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Volume 49
LLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS,
FEBRUARY 16, 1950
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Love Must Underlie Virtue
Crane Tells Capacity
Crowi
The vices of man have been re
ported to be his ‘Virtues pushed to
excess. Dr. Henry i|. Crane, Re
ligious Emphasis Week speaker
told a capacity Guion Hall audience
this morning.
That may not be altogether true,
he continued, but '.‘there is enough
truth in it to suggest what I have
in mind When I speak of "Vicious
Virtue?’. ■>
Certain character qualities we
all haVeijire excellent, he said, but
when we! carry them to extremes
they become vicious.
This cun be shown in many ways,
Dr. Crane continued. For Instance,
whenVlrtuea become divorced from
their complimentary or cminterbal-
ancing virtua; when they 1 Ignore
their human reference; when they
practiced with self-concious
prjlde; ot-Ylnully, when they lire not
practiced In u pleasant manner,
Ijley nil become vicious.
Every virtue must be permeated
wjth love, he said.
JDnvid Haines, business major
f^om College Btnttoil, presided ov-
e* the morning service. C, O. Smith
senior landscape art major from
Burkburnett led the opening pray-
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Organist for the morning serv
ice' was Jim Rollins of McKinney.
Tomorrow’s service will be the
last in Crane’s series of addresses
frir the 1950 Religious Emphasis
Week.
He opened the week-long series
'V’ Discussions
Set Today at 4
Two discussions groups will,
be held in the YMCA this after
noon at 4 p.m.
At the first, the Rev. Paul G.
Wassenich will conclude his se
ries of discussions on “Men and
Women Relations” in the South
Solarium of the "Y”.
The' second will be a discus
sion by three of the visiting
speakers in the Cabinet Room
‘.of the "Y”. Ned Linegar will
discuss ‘‘the Bible and Science”.
\ "Democracy and the Bible” will
' be subject,, of a talk by Rev.
Grady Hardin. Chaplain Gas
kins will speak on ‘‘the Bible—
how it is inspired”.
Dr. Henry H. Crane will speak
to members of the faculty at
4 p.m, in the chapel^of the “Y”.
The regular nightly discus
sions will be held as usual at
0 p.m. in the following lounges:
Dorm 2 Rev. Grady Hardin
Dorm 0 Rev. Paul G.
WitNMcnleh
Dorm 0 R. B, Sweet
Walton Hull Mr. Ned
Mnegar
I'urycur Hall Huhhl Malev
YMOA .... Chaplain Gaakln*
Hxhihit* ReqiH'MK'ri
For Open Ifoume
All departmentii planning an ex-
hi bit for Open Mouse Day must
mibmlt a request with a descpiptlon
of their exhlblta to Dean Abbott
no later tllan March 15th, accord
ing to Karl Wyler, Open Bouse
committee member. f '
Pictures .for publicizing these ex
hibits should also be Submitted to
Dean Abbott's office by March
15th. Jh
The Open- House Day Committee
has decided to place a small charge
’ *n the programs to help with ex
penses and to prevent the waste
ef free programs.
with his Monday service in Guion
Hall, Just a few' hours after he
arrived at the local airport from
Detroit. ? •
Speaking on the relationship be
tween life ajnd death, the Detroit
pastor, Monday told a crowded
Guion Hall audience, "High relig
ion is life, not Just a way lofilife,
but life itself.
“It’s the way you live your total
life, the spark of vitality you give
yipr life,
I‘‘(Life and death are not oppo
site," Dr: Crane said, "but relative
terms.’* j i
"No one is all alive or all dead.
We are alive In certain a^as and
there we are deeply, ethically re
ligious." j-.
During Tuesday’s -service, the
Religious Emphasis Week leader
told his, listenars at the 10 i a.m.
meeting of the great [contributions
the Jews have made to men 4f all
faiths. ,
‘'Nothing can compare," he said,
"with the significance of such tre
mendous values as (1) Uwi ntono-
(2) the
in the
theistic conception of
greatest body Of literatuf
wor d—the Bible, (3) the might
iest moral genius of all time—Je
sus, and (4) the invincible principal
of s irvival.”
Tie speaker continued, “All
these have come directly from the
Jewish people.
H e, emphasis ed that the; intellec
tual and spirit ial quest which has
marked the hii tory of alljmankind
has been the s»acch for <3od. “We
eternally ask why, what, who,
whdre? What'ir behind this cosmic
process? What's it’s nature, It’s
qua ity,. It's moaning?"
He concluded that no single idea
*hai such vait and vita) signifi-
canpe as the God concept. It col
effects a id determines our
view njore than anything
psterdny, Dr. Crane apoke on
a Christian and his "stjyle.” He
said the only Ivalld test for deter
mining whethor or not h man Is
a Cirlstian Is his "style" pf living,
whether Chris: lives In men,
SMU Stew Ci
ApologiesA c<
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Three Aggies wrote “finis’! to
the last chapter of the A&M-SMU
fight incident this morrimg.
J. A. "Bitsy” Davis, BiU ‘fTex”
Thornton, and Bob McClure \ said
they had received and accepted
apologies from officials and stu
dents of Southern Methodist Uni
versity. ! A ' ' . : ,
The three”' men were attacked
,Feb. 7 in front of SMU’s Perkins
gymnasium following the A&M-
SMU basketball game. Their at
tackers, who were trying to steal
an adopted mascot, an English
bulldog, were identified as letter-
men 1 on the SMU football team.
Davis, in his acceptance, said,
“Sometimes an ill-advised action,
taken by one person’ or a small
group of persons has a tendenpy to
overshadow really good work!done
by the school which those persons
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AIChE Schedules
Regional Meeting
Chemical engineers ^rom ur Iver-
sities, research institutions and
industrial concerns in many barts
of the country will study r»cent
process developments in the Gulf
Coast area at the second regional
meeting of the-American Institute
of (phemteal .Engineers, The ijneet-
ing Is to be held in Houston Feb.
2« through March 1, James A Lee,
chairman of the Public Relations
Committee announced today,
Technical sessions, a social pro
gram, and a series of inspection
trips through large plants!
we
area are planned for
the
the
three-
day even*.
Plants to be visited Include Dia
mond Alkali Co., Bhell OH Co.,
Sheffield Steel Corp., Consolidated
Chemical Industries, Lone Slur Ce
ment 06rp„ Mathteson Cjhe-nlcal
Corp., Champion Paper and Plber
Co., HUrphle Oil and Refining
Corp., ahd Goodyear Synthetic
Rubber Corp.
Dr. W. V. Houston, president of
Rice Institute, will deliver the ban
quet address Tuesday night. Other
social events and a complete
dule of activities for wives
planned.
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was.
*‘to ; a certain extent true of the
SMtJ affair. Ji haVe received
Davis continued,
•ue
apology from [Dean Tate of SMU
and signed by Bob Gibson the
prebident of the Student’s Associa-
tiorl.
believe this apology to be tru
ly bincere an
sincerity.
I accept it in all
when
Others j Also Accept
Tthornton and McClure,
contacted by [The Battalion, said
they also accepted the apologies
and considered the incident closed.
The apologies to the three stu
dents came; on! the heels of another
apology to thq A&M student body
from the SMI|r student body. Gib
son [ officially Expressed his regret
for the incidept. He also! assured.
Keith Allsup, president djf the Stu
dent Senate, that the action in no
way reflected the feeling of the
SMtJ student body.
Allsup wired Gibson his accept-
ance of the apology on biehalf of
the A&M student body.
SMU Dean I of Students Willis
Tate, in a letter to W. I L. Pen-
berthy, dean of students at A&M,
also expressed his regret
incident and said a full ip'
tiori was being conducted
The letters from SMt
thr*e Aggies involved in
arrived the day following; Gibson s
letter to the 4&M student body,
Tpe three apologies were similar,
Dayls informed The Bit it all on.
HMjli Is-ttcr
Signed by Dgan Tate and Gibson,
DaVis’ lei ter head: ’Please accept
the profound apology of the adipln-
ietratlon, faculty, and student* of
Southern Methodist University! for
thejmlstrealment that yoti received
on
for the
’estiga-
to the
he fight
Bolton Names Council
™„.r Center
were appointed as members of
A&M’s first Memorial Student
Center Council in a Ifetter released
by President Fl O. Bolton yester
day. Five faculty members, two
ASM!
Will
Officer
peak
HereTomorrow
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C. E. Davies, secretary of
the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, will ad
dress a joint meeting of the
campus mechanical engineer-
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Dr. Henry H. Crane, main speaker of RE Week?, will give his fifth
talk of the week tonight at 7:19 In Guion Hall. At 0 p.m., he will
conduct a discussion' group in the Battalion office in Goodwin
Hall. Any students interested in joining in this discussion are in
vited to attend. _ ■
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Sidewalk Proposed
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"Wb exceedingly regret the In
cident and hope that you! will for
give jthe rudeness of sonic of our
students.
"NVe particularly Wish to express
to you," Tate and Gibson wrote
Da vis, "our appreciation of your
good spirit and understanding in
helping to ke«p this Incident from
retaliation, /j
’’Your good sportsmanship will
aid all ; of us in continuing the
fine, traditional A&M-SMU friend
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Id, Wesley B. Spalding, Instructor In the
ROA, swore In (I. to r.) WUIInm D, WIHIa,
O. PTcmlng, nnd Hilton X. Lytle na ftnt
ants In th > ORC recently. All three of the newly
eommisalcncd men are students here,
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Definite steps were taken by the
College Station Developinent As
sociation and Chamber of Com
merce at its regular meeting Tues
day afternoon to provide safe
thoroughfares for College Station
children walking to and from
school. A board, headed by Her-
schel E. Burgess, College Station
businessman, voted to prepare a
survey and adequate accompany
ing data on a proposed sidewalk
to be constructed on Jersey Street
between West Dexter and the Con
solidated School grounds.
The survey showing the feasa-
billty of the concrete walk in view
of existing property boundrios, and
an offer by Hie College Station
Chamber of Commerce to nsslst
Ipe city financially In the project,
Will be presented to the CoflVge
Station City Council al that
group’s next meeting, according to
Burgess.
Another move, considering Im
portant to College Station proper
ty owners and the telephone sys
tem, was the appointment of n
committee to prepare a numbering
system for the residential and com
mercial areas within the city.
Burgess appointed City Manager
Raymond Rogers to head the num
bering project. He will be assisted
by Jack C. Holliman, editor of the
Texas Aggie and chairman of the
committee for publicity.
Among the official letters ap
proved by the group was a letter
indicating that the College Sta
tion Chamber of Commerce is be
hind the Bryan chamber in its
attempt to bring the U. S. Air
Force Academy to the former Bry
an air field..
According to the letter, the Air
Force has not made a final selec
tion of a location for the planned
academy, and Bryan officials have
been active in promoting the lo-
Dr. Crane to Speak
At Battalion Meet
Dr. Henry H. Crane, main speak-
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cal facilities for the servipe school.
Leslie Kelly, the new secretary-
manager of the Bryan Chamber of
Commerce, was a guest of the Col
lege Station group. Kelly pledged
the wholehearted cooperation Of
the Bryan organization to College
Station-Bryan relations. Kelly is
a former student of [A&M.
A request by the A&M Consoli
dated High School band mothers
organization for financial assist
ance in purchasing : uniforms for
the band met with the approval (if
the board. It wgs indicated that
the chamber would take steps t,«
give this aid after thb annual mem
bership drive is coinpleted arid
funds are available for such put-
poses, ! \
Col, Richard C. punn, former
bandmaster at A&M and present
director of the high school hand,
offered to give Instruction to band
members during ithe summer
months without charge If uniforms
were provided.
Those present for the meeting
beside I’tesldent Burgess were Mrs.
Fleming, Les Richardson, aupefln-
tendetit. of schools; lilomer Adam?
tnaurancp executive land chairman
of the financial cotnmlttee; Ray
Ogden, grocery store owner; Riiy
Perryman, educational committee
chairman and assistant registrar
at A&M: Marion C.! Pugh, lutnbler
company owner and Chamber secre
tary; Dr. R. L. Hunt, assistant
dean of* agriculture; Frederick
Donovan, publicity Committee aftd
A&M student; Rayimond Rogers,
city manager; and Jack Hollimain,
publicity chairman, j
ing clubs toihorrow at 11 a. m.
Davies will speak In Kootn 303
of the ME Building under the spon
sorship of the local chapter of the
A8MB.
Following the address ha will be
honor guest at a luncheon to be
held in Agfleland Inn.
A graduate of Rensselaer Poly
technic Institute In Troy, N. Y„
Davies served as an ordnance of
ficer In both world war. During
World War I, he was stationed at
Frankford Arsenal where he was
responsible for developing methods
of manufacture and production
control scherhes for the manufac
ture of artillery ammunition.
He has been active in the ord
nance reserve Of the Army and in
World War II served as a colonel
in the control ; division of the Of
fice of the Chief of Ordnance. He
was awarded the Legion of Merit
for hia work.
Davies was the first secretary of
the Engineers’ Council for Profes
sional Development, a conference
of engineering, educational, and
licensing bodies. He is also secre
tary for the Hoover Medal Board
of Award ajnd the Gnatt Medal
Board of Award.
For two years he was secretary
of the Newcomen Society in Eng
land and was! a member of the
Council of the American Society
for Engineering Education.
He is a Fellow of the ASME and
of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and
is also a member of numerous En
gineering Societies.
A Pi Kappa Phi, Davies is a
member of the Engineers Club qt
New York arid the Army and Navy
Club of Washington.
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China Treaty Poor
Acheson Cautions
Washington, Feb. 18, lAV Secre
tary of State Acheson said yes
terday the Chinese Communists
made a poor and dangerous deal
with Russia lit their new 30-year
"friendship" treaty of alltancs.
Acheson termed it almost a holl
er plate copy of the pacts Russia
has made with Soviet satellites
in Eastern Europe.
The accompanying agreement In
whleh Moscow reportedly promis
ed $300,000,000 In economic aid to
China over the next five yean la
only the beginning of trouble for
the Chinese, Acheson declared.
The cabinet member told a news
conference that for a nation re
ported to be on the verge of fam
ine^ and facing tremendous econo
mic difficulties, $300,000,000 is
very meager assistance in any
event.
He voiced! skepticism that Rus
sia will actually loosen its grip on
Manchuria by 1952 as provided in
the treaty, or at a later date.
jers a
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J. Wayne Stark will serve on the
council. , i
Faculty and staff membej
Chairman, Dr. J. H, r
head of the Poultry Husbandry
Department; Dr. W. H. Delaplane,
head of the Economics Depart
ment; Phil Goode, instructor in the
Department of Business and ‘Ac
counting; C. .A. Roeber, head of
the Fiscal Department; and John
Rowlett, associate professor in the
Architecture Departments
J. B. "Dick” Hervey, exceptive
secretary of the Former Students
Aaaootatlon, and Sid Loveless, Col
lege Station insurance executive,
will be the ex-student member*.
Ntudent Members
Student members appointed were
H. W. Beutel, senior .pre-med {stu
dent from Dalles; Hal Stringer,
senior landscape architecture pm*
Jor from Waco; Layon Mnssengule,
Jr., mechanical engineering junior
from Dallas; nnd Joe R. Fuller,
junior civil engineering major from
Port Arthur. .
Remaining students nn the coun
cil are R. A. Ingels, sophomore bus-
Vocational Ag
Teachers’Meet
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Held Yesterday
A radio broadcast, panel
discussions, and speeches
made up the program at a
meeting in the YMCA yester
day of area veteran vocational
agriculture teachers and coordina
tors.
The group was welcomed by C.
N. Shepardson, Dean of Agricul
ture, and first heard a talk by S.
L. Adams, a member of the State
Board for Veteran Vocational Ag
riculture on, “The; Need for Pub
licity”. Murray Cpx, radio farm di
rector for station WFAA, then
spoke on “How. Technical Agricul
ture Workers Can Help Radio
Farm Directors {Publicize Their
Events."
Phil Alford, Burleson County
Coordinator led a panel on, “HoW
We In Burleson County Have Triejl
to Weld Relationships Between; The-
Farmer And The {Business."
Next Calvin Pigg, Brazos Coun
ty Coordinator |ed a panel dis
cussion on "How 0,ur Dairymen
Are Producing More Milk Cheaper
During The Winder.Months."
From 12:15 to 12:30 the group
attended the Murray Cox radio
broadcast,
After lunch in Shisa Hall Jaijk
Gray led the panel discussion,
"Tenant • Landlord Relationship
Problems, And How They Hjive
Been Approached,"
Last on the program was a talk
by E, R. Alexander, Mead of tlio
Agricultural Department, ml It Ml,
"Mental FertlllMera".
San Angelo Club
To Choose Duchess
The choosing of a Cotton Boll
Duchess and the Spring Party Will
be matters under discussion at the
San Angelo Club meeting tonight
at 7:15 in Room 203 of the Agri
culture Building.
All members" of the club who
have money or tickets from the
Chrletmaa dance* are asked to be
present at the meeting, said Bob
by Sykes, president.
Gift of $400 European Tour
Open, Still Hps No Takers
An out and' out gift of $400 j is
being offered on the campus, arid,
as yet, there have been no takers.
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Or at [ least that’* the opinion
of M. L. ! Cashion, lotial YMCA dir-
S" h * issstf ssJte
which J* trying to give the money
to some .deserving Student to aid
him through a 60-day tour of Eur
ope.
will lead an informal discussion at
the regular Thursday night meet
ing of The Battalion.
The discussion will began at 9
p. m„ co-editor Bill Billingsley
said.
The meeting will be conducted
along the same order as the di
rected bull sessions’ being held in
the dormitories during the past
week.
The schedule for the next two
Battalion meetings has also been
released. For February 23, a full
color sound movie entitled "Re
hearsal" will be shown. This is a
movie dealing with the behind the
scenes activity of the "Bell Tele-
phone Hour.",
March 2, a movie entitled "John
ny on the Spot" will be shown. This
movie Is put out by the American
Newspaper Representatives Asso
ciation. i i
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Total cost of the tour, which will
include every European country
admitting visitors, will be between
$700 and $800, Cashion says, with
the Student Life Committee and
the YMCA furnishing the first $400
the, student putting
and
rest.
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this way* Cashion
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plains, the student Will have a ma
jor portion of the expense taken
care of, ! and can then spend as
much, or as little, as he cares to
from hi$iown pocket.
Third Trip
The trip is sponsored again
year, as It has
two years, In order
people may learn dli
lea, and that A&M may have
been for the paat
rder that European
n directly of Am*r-
kM may have more
first-hand Information on Europe,
Cashion said.
Only requirements for applica
tion for the award are that they
be students, currently enrolled, and
that they will return next year In
order to report the happenings of
the trip to various campus clubs
and to write several articles .for
The Battalion, dealing with the
trip.
Student Tour
Continuing his description of the
trip, Cashion said the tour is ten
tatively scheduled to be arranged
by a New York concern, which
will route the winner of the campus
competition, along with other stu
dents from across the U.S., through
London and Paris, anfl then on to
Norway. Sweden, Italy, Denmark,
and poastbly Czechoslovakia.
After the cross-Burope swing,
the entire tour will re-assemble In
Paris for aftNl-day evaluation and
report on the plaoes visited, and
than return to America on an aU-
student boat. [
Whenever possible, Cashion con
tinued, the students on tour will
visit the classes and living quar
ters of European students. Inter
view and discussion sessions will
also be arranged with officials in
European governments, he said.
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As yet Cashion has received no
formal application for the tour,
although several Aggies have
asked him for details of the tour.
Although no final deadline for ap
plication will be set until Monday’s
Student Life Committee meeting, it
will probably be March 1, Cashion
said.
Any student wishing to file .his
application for {{the Jour, or gain
more informs
contact Cashion
second floor of
Final select!
make the tour
Student Life
Both at
on the tour, may
his office on the
e YMCA.
of the person to
11 be made by the
imittee.
making the past
two tours are still ip school and
will probably be glad to discuss
their tours, Cash lorn said.
Don "Doggls" McClure, "D" Vet
senior, was the IMS touree and
Donald Jarvla, fifth year architec
ture student went to Europe last
(,
ineess major from Dallas; Dan W, s
Davis, a second year business stu
dent from Lubbock; J. T. McNew.
Jr, freshman civil engineering ma
jor from Hereford; and J. C. Wi
lace, a mechanical engineerl
freshman from San Antortlo.
The newly-formed council will
responsible through the Memdrli
Strident Center Board to Pres!
Bolton for two main jobs.
First of these will be "the
ganisation of all activities a n
events" concerned with the
morlal Student Center until, am
after, Its opening next Beptembei
The members will serve one-y<
terms ending at the beginning
the spring semester of 1951.
Will Draft Constitution
Ths council will also be chai
with drafting and submitting
approval a constitution undei’
which It will operate In carrying
out Its objectives. . In this con >
stitutlon will be set up the basis by
which membership of the council
'v|ll be maintained.
he now group will notj concer
lt$elf with the ouatneaa
»ot' concer
■ operatlm
nfj the Student Center. Rtark. wt
Is a non-voting member,! will
In; charge of that end of the
operation.
In carrying out the filial phni
of Its duties the Council will worl
toward the end of carrying out th
OrilectlvfT'for which the Memorls
StjUder* Center was established.
Tnese objectives, as previously
dravyn up, are as follow*:
;1. To provide a social; and ed
ucational program for students and
the college staff.
2. To fqstCr'The social,: cultural,
and spiritual phases \of : student
3. To provide more adequate opj-
portunlties for social and person
al contacts among students, form
er students, faculty and friends of
the college and of its students.
4. To provide facilities for meet
ings, short courses and conferences
of citizens of the state and of farm,
business, industrial, cultural, and
educational courses and organiza
tions, thus making the Center a '
useful and helpful factor 1 and fa
cility in the educational { and cul
tural life of Texas.
Vacancies^odburing on the coun
cil du* to . graduation of seniors
will be provided for by a stepping
up from the next lower class.
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GI BiU Inquir
Washington, Feb. 16 (AP)
—Investigation of alleged
abuHea in the GI educational
program waa proponed Wed-
m-Hday by Rep. Teague (D-
Taxi, whu charged ths VaUriuia
Administration "has not- given a
true picture" of the situation.
He Introduced a bill to have the
sneaker appoint a
make the Inquiry.
sneaker appoint a oomriilttee
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Teague, itfuch-decoratdd WorM
War II veteran, la Hqus* sponatlr
of a bill by Senator Taft (R-Ohlut
to tighten up the GI training pro--
gram In a number of respects and
also to llberallie veteran* right to
take courses of their choice. 1
This proposal for an tnvestlg%-
tlon followed shortly after Prrml-
' to coni-
dent Truman sent a report
gress critical of abuees In the VA
program, especially amohg voca-
s in t
HMClf
tlonal training and trade schools
which have sprung up since enact
ment of the GI bill.
Teague said VA reports "have
left the impression that there are
at present mass abuses and wide
spread fraudulent activities on both
the part of the veterans and the
schools.” !
He said he agreed with the pres
ident regarding some lot these
abuses, but Teague added he did
not think Mr. Truman knew "there
have been administrative abuses by
VA against schools and veterans
alike."
The Taft-Teague bill, he declar
ed in a statement, ’’will accom
plish all the desired results that
the president wants if the VA will
do its part under its existing auth
ority."
Its enactment by the House
Teague said, "will provide assur
ance to the veteran that his educa
tional entitlement will not be ar-
bitrarily taken from hlnri and will
tlon
At
give the VA permanent
to ban recreational *
the present time this _
expire June SO, 1950."
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