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\ Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Friday, March 5, 1965 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle The 18-Year Old Vote: To Be Or Not To Be A new national committee has been organized to create a public demand for states to lower the voting age to 18. Called simply “Votes” it has issued an impressive summary of the case for lowering the voting age. Each point, though, seems to have its rebuttal. Age 21 is arbitrary, the committee notes, and deriva tive from antiquated practices dating back to the days of knighthood, when one had to be 21 to be knighted. We wonder, however, if 18 as a figure is any less arbi trary. President Truman suggested while in office that the age should be raised to 24. Arbitrary, but no less so. “If they’re old enough to fight, they’re old enough to vote,” says the committee in another argument. We prefer to ask if they’re old enough to fight. We might also ask what revelance there is to the comparison. The life span is now over 70 years, “Votes” notes. Extending the franchise “could act as a countervailing in fluence against staunch conservatism and economic immo bility.” True, if that’s what you want. What if you’re a staunch conservative, or economically immobile? Turnout will be good because “parents and elders do not want to be outdone by their sons and daughters.” Yet in the three states that presently have voting ages lower than 21 (18 in Kentucky, 19 in Georgia and Alaska), the 18-21 age group has a far lower turnout rate than even the over 65 group. The committee lists everyone from President Johnson to Abigail VanBuren to Jimmy Hof fa to Mott Snevitz as in favor of the 18-year-old vote. Yet we confess to a little enthusiasm for it. The most compendious research for de bate topics has yielded, at most, a 50-50 weight or argument. Arbitrary limit is replaced by arbitrary limit, and we suspect that a tie favors the present system. Aside from which, three years more of life under one’s belt never hurry by way of prepartion to exercise the most important prerogative of a democracy. The Minnesota Daily “There must have been a secretary leak- are usin’ this ‘host’ approach!” -too many guys Job Calls MONDAY Tennesse Gas Transmission Co. & Tenneco Oil Co. — electrical engineering, mechanical engineer ing, petroleum engineering, geo logical engineering, mathematics, physics, accounting, data proc essing. McDonnell Aircraft Co. — aero space engineering, civil engineer ing, electrical engineering, me chanical engineering, industrial engineering. Massey-Ferguson Limited — agricultural economics, agricul tural engineering, business ad ministration, mechanical engi neering. Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. — architectural engineering, chemi cal engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering. U. S. Geological Survey — chemical engineering, civil engi neering, electrical engineering, geological engineering, geology, mechanical engineering, petro leum engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics. FMC Corporation-Oil Center Tool Division Waco Division — petroleum engineering, mechani cal engineering, industrial engi neering, industrial technology, in dustrial education, industrial dis tribution. Diamond Alkali Co. — chemical engineering, accounting. Allstate Insurance — business administration. Aetna Life Insurance Co. — agricultural economics & socio logy, business administration, eco nomics. Container Corp. of America — finance, marketing, business ad ministration, chemical engineer ing, mechanical engineering. Central Intelligence Agency — accounting, biology, chemistry, economics, business administra- Sound Off New Health Plan Wins House Vote AUSTIN <A>) _ Gov. John Con- nally’s mental health plan won tentative house approval Thurs day, but not before receiving an amendment the sponsor said sev erely weakens the bill. Senators, meanwhile, approved and sent to the voters for a de cision in November a proposed constitutional amendment extend ing the life of the veterans land program. Taking top ceremonial play was Connally, who signed his No. 1 priority higher education coordi nating board bill and the forced oil and gas lease pooling bill. Before advancing the mental health bill on voice vote, House members approved an amendment stripping away a requirement that the commissioner of the pro posed “Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Re tardation” be a physician. Editor, The Battalion; . It was with stunned: disbelief that I read the editorials sent by The Battalion to former stu dents concerning recent action by the Association of Former Stu dents endorsing the coeducation and non-compulsory Corps parti cipation. What I would like to know is who gave the Associa tion Council the right to act on matters as grave and damaging to our school? It would seem only reasonable that a vote of all former students would have been taken before such a resolution was adopted, unless the Council was afriad of what the outcome might produce ih an actual vote. Such action as taken by the Council only tends to undermine the faith of former students in the Association and its leaders, and leads one to believe that outside pressures must be involv ed in this situation. For years now I have been very concerned over all the talk that A&M must change. Why must we change ? Our school has always been known as a school that pro duced men and leaders that could stand on their own two feet, who are known the world over both in business and the military for their unique quality. With the changes you have en dorsed, our school will become just another SMU, or TU or the like, and our future graduates will be just another group of tech nicians without that extra ingre dient that made A&M men proud, and bonded together the world’s largest and closest fraternity of Graduates of other schools are jealous of our traditions and her itage and many of them are even expressing concern over the changes now taking place in Col lege Station. Let’s keep our school a place for men that we can be proud of and not just an other bit of conformity in our so- called Great Society. Lets keep A&M a place of quality and not quantity. Size is not a measure of greatness and, in fact, will destroy the school we love. The Corps is A&M and with out it the school we cherish is gone. Those students dissatisfi ed with our school and its lack of social life can certainly go else where. They are not made of fiber we desire in our graduates. In summation, I feel that the Association leaders and some of the students are doing a great in justice to our school. Donald B. Gordon, ’50 tion, history & government, math ematics, oceanography, physics, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, data processing, geo sciences, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering. TUESDAY J. C. Penney Co. — agricultural economics, business administra tion, economics. Otis Elevator Co. — electrical engineering, industrial education, industrial engineering, mechani cal engineering. Cities Service Oil Co. — chemi cal engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineer ing, petroleum engineering. Boy Scouts of America — edu cation & psychology, agricultural economics & sociology, business administration, industrial educa tion, physical education. Coast & Geodetic Survey, U. S. Dept. 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Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. — electrical engineering, geological engineering, geophy sics, mechanical engineering, pet roleum engineering, physics. JT5 AS, Charles E. Thomas ’64 College Master Representative Fidelity Union Life 846-8228 “Sports Car Center” Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service “We Service All Foreign Cars” 1422 Texas Ave. TA 2-4517 NO MOVIES THIS WEEKEND See THE INTERCOLLEGIATE TALENT SHOW FRIDAY NIGHT 8 P. M. G. ROLLIE WHITE Reds Desperately Seek Answer To Viet Attacks An UP) News Analysis By WILLIAM L. RYAN 0®’) Special Correspondent A mob in Moscow, a Castro speech, a new anti-Russian blast from Peking. Put them all together and they produce a picture of a Communist world desperately needing to do something postive to answer U.S. attacks on North Viet Nam, and probably desperately fearful of doing anything. The mob, the Castro rage, the Chinese propaganda, tell a story of a Kremlin badgered from all sides, and carry a suggestion that President Johnson may be winning points in his decision to take the bull by the horns in Viet Nam. pect that the pro-Chinese mob leaders envisaged one more har assment of the Kremlin. ruin communisn in advanced co: tries. Moscow is the target of new and bitter Chinese propaganda attacks, and of sniping from Communist parties — like Fidel Castro’s — for failing to produce anything more than words to answer U. S. actions in Viet Nam. The Kremlin is nagged by fear ful European Communists, afraid on one hand of forever wrecking the world Communist movement, and on the other of bowing to pro-Stalinist pressure which could Castro’s angry speech wassyj ptomatic of what ails the ntoi ment. It reflected impotent ra| and fear that failure to respc more militantly in Viet Ni might encourage the Ameria some day to do something alx Cuba. Castro remembers Soviet backdown in the 1962 mi ile crisis. It’s been said of Castro that the world Communist dispute,! heart is in China but his t* depends on Moscow. AMA Conducts Campaign The new Moscow rioting would have surprised nobody if it had stayed within the usual bounds. The Soviet Communists need some way to dramatize their protest. What was surprising was that the mob got out of hand, blood ied the noses of Soviet police men and cried ‘Fascist” at them. The mob was made up largely of Chinese and North Vietnam ese students from Moscow and Patrice Lumumba universities. In going beyond normal police in dulgence for such demonstrations they produced another painful situation for the Soviet regime. It strains U. S.-Soviet relations, since the Russians had been warn ed that the Americans demanded protection and respect for U. S. property in Moscow. It seems reasonable to sus- To Combat Medicare CHICAGO UP) — The Ameri can Medical Association is pump ing nearly $1 million into a whirl wind educational campaign aim ed at replacing the administra tion’s Medicare proposals with its own Eldercare program. Racing against time but feeling it has taken the initiative, the AMA and most of its 50 state medical organizations are at- temping to present their case to the public before Congress acts on the administration-backed bill. The goal of the campaign is to get a large segment of the pub lic to write to their congressmen urging passage of the AMA- backed bill now pending in the House. In just four weeks, AMA head quarters said, it has filled orii for more than 14 million pamj lets. A spokesman said reque; for material comparing the rit medical plans have come in individuals, groups, associate businesses and industries, medi societies, women’s clubs, sck and religious groups. 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