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Battalion Editorials
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THURSDAY, MAY 31,1951
On Basis of Combat Troops
Math Frizes Given
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Christianity-Economics...
American, Red Military
Organizations Compared
TWO recognized economists, writing for the
American Economic Foundation, recently
circulated a very enlightening editorial asso
ciating Christianity and economics. F-. G.
Clark and R. S. Rimanoczy point out in clear
ly understandable terms how America’s great
strength, so important to world peace, is a
result of its having been founded on Christ
ian principles. It’s well worth a few minutes
of any good American’s reading time.
What Has Christianity to Do
With Economics?
It is no accident that the Christian areas
of the world are more prosperous than the
areas with other faiths or no faiths at all.
The physical reasons for this prosperity,
that is, the factories, machinery, farms,
homes, automobiles, television sets, etc., do
not, on the surface, have any connection with
Christianity, but there is an unmistakable
connecting link.
To find this link we must start at the be
ginning of Christian ideas and behavior.
The idea that man could be free from ar
bitrary power of the State dropped upon the
world with the force of an intellectual bomb.
The consternation was so great that
Christ came a marked man, an agitator
against statism, and made it “necessary” for
the powers that werp to trump up charges
against Him that involved the death penalty
of the law.
One of Christ’s teachings is that man is
responsible, only to God, the Father, through
his own God-given conscience.
This left Total Government out in the
cold; in fact, it called for a revolution that
would reverse the order of things and make
the people the masters of the State instead
of its servants.
So, the first nonspiritual result of Christ
ianity was political, not economic.
Christians found themselves transformed
from mice into men by the tremendous surge
of belief in their own worth and personal
power as Sons of God.
Death took on a new meaning—it was a
beginning instead of an end—and men gladly
placed their lives in the balance and defied
the power of man-made laws that transgress
ed Divine Law.
The politicians began to do the only thing
they could do (and always have done): they
began to shape government according to the
determined wishes of the people.
The great political reforms that followed
introduced more and more Divine Law into
the legal codes.
The Magna Carta in England and the
Constitution of the United States are the two
examples with which most of us are familiar.
These reforms dealt primarily with the
rights of man and some of these rights were
of economic significance.
The right that has most to do with the
amazing economic growth of so many com
paratively young Christian nations is the
right to own and use private property with
out governmental interference, other than
the interference (taxes, etc.) which is agreed
upon by the people as being proper.
It must not be considered that private
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The average citizen will become in-
tensely loyal if it means a fifty per
cent increase in income.
property is entirely an economic matter.
Private property is one of the physical
expressions of spiritual freedom because it
is one of the flowerings of the essential dig
nity of the individual ascribed to him by God.
The fact that every man’s home should
be his castle, free from state intrusions,
stems from the Christian insistence upon the
sacredness of the individual.
The human dignity set forth by Christ
could not exist without a private property
system.
So we find that economic and spiritual
freedom are extricably a part of each other;
like Siamese twins, they live or die together.
Property rights and human rights are,
therefore, inseparable.
Why do property rights energize a na
tion?
Because thrift and industriousness be
come worthwhile, because the fruits of man’s
labor become his own to have and to hold for
the economic welfare of himself, his family,
and for those less fortunate people whom his
Christian conscience induces him to help.
The temporary self denial that must pre
cede the ownership of property is gladly suf
fered because the law makes the property
secure.
There are two kinds of private property:
that which is used for comfort (houses, fur
niture, etc.) and that which is used to pro
duce goods and services.
All ctf the latter can accurately be called
ptools of production: the land, the buildings,
the machinery, the trucks, tractors, farm im
plements, everything used by man to produce
and exchange goods and services.
It is these tools (of which America has
about one-half the world’s stock) that make
the difference between poverty and prosper
ity : it is the use of mechanical power instead
of muscular power that makes the difference
between deadening drudgery and a happy
existence.
America’s tools of production, therefore,
are the economic expression of a Christian
principle.
But we have more than that: we also have
a Christian concept of business ethics.
We have a Christian concept of using
these tools and exchanging their production.
The idea of fair competition is a Christ
ian idea.
The idea of fair wages is a Christian idea.
The idea of honest advertising and selling
is a Christian idea.
The idea of the free market—the market
in which the seller is free to offer things of
his choice and in which the buyer is free to
exercise his personal preference—is also a
Christian idea.
In most non-Christian parts of the world
only a fool would refuse to cheat an ignorant
customer or refuse to take advantage of a
stupid seller.
We see, therefore, that the “Christian
decency” with which we use the fruits of
private property is just as essential as the
property itself.
Although our greater material welfare is
only a by-product rather than a main purpose
of Christianity, it is an important one.
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Apropos the presidential campaign,
hoiv many speeches have you read—
in full?
Washington—WP) — How do the
Russians get 175 divisions out of
2,500,000 army men while the U.S.
gets only 18 divisions from
1,300,000?
Does the U.S. waste most of its
manpower in armchair jobs and
non-combat frills while the Rus
sians have most of their men shoul
dering rifles?
A breakdown of how the two na
tions organize and use their army
forces shows that the U.S. gets
almost as many combat troops out
of a given number of men as the
Russians.
A General’s Testimony
Brig. Gen. D.A.D. Ogden, chief
of the Army’s organization and
training division, acknowledged in
testimony to a Congressional com-
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mittee that the Russians get along
with somewhat fewer non-combat
troops than the U.S. does. But
he said that’s because the Rus
sians don’t take the same care of
the lives of their .soldier's.
Ogden told the committee that:
1. Russion soldiers do not spend
such a large proportion of their
time in training as U.S. troops.
They serve longer in the army, and
very little training is given them
before they join combat units.
2. Russian soldiers don’t get
much medical attention. A large
proportion of the sick and wound
ed is allowed to die.
3. The Russians are closer to
their fighting fronts than the U.S.
Thus they need fewer men along
their lines of communication.
4. The Russians use civilians or
part-time soldiers to man much of
their anti-aircraft artillery and
make extensive use of forced civ
ilian labor in jobs done by military
personnel in the U.S.
Red Division Is Smaller
What makes the biggest differ
ence in the number of divisions,
however, is the fact that the Rus-
(See DIVISIONS, Page 3)
Prizes for the winners in the
mathematics contests were award
ed six men last week in the As
sembly Room of the MSC.
Awards went to three sopho
mores and three freshmen who
scored highest on competitive ex
aminations.
Bible Verse
THE FEAR of the Lord is the be
ginning of wisdom, and the
knowledge of the holy is under
standing. —Proverbs 9:10.
J. L. Casey was awarded first
prize in the sophomore class. The
award, known as the Hillel Hal-
perin Memorial Award, is in honor
of late Hillel Halperin who was
for many years a member of the
Mathematics Department.
The other prizes were in honor
of Prof. Robert F. Smith, who was
a member of the Mathematics De
partment from 1883 to 1931.
Winners were W. D. Kruger, 2nd.
Soph; H. L. Simon, 3rd. Soph; J. B.
McAlister, 1st. Fresh; R. W. Hil-
land, 2nd. Fresh; and B. H. Ander
son, 3rd. Fresh.
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'Let’s Have A Cup’
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By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY
Women’s News Editor
“Let’s have a cup,” is the Ag
gie way of inviting friends for a
cup of coffee.
At the present time Texas Ag
gies and their friends are consum
ing somewhere around 4,000 cups
of coffee daily in the MSC alone.
This does not take in all the
black liquid they drink in the
dorms, at their homes and at other
business places.
“The cup” has come to mean an
invitation to gracious relaxation,
the ice-breaker to business deals
and the relaxation method after
the big quiz.
It is not so far-fetched, then,
that food experts have offered
“the cup” in a new light—as a
before-dinner method of entertain
ing guests.
This idea has been popular in
continental Europe for several cen
turies, but only recently has been
borrowed by American homemak
ers.
The continental name for it is
Petit Cafe—but most Texas Aggies
will call it simply coffee and can
apes, or to be even more informal
“a cup and little sandwiches.”
Whatever it’s called, it is a
gracious idea for hostesses. It
makes of that period just after
guests arrive and before dinner is
served one to break the ice and
start everyone out feeling like
mutual friends.
The nicest thing of all for host
esses is that the entire tray can be
prepared ahead of time.
This is the occasion on which
to. bring out the demitasse cups—
many of the people we know make
collections of these—or the pret
tiest daintiest china. The coffee
can be made ahead of time and
the sugar and cream made ready
(yes, cream is “permissable” with
before-dinner coffee). A tray of
tiny sandwiches, or a relish tray
as shown are good accompaniments
to the coffee.
The tray shown consists of ripe
olives, stuffed green olives, car
rot curls and tiny sweet gerhkins.
Celery stuffed with Roquefort
cream spread completes the tray
—and it’s over almost as quickly
as it takes a person to open a few
jars.
Any good recipe book will have
a section of canapes that are
adaptable to this before-dinner hos
pitality.
One suggestion: mash % lb. blue
cheese, add a 3-oz. package cream
cheese and 2 tablespoons French
dressing; whip, until smooth and
creamy. Add a tablespoon of finely-
cut chives and spread on pumper-
nickle bread cut into “finger” sli
ces.
Another: mix a lai’ge package of
cream cheese with milk to make it
smooth and creamy. Season with
% teaspoon onion juice and serve
on potato chips (the cheese spread
and chips are provided; each guest
spreads his own; crisper this way.).
There are a hundred other ideas
that can be borrowed from friends,
used from the cookbook or gath
ered from restaurants.
Whatever the occasion, if it’s
to be dinner in your home, try out
the “cup and canape” idea as a
grand starter to a good evening of
entertainment.
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