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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
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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
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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
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