Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1951)
Pag€ St. Re Su pi gage were the ( St truni belon so ac they Ca 9, an ings 5 am 2, 4, store the ( Do used ings milit the La Root ing ■ 3-5 ; and Ot 2-5 ; June A1 tend but item Rooi p. r KTT.4 Mr Offici U.S.I toins 4 pr< 5n tl Eoow gradi Grad Ed degrc clogs trl o local Mas r Scieii the 1 Vltd Battalion Editorials Not So Says Security Head Would Bombs Bring Stalin? VSI BUI ir»c Ject »n >F1 ien Jay $12 ST< I c LU n d 19i BC 22: tr THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1951 Thefts from Cars Russian Riddle Basis Censorship Fs. Ethics . . . Called CrimeRise [ n MaC-Truman Fight A TEXAS newspaper editor is hurling char- ges of censorship at the commanding gen eral of the Eighth Air Force. The editor, Walter Humphries of the F'ort Worth Press, says that a recent “lock-out” of his reporters from Carswell Air Force Base in Ft. Worth constituted an attempt to censor civilian news. The lock-out, said Carswell officials, fol lowed acts by Press reporters that constitut- • Economy Yes, But Not Inadequacy rpHERE is one significant point in General Mac Arthur’s testimony that certainly cannot be repeated often enough. Of all men in the world qualified to make such a state ment, MacArthur heads the list. On two occasions he has faced a fanatical enemy with meager, unprepared, and ill- equipped forces. Both attacks, in his opinion would not have occurred had we maintained strong forces on a “ready to go” basis. Economy is wonderful, but the concept of appropriating money for iveapons only after the enemy is on our doorsteps must go. Even now we hear rumors from Korea of obsolete aircraft without even obsolete replacements, bombs that won’t explode, units perpetually understrength, clothing shortages, and inadequate weapons. Those who die as a result of these marks of unpreparedness will be highly praised in the resulting citations, but those who survive will question the right of our country to de mand that any man fight under such condi tions. An even greater debacle is shaping up in Europe, and the only way to prevent it is to get behind a concerted, all-out, rearmament program. Anything less will mean needless repeated sacrifice of our youth on the altar of stupidity. You loould, no doubt, be surprised to know ivhat some of your friends say behind your back. ed “invasions of privacy” and “bad taste” in reporting interviews with survivors of offi cers and airmen killed in a recent 'B-36 crash. The ban was lifted Tuesday after Eighth Air Force commander, Maj. Gen Samuel E. Anderson, announced that in the future per sonal relations officers would be assigned to families of crash victims. These officers would act as liaison between the family and the press. Humphries contends that Anderson is trying to control “news and events completely outside his jurisdiction.” Anderson’s answer is that families of airmen and officers con stituted a part of the Air Force “family” and as such deserve protection by the Air Force. Department of Defense officials in Wash ington have given approval to the assignment of personal relations officers to families of flier-victims. As we see the question, some blame lies with both sides. That blame, however, is of vastly different proportions. The Air Force commander is to blame for a fault in public relations. Carswell officials failed to notify Press reporters or editors of the information boycott. They merely pro hibited reporters from entering the base. Anderson admitted this mistake and apologized for it, saying that he should have given cause for the boycott as well as notifi cation. The Press’ mistake, however, falls in the category of ethics. Though we can’t definite ly say that the Press stories in themselves were in bad taste, we think we are reasonable in assuming that they at least fringed on that fault. The chain to which that newspap er belongs is notorious for such practices. Furthermore, we fail to see that inter views, at least extensive ones, with families of crash victims are legitimate news items. The bulk of necessary facts on those victims could be furnished by official records Ex tensive descriptions of grief of victims only adds to that grief and proves detrimental to morale of other members of a base. We don’t advocate censorship in the least. But we would like to see some means of en forcing a code of ethics within a profession where such ethics are extremely essential. By DAVE COSLETT Battalion Co-Editor H AVE we a “crime-wave” at A&M ? Some residents of Vets Village seem to think so. A spokesman from that area complained to The Battalion the other day that numerous cases of theft from automobiles had been reported within the past week or so. All the cars were parked in the parking lot behind “Anchor Hall.” Specifieally, this married veteran listed a (theft last Friday night of seat covers and a jbumper guard from one car, a theft earlier in The week of a spare tire from the back end (of a pick-up truck and what he termed “nu- jmerous” cases of gasoline stealing. Checking with the office of the Campus Security, we found that all these cases had been reported to them. “Well,” we asked, “does it seem that there is a current upsurge in stealing, especially in (that area.” Fred Hickman, head of the Cam pus Security, answered in the negative. Coslett qualifying his answer, the KK head ex plained something about our use of the word “serious” in talking of the reported theft. The report of any theft, he said, is serious. He went on to say, however, that the cases of which we spoke were, taken together, not what he would consider a serious outbreak of stealing. Thefts in about the same proportion, he explained, were being reported from other parking areas around the campus. The complaintant from Vet Village had suggested that lack of lighting made the parking area behind Anchor Hall particularly sus ceptible to theft. Hickman answered that by saying that lighting there was not appreciably different or* worse than lighting in other areas. Lighting Costs Prohibitive Further checking on the matter of possibly improved lighting discloses that there is a good possibility that the Vet Village area, always temporary, may be abandoned if married student enrollment drops at the expected rate next year. It has always been College policy, therefore to spend a minimum on improvements in that area. Previous attempts to install lighting throughout that area have been stopped by prohibitive cost. An entire new set of transformers and new poles and lines would be needed for such work. Housing authorities report that the transformers are unavailable, even if they were not beyond the reach of the present budget. And poles and lines would prove especially expensive. Today's Morals Are Higher? UN Embargo Brings Back League of Nation’s Bust By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. AP Foreign Affairs Analyst jpOR THE second time in sixteen years the nations which com pose the world’s peace-loving com munity are about to try an embar go to curb aggression. Its effectiveness will depend heavily on something which hardly existed the first time—-the sincer ity of the individual members of the embargoing group. People everywhere got excited in 1935 when the League of Na tions voted sanctions against Italy after Mussolini’s troops invaded Ethiopia. The British government, which had gotten on the bandwagon only after some serious dillydallying, found itself so popular that it called a general election immedi ately to extend a term of office which was about to expire. The league started out with a bang to enforce a virtual block ade against Italy. Arms were em- 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. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday 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. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Staton, Texas, under 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. 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 John Whitmore Managing Editor Joel Austin City News Editor Fred Walker..... Sports News Editor T. M. Fontaine, Carter Phillips —Editorialists Allan 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-uh Dick Kelly Club Publicity Co-ordinator Joe Gray.. —Photo Engraving Shop Manager Tom Fontaine, Johnny Lancaster, Charles McCullough, R. R. Peeples, R. D. Witter a: Photo Engravers Autrey Frederick . ......... r Advertising Manager Russell Hagens, Bob Haynie — —.Advertising Representatives bargoed, along with certain fin ancial transactions and purchases from Italy. But oil, coal, iron and steel were never embargoed. It developed that France’s in famous Pierre Laval had made a secret agreement with Britain’s Sir Samuel Hoare, before any Sanc tons were adopted, that they would not take steps leading to military sanctions, naval blockade or closure of the Suez Canal to Mussolini’s shipments. They also agreed on partial dis memberment of Ethiopia to ap pease Italy. Sir Samuel lost his cabinet job when the public found out. U. S. Tried to Cooperate The United States government tried to cooperate with league aims. Having no embargo powers, it obtained a voluntary agreement with the major oil companies not to supply Mussolini. When Washington was unable to assure Britain, however, that it could control some of the small in dependent companies, London de clined to include oil in the first sanctions. And later it still resisted as Mussolini’s military successes made it appear an oil embargo might lead to military sanctions. Amer icans and Europeans continued a large part of their business with Mussolini throughout ■ the “inci dent.” No Undercover Tactics As the United Nations tries to do something about war shipments to Red China, whose troops are fighting men from some of the seller countries themselves, there is no appearance of such under cover tactics as scuttled the League of Nations effort. Some of the member countries, such as Indonesia and India, how ever, have indicated openly that they will not go along. The British ban on rubber sales already is be ing evaded. And more evasions are likely amid the intrigues of the Far East. But despite all the shifting and evasion by United Nations diplo mats these days, morals do seem to be somewhat higher than in 1935. Back to the original question of the “crime wave,” however, Hick man continued his explanation of thefts in College Station by saying that, comparatively speaking, all types of thefts in this area are kept to a minimum. The reason for this, he says, is that the small area and the propor tionate number of patrolmen in that area is far above that nor mally found in communities of Texas. Would-be thieves, there fore, have a harder time at their tasks. Concentrated Living In answer to the suggestion that the moral level of residents of this area would tend to keep thefts at a low level he explained that such a level is offset by the fact that conditions, especially in the dorm areas, offset any such ad vantage. Students are concentrated in dormitories much as persons in large areas are concentrated in hotels. The students, however, sel dom bother to lock their rooms either at night or during hours of the day when they are gone from the rooms. He used that condition to explain a recent series pf bill-fold thefts in dormitories. Not Filed and Forgotten As for the work being done by the KK’s in tracking down stolen goods and finding the thieves, Hickman showed examples of work in that line. His examples offset complaints that reported thefts were filed and forgotten. Quite to the contrary, many goods are traced and many of the culprits eventually apprehended through careful detective work. Apparently, then, the purported “crime wave” does not exist. That is no claim that petty thefts ate not being committed. It’s merely a boast, and we believe a rightful one, that such deeds are being held to a minimum. Security forces of any kind, however, can not be present all the time. Each student and each resi dent of the area will have to exer cise a reasonable amount of cau tion himself. Students, especially in areas where conditions are more conductive to petty crimes, might well develop the practice of using their keys more consistantly. And car-owners, too, would be well ad vised to lock their cars. Such practice does not necessam ily constitute distrust for fellow students or neighbors. Past records show that many thefts have been committed by transients. The pracq tice, instead, is one of good, com mon sense. It may pay to use it. By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, May 17—<£’)— ’’ The riddle of Russia is the No. 1 problem in the Truman-MacAr- thur argument over how to wage the Korean war. Would Russia come in if we wid ened the fighting in Asia by bomb ing Chinese bases in Manchuria? If she did, both sides agree a new world war might follow. General MacArthur has urged bombing the Manchuria bases as one of several steps he thinks should be taken to end the Korean war faster. Secretary of Defense Marshall, also a general and a spokesman for the Truman administration, op poses the Manchurian bombing—at least now. So does Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Neither Side Knows Does either side know whether the bombing would bring in Rus sia? No. Both can only guess. MacArthur guesses no. Marshall guesses maybe. It’s right there the biggest split comes. MacArthur would bomb and take what he thinks is the un likely risk of a third world war. Marshall thinks the risk is greater, and wouldn’t bomb. It was MacArthur himself who used the word risk. During his tes timony before Senate committees, MacArthur said: “Everything that is involved in international rela tionships . . . amounts to a gam ble, risk. You have to take risks.” General Marshall made it clear the bases in Manchuria would be bombed if it weren’t for fear that it might bring Russia in on the side of the Chinese. Danger Only Deterrent Marshall told the senators: “If . . . there were no danger whatever of Soviet intervention, I would say that certainly the bombing . . . would start almost immediately.” MacArthur argues that when you’re in a fight, you ought to use all the strength you have to win and that when we don’t bomb Man churia we are fighting with one hand tied behind our backs. President Truman, though, point ed out to MacArthur, in a message to him on Jan. 13, that trying to win a fight is right but some times other problems, besides win ning that one fight, must be con sidered. The message from the President said in part: “Pending the buildup of our national strength we must act with great prudance in so far as extending the area of hostilities is concerned. “Steps which might in them selves be justified and which might lend some assistance to the cam paign in Korea would not be bene ficial if they thereby involved Ja pan or western Europe in large- scale hostilities. . . “In reaching a final decision about Korea, I shall have to give constant thought to the mam threat from the Soviet Union and to the need for rapid expansion of our armed forces to meet this great danger.” Pacific War More Dangerous But MacArthur told the sena tors: “I think the greatest risk we could run is not ending the war in the Pacific. I think that is in finitely greater in its potential de structiveness to western Europe than if we let it run indefinitely...” Marshall and Bradley don’t agree that MacArthur’s ideas for ending the Korean fighting fast would work. Why does MacArthur doubt that Russia would be pulled into a world war if we bombed Manchuria? (Russia has an agreement to come to China's assistance if she’s attacked. So far no attack has been made on Chinese territory but only on the Chinese in Korea.) MacArthur was asked that ques tion by senators. Mac’s Reply MacArthur gave this reply, sharply briefed down here: He doesn’t think Russia will be pulled into a war by anything that happens in Korea or Asia unless the Soviets are ready to go to war anyway and want to. He said he doesn’t think Russia could wage “all-out” war in Asia very long. Besides bombing Manchuria, MacArthur urged these steps against the Chinese Communists: Three Steps • An economic blockade to keep the Chinese Communists from re ceiving supplies and materials they need. (This country has had such a blockade of its own. But some of our allies have been sending stuff to China all through this fighting. Now they’re talking of stopping that. So MacArthur’s suggestion probably had some effect.) • Throw a naval blockade ’ around China’s coast to be sure supplies don’t get through. (Marshall said such a blockade would “leak like a sieve,” since it • would involve trying to halt Rus sian vessels. That in itself might lead to war. • Arming, training and using- Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalists troops on Formosa against the Chinese Communists. He says Chiang has about 500,000 men that<&» could be used. Bradley said the Nationalists “had very limited capabilities, par ticularly on offensive action.” WM Students Plan Tour of Mexico Wildlife Management 300, a sum mer field course, will be partially devoted to the banding of some 20,000 White Winged Doves, says Dr. Leonard Wing, professor of Wildlife Management. Twenty Wildlife Management students are scheduled to make a trip which will carry them into the Northeastern section of Mexico in the vicinity of Tamaulipos and Neuvo Leon counties. The first three weeks of the course will consist of the banding work and the last three will be a study of the flora of Northeastern Mexico. firs msrfgrsJ the New Parker "51” • Here’s the most beautifulandprac/ica/ gift you could give your grad. The New “51” has 14 precision advances. It fills a new way that’s easy and sure—holds more ink—and guards against leaking at any flight level. Give years of writing pleasure ... with a New “51”. Choice, colors, sizes. Pent $13.50 and up Sett $19.75 and up THE Exchange Store “Serving Texas Aggies” Stephens Elected To Head SA Club Ted Stephens, junior Mechanical Engineering major from San An tonio was recently elected to the top post of the San Antonio Club for the coming year. Elected along with Stephens were Jerry Alberts, vice-president; Joe Mattie, secretary; Bobby Dob bins, treasurer; Roger Jenswold, sergeant-at-arms and David Wolf, reporter. As his first official act as pres ident, Stephens has asked that all members attend the next meet ing, Thursday night, to discuss plans for a summer social and a boat party. Bible Verse F ET THE wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. —Isaiah 55:7. J. Paul Slieedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test SK£EDY had a bone to pick because gals treated him like a dog. “Wire they giving me the cold nose?” he howled. “Terrier self away from your books,” advised his paw, “and get your self some Wildroot Cream-Oil. It’s non-alcoholic, and contains soothing Lanolin. Grooms hair neatly and naturally. Removes loose, ugly dandruff. Helps you pass the finger-nail test.” Now Sheedy’s a real dog catcher: he collars a new gal every day! Doggone it, you better get Wildroot Cream-Oil at your nearest drug or toilet goods counter, quick! And ask your barber for professional applications. Remember: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of curs!” * o/327 Burroughs Dr., Snyder, N. Y. Wildroot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. You Can’t Take It With You ... So Why Not Sell It ? ! A classified ad in The Battalion will reach the people who’ll buy your furniture, your house trail er, or those articles of clothing that you no longer need. Going away for the summer? Find a tenant for your house through ine Lattahon classifieds. Satisfied users of the Batt’s classifieds will tell } ou that results are immediate and ample. Or if you will have a room ready for occupancy tins summer, advertise it in monPvnS 1011 and sa ve yourself time, Sftn 2 r rry : n cos . ts onI y a few Donulatimf 6 f r M 0U(dl wddl the entire population of College Station. Call MISS CLASSIFIED at 4-5324 The Battalion LI’L ABNER The Unknowing Soldier By A1 CapP