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( ( k foi OU! adi 191 dii toe i in* ne lo£ As as ne sa M gt jn xn at ot CO ot p< d( 3?' y« g' hi tl 5r tl tl a: a o e h Battalion Editorials Page 2 MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1951 WE’VE SEEN IT HAPPEN BEfORE Eliminating UMT Waste... A RGUING whether we should, have uni versal military service today is as passe as wearing Wilkie buttons. Universal military service in one form or "another is one of the consequences that the United States must face as a result of its ••“rise to the status as defender of democracy for the world. What we must do now is devise a plan for this military training which will benefit _ both our country and the individuals induc ted for the training. Some of the fiercest opponents of univer- Business pays for brains but does not always get them. What Do They Think We Are? T HE PRIME ministers of the Britsh Com monwealth nations, meeting in London, have instructed their United Nations dele gates to work for a four-power conference of the United States, Britain, Russia and Red China to consider a settlement of the Far Eastern crisis. Formosa’s future, Red China’s admission to the UN, and a cease-fire order in Korea would be the major subjects to be taken up. Our friends among the Commonwealth nations may think the United States is stu pid enough to swallow a thing like this. But it yould have been considerate of them not ' to have put such an appraisal of our men- 'tality on public record. Britain agrees with Russia that Formosa should be given to the Reds and that they should be assigned China’s seat in the United Nations. So, with three votes to do what they want, they are asking us to sit down at ■ the table with them and be outvoted. Evidently the British have found Secre tary of State Acheson such a soft touch that they consider us only a silent partner anyway, to be seen but not heard hence forth on all broad questions of international policy. They know that the United States rec ognizes the Nationalists as the only legal government of China. They know that our agreeing to a Big Four conference with Red China as one of the participants would amount to transferring our recognition to the Peiping Reds. They must think that we would be too dumb to understand this or too craven to resent it. At a time when American blood is stain ing Korean soil, our reply to such a proposal can best be expressed in the outraged words of Winston Churchill, addressing the U. S. Senate immediately following the Japanese sneak attack on the British fleet and Pearl Harbor— “What kind of people do they think we are?’’ —The Houston Press. sal military service are those. people who have been intimately acquainted with the army and have observed at first hand the training it has offered in the past. Training of young recruits has often consisted of far too much making up beds, sweeping floors, and picking up cigarette butts. Ever since Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, as sistant to the secretary of defense, testified before the Senate preparedness committee that the draft age was going to have to be lowered to eighteen, irate parents have been bombarding her with letters and telegrams protesting such action. If these parents were assured that their sons were going to receive valuable train ing for the future during the early years of military service, they would not be quite so opposed to the draft. Dr. W. W Kemmerer, acting president of the University of Houston, proposed a plan last Friday that provides for the two things most needed by our country today— a well trained army and an increased num ber of college graduates. Every day our draft boards are calling more young men into the military service. Immediately the planners for universal mil itary service must adopt some plan such as Dr. Kemmerer’s so that these young men will not be wasting the most influential years of their lives. Interpreting the News . . . Ourselves, Not Russians Is Real Problem of West Korean War Lost Says War Writer; Next Step Debated (Editor’s Note: Don Whitehead, world famous Associated Press war correspondent, has just returned from the frozen, wavering front lines of Korea. A hard-hitting but equally sensi tive reporter, Whitehead writes his own personal opinion and im pressions of the fight of the U.N. forces to stay in Korea. He is not optimistic, as the article reveals.) By WILLIAM L. UYAN AP Foreign Affairs Analyst A speech by an American business man in Paris the other day might be required reading for all our domestic cassandras. Philip D. Reed, president of the Interna tional Chamber of Commerce, put his finger on a weak spot. He said the real problem of the West is “not with Russia, but with ourselves—our fears, our confusion and our lack of faith.” He went on to say: “It is ludicrous, it is pathetic and it is getting dangerously close to being tragic that we, the free nations of the world, should be frightened, confused and running around in circles, although we have all that it takes both to frighten and confuse those evilly ri diculous characters in the Kremlin.” Many will say amen to that. It is one thing to know our weaknesses and face them honestly. It is quite another to permit our selves to beat our breasts, crying woe and alas. They May Be Frightened Reed is on firm ground when he says we have plenty to frighten and confuse the Kremlin. We have, and they have given a number of indications that they are fright ened. The average Soviet “Grazhdanin”—citi zen, man-of-the-street — the fellow at the bottom of the ladder in the curious Commun ist caste system, has heard the Communist drum-beaters day after day shouting about the American “atomshiks.” He is told the Soviet Union is mastering the atom bomb, too, but it makes him no happier to be told that if he is vaporized, perhaps the same He has gone By DON WHITEHEAD TT Az ? 0rk ’?r 15 ^- A ” erica . n tro °P s and t !' eir Through P the priva/tion^and sufferings of a United Nations Allies are heading toward a mass evacuation (jj sas t rous war on iy a f ew years back, and he from the Korean cockpit of war. knows the next will be even more horrible. Overwhelming numbers of Chinese and North Korean Red troops are driving them into the southeast corner of the They Are Confused ta" an end. ^ ‘ he b ‘ eak ’ ^ ° f ^ * aPPr ° aCh ' The Grazhdanin is confused. He remem. These are the hard facts of a situation now clouded in ^ ers a few years ago the atomshiks were censorship. , # Many military men in Korea and most war correspon- Builder Still OptOIuistlC . . dents who have followed the army for the past five months * S ENATOR Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) took look upon an evacuation as inevitable. a critical stand Friday against Defense It is surprising to one just returned from Korea to find Department requests for power to draft 18 \ great debate in Washington over whether we should or ,, , „ • „ should not stay in Korea. The defense department says no year-olds when numerous recruiting s p 0 jj C y ] 3een c ] ian g e d and that the army intends to stay. for the Air Force and other services have This debate is academic. The only question is whether reported they can’t handle recent numbers we can hang on even if we want to. It is as tragically simple of volunteers. as that. “We should put our facilities on a 24- Lifc would be simpler if the people on the earth were more sincere. Take Willing First the Russians’ respected allies. But today ‘ Pravda tells him it was all a dream and that the Americans were no help at all in beating the Axis to its knees. He must walk in fear, not only of what * may come from the outside, but of his own government and its all-powerful, all-know ing secret police. A word out of turn, an ill-advised joke could bring the dreaded tap on the shoulder that is a summons to Siber ia. The press which keeps him constantly misinformed and confused did not dare tell him of President Truman’s remark that if the necessity arose for the defense of Amer ica, the atom bomb would be used. Just Too Official If it were a lesser American, Pravda would have told the Grazhdanin all about it, screaming “war criminal.” But from the President of the United States, such a state ment looked ominously official, a strong dose ‘ of medicine. Joseph Stalin, for one, remembers with respect the potentialities of a mobilized and angry America. He is on record as having/ spoken of it with some awed reverence. Stalin and his obedient parrots insist system contains in itself the seeds of its own. destruction, that all they must do is wait' and prod and aggravate, and we will topple over. Tired of Prodding Well, we’re tired of the prodding. We’re fed to the ears with short-of-war grabs. By mobilizing, we are warning: “Go ahead and march if you dare, but look out.” It’s a good bet they won’t. And each day that goes by their chances for success will be less. As for a state having the seeds of its own destruction, this in an historic ailment of the totalitarians. A police state feeds on itself. It is a monster with an insatiable ap petite. It usually dies of indigestion. ‘A ’ Bomb Shelter Business Off to Rather Slow Start hour basis for recruiting and training, Johnson declared, men who want to enlist them if you draft them.” When the recruiting flood caused Air Force enlistment offices to close their doors for a two-day period last week we began questioning Defense Department hints for an 18-year-old draft. Being drafted is rough enough on the Red Manpower Unlimited f The Communists outnumber the He meant the military necessity By ARTHUR IdSON Washington, Jan. 15—(A’>- ing. -The 26 years in the construction busi- " ^ j _ ness, with three years out for scr- “If you can t take all the United Nations forces possibly up of saving the United Nations army ^tom bomb shelter man says that v i cc in the Coast Guard, nlist then you can’t train to five to one. from destruction far outweighed tor ,>2,200 he can build a good safe “Right now about all I’m get And the Reds are in a position the political considerations involw ” to increase these odds/ against the ed. Eighth Army almost at will with Some officers—Army, Navy and millions of manpowe! in Manchuria and in China. The Chinese haye made it abun dantly clear sineb they entered the Korean conflict that they intend to drive the VJ. N. forces out of Korea. Air Force—believe the U. N. forces newspapers. The heading ^reads: can pull back into a tight perime ter around Pusan and hold out in definitely. They reason the Allies could lay down such a curtain of naval, artillery and aerial bom bardment that it would be impos sible for the Reds to drive us from place in which a family can hide, ting is feelers, mostly from women. The A. B. S. man is J. M. Woods On something like this, people hold of Baltimore, who has been running back. They don’t want to be the ads in Baltimore and Washington fi rs t. , j, , - i i , , On® American officer said to me morale of boys of any age, but it IS doubly recently: “Now it’s a question of tough to be jerked into service when men saving face or saving our hides— the beachhead. They point to the - - - ""'’'i noHav cairn hides. Anzio beachhead which the Allies held against waves of German at tacks to back up their argument. hese people.”' Other Officers Disagree are clamoring at the doors asking to go and ^.ji^d ’em in’thTfutuTe'against being turned down. Let’s put every man in uniform who vol unteers to go, then when there is yet need for more the 18-year-olds will feel like they are needed and likely be a little more willing to go. The willing usually make much better soldiers than the unwilling. But ’other military men—and I am sure they are in the majority— reason this way: Korea is not the place for the United States and her Allies to got to remember this army is the only one we’ve got—^nd it knows how to fight the Reds. We’ve learned the hard way. But we’ve learned some valuable lessons. And “Safeguard your family from the atom bomb.” Then follows a picture of a house, with bomb shelter attached, and the question: “Have you considered ‘A’ bomb shelter of your own for your fam ily .. . in your home?” Naturally I hustled right around to see how business was. Surprisingly, in view of the head lines these days, the answer is not so good. “I expect it to bust loose any moment, and we’ll really get go- Sillc; IfJ said Woods, who has spent filters to keep out poison gas. Here’s Woods’ formula for u safe shelter. First, the entrance should be from the basement. (He frowns on those who would build a shelter in the basement itself. Says there’s too much chance of the house falling in, leaving ,110 way out.) A fire door guards the basement entrance. The main shelter room is eight feet by 10 feet by six feet six inch high. Connecting “I have a man in Baltimore, for instance,, who wants one of these shelters. But he said to me, T hate to be the first one in the neighborhood to show panic.’ ” The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" Airmen rage because they can not strike the Chinese'where they are more vulnerable—the cities and areas where they mass their armies and produce their war materials. In effect, the Chinese only be come enemies when they step • EngineeringSchool Offers New Option The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. Du ring 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. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred- ublished 3d herein. ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin publis Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, manpower, Goodwin Hall. n«f make a major war effort against this army must be the core of the Communism. Even if we could new army we are going to build hold a beachhead, which is doubt- We can’t afford to lose it.” ful, then the Allies merely would be trading manpower with the Reds j—pouring more troops into a fight already lost. “We could kill seven, eight or ten to one and still not come out ahead,” one officer said. “We just can’t fight these people on a man- ~ r .— . power basis because they are too across the Manchurian border. And . Engineering. •many of them.” the airmen can’t hit at them where ^his program which has been Another officer said: “We’ve it would hurt the most. under consideration for some time will prepare students for industrial occupations in the areas of safety, production, industrial relations, personnel and training. The first two years of the cur riculum are designed to provide many industrial shop and technical courses in pattern making, wood work and cabinet making, sheet The Business Society will hear Gene Ebersolc, executive vice pres ident of the Lumbermans Associa- tiion of Texas and director of Na tional Lumbermans Association, Tuesday night. The Building Pro ducts Marketing will also meet A new industrial technology op- with the society, tion in the field industrial educa- Ebersole’s topic is to be “The tion has just been announced by Trade Association Today.” Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of the The meeting will be held in the YMCA Chapel at 7:30 p. m. Woods says he spent consider- with this on the other side is an able time studying what happened escape lane, three feet wide by when the bomb was dropped in 10 feet long, also six feet six Japan before he drew up his plans, inches high. And he’s going to England soon Overhead is a slab of reinforced to study their ideas, particularly concrete, 18 inches think. The walls are 12 inches thick. Covering the whole thing is three feet of earth. At the end of the escape lane is an escape hatch. The top of this also has three feet of earth, with a trap to dump the dirt that can be sprung from above or below. All this, Woods figures, will cost around $2,200 in Baltimore or Washington. Where labor and ‘ other costs are less, it possibly would be cheaper. One final question: had Woods started his own private bomb shel ter yet? “No,” said Woods. “There’s noU^ ing I can do for me. I live ii]^A apartment.” To Business Group Production Only Can Beat Them in; <:a The situation in Korea also poses Lhis problem: If the Allies cannot atch the Reds in manpower, how an we hope to defeat them, in fevent of another world conflict? Military men gave me this an- wer: In a world war, the Reds would hold a tremendous advantage in The Western nation tions lines destroyed—huge field forces would become a liability to the enemy, not an asset. The big cleanup job then could begin. But in Korea the Allied army is up against a wall of Chinese and North Korean manpower which is metal, welding and foundry, orna- backed by the untouched produc- mental iron, machine shop and in- tive power of China and Russia, dustrial electricity. Only by a miraculous military coup Students who select' this indus- We pay the highest prices for Used Books— , ' ■ ■ ' >!»"'■ . . "• .■■■ '2. - txr* t__i i year 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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