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ws Battalion Editorials Page 2 MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951 To Take the Bait Or Turn it Down THHE COMBINATION of time, youth and money is a very strong magnet that is drawing many students away from text books into military service or lucrative jobs in expanding defense industries. A substantial argument to stem this pre mature shortcut to fame and fortune is not easily found. Youth lives in the present, and long range programs are too uncertain and intangible to counteract the appeal of im mediate pleasure. This perhaps is one of the biggest prob lems of educational psychologists—selling education to the student when the rewards are dissociated from the immediate work at hand. We do not propose to have an argument that youth will accept, but the error of such untimely adventures is apparent. Older peo ple can only advise and hope that their opin ions will be valued by those who are strong ly tempted to “take the bait.” Make Gambling Pay Off for People rpHAT GAMBLING exists in Texas on a •*- large scale is, by now, rather obvious. What to do about it, however, is something else again. Actually, gambling is quite acceptable to this generation. The big question seems to be —who gets to share in the proceeds which frequently reach astounding sums? Schools, churches, veteran’s organizations, and civic groups have been known to use devices of probability to raise money “for a good cause.” On the criminal side of the picture, two syndicates are now fighting for control of Texas gambling, and the killings and bomb ing have attracted some attention. Laws and rigid enforcement obviously ^ cannot eliminate gambling on all levels, nor could we reasonably expect an overnight spiritual revolution to bring enough moral force to bear on the problem to accomplish anything in this direction. Some groups have suggested special taxes on gambling equipment and profits in order to “raise the ante,” and make the money available for the common good of public ex penditures. This is the most probable solution to the problem. Gambling revenue like the Tidelands revenue has finally attracted Federal at tention. LETTERS Letter From Korea Some of our readers may re member “Hank” Michalak, who was a staff writer on The Bat talion in 1948-49. Michalak is now a Marine sergeant in Korea. Fol lowing are excerpts from a let ter written by the sergeant, which we feel will be of interest to readers.—The Editor. Editor, The Battalion: Congratulations to you on be ing awarded second prize in the safe driving campaign sponsored by Lumbermen’s. You (Battalion staffers) prob ably wonder what I’m doing in Korea. Well, sometimes I wonder, too. But I was called up with the inactives and landed here post haste. By golly, 1 thought it was cold when it snowed in College Station in 1949, but I've since really learned what cold weather can be like. In our moves up, we always seemed to be in the throes of swirling snow. I believe the snow season is past now; we haven’t had any of the white, clean stuff for two weeks now. Thank goodness for that. There are more Kice paddies in this country than there are pages in two sets of encyclopedias. The Korean system of terracing these steep hillsides is quite elaborate. They raise rice on rocky hillsides that would hardly be fit to graze a bunch of stateside goats. Nine-tenths of the villages, towns, and settlements we’ve been through are shambles. Undoubtedly it will take a long time and mil lions to restore the ravages war has wrought. It would be grand seeing an Ag gie over here. As far as I know, I seem to be the sole Aggie here, unless there are some I don’t know of. Hank Michalak ’50 1st Marine Division THE LOW MAN Politico-Journalist Election Produces Results for A&M By ANDY ANDERSON Battalion Campus Editor “I’ll swing three votes your way if you will vote for my candidate for vice president.” “I don’t need your votes as I already have enough to win with out your support.” No, this isn’t some congressional meeeting as you might think. These were just a couple of the statements that were made Sat- Spies Responsible; Fuchs Called ‘‘Deadliest 1 Russia 18 Months Ahead on A-Bomb By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH Associated Press Writer assigned during WWII to the atom ic bomb project at Los Alamos, N. M. States but in the history of na tions. Senator McMahon (D-Conn), chairman of the Joint Atomic Com mittee, said in an accompanying statement that the report—entitled “Soviet Atomic Espionage” was put together to assist the members WASHINGTON, April 9 (^T) The report clearly regarded the A 1 ? H-bomb scientist who re- espionage of Greenglass—who got portedly %d to Russia, and three of f wi th a 15-year term—much confessed spies have advanced the more damaging than the spying of Soviet atomic weapons program at j u ij us Rosenberg and his wife, least 18 months, the Senate-House Ethel. In contrast, the Rosenbergs “i 11 assessing the damage inflicted Atomic Energy Committee has an- ] as t Thursday in New York were on Hm American atomic project nounced. sentenced to death for ferreting Of the four, a committee report out A-bomb secrets for Russia, rated British citizen Klaus Fuchs Gre€ngla ^ is Mrs . Rosenberg’s brother. He was a star government witness against her at the trial. as the deadliest spy in all history. The German-born scientist now is serving a 14-year jail term in Eng land for passing atom secrets to the Reds. The report assigned No. 2 posi tion from a damage standpoint to scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, who disappeared behind the Soviet Iron Curtain last Fall. He was on va cation in Europe from his top sec ret post at a British atomic re search station. “His more recent studies,” the report said, “Included work up on tritium, a substance inti mately related to the hydro gen bomb.” Just behind Pontecorvo, the re port rated Dr. Allan Nunn May, British scientist who was convicted in the Canadian spy expose of 1946, and American-born David Greenglass, sentenced in New York Friday to 15 years in jail. Greenglass confessed to trans mitting atomic data to the Soviets while he was an Army sergeant “The conclusion seems reason able,” the report declared, “that the combined activities of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, Greenglass and May have advanced the Soviet Atomic energy program by 18 months as a minimum. In other words, if war should come, Russia’s abil ity to mount an atomic offen sive against the West will be greatly increased by reason of these four men.” through Soviet espionage.” That damage, the report said, “is indisputably severe.” It added, however, that American espionage defenses have not been breached— so far as is known—since mid-1946 “when the law creating the joint committee and the Atomic Energy Commission was enacted.” The report added: “Before that time, however, Sov iet agents did successfully pene trate the joint Amei’ican-British- Canadian atomic projects. After mid-1946, moreover, further secur ity breaches have occurred in the British program, through Dr. age to be successful on a major scale requires these ingredients: “(1) A trained scientist or specialist, (2) Having critical ac cess to information about the American-British-Canadian pro ject, and (3) Willing to sacrifice Ids own country in behalf of Russia. “These conditins were all evi dent in the cases of Fuchs, Ponte corvo, May and Greenglass. Each man was among the few hundred —the fraction of one per cent—pos sessing the mental equipment and holding the key positions which alone made possible, if combined with disloyalty, the betraying of essential secrets. “In any event, it is evident that a lack of moral standards, combined with an overweening and childlike arrogance—all in duced by exposure to Commun ist recruiting techniques during early manhood — characterizes the atomic spy.” After citing the Communist or All four had access at one time Dr. Pontecorvo or another to atomic secrets in this country. All but Greenglass had access in Britain or Canada as well. Items of consumer goods, ac counting for $7 millian- in retail sales annually, will now be priced huchs and the disappearance ol Communist-tinged background of the greatest single factor account- Ceiling Price Regulation 7 rm P-f-n-n each of the top f0 ur, the report ing for the security lapses that r:h “ Hps H W.nor.rh. Jr men—now known to be betrayers— granted access to atomic energy in formation?” Part of the answer, the re port added, is that FBI, so far as this country is concerned, “had no responsibility for security in vestigations during the wartime period.” The Army’s Manhattan engineer district—code name for the atomic project—“handled se curity matters exclusively through its own channels.” Another “obvious reason,” the re port added, was that Russia was an ally of the United States, Brit ain and Canada at the time. “Although the Manhattan dis trict attempted to exclude Soviet agents from the ranks of its em ployes, a great part of the effort was also devoted to excluding agents of Germany, Italy and Japan,” the report declai’ed. But it said “the sheer stresses and strains and urgencies of a war situation probably constitute urday as part of the attempt to get votes for officers of the Southwestern Journalism Con gress which held it’s recent meet ing in Norman, Okla. The offices that were being sought were president, vice presi dent and secretary and a hot bat tle raged for the latter two. Patricia Powless of TSCW was a shoo-in for the presidency. The precedent calls for the president of the congress to be from the host school for the next meeting, which TSCW will be for 1952. SMU and Hardin Simmons each had candidates for the vice president’s post. SMU approached the A&M delegation and promis ed the support of their school, Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M for A&M’s candidate for secre tary if A&M could swing the University of Houston, LSU, TSCW and TCU. Hardin Simmons promised the support of Texas Tech and Baylor as well as theirs if A&M would support their candidate for vice president. Who ever thought a delegation of four persons could hold so much power over much larger delegations from so many other schools ? As it turned out, SMU’s can didate, Russ Thornton won the post as vice president and A&M won the secretaryship with Bill Streich. This was just a mild form of what is going on in Congress' every day but'the'-application is the same. Consumer Goods Prices Regulated Besides the big four, the report puts this question: deals with the courier and related roles played in this country by _ ,, ,. . . such people as the Rosenbergs and As for Fuch’s kingpin espionage Morton Sobcll, who drew a 30- year sentence in New York last week. The case of Harry Gold also comes in for considerable attention. Gold was one of Fuchs’ important contacts with Russian officials in this country. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in jail. As a result of Fuchs’ help, the “Why, then, were these four gave enrtance to Fuchs, Ponte corvo May and Greenglass.” role, the report said: “It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Fuchs alone has in fluenced the safety of more peo ple and accomplished greater damage than any other spy not only in the history of the United Interpreting the News Russian Satellites Fall Down on Job 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, improved atomic weapons; and he eiuls give figures affording any worker is to have neither money During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during r> ossesse( l j ns i ff ht into the thinking- ^1 basis for comparison. Ameri- nor consumer iroods examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday po&isesfccu nsigiic meu cm tn n mj, i . . . j hoi cunsumci guous. report said, the Russians could “avoid making many of the mis takes and following many of the costly false leads that inevitably attended the pioneering days” of the American atomic program. By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Frequent reports from behind the iron curtain suggest that Commun ism is running into trouble with investment of between six and seven billion dollars of Hungarian mated, money. The goal is a total produc tion increase in the period of 200 per cent, but heavy industry is to be increased nearly 300 per cent. “He” (Fuchs) took part in mak- its great source of strength, the it seems fairly obvious that, ing the earliest atomic bombs; he industrial worker. _ _ between taxes and the stress on was privy to ideas and plans for _ Not ?H e n,. do Communist offi- heavy industry, the Hungarian Charles H. Winerich, Jr., acting director of the Houston Office of Price Stabalization, announced. These items will be removed from the general ceiling price regulation of January 26. Musical instruments, radio and television sets, phonographs, sport ing goods, watches, jewelry, and chinaware are now to be priced under Regulation 7. Approximately 800 retailers who do not sell any of the commod ities originally included under Reg ulation 7 will be affected in the Houston district Fred C. Hopkins, district OPS price executive, esti- 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. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444) or at the editorial office, Room 201, Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209, Goodwin Hall. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. Entered as second-class patter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, onder the Act of Con-j press of March 3, 1870. la Member of The Associated Press of the period as regards the hydro- can analysts have to depend on gen bomb,” the report declared. outdated figures for plotting things As for the Italian-born Ponte- j" Helds. Revelation of ac- corvo, the report said it is not tual fl gures m Russia is a crime, definitely known whether he passed Want Production data to the Russians before he re- ,, , , portedly joined them behind the „ At a rec ^ ent Party congress in Iron Curtain. Hungary, however, figures were ., T , „ „ - used in an effort to impress on 0 , n aay * added, as of members the importance of obtain- Represented nationally ^°, vlet ac quir- j n g increased productivity from by Snll AdvertS ed in Pontecorvo not only a human labor> Service Inc., at New York storehouse ot knowledge about the rp he fi KUres aro f ew Hungarian Guard Camp Announced Three National Guard Divisions, the 36th, the 49th Armored, and the 39th, plus other non-divisional units will train at Camp Polk this summer, announced the Fourth Army Headquarters. CLAYTON L. SELPH, DAVE COSLETT Co-Editors John Whitmore, Dean Reed Managing Editors Andy Anderson, Bob Hughson ..Campus Editors Fred Walker Sports Editor Joel Austin City Editor Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor geles, and San Francisco, projects, but also a first-rate sci- ■^^^■■■■■■■■entific brain.” Today’s Issue John Whitmore.. Joel Austin Allen Pengelly.... Fred Walker Managing Editor .Campus News Editor .City News Editor ...Sports News Editor Dr. May, the report noted, con fessed to writing an overall re port on atomic energy as known to him, and of handing it over to the Russians. The data to which he had access “far exceeds the scope of any material in the public domain today, six years later.” was 389,000 tons. The five year plan calls for 1,300,000 tons in 1954, with steel going from 860,000 to 2,200,000 tons. 1954 goals in other fields are coal, 27,500,000 tons; electrical energy 6,500,000,000 kilowatt hours; tractors 26,000, and annual irrigation projects at the rate of 370,000 acres. The speakers explained the pro- We pay the highest prices for Used Books— We maintain wholesale and retail lists the year 'round. , v . u GET OUR PRICES BEFORE SELLING THE EXCHANGE STORE "Serving Texas Aggies" Five Events Planned For ’52 Town Hall Negotiations have begun to con tract five programs on next sea son’s Town Hall series. The selection committee for Town Hall met yesterday after noon in the office of C. G. “Spike” White, assistant dean of men for activities. An innovation in the program will be a popular “name” orchestra, which will probably appear here during the Fall. A male tenor and a female vocalist, a pianos duet, and possibly the Houston Sym phony Orchestra complete the pro gram. No names were released, but Committee Chairman W. M. “Bll” Turner said the members seemed highly pleased with the selections, if they can be obtained. Rifle Team Fires In National Meet Washington, April 9—<7P)—Sixty university and college teams com peted, throughout the nation yes terday, in the 1951 Intercollegiate Rifle championship firing. There were 15 sectional compe titions. Host schools were West Point, the defending champions; Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology; the University of Vermont, Buffalo, Maryland, Wisconsin, Col orado, California at Los Angeles and California; Ohio State; Geor gia Tech; Louisiana State; Texas A&M; Oklahoma A&M, Washing ton State. The defending individual champ ion was Herbert Voelker, of MIT. Sectional results will be posted by wire with the National Rifle Association here, which will an nounce national results tonight. New receptionist in the Student Activities office is Mrs. Marvin (Thellis) Rush. Mrs. Rush be gan working for Student Activi ties February 8, Her husband, Sgt. Rush of the Marines, is in Honolulu, on his way west. Mrs. Rush and daughter Patricia live at 107 Angus, College Station. Dr. Jensen Invited To ACS Meeting Dr. Fred W. Jensen, head of the Chemistry Department, has been invited to participate in a round table discussion at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Soc ct; 1 • • ■ ■! • • n \pril 11th. Jensen is also invited to discuss his high frequency method of chem ical analysis that he conceived with the aid of A. L Parrack of the Engineering Experiment Station. First publication of the new method was made in 1946 and since, because of its flexibility and uni que characteristics, has come into widespread use in many industries. NOW SHOWING SHE’S TOO MHCH WOMAN FOR ANY MAN-BUT ONE! m IWCI Hivl PAUL KELLY •ELSA LANCHESTER-JOHN EMERY QUEEN N OW SHOWING For M O M A GIFT SURE TO MAKE MOM HAPPY— A Photograph of Your Self VAN DYKE STUDIO Call Us NOW! for an Appointment BRYAN, TEXAS LI’L ABNER rp „ . . „ . t,, r-,man’s crimes nor lessen his legal T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips —Editorialists , , ... „ ° Allen Pengelly - Assistant City Editor a nu moral guilt. The report termed Greenglass S ram called for a 100 per cent in- apparently the least effective of crease in labor productivity. But the quartet of top spies, but added whll e production has increased, the “this evaluation does not detract rate of worked productivity has one iota from the horror of this fallen off. Satellites Exploited The ’tunnel of love"empties into SW/NEV P/VER, WHERE l/EAKEYES The Incomplete Angler ET By AI Capp 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..... Sports Staff Writers Sam Molinary, Bob Alderdice Staff Photographers Sid Abernathy - Page Make-up Joe Gray .•. — —Photo Engraving Shop Manager Tom Fontaine, Johnny Lancaster, Charles McCullough, R. R. Peeples, R. D. Witter ; — ....Photo Engravers Autrey Frederick......... —... Advertising Manager Russell Hagens, Bob Hsynie —- —— Advertising Representatives Dick Kelly — — Club Publicity Coordinator Searching’for some explanation , is we * 1 knov ™ that Russia takes a major portion of the pro ducts of the satellites, fixing prices at one end through her control of production corporations, and pay ing with Russian goods at an in flated ruble value. While there is talk of production of consumer goods, one look at the size of Hun gary as compared with the pro gram for heavy industry—which Russia stresses in her military pre parations—is sufficient. The five-year program calls for of how the four could have decid ed to betray their countries, the report concluded that Soviet espion- Bible Verse O ye therefore, and teach all na- ^tions, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. —Matthew 28:19.