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i§. .. • ••■ , ...... .......... —v \ THE BATTALION Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, February 16, 1968 CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle The Strange Case Of H. L. Hummel Did you hear the story about the traveling salesman and the farmer’s daughter? You have. Hhhhmmmm. Well how about the strange case of H. L. Hummel? Hummel, you see, is another anti-war nut who lives in California, a land of many gay people. Hummel is not a placard bearer, torch carrier, bearded boy, Berkeley beatnik, or even a Hell’s Angel. He would even be kicked out of a crowd of high-flying “Make love, not war” hippies because, well, he’s too old to love. And yet the H. L. Hummel in our story has created more trouble and grief than a dozen peace-children lying in front of Dow Chemical Company or blocking supply shipments to Vietnam. To most people who Hummel has contacted, he has merely been a signature with the address: P. O. Box 497, Susanville, California. Hummel enjoyed sending anti-war material to widows and parents of servicemen who were killed in Vietnam. After being contacted by one infuriated woman, the Pentagon, with the help of the Army’s Criminal Investi gations Division and the FBI, took charge. “When women are contacted in this matter we’re en couraging them to let us know about it,” a Pentagon spokes man said. “This junk is all objectionable from a moral and ethical sense, but legally there is little we can do except appeal to the sender to stop. “But where we find material that is actionable, we’ll take action,” he said. Only obscene or seditious material is actionable. tt:::::::;:::# Capital Roundup 35 State Candidates File ! By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN — Eleven Democratic and three Republican candidates for governor squared off for an action-packed May 4 primary election as filing deadline closed last week. Most of the interest centers in the gubernatorial contest. Only one Democratic incumbent in state-wide office, Comptroller Robert S. Calvert, has primary opposition. The lieutenant gover nor’s office and two Supreme Court places being vacated by incumbents are contested by Democrats. While Republicans provided candidates for all statewide of fices except judicial, only in the governor’s column is there a GOP primary race. The rest are un opposed. Here’s the way the primary ballots will look: candidate for the Court of Crimi nal Appeals have no Democratic opposition. Included in the packet of goodies which Hummel sent were an anti-war essay personally written by H. L. H.; a reprint, one of 100, of an anti-war essay which appeared in the “Christian Century;” and a 150-word anti-war news story bylined by “Wilfred Burchett.” No mention was made that Burchett is a Communits. “It gives me that ‘eye-to-eye’ contact that I’ve been missing.” Sound Off A call placed to Hummel in California was answered by a woman who said her husband was 87 years old and unable to hear well. She relayed questions to him and he answered into the telephone himself. The man said he had ordered the 100 reprints from the “Christian Century” because he “wanted to read them.” When asked if he had ever mailed the material to women whose sons or husbands had died in Vietnam, Hum mel would only say that he didn’t remember”, but added “what if I did? I don’t see anything wrong with it.” Hummel’s essay accused the United States of “bomb ing hospitals, kindergartens and private homes” and then added “We self-styled civilized people kill thousands for no cause at all which makes us a thousand times the bar barian the cannibal is.” Editor, The Battalion Just to get the record straight, I would like to correct one date in Davis Mayes’ “Research Re veals A&M’s True Age” in The Battalion of February 14, 1968. The date “June 13, 1871” should be “June 20, 1871.” The commis sioners inspected sites in Brazos County on June 13, 1871; they chose the present location of Tex as A&M on June 20, 1871. All of our effort has been directed to wards establishing the fact that the date of June 20, 1872, which appears in all chronologies of Texas A&M, is an error. There simply is no longer any doubt that the present site was chosen by the commissioners at their in Houston on June 20, meeting 1871. Yours very truly, Ernest Langford Archivist DEMOCRATIC Governor — Lt. Gov. Preston Smith of Lubbock; John L. Hill of Houston; Waggoner Carr of Lubbock; Eugene Locke of Dal las; Gordon McLendon of Dallas; Dolph Briscoe of Uvalde; Pat O’Daniel of Dallas; Don Yar borough of Houston; Johnnie Mae Hackworth of Brenham; Edward L. Whittenburg of Houston and Alfonso Veloz of Houston. Lieutenant Governor — House Speaker Ben Barnes of DeLeon; Rep. Don Gladden and Gene Smith, both of Fort Worth. Comptroller—Robert S. Calvert and Dallas Blankenship, Paris. Supreme Court, Place 2—Tom Reavley of Austin and James G. Denton of Amarillo. Atty. Gen. Crawford C. Martin, Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler, Agriculture Commissioner John White, Treasurer Jesse James, Railroad Commissioner Jim Lang- don, Supreme Court Associate Justice Zollie Steakley, Court of Criminal Appeals Judge W. A. Morrison and Leon Douglas, a REPUBLICAN Governor — Paul Eggers of Wichita Falls, Wallace Sisk of Houston and John R. Trice of Dallas. Republican candidates with no primary opposition are: Lieuten ant Governor—Douglas DeCluitt of Waco; Attorney General— Sproesser Wynn of Fort Worth; Treasurer — Manuel Sanchez of Brownsville; Comptroller — John Bennett, San Antonio; Agricul ture Commissioner—E. H. Schu- hart of Dalhart; Land Commis sioner—Millard Neptune of New Ulm; and Railroad Commissioner —Jim Segret of San Antonio. ★ ★ ★ DRINK BATTLE RENEWED Gov. John Connally told a press conference that he may renew his effort to strengthen state liquor laws and legalize and tax liquor by the drink at the special session of the Legislature he must call this year. Connally said the liquor pro posal he made in 1967, which was killed by the Legislature, may well be a part of his program for raising the $160,000,000 to $190,- 000,000 which will be needed to operate state government next year. He renewed his attack on the “subterfuge” of the private club, and said that his efforts in 1967 to tighten up the liquor law were opposed by some who now profess to be shocked at the shortcomings of the liquor laws. But Connally said he has not yet decided when to call the Legis lature back to Austin. Specula tion is that the session will be in June, after the primaries. He suggested that if the liquor issue is not handled by the first special session, he might call an other session to work on it. He also announced that he wants a strong conflict of interest law to prohibit any member of the Legis lature from practice before any state agency. Student Senate Continued From Page 1) inate the regulations would con tribute to destroying the imagt of A&M. “It seems a shame that AM, known for building men and for being a school full of pride, must insult its students, men and women, by insinuating that tlis students are morally irresponsi. ble and too immature to dress correctly,” Senator Sanny Ward said. Following is the opinion poll that the CSC proposed to the Student Senate: OPINION POLL ON STUDENT CLOTHING REGULATIONS Instructions: Vote by mark ing (X) the one statement yon prefer. Should you select the 3rd statement, addi tional marking is requested. This ballot is to turned in at the polls when yon vote in the gen eral elections. ) I favor the current cloth ing regulations as print ed below. ) I feel there should be no clothing regulations for students. ) I feel the current cloth ing regulations are ton strict and should be rt- vised. I favor revising the paragraphs which have been marked (X) below: A list of the clothing regula tions followed on the ballot. ( ( ( For a widow or a woman whose son was killed to have to receive such letters is an offense against the public good. It should be treated as such by the postal depart ment. Senile fools who include such activities under their rights as citizens do not realize what added pain they cause to the open wound of a personal liss. We’ll take beel-led cattle and sheep like the hippies over the world’s Hummels anyday. Bulletin Board FRIDAY The Society of Iranian Students will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the YMCA. MONDAY The Pre-Vet Society will have pictures taken for the Aggieland at 7:30 p.m. on the steps of the Memorial Student Center. THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student ivriters only. 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