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i Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1950 They Learn to Do by Doing . . . If you see billows of smoke rising from an isolated spot on the campus this week, don’t become alarmed. Everything is un der control, for the 21st Annual Fire men’s Training School is underway. Held annually at the college and spon sored by the Industrial Extension Ser vice, the school trains firemen in the art of fire-fighting, keeping up with all mod ern techniques and new developments. This year more than 620 firemen and instructors are on the campus to partici pate in the school. Courses are being of fered for general basic training—in which most of the 620 are enrolled—, advanced training, and a fire marshall’s course. The Firemen’s Training School is far different from many schools, short cour ses, and conferences which flood A & M over the year. Theirs is not a school to Telegraphing Our Hands Last Thursday, a member of the House of Representatives requested strict cen sorship to be clamped on American par ticipation in the Korean War. Sunday af ternoon, a well known radio commentator did the same. Both men pointed out the danger of publication of military and sup ply movements. The congressman, a former bomber squadron commander in World War II, wrote Secretary of Defence Louis John son, “Needless to say, no such informa tion i s forthcoming from North Korea. Our men don’t know what they are going to have thrown against them until they meet it face to face.” The radio commen tator called upon fellow newsmen to vol untarily censor their own releases. These two men echoed publicly the private thoughts of many citizens. While all of us devour every scrap of news of the fighting on the Korean front, we would all just as eagerly forego such news if that act would help safeguard American lives. Anyone who has followed the dis patches from correspondents knows that often they have “telegraphed” to com munist forces the kinds of equipment, the routes of travel, and the identity of Al lied troops being moved to the front. Per haps this information was already in the ‘The Rains Came’ and Will The weatherman is getting better and better. At least that’s what the wire ser vices tell us. Those 24 to 36 hour predic tions we see daily are now 87 per cent ac curate. But it is in the realm of long range forecasts that the men with the charts are really beginning to shine. According to the Associated Press, the weather bureau is reasonably correct eight out of ten times in its 30 day pronostica- tions. These monthly estimates of the weather are hot actually forecasts, the weathermen say. Instead, they call them “outlook summaries.” But whatever they name them, if they’re 80 per cent accurate then they’re good enough for us. The weathermen claim these long-range forecasts are accurate enough to be of be taught altogether from a book, since practice firefighting gives them practical experience in addition to valuable theory work. Coming from all parts of the state, as can be easily noticed by the fire trucks and cars bearing the insignia of towns and counties from the Panhandle to the Valley, these men will return home short ly, better equipped to handle emergency situations that threaten their civic safety. A&M has never been able to put on its best show in the summer, but we hope you will find all the conveniences necessary to make your stay here an enjoyable one, in addition to a valuable one. Just as your school—our school—is growing, so is the college. Come back next year and you will see a college whose outside facilities will match those of any college in the South. • • hands of the invaders, but perhaps it was not. Then, too, there is the constant news of shipments of men and materials from this country. Whenever the actual port of embarkation is not named, newsmen speculate all too accurately what that port might be. Not content with that, they make “guesses” at the types and even names of the ships involved, the probably sailing dates, routes and expected date and port of arrival, While it is true the North Koreans do not have an underseas fleet, it is just as true the Russians have. At the time of this writing that Red fleet has not been hostile. But between the sailing date of American troopships and their arrival in the Orient, the picture may have chang ed. Additional examples could fill this col umn. You have only to use your imagi nation to see the dangers in uncensored reporting of our military movements. During the last war, correspondents proved that their own, self-imposed cen sorship was more effective than that of the military. The time has come — in deed, it is past — when newsmen should once again impose upon themselves sim ilar self-discipline. Continue . . . value even though they are limited to na tionwide or large-area regions. Mostly they’re based on an atmospheric pattern ' over a large portion of the earth at from two to six miles high. They predict what effect this slow-moving pattern will have up to 30 days later. We don’t consider ourselves in any class approaching the modern weather man. To tell the truth, we’re more of the stiff-joint school of forecasting. But we’re willing to stack our predictions for this area up against any the Weather Bu reau has to offer. We don’t hold oursel ves to 30 day periods, either. Right here and now we put ourselves on record as predicting rain nine weekends out of ten this fall. See if we aren’t at least 87 per cent accurate. The Battalion ‘'Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Lawrence Sullivan Ross, F ounder of Aggie Tradition! 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Roland, Dale Walston staff Reporters THE ROAD BLOCK Behind the Scenes ‘Night and the City\ A Story Of Lower Depths of London A By FRED WALKER (“Night and the City,” starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tier ney—now showing at the Campus theater.) It’s the story of a man who failed to be one. Hollywood’s “Night and the City” studies the London un derworld, but not with the same basic nakedness as G'erald Kersh, whose book was adapted for the screen. It can easily be called “fast- Interpreting the News . . . Korean Battle May Last Many Months By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Alternating reports of success and failure of the allied forces in Korea serve merely to record the ups and downs of a campaign which is just beginning. It is notable that Pentagon ob servers have gone out of their way to warn against over-optimism as a result of the week-end’s first big show of allied air strength, when a concentrated group of Red tank forces fell under devasting attack. Coupled with the escape from northern-held territory of a “lost battalion” of American troops and the apparent stalling of the Red offensive for a time, the develop ments gave Americans the bright est day they have had since June 25. But it must be remembered that in a war of any size and, indeed in this war where a few thousand Americans are only heganning to take part against 200,000 or niore available enemy troops, there are only skirmishes. They have one impact only on the strategic picture. They., gain some time for development of the forces and the defenses which will first contain and then provide the jumping off strength for counter offensive. It seems likely that this will be a matter of months rather than weeks, It will be about a month, for instance, before Marines or dered from the United States will reach the war area, and longer be fore the Second Infantry Division, just ordered out of Seattle, will arrive. Meanwhile, more and more units will have to be committed piece meal to the delaying action, and it would be too optimistic to be lieve that they will not be grad ually enveloped and largely lost. Nor is it to be too confidently expected that the allied build-up in South Korea will be permitted to proceed without interference in other quarters. Just as Russia has gradually forced the allies to spread their economic resistance more and more thinly around the whole world, so she may force the thinning of mil itary resistance. No Surprise No one would be surprised—ex cept perhaps tactically as we were in Korea—if Communist aggres sions broke out elsewhere. In Indsj)- China, for instance, toward whicn the first trickle of arms aid is just beginning to flow, and near mond argued it would be a wedge which the Chinese Communists are to end segregation. They differed States’ Righters Top Candidates In So. Carolina Columbia, S. C., July 11 — (AP)— The champion of the State’s Rights party will try to take over a U. S. Sen ate seat today in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Gov. J. Strom Thurmond, who headed the States Right third party movement in 1948, faces Senator Olin D. Johnston in a race involv ing loyalty to the state or nation al democratic parties. Both have denounced President Truman. The governor’s race brings for mer Secretary of State James F. Byrnes back into the political picture. He is opposed by three younger opponents. And for the first time since 1876, a Negro candidate is in the state primary. Nomination is equivalent to elec tion. Barring a bad turn in weather, between 350,000 and 400,000 are expected to vote. Johnston argued that party bat tles should be kept within the party. He said he supported Pres ident Truman’s, election after op posing his nomination. He referred to the president in campaign speeches as “a little man” and a “blabbermouth.” Thurmond, who drew 39 elector al college votes in 1948 from five southern states/charged Johnston with deserting the state party, still dominated. by states’ righters. Each has set himself up as a champion of racial segregation, ac cused the other of acts instrumen tal in breaking it down. Johnston favored federal aid for education with state control; Thur ortation Cadets Corps At Fort Story By RAY KUNZE Camp Correspondent Transportation Corps Company “D” of the Fourth Transportation Corps Summer Camp has been in training at Fort Story, Va., for the past five days. Fort Story, located on the tip of Cape Henry,. was formerly a coast ar tillery base and guarded the en trance to Chesapeake Bay. The lighthouse on the Cape was built in 1791, and marks the spot where the first permanent English settlers landed in 1607. At Fort Story, now a sub-post of Fort Eusti’s, we studied the U. S. Army DUKW (pronounced duck), an amphibious vehicle used for transporting supplies from ship to shore. Cadets drove the “duck” on both land and sea, as well as carrying cargo to and from a freight ship lying a quarter mile off-shore. Near Virginia Beach Fort Story is situated only a few hundred yards from the ocean and provided excellent facilities for swimming. Virginia Beach, a reknowned swimming resort, is only a few miles from the camp. One can always find Aggies from a number of branches there. Quite often you can hear, “Gig ’em” ris ing above the crowd. We made the trip to Fort Story by truck and returned five days later via two FS Vessels. Fortun ately no one got sick during the four hour trip. Nearing Fort Eustic, cadets ob served the huge James River, “Dead Fleet,” where all types of supply and passenger vessels are in “mothballs.” The fleet normally consists of between 400 and 600 ships of various sizes and types used during World War II for transporting personnel and sup plies. We will continue our summer camp training at the main post of Fort Eustis. Official Notice The deadline for filing application for degrees for students who expect to grad uate at the end of the summer session (August) js JULY 15. Any student who. expects to complete the requirements for either a Baccalaureate or Master’s Degree during the summer should call by the. Office of the Registrar immediately and file formal application for the degree. massing. There is beginning to be talk about the use of the A-bomb to “end it all quickly.” But most of it ^eems to come from people who are only vaguely aware of the uses of the bomb and of the Ko- reean war theater. If the military experts have any idea the bomb would help them in this situation they are keeping it mighty quiet. While there has been talk of using the A-bomb for tactical purposes, it remains primarily a strategic weapon. The Korean fighting is primarily tactical, with small troop concentrations on which conven tional air power is just as effic- tiye—when the. weather permits its use—and with the North Korean “support area” offering, little or no industrial concentration as a target. Valuable “Obsoletes” In fact, it is the “obsolete” pro peller fighters and fighteh bomb ers which are proving themselves most valuable in this type of war fare. And it appears more and more that ground strength will be the decisive factor. It is notable how quickly General MacArthur learn ed that air power was not the whole answer. on economic aid to Europe. Thur mond was for it; Johnston said the national budget should first be bal- lanced. Charges of “untruths” and mis statement of facts” were tossed around during their joint speaking- tour. Once Johnston used the word “liar” and Thurmond invited him to “step outside,” but there were no blows. Columbia Insurance executive Lester L. Bates, Speaker of the State House of Representatives Thomas H. Pope, and Florence lumberman Marcus A. Stone all attacked Byrnes in the campaign for governor. moving,” for the story opens with Harry Fabian running from some body and ends with him running from everybody. A Strong Enemy Environment is the enemy that Harry Fabian Richard Widmark must combat. Environment that says that the weak must die, and the strong will walk around each other. An environment that sets a quid before a life, and a life be fore a love. An environment that One Harry Fabian coiild never have possibly beaten. This is the story of Harry Fab ian: Get Rich! Get rich and be powerful! Get rich, for there’s nothing that money can’t buy. Har ry Fabian believed in this. Harry Fabian was. just another man on a box ranting, “Tell ya’ what I’m gonna’ do.” Entrez la Femme There is a girl, Gene Tierney, in the life of Harry Fabian. She would be nice to love, and he will, after he is rich. Until then she is good for a touch. There is a woman, Googie With ers, in the life of Harry Fabian. She is shrewd, cruel, greedy and calculating, but that’s all right with Harry, for with her hus band’s money backing him, there’s no telling how far he will go. And then there is Phil Nosseross, owner of tme Silver Fox, a club of Wildlife Man Head Returns From Meet Dr. W. B. Davis, head of the Wildlife Management Department, has returned from Mammoth Springs, Yellowstone National Park, where he attended the 31st meeting of the American Mammal Society. While at the meeting, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the society for a two year per iod. Dr. Davis was chosen to present a paper, “Bats in the State of Morelos, Mexico.” This material was obtained by Davis in 1949 on a survey which he made in the state of Morelos, in cooperation with the Mexican Department of Wildlife. At the present there are 17 spec ies of bats in Morelos, and of the 17 species, five of them were discovered in the 1949 survey, ac cording to Dr. Davis. Kream-Kow Kiub To Revise in Fall The Kream and Kow Klub will revise its constitution this fall ac cording to W. B. Anthony, in structor of dairy husbandry and sponsor of the club. Club members attending summer school will meet with Dr. I. W. Rupel to revise the constitution. It will be presented for approval next fall, Anthony said. Anthony asks all dairy husban dry majors who plan to attend the second session of summer school to leave their address with the secretary of the Dairy Husbandry Department. In this way they can be notified of the meeting at which changes will be made, he said. DYEftS"FUR5TORAGE HATTER5 m-oncaxi -College Station Representative- LOUPOT’S TRADING POST V * * b i percentage girls and disreputable living. Phil is a slob of a man. Helen, his wife, doesn’t like these physical proportions. Helen likes the ambitiously greedy Harry. He’s weak; she can rule him. Phil will eliminate Harry. Even Wrestling Cristos, a sinister wrestling boss, and Strangler, a moronic grap- pler, complete the pickets in Har- I ry’s fence. You can lose a lot ( of friends in the underworld when your life is worth a thousand quid. It is difficult to blame Harry for his weakness, for most of us Y t possess that same quality. The main thing wrong with Harry is that he is blind. Just in the act of reaching for that torch of life, he remains a dead man. To give a complete review on “Night and the City” would not only be unfair, but somewhat ridi culous. The short dissipated glipmse of Harry Fabian’s life is lurid to say the least, but then of course past attempts by Hollywood to glorify gangland now makes the contrast, complete. The Root of Evil /s # It would be best to see for your self how a fanatical worship of money and the terrible quest, as Harry said, “to be somebody”, can ^ ^ ^ $ turn a man’s life into a maze of V» treachery and bewildfevment. As to be expected, the picture belonged to Widmark most of the time. Ever since “The Kiss of Death” producers can’t wait to capitalize on his becoming leer. About three more of these pictures and the public will be giving the leer right back. “Night and the City” has the usual pitfalls: one or two un necessary characters; a hideous prolongment of the climax; and of course a typical “Hollywood” end ing S' £ The one remarkable scene in the film is a wrestling bout between a 60-year-old Greco-Roman wrest-, ler opposing a younger adherent to 7 the modern “faking” style. The f' * audience reaction was instantan eous, and Stanislaus Zhyszko and Mike Mazurki deserve applause. . J Comment: Music by Franz Wax- man and photography by Max Green are excellent. Hint: Read the book. n • 4? LAST DAY FIRST RUN “NIGHT & THE CITY” i* WED. & THUES. BIG DOUBLE FEATURE FIRST RUN —Feature No. 1— —Feature No. 2— PLUS: CARTOON—NEWS LI’L ABNER The Idiot Era!! By AI Capp HAVE IT YCUR WAy.U WL DON'T EXIST.U- THIS FLYING SAUCER IS A mere: RUMCR/U- BUT, EVEN IF WE ARE PHONIES. WE'VE STUDIED YOUR PLANET. YOU'RE IN THE SAME ERA WE, WERE IN 9,000.000 YEARS the: IDIOT ERA//' shecks/Athars NOTHIN' NEW 'BOUT THET.r PREACHERS BIN SAYING IT R3 HUNDERDS O' YEARS-BUTT NATCHERLY, WE NEVAH PAID NO ATTENSHUN TO 'EM, SO WE KNOW IT WONT WORK- r f/fdh A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE IDIOT ERA. LI’L ABNER The Idiot Era!! By AI Capp IT'S SILLY O' ME T' iff HAVE IT WASTE MAH TIME # YOUR WIF VO'. YO' HAINT ) WAY//-WE'RE REALLY ANYBODY / NOT HERE, i AN'THIS FLYIN' SAUCER IS JEST A WILE RUMOR.' c* Wf * i v , J rf) ?. i