THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Friday, September 21, 1973
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
4 Nixon Decisions Complicate Life
*1 wanted you to know that I would hafla miss your
class because of a dental appointment in Baton Rouge
From Washington Watch
Four decisions by the President
set fire to what the New York
Times calls “precarious times for
the American economy.”
Time forecasts, “Food prices at
the end of December could easily
be 25 per cent above those Jan 1.”
The Times says hopefully the
“absurd price levels” of food may
be slipping due to “buyers resis
tance.” The rise in food costs
“is devastating for perhaps a ma
jority of American families,” says
the Christian Science Monitor.
“Take someone with an income of
$10,000. Assume he is married
and has two children. After feder
al income and social security taxes
— but before state income or
property taxes — he has about
$700 a month to live on. To add
$10 a week to the food budget . . .
is going to put a severe strain on
the family. It also seems most
likely to cut into spending on
consumer durables.” (Aug. 11)
Business Week reports, “The poor
are fighting hard to subsist.”
“Almost all economists agree
that an economic slowdown is in
the cards for next year. They are
split on whether the slowdown
will degenerate into something
worse,” (Business Week).
AFL-CIO president George
Meany sees a recession “before
the end of the year.”
The President is bored with
economics and does not like bad
news. So his advisors gingerly
avoid bothering him, and last No
vember White House assistant
Robert H. Finch announced “that
Mr. Nixon had successfully elimi
nated the two chief obstacles to
social progress — the Vietnam
War and inflation,” reported the
times (Nov. 22).
Connally on Way Up
It seems the biggest news in Texas these days is hap
pening in Washington. Rumors continue to circulate about
the possible resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, and
of course, who would then fill the vacancy. The Constitu
tion gives President Nixon authority to pick a new V.P.,
and one of the persons most aware of that is our own John
Connally. Should Agnew resign, Connally’s party switch,
seemingly foolish in view of Watergate, may have instead
been very timely. The obvious coolness of the White House
towards Agnew, coupled with equally obvious cordiality to
wards Connally, is indicative of the political and emotional
undertones.
Less dramatic but closer to home, Bill Hobby, lieutenant
governor, recently published (at taxpayer expense) 106,000
copies of a four-page newsletter designed, according to
Hobby “. . . to keep the people advised and informed about
their state government.” Fine to this point. But really, was
it necessary to print 19 pictures of yourself in the four
pages? And then to skip the Senate screening committee
which usually edits such material to reject any considered
“politically oriented?” The “newsletter” cost us $7,348.
Ouch!
Eddie Bernice Johnson, first-year state representative,
has accused Robert Calvert, state comptroller, of being
a racist and a sexist in his hiring policies. She means busi
ness, too, having called for the resignation or impeachment
of 81-year-old Calvert if he fails to change his attitudes, at
least during office hours. Ms. Johnson’s case was summed
up beautifully in Calvert’s response to her accusations. He
described her as a “nigger woman” who “doesn’t know what
she’s talking about.” Mr. Calvert is not known for his tact.
—Rick Brown
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Early in his Administration,
Nixon had a chance to shore up
the economy, but let the chance
go by.
The engine of inflation, balance
of payments deficits and unbal
anced budgets is war and overseas
military spending.
The Times puts the problem
succinctly. The U.S. has been
spending more than it earned for
twenty years. Billions of dollars
not backed by productive resourc
es were printed to finance spend
ing for “the Vietnam war, troops
in Europe, the ‘bomb’, the whole
defense effort, foreign aid, foreign
investments, imports of foreign
goods, spending by American
tourists (abroad).”
Nixon, elected on a pledge to
end the war, could have taken
effective action — stop the fight
ing and begin closing down our
overseas military bases. They
cost an estimated $30 billion a
year. Instead, he prolonged the
war and increased military spend
ing, the first boner.
A second error was to focus the
Nixon economic program on prof
its, or the “trickle down” theory.
The last President to try this was
Herbert Hoover, and it created a
flashy boom and then a bust. For
the second quarter of this year,
corporate profits before taxes
were thirty-seven per cent above
a year earlier, at “the second an
nual rate of $130.1 billion.” This,
says the Times, is sure to bring
tough new labor demands this
fall.
A third mistake was the Nixon
decision to ship out American
farm products to ease the balance
of payments deficit, rather than
cut back on overseas military
spending. “In the last six months
agricultural exports have netted
the U.S. $11 billion,” writes Roscoe
Drummond in the Monitor (Aug.
18). This has been at the cost of
skyrocketing food prices at home.
Jack Anderson points out an
irony: “At the same time that
our Federal managers are strug
gling to hold down food prices,
they are spending $12 million a
year to promote agricutural sales
overseas.
Congress can take two steps to
bring down food prices.
Put a ceiling and priority on
food exports, so that it will be
used to relieve famine, not as a
political vehicle for a President.
Cut the overseas expenses of
the Defense Department and CIA
by $15 billion. The Project on
Budget Priorities reports, "Even ,:! (c da p y er
a conservative analysis shows that ‘
some $14 billion can be saved,.,
While fully preserving our na-
tional security, and starting a re
turn to a peace time national
budget.”
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Editor:
It seems to me students who
never use the laundry service
should not be forced to pay for it.
I know this issue has been
brought up on previous occasions,
but to my knowledge no steps
have been taken to make this
added expense optional.
Some of us simply do not have
need for the laundry service. So
many fabrics will not stand the
strain of harsh detergents and
starches commercial laundries
use. For us the money spent on
laundry is wasted.
Let those pay for the service
that wish to use it and have
some need for it. Those, how
ever, who prefer to do their own
should not be forced to pay for
something never used.
Jay Claycomb ’76
A bill was brought before the
Student Senate last spring by
John Nash and was promptly
killed for a flimsy reason, that
being Ron Miori’s argument that
Nash hadn’t done enough re
search on the matter. In fact, he
had worked closely on the mat
ter with the university adminis
tration, which, by the way, says
an optional program could have
started in the fall of 1974 if it
had been approved by the Sen
ate.—Ed.
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Editor:
I sympathize greatly with
those students who purchase a
parking sticker only to go
through the turmoil daily of
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searching on campus for a park
ing space. However, I find it
particularly distressing to be
forced to pay for an $18 parking
sticker when I have yet to take
my car on campus.
Perhaps the Married Student
Apartments are considered cam
pus property and up to now I’ve
taken it in stride, yet lately I
have found it difficult to find a
parking space near my apart
ment. This is due, I suppose, to
tenants who have more than one
car and to visitors.
To make matters worse, the
recent digging and laying of the
pipeline to facilitate the new
apartments has left nothing but
loose dirt on one side of the
street. For those who can not
predict the weather, it has meant
the employment of tow-trucks to
haul the sunken autos out of the
mud.
Diane Shaw
Assistant University Police
Chief Lester Maddox says there
is an optional $6 permit which
allows married students to park
only in University Married Stu
dent Housing (most definitely
considered campus property and
patrolled by the University Po
lice). Go by the police office in
the Student “Y” building and he
will help you. One-semester per
mits may also be obtained for
$3.50.—Ed.
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Editor:
This letter is written in re
gard to your editorial of Sept.
13 Shuttle Buses Need Help ($$).
Having ridden the shuttle bus
since the beginning of the semes
ter under a myriad of drivers, a
good solution comes to mind. The
drivers themselves should sub-
sidize the bus service with tbe
salary they are paid as “drivers' 1 ,
After all, why should they be
paid for something they obvious
ly enjoy doing enough to do it
for nothing? The manner in
which they swing around cornen,
slide to stops, and careen down
residential streets seems to prove
that they are some sort of frus
trated race driver, who, not be
ing able to afford an Indy racer,
use the bus instead and get paid
for it besides.
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I realize there is a shortage of
drivers and this letter is not con
demning' all the present driven,
but there are enough negligent
drivers to warrant this letter. I
also realize there is a Shuttle Bus ]
Committee to which complaints
may be made and perhaps this
letter will provoke enough com
plaints to warrant some sort of
action to be taken.
S. R. Stataer
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Editor:
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Article “Classroom Mannen”,
There was a saying on campus
about 10 years ago and it cer
tainly applies to this. The saying
was “H i g h w a y 6 runs both
ways”. For those who do not
understand this, it simply means
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