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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Tuesday, March 5, 1968
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
Mike Plake
Romney Bows To
Nixon, Rockefeller
Republican backers of Gov. George Romney were thrown
for a spin last week after the governor announced his
abrupt decision not to run for the Presidency.
Romney had apparently take the advice of four aides
who laid the losing facts on the line.
Private polls in New Hampshire had indicated that
Romney would have taken a beating from Richard Nixon
and would have even lost to a write-in vote for Nelson
Rockefeller.
By pulling out early Romney could s^ve face now for
a possible return in 1972.
But the most important factor was that it would de
prive Nixon of the opportunity to prove that he could be a
winner through a big victory in the primary.
According to the latest Gallup poll Nixon is still the
front-running favorite among Republicans with Rockefel
ler a close second without formally announcing his candi
dacy.
Rockefeller had been committed to campaign for Rom
ney,, but no one can deny that his speeches for Romney
also gave him exposure.
Within the past week, since Romney pulled out of the
race, Rockefeller has been beseighed and badgered for a defi
nitive statement on his plans for candidacy.
At first, the answer was a strong “no.” then Rocke
feller said he would consider running if there was and
honest draft by Republicans.
Romney’s early exit will give enough time for a mean
ingful draft-Rockefeller movement to build.
The quest for the Presidency is one office which few
politicians could refuse if they thought there was a good
chance for victory.
Nixon is the proof. After the 1960 elections, Nixon
bitterly told the press that they wouldn’t have Richard
Nixon to kick around anymore, yet he has returned to the
Let’sLookAtEducatio
arena.
When interviewed last week, Nixon left the distinct
impression that he was trying to challenge Rockefeller or
goad him into a primary and remarked that no man would
be chosen by the Republicans without first having com
peted in the primaries.
Nixon needs a big win in order to lose the image as a
loser. But he is like a five-year-old horse trying to race
with three-year-olds.
He has no more and probably less to offer than he did
eight years ago. His present lead will likely dwindle now
that the fancy footwork of Romney and Rockefeller has
narrowed to the more than probable candidacy of Rocke
feller.
Waiting in the wings for action should the two men
in center ring falter, are such experienced and unbiased
leaders as Ronald Reagan and George Wallace.
The Democrats has a record to rest on, and the almost
certain candidacy of President Johnson for re-election, while
the Republicans are playing coy with each other and waving
a flag of indecision and competition.
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“I don’t know why it makes everybody nervous—it’s a
name tag and it tells who I am!”
Schriever Blasts
U.S. Missile Policy
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Editor,
The Battalion:
It is said if one can’t say some
thing good about someone, then
best to say nothing at all. I
believe this should also apply to
pictures appearing in a news
paper. It one can’t get a good
picture, then print none at all.
I am referring to many of the
pictures which are being printed
in the Battalion. Some of pic
tures are so dark that the
people in them are not even iden-
tifible.
Why not print better quality
pictures or print none at all.
Jim Wyrick ’67
WASHINGTON <A>>—A retired
general who formerly headed the
Air Force Systems Command,
Bernard A. Schriever, said Mon
day night that while the United
States has been concentrating on
Vietnam, “the Soviet Union has
moved forward steadily with a
new and more diversified stra
tegic threat to the United States
and the free world.”
Schriever is a 1931 graduate
of Texas A&M.
Schriever, delivering the annual
Goddard Memorial lecture of the
National Space Club, said the
most significant element in the
new Russian strategic force has
been the orbital missile, a space
bombardment system, supported
by an antiballistic missile system.
Schriever directed the develop
ment of U. S. ballistic missile and
space systems during his career
in the Air Force, and was fre
quently at odds with former Sec
retary of Defense Robert S. Mc
Namara over military aviation
and space goals.
Schriever said the Soviet anti
ballistic missile system is based
on considerable data about high-
altitude X-ray and electro-mag
netic effects gathered in the 1961-
62 Soviet nuclear test “carried out
in direct violation of the inter
national moratorium on atmos
pheric nuclear testing.”
And he said the Soviet Union
is attempting again, as it did 10
years ago, to develope a strate
gic force superior to that of the
United States, with the key em
phasis on a space system.
“Every indication points to
ward the development by the
Soviet Union of still more so
phisticated space systems, includ
ing improved versions of orbital
weapons,” he said.
Schriever said the comparative
strength of the U. S. missile
force is declining Steadily as the
Soviet Union enlarges its force
at a rate of about 200 missiles a
year while the United States rer- ,
mains at a virtual standstill.
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EDITOR CHARLES ROWTON
Managing Editor John Fuller
Features Editor Mike Plake
Editorial Columnist Robert Solovey
News Editors Steve Korenek, Jim Basinger
Sports Editor Gary Sherer
Asst. Sports Editor John Platzer
Staff Writers - Bob Palmer, Dave Mayes
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2A and 2B of the Memorial Stu
dent Center.
Monday, March 4, brought an
editorial on the condition of our
present educational system.
Said the Houston Post on that
occasion:
“If there is any place on earth
where one would expect to find a
community of civilized and ma
ture human beings, rather than
irresponsible juveniles and sav
ages, it is here.”
“HERE” REFERRED to the
university campus.
I disagree both with this edi
torial and the idea from which
it may be derived.
It has long ben traditional to
assume a growing responsibility
for the educational system not to
educate, but to teach our children
courtesy, honesty, and moral up
rightness.
This myth has become especial
ly familiar to many conservative
schools. It has been labeled “in
loco parentis.”
Under this concept, it is the
duty of the school to take the
place of parents when the chil
dren grow old enough to leave
home.
THIS IS A FALLACY."
Today, we see mothers taking
children to school, then leaving
for their part-time or full-time
job. The children come home from
school and bide their time to
themselves. Fathers come home,
work in their workshop, play
golf, or watch television. Mother
arrives, fusses with Father, adds
her paycheck so the family can
have a new color television. With
this comes more substantial argu
ments, in living color.
FATHER AND MOTHER put
the kids to bed, and tell them to
be sure they did their homework.
When Junior grows older and
begins his college preparation,
he is told by his parents that it
is essential to make the best
grades possible. He is assured
by his draft board that his very
best efforts should be placed
towards good grades. Upon regis
tration, he is reassured by 37
deans to make the best grades
possible.
Then he comes to college, and
sees the truth.
GRADES ARE a farce. The
draft board is a bunch of mean
old lechers. The President of the
United States is responsible for
the lousy condition of the world,
so he should get hit in the head
with a bottle.
Fortunately, many students
are raised by responsible parents.
They are taught honesty and
courtesy before being shoveled
into the educational mud-holes.
When they go to college, they
are at least basically prepared to
meet the obstacles, and to over
come them.
THEY DID NOT necessarily
make high grades or low grades.
They did, however, gain a real
college education. They are the
ones who learned that the world
of the college student is a class
room in itself, and many subjects
there are never touched by the
chalked hands and horn-rimmed
eyes of a college professor.
The Post editorial continu
“We could not agree more
Frank Erwin, chairman oil
board of regents of the Un
sity of Texas, when he obs|
recently:
‘WHEN 300 ARMED policj
are required to bring the
dent of the United States!
a college campus, we need
examine the aims of higher|
cation’.”
On this point I sincerely
with the dean and the Poslj
torial writer. We do need
much to re-examine the aims (I
higher education. We also new
re-examine the responsibility
parenthood.
A DECISION should be
whether the student shou
taught how to live in the
or the university.
We must decide whethe
educational system or the p:
will assume the duty of teai
honesty and sincerity in a
mode for living to young p<
Money Raised For Olympians
Disappears, Probe Underwayl
DALLAS <A > )—An investigation the solicitations and “did!
was underway Monday into the
apparent disappearance of $72,000
raised in Texas for the U. S.
Olympic Committee.
Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin
sent an investigator from Austin
at the request by the Olympic
Committee in New York.
U. S. Post Office Department
inspectors are looking into pos
sible mail fraud involving the
money, the Dallas Times Herald
said.
Crawford’s office said that a
Dallas advertising firm, Dodson
& Co., was in charge of solicita
tions throughout Texas for the
Olympic Committee.
The manager of the Dallas of
fice of Dodson & Co. said an em
ploye, who is no longer with the
firm, had been put in charge of
comply with our wishes or
of the Olympic Committee.]
The office manager said
when she discovered a disi
ancy in the solicitations, she
her information to Asst. U.
Atty. Tim Timmins in Dalli
The office manager said
firm was hoping to avoid
licity on the missing funds
cause 1968 is an Olympic
She said the firm had hiredl
vate detectives, but had not
cated the ex-employe.
Atty. General Martin said !
office “is not accusing anybodj
but said the investigation “is c
of the things we are doing in c
new consumer protection divisic
The New York people said $72,0
was raised in Texas and they c
not receive it.”
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