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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1950)
/ FROM LITTLE ACORNS- Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1950 Selected to Perforin---Unhampered Last week the office of the commandant issued its first memorandum of the school year. Several items included in the memor andum have since caused considerable dis cussion in the cadet corps. A paragraph, particularly the one stat ing that the dormitory area in which fresh men are being housed “is off limits to all students except members of the Basic Div ision and the cadet officers and non-com’s assigned there” has been looked upon with scorn. Another paragraph states that the new (corps) dormitory area is “off limits” to freshmen. Members of the administration connec ted with the Basic Division have requested that upperclassmen refrain from entering that area. Were this procedure voluntarily followed, the Division counselors and staff would not be hindered in their work which presently includes orientation as well as stu dent guidance. Relatives and friends of the Class of ’54 who are interested in the welfare of the class and its individuals are being prohibited from entering the area for one main reason. It would be impossible to distinguish between the well meaning group and those who might prove to have a derogatory effect on some of the Basic Division objectives. Our faculty, after taking into consider ation the merits and demerits of the prob lem, have chosen to declare the area “off limits” mainly as a preventative measure. After the freshmen have become “oriented,” restrictions will be resinded and upperclass men encouraged to visit the new students. The “corps” area, however, will probably continue to be off limits for the freshmen. In the meantime, why not curb possible desires to forget the “directives” and give the men working with the Class of ’54 in the Basic Division a chance to continue their du ties unhindered. U. S. Occupation Experience Helps Plan Jap Peace Treaty lilifc j: ^^• '• .A. •vS&S&iA' 7.v ' .■‘■O ' w.-vfv; From Where I Sit . . . ‘Black Gold’ in Greater Quantities . . . Terrific Action At Browsing Library Yesterday Texas oil men gathered in Austin with the Railroad Commission to determine the oil allowable in Texas for the coming month. Their problems were several and a decision necessarily difficult. While it is becoming increasingly obvious that more crude oil should go into storage, it is also becoming apparent that storage itself is a difficult task. Firstly there is the question of how to transport crude through pipelines already worked to capacity. On the other hand, the petroleum industry wants to avoid shipping oil in tank cars because of increased ex pense. Railroad Commission Chairman William J. Murray says that 9,000,000 barrels more of crude a month are being moved via pipe line than was moved during the war when tank cars were in use. He adds that the limit of economical transportation facilities have just about been reached except in tjfe Gulf Coast Fields. Oil has been a Texas “first” for many years. Consequently it has been one of the state’s major sources of wealth. Texas oil Fight With, Rather Than Against . . . and by-products of oil played an important part in World War II. All its fields operated “wide open” to meet the war effort. Years following the war have seen an ever mounting , increase in use of petroleum products throughout the nation rather than an expected and hoped for decrease. Currently the men in Austin are concern ed with a'complex problem of building a re serve of oil while at the same time keeping pace with an ever increasing demand for oil and facing possible similar situations as the one in East Texas. The search for oil still goes on. Some of the most modern, marvelous devices known to man are employed in that search. But we cannot know what demands will be made of the Texas oil fields tomorrow. Or of our nations oil fields. We may be at the eve of another tragic struggle. One industrialist has said that we fought our last war with iron from the fa mous Nesabi iron pits of Michigan. How many more wars can we fight with our re maining oil reserves? ... By Herman C. Gollob We were sitting in the main lounge of the Memorial Cen ter yesterday, sunk up to our quivering nostrils in the plushy comfort of a U.S. Army Cot, Model 1917, when sev eral peals of maniacal laughter ran wildly out of the Brows ing Library and leaped directly through our auditory canal, causing the hammer to pound hell out of the anvil while the stirrup gazed on in mute horror. Before the errant guffaws could do too much damage, we had returned them to their owner, Billy Brabham, who held up a strange, rectangular object resembling Max Shul- man’s latest burlesque-satire, “Sleep Till Noon,” and said, “This is Max Shulman’s latest burlesque-satire, Sleep Till Noon. It’s hilarious.” He then placed the book in its proper niche on the shelf and staggered out. Naturally, our intellectual curiosity piqued us into a closer examination of the Shulman delicacy which had incited Brabham’s sense of humor to such vio lent display. By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst The American plan for a peace treaty with Japan shows the ob vious impact of five years of ex perience in dealing with the other Axis enemies, Italy and Germany. It has taken the cold war to dim the 1945 ideas of permanent dis armament, reparations, and strict control of foreign policy and trade. Italy was easily handled, although arms restrictions in her peace treaty are now a fly in the Euro pean dearmament ointment. Reorientation of allied policy in Germany forbidding arms, re stricting industry, preventing ship building, and providing for allied control of foreign affairs is taking place painfully. There is both soul searching and backbiting among the conquerors. Head Start In this respect, negotiations over Japan can begin with a head start. Washington claims a favorable re action from most of the Pacific allies to its proposals for a soft peace, without restrictions on re armament or trade, and without re parations or indemnity. The primary interests of the Pacific allies are security from any revival of militarism as separate from military strength. And the United States, of course, is anx ious to get out from under the occupation expense by contributing OmiUAL JNUTKJE All students Who did not turn in Iden tification Cards or have photographs made for one will report to the Photographic and Visual Aids Laboratory frohi 8 a.tn. untii noon and from 1 until 5 p.m. daily, Oct. 2 through Oct. 6, and from 8 a.m. un til noon Oct. 7. As soon as the cards are ready for distriutidn, notice will be given in The Battalion as to the procedure to follow. Bennie A. Zinn, Assistant Dean of Men toward Japanese self-support. The United States is also anxious to end the feeling, widespread in Asia and loudly fostered by the Communists, that a peace treaty is being delayed for imperialist pur poses. Whether the proposed treaty can do that is highly problematical. End Military Occupation The U. S. proposes to end mili tary occupation and control, but to stay in full armed force as a “guest” defender. She proposes to keep Okinawa as a military base under U. N. trusteeship but with the same form of exclusive control’ by which she holds the other cap tured Pacific islands. Americans would describe the military arrangement with Japan as comparable to that under which U. S. Air Forces are now stationed in Britain. The Communists in particular and probably the Orient in general would merely see in it the old formula which foreign troops made so familiar in China in the earlier days of the century, AGGIES ..• Have you tried our values?? • SUMMER SERGE • PINKS • FATIGUES • COMBAT BOOTS • PANCHOS • MQ43 JACKETS • O. D. PANTS • COVERALLS THE PICK UP SHOP 418 N. Main Bryan The twelve-nation North Atlantic Coun cil adjourned without reaching an agreement on the problem of rearming Germany. All of the countries of the Council except France are prepared to accept the United States plan to arm West German divisions for the pro posed European Defense Army. French Foreign Minister Robert Schu- man has told the council that it was prema ture to rearm the Germans. Schuman had direct orders from Paris to fight any such plan. After a look at history, it is easy to un derstand the French attitude. From three German invasions and occupations in the last eighty years, the French have developed a bitter i hatred for the Germans. In 1870, in 1914, and again in 1940 the Germans in vaded France. Each time they brought misery, hatred, and near economic ruin. The French do not want to . pave the way for a fourth time. One thing France should realize is that the United States will be very reluctant to send thousands of American soldiers to de fend Germany against Russian attack while willing and able German soldiers contribute nothing to their own defense. Two special attributes of the Germans will cause them tq be valuable to a European Defense Army —their hereditary love of their homeland, and their intense personal hatred of the Rus sians. Someone once said, “War makes strange bedfellows”. Only a few short years ago we were fighting Italy. That country now is one of the original twelve nations who signed the North Atlantic Defense Pact. As intolerable as it is to the French, Hans may soon be fighting side by side with Pierre. Had you been seated in the air- conditioned, lushly appointed Brow sing Library at that instant, you would have noted with mingled amusement and terror the abnor mally rapid enlarging of our eye balls and the gradual drop of our jaw. For there, rubbing elbows with Max Shulman, was Sir Walter Scott, and he didn't like it a bit. In fact, he imperiously requested the prompt removal of he and his two proteges—'“Quentin Durward” and “Ivanhoe”—to quarters more befitting their rank. This innocent affair set the whole colony of literature con tained on the shelves into wild ac tion. Irwin Shaw loosed his “Young Lions” over John Hersey’s “Wall,” where they made short work of Hemingway’s “Men With out Women.” Schopenhauer smiled cynically as he watched the bizarre affair, but Thomas Wolfe could only whine “You Can’t Go Home Again” to “The Naked and the Dead.” “The Man With the Golden Arm” and “The Crusaders’ arrived on the East Germans brought this latest anti- don’t get milk any more.” Russian joke to West Berlin: Papa Stalin visited the Russian zone and asked an old lady on the street how things were going. “Oh, pretty good,” she replied, “only we “Well,” said Stalin, “In the African des erts they don’t even have water.” “Why in Africa?”, wondered the old lady. “Have the Russians occupied that, too?” The Battalion Lawrenci 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. 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Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New Yorfe City. Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH.. John Whitmore, Doan Reed, L. O. Tiedt Sid Abernathy* Prank N. Manitzas - Joel Austin Co-Editors Managing Editors .Campus Nev-s Editor *.....Sports Editor City News Editor Marshall Gains 9-2 Approval Of Committee Washington, Sept. 20— (AP)—Gen. George C. Marshall got 9 to 2 approval from the Senate Armed Ser vices Committee yesterday to be Secretary of Defense. The vote followed an open hear ing question session in which the five-star general made it plain that in cabinet councils he expects to insist that the military consequen ces be taken into account when this country makes international moves. That was his indirect answer to Republican complaints that he might be a “stooge” in the de fense office for Dean Acheson, present holder of Marshall’s old office as Secretary of State. In the cabinet Marshall will succeed Louis A. Johnson, elbowed out by President Truman after a barrage of criticism in Congress and elsewhere which hit Acheson about as often as Johson. The retiring defense secretary, through with the office at the close of business yesterday, quietly checked out of the Pentagon just before the committee huddle with Marshall began. Chairman Tydings (D-Md) of the Armed Services Committee made no point of speed. He told reporters as the meet ing ended that the nomination would come up “in the normal course.” After finishing with Marshall the committee approved the nomina tion of Gen. Gmar Bradley, chair man of the joint chiefs of staff, for five-star rank. scene too late to do any good. 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