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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951
NOT A VERY INSPIRING EXAMPLE
sm-eVt' -■> X :\ XX
Mobilization Free for All...
TiHE MOBILIZATION PROGRAM is rapid-
ly degenerating into a three cornered
game of “grab bag.” The administration, big
business, and organized labor are having a
nice free for all at the very time we are try
ing to sell the rest of the world on the virtues
and powers of capitalism. The fact that any
other power is willing or able to defeat us
either ideologically or in the trial by arms ap
parently is not a matter to be considered.
As we have mentioned before, this goes
over big with the troops who frequently
have to fight with short artillery rations.
Five shells a day may or may not be enough
to repel a horde of Chinese Communists. It
may get worse unless the United Labor Pol
icy Committee comes back into the fold. This
apparently will not happen until they are
assured that Labor will get a full share of
the long green.
The result will probably be that big busi
ness will raise prices to the point where pro
fits will be constant. Organized Labor will
tie wages on to the rising cost of living to
assure a constant standard of living. And the
middle class, as usual, will be caught in the
squeeze play. No one will assure them any
thing but constantly low wages.
The men and women in the service won’t
even get to put a hand into the grab bag.
This is an old story, too. Shortages and per
sonal uncertainty have already done a pretty
good job on the small businessman and pro
fessional men in certain age groups.
If we can’t find an equitable solution, and
do it quick, we may not survive. And if the
inertia of our system is too great to make
such a change in fairness to all concerned, it
is questionable that some of the elements of
our system deserve to survive.
The law of the jungle applies to political
science too.
Man With a Purpose
Ten More Days
^TEN More Days.
Just 10 more working days before those
mid-semester grades will start rolling out of
the calculating machines.
For those of us with deans or the exe
cutive committee sniffing on our trail, those
ten days mean a lot.
For some graduating seniors with a 2.5 • iI !! G \ 0N j, March | 2
for four year S work, those 10 days won t gressional hearing. No mink coats,
make much difference. No dee P freezes - No dancing girls.
m t. jj-i But to energetic, 35-year-old
Go out and drink your beer distinguish- Mike Masaoka, the hearing on
ed students—the rest of US are going to stay changes in our immigration and
home and get off the dean’s team.
Letter from Korea
Tank Lt. ‘Respects’
Infantry, Artillery
(Many of our readers will remem
ber last year’s Battalion co-editor,
Clark C. Munroe, who took a regu
lar army commission after grad
uation last year. Munroe has been
in Korea several months now as a
lank platoon commander. Present
ed here are extracts from a per
sonal letter written to Col H. L.
Boatner. What Munroe has to say,
we believe, will be of interest to
Battalion readers. We are grateful
to Colonel Boatner for submitting
the letter to us for publication.—
The Editor.)
'T'ONIGHT I am sitting on the
J outskirts of Chechen. We’ve just
recovered from a virtual flood
which washed our battalion out of
a river bed at 0100 yesterday morn-
Japanese Want Citizenship
By ARTHUR NELSON
(dP)—
making* con
in our
naturalization laws is of top-flight
importance. He hasn’t missed a
Texas ’ New
Senatorial Districts
meeting of the Senate and House
Judiciary subcommittees, and he
doesn’t intend to.
I thought you might be inter
ested in Mike because he doesn’t
fit in the picture that usually
is painted of lobbyists. Like
many another person working
here to influence legislation,
Mike has no money to throw
around—and he doesn’t control
enough votes to swing a single
congressional election.
All Mike has is his own seem
ingly boundless energy, a cheerful
friendliness, and, he quickly points
out, “a cause that is just.” That
may be enough.
Mike’s cause may be better un
derstood by looking first at Mike.
The Masaoka family moved from
Fresno to Utah. Mike went to
school there, was graduated from
the University of Utah. Everything
was. going along nicely until Dec.
7, 1941. That was a disaster for all
of us, but it was a double disaster
to Americans who looked like the
enemy.
Japanese were put in deten
tion camps. Japanese-Americans,
though citizens, were suspected of
trejtchery. Mike was jailed nine
times.
He decided the best way Jap-
anese-Americans could prove
their loyally would be to have
a fighting force of their own.
The 442nd Japanese American
Regimental combat team was the
result.
The first volunteer: Mike Masao
ka. The second, third, fourth and
fifth volunteers: Mike’s brothers.
The combat team had a terrific
record. “We helped rescue the Tex
ans,” he says proudly, “and I am
now an honorary citizen of Texas.”
The 442nd won medals by the
bucket full.
The cost was high. Its casualties
ran higher than 300 percent count
ing replacements.
The Masaokas won 30 medals,
but one brother was killed, an
other suffered wounds that left
him 100 percent disabled, another
was 40 percent disabled.
Mike came home to work for
the Japanese-American Citizens
League and its 10,000 members.
The league has two objectives
that are under consideration at the
present hearing. In the order of
ther importance, these are.
Full naturalization rights for
Japanese. No Japanese ever has
been allowed to become a citizen,
although, of course, his children
who are born here are citizens.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
Tito Levels ‘Two-fisted’
White Paper at Russia
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.
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
together, however. He built himself
a new ism along nationalistic lines.
This has become known as Titoism
YUGOSLAV’S formal charges the an( j kas spread to the Communist
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past weekend that Russia is
preparing the satellites to over*
throw Marshall Tito’s government
are important—but not new.
The official Yugoslav white pap
er issued on the subject is a grave
document. It’s about the most two-
fisted document leveled at Russia
since Tito was read out of the
Bolshevist fold by the cominform.
Good Review
However, it is reviewing and
bringing up to date a situation
with which we have beeei conser-
vant for some time.
I take it that the nc>w white
paper is largely for the informa
tion of the western powers, and the
United Nations. Possibly the Bel
grade government also feels that
by thus spotlighting the situation
it may slow down the anti-Yugo
slav activities of the neighboring
Balkan satellites.
The break between Moscow and
Marshall Tito came in ’48, nearly
three years ago. It was caused
by his rejection of the Bolshevist
tennet that Communist nations
must surrender their sovereignty
to Moscow.
Tito didn’t reject Communism al-
parties of numerous countries, in
cluding the satellites.
Moscow has been harrassing
Yugoslavia through the neighbor
ing satellites. The latest white
paper reiterates that Russia has
been applying “direct military
pressure” against Yugoslavia and
has been supplying the Soviet sat
ellites with arms and troops for the
overthrow of Tito’s government.
New Tax — Punchboard
Austin, March 13—<2P>—A state
tax on punchboards was proposed
today.
Rep. Henry Lehman of Giddings
said the state had no tax on them
now.
He filed a bill that would levy a
tax of 33 1/3 per cent of the
money the punchboards would take
in. The tax would have to be paid
before the punchboard could be ex
hibited for use.
Bible Verse
\ FOOL
^but
uttereth all his mind;
a' wise man keepeth it in
till afterwards.
—Proverbs 29: 11,
There arc around 76,000 Japan
ese aliens in the U. S. and Haw
aii.
The league wants the old Orien
tal Exclusion Act repealed so that
Japanese can immigrate. Even if
this is done, only 185 would be
allowed to come in each year under
the quota system.
mg.
We, the battalion, were all set up
on what looked like a choice area.
But the Spring’s first rainfall
turned our location into a swirling
mudhole in three hours, necessitat
ing a hasty striking of camp with
men in boat deep water and rain
pouring down in buckets.
Under blackout conditions we
were even more handicapped. Tanks
were used to pull out wheeled ve
hicles and before we were finally
clear and on the road more than
one tank had been mired and even
tually freed from the sticky mud.
Now we’re located on the side
of a hill. I hope the battalion has
learned its lesson. I know I have
for I’ve bivouaced in my last
river bed.
We’ve been on the move quite a
hit recently. We were at Wonju
during the Chinese drive and oper
ated with the 38th infantry and the
27th British Brigade. At present
we’re attached to the 23rd Infan
try, the French Battalion, for the
defense of Chechon. However, the
pressure is off so we’re utilizing
the time on maintenance and in
training replacements, both of
which we are badly in need of.
I must admit that in the few
months I’ve been over here I’ve
learned a deep respect for your In
fantry. Not that I’m going back on
the “tankers” for they’re tops,
hut I shall always take my hat off
to the men in the foxholes. They
Steps to End Cold
War Are Lagging
By .1. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
WHILE AMERICA has been
mobilizing against a possible
hot war, positive steps to win the
cold war have been lagging.
Yet the cold war has been on for
years, and has a vital effect not
only on the possibility of a hot
war, but on the prospects of win
ning if one occurs.
The United States originally
conceived of the war with Russia
as being economic and political.
Improved living conditions in
threatened areas were seen as im
portant in preventing the spread
of communism. The Marshall'Plan
was to do the job in Europe, and a
little of its benefits slopped over
into the Middle East and Asia.
But growing Russian military
might, and the fear that she would
use it if economic recovery threat
ened to bar her expanionist pro
gram, shifted most western effort
into preparedness.
No Enthusiasm
Congress never got enthusiastic
about President Truman’s point
four program for underdeveloped
peoples. The few million dollars ap
propriated hardly served to set up
even a good pilot program.
Everyone seemed to agree that
its object was fundamental. Vast
populations in undeveloped, areas,
if they could be placed on sound
economic footings, would be im
mune to the appeals of commun
ism.
Now the President’s Internation
al Development Advisory Board,
has come forward with a plan to
materialize the dream.
Add To World Market
Its object is to bring a billion
people out of the globe’s slums
and make them an active factor
in the markets of the free world.
Modern techniques would be used
to break the back of hunger and
famine, the great breeding condi-
havc done a wonderful job over
hero under the worst possible con
ditions against the greatest odds.
Sometimes I wonder how they can
stick with it but when the chips
are down they can hold their own
and more.
The artillery, too, has done won
ders here against the Reds. Of
course on my level I can’t evaluate
any branch in terms of the “big
picture,” but from what I can read
and observe the Artillery has more
than held its own here.
Intelligence reports, which you’ve
no doubt read, bear out the terrific
losses inflicted by artillery. I know
that at Wonju the concentrated
fire had a big effect in turning
the Chinese attack. Lord knows
there was enough artillery present
and they put out a tremendous vol
ume of fire.
I read with interest an article
in The Battalion regarding the new
project you started at school
whereby the cadets could observe
a mock attack by an Infantry pla
toon.
After my limited experience
here 1 believe it is a bang-up
idea. It should give all those who
observe or participate a good
conception of infantry tactics. I
have found that you can't know
too much of that, sort of opera
tion for several times here we’ve
had to resort to such tactics or
aid the infantry when they went
into an attack.
It’s no reflection on my excellent
A&M training but 1 wish, at times,
that I knew a lot more about how
the Infantry operates than I do.
Being attached to the 2nd Infan
try Division, we do almost all our
operations in conjunction with the
infantry so every bit of added
knowledge of infantry tactics helps
out.
I understand quite a number of
he class of ’50 have been called
to active duty. 1 keep my eyes
tions for communism. Health and open for them but at vot v.Lo n/t
snnit.avv eondit.inns would he creat- seen amr Bn..., , ‘ L ‘ .
sanitary conditions would be creat
ed to release energies now greatly
curtailed by disease. Healthy peo
ples would work to produce raw
materials, reducing* the shortages
which contribute to war.
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