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Washington, Sept. 14 (IP)—Some of Secretary of De
fense Louis Johnson’s official pentagon family are expected
to depart soon as an aftermath of the cabinet officer’s resig
nation.
Washington protocol calls for appointed officials of a
department to offer their resignations whenever the depart
ment chief is replaced.
There was speculation that assistant Defense Secretary
Paul H. Griffith, long a Johnson associate, would be among
the first to step out in what may develop into a general shift
in the pentagon secretariat. ^
All six members of that group
are presidential appointees, with
Senate approval.
The customary procedure is for
these officials to proffer their res
ignations to the incoming secretary
who may or may noM'orward them
to the White House. If he wants
an official to stay on, he holds
up the resignation letter and asks
the man to remain.
In addition to Griffith, these are
the other two assistant defense
secretaries and the three service
secretaries:
Wilfred J. McNeil, assistant sec
retary in charge of fiscal and budg
etary matters; Marx Leva, assist
ant secretary for legislative and
legal matters and the chief liaison
officer with Congress.
Tftree Secretaries
Army Secretary Frank Pace;
Navy Secretary Francis P.
Matthews; Air Force Secretary
Thomas Finletter.
Washington, Sept. 14—(JP)—The Senate jumped ahead
of the House today in the rush to clear the way for Gen.
George C. Marshall to re-enter the cabinet as secretary of
defense.
There was a chance the Senate would pass today and
the House tomorrow a bill saying that in this one case it is
all right for a military man to take over the post reserved
by law for a civilian.
Senate Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois, predicting
easy passage, looked for a spot in the program to bring the
►bill up today.
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Troops to Get Beer
Ma cA rth u r Orders
As the lethargy of Summer drops away and thoughts
ones) more turn to Fall and the manifold activities of the
college season A&M students may look to. the prospect
of a more than active program throughout the year as
the college enters its seventy-fifth anniversary as a state
institution. Through the year a co-ordinated celebra
tion program coupled with the opening of the Memorial
Student Center will intensify campus activity and spot
light student life more than ever before in the history
of the college.
West German Security Plans Pushed
Tokyo, Sept. 14 UP)—U. S. dough
boys will get a free can of beer
every day at the front in Korea.
General MacArthur ordered it
today.
Front line troops had been get
ting a can of beer about every three
days.
They set up a howl Tuesday
when Washington outlawed all free
beer for men at the front.
Beer for combat troops under
the new plan will be paid for out
of post exchange profits instead of
taxpayers’ money.
To keep the record straight, Maj.
Gen. William A. Beiderlinden, as
sistant chief of staff to General
MacArthur, said the free beer will
; be for combat men only.
Rear echelon troops may buy
their own at the PX.
WCTU Opposes
Denver, Sept. 14 <A?)—There will
i be no beer for American fighting
J men in Korea if the Women’s
I Christian Temperance Union has
j its way.
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, head of the
WCTU—which opened its 76th an-
i nual convention here today—said
last night:
“Most Americans see no reason
! for alcoholic beverages being given
: our soldiers. There are a great
1 many reasons why any and all
; drinking in the military services
1 should be outlawed.”
She called for congressional ac-
j lion to “protect drafted youngsters
! against alcoholism.”
Combat soldiers in Korea have
been offered a can of free beer
; daily, jpaid for by the government
from public funds. Recently there
were protests from the folks back
home and now, although the beer
| distribution continues, it will be
i paid for from such sources as post
exchange profits.
On Agenda
Mrs. Colvin said the question of
mixing beer and fighting will rank
high on the convention’s agenda.
She made these specific state
ments:
® Congress will be urged to out-
New York, Sept. 14 (A 3 )—The Big
Three Foreign Ministers drove to
ward basic decisions on western
Berman political and security prob
lems today, with apparently good
prospects of agreement on these
points:
© The United States, Britain and
f France should take practical meas
ures as rapidly as possible to end
the state of war which still exists
between them and the west Ger-
• man government.
® Germany should be given a
larger, more mobile and better
equipped police force to meet the
Communist challenge of internal
subversion and sabotage.
® West German security against
outright Red aggression continues
to be primarily a responsibility of
the three occupation powers but at
some future time provision must be
made for the Germans to share
this responsibility.
On the specific proposal that
German military units should be
formed as part of a unified West
ern defense force, some diplo
mats believe no firm decision
may be made for the time being.
French Foreign Minister Robert
Schuman, for whom this issue pre
sents tough political problems back
home, is understood to have raised
objections about action now, in ad
vance of the actual formation of
European defense forces under the
North Atlantic treaty.
The conference went into its
third day with Schuman, Secretary
of State Dean Acheson and British
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
scheduled to get together at 9:30
a.m. (EST) for another six hours
or so of roundtable negotiating.
This was originally supposed to
be the last day of the three-power
talks. But so many problems, in
cluding . all those of the Middle
East and Far East, have had to
be pushed back in the interest of
European defense and German po
litical and security issues that it
now seems likely the three will
meet again next weekend.
Acheson, Bevin and Schuman
were understood to have reached
substantial agreements by last
night that the armies, now being
built up in western Europe
should be combined into a unified
force under a single command
staff.
Miss Texas
Margaret Sue Sommers of Dallas
as she represented Texas in the
bathing suit preliminary contest
in Atlantic City, N.J.
Swoger Assigned
To Fort Monroe
Lt. Col. Frank R. Swoger of
Verona, Penn., former assistant
professor of military science and
tactics at A&M has been assigned
to the Ordnance Section. Chief of
Army Field Forces, Fort Monroe,
Va.
At the Chief of Army Field
Forces office Col. Swoger will work
on budget authorization for ord
nance equipment and special sup
ply requirements for the Army in
the field, including the combat
forces.
War Wreckage Reminds Germans to Be Bitter
By KING EGGER
Balt European Correspondent
What a grand thing if all our
students could spend a week at
this international student house.
Here we have young people of 15
different nationalities, many who
speak only their native tongue,
others who speak three or four
languages fluently.
You certainly learn a lot of
patience when you must use an
interpreter to speak with a friend,
and you gain a new outlook when
you'see the barrier that language
What's Inside . . .
PRE-REGISTRATION EDITION Volume 51: No. 3
College Station, Texas, Thursday, September 14, 1950
Section One
Harrington a
“GunfiRhter” Urvknv 3
ISalt Editors 2
Anniversary I’roffram .’ :!
itiitt Gors Siv I’ages ;(
SW( Predictions 4
Colonel Napier 4
Editorials 5
Student Government 5
Clubs 6
Editors 6
Caudill 6
Library 7
Housing 7
Dr. French 7
Singing Cadets 8
Ernest Langford 8
Section Two
Basic Division 1
Bertrand 1
Memorial Center 1
Stark 1
Oceanography 1
Cadet Officers 2
City Government 3
A&M Consolidated 3
Churches 4 & 5
YMCA 5
Town Hall 6 & 7
Night Owl 7
Section Three
Stiteler 1
“Man-Under” 1
Cross Country 1
Texas Prospects ...i 1
Bones Irvin 1
Nevada Prospects 1
Baylor Prospects 2
Athletic Council 2
VMI Prospects 2
Oklahoma 3
Texas Tech 3
TCU Prospects 6
SMU Prospects 6
Consolidated 7
Rice Prospects 8
Arkansas 8
puts between people who enjoy
sharing their ideas, their opinions,
and even their jokes.
There are many other factors,
true, which add to that barrier,
but I’ve been amazed to find in
England, France, and now Germany
how much people are alike. We all
share the feelings of pride, and
the desire to live more useful lives,
and the hope for peace and secur
ity.
No Welcome Mat
But it hasn’t been all “Welcome
American”. Waiting for a train at
Kassel, we took a walk through the
town to see for the first time the
actual results of Allied bombing
raids. In England, with rubble
cleared away and rebuilding pro
gressing nicely, you notice far less
the terrible devastation of war.
Here the evidences of war lay on
every hand and you are quite
aware of the affect of a biutal war.
Twisted skeletons of steel haunt
you with the realization that the
minds and bodies of many victims
of the recent world struggle are
twisted even more grotesquely. Bit
terness and resentment, though we
have found less than you’d think,
are understandable, for we, too,
suffered the heartaches of war.
Ill Feeling
As we looked at a partially re
stored church we heard the yard
workers calling to us and realized
quite well how some Germans feel
toward Americans. “American
bombs destroyed this church!” they
yelled, and, “What do you guys
have to say about Korea?”,
Well, we didn’t answer, but ever
since we’ve been trying to find
some answers. I should have liked
to tell them, “True, American
bombs did destroy this church,
though they were intended for an
other target. But you musn’t for
get that ours were not the only
bombs that fell,
German bombs found at least an
equal number of unnecessary tar
gets. And so, some of the world’s
most beautiful buildings and count
less thousands of lives were lost
because a few men wanted to rule
the world.” But you can’t sum it
all up so blandly. I wonder if there
are any real answers to such
questions. It is certainly a dis
turbing feeling to be an American
—one of the so-called “victors—
walkng through war-ravaged Ger
many.
Barbarians
I have found throughout Europe,
but particularly here in Germany,
that so many people look upon
Americans as a sort of barbarians
—a race of people who have a far-
advanced, mechanized civilization,
with fine cars, refrigerators, wash
ing machines, and big houses, but
completely devoid of any culture
. . . no appreciation of art or the
beauty of music. And they prob
ably have good enough reason to
believe thusly.
As one youth put it, “My family
has for generations held sacred
the music of the old masters. You
can imagine how shocked and dis
gusted we were to hear Mozart
jazzed up on an Armed Forces Net
work program.” And it took hours
of talking to show him that there
are all opinions, all tastes in Amer
ica, as in Germany, and that the
freedom of choice is the thing that
makes something like the love of
good music sacred to us.
But in that talk I became very
aware of our responsibility to the
world to show how a free and demo
cratic people live. Sure, there will
be things these people won’t like—
such as our jazz music, and our
way of dressing (my American
neckties have caused a great deal
of comment)—but I think we
must find new ways of letting peo
ple know about our way of life,
of showing them that we’re not
culture vultures and that we have
no intention of destroying the
European culture.
Same Culture
Why, our cultural background
is the culture of Europe. Aren’t
most Americans of European de-
(See GERMANS, Page 5)
law sale of alcohol to men in uni
form anywhere.
® It’s already illegal to sell beer
on military reservations under a
law passed in 1901; but the law
has been “circumvented,” ignored
“since the start of World War II.”
• The army and the United
Brewers’ Foundation has formed
“a brazen tie-up” to get brew to
the fighting men.
® Drinking in the services dur
ing the last war caused “an unpre
cedented number of alcoholics and
drunkards among veterans.”
Yet some rumblings of opposi
tion rolled up. They were directed
not against Marshall as an indi
vidual, nor against his qualifica
tions, but against making an ex
ception even for him.
Some lawmakers said, too, it
is strange that among 150,000,000
Americans there isn’t somebody
else with enough stature for the
job, without drafting a man who
already has served as soldier and
statesman and earned the right to
retire.
Opposition Scarce
These complaints came mostly
from Republicans. But there was
no organized opposition. And it
was obvious that what there was
didn’t pack enough punch to stop
President Truman’s new Marshall
plan, either in fhe Senate or House.
For the most part, congressmen
were in wide agreement this time
(See JOHNSON, Page 5)
Welcome
On behalf of the faculty and staff-of the A&M Col
lege of Texas, I am happy to extend a cordial welcome
to all students of the College—those who are enrolling
for the first time and those returning fronj a vacation.
May this prove to be the happiest and most successful
year of your school career. May you receive the training
you desire in preparation for your life ahead, both in the
field of your chosen profession and also for outstanding
citizenship.
We face a critical period in our history. All that we
hold dear and all that has made us strong, both as a
nation and as individuals, are being put to a very severe
and critical test by opposing forces. How important it is
to gain, in addition to your technical training, an un
derstanding: and an appreciation of the American form
of democracy. I hope this will be one of the objectives
of your college education.
Those of you who are starting your college educa
tion will be registered in the newly created Basic Divi
sion. The objectives; of this new plan are to give the
beginning college student the benefit of counseling and
guidance in regard to his program of study and, if neces
sary, to permit a student to change his course of study
while registered in the Basic Division. A student will
make his greatest academic achievement when he is
pursuing a course of study for which he has aptitude and
in which he is interested. We feel that the plan of the
Basic Division is a forward step.
This school year will be the 75th year of the Col
lege, and the committee in charge is planning several
outstanding programs during the year. These should
prove to be both entertaining and educational. I hope you
will take advantage of every opportunity to participate
in the events celebrating the 75th anniversary of the
oldest state supported school of higher education in
Texas.
We are glad that it is now possible to have all of our
students on the main campus. Also, we are rejoicing
over the completion of our Memorial Student Center.
It will fill an important place in our campus life.
We are anticipating' a great school year in 1950-51,
and this can be realized by the help and cooperation of
students, faculty and staff. Let’s make this the greatest
year of all seventy-five in the history of A&M.
M. T. Harrington
MSC Opens Doors Tonight
A&M’s sparkling new and ultra-modern Memorial Stu
dent Center swings into action ever the week-end for the
first time. First big event planned for the edifice is the
President s Reception for Freshman Students at 7 p.m. to
night in the Bail Room.
At 5 p.m. tomorrow night the Center opens its doors j
for partial operation. And from there on the building will ;
be in continuous use.
Although several meetings are planned for the building .
within the next week, the informal opening of the Center to
students will not take place until next Thursday, Sept 21. ;
The formal opening will be held at a later date as yet un- j
announced.
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Dr. M. T. Harrington
President of the College
To Welcome You Back
Your 1950 Pre-Registration Edition