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i The Battalion College station (Brazos County), Texas PAGE 2 Wednesday, December 17, 1958 BATTALION EDITORIALS . . . Our Liberty Depends on the Freedom of the Press, And It Cannot Be Limited Without Being Lost . . . Thomas Jefferson Take Time Out With the Christmas seaspn rapidly approaching, it seems appropriate to pause a moment in the hussle of buying gifts and preparing to leave to remember the real meaning of Christmas. Sensing the men of Aggieland really wanted to hear the Christmas story, the Senate has annually sponsored a Christmas program following the dinner on Thursday. Each year the Singing Cadets, the Texas Aggie Band and the Ag- gie Players recreate that night almost 2,000 years ago when the Savior was born. Each year a plea is made for students to take time out from parties, outfit get-togethers and other activities sched- uled on Thursday to attend the brief remembrance of the real Christmas story. And each year, the crowd has been disap- pointingly small. This year’s program promises to be as inspiring as the story it is taken from: the men of Aggieland will be missing something if they aren’t there Thursday night. . . Si/ Verrt SbrtforcL By VERN SANFORD Texas Press Association AUSTIN, Tex.—Atty. Gen. Will Wilson’s drive against over- charging of small borrowers is reaching the “massive resistance” level. Goal is to eliminate from Tex- as a sort of modern-day “debtors prison.” Wilson described the “tragedy” in which low-income people borrow a little, then pay back, pay back and pay back, often several times- what they borrowed. Yet they remain in debt, unable to get ahead of the mounting charges. In one day Wilson’s office filed 217 injuction suits against small loan companies over the state. This is in addition to 46 other suits filed in recent months. Involved in the 217 suits, are some $10,000,000 in loans to about 200,000 borrowers. Interest charges range from 100 to 300 percent annually. (State consti- tutional maximum is 10 per cent. It’s the largest drive of this sort ever conducted in Texas, says Wilson, and the only one in recent history in the nation. But apparently there’s room for it to get even bigger. “We suspect 1,000 companies,” said the attorney general. Texas anti-Shylock operation got under way when the Board of Insurance slashed credit in- surance rates in half. Before that, said Wilson, the loan com- panies could make extra profits legally by requiring borrowers to buy high-cost credit insurance. After this, said Wilson, the loan companies switched to “broker- ag-e plans” which reportedly re- sult in the 100 to 300 per cent annual interest. Wilson and his assistants will try to prove in court that these operations are illegal. If the over-all campaign is successful, said Wilson, by the end of 1959 the only loan com- panies operating will be using the “certificate plan,” which re- sults in interest of about 20 per cent. Wilson regards the “certi- ficate plan” as unconstitutional but says it might be an accept- able interim arrangement until the Legislature overhauls the small loan laws. Yes It's True! You’ll GET MOKE For Your USED BOOKS AT IT PAYS TO TRADE WITH LOU THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu- dent writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non- profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op- erated by students as a community newspaper and is under the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. Members of the Student Publications Board are L. A. Duewall, director of Student Publications, chairman; J. W. Amyx, School of Engineering; Harry Lqg, Kidd, School of Arts and Sciences ; Otto R. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. McMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. 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News contributions may be made by telephoning VI 6-6618 or VI 6-4910 or at the llitorial office. Room 4, YMCA. For advertising or delivery call VI 6-6415. JOE BUSER...................... ...... ...... ............. ........... ............... .........................EDITOR Fred Meurer................................................ ............................. .......Managing Editor Gayle McNutt......................... ..................................... ....Executive News Editor Bob Weekley...................... ............................ .......................... ......... ...Sports Editor Bill Reed, Johnny Johnson, David Stoker, Lewis Reddell....News Editors Bill Hicklin............................................................................................... Sports Writer Robbie Godwin, Jay Collins, Ken Coppage, Jack Teague, Henry Lyle.......................................................... Staff Writers Earl Doss, Laney McMath........................................ i.................... Photographers Ray Hudson...................... ............ ..................... ............ .......... Circulation Manager CADET SLOUCH TW S1UE ov & Vwufn- tuiO EQUAL TO TM'COECPICieUT) ( 1 * PLUS TH'-... 7/7— "----------------- - ^WAVE. TO. DO WITH ISkTr A^hALll THIS > Cl1 \ _ <_AU1MAL • >> IS PHYSICS ' BEHIND TIMES by Jim Earlp SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — City Council tabled a request from a self-styled “qualified and active voter” for a traffic light at an intersection. The letter was ad- dressed to Mayor O. B. Hill—who last held office in 1947. TUEV OOOUTA tell va voo'ee ikj tm‘ weouo TMi’S LATU/y >e; Interpreting Nikita Has Opposition In Red Party By THOMAS P. WHITNEY The violence of Nikita Khrush- chev’s attack in Moscow on the “antiparty group” indicates he still is encountering strong oppo- sition within the Communist par- ty. Khi'ushchev is not given to flogging dead horses. He is now sounding off with a more de- tailed indictment of the views and policies of Georgi Malenkov, V. M.- Molotov, L. M. Kagano- vich, Dmitri Shepilov and Niko- lai Bulganin. He must have good reason. It looks as if there are many Soviet Communists who in one or another degree share the dim views which Malenkov and the others took of the radical chang- es in the Soviet system which Khrushchev is making. Khrushchev defeated this group decisively in June 1957. He ousted them from leadership and either exiled them to the remote provinces or else expelled them from public life. In Moscow currently the Cen- tral Committee of the Commun- ist party is meeting to prepare the way for a new congress of the party. This new congress at the end of January will elect a new Central Committee. Therefore, this is the time for political jockeying—and this is what Khrushchev by his blast against the opposition is doing. He is attributing to its members all of the most unpopular agri- cultural policies of the last dec- ade in the USSR. There is some measure in this since there is no doubt some members of the “an- ti-party” gioup—in particular Molotov and Kaganovich—have all along taken a thoroughly negative attitude towai'd any changes in the pre-1953 system of management of agriculture. But the only possible reason for bringing this up at this partic- ular time is political. Who’s Here English Is Tough Course For Mexican Aggies, Too The Port of New York Author- ity was created in 1921 by New York and New Jersey. It operates 17 port facilities, including tun- nels, bridges, airports docks, truck terminals and a bus terminal. • •</ STATE FARM INSURANCE FOR INSURANCE CALL U. M. ALEXANDER, JR., ’40 215 S. Main Phone TA 3-3616 Stale farm Mutual Automobile Insurance State farm Life Insurance Co. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. HOME OFFICE—BLOOMINGTON. ILLINOIS By JACK TEAGUE It’s a difficult chore to locate a soft-spoken Aggie, but I’ve fi- nally located one in Rene Ramir- ez, a Squadron 10 “fish” from Reynosa, Mexico. Eighteen-year-old Rene was born in McAllen, Tex., but claims Reynosa as his home where his dad is a poultry farmer. Rene went to school through the eighth grade in Reynosa, skipped the ninth, and finished three years of high school in Austin, at St. Edwards High. It was his dad’s suggestion that Rene go to high school in Austin, for it was here that he learned English, something upon which his dad insisted. It was also here that he adapted to the American way of living, something which he found strange and difficult at first. “I had a hard tithe learning the language at first, but then it came real easy,” Rene said. Rene said that he decided to be an Aggie as a junior in high school. “I heard a lot about A&M, and decided that it was the best college for me, both scholastic- ally and otherwise.” A general curriculum major, Rene plans to study agricultural engineering and eventually go in- to business for himself as a poultry farmer in Reynosa. Although Rene was born in Mc- Allen, his parents are both of Mexican citizenship, so he says that he has to make a decision upon graduation—whether to be a Mexican or American citizen. “I will probably choose to be a Mexican citizen, so this will present another problem to me,” Rene said. “Like other Aggie graduates, I will have to go into the service. I’ll probably serve in the Mexican armed forces for one year and then begin poultry farming.” The biggest problem facing Rene here is being able to remem- ber names. “It’s taking a while, but like any other problem, I soon hope to overcome it.” Besides being interested in ag- riculture, Rene is a fan of ship, car and airplane models. He has built about 40, and said that he still makes them—when he finds time. Have you checked the REASONABLE RATES of our BANQUET ROOM • Plan your parties EARLY • Call us and we will take care of the details C^faiilon —Fine Foods— 2900 Texas Ave. TA 2-1200 Wee Aggies We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag- gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI 6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edi- tor................ A future Corps commander was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clif- ford D. Thompson, ’61, 300 Ayr- shire. Jeffrey Dean arrived Dec. 16 at 7:50 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Hos- pital. A 59 FORD for Christmastime! $ $ AMERICA’S MOST WANTED GIFT m m m m ! 36 Month to Pay ! 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