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lUEARLY EVERYONE who has any know-
ledge of politics, both theoretical and
“pork barrel,” agrees that a working two
party system would help Texas. Besides the
obvious national help it would bring this
state, two active parties would do much to
clarify and simplify state issues.
As things now stand, we have two divi
sions in Texas politics—liberal and conser
vative Democrats—but the division line is
hard to see on all levels and most elections
are fought on a personal basis.
One of the reasons often overlooked when
searching for the cause of the failures of the
Texas Republican party is that the leaders
of this state’s GOP do not actually care for
an active party. Texas old guard Republi
cans are, for the most part, a group of old
political money-grabbers who actually care
nothing about state politics. They control
the party by means of local caucuses in
smoke-filled rooms with no regard for the
voter. Their only interest in politics is a
Thanks
W7HEN THERE is so much going on in the
” world today that neither laborer nor
housekeeper, student nor businessman can
keep up with it all, there is place for sincere
appreciation when someone comes along who
can clarify for us some of the more intricate
details.
On this premise, The Battalion extends
to the committee on Great Issues an offi
cial “thanks” for bringing to the campus so
accomplished a speaker and foreign policy
authority as Mrs. Vera M. Dean.
Mrs. Dean made the meaning of many of
today’s “headlines” much clearer to her
audience and gave them reason for more con
fidence in the ability of this country to pull
through the present crisis in the world which
it now leads.
If future Great Issues speakers are as in
teresting and as informing, the College will
have received more than adequate return
on its investment.
hope that some day the GOP will gain na
tional favor and then they can reap the
local benefits.
The Texas Legislature’s only Republican,
Rep. Edward T. Dicker, has been fighting to
get a bill passed which would regulate the
Republican party. The bill is designed to al
low the people a chance to run the party, and
select the nominees.
Our legislators who are Texans first and
Democrats second will take an active inter
est in the bill and work to get it passed. Re
gardless of party, a man should help to clean
up political filth on all levels.
Take Incentive
Away--Then What?
“CJOMETIMES we wonder, perhaps, why we
^ declared our independence and fought
for it and then accepted the i n v i t a -
tion of the United States to become a state.”
With these words, Representative S. J. Is-
aacks of El Paso commemorated the recent
Texas Independence Day in a speech to the
House.
He added “a minority opinion of the so-
called Supreme Court on the tidelands re
pudiated that solemn agreement, thereby
robbing and stealing from the school child
ren of Texas billions of dollars worth of rich
oil producing territories.”
This speech indicates how strongly this
decision is resented by some Texans. In view
of the tax setup that prevails today, we won
der if this seizure will result in a net gain to
the Federal Government. It appears that the
Supreme Court has at least wounded the
goose that lays the golden eggs. In other
words, why should we destroy incentives
that lead men to produce to the point that
their incomes are in the higher differential
brackets ?
We might learn a great deal about this
from England. Information indicates that
she is fresh out of taxable millionaires, and
production without, incentive, they have
learned, is rather difficult to accompish.
Twenty Aggies
Enter IJSAF
Flight Training
Twenty Aggies who were
commissioned Second Lieu
tenants in the U. S. Air Force
January, 1951, have volun
teered for flying duty, Major
C. L. Thomas, Air Force Public
Information Officer said today.
The list includes Lts. Joe H.
Pate, Wharton; Joy V. Springer,
San Antonio; Albert R. Moser,
Waco; Raymond A. Kinsey, Med
ina; John H. Ludwig, Bryan; Bent
ley C. Hook, Waco; Edwin H.
Hatzenbuehler, Dallas; Frederick
C. Hall, Bryan; Andrew S. Bar-
ada III, Houston; John H. Stotts,
Chattanooga, Tenn.; and James L.
Brown, Fort Worth; who will train
at Connally Air Force Base in Wa
co.
Training at Goodfellow Air
Force Base in San Angelo will be
Lts. Donald H. Hooten, Dallas;
Richard X. Cook, Nederland; Don
ald F. Carroll, Bryan; Bill T. John
son Jr., Terrill; Richard R., Mor
ris, De Leon; and Stanley R. White,
Lufkin.
Lt. James H. Bothwell, Long
view, will train at Perrin Air Force
Base, where Lt. Oscar Medlin, ’50
is presently training.
THE FLOW OF NEWS
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'’FEXAS has been assigned a quota
of 931 officers, 729 lieutenants
and 202 captains, in the fourth pro
gram ordering civilian component
company grade officers to active
duty announced by the Department
of the Army recently, Captain
Marion B. Findlay, ORC Instructor
for this area, said this morning.
This quota includes all the basic
arms and services as well as five
lieutenants and one captain of the
WAC.
The combat branches will fur
nish the largest number, Infantry,
187 lieutenants and 42 captains;
Field Artillery, 154 lieutenants and
25 captains; Araior, 53 lieutenants
and 11 captains.
The Corps of Engineers requires
Is It Another Ruse?
Lippard Promoted
To Major by AF
Capt. John A. Lippard, USAF,
has been promoted to the rank of
Major, effective March 7.
Major Lippard entered the Air
Force in March, 1942 and served
in the European and Pacific Theat
ers for 53 months. He is the hold
er of the American Defense Ribbon,
European Ribbon, American The
ater Ribbon, World War II Victory
Medal, and Japanese Occupation
Ribbon.
The former Captain was station
ed at Biggs Air Force Base before
reporting to Headquarters, Eighth
Air Force in January, 1950.
He and his wife and daughter
live at 224 General Arnold Blvd.,
Fort Worth.
Russia Talks Peace Again;
What’s She Plotting Now?
Word Named Head
Of San Angelo Club
Annual election of officers and
plans for a Spring party were the
main topics under discussion at a
meeting of the San Angelo Club
Thursday night.
The officers elected are Max
Word, president; Grid Curry, vice-
president; Jimmy Howell, secre
tary;, Jim Bill Little, treasurer;
Tom Harris, reporter; and the Tail-
twisters Louis Woodward, Clay
Atchison, and Dick Lewis. 1
US Mobilization Program Shows
Arms Are Faster, Stronger
(This is the last of a four-part
series surveying the U. S. mob
ilization front.—The Editor.)
By RELMAN MORIN
AP Special Correspondent
TN ITALY during the last war
■*T listened to the questioning of a
German officer, who said of the
American Army:
“Pretty good . . . but slow, much
too slow.”
That was relatively early in
the war. Some time later, a Ger
man military analyst, speaking
over Berlin, told his listeners: “The
enemy has only one general—Pat
ton—who fully understands the
principles of modern war. He un
derstands mobility.”
Whether the Germans were right
on either point is open to ques
tion. But those two observations
keep coming back to mind, over
and over again, in looking at the
new American armament program.
Even in the most widely diver
sified plants, regardless of the ar
ticle or weapon being produced,
you find the same motif—more
speed, more mobility, more hitting
power.
These trademarks are best ex
pressed in the new tanks.
Even in World Wat II, the “best”
tank, presumably was the biggest
and most heavily-armored. The
Germans developed a 60-ton mon
ster, the Tiger, and an American
crewman wrote his father: “The
turrett of a Tiger is bigger than
our whole tank.”
The biggest Russian number
known is the J. S. (for Josef Sta-
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CLAYTON L. SELPH, DAVE COSLETT Co-Editors
John Whitmore, Dean Rhed Managing Editors
Andy Anderson, Bob Hughson Campus Editors
Ralph Gorman Sports Editor
Fred Walker Associate Sports Editor
Joel Austin City Editor
Vivian Castleberry 1 Women’s Editor
Today’s Issue
John Whitmore Managing Editor
Ralph Gorman , 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,
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Hermann, Wesley Mason, B. F. Roland, Ivan Yantis, Sid Ragsdale, Bill
Aaberg, Ide Trotter, John Hildebrand, Chuck Neighbors, Bob Selleck, Bill
Strcich, Curtis Edwards, Howard Heard Staff Writers
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Pat LeBlanc Sports Staff Writers
Tom Fontaine, Johnny Lancaster, Charles McCullough, R. R. Peeples,
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lin) 3, reported to be 62 tons.
None has been seen in Korea.
Why don’t we build one that big ?
The answer is: We did, even before
Peaid Harbor, but we have bet
ter ones coming up now.
Apart from size and weight,
American engineers today are con
centrating on some other qualities,
namely:
® Speed and the ability to
wrestle the roughest terrain,
® Hitting power, a more de
structive gun with a more pene
trating shell.
® Road performance and cruis
ing range per gallon of fuel. The
late General Patton claimed that
if his famous 4th Armored Divi
sion had been equipped with Ger
man Tigers, every one would have
broken down on the road before
the division ever reached the
Moselle. As for cruising, some
Tigers could keep moving only 2%
hours on a full load of gas.
Specifications Restricted
The specifications of the biggest
American tanks are not yet pub
lishable data. But Brig. Gen. D.
J. Crawford, commanding officer
of the Detroit Aresnal, put it this
way in commenting on a new con
tract to the Chrysler Coi’poration:
“Chrysler, with the assistance of
ordnance, will be making pi:m>cira-
tions for the production of a heav
ier land battleship which tests
show will out-slug any land-fight
ing machine ever produced by our
allies or our enemies.”
Which would indicate the en
gineers have solved those prob
lems of the competing ratios be
tween speed, weight, heat gas con-
sumptiion, and durability on the
road, or over the fields.
“Walker Bulldog”
Meanwhile, the Army has take^
the wraps off a typical new tank,
the “Walker Bulldog,” which is
small, fast and lethal. It weighs
less than 26 tons, can wind up to
40 miles an hour, has an automatic
torque transmission, and gyro
scopic sights that keep the gun on
the targets, however,the hull may
be bouncing around.
It is small but the Army says
it can handle the bigger Russian
T-34, a medium that has given
American tanks a bad time in
Korea.
The emphasis on mobility goes
right down the line, applying to
practically everything on wheels in
the new army. Earlier in this ser
ies, I mentioned the combat ve
hicles with water-proofed wiring
and “breathers” that permit them
to run while completely under
water.
A blown, bridge provided the
riv’er isn’t too deep, won’t stop
those vehicles.
Unusual Place
The same trademark appeared
again in an unusual place—a leath
er goods plant in Des Moines.
Through three wars, the Boyt
Corporation has been making packs
for the infantry, pistol holsters,
saddlebags, artillery harness and
gun covers. The firm still is filling
such orders.
But something new has been
added, Walter Boyt said. His
craftsmen are working on a huge
contract for containers for freight
parachutes, capable of carrying
5,000 pounds.
What does it mean? It illustrates
the increased importance of the
air-drop. Freight carriers of that
size would be needed to supply by
air a unit far out ahead of its
own lines, isolated and perhaps
totally surrounded. The tricks of
that technique were under study
in the last war. They are being
developed in Korea today.
New Kind of Warfare
Most probably we are seeing
the need of positional warfare, the-
solid line of infantry, stretching
unbroken across hundreds of miles
of front, and supplied by road
transport.
Modern tactics call for cutting
large units away from the main
forces, units of infantry, artillery
and tanks strong enough to “sit
down” anywhere in enemy terri
tory, chop up communications and
supply areas, then shoot their
way out when the job is done.
Such task forces will be sup
plied by air, and they will need
the tanks and transport to move
faster, and more dependably, than
an enemy could maneuver.
GI’s Don’ts Like Walking
A few months ago in Korea, an
American officer remarked: “Am
erican soldiers don’t like to walk.
Put wheels under ’em and they’ll
attack anything.”
I In today’s rearmament, there are
more wheels, designed to go faster
and carry more hitting power,
than anything the world has ever
seen.
TTERE we go again.
The latest Soviet peace offen
sive now seems to be in full bloom,
and it looks like the ring-tailed
granddaddy of them all.
From past experience, one is
justified in believing that it means
the Kremlin is hatching another
plot, to spring on the world when
and if it has become sufficiently
lulled.
Pattern Obvious
The pattern is so obvious it
would be funny, if it didn’t involve
blasting the hopes of all the world
for peace. As it was so often be
fore, this peace offensive coincides
with four-power talks and with
great bombast from Moscow and its
provincial gauleiters.
The first big peace offensive
came back in 1947, after Russia
frayed the nerves of the world
with her nasty gestures against
neighboring Iran. There was a
four-power conference in session
then, too. After it faded into his
tory, Hungary suddenly was gob
bled up. Yugoslavia was thrown out
of the cominform on an accusation
of independence.
Second Came Quickly
The second big peace spectacle
followed quickly after this. The
big- four was preparing for a Lon
don meeting on the German ques
tion, foredoomed to frustration.
People were beginning to talk about
real peace.
Number 2 offensive went boom
in 1948. Czechoslovakia was gob
bled up. Disorders broke out with
Communist inspiration in France,
Italy and elsewhere.
Came calm again. Came lectures
from Moscow on the love of peace.
Came the raising of hopes in weary
Europe. Came a sort of truce in
thq cold war. Stalin issued a pro
nouncement. He was for peace.
Number 3 offensive blew up.
Russia imposed a blockade on Ber
lin which almost led to a shooting
war. Tension rose to a new peak
by the beginning of 1949.
The fourth big peace offensive
started in the .Spring of 1949.
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man of the conference.
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There was—what do you know?
—a four-power meeting. The Ber
lin blockade was called off. Stalin
issued a proclamation. He was for
peace. Around the world went the
Communist chorus: Nobody should
fight a Soviet “liberating” force.
For a while calm settled over
Europe. Russia turned her atten
tion to China and biting off that
chunk of the world for Commun
ism. So that her moves wouldn’t
be too noticeable, Russia announc
ed she was for “a policy of coopera
tion among all democratic coun
tries regardless of social system.”
“Peace congresses” blossomed all
over the world.
False Peace
The rasping and nagging went
on, but the dominant Soviet theme
Avas that Russia wanted only peace.
She did—a peace of ber own kind
which, by the Bolshevik’s. own re
peated admission, is simply a con
tinuations for war.
Peace offensive number 4 blew
up the battle smoke of Korea.
For a long time after, although
we have had the obviously phoney
Stockholm peace appeal, the Sov
iets have been surly and truculent,
and their public statements nasty
and menacing.
Suddenly, the Russians suggest
—what do you suppose?—a^ big
four conference. Stalin makes a
statement. He is for peace.
And now, we have several new
wrinkles. With the big four de
puties in session to pave the way
for a top-level meeting, the comin
form journal sends out its orders
to Stalinist partist throughout the
world:
Get millions of signatures on a
petition for a big five peace con
ference, with Russia, Britain,
France, Communist China and the
United States takiqg part. Drum
up the communist “peace cam
paign” at every turn.
Communist parties throughout
Europe are shaken up, to sift out
the unreliables. The hard core is
getting ready for action. Much
noise is made about German unity,
in the hopes of making suckers
out of the West German socialists
in a United front.
Tito Thinks Otherwise
Premier Marshall Tito of Yugo
slavia apparently has noted this
consistent pattern. Perhaps this
explains why Tito issued his white
book Friday. Tito can see nothing
heartening in the omnious buildup
of satellite strength around him at
a time when the Kremlin, obvious
ly angered by the rise of Titoism,
appears to be plotting more mis
chief. .
Perhaps the leaders of turbulent
Iran have noticed the pattern. On
Russia’s doorstep, they have been
doing their utmost to’' keep the
Russian bear, from growling. Now,
with new chaos resulting from the
assassination of Premier Razmara,
the danger is intensified.
Russia is all out for peace again.
And when Moscow is all out for
peace, it’s bad news for the rest
of us.
the largest number among the ser
vices, 89 lieutenants and 18 cap
tains.
Volunteers will he given first
priority and every effort will be
made to fill as much of the quota
as possible from among those
who submit voluntary applica
tions, Captain Findlay said.
The priority in which non-vol
unteers will be ordered to active
duty is:
• Members of the Active Re
serve Corps commissioned from the
ROTC who were deferred from Se
lective Service under an ROTC
deferment agreement and have had
less than two years prior active
Federal service as officers.
© Members of the Active Re
serve only of the Organized Re
serve Corps commissioned from the
ROTC who did not execute an
ROTC deferment agreement and
who have had less than two years
prior active Federal service as
officers, warrant officers or en
listed men.
• Members of the Volunteer Re
serve.
National Guard officers will
only Ire ordered to active duty
under this program as individ
uals and provided they submit
voluntary applications. No mem
bers of the Inactive Reserve will
be ordered to active service un
less they volunteer.
Officers with four or more de
pendents will not be ordered to ac
tive duty if they request exemp
tion because of hardship. Depend
ents for this purpose are defined
as wife, legitimate children and
dependent parents.
Members of the Womens Army
Corps with dependents under 18
years of age will not be ordered
into active military service.
Under this program, veterans
who have completed the Advanc
ed Course ROTC and are now
completing a college course, will
not be ordered to active duty
prior to graduatiion or with
drawal from college.
Officers who are drawing pen*
sions, disability allowances or dis*
ability compensation may be so*
lecled and ordered to active duty,
provided they are otherwise quak
ified. In physical examination,
special attention will be given to
the disability for which they are
being compensated.
Company grade officers of both
the Active and Inactive Reserve
are requested to KubmiL-,upplica-
tions through Capt. Fincfuiy s of
fice in College Station. National
Guard officers will submit appli
cations through the National Guard
channels to the Adjutant General
of the State.
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