Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Tuesday, October 6, 1964 BATTALION EDITORIALS Of Mice, Men And Aggie Fish Several thousand Ag-gie freshmen are fast approaching the crossroads of their college career. For this is the time of the fish “migration." The period of indecision, vacillation and confusion. The course that will separate the men from the boys—and those who want an edu cation from those who want four more years of high school. Each year about this time every member of the fresh men class asks himself, “Is all this worth it?" Some will stay on because they wanted to be in the Corps. Some will stay on in spite of the Corps. And a few, those who can’t stand to be away from their mothers and girl friends, will exit col lege life with loud moans of “hazing", and “not enough time to study." Because A&M requires ROTC for two years it also has a “built in” excuse for the freshman who failed to make the grade both academically and as men. The fish who leaves college now cannot enroll elsewhere until next semester, leaving him 15 weeks to damn the school which destroyed his false pride. To quote one philosopher, “No one would ever have crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm." GUEST EDITORIAL * Saigon Struggles With Identity the highest priority. The Chirstian Science Monitor U. S. Military Strength Grows In South Viet Nam SAIGON, South Viet Nam > — U. S. military manpower in South Viet Nam is steadily grow ing under a reinforcement plan drawn up last spring. American sources said Monday the total Ferreri’s 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 student writers only. 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Sports Editor Lani Presswood CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle ‘PEOPLE NOT COMMERCE’ As South Vietnam struggles with the problem of its identity—does it have any? What is it? What should it be?— comment from offside is dangerous. Especially when Wash ington is preoccupied with campaigning while the fuse in Southeast Asia burns. It was a momentary relief to hear that the promised meeting of political leaders took place late last week, but news is minimal. No adequate analysis is available of its personnel or its resources of political sagacity. Most of the news reporting from Saigon on this all-important topic has been cynical or uninterested. Another crisis of much less importance in the long run engulfed it. Once again an important unit of Americans, the Special Forces working with the mountain people, seems to have either made political mistakes or lacked liaison with the Vietnamese Government. It is always on the level of political policy that the United States’ role and personnel in Saigon seem to be tripped up. It would be most unfortunate if the effort to form a popular government were sidetracked. It could happen so easily. There is enough confusion piled up in South Vietnam to wreck anything unless heroic measures are taken to coun teract it. Pessimism sells cheap on To Do Street where the gray market operates. Constructive political thinking seems almost unavailable and yet any student of Vietnamese affairs knows there are significant numbers of conscientious in dividuals who have known all along that their country could save itself only if it first found itself. The effort to form a.ciyili^n government needs to have Sept. 30 was 19,000, an increase of 1,300 over the August rolls. Though it was indicated in Washington earlier this year that the goal was 20,000 or so, officials in Saigon said no definite ceiling has been fixed. S'^// / ‘Patient—we just got to be patient!” Sound Off EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol lowing is a letter to the editor to the University of Hawaii’s stu dent newspaper, Ka Lee O Hawii. Editor, Ka Leo: I sympathize with the cour ageous young men who are cur rently struggling to eliminiate the menance of compulsory mem bership in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. I wish them success in their endeavor. However, I personally doubt that they will ever obtain such sweet, sweet release. My own experience with the campus mili tary has obliterated most of the hope I previously sheltered for escape. I am cynical. My manifold protests have always echoed into oblivion before the punctured eardrum and dull brain possess ed by Big Brother. He has re fused to listen. I fear I have nearly reached the brainwashed point of Uncon ditional Surrender. I feel that I might possibly survive my term in that termite-infested hut of blood, guts and ballistics. Perhaps it is possible to merely salute and suffer. Yet, I doubt it. I can’t stand the sight of blood. I adhor • parades. My uniform doesn’t fit. Weapons are a source of unqua lified horror and bewilderment. Mandatory hair-cuts have left me bald, bleached and peeling. I faint at drill. I’m allergic to khaki, spit and polish. I really couldn’t care less who wins the Army-Navy game. I am obvi ously not military material. You agree with me? Alas, civilians simply do not comprehend the state of mind displayed by the average ROTC instructor. He is a robot moti vated by discipline, duty, and Bulletin Board ATTENTION ALL HOMETOWN CLUB REPRESENTATIVES The hometown club section of the “Aggieland” staff has announced that the last date for scheduling club pictures for the “Aggieland” will be 18 Decem ber, 1964. The final day for having the pictures made will be 1 March, 1965. Please make arrangements to have your pic ture scheduled before the dead line. Dave Baker, Section Editor R. D. Baker PICTURE SCHEDULE AGGIELAND ’65 Outfit pictures for the AG GIELAND will be made accord ing to the schedule below. Uniform will be class A Win ter. Outfit C.O.’s will wear sa bers; seniors will wear boots. Ike jackets may be worn if all seniors in the outfit can obtain them. Guidons and award flags will be carried. All personnel in the outfit will wear the billed service cap issued by the college. The type of cap worn by under classmen to and from the picture taking area is left to the discre tion of the outfit C.O. Outfits should be in front of the Administration Building by 1230 hrs. on the appointed day. Arrangements should be made by first sergeants with the Mess Hall supervisors to allow the outfit to be admitted to the Mess Hall early. October 5 — C-2, D-2 7 — A-3, B-3 8 _ C-3, D-3 9 — E-3, F-3 12 — G-3, H-3 13 — Sqd 1, Sqd 2 14 — Sqd 3, Sqd 4 15 — Sqd 5, Sqd 6 16 — Sqd 7, Sqd 8 19 —Sqd 9, Sqd 10 20 —Sqd 11, Sqd 12 21 — Sqd 13, Sqd 14 22— Sqd 15, Sqd 16 23 —Sqd 17, Sqd 18 26 — M-Band, W-Band TUESDAY Lavaca County Hometown Club will meet in the Academic Build ing at 8 p.m. Meteorology and Oceanography Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. at the YMCA Building. The Agriculture Education Wives’ Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Earl Webb, 1011 Winding Road in College Station. Pre-Law Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2-A of the Memorial Student Center. A Houston attorney, Clyde Woody, wlil speak on the Ashley-Lima case. MSC Radio Committee will meet at 8 p.m. in Room 146 of the Physics Building to begin instruction on amateur radio oper ation. CORPS FRESHMEN YEARBOOK PORTRAIT SCHEDULE FRESHMEN IN THE CORPS will have their portrait made for the “Aggieland ’65” according to the following schedule. Por traits will be made at the AGGIELAND STUDIO, ONE BLOCK NORTH of the inter section at North Gate, between the hours of 0800 and 1700 on the days scheduled. Uniform will be winter blouse. BLOUSES AND BRASS WILL BE FURNISHED AT THE STUDIO. EACH MAN MUST BRING HIS OWN SHIRT AND TIE. Annual portraits are with out cap. GH cap may be worn for optional personal portraits. October 5- 6 Squadrons 4-6 6- 7 Squadrons 7-9 7- 8 Squadrons 10-12 8- 9 Squadrons 13-15 12-13 Squadrons 16-18 14- 15 Maroon Band . . PLEASE NOTE: The studio will have NO BAND BRASS. Band members are request ed to bring their OWN BLOUSE WITH BRASS. 15- 16 White Band Civil Rights Bill Termed Invasion Of Liberities E disdain. He walks, he talks, he cries real tears. I know, I’ve seen them. They are the inevit able product of my unique in eptitude. But does he release me from duty ? I have pleaded, moaned, groaned, begged, importuned implored, beseeched, demanded. I have invoked the name of the Lord in vain. I have written my congressman. I have damned, cursed and threatened. And he has received all such supplication with scorn and add itional demerits. He and his kind are utterly dedicated to “the CORPS, the CORPS, the CORPS” And I . . . alas, I cannot con vince him that I should not be a member. He simply will not believe I am a girl. A.C.B. WASHINGTON 6P> — The Supreme Court was told Monday that unless it declares the public accommodations section of the new Civil Rights Act unconsti tutional “there’s no end” to how far Congress will invade per sonal liberties. Moreton Rolleston Jr., attorney for The Heart of Atlanta Motel, hammered at the theme “people are not commerce” like products. He denounced as “hogwash” government agruments that the section barring racial discrimi nation at virtually all motels is aimed at relieving the burden on interstate commerce. The high tribunal began its 1964 term with an unusual open ing day hearing to take on its first test of the Civil Rights Act. The motel appealed from a three-judge federal court deci sion in Atlanta which upheld the public accommodations provision. The justices also heard a more restricted test of the law, a federal government appeal from a three-judge federal court in Birmington which ruled in favor of a restaurant that main tains it is not in interstate com merce. Richard MacDavid Smith at torney for Ollie’s Barbecue in Brimington, Ala., said Congress had set up an invalid test which brings under the law any res taurant that “has moved food in interstate commerce.” He said this wording sets up a legislative presumption that be cause a restaurant has moved its supplies in interstate commerce in the past, it is continuing to do so. There is no limit to how far Thurmond Slams 88th Congress As Socialist WASHINGTON (A>) — Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C, charac terizes the second session of the 88th Congress as one that broke all records “in its great leap for ward toward socialism, centraliz ed government and fiscal irres- ponsibility’ He said in his weekly newslet ter that Congress “showed that it is more of a ‘rubber stamp’ for presidential wishes than an indetpendent legislative body rep resenting the people.” Thurmond, who switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican a few weeks ago said Congress often ignored the Constitution “but never more than in passage of the Civil Rights Act.” back this measure goes, Smith added. Ollie’s, which concedes it is in violation of the law as worded, contends it is not in interstate commerce because (1) it is lo cated a considerable distance from interstate routes, (2) serves local regular patrons, and (3) purchases all its food in Ala bama. Negroes are served only on a take-out basis. Solicitor Gen. Archibald Cox argued the government’s view in both the Atlanta and Birming ham cases. He called the ques tion of the civil rights bill the most important raised by Con gress in a decade. The solicitor general said the issue rests squarely on the power of Congress to regulate even local activities when a burden is PALACE Britan Z‘$$79 LAST DAY ‘RIDE THE HIGH SURF” STARTS TOMORROW r " v ' : ' DUi "L ^ . rv tfWi ..aM-G-M IH | ’ and Seven Arts 1 Productions presentation created on interstate commerct Laws in other fields mil wa y ^ cited. And Cox said ample bas: he do had been shown that Congnj to conl had to deal in the civil rigkf; * n 1 area with “a very real nation! ® ruce ’ commercial problem.” fctuden The justices peppered a a h aic three attorneys with questi«i ; '* ; * iroUg during the four hours of agni J ege . ment. ■ Marvn pressei the tre mM/m that h at pro: dents fly fro in the NOW SHOWING i Slam/bam/ ; 1 thousa of hoi Thes COlUMBa nCTURES journa ence n or, sue lion sr <26 M says B U.C.L. profs ruts ii were j named 1958.’ ’ All tinue Larsor , _ BMW' SB®#*- ItlEWI "GOOD ASii mmm Timtiwimm EdiK«ISioai®OII vill b CIRCLE Studei til 4:1 | Purj to int LAST NITE fenecess Hiring 1st Show 6:45 p. m. g Rock Hudson In ‘FAIRWELL TO ARMS” rogn Debbie Reynolds In ‘2nd TIME AROUND CIVILIAN FRESHMEN Aggieland ’65 Civilian Freshmen will have their pictures taken for the Ag gieland ’65 starting the 5th of October and running through the 16th of October. 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