Battalion Editorials
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950
Milestone for Increasing Efficiency . ..
Sunday, the dining room of the Aggie-
land Inn will close. It will no longer pro
vide a place for important luncheons and
dinners for school administrators or a
place to take the family and friends when
they visit the campus. During its his
tory, many important plans for college
welfare and solving student problems as
well as personal troubles were formulated
in after dinner discussions across its ta
bles.
The greatest significance of the dining
room’s closing is that with it begins the
first physical activity of the installation
of the college’s new Basic Division. Since
the first plans were worked out for the
Division’s origination, much work has
been done on it in administrative circles
but little accomplished so far as actual
setting up of office space, etc. is con
cerned.
The remodeled section of the Inn will
include offices for the Division’s Dean
and his counselors whose job it will be to
aid freshmen needing extra attention in
their academic work. There will also be
an office for use by the five dormitory
counselors, as well as other rooms for
group therapy and study habits and rem
edial study for small groups.
As usual, some bad must accompany
the good. Until the Memorial Student
Center opens in September, former pa
trons of the Inn will have to go elsewhere
for their meals. This will prove to be an
inconvenience for those who regularly in
habit the Inn’s dining room.
But on the brighter side, the MSC with
its, dining room, coffee shop, and foun
tain room, as well as the banquet service,
will ably take care of and make up for the
sacrifices that will have to be made meal-
wise for the construction of a home for
the Basic Division.
Needed--A Civilian Defense System . . .
One bomb, dropped in any city in the
United States, and it need not be an atomic
bomb, would do more to arouse the inhab
itants of this country to the need for civ
ilian defense than any of the warnings and
appeals for action that they are now hear
ing and heeding. Unfortunately for us,
there will be forewarnings from a foreign
enemy or fifth columnists who might con
sider such action.
No one knows when war may come.
From hearing the Soviet Delegation in
the United Nations screaming “Aggres
sors” at the United States for our part in
the Korean conflict, one might suspect
that another Pearl Harbor is in the mak
ing. On the other hand, it may not occur
for several years to come.
If the enemy ever does chose to strike
us with atomic or other bombs, our being
prepared and trained for disaster relief
will mean the saving of thousands, maybe
millions of priceless lives. An adequate
plan for civilian defense will be complica
ted and expensive, but it will be well
worthwhile.
The task will involve much more than
did the simple system of voluntary neigh
borhood organization adopted during the
last war. It will be necessary to set up
full time jobs with paid directors who are
highly competent organizers and can be
depended upon in an emergency.
A master defense plan for the nation,
now being worked out in Washington, is
expected about Sept. 1. Pending its re
ceipt, mayors and county judges of each
civilian defense area should attend to pre
liminaries and be ready to put the plan
into operation as soon as possible. We
cannot afford to take a chance on its be
ing too little and too late.
Are We ‘Dollar Imperialists?’ . . .
U. S “dollar imperialism.”
Failure to consider the powerful anti
colonial nationalist movement and failure
to consider the battle against poverty are
: the two major points in Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru’s criticism of the poli
cies of the West. While Democracy is full
of meaning to us, it does not have reality
and meaning to the millions of Asiatics
who are groping for a better way of life.
The colonial past has meant poverty,
oppression, and exploitation, and the Asi
atics are equally suspicious of our motives.
The Communists are using this suspicion
to spread the bugaboo of “U. S. dollar im
perialism”. Nehru apparently under-
stands our sincere desire to create a bet
ter and more peaceful world. This is in
dicated by his statement to his Parliament
that “the young men of the United States
dying in Korea certainly do not represent
The support of Pandit Nehru, and his
Parliament will help prevent the Commun
ist inspired distortions of our policies, but
victory in this ideological war may call
for wide revisions in our relations with
Asians in general. In our haste to con
tain Russian imperialism we must use
caution to avoid identifying ourselves with
governments that continue to oppress and
exploit.
It is possible that Asiatic systems may
evolve into a form of Democracy, or at
least a government that is based on the
will of the people. The great danger, how
ever, is that Russia will utilize the desire
for political and sociological change to
seize power and rule by force as she has
done in China.
In Passing . . .
A1 Capp’s comic character “Evil Eye”
Fleegle may have a counterpart in real
life. Physicists • in Paris are reportedly
looking for a German who is capable of
moving a vase just by looking at it.
In pre-war experiments the modern
“evil eye” was able to cause a severe dis
turbance of the infra-red field which was
placed between him and the object he was
trying to move. The human power plant
claimed that the experiments were wear
ing him out, and he went home to Ger
many just before the war broke out.
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Interpreting the News
Red, Chiang Plans Similar
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
The continuity of British for
eign policy has long been a by
word. Germany’s fight for “living
space” for a heavily concentrated
population has caused bitter wars
and nearly as bitter arguments
about “rights.”
For years it has been evident,
though many were so confused
by Communists Red Herrings they
failed to recognize it, that Soviet
foreign policy is merely a con
tinuation of that of the czars;
that Russian expansionism has been
violently active since the fall of
Constantinople as capital of the
East 500 years ago.
American Attitude
The American attitude toward
tyranny is made inevitable by its
independent location. And by the
revolutionary tendencies isolation
has sponsored.
Which brings us around to to
day’s point.
Communist China has just an-
“march-
nounced its intention of
ing into Tibet.”
Communism Pressing Burma
' In China, Communism is also
pressing hard toward Burma, Siam,
Indo-China, Malaya, Formosa and
the Pescadores. Sinkiang, Mongolia
and Manchuria already are in the
fold.
All of which reminds that China
is China, just as England, Ger
many, Russia and the United States
go their natural ways regardless
of socialism or conservatism, im
perialism or fascism, democrats or
republicans.
Communism In China
Communism in China reaches
for the same territory for which
nationalism reached. That Russia
communism takes part of it, as in
Sinkiang, Mongolio and Manchuria,
and Chinese communism, seeks an
other party, merely represents a
division of objectives between two
parts of the same Asiatic force.
In 1943 Chiang Kai-Shek wrote
his aims for the future China. It
created such a commotion in west
ern chancelleries that he later
suppressed the book, but it reach
ed this country in 1944. Chiang
said China had to have Tibet,
Siam, Malaya, Burma, Mongolia,
Manchuria, Indo-China, Formosa
and the Pescadores, which he de
scribed as inseparable from the
natural China and “no area can be
come an independent unit.” He was,
even going to take Kowloon, Hong' 1
Kong’s mainland bridgehead, back
from the British.
Communism has accomplished*,
part of Chiang’s Program,
parr or wmang» i lugram, and’
promises to fight for the re
Bible Verse
“But God commendeth His love
toward us, in that, while we were hfe
yet sinners, Christ died for us.”— ”
Rom. 5:8.
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Beginning Thursday morning, August 10, the Ex
change Store will again offer a lay-away plan on books
and equipment for the Fall semester.
All you have to do is give one of our sales force a
list of your courses before you leave the campus. Your
books and equipment will be collected into one pack
age and labeled with your name and number.
When you return for the Fall semester you can
short circuit the waiting lines. Simply present your
claim check at the east window together with your GI
orders or cash and the supplies will be delivered to you.
There is no obligation on your part. Come in to
day and do in 5 minutes what may take hours at school
opening. Over 1000 students took advantage of this
plan last summer, and were well pleased with the service.
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