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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950
Losing Our Reputation . . .
U NLESS WE change our ways, Texas
A&M is going to lose one of its oldest
and greatest traditions.
And you can’t charge the loss off to the
changing conditions around us.
We are destroying our traditions of being 1
the friendliest college in the world. We are
destroying that reputation by trying to en
force rules when a true spirit of friendliness
should exist.
The tradition of speaking to everyone we
meet is explained to the underclassmen each
year. Then we destroy the spirit of the
observance by making it a “you’ll speak or
else” ruling. Therefore:
Fish speak to everybody. Mechanically.
Sophomores speak to juniors and seniors.
Mechanically.
Juniors speak to seniors. Mechanically.
Seniors speak to God.
Enforcement of rules and regulations is
necessary for the accomplishment of some
of our aims. To have good military outfits,
it is necessary that we have definite rules
for formations, room inspections, and uni
forms.
But friendliness cannot be regulated.
Punishment for an unfriendly attitude only
results in more unfriendliness.
Friendliness must be inspired. That de
pends on all of us. When you walk to class,
be happy to see and greet your fellow stu
dents. If you feel like it, make cheerful
comments to the people you pass.
Don’t wait to see what kind of braid he
has on his cap before saying “Howdy.”
We Bought Bargain Basement Security...
W ORLD WAR II was won by teamwork
on the part of the Army, Navy, Ma
rines, Tactical Air Forces, and Strategic
Air Forces. The advent of the atomic bomb
as a supplementary weapon gave strategic
air power a terrific and decisive punch, but
a very costly evaluation of this new weapon
was made.
Since everyone knows that wars just
“happen” at 20 year intervals, economy
minded lawmakers were only too eager to
buy what looked like “bargain basement”
security. It was too simple—100 so-called
“invincible” B-36’s loaded with atom bombs
could keep the rest of the world in line.
The Navy, Marines, Army, and Tactical
Air Forces would still exist as token forces
\vith token appropriations. Research and
development on new weapons and tactics for
these branches would no longer be on the
“must” list.
Combine this big mistake with the half
military—half political setup that now re
stricts MacArthur in Korea, and it is no
wonder that we are losing face in Asia. In
effect we are saying “you can have Korea,
but if this happens again we will really
fight.”
A national emergency does in fact exist,
and its about time we abandoned the idea of
“cheap” national security. Russia has work
ed without letup in the last six years while
we have hidden behind our stack of atomic
bombs, and in some categories there is a
corresponding twelve year differential in the
degree of preparation. The question is—
how many Americans will die in the effort
to buy time?
U'S, Gives Oil Companies 60 Days
Tidelands Royalities Asked
By TEX EASLEY
Washington, Dec. 12—h®-—-Tex
as members of Congress said last
night they would renew efforts
next year to enact legislation giv
ing state's title to tid,eland’s prop
erty.
The Supreme Court ordered Tex
as and Louisiana to give an ac
counting of royalties they obtained
from the submerged oil lands off
their coasts in the Gulf since last
June 5.
Secretary of the Interior Chap
man announced he is authorizing
the gas and oil operations now un
der way on thes ubmerged lands
to continue for a 60-day period un
der arrangements the companies
may have with the states.
U. S. Paramount
The final decree stated the Fed
eral government has “paramount
rights in, and full dominion and
power over” the lands “underlying
the Gulf of Mexico.”
, Senator Connally said: “The Su
preme Court decree merely puts
the final stamp of judicial approv-
aj on the theft of Texas’ tide-
lands.
“It means Texas and the other
states will have to look to Con
gress for justice. I shall contend
as strongly as I can for legislative
action.”
Representative Gossett, who led
the fight in the House for enact
ment of a state ownership bill,
said the decree does not change the
fundamental issue in the case.
“The issue is still whether the
Federal government can confiscate
the property of the states without
compensation,” he said.
It is an issue between fundamen
tal democracy and socialism.. In
my opinion, we should never give
up the fight for what is rightfully
ours.
“The 82nd Congress can, and in
my judgment will, pass a states
rights tidelands bill. We will now
redouble our efforts to that end.
The states must never compromise
on any properties within their de
scribed boundaries.”
Fight for Approval
Representative Poage said he
would fight for early House ap
proval next year of a bill to nul
lify the decision.
Other members of the Texas del
egation expressed similar views.
Members of the Louisiana dele
gation expressed like sentiment,
and raised the question of how
the government proposes to collect
any judgment against Louisiana in
connection with the royalties it
has received.
Vet Med Wives
Hold YMCA Meet
The Five and Two Club, wives
of veterinary medicine students in
the class of 1952, met Thursday
night in the South Solarium of the
YMCA. The vice-president, Mrs. J.
W. Henderson, presided in the ab
sence of Mrs. W. B. Ross, Presi
dent. .
After a brief business session,
Mrs. S. N. McLeod and Mrs. J. D.
Carroll were hostesses for a Canas
ta party. Prizes for high score
were awarded to Mrs. Gib Ken
drick and Mrs. Jim Brown. Re
freshments were served by Mrs.
Jack Swope and Mrs. Brown.
The club's annual Christmas par
ty will be held Wednesday, Dec. 13,
in the home of Mrs. C. D. Bourke,
103 Fidelity.
Shall Every Youth
Serve, Or Should
We Defer Brains?
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Dec. 12—UP)—Whether or not war comes
soon, it seems certain this country will have to have a fairly
large armed force for some years to come. Plans are being
made now for larger forces.
The backbone of these forces, of course, will be young
men. But the question, upon which educators themselves
disagree, is this: What young men shall be forced to serve?
All young men?
Or should the brainiest youths be allowed to defer com
pulsory military services and go to college so that the coun
try will be assured of a flow of educated men for the future?
Only last week in Look Magazine James B. Connant,
president of Harvard University, stated his views on this.
He suggested that every youth in America—without excep
tion—be called into military service for two years.
Every Youth, Able or Not
And by every youth, he meant just that, with the physically able
compelled to serve in the armed forces, and the physically unfit to
serve in other jobs for the government at the pay the armed forces
get.
What about college students? Should they be exempt? Conant
says no. What about college education for those who want it? Conant
says they, can go to college after serving in the army, navy or air force.
Enter Service at Eighteen
Conant suggests that every youth, upon reaching 18 or upon
graduation from high school, be enrolled in military service. But what
of deferring military service for a youth who wants to go to, or finish,
college ?
Conant says: “To defer military service until a young man’s edu
cation is complete may mean deferring it four to eight year's.” Oppos
ing that, he thinks they’d be better off, and so would the country, if
they put in their military service first and then went to college.
Shortly after President Conant’s views appeared, the Association
of American Universities adopted a resolution saying more or less
what Conant had said.
This association of educators is made up of 37 major colleges and
universities out of the 1,800 in this country. Briefly, the AAU plan
goes like this:
27 Mouths Service for AM
Military service of 27 months for all males, starting at 18, not later
than 19. Seventeen-year olds could volunteer. There’d be no defer
ments except for extreme physical, mental or moral disability.
The physically fit would have to serve in the armed forces. Those
not physically fit, but still not extremely disabled, would have to work
where the defense depai'tment told them.
Educators Have Other Ideas
But still another group of educators have other ideas. These
were scholars, scientists and schoolmen who were asked for help in
1948 by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service.
Hershey was faced with this problem,: Since the country needs
draftees but at the same time will need a continuous flow of college-
ti'ained men, should college men be deferred, or what, and how? i
Hershey asked six committees of scholars, scientists and educators
for recommendations. They’ve been studying the problem since 1948.
They have recommended:
That the brainiest youths, with their intelligence determined by
tests, should be deferred, from military service so long as they went
to college and achieved a certain amount of prescribed scholastic
standing.
These recommendations of the Hershey committees have not been
completed but are expected to be very soon and they are not expected
to differ much from their preliminary recommendations already ex
plained above.
Some Would Lower Tests
But the American Council on Education, while following pretty
much, the recommendations of the Hershey committees, would lower a
bit the standards of the intelligence tests that picked these brainiest
youths.
Accoi'ding to the council’s view, these deferred college men would
have to serve in the armed forces after finishing school, unless the
President himself picked out individuals for other kind of work or
sei'vicc.
(The council membership includes 976 colleges and universities,
some public library systems, and 136 national organizations, like the
National Educational Association, the Land Grant Colleges Associations,
and others.
Meanwhile, college students are being deferred froyn the draft
until they finish this year’s schooling. And, while everyone reaching
18 must register, only those 19 can be drafted.
As the armed forces are increased, the draft law will probably
be changed to include some of the recommendations outlined here.
IN-DUTCH BOY
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Officers Installed Free Retires
By Texas Masons Following 29
Years Service
W. J. Burrus of McAllen was in
stalled Grand Master and Gibb Gil
christ, chancellor of the A&M Sys
tem was made Grand Senior War
den, as Texas Masons installed
their Grand Lodge officers in Waco
recently
The public ceremony of installa
tion ended the two-day annual
communication of the Grand Lodge
of Texas.
Other elective officei's installed
were: Henry Bell of Tyler, Deputy
Grand Master; John McKee of
Dallas, Grand Junior Warden; J.
J. Gallagher of Waco, Grand Trea
surer, and Leo Hart of Waco,
Grand Secretary.
Appointive officers included
Chaplain, Kenneth R. Hemphill,
McAllen; Junior Deacon, Albert
M. Jackson, Galveston; Senior Ste-
wai't, William L. Wommack, Waco,
and Tyler, A. M. Olson, Bi-owns-
ville.
Paul Turney of Sonora was re
elected to the Grand Lodge Com
mittee on esoteric work
Future Related
In Accounting
By Comptroller
“I know of no other busi
ness profession that offers
greater opportunities than
does industrial accounting,”
Gay Carroll,. comptroller,
Humble Oil and Refining Com
pany, Houston, said in a talk to the
annual meeting of the A&M Ac
counting Society.
Carroll also paid tribute to Dr
T. W. Leland, head of the Business
and Accounting Department.
“When the history of accounting
education in Texas is written, Pro
fessor Leland’s name should head
the list of those who have made
outstanding contributions,” he
said.
The speaker said that industrial
accountants have a broad oppor-
nancial reporting to further the
tunity in the field” of corporate fi-
prdsperity of complete industries
and of our free enterprise system
as a whole.
Officers of the A&M student Ac
counting Society arc B. O. Hos-
kin, president; Billy Phillips, vice-
president, both of Lrving; Harold
Martin of Gilmer, secretary-trea
surer; R. L. Andrews of Terral,
Okla., reporter and C. T. Neal,
Elysians Fields, program director.
A. L. Free, first employed as
a milker by the college in 1922,
retired from the A&M Dairy De-
pai'tment recently after serving
the college for 29 years.
It is estimated that Free milked
some 9 million pounds of milk as
an employee here. This much milk
would supply over 11 thousand
people with a quart a day for a
• year. He milked over 4 million
pounds by hand during his first 21
years of employment and almost
5 million pounds by machine dur
ing the last eight years,
Born between Cyalton and Union
Springs, Alabama in 1886, Free
moved to Texas with bis parents
in 1891. He lived in Grimes Coun
ty near Navasota until the turn
of the century when the family
moved to Bryan.
Before going to work at A&M,
Free farmed near Bryan for a
number of yeai'S.
Employment Holds
In College Area
Non-Agricultuxal employment is
maintaining a high level in the
Bryan-College Station Area, which
Ixas about 9,800 places of employ
ment, J. B. McKinley, area mana
ger of the Texas Employment Com
mission, reported. k
A slight increase in the number
of job seekers has been noticed
in this area in the past month.
These persons have not been laid
off or otherwise separated from
regular jobs here.
This influx in labor might he
attributed to retunxees from mi
gratory work,, McKinley says.
The Bryan Office placed 149
local residents in non-agricultural
jobs during November.
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Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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SAE Local Chapter
Sets Animal Meet
The Society of Automotive En
gineers, Texas Section, will hold
its annual A&M meeting tomor
row' night at 7:30 p. m. in the
Ballroom of the Memorial Student
Centex*.
Speakers for the dinner meeting
will be G. S. Green and J. E.
Good, both of Consolidated Vultee,
in Fort Worth. Green will speak
on “The Problems of Long Range
and High Altitude Flight” and
Good will deliver an address on
“Aerophysics.”
Green has held the position of
“Chief of Service” at Convair
since May 1949. Good holds the
position of Aerodynamic Group
Engineer.
Tickets will be available at the
door and students can make reser
vations by calling Bill Truettner,
of the Mechanical Engineering De
partment.
Young to Attend
Forestry Meeting
Dr. Vernon A. Young, Head of
the Department of Range and
Forestry, left recently to attend the
Golden Anniversary meeting of the
Society of American Foresters,
Dec. i4-16 in Washington, D. C.
Dr. Young will present one of
the major invitation papers en
titled “OppoxTunities and Needs in
Range Maixagement” in the Divi
sion of Range Management
While in attendance at the Soc
iety meeting, he will report the
progress that lias been made in
completing the Range Management
Section of the Foresters Field
Manual in which Dr. Young is the
Chairman.
Envoutc he will visit some of the
Forest Service Experiment Sta
tions to review range experimental
work in operation in certain' of the
southern states.
College View Couple
Parents of Baby Girl
A baby was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. James Cavanaugh III of Col
lege View,, reported the St.
Joseph’s Hospital of Bryan. The
six pound, 15 ounce girl was born
Dec. 7, and was named Katheryn
Jan.
Cavanaugh is a junior animal
husbandry student from Grange.
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TRAINING
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SECURITY FOR THE
FUTURE
New classes in all standard
courses will begin . . .
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