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Battalion Editorials LET’S NOT FUMBLE THIS ONE, EITHER <ter* Page 2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1950 Quality, Not Quantity, Education Needed . . . “At this very moment there is in some corner of the campus a student who is grip ping about the volume of work “Professor Doe” has outlined for the semester. “During the opening minutes of the first class period, the professor informed his charges that two texts would be used in the course, presented them with an outside read ing list and assigned laboratory periods. “Then he assigned three chapters and 14 problems to be completed by the next class period and guiltily dismissed them five min utes early. “Although a hypothetical case it could have happened here. “Like the mythical Doe, many professors bury their students under an avalanche of out-of-class assignments. A top-heavy em phasis is placed on quantity while quality is scattered to the four winds. “Many instructors seem to think that their individual course is the only one listed in the University Bulletin. Others waste classroom time by reciting their golf scores, lecturing on unrelated subjects, or telling worn-out jokes. ‘skimming “In the meantime students burn many gallons of “midnight oil” in trying to cover material which might have been treated dur ing the regular class period. To thread one’s way through the '‘maze of outside assign ments leaves /me with only the alternative.” “Thus students sometimes manage at least to see the material that has been as signed but assimilation is at a minimum. “Such a problem involves much solving, but is is not unsolvable. “Let an instructor put himself in the pos ition that he puts his students and let him remember that there are other professors and other courses being taught on the cam pus. “Many students would continue to “lie down on the job,” it’s true, but those with the desire to learn could more accurately cover a smaller quantity by quality study.” Though localized as it may seem, this editorial appeared in The Daily Athenaeum, rr| tvt • rri i student newspaper of West Virginia Univer- 1 *16 1 iMatlOIl 1 OClciy sity last week. It is almost encouraging to know that other colleges and universities are facing similar problems of having profes sors who are too enthusiastic in assigning out-of-class work, while taking class time-* Mg UU 1 UUCUJ Ul Y UCUllUnUr for less important matters. It has been said that the man who inven ted a better mouse trap would make millions. TtfO&JZ'jS. Woes Of Worldly Affairs Korean War Casualty List Work Begins By ELTON C. FAY Washington, Oct. 10—(A > )— The Korean war, like past wars, is creating its company of unknown soldier dead. How many? That isn’t estimated yet. The Defense Department said yesterday there are unidentified American war dead in Korea. But how many won’t be known until American graves registration teams can thoroughly explore the area over which United States forces were pushed back by the Red army advance in the first two months of fighting. The work of these highly trained teams probably will help clear up at least some of the 3,877 cases re ported as “missing in action” in the latest official casualty an nouncement. Many Yet Alive Many of the missing may be alive, taken prisoners by the ad vancing Communists. But others may have been killed in the fight ing. The registration teams will find them, probably identify most. But inevitably thei’e will be some nameless ones. Will an unknown American from among the Korean dead eventually join the unknown soldier of World War I, and the one from World War II who will be buried in the Arlington tomb next spring? That is a decision for Congress, which authorized enshrinement for By James Marlow Washington, Oct. 11—UP)—Do you feel that you’re liv- wl i i* 1 a kind of world you never knew before, a kind of un- We wou d hk to a tha e P e ^ o real tw iiig ht zone between war and peace, wondering which the dead of the two world wars, discovers a method of making teachers you’re heading for? I do. I guess everyone does. Whatever the number of ( jead aware of the “intelligence” of their assign- All we seem to know is that we must be ready for war won't^apjmoach^ho^total 'of ments will gain the respect of millions—of if war is necessary, hoping that we can become so strong World War II. students. an( ^ rea( ty for war that in the end it may be unnecessary. From the battlegrounds of Eu- I felt the unrealness strongly this past week. I spent £°P e an( * the P aclf ic, the armed The Army’s Lesson From •Hadacol . , . ^ weeko “,.U ilcati ? a “ From the City Desk . . . Visit Your Council And Talk It Over mm . . By Joel Austin A group of citizens appeared before the City Council Monday night to discuss a problem with the councilmen that was giving them a great deal of trouble. Probably few people heard about the incident, or more important the question discussed by the group, but the idea that a delegation of citizens living in a particular area of town can bring their problems to the city’s governing body to be talked over is a privilege we shouldn’t overlook. Too many times we take these little things for granted and never realize the importance they mean in helping our community leaders to use better and more practical methods of doing their duty. Few people realize the difficulty involved when a repre sentative group of men sit down at a table to discuss a sit uation and act on the matter according to what they consider the will of the citizens they represent. Had the question under discussion come up without the presence of those five or six people who were there, the matter would have been given little or no thought and the people would have been left in the dark about the whole thing—wondering if the council had or would do anything. Not only does the presence of a representative body of citizens at a council meeting foster better relations between the people and their city lawmakers, but a better under standing and more emphasis of the subject under discussion is easily obtained by their attendance. In Passing . . . The U. S. Army has decided to incorpor ate another principle of American business— even the best of products must be advertised. Psychological warfare received a good test in World War II. The fact it now is being elevated to a position of new importance is evidence top army officials are convinced the use of ^vords and ideas will save lives and shorten war. As always, the army has been slow to ac cept any big new concept of warfare. Less than a year ago, only one man was assigned to psychological warfare planning in G-3, the army’s plans-operations-training sec tion. Now, Brig. Gen. Robert A. McClure, head of psychological warfare at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe in World War II, has been assigned to head a fourth branch within G-3—psycho logical warfare. Interviews with former enemy peoples af ter World War II and the response of the North Koreans to safe conduct passes for those who would surrender have convinced the Army that the results of propaganda are well worth the cost. When once convinced that a plan will work, our army relentlessly The civic minded group responsible for placing signs before all the buildings on the campus Oct. 4 when the campus was filled with thousands of visitors deserves praise for its action. There is a long-standing tradition here that all students learn the names and rela tive positions of all the buildings on the cam pus early in their college careers. But for the passerby, who from inside a car tours the campus, has little desire to go to the trouble to trace each building on the campus the remains of _ _ , . , . men who could not be iden- Lake, near Richmond. The black bass are big and rugged tified at the time. But the pains- there. taking investigation by the Armed works for its realizatiop. This great wilderness—miles of trees standing almost Forces’ registration teams by last To make the propaganda campaign effec- bcire, a kind of ghostly watery world—looks as it has looked ^ u ^ e 31 2 ^ Jh^are still Carried tive, the Army will staff the new branch f° r a thousand years, except for a few houses on the shore. on ^] ie recor d s as unidentified. with experts in all phases of mass communi- A n d h sounds that way, too. , , TrnvtTv , , , Majority Unaccounted For ^ Unseen, the frogs make a long, named, rough, warm bel- cation. Radio, movies, printed leaflets, and j ow C0WSi a deer suddenly crashes through the trees, c „T h f se w . ere am .?.” g the to t a | 2 80,- posters will all play a part in convincing our i nt o a creek, crashes away on the other side. wAhrgSarmSitytf'them And when the silence flows back again a great bass shat- never listed as missing or uniden- ters it with a leap that drops him back in a shocking splash tified. Most of them were killed in on the surface of the lake. He’s gone when you look. Only action on the ground, in the air^or the widening circles tell where he was. According to the word we have received from a Chamber of Commerce representative, work on the proposed sidewalk to run along Jersey Street is still pending. The jilans have been drawn and some steps have been taken toward getting work underway. But like any other community-sponsored project, the sidewalk committee must operate with volunteer workers who work when they have the spare time. The board of directors of the College Station Develop ment Association and Chamber of Commerce plans to hold their regular monthly meeting tomorrow, and further plans will probably be made when this group gets together. enemies that the American way is the right way. To be effective, propaganda must be truthful. Lord Haw-Haw, Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, and their ilk were useless because they dealt in obvious untruths. American avd Al- troubles of its own: The deer is fleeing from an enemy and the savage lied servicemen merely laughed at their lu- and hungry bass made that racket lunging at a minnow. ■j. ,. Still, it gave the illusion of peace, far from war or talk of war. cucrous antics. And it was good to be there. But then every morning when I came in The basic idea with the Army’s word- from early fishing, at breakfast I read the papers from Richmond, 25 fighters is that in any conflict among peo- That jerked me back to the world I lived in. There was the news pies the truth must prevail sooner or later— of war in Korea and preparations for war, if the big war comes. Never theless, reading those Richmond papers was a good experience for at sea. Some of them died in ene my prison camps and their bodies were recovered when advancing This was the natural world, free of men’s troubles, although it has or'after thfwSTad’ ended^ But the 280,574 dead didn’t ac count for all of World War II cas ualties. The Defens , e "'Department esti mates that somewhere—in the wreckage of sunken ships in the oceans, in thick jungle areas like that along the old “hump” air news in the capital. For in Washington all our time is taken up with the government: Congress, the President, the Cabinet, Army, Navy, State Department, taxes, Democrats, Republicans, international doings. Because here we work every day on Washington news, because it fills so much of our lives, I guess we come to think of it as something and that the faster it spreads, the quicker the someone like me who works the year around in Washington, covering route from^ Burma, lost^sight of in fighting will end. The unit’s job is to de liver the truth to many people through mass communications, and in such a way that they recognize it as the truth. The army has taken the right step in which fills everyone’s life everywhere, spreading Americanism to potential enemies. • The best answer to Communism is the truth A 116 Richmond papers put the But the front page of a Rich- _ _ picture back m focus for me. Like raond paper or a paper anywhere more f rom the fact that a backlog of democracy. the front pages of papers every- tells pretty well the kind of lives 0 £ name s is just reaching the pub- Advertising pays off—ask the Coca-Cola where, they gave a lot of attention we’re leading now: lication stage> ° the people much concerned with . „ , . , , what’s happening close to them, A list made public Sunday night very much concerned and interes- was the ^heaviest to dateIt con- now-tilled farmlands of former bat tlefields—are 78,000 others. These men always will be miss ing, even though they were declared dead legally a year after they dis appeared. The Korean casualty lists are swelling, not because of the victor ious counteroffensive launched by UN troops three weeks ago but Bryanite Charged For Embezzelment A former member of the Bryan Chamber of Commerce, Harry Lee Logan, went on trial in Bryan Monday in District Court to face two counts of embezzlement. Logan is charged with embezzl ing* the funds of the Chamber of Commerce while managing it and the embezzlement of the funds of the Bryan Industrial Founda tion. Coming to Bryan from military service, Logan had served three years as secretary and manager of the Bryan Chamber of Commerce. Most of his military service was spent at Bryan Air Force Base. On March 21 Logan was arrested in Dallas by Sheriff J. W. Hamil ton and Dallas County officers. 13 Year Old Winner Dallas, Oct. 11——A young fellow just 13 years old sold his grand champion turkey exhibit at the State Fair of Texas today for $375. He is Armand Zoe Clary, from the 4-H Club at Star in Mills County. He showed five broad- breasted bronze toms. They weigh ed a total of 175 pounds. Buyer was Esir Ablon of Dallas. and Hadacol people. to Washington news and interna tional stuff and the Korean fight ing. But Richmond and Virginia have map. At the same time, it might inconven- a ^ of problems of then* own, 1 , . . n , problems and conflicts which mter- ience the visitor and his party, and possibly est the people of Richmond and those driving behind him, to stop and ask Virginia, also, and affect their what buildings were m the immediate vicin- front pages for them, too. ity. Which is another way of saying, We would like to see those signs before Washington a^intSed i^a lot ted, and concerned and interested Gained 1,211 names, of whom 255 about what’s happening in Wash- } vera d ea( L 822 wounded, 7b miss- ington and the rest of the world. And as they go, not knowing whether their road leads to war or eventual peace, they still try to live in this twilight zone the same kind of normal lives they had in any usual peacetime day. Several people who knew I was from Washington asked me if I ing in action. TODAY thru SATURDAY FIRST RUN Big Double Feature —Features Start— 1:04 - 4:06 - 7:08 - 10:00 Paul Bennett Gets Call to Active Duty the buildings at any time visitors are sched- more than just what happens here, thought "we* were going to" have Paul , M ' B ? nnett ’ .instructor and - - . & - - although we here may forget that. t Ub r research assistant in the Agron- uled to arrive on the campus in large num bers. Though small, these signs add just a lit tle more toward leaving our visitors with a pleasant remembrance of their visit here. The Battalion Fifty-Thousand Legionaires Parade Los Angeles, Oct. 11—UP)—Fifty thousand strong, the American Le gion today paraded through down town street caverns before a cheer ing, shirt-sleeved crowd that jam med sidewalks five and six deep. Newspaper estimates of the The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published throng ran over a million, Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published police sidestepped guessing at a four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are figure. Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, The t erature was in the mid _ 3.00 per year dle seventies and the sun shone anyone in Washington or anywhere ., . u T % o . else who could answer that. the , Department of Military Science The question, of course, came out and T Tactl f ’ according to Colonel of a yearning for some kind of L ’ R^tner, Commandant of the certainty about the future, even Loips. if the answer had been the certain- Bennett will receive appointment ty of war. But I heard little talk as instructor in Infantry Tactics, of Washington or government or Boatner said. He holds the rank of Russia or war. first lieutenant. I got the feeling—and you who . He entered the army after be- read this miles from Washington mg' graduated from A&M in 1943, will know the answer better than serving in Italy in 1944 and in I—that people are trying to live Korea from 1946-48. their lives normally, willing to Upon receiving his discharge in make great sacrifices if necessary 1948, Bennett returned to A&M to to have in the end a peaceful world, work on his Master’s degree in but not talking a great deal about the conjunction with his teaching and future. research job. LAST TIMES TODAY 4 Tlie Skipper Surprised His Wife’ THURSDAY — FRIDAY “Fifty Years Before Your Eyes 9 ' —Features Start— 2:46 - 5:48 - 8:50 NEWS—CARTOON and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates that or $.50 peg month. 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Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists Ralph Gorman, Ray Holbrook, Harold Gann, Joe Blanchette, pat LeULnc, Dale Dowell, Jimpiy Curtis, Chuck Neighbors, Fred Walker Sports Writers Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry Cartoonists Strange Bedfellow Columbia, S. C. — y—H. M. Varnadore told police a stranger Unh r° Eer ?8? le u z; i s * ecial Assi8nInenta he befriended spent the night at Bob Hughson, George Charlton, Tom Rountree, Leon j i j. ® i. McClellan, Raymond Rushing, Wayne Davis, Robert liorne and Stole a watch, shoes, Venable, Herb O’Connell, Norman Blahuta, John Clg^et lighter ajK} money. — Writm Varnadore oonldn’t describe a.e man. He is blind.