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\ BottalioOni * n EDITORIALS I'»K. I THCKSDAY, NOVEMBER «, 1M7 ive Now to the Community Chest... "LCMt Ml, LOVt MV DO«l M College employeee and resident* of Col lege Station have until Monday, November to contribute to one of the most chari table organizations in the United States— the Community Chest. The budget this year for thl College Community Chest is $8.24:V60. a slight re duction from last year’s budget. This amount can be raised if every citizen will contribute to the Community Cbest at least one-half of one day’s pay. Last year persons were askod for three-fourths of one day’s pay. • ‘What used to be a series of campaigns soliciting funds for thirteen different organ izations has been placed into one BIG drive for 1947-48. Contributors may designate their donations for the benefit of one of the thirteen funds if they so desire. Of the $8,243.60 budget the American Red Cross will receive $1,800, J. D. Prewit, chairman of the Community Chest commit tee, stated. The Boy Scout* will receive $1,646, and the Qirl Scouts $1,047.60. The total budget for 1947-48 is as fol lows: American Red Cross $1,800.00 Boy Scouts 1,646.00 Giri Scouts 1.047.60 YMCA - 600.00 Mothers and Dads Club, AAM Consolidated • 600.00 World Student Service Fund 500.00 Brazos County Health Unit 500.00 College Station Recreational Council 500.00 Tubercular Fund 300.00 County Hospitalization 300.00 Salvation Army 200.00 Contingent Fund 150.00 Local Charity 100.00 < Total Budget $8,243.60 jv* Roiywtod lo—d Up . . Should Communists Be Outlawed... i Aa MacKeude Sees ft Calm, cool words about Communists are hard to find these days. With Russia admit tedly unfriendly to the United States, with a fifth column known to be at work, with the dally evidence of damage done by Com munists to other countries, It is hard for us to avoid a nervousness which borders on hysteria. Hut hystarla is just what Communism feeds on. No country ever suppreeeed radi cals more severely than Russia, yet It was in Russia that the Communist Revolution be came a Nallty. (Rant predicted that the Revolution would come ftrat In America. Hia error cauaea Communist theoreticians no end of embarrassment. We blew off jsteam. Russia blew off the lid.) ' The $t. Louis Post Dispatch, one of the great liberal newspapers of the country, used much of its editorial page Sunday to discuss the proposal to outlaw the Commun ist party. Because we camtot say it half a<rwe]l, we pass along some of its comments. ★ * A big build-up is on to outlaw the Com munist party in this country. The investiga- tion by the House Un-American Activities ; Committee of Communists in the moving pic ture industry is part of it So is the call of the new national commander of the Ameri ca)! Legion. James P. O’Neil, for & series of “harsh measures against Communists in J vMMneal - ►When Congress re-assembles,;there will b£a rush sponsor bills to bar the Com munist party from the ballot Congressman Cole, who represents the northeast Missouri district has already announced that he will introduce such a bill on the opening day of the special session. Says Mr. Cole: “The earlier we wipe out every vestige ' of this venomous activity within our bor ders, the stronger we shall keep ourselves to withstand its attack from others.’’ With Russian intrigue and aggrandize ment confronting us in the UN as well as in s'. Europe and Asia, it is only natural that this reaction should take form in the United States. Such a reaction is even desirable to the extent that it represents popular aware ness of the tensions and dangers in the world. ★ Rut it would do irreparable harm to his toric American principles, on which our free life is based, If this attitude developed into uncontrolled hysteria, This Is a danger now forgotten Whigs, had failed on the issue of alsvtfy. The fopuliat party did not elect Jamee R. Weaver aa President in 1892, but it did campaign for a graduated income tax, poetal savings banks, regulation of corporate prac tices and action generally by government to redress the “grievous wrongs Inflicted on the suffering poor," ★ To read the Populist platform after half a century U to hear the outcry of a small t>and which lost the battle hut In the end, whether they lived to know It or not, won the war. The Progressive party of the UFolMii-* in Wl*oon*lr\, and bn the broader baae of a national effort in 1924, is anoOin* case in B int. Almost everything the elder LaFol- te advocated as a lone voice in the forepart of this century has been enacted by the major parties. Norman Thomas has complained, and with no little justice, that the Republi cans and Democrats have stolen regularly from the Socialist platforms, j These groups have been the seedbed of ideas. They have kept our parties astir when the oldline hoses would have lulled them to slumber. In short, the minority parties have given life to American politics. We do not mean to imply that the Com munist party should be protected ideas which it might give to the Stater. The point is that if one discredited minority party can be banned eo may meri torious political groups be banned. All are secure in their freedom or none is secure. UN Ought to Welcome Plea For Referemhim in India te DtWITT MmKSNZIK Kortign Affair* Analyat Joined to a Hindu dominion, One would think the United N»- M unfortunate combination which tiona ought to welcome tha offer by product terrible communal Jawahanal Nehru, Prim# lifinlator 1 htoadlkii *m t|a egnturt*# be. of the Dominion of India, to auh* mil the political fata of the prince ly ataU of Kaalimir to a referni dum »on.iu.ted under thg aua plow of the poaoe organlia- Uon a* epon ae Iha cummt in* vaalon of Path- an tribe am an Haa been limit with and tran quility Km been | laaMM, There would be a chanct for eaua* of the reliftoue difference*. Quite naturally Pakiatan think* Kaihmir ihouid join that Moelem dominion, In fhet government altefN than Invnaion w*» inep iatta. Pandit Nehru didn’t rlahomte on hie propngl, PreeUmdbly the re ferendum would Iw to deetde whe ther thg *tate would join Pakletan or India, but wouldn’t affect the rule of the Hindu Maharajah, Other prince* have joined the do- minion* without lotlhg their throne*. Of courae any solution of thl* dangerou* situation will caute Filmtown Morale At Lowest Ebb | Morphy Reports By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD —(Ah—Moral* In Hollywood la at Ita lowest ebb. That’s the report of Ooorge Mur* phy, one of the filmtown’i leaden. Ueotrv cited reason* for Urn low state of thlnga—atrikee, the Hrlt* t*h tax situation, the Washington investigation. Add to this the hun dreds out of work because of eco nomy campaigns and you pan see why studio* are not the happy, screwy places they used to be. One reason for the lack of spirit de corps, George remarked on “the big city" sot, is the absence of co ordination between the various phases of production. No one knows what his fellow worker is doing. George says the situation won’t improve until production de partments work together as a team and film making l-.-.-omes a more friendly business. Cary Grant’s last U. S. film until 1M9 will be “Blanding*" The actor says his Korda film abroad will be his only pictars in 1948. .. Dorothy La moor says she’ll do a ballet in her musical at Columbia. That I gotta see ... It can be done in Hollywood: The Bill Bendixee are celebrating their 19th wed ding anniversary, the Jerry Colon- nas their ITth. Robert Ryan ia getting a nice new contract at RKO. He’ll < two to three grand a week, n than double his praaant wage Lucille Ball la getting picky about her next role. She says some day •he’s going to snag an acadamy award. Consider yourself warned: song* entitled "Forever Amber" snd ”1 Remember Mama” will be inflicted on (he public to plug the picture*. Let’s see ’em writ* one around "Mourning become* Klee trn.”,. , Doris Day , has bought a house snd wilt be ahla to bring her four* yrsr olil son here from Clnfinatl The man moat knUroatod In the Radio Workshop To All the flret version, wM Id have been a < <>m a "Documentary antaev." Ooldwyn Mid the ae Had to bo unhappy to do good v BUI sold hi Couldn't w..rk with happy acton. Re ho quit Linda DMheU la pleading for a nudun 6n| eomsdy. (tho’s tired of Lugging niound heavy costumes and fancy hair-dos. bmt’bwbattTa** AUSTIN, TEX., Nov. 6 -<*- The mm of Homan Marlon Bweatt versus T. 8. Painter, president of the University of Texas and others in which Swoatt, n Negro, seeks to force his admission to tb* Mil- vorsity law school, has been scha- 'lulcl lor submission and oral arg ument in the third court of dvil appeals on Jan. 14 Air Tartnffe' M.M.S miM« (tan* *r»n- DR. N. B. MoNUTT DINTIIT j Office m Parker Bundle Over Canady's Pharmacy Phono R-14ST Sr yen, Tuoe A Suprtm Scr—n ' Achienmnt Rtturntf Perry f. leivtaoai flEDIIl MIIC iiius mu ION tin 0* ittif 1 ■MM feature suit* lilt»IMI MB LATENT NRWM MIOT* OF HAtilNtl h»BMT KIBE a ON KAMliNN "KA ItOABD •oWlnMoAsosts the U. N. to,. - . . . halt It* international dog-flght and , h*«rt-burnln« somewhere Rtill. a do a constructive job of trumen** U >* today no Inna than the Comiminint menace 53. We do not need to support the ends of the UommunlnU In even the slightest degree to nay that their right to n place In Tree elections In a democrttlc aorlety Is a protec tion of the |Ni|lticnl rlghU of nil groups, large ah well as small, rT Were the United fttates to ban the Com- ntunlnt party, a precedent would lie net for similar action against other minority groups iis they fell from favor. Dissent would be- Borne perilous and the American nation would lose the freedom of conscilenct and expreasion which has been the very heart of our way of life. Moreover, we would lose the leaven out of our political system. The history of our parties makes this clear. We have a two-party system, but the major parties have changed from time to time. Also they have fogularly adopted as their own the ideas of the minority parties. Lincoln's Republican party was a small, dis sident group before the 1S6U election, form ed because the major parties, including the In fact, it was none other than J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, who caused the de feat last March of a proposal to outlaw the Communist party. After Mr. Hoover’s testi mony before ’’ a congressional committee, nothing more was heard of the bill for the rest of the session. His advice was against taking “any course which would give the Communists cause to portray and pity them selves as martyrs.’’ The most frightening thing about the Communists, as the Washington Post said recently, “is not so much what they can do J to us, but what we can do to ourselves if we listen to the counsel of the witch hunters.’’ In the time of emergency, there in all the more reason for people to keep thair heads. The Amerlcau people will not do It by follow ing after, the hysterical shouters for sup- K don of Communists. They will keep their a if they remain true and to tha great principle of Voltaire, vibrant and Inspiring after two centuries: "1 disapprove of what you say, but 1 will defend to the death your tight to say It." J lad us not outlaw the Communist party, lad us Instead triumph over Communism. importance. I use tha adjective ‘‘immense’’ advisedly beesuse the Kashmir situation ia so grave that out of it could grow a civil war which would rend the entire In dian sub-continent with its four hundred million people. The position is so complicated that ws venture to recapitulate: the state of Kashmir is ruled by a Hindu Maharajah whose family ac- for the tually owns this vastly rich and United principality—one of the world's most famous vacation haunts. But while the prince is a Hindu, the great majority of his some 4,000,000 subjects are Mos lems i When the Indian peninsula last summer w*s divided into two in dependent dominions ssue, and certainly the U. N. la I concerned in a matter affecting the peace of the whole Indian p. > insula, which means the peace of! the world. Guest MeUukdiat Ministers to Talk MIIIKTM $1.19 up Rims |. 6 * OVERALLS In (lAhftrdliM* A Corduroy* 4 mo* to I yra. $1.96 to $2.96 JOYCF/S Togs ’N Toys 8. Main St — Bryan Phone 2-2884 and Moslem Pakistan—the Mahara jah of Kashmir maintained hia independence until recently when his state was invaded by Moelem Pathans from neighboring Pakis tan. Then he joined the Hindu do- Reverend W. C. Pope, Superin tendent of the Texas Conference Methodist Encampment, Palestine r Texas, will be the truest minister and speaker at the Morning Wor ship Services. Sunday. November 9th, to be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Reverend Lee Phillips, College Hindu India | Minister and Professor of History I and Philosophy at Prairie View Normal, will bring the message at I g| the Evening Worship Hour at 7 p.m. Phillips subject will be “BrosdenkiK Life’s Prospective.” He is also bringing with him a VIA PIONEER ' (okowirxj the tews fha fast, assy ft»- near W*y qivtt you more of svsryihmq more comfort, more plesiucc, more time for funl You'll have the time of your fife this issiow- via Pioneer! Ul ysw M Wnw Mke tv uSiMi minom of India «nd called for male quartet which will present a military aid, which he has received, message of song consisting of Neg- The fighting continues. ro spirituals and favorite gospel Thus a Moslem population has hymns. t vmHTl \uoti ■4J today ,*»!«»*» til A million on thf front |»ago of tho Bryan (T»xmn) Daily Kagls itati; “lllack and Wblta kitten gtts Its paws bathed." Hut the picture above showed hogs going Into the stock yards. Home kittens! CLEANING - PRESSING ALTERATIONS AT THEIR BEST - AT CAMPUS CLEANERS Ovar Th® Kxchang® Stars BOVlRNMiNf DISKMAItO TO HT H ■HKIGRf-lXMHJ ^*1 : mi rcyt#* r , TRY THE — The Hoboken (N.J.) Jersey Observer quoted a local minister as saying in Easter sermon: “Man should have faith in Immor ality.” (Mass.) 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