Dan forth Lecturer Urges
More Cultural Spending
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, February 22, 1966
A noted Latin American au
thority declared Friday that the
United States' should spend more
money to make its great culture
known and appreciated.
Dr. Jose Maria Chaves, a Dan-
forth visiting lecturer, said the
truly phenomenal intellectual
activity of the U. S. is not gen
erally known outside this coun
try.
“The U. S. has achieved great
ness in literature and science —
in making the fruits of,higher
education and learning available
to more people, universities, li
braries, concert halls than any
other place in the world,” Chaves
said.
“The U. S. is willing to spend
a great deal of money in various
development and public informa
tion programs abroad, but has
not been willing to spend any
money to speak of in making its
great culture known and appre
ciated by the nations it is at
tempting to lead,” he continued.
“While people of the United
States are developing a high de
gree of technology and enjoy tre
mendous financial and economic
wealth, they do not have any
greatness when it comes to the
humanistic studies or those dis
ciplines of a cultural nature,” he
added.
Chaves, president of the Insti
tute Israel-Iberoamerica in New
York since 1948, said he favors
strengthening existing programs
of cooperation between the U. S.
and Latin American countries.
“U. S. interests can best be
served,” he said, “by providing
trained leadership and by train
ing people for future work in
cooperative programs.”
Chaves praised the American
farmer.
“The American farmer is not
aware of vital contributions he is
making to uphold the position
of U. S. leadership in the world
and to support U. S. foreign poli
cy,” he commented. “The foreign
policy of the U. S. is financed in
great measure by sale and dis
tribution of agricultural sur
pluses in the underdeveloped
areas of the world.
“People are not always aware
that the position of the U. S. as
a world leader depends to a con
siderable extent on relations with
Latin America,” Chaves contin
ued. “Latin America is the num
ber one buyer of U. S. manufac
tured products and the number
one supplier of strategic and raw
materials for American indus
tries . . . coffee, tin, gold, plati
num, silver, tungsden, boxite,
diamonds, bananas and tropical
County Officials Conference
m/
Studies Retirement System
Members of the eighth annual
County Judges and Commis
sioners Conference heard a pro
posed state constitutional amend
ment described here last week
that would provide a retirement
system for all county employees.
The amendment was outlined
by J. C. Davis of Austin, assist
ant attorney general in charge of
the state and county affairs sec
tion and one of the organizers of
the conference.
He said Senate Joint Resolu
tion Number 4 would authorize
the Legislature to provide a
state-wide system of retirement,
disability and death benefits for
all officers and employees of
counties, other political subdivi
sions of the state and political
subdivisions of the county.
The proposed constitutional
amendment, he said, will be sub
mitted to Texas voters at the
general election in November of
this year.
One of the proposal’s provi
sion, Davis added, is that the
system be operated at the “ex
pense of the county or other po
litical subdivisions of the state
or political subdivision of the
county electing to participate.”
In other action by the Legis
lature which affects counties, Da
vis said House Bill 374, as
amended, authorizes the Com
missioners Court in each county
to increase the maximum com
pensation of each officer in an
additional amount not to exceed
20 percent of the maximum au
thorized by the bill.
fruits ... to name a few.
“I am firmly convinced that
the support and cooperation of
Latin American nations is abso
lutely essential to preservation
of the free world,” Chaves em
phasized. “If this were not so,
the Russians and Chinese would
not be making efforts to gain
support and influence in the
western hemisphere. For in
stance, the Chinese are spending
$100 million a year in subversive
programs and other activities in
Latin America alone.”
In contrast, the U. S. Infor
mation Agency budget for the
entire world is only $14 million.
Less than four per cent of all
U. S. foreign aid is spent in Latin
America, he added.
Chaves, who has represented
Latin America at the United Na
tions, criticized the U. S. for
sending ambassadors to various
countries as a reward for their
political support or economic
achievements.
“If the U. S. sent one of its
Nobel Prize winners anywhere
in the world and he remarked
that he was from the United
States, do you think people would
say: “Yankee, go home!’ . . .
certainly not,” Chaves pointed
out.
“Latin America is a vast area
. . . also eight million square
miles . . . with tremendous na
tural resources virtually untap
ped, undiscovered,” the educa
tor-attorney added. “Only four
per cent of the land is used for
food production for 220 million
people. Eighty-seven per cent
of the people are involved with
agriculturally - related industry,
however.”
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Grad Student Wins
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Maynard Earl Hill, a Texas
A&M graduate student from Del
Rio, has been awarded an air
pollution special fellowship from
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The training grant is the high
est award made . to an individual
by the service, an agency of the
Department of Health, Educa
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Hill’s research, mostly of a
basic nature, will be directed by
Dr. Howard Applegate of the
Department of Plant Sciences.
He will work with “particular
matter” and its relation to at
mospheric pollution. The study,
which covers a three-year period,
involves such pollutants as dust,
polients and pesticides which are
increasing problems in rural
areas.
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Louisianan Joins
Parks Department
Carroll D. Dowell, formerly of
the Louisiana Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation, has joined Texas
A&M’s newly-created Depart
ment of Recreation and Parks as
an instructor.
Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of
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March 5.
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campus to explain the Peace
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programs and the opportunities
it offers students. They will also
accept applications.
An information center will be
staffed by the team throughout
the week-long visit and the non
competitive Peace Corps place
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an applicant’s strengths and
qualifications and require no
preparation.
Members of the team will be
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during the week. Arrangements
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Profs To Present
Microbiology Papers
Papers by Texas A&M profes
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Society of Microbiology in Los
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Dr. Willard A. Taber and Dr.
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four-day meeting.
Taber’s paper is “Sequential
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