THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 25, 1967
Agronsky Opinions
Valuable To U.S.
“I see no validity to the ‘domino theory’ of Southeast
Asian policy that says if Vietnam goes, so goes the rest of
that part of the world.”
So said Martin Agronsky, veteran CBS newsman, in
his Monday night presentation in the Memorial Student
Center ballroom.
Agronsky reportedly said he came to A&M with little
expectation his opinions were in the majority. In that, he’s
probably right.
For the military and government the ‘domino theory’
and policy of containment are two of the most important
reasons for our presence in Vietnam today.
It is difficult to argue with a man, who as Agronsky
likes to say, ‘‘has done his homework” and thoroughly
studied the war and its related problems. Certainly a man
with the capability and insight gained in 25 years as a
correspondent would be able to evaluate the situation in a
realistic light.
But it is even more difficult to believe that a com
munist-supported guerrilla war which was successful in
Vietnam would not then inspire guerrilla activity on a much
larger scale in other Southeast Asian countries.
A history of Vietnam does point out that the North
Vietnamese have repelled the Chinese and Japanese, as
well as the French and now the Americans as “aggressors.”
But Ho Chi Minh's war against “aggressors” in Viet
nam now appears to be a Chinese communist and Russian
war of patient country-by-country expansion.
That the war has now committed more men than the
Korean War and that it is costing the United States $24
billion per year is a matter of record — a startling and
frightening record.
Agronsky makes an important point when he says the
United States, as the world’s most powerful nation, should
use that power wisely.
And we agree that “there are places in the world where
people do not want to be saved for democracy.”
In a smaller group discussion with journalism students
early Monday Agronsky said if expert accounts of day-
to-day incidents created an aversion to war as an instru
ment of political policy, then some good may come from
the news media’s casualty pictures and reports.
But assuming American public opinion did abhor war
in a later confrontation in Thailand, or Laos or India, would
communist nations have also learned their lesson in Viet
nam?
The problem is extremely complex. There are no easy
solutions. The United States cannot just easily either use
its full power and potential or withdraw completely.
As Agronsky says, the war has its own snowballing
effect and now lurks on the edge of uncontrol. He is right
in saying we cannot be certain or should not assume Red
China might not step in if pushed hard enough.
As he said, we are trapped between “an unobtainable
victory and an unacceptable peace.”
The Vietnam war has created more dissent, more
criticism, and more so-called solutions than any other war
in our country’s history.
Maybe it is time for the United States to “re-examine
the doctrine of American infalibility.”
Maybe few here do agree with Agronsky’s view of the
war and our policies, but “If I have helped people to con
tinue to think about the critical issues of the world today,
then my time has in no way been wasted.”
‘Great Pumpkin’ To Visit A&M
There will be pumpkins aplenty
Friday and Saturday at Texas
A&M’s School of Architecture.
More than 100 of them, in fact.
The second year design class
has issued special invitations to
elementary schools in Bryan and
College Station, as well as the
general public, to view students’
sculpting work.
“The Great Pumpkin Exhibit”
is scheduled from 4 to 10 p.m.
Friday and from 9 a.m. to noon
Saturday in the school’s main ex
hibit area.
Professors Norman Ufer and
Roy Pledger said the one-day
class assignment is aimed at as
sisting Linus of “Peanuts” fame
in learning the true identity of
the Great Pumpkin.
Students are allowed to use
only pumpkins and heavy black
paper to create unique “Jack-O-
Lanterns.”
Prizes will go to pumpkins
chosen “Most Beautiful,” “Scari
est” and “Most Humorous.”
Pollsters Give
Low Rating
To ‘Potheads’
NEW YORK OP)—Only about
6 per cent of American college
students have ever tried mari
juana, according to a Gallup Poll
survey, and not more than 1 per
cent have experimented with
LSD.
The poll was taken among stu
dents at 426 colleges for Read
er’s Digest, which published the
findings in its November issue.
“Projected to the nation’s six
million college students,” the
magazine says, “the figures
would indicate some 300,000
users, rather than the rumored
‘millions.’ But, of course, not all
of the affirmative answers indi
cate regular users.”
The article stated that most
students questioned, “while tol
erant toward their fellows who
have become ‘potheads’ and ‘acid
heads,’ nevertheless have a low
opinion of the victims. LSD was
particularly condemned.
Chancellor Finds
Pot In Garden
BERKELEY, Calif. (^—Mari
juana plants were found grow
ing Monday in the garden of
Chancellor Roger W. Heyns,
proving that the day of the stu
dent prank is not yet gone.
Sgt. Joseph Halleran of the
campus police said the plants ap
parently had been transplanted to
the garden sometime Thursday
night.
Whoever did the transplanting
wanted his handiwork to become
public. The Daily Californian,
student newspaper, was notified
about the plants via an anony
mous telephone call.
Homer Stallings
Dies At Home
Homer A. Stallings, 43, tabu
lation equipment supervisor at
Texas A&M’s Data Processing
Center, died unexpectedly early
Friday at home.
Stallings, an A&M employe
since 1954, was found dead in
bed about 6 a.m. Friday. He lived
with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Simec,
Rt. 3, Bryan.
A native of Paris, Stallings
graduated from Masonic Home
High School in Fort Worth and
attended Rice and SMU before
earning a bachelor of business
administration degree from
North Texas State University.
Survivors include a brother, R.
J. Stallings of Houston, and a
sister, Mrs. Eleanor Garner of
Dallas.
THE BATTALION
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Sidewalk Stand
Sa vedBy Governor
By JIM STROTHMAN
Associated Press Writer
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. 6T)
—Gov. Claude Kirk personally put
a freckle-faced boy’s sidewalk re
freshment stand back in business
Tuesday, and managed to plug
orange juice and free enterprise
and knock the Johnson Adminis
tration and red tape all in the
same free sip.
“We cannot declare to great
industries across the nation that
Florida offers a cooperative cli
mate for business unless we also
show that even an orange drink
stand gets a measure of attention
and understanding from state
government,” Kirk said as he
walked up to the stand.
Billy Churchill’s business, the
one that the Brevard County
Health Department closed down
because he was operating with
out a permit, is frozen ice. But
Billy, who believes the customer
is always right, dashed into the
house and came back with the
orange juice. Kirk drained it.
Kirk cut a ceremonial “red
tape” ribbon as the small busi
nessman opened his stand for the
first time in five weeks.
The 11-year-old’s problem is
symbolic of one “faced by millions
of Americans today: individual
initiative stifled by governmental
red tape,” Kirk said. “This is 180
degrees opposed from the Johnson
Administration, which seems to
be opposed to free enterprise. The
only thing I hope is that Billy’s
prices stay competitive,” he
quipped.
More than 300 neighbors and
school chums overflowed the
Churchill’s front yard at what
may be the most publicized ice-
pop stand in history.
“It’s wonderful that the gov
ernor would do this for me,” said
red-haired Billy. “It’s real fine.
I hope to make lots of money.”
Billy’s father, William F.
Churchill, said, “The whole thing
started off as ridiculous and end
ed up ridiculous. When it takes
an act from the governor to keep
a kid’s sidewalk stand in business
what else can you call it but
ridiculous ?”
Bulletin Board
TODAY
Aggie Wives’ Bridge Club will
meet in the M.S.C. Ballroom at
7:30 p.m. The club has been di
vided into beginning, intermedi
ate and advanced sections.
THURSDAY
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in room 108 Academic Building.
Pre-Yet Society will meet in
the Amphitheater of the Large
Animal Clinic at 7:30 p.m.
Galveston Island Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 3A of the MSC to plan the
all college dance.
Texarkana Hometown Club will
meet in room 2-c of the M.S.C. at
7 p.m.
Houston Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 201 of
the Physics Building.
American Meteorological So
ciety will hear Dr. Guy France-
schini, Dr. J. R. Scoggins and J.
Arnold who will discuss surface
temperature signatures over
Eastern Texas at 7:30 p.m. in
305 Goodwin Hall.
Bell County Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room
205 of the Academic Building.
FRIDAY
Society of Iranian Students
will meet in the YMCA at 6 p.m.
A&M Women’s Social Club will
meet in the Ballroom of the
M.S.C. at 3 p.m.
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