Page 4
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 3, 1976
A Good Diamond is Good Forever
A Bad Diamond is Bad Forever.
Come see the difference at:
Carl Bussells
"iamond Room
3731 E. 29th
846-4708
MEMBER AMERICAN
(fXSP ’ GEM SOCIETY
Centennial scholar
analyzes America
Americans have “fallen into a
material neo-Garden of Eden de
spite all our sins,” says Dr. Eric A.
Walker, president emeritus of
Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Walker spoke as a visiting cen
tennial professor at Texas A&M Uni
versity on the subject of “Invention,
Innovation and Entrepreneurship.”
“Americans have more goods,
more rights and more entitlements
to education and social security and
rights than any other group in the
world,” Dr. Walker said.
The reason for that, he said, is be
cause America allows the individual
to flourish.
KEEP
ON
CLOGGIN
JUST ARRIVED!
SHIPMENTS OF
biare -traps
AND
ciRPETB&Gs of z:::"
The Best Selection in Town!
3725 E. 29th
846-1148
Town & Country
Center
“The capitalist system is essential
to allow these individuals to get more
than they could as part of a larger
machine,” he added. “We have to
have an environment to produce in
vention. If we examine the 22 most
important inventions, we find that 17
were invented by Americans.
“We also find they were indepen
dent inventors, not working for cor
porations and few of them were en
gineers,” Walker said.
He used as an example the Wright {
brothers, noting that they saw the
commercial need for a flyer and
applied their know-how and inven
tiveness to the problems. They de
veloped a wind tunnel and methods
to turn the craft. After all this, they
started a persistent marketing ven
ture ranging as far away as Europe.
a
SA1
^ lear j
P c *
‘ r , -z >3
^ ” me
f
i In a
i ’ - §rch
7 > , V- S*
1 fcr.s
Party hut
Student workers are trying, with the help of the physical party house. The hut.
plant, to get this quonset hut ready for use as a student foot ceiling, was given
Photo courtesy of CaleKitf^t,,
brni'
, which is 40 by 100 feel will
to the RHA along with $23,1 i^ 0
Itier
Gun control bill lacks public intern
Associated Press parently is insufficient public inter-
WASHINGTON — A lobbyist for est in the issue to prompt Congress
strict gun-control laws says there ap- to impose more stringent gun con-
BB&L assets now exceed
trols.
However, the lobbyist. Jack Cor
bett of the National Coalition to Ban
Handguns, and other supporters of
tighter gun control laws say their
cause may have been strengthened
in the long-run by the decision of the
House Judiciary Committee to defer
action on a gun-control measure.
That ironic scenario, espoused
both in the Congress and by such
private groups as the coalition, as
sumes that members of the public
will be repulsed by crime and vio
lence and will demand even stronger
controls than those dealt a setback
Tuesday.
The Judiciary Committee, on a 17
to 16 vote, sent the bill back for re
consideration by a subcommittee,
and there was widespread sentiment
that the move killed the legislation
for this session. The measure would
have outlawed so-called concealable
handguns, set mandatory sentences
for using a handgun to commit cer
tain felonies, including murder and
rape, and established a waiting
period of 28 days before an indi
vidual could complete the purchase
of a handgun.
Indicating the bill may be dead for
this session, one Judiciary Commit-
Stu
lera
I *
ll (
tee member said there was
that subcommittee Chairman]!'® 1
Conyers Jr., D-Mich., will call® 11
for a new attempt at passage. L|
The House Judiciary CommiBI
has not sent a gun-control bilk™
floor since 1968. Without Ho«si
tion, there was little chance
gun-control bill would movetl
the Senate judiciary panel
Last year, as the House sal
mittee moved slowly on itsli
tion. Sen. Birch Bayh, D-lnA,
thor of the Senate hill, insisted!
would be no acflon until theE^fnt
acted. The Senate in 1972
Bayh’s ban on so-called Sain
Night Specials, but the measim
in a House subcommittee.
I
On Tuesday, the House!
sent back to subcommitteeona:
tion to recommit offered byl
Tom Railsback, R-Ill.
Lobbying efforts by opponeil
gun controls were criticized by*
members of the committee.
Peter Rodino, D-N.J., chairiul
the panel, said members had bu<
plained to him that theyweit®
sieged by calls and mail” ufilll
them to vote against the bill, He
.De
Let’s give
America
a hand! i
NATIONAL COLLEGE
“PITCH INI” WEEK
APRIL 5-9
There’s probably an organized “Pitch In!"
Week program on your campus lor the
week ot April 5-9.
Why not contact your college information
office for further details —and help give
America a hand with the litter problem.
(And give yourself a big hand for helping!)
Sponsored by the brewers of
Budweiser
KING OF BEERS (
I
and the ABC Radio Network
MSHEUStR-BUSCH. INC • St. LOUlSj
pitchl