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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
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Roiywtod lo—d Up . .
Should Communists Be Outlawed...
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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.
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* 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.
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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
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•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.
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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(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!
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quoted a local minister as saying in Easter
sermon: “Man should have faith in Immor
ality.”
(Mass.) Post appeared a display ad read
ing. “LAWN SWIMMING POOL HOLDS
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