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i Pj ( sig Du: cer api gea ] J sig Eui tan poi Pai nai anc I anc lea I pai I mit nai Jai for I 1 ex( Co cer pai 1 na: He ] int Ge for ini jol na Li ne lei Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1951 You Count Mine, And . T\0 OUR representatives to the United Na- ** tions fully realize the importance of their work measured in American lives ? Sometimes we begin to wonder if they don’t think that the United Nations is just a practice court for the sport of political and diplomatic relations. Last Saturday, one of our representatives made Russia one of the most unsound offers we’ve yet heard of—rwe will let the UN count our armed forces and weapons if Rus sia will do the same. Frank C. Nash, deputy United States representative on the UN commission for conventional armaments, made that offer as a reply to Russia’s note to Britain charging ,the Western powers had twice as many men under arms as the Soviet Union. As American soldiers fight Russian in spired Communist Chinese in Korea, we make plans with Russia as if they were our very good friends who we’re slightly peeved at now. How could this man with whom we’re trusting the lives of so many Americans be so naive as to think that Russia would will ingly submit to a fair count of their war pow er? Or does he think the commanders of our armed forces are fools who would allow our enemy to know our enemy strength? We don’t think they’ll be handing accurate strength figures to the Kremlin boys any time soon. Perhaps, and most likely, the offer was made as a propaganda item. Perhaps we’re still trying to prove to the rest of the world that ol’ Uncle Sam is really a swell guy with no weapons hidden behind his back. That could backfire as a propaganda weapon— A nation so simple that it will give its chief political enemy full information as to size and strength of its armed forces, is not likely to win if and when the “big” battle comes! But Industry is Groaning Massive Re-armament Is Not All Out Effort From the City Desk Annexation Plans Told(?) By Bryan . . . By Joel Austin W ATCH OUT you people living on the North side of Col lege Station—and that includes some of you College Hills residents. One of these mornings you’re going to wake up and find the City of Bryan in your back yard. The Bryan City Commission plans to add two nearby areas to the corporate limits of their city and both additions would move the city limits of Bryan right up against Col lege Station. Included in this proposed annexation to the City of Bry an is the former Tauber property, which lies northeast of the North Gate business district and Beverly Estates, the area between College Hills and the City of Bryan. In many ways it’s nice to see this neighboring city blos som out and add more people to its fold, but in a home rule city such as Bryan, this addition of new land proves to be a matter in which those living on the property don’t ever know they are bieng annexed. If this annexation is approved in a city ordinance, which is necessary to make it official after a public hearing is held on the matter, there would most likely be several “new” cit izens of Bryan surprised some day with a bill for city taxes— something they hadn’t been accustomed to paying. Not Trying to Slip In We can’t say that Bryan is slipping in to take the area while its residents are napping, because in their charter as a home rule city they have the right to annex any adjoining areas merely by making the decision and going through the procedure mentioned above. The College Station City Council has been trying for a long time to add the Tauber property to College Station, but the former owner would not petition annexation which is re quired under the charter now binding this city. A few months ago J. C. Culpepper, local real estate de veloper, purchased this land and is now planning a complete ly modern residential and business addition on the Tauber plot- . W :«L .m Wanted to Wait on Decision Coulter To Lawmakers Hear Plan to Cure War Review Book Saturday “Morning Journey,” a new story with a theatricaL background by James Hilton, will be i-eviewed by Frank Coulter at 8 p. m. Saturday evening, March 10, in the A&M Consolidated High School library under the auspices of the Campus Study Club. Mrs. Louis J. Horn, assisted by Mrs. E. R. Wesley and Mrs. A. N. McDowell, is chairman for the re view, which is scheduled with a square dance and card party tjhe same night. All three events being held in conjunction with Public School Week, are sponsored in an effort to raise funds for the pur chase of new books for the Con solidated and Lincoln School libra ries. “I am glad to have a part in this project,” said Coulter, who is don ating his services. “It is important that children have access to good books through their school libraries so that they may develop a pre ference for good literature. Tlfe child who learns to appreciate good books will naturally become a dis criminating reader as an adult,” he added. Tickets for the book review, which may be purchased from Con solidated students, are also good for the other events, Mrs. Horn announced. Anyone wishing to go from the review to the card party or dance may do so, she said. (This is the second of a four- part series surveying the U. S. mobilization scene. The Editor) By RELMAN MORIN AP Special Correspondent 'C'OR ALL its size and strength, American industry is groaning and straining today like an over loaded elephant under the massive weight of the new re-armament program. Actually, that program has limit ed objectives. Is it not an all-out effort. The master plan is to create fac ilities for tremendous production of war-weapons, but not to pro duce all the weapons themselves unless a war should make them necessary. At this point, the sche dule for turning out tanks, guns, transports and so on is relatively low. Tougher Than 1941 Even so, production engineers generally agree that the task of re-arming is tougher this time than it was in 1941. Some as© doubtful about the ability of indus try to meet present targets. Others say the situation, poor until re cently, is now improving. Still others take the point of view: “You either re-arm, completely, or you don’t. This business of trying to carry water op both shoulders won’t work.” In some important respects the United States is much better able to meet the challenge of defense today than it was in 1941. Industry is much bigger, mean ing that many more factories have expanded or come into existence, with millions of additional square feet of production facilities. The National Association of Manufac turers estimates that industry, over-all, has grown about 60 per cent in these ten years. There is more “know how” than in 1941. Many of the same engin eers ai-e in the same top positions. The hard experience of World War II, the false starts, trials and fail ures, is well known to key men in government. At the same time, thousands of skilled and semi-skilled workers— notable women—are returning to the assembly lines. But against these assets, here are the main liabilities: Engineers Needed • Defense plants are crying for engineers. The very growth of in dustry, since 1941, has out-stripped the flow of trained engineers. The Republic Aviation plant on Long leland, fpr instance, is looking for 309 of these men. That figure, they say, is fairly typical of air craft plants everywhere. New Equipment Needed • The new weapons and equip ment are different and more de structive—and much harder to make with existing facilities. The assembly line that turned out Shermansi and Pershings needs ex tensive re-tooling to produce the more agile but heavier modern tank. (Chrysler is building a total ly new plant to handle its orders for tanks.) The only similarity be tween these land battleships and the older models is that they still have hulls and bogey wheels. Soldier, did you ever drive a truck in the last war? You would hardly recognize the new ones. At the Dodge plant in Detroit, they are turning out a weapons carrier equipped with a “breather” and so water-proofed that the motor keeps right on purring when the windshield is three feet under water. It has a heater for quick starting at sub-zero tempera tures, a gadget that will keep a 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 by students 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. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscrip tion rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los An geles, 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 Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor Today’s Issue Joel Austin , - Managing Editor Andy Anderson ....Campus News Editor Fred Walker r .... Sports News Editor Allen Pengelly City News Editor T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips Editorialists Allen Pengelly.....’. Assistant City Editor Leon McClellan, Jack Fontaine, Ed Holder, Bryan Spencer, Bob Venable, Dale Walston, Bee Landrum, Frank Davis, Phil Snyder, Art Giese, Cristy Orth, James Fuller, Leo Wallace. W. H. Dickens, Fig Newton, Joe Price, Pete Hermann, Wesley Mason, B. F. Roland, Ivan Yantis, Sid Ragsdale, Bill Aaberg, Ide Trotter, John Hildebrand, Chuck Neighbors, Bob Selleck, Bill Streich, Curtis Edwards, Howard Heard Staff Writers Jimmy Ashlock, Joe Blanchette, Ray Holbrook, Joe Hollis, Pat LeBlanc ,.. I......;....... Sports Staff Writers Sam Molinary, Bob Alderdice. Staff Photographers Sid Abernathy.... .‘.Page Make-up Dick Kelly...... : Club Publicity Co-ordinator Joe Gray —Photo Engraving Shop Manager Tom Fontaine, Johnny Lancaster, Charles McCullough, R. R. Peeples, R. D. Witter ; Photo Engravers Autrey Frederick. .. Advertising' Mas&gSr Russell Hagens, Bob Hayme Advertising Representatives flat tire clinging neatly to the rim, and a bolting assembly—all painted yellow—that permits you to tear out the whole motor and in stall another in 20 minutes. The seats and back-cushions are foam rubber; they won’t flatten into sheer cast iron on a rocky road, as the kapok filling did. Shortages Serious • In the effort to fill defense orders and at the same time go on producing for civilian consumption, some serious shortages have al ready appeared. Aluminum is one. High heat-re sisting steel is another. Electrical equipment and precision instru ments are still others. Rolling stock for transportation of mater ial and semi-finished machines is . very short. Freight cars are going out of service at the rate of 5,000 a, month—which is faster than they are being made. As a result, thousands of fac tories—even those with defense or ders—are competing with each other for these facilities. As a rub ber executive put it: “a defense order is nothing but a hunting li cense. You still have to go and find the material.” Some Want to Wait • Some factories are resisting defense orders. Even though mat erials shortages may have cut them down to low production or none at all, they are retaining their man power and postponing con version. They argue that, in the last war, the conscientious custom ers, sent those customers to com petitors who waited 18 months or two years—and then got defense contracts at higher rates as well. So hundreds of plants are waiting, watchfully. • In his budget message last Jan. 15 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1951, Rresident Truman es timated U. S. military and related expenditures at nearly $41,500,000- 000 to provide—among other items —for 3,500,000 men in the U. S. armed forces, a buildup of the Air Forces to more than 84 groups and the operation of approximately 500 warships. For World War II, U. S. expen ditures for armaments reached an actual peak of $80,000,000,000 in 1945. The aggregate personnel of the armed forces exceeded 12,000,- 000, and ship production was over 18,000,000 tons. For the five-year period from July, 1940, to July, 1945—Midway between VE and VJ Days—the nation’s munitions record showed these figures: Military Planes — 297,000 of which 97,000 were bombers. Ships—76,485 including 64,500 landing craft, 6,500 other Navy ships and 5,425 cargo vessels. Weapons—17,400,000 rifles, car bines, and sidearms; 315,000 pieces of field artillery and mortars; 165,- 525 naval guns. Ammunition — 41,400, 0 0 0, 0 0 0 rounds of small arms ammunition; 4,200,000 tons of artillery shells. Vehicles—86,338 tanks and 2,- 434, 553 trucks. These were the figures announc ed by the War Production Board in Sept. 1945. • During World War II, Chrysler, one of the great tank-producing firms, employed more than 4,000 sub-contractors to supply various individual parts, assemblies , and gadgets. Republic Aviation, making the rugged thunderjet fighters, al ready has more than 1,100 produc ers in its “source files.” There are 165,000 parts in a, conventional jet, and many of them are made by small plants that specialize. Honor System Way Of Life, Says Dean “It is more a way of living than a system,” said Dean, of the Col lege C. C. French concerning the “honor system” in a discussion with members of the Arts and Sci ences Council members last night. “The honor system as a system is immaterial. The fundamental thing 1 is whether students want it. There are things you must believe and be willing to do, sometime sacrifice, in order for the system to be a success.” The Dean then explained two systems as followed at schools he has previously been associated with in administrative capacities. Dr. French had been requested to meet with the group at its regu lar Monday night monthly meet ing and discuss with them the prob lems associated with, the principals of, and his experiences concerning honor systems as established at other schools. Lion’s Club Gives When Culpepper was asked to petition for annexation to the City of College Station he told local authorities he would wait for a while before making a definite commit ment. Now, Bryan has come in and staked out a claim for the planned new addition and as far as we know, nothing can keep them from annexing it. We have no idea how Culpepper feels about this action taken by the Bryan City Commission, but unless we miss our guess, he would rather have his new addition be a part of College Station. \ A quick check of the utility charges for the two cities is enough to indicate to any citizen which town would be the cheapest to live in. If that isn’t enough to convince ypu, inspect the allowances on fire insurance premiums in College Station and match them with the additions to premiums which Bryan residents must pay. The Only Significant Argument The only significant arguments that we can think of in p , ( f C support of annexation by Bryan are the advantages of liv- rTOSTtim 01 ^OLlffS ing in a larger city, and possibly the closeness of public c ° schools. However, in most sections it would be a toSS-up as The College Station Lion’s Club to which schools are the nearest, Bryan’s or College Sta- was entertained today with a song tj on ’g service led by Warren LaBorveau, That’s the plan in a nutshell. The Bryan City Commission plans to hold the public the club several new songs of hearing sometime soon, but we wonder what significance this Lion’s International. The group was hearing will bear upon their final decisions if their mind is accompanied on the piano by Mrs. already made up? . A. B. Medlen who was named regu- Watcli for the announcement of any meeting concern- ; luting the 1 business session "of ing the annexation of Beverly Estates and the Tauber prop- the luncheon meeting, President erty to Bryan. Attend that meeting and voice your opinion , Bob Halpin asked for volunteers to either for or against their program of annexation. | try out for the Bryan Lion’s Club But, before you voice your opinion, be certain to inves-*^ 11181 ™ 1 | , I° w . wh | c v “ 18 to J’ 0 he ' d tigate what may follow if Bryan’s annexation program con- H ° gh school Auditorium in tinues in this direction unchecked. I.Bryan. LETTERS Girl to Represent A&M Wanted Editor, The Battalion: We have written to your Student Senate about our plans'for our an nual “Gaebale” May 10, 11, 12. We have asked them to select a dele gate to represent Texas A&M throughout the “Gaebale” celebra tion. “Gaebale” started five years at the suggestion of Blue Key, a men’s leadership fraternity. It con sists of a parade, carnival, Varsity Show, and Ball. “Gaebale” furnish es the opportunity for students to demonstrate their creativeness and originality as well as providing for a good time. It also serves as a Spring Homecoming and a chance to publicize the University through out the state. Your delegate will be expected to take part in all activities, and she will have a definite part to play as representative from Texas A&M. We would like for you to help us in arousing interest in your Student Senate so that we may get pi'ompt action on this matter. Sam Wood “Gaebale” Beauty Show University of Arkansas Rryan-College Groups Visit Local Congressman Among visitors in the office last week of Olin E. Teague, congress man from the sixth congressional district and also from College Sta tion, were Rev. and Mrs. Robert C. Sneed of College Station and Bill Allen and Jim Eagan of Bryan. Bible Verse TESUS saith unto him, “Thomas; *' because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have be lieved.” —John 21: 229 MAKE US AN OFFER- HIGH BID BUYS IT THIS WEEK ONLY! 1942 Ford Club Coupe 1940 Ford 2-Door 1939 Ford 2-Door 1936 Ford 2-Door 1942 Plymouth 4-Door 1941 Oldsmobile 4-Door 1937 Oldsmobile 2-Door 1939 Dodge 2-Door 1939 Nash 2-Door 1942 Packard Convertible 1937 Plymouth 4-Door 1937 DeSoto 4-Door 1939 Dodge 4-Door 1939 Oldsmobile 4-Door THESE CARS CAN ALL BE SEEN AT MIT LEE AND COMPANY, Inc. “Your Nash Dealer” 27th and Bryan St. Bryan, Texas Austin, March 7—CP)—T e x a s lawmakers forgot state problems for half an hour yesterday and lis tened to an elder statesman give a new slant on how to cure the world of war. A joint .session of House and Senate heard former Undersecre tary of State Will Clayton declare: “As vicious and repugnant as Communism is permanent world peace will never be secured by simply fighting Communism—even though the Communists lost.” Peace will not come, he asserted, “as long as most of the world lives in poverty.” Outlined Campaign Silvery-haired Clayton, one of the nation’s top cotton executives, and advocate of the Atlantic Union movement, outlined this campaign against war: Make the free world so strong “the aggressor dare not strike.” Then use the “breathing spell” to unite the free world politically, militarily, and economically, at the same time raising the living stan dards of rebellious, poverty-strick en nations. “It is a tragic mistake,” Clayton said, “to look upon Communism as the only obstacle to a continuation of our tranquil enjoyment of the luxurious life, while much of the rest of the world lives in poverty.” “Communism is but an outward manifestation of the world revolu tion now in progress—a revolu tion of the ‘have-nots,’ not so much against the ‘have’ as against their own lot in life.” Clayton pointed specifically to the Orient, “with more than a bil lion people, 90 per cent of whom are clutching at the ragged edge of a miserable existence.” The former diplomat was intro duced by Gov. Shivers as “a Texas citizen who is interested in his fel low man.” Clayton called the North Atlan tic Treaty a start toward the armed might necessary to hold off war. He said lend lease, the British loan, the Marshall Plan, and other cooperative efforts are examples of what can be done in the long- range effort to raise living stan dards. Cemetery Late Nearly Ready Construction of the 12 foot stone pylon in the new en trance-way of the College Station cemetery will be com-» pleted by the end of this week, according to Raymond Rog ers, city manager. “The stone-mason began work yesterday by laying the founda tion for the monument and he esti- : mated it would take approximately five days to finish,” said Rogers. | The pylon is made of Austin Limestone. The five and one half tons of stone were purchased for $15 per ton and hauled to College Station in City trucks. “The gate would be entirely com pleted this week if the City could purchase some railroad rails or some other suitable substitute for a cattle guard which will extend across the entrance gate to the cemetery,” added Rogers. The cost of the new entrance will be approximately $600 although the labor is mostly done by city em ployees. Gee, Thanks, Pop! g “By making sure of college for me, | V Pop, you’ve insured my chance to make good.” let me counsel with you on our Dividend - Paying Educational Plan. J. M. TACKER, ’43, Mgr. National Farm Life Phone 4-4787 Spring Time- DANCE TIME All the more exciting because of your new floating dance dress from our thrilling hoi-/& iday collection. Won derful low prices. Sizes 7 - 15 Internals 10-20 The Collegiate Shoppe 113 N. Main Bryan LI’L ABNER What’ll He Have For Dessert By Al Capp