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Page 2 THE BATTALION College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 15, 1967 CADET SLOUCH Fish Class Climbs To New Heights The Class of ’70 has come through again. Neither dark, nor Campus Security, nor acrophobia could stay those gallant Fish from the swift resurrection of their proud banner atop the Academic Building dome. It looked as if the battle was lost recently when the first banner, as well as the imprompt flag pole, was removed as mysteriously as it had appeared. The fact that it stayed up so long is mute testimony to the fact that somewhere, somebody was chicken. But the same cannot be said for the intrepid fresh man class. This is the first time in recent memory that a fish class, or any class for that matter, has performed such an act of “skill and daring?” Since it is unlikely that the perpetrators will forward to accept their acclaim, we have to hand the Fish class as a whole. They’ve got hair. come it to Return The Texas Saloon? “Though the liquor interests piously pretend to be interested in the public welfare, they’re actually looking toward an increase in liquor sales of eight million gallons a year in Texas,” Rev. Albert Tucker, executive director of Texas Alcohol Narcotic Education, said recently. According to the Rev. Tucker, advocates of open saloons say that if a persoh could get one or two drinks he wouldn’t buy a bottle, therefore total consumption of alcohol would be decreased. “This is just propaganda for the gullible,” he notes. by jim Earie Marriage, Religion Voiced At Forum “The strongly religious person should not marry out of his re ligion and the moderately reli gious person should be careful and realize that mixing of re ligions is a dangerous thing to do,” Dr. Bardin H. Nelson said Tuesday night in the last of the YMCA’s Marriage Forums. make the difference between suc cess and failure. He said “all persons thinking about marrying outside of their religions should remember that there will be differences arising from such areas as drinking, card playing, religious education, church orientation, birth control, parental pressure and sex.” Nelson, a member of A&M’s Department of Agricultural Eco nomics and Sociology, spoke on “Marrying Outside Your Faith” and sited examples of marriages which he has witnessed as a coun selor at Louisiana State Univer sity and at A&M. ‘The Draft, You’ Discussed Tonight By Methodists Parts of Greenland lie k beneath 11,000 feet of ice. J s •N SElLINg pe< an' thi A<< “Statistics show that marriages in which both members belong to the same faith are more likely to remain together than jjaterfaith marriages,” Dr. Nelson noted. “The Draft and You” will be discussed tonight at 7:15 in the Methodist Student Center at North Gate by J.M. (Ben) Daniel, chairman of the local Selective Service Board. “This not only means marriages between Catholics, Jews or Prot estants, but also members of the same church but from different congregations or areas,” he add ed. “I’ve taken my blades out and it seemed to suit just right!” Nelson also pointed out that the “degree of maturity” of the members of the marriage will Daniel, who has been a mem ber of the board for 16 years, will answer questions about the pres ent situation of the draft and its future. He will discuss who is being drafted and the situation as it stands in regard to students, fa thers and others in line for the draft. Free to - Texas A&M^ Students 25<p to others A new booklet, published! fi )fit educational for I non-profit educational fom tion, tells which career field you make the best use of your college training, inclii: i liberal-arts courses-wf ^ career field offers 100,0001 jobs every year — which field produces more corponl^® presidents than any other-tg starting salary you can eij Just send this ad with youru and address. This 24f' career-guide booklet, "0p[ tunities in Selling,” will mailed to you. No costort * gation. Address: Councilot portunities, 550 Fifth Ave.,! #< -. York 36, N. Y, M*- r Ag Council “What they’re really after is an 80 per cent increase in sales,” the minister contends. “Right now, one gallon of alcohol is consumed in Texas each year for every man, woman and child. The states with liquor by the drink it is 80 per cent more. If the liquor interests get their way in Texas, that per capita consumption could be increased to 1.8 gallons a year, or an additional eight million gallons of alcohol a year.” Dr. Abner V. McCall, president of Baylor University, has urged Texas lawmakers to vote against legalized sale of liquor by the drink, citing a need for stricter enforce ment of liquor laws instead of “enlarging the scope of liquor traffic to be regulated.” Texas can expect to see 606 additional people killed in traffic accidents in the first year if liquor by the drink is legalized, according to a booklet now being distributed by TANK. “In the state of Iowa,” the booklet states, “fatalities went up 20 per cent to 30 per cent after liquor by the drink was legalized.” (These figures are based on the average of the two years before and two years after liquor by the drink.) “During 1965, 3,028 people were killed in highway traffic in Texas,” it continues. “Using the lowest Iowa figure, 20 per cent, Texans could expect to see an additional 606 people killed in traffic if the liquor by drink were legalized.” The booklet also claims that “marked increases in as saults, robbery by force, burglaries and homicides have been seen when the number of outlets for the sale of alcoholic beverages is increased.” It contends the relationship be tween consumption of alcohol and serious crimes is un mistakable. The Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol reports the “alcoholism is our most pressing public health prob lem.” States with package and liquor by the drink sale have almost 50 per cent more alcoholics than those with package sales only, the Journal notes. (Continued From Page 1) and has been designated a “Dis tinguished Student.” He recently completed the Army Aviation Campus Flight Program. Shafer’s honors and awards at the college level include listing in Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universi ties, 1966 Danforth Award, Santa Fe Education Scholarship, Op portunity Award and Anderson- Clayton Scholarship. PAST AND present activities by Gerald Smith are Freshman Agricultural Society, Saddle and Sirloin Club, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta and Senior Meats Team. The student has received the Moorman Company Scholarship, Ralston Purina Scholarship, Houston Association of Hotel and Restaurant Meat Purveyors Scholarship, and has been desig nated a “Distinguished Student” six semesters. Gerald is the son of Col. and Mrs. George P. Smith of Pine- ville, Mo. MacFarlane, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. MacFarlane of 7809 Ewing Avenue in Fort Worth, is on the Student Agricultural Council, Civilian Student Coun cil, and is an Entomology Club officer and a “Distinguished Stu dent.” Liquor by the drink has not solved the problems of the other states that have legalized it. It will not solve Texas’ problems. It will only create new ones. He also is winner of a Jesse Jones Scholarship and is listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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