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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 14. 1M»
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McDonald and the Straight Ticket .. .
J. E. McDonald, for t*n term* Tr***’
comminnuter of agncultvr*. wm handed
a *harp rfbuke Monday when the State
Democrat* Executive (ommittee voted
uitanimoualy to strike hit name from the
July 22 primary ballot The committee
read Melkmald otit of the party on charfee
of "conairtant infidelity.’* (auae for the
action «a« McDonald * ♦Jpen Nupport for
Republican landMate* for the preaidency
and vice preaidency in the 1M0. IM4,
and 1^4lt national election* and for what
the committee termed hi* givinf "aid and
comfort to the Republican candidate for
CaptreM," Hen Guill GuiH wa* elected re
cently a* the first G<)P conirre**man fr»nn
Texa* in 30 yeam
McDonald testily announced he woukt
fight the ruling In court *TII get a man-
damu*. you l»et your Iniota, and my name
will lie on the ballot.' McDonald said He
had previdUalv ru*he«l to the committee'*
chambers to testify he wa* a life-long
Democrat who had not "broken faith '*
The almost perennial commiwuoner of
agriculture *aid he felt free to *upport
R«*j»ui»lican candidate* for national office
becfUae he con*idere<l hi* Democrat* jiar-
Our Debt to the World's
Even to mind* partially hardoped to
re|»ort«< of wartime atn«citie* in dictator*
controlled countries, the recenf announce
ment of the latest Soviet purge in the
Haltic state* i* shocking According to a
dispatch fmm ('openhhgen, more than
one million (lerson* from Lithuania. Ia- •
tvui ami Estonia have lieen expelle<i from
their homeland*. Baltk' delegate* to the
International Socialist ('ongfese re|*irt the
majority of the deportees were sent into
forced labor in the g<4d mine* of Siberia
and m secret armament plants in the
l rals. Even Soviet puppat* in the gov*
erntnents of the three BaFtic states have
not been imnHine The president of the
supreme soviet in Estonia and the Eston
ian minister of security have tieen arte*,
ted and earned off by police of the MVD.
It is difficult for American* to cotv
asve of such treatment To know that in
these *uppn«fdly enlightemsi tim«‘* whole
INVfiulation* are auhject to brutal treat
ment with no opportunity for mires* is
almost incomprehensible However, there
are too manv reports from reliable sour
ce* to discount what we hear.
New York Times correspondent Ihma
Adams Schmidt recently cabled an ac
count of hi* exjiertence* »n (Vechoslovu-
kia He was among a large nurnhtf of de-
fendsnts accusod of planning an armed
revolt against the communist government
Dormitory Dilemma . . .
Should the Biology ivpartmrnt need
g|Kx.imens for a few slides on imccU. we
know where they can obtain t^em first
hand
Along with the advent of the summer
terms" have qoUM hundreda of nocturnal
peats mosquitoes, flyw June bugs and an
awvirtetl galaxy of their cohorts in crime
They fly through the open dormitory
doors nightly, seeking prey The prey
th«*y locate is m the form of a tired stu
dent. trying to sleep after an equally try
ing day.
The Battalion
"SmUnf, Suuhmsb, Kmgbtl y GtmttmmT
Lawrence Sullivan Row, Founder of Aggie
Th* AxsocmhH Pros* is rntithd 4>ehisiwflf to tho ww for rvfNiMlcaUan of all now* dMaalrkr*
rrodito* t« S of wot «*thfrwiar embtort is the i>ai«r snd lorsl sow* *f spontsnowtt* anfin pubhsk-
t4 horam Right* of rrsshheadae of sil othor watfor horns ai» also rosorvr*
TV Rattaiioa, ofbcial nowspapor nf U
< ity of Col logo StsUnW. Trxas. is puM «h
ihg thr sun mor. The Rsttal w is puhltshod nm vesiivm m min* < pry wiswei wwry i
throagf Friday afternoon. Sukumption rato* $tM per summer. Aiivrrtisgif rate* funusVJ on re-
N«ws con Mi hut ion* may he made hy
Goodwif Hsl Oa»* fied ad* may he pti
Offuc. Room 2»*, Coodwia Hail.
telephone (
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Foaturs Editor
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Cit> Editor
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tjf pledge Mnding onljf to state nominees
of the party. Ht said he voted for Jack
I^irter flnr Texas senator in 1P4R "because
there wa* a eontrovemy about the Demo
cratic nominees and who would he »«‘ate4i."
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We lope the court upholds McDonald’s
position. And. even if it doesn’t, we
imagine kv will make good bis boast that
*7. E. UrDuiakt wiH be the nexf Tom-
misotoner of AfrtraRtgw whether you (the
commit tag) leave my-name off or not "
I’rohahly a man tatting the party
pledge should be expected to support per
ty candidates for sMRs offices althmigh
tlst might even he PUhjort for dehnte
But g is unreaeonablo to require a candi
date to relinquish hie right to vote for
whom he pleases in a national tdertion in
order to become eligible for a place an the
liallot in the state primarv
Voting a atnhfht tieitet—be it Dem«>-
cratic. Republican, or Vegetarian—i* ridi
culous unless a man it convinced that the
party for which he votes offer* all the
I met men for election
Mo man should pledge himwelf to vote
against hi* better judgment.
(litizcns . . .
it (’xeohoalovakla Sharing the indictment
with Schmidt were fermcr leader* of the
National Socialist party Western diplo
mats. uffieiala and <lner newsjiaper cor
respondents. Thirteen of the defendent*
were called Into Prarfhe's I'ankrac prison
cr>urtroom in the biggest of all "treason
trial*" yet held in rjtefhowlovakia Schmidt
«ncaird with hi* wifgto Frankfort before
he couM be arrested.
We hear of these tnal> and purge* It
is not unreasonable to s**ume that there
are many mpre of which we do not hear
ths!* where justice i* unknown, purges
where dignify is ignored, where suffering
of innocent penwn* i* pmatted for but
which shall ermtiaue, unrecordeii and un
warranted.
These are the things which thi* nation
ha* pledged itself to fight A* human l*»-
ibg* we cannot stand by and allow such
treatment to he accorded to our fejlow-
gisn We .anrmt jiermit additional million*
of people In come under the domination of
the ('ommuatst* where all are subprt to
the demand* of a dictatorship which
|now* no rea*»»o, respect* no human
righf*.
Our role is demanding It calls for sacri
fice, material and personal But we have
go other choice We must continue to car-
fv on the fight for the remaining free
peAplee <»f the eertfi. We owe that to our-
*elve* and to a suff^rniK humanity.
The student is usually left with only
two chmres. He ran shut the door to his
mom leaving him sunrepoble to heat proa-
tratum or he can leave the doer open
Risking himself subject to mosquito frus
tration
If the BlrCU department could take
ste|« to remedy this situation by placing
Screens on the dormitory portals, the de
partment could make life-long friends of
Some men who now spend more time swat
ting insects st nigh! than they do sleep-
mg |
4 1
50 Degree Heat • . .
Aren’t Fah
To Fearless Correspondent
My ART HOW All?
(M. mU: This is the sere a*
la S aerim «t reparta frsai \n
NeWsrR, Battalia*! Alaska* ear-
'T:
warhlag a*
AetaaUy.
■■’•St
vta aar first
IvH fra* Ha.
New South Opens
Doors to Industry
Rv JtKM PR It Y
Tki. artirl# I* tk* first in S
srrirs .Ml tlw ( hsngn>K saulh I#
hr rarriad k> the (tallalitfii )
Atlanta- There is a terrific f*V-
rarnt in thr *<>uth bsiav
Thousand* have keen displaced
from thr lam) to crowd into the
citM-s, while nthrr thousarMls hav**
fl.wkod to th» went and mid. »*t
In search of tho opportunity they
couldn't fmo at hoWir
The NagXn »nd th. white m*n
arc rlaahinr with in< rrasmg blt-
tcrnran over th» »o*th a traditioifal
maatrr-sarvant rrlationship
H<nrath this pyramid of tar-
sion* ht industrial and eronontir
i hang*-* which, a hen virwad a* a
whole arrn early staggering
On th* one entreaw sr* the <|i-
han intellectual yroup* denisn<ii|««r
overnight change, while on the
other *r* those who not .»nly wogld
maintain the status quo. but . h n
really veouM ps-efer to go back a
fe. year*
IMpart Sea ( rends
There are w*rl«1 pre««ur»« Vthk h
have wnecke<t the gotlon econofiy
of the deep south
And there are wofM pressure* in
which tie south fipd* itself hel-1
up as ardegamfle of a nation which
talk* democracy but refuses t*>
grant fbll rtti*enshtp nphts to
nearly Ifl.SSO.RtS) people
Throughout the region stand
great islands of |>overty and m*ss
ignorance, marked In the erties hy
almost uniy ltevatdg. er.sle.| l*i d
and unkempt farms
This foe* hand lr hand with an
ever rising leuel of income f<*r all
the south’s people and » consequent
pressure for imprmement
Into the region with its vg*t
mineral, human and agr..uIIiIthI
re*oiirees have paired millions of
industrial dollar* f<>r new plabts
and imyroll*
A* a matter of self preservation,
the region has set out with c4»n-
•rinwa v\#*r to ramake its ag«i
rultural establishment upon diler-
sified line*
The net result of all these j ti*«-
sure», internal and external ha*
been for a .hanging south; a pro
gre**ing south if yPu like
Tragedy of I It vision
<>ne of the great tragedies of
this rhangrng **>uth has been the
division of ite pmrple somet.lne*
uneonsctously, ovar the role the
Negro is U> have ill the new * pth
There is division between W kite
and \sgro, betwaen White and
White, and hetwae., Negro and
Neg
One of the great sorrow* of the
south, said so«-tolagi»t t»r IV*-*’
ton Valn-n of f .alt I niversitg at
Nashville, has i<acn the lack, of
understanding between Whites tend
Dclaplane Attends
Delaware Meelin"
Dr Walter H. tMapiarw, Head
of the Economics Department, will
leave Thursday fur Wilmington.
Delaware .here hr will atteigi s
• hus ness stmboaiam preaent**! by
th< E 1 Duf'ont ( opipany.
‘Th< DuPont (Tampany has ar
ranged ten a senes «»f lertureg by
its offieiai* on the operating .and
reaearrh problems nf a large busi
ness its relations with the gnvVm
ment, and its activities and mrtk
<sis of growth in * foreign r*un
try," Dr. th lapiars said
Plana haw nean made for the
group, which is onmpuaed of re
preacatatives from 4.1 follef''• »nd
univerdtees. to vktet DuPonTs, re-
aearch plant in Wilmington, and
electrocwamicw! plant st N.Agra
Fslis, aMd a dye plane at Deep
Water. New Jersey. Dr Dels ■N He
said
Hr is aspected to return July 7.
Me-
than the
|n’t s ques-
meal in
just wsnt*
Negroes
Dr Vslien in ^ interview
pointed ouf that hy smt Isrgi the
White south* rm-r hsp i><> contact
*.th the N eg is i sav* 1 on a work
telatthn, thus the Wide simply .«
hi no pieition to knop of the Neg-
fo’s intimate home iRb, ht* fears,
his want*, his hoja-s |nd hi* »•n , -
hit ions.
The reverse is equpBy true
Division tmong Nrgr(»es
At Tuakegee ln#tllutr. Ala.,
Krm-st Neal, director ef the Rural
Life Conference, leiRgrked that,
St i* very difficult t" get the
problem* of the Negipe* together.
"The iiitelleetual Hpgro." Neal
said, 'has pa**ed eVffy test for
first t-lat* citiienship. Ifi* problem
po longer is a hou*4. clothes and
money First class (tyzenship is
aln.ut »l ! he is intefmRcd in
"But for the mas| ef Negroea,
the problem still is gnbugh f >od. a
place to live and elptijiing
"The advanrest Negro i« move
fonmious of segregi
ina»f To the mass it
lion of whether he
I. W hite n stauiant
a meal ,
“Th« ptohlem is pk develop a
K ijrch'dogy on the Mrt of
egroes to help find «]|olution and
P'tt just sit down 4*t complain
t>f injustices
"We've all got te ‘feal.ra- that
the same thing thtel keep* th.
N.-gro fiom making gsonev is th.
same thing that keef» the poor
White from making nplney
"The difference helRten th» pool
White and the Neg#4 •* I see H,
is that the White ha* nobody to
fight h I* nattles
( He Kl( I'rohh m
"Fvuidanientally, the basic prob
lem of the south is too many peo
ple and not enough Joh*
W hy all this ltdiVgoil in the
south* The i*W fcgaiuel Chile*
Mitchell professor of hisCny at-
the I’niversity id Richmond, jait
tt thi* way
"The UHh Centusy had three
dominant Idea* hlkRty. industry
and democracy Thr ante-bellum
south early m that rgktury set its
face against sll thfan
"Not liberty; slgvpgy' Not in
dustry plantation agairuftuic' Not
damsrracy, a contrfrgd system nf
ansUwratic rule ' And in pursuit
of these false ideals, the south
lost the tiatter part «if ■ hundred
years
The ferment in Rtg south today
is the race to catch up.
ard, h«t it waa daiayad. making
M ssrsasary for as ta print Ms
sveand letter first)
It is now over five week* sumc
I hit l^dd Field and Fairbanks
Alaska, in the frvsrn north
Bat 1 am not a Sourdough yet.
The n-quirements for that nth-
are rather ragged (Kd. Note Na. I
- regairements deleted- We're all
t4w > oaag i.
(Quarters up here couldn't be
Iwttrr—they are something like the
new dorm* st AAM but have legs
room*, less noise, and only two
floors. Hut they do have a tile
tsathroom for every two rooms,
large window*, and good lights.
In the Iwsement we have ping
l«>ng tables, washing aiachmea,
and storage lockers
Our meaahall la nearby, and
serve* good food tt rra-sonahir
prise*.. (H»e of our three dorms
ha* a snack bar romplrle with
slot machines and table*. Nearby
i* a colony of girla most I. sin
gle and apt to remain so
Iasi Saturday I was standing
i*n a creek bank fishing, when
something shook th*- earth I
though it was cither the borlh
disposal crew working or the new
by ( hena River had gone out. Hut
it happem-d to be a mBd i-artlt-
quake
Hut I did have lurk with iay
fishing, and caught nine grayling*
wry *imdar to trout My fimt
night her*- I wgs lucky ta meet gn
electrical engineer We play Ca
nasta with two other fellows al
most every night.
House (ommittee
In Ta\ Re\ ision
Washington. June li.-'rA*'.
Thr Mouse Ways and Means < om
mittee voted Unlay to apply regsi
lar corporation meune Uses to
income derived from busmekse* of
orgamtatinna now fully tax-ete-
empA.
Religious otganiiations would
I con On lie to he exempt. The ta* I
w*ndn be anpiied te the humnass 1
income of educational, rharitable, j
lalmr ard other orgariwtions not
now »ubiert to the levy
An example would he thnt of!
a university owning a inaiarom |
factory The income from the fa*
tory would la* subject u» the tax
would yield about IKkl.OOO.niXI
each yeai
Anyway, this fellow juet bought
a 4S Hudson, so 1 will Kaye trmns-
(sirtatimi this summer to go af
ter thr big fish.
The pay here ta vary gwud
With the 24% ceat of living, I
am making over M.Md haae pay,
awfl nwt ef that I clear almwat
I.1M a month
My quarters cost only eight
bucks s month And if 1 keep out
of the bars and night rlpbe ip
f-airbank* I will be do* ng ainght
1 have been doing drafting and
estimating work-making sketching
of proposed alternations to huild-
uig* and such, then computing the
though it paid over Iki.iXHi a pear.
Theie are co a tractors in lawn who
are really making money off »f
this base on impair jobs and small
buddings.
Talkint about ( nnaata, we
really have a wicknri tenrwtMwe,
with tww alternate players. Iasi
Sunday we played all aftrrwwon
and late at night.
Not much is happantng here,
except that exeryoo*- |« wmitmg for
the ice to go out. 1rher» nn- two
big rives pools, one for tin- ('hena
and one for the Tangftte.
Each one of them are worth
over one-hundrvd thousand *m*rii-
Wher’fellow here >• leaving "J, An f. m * ^
to get hi. Master * and offeml w,n ^ "S?*?***
to try to get me hi. yd* te.ch.ng "• rm '~ thrr ,5 °
elaaewe at night- atgebre, history ^ ;‘ ,e , r runn ? ,r W **' *
and general bull. . j for » ***- j . ^ .
But I had to turn it dowr,. even .
Senate Desires D&Q
l*ar«;er Pension. Wdllts
StKial Seeuritv'KINGS
Washington, June 14—
(A F') — The Senate atarted de
bate yeuteniay on a jdan ty
bring 10,000,OtN) more perwomt
under Social Security and |»ay
bigger old age j»et)*ion*
Senator (>eorge (D-(*a), chair
man of the Finance (ommitte*
which has approved the measure,
opened the drive
Increased benefit* to meeL*ns-
mg coat* of living are long over
due, he told the senate, and the
millions now without retirement
income protection are a drain on
public relief agencies
The hill, a big item in the ad-
miniktmtion'* program, i* a re
vised Version of one the House
passed in October Senate lead
era hope u> get it through by
early nfxt week
Th* two big change* the
would make are
A, Extension of coverage or*
compulsory basis to about K.A00,
000 person* and on a voluntary
basis to about 1,(10(1,000 more
Reguiaily employed farm and
domestic workers, plus many »elf
employed people, would make up
most of that addition to the 3S,-
immiihk) now under old age and
survivors insurance
H. Raising hy an average of
Ho to '.M» per cent the monthly
benefits to the 2,SM*iMKX1 |>ersons
now receiving old age rend sur
vivor* insurance payments The
a vet age payment to retired work
ers, now IT* woud go up to more
than >4H
MEN
r^
tor
Father's
Giv# vour fathwr
K.i, j* Men lor
fathwr's Day the ana
<jdt that says In sap book.
Dad you ara th# m*n who
commands .Ja's Hnast"
.. r«OM If ST *1 -
II L A C K ’ S
F II \ K M A C Y .
Kant Gate — Cufkge Station
r . . . Other new rule* would about
.xiHTimrnt Matioli double, for person* retiring Jn the
■ 'future, the bcnefH* of th# pre-
Hf*|)Ortln on I OllliltO M ‘ nt P ljlfl >* •wsiar A'r rdd
The Texas A giiculturyi Expepi
in.mt Station has issm-d a prehtn
inary report on s study of Ri<
production and marketing of spnpg
greenwrap tomatoe* m the lower wo « W <^ott«ue
er person* to nnaltfy foh bane
fits
The present payroll tax. IS
per cent of the first tl.OOO of an
nuel pay fot both employee and
until
Rto (irande Valley
I'n acfiting some of tjie pi *da f
tion and marketing
report is issued aa M face I la nodus
Publication .'M Authors sre 0 A
Bonner, k A Kugett, H M
Mayes and (J M Morgan, all of
the Agricultural Economics and
Sociology Department.
Ibid After that the rontnbuttun
hy earh would g<* up hy stages
rjblema, Che to H maximum of .1 1 4 (ter rent
One question is whether to go
sl«ng with a provision in the
Mouse bill raising the wage base
of the plan to IX.(MX), with ac
companying higher benefits at the
top of the scale
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