, a proud nation, they refused simply to borrow British economics, but insisted on inventing their own. At first they tried using the truffle hound as a medium of exchange. When this proved less than satisfactory, they switched to pomade. Discouraged by this second disappoint ment, they finally shrugged and said, “Oh, who cares about economics anyhow?” and returned to the guillotine and Maurice Chevalier. America, I am pleased to report, had much better success with economics. Our early merchants quickly broke down economics into its two major categories—coins and folding money—and today, as a result of their wisdom, we can all enjoy the automatic toll station. Well sir, I could go on and on about this fascinating subject, but I know you’re all in a tearing hurry to rush out and sign up for Econ I. So I will leave you now with two kindly words of farewell: Gresham’s Law. © 1964 Max shuiman We, the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, are tobacconists, not economists. But this much we know about supply and demand: you demand full flavor in a filter cigarette; we supply it—Marlboro! PEANUTS By Charles M. Schul; PEANUTS YOU KN01O UJHATS 60IN6 TO HAPPEN. TO YOU? SOMEDAY YOU'RE G0IN6 TO B£ ASKED (YHAT YOUVE DONE DURING YOUR LIFE, AND ALL YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SAY IS,“I (HATCHED TV".' TNATS WHAT HAPPENED TO GRANDPA... ALL HE WAS ABLE TO SAV , WAS, “ I LISTENED TO THE RADIO' HAPPINESS is a SIDE-DISH OF FRENCH FRIES! in