Battalion Editorials
LET’S NOT FUMBLE THIS ONE, EITHER
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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
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. . 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
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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 '
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DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH Co-Editors h J h L P n 7^ it f J s 0 p u e r r s si ‘ 0 g nS £efo“
John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt.
Dean Reed
Sid Abernathy, Jerry Zuber
Frank N. Manitzas
Joel Austin
Managing Editors others were formed.
.Assistant Managing Editor
.Campus News Editor
First came the snarl and roar of
Today's Issue
Sports Editor P°^ ce escort motorcycles, followed
.City News Editor ^ cars bearing honorary Grand
Marshal Perry Brown and Grand
Marshal Big. Gen. Leroy H. Watson
and their staffs.
John Whitmore Managing Editor
Sid Abernathy 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 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.