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.
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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
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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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