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1.1B1 ON! Battalion Editorials Page 2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950 Mac Has Hadit Again . From the City Desk . . . Delinquent Tax List Scorned by Reader ... By Joel Austin Truman-Attlee Talks Not Like You’d Think By JAMES MARLOW W ELL, OL’ MAC, the perennial fall guy, has had it again. This was the first thing decided on by Truman and Attlee in their talks this week: United Nations troops will be withdrawn from Korea only providing General Doug las MacArthur is convinced he cannot form and, hold a defense line there—in effect, New Trespass Law Gives Hunters A Fit T HE NEW “trespass law” has just about brought an end to the poor but intrepid hunter who seeks to fill his frozen food lock er for nothing. This drastic change in hunt ing conditions will probably cause many old- timers to hang up their pet guns and take up photography. If you are in the chips you “have it ma l de” so to speak. A stack of hundred dol lar bills will open the portals of Alaska, British Columbia, or Africa, but let’s get practical. What happens to the little guy who can’t buy a chance on a possible five- dollar-a-pound venison roast? The best answer is “build a duck blind for* the nominal annual tax.” This is really great! Our hero makes a dash to the near est lake only to find that there are now duck blinds in such profusion that you can’t even find room for your decoys. This will of jcourse mean a terrific increase in pres sure on our depleted supply of wildlife. The next best thing our hero can do is demand a reasonable chance at public owned game through public shooting grounds. This program would almost certainly re quire a lottery to keep the “hunter per acre” to a safe number, but it would at least pro vide an occasional big game hunt for the average man. Until a fair program is established, sev eral thousand hunters will either quit in disgust, hunt illegally, or buy property for their own hunting and fishing. The previous situation is unfavorable to the hunter. It is possible that goldep mean exists that would be fair to both. leaving the decision to him. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Truman and Attlee recognized the fact that since Mac Arthur is there, he is in a better position to decide the strategy of the UN troops. BULL! Let’s see what this announcement really means. If we gain the upper hand and win in Korea, everyone will be so happy that they will forget that it was Douglas MacArthur who made the plans to pull us out of the hole. It’s happened before—after we were victor ious in Japan, the newspapers and general public could hardly wait to start attacking the man who planned our successful Pacif ic campaign. They called him a “little Ceasar;” they began to harp on his personal peculiarities. Then came Korea, and we needed him again. And if we lose in Korea ? It will be be cause we did not have enough men and ma terial. We see no promise in Truman’s an nouncement that he will send MacArthur the troops and equipment the general needs. But if we pull out, all the public will know or remember is that it was MacAr- thur’s decision. They won’t remember that the general pled with the UN for the right to bomb China. They won’t remember that Mac was the guy who planned one of the most brilliant military actions in recent times—the beach head invasion that caught the North Kore an army between two lines of fire and led us to the brink of victory. The Attlee-Truman meeting brings us some assurance though. Assurance that Harry S. Truman is not going to be blamed for any of our defeats. He always manages to find another expendable scapegoat. • It is human nature to put the blame for everything on somebody else, but a man begins to make some progress when he blames his short comings on the proper'person. Washington, Dec. 8—(A 5 )—0 n e of the astonishing things about a meeting between the heads of states is the little time it seems to Wednesday’s paper carried a belated letter from a reader concerning a paid advertisement of the city of Col- , , , ■, , lege Station, which included names of delinquent city tax tak ^ t ^ CI ^ decldo the most im payers. The reader claimed that, “the delinquent tax list published by the City of College Station was very ill-advised and a backward step in a supposedly progressive commum ity.” Obviously the reader ^does not realize what some of Monday, the factors were behind the city’s decision to publish the list There probably has never been of delinquent tax payers. At the time the city council dis cussed the publication of these names, some $2,244 was listed on the books of the city in delinquent taxes. Although notices were sent regularly to those people who hadn’t paid their assessments no response had been S, *8kaZ£ received from a large majority of them for several months. n j sm may change the fate of the With the many new additions to the city’s utilities, the world. council decided these unpaid taxes could be the source of You might think the two men some financial aid to meet the high cost of the utility addi- waat ?rf, ry „!!?, ss lu 1 !:.. min . u !' c tions-. The information was released to newspapers and letters were sent to all the tax delinquents explaining the list of those who hadn’t paid by the end of September would have their names printed in the newspapers as delinquent tax payers. Publicity Produces Money As soon as the letters and publicity was released, a steady stream of past due taxes were collected by the city ’Troomnanr/ri secretary from people who evidently didn’t want their names by a couple of Scotland Yard de- included in the list to be published. tectives, he was whisked off to As for the action by the city council being labeled an die British embassy where he’s “ill-advised and backward step,” we hesitate to accept such stayin £ 011 llls vlslt hcrc - a statement from this reader. We must remember that al- „ A nd '5? . far ^ 10 President and though everyone hates to be forced to do something, there SvScS&rKaS are’certain responsibilities which are required of residents of 25 minutes in three days. any city. _ _ After each day’ 3 session the How can the municipal authorities meet the demands of white House has issued a brief the population if their funds are so badly depleted they can- statement, known as a commu- not provide the services which they promise their citizens? niquc, on what happened. Through the tax assessments comes the bulk of the city’s revenue for operation. Like any other incorporated municipality, the City of College Station must operate as a business organization. The delinquent taxes could have been collected through attorneys paid a large commission. portant problems. President Truman and Britain's Prime Minister Attlee have been meeting here every day since Att lee arrived by plane from London a more important meeting between an American President and a Brit ish Prime Minister, even in World War II. What these two men decide to together to talk over their prob lems, which arc plenty. You can almost imagine Att lee staying with the Trumans, sitting up till the early hours talking things over, and even leaning against the bathroom doorway in the morning, still talking, while the President shaved. It isn’t being done that way. President Roosevelt for years but is now in private business. Neither Ross nor Early has revealed very much. No one ex pected them to, since anything released piecemeal on the con ference might be of big help to the Russians and Chinese in making decisions of their own at a time when the Chinese are fighting the United Nations troops in Korea. But the British haven’t been idle. Their press relations in Wash ington have been very smartly handled now for years. British press relations people gave news men a fill-in every day. Some reporters closely covering the conferences complain that the British have been more helpful than American press relations men. DYERS " FUR 310 RAO E_MAT T E R S a* Loupot’s Trading Post—Agents This communique hasn’t re vealed very much. Maybe the two men will give out a state ment after they’ve finished their talks. After the Monday and Tuesday conferences reporters got a brief fill-in, in connection with the day’s communique, from Charles G. Ross, 11,1 , iri. Presidential Secretary who handled But why should our local leaders be condemned for try- the pregs for Mr Truman. ing to save a little money and at the same time collect funds p., f owed them from months and years past. and old-timt S offc T?u™n" A city official said that one reason for the tax list from their days in Missouri togeth- publication was to inform those people who had not been died suddenly of a heart at- Why Condemn Leaders? receiving the statements for the money they owed. We said the idea did some good and although it may not W1 r[ thc pi : css tack after his Tuesday conference Engineer Instructor ie-Ex Writes from Korea (Editor’s Note: This letter from Major V. C. Williams, head quarters 185th Engineer Bat talion, was addressed to Lt. Col. John Kelly, Armor section in structor. This letter was dated Oct. 20, but many of the points Major Willianis brings out. have more importance now. This is the first, of a series of letters from A&M men fighting in Ko rea.) I received your letter while in the Sepul area but this is the first opportunity to answer it. Wo are combat loaded out again, and have been for.several days, waiting, for the go signal which I hopfc is cancelled. I had this one figured out to be similar to the Inchon landing. The objective, I would guess to be Suwon or Ham- hung bn the east coast of North Korea. We may still go in somewhere to the!, north but with most of North Korea already taken, I think it unlikely. This is based on the composition of the force here afloat. My hope is that we go back to Japan. Our battalion is attached to the Seventh Division for the planned operation, Part of X Corps. “Legs” Garrett is on a ship anchored nearby. We got to gether in Pusan for an evening at. the club last week. Our topic of conversation was how rough it must be back there in “Aggie- land.” All of you have our syim pathy! How can some people be so lucky! I’m referring to “Legs,” “Doc” Meisell, Roy Smith, and myself. Well, Jack, I’ll give you a little of what I’ve been doing and let you get back to “preparation” or “pre sentation.” First of all, we went in at Inchon with “Charlie” group. That is the wave just following the nurses and quartermaster. It took a couple of days to get vehicles and equip ment before we could start work around Yongdong-po and Seoul. My first job as S-3 of the bat talion was to take a bulldozer across the Han, through Seoul and back to a point on the river to construct a 50-ton ferry — two o’clock in the morning and Seoul had not been secured according to my definition of “secure.” Any way, I made it and the next day an entry in the S-3 journal refer red to misuse of staff officers. Other jobs around there consist ed primarily of road and bridge repair and maintenance, building a POW enclosure and water purifi cation and supply. From Seoul, we started work on one of the main roads south. I took two companiesi to Chung- jer. That is about 100 miles a little southeast of Suwan. Our job again was to clear the main road on down to Taegu. That took about four days, then we (Sec LETTER, Page 6) be classed as the most “progressive” action ever undertaken by the College Station City Council, there should be no rea son for resentment for such- doings. Another interesting notation to acjd along these lines is it would appear that anyone criticizing the College Station City Council would be a citizen of this city. Accord ing to information we would class ify as reliable, the reader who sub mitted that letter is not a resident of College Station. If the local city dads can collect as much as half of these taxes which have been on the hooks since 1939, a worthy purpose has been accomplished. As for the “confidence and sup port of many not included on the list which has been weakened,” we would like to hear from some of the people in that category. The Wednesday night fill-in was handled by Stephen Early, whom Mr. Truman called in, to help out. Early had been press' secretary to The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms. The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. 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