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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1950
Welcome Mat for the New Dean . . .
In a meeting last May, the Board of
Directors of the A&M System announced
the appointment of a new Dean of the
College for A&M. Last week, the ap
pointee arrived here with his wife and
family.
Dr. Charles Clement French, vice
president of Virginia Polytechnic Insti
tute at the time of his appointment, as
sumed the duties of his office Monday.
We wish to take this opportunity to wel
come him as a member of the administra
tive faculty and as chief coordinator of
the various schools.
In a position such as that filled by Dr.
French, time to become familiarized with
the functions of his jobs and the aspects
of the different parts of the school is an
important factor. Unfortunately for one
in his position, he arrived here just before
the beginning of one of the greatest years
of A&M history.
The beginning of the Fall semester is
hardly more than a month off. The 75th
Anniversary activities and the opening of
the Memorial Student Center will also
make next year, a year filled with much
activity. These major and many other
minor items will serve to make the Dean’s
schedule one of the most crowded in many
years.
It will undoubtedly take some time for
Dr. French to become familiar with the
customs and traditions here at A&M, but
with aid and consideration from any who
may chance to come into contact with
him, this condition should be easily rem
edied.
1950 S > olitical ‘Quick Switches’ . . .
The fight against Communism has be
come a major campaign issue in the No
vember congressional elections. Carefully
mapped campaigns based on domestic is
sues are being shelved, and new ones are
based on the public reaction to the Korean
affair. Senators of both parties agree
that this issue and the growing domestic
problems related to it will be the deciding
factor.
The Republicans are criticizing the ad
ministration for lack of military prepared
ness, and failure to prevent open war
fare. Senator Capehart of Indiana thinks
the people are going to vote Republican
“because they are mad about what has
happened in Korea and they don’t blame
Congress for it.” Senator Magnuson of
Washington said Republicans in his state
are beginning to attack Secretary of
State Acheson and Secretary of Defense
Johnson for their inability to see what was
coming and prepare the country for it.
Most Democrats are going to pigeon-
Day Dreamers on the UN
There is a belief in United Nation’s
circles that peace may yet be declared.
Of course, certain assumed situations
must exist first. Several members of the
UN, and Secretary General Trygve Lie in
particular, have personal ideas as to how
the UN peace war against North Korea
could be ended without a fight to-the fin
ish.
Yet these same men say that no set
tlement is possible until the Red Koreans
have withdrawn behind the 38th parallel.
At the present time, the main idea of the
UN troops, mostly American, fighting in
Korea is to keep from losing any more
ground that the overwhelming odds have
already taken.
We doubt if any or even a few of our
military leaders have considered what to
do when and if we are able to bring about
conditions in which the Red Koreans will
be forced behind the dividing line. They
certainly will not withdraw without con
siderable persuasion after already having
overrun most of South Korea with their
huge numbers and Russian made weapons.
With the accepted agreement of UN
members that peace is out of the question
hole President Truman’s “Fair Deal” for
the time being. Republican “isolationism”
will be the object of an attack by Demo
crats who contend that Republican mem
bers failed to support measures designed
to strengthen our anti-Communist allies.
Senator Myers had planned to show how
his state of Pennsylvania had benefited
from various administration projects, but
he now intends to show that those who
opposed the military programs and de
manded that they be reduced are the ones
who are now most vigorous in criticising
the present lack of preparedness.
The school of thought that advocates
an all-out effort now is required to pre
vent war or win the war if it comes seems
to be gaining ground. Even with a total
effort we would not be ready for a diplo
matic showdown with Russia for at least
two years. We agree with Anthony Eden’s
statement that “the danger to peace is
very great indeed, and time is not on our
side.”
Board . . .
until we reach the 38th parallel, their
plans seem rather foolish and simple.
These peace statements are being made
by representatives of states and countries
whose soldiers are attempting to keep
from being obliterated by the peace loving
aggressors.
In one of his first press conferences in
two weeks, Lie said that he believed Rus
sia was interested in peace, but that he
would not go further into details and so
on. He also said that he had no evidence
that Russia had sent arms to North Korea
since the war began June 25. With com
muniques from the battlefront telling of
our losses caused by tanks of Russian de
sign, we question the reliability of the
secretary general’s informational sour
ces.
Even if Russia is interested in peace,
that does not mean that she would even
consider it. And what else would we have
to sacrifice to realize these ends. It seems
as if reliable and resourceful members of
the United Nations board are star-gazing
and dreaming instead of waking to the
grim reality of the present situation.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman. Knightly Gentleman”
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SID ABERNATHY, DEAN REED
L. O. Tiedt
Frank Manitzas
Joel Austin
Betty Ann Potter Society Editor
Fred Walker Amusements Editor
Bill Hites Photographer
Bob Hancock, Bill Hites, John Hollingshead.
James Lancaster Photo Engravers
Co-Editors
a Feature Editor
Sports Editor
City Editor
Frank Davis, Bert Hardaway, Bob Hughson,
Louise Jones, Bill Mebane, B. F. Roland,
Dale W alston Staff Reporters
Carter A. Phillips Editorial Assistant
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Behind the Scenes
‘Winchester 73 ’-Misleading
Title But Realistic ‘ Western ’
By FRED WALKER
(Winchester 73; starring
James Stewart, Shelley Winters,
Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally,
Millard Mitchell; Universal-In
ternational; now showing at the
Palace, Tues. through Sat.)
The greed of man is symbolized
by a repeating rifle, and conflict
is revealed as the vengeance of a
man upon his brother in Universal-
International’s western “Winches
ter 73”.
Cowhand Jimmie Stewart, aided
by side-kick Millard Mitchell, is
pursuing Stephen McNally: object;
murder. They meet in Dodge City,
but are restrained from committing
any violent action by the famous
marshal, Wyatt Earp. There is a
shooting match in Dodge City, the
prize, one of 124 new Winches
ter repeating rifles. Stewart wins
the rifle after a strenuous and re
markable contest against the vei y
man he seeks to kill, but McNally
and some ruffians assault the win
ner and steal the gun.
Series of Sub-Plots
There follows a series of sub
plots as the rifle passes from Mc
Nally’s hands into those of a gun
runner, during a crooked pokei
game. The gun-runner is then
killed by an Indian chief who
would rather have the new Win
chester than the old 30-30’s that
were to be traded. The chief now
goes on the warpath and traps a
detachment of soldiers, to whose
Interpreting the News .
Letters To The Editor
(All letters to the editor which are signed by a student or employee of the
college and Which do not contain obscene or libelous material will be published. Per
sons 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.)
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT
(Ed. note—The following let
ter was addressed “to the writer
of the enclosed article.” The ar
ticle attached was a portion of a
column written by Battalion City
Editor Joel Austin, commenting
on recent developments of Col
lege Station’s fire “situation.”
That portion of the column is re
printed at the close of the fol
lowing letter.)
Dear “Son”:
It’s not the criticism of the tree
and the flowers ax-ound the fire
plug which gets me—it*s the sissy,
flippant, half-baked word “dither”
which I can’t take.
I wish that you could have been
my son the other night when the
crackling fire awoke us. You would
have gone with me into the yard
to see flames leaping high into
the air arid spax-ks flying through
the sky toward vacant lots, dry and
parched from lack of rain, toward
house tops drier than the grass.
You would not have felt any
thing so trivial as the word
“dither/’ You would have felt with
me horror, fear, despair and said
with me, “My G'od, with this wind
the whole of College Hills will
burn up.”
Ride bjack to College Hills, son,
and we will cut down the worm-
eaten tree and pull the old dead
zinnias around th^ fire plug and
then we will walk across the road
to where the Bogard’s home used
to be.
While you stand beside me and
look into the charred ruins, I
will tell you how I saw a mother
standing in a little short nightie,
clutching her baby in her arms as
she watched, dry-eyed, and saw
everything she owned in the world
go up in flames. I’ll tell you about
a father who had lost everything he
had, too, who came hack the next
morning and stood and looked, and
looked and looked.
I will tell you about a grand
mother who came and cried and
cried over the uniform of a lieu
tenant colonel, her son’s which lay
half-burned in an old rocking
chair.
Then with pity in your heart,
maybe you will put your arm
around my shoulder while I weep
for them and silently pray “God,
please don’t let this happen to me.”
Official Notice
OFFICIAL NOTICE—ALL OKADUATE
STUDENTS
Each graduate student is required to
suggest the names of members of the Grad
uate Faculty he wishes to serve on his
Committee. They are to consult with the
student and outline a complete course of
study for his graduate degree early in the
student’s first semester or summer term.
This is designed to insure that the student
may know what is to be required of him,
and may follow a logical and well balanced
program each time he registers thereafter.
During this last six-weeks summer, term
each graduate student is responsible for
completing the proper forms and filing his
suggestions for his Committee. The neces
sary forms and any suggestions and help
needed may be obtained by calling at the
office of the Graduate School.
The complete course of sutdy should be
on file before the student leaves the cam
pus this summer.
Ide P. Trotter, Dean
Graduate School
Then with the old tree and the
dead flowers gone and with char
ity toward all and malice toward
none in your heart, you will go
back to your little desk and start
that young brain of yours working.
You will take your pen and write
sympathetically an article headed
“How Can We Help Solve the Fire
Problem of College Station.”
Sincerely
Jane Wheeler Williams
Here is the part of Austin’s
column referred to in Mrs. Wil
liams’ letter:
“Mention the word fire these
days and everyone in town seems,
to get in a dither. We believe
people are just about awake to
the fact that fire is something
that could spell the loss of homes
and possessions at any time.
Yet sometimes we wonder if they
actually want to make proper use^
of the facilities which we have on
hand. Take for instance a certain
block in College Hills where a
group of people are current cir
culating a petition asking the city
council for better fire protection.
In driving down one of the
streets in this area, we noticed a
fire plug which the resident had
planted shrubs and bushes around
to keep from hindering the beauty
of his lawn.
Maybe there is some law or ordi
nance restricting an act of this
kind, but nevertheless, how can
these people ask for better facil
ities when they purposely place a
handicap on the “little” protection
they claim they have?
Perhaps it would do good for
someone to take a quick look into
the law books and ordinances of
this city and see if such a thing
as hiding a fire hydrant is permis
sible.”
War in Korea May
Be Awakening US
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
The Korean War may turn out to
be a blessing for the United States.
There is bitterness in watching
Americans die in a far country; in
contemplating fifty billion dollars
spent in the last few years on a
military establishment which was
not prepared even for a small
war; in finding America outclassed
in tanks and firepower by a tiny
oriental satellite of the most back
ward nation in Eux-ope, however,
tempoi'ary that situation may be.
But prior to June 25, when the
Communist tanks crossed the 38th
parallel into South Korea, Amer
ica and her western allies had
merely been playing around with
prepax-edness. Security played sec
ond fiddle to business as usual.
Economy First
Not that anyone is particularly
to blame. Economic recovery seem
ed to be, and was, the first oi’der of
business in a world where there
might be many forms of trouble,
but where general war hardly
seemed a likelihood.
It may have been whistling in
the daxk to say that war was not
inevitable in a world where war al
ways had been inevitable. But
sometimes whistling in the dark
can prevent a fellow from giving
way to the very things he fears.
But now the “war is not inevit
able” idea is being subjected to
considerable qualification. The
thought is growing that, unless
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A&M Represented
At Poultry Meet
A&M is being represented at the
27th annual Texas Poultry Im
provement Association convention,
according to T. A. Hensarling,
Stephenville, association executive
secretary.
The convention, being held at
the Texas Hotel, Ft. Worth, ends
today.
Four college officials assisting
with the program are; Dr. J. H.
Quisenberry, head of the Poultry
Department, Prof. D. H. Reid, and
W. J. Moore, of the poultry divi
sions, and Dr. W. A. Boney, of
the veterinary school.
Keims to Return
Home September 1
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thomas
Keim Jr. will return to College
Station September 1, according to
reports from friends. Mr. Kiem
was formerly a professor in the
Business Department at A&M.
He has been working on his
Ph. D. degree at the University
of California in Berkley, Califor
nia.
Mr. and Mrs. Keim and their
new daughter, Kathy, are in the
process of getting a residence in
College Station.
Bible Verse
“For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God.”—Rom. 8:14.
Cabinet Heads
To Remain In
Office-Truman
Washington, Aug. 9—(A 5 )—Pres
ident Truman has put Korean pol
icy critics emphatically on notice
that as long as he is Pres
ident, Secretary of State Dean Ach
eson and Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson will stay in the cab
inet.
His stern comment came in reply
to a news conference question. A
reporter stated that Rep. Priest of
Tennessee, house democratic whip,
had said Acheson and Johnson
should resign. The reporter asked
presidential reaction.
Asked for comment at Nashville
where he was watching the results
of the state elections, Priest said:
“My Commander-in-Chief has
spoken. I have no further com
ment except to say that irregard-
less of my personal opinion in this
matter, he can be assured of my
full support in the administration
of the nation’s affairs and the pros
ecution of the war.”
Mr. Truman, who weeks ago had
tartly rejected Republican demands
for Acheson’s scalp, said he was
surprised that the House whip of
his own party had made such a
statement.'
He said Priest had no business
doing that. Then, raising his voice
he said he wanted to make it plain
that Acheson and Johnson are not
going to resign as long as he is
in the White House.
Priest commented last week in
Tennessee that the two cabinet
officers should be replaced and said
he is using his influence toward the
end. He said the change should
be made “in the interest of a com
pletely unified effort in the task
ahead of us.”
there is a voluntary end to the
policies of Communist imperialism,
a general war is inevitable, al
though perhaps it is still not im
minent.
If that be true, America may
one day thank its lucky stars for
Korea.
School’s Out!
Korea has just about closed
the be-all and end-all school of
atomic worshippers. It is now ob
vious that there are ways to lose
a war, to lost a whole position, in
the world, without being able to
use the bomb. The story of Korea
is the story of the G. I., and a
new awareness of his importance.
As he dies today in small numbers
his experience may save lives in
vast numbers on another day and
another field.
The awakening brought about
through the Korean incident may
have its greatest and most far
reaching result in lessening that
gravest danger to which democra
cies are prone—too little and too
late.
Hitler planned his war for 1943;
didn’t think he could ,be ready for
it until then. But as his actions in
Europe began to mobilize the ill-
will of the world against him, he
realized, so he said, that never
again would conditions be 1 better
than they were in 1939. As long as
there are dictatorships, unhamper
ed by the necessity of mobilizing
the opinion of their own publics,
that can continue to happen.
Sooner Than 1953
With one communist-initiated
war already going, the allies have
abandoned their estimate of 1953
as Stalin’s “der tag,” and are now
moving to be prepared to the limit
of each day’s ability.
If it had not been for French,
British and Russian war orders be
fore Pearl Harbor, United States
industry would have been in piti
ful condition to meet the demands
ultimately made upon it. There
may be a day when we will won
der what would have happened had
not Korea come qlong at this time.
May Be Blessing
Yes, if Korea is properly used
for the proving ground of men,
weapons and ideas, it may yet be
a blessing.
For the United States faces not
just a “limited operation.” She is
taking the place of peacekeeper of
the world, of the bulwark against
barbarism, which Rome and Brit
ish held in other centuries. It is a
job which requires actual strength
and “know how” beyond mere
willingness.
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company is added the wandering
Stewart and a cowardly Charles
Drake and financee, ex-dancehall
belle, Shelly Winters. The Indians
are routed and Stewart and Mitch
ell ride on, overlooking the rifle
which is passed to Drake.
Seeking refuge, Drake is re
lieved of life and gun by a half
wit, trigger-happy Dan Duryea.
Winters goes with the gun. These
two join McNally at his hideout
where the gang plans a bank hold
up. The Winchester goes back to
McNally. At the scene of the pros
pective crime, Stewart makes his
appearance; he shoots Duryea, who
does a primitive adagio on the
way to the ground. The true story
is then revealed by Mitchell; Mc
Nally is Stewart’s brother, and
had long ago killed their father.
A pursuit is made of the fleeing
McNally and a grim gun-battle en
sues before the villian is ultimately
killed.
Title Misleading
The title of the picture is- mis
leading, for the picture is not the
story of the Winchester, “The gun
that won the West”, but that of
two men who would kill one anoth
er. The Winchester serves only to
bring out the characters of the
men. A sponge cake could have
been the prize at the shooting
match and it still would have gone
over, for in those days, any oppor
tunity was taken to display marks
manship. All of the extraordinary
shooting in the picture was ac
complished, not with the miraculous
Winchester, but with its younger
brother, the 30-30.
Director Anthony Mann strove
for realism, and did well enough.
The actors were never pushed into
overacting, and a true picture of
their worth was brought out.
Photographer Aaron Rosenberg
should be congratulated* for a fine
job.
Comment: Much better than the
average western.
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Air Force NCO’s
To Aid Reservists
Two Air Force Reserve Liaison
NCO’s have been assigned to the
9807th VART Squadron in Bryan
to help College Station reservists
with their reserve affairs, accord
ing to an announcement by 14th
AF Reserve officials at Bergstrom
Air Force Base this week.
Included in this new assignment
are M/Sgt. Luther Jeffers and
T/Sgt. Raymond E. Smith who
have set up their office in Room
410 of the Varisco Building in
Bryan and will be available to
answer any inquiries or assist local
reservists with any problems in
reserve affairs. In the near future
they expect to make a personal
visit to the campus to talk over
reserve program with College Sta
tion air reservists.
^ Flight “A” of the 9807th VART
Squadron, commanded by Lt. Col.
James B. Hervey, Former Students
Association, is located here at Col
lege Station. Anyone interested in
joining is urged to contact to Col
onel Hervey or the Liaison Office
downtown.
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