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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.
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When the other man is silent, don’t
think h eis listening. Se is waiting.
The Battalion
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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
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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.)
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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.
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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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