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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1950 Education Without Vacation . . . The “good old summertime” may be come a thing of the past to children of grade school age. The reason for the summer vacation, according to Dr. Galen Jones, director of the United States Of fice of Education’s division of elementary and secondary schools, no longer exists. Years ago youngsters were needed on the farm in the summer time, but im proved farming methods and current mi gration to the cities has changed this. In Dr. Jones’ opinion, it is high time that the long vacation habit was broken. Most children now live in small apart ments, and both parents usually work to meet the increasing costs of living and raising a family. Public school men be lieve that year-round classes may be the best way to provide the children with some constructive way to occupy this unsuper vised time. This system works well in Europe, and is under experiment in Cen ter Line, Mich., and Rochester, Minn. Dr. Jones also believes that full time occupation will make teaching more at tractive as a profession. Los Angeles has increased the work year for teachers to 11 months, but the time for pupils has not been changed. These extra months for teachers are devoted to workshops, and the development of new teaching tech niques. We are glad to see that educators are alert to changing times. Reduced paren tal supervision places more responsibility for “raising” on the teachers who must compete with radios, movies, and televis ion. An eleven month program should then prove to be beneficial to pupil, dis cipline, encouragement and parental prob lems. Russia Returns to the United Nations.. . The decision of the Soviet government to send its representative, Jakob A. Malik, back to the United Nations that he may serve as president of the Security Council for August came a^ a complete surprise to many. In making this decision, the Russian government repudiates its former state ment that it would have no part in the deliberations of the UN as long as rep- issentatives of Nationalist China are re tained on the Security Council and other UN bodies. The initial meeting under Russian pres idency will disclose the purpose of their actions. Since Red China has not been recognized, Malik may attempt to declare that Nationalist China is not entitled to council representation. ^ || If he does so, the Communist represen tative can be overruled only by a vote of 7 of the 11 members of the council. Pres ently, Nationalist China supporters do not appear to possess such strength. At the same time, the action against China could not be enforced unless a majority of the council affirmed his ruling. It is also conceivable that the Com munist forces wish to recapture some of the propaganda value which they formerly enjoyed by using the UN as a sounding board. They seem to be unhappy over the unbroken support which the US has obtained from all but the Soviet satellites. Malik may have been ordered to present our action with respect to Formosa, which lacks UN support, in a light that might be embarrasing to us. Finally, there is a possibility that the delegation may have been ordered to make some less unfriendly gesture, although the probability of that is remote. ■ If it developes that the Communist rep resentatives mission is to take steps that will hamper UN action in Korea, there can be no better time than the present to put an end to the farcial theory that the free nations of the world can live within the United Nations with the Soviet and her satellites. A world body without Rus sia is much to be preferred to one which cannot move because of Communist ob struction. If Russia, wants a showdown in the United Nations, by all means she should be given the opportunity, and the sooner the better. It is time that the other world nations perceive where they stand in the UN line-up. Ernie Is No Encouragement Britain’s socialist physicians and sur geons are angry at Ernest Bevin. Seems the British foreign secretary had his re cent operations in hospitals that are not in the socializde medicine system. Under the law, Bevin was entitled to go to a hospital named by the British Gov ernment and take a surgeon assigned to his case. Of course, there would first be a long wait before he could receive diag nosis, consultation, and such. Since the beginning of socialized medicine, doctors, face long lines of people waiting for medi cal attention. However, Bevin went to Manor House Hospital for his first ordeal with the sur geons. Manor House is the hospital which has long had a special arrangement with the Transport and General Workers Un ion (of which Bevin is a member) and socialist doctors conceded that he was within his right. The roar of disapproval came when he had the second operation at the London Clinic and paid for the costs himself. It can hardly be concluded that socialized medicine is living up to its merits, at least for those of the upper class who can af ford to deviate from the party line and be individualists. ★ ★ America used to be owned by the In dian who hunted and fished so much that he didn’t have time to work and worry. Then it was taken over by the superior white man who works and worries so much that he doesn’t have time to hunt and fish. ★ An executive is a fellow who orders, directs and dictates all day long, and who then goes home and meekly dries the dish es. * * * When the other man is silent, don’t think h eis listening. Se is waiting. The Battalion "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentlemari* Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradition* The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. Dur ing the summer, The Battalion is published four times a week and circulated every Tuesday through Friday afternoon. Subscription rates $2.00 per summer. Advertising rates furnished on re quest. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches # credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin publish ed herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Stuudent Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of Represented nationally by National Ad- Thc Associated Pre** vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. SID ABERNATHY, DEAN REED Co-Editors L. O. Tiedt Feature Editor Frank Manitzas Sports Editor Joel Austin City Editor Betty Ann Potter Society Editor Fred Walker Amusements Editor Bill Kites Photographer Bob Hancock, Bill Hites. John Hollingshead. James Lancaster Photo Engravers Frank Davis, Bert Hardaway, Bob Hughson, ionise Jones, Bill ilebar.e. B. F. Roland, Dale Walston Staff Reporters Carter A. Phillips Editorial Assistant NOT QUITE BAR.E Interpreting the News . . , US Can Not Afford One More ‘Korea’ By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The United States, heavily en gaged in building up the world’s military defenses against Commun ist aggression and already involved in one small but difficult war, also faces the necessity of developing new lines of political action. Caught in Korea with its plans down, the government cannot af ford to let it happen again. De cisions must be made, and then implemented, on what we can and will do in case of outbreaks else where. Equally difficult will be the ways and means of handling Rus sia’s return to the United Nations. First there will be a propaganda war f o u g h t there amid de vious parliamentary maneuvering. Some day, if not immediately, it seems likely that there will have to be a decision on whether we really w r ant Russia to continue in the U. N.; oi^whether there is any point in attempting to maintain a common meeting place with mem bers who blatantly defy the will of the organization. But the U. N. business involves only the sidelights on the shoot ing. The big question now is wheth er the Communists shall be per mitted to draw allied strength into a series of small and indecisive wars while Russia sits back, hoard ing her own military strength for what she considers the opportune time. Lead to War More of these outbreaks, with the resulting repercussions in mobilization and exasperation, will almost certainly lead to a general war. Yet how are they to be prevent ed? Building up local military strength in places like Iran, Tur key, Greece and Indo-China is something, but largely a prelimin ary. None of them can be made capable of self-defense except pos sibly Indo-China. And that would be through wholesale application of French power, which is not wel- Mechanical Pickers Received by A&M Three mechanical pickers have been received at the college plan tation, according to L. C. Eakin, superintendent of the plantation. The machines will be used to har vest 800 acres of cotton, Eakin said. corned even by the “loyal” people of the country, whose desire to be rid of the French is the greatest weapons the Communists have. The Americans display of read iness to fight in such a place as Korea, which is definitely not worth it from, a strictly Pentagon standpoint, should be a strong de terrent against further aggression. But the difficulty of our involve ment there, and the initial weak ness displayed, could have exactly the opposite ■ effect on Kremlin thinking. Do we have, then, any tried method of preventing Russia from taking chances which might lead to war ? There is one. Russians Careful The only stable factor in the whole situation seems to be that, when the prospect of war is changed from a chance to a cer tainty, Russia backs away. She is carefully keeping out of the Ko rean affair, which she was just as careful to stage in an area where there were no Americans and where American actions led her to be lieve we had no great interest. She was careful not to become directly involved in Greece, whefe the presence of American military missions and British forces meant she would be toying with the trigger of tremendous forces. She stopped before Hong Kong. Winston Churchill thinks the American atom bomb stockpile is the greatest war deterrent. It just could be, though, that some boys in allied uniforms, draw ing a “don’t cross” line with the toes of their field boots along a few strategic boundaries, might prove even more effective. Crain to Conduct Pasture Studies Dr. A. W. Crain, assistant pro fessor of agronomy, will conduct a course in pasture management offei’ed by the Texas Extension Service August 14 to 29. The meet ing will be held in Lufkin. Assisting Dr. Crain will be Dr. Roy L. Donahue of the Extension Service and J. R. Watson Jr. The course is open to personnel of the Extension Service only, and will carry three hours credit ac ceptable by the graduate school of A&M. Fundamentals of pasture management will be taught, includ ing a study of improved pasture and the related study of pasture production. Behind the Scenes . . . ‘Crisis ’-Huey Long Facism" In South American Countrm By FRED WALKER (“Crisis”—MGM—showing at the Palace Sunday through Wed nesday—staring Jose Ferrer, Cary Grant, Paula Raymond). Democracy verses Fascism is the theme of “Crisis,” as personalities and ideals clash in South Amer- Russia to Place Chinese Reds’ Bid Before UN Lake Success, Aug. 1— (AP) — Soviet Russia dis closed tonight she is coming back to the United Nations security council primarily to reopen her fight to seat Communist China—and that she considers peace in Korea should be second on the program of business. Jakob A. Malik, Russian who is to be council president for August, announced this agenda tonight. This foreshadowed a fight over the program at the opening of to morrow’s security council meet ing—the first the Russians have attended since January. It is customary for presidents of the security council to submit in advance an agenda, or program, for each session. He did so, short ly after adjournment of the coun cil’s last July meeting. A U. S. resolution offered at today’s meeting, denouncing North Koren defiance of the U. N. cease fire orders, was left over for dis cussion tomorrow. It was designed to beat Russia to the punch in the new diplomatic battle expected to develop. But the language in which Malik framed his order of business makes no place for the U. S. resolution. U. N. officials were unable to get Malik to agree tonight to change his announced agenda. The ehtire secuidty council has to approve the order of the agenda before discussions can proceed. It is the first item of the order of business. 1 As Malik framed it, Russia Wants to take up the question of seating the Chinese, Communist representative. Up until now, all Russia has asked has been the oust ing of the Chinese Nationalist dele gate. When Russia walked out, she said she would not return until the Nationalists were kicked out of the U. N. Malik phrased the Korean situa tion this way: “peaceful settle ment of the Korean question.” Technically, Malik still has the whip hand in fending off the U. S. resolution, but the council itself will have to decide that by ballot. Under the Malik program, hours —probably days—of debate on the Chinese representation question might delay further discussion on the Korean question. ica. Cary Grant plays a well-known American brain surgeon who is touring South America on his honeymoon. The atmosphere is tense as revolution looms ever- nearer. Grant and his wife (Paula Ray mond) decide to leave the country because of the prevailing _ condi tions, but enroute to their ship they are abducted by an Army officer and taken to the palace of the hated dictator, (Jose Ferrer) who fears death from a brain tumor. Grant wrestles with medical ethics and finally operates rather then see the dictator die, but in doing so, he incurs the wrath of the rev olutionists who kidnap his wife. The revolt breaks out in force and Ferrer takes the very life Grant has just saved. Strangely enough (yeah!) the revolution ary leader (Gilbert Roland) dis plays the same tyrannical ten dencies that he has just helped to overthrow, hut ironically he ii goes clown before a sniper’s bul let. It seems as if there will be a / new fad in the motion picture in dustry. A zither went plunkity- plunk * throughout “The Thiel Man”; a guitar Mona Lisaed all ( > over the place in “Captain Carey, USA”; in “Crisis,” another guitar strum-de-dums with verocity. W e aren’t ridiculing for the mel% was quite haunting and the player quite deft. Crisis is strictly a propaganda picture, but one above the ordi nary. Grant and Ferrer don’t V % turn in bad performances. Though the characters are sup posedly ficticious, the dictator anti Ins wife bear an extrodinary typed- resemblence to a certain Peron ' family of Argentina. Comment: Someone once asked the late Huey Long if he thought the United States would ever have Fascism. Replied Long, “Sure we will—but we’ll call it something else.” THE Good CARTOON—NEWS STARTS THURSDAY Letters To The Editor , (All letters to the editor which ara signed by a student or employee of the college and which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be published. Per- ions wishing to have their names withheld from publication may request such action and these names will not, without the consent of the writer, be divulged to any persons other than the editors.) ^ WHERE THERE’S COKE. THERE’S FIRE Editor, The Battalion: If ohr editor’s don’t have better things to print than their reply to Mr. Bayol’s letter about Coca- Cola, they should resign and get back on the Dean’s team for laughs. This is purely personal, but I wish to state that I frankly don’t care how much damage the un known female reporter did to the Coke machine (she should be ashamed) or what she entertains with in her house. After all, is false pride getting you down and you can’t just admit you made a mistake? If you’ll consult a dictionary, you will find coke (lower case) means “a coal from which the vo latile constituents have been re moved by heating in ovens,” and you could hardly drink it. (Or may be you should try.) Perhaps it would be clearer if I told coke is principally carbon while Coke is a carbonated water drink. See what a difference the capital let ter makes ?, “Seriously,” here’s to more seri- lousness from the pditors until they grow up and develop a true sense of humor. Mrs. A. A. Williams Jr. P. S. I’m sure The Coca-Cola Company will appreciate the adver tising on the front page of the July 28 issue. (“Sticks and. stones . . .’’The Editors) LETTER FROM THE EDITORS Readers, The Battalion: We would again like to direct your notice to the statements which appear above this column. They require that all letters be signed, and, unless the writer gives suffi cient reason that his name be with held, the name will be printed with the letter. We have received only one un signed letter this summer. If the author of the letter will contact either of The Battalion co-editors'; giving his name, we will be more than glad to publish the letter. —The Editors “DO UNTO OTHERS . . . L (Ed. note—The following letter was received by I. E. “Monty” Montgomery, former Milner Hall student senator. Montgomery headed the committee to raise funds for contributions to the World Student Service Fund.) Dear Friends: Your generous contribution will help to relieve the distress of thou- i / sands of students in many parts of the world who are still hungry and cold and sick. The spiritual value of your test imony of concern for their needs G * cannot be over estimated as a contribution to understanding and peace. We thank you on behalf of these more needy members of the world community of university men and women. Very sincerely yours, W. J. Kitchen Executive Secretary World Student Service Fund (With the letter was a re ceipt for A&M’s contribution o7 $553.08.) *\ Bible Verse it “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor , , of God, that ye may be able to 1 1 ** stand against wiles of the devil.” —Eph. 6:10, 11. TODAY thru WEDNESDAY t y J v r —College Station Representative— LOUPOT S TRADING POST “STATE i PENITENTARY” The mechanical pickers have been leased to the college to test the efficiency of operation on the type of cotton raised in the Brazos bottom. Cotton on the plantation is in good condition this year, with a better-than-average yield antici pated. 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