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FRIDAY, NbIWARY 20.1948
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Have we beefa Hidtii
•" this ‘‘cold war?” i4ne we ajc
j a “hot’Vwar in th| near fu
^ hope hot, but news stories
j particularly hearterang.; -
| The State iDmrfraeht
J'. ihg words in t&lkifag to
derson, din
office of Ni
th^ Soviet
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es;
ually headed for
re? We certainly
ijjnese dayslare not
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no longer mine- 7
ira. Loyd W. Hen-
tjor bf Ttllie Slite Department’s
r Eastern af)fjairs, has warned
United Statejs will
Jet Greece come
•under the halnimer ajnd sick e flag. Witnesses
bkfipre a Congres^iohal feoi{i|inittee this week
have stated, fr
mc(i Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tuitions
Getting Hotter... "
dints; ourselves about Bulgarian Gq
r
itLil
Bulgarian Communists "tHj.ve
their activity into the United States. Hte said
they have formed organizations and are pub
lishing a Detroit newspaper called “Peoples
extended
A Ret
hat the
“not stand idly byf’! and
siders
nil
„ oim theiiji __ n
m tlhe Qonimuiiisi! movement, that
the'United Statesjis,*‘]|l.oj. If
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But he quiickl
know' whethier -t'
■ away, later bir e
Hershejv'iyho
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djlperience as “in-
movemei
arget” of revolu-
ttonio; Maj. Gen.
selective^ service
tipnary plans.; j
Ahd yesterday irf San-4
lievfis B. Hershe) said thaj »
: • is “getting reiad} for, whi lever comes up.
I The.director Of tie Offiict ’of Selective Ser
vice said “we’ve g it three cii four plans ready
c\ ‘ - ~
pbiht^d
me Iw'Oul
ireSiclled
Htrsney^wno presiciieu at tne r isn bowi
f when sbldieijsjfor; World W ir II were called
' up, was in San Aijtohio to copier with armed
wt 1
I,'
:ever comes qp - ”
forces resente;officers fruipfa five-state area
regard to! {. otentiiil mill
He listed | tpe tSouir plain
1. Natiotuil ifeglistratiO
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fwhat we’ve go.. .
2. Universal .iimfary
|for.the military
118 to 20 yeaj'siolc]
■B. Supplenjen
4. Compljetje
iwhat that meatus,
j ■ He min injured
•three plans, j
• _ _ “€omplet)e |n,d
: mainly educatliphal-
J to know whajt
ralinin
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/Will.” || ,-.'11 ‘ fl . i i
gd formula for destruction of the U.
S. government wps t outlined by a former
Communist party official at a deportation
hearing. -- vd 'I If
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Premier Joseph Stalin say the United States
was “A fnain citadel pf Capitalism that must
' be destroyed.” ] p'' | J^v,
Stalin made the statement in Moscow in
1932 in the presence; ;bf Earl Browder, then
secretary-genera^ of the phrty in this coun
try' and Browder latjet “repeated!’ the Stalin
declaration in the United States, the witness
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Trampling Out the Vintage
Law-Abiding Texan
Lands in Jail After
f
By I.AH
said.
Hewitt was askbdhow destruction of the
U. S. government wa v s to be accompEshed,
i
ut that he didn’t
be a war right
it the Fish Bowl
Only Vets i
Subsistence
. .ry manpower.
7 1
ready for what-
1—“to find out
Araining—“that’s
g h' the youngsters
rCcriidting—“that’s
fails.’
case the reejuftipg progran
rnoBiliizail in—“you know
l 1. .. I
he impo
ilizatiion,’
m
| wanted to.cojmp hjtjme.’’
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anCe of the first
Die said, “will be
,\limt everybody to
,vheh tlhe time comes.”
met
He deplojrep the militiiy power of the doubt that such a, move would impress many
jU.S. today. Hit ul
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Other unj[)lCaskn;; items) f rom the Associa
ted Press Wireij: |
George M. piipiilrov,; exiflH Bulgajri|an po-
t
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and he replied: ■
“Bjf following fh^ lesson of the Russian
Revolution in whicl-every-day demands of
the masses were ga hered to by the party,
in which every grievance se:rved as a bihck to
consolidate the mas^s until the masses be
came sufficient in h umber to storm machin
ery! of the Capitaliststatej and set up their
own form of goviernpiieht.”
Russia has forged the last link in a chain
of treaties intended a barrier against the
“Imperialist States,’! Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov announced, | ,
Molotov spoke ajtfer thq signing of a So
viet - Hungarian friendship and mutual as
sistance treaty. j f h- ' | .
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How much
propaganda or uiuu
are in a nasty .situat^ipn, it is getting nastier,
and we cannot afford to close our eyes to
the possible end. It may be that at some
time in the future many reservist# will be
called ftfr shorttime, djuty. No such thing has
Only veterans in sch
suing full-time courses
creased subsistence alio
day by President Trumai
tion office said today.
Schools to Get
aise, Says VA
Is, colleges and universities pur-
education will be entitled to bi-
ices under the law signed Satur-
the Waco Veterans Administra-
Part-time students, on-thii-jpb-f—y .—-— -
trainees and others will not b& en- training in which students attend
titled to the increases, the VAfriHl- sChooi part time and are employed
ing held. The hill signed into Jaw I part time, usually ;in a related
amends the Servicemehjs Readjust- Held.
5. Internship and residency
of this can we discodnt as 1 ® a n«e
blufl?! Some, but not all. We'the end of the month
nt “everybody.” been officially slighted, but there is
And he ijidjic
lojreld ^ r ^
, - , - sjunk soon after the signing nations; in the world. Would it also;be a step
lot the peace j t.ijeal.y ivith J 4 an. Ail the boys toward a new \Vari? Would it help avert a
new wur? The (Question is unanswerable.
What , position ; dan a liberally-minded
American take a.t this tinie? The advice of
Walter Reuther, president of the CIO United
Automobile Workers iSnion, is sound not only
for laboring people but for others. Reuther
calls upon liberals • afld progressives to dis
card their “united front” .psychology and
fight Communists. jBift, he says in a Collier’s
Magazine article, fhei liberal should neither
ally himfjelf with rdadtionaries to fight Com-
f >
hit now ip Russia
iptm j j
i gressional com-
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Personal In
I litical leaded, siiid yesterfk:
iAors” are being trained trig
for eventual;diityf in thijs cc
Dimitrov) a)so: tofd a cjc
mittee that-: j ^
“America is i^pinmiini^ targeti. No. 1.’.
Under the Red plan bf wmld domination:, munism, nor with (’oimmunists to fight for
America is jmpposled to! si If Br most and get progressive legislation. Either alliahce would
the. crudest tniatlmeint of iii r nation. be dangerous in the long run.
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Football-Bullfighting # . .
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American University (Washington, D.C.)
this fall, banished! football. Said President
Paul F. Douglass: “Postwar college football
has no more relation to education than bull
fighting to agncujtuire. . . I see no reason
why one corpoTatioin .^ho.uld hire a specialized
group of employee? to outrun, outbump, and
outbruise the specia$zed employees of an
other corporation 1. 4. A football pjjayer is
nothing more than aJhuman slave caught in
the biggest blackniarket ppersatidn in the
history of higher education.
jnent Act (GI Bill) and the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Act (Piijblic
Law 16) for the disabjetl.
The ne^ypayments will be, at
the monthly rate of 75 . dollars
tor a veteran without depfen^
dents, 105 dollars fph a vetetan
with one dependent, and 120 (Hol
lars for a veteran with more than
one dependent. : .\ | [|
The b'gher rates ari> applichble^
to periods of training on and ajifU!r
April 1. However, since'subsist|nce
not due ijjntil
in which:' the
veteran is in training, most of! the
eligible veteran-students ,will| te-1
ceive their first checks at tjhe high- j
er rates on or shortly after M;iy 1.
Veterans taking any of the ffol
lowing types of training are > not
entitled to the increases, hut will;
continue to receive subsistence!
payments at the old rates' of 65 j
dollars a month for those without
dependents and 90 dollars for those
with dependents: f
1, Part-time institutiomd tijjajn
ing.
5. Internship
training. k
6. Graduate training under a
fellowship requiring a reduced
credit cpurse-ljoad because of
services rendered under provisions
of the. fellowship.
Eligible veterans n o w in
school, who are entitled to 75
dollars or 105 dollars under the
new rates will not have to apply
for the increased allowances,
Existing applications will supply
all the information needed to
pay the new benefits. These vet
erans, therefore, need not write
VA at the present time concern
ing their increases.
Veteran-trainees entitled to
120 dollars been use they have
more than one dependent will be
required to submit information
about their additional dependents
before payments at the ne^v rate
can be made.
In the case of dependent chil
dren, pMotOstats or certified copies
of their birth'certificates will be
! necessary. In the case of dependent
| Today’s oddity in the news comes from Chicago
where one Arthur Casper can’t, understand why
had to spend Monday night in jail.
According to an Associated Press story, Camper
had seer) a burglar, scuffled with him, and
killed him when lie tried to escape. But police lack
ed him upi even though one praised him for his.'
deedi j ! , :
The 19-year-old Bishop, Texas’ ex-Marine (old
police he saw a broken front door glass ip a grocery
store arid a man moving furtively about inside.
Police said the youth, now ah electrical school
Student here, told them he pulled out his pocket
knife and . stabbed the intruder when he tried to
» escape. 1 ' . i, . '• i ' r I! ; r
The dead man was identified by Popce i^s Ed
ward J. (Six Toes) Dicks. ,
“We take our citizenship seriously down in
Texas,” the puzzled Casper tqld newsmen after he
was detained without charge pending an inquest to
day. “If you see'someone conknitting a crime jyou:
try to stop him. But you don’t wind up in jail ypur-
self,’* the Texan moaned. ■ ‘ ; I / : ' ]!
Police Captain John Griffin said Casper rpust
bej held for the inquest because “we always |iold
h man in a case like this when there were no wit
nesses.” , |
But from a personal viewpoint, Griffin said
“It Was a very brave deed.”
ARSON ! ' ! T,
PHILADELPHIA- Richard Light, a landlord,
has been charged with arspn after Fire Marshal
George Gallagher said Light admitted in a sigmjd
statement trying to evict two tenants with the aid
of smoke from a rubbish fire, Gallagher said the
blaze in a bucket of rubbikh on an apartment hduse
stairway was extinguished by, firemen after flqrne^
had scorched the stajis. In the statepient, IGal*
lagher said Light declared:
“I must have had a crazy day."
ACCURACY / • ■
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. Postal employes, ipuz-
Zled py the letters "NT.” jin pjace of the zone dum
ber, oh mail addressed to |a schoolboy here, yielded
to curiosity and asked hijm aibout it. The young
ster said it was simple as could be. Hf had been
answering advertisements, and in filling out; the
coupons with his mailing address he' merely apbruj
viated “north temperate" jn the zone spajcc.
RUMMY AFTER 1() j !. f ! j|
A famous producer came home at pine inj the
morning, and explained that he had taken his beau-
&
trouse
bare 1
AUffkenl
declined
-get! ihie
summoned poll
penniless aind
iWI h s riame op file
leipe^,"! hefsaid.
thief unbelted the!/
Passe rsby saw two
eft . 1 ■
ipibappy/ the victim
a complaint. “For- i
l iOF FRUNJES
tEJ—Know
/good recipes for
DepartmqnUof Edu-
The (Maryland
rye ^1,000 pounds of the dried fruit
f* 1 fAiar ii'^wxl/a (i-Lnt ♦ li
nejxt [few
no
weeks, Whether, the
;One of the department's
es Were sent here under
ch-money program,
ry theip to keep them off!
i wej dish 'em out."
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SJrt'i
to SChcx 1 kids in th
youngst :rs lihi it
officials explai ioi .
terms of th^ ffediral 1
“Fadenu Jffi rials
the tnaijketJ ti? iaicj,—
AND RARK T8 | .
’Otrii. ]lL-4-Thje pext piember of the Ran-
toul Ratjary Clpb who misses tWo consecutive meet
ings hail bettep bje mighty fohdj of rabbits.
Tftd clulbi engaged in an-4attcndancc contest,
voted tliat t!h| ptnallty tor missing two meetings in
a row |youte;i re to! care for a rabbit Then the
rabbit dad a | ilepsedl evenjt—and tho-little rabbits
now'gjoi[witfiMitr. - T (j
UKE JCApjl 51 RANG SWALLOWS t
.BERNArIdS flLLE; n). J. (This oertainly must
be the IlirsL Niw Jeijsey mpsquiio story of the year
and Frtijnk A^ir, a l<»cal fiifeman, said maybe It was
a signl winter ijis ( veif. Sportingfa large swelling on
his nec“l|, Mr. IM< r spid he was Written by a mosquito
jc had; ul ed witb t^e h^lp of a second! map.
g«ed the
: statioqJ and. tl ey[ plpn tjo Have
IN A tlGHT k
PH [LADE LBH
glc g<)tj hrmsglf I int
qmpa
quito into the ftre
t stuffed.
EE^E KjARLY
Two-yaui-old Stephen Kar-
o suclli a jlight squeeze while
sleeping that it dock twq policemen to free him.
Thc yoi ngster dcfcidfntally wedged his head between
the metal-bars of his crib. His mother, Mrs. Marie
Eargle, twent/.Jwpjs awakenel by his cries and
called >olice. ijwoi offiiltjrs b:nt the bars apart.
The bo /'s flatl leii Ftrahp, is a Navy aviation ordl-.
nance ii lan |se :oifd vlask, stationed at Norfolk, Va.
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Some people th
wind up on
4 dikbetes frt
k
or mat lion
!’ iH T if
link pro: esflqrs have'.single
» track mindsiwithlai hul imisking. Some people
belLve thaf leacjhi tteacfiek] knows only has
own subject] and is; capable Of talking only
• on hi^ own jsqbjecL Umdoiijlj :ed|y both opin
ions have sameTacjUtal basis is some instanc
es. But we. kuttw .i. profesJof of whom such
thing's are niot tT ii. j !
Dr, D. S. Fbw.? 1 is jltpitjcl Ing a course in
Victorian - eksa vUtHLlhL ■ Ner iester, and ac
cording to tjhe gosfid of ?i)nte committee or
! other he c<;<nd.ictsi his [•clasri in agriculture
110. When tjhe clafs coitvejiei recently there
« were sketches of tnio fruit-ifl es on the black
board, one with tied eye?. I ha-Powell gave his
English literalu - e clas? a ikost. interesting
lecture on the tub eetj cjf f it:it-flies, genetics
and the iriujatipr (f gjeijeaAv th a flourishing
th0 inheetjof tl e translation of
ni'p^i^hUtp liltiljfl.
lold
am?
th(|
teacheijs i in mediately prej
y! r tomk Wildtitt
2. Institutional o ii |th e - farm parents, evidence of actual depen-
training. i | i, dency must be submitted.
3. Apprenticeship or other[ 6fi-j If veterans now in training sub-
the-job training, for which vltor-1 mit evidence of dependency prioir
ans receive compensation for £pn>-; to July l, 1948, they will receive
diuctive labor. ^ ; 'f retroactive payments at the new
4. Combination or cooper|tive I rates back to ApriJ .1, 1948.
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Truman Denounces Privileged
Few in Jackson Day Special
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WASHINGTON, P’eb. 20 'fB— I ; In his prepared radio address he
President Truman headed intq the I sized up this year’s political battle'
1948 campaign! today with ajddl a s a fight between a Democratic
for the common people to jrally party of “progressive liberalism"
Sch‘<*)i of Education Record
Dog Killer
We woijdetf h(iw mjai’ij' jtrofs who
tl pent qlasst
drial leftlon
j. classes in oilt-of-:hhr (kpjiht^ient qla$sro
| could comnient on the nuit
• blackboard I.
i ceding them.
’ Note ftforhj
i Staff, adve Tisin
5 story . . . ales
; drenched patio
j with rippling ipj
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•isaclhcjit,
ingU)ei
tlimihi
nu insert
lain.’
. 1. The Batlliilioh
of College Stjatioii
. afternoon, eieept
- lialied semi-vveekl
I't L
win Hall.
Ail-Amerii
J ed to it or
ol :icial
T i kas,
during
ultiotns miy He made by telephone (4,-5444), or at the
Righta of rebubljeit:
Entered as 8MCond^c(aa.H
Office at Collcjgc
the Act Of Con( teas
caAifckg
Vick I.lndley
J. T. Miller. Kt
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Tom Carter. Ted
C. C. Munroe - C.
Ottft-K. Kunse, J.
fess 1b (ritll lied exclusively to the use for
matte: 4l
T^xi ts
The following Ldv^ertisement recently ap
peared in the Albertan (Ga.) Star:
“NOTICE: this is to certify that I know
the forked tongue, isnake-eyed j skunk that
killed my pobernjarj; Pinscher dog in cold
blood., I certainly knpw the “Judy Hole’ in
the Savannah River: where he'took a rock
and tied it to him aikd sank him in 20 feet
of water to keep; the buzzards away so I
could not find hint If the man will have the
nerve to come to hie am cl admit it, I will give
around in a battle against jf’the
privileged few.”
In a 30-miriute Jefjferson-jiack-
son Day speech the president i|ever
did refer directly to the challenge
he faces from angry Southerners
in his own party.
Nor did he mention directly the
threat to Democratic ; presidential
chances offered by Henry A. Wal
lace’s third party. '
He spoke highly of Thomas; Jef
ferson’s attacks against “lawsiithat reserved for the party
restricted citizenship.”NAnd helsaid Olm Johnston (D-SC).
the Democratic party'Still believes, has criticized Mr.
in protecting the rights of "all the j rights proposals!
groups and individuals in ouf na ; Negro Democrats who attended
were concentrated largely at three
tables in the sprawling banquet
against a “reactionary conserva
tive” opposition which he said is
behind the wealthy and “favored
few.” > " f '
He declared that if the “common,
everyday man” is truly informed,
*'he will not turn the government
over to a hunch of reactionaries
who are trying to take us hack
to 1896.”
The empty table in front of the
president ; as he spoke had been
reserved for the party of Senator
Johnston
Truman’s civil
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Before him as he spoke vf»jjre a
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left pointedly empty by Southern-
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House - Democratic Leader Sam
Rayburn of Texas served notice he
isn’t joining the Southern revolt.
Rayburn has been talked of as a
possible vice presidential candidate
to appease Dixie congressmen,
j “I am a Democrat,” Rayburn
told the dinner audience, “I am.
ciucat™, anJ hUing. L S'TTromX'
inside.” ;
ers, protesting his civil rights , pro
gram. j: ; I J]
Mr. Truman lumped oppbner|tsijpf
his legislative program together
ate the forces of “reactionary j con-;
servatism.”
He described those who sjtand I
against his .proposals for improving
“backward-looking” j and j
and jfalnt
ists,”
“men of
hearts.”
He said the Democrats offer a
“parcel of progressive liberajjishti”«
and “progressive liberals will l ajlly
to the Democratic party.” |
But while the president j; \yas
making his confident speedy tile
Southern revolt within his • own
party got hotter stilly
Senator Byrd (D-Vd) aksertid in
a speech at Richmond that:: Mir.
Truman’s civil rights commission
had urged a “mass; invasiph of
states’ rights.”
Southern congressdien froth !at
least, three states called a confer
ence today to organize agai
anti-lyncht anti-poll tax and no-
color-line proposals.
(Senator McGrath of Rhddfc
land. Democratic national oh*',,
niqn, told a reporteij he wil| see
governoi# of five southern states
on the mpttor Monday. He fisi
the chief executives bf South
Kna, Texas, Ark;
and Maryland. , t a
The president talked twice'
night—first impromptu to omjj sec
tion of the Jefferson-Jackson) din
ner at the Statler Hbtel and: then
in a prepared address to the s«|ction
at the Mayflower. :
1 Ajt the Statler he struck at at
tempts by the GOP-confrolied’Con-
gress to cut his budget and reduce
federal taxes.
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