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THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, July 16, 1964 BATTALION EDITORIALS Demands Upon Education The report of the Governor’s Committee On Education Beyond The High School is indeed a welcome glimpse into the efforts of the administration to face problems arising out of the economic and technological demands of our time. The fact that an attempt has been made to face the problems at all is indicative that responsible people realize that unless the number of trained persons in Texas increases significantly, we face the bleak prospect of having large segments of our population become literally unemployable. Twenty years ago, the majority of Texans lived in rural areas, today almost 70 percent live in metropolitan districts. The trends toward urban and industrial dominance are destined to intensify. As these trends continue in years ahead, better education will become the critical ingredient of accomplishment for the individual and the state. Apart from the main recommendation to establish a strong central coordinating board for public education beyond the high school, there was the recognition by the Committee that Texas has a long and difficult path ahead if it is to achieve the desired goal of eminence in education. This is particularly the case when it comes to financing. The Committee came to the conclusion that it will be necessary to either place all institutions of education beyond the high school in Texas in a priority category in the State’s budget or, in the alternative, to procure the required funds through a dedicated tax. Clearly, however these are only recommendations. Legis lative enactment will be the final proof of the pudding. Governor Connally has indicated that he has been against a dedicated tax but “might wind up recommending it.” Let us hope that the administration and the state legis lature see fit to vindicate the earnest efforts of the Commit tee. CADET SLOUCH by Ji m Earle “ . .. And we have this civic, moral responsibility to be con cerned about the nomination of a candidate, but our teacher has no political responsibility! With class and all the assignments, how can we keep up with the convention?” Inevitable Realignment By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Texas—New prelimi nary steps, inching Texas toward the inevitable realignment of con gressional and legislative dis tricts, were taken last week. Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr asked that the federal district court at Houston allow time for the legislature to redraw the districts in its session next year ... as the court had done earlier with congressional apportionment. In view of U. S. Supreme Court decisions that both houses of the state legislature must be selected on the basis of population alone, Carr concluded there is little doubt that Texas districts would be declared unconstitutional. Meanwhile, in Fort Worth and Dallas a committee of the Texas Legislative Council held its first public hearing seeking advice on how congressional districts should be redrawn. A parade of witnesses was heard before the committee re cessed briefly. It will move to Houston for its third hearing on July 17. A fourth hearing will be held in San Antonio. Commit tee spokesmen have indicated they may go to West Texas, then perhaps return to South Texas for further testimony. A session of the full Legislative Council, research arm of the Legislature, is scheduled for July 27 in Austin. At that time, the Council is expected to decide whether to broaden its own study to include the explosive, close-to- home problems of recarving the state’s House and Senate districts. SCHOOL FUND State Board of Education raised the per student apportionment of state available school fund money to local districts from $78.50 to $81.50. This $3 per capita hike repre sents an overall $7,600,000 raise in available fund aid to the dis tricts for 1964-65, based on a current estimate of more than 2.500.000 students. Comptroller Robert S. Calvert estimated the fund for the coming school year at $218,300,000. Board allocated $10,500,000 to finance the cost of purchasing and hand ling text books. This left $20^,- 700.000 to be distributed on a per capita basis. This increase means no increase in overall state aid. Allocations to all but the few prosperous “bud get balance” districts for salaries and operations will be decreased by an amount equivalent to the available fund boost. New HS Students W. T. Riedel, Supertendent of A&M Consolidated Schools, has an nounced that all new students moving into the A&M Consoli dated Independent School District should contact the Superintendent’s Office, beginning July 13. Pre-registration will assist the school in scheduling classes and ordering necessary supplies and textbooks. Board also agreed to name a study committee to look into a proposal for a $1,400,000 junior college at Pampa. “Sports Car Center” ; Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & ; British Motor Cara Sales— Parts—Service ; “We Service All Foreign Cars"! 1422 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517! r ^ PARDNER foil’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Gel Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS BOOK REVIEW ‘Dallas, Public And Private 9 By RAYMOND HOLBROOK Associated Press Writer Because it is the site of the assassination of President Ken nedy, Dallas has become the most discussed, criticized and analyzed American city of the decade. Much of what has been written has been superficial, fragmentary and emotion-charged and often based on impressions rather than knowledge. Hence, Warren Leslie’s “Dallas, Public and Private” takes on im portance because its scope, depth and careful analysis brings the city into clearer focus and puts into perspective the setting of the tragic events of Nov. 22-24, 1963. Leslie, a newspaper reporter and advertising executive during his 17 years in Dallas, is neither an apologist nor a muchraker. He is, rather, a thoughtful and con cerned citizen who, with sensi tivity but not emotion, seeks the answer to the oft-asked question “Why did it happen in Dallas?” Not content with the who and what, Leslie seeks the why of Dallas. “Without important natural advantages, it is an improbabie city, man-made as the lakes around it; it is the creation of the citizens. It has not been By WARREN LESLIE pushed in any given direction by circumstances it could not avoid,” he says. “Instead, it has been shaped as few cities have ever been by men, and much of the psychology of Dallas traces back to this. And men taking credit for what the city is, must also take the responsibility for what it is not.” It is the people who have made Dallas what it is—and is not— that is the chief concern of the book. There is the Citizen’s Coun cil, the select group of Dallas leaders with the power to say “yes or no.” Those are the men credited by Leslie for much of the city’s physical growth but whom he says are incapable of provid ing it with moral and spiritual leadership. Then there is the group which Leslie terms “the absolutists,” who feel that they alone possess wisdom, patriotism and virtue and who insist that others conforms with their views. And then there is the “compulsive right-wing woman” whose legions shoved and jeered Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and berated Adlai Stevenson. Some Dallasites will probably disagree with some of Leslie’s emphasis and interpretations but there is little liklihood that his findings can be refuted. What Leslie does find in his study of Dallas is far more com plex, far more thought-provoking and far more significant than Lee Harvey Oswald. One of Leslie’s conclusions is that basically Dallas is no dif ferent from other cities and there in lies the universality of the value of the book. It makes “Dal las , Public and Private” more than a curiosity piece on the city where the President was assas sinated. And no thoughtful reader can lay the book down without an awareness that hip city could benefit from the same type of penetrating analysis that Leslie has given Dallas. Bulletin Board The Indian Student Association will meet Saturday, July 18, in the Gay Room of the YMCA at 7:30 p.m. to honor former mem ber of Parliment Professor Balraj Madhok. ★ ★ ★ The St. John’s Lutheran Broth erhood of Wallis will host the Tuesday, July 21 meeting of the East Central Conference of Broth erhoods of the American Lutheran Church at 8 p.m. ★ ★ ★ The Industrial Education Wives Club will sponsor a family picnic Thursday, July 16, 6:00 p.m. in Area 1 of Hensel Park. Bring meat dish and salad for eight and own table service. Dress will be casual cottons for the ladies. Wolf Spoke Kenneth Wolf, Extension econo mist in agribusiness spoke at the Texas Planting Seed Association recently at the Ramada Inn in Col lege Station. The economist’s subject was “Why Organize?” Ferreri’s Triangle Restaurant Try Our New SECRETARY SPECIAL Monday Thru Eriday The SECRETARY SPECIAL is a quick, low calorie meal which gives you time to shop during your noon hour. The Church..For a Fuller Life..For You.. ‘lluneral! BRYAN,TEXAS 502 West 26th St. PHONE TA 2-1572 CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Sunday Masses—7 :30, 9 :00 and 11:00 OUR SAVIOUR’S LUTHERAN 8:15 & 10:45 A.M.—The Church at Worship 9:30 A.M.—Bible Classes For All Holy Communion—First Sunday Each Month CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 9 :30 A.M.—Sunday School 11 :00 A.M.—Sunday Service 10:00 - 11:30 A.M.—Friday Reading Room 7:00-8:00 P.M.—Wed., Reading Room 8:00 P.M.—Wed. Evening Worship ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL 90S Jersey Street, So. 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