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Battalion Editorials Page 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1951 A &M’S STUDENT government has an op- ^ portunity to be advanced Wednesday night when the campus-wide referendum vote is taken to decide whether or not the students want a President of the Student Body. The major part of the decision, as we see it, is the needed change in the election proce dure. The student body of A&M has become much more interested in student government over the past few years than ever before. And that alone is a healthy sign that the students are ready to make yet another ad vancement. The Battalion is in full support of the proposal which would make the present posi tion of Student Senate President one subject to student body elections and which changes the job’s title to President of the Student Body. Definite qualifications must be establish ed, however, to insure experienced men for the job. This portion of the change will be per formed by the Student Life Committee, which sets requirements for all campus-wide positions. A&M sorely needs a top representative of the student body who can actually represent all students. Vote “yes” Wednesday night and you are giving the college’s student government a large push forward. m KNEW THEY’D COME IN HANDY In General Ike‘s Army Vast Pay Differences Can Be Embarrassing By CARTER DAVIDSON and conscripts. In Belgium, for example, Associated Press Staff Writer where the regular army private gets $2.50 a .* day, a conscript draws only £0 cents a day DARIS, April 10—UP)—The highest paid f or ±2 months. After that it’s 40 cents a day. 1 soldiers in the world American GIs, are A conscrip t in Holland gets 27 cents, lining up beside international army buddies compared to the 76 cents he draws after who get as little as a nickel a day. s j x mon ths service. The difference in pay between countries supplying the troops for the Atlantic Pact’s Top Brass Pay Even Worse W/g^Dw^D 6 EMsenhower'and ^ the top brass brackets the pay differ- his staff at Supreme Headquarters, Allied fofinsteLe 4 ^ Powers in Europe (SHAPE). iTflrmy ^ The whole idea of the Atlantic Army is commissioned grade international military cooperation. So far, it A Dflnish on i onP i morp than an " m ° re 11 1 IP , , - . , An American general of the three top A French colonel, for instance, may one d draws an a ^ nua i che ck of $13,500 for day be assigned to command a regiment or | al food and housi aUowa J e s. This is battalion of Atlantic troops that may have just £ bout twice as m * ch as the pay of a American British, Norwegian and French in Belgion general, next highest paid officer in it. The U. S. top sergeant will be drawing , rmv about $25 a year more than his colonel. tt • ‘ V * T£ TT o . , . ,, ,, Here is the way some armies compare, If a U. S. Army captain, on the other in the .. extras .. wi ti GI’s food and hous- hand, ever leads 200-man company of Ital- a n owances - ians into action or maneuvers, his base pay ^ ‘ , of $314 a month will be just about equal to . France-Private soldiers and non-com- the total pay of all troops he commands. A missioned officers get up to six free cigar- company of U. S. soldiers would have a total ettes a day. Officers travel for one-fourth base pay of $17,000 a month. P nce on railways. No housing allowances, free food if at army messes. Free medical Little Friction So Far treatment. So far there has been little friction, if . Italy-Private soldiers get no family any, as a result of pay differences. housing allowances. Non-confmissioned and ^ ^ .c it ^ commissioned officers live in state-owned But real problems are feared when the apartment houses at special low rents, actual integration of troops into an Atlantic Holland—Soldiers receive board and lodg- army gets under way. Eisenhowers officers ing . Married officers get a rent and living are working on it now, but little can be done allowance is assigned outside home area. Un- until the governments of the Atlantic co ? 1 ' married soldiers pay their rent out or their mu ml? rais< T l ower ;level army standards, salaries, averaging about $10 a month. This is being considered m many coun tries. But in others, such as France, the atti- No Pay in Norway tude still is that a soldier serves his coun- ^ try for the glory of it. Norway—Soldiers get free food and lodg- The pay differences cited are base sal- ^ n § s > P^s medical and dental care, also half- aries only, and take no accounting of “ex- price railway tickets. Non-coms and officers tras” such as food and housing allowances, P a y f° r personal needs, including uni- •fy'PP travpl anrl frpp rip'arpttpc; lorniS. The rawest U. S. recruit, just out of his Denmark—Private soldiers, corporals draft board, gets $75 a month base pay, plus and cadets S et free uniforms, food, housing $3 a day for food if there is no Army mess and half-price railway travel. No allowances available, and an allotment for dependants, for officers. . By comparison, an Italian soldier who Similar statistics for other countries has advanced to the rank of sergeant gets vvere not available. only $45 a month, with no allowances to The Germans have no military service house his family. now > hut when they had one, Hitler made Here are the daily rates of pay for pri- his fighting men comfortable—on European vate soldiers in eight of the countries sup- standards at least. plying troops to the Atlantic Army, without ^he Wehrmacht paid its soldiers accord counting “extras:” in g f° length of service, and gave enlisted it f • a* men and non-coms free housing, food, cloth- LJnitea states in? and medical treatment. Officers got a Belgium ,2.o0 special allowance to pay for the same things. Britain 98 Q erman arm y issued free cigarettes and Holland ib liquor rations during wartime only, and that Denmark 24 amount varied according to whether a sold- Norway .lo j er wag ^ front or in the rear areas. - *h<’ Soldiers and officers alike got one mark a France Oo ^ a y bonus for eaqh day at the front. Some armies pay their soldiers even less German base pay ranged from about 40 for the first few months. Some have differ- cents a day for privates to $9,000 a year for ent rates of pay for regular army soldiers generals. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, Wider 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. 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Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. 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 Today's Issue Joel Austin Managing Editor Bob Hughson r Campus News Editor Allen Pengelly City News Editor Fred Walker ..Sports 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, 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 Haynie Advertising Representatives Dick Kelly Club Publicity Co-ordinator BA Prof To Speak At Florists Meet E. R. Bulow, assistant professor of Business Administration, will speak to the Foui’th Annual Com mercial Florists Short Course which will be held on the campus April 16-18. Bulow will speak on “I Sold You So.” The course will investigate merchandising and sales problems faced by the retail florist. A. F. DeWerth, head of the Floriculture and Landscape Art Department will be in charge of the program. AH Students Plan Houston Field Trip Students in AH 307 will visit the Houston Packing Company in Houston, May 1. This trip is made each semester by the class in order to familiarize the students with the operation of a commercial meat processing plant. W. W. Bailey, ’36, who is general superintendent of the packing house, will welcome the students and supervise the tour of the plant’s facilities. Bible Verse IALESSED are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against' you falsely, for my sake, —Matthew 5: 11. LI’L ABNER Ax Me No Questions By A1 Capp THASS a UE.V'-LI'L ABNER. IS A TALL, DARK BOY, W)F A POLKA-DOT NECKTIE-AN' YO r IS A TALL, DARK MULE- FISH, WIF A POLKA-DOT NECKTIE"'-—HOLD STILL, CUSS VO-HERE GO TH' FLIPPERS A'' Have You Always Wanted a New AUTOMATIC WASHER? The New Frigidaire IS A DREAM COME TRUE See it .... Watch it ... . 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Upon the answer must depend our attitude towards the Red ism. a subject first of Moscow, and scheme was a dismal failure and. after that is a citizen of his own the outcome, as was to be ex- country. pected, was that the Communists One only has to look at Europe finally took over. In such fashion to see numerous examples of this did Moscow become the overlord truth. Take countries like Italy and of a nation of 500 millions. France, which have large Commun- The moral would seem to be that ist parties. The Reds are in con- no democracy can afford to be di stant conflict with the non-Com- erant towards a Communist party munist governments. The Commun- within its borders, ist leaders are indoctrinated in However, this doesn’t preclude Moscow. They take their orders the cultivation of cooperation be- from Moscow. And they frequently tween Communist and Democratic' are called to Moscow to get fresh nations in matters which adapt orders or, where they have failed themselves to such treatment, in their task, to receive chastise- Probably the opportunities for ment. cooperation will be limited, but they We had an unforgettable (and may help lessen the dangers of perhaps unforgivable) example armed strife, pending the day when of trying to force nationalism to the ideological melting-pot has mix with Communism in China made the “one world” we hear during the late World War. The about. The answer is, I think, that there may be cooperation on some lines between Communist states and non- Communist states. There can be no real cooperation between Commun ism and any other ideology within the borders of one nation. As to partial cooperation be tween Communist and non-Com- munist states, we had an excellent example in the alliance during the last world war. However, that was a matter of life and death—and danger makes strange bed fellows. No such partnership is likely among Red and non Red elements within one nation. Why? Because if a Commun ist party gets a foothold in a largely Democratic country, the Reds give their allegiance, not to their national government but to Moscow. This is so true that when a serious difference arises between Red Russia and a demo cracy the Communist citizens of the democracy will side with the Soviet Union. Indeed, this fact provides Moscow with one of its most useful weapons in waging its world revolution for the spread of Communism. Every non-Russian Communist is Drunk Writer Fails To Affirm Writing. Los Angeles, April 10—(A*)—Dr. Vernon Bronson Twitchell, 42, was picked up asleep on a neighbor’s lawn last night. Police booked him as drunk. Today he pleaded guil ty and was fined $25. 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