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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, June 18, 1964
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
BATTALION EDITORIALS
Guest Editorial
As the civil-rights bill moves swiftly toward passage,
popular expectations will sharply rise. They should not. In
the long run this is a very important bill. But in the short
run it is cautious. Much of the earlier urgency has been
compromised out.
It should not be supposed by either side that the federal
Department of Justice will move to the rescue of beleagured
or frustrated citizens forthwith and on a large scale.
There are two strands to the civil-rights effort. One is
political and the other is legal. The first involves the work
of voluntary organizations and their pressure on various
organs of government, state and national. This can move at
whatever speed the citizens wish. It is now moving fast,
as demonstrations and civil disobedience spread and the aim
is to put pressure on the full range of discrimination.
The second is a maze of legal actions, large and small,
working through the courts. They are started by individuals,
groups or organizations and sometimes by public authority,
local or national, and face an array of counteractions by local
authorities and police.
Up to now the legal form of redress has moved very
slowly. Most cases are confined to the local courts which
are often the instruments of the prevailing segregated so
ciety. Actions are costly; legal talent for Negroes’ cases is in
short supply; appeals are hard to arrange and often im
possible for technical reasons. Court dockets are swamped.
The original plan for the civil-rights bill was to make
it easy for the Justice Department in Washington to inter
vene, and to provide for quicker and more widely available
appeals from the southern police actions, courts and laws.
But in most cases this form of intervention has been nar
rowed in range and slowed down. Local laws and agencies are
given three months. Federal compliance agencies are then
given half a year. In most cases it is not until these are
exhausted that the Attorney General can step in and then, -
only if his office can establish a “pattern” of deliberate illegal
discrimination on the part of a significant grouping of vot
ing officials, public accomodations, employers, etc.
Alegal victory for one person in one locality will not
establish a right for another elsewhere. In the face of local
opposition the latter will also have to sue. There will be im
portant test cases at first and ultimately the pattern con
cept will prevail. But no one should expect a sharp change
of the wind overnight from this legislation. It is both the
delay and the majesty of the law that it moves slowly but
with ultimate massive effect.
—Christian Science Monitor
Schweitzer Hospital Crude,
Still Best Hospital In Gabon
“—Not that it matters now—but didn’t you say that you
had closed th’ window last night?
Subject Of Birth Control
Can Be Political Dynamite
Fruits Of Labor
The library is the academic heart of the university, and
a university is no better that the quality of that library.
To meet the ever increasing demands of higher educa
tion and research, the present inadequate facilities of Cush
ing Memorial Library are soon to be supplemented with an
estimated $3,671,650 construction project that will adjoin
the existing Cushing Building. The design will provide the
maximum number of features to encourage student use and
to provide efficient library service.
While the construction plans are being finalized such
bodies as the Library Committee are attempting to ascertain
the nature of collections to be housed in the new structure.
To determine this it is first necessary to correctly evaluate
the present shortcomings. To this end many people are being
consulted in their respective fields to ensure that those
shortcomings are brought to the attention of the planning
bodies. Then too, these same individuals are being consulted
as to the future requirements of their departments. The
result of these investigations will be, we hope, library facili
ties second to none.
It takes many hours of study and hard work for the
responsible bodies concerned. An attempt must be made to
please everybody, while at the same time keeping within
the available budget. There are of course a thousand and
one problems.
Steadily however, the plans of the new library are be
coming available. As soon as possible this publication will
attempt to bring to light decisions as they are announced.
There are many people working very hard at this
project. It is the hope of this publication that forthcoming
articles concerning the library facilities at A&M will ade
quately reflect the fruits of their labors, and awaken stu
dents and faculty, as well as the general public, to the
tremendous job being undertaken.
By TEX EASLEY
Associated Press Special Service
WASHINGTON <A>) _ Birth
Control is a subject many con
gressmen shy away from as pol
itical dynamite, but not Rep.
Clark Fisher of West Texas.
Fisher contends that dissemin
ation of birth control information
would be the most lethal weapon
possible in the war against pov
erty. He elaborated and expand
ed on his views during House
debate on the foreign aid bill.
“Mr. Speaker,’ he told his col
leagues, “the pending foreign aid
bill and the antipoverty legis
lation serve to remind us that
these proposed expenditures will
be but an exercise in futility un
less more is done ,to curb the
booming - rate of population in
crease.
“This would be a good time
to review this problem, both at
home and world wide.
“Let us think in terms of the
cause of our problems, rather
than just floundering about in at
tempting to treat the symptoms.”
The quiet-speaking Texan, who
is 60 but doesn’t look it, and has
four grandchildren, then set
forth some sobering statistics:
At the present rate of popu
lation growth there will be 200
million people in this country in
just three years, some 260 mil
lion by 1980 and more than 700
million by 2050—just 85 years
hence, if the present rate con
tinues.
The world population is gain
ing at the rate of 50 million a
year, and the rate is increasing
because of science. In Ceylon,
for example, the mortality rate
was slashed 40 per cent in one
year by spraying DDT in an
antimalarial drive.
If the present rate of growth
is continued for 600 years, this
would leave every inhabitant of
the world with only one square
yard to live on.
“It took untold thousands of
years to reach the first billion
in world population, which was
achieved in 1850,” Fisher said.
“But look what has happened
since then. The second billion
was recorded by 1930; and the
third billion required only 30
years. And the fourth billion
will require only 15 years . . . .
“Mr. Speaker, it is sheer folly
for our government to send for
eign aid to underdeveloped coun
tries, ostensibly for the purpose
of helping raise the living stand
ards of the poor, unless such aid
is accompanied by a program of
dissemination of birth control in
formation.
“Otherwise the effort is futile
and indeed borders on stupidity.”
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The African hospital of t)r.
Albert Schweitzer has no running
water, no indoor toilets, and, ex
cept for an operating lamp in
surgery, no electric conveniences.
Yet despite its crudeness, it of
fers the best medical care in the
entire country of Gabon, an area
of more than 100,000 square
miles.
A report on the Schweitzer
hospital as well as another Afri
can medical facility, the Sudan
Interior Mission Eye Hospital in
Kano, North Nigeria, appears in
the June issue of “Texas State
Journal of Medicine,” published
for physicians by the Texas
Medical Association.
The story entitled “Within the
Dark Continent, Progress in
Sight and Insight” is the ac
count of the work of a Christian
Medical Society short-term mis
sionary. Dr. Robert Rock, the
former missionary, is now in the
private practice of ophthalmol
ogy in Austin. In 1962 he spent
three months in Africa, working
six weeks with Dr. Schweitzer in
Lambarene and six weeks with
Dr. Ben Kietzman in Kano.
The two African medical cen
ters to which Dr. Rock donated
his time provide a contrast in the
old and new ideals in missionary
activity. Dr. Schweitzer’s hospi
tal is primitive, Dr. Rock reports,
and this is the way Dr. Schweit
zer wishes it. “Le Grand Doc-
teur” — novelist, physician, mus
ician, teacher, evangelist, and hu
manitarian — insists that pati
ents should be kept in their own
environment.
The other hospital where Dr.
Rock worked is up-to-date, and
its staff encourages all possible
progress.
Schweitzer, now 89, no longer
practices medicine. He devotes
School Group
Selects President
Eldridge Eason of the Spring
Branch Public Schools in metro
politan Houston is the new pres
ident of the Texas Association
of Public School Adult Educa
tion.
He succeeds George Telge,
Houston schools counselor, after
elections this week on the A&M
University campus. Eason is di
rector of adult education for the
Spring Branch schools.
his time during the day to super
vising every detail of the work
of his clinic. His evenings are
spent playing the piano and read
ing and writing political, philo
sophical, and theological books.
Access to Lambarene is by way
of the Ogowe River. Slender
dugouts carry the sick through
crocodile and hippopotamus in
fested waters to the hospital deep
in the jungle. The patient’s fam
ily accompanies him and sets up
housekeeping outside his room.
They hang their wash on clothes
lines between the brown tin-roof
ed buildings, and their livestock
wander through the grounds.
Cost of feeding the patients’ re
latives is one of the largest items
in the hospital budget.
Dr. Schweitzer looks on the na
tives as children and trains none
above the level of nurse’s aide
because he believes this is the
limit of their mentality, reports
Dr. Rock.
The staff of the Mission Eye
Hospital in Kano, however, at
tempts to train Africans in
everything. Natives are employ
ed as laboratory technicians, nur
ses, and opticians. The staff
hopes to find an African physi
cian to train as an ophthalmolo
gist.
Dr. Ben Kietzmen who is the
2 A&M Seniors
Selected Chaplains
Two A&M University seniors
from Southeast Texas have been
selected civilian student chaplain
and assistant chaplain for the
next academic year.
J. Gordon Gay, coordinator of
campus religious life, announced
James R. Hattan, as civilian stu
dent chaplain. He is an agri
cultural engineering student, a
member of the Singing Cadets
and leads the singing at Reliance
Baptist Church in this area.
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only full-time physician at the
Kano hospital alternates spend
ing three years in Africa with
one in the States. He is a com
bination mechanic, plumber, elec
trician, and physician, and his
only medical help comes from
short-term missionaries.
Dr. Rock says although Afri
cans are suspicious of white peo
ple, they turn to them in time
of illness. All white people are
considered doctors, he reports,
and every missionary home in
Africa is a first aid station. He
tells of one woman missionary—
probably the equivalent of a prac
tical nurse—who treats from 200
to 300 patients daily.
Africa is a land chained to the
past by ignorance and supersti
tion, yet in certain areas, the art
icle says, Christian missionaries
with their ministry of healing
have superimposed a new way of
life upon an old culture.
Wanda Pugh, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Pugh,
Rt. 1, Center
ville, after grad
uating from the
Centerville High
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for the Secre
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McKenzie-Bald-
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College of Bry
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Shortly after completing her
course, she started to work for
the First National Bank of Madi-
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work.
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