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N. On Co-Ed Campus SWING US THE BIRD How a College Reacts to War How does preparation for war affect a co-educational college? How do its reactions compare with ones on our campus? Associated Press Writer Rob ert Moore has gathered reactions at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Much of what he has to say is true here. The rest provides answers to our questions above.— The Editor. By ROBERT L. MOORE WILLIAMSBURG', VA., Feb. 21 ” —(A 5 )—How does a college pre pare for what may be a third the college’s outstanding military what happened during the night world war? How do its students student in 1950, was wounded soon . . . in Washington, in China, in react? after the outbreak of hostilities. Russia, in Korea—all over The college of William and Mary Marine Captain Benjamin Reed, world. thinks it can furnish the answers. War is no novelty to this second oldest college in America. Since its founding in 1693, William and Mary has weathered eight wars. In World War II hero, was wounded in the ordeal leading to Hamhung. The tempo of activities around a college gearing itself for all-out mobilization gains momentum with This was when the college stu dent’s first morning move was to twirl radio dial to a musical “eye-opener.” That’s not the case today. Masculine or feminine, the first thought after daybreak is what’s on the news roundup. Students at this colonial capital World War II 96 of its alumpi sac- amazing rapidity. Time was when rificed their lives. a. student poked his head from a More recent graduates have been warm residential house into the ,, . in the thick of things in Korea, winter elements to find out how c °ll e g' e gather in little huddles, ex- Austin T. Flagg of Norfolk, Va., cold it.,was. Today, he wants that Rf 6 ? 8 their likes and dislikes and choice of the ROTC department as morning newspaper to find out their problems just as they ye al- Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1951 Attention Employers . From the City Desk... Election Near; Candidates Few ... By Joel Austin B 1 >EFORE we entered this noble institution we suffered from the same illusions shar ed by most high school dreamers. We thought that when we finally reached that Valhalla of all good students, the college we revered, we would find an atmosphere of happy, smiling, hard-working college stu dents possessed of only one thought—col lege is wonderful, and we love it. Great was our disappointment when we discovered that Texas A&M was a colony of dissolute souls filled with hatred of col lege, college officials, and learning in gen eral. Each member of this colony deemed it the greatest of pleasures to expound upon his misfortunes in the world of grade points to any other unfortunate he could force to listen. In fact, we, as disillusioned freshmen, so"on began to perceive that the favorite oc as foot soldiers. Most prefer en listment in the Air Force, the Navy or the Marines. cupation of our heroes, the upperclassmen, cause of the War °f 1812 or why • • vit i i i. i i? a comma precedes the conjunction was griping. We have yet to ask one of our connecting two compound sen- fellow sufferers about his studies but that tences. he is flunking out. His girl—“Got a dear Few men want 10 be drafted John yesterday.” Finances—broke. So, for nearly four years, we have been harboring this traitorous thought—why do 1750^^ employers hire A&M graduates? Obviously, dents. It expects a drop this Spring we reasoned, a man who gripes all the time of 150 > balf J of }Y hom mid ’ can t make a good worker. rollment likely will tumble to r 4-c<4. xr, 1 1,400, only 600 of them men. Of Last Saturday though, a news release these, some 300 will be deferred from the University of Michigan’s institute through the ROTC department, 100 ways done. Boy meets girl and vice-versa. Joe passes Johnny in the hall. Jean greets Judy. But the things they say to one another aren’t the exchanges of old. Jean is sorry Judy’s boy friend has to go away. Johnny gives Joe a bit of hearsay from the active rumor factory, which grinds out campus stories of closed enlist ments and fewer deferments. Students find it difficult now to worry about such matters of why a t; Interpreting the News Uncle Joe’s Words Ring Familiar Note By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst JOSEPH STALIN either must have a bad memory or he discounts the memories of others. How else could he fall into inconsistencies apparent be- of social research "banished ~our disloyal v f i e l a "L and S ° me 200 Un ' tween his occasional statements for current consumption thoughts. Their four-year study revealed 0^“^ u . . + that thP man who oomnlains th/most about of william aild Mai> y- figures the . Stalin has often tried the role of reasonable benignity— that the man who complains the most about college wi jj g0 int0 c i e bt—just as hve and let live, etc., whereas his instructions to his Com- his job, his company, and his boss usually it has done previous wars. munist followers always stress the inevitability of war to' Service schools enabled Williams (j ea th with the non-Communist world. w. ( . fr^rtv r 1 f His latest denial of militarism intent struck a familiar note. Wai . 4.1!' xt rln 5 • wa ?' s , . , Many men had hung upon these other words too, seeking to dis- year, the Navy trained a chaplain s cern theh hidden meaning. A man had said in 1938, against the back- corps of 300 here. In the second - - - • makes the best worker. Line up, employers. Texas A&M undoubt edly has the greatest potential workers in the country. Accusations vs Good Induction Plan 1 LARGE working vocabulary is often a ■f*- useful index of a man’s education. So for you followers of political and military news the following definition will be invaluable. . Armed Forces Unification: (pronuncia tion—emphasis not on unification,) (origin •—Congress, Washington, D. C.) A hypocri tical act designed to improve efficiency of U: S. Armed Forces. The act was passed be cause it was based on the reliable principle that working together yields better results than working separately or against each other. Have we a doubter of the definition? If so, we refer you to the Congressional com mittee which recently investigated Air Force conditions at the Lackland Air Base. That committee has made a serious charge against the Air Force. Summed up, the charge says the Air Force is gypping the Army and Navy by taking all the best men. Judging from recent reports of swollen enlistments, it seems more than likely that the Air Force has more, and better trained, better educated, men than it is entitled to. But let’s put the blame where it belongs. After all, the Army would be doin£ the same thing if it could. The fault lies with the “powers” who framed and implemented the present enlistment and drafting set-up. year, an army specialized training program unit added 600 more to the male enrollment. The ROTC, installed only two years ago, may prove equally beneficial, espec ially if the quota is increased. There are problems other than enrollment and financial. Perhaps the greatest is whether the col lege will be able to maintain a full faculty. Must the curricula be changed? A large number of young faculty members hold reserve commissions. A few have had no military ser vice. A loss of 20 per cent of the „ ... . , , , , faculty is forecast. The drop in Force recruiting centers has not been due enrollment, however, should coun- to men who wanted to go out and die for terbalance the faculty losses. ... 4. at i. 1 ui One thing Dr. Pomfret has made their country. No, a much less noble pur- clear-William and Mary willl not pose has inspired most of the young men— lower its scholastic barriers. In- they enlisted to dodge the infantry. K Z% It seems that the only fair way to keep loe ^ sent> the collcgc has m the different branches of the armed forces applications for the 100 vacancies Since the United States (like all countries of past and present,) is not a land of ambi tious military heroes, men are going to en list in the Air Force as long as they are per mitted to choose their branch of service. Simple reason, Air Force enlisted men don’t have to get on the. front line and fight. The sudden increased business at Air ground of a series of acts similar to Stalin’s: “We are ready at all times to embark upon a policy of understanding with the world about us. We can do that. We want nothing from others.” And later that same man said: “The German nation has no feeling of hatred toward England, America or France. All it wants is peace and quiet. “But these other nations are continually being stirred up to hatred of Germany and the German people .... And so, should the warmong ers achieve what they are aiming at, our own people would be landed in a situation for which they would be psychologically unprepared and which they would thus fail to grasp. “Therefore consider it necessary that from now on our propa ganda ministry and our press should always make a point of answer ing these attacks and, above all, bring them to the notice of the Ger man people. The German nation must know who the men arc who want to bring about a war by hook or by crook. “It is my conviction that these peojile are mistaken in their cal culations, for when once national socialist propaganda is devoted to the answering of attacks, we shall succeed just-as -wc succeeded-in side Germany herself in overcoming, through the convicting power of our propaganda, the Jewish world enemy. “The nations will in a short time realize that national socialist Germany wants no enmity with other nations, that all the assertions as to our intended attacks on other nations are lies—lies born out of morbid hysteria or of a mania for self-preservation on the part of cer tain politicians; and that in certain states these lies are being used by unscrupluous profiteers to salvage their own finances; that, above all, international Jewry may hope in this way to satisfy its thirst C OLLEGE STATION politics began to simmer early this week with the announcement of W. D. Fitch for the Ward III candidacy. Fitch, incumbent from the North Side ward, was the third person to file for the three council positions. In Ward I on the South side of College Station, J. W. *• O’Brien and H. W. Badgett placed their name in the running last week. Badgett and Fitch are both seeking re-election to the positions they now hold on the council. ' Councilman G. W. Black, whose present term expires along with Fitch and Badgett, has said nothing about getting into the running. The list of candidates thus far shows no , one from the Ward II, College Hills, section. We have heard of several people who intend to file for council positions on the ballot but they seem to be holding back to see what the next man is going to do. Some of the < men in this group would make fine councilmen, and surely several others we know nothing about are considering the posts to be vacated after a two year term. If you know someone who might fall in this category, re mind them of the March 5 deadline. City Government Could Be Simple City government can be a simple thing if conducted by people who take active interest and know what is going on. A few council meetings a year, usually once a month, is all that is actually required of a man in this post. True, his obligations are many and the responsibility great, but if the ward representative is conscientious enough about the job he holds, he will do his part at council meetings and not mere ly aid his colleagues by making motions or adding a second to others. The best way an issue can be decided is to hear the opin ions and views from all the members of the council rather than a limited number who take part in every question. Certainly people don’t want to elect a man to the coun cil who does nothing more than make motions while other members take part in the debate. A couple or three of the present councilmen fall in that category. Attendance Proves Interest Their attendance at the meetings proves interest of some kind. Only one or two of the council seat holders have habitually absented themselves from the meetings. The time to stop such actions is now. Find out what kind of council member you elected in the last election and the one before. Has your area received prop er recognition in the city government? There is a man to fill that position if you don’t think your present councilman is doing the best job. What can you do? Encourage anyone that might be in terested in running to consider the post. Pick the best man, and realize the benefits of a good, sound, active government. from Quarreling over men is to go back to do . 1 ’ w p men and more than 400 ap- f or revenge and gain, that on the other hand this is the grossest dc- the original principle of the Unification law. Work together. plications for the 200 or more male vacancies. William and Mary offers stu- ... dents both scholarships and em- Under real unification, a man would en- ployment. A work-study program list and be drafted into the Armed Forces E maintained. ... i. -1 T • r 1 T TT This year alone, the college with no guaranteed choice of branch. He (Sec WAR REACTION, Rage 4) would be allowed to indicate his choice, i ~ though, and this choice coupled with his en- * OWCP trance tests and the current needs of the separate branches would determine what branch he entered. Such an arrangement would make cer tain that each branch of the service got its fair share of men and would actually be the fairest solution for the individual man. famation that can be brought to bear on a great and peace-loving na tion.” It was in this same speech that Adolf Hitler enunciated another of his great truths.” “No one in Germany has heretofore been persecuted because of his religious views, nor will anyone be persecuted on that account.” Those statements were made in January 1939. Eight Months later Hitler started World War II. Communism is Taking Loss In Europe, Survey Shows The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. 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Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. 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 Today’s Issue Dean Reed Managing Editor Andy Anderson Campus News Editor Fred Walker Sports News Editor Joel Austin City News Editor T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists Allen Pengelly Assistant City Editor Leon McClellan, Norman Blahuta, Jack Fontaine, Ed Holder. Bryan Spencer. John Tapley, Bob Venable, Bill Streich, George Charlton. Bob Selleck, Dale Walston, Bee Landrum. Frank Davis, Phil Snyder, Art Giese, Christy Orth, James Fuller, Leo Wallace. W. H. Pickens. Fig Newton. Joe Price. Pat Hermann. Ed Holder. Wesley Mason News and Feature Staff Dick Kelly, Club Publicity Co-ordinator Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor Jimmy Ashlock, Joe Blanchette. Ray Holbrook, Chuck Neighbors, Joe Hollis, Pat LeBlahc, Dowell Peterson Sports News Staff Curtis Edwards Church News Editor .Roger Cosjett Pipe Smoking Contest Manager Tom Fantaine, Johnny Lancaster, Joe Gray, Charles McCullough..... .Photo Engravers Sid Abernathy Make-up, Editor Autrey Frederick Advertising Manager Russell Hagens, Sob Haywe...... Advertising Representatives By FRANK BRUTTO XJOME, FEB. 21—WP)—Commun- ^ism is losing ground through out Europe, the press office of Italian Catholic action said today. The office made its findings available after inquiries in Catho lic action circles of other coun tries. In France alone, it said, the Com munist party has lost 120,000 mem bers in two years. The office did not estimate the status of the Italian Communist Party, second largest outside the iron curtain. Last month it still claimed 2,500,000 members. The re cent defection from its ranks is the latest of a series of splits during the past year. Communists Damaged Inquiries, it said, showed the Communist decline has damaged the major Communist organizations of, European countries. The office said party enrollments have decreased, Communist labor organizations have lost members and loss of Communist power has been revealed at elections. The decline, it said, has been “most impressive” in Great Britain and Scandinavia. Next biggest de clines, it said, have occurred in Belgium; Luxembourg, Austria and Western Germany: The Catholic ac tion inquiries showed these re sults: Sweden—In Fall city elections, Communists won only 4.9 per cent of the vote, compared with 11.2 per cent in 1946. In 1948, Commun- Bible Verse Wine is a mocker, strong drink i^ raging: and whosoever ip de ceived thereby is not wise.' —Proverbs 20:1. ist were represented in the execu tive committees of 600 local unions; last year they were represented in only 125. Denmark—In the 1950 general elections, Communists won 4.6 per cent of the vote, compared with 6.8 in 1947. Seven Communists were elected to parliament, com pared with nine in 1947. Norway—The Communist party had 9,000 members in 1950, com pared with 45,000 in 1945. In the 1949 elections, Communists won Dr. Ford to Speak At Man E Meeting Dr. William C. Ford, consult ing psychologist of Houston, will speak at the Management Engin eering Conference to be held here March 1-2. He will discuss scientific selec tion of potential executives, taking up tests used in the selection and their advantages. 5.8 per cent of the vote compared with 11.8 per cent in 1945. Belgium—In last year’s general elections, Communists won 4.7 per cent of the vote compared with 7.4 in 1949. The number of Commun ist in parliament dropped from twelve to seven. Austria—During three provin cial elections in 1950, the Commun ist vote showed a sharp decrease. France—The Communist news paper, L’Humanite, has dropped from a circulation of 600,000 copies in 1946 to 212,000. Western Germany—During the elections in Wurttemberg-Baden in 1950, Communists obtained less than half the vote they got in 1946—4.9 per cent compared with 10,2. In Hesse, the Communists last year obtained 4.7 per cent of the vote compared with 10.5 in 1946; in Bavaria, 1.9 compared with 6.1 in 1946; in Wesphalia, 1.9 compared with 13 in 1946; in Hol stein, 2.2 per cent in 1949 compared with 4.7 in 1946. 1 In Lubbock, Texas, the Texas Tech College Book Store is a favorite student gathering spot. In the Book Store — Coca-Cola is the favorite drink. 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