Battalion Editorials
Page 2
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1951
How Can We Be So Stupid?
WE HELP OUR ENEMY AND
DENY OUR FRIENDS
adherence to a sound policy, we around through Asia. They tried that has been used—that has led us of oil in the world. 1 hat
;ing movement by way of where our foreign policymakers dangerous so we re holding
That is too
them
: 7/* You Can Keep Your Head’
Ordinarily we do not recommend a read
ing program for anyone. Today after per
using all the reams of advice generously
dished out by alumni, newspapers and friends
of the college, on hiring football coaches,
we must recommend that our Athletic Coun
cil read the lines from'the first two verses
of Rudyard Kipling’s poem . . . “IF”.
.. The poem goes something like this:
7f you can keep your head when all about
you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
.. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt
you,
But make allowance for their doubting
too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
... If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve
spoken
Twisted by Knaves to make a trap for
fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to
broken,
~ And stop and build ’em up with wornout
tools;
Those lines seem to sum up the football
coaching situation pretty well, although we
are quite sure that Kipling had more than
. football on his mind when he penned them.
Facing the situation as it exists on the
coaching front today, we strongly recom
mend that plenty of time be taken to find
a new coach. We would recommend the
formation of a special committee composed
of members from the student body, Board
of Directors, Athletic Council and Former
Students Association to search for a new
coach. There is utterly no need to be stam
peded in the matter of hiring a coach. We
believe that those newspapers which contin
ually point out the urgency of hiring a new
man now, are doing the College a grave in
justice for the sake of a good news story.
There are men on our football coaching staff
capable of doing a bang up job with the
team if the search has to run for several
months. Line coach Ray George has been
associated with one of the foremost T form-
nation authorities in the country, Jeff Crav-
ath, and there is no question that he could
_turn in a bang-up job as acting head coach.
We think that A&M is entitled to the
best possible man that it can find for the
job. Somehow we don’t believe that we
can find this man by going down an alpha
betical list of A&M former students who
have been coaching football. We think that
the man should be selected on his merits as
J a coach and not on the basis of where he
went to College.
We deplore those stories which somehow
break into print bearing these anonymous
remarks: “We understand that strong pres
sure will be brought to bear urging the hiring
of a former A&M man.”
, We realize of course that there are those
who think that only Aggies can play football
1 but much as we hate to admit it this doesn’t
seem to be the case.
’ Frankly, of all the A&M men who could
logically be considered, only J. V. Sikes of
Kansas and Dick Todd could be considered
big time coaches. We don’t think that at
tendance at A&M should count against a
candidate, but we also think that the search
should be impartially conducted.
The names of applicants for the job
grows daily which indicates that top flight
men can be interested in the job. Thus far
the list has grown to where it includes ev
eryone but a member of The Battalion staff,
and a representative of the B&CU janitorial
force.
Some of the men listed include Henry
Frnka, now at Tulane; Jimmy Phelan, now
unemployed after working in Pro ball; J. V.
Sikes, coach at Kansas; Jack Curtis, coach
at Utah; and Dick Todd of the Washington
Redskins and former backfield coach at
A&M.
We believe that there are many compe
tent men available and that sooner or later
we must build something permanent in our
football coaching program. This “fire the
coach” attitude that seems to exist in foot
ball over the nation must go.
We need a man who is a student of foot
ball, a man who is an organizer and who has
a dynamic personality, a man who will work
with the officials of the college in conform
ity to all existing rules and regulations. He
must be a better than average man because
he always faces handicaps in proselyting
high school stars.
The fact that A&M is an all men’s school
and is located away from a large city will
always handicap our football coach. This
handicap can be overcome only through
careful planning and increased activity on
the part of our coaching staff.
We think that you ought to tell the
coach when you hire him, that he is not ex
pected to win them all. We think you should
tell him of the existing handicaps and em
phasize that you do demand a well coached
team, and a team that is continually hust
ling. You will find that he will win his share
of the games.
The day of dominating football in the
Southwest Conference for any period of
time is gone forever, regardless of what fol
lowers of the various conference schools may
think. We have too many school boy stars
in these times for any school to get a corner
on .them all.
We think our stand makes sense and
we do hope that we will not shop for a new
coach in the same way that we buy groceries
on bargain day.
After reading our advice, you probably
need to re-read Kipling’s lines.
One of life’s 'peculiarities is that
when you are busiest a friend drops
in to talk about his stomach-aches.
it wp won’t Invo to ness °*' Europe was nwre essential preoccupation to save Europe, and Hitler; ergo, it is a democracy.” heart of Asia in the, last century
,i ’ n _ " in our security than the indepen- the faulty assumption that the way That doesn’t follow, but to them down to Afghanistan and thosi
• c ^ ‘! dence and friendliness of Asia, or, to save it was to put forth effort it looked possible. parts of Siberia which are called
the Maritime Province
those
lied
those that
were led by some Pied Pipers into a flanking movement by way
ii . ii7 n . r uj tt « . concern about whether the Chinese Greece; they tried to flank Ger- have brought the country into the up. ^ _
Hr. Walter Jll ;H 1 Uepre- liberal government or demo- many by the Mediterranean in ’47. mess that we are now in, was this: In the East, China was the bar-
seiuaUve irom Minnesota. cratic government. We had a We stopped that. Now they are The assumption that the Soviet rier for hundreds of years, and uie
Medical Missionary in China, bunch of people who were going doing a larger movement through Union was a peace-loving democ- Chinese were conquered by the
192o-ol and 1933-38 to impose the “Four Freedoms”— China and Southeast Asia to Afri- racy. It is understandable how Manchus, and after a lew 7 hundred
Nnw t’m irvino-fr. nvpvpni Wnrld and if you impose them, they aren’t ca, and if we can’t support Europe; people who wouldn’t try to think, years the dynasties became decu-
War III. 1 don’t know whether ^doms-on the whole world. it will fall into their lap like a ripe I guess, could come to that con- dent. I have known of ^nasties
H.vm nv rmf T Now, what led them to do it? plum. elusion. that have become decadent m
Hut wliilp wp tw tn'nrpvpiii wov’ Well, I think it was this new I don’t expect a conflict there if During the war they said, “We’re twenty years. Well, China could
wn VmiQt h,. nmn-iv,.a •»•;» it assumption.that developed the idea we get realistic and get back on fighting Hitler. We’re a democ- no longer serve as an effective
it comes I think if we are in ■' fhat the independence and friendli- a sound track. You see, in our racy. The Soviet Union is fighting barrier and Russia took over the
position to win
fight it, but the
h ive C an Ml°ouV'mndd'w'lr with not to put ^ another wa y> in theil ' P 1 ' 6 ' in Europe alone, we forgot two Gentlemen, I have no regrets ,
too irood ni’osnects oi'beimr able to occupation with the security of Eu- other concepts (or did we forget about the money we gave to Rus- over Manchuria and Korea,
nulUhromrh and with no nrosnect I'ope, they forgot that the indepen- them?) and didn’t pay adequate sia, and the assistance we gave her down ^ Vladivostok, where they
of nulling t’hromrh to the mod dence of Asia was essential to the attention to two other concepts during the war in Lend-Lease. I are making so much trouble for i«
easv swell life most neoule in secuidt y Europe; they forgot which many believe are stronger think it was wise policy; it saved today.
America have been nriviWed to they could n’t get the security of deterrents to Russian attack upon tens of thousands of American Al 'd then Japan became the bar-
have during vour lifetime and mine Europe by effort in Europe alone. Europe than any possible strength li ve s. The mistake was in assum- ncr. Japan took over Korea at
aic a i ng y nr e a u . Now, what led to that faulty we could build up there in any con- j n g that because she was fighting the beginning of the century, psi-
Bad Conduct assumption? It was, I think, large- ceivable future. One of these de- Hitler for her reasons and that manly to get a buffer to stop this
Here we are a little more than ly the result of this idea that Ei ' terrents is not what we, with our was t o our advantage during the “glacier.” The Japanese said “Ko-
five vears after the end of a war senhower so wel1 expressed yester- forces, and France’s armies and war—she therefore was a democ- rea is a dagger aimed at the heart
and our countrv is less secure than day and whlch , ls P art tvuth - the rest of western Europe’s armies racy an< i wanted the kind of world of Japan,” and it is true that ;i
it has everbeen sinceit was found- In Eur °P e and around th , e l 10rtl I -including the Germans, if they we wanted and would cooperate to the Russians get Korea, Japan's
cd. When a nation handles the mil- Atlantic lives this great body of came jn-could do to Russia’s build it, and therefore we could position is untenable. No matter
itarv nhase of a war so skillfully peo P le who are the b , e , st troops in Europe. The greater de- g et into the same bed with her. how many Americans you send in
so brilliantly that it wins with technically, in the world, with the terrent is what we can do to Rus- That wa s the mistake. or how' much money, in the long
total unconditional surrender of its best ^ ork T n ? en / , % tbls a ^ a we s f Stories and cities and lines Commimist Technique 1 < ' an , ouhvt ' 1K !' 1 you ; Ir ,,
enemies, and then finds itself, with- have ^United States and Can- of communications m Russia Communist technique Well, what happened? In World
in five years at its all-time low ada > and then down the other Slde We can ^ conceivably, m half a Well, first, our American people War 1 Wo destroyed Austria-Hun-
then the political conduct of the of the inverted horseshoe are the decade, get strength enough to wouldn’t read Soviet history. The gary. With no barrier t
war and post-war conditions must Scandinavian countries, England, stop them in western Europe. They essence of it can be portrayed in Russian influence becan
beervirbad "nS. Low Countr.es, Italy, down to can go to the English Channel just the struggle beginning five hun- Mat. In World War II
Wm w ? wwiQ the Mediterranean. Here are 450 as fast as they can walk. Of dred years ago between the various stroyed Hitler’s Germany
M tw wv, ??i tiff oAh tv,; ™ llhoa People, with the same back- course, we gave them plenty of states of Russia. One became the rier. It had to bo destn
tvnmfQ Wv fivp vffvt w! grounds, with the same democratic jeeps, but they might not have dominant factor, the Grand Duchy the destruction didn’t s
f ^ type of government, with the same quite enough so they can all ride, 0 f Muscovy, the principality of problem. You had to
‘WvAM ” hfliWolf J ul '>sprudence with the same lan- but they can go just as fast as which Moscow was the chief city, place and have a gone
T Mffl vm, Wp fn lw f f t g aa ges with the same religion. We they can walk. _ From that time to the present there and because wo won’t dc
f'llk into whirh wp hnvp faUpn a *’ e their s to c k; we fed c l° se to The deterrent of what we can has been unending, ruthless ex- talking about sending 1
. , i 1 C , i • them j naturally, there are senti- do to their bases is a real one, and nandinc movement which in this can divisions to Euro do
becauseiuJt iS a “uuesftarf "SS* 1 **•*•*"“}* ^ * , 1 «» ^ «»,*? ““1 «»» period rfttaTffi “e“d ““ In Aabl wc
oecause it isn i just a question oi The argument that this area has up is a sound concept m the areas era llv dozens of countries and doz- point wh
trying to say who was to blame two best workshops in the that are somewhat protected from ^
so much as to ti'Y to find out what wor id i s valid, but a workshop is their land forces—England, by a
was to blame. What was wrong no good without raw materials, and little, narrow moat, and Spain'by
with our thinking or the assump- Em- 0 p e j us t doesn’t have them, the Pyrenees Mountains, and par-
tion on which our foreign policy that’s all there is to it. We, our- ticularly North Africa, where the
was based, or the clumsiness with selves, according to one of the lat- Mediterranean is a moat to protect as lt was'under tne t;zars except
out^rS P c°ar" est J,' e P° rts of National Securi- your bases while you pound away that it is more deadly to us, at
cies weie earned out 01 not car R eso urces Board, have an ade- in the destruction of their produc- i cas t because in addition to the
quate supply of only. 15 out of the tive capacity. old i as hioned external, aggression
Deterring Factor
The other factor which I think is
be
put
ens of peoples apd it has absorbed tacK us, and we sai
them or subdued them. Its prog- these things.” We
ress has been interrupted a time but that didn’t sol
or two, but never reversed and it We didn’t try to bi
is the same under the Communists Russia in Asia. Ja
as it was under the Czars, except creased the birth
e the r
ild a ba
e, the
domi-
e de-
1 bar-
1, but
2 the
it in
ermany
we are
Ameri-
, to the
to at-
•an’t do
i d her,
roblum.
i ner to
red, in-
creased
ried out? What can we find that
went wrong so that we can perhaps
get out of the pitfalls we are in
now and prevent them in the fu
ture ?
79 essential materials. We have
to import part or all of 64 of them;
we don’t have enough ourselves.
Are we going to supply Europe? a still greater deterrent can
All right, what are the basic That is the dilemma. We can’t their attack upon western Europe
assumptions on which the policies hold them up, and we don’t dare —keeping resistance forces alive
have been made that led to our let them go down. and active in Asia, so the Soviets
difficulties? I’m going to deal RqIq,,/./. Paz-o have to divide their attention, their
primarily with the Far East. The ‘ 1 strength, their energy between two
first was the abandonment by this But how are you going to use widely separated fronts.
Administration — and the tail this workshop over there if it These hard-headed fellows in the
end of the preceding hasn’t got access to raw materials ? Kremlin don’t go to war on the w Map tv^v a eh-i
Administration—of the basic as- You see, in their preoccupation or basis of provocation. Somebody Luvei and Tnti iirue uidil’thei They
sumption or concept or policy which hypnotism over industrial capacity says, “You mustn’t provoke them.” tn y
has been our country’s for almost alone, they forgot the five major You couldn’t provoke them into a can '' eiiniow tne a bSiessois
a hundred years, designed to give factors of power. The first is fac- war or out of a war. If they get
tion more
and mere insoluble,
in Korea i
ve didn’t try, somel
)ody
thought up
1 the idea of dividing
Ko-
rea at the
38th parallel. That ]
Rus-
sians nevei
r asked for it. We a:
sked
the Russia
ns when there wasr
i’t a
single Rus
sian soldier in Koi
*ean,
having a war, they have developed
into almost an exact science, this
new technique of internal aggres
sion.
The old fashioned aggression al- ai id there is no evidence
ways carried with it the seeds of single Russian would have
its own destruction because when into Korea,
you have foreigners coming in and When we took our troops
imposing their will on the people, South Korea, the people the;
the people resent it and while they begging us to stay and giv
hance to build up t
hey understood that
.'asn’t democracy. W
tha
out of
e were
e them
The antigen produces the anti- bdd won ’* : l )U sh it
eir defends.
Communism
11, a mother
ttle one out of
sentimental, so emotional about the to say that unquestionably, no one headed totalitarian regimes on the managed somehow or other to get
Chinese? What difference does it will dispute the morale of the Com- basis of insults, like dueling in the th( r Ch *f se to Work against the i 1T) !/," ni'ia
®*f 10 I s CW-* K .ai- . r „i S t world is far higher than old days. nSffa"“atdli c'oVfc S'viS SJd A? in plai oTHai’
Shek or the liberal group or the that ot the non-Commumst world i’ m glad that the United Nations uSi We invited tFem into Japan, wv had to send
Communists rule China. They today. passed a resolution calling this ag- TvImTh Kovn-i Wp ir-ivo fhom Nmth kids to die in Korea. That’s the
can t govern themselves,
The problem is utterly ‘
We wouldn’t read Russia’s his
tory; wq wouldn’t read her scrip
tures. It’s all written down. You
wouldn’t try to understand a Mo-
Money multiplies the power of man,
either for better or for the worse.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman’]
Value of Oriental F
Onv enneevn fnr a hundred vpars m oa c—inaustruu capacicy-^-in ine i tnmlc you merely narrow the area They got Frenchmen to destroy
Om concern ioi a bundled yeais, North Atlantic community. The m which negotiation takes place, w n Ttaliw to destrnv Ttalv
our insistnee for a hundreds years Soviets can catch up with us on because without that resolution, the tl ‘ 'L E n iri shmen who work, d
that there be an independent China, that, too, as they proved when they negotiation would be as to who is rnVM and dov to slow down the
.wasn’t based on sentimental feeling constructed the atomic bomb, and the burglar here, and surely they’d P ff m . t Q 0 f their countrv to recover , -
lor the C hinese. It was based on they already have the other three-^ wind up with us being the burglar, -uid thev tried to cet Americans to hammodan, I think, without read
’hard-headed concern for the securi- territory, resources, manpower. Let And the negotiation would be on divide our own countrv so it could b:i £ the Koran. You shouldn’t ti^
ty of one nation only—the United them get Asia, and then Africa the question of “Is the thief in taken over. ° to understand the Jewish people
States of America. _ It has been j s honeycombed, and we never can the house or is he in the house? r . ’ , without reading the story of Moses
considered in that light by every ca tch them in the three where Is it proper for him to break his The “Glacier” Moves On ail d the exodus people without
administration we have had, from they lead, while they gradually way into the house or not?” They Now when you have such a proc- reading the New Testament. But
just about a hundred years ago, ca tch up with us in the one where would negotiate that. They would ess iroing on the people who want we couldn’t bother to read the Com-
almost, down to recent years—that we i ea d. negotiate, “Shall we give him the to stay free in the country develop munist scriptures,
the best guarantee of our secuntj jj. was a fundamentally faulty second and third floors, too, as a barriers to it. On the west of They wrote the whole program
on our west vas to na\e an inae- assU mption that because we had present for his having been so ben- Russia are the people of Germany down in 1928, in what are called
pendent, iiiendiy umna. greater industrial capacity, we evolent in breaking open the first an d Austria-Hungary; on the south the theses of the revoluntionary
It was not necessary that they could save ourselves by an effort floor?” ar e the Black Sea counti’ies, with movement in the colonial and semi-
should have a good government in f 0 preserve this alone. With the resolution we can prob- two countries that I might men- colonial areas. Karl Marx first prb<
China. That was desirable, but p • w . ^ ably negotiate what to do about tion particularly—Turkey and Iran, moted the movement, but it didn’l
wholly secondary. It did not nec- ivussia warns Europe th . g aggression) how to end j tj how They were not strong enough by work, and in 1928 they revised
essarily need to be a democratic Everybody says we must protect to prevent its happening again, themselves, so the British held their viewpoint, and in 1928 they
government, an honest government, Europe from being destroyed by how—if possible, perhaps—to make them up for several hundred years; wrote their theses describing how
or an efficient government. The the Russians. Well, how are you some restitution. There is the field we are holding them up now, not they were going to take over the
key thing was that the manpower going to protect it? That’s the for negotiation, and not as to who because we are fond of them but industrialized areas of the world,
and the resources and the basis of question. I don’t think the Rus- is the crook in the matter. because it would be dangerous to One day when Mr. Acheson went
China be under Chinese friendly to sians want to destroy the factories . . .. , have this “glacier” that has been before a committee, (I’m talking
the United States, and not under and the industrial capacity of Eu- .nscaicuiai ons moving relentlessly for five hun- out of turn to say this) upon being
the control of potential enemies of rope; they’d like to have it indeed. You see, this brings me to the dred years get control of that questioned about our foreign pol-
the^ United States. _ Why would they want to destroy next set of miscalculations, the area, which is the strategic bridge icy at a certain point he said, “We
There were two nations that it, after we’d got it all built up ones that led us into this imme- between the three old continents, must wait until the dust settles.” I
posed a potential threat to the -with fifteen billion dollars worth diate situation, based on this fun- It is the bridge across to Africa said, “Mr. Secretary, that’s like
United States from the West—Rus- 0 f ne w equipment, fertilizer plants, damental bad assumption and and its untold resources. From saying to a man who has cancer
sia and Japan. It so happened, steel mills and all the other things ? based, I think, on the record. that bridge they can slip East from which is steadily extending through
because of the geography of the They want to take it by a flanking The first of these miscalculations the West and get control of more his body, ‘Let’s wait and see.’ You
area, that Russia couldn’t move movement, if! ' M' I I ‘ „■ * " '
too readily because China lay along
you wish, Und come —to call it by the mildest word than half of the known reserves
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the long southern front of Russian
Siberia. The other nation couldn’t
move aaginst us as long as China
was independent and friendly to
the United States. It was a per
fectly hard-headed proposition, and
it led William McKinley and Theo
dore Roosevelt to support no good
government in China, but that of
the Manchus, the rottenest, most
corrupt regime that ever existed.
It was a foreign policy that im
posed its will upon China, and yet
they supported it for years, rather
than have the enemies who were
trying to get control of China suc
ceed and use those resources and
might against ourselves.
Woodrow Wilson supported
whom in 1915? Sun Yat Sen. He
was a traitor to China, trying his
best to overthrow the new republic
and return to the old empire days
and yet Woodrow Wilson supported
him in 1915, at the time Japan was
trying to take advantage of the
War in Europe to seize China or
pai’ts of it for themselves because
they perceived it was essential to
our security that the opposite
shores of the Pacific be in the
hands of friends instead of ene
mies.
The Republicans, in ’21 and ’22,
at the time of the Washington Con
ference under Elihu Root, support
ed the Chinese government. There
were a dozen governments in Chi
na at th time, but they supported
them, rather than let China be
taken over by the Russians or the
Japanese.
Now, after all those hundred
years of steadfastness, steadfast
LI’L ABNER
l'M SUf^E THAT U'L
ABNER'S FRIENDS, EVERY
WHERE, WILL HELP ME
FIND THE SWEETEST
FACE IN THE WORLD
so that you can
CHANGE MV FACE-
TO LOOK
LIKE!
You Remind Me Of My Mammy
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By Al Capp