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Battalion Editorials
Page 2
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1951
Inflation Hits Arms Plan
INFLATION has raised living costs for ev-
* ery man, woman and child. Everybody is
opposed to inflation but few are willing to
cut back prices in those areas that affect
their own business.
Charles E. Wilson, defense mobilizer, re
cently pointed out what inflation is doing to
our rearmament program. It is not a pretty
picture.
“So, on a variety of fronts, the Govern
ment is moving to protect the country from
internal inflationary disaster. In recent
weeks, there have been some hopeful signs
that the rising tide of prices has been check
ed, but it would be folly if we relaxed for a
single instant the battle against this domes
tic enemy.
I have said that it is planned to spend
$50,000,000,000 a year for the next three
years for defense purposes. But if prices
continue to rise, this figure, enormous as it
is will not be enough.
Inflation is an enemy which wipes out our
tanks, our guns, our planes as ruthlessly as
any Chinese or North Korean Army wipes
them out. Already our casualties inflicted
by this dread enemy can be numbered in the
thousands of tanks, guns, and planes.
For every $10,000,000,000 appropriated
by Congress for rearmament, we have lost
$2,000,000,000 worth of weapons of de
fense through inflation of costs. That is a
casualty loss of 20 per cent.
Any commander in the field will tell you
that a 20 per cent loss of hiis equipment in
any engagement is dangerous. It will keep
him up many a sleepless night until he can
get that loss restored.
I can tell you that, as your defense mo
bilization commander, I have spent many a
sleepless night worrying over the high cas
ualty loss already exacted by that dread en
emy inflation.
In one way this domestic enemy is even
more effective than our foreign enemy. You
can be sure that our gallant and effective
soldiers in Korea don’t suffer a loss as high
as 20 per cent of their equipment in any en
gagement without putting out of action a
much larger amount of enemy equipment and
men.
But if we suffer a loss of 20 per cent in
equipment though inflation, we just suffer
that loss ourselves without inflicting any
corresponding loss—any loss at all—on the
enemy.
Suppose we let that kind of thing go un
checked. Very soon the defense 'program
would become too expensive for us to bear
or it would have inflated our whole system
and destroyed our economic strength.
In the final analysis, the battle against
inflation must be won by the attitude of the
individual citizen. He must decide whether
he is to do his part grudgingly or magnifi
cently. He must decide whether the nation
will be greatly patriotic or narrowly selfish.”
Bait Writer Overlooked
Evidence, States Bertrand
By JOHN R. BERTRAND
Dean, Basic Division
Last week The Battalion present
ed a series of three articles on the
operation and limitations of the
Basic Division program. While I -
feci that the program of the Basic better personnel
Gen. Weyland
Sold Candy
At Aggieland
Lt. Gen. O. P. Weyland, who has
been named to succeed Lt. Gen.
George E. Straterneyer as com
mander of the Far East Air Force,
earned a good part of his college
expenses at A&M by operating the
candy concession in the cadet dor
mitories.
The 48-ycar-old general, who
^till can strike a tune on a trum
pet or comet, was captain of the
Aggie Band in his senior year
while studying mechanical engin
eering. He gradu#ted in 1923. In
1948-49 he was councillor-at-large
of the Former Students Associa
tion.
Tall, slender and blond-haired,
Weyland, as a student was dubbed
with the nickname of “Cotton.”
Some of his friends called him
“Opie,” a tab which carried over
to his career as a soldier.
Charles C. Crawford, now head
of the Mechanical Engineering De
partment, remembers the famed
World War II commander of the
19th Tactical Air Command as an
outstanding student with military
bearing.
Weyland was bom in California,
but when he was 8 years old his
parents moved to Texas and he was
reared on the famous Taft ranch
near Corpus Christi. He still walks
with the stride of a cowboy.
The Weylands later moved to
Hempstead, where they lived while
“Opie” was attending A&M Col
lege.
After graduation from college
he went to work for Western Elec
tric Company with an ambition to
make “a lot of money,” but before
he accomplished this aim, he be
came interested in flying.
Commissioned a second lieuten
ant in the air corps, he became a
flying instructor at Kelly Field.
When he flew home from Kelly
Field to Hempstead, he sometimes
had to call on neighboring farm
ers to pust his plane out of the
mud before he could fly back to
his base.
From Kelly he went to Hawaii
for three years and from there
to the Army Tactical Air Com
mand School, then to the General
Staff School. Later he was sent to
the Washington National Guard
Bureau and then to Panama to
command the fighter groups pro
tecting that area during the early
days of World War II.
He was awarded/the Bronze
Star on recommendation of Gen
eral George Patton.
In 1946 A&M recognized the out
standing war record of one of its
graduates, presenting General
Short Courses Garden Club Tours
Mrs. Hugh M. Scott was former
ly Miss Mary Ruth Haley. The
couple was married Saturday in
the MSC Assembly Room. They
are now on a wedding trip to
Central and South Texas.
In Poultry
Set Monday
The Poultry Husbandry Depart
ment will spnosor the Poultry
Short Course, which will be held
here beginning at 8 a.m. Monday
and lasting through 5 p.m. on Fri
day, June 8.
E. D. Parnell of the Poultry Hus
bandry Department is in charge of
arrangements for the course.
Registration will be held from 8
until 10 a.m. on Monday in Room
301 of the Agriculture Building.
All meetings will be held in the
Poultry Husbandry class rooms of
the Agriculture Building.
An estimated 35 persons will at
tend the course.
Room accommodations may be
secured at the time of registration
for $1 per night per person. The
College will furnish all linens. Reg
istrants on June 2 may secure a
room by going to 100 Goodwin Hall
and signing for a key. Room key
deposit refunds will be made in
Room 301 Agriculture Building.
The A&M Garden Club made its
Spring pilgrimage to the Russell
Day Lily Farms in Spring on Sat
urday. Twenty - seven members
made the trip on a chartered bus.
They left College Station at 8:30
a.m. and returned that afternoon at
5.
Each lady carried a basket lunch.
The day lilies were in full bloom,
according to Mrs. Marion Pugh,
publicity director for the club.
Russell explained his farm as he
directed the ladies in tour. He
said that he has about 600 varia-
ties of lilies.
Mrs. George Potter planned the
tour. Members who made the trip
commended her for the careful
planning that made the trip a suc
cess.
“Our pilgrimage was both en
joyable and informative,” Mrs.
Pugh said.
Mrs. R. E. Snuggs, newly elec
ted president for the Garden Club
reminded members that all dues
must be paid by July 1 in order for
their names to appear in the year
book.
“Dues,” Mrs. Pugh said “have
gone up. They are three dollars ^
now.” All checks may be made
payable to Mrs. C. C. Doak, treas^
urer for the organization.
7^3
EVERY MONDAY
KORA
8:00 P.M.
AMERICAN LAUNDRY
& DRY CLEANERS
Seniors! Have you missed some
interesting courses you wanted to
take? Get them in Post Graduation
Studies.
Bible Verse
IT IS THE glory of God to conceal
a thing: but the honour of kings
is to search out a matter.
—Proverbs 25:2.
US THE
gestions, a total of 62 actual ones, cent felt that too much responsi-
were general points such as follow: bility was being given to them,
There were 33 suggestions that and five percent indicated that be-
there should be more personnel in cause of lack of time there was
the Basic Division. Seven wanted difficulty in participating in cam-
the program to be put over better, pus activities. Six replies, (8 per- g iauuai , CB> yicoeuuiug uciieicu
Five proposed the employment of cent of the total), indicated a sense Weyland with an honorary doctor’s
better personnel. Four suggested of feeling outside of the Corps as degree
Division has profited from the that the Basic Division be disband- the disadvantage. Seven percent —
analysis made by The Battalion, it ed. Four suggested improved ef- of the replies included one of the
seems very likely that on at least ficiency. Three suggested better following points: Affects disposi-
two points the writer of the last selection of and check on cadet of- tion (2 percent), too much pres-
two articles overlooked the objec- ficers. Two suggested that stu- sure (2 percent), and not enough
tive evidence obtained from the dents who were sure of their de- authority (1 percent),
cadet officers assigned to the gree objective should by-pass the The cadet officers were asked if
Eighth Regiment and from a cross- Basic Division. Two wanted to the dormitory counselors supported
section of 377 of our 1300 fresh- be kept more closely informed of them in their work with freshmen,
man students. In all fairness to changes affecting them. One want- Forty-eight of the 54 cadet officers
everyone, the following objective ed a stricter probation policy, and answering this question replied
opinions are presented for the in- one wanted an improved freshman that they had been fully supported,
formation of anyone who may be week. Four said that they had been par-
interested. Officers Liked Work tially supported. Only two felt that
Eighty-seven percent of the AU f tl • • d • they had not been supported in
freshman students either said that de ^ ffi c e Js in the Eighth Regiment Sm" by the dormitory C0Un '
the Basic Division pi-ogram had •, selois.
helped them a great deal (42 per- When the upperclassmen were
cent) or felt that the program ^ 01 k Basic Division students. as ked to indicate what appeared to
should be_ strengthened and ex- ^ be the least valuable part of the
panded (45 percentf ^Ohly^lS per- £ a cadet officer in the ^ VVS
L,t preferred to’em-oll'direhly we« m cated “T'"!? g gf”
into <1 daeree trr&ntinff school. i j i. • j 1^ man students, only 11 of them,
flagree granting senooi. leadership training received 16 per- mentioned an ^ po 4 at all. Six
No Complaints cent were on vocational experience; - -
Sixtv-nine nercent of the fresh- 12 P ercent suggested “knowing
i ime P eice , . 0 that you are helping someone ;
men had no complaints about the 7 y nt mention( f d p ro blem-solv-
work of the cadet officers assigned • £ : „ d c percent were
to the Eighth Regiment. Of all ^celfanSus suSestions
the freshmen who had complaints miscellaneous suggestions.
about the work of their cadet of
ficers, fewer than half of them
suggested better selection.
When the freshmen were asked
to make general suggestions for
the improvement of the Basic Divi-
of the 11 mentioned the freshman
orientation course; 2 mentioned a
too-lenient probation policy; one
mentioned the remedial reading
course; one mentioned campus quiz
zes given by cadet officers, and
one mentioned separation from the
Several of the cadet officers
mentioned on their schedules that rest of the Corps,
one advantage and compensation
they had had for tehir work this
year had been the commendations
and praise they had received dur-
A tennis ball has been timed
ct TOO M.P.H. ... a thrown
base ball at 98.6 M.P.H. and
the initial velocity of a drive
in golf at 170 M.P.H.*
*Golf balls are machln.e tested not to
exceed 250 ft. per second (U.S.G.A.
Rule).
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Suggestions Given
The cadet officers were asked for
suggestions about improving the
sion program, 43 percent of the ing the year from the Commandant Basic Division program. Thirty-
suggestions referred to the various
group guidance efforts, such as
Orientation and Remedial Read
ing. Thirty-one percent of the
suggestions related to individual
work. Most of these suggestions
on individual work added up to
recommending more personal coun
seling.
an dthe personnel assigned to his seven percent of the suggestions
office. were to have more cadet officers;
r.. , . T-i.j 19 percent felt that selected soph-
Disadvantages Listed omores should be in the freshman
When asked to give the disad- regiment; 7 percent were for more
vantages of being a cadet officer in individual conferences; 7 percent
the Eighth Regiment, 64 percent
of the replies referred in some
w r ay to the limited number of up-
Twenty-six percent 'of the sug- perclassmen assigned there; 16 per-
suggested that cadet officers be
picked on the basis of personality
and leadership; 5 percent of the
(See BATT WRITER, Page 4)
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