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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United Nations troops will be withdrawn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
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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
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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
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Joel Austin City News Editor
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Letters
Lost Jacket
Editor, The Battalion:
Last Sunday I picked up four
Aggies in Houston and gave them
a ride to College. When I ar
rived in Fort Worth I found that
one of them had left his jacket
m my car. One of their names
was Irish and he lived in Logget
Hall, The jacket is brown suede.
If the Aggie who left this jack
et in my car will send me his mail
ing address I will return the jacket
to him. He can contact me at the
following address:
Stephen F. Traynor
1808 Frederick
Ft. Worth, Texas
War Camp Victim
Is CHS Speaker
Sciichi Sakamoto, ’38, who sur
vived four and one-half years in
Russian concentration camps, told
students at Consolidated High
School last Tuesday of hardships
endured in the Communist camps.
During his talk he said that
prisoners are kept in a half-starved
condition, living only on bread,
millet, sugar, oil and dried-fish,
and are forced to do heavy labor.
Sakamoto spoke to the group
for an hour, but did not have time
for a question period.
Air Force to Publish
Thesis by Aggie-Ex
W. H. Bachle’s thesis titled “De
termination of the Torsional Mod
ulus of Rupture of Aluminum Al
loy and Steel Tubing of Diameter
to Thickness Ratio Less Than Ten”
is to be published as an Air Force
Teclunal Report, E. E. Brush, head
of the Aero Departiueut, * said to
day,
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