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THE BATTALION Pag-e 2 College Station, Texas Friday, February 19, 1965 GUEST EDITORIALS College Help For Whom? Two approaches to the higli eost of higher education are before the new Congress for consideration. Both seek to ease the heavy burden of putting a youngster through col lege. But they attack the problem in different ways, and in effect, are designed to aid different segments of the popula tion. One plan, proposed by President Johnson is aimed pri marily at helping students from poverty-stricken families, who otherwise could not go to college at all. It would do this through cash aid and government-guaranteed private loans, with the taxpayers picking up part of the interest tab. The other, proposed by several members of Congress, is aimed at helping parents who can finance their children’s higher education—but at considerable financial sacrifice to themselves. It would permit college expenses to be deducted by the parents for income tax purposes. Either proposal would cost the taxpayers quite a bit— $260 million a year to start with for the President’s plan and more than $1 billion annually for the tax deduction scheme. Assuming the goal is worthwhile, the question is: By which method would the national interest best be served? This is admittedly a tough decision. It is easy to feel sympathy for the parent who finds his budget strained to the breaking point during his family’s college years—espe cially if two or three are in school at the same time. On the other hand, many of our brightest youths are denied higher education simply because of lack of funds. From the national standpoint, however, the choice seems clear. It is of more value to the country to invest tax funds in helping those who otherwise would never get beyond high school, than to ease the financial burden for those who, with parential help, would go to college anyhow. Parents may object that such an approach amounts to penalizing self reliance while rewarding those who have been improvident. But it is certainly not the fault of a bright high school student if his parents are too p>oor or too ignorant to provide for further schooling. Nor does any special virtue rest with the indifferent pupil who happens to go to college just because his folks have the money to send him there. The national interest is served by seeing that as many as possible of our brightest youngsters get a chance for all the education they can abosrb. They will become our assets of the future. Painful as it may be to parents who already are footing the bills on their own they should remember that that is what parents are for. Washington Daily News Job Calls MONDAY Reynolds Metals Company — chemical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineer ing, mechanical engineering. Caterpillar Tractor Company — agricultural engineering, chemi cal engineering, civil engineer ing electrical engineering, indus trial engineering, mechanical en gineering. American Oil Company — chemical engineering, civil engi neering, mechanical engineering. Federal Power Commission — chemical engineering, civil engi neering, geology, electrical engi neering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering, account ing, economics. Sears, Roebuck & Company — accounting, business administra tion, data processing, agricultural economics, industrial distribution, mathematics, statistics. Fisher Governor Company — The Top Combination of Protection and Security For Complete Information Call BILL F. CATES 3801 College Road VI 6-4986 You Owe It To Yourself! American General LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Houston * Texas Gus S. Wortham — Chairman Benjamin N. Woodson, CLU, President THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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News Editor Gerald Garcia Sports Writer Larry Jerden Wire Editor - - Ham McQueen Staff Writers Tommy DeFrank, Bob Elmore, Jerry Cooper Photographer Herkey Killingsworth CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle DRAB SINCE KHRUSHCHEV New Red Rulers Return Personality To Kremlin “Okay, Fish Jethro, I’ve missed breakfast a few times, but not enough for you to forget my name!” By HENRY S. BRADSHER MOSCOW UP) — A touch of personality has begun to creep back onto a Soviet scene that was left drab and gray when Nikita Khrushchev became an unperson. After four months of being heard little and seen even less, the men who replaced Khrush chev have taken a tentative first step toward personal pub licity. Leonid I. Brezhnev, the new first secretary of the Commu nist party, and Premier Alexei N. Kosygin had their picture published on the front page of the Soviet Union’s Communist party paper, Pravda. A jolly photograph showed them walking away from the airplane that brought Kosygin back Monday from a trip to Peking, Hanoi and Pyongyang. The Soviet press used to be full of pictures of Khrushchev coming, going, inspecting farms, doing all sorts of things. But this was the first picture published here featuring Bre zhnev and Kosygin in Moscow since formal portraits of them appearted that October morning when Russians learned they should forget Khrushchev. When Khurshchev made an im portant speech, the papers us ually published closeup photos of him speaking. On the rela tively fewer speeches by Bre zhnev and Kosygin, photos have been distant views of the over all scene. Khrushchev’s many statements and messages used to get his name into Soviet headlines fre quently. Kosygin has said less, Brezhnev still less. Brezhnev has been so silent, his activities reported so sel dom, that some foreigners jump ed with too much haste to the Bulletin Board FRIDAY Arab Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 202 of the YMCA Build ing. MONDAY MSC Bridge Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center. Electrical Engineers Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the South Solarium of the YMCA Building. BOOK REVIEW 'Davy’ Can’t Match His Ancestor By BOB ELMORE Staff Writer “Davy” by Edgar Pangborn is “one of the 10 best science fic tion novels of the year” — or so says its front jacket. If this is chemical engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineer ing, petroleum engineering, elec trical engineering. California State Personnel Board — civil engineering. TUESDAY Jones & Laughlin Supply Com pany — accounting, business ad ministration, education & psy chology, economics, English, elec trical engineerin, industrial engi neering, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering. General Dynamics/Fort Worth — aerospace engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineer ing, mechanical engineering, nu clear engineering, mathematics, physics. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp oration — agricultural economics, business administration, indus trial education, industrial engi neering, mechanical engineering. Continental Oil Company — chemical engineering, civil engi neering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechani cal engineering, petroleum engi neering, accounting, business ad ministration, physics, mathema tics, chemistry. MhilctArt Supply 'Pldtu/te. fAcuMje4~ •925 So.College Av«-Bry«K,Twu.K “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service We Service All Foreign Cars 422 Texas Ave. TA 2-451 PALACE Brtjan NOW SHOWING Walt Disney’s In “THOSE CALLAWAYS” QUEEN DOUBLE FEATURE Gregory Peck In ‘DUEL IN THE SUN” Elvis Presley In “LOVE ME TENDER” true, then it must be 10th with Pangborn writing the other nine too. It comes out a sort of “Tom Sawyer-Tarzan” by Erskine Cald well. Time his changed the face of the land and language and brought superstition back as a great force. Ignorance is wide spread, and man has lost his dominant position on the earth. The tale begins in something called 303 after the Years of Confusion. Yes, Virginia, we’ve had the Big War. The boy Davy, born in a whorehouse, raised in an or phanage, and bonded out to a beer parlor, manages to over come all these handicaps and lead some thing of an unusual life. It’s written as a journal of Davy’s as he his mate and some friends are sailing away from their homeland in search of a new place to live. Things back home were something like our Dark Ages. There was a lot of the Church with chants and witch hunts and very little fun for Davy and the rest of us Heretic types. So when the boy got old enough to travel he ran away from the tavern and his master. Regretfully, this also entailed running away from the innkeep er’s daughter, but he managed to make something of an impression on her just before he left. No sooner was he out of the stockade than he met his first Mue. No, nat a cow but a re minder of the War. Once in a- bout every five births a deform ed, misshapen infant is born that must be killed according to law. Naturally, some women prefer to risk death and allow their child to live, hoping it will a out grow its affliction. These Hues grow up in the woods as wild men with scant hope of ever find ing a friend or permanent home. Davy and the Mue become com panions for a time until the Mue is gilled by Black-wolf, a huge cousin of his Old-time coun terpart. Just before the Mue dies, he make Davy a gift of what turns out to be an old French horn. Davy learns to turn the long forgotten sounds of the instru ment into music that earns him room and board as he travels about and eventually gets him a home with Rumley’s Ramblers, a band of gypsy-like people. They tour the known land selling trin kets, telling tales, and putting on patent medicine shows. Davy finally feels like he must break away and try to turn in his yellow loin-cloth for the white rag of a freeman. ®oton Presents Spoon River G. Rollie White Coliseum 8 P. M., Monday, February 22 Season Activity Cards Honored For This Performance General Admission A&M Students — $2.50, Date Tickets — $1.00 Faculty & Staff — $2.50 Public School Age Students and under — $1.00 Other Patrons $2.50 On his way to disappointment he meets two priests and a young heretic who is traveling to the coast with them. Much to Davy’s surprise that night he finds out that the heretic is female and he is so incensed at her masquerad ing with the two clergymen that he marrys her. Slaves aren’t allowed to marry though so they keep it to themselves. Well they eventually make it to the coast and build their boat to escape. Luckily the reader is not in store for a happily ever after ending. As they sail off into the sunset, (besides not be ing able to see where they are going) Mrs. Davy’s pregnancy is destined to end in tragedy. Mr. Pangborn has written a clever, witty, lustful story, but it’s a bit slow and a little too borrowed to rank quite so high on the hit parade. FRIDAY 7:15 P. M. Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter “ON THE DOUBLE” SATURDAY 1:15 P. M. ^ UNIVERSAl-fNTCRNATtONAl WCTVttg. Also SUNDAY 5:30 p. m. SATURDAY Midnight Movie *76e TtovUneil OWN ACTION- PACKED STORYI yfflusor unHIRiaui Starring RICHARD WIDMARK Reginald Gardiner • Walter (Jack) Palance unwise conclusion that he was not wielding power from its tra ditional center in the Soviet Un- on, the Communist party secre tariat. The shift in the direction of a little more personality began at the came time the new leaders took their first major foreign policy initiative, Kosygin’s trip to North Viet Nam. The press pub lished pictures of the touring premier with Ho Chi Minh, with Mao Tze-tung and with North Korean leaders. Then came the homecoming and the picture of Brezhnev and Kos ygin at the airport on Pravda’s front page. CORRECTION ORR’S —Should Have Read- CATSUP ers L nrei wa ta mi !>lo at ut Ta iiii ve sqi dl lit >r C or 2,1?;^; 45c Sean Connery (James Bond) In “OPERATION SNAFU’ David Niven In CONQUERED CITY” ^ STARTS SUNDAY “THAT MAN FROM RIO” CIRCLE LAST NITE Cliff Robertson In 633rd SQUADRON” & Cary Cooper In “VERA CRUIZ” BE WITH US SATURDAY NITE FOR OUR ALL r NIGHTER 6:30 P. M. TIL ? ? ? 6 BIG SHOWS No. 1 Steve Reeves In “DUEL OF THE TITANS” No. 2 Frank Sinatra In SGT. 3” No. 3 Jane Fonda In “TALL STORY , No. 4 Natalie Woods In ‘BOMBER B52” No. 5 Carol Lindley In ‘BLUE DENIM” No. 6 Pat Boone In “JOURNEY TO CENTER OF THE EARHT’ PEANUTS By diaries M. Schali *3 MILM V0URE THE WORST KlHO OF LITTLE BROTHER A 61RL COULD HAVE! IF I COOLD HAVE HADM CHOICE, VOU WOULD HAVE BEEN THE LAST 0UEI WOULD HAVE CH05EN ‘ JL^. 1 THIRTY VEAR« FROW NOW ZOO’LL LOVE ME 1 6\4TER$ ALUAH’S LOVE THEIR BROTHERS THIRTY VEARS LATER