Battalion Editorials
by Ralph Stein
Page 2
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950
Dollars Go a Long Way. . .
Y ESTERDAY afternoon as we opened our post office boxes we bound an envelope with
this year’s Christmas seals and a request for a dollar or two to help stamp out one of
humanity’s most dreaded disease—Tuberculosis.
As a harbinger of the Yuletide the bright green, red and
yellow seals allow us ( to give and receive.
We are helping to meet the tremendous cost of the age
old disease, which yearly costs Americans $350 million—and
that is a 'high tribute to pay a disease.
But money alone can’t pay for the wracking pain, hours
of solitude, wrecking of careers, and finally the agony of
death.
It can go a long way towards stamping the disease out
through the maintainence of sanitoriums, hospitals, doctors,
and mass X-Rays.
Only last year there were 28 persons in this county
treated for Tuberculosis. Out if this number, 12 of them
found out they had tuberculosis from the free chest X-ray work done in the Spring each
year.
All of this is fine. It adds up to the spirit of giving, like you would for any other
charity.
But by donating to the Tuberculosis Association we are able to have our cake and
eat it too. Tuberculosis has no respect for age, or station in life. The TB Association might
takq the same dollar you donated, with others collected all over the country, and save your
lives.
TB-THE KILLER
No one is immune to TB. It
may strike at any age. It kills
at the rate of
one person every
13 minutes, causes
more than 40,000
deaths in our
country a year.
Help fight TB by
supporting your
tuberculosis asso
ciation.
Buy and Use Christmas Seals
Socialized Medicine: Lost Freedom
• 41 •
O N ITS front page Sunday, the Daily Tex
an, which has gained statewide notoriety
for its Fair-Dealing editorial policy, carried
a story on a health insurance discussion at
the University’s Graduate Student’s Club.
Two of Texas University’s professors spoke
on the most "important social issue of the
day.” And both of them were in support of
an American version of Britain’s socialized
medicine.
Dr. Carl Rosenquist, professor of sociol
ogy, attacked the American Medical Asso
ciation and its campaign slogan, "The vol
unteer way is the American way.”
The other speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Boden-
stein, instructor of German and a native of
England, explained socialized medicine in
Britain. While she still supported compul
sory governmental health insurance, Mrs.
Bodenstein had actually seen socialized med
icine in action so she wasn’t quite so starry-
eyed about it. “The plan has many disad
vantages,” said Mrs. Bodenstein. "That it
takes a lot of extra time to get attention is
one of its biggest disadvantages.” Also,
neurotics and those who always want some
thing for nothing have caused the doctors
a lot of trouble, she explained. A third dis
advantage she pointed out was that the plan
had caused overcrowding and had cut out
entirely a doctor-patient relationship.
From what we read of their arguments,
the professors’ speeches only served to con
vince us more than ever that socialization
would only intensify our medical problems
here in America.
The biggest problem that we face in med
ical care in America is lack of doctors, nur
ses, hospitals, and equipment, not individual
lack of money. Therefore, if socialization
brought on overcrowding in England, it
would be nearly disastrous here. A more
reasonable answer to the problem would be
to increase the number of doctors. And that
can be accomplished in a democratic way—
increase scholarships and trust funds to help
send qualified but financially embarrassed
students through medical school. This plan
has already been proved in the fields of agri
cultural and engineering.
And we agree with the AMA that “The
voluntary way is the American way.” Af
ter we give up our individual rights in the
field of medicine, what is to prevent the
gradual socialization of other professions
and businesses? Medicine had hardly been
taken over by the government before Eng
land was socializing legal aid. James Mad
ison warned long ago of these gradual usurp
ations of liberties, “Since the general civil
ization of mankind, I believe there are more
instances of the abridgment of the freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroach
ments of those in power than by violent and
sudden usurpations.”
Civilian Defense Plans
Have Been Neglected
Skirt Tales . . .
Tess Likes Idea
Of Date Bureau
For Xmas Dance
Letters to the Editor
(Editor’s Note: Letters appear
ing in this column today were de-
liveted to the Battalion as much
as two weeks ago, but were,
unfortunately, placed in a sel
dom used mailbox outside our
door.
(They were found yesterday
afternoon and appear today with
apologies to their authors. Oh
yes, the troublesome mailbox
has been removed.)
‘War Hymn’ Problem
Solves Itself
Editor, The Battalion:
For the last month
have
heard countless arguments, let
ters to the editor, etc. concerning
the “War Hymn.”
Wc believe we have a solution
to this problem If anyone will
take the time or trouble to look
up the words to the “War Hymn”
he will find that Mr, J. V. (Pinky)
Wilson wrote the first verse as
follows:
All Hail to dear old Texas A&M
Rally around the maroon and
white
Good luck to dear old Texas
Aggies
They are the boys that show
the real old fight
That good old Aggie spirit
thrills us
And makes us yell and yell and
yell
So all hail to dear old Texas
A&M
We’re going to beat you all to—
Chiggaraagarem
Chiggaraagarem
Rough! Tough!
Real! Stuff!
Texas A&M
This verse, though never sung
is still nevertheless the “War
Hymn.” By singing it at yell prac
tices and football games we believe
that Aggies traditions will be up
held and also this verse will suit-
(See WAR HYMN, Page 6)
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Daily Lass-0 Friday Editor
TSCW, Denton, Tex., Dec. 6—I guess you turkey-stuffed
Aggies are glad to be back at the books? Of course.
Your’re back just in time to rest up a bit before taking
off this way for the freshman-junior sponsored Christmas
Dance in the UB Ballroom. The Daily Lass-0 has had quer
ies from Aggies wanting dates for the dance. We’d like to
help, but we haven’t our date bureau license yet. We hear
that the junior classes of A&M and TSCW are setting up
such a bureau.
Santa and his Toyland will ap
pear at the dance where as usual,
Aggie boots and pinks will out
number dark blue suits and tux.
Music will be provided by the
TSCW Screnadcrs, and they have
a couple of novelty numbers plan
ned.
As the theme of the dance would
indicate, the time for the little man
with the beard to creep down our
chimneys is not far off and we
have a gift suggestion. Why not a
subscription to the Daily Lass-0
for the roommate?
Laughton Lectures
The campus is eagerly awaiting
the lecturing visit of Charles
Laughton, noted Thespian, due
here Friday night on the Concert
and Drama Series. Wje’fe certain
ly turning cultural these days. Our
primitive art exhibit opened for
mally Sunday. Sponsored by the
Art Department, part of the ob
jects are on permanent loan to
the college for the Art Building
galleries.
North Texas State got into the
spirit by presenting Rubinoff and-
his violin Monday night. And, the
College Symphony made its first
appearance of the year in an an
nual concert Monday in the Main
Auditorium.
And, another entertainment
soon, the annual presentation of
the “Story of the Nativity” is
scheduled for three performances
Sunday and Monday. This will be
the fifteenth year for the play,
written by President Emeritus L.
H. Hubbard. It’s well worth stay
ing over for after the dance. The
pageant is one of the many tra
ditions which keep President Hub-
hard very much with us even
through he left the college in Sept
ember.
We’re barricading all windows
and doors in preparation for a
visit from a deluge of high school
journalists due on the campus this
week. The Texas High School Press
Association will meet in convention
here as they do annually. TSCW is
headquarters for the group. They
will tell us what’s wrong with
the Lass-0—and oftentimes they’re
right.
‘Twelfth Girl’
Wish the Presidential. Bowl
weren’t so far away, because we’d
all like very much to help the
fightin’ Aggie eleven round out a
wonderful season. As SMU, Arkan
sas and those others went, so
should Georgia U, As Brass Tacks
said, A&M has an undefeated sea
son in spirit, and that goes for
the Twelfth Girl. We’ll be back
next year with you in every game
we can, certainly on the Corps
Trip, and very, probably in the
(See SKIRT TALES, Fage 6)
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Dec. 6—(A*)—B i g
emphasis now is on civilian defense
against an atomic attack on Amer
ican cities. This is the result of
the crisis with China and the pos
sibility of World War III around
the corner.
This country’s plans for civilian
defense are far from complete. It
has been dawdling along, appar
ently hoping war wouldn’t come.
Here is a step by step outline of
the history of the problem.
Six months before Pearl Harbor
President Roosevelt created the
OCD—Office of Civilian Defense.
You may remember it: air raid
wardens on every block in the big
eastern cities, and so on.
Preparations Not Simple
But preparations against air
raids in those days before the
atomic bomb were simple compared
with now. OCD went out of exist
ence after World War II. Until
1949 civilian defense problems were
in the hands of the army.
Nothing much done. Nothing
much seemed necessary in those
first few years after World War II.
But on March 3, 1949 President
Truman turned the civilian defense
job over to the NSRB—National
Security Resources Board.
NSRB is the top government
agency for planning what this
country should do in time of war
or great emergency. Then NSRB
set up within itself a new peace
time civilian defense agency: OCM
—Office of Civilian Mobilization.
Help Planning
OCM’s job was to help states and
cities plan what they’d do in case
of atomic attack. For example:
the tasks of police and firemen;
removing and caring for the in
jured; disposing of the dead; clear
ing wreckage; restoring lights;
supplying food and water; provid
ing bomb shelters.
We still were at peace and
things moved slowly, even after we
got into the shooting in Korea in
June, 1950,. although there -was a
mild flurry of interest in civilian
defense then.
Still, by that time OCM had been
in existence a year and there had
been much talk of civilian defense
among states and cities. Some
had even made plans. So in July
1950, 1 asked OCM people the
simple question:
“Bad Shape”
In what kind of shape is our
civilian defense now? The answer
was: bad shape. Why? Because
states and cities hadn’t shown
much interest until the Korean
fighting started.
Even as late as Nov. 21 the pic
ture didn’t seem much better. On
that date the American Municipal
Association, composed of 10,500
cities and towns, made public a
report which, in effect, said:
If atom bombs fell that day
most U. S. cities, could put into
action only a small part of the
civil defense effort needed to save
lives and rally from the attack.
Who was to blame for this unpre
paredness ?
Mostly, the report said, the Fed
eral government. Why? Because
it hadn’t told the cities in detail
what to do, how much real civil
defense would cost, and how much
of the cost the government would
share.
From the City Desk . . .
‘Law Has Teeth’ Claims
By Joel Austin
With the Christmas season near at hand, most of the
merchants of this area are jamming their shelves with gift
merchandise to meet the usual demand of Christmas shop
pers.
Of course the grocery stores will have an added supply
of food to sell for those extra large meals that most house
wives prepare during the cold holiday season.
But with these added features in most stores, another
item will make its semi-annual debut to add to the tradi
tional yuletide air. Strange as it may seem, this particular
item or group of items is known to most people only in the
Southwest at Christmas.
You guessed it, fireworks is what we are talking about.
We are still searching for a reason for such a thing at
Christmas time, but nevertheless, the tradition is just as
strong in Texas and other parts of the South at this time of
year as on the Fourth of July in the North.
Some people say the custom originated back during the
days of the great Southern plantations in pre-civil war
times. The tradition has stuck and chances are it will be
here for a long time to come regardless of its origin.
Traditions Won’t Help
All these traditions won’t do for law-observing residents
of College Station however. For with the beginning of the
Christmas season, city officials have issued a reminder con
cerning the local ordinance which prohibits fireworks with
in the city limits. • Y
The ordinance not only prohibits the sale of fireworks,
but also places a restriction on the possession of such novel
ties. City Manager Raymond Rogers says that as far as
punishment for violators of this ordinance is concerned,
"the law’s got teeth.”
To further explain what he meant by "teeth,” he said
the fine for such violations as firing or possessing f i r e -
works could be $25 or more.
With fireworks excluded from their shelves, maybe
local merchants can find room for other important items
which have possibly less profit to be realized, but servV'a
much more useful purpose. •$&?'
Some Decorations for Christmas
We are anxious to see what Christmas decorations will
be placed about the buildings and residences of College Sta
tion. Since there is no sponsored campaign to decorate homes
depicting the yule season in College Station it would be nice
for local individuals to take it upon themselves to do such
a thing.
A few colored lights placed here and there in an ap
propriate place would certainly look pretty in addition to the
many Christmas trees which will be poking their way
through the windows in most homes.
■ A Reminder: Electricity Costs Money
Just a reminder that as the days add up to weeks and
the weeks to months, there is still no action which can be
recorded as progress in adding College Hills to the College
Station electricity service.
Mayor Ernest Langford says that transfer of power in
stallations from one company to another requires much red
tape and delay before any negotiations can be made and
completed.
In the meantime, the City of Bryan continues to re
ceive money for its treasury which could be used in Col
lege for many things . . . such as additional fire protection
for those who are asking it.
A few words here and there from authorities who should
know what they are talking about, however, assures us that
some action is up-coming in the very near future.
The question is . . . when?
as-fur stop, age: hatters
Loupot’s Trading Post—Agents
“Serving the Aggies and their Families”
Stale WoSlJ
ULTRA MODERN CABINS
(for the end of a perfect day)
North of Sulphur Springs Rd. on Hwy. 6 South
Rt. 3, Bryan, Texas Phone 6-2024
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