Battalion Editorials
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1950
Our Service Manpower Plans Need Thought . . .
The brisk argument between Maj. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Ser
vice, and Mr. W. Stuart Symington, chair
man of the National Security Resources
Board, over the deferment of young men re
ceiving training or practicing in scientific
and technical fields, emphasizes the need for
some fresh and basic thinking on supplying
the need of the armed forces for manpower.
At present, there are a number of different
methods of filling the ranks — volunteer
ing, the. organized reserves, the National
Guard and Selective Service.
This elaborate system is further compli
cated by the provisions of the Selective Ser
vice act, with its deferments based on prev
ious service, the several choices it permits,
and the practical difficulty of enforcing
some of the general stipulations it lays down.
It has been charged in Congress that unless
the law is amended it will be impossible to
raise the Army, Navy and Air Force to the
level required by the world crisis.
The United States, as a matter of fact,
has never yet faced squarely the problem of
diverting a large proportion of its young
manpower for the purposes of national se
curity over a long period of time. Conscrip
tion has only been used in acute emergen
cies j even the present law was considered as
partly a weapon to be kept on the shelf and
partly as a spur and an auxiliary to volun
tary enlistnient. More than that is now re
quired—how much more is not clear. For
apart from the possibility of the Korean
campaign (or some similar event) making
demands upon American
New, Tougher
Government
Controls Seen
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Oct. 18—(A 5 )—Now
that this country with its allies is
winning in Korea, are you thinking:
military power “As soon as we mop up there, we’ll
which are as yet unpredictable, there is the whaTthe"^’^ men in
persistent doubt about the long-term level at government are thinking. You
which the armed forces are to be maintain- -l! 0 ”® ° f , that talk here ', n . d
there s no evidence to support that.
ed. On the contrary.
But this much is certain: the level will The top men here are looking for
, , . , , , ,, , , a lon g P ul1 . building up defense,
be high enough, and the danger Will be pro- maybe imposing new and even
longed enough, to demand and efficient ap- government controls.
plication Of the principle Of universal ser- week President Truman made it
vice. It is embodied in the present Selective cleai ' he wants no let-down,
c . , j. • j. j.!. i.T j.- He indicated, though, that he
Service act: in a free society the obligations fears some members of Congress,
and privileges of serving in the armed for- °nce the Korean shooting is over,
ces . . . should be shared generally, in ac- spending^ t0 CUt (1 ° Wn defensc!
cordance with a system of selection which Of course, the less the govern-
is fair and just, and which is consistent with ^ theTe’d °be d for”"government
the maintenance of an effective national controls over things like materials,
economv ” About the soundness of the nrin- ^n®^it - buying, oi wages and pxices.
economy, auoui me soununess oi tne pnn And taxes wouldn’t have to go
ciple there can be no dispute; the task is to higher.
make it truly effective. Controls Foreseen
This does not mean putting every one in . But one of O 16 men most respon-
uniform; it does mean the recognition that progT^
every American is liable for duty in the post made it clear Monday night that
where he can be most serviceable whenever tools 0 ,^notTes^^an^toughe'fonet
the country is menaced. It is the task of Symington, chairman of the Na
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Troops Are Not ‘Yanks*
Southern Lady Opines
Skirt Tales . . . •
Goings-On In Tessieland
Described By Columnist
By Jean Cloud
Lass-0 Friday Editor
TSCW, Denton, Oct. 17.—This Fall The Battalion has
been supplying the Daily Lass-0 with a weekly column. Brass
Tacks, which keeps us on Skirt Hill informed ot the Aggies
activities. So now, Skirt Tales will endeavor to retaliate in
kind.
The big news on this campus last weekend was the visit
and concert by the, if you’ll pardon the expression, Okla
homa University band. This twenty-first annual visit by
the band consisted of dinner, the concert, and a dance. The
band members were guests of the TSCW senior class for the
occasion. They stoped here on Friday night and proceeded
from here to the TU-OU game.
Saturday morning Dorm Row was lined with A&M-
bound buses for your all-college dance, and to watch the
Aggie eleven practice on VMI.
Tessies follow the Aggies through all the games, in per
son or not. Interesting sounds ensue from along Dorm Row
and up on Brack and Stoddard hill each game time. After
an Aggie touchdown the dprms_ rock and frighten their
foundations as cheering sections in every room express our
“twelfth girl” spirit.
Social Week, Drama Series'Begins
the nation’s military and political leaders, ££ JZSUSS&SS&
By ARTHUR L. EDSON John Cheese, as an Englishman is
Washington, Oct. 17-(A>)_ A ^But^too, agrees that “yankee”
Our literary-social club rush Eleanor Steber. TSCW’s Speech
week, prelude to groveling “hell” Department will follow Miss Steber
week, is on. Themes of the rush on the C&D Series with Henrik
parties run the gamut from a Mar- Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” opening Wednes-
di Gras celebration to a secret pi- day night in the College Theatre,
rates’ meeting in Lowry Woods. The speech, department is also
.. CKX'TCB wum, yciuft.ee After the fushees have been prop- niakiiig hews in their newly organ-
its labor groups, businessmen and educators, men, one of his closest advisers; lady do iy n m Cacl ) e > 0kla -> thinks came up the’hard way. ei-1 y honored, they become lowly ized “Tcssie Players, an all-col-
, , t t. The President nut him in charge newswrlters and newscasters It was applied to earl v now Fncr pledges, don dunce caps and other lege theatre project, btudents and
to discuss, now, how this shall be accomplish. J thc ^ 0 “b1, or, rather " “W*# V’ «• ‘"•I* lande™ a‘ P T sign they KJ SS kings indicative, of their positions profs interested m a l phases 0
ed, SO that the laws and regulations can be the production program. fighting m Korea Yanks. cunning than they had scruples and try to ex P lam their respective the theatre, fiom acting to light
adooted accordimrlv He was interviewed by U. S. Miss Juanita Adams, who says Mancken says the New Englanders re ^l° ns ,c a olnh"nffioorf^TlS irroun plans
aaoptea accordingly. _ News and World Report, a weekly she’s a researcher of history, and didn’t mind it. c The 5 O' 5 / Con ™ rt and P$ ma J S ml ov
If this IS done promptly and patriotically, magazine, on his views about the politics, wrote the Associated Press But during the Civil War Series was favorably opened Mon- ^ a] , . pi chevoT. J
the country will not be forced to proceed future -. They were made P ublic she thinks the word “y^kee” has “yankee” bobbed up again. The day m s ht by leadin s Met s °P rano P loductlon during the yeai -
^ * Inst, nifrht Thpv tint snft a shftHv nast. snntViovnovc LnvlnH if of fV»« ^rv^fV. . . _ . ~
, . , • p , last night. They are not soft, a shady past. southerners hurled it at the north-
from coaxing to coercion, from expedient to They hold out no hope for an She says it started with the In- erners, but there’s no evidence any-
improvisation, as has occurred SO often in ea fjy end to controls or re-arming, dians They were trying to say one was wounded by it.
,. , tx -n n iif. . . . . He wants higher taxes and stiff- English, or its French equivalent, One fesearclier in the word
the past. It Will be able to meet the immed- er curbs on credit to reduce the “Anglois.” By the time the Indians wilds of Arkansas came out with
iate emergency and prepare for any that the dan g er °t inflation which follows got through with it, it came out the information that at least
future may hold.-
Have Just Begun to Fight’. . .
The United States supreme “packed jury”
continues to prove that its actions are well
worth the “fixing” cost to the federal bu
reaucracy. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt
began to shape a Supreme Court for the sole
purpose of approving “New Deal” legisla
tion, the Court has steadily decreased ip its
usefulness as a curb on rash governmental
procedures—the purpose for which it was
created.
Monday, the Supreme Court denied a re
quest by Texas and Louisiana for a rehear
ing of the tidelands controversy. The Court
evidently feels that its four to three decision
granting paramount rights to oil lands under
marginal seas along the Gulf coast to the
federal government has settled the dispute
once and for all. But the honorable justices
forgot that Texas’ history and government
are based on a “fight to the last man” tra
dition.
And Texas statesmen are pledged to ad
here to the tradition.
When he learned of the Court’s refusal
to reconsider the issue, Price Daniel said, “I
am shocked at the Court’s coniplete disre-
gard'of the undisputed errors pointed out in
Texas’ petition for rehearing and at the
Court’s refusal to hear evidence before mak-
The average youngster can tell his, or
her, parents how life should be lived, and
then some.
, T . when people have plenty of money “yankee
New York Herald tribune, to spend and the goods on which When the coloniesi were break-
they can spend it get scarcer.
(The government gave a good
illustration of its thinking last
week. It imposed ccirttrols on
credit buying on Sept. 18. Even
ing a factual determination. tho 5 h now victory in Korea seems
certain, last week the government point at that.
I Will never accept as tmal the tour to revised those Sept. 18 controls and Her version of the birth
some of the natives used it as a
verb. “To yankee” meant “to
Although “yanks” was used back ce i ve 36 cotton originals created
in the 1700’s, the word got its by a £T. 0U P °f outstanding Ameri-
biggest push from George M. can designers.
Cohans’ World War I song, “Over The Maid will spend a month in
Miss Adams seems to have a There,” in which “the yanks are New York City and then will make
coming.” a 64,000-mile tour of the major
and All right. We rule out yankees. cities in the United States, Eng-
ing away from Britain, the Eng
lish called the colonials “yankees”
in derision. And so from the
start, Miss Adams says, “yankee”
has a bad name.
School Receives Contest Offer
TSCW has been invited to enter correct channels. The Twelfth
a contestant in this year’s national Girls say gig ’em, Aggies, ^ let’s
Maid of Cotton competition.
Selection of the national Maid
will be held in Memphis,' Tenn,
Dec. 27-28, and the winner will’re
get with that winning streak!
French Face
National Crisis
Py DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
France is facing a grave
crisis in her war with the
tl-iv’fip decision of the Sunreme Court avainst made them stiffer. early hard times of “yankee” What do we call the troops then? land, France, and six Latin-Amei-
tnree decision OI me supreme uourt against (A . nd just a couple of days before agrees with thc Encyclopedia Brit- Miss Adams says “Americans.” ican countries.
iexas until every eltoit has been made to q slapped controls on down- tanica. But there has been some objection For now, the Tessie activity
get this court to hear the evidence in this payments and pay-up time for the But that old Word Worrier, H. to that because a native of Can- schedule has been more or less Communist guerrillas under
» purchase of one and two-family L. Mencken of Baltimore, has a ada or Honduras is an American, covered. Skirt Tales invites let- General Ho Chi Millh in Illdo-
homes -) different idea. too. ' " ters from Aggies suggesting what China one of the Asiatic hot
Threat Undiminished In his bo °^’ The American Lan- United States? United States- they would like included in this , d 000 tne ii.s dl c
guage, Mencken says “yankee” ians? weekly resume. The holder of Box s P ots -
r As if echoing what Mr. Truman comes from the Dutch. It’s a co*r- See what we’re up against, Miss 2236, TSCW Station, Denton, will The seriousness of the position
ator Connally and Representative Poage, had said in Hawaii, Symington ruption <jf “jap” and “kees.” Or Adams?; pass the suggestions on through is .reflected in the urgent week-end
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Other influential Texans with another
plan of attack will continue the fight. Sen-
said:
Teague, and Pickett joined in criticizing the t<1 hope and thrust the Ame rican
new Supreme Court action. All vowed to re- people will realize that the essen-
double their efforts in the next Congress to war machiS
have a bill passed giving the states owner- and the unpredictable but clearly
ship of the submerged lands. aggressive intention of its N ade l' s >
r ° will in no wise be diminished by
This method of attack seems much more * the situatiwl in
likely to meet success. In 1946, Congress Well, if we’re going to have con-
Civil Service Commission
Lists New Examinations
governments.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
appeal to Washington to speed up
U. S. anns deliveries to the hard
pressed French forces. This re
quest is said to have come from
French Defense Minister Julels
Moch, who is now in this country
seeking aid for his country’s rearm
ament program.
The matter of immediate con
cern is the threat of a fresh Red
The United States Civil Service throughout the United States, its $3,100 per year, bureau of inter- offensive in two or three weeks,
nassprl n hill divine - tho tidelands to Hip ^ ro l s > and a draft! and higher Commission has made its early possessions and territories, and nal revenue, a branch of the Treas- ’The French army of 150,000 has
pdhbeu d Dill g v rig me i eia Ub i H taxes, as we already have, how fall announcements of positions in a few case's foreign countries, ury Department, in the state; also been suffering, and arms are need-
states, but Truman vetoed it. Recent ac- long will they last? A year? open for employment in various Maximum age limits for positions state program assistant with thc ed for this approaching emer-
Hnnc inrUr-nto that i« tirprl nf Trii. Twb years? Federal agencies. paying $3,100 dollars is 35, for the field headquarters of the produc- gency.
• • k fe ^ - Your guess is as good as any- j obs ava j] a bi e j n Washington, $3,825 jobs, 62 years. tion and marketing administration The French request followed
man’s federal power tactics and would wel- one’s. But our top-ranking mili- J) Q upon satisfactory passing of Other jobs in the scientific field at a beginning salary of $3,100 a their abandonment of the inipor-
come the chance to over-ride a veto that tary men are hot thinking in terms the Civil Service examination, are include: jobs as an instructor in year. These jobs are open in Texas, tant position of lhatkhe on the
-• 4. i. of a y ear or two in their P lans junior management assistant, a airplane and engine mechanics at Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, New trontier between Indo-Chma and
would greatly restrict tne ngnts Ot State for a strong U. S. armed force. JqJj p a yjng an entrance salary of the Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado. China. That is the third frontier
They’re thinking of building up $3,100. Also included in this exam- for opening salary of $3,100 per stronghold which the French have
those forces and then maintaining ination will be applicants for jun- annum and a maximum salary of
Texas’ greatest hope lies in the fact that, them for years. ior social science positions. $3,825.
nnlikp thp Simrpmp Tmirt which k rlnmi- These men > hi S h representatives Persons intending to apply for A position is open as scientific
umiKe me oup erne U urt . ^ be arrn y ( naV y an( j a j r f 01 - ce , these positions must have complet- aid in cotton experiments at Me-
nated by, and pays allegiance to, one man, talked over their plans earlier this ed four year college course in the silla Park, N. M. and College Sta-
Pniio-roca iu oW-foH hv the normlo nf thn TTni month with members of the House subject or have had three years of tion, entrance salaries range from f f .■ „ r-m MiniCc
Congress IS elected by the people Ot the Uni- Amed Services Committee. experience as a staff management $2,200 to $3,100 per year; employ- The first meeting of the Phi of frontier ^ento Ho Chi Minh s
ted States and » response to them. 5S. T. teXS S X? M W ^
^ “WhaHwe'are building now ^ade- ^ired^^uTS^ dental hySS "at “es" of ofThe School of Arts'and Sci’enc^ ^ behind CW i s Russia
The best thing about the gool old days quate defense that must be mai , Age^limik ^ 5 ™aUon p| or
ever, age limits will be waived for pr0 fe SS ional ilpjors aw: junior b |nJ aSw te ^ 6 importance’ to the Soviet
veterans. professional assistant in the op- , , d p bloc in the offensive to communize
Positions open to junior scien- tional posts of bacteriologist, eco- p , ' , „ , Asia. Quite apart from other con-
tists and' engineers are;' chemist, nomist, legal assistant, social sci- " , . f du l ° n a ”n s i dera ti° n s» Moscow gains by keep-
physicist, metallurgist, and'engin- enc 6 analyst, statician and textile P P P r s men wd i ing a large force of French troops
eer, at $2,650-$3,825 per year, also technologist. All of these positions also be discussed. tied up there) weakening the
electronic scientist and mathema- are m the state also._ The meeting will be held in Room French defenses in France and
ticiaii at $3,100 a year. These jobs Other professional jobs available 2B of the Memorial Student Cen- forcing the Paris government to
Francisco, Oct. 18—(A’)— are i oca t e d in Washington, D. C., are: zone deputy collector, the ter. make huge military expenditures.
TVi-iwiorUo Follr lucf nio’nf . ! :
lost or abandoned in about a month.
Phi Sitrtri'i And ^^y Saigon dispatches re-
17 Ill 17/ltx ol^lllcl iflcGl ported the abandonment of the
out-
ci , c ms | post of Nacham.
oCt lOl* 1 nursaay This creates a serious situation
because it leaves some 300 miles
is that we were younger then.
tained a long time.”
Truman’s Speech
Broadcast Abroad
San
President Truman’s talk last night
got the fullest coverage of any
— : presidential speech in history.
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Is it a Feast or a Famine?
By A1 Capp
John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt
Dean Reed
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T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists
Bob Hugbson, George Charlton, Tom Rountree, Leon
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News and Feature Writers
Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry Cartoonists
Landrum to Head
Ag Journalists
Bee Landrum was elected presi
dent of the Agricultural Journal
ism Club which was organized
Monday night. The club is open to
any student studying agriculture
who has a special interest in jour
nalism. ‘
Ray Williams, Reger Coslett ' Special Assignments Other officers elected were; L.
Sam Molinary Chief Photographer Q. Tiedt, Vice-prefeldent; John W.
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