Battalion Editorials
Page 2 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950
Of Slaughter and Slogans..,
440 UNDAY DRIVERS frisked merrily ov-
er the highways of Texas at midafter
noon (Sunday) as the state basked in Indian
Summer sunshine.”
The Associated Press teletyped the fore
going lines to member papers yesterday. La
ter in,the day the AP wires carried another
story—one not quite so pleasant to read.
You’ll find that second story on our front
page today. It mentions highways, too —
highways that were littered with the lifeless
bodies of 195 dead and dying Americans who
no longer had reason for thanksgiving.
Texas can only claim nine of the victims
—an unusual boast for our “frisky drivers”.
Last year they accounted for 41 of their fel
low citizens over a four-day Thanksgiving
holiday. But there’s a second chance this
year. And, judging from their 1950 perform
ance to date, Texas drivers may even add
enough next week-end to better the 1949
score.
" Our drivers seem to have set quite a goal
for themselves this year. The Texas Safety
Association estimates that 2400 Texans will
give their lives toward reaching that goal.
That’s 24 per cent more than made the 1,957-
name roster of last year’s traffic fatalities.
Aren’t you glad that you’re not going to
be one of that 2400? For after all, you don’t
intend to be one of them. No one does. The
nine Texans who died this holiday week-end
had no intention of adding their name to the
list.
Texas drivers ruined their planning on
the subject. Texas drivers may disregard
your intentions, too; they may put your
. name under the unpleasant title of “holiday
. traffic deaths.”
Good cause for worry? We think so. But
worrying about the subject won’t accomplish
much more than the good intentions. Texas
drivers with their “high aims” are some
thing we’ve got to do something about. We
intend to do something.
For the next few weeks these pages are
going to tell the facts behind self-destruction
that in a few short decades has claimed more
casualties than all our wars since the Revo
lution. But what’s more, these pages are
going to tell the ways in which that self-
destruction can be halted by offering the
solution to the people that can apply it.
It’s not going to be anything new. Traf
fic tragedy is not a new subject. Phases
such as “broken bodies,” “twisted wreckage,”
“hit-and-run,” “DWI,” “teenicide,” “careen
ing around corners,” . . . they’re standard
American vocabulary—perhaps too standard.
That’s why we want to lift them from the
common-place and let you see them thor
oughly. I
The solution—that’s nothing new either.
It’s contained in a few simple words. Per
haps we should say that it’s contained in
several simple words. These particular
words are slogans. More specifically, they’re
safety slogans.
But words—or the use of words—can’t
solve the problem. It’s only the practice of
the thoughts and ideas contained in the
words that offers the solution.
That’s where we come to the people that
can apply the solution. Those people are the
drivers, the pedestrians, the persons who
don’t want to share the fate of last year’s
31,800 American traffic victims. Those peo
ple are you.
And that is why we are going to preach
safety. It’s up to you to practice it.
When we tell you that over 60 percent of
all motor vehicle accidents last year involved
only one car and one driver, it’ll be up to
you to insure that you don’t fit into the cat
egory of being your own worst enemy.
When we list the causes for most traffic
disasters, it’ll be up to you to learn from the
mistakes of others. Remember, you can’t
live long enough to make them all yourself.
And when we check the results of our
safety campaign—and those of many other
persons and organizations—it’ll be up to you
to tell us we’ve been successful.
Help us make safety a fact—not a slogan.
‘HeartMachine’
: Makes Surgery
Much Surer
Houston, Nov. 27 — (#*) — The
coming' thing' in the field of sur
gery is a mechanical heart and
lung that will perform the work
of the natural organs, the South
Texas post graduate medical as
sembly was told last week.
The instrument draws the blood
out of the venal system, oxygen
izes it, and pumps it back into the
body through the arterial system.
Its importance cannot be over
emphasized in advance in heart
surgery, Ur. John H. Gibbons,
professor of surgery and director
ol surgical research at Jefferson
.Medical College in Philadelphia,
Jtokl the assembly at its closing ses
sion this afternoon.
When perfected, he said, the ap
paratus will make it possible to
-operate on the innermost part of
the heart without fatal loss of
blood.
It will also be used for patients
with heart or lung failure, he said,
SILENT ALLY
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by Ralph Stein
Take Us?—‘Only Over
Our Dead Bodies’-Tito
Margie Says So
• • •
Low-necked Gowns
Help Keep Hubby
(Editor’s Note: Premier Marshal
Tito, symbol of the break in the
chain of Communist solidarity,
stands at a crossroads today. With
Yugoslavia suffering from the
worst drought in her history, the
big question today is: Can Tito
hold out against his economic trou
bles and the heavy pressure of
Soviet Russia? President Truman
has told congressional leaders it
is of vital importance that Yugo
slavia, with her powerful armed
force, be kept from falling into
the Moscow fold.)
(How does Tito himself assess
his chances? In this exclusive
question and answer interview,
veteran AP correspondent Alex
H. Singleton probes into Tito’s
views of his own position and his
prospects for the future.)
Belgrade, Nov. 24—(A 5 )—Premier
Marshal Josip Broz Tito said yes
terday Yugoslavia never will be
conquered “except over the dead
bodies of its people.” He asserted
that “if our independence is threat
ened even more” by the Russian-
led cominform countries “we shall
buy arms from the West.”
In a Thanksgiving Day interview
with the Associated Press, Tito ex
pressed his appreciation for pros
pective American aid, but said he
hoped it would come soon to re
lieve the hunger here resulting
from one of the worst droughts in
the country's history.
Dapper in a light grey flan
nel suit, Tito showed no signs of
worry over the possibility that
Russia or the cominform coun
tries under satellite control will
invade this, nation soon in their
expansionist campaign.
At no point did he show any sign
of retreat from his position that
Yugoslavia must be regarded as
an “equal partner” in any rela
tions either with the East or west
on political or economic questions.
While he talked, THo chain
smoked from a small pipe holding
a home cigarette which one day
Yugoslavia hopes to export in large
quantities. He discussed frankly
Yugoslavia’s current situation
without advance notice of the ques
tions put to him.
He dealt clearly with the ques
tion of what Yugoslavia will do if
Russia decides upon an invasion in
an effort to break Tito’s regime
and bring Yugoslavia under its
rule after a split which already
has lasted more than two years.
Tito, himself, showed no per
sonal sign of disturbance over
such a prospect. He took a deep
puff on his cigarette and re
marked: “We have an old say
ing in Yugoslavia—only over our
dead bodies.”
A member of his staff brought in
glasses of slivovica, rakia, brandy
and coffee. The Marshal drank but
little. He listened to questions in
tently and he came up with quick
answers.
The questions and answers rang
ed all the way from Yugoslavia’s
present needs—military, political
and economic—to those involving
the country’s manpower and how
he. plans to use it in Yugoslavia’s
current economic difficulties.
Many of these questions will
come up again soon when Con
gress takes up a bill proposed
by President Truman to pro
vide Yugoslavia with something
between $80,000,000 and $105,-
000,000 to tide the country over
until the next harvest.
The questions and answers fol
low:
1. How much does the country
need in addition to the $105,000,-
000 worth of foodstuffs requested
from the United States?
A. Of course, the $105,000,000
cannot make up for everything we
lost in this year’s harvest, but the
application of measures we have
undertaken, like economy drives
and reducing supplies, will make it
possible for us to get through this
period until the next harvest, al
though not easily. ].&
Naval Commissions
Opened to Civilians
Authority has been granted the
Navy Recruiting Station of Dallas
to open procurement for civilian
candidates for appointment as of
ficers in the Naval Reserve, ac
cording to Lt. Cmdr. H. Heine Jr., ’
officer in charge.
Qualifications for the commis
sions vary with the special require
ments necessary in each program, 1
the Commander continued.
TODAY thru WEDNESDAY'
warner bros:
By JIM BECKER
New York, Nov. 27 — UP) — If
more women wore low cut night
gowns to bed, the divorce rate
wouldn’t be so high, says Margie
Richardson.
That advice goes for single girls
as well as married ones, adds Mar
gie, a tall, curvy red-haired model
who specializes in posing in bed
room attire.
“If a girl gets in the habit of
lookng attractive when she goes
to bed even before she’s married,”
Margie explains, “she’ll keep it up
after the wedding day. That would
save a lot of marriages.”
Margie recommends a long,
slinky nightgown with plunging
neckline as the best sleeping
garment. “Pajamas are nice,”
she says, “but the tops always
crawl up around the neck.
“And as for sleeping in the nude,
I think that’s a terrible mistake.
It’s not as glamorous as sleeping
in something soft and clinging, and
besides you might catch cold.”
Margie, although she’s single,
has some ideas on what the well-
dressed man should wear at night
in bed.
“I think men, too, should look
attractive when they go to bed,”
she says. “They should wear pa
jamas, or even night shirts. I think
night shirts are cute.
“After all,” says Margie,
“there’s no reason why both men
and women shouldn’t look just as
attractive when they go to bed
as they do when they go to the
office. It’s good for morale.”
Margie, who is a size 12, has a
36-inch bust, 25-inch waist, 35-inch
hips and is five feet, eight inches
tall, says her own preference in
nightgowns runs to nylon and
crepe.
“I like nylon best because it
clings.”
She has another twist on bed
room beauty.
“I even wear jewelry when I
go to bed—-a necklace or a pine
in my hair. I’ve gotten loads of
compliments from my girl
friends who have started to copy
the idea.”
Because she has made such a
study of bedroom attire and has
posed for so many pictures in
nightgowns, Margie has been nam
ed “Miss Under Cover Girl,” by a
famous fashion designer of Mila
dy’s Night Time Apparel (Terris).
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Tessie Lauds Spirit
Symbolized by Bonfire
Editor, The Battalion:
Visitors on campus this weekend
found both the bonfire and the
12th man spirit very impressive.
To you who are the 12th Man,
to you who are “Ole Army,” many
things connected with the building
of the bonfire are probably taken
for granted, but visitors were im
pressed by such things as the
size.of the bonfire, America’s lar
gest—the spirit with which the
corps plunged in to saw the logs or
tree trunks, hoist or push them
into position, stand guard over
each progressive stage of the bon
fire.
To visitors, this traditional bon
fire symbolizes the unity for which
A&M is noted, the underlying
brotherhood of one Aggie to an
other, and the spirit which IS Ag-
gielaad.
Speaking as a Tessie, a member
of the sister school, I am proud—
very proud of A&M—and proud to
share in the spirit which, I feel,
makes Aggieland the great school
that it is.
A. Caughey
Poiiltrymen Allend
Chicago Contesl
Three A&M poultry husbandry
majors; Dick Taylor, Karl Meyers,
and Jack Elwell left Friday morn
ing for Chicago to participate in
the Intercollegiate Poultry Judg
ing Contest.
Their coach. E. D. Parnell, pro
fessor of poultry husbandry, ac
companied them. The team will
practice judging at Oklahoma
A&M and the University of Miss
ouri dining the trip.
They, will return Dec. 2. Last
yeart t^e judging team won first
place in Chicago.
—Last Day-
Marie Wilson — Ivan Lund
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and . . .
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