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■EPfci*. & Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1951 USAF Chief Warns Fact vs. Fiction Your Strategy is Poor, Mr. Dewey. TT TU, Brute ? ^ Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, by tradition the head of the Republican party since he was the OOP’s last presidential nominee, has joined the ranks of the opponents of Her bert Hoover’s and Robert Taft’s foreign pol icy ideas. It’s really amazing how American poli tics sometimes revolves around one world. Since World War II, the word to avoid in foreign affairs has been isolation. On December 7, 1941, the American peo ple learned once and for all that the western hemisphere can not be isolated from the rest of the world. But this word isolation is being used un necessarily. Since some of our politicians have discovered the power of that word they have thrown it at anyone who opposed them. At the mention of the word, the American people are expected to go into a screaming, howling fit and to begin stoning the person • SOS From the Men On the Back Row tt/^ENTLEMEN, I’m going to take a few ^minutes now to seat you alphabetically.” The usual follow up is “I’ll be able to learn your names faster,” or “This will save time in calling the roll.” At this point, old Fred Zeeberger groans. He really is in the class to learn something. And he knows he’ll be sitting on the very back row, too close to benefit by the sound waves glancing off the ceiling, and too dis tant to hear by the flat-trajectory sound waves. His only consolation is the remem brance of a prof several semester back who, though a loyal alphabetizer, had throughtful- ly seated the class in reverse order. So one man may learn some names a few days sooner, or another conserve the neces sary breath for quickly calling a class role, 20 or 30 students must sit in the same seat every class day for 15 or 16 weeks. Is there any justice to alphabetical seat ing? Is there any justification for it ? If there really is reason enough for it to justify all the R through Z’s who are for ever banished to the back rows, we should like to hear of it. Give them a break, prof. Some of those boys on the tail-end of the alphabet really would like to hear what you have to say. Russia Could Hit U. S. With 70 of 100 Bombers branded as isolationist. But Mr. Dewey may have undiscrimin- ately used the word once too often. Washington, Febi 14—MP)—Gen. a heavy bomber to match the B-36” U.S.S.R.” (a reference to Russian Ever SO often Mr. Dewey adjusts his Hoyt S. Vandenberg, chief of the and “she unquestionably will build copies of the B-29). halo, puts on a pious expression, and tells “'Analyzing the Soviet striking No ™ Uete,se the world that he’s supporting Eisenhower through to United States targest power and America’s air defenses, He expressed his belief that no in the next election We have the idea though * n a determined attack. Vandenberg said Russia “now has conceivable defense—not even such ‘ . . . 8 Vandenberg said in a Saturday at least 450 planes that can strike a preposterous device as a five- that Mr. Dewey, despite his altruistic pro- Evening Post story that Russia our major population and indus- mile high steel fence around the testations, would welcome another presiden- “ has been working intensively on trial centers from bases in the country backed by an unbroken x radar screen, a perfect warning HEARTS--AND DARTS! tial nomination. If Mr. Dewey’s speeches on foreign pol icy are merely disguised political moves, he had better look around. The only nomina tion for which his speeches qualify him is as running mate to Harry S. Truman. And that spot is already designed for a Fair Dealer. What’s 37 Million, Here or There? fF YOU can laugh at $37,000,000 then News- week magazine contains a very funny inci dent. It seems that this amount has been ear marked for a B-47 (jet bomber) training base at Wichita, Kansas. Representative Wint Smith of Kansas got word of this, and immediately phoned for an appointment with Harold C. Stuart, assistant secretary for Air. The joker is that 90 miles away from Wichita at Smoky Hill there is an inactive airbase with 10,000 foot runways that is now staffed by about 20 caretakers. Secretary Skirt Tales Stuart, however, could not immediately veri fy the existence of this field. It was filed under “inactive” instead of “surplus,” and this little discrepancy could save the tax payers the difference between $37,000,000 and the cost of re-activating an existing in stallation. We realize that it isn’t fashionable to worry about a few million dollars more or less—we give away almost that much every day. This incident, however, brings up the system and an umbrella of fighter planes—could fully. stop a deter mined bombing attack. “Should war come,” Vandenberg said, “we can be expected to de stroy no more than 30 per cent of the planes making an attack in strength on the United States be fore bombing missions are com pleted. And our preparations to day are not beefed up to achieve even that figure.” The United States must realize, the general said, that Russia might sacrifice bombers in one-way atomic attacks on American indus- Stiteler’s Mixup Still ‘Hot News ’ By DEAN REED H ARRY STITELER’S “beating-up” in Houston Dec. 16 still seems to be a favorite subject of the Houston Press. For the second time in less than two weeks, the Press yesterday found occasion to headline another “angle” on the story. For several days after the beating, and intermittently since then, large and small articles have found their way into almost every major newspaper which takes a more-than-usual interest in the fight. “May Fire Stiteler if Beating Story Un true”—that was the eight-column headline which topped the front page of the Houston evening paper yesterday. Smaller headlines said “A&M Officials Determined to Get Facts” and “Coach Told Differing Versions of attack ** The story itself quoted D. W. Williams, vice-chancellor for agriculture and chairman of the Athletic Council, claiming that he said Stiteler will be fired outright if his version of beating is found to be false. Reed An Associated Press story which came over the Battalion’s wire last night and which appeared in many morning newspapers carried trial centers. Defensive planning a conflicting statement from Williams, in reply to the Houston story. also has given closest attention to the possibility that Russia will “I didn’t say anyone is going to be fired,” Williams said. "I’m not going to prejudice Harry. He has given us a statement and that’s refuel its bombers in flight over the way it is until I know otherwise.” “Any statement to the effect that the college is withholding any information with reference to the identity of Stiteler’s attacker is untrue.” Tess Asks Aggies Bo (jrO Sailboating Dr. Doak Speaker the Arctic wastes to enable them to make a round trip, he added. A Bomb Raid Vandenberg said a large scale Just for the records, here’s what Henderson Shuffler, director of raid probably would include only information for the A&M System, told me by phone last night: a few planes carrying the a-bomb. „ , implication of the story (the one in the Press) ,s not true “Even if the enemy had 100 Certainly parts of the story are correct, but its implication is lalsc. , (atomic) bombs-which she hasn’t To illustrate his point, he continued: now-she could not afford to throw ‘ b w , ouId be the same situation, if you called me and asked Mr. , all into one raid,” he said. d .° 7, ou think Jt Wl11 nun tomol ' row? 1 might answcr 11 tuu-c . o , ,.... , , looks like it. As for America s ability to strike “Then you could headline a story with ‘Shuffler Predicts Flood the enemy, Vandenberg said the Tomorrow.” y “B-36 has more speed, range, ar- The ethics of journalism, I haw been taught, call for fact, not , mament and carries a heavier bomb fiction. A story can be “slanted,” I have also been taught, to the load than any big plane in opera- point where the truth—while there—is completely misshaped and tion today, or any plane the Mos- thrown out of proportion to its importance, cow regime can get into mass pro- 9 duction in the next few years.” Here are the facts, as far as I know, of the Stiteler affair: Vandenberg said Russia has Harry Stiteler received quite a mauling in Houston on the night about 20,000 first-line planes in all of Dec. 16. of its units, a good part of which Harry Stiteler is the only man who is qualified to tell of the are MIG-15 jet fighters. (The fight. U. S. Air Force has about 4,000 His statement, made shortly afterward, was that he was walking combat planes in active duty.) into, or near, the Shamrock Hotel, where he was to attend a banquet. A man stopped him, whom he did not know, and proceeded to asspult and batter him. Those are the facts. Those are the facts that college officials have. If they are proved false, action will probably be taken. But these facts haven’t been disproved. The college has only Stiteler’s story, so that’s it. Harry has constantly stuck by his guns, despite low rambling and occasional outbursts from Houston and other parts of the state. correlation of information regarding instal lations, equipment, and even manpower. There is a rumor that electronic brains exist that can remember things—maybe a machine of this type would be a good invest- To me, the entire story is a matter of courtesy—courtesy to a man who has tutored one of A&M’s most successful football teams in years. He has told his story. Until new developments warrant complete coverage of the affair, The Battalion intends to forget about it. Just as we would on any other story which happened two months ago— because, in newspaper jargon, the story is “dead”—stale news. Just to clear up a few other points on the case, here’s another Writer Considers Islam More Than Democracy By JEAN “STORMY” CLOUD At ScicHCC Meet Daily Lass-0 Friday Editor Dr. G. C. Doak, president of the T SCW, Denton, Feb. 14—Skirt Tales has been away—or had, Texas Academy of Science, deliv- you noticed? An editor’s note preceding the last publica- ered . the S r ! 1 ? cipal addre ® s at tha question as to whether or not other millions tion in the Battalion commented on the fact that the “north Mary^a^din-Baylor ” College 1 at have been spent wastefully through lack of reaches” had not been heard from of late. The truth is that Belton Thursday night. He gave an we were snow bound, couldn’t send any form of communica- illustrated lecture on “Science Sol- tion off Skirt Hill. That’s my excuse, and possibly one that vcs a « d Creates Problems.” letter-writers from here to there have used. n 1)r '.j Doa f’ liead ° f the ® 10 , lo P fact Those excuses probably were ironed out in good style, though, department, was accompanied by Tlie p resg sai( j j n u s t 0 ry several days ago that A&M Campus since old Saint Valentine brought indications this way that all was a delegation trom the student chap- Security Chief Fred Hickman was in Houston “investigating the af- well along the fellowship line. ter ’ including Prof. Frank Knapp, fuir ’> and “ wor king with the Texas Rangers.” This fine day of tender thoughts has been with us for a good sponsor and James Higgins, pres- The Houston Police Department began an investigation of the ment for some of our larsrer deoartments many years, and I shall quote from Bennett Cerf concerning its origin: l? 1 Kucera, vice-president, beating shortly after it happened. They dropped it couple oi days later. “When Rome was in its glory, say the source books, the Valen- Fred Nyc and Carl Stevens, public Chief Hickman did go to Houston. He went to see if aything had and bureaus. tine’s Day festival was set to commenorate the valor of Lupercus, god relations officers and Victor Kay been uncovered. Nothing had, so he returned. of fertility, and ‘the wolf averter.’ (Wolves prowled all around Rome and Cleburne Schultz. Q in those days.) The festival assumed an amorous aspect because, ac- The regular meeting of the Tex- For a final thought, I’ll quote the familiar question, used joking- cording to the legend, birds were wont to select their mates on this as Academy of Science will be held ly around our offices: “Who Beat Up Harry Stiteler?” particular day. here April 6-7. To that, I’d like to answer: “Who the hell cares?” “In medieval England boys and girls were paired by lot. Later, —— the girl chose her mate deliberately and it became the custom to send gifts or Valentine Day cards. The first ones were dispatched in the 14th century, and only the rich could afford them. By 1852, however, almost two million valentines were delivered by London mailmen alone. Wonder how Postmaster Weaver fared during the rush? This is the third and final one of a series of three articles dis cussing the basic principles and applications of Mohamedanism. The Editor. By ABEL M. LASHEEN ISLAM aims at peace, and was The girl of whom all of us are proud will be here on our campus Friday night. She is Jeannine Holland, sen ior speech major who was chosen to reign this year as national Maid of Cotton. She will appear to model her offi cial cotton wardrobe. Jeannine travels with a 34-costume all-cotton wardrobe created by 30 outstanding American designers. By Associated Press details to be settled and worked presentatives to only those whom by the learned (in accordance with they thing competent in social and the Quran.) political activities, or if they have “Ask the learned men who are n .° objection, may make the elee- amongst you if you do not know.” H° n free and undestricted so that Accordingly, and with a view to the people may choose whomsoever . preserving the spirit of Islam and tney 1,Ke ‘ bLAM aims at peace, and was insuring more elaborate prac- Islam does not enter into details, spread by special persuasion and ti ce 0 f jt s principles, there existed but leaves them to be decided by conversion. It has, therefore, been certain sects Which adopted two the people in accordance with the progressing forward, whether the more bases, dictates of their conscience, of their or°weak STs fdmS/bytte Besides Quran and Hadith (say- f f T », ologists and politicians gg ^ ^"I'ustfkW, compassfonate! «^4 at the presentation of the Daedalian annual later in the year. VTSSSSnSS KiSPthK spile ofthe S2 iMT amount of money they spent and P e °Pl e concerned, in complete ~~ x1 --- L X1 Universal, Not Parochial Martin Backs Hoover Advice For Strong Air, Sea Power army, saying it would “spell out supply and auxiliary troops, lie national bankruptcy in the boldest added it would cost $30 billion a letters” and rob the country of year to house, feed, clothe and pay manpower needed for defense pro- such an army and other costs would duction. about double that. The New York governor had sug- Islam’s human approach and out look is universal and not parochial. Islam has denounced all differ- the great sacrifices they made, agreement), so that if there oc- Christian missionaries have failed cut ' red f case w ^ lc , 1 did not come to stop the onrushing flow of Is- under the direct rule of the Quran j am and the Sunna (or the prophet s It was probably, for the same practice), the Moslems would find reasons that politicians prohibited a reasonable solution for it through ences between man and man and _ _ , _ * , . lijirl rnn ■fminnar'mn rnv nnnul onrj Moslems from entering certain tro- ueuucuon. Thus, there came into being the different Moslem sects, and though different, all these sects The debate over foreign policy ranged cross country again yes- Also Friday night, the four class beauties will be chosen by comiAg^u^agains^sendin^ any Richard Satterfield, assistant to Model Agent and Beauty Authority A . g . < , f g v " . . John Robert Powers, and Miss Audrey Gillen, director of the new roneTn or Asiatic defenSe forces' ^ thC 10 °- d ™ n army tw ,° said, “that the other Atlantic pact Powers school in Dallas. Identities of the four beauties wtll be re- |“ res J Eepublica „ ' spcakc C r ' /forld-S Mon?o7£ "“‘T’ with **“ ’ administration in tri „ e 4h all-out war the penalty f“ P I e ' ( r’L P tilt Itittf Lincoln Day speeches. for Russia if she steps over the Tblj 1 bn Martin, in Boston, lined up with global line. He again took sharp ^ tter 1)os ition to sunnlv this man- former President Hoover’s idea for issue with members of his party ^ V we are to mobilize the a strong navy and air force. who would limit aid to Western J roductive )acit of America for He also let fly at the proposal Europe. f , , , f of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey that Martin said 100 divisions means ' :ae £ lan ' : ’ ;as ^ 0x furnishing them Amei'ica organize a 100-division upward of 6,000,000 men, counting with food, arms, and equipment.” You who visit us into the Spring will find added fac ilities at our Lake Dallas camp. Workmen have been rig ging boats so that soon we will have a whole fleet of sailboats. That should sound fine to you sailing enthus iasts. Then for the more strenous exercisers there are surf boards and water skis. But if you’re extremely lazy, you can always just picnic. “It is therefore clear to me,” he We’re all going to have to take a pical areas, and the inhabitants of these areas were not allowed fraternity with Moslems. Such is the freedom of the 20th century. Learned Decide Details I mentioned earlier that Islam laid down only the broad princi ples of its teaching, leaving the laid the foundation for equal and course in the Panamanian language absolute equality between all man- or else miss out on some very in- kind, regardless of their race, color, teresting conversations. Twelve or nationality. Islam, then, is con- students from Panama have en- - , ,, , . , . , ., sidered to be the absolute and uni- rolled here for the Spring term, aim at the achievement of better versa i justice. Call it democracy This semester is a summer vaca- d 06018, or call it any other name you like, tion for the Panamanian students The Moslem community may also for indeed the word democracy at because the schools there operate apply the views of the learned to it is used today has too narrow a from May until January. They restrict the election of their rc- connotation to define it. were students in the Aguadulce cx- — tension center of the University of Panama. 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Subscription rates $6.00 per year Programs and to keep the station The wheels have started turning for all-college elections, which will choose college government offi cers for the ’51-’52 school year. To be selected are college government and all-college organizations of ficials, and the journalism depart ment will hold elections for editors- in-chief of the Daily Lass-0 and Daedalian Annual. We hear there’s warmer weather Jimmy “ u.^yok BiVnrabitc; ‘ niy' Hoib ro ok° mCn ' S i;dltor 0,1 the wa y- «o here’s an invitation Chuck Neighbors, Joe Hollis, Pat LeBlanc, to COme up and help US debut those _ -Dowell Peterson .Sports News Staff new sailboats. Kogor cosirtt^ 8 .. pipe sinokiug U contcst''Majiager Perhaps these dispatches will be .lom Fantalne. Johnny Lancaster, Joe Gray, on time HOW that the new semester Sid Aberna t hj^ CCUll0Ueh 1,aS bcgl111 aUlJ thingS are ^tlUg Autrey Frederick AdrertiaW 'Manage- ihto the old ruts again. 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