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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1951
NOW, IF THE MACHINE JUST FUNCTIONS’
Preparation Beats Fighting
ZOOMING events cast their shadows before
^ them. On April 1, 1951, the Air Force was
composed of 700,000 men. When it reaches
its authorized strength, 1,060,000 men will
be included. These figures were published
There is nothing as pompous as an
“authority” ivho has to maintain his
reputation.
How Long?
OOW long?
How long will we keep fighting in Korea
with one hand behind our back ?
How long must our soldiers stand and
wait while hordes of Chinese attack, retreat,
and re-attack?*
How long will we listen to scared, shaky-
kneed British diplomats begging us not to
“anger” the Red Chinese?
How long will we stand by while these
same scared Britishers gleefully sell supplies
to the men who are shooting our soldiers
down?
How long will our men stand and fight
and die in Korea while neatly pressed diplo
mats argue and talk and wonder how we will
end it all?
How long will we quake at the words,
“Russia might attack us?”
How long will the American people put up
with it all?
How long?
by the House Appropriations Committee af
ter hearings on a supplemental bill for this
expansion.
The objectives of this program, accord
ing -to Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, are:
• “To deter global war by continuing
to refine and augment our capability of de
livering atomic bombs against any aggres
sor.”
• Adequate defense of this hemisphere
against air attack.
• To continue to develop a greater ca
pacity to perform the Air Force role in uni
fied operations.
• To fulfill the commitments that the
United States has made to the North Atlan
tic Treaty organization.”
Many men now in school will be called
upon to perform some of these tasks. While it
may mean that feathering of any civilian
nest will be delayed several years, the actual
fact of preparedness may forestall a major
war.
Those who have yearned for a high al
titude foxhole will agree that three years of
active preparation beats any time spent in
combat.
In other words, it is far better to be ready
and not have to fight than to have to fight
because you were not ready.
During Red Offensive
Alice Burke Takes Feminine
Lead in ‘Milky. Way, Cast
About half the people of the world
are busy trying to direct the lives of
the other half.
British Want to Know
Which Comes First, Living
Standard or Rearmament
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
J70BEIGN Minister Herbert
Morrison has made the unequiv
ocal statement that rearmament
comes ahead of Britain’s living
standard, a question brought to
the fore by the resignation of
Aneurin Beyan from the cabinet.
The foreign minister’s state
ment is not likely to quell the de
bate on the subject which occupies
not only Britain, but all of Western
Europe and a good part of the
thinking in America.
Beyan is not being looked upon
in kindly fashion for grasping
the issue and bringing it to a
head now in his battle with the
Attlee faction for control of the
British Labor party. He is sus
pected of playing with a danger
ous issue for partisan purposes.
It is true that Sevan’s whole
life has been devoted to attain
ment of the social welfare bene
fits which he now fears will go
down the drain in the path of ex
penditures for preparedness. He is
not alone in Europe. The issue has
been raised in every country where
a just-reviving economy is threat
ened by new military budgets.
Everywhere there are those who
insist that normal industrial ex
pansion can not be detoured in
favor of arms without doing just
what Russia wants—preparing the
road for Communist infiltration
and a Kremlin victory without war.
The answer, of course, is that
without rearmament now there is
danger of losing not only all
that has been gained since the
war, but of losing everything
that is hoped for in the future.
Thus the British government is
willing to compromise some of its
socialist aims for the moment in
favor of preserving the opportun
ity to work them out later.
Morrison’s statement came as the
Attlee government reached an
agreement with Sevan not to dis
rupt its parliamentary majority.
But few doubted that public
revulsion against controls and
the split within the Labor Party
would produce a general elec
tion, and very probably a Con
servative victory, before the end
of the year.
The agreement with Sevan will
do nothing to halt the economic
argument which his resignation re
vived.
It is a question of which will be
paramount, long range economic
and military preparations for de
fense, or the pressure of cu'rrent
budget-making.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Scout Leader
Course Starts
Here April 30
A Spring training coarse for
Boy Scout leaders will be held at
the Girl Scout “Little iHouse”
April 30 and May 1, 2, and 3.
The meetings, which will begin
at 7:30 p. m., are designed with
the purpose of enrolling scout
masters, assistant scout masters,
institutional representatives, and
troop committeemen, a member of
the training committee said.
Essentials to be taught during
the coarse are as follows:
® How to help the individual boy
to grow.
• How to organize troops and
patrols for most executive service.
• How to plan patrol and troop
programs and meetings.
• Aids in camping and hiking in
scouting.
• How to enlist scouts and scout
leaders, how to finance and keep
scout records, how to promote
healthy advancement, how to get
committees to function.
Normally a six night course,
this training program will be con
densed into a four night session.
The course for A&M students
will be held in room 203 of the
Agriculture Building and will be
put on by the Scout Class 408.
A certificate will be given for
the completion of the course, the
training committee representative
said.
As Mae Sullivan, sister of the
pugilistic milkman, Alice Burke
will provide the chief love interest
in “The Milky Way,” three-act com
edy which the Aggie Players will
present in the Assembly Hall May
14-15 as their final production of.
the season.
“The Milky Way” is predomin
antly a masculine play with the
two prize fighters who are the
principal characters providing high
comedy throughout the action.
However the romance between Mae
and Speed McFarland, the champ
ion, John Caple, is an integral
part of the plot and furnishes
enough sentiment to give the drama
finesse.
Although this is only her first
year as a member of the college
drama group Alice has been active
in every production this season.
She played the lead in “Kind Lady”
last December and served as di-
Ag Experimenters
Get $1,000 Grant
A check for $1,000 has been re
ceived by the Agricultural Experi
ment Station. The money will be
used for the purpose of making
“an organizational analysis of ag
ricultural marketing cooperatives
of Texas,” Dr. R. D. Lewis, station
director says.
The money is from the Texas
Federation of Cooperatives, Dal
las, and is an additional contribu
tion of numerous contributions to
the. TABS for the purpose outlined.
rector for “Antigone,” the Greek
tragedy presented early this month.
Born in Palestine where her
parents, Col. W. M, Burke, USAF,
retired, and Mrs, Burke, still re
side, Alice, who is about to com
plete her second year as assistant
manager of the campus office of
Western Union, now calls College
Station home.
A niece of the celebrated stage
and screen actress Billie Burke,
Alice has been interested in dra
matics all her Ijfe. She worked with
the high school drania group and
Civic theater in Palestine and was
associated with both the Univer
sity players and Waco Little Thea
ter while attending Baylor Univer
sity. ■
■ Alice is extremely versatile, not
only in the theater where she has
portrayed roles ranging from Mary,
mother of Jesus, in a religious
drama to Gwen in “The Royal
Family” but off stage as well.
It’s part of her job to keep the
eight Western Union printers on
the campus in good repair, and she
can sew too. She has just finished
designing and making her costume
for “The Milky Way.”
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Appropriations Bill
Lists BAFB Fund
Washington, April 26—ISP)—Bry
an Air Force Base would receive a
construction fund of $3,541,000 un
der a bill sent to the house yester
day by its appropriations commit
tee. The bill would authorize con
struction money totalling more
than $67,000,000 for seven Texas
Air Force bases.
The money is part of a $300,-
000,000 lump sum item for the Air
Force in a supplemental appropria
tion bill.
Other Texas bases and amounts
for each:
Amarillo, $13,670,000; Connally
(Waco), $4,911,000; Lackland (San
Antonio), $30,287,000; Randolph
(San Antonio), $1,624,000; San
Marcos, $78,000; Sheppard (Wi
chita Falls), $12,978,000.
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man, having put his hand to the
plow, and looking back, is fit for
the kingdom of God.”—Luke 9;62.
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Retreat Casualties Low
By ROBERT EUNSON
I^IGHTH Army Headquarters,
^ Korea, Thursday, April 26—<7P>
—The United Nations forces in
Korea are carrying out a success
ful retreat, and casualty figures
prove it.
In the first two days of the
Communist Spring offensive, which
began. Sunday night, less than 200
allied soldiers were killed. Less
than 1,000 were wounded.
Yet in the west alone, United
Nations artillery and planes cov
ering the withdrawal have killed
or wounded 25,000 Communists.
The figures may go even higher
Former A&M Prof
Has Book Printed
C. V. Polland, former A&M in
structor and now associate profes
sor of Germanic languages at Tex
as University, has recently pub
lished a book, “The Practical Solu
tion to German Translation,”,
which gives his method of learn
ing the German language in record
time.
Polland’s method teaches stu
dents to translate the most diffi
cult German after a very short
period of time. Vocabulary build
ing can be started In two months,
the average time required to learn
the rules and master the method,
according to Polland.
The new book contains a 25,000
word vocabulary in various fields
of academic study including psy
chology, philosophy, anthropology,
and reading material in the physi
cal and biological sciences. There
are no simple lessons in the book
and students delve immediately into
the most difficulty reading mater
ial.
when all the results'are inU One
U. N. division is so busy killing
Reds it has not taken time to send
in its casualty count.
In the center, where one U. N.
division collapsed and let the Reds
go streaking 20 miles south,
there has been some grim fighting
to save the exposed flanks. But
the ones who really paid were the
Chinese Communists.
Artillery, catching them from
both sides, laid down a gauntlet
of steel that even fanatical Reds
found hard to take.
The enemy pilsh was contained
yesterday, and fbrtfes bolstering
the shattered lines seem sure of
holding the vital Seoul-Chunchon
road.
Cutting the Seoul Chunchon road
was the Communists’ aim in the »
center.
If the 150,000 troops they were
pouring in here could get Kapyong
they would be on a paved highway
about 30 air miles northeast of
Seoul.
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