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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1950
With Boyle In Korea
MAKING IT TOUGHER FOR HJMSELF
Approaching Perfection...
Terrific Tank Battle
Fought, No Y anks Lost
H OW NEAR perfect can a Corps trip get ?
Not much nearer than the one we have
just had.
Yes, this was the one-in-a-million adven
ture that Aggies dream about as Fish and
experience before they graduate—if they’re
Some wives are like fishermen.
They think the best got away.
Let Them Mind
Their Own Affairs
A ND if my ways are not as theirs
Let them mind their own affairs.
Their deeds I judge and much condemn,
Yet when did I make laws for them?
Please yourselves, say I, and they
Need only look the other way.
But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will.
— A. E. Housman
One of the outstanding points to be
gained from the study of history is the re
alization of man’s constant fight for control
of others. The United States owes its ex
istence to people who fled this control by
man. But the pitiful fact is that these
same pilgrims who fled to the New World to
gain religious freedom were at the same time
religious bigots. Their seemingly inborn love
of oppression far outweighed any sympathy
they might have had for others who were
denied religious freedom.
At this very time, our nation is engaged
in a war to help preserve democracy, the
rights of the individual. But while thous
ands of young Americans are giving their
lives in the fight for the preservation of per
sonal freedom, some of our leaders at home
are waging a fight to limit these rights.
In the past few weeks, Dallas pastors
have sought to force the closing of grocery
stores on Sunday. The campaign was begun
by the Dallas Retail Grocers Association. To
give an air of sanctity to the drive, they
asked the help of Dallas religious leaders.
And the pastors responded eagerly. As yet,
they have not been successful but they give
no indication that they are ready to give up''
the fight.
Service stations, theatres, and restau
rants have not yet been attacked. (Perhaps
too many people enjoy “eating out” after
church on Sunday morning.) The attack
has been concentrated at the small “cash and
carry” neighborhood groceries that supply
that quart of milk or loaf of bread you for
got to buy on Saturday.
Ours is not to judge the ethics or morals
of Sunday trade. We just think it is an in
dividual matter to be decided by the grocer.
The men who wrote our constitution obvious
ly thought so too. The first provision of the
first amendment in the Bill of Rights—Con
gress shall make no law respecting an estab
lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof.
as lucky as we are.
Beginning with Tessieland’s “starting
gun” dance and continuing through the long
ride home yesterday afternoon, this trip was
truly the best yet.
We heard more complimentary remarks
directed toward A&M and the Aggies than
we ever have heard before, anywhere. Most
numerous of these praised our sportsmanlike
conduct, off the football field as well as on.
. It goes without saying that the game was
one of the cleanest, hardest fought contests
in many years, but it may have gone unno
ticed by some that the same spirit was evi
dent throughout the weekend.
Most noticeable was the feeling of friend
ly competition among the more than 70,000
shivering, yelling, and excited fans. Not one
fight did we see. There may have been some,
but they were kept under cover.
SMU students and fans were sad at the
loss, but they readily acknowledged losing
to a team that fought for everything it
received. We hope it would have been the
same, h$d the score been the other way.
Discounting that it was the most thrilling
contest run-off in many football seasons, the
game was letter perfect in every aspect. Oth
er than being a little cool on the Cotton
Bowl’s shady side, the Dallas weather was
“ready-made” for football playing. Add to
that a full stadium and half-time activities
so elaborate as to be a complete show in
themselves.
Now, pre-view all that with a two-school
main street parade complete with military
units from both, and a convoy of beautiful
floats adorned with SMU’s top feminine love
liness.
Follow this with Sunday morning news
papers telling the world that A&M DOES
have a football team and that Bob Smith IS
an All-American player. Even the Dallas
papers admitted it. We had wondered when
they would.
Yes, it was a wonderful weekend. We
have a right to be happy, and, we think, to
pat ourselves on the back. We proved to
any doubters that we knew the meaning of
the words “good sportsmanship,” and that
we can put them into practice. Such a dis
play won’t soon be forgotten. People from
over the nation went back to their homes
with the words “A&M” and “Aggies” tast
ing pleasant on their lips. Words from a
hundred publicity men’s typewriters could
never duplicate what the Aggies accom
plished in Dallas this weekend.
We feel mighty good today as a result of
it all. We hope you do too.
Like we said, how near perfect can a
Corps trip get?
By HAL BOYLE
saici Capt Norman Brown, Woods- tank fired it was like a big orange
With U. S. 24th Division, Korea,
Nov. 13—<A > )—Without the death
of a single American soldier, a U.
S. battalion trailed a retreating en
emy column by the sound of its
clanking track treads and destroyed
it in a three-hour night battle
fought at point-blank range.
It was a dramatic cowboy-and-
Indian type chase in darkness and
moonlight fought on the escape
road to Manchuria.
After being pursued 13-miles the
fleeing Red column of seven tanks
and 500 North Korean infantrymen
turned and tried an Indian am
bush.
They employed small arms fire
which two veteran officers said
was “the heaviest we have seen
in two wars.” But the Americans
defeated it by throwing their
own artillery and mortars into
action in record time. And dawn
revealed this box score:
ville, N. H.
“But we decided to let him go
It was better to keep rolling and a ]j bounced off.”
ball coming our way. They made
several hits on our tanks—but they
catch the main force, recalled Er- Within 10 minutes the American
nest D. MacDonald, 118 N. Dakota mortars were in position and firing,
St., Vermillion, S. D.
That battalion wheeled into
Kwaksan and caught a North
Korean tank crew and officer
who said they were going back
to help this, tank stuck in the
woods.
Two miles beyond Kwaksan the
battalion killed two North Koreans
and captured two more. The bat-
within 34 minutes the artillery at
the end of the column pulled back
of Kwaksan, got into place and
was firing.
“Without bragging,” said the
quiet Perez, “we feel that is bet
ter than the book says you can
do in a night action.
“At daylight we found the ene
my had scattered. “He took his
talion staff and the regimental wounded with him—about a hun-
commander, CoL Richard W. Steph- (] rec i—^ u (- left behind 50 dead plus
ens, Pierre, S. D., moved up to the five knocked-out tanks; one self
head of the column to question the propelled gun and seven anti-tank
prisoners. They were told seven
tanks but no infantry were ahead.
“We decided we had trailed them
far enough and were about to
mount everything and go after
them at 20 miles an hour” said Pe
rez. “Then the roof fell in.”
guns.
Reds—five tanks destroyed and
the other two missing. Fifty dead
infantrymen, at least 100 estimated
wounded, and the rest dispersed
and running.
The Americans—24 men wound
ed, none seriously, and none killed.
The battle—One of the larger
night actions of the Korean cam
The long straight road sudden
ly turned into a lacework of
flame. The two prisoners had
lied. Seven enemy tanks had
turned in an ambush. And they
were supported by 500 enemy in
fantrymen in the hills.
Stephens, who has been through,
ambushes before, hit the ditch with
Juvenile Offenders Now Get
Break, ’ Better Treatment
By MILTON KELLY
Washington, Nov. 13—VP)—One
of the nation’s newest laws arms
paign-
took place Oct 31 The his battalion staff and they crawled the b ederal Courts with broad pow-
■tOOK pidCe UCC. Ol. ine , • J .. . ors to sppIc and +nv In p.ivo linn
24th Division’s 21st regiment was and ran back to their radio jeeps
on a breakthrough drive that took to direct the fight,
it within 14 air miles of the Man- It turned out to be a battle for
churian border before it was or- text booksi on night combat,
dered back after the appearance “As soon as they hit we started
of Chinese Communist troops on its hitting them,” said Perez. “The
right flank.
The story of the Hallowe’en
engagement—the enemy produc
ed everything but witches on
ers to seek and try to cure the
causes of juvenile delinquency.
job will be to try to find out what
made a boy or girl go wrong, and
try to figure out how to get the
youngster back on the right track.
The judge can accept or reject
any part or all of this advice. It
v/j. 1 u. V UCJUUU UCIl^V. n i • j • i.* ’
The federal judges asked for it alI ° WS ^ t0 r f°8' m f emotional
-enough of them, at least, to and , mental upset short of insanity
convince Congress at the session a, } d , tu ™ t he over to spec-
ended in September. lalists for treatment.
f , , . . . They contended they were ad- ' ^ can ’ lf . J 0 chao f? s - + hel P to
telephone wires were singing like ministeri something far short ^ the lad a job, send him to some
harps overhead as the bullets hit f • .• 6 , - - - -- - cpUppI tn iptn-n •> i-vqUp m- f,nri i-mn
them. We fired flash for flash. ^
broomsticks—was told for the
first time today by a group of
battalion officers relaxing on
cots in an abandoned Korean
peasant home.
“Their lead tank was only 300
yards away. And every time a
justice to youthful offenders,
and that it was high time to amend
the laws and give the wayward
kids a better break.
Backed by Justice Dept.
A wintry wind seeped through
cracks in the yellow clay walls as
they talked.
“We passed through Chongju
just at dark,” said Lt. Col. Gines
Perez, battalion commander, of San
Antonio, Tex. “The British had
Who’s Who Lists
Hill and Williams
John W. Hill and E. L. Williams,
The Justice Department backed
them, contending seven of every 10
youngsters sent to corrective in
stitutions come out as “hardened
criminals,” and that the old proba
tion laws were of little benefit.
The American Bar Association,
American Legion groups and Su
preme Court justices threw support
school to learn a trade or find him
a better home—do any of a var
iety of things—while requiring
long-term, skilled supervision so
that different type of help may be
substituted if the first guess was
wrong.
Parole Board Changed
The measure reorganizes the
federal parole board, shifting auth-
youth over to the corrections divi
sion for four years of “supervision
and treatment;” keep him under
specially supervised probation for
periods up to 10 years even after
the lad passes the age of 21, or at
any time revoke this order and
commit him to an institution if
probation produces no results. Or,
he could pronounce a sentence to a
prison, reformatory or training
school, without relying on the new
law.
Chief Judge Bolitha J. L^ws,
of the District of Columbia Fede
ral Court endorsing the change,
had told a Senate committee on
Oct. 5;
“On Friday of this week, I have
17 sentences to impose. Many of
them have pleaded guilty before
me. I have spent no time with
them; I have seen some for 30 sec-
ority to appoint members from ^the on( ] S) perhaps. 1 have to pass upon
matter that effects their entire
career, using a short report of a
just taken the town but houses on are P,. in Tn , e 'TTl TV™ m 10 tne ' ^ linaily passea, draw,
both sides of the road were burn- Veterans of Safety. Hill is mg small attention m the pre-ad
ing. And the enemy on the hills the director of^Woikeis Compen- journment^rush
were still mortaring it.”
Attorney General to the President
and requiring Senate approval of
his selections. It increases the probation officer obtained within
a week, which is totally incomplete
and totally inadequate.’’ He said
sation here. Williams is the vice-
. ,, , director of the Engineering Ex-
As the two and a half mile long t ens j on Service.
battalion column drove through
flaming Chongju it heard the rum
ble of withdrawing North Korean
tanks.
The American column set out
in pursuit. Half the doughboys
rode in the freezing night on the
tanks and artillery vehicles and
the other half walked. After a
few miles those on foot climbed
on the vehicles and the others
got off and walked.
“We kept healing the enemy
tanks ahead of us and every once
in . a while they would halt and
fire,” said Maj. C. B. Myers, Luf
kin, Tex.
“Yes, and about midnight we
heard one tank that had become
stuck in the woods to one side,”
The Veterans of Safety is a na
tional association which provides
contact for people who have de
voted 15 years or more of their
increases
board from five members to eight.
Within the board it creates a
youth corrections division to take
The old laws gave a judge auth- active hold of the program. Various
ority to send a guilty youth to members of the Parole Board will
some federal institution, or place constitute the division. Aiding the — * , „—
hi mon probation for anywhere up division will be an advisory cor- care is taken in deciding to what
to a couple of yeafs.'Tt allowed' no ccettons council, composed of a fed- job a man should be .assigned than
middle course. ei ‘. a l circuit judge, two U. S. dis- the courts could take under the
The new one provides that mid- trict judges, and non-judges to plan old law to determine whether to
it hurt his conscience.
Comparison Made
In some prisons, he, sai,(J, .mote
life to the cause of human conser- die course, while preserving also a long time war on juvenile delin- incarcerate a convicted youth.
vation.
The association tries to further
develop and maintain the profes
sors of safety engineers and to
assist schools of engineering, and
trade schools in the teaching of
the profession of safety engineer
ing.
the right to sentence as before.
Clinic Analyzes Cases
quency and recommend improve- m, T ,. T , ^ ,
ment of the laws he Justice Department told a
It defines a youth offender a S SffsmdlS to make'tS
Under it, however, before pro- anyone up to and including the age mo£rram e ff ecti P ’ lost too muc I
nouncing sentence the judge can of 21. (The judges wanted it to 3 in cSlv blundSs!
send a youngster to a sort of clinic apply to 22 and 23-year-olds, too, it. awaito now HnnototL,!* of the
where specialists can take a month but Congress said “no ).
or more to analyze the case. Their A judge could simply turn a
Here Is What Last Week’s
Election Means to Congress
It awaits now appointment of the
new Parole Board before moving
to recruit the doctors and others
who will aid in the program.
Its next step then will be to set
up a “clinic,” properly styled a
classification examination. Ulti
mately more of these will be set
up, the department says. Location
of these agencies has not been de
termined yet.
Tibet Demands
People who plan for their future
usually succeed better than those
who do not, but there is no Imv
ivhich requires you to make such
plans.
Withdrawal Of
(Editor’s Note: This is the
first in a series on the possible
effects Tuesdays’ election will
have on the nation, on Congress,
the president and his cabinet, and
on you.)
By JAMES MARLOW
Chinese Reds
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John Whitmore, L. O. Tiedt Managing Editors
Frank N. Manitzas Sports Editor
Jerry Zuber Campus Editor
Joel Austin City Editor
Today’s Issue
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Joel Austin City News Editor
New Delhi, Nov. 13—(AP)
—Tibet was reported yester
day to have demanded for-
nallv that Communist China
leader Mao Tze-Tung pull his
invading troops back to the Chin-
ese-Tibetan border.
The demand was said to have
been sent to the Chinese diplomatic
representative here by a seven-man
Tibetan delegation mow in India.
Tibetan Finance Minister Tsepon
Shakabpa was quoted as saying the
latest telegraphic messages for the
government of Tibet’s 16-year-old
Dalai Lama reported all was peace
ful and life normal in the capital
at Lhasa.
The Indian government, mean
while, is puzzlied by an apparent
slowdown in Chinese operations in
side Tibet. Since their capture last
month of the important caravan
center of Chamdo, 40 miles inside
Tibet and some 350 air miles from
Lhasa, their drive toward the mon-
astry capital has shown little pro
gress. Unofficial reports say Red
troops are still 120 air miles from
the capital.
An Indian foreign ministry
source said his government feels
the invaders may have slowed down
to regroup for drives through the
snow'-bound 14,000-foot mountain
Washington, Nov. 13 — (TP) — If
you’re wondering what Tuesday’s
elections mean in Congress, here’s
a brief fill-in.
The Congress due back here this
month is the 81st—elected in 1948
—and not the 82nd, which you vot
ed for Tuesday.
The two-year term of the 81st,
which began at noon, Jan. 3, 1949,
ends just before noon, Jan. 3, 1951.
And at noon next Jan. 3 the 82nd
Congress begins its two-year term.
These committees, of course, are
of the utmost importance since
it’s in them that new laws get
their start. For example:
If the 82nd Congress raises in
come taxes, committees will first
cxaminq the whole problem.
And,if the full Congress votes an
increase, the size and details will
be pretty much what the commit
tees decide they should be.
posal for compulsory health insur
ance.
In the 81st Congress, where the
Democrats majority was larger,
this health program got exactly no
where because too many Democrats
joined with too many Republicans
in opposing it. Now it will have
even less chance.
Letters
Senior Opposed To
War Hymn Change
‘Catch’ For President
Keep Majority
In the 81st the Democrats had
a majority over the Republicans.
They’ll keep it in the 82nd, but
slimmer, as a result of this week’s
elections.
This majority gives the Demo
crats a position of power. But be
cause it’s slim, they won’t be able
to ram through any legislation they
please.
For example—because they’re in
a majority, the Democrats will
have a majority on all committees.
And all committee chairmen will
be Democrats.
But for President Truman and
his followers there’s a catch in all
this: for instance, take the Senate
in the 82nd Congress.
There the Democrats will out
number the Republicans only 49
to 47. Any time the Republicans
show up in full strength and the
Democrats are minus three votes,
the Republicans’ vote will be de
cisive.
But more than that: it’s seldom
that Democrats and Republicans
line up solidly and vote solidly as
a party.
And the narrower the margin be
tween Democrats and Republicans
at the start of a vote, the worse
the chance for Mr. Truman’s ideas
to get through since a few switches
by the Democrats will help the Re
publicans.
Affect on Issues
You can see what that means in
something like Mr. Truman’s pro-
And on some issues, like civil
rights, there’ll be even smaller
chance for the Trumanites to do
anything.
On civil rights the southern Dem
ocrats break away from the Tru
man Democrats. Any time they do
that, the Trumanites wind up in a
minority.
And on foreign affairs the Re
publicans — because of the slim
margin between them and the Dem
ocrats are in a stronger position
now ta have a hand in what’s done.
You can see why:
Mr. Truman’s advisers, in the de
fense and state departments, may
come up with a program in the
foreign field.
But almost any program costs
money which has to be voted by
Congress. This means Congress
can put strong limits on any such
program.
Being more powerful than they
were in the 81st Congress, the Re-
publicans can pretty much vote a
stop or go-ahead signal in the
82nd.
Editor, The Battalion:
I think Mrs. Pee Wee Smith’}
suggested change to the “Aggk
War Hymn” stinks! I don’t agre*
with anybody who thinks the “War
Hymn” ought to be altered or re
vamped. The Aggie team (football
or otherwise) should have enough
intelligence to know that regardless
of the verse about T.U., the “War
Hymn” puts emphasis on the game
they are playing when it is sung
by the Corps. It is a war hymn, and
regardless of the wqi'ds, should
serve to put fire and renewed
strength into both the team and the
corps, especially when they are be
hind. The “War Hymn” has served
this purpose for many years.
I like tradition! Wc changed the
name of our annual and day by day
someone tries to stamp out another
long - standing Aggie tradition.
Shall they all die? Let’s put a
screaming halt to this talk about
changing the “Aggie War Hymn”!
Beat the hell outa Rice! . . •
Robert E. “Rip” Martin ’51
U’L ABNER
Dis is Hard to Believe
By AJ Capp
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Bob Hnsrhson, George Charlton, Tom Rountree, Leon
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Hildebrand, Jerry Fontaine, Jack Fontaine
News and Feature Writers
Ray Williams. Roger Coslett
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Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry
Cartoonists
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Autrey Frederick Advertising Manager
Russell Hagens, Frank Thurmond.. Advertising Representatives
passes.
There is also the possibility that
Peiping may have changed its plans
in the face of India’s second note
of protest against the armed inva
sion of Tibet.
Tibet was reported to have dis
patched an urgent request that the
United Nations intervene, but a
foreign office source here said
nothing was known about the
whereabouts of that note.
U. N. ofieials 'say they have
not received it.
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