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Battalion Editorials P^el )AY, JULY 14. 1160 Nfw Protfftion for ^oodfn TV flrtmen tim't the only ottes who proJH from the ahnual rtmneit'e Traintnj Count held on the campus We took the Nberty to brush up on fire-fifhting tech niques ouraetees recently althoufh we *tood on the sidelines with several doaen other spectators. ■ The lees bon of our lesson was out in College View. Huge Hnuds of Mack smoke roQtag skyward attracted our attention eo we followed our impulses and went to view the flames There in an open clear ing, were two small wooden shacks Both were enveloped with smoke and flame coming from fires set within the three sided structures. But as the fire continued, one building crumbled to ashes The other Mood firm, the fire burning itself out. After the flames had disappeared a hoar- of water on the one remaining budding. A Mack costing wash ed off the skies and in a few momenta the building stood white and clean, its wooden sides uncharred The reason for this amas inf sight was a new fire resistant paint Exposed t© flame, it bubbles up, forming a layer of insulation which completely pro tects the wood from (be heat After a fire, if one should occur K the remaining paint is washed off and the building repainted. After seeing this demonstration we came away from the testing gHmnds even more convinced of the value of modem fire fighting technique* and courses such as the one now being held on the campus to make these techniques available to all the state, (.offliminisms (.rratrs! Alii We wonder if you noticed an item in yesterday’s papers concerning the capture u? a United States 24th Division Army rhptam His capture was revealed in a North Korean radio broadcast intercepted Mi Washington It told of a group of "cow- afrdly American prisoners of war' being marched through the streets of the com munist capital And it also told of Capt. Ambrose H Nugent's regret* ' that he Was a tool of American capitalists We don't beheve Capt Nugent ever m the world uttered the statementa attribut ed to him In fact we wonder whet would ever convince the communists that anyone who knew anything at all of this country gnd its speech habits would believe that Nugnet had uttered the words he was sup posed to have. Think thia "confession'* over. “As 1 see these thmgv I esa sot hut regret that as a tenant of the Wall Htreet mrirhaat* I hs»r participated m a war which diaturtis the unlfkaihm aad freedom of the peaeefal Korean lUMUlir ** Did you ever read anything more ridi culous unless k might have been the Rus sian charge that South Korea invaded North Korea f Or maybe it might have been the declaration that .Soviet Russia would maintain a "bands off' attitude in Korea in line with Ha traditional policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other nations. It is difficult to beheve the commun ists expected anyone in this nation to swallow the story they put out about Capt Nugent. But the pitiful aspect of the ait nation is this thore will probably be all loo many people who are willing to believe such g statement wa* actually made by an Amencal officer Until the day comes when all nations may educate their peoples we must con tent ourselves with the fact thut ignorance arising from lack of opportunity for self- improvement is communism s greatest al ly. our greatest enemy. A Ionian Senator Speaks Out The voice of women is seldom heard in American politic* W'lth few exoeptkms. those of the ' op|«i*ite sex take little i>art in our government In face of this it is ‘ encouraging to hear one of the country's most prominent women sjeak out on a tops which has Umg been in Jthe public interest We refer to the remark* of Mr*. Margaret (Tiaae Smith senator from Maine She recently addressed the Senate on "The Need for Patriotic Thinking.*' Ob viously her remarks were intended for her fellow Republican Senator McCarthy, for whom she. together with many others, apparently holds no great regard “I think it is high time,’ Mr* Smith said, "for the United States Senate and its members to do some real soul Hearching and to weigh our consciences a* to the manner in which we are |«rfonaing our ’■ duty to the jieople of America and the manner m which we are using or abutting our individual power* and privileges - Then sjxtkmg so that none would be m doubt as to her meaning she continued •Those of us who shout the loud«»t about Amencamsm in making character ksaa*- . / Aggression May Lead To Downfall, Acheson Believes Korean Information ins n mat tons are ail too frequently those who. by our own words and acta ignore some ul the basic |trkicipsl* of Arseneanism ” These principals Mr* Smith hated a* The right to hold unpopular belief*, the right to protest the right of independent thought.'* .Scoring both Republican* and Demo crats who. hiding behind their congre* sional immunity, make unwarranted at tacks fcn public officiate. Mr* Smith aaid "It i* strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and with full protection, and yet we hold ourselves above the tame type of criticism here on the Senate floor Surely the United States Senate Is big enough to take self-cnticism and self-appraisal '* The words of Mrs Smith hold a vital message for all of us even though we are not members of the Senate When the time comas that A merman a cannot freely express their honest beliefs without fear of rum under the pressure of unwarranted attacks from government officials, then we will have loat much for which we are now fighting The Battalion a. UqUyGmim Founder «f Aggie Tradmoni of the AgrVwitsrml mi V l n «* thme a wmk < four Mums a ' tt.OS pw ssnin of 1>xm and the ir arkool jroar I>ur- trrrf TuMdajr funuaHM mi ro ad all a# apontaiWMu wwa diasstetwa ortrin publiah way W tks wtttorfcl offire. 1 > or St dw StssdMlt 201. m ** + c«w»” * DKAN REED. L. 0. TIEDT 8M Ahsmslhy •■wtei taa. a* Twt CSa. «■ ...... WnakinfUm. Jaly 14- TK« mov«>m«t>u, unit* |i«frna» nepaitsiont yrntaHay capt Eifhi Vi my, r lam pad a ranaSrakip as tl»a rr- Ihu* of informalmn about mnv*-m«»tr U> the Koroan war thoatrr Milttan offuer* war*- mulraftoil not to tall wkra a unit it tran* farnng. Ha tailing dat>- it* atrSnirth of it* equipment lu daatmaUon will be told only in a general Way, MKh a* the Far fcaatem cotniaand NoUtStf le*x that a diviaio* will be dearrilied by it* name In laying down thi* “aeounty guidasco" for tke Army Navy and Air rWVa, See|WUir\ of Defense Johnson tacked ot ax s remlnder the Fur kast leatrictmti- laid down by (ionerai MaoArtbui coMwfmnK name* of unit*. xsn*x. ilmtinstion* and the like e Th* new ruka apply <mly S' the nulitsr) > n gt v '*ff >ot information. The go**rnmerit hs- no '♦ntrul over puWication rd news Thkre is no feders retmnrabip la» weep' that fovein n* <-«rtain pbaWs of atoatec energy <Ynsorxhip Ohaerved In World War II. Anterksn > newiwspein oksarve.! v..iiSitary n nspeahlp whirk anded when Japan t ■urrandere.i Wat ent may aSSsnix in MW #WM wera aui'irct to mlitary cenagrakip Test of the J«k> son memoran dum; 1 Treparstiogx for mihtaly op- f' sttnna or moVementx within the c»ntih<*ni*! Tmied *t*tex ar( «ub- j« t to th< fallowing rexlru tiknx A UltiinSU dentmation <>( unit sl« rtpd ret« t« theatre onli^ I 1 , the Tar East <tminand R Dsaignatum trf amt: tvleaxe numartesi derngnSfion only when amt is of divimoti site or Ikrgwr. \onaerirai desifnati«r <4 unSx be low dtvixvon lefel will not k re- I«n»«i1 Air Koret irrmip re*iirna- tiona ayll m*4 tw rel.-aaed Non- dtwtwssfi units will he referred to in general ax a rmnhat unit, g sup porting unit, etr., of the mrftmen tal .army ronmmed which hav* l>een alerted fgr movement, C Status of equipment Mot iw- ^ea sable N. D Strength nat releaaabl* E IlSte of iSotement frogi pre sent location »«d releaaahin, F .Ssiltna time of tnarsport* front port of e|»\^rkati«»n iV’t re- lenxabW I’hotocrsph- l sable t. Mavemen ta af naval VeaaeD and transport at cargo ship* from the West (asst may la meift»to«d sfte» dS]>arture b«t no mertiWt may tie made of movements wVat of Pearl Harbor Photoginph* if load* ng«. saNings gnd rea« tivatipn op- e eat ions of nawal vessels may be lined mtbir oormai security lima* tmpnstd by the lacs I cosNnskfar. S. Within tha Fst F.s« l oSimand the following restnctimis have beep tnip»xsed bf CINCFE y(('om- inx'idM ta ( hta# Far Pinst i: A. Reports naming qieciftr units, site* places of landing, lnc»- lion* and troop movement* may not be dlte lotted until officially an- nousead. B. Suborn malt haatiqiwrler*, Bible Verse ‘A*d ye shall know the truth, and the truth tball make yog free.” John * K Official Mot ice •stu wnon art s\»t»rT*n>. 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M ROKBRTU it AP Foreiga Affairs Aaaiyst through proitHigatHm af tha fight- parallel within a weak w uaa the ; teg. 11 naa |o raaraaU their IlCtes in pra- tv. . taw .kJ "^^idigdam is one of the moat fmquem I" «w reagart,. »«• be nght Jo use teuton bomb ^ |Msl inl , mu , f p. t soma what Mm tha United Notion* whence, r tt Mama raDnd far forward ainro Ha development A maotetten at the start of tha fight- tea. blaaM, RgM*kM7 Ach- ^ ^ thought an ultimatum which demanded ait ininutliati to Japan, backed by threatened “tease fire. Whan this Was ignored, , bomb, would have had f«»*e »»* tel led mt» Mlf. W* M* the same . ffert as to ending the < lasaic idea of force aa tha oniimate war that »a« pmmdad by the dr- fitenaion of diptOMMf. monst rations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki Talk of such an altinaa- tum to Mow ew regarding her sc out, will Hk with wha use aggression After that „„ Vf'^ye the wanpons which couie into play are incidental Acheaon't statement was made during an attack on the ftoeieU sponsored “world peace appaal' •\ which would label A-r«>mb users as tear criminals ■■*1X1 turns has popped up repeatedly since 1SI45 Mow it is proposed in (ongrea^ with regard to Korea Acttau Nfreaaary tpaly with a rising trie af eapresagi— ta Con gress and elsewhere in favor of . , . iim k w % m k Mdi fKv L' A*Mk from any ■ ~ to tnd the Ro aJrty Utf ^ M . btoodw| aruwvr to' reun ngming 1 . .. _ , the idea a* applied to Russia is It aloe hywM to foterida with th>t it woo |,i r , wor h, any mom * ** ^ *' W ' than auch a threat would c.uae the on a North Koiwan rail cotter l!witod to #armi N. r to • which naturally raised tha qt»s forfV , poy ^ And that we Would tioh “what's the diffetewe. «tept ^ forced to go through with that one A-bomb would have don. t K* thrwal. .tart.ng a woefa war forty times the job ouraelvea, or suffer tha igaomity Innocent \ tciass of backing down Well, I think there ia one <kf That 'Is not the anawwr, or the ferearv The people! who live ■tewgr. regarding Korea, around thoae railrnad tracks an* w h#rv it just might work. Rep just as much the virHms of their Briltaen (D-Toal waato ta tell the Communist masters who started North Korean military commanders the sear as are the people gklow 1e either withdraw beyond the SRth the 3*th parallel If praci»»oi> bomb ^ ing can do the military job, then it is better politically than to wipe out either the live* Or homes of those people mdiarfiilnnately Be yond that, it should la* strictly a military decision. ( ertpinly no tim idity about *ny weapon should out weigh the lives of Atnencan troo|M. Dr. Carlton R. Lee OPTOMETRIST 203 8. Main Street Call 2-UM2 for Appointment TODAY it SATI RDAY FIRST BUN — Features iMri— \ 1:25 - S;f* - 4:41 • « I6 1 :M • W • MIS SIBI ol the wau »i»' Jg*. IWOIORS saim MIM pu s: cABitMff Sews PREVI E TOMOHT 11 W* PJl, ! -Fealure 11:34 I' M TALK OF Tilt: TOl N Wh«*rr Everyone Meet* To Knjtn (niod I imhI at iNifiular I*rim* Air (iinditioned rU H: ( AKTOOK—NEWS SAT. 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