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.
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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.
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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.
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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?”
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