Battalion Editorials
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1951
The Cure for Communism...
From the City Desk . • .
New Area Cold Blast
Causes Heavy Damage
. . . By Joel Austin
Planes, Ships, Guns
‘Mothballed’ U.S. Weapons
Still Eligible for War Duty
ANALOGY DOESN’T really prove any-
thing, but there is a biological situation
that forbodes dire political possibilities.
It seems that there is a plague germ that
cleans up on cancer cells like a fox in a
chicken coop. The catch is that the patient
Ideas - in Time -
Lead to Reality
HTHE WAYS OF the world are strange, par-
ticularly with regard to the amount of
time that sometimes separates an idea and
its crystallization into fact or law.
The U. N. has been little more than an
idea, and it could remain an idea for a long
time in a world that looks upon war as the
conventional extension of diplomacy or poli
tics. A beginning, however, is indeed a step
from barbarism to civilization.
Lest the U. N. lose sight of its main ob
jectives, its secretary-general, Trygve Lie,
has ordered a continuance of efforts designed
to eventually prohibit atomic weapons, and
regulate armaments.
He admitted “In the present state of ten
sion in the world, with rearmament proceed
ing at a rapid pace on all sides, it may seem
academic and even utopian to proceed with
serious discussion and planning on the regu
lation and reduction of armaments. I do
not agree with this view. I believe the work
of this committee should be looked upon as
one of the vital undertakings of the U. N.”
We are inclined to agree with Secretary
Lie on this point. Even if those now living
do not see the day when a Communist can
sit beside a Capitalist with the dove of peace
hovering above their heads, the idea will
have been given a start. Apparently, how
ever, several years and several thousand or
millions of casualties will separate the idea
from realization.
dies of the plague about three days after his
cancer is cured. No way has been found as
yet to overcome this discrepancy.
The fight against Communism has led
some to believe that we are liable to find the
treatment in this case as bad or worse than
the ailment. A standard joke now is the
“Truman dime”—formerly called a one dol
lar bill. Statisticians say that the dollar is
worth between 30 and 50 cents according to
various so-called indices. You can go to a
grocery store, however, and make your own
calculation.
Eric Johnston, the new Economic Stabili
zation chief, is about the only official who
seems to be alarmed about our economic
collapse. He said “I want to hasten the day
when the dollar can look 100 cents worth of
merchandise squarely in the eye as one equal
to another.” We wish him luck, but we won
der if he is optimistic or just naive.
Business is headed for an era of controls
more severe than ever thought possible, all
types of taxes are due for sharp increases,
and little businessmen are just on the way
out because of the raw material situation.
The incentives of free enterprise are going
to be correspondingly reduced, and this is
not a healthy situation. ‘
The only solution to the problem is alert
ness to the fundamental evils that we are
creating in order to survive. It will then
be possible to remove these evils as soon
as the situation warrants to avoid economic
death when Communism is no longer a dire
menace.
The problem is a good one—we can spend
ourselves to death waiting for an enemy act
of war, or we can stage an incident, force a
showdown and accept the moral conse
quences of precipitating a war. Economists
T HE SUN BROKE through the clouds yesterday morning
to end the second hard cold blast College Stationites have
seen in the last two weeks. Probably not appreciated nearly
so much in the hot summer months, Ole Sol was extremely
welcomed as he Quickly sent the temperature above the freez
ing point.
But in his absence the damage was done and all over
town workmen are still busy repairing downed telephone
lines, clearing the many tree branches that fell to block
streets, and as usual after a freeze, fixing broken pipes
that have frozen.
The Ground Hog didn’t make a mistake this year, and
maybe after his accurate prediction of more cold weather
(Remember all the p 1 a n e s,
ships, and guns that the United
States had when World War II
finally ended? Now, with the
Korean fight a huge problem,
and with rearmament being
pushed, those same weapons are
being brought from storage. As
sociated Press writer Clark
Beach tells here of the treatment
which the weapons have had
since their storage and of their
condition at the moment — The
Editor.)
By CLARK BEACH
Washington, Feb. 16—6 Z P)-
When the great hoard of left- preventative, compound a kind of
overs from the war was placed in wax.
long-term storage, everybody had Gun turrets were sealed and dc-
his fingers crossed. The Army and humidified like the ships. If the
Air Force had never attempted big guns were not enclosed in tur-
such a thing, and the Navy hadn’t rets, a metal housing was built
been very successful. around them.
Many old salts in the Navy shook Just after the war, when the
their heads when they saw the re- Navy had to rush its mothballing
serve fleet—about $19 billion worth operations before its personnel was
of ships—being mothballed in 1945 demobilized, it resorted to the quick*
and 1946. The salt damp of the sea and easy method of fashioning
air, they predicted, would eat into plastic cocoons around the guns,
the metal no matter what you did. A net was wrapped around them*.
But about 200 vessels have been and this was sprayed with plastic
taken out of storage since the Ko- un ^ a ^ ari ^ casin ? had been built,
rean war began, and only some of The cocoons proved breakable
Un- the rubber and other non-metallic under ice and snow and are consid-*
nponlp will nTYnrppintp hw rpouilnu iirmplfi^li ^pwIpp' p littlp cle.Sam is opening his stockpile of parts have deterioated. these ered satisfactory now only in the
Eli!: appreciaxe ms regular, unsemsn service a nine prese rved airplanes, tanks, guns parts are easily replaced. South-and they are not too highly
Some Obsolete
regarded there.
mo I ,e * and ships and is delighted to find
At the City Hall, officials had no accident reports during how well most of them have kept
the two-day cold spell. The signal light at the North Gate in the five years since he put them . ... , ,
, TTOr , j. „ A,,-, ttt jiC, n TT r. „ i mu,, away. been that equipment which has be- The stored ships, moored at na-
WES OUt tor a while Wednesday night and Thursday come ou { 0 f date. Aircraft and val stations on the Atlantic, Gulf
morning due to electric current being off a few hours Wed- rtmmrm t ? nks have to b ? e xtensivel y 'nodi- and Pacific coasts, are inspected
nesday night. The time switch on the light was put out of § 1 §i J / Ji ed because of improvements in every week. The schedule calls for
order when the current was cut and the light wasn’t fixed A A 2«5SSLumSKd , d J d °■
, t i.* i *1. i.* t j aii letters to the editor must be signed tne eiectionic equipment nus n<iu yeais to sciape and paint the hulls.
Until city workmen noticed it W&sn t operating yesterday by the writer and free from obscene to be replaced. About 35 per cent have been dry-
and libelous references. Letter writers ,
All the services used their indi- uot * ea sinL '
morning.
Resident Protests New Numbering
wanting their name withheld must make a
personal request to the co-editors,
unsigned letters will be published.
the
A College Hills resident was at the College Station City
Council meeting Monday evening to voice his opposition to
the city’s new street numbering system adopted in an ordi
nance a few months ago
Riding Boots
From Rumania
Editor, The Battalion:
No vidual methods of preserving. The The Navy estimates that the to
primary aim of all, however, was tal cost of preserving, maintaining
to keep the equipment dry. Rust- for five years and overhauling and
ing can be almost eliminated in the reconditioning a ship for service
atmosphere, dehumidified to d e s - is less than five per cent of the
ert dryness. original cost. And Navy spokes-
The Navy accomplished this by men say the cost of new ships has
‘ World War 11
Thp visitor oointod out that at ono nlaro on Walton Drivp In 1941 in Cairo - 1 was fortunate sealing up its ships and constantly doubled since the
ine VISIXOr pomiea OUI inai ai One place on waixon nilyc enoU2 -h fj n( j remnan t drying the inside air by pumping Navy was built.
the numbers jump from 400 to 1100 at one intersection. He of fine Rumanian calf t0 come out it through silica gel, a chemical
told the councilmen only two people on the street had num- of Rumania before the occupancy tb at absorbs moisture. Theatmos-
bered their houses and no major inconvenience would be of the country by the Nazis,
suffered if the council could see fit to revise their ordinance , A Rumanian bootmaker who was
to omit the large jump. ^ ShmSS •< * wnf. W
Members of the council, however, explained the Situation piece of leather, which I have never balely Lovered
which many other residents along Walton will be inquiring worn except when riding and for
about as soon as they are notified of their new numbers.
which I have no further use
The street makes a krge are^ Beginning at Highway 6 fo^ed^Thaf^d ridinfboJts
were in demand amongst the Ag
gies and I would like to dispose of
these at a reasonable price.
I will be glad to send the boots
to any responsible person you
In laying out the lots and street numbers, the men hired would recommend for his inspec-
by the city to revise the numbering system labored on this ^ on • They are a PP roximatel y 8 ^
particular street for several days. They finally decided to
place numbers along Walton to correspond to Lincoln and
phere inside the ships was brought
down to 30 per cent humidity—
compared to 70 per cent in the air
All iron and steel surfaces of
Tried “Cocooning”
Army ordnance men had about
$1 billion worth of new or practic
ally new equipment they wan ted Co
store. They tried Navy-type plas
tic cocooning
guns but reji
found that eve
fe’
anks and
when they
n hailsto
in a Northeasterly direction and then after several blocks it
makes a near 90 degree gradual turn.
Street Presented Large Problem
have warned of the dangers of the first alter- Francis Streets which ran parallel until the turn.
W. E. Lessing
813 North 32nd Street
Waco, Texas
native, and Gen. Eisenhower has warned us
about the implications of a preventive war.
A solution through reason and the U. N.
is possible, but time is running out in the
game of politics.
After the turn the street becomes parallel with Puryear
Drive and Harrington. It was necessary to jump the num
bers here to correspond with these streets.
Certainly the jump will cause a little confusion to resi
dents of that area, but no better solution to the problem
can be found. The councilmen agreed to consider any system Editor, The Battalion:
Complaints Voiced
Against Laundry
machinery were covered with a rust the coc<
From Where I Sit . . .
Stockwell Finds Foil
In Aging Errol Flynn
... By Herman C. Gollob
O UR AMPLE heart today sighs, cries, and dies for swash
buckling Errol Flynn, whose screen career has suffered
its severest setback since his amatory escap
Administration Strategists
In this case Errol has again fallen prey to nature, al<
though in not so romantic a fashion.
He has trysted with Father Time, caught a paunch and
‘Troops-to-Europe’ Battle
the looks of some of the articles is sequently, their performances .reek with hammy pretentiousness,
Atlantic treaty nations about the combined Western European Taft of Ohio head of the GOP noli t? arC wlde schisms in the ^ margin over his lone onpo- by no means a delicate one requir- Such not the case with our little pal Dean; the lad is a “born
4.500.000. armed forces under Gen. Dwieht ™Republican party, inside and out- vote, margin over his lone oppo .r labor actor.” He has natural ability, poise, self-confidence. Moreover he has
4,500,000
• Sending to the witness stand
its most persuasive voices, start
ing off with George C. Marshall,
soldier-statesman and the secretary
of defense.
Dean Acheson, who succeeded such an announcement might tie
D d G Dwi8:ht cy committee, and Senator Wherry s ide of Congress, over the troop
of Nebraska, party floor leader, proposal. Broadly speaking, for-
They hold that President Truman mer President Herbert Hoover lines
has no power to dispatch more up with Taft and wherry; Gov.
Hitherto, administration strate- forces to Europe without Congress’ Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
gists had thought that to make approval. tw j ce t he ' GO p presidential nomi-
Wherry authored - —
D. Eisenhower.
Change of Pace
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
Bible Verse
- And Jesus said unto them, I am
a resolution nee; says proposals to rely on su- the bread of life: he that eometh
perior American air and sea power to me shall never hunger; and he
ing highly skilled labor. . . , - ■ ■ », ., , , ,. , ,
T , , t a mature gravity and aristocratic pride that seems destined to save
In snort, it seems to us that j rom ro ] eg 0 j- car efree adolescent. Stockwell is a young Byron,
the college laundry is a one way not an And Hardy,
organization—using surreptitious •
is the “utmost of folly.”
has urged such reliance.
Hoover that believeth in me shall never
thirst.
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Office at College Station, Texas, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Member of
The Associated Press
Background Complicated
It is against this background
that todays’ hearings were called.
The report the two committees
had prepared was a handbook cov-
— ; ering the essential points of com-
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published parative military strength and of
five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published the military and economic aid
four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are programs.
Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, Actually, their figures on Com-
and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates $6.00 per year munist military strength were not
or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. new, having been generally used
in published articles, hut they now
had the stamp of official estimates.
The report said the total strength
Soviet armed forces estimated
The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred- ro 0 *" 6 than 4 million organized
ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein, into about 17j divisions.
Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. 'A- Soviet division, at full
strength, is about 10,000 men. Ihus
Represented nationally by National Ad- the combat divisions of Russia
vertising Service Inc., at New York City, se em to account for only 1,750,000
Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. 0 f the total 4 million. The report
did not say whether the total fig
ure included Russian air and naval
strength. However, it seemed prob
able the remaining 2,250,000 would
include air and naval strength as
well as part of the large internal
security force maintained by Rus
sia.)
.Red Satellites
The report made these estimates
of the European satellites’ armed
forces: Albania 50,000; Bulgaria
190,000; Czechoslovakia 140,000;
East Germany 50,000; Hungary
60,000; Poland 200,000; Romania
Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor 275 000
Jimmy Ashlock. Job Blanchette, Ray Holbrook, T ,’ ' , ,
Chuck Neighbors, Joe Hollis, Pat LeBlanc. It Set 1 ltd S Yugoslav armed
Dowell Peterson Sports News Staff force at 350,000 men. (The esti-
Curtis Edwards Church News Editor cf.-»«cr+li -.n
Roger Coslett Pipe Smoking Contest Manager nia ‘ : ' e °1 Yugoslavia Stiengtll ap-
Tom Fantainc, Johnny Lancaster, Joe Gray, peared to be predicated Oil her
\ber 1 n e atiw CCuIl0U8h ‘ P u 0t i° Kne r a ::? rs anny alone, since she is known to
Airtrey Frederick, Advertising Manager .aVe allfehtly more tliail ot) dlVi-
Eussell Hagens, Bob Hayuie Advertising Representatives sioilb of 10,000 •Men each).
—John 6:34.
means to extract precious coins
from the coffers of the inmates of
this institution.
W. D. Oradat ’48
W. G. Modrow
W. L. Moore ’51
F. O. Cockrell
So much has been said in praise of “Arena Theatre” that a dis
senting voice seems almost heretical. We refer to Henry Popkin’s
logical argumnts against arena staging in his article “The Drama vs.
The One-Ring Circus” which appears in this month’s issue of Theatre
Arts magazine.
Anyone who has seen Houston’s Alley Theatre or Dallas’ Theatre
’51 will likely take Popkin’s essay as a personal insult.
LI’L ABNER •
Smoke Gets In His Eyes!!
CLAYTON L. SELPH, DAVE COSLETT Co-Editors
John Whitmore, Dean Reed Managing Editors
Andy Anderson, Bob Hughson Campus Editors
Ralph Gorman Sports Editor
Fred Walker Associate Sports Editor
Joel Austin City Editor
LI’L ABNER •
The Eyes Have It!!
By Al Lapp
Today’s Issue
John Whitmore
Bob Hughson
Ralph Gorman....
Joel Austin
Managing Editor
Campus News Editor
.. Sports News Editor
City News Editor
TV M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists
Allen Peugelly Assistant City Editor
Leon McClellan, Norman Blahuta, Jack Fontaine,
Ed Holder, Bryan Spencer. John Tapley, Bob
Venable, Bill Streich, George Charlton, Bob
Selleek, Dale Walston. Bee Landrum, Frank
Davis, Phil Snyder, Art Giesc. Christy Orth,
James Fuller, Leo Wallace, VV. If. Dickens,
Fig Newton. Joe Price, Bat Hermann, Ed •
Holder, Wesley Mason ....News and Feature Staff
Dick Kelly Club Publicity Co-ordinator
AH IS SIMPLY DOIN'
THIS T'TAKE MAH
MIND OFF ANOTHER
GAL, WHO-BELIEVE
IT OR NOT- IS A
WORSE PEST THAN
ides aboard a
which would be more effici^TSn Tfter 'oteertnB “the antics of yacM were brought to light some yea'rs ago by a brace of
the one recently adopted; other- the local laundry for a few years, Vegetal paramours,
wise, they plan no changes for the we’ve finally arrived at the point " """"
Walton Drive numbering. 0 f ver bal complaint.
Location of house numbers will Our gripe is the result of the _
ic further facilitated by the street prices charged for extra pieces— bloated pan, and been exposed by MGM, who SOpiehoW duped
signs to be placed at every corner exCra pieces beings all those over- -hj m • j n t 0 "voluntarily flaunting his aging and not-SO-agill
designating the name of the street, 23. The laundry charges two cents f m Wore the niihlie pvp in “Kim ”
section of the city, and block num- each for excess small pieces (pieces Iorm Oerore tne puoilC eye in xvim.
her. excluding shirts, pants, and sheets, what is even more pitiful than Errol s senile attempts
Municipal Election Set we su PP° se -) a t dash and derring-do is the fact that his role of Red Beard
rr ,, However, we’ve yet to hear of is a foil to prodijuvenile Dean Stockwell’s Kim.
Washington, Feb. 16—UP)—The Marshall as secretary of state, is Eisenhower s hands in negotiating saying it is the belief of the Sen- Ine municipal election has beeh ^ i aundr y’a returning two cents
administration yesterday opened its to testify today. Then will follow with the European nations for their ate that no additional American definitely set for Tuesday, April 3 f or every piece UNDER 23 * ^
formal ai’gument in “the Great De- the military hierarchy—Gen. Omar contributions and also could prove ground forces be assigned to Eu- by City Ordinance passed by the A ] so what about the times when This means that Errol not only bares his natural physical defects
bate,” now pinpointed on the issue Bradley, chairman of the joint disadvantageous if later it again rope until Congress fixes an overall council Monday night. March 5, due to’holidays and such a person to the world, but is required by script to act the stoogc of a precocious^
of sending more troops to Europe, chiefs of staff; Gen. J. Lawton Col- seemed necessary to augment policy. ' thirty days before the election, will doesn > t send ‘ 'his laundiy for a street urchin blessed with what seems to be the shrewdest wit and.
with two maneuvers: lins, army chief of staff; Gen. Hoyt American strength abroad. An administration lieutenant, be the last day candidates can file cer t a } n week’ We’ve yet to re- charm in India.
_ ,, ...... , . Vandenberg, air chief; Admiral p ., nn tt.-,, chairman Connally (D-Tex) of the for the three positions from Wards ce ; monetary sums resultintr Even his tongue-in-cheek breeziness appears frivolous and inane in
S •sfanMSM a S ‘ P - Shc ™ a "’ chirf - e,SXr fo? Sic™ The “ *»*■«»* «■<■* *«*»>«* *
tary strength as “certain basic As the Senate committees con- figures had been in evidence. offer a substitute for the Wherrv ^eims expire this April for the laundry hasn t any Tight to be • ,
facts” for the hearine’bv the Sen- vened for the first dav’s session wn * 4. j cj + if- councilmen G. W. Black, W. H. paid for work they don t do.
ag’s ForeignRelations and Armed there wei-e growin^indkations that commfL^eS^nd healS® Senate on recTd Is WinfSe" Bad » ett > and W * D * Fitch ’ ' We would like to know where the As a rule child thespians incite us to regurgitation faster than
Services committees. A report by a public announcement would be debate toward an eventual show- dispatch of more troops fof the Last year’s city election turned tw0 cent s comes in—since_ socks lumps in our cream nf wheat. For the most part they arc cute faces
the committees said Russia and her made on the number of divisions down ^ be settled by Senate bal- North Atlantic treaty organization out to be rather exciting with a aad underclothes are not ironed, ^
European satellites have about o the administration pioposes to send foting was the position of some military force. councilman from Ward two (Col- why should we be charged? From the unwairanted praise ot do mg paten s an depraver duectois. Lon-
^Ihon men^nder arms, the North th c ^mencan commitment to Republicans, among them Senator Ther e ar e wide schisms in the Ie - e Hills) taking office by a one-