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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 13, 1967
CADET SLOUCH
Waring’s Opinions
Not For
Stag*
We have watched with great interest the controversy
in The Battalion’s “Sound Off” columns about the propriety
of entertainer Fred Waring’s remarks during a Town Hall
performance last week.
We were there and have first hand knowledge of the
bandsman’s statements and how he added them as an extra
touch to his show.
One letter writer attacked the credentials of Waring
to make statements about the marchers, protesters, draft-
dodgers and draft card burners, and “the disgusting dis
plays as we had around the Pentagon.”
Two other writers rebuffed the first and asked him
what credentials he had to judge Waring’s remarks and
then added some of their own along the God, mother,
country and apple pie route.
Everyone has seen acts which display a little flag
waving, and tastefully add a little zest of patriotism.
Everyone enjoys seeing the colors unfurled and a dedica
tion to the principals of liberty, and support of the country
no matter what position it’s in.
But Waring, realizing he was in the den of Aggieland
and a great military tradition, got a little too zealous.
There is no justification for a phrase such as “they
should take all those draft cards, put them into a pile,
set them on fire and then throw all the draft card burners
on top.”
This is a phrase attributable to the communists who
boast “anyone in Russia can say anything ONCE.” Maybe
that would solve all this protest stuff in the U.S. ?
The Germans had an even more effective way of
elminating dissent and shabby-looking, non-working philos
ophers. Still another solution?
Waring indicated he had a son in Vietnam, and con
gratulated Aggies for having more than 600 men serving
there.
Anyone can understand his fervor when he knows his
son may die while others, an undeniably shoddy-looking,
mindless mob, picket the Pentagon.
But when the audience attended Town Hall they were
looking for entertainment, which they certainly got, ■ not
for personal opinion, which they certainly got.
We fully support and respect our fighting men in
Vietnam. We honor our country AND our President.
We admire the way the two gentlemen wrote in, fully
supporting Fred Waring, his credentials, and his right to
opinion and his method of presenting such opinion—the
stage. But we wonder why these two clapped so loudly
and laughed so long when Waring remarked about burning
draft dodgers. They have an opinion too, although their
stage is the entire country.
Bulletin Board
TODAY
The Austin Hometown Club will
have pictures made for the Aggie
land and discuss plans for the
Christmas party at 7:30 p.m. in
the Second Floor Lobby of the
Memorial Student Center.
The Aggie Wives Bridge Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center.
The Small Business Adminis
tration will have a representative
in the Chamber of Commerce of
fices from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Anyone interested may come by
or call for an appointment.
The College Station chapter of
the American Meteorological So
ciety will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 305, Goodwin Hall. Guest
speaker will be J. Neumann, head
of the Meteorology Department,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He will discuss Rain Stimulation
Experiments in Israel.
THURSDAY
The Texarkana Hometown Club
will have pictures made for the
Aggieland at 7 p.m. in the Lobby
of the Memorial Student Center.
The Eagle Pass Hometown Club
will have pictures made for the
Aggieland at 8 p.m. in front of
the Memorial Student Center.
The Midland Hometown Club
will meet in Room 2-C of the
Memorial Student Center at 7:30
p.m.
The El Paso Hometown Club
will discuss Christmas parties at
7:30 p.m. in Room 3-C of the
Memorial Student Center.
The Amarillo-Panhandle Area
Hometown Club will elect a sweet
heart at 7:30 p.m. in the Rotunda
of the Academic Building.
The Rio Grande Valley Home
town Club will discuss plans for
the Christmas party at 7:30 p.m.
in Room 202 of the YMCA.
The Garland Hometown Club
will have pictures made for the
Aggieland at 7:45 p.m. in the
Lobby of the Memorial Student
Center.
The Waco-McLennan County
Hometown Club will discuss plans
for a Christmas party at 7:30 p.m.
in the Gay Room of the YMCA.
The Falls County Hometown
Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Room
232 of the Physics Building.
The San Angelo-West Texas
Hometown Club will meet in Room
108 of the Academic Building at
7:30 p.m. Christmas party tickets
will be distributed.
The Fort Bend Hometown Club
will discuss plans for a Christmas
party in Room 3-A of the Memo
rial Student Center at 7:30 p.m.
The Corpus Christi Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Memorial Student Center.
The Galveston Island Hometown
Club will discuss plans for a
Christmas party at 7:30 p.m. in
the Art Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
The Deep East Texas Home
town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m.
in the Memorial Student Center.
The Beaumont Hometown Club
will discussp Ians for a Christmas
dance at 7:30 p.m. in Room 2-D of
the Memorial Student Center.
The Matagorda Hometown Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Assembly Room of the Memorial
Student Center.
The Aerospace Engineering
Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m.
att he Bank of A&M.
The Dallas Hometown Club
will discuss plans for a New
Year’s Eve party in the Lobby of
the Memorial Student Center at
7:30 p.m.
The San Antonio Hometown
Club will discuss plans for a
Christmas party at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 145 of the Physics Building.
The Mechanical Engineering
Seminar Program will meet at
10 a.m. in Room 303, Fermier
Hall. Prof. M. J. Fox Jr. of the
Industrial Engineering Dept, will
discuss labor relations and the
young engineer.
Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Greenhut,
head of the Economics Dept., will
have open house for all economics
majors, graduate and undergradu
ate students, faculty and wives
from 7-8:30 p.m. att he Green-
huts’, 3802 Stillmeadow Drive,
Bryan.
by Jim Earle Q unnian FoPCCS Two Students
To Take Him To The Big Man’
‘You’ve got to admit—it’s an interesting package!”
Sound Off
Editor,
The Battalion:
The following is an article
which appeared in the Minne
apolis Tribune concerning smok
ing and smokers. The writer is
Will Jones.
“An open letter from a Non-
Smoker to All Smokers: Having
trouble kicking the habit? Well,
I’m sick of hearing about it. I’m
sick of the whining and hawing
and yapping about the surgeon
general’s report. I’m bored with
all the jokes about the trouble
you’re having trying to give up
cigarettes.
“For 40 years I’ve lived in a
world dominated by smokers. I
have complained very little. I’ve
accepted the fact that this is a
smoker’s world. But I’m through
being quiet about it.
“Do you know how you smok
ers look to those of us who don’t
smoke? You are ill-bred, ill-
mannered, inconsiderate slobs.
You may think you look glamor
ous like the smokers in the ads
and the movies, but you don’t.
You have a nasty habit and you
look ridiculous. Furthermore you
stink. Your clothes stink, your
breath stinks and you stink up
the whole world around you.
“I play a little game with
women who expect me to light
their cigarettes. I out-wait them.
Some give up and light their own.
Others ask for a light. Last night
one babe said, ‘Well, aren’t you
going to light my cigarette? I
replied, ‘No, I’d rather you didn’t
smoke.’ She lit up anyway and
that got me mad. I grabbed the
cigarette out of her mouth,
snuffed it out and tore it to
shreds.
“‘Do you think I am rude?’
I asked. ‘Yes’ she answered. T
am not half as rude as you,’ I
told her.
“I’ve had it up to here with
sore, red eyes caused by other
people’s smoke. I've had it up to
here with burned rugs and floors
and furniture because of slobs
who not only are slaves to a habit
but are so fumble-fingered they
can’t even handle it. And unless
you smoke in absolute fireproof
privacy, with other smokers, you
are intolerable. You are the
enemy.”
Kenneth Ziegenbein ’68
Editor,
The Battalion:
You are to be congratulated
for calling attention, in your edi
torial of December 8, 1967, to
certain ethical questions raised
by the recent heart transplant
performed in South Africa.
In order to stimulate further
discussion of these questions, I
would like to suggest that as pre
face to such discussion we must
acknowledge that recent advances
in medicine force us to re-define
the terms “living” and “dead.”
For example, in the 19th cen
tury a man who had ceased to
breathe was “dead,” and not too
many years ago, a man whose
heart had stopped was “dead.”
This suggests that being “living”
or “dead” is relative to available
medical skill and resources.
In these terms, your question,
“What if two patients were dy
ing and there was only one heart
available?” becomes most inter
esting. If I were one of the pa
tients, I would want the physi
cians involved to use their skill
and the one heart to aid the pa
tient who by medical criteria had
the best chance of survival and
longevity. How would you de
cide if you were one of the pa
tients ?
Manuel M. Davenport, Head
Department of Philosophy &
Humanities
the campus
adding an-
Editor,
The Battalion:
Congratulations to
traffic planners for
other obstacle to the campus gym
khana. The addition of tanktraps
on the corner of Lamar and
Houston will surely prevent fu
ture collisions and also detour
traffic crossing the campus via
Snook.
Local traffic problems seem to
be solved spontaneously with too
much concrete and too many tick
ets and not near enough fore
sight.
Wilott Heerde ’68
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STARTS TODAY
Peter Fonda
In
“THE TRIP”
Plus
“FOOTBALL
HIGHLIGHTS OF
’67”
CIRCLE
TONIGHT AT 6:30 P. M.
Rhonda Fleming
In
“RUN FOR YOUR
WIFE”
At 8:40 p. m.
‘BIKINI PARADISE”
(Both In Color)
AUSTIN (A 5 )—A car carrying
two college students held by a
pistol-pointing man they never
saw before crashed against the
entrance of the state capitol
Tuesday night, ending- a wild
chase.
The occupants, also including
the gunman’s 5-year-old son,
escaped serious injury.
Police held the gun waving man
without immediate charge while
they checked his identity and
background.
Norman Paul Brown, 18, of
Dallas and Walter Sheffield, 19,
of Houston told officers they
were en route back to Southwest
ern University at Georgetown
when the man halted their car
10 miles south of Austin.
“Take me to the big man at
the capitol or I’ll kill you!” they
quoted him as saying as he point
ed a pistol at their heads.
Police gave chase after their
automobile ran a traffic light in
downtown Austin near the capi
tol, where the students said their
captor ordered them to drive up
the steps “to the big man”—
presumably a reference of Gov.
John Connally, who was not in
the building at that hour.
The car also traveled the wrong
direction on several one-way
streets and went through other
traffic signals before it rammed
a pillar at the north entrance to
the statehouse.
Brown and Sheffield said their
captor talked wildly about a gang
“trying to kill me” and asserted
the pursuing officers were part
of that gang.
The youths and police who
talked to the man later quoted
him as stating he had just arrived
from California and had relatives
living near Austin.
Both students jumped out on
opposite sides of the front seat
as the car was wrecked. A poilce
cruiser skidding to a halt along
side struck Brown and hurled him
atop its hood. He was dismissed
after hospital treatment for
scratches and bruises.
Officers learned the gunman
had been involved in an auto acci
dent earlier. They found his car
in a ditch beside the highway
south of here.
Christmas Hams
To Help Teams
The Saddle and Sirloin Club,
of the Animal Science Depart
ment, is sponsoring a Christmas
ham sale to help finance trips
for their judging teams in 1968.
The hams each weigh between
14 and 18 pounds and will sell
for $25.
The cured hams may be picked
up in the Meats Laboratory in
the Animal Industries Building
between now and Christmas. The
first trip to be made by the Wool
and. Livestock Judging Teams
will be to Denver in early Jan
uary.
BARCELONA <A>)_I n a move
to restore drama activity in this
Catalan city, Jose Colsada is con
structing two theaters.
The local impresario is ready
with plans for a third playhouse
if the initial projects go well.
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