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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1950 All Mao Can See Is Korea . . . There was nothing wrong with what Dean Acheson had to say via television Sunday in Washington except the timing. This country does possess the material and industrial potential to make war a very poor investment for Red China should it venture on it. Unfortunately we are not doing any too well in Korea and it is Ko rea that the Red Chinese can see right next door. If nations looked ahead, no war would ever be fought. Certainly this unrushing war in which civilization may collapse en tirely would never be fought. But pri marily nations are seldom given the chance to look ahead. The issue of war or peace is decided usually by the militant few, Wartime Controls Imposed After a few years’ respite, the Ameri can people again are about to be hobbled with chafing wartime controls. The sec ond World War is not officially ended, yet we are entering into a virtual state of war with our most powerful ally of that con flict. The emergency powers bills, signed by the President, Friday, empowers him to clamp price ceilings on merchandise, and limits on wages, when conditions warrant. He is authorized to divert industry “to the extent necessary from civilian goods tg military production. And as Mr. Tru man warned in his address Saturday, the $5 Billion tax increase which Congress has nearly completed is “only the first install ment.” We have not yet felt thp economic pinch of the Korean War emergency j but the President’s broadcast was a grim re minder that it is coming inexorably. By next June, he declared we expect to be spending at the rate of at least $30 billion a year for defense, and probably more than that after 1951. Because the masters of the Kremlin aspire and conspire to rule the world, we must make great sacrifices, human and ec onomic. In the last war we had to do without many things because of short ages ; in the months and probably years to among whom Mao can be accurately num bered. All he has he has gained by ag gression, supported by Russia and in no way except conversationally impeded by the United States. Looking at Korea, Mao can see half of our striking force having difficulty hold ing on to its beachhead. He can not see what lies beyond them, what almost cer tainly must eventuate from American re sources if we call them into play. No, all he sees is Korea. And so far as Korea is concerned up to now we have talked a good war. If Mao gets in, that will be another black mark against lack of forethought in Wash ington.—The Dallas Morning News. Once More . . . come we may have to deny ourselves not only for that but because we can’t afford things. Income taxes to pay a war bill of $30 billion or more a year, on top of the moun tainous national debt which the Truman administration has been piling higher and higher, will be more oppressive than we have ever known before. Prices likely will be higher, even with controls. Undoubtedly Moscow seeks to bleed us white by forcing us to fritter away our military and economic resources in piece meal wars like that in Korea—secondary wars that cost Russia little if anything. If we allow ourselves to be drawn into such conflicts, one after another, we may be in for a generation of it, in which event the inauguration of the emergency con trols just authorized by Congress may mark the end of a golden era, and the be ginning of an age of grim struggle for our political and economic lives. We have no choice—except the alter native of bringing the whole business to a quick, terrible showdown by attacking Russia directly with atom bombs. And this the Truman administration does not contemplate—yet. So we can only do our utmost to win the struggle, hoping and praying for some turn of fate which will extricate us from our hopless plight.—The Houston Post. UN Losing Prestige With Vetos Sen. Tom Connally and Rep. Omar Bur leson are right in their hopeful estimate of the revived prestige of the United Na tions. And they are right in saying that prompt action by the U. N. Security Coun cil against Communist aggression in Ko rea is the reason for this revived prestige. But they do not take full cognizance of the bottom cause. The U. N. has shown new life recently solely because its boycott by Moscow permitted the Security Coun cil to function for a brief space without the obstacle of the perennial Russian veto. If the Russian representative had been sitting in the council at the time the Ko rean crisis arose, the U. N. would still be in a deplorably frustrated condition to day. ^Senator Connally takes part cognizance of this situation in explaining that future action must be in the General Assembly, which can act on two-thirds vote, free of the veto. This is right, but the U. N. Charter states specifically that the assem bly has only advisory powers. When Mes srs Connally and Burleson admit that the next few weeks will bring a supreme test of the U. N., they must be thinking of the effect of the return of .Russia to the coun cil. If the past is any indication of the future, the veto will be exercised hereafter with demoralizing effect. The whole situation adds to the accum ulation of evidence that the U. N. has little opportunity to operate effectively in the future unless (1) Russia withdraws or (2) some means is found of amending the charter to eliminate the veto or severely restrict the number of vetoes any one country may impose in a given time.— The Dallas Morning News. ★ ★ ★ You can seldom judge a man by his A man can do his best only by confi- manner towards his superiors. His man- dently seeking (and perpetually missing) ner towards his inferiors is far more re- an unattainable perfection.—Ralph Bar- vealing. ton Perry. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Bat talion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. 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Member of Represented nationally by National Ad- The Associated Press vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH John Whitmore, Dean Reed, L. O. Tiedt Sid Abernathy - - - Frank N. Manitzas t - Joel Austin - Co-Editors .... Managing Editors Campus News Editor Sports Editor City News Editor JUST CAN’T SEEM TO GET IT THROUGH HIS HEAD Behind the Scenes Someone to Receive Oscar As Swanson Show Result Congress May End Session This Week (Ed. note — Reprinted below is the weekly newsletter from Congressman Olin E. Teague, representative of the Sixth Dis trict of Texas, which includes Brazos and seven other coun ties.) Washington, D.C., Sept. 12—The House of Representatives has com pleted action on appropriation bills and emergency legislation and is waiting for the Senate to finish its debate which has resulted in Congress remaining in session. Majority Leader Lucas of the Senate has indicated they may be finished by September 16 and that the recess would be taken until probably the middle of November, at which time the Congress will return to take care of any addi tional legislative matters that have come up. I had planned a long period in the District this summer but this long session of Congress together with recent committee assignments ’that I have received, will pi*event my being in Texas for any great length of time this year. The House has approved a reso lution I introduced to investigate the Veterans’ Education Program. By the end of this year, the cost of the program will have amounted to over $12 billion and the Con gress is interested in finding out if the veterans and the taxpayers have received full value on their investment of time and money. May Extend Benefits The next Congress will probably consider extending the benefits of the G'.I. Bill to our men fighting in Korea and the findings of this investigating committee will prove useful in drafting veteran legisla tion in the future.- Speaker Rayburn has told me that I will be named Chairman of the Committee when its members are appointed this week and we have several months of very hard work ahead of us to learn the facts about our veterans’ education and training program. The findings of the Committee will be reported to Congress along with recommenda tions to prevent abuses by both veterans and schools in the veter ans’ program. Two additional committee as signments will also take up a good share of my time after the Con gress recesses, as I have been des ignated Chairman of a subcommit tee which will concern itself with the civil defense measures taken here in Washington, D.C. 1 am also a member of the subcommittee to investigate crime in the District of Columbia. AGGIES- How About That Treat At... Nita’s Newsstand & Confectionery Owned & Operated By a Student JEROME O. HEARBY North Gate There have been thousands of bills introduced in the 81st Con gress and so far 761 have become Public Laws and 936 have become private laws. at-j By FRED WALKER (“Sunset Boulevard” — Para mount; now showing at Campus through today, starring Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Eric Von Stroheim, and Nancy Olson.) The return—don’t say come back”—of Gloria Swanson to the cinema is celebrated in an “Un- Hollywood” fashion, as Paramount gracefully combines top-notch ac tors, writers, photographers, and musicians with the innate superb ness of Miss Swanson to produce the chilling satire, “Sunset Boule vard.” It was interesting to note the number of older people that jam med the Campus to see again the “Darling of the 20.’s.” I noticed a few leaving with tears in their eyes. And then a few freshmen ex ited with a “haunted” look. Most of the audience looked as if they were suffering from coronary thrombosis. Believe me, writers Brackett, Wilder and Marshman have pro duced a story that could well win the Academy Award. Into the Parlor Guild writer Joe Gillis (William Holden) must have been a sweet youth before he was swallowed by Hollywood, for when he turns his flat-tired convertible into a wel coming drive to escape the finance boys, his outlook toward writing and the average reader is com parable to a pit of perturbed co bras. He discovers his temporary sanc tuary to be a permanent hell when its owner, diobolically and psy- chotically beautiful Norma Des mond (Gloria Swanson), a “ghost' of silent pictures, entices 25-year- old Joe to live on Sunset Boule vard as a ghost writer for her “masterpiece”. As a willing-unwilling lover, Joe (and the audience) almost strang les amid the fumes of a dead era and a dead woman. Inseparable from her unholy ob session of a “return”, Norma sub mits the completed story to Gecile B. DeMille, and confidently awaits affirmative response from her one time director. HEY! OPEN AGAIN! The Crawfords offer New and better . . . FOOD SERVICE and ENTERTAINENT at CAMPUS Confectionery “Next to the Theater” PALACE Bryan 2'$$79 TODAY thru SATURDAY MILLARD MITCHELL-JEAN PARKER TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY Joe, meanwhile, has found a lost youth in Betty (Nancy Olson), a young' reader at Paramount who aspires to be a writer. Norma suspects, but Max (Eric Von Stroheim), the irresolute ser- i vant, knows the truth, and orders Joe not to hurt his mistress. The most heart-rending twist of the knife in this horrible situation is supplied by Max when he in- f forms Joe that he had once been Norman’s director-husband, but had given a brilliant future and a “living” life only to protect the (See SWANSON, Page 4) TODAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:08 - 3:21 - 5:34 - 7:47 - 10:00 STARTS WEDNESDAY FIRST RUN —Features Start— 1:25 - 3:08 - 4:51 - 6:34 - 8:17 10:00 $$$$$•$ $ $ $ WEDNESDAY $ LUCKY LICENSE ; NITE $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ News—Cartoon LI’L ABNER Moonbeam Shining High Above By AI Capp "TH TEST77— oh, ah 1 —- HOPES HE FAILS—OR AH'LL HAFTA (soe'f) HAPPILY MARRY HIM—'STEAD O'(s^h-r") , MIZZUBLY WAITIN' FO' LI'L ABNER ALL MAH LIFE//'. LFL ABNER That’s Surprising By AI Capp LI’L ABNER A Mighty Frightened Smith Was He By AI Capp LI’L ABNER Set Him Up in the Other Alley P-PORE SURPRISING ) IT'S PITIFUL SMITHS HE IS MOW \-BUT WE J UNDERGOIN' TH' SECOND, GOTTA A OR BLOODY PARJ O'/SEE WHUT; 'wVgot'inside. I By AI Capp