The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 18, 1951, Image 2
Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951 From the Women’s Desk Familiar Faces Leaving With Graduation Catch Up With the Times... A USTIN political columnists claim there’s likely to be quite a battle in the state legislature over redistricting Texas. We’d like to ask one question: “Why?” And we believe we can answer our own query. “Too many small-population-area legislators are going to buck it, for fear they will lose their seats.” It is only natural that these men should be reluctant to vote themselves out of of fice. But a few who can still define the phrase “democratic representation in the legisla ture” claim they will not fight a redistricting bill when it is proposed. That small group, plus the metropolitan law-makers, will form the nucleus of a stronghold to put representation back on a proportionate population basis. The big city • Keep People’s Hand On UMT Controls I T’S UP to Congress now. We’re talking about Universal Military Training and Service, one of the most con troversial subjects in recent years. After the Senate Armed Services Com mittee had spent yesterday listening to tes timony on the plan and had recessed, the Defense Department sent up a full draft of its plan in bill form. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House Armed Services Committee said he would introduce it today. The measure provides for lowering the draft age to eighteen, ex tension of the term of services from the pres ent twenty-one months to twenty-seven, and subsequent training and service for all youths after their eighteenth birthdays. The bill faces a stiff fight in Congress. Influential members of both parties have said that they’re not convinced eighteen- year-olds are needed in the army. Many Congressman feel that training at eighteen would be acceptable, but they op pose overseas service before the age of nine teen. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assistant secretary of defense for manpower, has asked that no restrictions be placed on the use or train ing or service of the eighteen-year-olds. And that is where the real danger from Universal Military Training arises. Congress should say (with all due cour tesy to a lady), “Now Mrs. Rosenberg, go back to your job as assistant secretary of defense, we feel capable of handling our job as legislators. And we shall restrict the use of these younger men. This thing started as a military training program; you’ve already changed the name to military service pro gram. We don’t want military training to consist of picking up cigarette butts around battalion headquarters in Tim-buk-tu.” Army life is anything but democratic. Actually, being a service man doesn’t fit the picture most of us desire as citizens of a free America. It’s a price we must pay for our continued freedom. But we don’t have to pay the price of letting our young men be ruled by autocratic, arbitrary army ideas of discipline and training. By Congressional action, we can restrict the training of these young men so that their time spent in military service will be useful to them in later life. delegation is expected to wage the strongest fight for redistricting, since it will be to their direct benefit. Texas’ population has been gradually shifting to the urban areas since 1920—the last census year on which Texas was redis tricted. Three censuses have been made since then but not one district has been al tered. The House of Representatives in Austin has 150 members. According to Euclid the mathematician, there should be 51,807 peo ple to each representative, based on the 1950 census figures. Forty-five of the present 150 districts have fewer than 30,000 resi dents each. Either the legislature or a special com mission can redistrict the state. If the leg islature refuses, this special group provided for in a recent constitutional amendment can do so. But-there exists a loophole. Who can force either body to do so? No one person or group holds that legal power at present. Harry Truman, a Washington, D.C. pi anist who doubles at the presidency, has come up with an idea. It reeks with politics but still bears the Democratic tag. Truman would definitely gain through redistricting, for new national congressional districts would also favor the urban centers, where the president finds much of his strength. He has recommended that Congress en act law forcing states to redistrict, accord ing to the 1950 census. Politics or no, it is the only democratic thing to do. Thirty years is a long time and Texas is supposed to be one of the advancing states. Perhaps the 52nd Legislature will enable state statutes to catch up with the times. The population is shifting; let’s recognize it. • Location of New Sidewalks Evident ^p 1 M OVING vans are almost as prominent around College addresses these days as the proverbial Carter’s oats. Graduating seniors are all through as of this day, and 440-strong (plus a liberal sprinkling of wives and child ren), they are heading out to the “four corners.” The cry that jobs are scarce is not so loud as it was a year ago when many graduates moved from college apartments without a door to fit a key into. • Virginia and Glenn Pendley and their small one Glenda Jean, are graduating in M. E. . . . Gin- ny is the lady who said in a re cent poll of student wives: “I’ll be glad to see Glenn get his de gree in January . . . but I have enjoyed every bit of the time we have lived in Aggieland ... I always had a secret ambition of wanting to be married to a Tex as Aggie . . . and now I’m finally going to make it!” • We’ll miss Aline and Carrol Tate and Ronnie . . . and the Vandivers, Mildred, Van, David and Barry, who are headed to St. Louis . . . Dollye, Bill and Melody Darby, who leave a big vacant spot around the C area of College View and a mighty big one in Company C Vets where Bill has been C.O. . . . We said good-bye several days ago to Emalie, Bill and Billy Bob Carruthers, who are headed home “near San Antonio” where Bill will be a rubber company “executive.” • Gene and Mary Pearl Brown plan to “stay around here for awhile,” as do Angela and Robert Schleider . . . Rose Marie and Jerry Zuber are headed to Bellville where he will go to work on the newspaper . . . Fred, Dorris, Kelly and Jo Mims are pointing toward Sweetwater, where a house already has been rented for them and is just wait ing for them to move in. • Charles Prather came into the Housing Office Tuesday after noon bareheaded. He probably couldn’t have gotten a hat on his head if he’d tried, for he was passing out cigars abun dantly as he reported the birth of his daughter just three hours previously. His wife, Wanda, was “doing nicely.” 46f)LEASE Use Sidewalks!” That’s what the signs say. And where there are sidewalks most stu dents have been trying to co-operate with the beautification committee who posted the signs. But it is where there are no sidewalks that these signs have, by being disregarded, served as an excellent survey committee. They have pointed out with narrow, well trodden paths where sidewalks are now needed on the campus. Take for instance the vacant area beside Bizzell Hall and across from Guion. The sign there reads like all the others, but it doesn’t make sense. There are no sidewalks to use. So the students have disregarded it. In the process they have marked off quite accurately the route of a needed sidewalk. The Battalion was told earlier in the year that no money was available for new sidewalk construction, but that a committee was to be named to study the problem and make recommendations. It is to this committee that these words are directed. Before you make recommendations, take a turn about the campus. Almost all needed sidewalks have been marked off by unknow ing “sidewalk engineers” hurrying to class at two minutes before the hour. The Battalion Lawrence'Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” 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, Goodwin Hall. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. DAVE COSLETT. CLAYTON L. SET .PH Co-Ed i tors John Whitmore Frank N. Manitzas Managing Editor Sports Editor Bob Hughson Joel Austin. Campus Editor City Editor Today's Issue John Whitmore Managing Editor Andy Anderson Campus News Editor Frank N. Manitzas Sports News Editor Joel Austin City News Editor T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips... Sid Abernathy.. ..Campus News Editoi Bob Hughson, Andy Anderson, Geprge Charlton. Tom Rountree, Allen Pengelley, Leon McClellan, Wayne Davis, Bob Venable, Bill Streich, Norman Blahuta, John Hildebrand, Bryan Spencer. Ray Williams. Herb O'Connell, Jim Anderson, Ori James, J. P. Stern, Raymon Swan, Robert Ball, Bert Hardaway, Edward Holder, Richard Ewing News and Feature Writer* Curtis Edwards Church Editor Roger Coslett PipeSmokmg Contest Manager Jack Fontaine. Jerzy Fontaine Special Assignment* Ralph Gorman. Fred tValker, Chuck Neighbors, Jimmy Ashlock. Ray .Holbrook, Joe Blan chette. Pat LeBlanc, Dale Dowell, Jimmy Curtis, Dowell Peterson, and Joe Hollis. .Sports News Staff Sam Molinary ... — Chief Photographer Bob Hancock. John Hollingshead, Tommy Fontaine, James Lancaster. Photo Engraver* Autrey Frederick Advertising Manager Russell Hagens, Frank Thurmond Advertising Representative* Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry Cartoonist! Herman C. Gollob , Anmaaments Editor THINGS THAT MAKE OUR JOB FUN. In the midst of a re porter’s nightmare last week, we had a pleasant break when a lady came by to give us a news story. She was Mrs. Bob Skrabanek, re porter for the Newcomers Club. Her cooperation, and the coopera tion of all club officers whose news we try to cover will help to make our job easier, and twice as much fun as it already is. • Among the campus newly weds are the Max Greiners, who pledged their “I Do’s” during the Christmas holidays. Mrs. G. (Bobby) now is making her home here with her husband. • Birthday parties still highlight 'the social events in the lives of college small fry. Many small mop pets came home covered with choc olate after celebrating the third anniversary of Ralph Jackson re cently. Ralph’s mother Bobbie en tertained her son’s friends in their College View apartment, sent the Letters Rising Prices Need Checking Editor, The Battalion: The recent rises in costs of liv ing are putting an ever increasing burden on the fixed income groups of our country. The hardest hit groups are veterans, like ourselves, and families of our fighting men who are overseas. The recent talks of our leaders that price controls are coming has only caused the prices to sky rock et. Manufacturers, producers, and jobbers want to get their price lev els at a high point ahead, of the threatened controls. The present price level of foods is over 200 per cent higher than it was in 1944. This means that the $50 or $60 that we have put in our budget for food will buy only $25 worth at present. Other cost of living items may be compared in like manner. Our one fortunate situation at A&M is that our rent and utilities are only $25 to $30 per month, thanks to Veteran’s Housing here. Unless prices of essential cost of living items are rolled back at once to a level based on an index prior to December 1, 1950, the fixed income groups will suffer increas ingly while the monopolistic groups benefit. This is not merely a “gripe” for the sake of being critical, but it is an expression of a reaction to an unjustified situation that is real and “staring us in the face.” It is an expression of thoughts that have been accumulating and should have been expressed sooner, just as ac tion to control this situation should have been taken sooner by our lead ers. The barn door is open and the horse is in the outer lot so lets close the gate at once before he is gone for good. There are other matters worth discussing such as socialistic trends, non-defense government spending, and government support on prices, but the primary concern is on the rising cost of living. You may consider your one vote or opinion unimportant, as I have done in the past, but have you ever considered that corrupt officials are put into office by this unex pressed opinion or vote? Let us herewith at once express our opinion to our Congressmen as a veteran’s unit. Let us resolve that this important matter of rising prices be controlled at once at a level prior to December 1, 1950, Over 400 retail grocerymen in Dallas sent telegrams this week to Congressmen requesting imme diate price controls. It is a condi tion which hurts the retailer as well as the consumer. Any veteran or student wishing to add his support to a resolution to Congressional leaders concern ing immediate price control please call 6-1631. youngsters home delighted with their clown and sucker favors, their balls and their books . . . Four lit tle friends called at the home of Walt and Virginia Matzen Sunday to help five-year old Neil cele brate. WHEN WORK REFUSES TO BE WORK. Last week we had an evening appointment at the home of Lee Crozier to talk about a story we are planning. We ar rived to find that she’d turned it into a small party, and we had the time of our lives taking notes from the Dames Club officers, Margaret Oakes, Virginia Mat zen and Margaret Menzel be tween cookie bites and coffee sips . . . Presently we are having some offers of help from the masculine Battalion staff ... on the condition that we’ll promise refreshments with every story assignment. • The load begins to hang heavy as finals approach. Students are sorrowing much over the grades that they didn’t make earlier in the year. Student wiyes are won dering how on earth the single fel lows make it through, or how their husbands ever , got along in col lege without them, because the lights are burning long and late as we finish typing term reports (due the day before' yesterday), book reviews, and notebooks. Soon the tale.will be told . . . and then we have a new beginning that four months from now will find us re peating the same process! 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