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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950 We Too Can Reciprocate The “Twelfth Man” at A&M is as old in tradition but not in years, as the school it self. It is one tradition we would like to see live forever. Made up of the student body and, in our opinion, the team and its outside supporters, the Twelfth Man can learn a great lesson from the coach of a school which this past weekend received its first loss since 1946. Notre Dame had built up a 39-game unbeat en streak, but last weekend this streak was broken. A&M’s winning streak, small though it was/ was also broken. Here is what Notre Dame’s Head Foot ball Coach said to loyal Irish fans outside of the dressing room following the game: “The entire world will be watching how we take the adversity. “It is a real test of real people to lose like champions. “I promise you we will reciprocate from now on.” When the Aggies were defeated by Okla homa, 34-28, last Saturday it ended the longest winning streak the A&M eleven has had in three years. The “entire world” will be watching the Texas Aggies to see if they really have the spirit of never giving up. This “set back” the football team received is nothing to be ashamed of, although we. as much as any one, would rather have seen victory, than a close loss. But the tvam is not to blame, the Twelfth Man is not to blame, and the coaches are not to blame, for what happened Saturday. In stead it was a terrific team coming up from behind with the speed and knowledge it has stored up in its last 23 sraight wins to de feat the young A&M team. This will be the “real test” for us. We won our first two games, and in the last 37 seconds of the game, we were, in our own right, champions. We still are. We lost but were strong in defeat. In the coming games we are sure that we will win our share, and probably more. World Government Becomes a Reality... From its inception the United Nations has suffered the skepticism of would-be real ists who predicted its future as just another weak “League of Nations.” Skepticists are prone to overlook the obvious fact that the United Nations was planned with the faults of the League in mind. Two principal faults led to the eventual failure of the League of Nations. First, the countries of the world had not yet learned to think in terms of the interdependence of nations. Even the United States, the home country of Woodrow Wilson, chief planner for the League, set a foreign policy of almost complete isolationism. Second, the League had no real power, nor any type of armed force to carry out its recommendations for the settlement of international disputes. The United Nations is proving it does not possess such weakening characteristics.. The member countries of the U.N., es pecially the stronger democracies, seem de termined to make a success of the venture. Instead of becoming disgusted and resign ing from the U.N. as most countries did in the League of Nations when faults were dis covered in its constitution, the democracies are making definite plans for its revision to overcome its weaknesses. Plans are under way now to weaken the power of the veto— • • Ironically, one of the oldest buildings, and admittedly one of the least stable, is now sporting a new lawn which alleviates the former washed soil that did little to beauti fy the antiqueness of the building. Ross Hall, home of the A&M Military Department, was scheduled to be demolished more than 25 years ago. Today, it still stands, dominating the immediate area with its weathered sides and early 20th Century architecture, proud of its modernistic land scaping. The building’s lawn was filled in, seeded the power with which the Russians have tried to disrupt the U.N.’s actions. The problem of formulating a real peace for Korea may well prove to be a tougher test of the U.N. than the defensive war. But the U.N. gives every indication that it will come through the test with flying colors. The democratic representatives are proving themselves statesmn, not merely politicians. Last Friday, the General Assembly of the United Nations proved that it would not accept false compromises of peace in an effort to avert further war. Nearly 90 per cent of the assembly voted to reject Russian plans to protect the North Koreans. The alliance, while proving itself cap able of being tough, made it clear that it will not be used as a machine for aggres sion. Both the British and the American delegates assured the world that the U.N. had no intention of invading China or the Soviet Union. They also made it clear that once the U.N. is satisfied Korea is free from foreign aggression, that country will again govern its own affairs. The Korean war and the settlement of the peace will announce the coming of age of the United Nations. A world government, strong enough to prevent war and yet free from any designs of world aggression, is fast becoming a reality. and is now well covered with a lush growth of grass. Artillery fieldpieces adorn the lawn, leaving no doubt in the minds of pass er’s by that the building is inhabited by the Military Department. Recently the Air Force did its part in the beautification program by ‘planting’ 260 concrete practice bombs around the edges of the lawn. High ranking sargeants respon sible for digging the ditches and placing the 100 pound bombs are also to be commended for their infallable labors. 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 Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thui’sday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 pe# month. Advertising rates furnished on request. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. 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 York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH Co-Editors John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt Managing Editors Dean Reed Assistant Managing Editor Sid Abernathy, Jerry Zuber Campus News Editor Frank N. Manitzas Sports Editor Joel Austin City News Editor Today's Issue John Whitmore Managing Editor Jerry Zuber Campus News Editor Frank Manitzas Sports News Editor Joel Austin City News Editor T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists Ralph Gorman, Ray Holbrook, Harold Gann. Joe Blanchette, Pat LeBlanc, Dale Dowell, Jimmy Curtis, Chuck Neighbors, Fred Walker Sports Writers Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry Cartoonists Ray Williams, Roger Coslett Special Assignments Bob Hughson, George Charlton, Tom Rountree, Leon McClellan, Raymond Rushing, Wayne Davis, Robert Venable, Herb O’Connell, Norman Blahuta, John Hildebrand, Jerry Fontaine, Jack Fontaine News and Feature Writers Red Sabotage Called Off-— Too Harmful By Preston Grover Paris, Oct. 9—OP)—In a radical change of plan, Communists in France evidently have called off direct sabotage of rearmament be cause it was doing the party more harm than good. Barely a year ago, the Comin- form told the French Communists to get “hard” and there was a great purge of indifferent Com munists. One highly placed government source indicated yesterday that the orders for a “cease fire” came from Moscow about three weeks ago, accompanied by a blistering criti cism. French Communists, this source said, were criticized for failure of their ballyhooed deter mination to stop shipments of American arms into France and to stop French arms manufacture. Policy Alienated Many Further, the same informant said, they were accused of having- let the sabotage policy alienate many Frenchmen who were sym- pathetiq' with other Communist aims. Foreign sources said they knew of no direct end-the-sabotage or ders from Moscow or elsewhere outside France. They agreed; how ever, that in recent weeks there had been no direct sabotage of arms shipments from America nor of arms production. They agreed that some new policy clearly has been adopted. The new policy was intended, among other things, to heal a growing breach between the Com munist, dominated General Labor Federation, and the two non-Com- munist organizations, Workers Force, and Christian Unionists. To Please Frenchmen The new policy, as indicated in statements of party leaders, calls for a type of attack on armament designed to please Frenchmen, not to shock them. In place of violence, the new proposal calls for: 1. Union with other leftist groups, politically if necessary, to demand higher wages for workers of all classes. 2. Denouncing of rearmament as a waste of French money, a trick of American militarists bent on destruction of peaceful Russia. “The battle for bread is at the same time a battle for peace,” said Maurice Thorez, head of the French Communist party. “The workers’ battle for salary increases signified their refusal to sacri fice to support the government’s policy for war.” Even if Communists could agree with Socialist and other worker groups only oh demanding an in crease in pay, Thorez said, “this will be a real contribution to the battle for peace.” Thorez’s statement was made more than a week ago, but was not classified as a real change of plan until officials began noting there was a clearly defined decrease in sabotage efforts. Sabotage Unpopular Searching for a reason for a change in Communist policy, obser vers noted first that Communist prestige has slipped seriously since the turn of the tide in Korea. Sec ond, the sabotage acts have not been popular among property-mind ed Frenchmen. Still worse, the sabotage was a failure. Commun ists who a year ago said no Amer ican arms would land, have failed to make a dent in the unloadings. It algo gave the government a reason for restoring the militia system in France. This is the or ganization of local bodies of reser vists and police in each city and village whose duty is to fight sabotage of public efforts. The militia system, freshly adopted also in Italy, is abhorrent to Com munists. The new effort at a united front with other leftist groups was em phasized not only by Thorez, but by the even more militiant Com munist leader, Jacques Duclos, Thorez right bower. Writing in the magazine “Communist Note book”, Duclos said: “The working class must realize that a united front which brings about wage betterments delivers at the same time a hard ’ blow against the government’s policy favoring war.” Both leaders coupled almost every statement with an attack on the present government and its “American masters.” Political cooperation with social ists, Thorez emphasized, is not to be given without conditions. Com munist groups near Cannes and Paris withdrew their candidate in favor of a socialist. But the soc ialists had to agree to denounce the war in Korea and in Indo-China, denounce the Marshall Plan and to support the whole category of Communist opposition to the gov ernment. Letters THANKS Editor, the Battalion: The long job of holding the stu dent elections and computing the returns could not have been done without the able assistance of many people. To these people the election com mittee would like to extend its thanks. Rov Nance, ’51 Bill Mess, ’51 Co-Chairmen Election Committee Papa knows best New Peace Plan Slated For UN Consideration By A. I. Goldberg Lake Success, Oct. 10—UP)—The The United States spells out to the United Nations yesterday the de tails of its four-point plan to make the U. N. Assembly a strong guardian of world peace. John Foster Dulles, a ranking Republican member of the U. S. delegation, was to take the floor shortly after the 60-nation as sembly political committee con vened (10:45 a. m. EST) to ex plain how the U. S. peace aims would be woi’ked out. Secretary of State Dean Acheson first pro posed them in the assembly Sept. 20. Six other nations are co-spon sors—Britain, France, Canada, Turkey, the Philippines and Urug uay. A joint draft resolution covering the program has been submitted under the title “united action for peace.” In statements before the meeting, Dulles predicted it would be adopted “because the peoples of the world want something of this sort.” He helped draft the program. Acheson and Dulles both have pointed out that the Korean con flict and the security council bog- down since August 1 have shown the need for the program. Dulles said that only a series of “accidents”—Russia’s boycott of the council in June, preventing her from using the veto; presence of a U. N. watchdog commission in Korea, and presence of U. S. troops in nearby Japan—tipped the balance for U. N. victory in Korea. Korean Observers Admit ‘Walking's Pastern Flying By Hal Boyle With Korean Republic Troops in North Korea—(AV- Two American planes have been outmarched m North Korea by the South Korean foot soldiers the planes were supposed It might gall the ghosts of the Wright Brothers to know that the aircraft, two of the artillery s Cub spotter planes, have been out-distanced by a column of little men in tennis shoes. And it’s down-right humiliating to “the slow-flying gypsies.” They are eight Yanks whose job was to fly ahead of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Third Division along the East Coast, pin pointing enemy targets for American naval guns offshore. But the small, wiry South Korean infan trymen, fueled on rice, have set a pace the airplanes can’t match. It looked like a perfect setup when they began their assignment early in September. They thought they were plenty mobile, with their two planes, a jeep and a 21/2-ton truck. The group had two pilots—Lt. Raymond J. Worth of Galveston, and Lt. James W. Maschmann of Ladora, Iowa. It had two trained observers to pick out enemy targets—Lt. Edward B. Ledford of 10,031 Empire Rd., Oakland, Calif., and Lt. Clayton Johnson of Portland, Me. It had two crack drivers to keep its vehicles rolling— Cpl Lawrence C. Boucher of Marin City, Calif., and Pfc. Wiliiam Clark of Yucca Valley, Calif, and it had an excel lent airplane mechanic in Sgt. Jack F. Bollin of Clinton, Okla. All these boys agreed that they had the best cook in the army: Cpl. Rubin Collins of Watonga, Okla. The slow-flying gypsies performed admirably as long as the ROK troops were held to a creeping advance in the Pohang area. By finding the targets they helped eight-inch naval guns to crack the enemy’s defensive crust. With Offensive, Troubles Began Hal Boyle Principles of the Program Their troubles began as soon as the South Koreans broke through and began chasing the Reds back to North Korea. Like other aircraft, the tiny cub planes must operate from a base. And to operate with real effect their base has to be within 30 miles of the battlefront. But even ehe small flat fields the cubs can use are scarce along the mountainous shore of Eastern Korea. As the durable ROK doughboys began reeling off marches of 20, 30 and 35 miles a day the slow-flying gypsies be came roadbound instead of air borne. They began spending more time looking for bases than they did on flying missions. As soon as they found a base the South Koreans walked right on out of practical range. When I met the slow-flying gyp sies they had fallen hopelessly be hind. Main points of the program are: • If the security council is par alyzed again by any veto, the veto- free general assembly could be called into an emergency session on 24 hours at the request of any seven members of the council. If the assembly was already in session, it would consider any threat or act of aggression immed iately and make recommendations to members for collective action. • A peace patrol — called the Peace Observation Commission— of nine to 14 members would ob serve and report on any area of tension, going into the area on the invitation or with the consent of the country whose temtory fig- ured in the incident. It would take a two-thirds majority vote of the assembly to send the patrol into action. The security council could also make use of the patrol. • Each country would be asked to have units in its own army trained and ready to serve to re store peace on request of either the security council or the assembly. No country would be required to pi’ovide such units, however, if thj^y were needed for the country’s own or collective defense. • A committe of 10 to 14 mem bers would be formed to survey and report by next September on all methods and resources, includ ing armed forces, that the U. N. could count on for maintaining in ternational peace. Observers—Behind the Lines Six gypsies had just arrived at Koryo airfield after a rugged 21- hour road drive through an area still full of guerrillas. The two pilots, their ships almost out of gas, also had just arrived at the field, five miles south of parallel 38. .“We haven’t been able to keep up with the ROKs,” Lieutenant Ledford said dolefully. “Yeah, we haven’t flown a mis sion in eight days,” aded Lieu tenant Johnson. “There’s no place to draw food rations,” grumbled the cook. “I’ve been scrounging for weeks.” They asked how far ahead the frontline troops were. “More than 50 miles—and still walking,” I had to tell, them. You (See GYPSIES, Page 4) War Machinery Need Stressed The resolution states plainly that it is offered because “international tension exists on a dangerous scale.” Acheson, in the assembly policy speech proposing the plan, said the Soviet Union had raised five barriers to peace and that the U. N„ “To make absolutely plain to potential aggressors that aggression does not succeed.” Dulles, in a pre-meeting state ment, said the U. N. was formed five years ago so nations could take “effective collective mea sures” to maintain peace. He call ed the new proposals “effective corrective measures.” “Nothing in these proposals is intended to bypass, weaken, or re place the security council,” Dulles said. “They are an effort to have additional machinery available. “Korea has taught us a number of lessons. Among them is the recognition that the United Na tions should not have to improvise the organization of its police pow er after an act of aggression has occurred.” Sigma Xi to Hear Industrial Chemist Dr. Henry L. Cox, general man ager of Chemical Division of the Corn Products Refining Co. at Argo, Illinois, will speak to the Sigma Xi Club Thursday evening Oct 12 at 8 p. m. in the Lecture Room of the Biological Sciences Building. Dr. Cox, general manager of the Chemical Division of the Com Pro ducts Refining Co., will speak on “Corn as an Industrial Raw Mater ial.” This lecture is the first in a series of public lectures sponsored by the Sigma Xi Club. IT S NOT TOO EARLY! • Make Christmas Shopping Easy ® Plan Your Appointment Now! VAN DYKE STUDIO “Photographs Live Forever” 205 South Main Bryan Phone 2-2715 Legal Holiday Thursday, October 12, 1950 being a Legal Holiday, in observance of Columbus Day, the undersigned will observe that date as a Legal Holiday and not be open for business. 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