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Battalion Editorials
Page 2
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1951
Bolshevism: Past and Present
A NTI-NAZI Joseph Bornstein has recently
written a book “The Politics of Murder”
which shows instances in which murder has
been the chief political weapon of the Soviet.
He also expresses the idea that Stalinism
differs widely from both the views of Trots
ky and Lenin.
A brief excerpt of his opinions follow.
“Although it may be too early to know
the destiny of the Bolshevist convulsions in
Russia and other once-feudalistic or half
feudalistic countries of Eastern Europe and
Asia, it is also possible that the amazing
similarities between the Stalin regime and
the rule of Czar Ivan the Terrible and other
Russian tyrants will become more distinct in
the future than they are today and that
Stalinism wdll be established in history as
having been nothing but the modern form of
an ancient Russian governmental system.
The Communist regime in Russia has par
alleled in many ways the retrogression of
the regimes of despotic reformers who ruled
Russia in former centuries enriching their
country with technical innovation, but main
taining the division of the nation between a
small group of masters and a population of
slaves, both excluded from the benefits of
Western knowledge.
“Neither the personal role played by Jo
seph Stalin in the record of Bolshevist
crimes, nor the fact that the most remarkable
of these crimes were committed against his
own party comra’des, justified the conclusion
that Stalinism is merely the ugly deteriora
tion of the original bolshevism of Leninism.
There is considerable evidence for the belief
that the first Bolshevist leaders, Lenin and
Trotsky, were men of greater stature than
Stalin, both intolerant of the kind of deifi
cation of their person which Stalin demand
ed and accomplished for himself, both per
haps incapable of committing crimes after
the manner of Stalin or of making the more
stupid of his political mistakes. *
“Behind the walls of a Mexican prison,
La Penitenciaria, lives a mysterious prison
er. Who he is is not known—except by a
few who do not talk; but it is known that
he is not the man he pretends to be. The
judges who in 1943 found him guilty of
murder were convinced that the name he
used was fictitious, and they had ample proof
that everything he told the police and the
court regarding his identity, his family, and
his past was untrue. His real name, his ori
gin, even his nationality, were never estab
lished.”
The masked prisoner of the Penitenciaria
calls himself Jaques Mornard Vandendrescnd
and claims to be a Belgian, born in Persia in
1904. He is the murderer of the man whom
Joseph Stalin hated most, Leon Trotsky.
“General Walter Krivitsky, the former
Soviet intelligence chief who turned against
Stalin, was expected to testify at the trial
of Trotsky’s killer. But one day in February
1941, General Krivitsky was found dead in
a Washington hotel room—an apparent sui
cide. But his widow and friends have never
for a moment ceased to believe that his was
another political murder.”
The very apparatus employed by Stalin
for the assassination of Trotsky and many
others had been built when Lenin and Trots
ky were the heads of the Soviet regime
Under their leadership it is true, the Cheka
and GPU were declared and perhaps be
lieved to be temporary institutions, enforced
upon the Bolshevist regime by the bitter
necessities of self defense in a period of
civil war.
“According to old Bolshevist maxims,
Stalin was right when he saw no reason to
abstain from any measure he believed would
solidify the party by strengthening his per
sonal position. If the end justified the
means and nothing but expediency counts,
“striking innocent heads” must seem permis
sible, not only in the event of actual danger
for the cause and its leaders but also a
measure of prevention—in expectation or
fear of a threat which might arise in the
future. Logically, Stalin could assume the
right to do anything in particular against
his own party comrades. Expediency was
reason to sacrifice their lives or demand that
they sacrifice themselves “for the cause,”
even going so far as to “confess” themselves
traitors, spies, and murderers, and to accept
death from the hands of the party leader’s
executioners.
“Today, the spectacle of the Moscow
purge trials is no longer mysterious and
confusing as it appeared in former years.
Efforts to give political murder the appear
ance of a genuine legal procedure have mean
while become a constant feature of totali
tarian politics. The fashion of show trials in
which defendants “confess” non-existent
crimes, has been reported from Soviet Russia
to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and
Romania. It has become evident that the
extortion of confessions is a relatively simple
manner wherever a totalitarian type of Jus
tice covers the maneuvers of totalitarian Po
lice.
“In summing up Bernstein’s treatment
of Stalinism it must be said that we were
certainly using non democratic institutions
during World War II in an effort to further
the American way of life, or so we thought.
The results bear out a statement made by
Carl Schupz years ago: “It is a matter of
historical experience that nothing that is
wrong in principle can be right in practice.
People are apt to delude themselves on that
point, but the ultimate result will always
prove the truth of the maxim.”
We are not accomplished students of
History.
•
Cutline in the Grand Rapids
(Mich.) Herald: “While 1*0 or 50
young persons work picture puzzles,
play games inside or ball in the yard
outside the Methodist Communist
House, there’s nearly always . .
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DAVE COSLETT, CLAYTON L. SELPH
Co-Editors
John Whitmore Managing Editor
Frank N. Manitzas Sports Editor
Bob Hughson ..Campus Editor
Joel Austin. City Editor
Aggie Grad
Is EGA Man
In Capital
By TEX EASLEY
Washington, Jan. 23—(/P)—Four
Texans hold key jobs in a program
aimed at helping free nations to
help themselves.
They are employed by the State
Department in the Mutual Defense
Assistance Program (MDAP).
Their jobs deal with allocating
funds to the various government
agencies which have a hand in the
program, and with determination
of the military value of particular
operations.
The MDAP liaison officer who
works with the armed services is
Eli Stevens, a graduate of West
Point who was promoted to Col
onel before he retired because of
combat injuries received in North
African fighting.
Richard R. Bogardus, El Paso;
Floyd B. Moye, Denison, and Dero
J. Cagle, San Antonio, handle dis
bursement of funds to the armed
services, Commerce Department
and other government units carry
ing out the defense assistance pro
gram.
Still another Texan in. a related
field of foreign assistance is E. N.
(Skinny) Holmgreen of Bryan, a
Texas Aggie of the class of 1922.
Holmgreen is deputy director of
the food and agr>culture division
of the Economic Cooperation Ad
ministration.
His job is to see that the war-
torn countries outside the iron cur
tain get adequate food, and the
materials to rebuild their agricul
tural economy. About half the
$8,000,000,000 spent so far on the
EGA has gone into the program in
which the former Texas county
agent is active.
After finishing A&M, he worked
in the extension service at Col
lege Station and was Galveston
county agent from 1941 to 1943,
before entering the army. He was
with the American Military Gov
ernment for a period in Austria.
He was in the 36th Division’s in
vasion of Salerno, and was with
a group of 38 ex-Aggies of the
VI corps who held a muster on the
beachhead of Anzio on April 21,
1944.
His wife, Claire, is from Car-
rizo Springs. They have a son,
J. N., living in Houston; another
son, Richard, of Bryan, and a
daughter, Shirley, who is studying
aeronautical engineering at the
University of Texas.
Vets Will
Hold Rights
If in School
“Veterans in training under the
GI Bill of Rights at the time they
are called back in the service or
when they volunteer for active du
ty will retain their World War II
educational benefits,” Taylor Wil
kins, veterans advisdr, said today.
“Those not in training at that
time,” V/ilkins points out, “will
lose their benefits.”
The veterans advisor said that
“in the next few months many
more veterans of World War II
will be called back into federal
service. During the fall semester,
1950, Texas A&M had 1640 veter
ans of World War II enrolled.
But of that number, 35 were call
ed back into the service.”
Wilkins says that “under the
existing regulations, a veteran
must be in training during the
spring semester 1951 (which begins
on Januaiy 29, or in a summer
session starting before July 25,
1951 in order to retain his bene
fits. A veteran must then attend
each fall and spring semester there
after until he uses up his benefits
or until July 25, 1956 except the
school teachers. Teachers do not
necessarily have to attend fall and
spring as long as they teach but
they must train some each sum
mer.”
The training, Wilkins declares,
“does not necessarily have to be
on a full time basis but it must be
residence training. Correspondence
courses will not count toward keep
ing the benefits.”
(Today's Issue
Roland F. Bing .....: Managing Editor
Joe Arnett Campus News Editor
Vivian Castleberry City News Editor
T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialist*
Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor
pob Hughson, Andy Anderson, George 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, Rayraon Swan, Robert Ball, Bert Hardaway.
Edward Holder, Richard Ewing News and Feature Writer*
Curtis Edwards Church Editor
Roser Coslctt PijieSraoking Contest Manager
Jack B Detains, Jerry v |in tai n e ;.n^„i Assignment*
Sid Abernathy..
..Campus News Editor
Ralph Gorman, Fred Walker, 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 Hollingshcad,
Tommy Fontaine, James Lancaster Photo Engraver*
Autrey Frederick J. Advertising Manager
Russell Hagens, Frank Thurmond Advertising Representative*
Emmett Trant, Jerry Clement, Bob Hendry «... Cartoonist*
Herman C. Gallot— 1 — , __^A.mvsaments Editor
Landowners May
Still Get Seedlings
One and three-quarter million
slash pine seedlings for reforesta
tion purposes are still available to
Texas landowners, Don Young,
head of the Texas Forest Service
Management Department, advised
today. A record production of 19
million seedlings was grown this
year at the Indian Mound Nursery
in Cherokee County, This nursery
is operated by the Texas Forest
Service;.
The deadline for ordering seed
lings is Jan. 31. The planting sea
son extends into March. Orders
submitted in January may specify
a February or March delivery date.
Seedlings are sold to landowners
at cost, $3 per thousand for slash
pine and $5 per thousand for the
hardwood species. Hardwood spe
cies available and suitable for use
in East Texas include black lo
cust, green ash, bois d’ arc and
catalpa.
Individuals desiring planting’ in
formation should contact their dis
trict forester or write the Texas
Forest Service, College Station. Or
ders for seedlings should be sub
mitted direct to the Indian Mound
Nursery, Alto.
The Ballad
Of Grade Point Davis
. . By Ned Snead
Where the Brazos River winds through the land of cotton
there stands a school
Where those inside only wish they were out and curse
themselves for a fool.
Here’s where they teach the cowboys to ride and the M. E.’s
to engineer,
And the B. A.’s to sit in a swivel chair and the freshmen to
guzzle the beer.
The exes are all mighty proud of the place . ..
They show off their nuggets with pride.
They say that when they were here it was rough, and many
a good freshman died.
The climate is bad ... no women around . . .
Some stories are false, you can tell at a glance, but most
are truer than words.
When I think of this God-forsaken place,
I remember a buddy of mine
Who lived across the hall from me and had a hell of a
time.
Davis came up from Old San Antone with a slipstick in
his hand.
He wanted to learn all there was to learn and make his
mark in the land.
Before he got through his Junior year he went head-over-
heels for a girl.
I met her a couple of time myself, and, pardner, she was
a pearl!
He wanted to marry her right away, but of course her folks
said, “No.”
He was only a measly Junior M. E.
Where would he get any dough ?
So he sweated and bled as the months dragged by while she
worked in a cheap dance hall.
He thought, “Could I only graduate,
I would take her away from it all.”
He wasn’t too bright, but he plugged right along, and for
him it was really a fight.
When thermo and 417 had him down, he’d study from morn
ing ’till night.
In his last semester he did well enough except for that 446.
He thought he could work all the problems and such, but
on quizzes he took all the licks.
The prof was a good guy, but screwball, you know who
talked of Swiss steaks and the sort.
His class time was filled with pop quizzes and jokes.
Old Davis was beat from the start.
As the time to start finals came rolling around, and the
prof added up all the grades,
The average for Davis was just sixty-eight, (with deductions
for pop quizzes made)
This was revolting! . . . A stab in the back! . . .
This meant a final to take!
And to turn in a “C” on a final like this he’d have to have
plenty of breaks.
He went to his room, and he bolted the door, and he started
to racking his mind.
A freshman with coffee came in every hour to help him
to live through the grind.
He cussed and he cried, and he wished he had died ’till the
whites of his eyes had turned blue.
But he’d look at Her picture, arid she seemed to* say, "
“Please, darling, I’m waiting for you.”
The final was just as he knew ;t would be.
His slipstick was worn down an inch.
He worked all three hours and didn't get through, but he
felt that a “C” was a cinch.
He went home by air (Air you going my way?) to tell his
sweetheart the news,
But the grade on his quiz back in old Aggieland was, in
round numbers, seventy-two.
“LET’S GET TOGETHER”, SAYS LOU
A deal with Lou is a steal for you.
Swap him five for four, at
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Cows Reach
Butterfat Goal
The Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station recently announced
that 13 Jersey cows in the experi
mental herd had each produced
more than a ton of butterfat.
The total amount produced by
these cows was 449 tons of milk
and 22 tons of buttex*fat. This is
enough milk to give every person
in a community of 1100 persons
one quart of milk a day for a year.
Based on the average price re
ceived by the Station for their
milk and the average price paid
for feed during their lives, this
group returned $36,481 profit
above feed costs, plus the value
of their offspring.
These eows range in age from 8
to 17 years. Production ranged
from 130,391 pounds of milk and
5,892 pounds of butterfat to 50,392
pounds of milk and 2,372 pounds
of butterfat.
Several of thees cows would be
recognized as official “Ton of
Gold” cow by the American Jer
sey Cattle Club if all x>i their rec
ords had been made under the su
pervision of the club.
To qualify as a “Ton of Gold”
cow, a cow must produce at least
2,000 pounds of butterfat within
four years while on either Register
of Merit or Herd Improvement
Registry testing program. ,
u t Accidents are-*caused by care
less people.
Previous Lesson
Pays Driver Well £
Corsicana, Tex. ---(A 5 )— Exper
ience is the best teacher, the max
im goes, and R. I). Chamber, used
car dealer of Dallas, is prone to
believe it.
A well dressed, masked gunman
got into Chamber’s car as the deal
er waited a traffic light change
here.
This had happened to Chamber
before.
The gunman, white and about 30,
escaped with about $10 after forc
ing Chamber to drive about a mile
east of Corsicana.
But Chamber had learned about
being hijacked. He carried two wal
lets. The “other” one contained
over $100.
Kramer to Conduct
Training Program
A. L. Kramer, field instructor
for Texas Engineering Extension
Service, will conduct Unit I of the
Supervisory Training Program for
the Eden-Birch Lumber Company
at Cleveland, Texas until Jan. 26.
Unit I analyzes the supervisor’s
job. It includes a discussion of
the responsibilities of the super
visor for job training and practice
in job instruction. Supervisors
meeting the minimum requirements
of the, twenty hour vr'hH will be
awarded certificates b^ the Texas
Engineering Extension Service.
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