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1 '/ / CO ye at ar T1 ia in e' tij ei ai B ni A P' Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950 Why Not a ‘Letter to the Editor’ Tradition . . . Russia Offered Last Chance on Austria Dispute By EDWARD E. BOMAR fT TOOK 458 YEARS TO PROVE COLUMBUS WAS ]\ al i (m Today You guys have fallen down on the job. Last year at this time The Battalion had re ceived 12 letters from readers. So far this year we have received only five. We have about decided that class work and the excitement that goes with a winning football team has reduced our usually reac tionary and sharp-tongued student body to complete passivity. Our letters column is really yours, be cause it is nothing without your interest and contributions. Your letters column is an open forum for student opinion and discus sion. Through it, authoritative bodies like the Student Life Committee and Student Senate may be prompted to take action on one mat ter or another. Through the Battalion’s own voluntary “investigation” service, questions for which you might have a difficult time obtaining answers can be quickly cleared up. Out at USC, The Daily Californian pub- Religion — The Answer to World Peace It would appear that some of the energy now being used to prepare for war could be diverted into an effort to eliminate war al together. The United Nations may be able to prevent or localize a conflict, but the fun damental preventative device may be a prob lem for experts in psychological warfare. Even without the act of firing a gun the cost of war preparation may become unbearable for civilization. Taxes are increasing daily, young men are told that they can look forward to 30 months of service, and vast quantities of our natural resources are being consumed in or- Washington, Oct. 12—(2P)—The Western powers plan to give Rus sia at least one more chance to negotiate before turning 1 the long deadlocked Austrian treaty dis- lishes five to eight letters everyday. Con tents of their letters range from comments on national and campus politics, to com plaints, to praise of some worthy undertak- P u ^f °^ r to the United Nations r , J , ^ , f* 1 '- k- ar l Gruber, Austria s for- lllg, to what have you. Out there, it IS tra- eign minister, said yesterday his ditional to write “Letters to the Editor.” country eventually may have to appeal to the U. N. for real lib eration” from “intruder” Russia. He blamed Moscow for blocking a treaty which would end the post war occupation. However, diplomatic officials thoughts on paper once in a while instead of forecast that such a move will be just thinking them to yourself. The rules are delayed until after there is another ° U . ,, „ , try for agreement by representa- Simple. You 11 find them 111 the small type tives of the United States, Britain, just beneath the “Letters” head usually ap- France and Russia. The deputies . . of the big four foreign powers are pearmg on this page. - - - - . . _ We would like to see letters to the editor become traditional here. It isn’t difficult; the only requirement is that you put your scheduled to meet again in Lon don in Mid-December. Moscow May Consent Mailing your comment is even simpler. Just address it to “The Battalion, Campus” _ , „ . , » 1 Because ot Communist lailures in and drop it in the faculty exchange box in Korea and in the general strike in the rotunda of the Academic Building. Austria there is some hope at the T T . _ , , , State Department that this time We are saving a hole in tomorrow S edl- Moscow may consent to a settle- torial page for your letter. How about it? ment - If so, officials believe the re maining differences on five rela tively minor treaty issues could be settled at a single session. What has held up final agree- glory would have to be sublimated. The ment on terms for the past year is solution for on race or religion may not apply S st S Sf Res- to another, and the ideas would have to be sia’s claims for aid supplied Aus- self perpetuating in order to prevent the next ‘"“’ er “ d ,„a rr s e ? 1 "«“ Meste.' ^ Mackenzie’s Column Iron and Steel Industry Nationalization Is Next British Socialist Move Home Buying Gets Tougher Today By James Marlow Washington, Oct. 12-tfB-The government-starting today—is making it tougher to buy one and two-tamily homes. But there are exceptions. The government has issued new rules, under a law passed by Congress, which compel you to put up a bigger down payment and pay up faster on any: • Newly built or existing home if the government- meaning the Federal Housing Administiation (I HA) 01 Vet erans Administration (VA)—has a hand in the deal, that is, if it guarantees a loan on the home. • Newly built home whether it’s the government, a bank or a loan company which guarantees or makes the loan on it. But—and this is where the exception comes in—the new rules do not apply at all to existing homes where the govern ment has no part in the loan. Examples: • You want to buy a newly built home or have one built. The rules apply to you, whether you get the loan from a bank or the government. ® You want to buy a home which is not new. If the FHA or VA guarantees the loan, then the rules apply. But if in the case of such an existing home you get a non-govern ment loan, the rules do not apply. Rules Where They Apply By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst These are the rules in all cases Suppose a man arranged a loan where they apply: on a new home between Aug. 3 and Non-veterans will have to make now. Do the new rules apply to from him? Do the terms of his loan 9 Nn The gether m the great international per cent on houses cosfing under have to be re-arranged ? No. wilicn muam Ann r\v\ lirwioncj nf vnloc armlxr rmlv wBpvp generation from reverting to war-like ways. ma i n i $ 5 > 0 0 ( ) to 50 P er cent on houses of rules apply only where a loan has tW nnri $25,000 or more. Down payments been arranged after today. 7 for veterans will be lower, ranging Here’s a question which you Investigation, however, may disclose that war is fundamental, and must be accep ted just like changes in the weather. The r ,, , i_ i_ three, would have to have Russian forces that cause wars may be above the participation in defense program, in is undertaking Britain’s socialist government Churchill has argued that “No Connection” has set February 15 for taking iron nationalization would greatly „ - , , r - i ui u • i * xx- Gruber told the national press over the countr y’ s vast steel an d hamper national rearmament. 5 per cent to 45 percent. pioiably lave in nunc a t is club that these have “not the slight- ’ ron industr y— a major move in A highly interesting point in Mortgages will have to be paid point. .. . , , ‘ -xi ti x x k” the sweeping experiment of nation- connection with this nationalization within 20 years on all houses M hy is theie an exception in the est connection with the treaty alfzing San? scheme is that it is being carried costing more than $7,000. For un- rules? Why don’t they apply in The U.N., like the Western big dl T , . , . i , il seneme is mat it is oemg tamed , ono tmnsps 25 vears will bo the case of an existing- home where have Russian Iron and stee1 ’ coupled with the through by a party which has a ,, r T UU houses ’ y d 1 00 rnc ase 1 an ex sting nome wnere settlement H hu 8' e coal ind ^try which already majority of only six in the House all « we . d ; no government loan ,s involved? The conservatives Right here something needs cx- Congress did that, when it passed der to oppose aggression. If this burden is to be removed, some way must be found to breakdown ideological barriers that now ex ist. Religion may not be the answer, but it could be a powerful force in the development of a “peaceful” individual. Other ways would have to be found to eliminate the “boom and bust” economic cycles that we associate with peacetime economy, and the individual desire for conquest and military maintained. Guerilla Warfare: Costly But Necessary . It seems ironic that in the Korean war, forecast by military observers to be a push button war, the United States Army must teach its soldiers the methods of warfare employed by their forefathers to fight the American Indian. But when the North Ko rean government rejected United Nations surrender demands last Tuesday and order ed Communist forces in Korea to fight to the death, the stage was set for a form of fighting the forecasters never dreamed of. Unless Russia or Red China begins to take an active part in the Korean campaign, United Nations forces should conquer North Korea in a matter of weeks. Defeat of the North Korean army should not now be a very difficult matter, but the fighting will not end there. Inspired by Russian Com munists, Korean guerilla gangs will create power of reason, and not subject to control. Soviet occupation troops are to keystone hlve^m^Wh^rtoe" charge Pining. Under these new rules, a law Sept. 18 giving the govern- The research and stimulus brought about by pJest ^m th? Korean G fShPn? FoV ifc is on these three industries that the government has no right ™ hat is considered a “new” home? ment power to set these controls , . xx x T - A: , ? ngnuijg, , h countrv has lareelv de- to commit the cmmtrv to <mcVi vi One upon which construction was Government housing officials war may outweigh the waste Of men and rna- American officials share at least y mSderi fcoJomk Si nattonalization started on or after Aug. 3, 1950. wanted no exceptions They want- strength. is divided about fifty-fifty politi- An “existing” home is one which ed the controls to apply across the Thus it would seem that when cally was built before Aug. 3 or upon board—on new and existing homes iron and steel have joined coal in However, Prime Minister Attlee which construction had started be -whether the government was nationalization, the socialist die has for answer the fact that the ■*- oie ^at date. mixed up in the loan or not. will be cast. nationalization program has been T?pnenn« Behind The l?nle« The government will have taken an issue in the last two general KcdhOns Behind 1 he Rules a step Uoni which successful re- elections 1946 and early this year The reasoning behind the rules: You’re a non-veteran. You’ll have treat would be extremely difficult, —and has been approved on both * By making home-buying to put up a down payment of at “lough Frail” occasions. He declines to let the tougher, to cut down on the number least $3,100. If you’re a veteran, True the conservatives unf i er ® n l a| uiess ol ms majority stand m 0 f new homes being built, thus your down payment must be at leadership of foX Prime Mini? the ^ 'W, leaving more materials for the gov- least $1,900. ter Winston Churchill propose to ernment’s defense program. But when the price of a home ® By making home - b u y i n g I s $25,000 or more, the non-veteran tougher and new houses fewer, to mu st put up a down payment of at keep prices down and put a brake least half the price by himself, a on inflation. veteraji a little less. But what about thoso existing At this point you probably havo vill be with ahxtet^ 1 it s .„Biochemical Research’ Depart- homes where the new rules don’t this question in mind: that not only Britain but her allies' Midland, Mfeh.; -has -made apply •so long as no government Say I’m a non-veteran, want to will watch the development of’this” available ,to the Texas, Agricultural .loan i& involved? Will the prices buy a $25,000 home (to use round politico-economic experiment, ; esr Experiment Station 'a grant-in-aid on them go down? Or, since they figures), but don’t have the 50 per pecially since it is being carried out 0 f $3,000 for research. will be easier to buy, will their cent down payment of $12,500. I’ll in the midst of world crisis. Of The research is under the direc- prices go up even further? We’ll borrow that $12,500 down payment course this raises the question of tion of Dr. J. R. Gouch of the have to wait for the answer to from an uncle and get a loan from Weldon Maples of the Central whether it’s the business of any- poultry husbandry and biochemis- that one - a bank on the rest. Texas Agency, of the American body outside England. try and nutrition departments. It (The new rules do not apply to Is that all right? No. Not General Life Insurance Company, Well, that perhaps is a delicate covers the amino acid require^ apartment houses or commercial at all. The new rules say you must recently completed his fourth year point. However, Britain’s allies ments of mature laying hens and property. But the government will putupthedownpaymentbyyour- large scale warfare tactics are useless against with that company. probably aren’t overstepping the the effect of supplementing prac- put controls on them shortly.) self—that you can’t borrow it from flip knivps and i -niL-mapliinp o-iin^i nf a o-Vio^t Maples a star on the 1J41 and bounds of propriety in taking an tical chick diets with crystalline Here are examples of how the any source, relative or otherwise-— K k k ’42 Aggie football teams, also had interest in her great experiment, amino acids on the growth, feed rules will work on homes to which if you want a loan from a bank, an enviable record while in the It mustn’t be forgotten that their conversion and health of young the rules apply: FHA or VA. service of his country. fortunes are pretty well bound to- chicks. A home is valued at $12,000 terials if the overail operation were subjec- ,$£ ted to evaluation. succeed in this. Contributing to their guarded If World War III comes, it may be so de- optimism is the 1946 episode in x x* x-l x -x -n x i x xi x -n which Russia bowed to U.N. pres- structive that it will set a precedent that will S y re anf j withdrew Soviet troops stand for all time to remind us of the folly from Iran, of armed conflict. We are in favor of some er “ effort to shed light on these questions in the cision to turn to the U.N. in the hope that some good may be accomplished ^ nt ol another deadlock 111 Lon ' in favor of civilization. Man has indeed ere- Ihe Western allies refrained throw out iron aod steel nationali- _ .from submitting tbc Austiiciii issue zsition ■Riid revert to privute enter- I IvvcliJl , , , + ur n ^ the current general assembly prise if and when they arc returned Arm . rng him unless controls are established and session. Austria itself has been power . However, the backward LriyeS M.000 Grailt ated machines that are capable of destroy- \ kept from U.N. membership by Russian veto. a trail would be mighty tough.-1 • m Therefore it will Dow Chemical Company, t through quite a problem for the occupying force. The Communists call this “hit and run” no surrender type of battle a “people’s war.” Tanks, planes, atom bombs, and nearly all CS Insuranceman Here Four Years army that neither wears a uniform nor cre ates a formal target. Fighting the North Korean guerillas will They’re Called ^Gentlemen’ • be a costly and distasteful job. But the U. ,— N. forces must carry the fight to a decis ive victory. Communist propaganda will have a field day of writing about these “fight ers to the death” if they are not quickly subdued. The U. N. forces must completely annihilate North Korean underground guer- 'New Army’ Men Live an Easy Life By ED CREAGH Associated Press Correspondent Mas to prove to Communists and fellow Pa S‘ j^wouldnA^wSt to travelers the world over that to resist United think. Nations’ peace defenders is utterly foolish. The salty World War II com mander, now in a hero’s grave, w-Quld love the powerful new tanks “Before Korea,” said Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Harrold, Post Commander, “we took 14 weeks to give these youth basic train ing. Now we cut out the frills and squeeze it into six weeks. That leaves eight weeks for specialized training. gullies on a rope, grunts over a “belly robber” of horizonal logs, tries to scale a barrier known officially as “the dirty name.” (There’s one exception: You can get a loan on your life insurance to make the down payment. And if sicknes or death or fire inter venes, exceptions will be made for your borrowing.) But you say: suppose my aunt Sally wants to lend me money on a house covered by these new rules. Can’t she? Not unless she lends ington, Minn., squirreled over the “belly even breathing hard. The Battalion tbaThPav thp fio-bT “ Thcy « ct battlc conditioning, “It’s not so tough if you’re in ri f, l0 / r a uarro “ nalRer ol Knox- • • , h f “j'?' ux Thii-d learn wbat she11 fire sounds like, good condition,” he said. ville, Penn., and a group Oi other They are toughened, mentally and “Nice going,” an officer called. Lawrence Sullivan Rq.ss, Founder of Aggie Traditions 'Soldier, Statestyian^fvniphth Gentleman” Armored Division conditioning that tomorrow’s sold iers are getting here at the Army’s terete” training center for armor. But the “new army” treatment of G. I.’s ? The cushioned chairs in induction centers? The please- and-thank-you politeness of ser- the ITlR’U’ed c emu iNiLt; gumg, an oincei caiieu. ' > h i physically, for combat. The training Then, to another recruit who made ‘is better than before. It’s for more hard going of it: “Easy, there. You don’t have to kill yourself tomor- Some recruits wonder about that im L* s aa °l'l ier day- ’ during the first week—aptitude . Aimost before he knows it, yes- tests, physical examinations, terday s u clvdlan J 1S A ab h °T e ^ a “shots,” lectures, issuing TF uni- in . bls ba .i ld ' And not just the geants toward recruits? The spec- forms, some tedious waiting around r 1 ' 1 ,, nt e ’ e . lther • Me learns to • • • • , - , —- tacle of generals addressing groups for something to happen. handle machine guns, tank guns. „ ,, . , J ‘ . 16 Pioud r^f/plrof ^ ? n0 T er ’ you the wbole ^ount. But if she ready ri a lejend ’ ^ T kes a , loan to you on any P ar J 1 r. 1 i of your down payment, you can get Patton? Uad tank ^ 1 °i° dr °- Ve no hel P on the rest from a bank or Recruit Lyman Deuel of Worth- Fatt( m s l ead tank m 21 major FHA or VA. -x-v, tvt;.,,, "auirreled twice attacks - Hls g un s knocked out 257 rnhhpv” without enem y tanks and other vehicles, , r , hen y° u sa y ; But the rules then killed more than 1,000 Germans. don t a PPU to me at all if I can He told Carroll Walker of Knox- bor i ro . w f ke whole loan from some individual who is not a bank. Right? Not exactly. Any individual who makes more than three loans a year to home buyers, and they total $25,000 or more, comes under the rules and cannot give you a loan unless you put up the amount of down pay ment required by the new rules. The Battalion, official newspaper of the A^ptul tural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school yeai-y Du ring the summer terms, The Battalion is published . (( four times a week, and duririg examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are of privates as “gentlemen?” Bu t already the new soldier is i nip-nx \ ra( , pr nmipi- Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, “ft is my considered opinion,” learning that the “new army” is not -L u- x , and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates $6.00 per year sa i d an officer who served with j us t a myth. It’s no paradise, cer- b or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Pattdh in the 1944 smash into tainly. But he finds officers cour- “The love it!” shouted Capt. —_____ Germany, “that old Georgie would teous, interested in him. He gets a James W. Hajek over the earth- News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin blow all four of his stacks.” uniform that fits. Believe it or not, jarring roar of .50 calibre ma- Hqll. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, That’s the way it is, though, he seldom finds cause to grumble Goodwin Hall. and the Army flexes its muscles about the “chow.” — ——-— — against the danger of a World recruits: “You fellows got a chance to do better than we could. These new tanks—man, they’re pretty. You just take hold of that joy stick and go any way you want. Nice? Say, I could rock my baby to sleep in one of these.” Fort Knox is turning out soldiers He learns to creep under barbed °t their skills. They’re not im pressed by talk about new armor piercing shells that some people Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at Coljege 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. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred- War III ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Today’s new soldier trains fast- Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. er and harder than yesterday’s soldier did. But he’s treated as a human being and not as a mass of dough to be whipped into shape at whatever cost to his pride and personality. You may be wondering just what happens to the World War 2)4 sold ier—since he’s just about sure to be someone you know and may even be yourself. Well, Fort Knox will give you a good idea. It’s a roomy place— 106,000 acres. It’s “temporary” wooden barracks are five years old and are starting to show their age. Its activities range from guarding the bulk of the world’s gold supply to teaching cooks how not to make hash. Ray Williams, Roger Coslett Special Assignments But chiefly it’s a Vast plant for Sam Moiinary chief Photographer turning young civilians into sturdy soldiers who can drive a tank, Actually training starts fast and gets faster. What used to be called an ob stacle course is now a “confidence course.” A young G. I. scrambles through ditches, swings across Clark at Biggs AFB siv will mnbo xbn x 0 , , *, --- M/Sgt. Haynes Clark, a 1950 say xu vC th ta obs °lete. graduate in Mechanical Engineer- nnmtion'farfra thfE^Lx' 1 ’‘"'t has b “" assigned to aircraft the inventors, Gen. ’itarroM §1^“" Sunn”’)' 8 ^V 118 rt “we may well adapt them to our Bids Yr Fo^eoYT”^'' 0 * 1 lot more run man sluing fo’lst'we’alror^ of ^anv arnw e,C ’ e fh" ■ P , r ‘ or to recall to active duty class room all dav ” m waapon ot any ai W in the with the Air Force Clark was a Hajek, a former New Yorker, believe that'armor^wfll 'pkyVst ^ Fm-nTce T" ^ ^ F^t headed a machine gun combat com- as big a role, if not bigger, in a Worth ’h? 6 - Company of , Fm j; pany in World War II. He’s one of future war as it did in World War Strategic Air rT* & m many combat veterans now teach- II. ^lategic Air Command’s 8th Air chine gun fire. “They take to these guns like a duck to water. It’s a lot more fun than sitting in Force. 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 Editors Frank N. Manitzas Sports Editor Joel Austin City News Editor LFL ABNER After the Brawl Was Over By Al Capp 1 WONDER WHICH ONE OF THE FIVE TYPES OF EARTH CREATURES IT IS — Today’s Issue John Whitmore Managing Editor Jerry Zuber Campus News Editor Frank N. Manitzas Sports News Editor Tom Rountree City News Editor T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists Bob Hughson, George Charlton, Tom Rountree, Leon McClellan, Raymond Rushing, Wayne Davis, Robert Venable, Herb O’Connell, Fennan Blahuta, John Hildebrand, Jerry Fontaine, Jack Fontaine 1..L... .I News and Feature Writers Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry Cartoonists Ralph Gorman, Ray Holbrook, Harold Gann, Joe Blanchette, Pat LeBlanc, Dale Dowell, Jimmy Curtis, fire 8 bazooka and take Care ot Chuck Neighbors, Fred Walker Sports Writers themselves ill hand-to-hand COlll- B ° Tommy^Fontain? 0 Jame^^ancaster Photo Engravers bat with a foe who doesn’t fight clean. ( THOSE EARTH CREATURES HOW DO) ARE CHOCK-FULL OF GERMS THEY S, THEY SAW WE'D BETTER MANAGE?] BOIL IT FOR FIVE DAYS, / AND THEN PUT IT IN A \ DEEP FREEZE BEFORE WE TURN IT OVER TO ‘ MR BIG/T G»V riU Ly U«te4 SmV-s Syx£uti. 'u *- * —' Cf Hgft HMWU