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Battalion Editorials
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1950'
Fair Deal May Be Getting Shaky . . .
Sane or Insane?
Sanity Rulings
Confuse Courts
From the Woman’s Point of View
W HAT a quandary the “Fair Dealers” have
wandered into! To convince the Ameri
can people that the Democratic party should
lead our political affairs, the Democrats at
tempted to sell the public the idea that Presi
dent Truman was a great president. But the
“Truman is great” campaign backfired on
some of last week’s candidates. Most of the
Democrats who praised Truman so highly
were decisively beaten at the polls.
Now, most of the Democratic party is
beginning to doubt the effectiveness of us
ing the Fair Deal for gaining votes. Some
of them are beginning to wonder if the
American public will be content to accept
another four years of the “common man’s”
rule. But that is where the rub comes in—
even if the Democratic party as a whole dis
approves of Truman, they must nominate
him for a third term. Since it was the Dem
ocrats who started the trend toward third
terms, to repudiate Truman now would be
an admission that the administration has
been fouled up for the last four years.
And Mr. Harry S. Truman has done his
bit to secure the third term nomination. To
build up his own reputation—to keep from
being challenged by one of his own party—
Truman has dampened the political ambi
tions of his party’s leaders. Neither cabinet
member nor elected representative has been
allowed to grow strong politically.
Since Truman is, at present, the only
Gossip spreads much faster than the
truth: that's why there is so much
talk of scandal and so little about
really important matters.
Just Comparing
A recent visitor to the campus and one
who had also recently visited the University
of Texas made this comparison.
» “There is not much difference between
the University and A&M except girls and
school spirit. A&M has none of the former
and Texas has none of the latter.”
likely candidate, he must have political sup
port from now until he is eventually defeat
ed. For defeat is the only possible way to
rid the Democratic party of the president.
There are people in every communi
ty ivho judge others by the size of ,
their bank account; that gives us
a pretty low rating.
Fisher Optimistic
Over German Recovery
A N OPTIMISTIC note in the propaganda
battle of Western Europe was sounded
by Representative Fisher (D-Tex) who has
just returned from a tour of Europe and
the Middle East. “The best propaganda
against Soviet attempts to Communize East
Germany,” Fisher said, “is in slowness of
recovery in the East zone as contrasted with
progress in the West, where reconstruction
has been phenomenal.”
As an example of the importance of the
“seeing is believing” approach, Representa
tive Fisher cited the recent Agricultural and
Industrial Exhibition that was held in the
West zone of Berlin. The Russians did their
utmost to discourage interest, but in spite
of their efforts 300,000 East Germans
swarmed across the line to see it.
The rapid recovery of Western Europe
will also be good news to the American tax
payer. The Marshall plan has succeeded so
well, according to Fisher, that American aid
can be drastically reduced in the near fu
ture. This progress was in sharp contrast
to the Soviet system based on dark age tac
tics of slavery of body and thought of peo
ple.
Fisher doubted that Atlantic Pact na
tions are making sacrifices comparable to
the United States in rearming. “The Ger
mans,” he continued, “should be integrated
with other European armed forces, but def
initely under no conditions should they be
allowed to establish a separate, independent
armed force.”
Baltimore, Nov. 16—(AP)
—A man knows the differ
ence between right and
wrong. He knows that if he
breaks the law, he may be
punished for it. And he realizes
what punishment would mean to
him.
Then, under the laws of Mary
land and 29 other states, he is
legally sane.
On the other hand, suppose he
knows right from wrong, realizes
the probable consequences of an
illegal act—and then goes ahead
and commits the wrong anyway
because he cannot control his emo
tional urges.
The 30 states have held he is
legally sane, although he is what
psychiatrists term a psychopath,
a man suffering from mental ill
ness that makes him potentially
dangerous to his fellow men.
A Baltimore criminal court jury
heard a case yesterday involving
a youth doctors said was a parti
cularly dangerous, hopeless psycho
path.
It returned a precedent-breaking
verdict of innocent “by reason of
insanity.” Court attaches said it
was the first time a psychopath
had been found innocent on that
grounds in this state. The youth
will be sent to a state mental in
stitution.
T'he case involved 20-year-old
Dolfi Salinger, who had been in
and out of trouble most of his
life. He was tried yesterday on sev
eral charges, including armed rob
bery.
Several psychiatrists termed him
a danger to society. They said he
is uncontrollable, hostile and ag
gressive. One predicted that if he
were not kept under restraint he
would eventually “murder some
body.”
Psychiatrists who examined Sal
inger for the state were agreed
that his mental condition would
meet the legal test of sanity.
Four defense psychiatrists ar
gued, however, that if a person is
emotionally unable to abide by his
intellectual perception of right and
wrong, he does not really “know”
the difference.
Corps Trip Fun
Not Forgotten
Ag Ed Seniors Teach
Two senior agricultural educa
tion majors practiced teaching in
Navasota High School this past
week.
Bob Willis and John H. Hitch
cock helped instructors in the voca
tional i agriculture department of
the high school.
Between GOP and Fair Deal. . .
More Co-operation Expected
! (Editor’s Note: This is the
fourth in a series on election
effects.)
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
1 WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—(A>)—
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) said
today he looks for much closer
foreign policy cooperation between
pemocrats and Republicans as a
.result of GOP gains in the Con
gressional elections.
« “The party division in the Sen
ate, for example, will be so nearly
equal in the New Congress that I
anticipate we are going to get
some good help from the adminis
tration and that it could lead to a
real bi-partisan policy,” Ferguson
said.
One of the points on which there
is likely to be prolonged wrang
ling is a Truman administration
proposal for a new multi-billion
dollar foreign economic program to
take up where the Marshall Plan
leaves off in 1952.
Start Order Given
President Truman was disclosed
yesterday to have directed gov-
ernnment agencies to begin blue
printing this program along the
lines of recommendations submit
ted to him by Gordon Gray, form
er secretary of the army.
Gray’s report, which Mr. Tru
man termed “monumental,” calls
for further economic aid to West
ern Europe after the Marshall
Plan ends, unofficially estimated
at $8,000,000,000 (B) or more.
The job of supervising prepara
tion of a message to Congress on
the subject was given to the Presi
dent’s foreign affairs adviser, W.
Averell Harriman. Mr. Truman was
understood to have directed that
Republican members of Congress
be consulted in shaping the final
recommendations.
Ferguson Still Critical
Ferguson made it clear in an in
terview that he still is critical of
much of the administration’s pre
sent foreign policy, particularly
with respect to the Far East. He
predicted, however, that the elec
tions will cause the administration
to consult more with Republicans.
The balloting last week gave the
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GOP 47 Senate seats in the 82nd
Congress which convenes. Jan. 3,
and the Democrats 49. In the
present Senate there are 54 Dem
ocrat and 42 GOP members. The
elections also whittled the Demo
crats’ majority in the House from
44 to 27.
Ferguson’s forecast regarding
more harmony on foreign policy
took note of deterioration of co
operation between the parties dur
ing the last several months.
Democrats Take Eight Seats
A big factor contributing to that,
Ferguson said, was the Democrats’
decision to take eight places on the
important Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee in the present
Congress. That left the Republi
cans with only five members.
“Next year,” Ferguson added,
“The division will again be seven
Democrats and six Republicans-
That will help produce harmony.”
Ferguson said he is well aware
that many Republicans interpret
the election outcome as a repudia
tion of the administration’s for
eign policy. He indicated he goes
along with that view to a great
extent.
“But I really think the long-run
result will be to narrow and per
haps close the breach rather than
widen it,” Ferguson added.
The Michigan Senator said he
had returned to Washington in ad
vance of the “Lame Duck” session
■of Congress scheduled to start
Nov. 27 to “try to get the facts”
about the situation in the Far
East.
“Critical Turn of Events”
He called intervention by the
Chinese Communists in the Ko
rean W>ar “an extremely critical
turn of events.” It could have been
avoided, he said, if the adminis
tration had insisted in the United
Nations that “Our war aims be
set down in Mack and white a long
time ago.”
“I said at the outset,” Ferguson
declared, “That the United Nations
should have served notice immedi
ately that any country which aided
the North Koreans should be label
ed aggressors, an dall the conse
quences that implies made clear.”
As for what should be done gt
present, Ferguson said:
“I frankly don’t know. I am try
ing to get the facts and it’s a most
difficult job. When I as a senator
am able to get so little informa
tion as to just what our aims are,
it points up how much the general
public has been left in the dark.”
... By Vivian Castleberry
It may be old news now—that Cotton Bowl melee last
weekend—but it’s ever new to Aggies and their supporters
who daily fight and win the battle again and again ... At
the Big Event our heart stopped in unison with other hearts
as the Mustang aerials connected . . . or didn’t . . . and the
Aggie Eleven did absolutely EVERYTHING but pick cotton
in that Big Cotton Bowl . . . We enjoyed the restraint shown
by our two-rows-ahead ten-gallon-hatted neighbor Red Duke
who managed to participate in the yells without leading
them . . . grinned greetings across many rows to John Ogles
by and the lovely lady he had in tow, but was pushed along
with the crowd before we had time to meet her.
•
This Atomic Age: R. D. Saunders gave his wife Kathe
rine a kiss early Monday that exploded right in their
faces. They tell it this way: R. D. drove to school and got
cut. Katherine slid under the wheel and waited for her hus
band’s goodbye kiss. Neither of them took into considera
tion the cold, the friction or the fact that he had grounded
their kiss, but they soon became aware of it! Observers
claim that sparks flew.
•
Company 11 put on best manners for its C. O’s. lady, Sue Mc-
Entire of North Texas State. Now Sue is calling Jim Tom “Mr.
House” just like his Fish do . . . Red and blue beribboned ladies and
their gents in front of a prominent Dallas eating spot spread the carpet
as Aggies and their dates approached . . . After the affair we inched
our way across the greater part of Big D to one of the many Aggie
parties, ours hosted by Helen and Calvin Hodge and attended by Aggie-
exes Patti and Hagie Jones, Freda and Sears Sen tell and Martha and
Arthur Burch, all June ’50 grads.
Now—Saturday and a date with the feathered flock—and our
guest books filled and our voices recovered to help howl another one
to successful completion.
«
New boss at the Robert Reese home is master Robert
Thaddeus who put in his bid for future Aggie enrollment
at St. Joseph Hospital on November 8 . . . Pretty Jean
Robbins, wife of Paul and mother of Robbie, was one of
the four models for Beverly Braley’s style show staged
last week by the Architect Wives Club.
•
Patricia Dilworth, sweetheart of Bill and Rowena Dilworth,
celebrated her fourth birthday recently with 14 young friends at her
College View home with a party . . . Bobby and Gene Bennett’s young
Susie turned four with a party to celebrate the occasion. Her brother
Wayne was in on the honors . . . Emalie Carruthers and Maxine Eng
land showered Bobby Bennett with a surprise party late last week . . .
Wilma and Hall Barrett and Hall III are entertaining Wilma’s Mis
sissippi folks, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spruill and Fritzi this week.
«
College View residents are bemoaning the fate of their
vegetable gardens that died in the wake of last Friday’s
frost. A few carrots, onions, lettuce and spinach survived
the cold, hut most of the carefully tended rows of the 16
gardens succumbed to the Cold Wave.
•
Jane Barret, wife of senior M. E. major Bill, has gone to San
Angelo where she hopes to find employment to. aid the family coffer
during Bill’s “last 6 months and 15 days.” . . . Ann and Tom Robinson
said a reluctant good-bye to Aggieland last weekend, drove over to
Waco where they enrolled in Baylor. Tom will take some specialized
courses in radio engineering not offered at A&M . . . Susie and Dick
Blume are sleeping again these, nights after teaching, their young pup,
Peanut, that the nights are made for slumber, not howling.' (We have
it on good authority that many Angies; have not yet learned this.)
Wishes for a speedy recovery to Edna Welch who is ill
with typhus fever . . . and to young Judy Davis who took
the mumps just in time to keep mom, Peggy Davis, and
sister, Karen, from attending the Aggie-SMU game . . .
Pop Tommie went along anyway.
#
Memoirs of a Ball Game: The day was cold last Friday, but
the Aggie spirit was on fire. Militarily brisk were the cadets on their
way to last classes greeting all and sundry with the resounding “Beat
SM,U.” A small civilian student, hovering, books under his arms,
hands in pockets, on the corner heard the cry again and again. “Beat
SMU! Beat SMU! Beat SMU!” Suddenly came his reply—“Who?
Me?” . . . Then there was the pretty little thing who requested her
Aggie Date: “Honey, get me a flower with red and blue ribbons. They
match my outfit better!”
6)
The hand of friendship to Joyce and Frank Sims on the
death of their infant son . . . and to Paschal and Betty Drake
on the loss of his grandfather.
Skirt Tales.
What Season Is It, j
Christmas or Easter?
By Jean “Stormy” Cloud
Daily Lass-0 Friday Editor
Now that the biggest occasion in the Aggie-1 essie year
is past, books may get a chance again. But, they still stand
to lose because now all eyes are turned toward the hanks-
giving holidays and, a week later, the Aggie slaughter of TU.
This big occasion, of course, was the annual Corps Trip,
Like always, a Tessie was the lucky sweetheart ol. the Corps.
Much fine entertainment and the best football game in the
memory of many made the weekend perfect.
We said earlier that books stood a slim chance. But, we had
forgotten to check the calendar. It seems that the blue slip quiz time
is nigh upon us. This is the time when the profs decide whether or
not we have a chance of passing this and that course.
By Friday We Will Know
By Friday we will know . . . and so will our parents. Die pleas
ant profs will send to said failures and parents of same a message
stating in essence-“What are you doing anyway? As if we didn
know” Then the parents want to know “why?” And no amount of
explaining will suffice. We will tell them that we HAD to go to the
Corps Trip and we HAD to go to A&M for the Arkansas game and
we HAD to go to Dallas and we HAD to go home with the roommate
. . . .' The solution to the whole thing is the adage— School would be
fine were it not for classes.”
Perhaps it would be better if one attended class a little more
often, for February graduation seems not so far away, the way time
is flying. Well, one just has to think about those unpleasant things
and prepare for them . . .
An Optimist, No Less
One freshman Aggie we know doesn’t read the papers very well
. . . doesn’t look at the pictures, either. When introduced to Aggie
Sweetheart Mangum, he said, “Sure, and I’m Cadet Colonel. ’ When
finally convinced that nobody was pulling his leg and that he, a mere
fish, had really met her, he insisted on having his picture made with
Miss Mangum. Said he, “Give me a break. After all, it 11 be four
years before I can escort one on the field and give her the bouquet
and kiss.” Now, there’s an optimist.
More entertainment is on the agenda for the campus this week
Ted Shawn, modern dancer, lecturer, author and instructor, arrived
in the campus this weekend for a performance on Tuesday evening and
two master classes Monday and Wednesday.
Our own Modern Choir members were the C&D artists Monday
night when they gave their first concert of the season. A good voice
was had by all.
Holidays are Just Ahead
Less than a fortnight away comes TSCW’s Thanksgiving holi
days. We’re going home, Aggies, but we’ll be envious of you the fol
lowing week. Last year, it took six months for Turkey Day to arrive
after school opened. So what happens? This time we hardly finished
fall registration when Mother writes to say there’s turkey on the
family table, so come home.
However, we can turn right around and contradict our last state
ment there, after visiting the Dallas department stores this last week
end. What are they celebrating there? Christmas! From somewhere
we heard chimes with caroling. Maybe its time to sit down quick be
fore we’re by-passed by an Easier bunny with firecrackers.
——iTJT
Alma Mater
By Dr. John Ashton
How sweet thy name, O Alma Mater dear!
Though years roll on we feel thy kindly cheer;
When first we came, uncertain in our quest,
Thou welcomed us and took us to thy breast.
As callow Freshmen, prone to every lure,
We learned discretion paid when none too sure!
And yet we found, despite our will to please,
That “fish” are born for Sophomores to tease!
But still we pored and still our wisdom grew:
O happy days we felt were all too few!
And when at last we’d mastered every test,
They christened us an “Aggie” like the rest.
Those football games where Rev put on her show;
That cafe where we loved so much to go;
The old North Gate, our favorite rendezvous;
Those Sabbaths when we knelt in many a pew:
Our teachers’ “jokes” and what they tried to say;
Our first big hike and how we spent the day;
The old drill ground, where spirit always wins —
Where adolescence ends and discipline begins:
Those grassy fields which once our footsteps knew;
Those halls wherein both mind and body grew;
Our comrades true! — all bind us to the past:
Old A.&M., we’re with thee to the last!
To Ate”
the Professor Told Me,
“That stationery is just paper un
til you write a message on it. Then
it becomes a letter. And it’s just
another letter — mere words on
paper — until you sign it.”
“But it still lacks something,” he
continued. “It needs your individ
ual TOUCH. When you PERSON
ALIZE your stationery, you ex
press your personal characteris
tics. Your correspondents can
recognize the real YOU immediate
ly.”
“Personally, I prefer the job that
the Exchange Store does. They
can fix up your stationery to suit
your taste. I’m going over to or
der another box now. Why don’t
you come along and order yours?”
So I did . . .
• • . Why don’t you?
25 SHEETS PERSONALIZED
FOR 50c
THE EXCHANGE STORE
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By Al Capp