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.
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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.
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Can They Cooperate?
Democracy and Communism
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
J>RITAIN’S new foreign secre-
taj-y, Herbert Morrison, during
a speech in London supported the
thesis that “international coopera
tion can flourish despite differ
ences of political systems.”
As a generality that undoubtedly
is true, but the question immedi
ately arose whether it can be
stretched to cover the outsider of
the ideologies — Communism. Is
there any possibility of cooperation
between Communism and Democ
racy ?
That’s a mighty important
question in these dangerous times
of political turmoil. 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.
Dr. Twitchell, a Harvard PhD,
is the author of “Living Without
Liquor.”
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