THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, May 7, 1964
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| Reynolds 9 Rap |
by Mike Reynolds
The noose of economic poverty
had been tightening around the
neck of your friendly neighbor
hood columnist for the past three
months and was showing no sign
of loosening in the near future.
I had just about given up on my
financial deficits and decided to
float one more loan to buy a used
revolver and put myself out of
misery, when one of my eco
nomics prof’s lectures hit home.
We had been discussing the na
tional debt and he stated that the
federal government at least is
able to pay the interest on its
debts by simply selling more
bonds and getting in a little
deeper. The thought struck me
that I might be able to do the
same thing myself.
Robert M. Logan of Student
Aid has been after me for some
time trying to get some of his
gelt back from the Journalism
Loan Fund.
Why couldn’t I run upstairs in
the YMCA and borrow the same
amount from the small loan fund
on the 3rd floor. This was done
in a matter of minutes, but one
month later the wolf was knock
ing on my door again.
This time it was the Former
Students who drew my attention.
I was just about to borrow the
same old amount from them to
pay off the small loan fund
when Uncle Sam and my income
tax refund saved me from a life
of crime.
After I paid off all my bills, I
began to think and realized that
I could have kept the chain go
ing for the next two years. I
could have borrowed from the
Journalism Loan to pay off the
Former Students, borrowed from
the small loan fund to pay off
the Journalism Loan Fund and
so on.
After a couple of times around
the circle I could have cut out
a lot of work on my part by send
ing the following note to each
of the members of the chain.
“Every three months I wish to
borrow the sum of xx dollars.
Would you please forward that
amount in my name to such-and-
such loan fund.
This deteriorating situation re
minds me of a small town be
tween Arlington and Fort Worth
which I shall call Darnit for my
protection from the chamber of
commerce. Seems that last fall
Arlington and other large towns
around Darnit began strictly en
forcing their lease laws for dogs.
The owners, in turn, began to
haul their dogs off and drop them
rather than comply with the laws.
You can guess where they ended
up dumping them. That’s right:
Darnit. The city fathers reported
that they would soon have to start
carrying out a giant extermina
tion program to get rid of all
the stray dogs that were finding
their way inside the Darnit city
limits.
At the height of the crisis, it
was very hard to tell whether
the dogs were going to Darnit, or
whether Darnit was going to the
dogs.
Oh well, Good-night Summer
Girl, wherever you are.
Red China Acknowledges
Involvement
TOKYO (A*) _ Red China
virtually acknowledged Wednes
day it is deeply involved in the
terrorism that has swept the
eastern Congo and brought death
to American and other foreign
missionaries.
When the terror was at its
height in Kwilu Province last
January, the Congo government
announced it had uncovered docu
ments proving that the rampag
ing rebel warriors had Red Chin
ese support.
On the other hand, some
American missionaries beaten
by the guerrillas reported that
the terrorists shouted “Moscow!”
In any case, the official Pe
king People’s Daily brought the
Congo into the dispute with
Moscow over the best road to
world domination. It praised the
Congo terrorists for resorting .to
In Congo
violence rather than Soviet-style
peaceful co-existence.
The Soviet Union is making
its own pitch for influence in
Africa. President Ahmed Ben
Bella of Algeria in Moscow heard
his nation praised Wednesday by
President Leonid Brezhnev as an
inspiration for other nations seek
ing independence. And Premier
Khrushchev sailed from Yalta for
an official visit to President Ga-
mal Abdel Nasser’s United Arab
Republic.
People’s Daily said the “con-
go revolutionaries have found the
correct path leading the revolu
tion to victory” — that of vio
lent struggle.
The paper saw the guerrillas’
fight as a glowing example in
Africa of the efficacy of the Chi
nese struggle thesis. It said that
Cuba and South Viet Nam were
other examples.
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WASHINGTON <A>) — Presi
dent Johnson raised the possi
bility Wednesday he might call
Congress back to Washington if
it doesn’t act on his civil rights
and other priority bills before
adjourning for the national par
ty conventions.
The President told an extraor
dinary news conference on the
White House south lawn: “Some
cynical people think there may
be a deliberate slowdown in the
Senate.”
If there should be that kind
of a slowdown, he continued, “I
would seriously consider coming
back here, of course, after the
Republican convention in July
and, if necessary, coming back
after the Democratic convention
in August.”
The question that prompted
the implication of recalling Con
gress — a grim spectre to many
politicians during an election
year — sought Johnson's feelings
“about holding Congress in ses
sion should they run on a little
bit with the civil rights bill.”
The President replied that he
hoped Congress would finish
with the civil rights bill at least
by early June, “and then we can
get on with our food stamp plan
in the Senate, our poverty bill,
our Appalachia bill, and our
medical aid bill.”
Pass
In
Review
By TOM HARGROVE
From The Battalion
May 4, 1932
“J. E. Loupot, student dealer
in slightly used clothing, has an
nounced an essay contest to be
open to all A&M students. The
essays are to be written in de
fense of A&M’s cadets wearing
second-hand clothing as a por
tion of their regulation uniform.
A prize of $10 in gold will be
awarded to the winner, Loupot
announced.”
★ ★ ★
March 29, 1933
“Despite the official sanction of
Congress placed on 3.2 per cent
beer, there is little possibility
of beer being sold on the A&M
campus. If Texas should repeal
the prohibition law, students
would still have to go to Bryan
or Wellborn to get beverages.
★ ★ ★
May 5, 1933
“A senior, Jack C. Barron, re
visited his fish year Saturday
night. Barron, who is in the
Engineering unit, was visiting in
the Infantry when an “airing-
out” party for the fish was in
progress. Apparently Jack was
mistaken for a freshman, for sev
eral husky Infantry sophomores
chased him into the tall woods
with Sam Browne belts and buc
kets of water.”
Bulletin Board
THURSDAY
The Brazoria Hometown Club
will meet in the Academic Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
The Dallas Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 108
of the Academic Building.
The El Paso Hometown Club
will meet in Room 3-B of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30
p.m.
The Corpus Christi Hometown
Club will meet in Room 3-C of
the MSC at 7:30 p.m.
The Bay Area Hometown Club
will meet in Room 303 of the
Academic Building at 7:30 p.m.
The area Sul Ross Lodge will
host the grand master of Texas
Masons, John R. Collard Jr., to
speak at a meeting at 7:30 p.m.
at the Sul Ross Lodge at 1300
Jersey Street in College Station.
The public has been invited.
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