Battalion Editorials
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1950
Thanks for Better Student Government . . .
The Class of ’51 is to be commended and
congratulated for setting a great new tra
dition—fairer distribution of representation
in student government. This year, eight of
the corps representatives on the Student
Senate are juniors. Last Wednesday night,
these eight juniors were given ten important
posts, ranging from standing committee
memberships to secretary of the Senate. For
the first time, a junior holds one of the elect
ed positions of Senate liaison on the Student
Life Committee.
These juniors are to be admired for prov
ing their abilities thoroughly enough to be
elected to such responsible stations. But
they should realize the advantage they have
enjoyed over previous Junior Classes. Last
year, and in most prior years, juniors were
strongly discouraged from running for office
against seniors. “Wait your turn, this is our
year,” was the watchword of many former
Senior classes.
Last year, for instance, only four of the
elected corps representatives were Juniors.
And of these, one was from Hart Hall, one
was from a veteran outfit, and one repre
sented the day students. Only one of the
juniors had to compete against seniors of a
'/class distinction” minded outfit.
Besides active senators, each of the three
underclasses has three elected representa
tives to the Senate. These representatives
have no voting right, but at the request of
other senators, they may speak before the
Senate on matters in which their class has in
terests. The principal reason for admitting
these representatives is to acquaint them
with the functions of the Senate.
The real effect of increased representa
tion in student government will be seen next
year. With so many experienced men re
turning, the Senate should not have to waste
time in learning how to conduct itself. Near
ly every standing committee will have an ex
perienced man to guide it and “sparkplug”
its early efforts.
We are expecting big things from the
junior Senators. They should take advan
tage of every opportunity to prove to the
students they represent that their election
to office was a wise decision.
Abstaining from unethical actions, es
pecially when tradition upholds such actions,
has proved as laudable as some more positive
measures. Thanks, Class of ’51, for your
help in creating better student government
for Texas A&M.
Grime Syndicates or Free Enterprise?
Free enterprise seems to have domestic
as well as foreign problems. According to
Senator Kefauver, chairman of the Senate
crime investigating committee, hoodlums are
“moving in” on legitimate business.
. Kefauver is trying to gain the support
of business men in this fight against crime
by showing that business can not tolerate
the unscrupulous tactics employed by crim
inals. These tactics range from simple co
ercion to murder.
The hearings of the committee are slowly
revealing the extent to which “crime syndi
cates'' have become interested in legitimate
enterprises such as laundries, hotels, dress
making, oil production, and communications.
This “legitimate” list is, of course, in addi
tion to the businesses which are borderline
cases that exist on the fringe of legitimacy.
We congratulte the committee for their
courage, and wish them every success in an
investigation that is long overdue. A lesser
organization than a Senate committee might
find such activities impossible or inadvis
able.
New Initiative in Rural Medicine . . .
Most doctors and nurses are understand
ably reluctant to leave the rewards of city
practice in order to provide adequate medi
cal attention for people in rural areas. While
this need eventually might be filled by some
form of socialized medicine, The Mississippi
Health Board is setting up a plan to provide
doctors and nurses right now.
■ The incentive for personnel is a favorable
rate of repayment of educational loans in
return for rural practice. Potential doctors
for example, can borrow $5,000 to go to
school, and pay it back at the rate of $1,000
per year by rural service. Nurses must
teach in home state schools in order to get
this $1,000 per year credit on their $3,00C
scholarships.
Sentiments expressed at night in a group
of good friends are apt to sound hopelessly
sentimental ^nd introspective by daylight.
But that’s all right. I don’t know what is
so sacred about the shell we all erect about
ourselves, but certainly about the only time
it is broken is when we are deep in a cup of
coffee at a late hour with sympathetic
friends. —Biloine Whiting.
State funds will be tapped for $40,000,000
worth of hospitals and health centers, and a
medical school and hospital has been author
ized for construction at Jackson Miss. This
appropriation was requested at the last leg
islature by Gov. Fielding Wright.
Credit for the planning of the farsighted
program goes to Dr. Felix J. Underwood. An
education program by the Lions, Kiwanis,
and Rotary Clubs along with the Farm Bu
reau helped to put the plan in to action.
We congratulate Dr. Underwood for his
energy in planning this excellent program,
and we believe other states would do well
to study this precedent. This outstanding
example of “Americanism” at work comes
at a very opportune time.
It is astonishing how many wise words of
smart men have been forgotten by the so-
called human race.
Freedom of speech is a valuable posses-;
sion of every man, but it is a foolish individ
ual who speaks too freely.
There will be better people in the land
when there are better homes; not vice versa.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Jets Proven
Superior In
Korean War
By JAMES J. STREBIG
AP Aviation Reporter
Washington, Oct. 16—6P)—Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg believes the
South Korea campaign clinched the
case for a jet air force.
Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of
Staff, said in an interview that
combat experience shows jet fight
ers will take more punishment from
either air or ground fire than pis
ton engine fighters. This contrasts
with previous fears that the deli
cately balanced gas turbine en
gines might be more easily put
out of action.
He said jets now can match pis
ton engine planes in range and ca
pacity to carry bombs, rockets and
guns, while far exceeding them in
speed and climb. And jets are
easier to maintain.
Pilots Like Jets
“The boys feel better in jets,
Vandenberg said about pilots who
have fought in Korea. “They found
the jets can take the gdff better
than conventional types, and they
can get out of hot spots in a hurry
or go upstairs and fight if at
tacked.”
On a broad basis, the air force
leader felt that South Korea “con
solidated our previous views—we
know we have to have a plane that
can fight its way through enemy
air opposition and also do ground
support work.”
Beyond the fundamentals of
jet fighter operations, the air force
“didn’t learn a whole lot” in South
Korea because the one jet type
in service was not especially de
signed for ground support work
and there were no enemy jets in
the air.
The North Korea phase will see
some changes in operations be
cause of the tremendous advantage
of air bases near the battle line,
Vandenberg said. In South Korea,
most fighters operated across the
Japan Sea. That was quite a han
dicap for the Lockheed F-80 shoot
ing star until extra large wingtip
fuel tanks were improvised.
Units. Rotated
Small units of the Republic F-84
thunderjet fighter and the North
American B145 Tornado bomber,
both designed for ground support,
will be given a chance at combat
experience in North Korea, the
general said.
Vandenberg said General Doug
las MacArthur had committed only
half his available fighter aircraft
to Korea at a time, rotating the
units so that all got action.
This was made necessary, he
said, because the primary purpose
of the air units in Japan was de
fense of those islands; that is why
the force consisted almost entirely
of types intended for air-to-air
combat.
Through the push of Maj. Gen.
Earle E. Partridge they had been
trained, however, in air-to-ground
firing for army support and had
worked with the ground forces in
limited maneuvers.
Vandenberg said the F-51 Mus
tang propeller fighters which were
extensively employed in Korea
could not have been used if the
North Koreans had thrown in jets
against them.
What about the future-of the air
force in view of Korean experience
and the newly available funds for
building up to the “70 group” idea ?
Under the former limited funds
program, the air force could not
do all its planners felt should be
done, Vandenberg said, so it con
centrated on defense and strategic
air problems that would have to be
met first in a major war. The
army ground forces, under similar
money restraints, did not have
enough divisions to justify more
emphasis on tactical air than was
given it.
Command Reestablished
Now that is changed. There will
be ground forces to support and
funds to build and train an air
force for the job. New purchases
orders will call for nearly doubling
the ratio of air defense and ground
support planes to medium and
heavy bombers.
Additional emphasis on ground
support will come from reestab
lishment of the tactical air com
mand as a separate major com
mand. It has been under conti
nental air command which has re
sponsibility for defense of the
United States.
Lt. Gen. John K. Cannon is be
ing transferred from command of
United States Air Forces in Eu
rope to head tactical air. Succeed
ing Cannon in Europe is Lt. Gen.
Lauris Norstad, whose job will be
completion of the conversion of the
air force there to an all-jet opera
tion.
One group of more than 80 F84
thunderjets already has been flown
to Germany and another group is
expected to follow soon. These
are the “E” model, especially
equipped for ground support work.
They will replace F80 shooting
stars and F-47 thunderbolts, a
World War II type.
Weakens Enemy
Vandenberg would like to cor
rect some impressions about tac
tical air support. The primary
job, in his view, isn’t hitting a ma
chine gun nest or shooting up fox
holes, although that can be done
and in Korea was done. But it was
an expedient of the moment, be
cause the ground forces, like the
air force, didn’t have enough of
anything.
Tactical air’s real concept is sup
port of the ground forces by first
winning control of the air and then
hitting the enemy behind the actual
battle line.
BLOOD RELATIVES
From the City Desk . . .
Innovations Bring
New Expenditure
. By Joel Austin
Behind the Scenes . . .
‘Two Flags West’Reminder
Of ‘War Between States’
By Fred Walker
Political issues, salvation, and silent love take the lime
light in “Two Flags West”, 20th’s answer to “If you can’t
beat ’em, join ’em.”
A troop of Southern cavalry, abiding in Hollywood’s
version of an FHA project, is given the chance of freedom
by Yankee Captain Cornel Wilde if they will join the Army
of the Republic to combat Indians on the frontier. The de
ciding vote is cast by their leader Joseph Cotton, and the
little group snarlingly dons the Blue.
Upon arrival of their far flung outpost, the “converted”
Rebels find the Commandant to be suffering from a persecu
tion complex of the greatest caliber. Commander Jeff Chand
ler has a bitter outlook on life and a terrible hate for all
Rebels, Indians and Confederates alike. To make matters
worse, he is desperately in love with his widowed sister-in-
law, Linda Darnell, but tries to rationalize by pretending
that his desire is nothing but fraternal love brought about
by the dead brother.
•
Chandler berrates and attacks who are introduced as gun-runners
Cotton incessantly, while the en- and smugglers,
listed personnel spit upon each oth- Cornel has placed his faith in
er. Matters come to a head when Cotton, but Chandler, who still
the Confederate contingent un- believes that Cotton will hie to
knowingly executes two Rebel spies Texas as soon as the chance pre
sents itself, allows him to escort
a California-bound wagon train
hoping that he will desert.
Much to Chandler’s surprise and
disguest Cornel returns, and with
him comes Darnell who has unsuc
cessfully tried to return home to
California.
The Southerners are I’eady to
make their move now. They cap
ture Cornel while on patrol and
Cotton has him sent back to the
fort. Finding the outpost under
attack from the Apache chief
whose son has been savagely killed
by Chandler Cotton arises to the
occasion and returns.
Cornel is killed in the attack
Very seldom can you find an innovation of any system
that doesn’t bring about added expenditures. Such is the
case with College Station’s newly proposed electricity supply.
To predict the actions of the city council 24 hours before
it meets we would say that in addition to the new rates estab
lished in a meeting Friday night, power will also be offered
residents of the College Hills area at the same price as the
rest of College Station.
Although this section of town is presently getting its
power through the City of Bryan-REA tie up, the council
will most likely accept the bid from the Brazos River Trans
mission Electric Cooperative, making the new rates available
to the east side people.
In order to serve these people with electricity, new lines
will have to be built parallel to the present lines which belong
to the Bryan power company. In addition, the City of Col
lege Station would be required to obtain electricity supplied
by the Brazos River Transmission from their sub-station
some five or six miles away.
This being the case, money to finance this new, cheaper
supply is going to have to come from some one. The city’s
supply of wire, which is practically enough to meet the de
mands of building a line to the sub-station, is still far from
the amounts needed for the complete job.
But with their offer for lower electric rates, the Brazos
River Electric Cooperative, has made available to the city a
surplus supply of wire, transformers, etc. which they have
for sale at cost price.
But with their bid to seM the city these supplies, the
money for a new line to make the loop through College Hills
would necessitate a revenue bond issue, the amount of which
is still to be determined.
As we said, nothing has definitely been decided about
making this cheap power available to people in College Bills,
although it was recommended by Dr. F. C. Bolton in his re
port to the council last Friday.
With the college’s decrease in charges for power, the
new rates established by the city council Friday night will
go into effect one month from now.
But with the passage of a revenue bond, citizens of Col
lege Hills would be paying something like $4.73 (less 10%
when paid by the fifteenth of the month) instead of $6.50
net for 150 kilowatt hours—strictly unofficial figures!
Don’t Forget the Tauber Addition
Swift Packers
Announce 1950
Essay Contest
Swift and Company has an
nounced its annual College
Essay Contest for 1950. The and Chandler “heroically gives
For too long the people in this
relatively new section of town have
been buying their power from the
City of Bryan at a price which is
far beyond the new rates agreed
upon by the council Friday night.
Although the rest of town would
still be supplied by the college
facilities, these people would pay
the same low rates, which the coun
cil has established. Also pot to be
forgotten is the new Tauber Addi
tion which is still in the making.
This new section will probably
have the option of whom to secure
electricity from and there is no
reason why our lower rates would
n’t be more acceptable than
Bryan’s.
With the biggest part of this new
Culpepper enterprise not in the of
ficial limits of either Bryan or
College Station, it will be interest
ing to see what city succeeds in
taking it in.
To this writer, College Station
would be the logical place to admit
the Tauber Addition since some of
the businesses in the proposed
shopping area of the addition will
join College Station at the Catho
lic Church at North Gate.
Time will tell.
LAST DAY
winning student will receive
train fare and an expense paid
four ddy stay in Chicago, accord
ing to T. C. Cartwright, genetics
instructor.
One student will he selected
from A&M oh the basis of the es
says submitted.
Subject matter will be limited
only to methods employed by the
himself to the Indians. Cotton and
Dranell smile at each other and
the movie ends.
This picture is written and acted
in the same style that its review is
penned—childishly.
For 45 minutes there is no ac
tion at all and the dialogue is ter
rible. But it must be admitted that
Jeff Chandler turns in a fine per
formance—regardless of moments
meat packing business in market- 0 f overly-melodramatic horspl^y.
mg meats, poultry, eggs, butter Comment: If you want to fight
and cheese. the war between states over, this
The Animal Husbandry Depart- w jn your temperament,
ment sponsors the contest and
urges that agriculture students in
quire about this project.
Winners of this years contest
Will study livestock marketing in
the Union Stockyards of Chicago.
There will be classroom work to
bring the students up to date on
TODAY thru WEDNESDAY
FIRST RUN
—Features Start
les - 3:51 - 5:51 - 7:57 - 10:00
Groneman to Address
Education Conference
Chris H. Groneman head of the
the facts and figures of the live- Industrial Education Department,
stock industry. will deliver an address at the
A set of bulletins for each stu- Adult Education conference to be
dent who wishes to participate held in Houston, October 19.
will be provided by Cartwright in “Avocational Interests in Adult
Room 329, Animal Industries Education” will be discussed by
Building. Groneman.
MPH MN-LIRDA DARNELL
CORNEL WILDT
JEFF CHANDLER
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
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