Brave New World
The Insiders Newsletter says you can now buy an
electronic device which reproduces the prenatal circulatory
sounds of a mother’s womb which can put your new baby
to sleep in 90 seconds flat. Womb sounds, it seems, run on
a 320-350 cycle in B-flat, one octave below middle C, and so
does the device. It costs $14.95, about the same as an old-
fashioned rocking chair.
—The Houston Chronicle
John Hotard
The Film! The Film!
Where’s The Film?
More private conversations are
discreetly overheard by newspa
per columnists than this world
dreams of.
Such was the case in the lobby
of the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth
Saturday after the March Along
With Minze.
Since the weekend events con
cerned Aggies and THEIR
DATES FROM A CERTAIN
SCHOOL, it is possible that the
young ladies in question MAY
have been from that school.
The problem that arose was
due to the lack of understanding
of military organization by wom
en. The conversations went
something like:
“Well, did you see me? Did
ya ? There I was—right in the
front rank.”
“Gee, I don’t know, Harry. I
THINK I saw you. The trouble
is that you all look alike. And
I was trying to remember what
you said about being in the 2nd
Division, 3rd Wing, Company
T . . . .”
ejected.
picture.
I think I missed
Are you mad?”
the
“No sweat, Jerry, Baby. I got
a picture of your company. You
are in F-2, aren’t you? Isn’t that
what you said? Well, I got a
picture of the C.O., the guy with
the flag, the front rank, and the
gpy with the mascot. . . .”
“Honey, what’s that big round
silver thing the back of the
band?”
“A tuba.”
“Well ... I got a picture of a
tuba.”
“I’ve got a blind date with Bill
Morgan. I was told he was in
charge of a lot of guys — a
Brigade Commander, or some
thing. Well, do you know what?
In the parade he only had nine
guys marching with him. Talk
about a snow job . . .”
“Look!! There’s Jim! See that
white and yellow rope around his
shoulder? That means he’s an
airborne ranger. . . .”
“Oh, really? My date has one
and he told me that he was a
Forward Air Controller, what
ever that means.”
“Jane and I were watching for
you guys. Then we saw Harriett
and Gladys across the street.
They came over and we got to
talking and when we looked up,
the parade was over. Sorry about
that.”
“I got a picture of your group
marching, Joe. I did just like
you said. The guy in front raised
his knife. . . .”
“SABER!”
“. . . . raised his saber and the
little flag . . . .”
“Guidon.”
“. . . guidon-on went up and
on the next step, I took the pic
ture. You were on the front
rank. How come when every
body else had their left foot go
ing down, you had your right
foot going down, huh ?”
“Do you still have the film?”
“Yes.”
“Good. Let me have it.”
“How come some of the guys
are wearing those hip boots —
they expecting a flood or some
thing?”
“Do y’all have trouble keeping
in step with the band since it
echoes off all the buildings?”
“Funny you should ask that
question . . .”
“I think the guys with no
braid on their caps are the sen
iors. Did you notice how they
just nonchalantly waltzed by the
reviewing- stand, without salut
ing?”
“I know you told me that the
front row of seniors salute, but
how come the freshman in the
back did?”
“Well, I don’t know what I did,
wrong. I was right by the re
viewing stand, and when all y’‘all
saluted, I pushed the button. You
know what? The flashbulb
“Gosh, did you see that outfit
with the blind boy up front be
ing led by that dog? I thought
that was sweet.”
Peace Threatened
In Middle East
(Editor’s note: Members of the
Arab Students Organization of
Texas A&M have asked that
the following statement of
opinion be published in response
to Tuesday’s Battalion editori
al “Egyptian Attack Threatens
Peace.”)
The manifested movement by
the International Zionism in the
creation of a Jewish state in
Palestine is the sole cause for
the deterioration of peace in the
Middle East. Before the creation
of this Jewish state on the bodies
and possessions of the Palestini
ans, Christian Arabs, Jewish
Arabs, and Moslem Arabs lived
in peace and harmony together.
There was no Middle East crisis.
The sad situation is that, at this
moment, there are millions of
Palestinians of Moslem and Chris
tian faith who are in camps not
much better than the Nazi con
centration camps, wanting and
waiting to go back to their homes.
Sympathy for the Jewish peo
ples by the kindhearted American
people is understandable. But why
should the Arabs pay for the
crimes of the Nazi regime in
World War II? Would it not be
more logical, then, to create a
Jewish state in Germany and let
the Germans pay for their crimes
against humantity ?
Of the 2.7 million Jews occupy
ing what is now Israel, there are
only 60,000 Jews who can claim
to be Palestinians. The others are
importations from all over the
world who packed their bags and
left to possess the Arab people’s
land and property. The Palestini
ans were driven out of their
homes like cattle under pressure
of Israeli terrorist groups, such
as the “Haganah.”
There is no right, whatsoever,
for a Jews to claim Palestine on
a purely religious basis, any more
an Indonesian of Moslem faith to
claim Mecca as the promised
land. Neither can an American
of Christian faith claim Jordan
as his divine right to possess
simply because it was the birth
place of Chrstianity.
If the Arabs recently lost a
battle with Israel, this does not
mean that they have lost the war.
History reminds us of the bloody
and costly battles against the
Crusaders who invaded the Arab
World under the flag of Christi
anity. History will repeat itself.
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
The creation of the state of
Israel in 1948, which resulted in
the dislodgement and disposses
sion of 1.5 million Arab refugees
and the Israeli occupation of huge
tracts of Arab lands in 1967 are
both justifiable and just to the
editors of The Battalion, but the
attempt of Egypt to expel the
Israelis from its own territory
amounts to criminal surgery, or
so the editorial of the Tuesday
issue of The Battalion sought to
instruct us.
This is a logic both sad and
unfortunate; sad because it re
veals a contempt for the intellect
of the readership and unfortunate
because it exposes an inability or,
worse still, reluctance to present
the full dimensions of the issue
at stake.
I will not dwell on the in
adequacies of the articles, both
journalistic and factual, for they
are only too obvious; I rather
like to point out that in para
graph 9 you plainly state that it
is “unfortunate that the war
might not have continued another
three days with the complete oc
cupation of all Egyptian terri
tory.”
I must plainly admit that, to
me, this statement reveals a
pathological attitude towards in
ternational human relations un
becoming of a respectable campus
newspaper; finally, I believe The
Battalion could have managed to
be a bit “less royal than the
King.”
Your v. truly,
S. El-Bihari, Sudan (Africa)
Entomology Dept.
I.D. No. 661017
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Editor,
The Battalion:
The Arab Club at Texas A&M
University read, with great shock
and dismay, the editorial of The
Baattalion, entitled “Egyptian
Attack Threatens Peace”, dated
Tuesday, October 24, 1967. It is
regretable that The Battalion
has allowed such absurd ideology
to be published.
We believe that The Battalion
owes a public apology to the
Arab students on this campus.
Furthermore, we feel that it is
not The Battalion’s position as a
student publication to take sides
on international issues in an edi
torial article.
The Arab Student Club
Texas A&M University
Mehdi Hnoosh
President
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Editor,
The Battalion:
In response to your article
“Egyptian Attack Threatens
Peace”, may I quote the “State
ment of Principles” framed in
your office. “The editors of the
student publications are expected
to be guided by the accepted eth
ics of their profession and to
keep within the bounds of truth
fulness, accuracy, sincerity, fair
play, decency, impartiality, etc.”
The article was not truthful
or accurate when it said that
“without the oil it bargains with,
Egypt would be exposed by most
nations as a fraud to peace.”
Egypt does not have any sizable
amounts of oil and must import
oil that helps to satisfy internal
consumption.
The article was not sincere or
in fair play. It said that “it’s
doubtful that the word of the
Egyptian government could last
20 days.” Egypt kept its word in
not starting the war in June
which ended in the cause of the
destruction of the Egyptian air
force and cost them the battle.
The day before, June 4, 1967,
Israeli officials, as well as Presi
dent Nasser, both gave their
promises to let diplomatic sources
work out a peaceful solution in
the area. You may also recall
that President Nasser’s vice-pres
ident was coming on June 6, 1967,
to Washington to discuss a politi
cal solution to the crisis.
The article was not decent in
speculating that “Egypt ma
soon have a new and rude awak
ening.” Who are you to judge
and condemn the Egyption people
in the faith in their govemment.
President Nasser, in his own
country, is more popular and has
the backing of more Arab people
than your own president, Lyndon
Baines Johnson, among the Amer
ican people.
The article was obviously par
tial to Israel.
It is clear and evident that
whoever wrote that article did
not abide by the above mentioned
principles. It was intended to
create unwarrented ill-feelings
between the Arab students and
their American hosts.
I believe that whoever wrote
this article should be removed
from the Battalion and repri
manded for not abiding by the
ethical standards of the Battalion.
Ralph Sinno
Graduate Student
Texas A&M University
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Editor,
The Battalion:
I would like to add my com
ments to those of Mr. Richard
Owen concerning the recent serv
ice on which Southwestern States
Telephone Co. has provided for
College Station. I can only agree
wholeheartedly with most of his
comments.
Most apparent to everyone is
the lack of facilities. Only now
is the telephone company begin
ning to build the facilities — the
Centrex system for the campus
and enlarged facilities at the Col
lege Station office—which should
have been begun back in 1964
when I was a “fish”. I cannot
but think that this speaks for a
company which does not plan its
expenditures and expansions far
enough ahead to meet the demand
for increased service when it be
comes necessary.
I, too, have had occasion to
need time and charges for long
distance calls. If Mr. Owen got
this information, he is more for
tunate than I have been on occa
sion.
Recently, I tried for several
days to arrange a conference call.
After arranging for all three par
ties to be available, we placed the
call. We reached two of these,
but the telephone company could
not reach the other one. Later,
we found that the operator was
using a Los Angeles number with
a Washington area code. No
wonder we couldn’t complete the
call!
Most important to the 12,000
Aggies, is the lack of long dis
tance lines and of operating pay
phones. This past Sunday I drove
to several pay phones in College
Station, all of which did not work.
Finally I drove to the College
Station office of the telephone
company. Only one of the several
phones outside the office worked,
and it was not even a pay phone.
I think that the residents of the
Bryan-College Station area de
serve better service from this
public servant.
If Southwestern States feels
that this letter is unduely harsh,
I would suggest to them that the
service they provide justifies this
and much more.
Frank W. Tilley ’68
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