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.
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EDITOR - - RONALD L. FANN
Managing Editor Glenn Dromgoole
Sports Editor Lani Presswood
Day News Editor - - Mike Reynolds
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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
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in Room 202 of the YMCA Build
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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