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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1947)
1 •( ' , —tm*m l ej : —• Battalion < .< * EDITORIALS li"” Yom'i* Off th« Track, Shoriock • • • P*f« I miDAY, AUOUfT 16, 1647 Army Promotions Streamlined... After 170 y«*n the army hen finally ntreamlinod IU promotion ayatam. On Aug uat 7, the old ayatem of promotion by aen- iority waa thrown out the window when. Preaident Truman signed the legislation setting up a permanent promotion-by-merit program for the army and navy. The legislation is intended to eliminate the leas capable officers from command, and to encourage the younger, better quali fied men to work harder, with a goal in sight. Heretofore the army has promoted its officers largely through a seniority sys tem rather that through the individual qual ifications of its officers. Through the use of thin system many top-notch men kept in the background during the most useful period of their! careers, merely marking time until their names came high enough on the seniority list to warrant a promotion. This act will not only bring to the top youthful officers with proven ability, but will also offer careers satisfactory enough to attract capable men from other occupa tions, and will retain in service men who would otherwise choose mufti over 0. D. The new plan provides for promotion of officers by selection in the iow ranks, with boards of officers determining the qualifi cations of applicants for advancement Fail ure to meet the advancement qualifications twice In succession, authors of the bill said, will automatically drop an officer from the service. Officials said the navy has followsd a system of selection, with modifications, for years. In addition to setting up s new promotion system for the army snd lightening the v navy’s existing advancement system, the bill cuts down on the number of high rank Ing officers in both services, and abolishes in peacetime the wartime rank of five-star officers. However, it does not affset the rank of the eight officers now holding five- star rank. Four-star officers will be limited to five for the army, four for the navy, four for the air force, and one for the marine corps. There will be 62 three-star officers. The array will have 122 major generals and 202 brigadiers. For the navy, the legislation introduces for the first time the selective system of promotion in the grade of admiral. Here after. an officer of admiral rank must just ify his retention in that rank after each four years of service. The new law provides also foc^gommiss- ioning of all officers in the regular army rather than in a branch of the army, such as the infantry or the artillery. It will take several years for the entire new program to get into full operation, for some parts of the new law do not become effective until after 1951, though most are effective imediately. Until such time as the AGGIB ethics? armed services’ strength reaches the levels j prescribed by permanent law, the new law j. , r ^ k continues the present system of temporary ^ two Ttsaa S Exports Down-What Now? ^ By ■. V, ^ BIum the sn4 Letters promotions for temporary-duty officers. It took s war and the Induction of mil lions of civilians to bring the armed forces out of their lethargy. Now they are awaken ing to the fact that the horse and buggy should be taken out of their administrative as well as their tactical functions. were offirem in ‘U' S. Has Enough Coal Reserves For 1,500 More Years’ In Jese espe dined II per cent Mew tkoee of Key. The dowtasn I s underway. For- dgneie s r e earetnt, thru wlee of goods to tho U 8., on ly about one- third the dollar* needed to pay for goode ro-H ceivfd from the U. 8. Almost Srwncfr two thirds of the bill must be paid out of loans, through salts of gold and securities, and by gifts. Foreign countries are feeling the pinch of thdr rapidly expiring dol lars. Britain and France are fast using up U. 8. loaas snd are un able to replenish dollar supplies by large exports of their own. Some of our host customers, the Latin American countries, who emerged from the war in a vary healthy financial condition, are now reaching deep into their wisssvrt light, 1,500 The Atom And Society During ths pint esntury snd • hilf, Mlsncs and Invention h»vs lissn wfifill . _JL I ^ , . riAngiwi At sn socslsrstsd pscs in ths condi- machine pruductlon hi* shift*! our sttsntlon ft*' On »He memin* «f July llmt. und.r wM.h m.n Mv«. Till. m*t mo- •ml InUi-Mt •«>y from Urn M utUty of pro- Tit?. . MM tal tho ttitwl rondltloiM of Ilf, hu not, duct ■ mon con tmxlur. in th« number of nL u!,, f r.mnU howtvsr, boon KrompnnM by any corroo. r |n " ,l ‘ * u, * , ponding things In msn's behavior tendencies nor in his concspts of whst his roistionahlps with othsr men should bs. As i msttsr of fact, sxsmlnition of ths history of our popu lar concept* of social, economic, snd pofit i Aggies • In my outfit These young men finished school In the mjddlt ’SO’s, and to me their na tions wore s Bring tribute to this fine school. In matter* of othtoa. f r lend It nen n and reliability, theee twe mas were regarded sa model i by the men of the organisation Dus to their Influence l ehoee Tee sa A A M., heeauM I wanted to hoeomo s part af anything that wse e« high In lie ideal* as thte esheoi aeemed to he •{{•B*ajandard*of soclsl vnluos snd tmhavior. sppsinlment, asfln* Ths ohang* from hand cnflsinsnshlp to Is esMei, but in a M w w (hen things ho can Imi v Human brings ars, t fsar. I find thsi'ihl KssEi wonTmlleinir Um gradually bssomlng mors acquialtivs am fills was se 4«M that the hook* m«I(-centered Tho number snd siso of ons’s I (ww J l>t y t ?ll' a , i . poMMloA. .r* uwrmtly l«omln, »«• Ltfe 5Sbm ‘5* imiKirUnt to us than his social character f, nd them there Wtwn he retuma. and norviiM-s. Undsr our modern machlns pro- Aggiee ere eunpoaediy tramp.) relations reveals relatively few Important duction program, Jobs hive been simplified for the trade* end profession* and changes during the past three thousand snd made more and more repetitive. Fewer to ‘•J* ••J* ^ ,n 2* ,**?"■ year*. Here we are, in the middle of an ex- skilla are required of a worker. Each work-1 JU ftwro* iTn^'r^nm Tmorr'Af' tremriy complex and difficult modern world, er has become a part of a machine-like or-| gwe for * peraon whom ethic* are (ranization, with less snd less opportunity to *o lew as to permit thievery, express his own originality or initiative on I * bope that honesty wUI continue the job. Greater mechanization of production processes is shortening the hours of labor and increasing the hours during which the worker will engage in other activities that will make his community either a better or a worse place in which to live. • In earlier days, the employer and his em ployees knew and respected each other. Each understood the other’s personal problems and needs. Today most of the stockholders of a corporation have never met any of the em ployees. The stockholders leave the selection of officers to the board of directors, who hi turn leave the development of personnel and production policies to administrative officers, whose terms of employment require them to produce a maximum volume of goods with a minimum expenditure of money. Many of those who own the plants now fee! little or no responsibility for those who work for them. The laborers therefore organize to pro tect their rights, which management is paid to restrict. This conflict between labor and | FRIDAY and SATURDAY capital frequently endangers the common welfare of both, and of the public. All of this, of course, sn old story. Rap id developments and inventions in the physi cal sciences have euddenly made our world For Utin America fcste la so M a rubai ! F’t»n » H hough one,Is ' posed. Currently ear am bonb r rantomer* ST* banniSg OUT- chesee of non <>»»*ntlal end lux ury Items. Change* in U. 8. pro*perity **e to be expected m the dollar famine curtail* foreign ordefB. IndimtflaS which wUI be primarily affected See SPEN< F.R. Pa*. 4 Tho United States has eno si reserves to supply all this requirements in boat, it, power, end other usee for • yean, sa sagiassr reported at the meeting of tho American Society of Meehaakel Engineer*. Dr. Harold J. Kaee, vice-presi dent and director of research for Bituminous Coal Research, In*., Pittsburgh, said that at our pr***nt rate ef consumption, there will >*> enough coal for another one sad sse-hsif in Ulan is Pristine out that ess) ess new te make almost asp type er nmthetle them teal pro . mss mm lari mm to Wiki apst mm fisMi of shortage* in many mtserole. m ssd natural gsa It sseugh IS » MM thrif present market* (Wm MMMtroAhk tiamm #a# gtroisl ihasa M ImBBm ■MMMwIll Mwww wn t^ bepw supply ef the twe products would lari only right and ene-hatf year, Dr. Bose declared Re said that 111,000,000 er more la spent each year la tht* country es research and engineering work related to seal. Europe need* U. 8. reconstruct their war nomies. Expansion and pro gras* tn Latin America la ■till in the in cipient •tags, and U. 8. export* are L. AM. FOOD MARKET • ntU MUVBBY TO OOLLHOH •lATWH Ph. t-iiss //'M nw attempting to find our way by means of social concepts snd ideals that were none too adequate in s much simpler primitive soc iety. Instead of improving our techniques of social relations, to make them more adequate for meeting complex modern conditions, it appears that we are allowing the obvious in adequacy of these ideas to lead us into weak ening them still further. h , Let us look, for example, at that sense of responsibility for the welfare of our fellow men which developed in primitive communi ties. The young members of the community participated in food gathering and other vital activities, under the sympathetic guid ance of older members. If some individual or family in the community met with misfor tune or accident, everyone was sympathetic and practically helpful. The occasional per son who appeared unwilling to help an unfor tunate neighbor was immedfrtely criticized and disciplined by the community. Those who were most generous and helpful to others were held in high esteem by all. , Suddenly, about a century and a half ago. science and invention began to enlarge our communities very rapidly. At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, men could not travel any more rapidly than had their an cestors at the beginning of recorded history. News of what had happened in any given place could hot spread more rapidly than a horse could gallop—ten or twelve miles per hour, perhaps. Nsws of a catastrophe in Cin cinnati could not lie known in Columbus in less than a day’s time, and then it would have taken at least another day or two to get any help to Cincinnati. With ths Invention of steam engines, railroads, telegraph Instru ments. automobilee, airplanes, and the radio, howtVar» we can now be well Informed with in a few mtnutee of the needa and dletreae of Mraona In ail parts of the world. Aa far aa knowledge of need for outaide help Is con cerned, the whole planet has suddenly become one great, complex, and confuting communl- Effecta of the Machine Age ' It a similar manner It would be poeaible to trace the effects of modem developments in physical science and invention upon our I to be * virtue for which A*rie* I ere known. Sincerely, F. W. SHEPPARD AIR CONDITIONED A GOOD PIjACE TO EAT New York Cafe 118 S. Main Bryan Opens 1:00 p.m. Ph. 4-1181 TODAY and SATURDAY —2 Big Feature*— BRYAN JOAN CAULFIELD In Try a dalicioua CHIP DTE AX SANDWICH and MILK SHAKE for SUPPER at GAB LAM BING / -tun if fiii/fr 4 Too wUI MO tbo «>•«• tn tko •poAhog Goa (hot »• M*»—4 la • aeunXM ri •ft* hooat qw«U*r Uteri riyU ro«*ri 71 .Anraaa >8po GEOROE'S CONFECTIONERY «. in" iTriUw a*M, Id) RmHIaIFS #■>*»■< Stef* me from •*• 00 te »*oooo »n*Mte*M* (roestef wee*. SANICKTPARK JEWELER 111 N. Main/ BRYAN ,7 n Preview Saturday Night, Rub- d Tueaday infinitely complex and confuaing. There have i l)t*ar Rlllh been almost no corresponding developments or inventions In the social scicncea. Man now finds himself In the midst of a new and utter ly confusing practical situation In which he must act. with nothing to guide him other than some natural tendencies that were de veloped to meet primitive conditions cen turies ago and a few rapidly weakening Ideals of human relations that were invented serve a very simple community life. M. R. TRABUE Dean of Education IVnn. State f L u ^IUl Saturday SUNDAY and MONDAY to day, Moudey and ANN MfKRlDAN in “Unfaithful” Our Greenwich Village operative reports UMBB ‘ that a Mexican restaurant la display ing a sign with ths letters L&/MFT In t>oi(1 type, with the explanatiot In smaller type below It: "Lolita's Means Fine Tabasco." —TIDE COMING— MAUREEN O’HARA la “Homestretch” Collet* 8tat The Battalion QUEEN *1 mwnene* of th* A ition, Texes, is pubUrited tri-weekly end chcristed on __ ept derinf the summer when K is pebliehed aeaei-weridy, Advertteint rotes furnished on request CoUege of Texes end the Cttv of | Tees day, Thrarsday, end Saturday after. Ly. Subscription rote 84 per school year. SUNDAY, MONDAY aad TUESDAY jS« B S? Adminietratioo ly he made by teleaheoe ( 4-8444) er at the editorial edflee, Room k, Adminiatre •da may be placed by telephone (4-43*4) or at th* Stodeat Activities Office, JOAN BENNETT ta “11,6 Woman on Dhnrite ■■**> — rw-u, M Sritemm A D. 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