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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
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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
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