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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1950
Russia Used Tactics, Why Not Us? . . .
The United States and the 52 other
United Nations members associated with
us in the defense of the Republic of Korea
are gaining very little through this
month’s session of the Security Council.
Jakob Malik, conductor of the Russian
filibuster and president of council for the
month of August, has been successful in
carrying out the Soviet nations plans to
tie up the council with matters the Rus
sians would like to see passed.
As presiding officer, Malik refuses to
rule upon the questions that have been
, long proposed for settlement by the coun
cil. So long as he refrains from taking a
step either way, no one will be able to do
more than debate on the matters, without
having the record show a reversal of Sov
iet contentions.
We must admit that up to the present
time Malik has been more effective in pre
senting his propagandized information
than the United States has in presenting
its case. The other democratic members
. .began the month by being overly nice, a
condition which has never existed in the
Communist delegation. Recently, how
ever, Warren Austin, American delegate,
and Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British delegate,
have taken matters in hand with blunt
statements that Moscow engineered and
conducted the Korean invasion.
Regardless, the lies Malik is repeating
in deliberately trying to create distrust be
tween the Western World and the Asiatic
peoples are not helping our cause. The
only means to remedy this situation is for
the United Nations to hold no more meet
ings during the month of August. Noth
ing prevents President Malik from calling
meetings, but there is also nothing which
prevents the majority of the members of
the council from voting adjournments or
space out sessions to constrict to the Sov
iet delegation’s actions.
Fortunately, actions which the United
Nations needed to meet the Korean sit
uation were taken before the Russians
realized the mistake they had made in
walking out of the Security Council. We
then have nothing to lose and considerably
mcj-e to gain by suspending all United
Nab^sis sessions until September 1.
Our Melting Pot Includes Communists . . .
The House of Representatives has
voted to bring action against 56 witnesses
who refused to answer questions concern
ing their affiliations with the Communist
party by the House un-American activi
ties committee.
Conviction of the mute witnesses,
judging from past cases, will be almost
automatic. A stiff fine and a jail sentence
of one year faces the defendants.
The action of the House is entirely
justified and called for, though it might
be considered an encroachment of consti
tutional rights if loyal citizens were con
cerned. It is only just that those who seek
with every means within their power to
destroy the constitution of the United
States and what it stands for should not
be able to set up their defense behind the
Bill of Rights.
Possibly this case may be a precedent
in cleaning out the Communist and their
sympathizers, who refuse to answer Con
gress concerning their party membership.
Heretofore the Moscow inspired sympa-
In Passing . . .
The word is warming up but no one
seems to know why or how long it will
danger, there is enough water stored in
the polar ice caps to submerge New York,
Tokyo, and London. Evidence to support
■ this fact was presented at the 1950 meet
ing of the American Meteorological So-
. ciety.
The rainmakers say that the average
temperature of Boston and Washington
• has risen three or four degrees in the past
century, the growing season in Iowa has
increased 20 days in the last 40 years, and
thizers have considered it no crime to defy
Congress in its performance of its duty.
A year in prison will give the gentlemen
time to reconsider.
Lee Pressman, former CIO general
counsel who was ousted from the group
for Communist leanings, Natan Witt and
John J. Abt, all three former New Deal
officials, refused to answer questions con
cerning their Communist affiliations be
fore the un-American activities committee
in 1948. Evidence showed that the three
former leaders know more about the Red
party than they told.
Pressman, Witt, and Abt may not see
the error of their ways while in confine
ment but at least they will be safely out of
the picture and unable to hinder security
measures.
It is pleasing to know that our govern
ment is at last realizing that all inhabi
tants of the United States are not neces
sarily loyal. Further decisive action should
and must be taken to prevent undermining
of our democratic ideals.
the oceans are rising at the rate of one
foot in 300 years. William J. Humphries,
late president of the Society, estimated
that 15,000 years would be required to
melt Greenland’s 4,000,000 cubic miles of
water.
It would appear that posterity will not
suffer from a water shortage, but the
problem of distribution could be serious.
After all, what benefit would the water
enclosed in Artie ice be to inhabitants of
South America.
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IN THIS CORNER-
For Lieutenant Governor
India Has Suggestion
For Quieting Council
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
India’s latest suggestion for
quieting the raucous United Na
tions security council seems to be
a move on her part to get back
on the right side after a series of
bumbling steps which have in
terfered with U. N. policy in Ko
rea.
In advocating a smail-nation sub
committee to which the Korean
case might be referred, Sir Sene
gal Rau gets away from the Nehru-
Stalin idea of tying in the ad
mission of Communist China to
U. N. membership. He also empha
sizes the U. S.-U. N. policy of un
conditional withdrawal of com
munist forces to their own terri
tory before a settlement can be
discussed.
Center of Problem
Thus the Indian pendulum, which
Nehru has swung from the “im
partial” extremes of condemning
Communism one day and western
policy the next, seems to be set
tling down to a more restricted
swing, nearer the center of the
problem.
The significance of the commit
tee idea as it applies to Indian
policy may perhaps be emphasized,
also, by the fact that it is not
original, but had already been dis
cussed in American circles.
Under the plan, which India
will probably make formal by a
motion Thursday, all of the big
powers would be frozen out of the
discussions, which would be car
ried on by the six non-permanent
members of the council, three of
whom have recognized Communist
China and three of whom have not.
The committee would be empowered
to hear such witnesses at it de
sires—north or south Korean or
what not—and would permit India
to assume a role of leadership for
Rodeo Arena Plans
Formulated
Being
Plans have been started for a
rodeo arena to be located in the
neighborhood of the dairy hus
bandry barns, west of the railroad
switchtower across from the ball
park, according to Dr. Jack C.
Miller, head of the Animal Hus
bandry Department.
Materials for the arena were
ordered last month and are ex
pected to arrive by September. The
project is hoped to be completed
by Oct. 1 in time for the annual
Intercollegiate Rodeo, tentatively
set for the weekend of Oct. 21,
Dr. Miller said.
The arena will be constructed of
w r ood treated with pentschloro-
phenol, a wood preservative, and
number nine diamond meshed wire
six feet high.
After completion, the arena will
be used for rodeos sponsored by
the Saddle and Sirloin Club and
the Rodeo Club. It will also be used
for the annual 4-H and FFA Judg
ing Contest and the Little South
western Fat Stock Show.
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which she has been angling des
perately but amateurishly.
Might Do Good
The committee could no no harm
on the main issue of the Korean
war, and might do some good. But
of course it isn’t apt to be es
tablished, because it would coun
ter two Russian policies.
It would accept the legality of
the security council ruling of June
25 that North Korea is the ag
gressor. It would vivitate Russia’s
main reason for returning to the
council—the need for a propaganda
sounding board in an effort to build
up Asiatic resentment of western
intervention.
On the basis of precedent, too,
Russia always opposes placing is
sues in the hands of the small na
tions, or in any way relaxing her
hold on them.
Ag Experiment
Station Gets
$40,000 Check
A check for $40,000 was
given the Agricultural Ex
periment Station, by the
Southwestern Peanut Grow
ers Association on Aug. 10,
according to R. D. Lewis, director
of the experiment station.
This money will be used during
the next two to four years on re
search projects plaujidd jointly
by the Association and Experiment
Station.
Research on more efficient
methods of production, harvesting,
storage and marketing of peanuts
will be some of the projects deve
loped.
The research-aid fund became
available from the participation of
peanut growers in the 1942 dis
tribution of profits from the sale
of quota excess peanuts under the
Production and Marketing Admin
istration programs of that year.
After individual participants in
the program had received profits
amounting to $10 and $14.35 a ton,
respectively, in the southwestern
and southeastern peanut-growing
areas, an additional profit re
mained with the Commodity Credit
Corporation.
The additional profit of $75,000
belonging to members of the South
western Peanut Growers Associa
tion could be used in cooperate re
search programs with the agricul
tural experiment stations of the
respective states.
The A&M station will provide
personnel, land, and office and
laboratory space for conducting
studies pertaining to the peanut
industry.
The Experiment Station will
analyze and interpret the research
data obtained, and publish it for
the benefit of the peanut growers
of the state, Lewis said.
Official Notice
NOTICE TO NEW STUDENTS
All undergraduate students who enrolled
as “new students” at A. and M. College
this surnmer and who expect to continue
in A. and M, College during the 1950-51
long session must obtain clearance from
the Registrar before registering for the
Fall semester. This should be done imme
diately and can only be accomplished by
the Individual concerned reporting in per
son to the Registrar’s .Office.
H. L, HEATON, Registrar
Ramsey, Who Never Lost,
Is 2nd Primary Candidate
(Editors Note: One of a series
of biographical sketches on ma
jor candidates in the Aug. 26
second Texas Democratic Pri
mary.)
By TIM PARKER
Associated Press Staff
Truman Asks Allowance
For Service Families
first successful campaign for of- is a great deal of respect foi Rain-
f tt^ran fo/state representa- sey. Fellow . lepslafip demon,
t ve in 1930 and won. He ran strated this m 1947 when they
again and won. Then he returned elected him president pro-tempore
to private practice for six years, of the senate. They like hus lack of-
In 1940 he ran for the state senate rancor, his ready wit, and his will-
and won. He held his senate seat ingness to work with others.
Of the two candidates for lieu- for eight years and then returned Th angular lawmaker is active
tenant governor in the Aug. 26 f° private life ag' . „ in all community aiJans in his
second primary, one has never lost Former Seci eta y home town. He s been a member V
and election and one has never The quiet, draw S ’ J P P 0 f San Augustine s Methodist
won _ ped into public eye again in Jan- a l mo st all his life. He’s
Ben Ramsey of San Augustine is ^ary, 1949, when (mv. ^ or a j g0 a leader in his town’s busi-
the man who has never lost. ff- J® 8 ! 61 ’ appointe ^ . ness life and is a former national
Lincolnesque in appearance, the of state. He c ^ q, • president of the Junior Chamber of
tall and lanky East Texas lawyer ^e post under Gov^ Allen Shivers Commerce . .
has some of the Civil War presi- after Jestei died. t • Hobbies’ None except nartici
nfhm-affritmfpq Hid wif is he resigned. Three months latei HoDDies . inoik cxccpi partici
S„or OUn “ d t0r lieUtenant £0V -
lability! ^compose 6 the”differ- C ^en among Ms opponents there ernment and the Methodist Chp^
ences of warring factions.
Ramsey’s opponent is Pierce
Brooks, Dallas insurance executive
who has tried often for major pub
lic office but never made it. Ram
sey ran second to Brooks in the
July 22 first primary.
Quiet and Studious
A quiet and studious man, Ram- Washington All 0 '. 16 UP)— ®ame as the armed services com-
£Ld a p S latfo. i m U He a d!d,S“eVto: PresidentTruman asked Con- mittece of both the Senate and the
Most Texans know what he has gress yesterday to begin ben- House moved to draft legislation
done, and what he stands for. It efit payments this month to as quickly as possible in response
shapes up like this: dependent families of Ameri- to reports that some families of
• Soil Conservation and Improve- can servicemen, with a top limit of servicemen have already begun toy
ment. He early recognized the ser- $150 a month for any family. suffer financial hardship,
musness of soil and forest conserv- suiiti xmanuax iicuu&m.y.
ation and worked har in the Texas This would include deductions
Legislature to solve the problem, from the service men’s pay as well jr (Mocc fjQ Make
His own farm near his native San as government payments. ’ ' ' , , m ft
Justine is a model of soil con- Mr Truman sent the adm i nistra _ HOUStOIl *ield Ifip
• t m-w ’ t nK/,,. mile. ti<m’s proposals to both house of Members of the Animal Husban-
• La ^ or - La ^ r J llls sponsored by c * P in a length message dry 307 class in “Meats” will leave
£ud!' y fte r '«riJrteLo7 8 k-' Wli ftSTS budget bureau. * « . field trip to the Houston
mclude the right to work bill Packing Plant in Houston Wodnes-
which banned the closed shop; bills Under the administration plan: dav
to outlaw mass picketing, to pre- 1 . . . ..
vent unions from having employers r' dependent wile would re- students will make a toiir of
deduct union dues from paychecks ceive a month, plus $25 a th e pl a nt and study methods and
without employTS’consent; to make mon th for each dependent child— different phases of the meat pack-
labor unions subject to anti-trust but n °t more than $150 altogether. i n g i industry. The group will be
laws, and to ban secondary strikes, 2 . A dependent parent would
boycotts and picketing which would rece i V e $60 a month for one person
disrupt essential utility services 0 r $70 for two.
• Rural Electrification. A leader u e.
in electrifying Texas farm homes But in the case of a serviceman &tatlon Wednesday aftemoon.
b y legislative action, Ramsey with a dependent wife, children
knows the field well. He has been and parents, the combined total
attorney for ten years for the Deep could not exceed $150.
East Texas Electric Cooperative m, , ,
and helped guide that pioneering T , he bureau recommended that m
rural utility to its status as one of suc 1 a w l? eie more money
the state’s biggest and most stable } vas j ee< ^ e( | ^ c l r the combined farm-
cooperatives. ty dependents, the serviceman
® Ramsey also is for more rural should be discharged from active
paved roads, more telephone serv- duty.
The bureau also proposed that
the serviceman should contribute
his share the lesser of two
lead by O. D. Butler, instructor for
the course.
The class will return to College
as
sums:
ice for the country folk, and eceon-
omy in state government.
That’s Ramsey’s record during
12 years as a legislator and a
stretch as secretary of state.
Rgmsey was born Dec. 28, 1903,
at San Augustine. He attended family allowance,
the public schools there and then 2. Or 60 percent of his pay.
decided he wanted to be a lawyer. m, , , ,,,
He studied law at the University Tbe .F es8 f 8e recommended that
of Texas, but passed his bar exams 110 faiml J all owance be given m the
1. Either one-half of 'the total
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before he was graduated. Seeing
cases servicemen in the top
no need to stick around school b !l ree anc l o ne ‘half grades in all
longer, he quit and returned to . arn i® „ ™ rces W I 10 already re-
San Augustine to set up his prac- ceived $67.50 a month allowance
H ce , for quarters.
He was 27 when he made his The administration’s proposals
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