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Battalion Editorials
Page 2 TUESDAY, MAY 15,1951
Greater Recognition . . .
JT IS very easy and convenient to be a mod-
LETTERS
All letters to the editor must be signed
by the writer and free from obscene
and libelous references. Letter writers
wanting their name withheld must make a
personal request to the co-editors. No
unsigned letters will be published.
Thanks for Support
Of Crippled Clinic
HOMETO^OOST
ern Candide and take the view that A&M
is the “best of all possible Colleges in this
best of all possible worlds.” Yet, there are
times when we are forced to consider things
under the heading of “what is scholastically
wrong with A&M?”
The obvious method would be to start
with the undergraduate school and work up
to the graduate school, but we believe that
there is reason to start with the graduate
school and show its importance and close
correlation with the undergraduate school.
Unless this is done, the fact that recog
nition of undergraduate degrees frequently
depends on the quality of the corresponding
graduate school is not immediately obvious.
In other words, the graduate school is a mat-
•
Can We Afford
Not To?
IF THE Russians will cooperate and make
•*war by appointment in 1953, the best
Washington estimates indicate that we will
be prepared to meet the challenge. The At
lantic Pact will be more than a piece of paper;
blueprint armies will be in the field; design
ers dreams will be tangible aircraft ready
for combat; and all this will have been done
in a calm orderly manner with no extra ef
fort involved.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. has been
sufficiently concerned about some of our
major deficiencies to gather all existing mili
tary and civilian facts. His conclusions from
these facts are rather shocking to say the
least. These statements stand out sharply:
• “The cold brutal fact is that the U. S.
does not have air supremacy, air superiority,
or anything like it. We excel them (Russia)
only in the quality of our long-range bombers
and in numbers of atomic bombs. On this
single fact, our security hangs by a delicate
thread.”
® “Without tactical air support, (planes
supporting troops directly) the most mobile
troops with maximum firepower per pound
are still as naked as men in their underwear.”
The big question is—what to do about it ?
Senator Lodge recommends at least 150
“wings’—preferably 175. Approximately 48
of these Air Force Wings would be com
mitted to tactical support.
We agree with the Senator that this is
not a question of “can we afford it?” It is a
question of “can we afford not to?”
Editor, The Battalion:
ter of concern to all students who want pro- rfB^afSd'couSe
fessional recognition, rather than an ex- station render a service to the
elusive problem for the relative minority of £*4h\Sr d c“tribn™™’in to
the students actually engaged in graduate bottles placed at the business
wor j£ houses, they more than contribut
ed the Kiwanis Club’s contribu-
While we agree wholeheartedly with the tion to this Crippled Chrildren’s
expenditures that provide “eyewash” for Clinic -
visiting dignitaries, we do not believe that st ^ e S! nt l ’ ,> S er in wh t e h r c e
the firm foundation Of graduate study dents made their contributions
should be neglected collected a large amount of money.
Unfortunately some classes of research £ he p ri Ppied Chrildren’s Com-
J . mittee is grateful to the business
require more equipment than a package of men who cooperated and to all
seeds, or a stack of assorted books. Budgets J? 1 ? 0 made , contributions in making
„ . . this year’s clinic our most suc-
frequently place very sharp limits on expen- cessful clinic.
ditures of this type.
In addition, the fact that graduate stu
dents can teach at a PhD. level while being
paid as student assistants largely precludes
student manufacture of equipment as a rem
edy to the acute financial problem.
Increased emphasis on this and other as
pects of graduate study would do a great
deal to attract favorable attention to A&M.
A good football team, and the luxuries of
the MSC may increase the enrollment, but
they must be regarded as “necessary, but not
sufficient.” An equivalent amount of grad
uate program financial support would great-
Daniel Russell
Agronomy Society Slates Barbecue
The Agronomy Society will hold “Parents are urged to come”
a barbecue at 5 p. m. Tuesday, Loupot emphasized, “and bring
7r oo ■ A A j» l their children.” He also said the™
May 22, m Area One of Hensel wou ] ( j jje no “dish washing,” be-
Park, honoring graduating sen- cause people have been hired to
iors of the society. perform that task.
—&k
. AS? '
Annual Presbyterian Church Picnic
Wednesday, May 16, at 5 p.m.
At Country Home of Mrs. and Mrs. C. I. Miller,
on Highway 6.
Presbyterians and Friends of
Presbyterian Church Welcome
BOATIJNC, BASEBALL, HOKSESHUES, WASHERS,
INDOOR HOCKEY AND FOOD.
W hat Role for Germany
if We Fight WW III?
By DON DOANE East Germany can contribute in
AP Staff Writer the years immediately ahead.
Manpower Advantage in West
Frankfurt—If war comes, Ger- In manpower, West Germany
, , ,. , « . , ,, , many is almost certain to be right also has a tremendous advantage
ly enhance the value of every student S goal in the middle of it. over East Germany—almost three
—the coveted sheepskin. What role would the Germans to one.
mi- j., ii • xi jv i n Play m such a war? Would they That’s why the Russians are so
Inis, after all, is the final measure of a fight? On whose side? concerned about the prospects of
College—professional recognition of its de- These are amon g the world’s the western allies recruiting West
biggest questions today. Much of Germany as a full military partner.
ST® 68, the east-west diplomatic maneuv
ering is an attempt to make sure
• 9 of the answers.
When you talk about “Germans”
nowadays, you have to divide
r 8 /l/f ' them. In one group are the 18,-
JL !Itiiiito iraOvV 000,000 East Gennans, living in
the one-third of Germany occupied prefer them to Russia and are op-
T HERE were lots of A&M people who help- ky Soviet Russia. timistic that they will join them
. . TT . , In the other group are the
. ed make our Open House weekend a sue- 47,000,000 West Germans, living
American and
steel a year. Power production has
been raised from the 1937 figure
of 1,819 million kilowatt hours a
year to 5,905 million.
In a Russian occupation, the
Soviets would also gain 7,000,000
slave laborers, the best railway
stock in Central Europe, and
small supplies of aluminum, cop
per, lignite and anthracite.
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The material and manpower re
serve of the two areas are easier
to assay than it is to determine
how the Germans themselves will
desire to wield these resources.
The western allies are con
vinced that most West Germans
cess, but there was one group which worked i?
French Zones.
overtime at the job.
While other exhibits
militarily.
Neutrality Movement Strong
But there’s a strong and appar-
and departments
Russians Act
ently growing movement among
West Germans—even those who
dislike Russia—which preaches
German neutrality.
, o West German leaders have warn-
them. They’ve already armed near- ed these people that no graphical
, ly 200,000 of them in “police form- position — in the middle between
Our Memorial Student Center did a big ations.” Of these, 50,000 are giv- east and west—can hope to re-
job selling A&M this past weekend. Besides allies have "A„ “"‘nltoager feeling than
maintaining a pleasant campus “living launched a campaign to enlist the this might weaken the loyalty of
room ” MSC Commitfppc: nrpnnrprl and die. West Germans as soldiers on their East Germans to the Russian
mum, 1USU committees prepared and dis- side> cause. Many East Germans are
, 1 . The Russians obviously are try-
locked their doors when the five 0 clock whis- ing to make sure that in case of
tie sounded Saturday afternoon, the MSC trouble, the East Germans fight for
17 7 TVtQiTNro ol^ooHir ovmorl noov
staff didn’t even notice it.
So far, this campaign has not , . ,
gone beyond the stage of prelimin- sands of Political prisoners taken
inary talks. If war broke out with- the Russian attest to this.
- - - - +Viq ^non-nle^s! Tvnl^Vo ,, whom
played some of the finest exhibits shown over
the weekend.
Everyone from the director to the dining ilTthc "next yeai-rthcre*wouldn’t be
ardent anti-Communists, The thou-
room personnel to the cooks kept on the job fi^ht^ German
to provide parents with as pleasant a visit as
possible.
We think our MSC staff deserves a
well earned thanks for a long, hard and
trying job—competently and courteously
done.
U11 u uc Even the “people’s police
soldier armed are losing the trust of
the Russians. They are deserting to
the west by hundreds yearly.
If the West Germans agree to There appears little doubt, how-
join the West European army, they ever, that in event of war soon,
might be able to whip 150,000 men Russia could get more military
into uniform by 1953. Many would help from its zone than the west-
be battle-tested veterans. ern allies could get from theirs.
Allies Turn Western Germany
Into Industrial Powerhouse
Rich Austria Is Prize
For Russia or West
By BRACK CURRY
AP Staff Writer
steel and chemicals, and prog
resses through the manufacture
of high grade machinery, preci
sion instruments and electrical
equipment — all kingpins of a
modern defense effort.
John J. McCloy says that the Ruhr
“can provide immense support to
the requirements of defense.”
I7RANKFURT—Disarmed West- Even with direct war industries
ern Germany is becoming an in- banned, the Germans can produce
dustrial powerhouse for the west- more industrial equipment and pro
em defense program. ducers’ goods for the common de-
Even while the Germans de- fense than any country in West-
bate direct military participation ern Europe except Britain, Me
in the Atlantic Pact, the vast Ruhr Cloy says. Eurone
is producing a growing torrent of In prewar Europe, a third of all ^ ‘
Bupplies for the Atlantic forces. industrial production came from Bctore me war me .Germans
This torrent is expected to Germany. Luckily for the west, ^m produced and used 40 per
swell during 1951 as the Allies the great bulk of prewar Ger- cen ^ P European steel. Even with
relax their bans and limits on many’s industrial capacity lies in ‘wartime bombing and postwar dis-
Western Germany’s war poten- Allied-occupied Western Germany, mantling, then - great steel works
tial industries. German industrial efficiency are grinding out 13,000,000 tons of
American High Commissioner begins with supplies of coal,
Industrial Help For Allies
Meanwhile, West Germany’s role
in the preparedness race will be
chiefly as a supplier of coal, steel Vienna—Vast dollar investments
and machinery for rearming Eu- in Austria since 1945 have made
rope. the country’s industry an impor-
This alone can be a mighty con- tant asset for either Russia or the
tribution. The big smoky Ruhr West in the event of war.
valley twice armed Germany so Austria cannot exist alone. But
well that it nearly conquered the geared to either economic sphere,
world. it can provide steel, iron ore, crude
Allied occupation laws still for- and refined oil and electric power
bid the Germans from making for large areas of Europe.
West German coal
amounts to about 25 per cent of
all the coal produced in Western
arms. But they can provide the
means for others to make arms.
Russia can expect no such ma
terial from poorer East Germany. o
A little coal, some food, and such Two great steel plants in the U
output manu f ac f ui ’ers as optical and elec- S. and British zones now can turn
I- r,f trical instruments are about all out almost 1,000,000 tons of crude
Since 1945, through either di
rect aid or the Marshall Plan
$750,000,000 have gone into re
building the country’s industries.
GIs in Korea Are Learning
‘Professional Approach'
WASHINGTON, May 15—(A>) —
The Battalion
Entered as second-class
Hatter at Post Office at
College Staton, Texas,
Bnder the Act of Con-
|ress of March 3, 1870.
Member of
The Associated Press
Represented nationally
by National Advertising source in Europe of many chemi-
Semce Inc., at New York ca i s ne eded by western defense
City, Chicago, Los An- , , „ J
geles, and San Francisco. PUUHS.
• Allied and German officials
CLAYTON L. SELPH, DAVE COSLETT Co-Editors are now planning the full mobili-
John Whitmore, Dean Reed Managing Editors za . t 'o 1 ’ ' l \ cs } German industrial
Andy Anderson, Bob Hughson Campus Editors mi Kbt behind the defense pro-
Fred Walker Sports Editor £ ram
steel a year.
The steel industry is exporting said today the Eighth Army in Ko-
180,000 tons of rolled products a rea has acquired the professional’s
month—most of it to the west—de- approach to killing Chinese Reds,
spite official protests that more Michaelis, former commander of
steel should be retained for the the hard hitting Wolf Hound Div-
home market. ision, illustrated his point:
Western _Germany is the major — ~ — '
Engineer Essayists
Will Get Awards
The three winners of the Sen
ior Engineers Essay Contest will
“The men now 1 will fight back
and forth against the enemy just
because headquarters has order
ed it.”
He said troops no longer are
blowing up every bridge and road
they pass as they draw back from
the enemy.
“They know they will be back up
the road in a few weeks so they
don’t blow everything up,” he ex
plained.
He said the Americans inflict
so many casualties on the enemy
than U. S. forces suffer, that
morale is high.
Michaelis said some Chinese sol-
Joel Austin .’.ZZ” City Editor As one sten U S economic aid be awai ' ded their P rizes tonight at diets that are definitely second
VNn'ar, -nr TTtj.-i .. ... ^Up, U. C>. economic am _ . ,, p; -I r, T rQlo have nnnpnrpH in TCnrpn
Vivian Castleberry Women’s Editor to Western Germany will be pump- 7:30 in the Civil En g ineerin g Lee- rate have appeared in Korea.
Today's Issue
Joel Austin - Managing Editor
Bob Hughson Campus News Editor
Ed Holder Sports News Editor
Allen Pengelly .City News Editor
ed into firms that are producing Room,
for defense in order to expand „ The c ° nte f’ SP 0 ?, 801 ^ c the
out/nut Brazos Chapter of the Texas Soc-
LFL ABNER
T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips..
Allen Pengelly
Editorialists
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 a n d wqiev’s
Autrey Frederick Advertising Manager ‘ *
Russell Hagens, Bob Haynie ^__.__Advertising Repr«antativea
Pick Kelly Club Publicity Coordinator Europe S defense.
output.
And the western allies proba
bly will lift controls on such war
potential industries as steel, ship
yards, synthetic oil and rubber.
Production of munitions still will Civil
be outlawed.
Of equal importance with the
strategic products which the
Germans are turning out is the
fact that west Germany is West
ern Europe’s one highly indus
trialized country whose capacity
is incompletely utilized, McCloy
points out.
Thus the outlook is that the
Ruhr, which stoked the Kaiser’s
war machines, will
become a strongpoint in Western
iety of Professional Engineers,
was held a few weeks ago and
winners have now been decided.
The speaker at the joint meet
ing will be Spencer Buchanan of
Engineer Depai’tment
who will talk on professional
standards for engineers.
The cash prizes are to be pre
sented by Dean Barlow and re
freshments will be served by the
T. S. P. E.
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