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Battalion Editorials FOOfroRTPRicfiON^ Page 2 TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1951 Fish Corps—New Attraction GGIELAND boasts an added attraction this Summer. For the first time in A&M’s 75 year history, a cadet corps will be in op eration for the purpose of training freshman cadets in the basic military science courses. A Belated Welcome To New Students pLAYING, as usual, second fiddle to the letters of the Registrar’s Office, we extend a belated but cordial welcome to the new comers and old-timers on the Campus for this first summer session. Those who have been here before have some idea of what College Station school days are like, but even they will find some new attractions. An altered class-schedule will find classes meeting slightly longer, but only during five days of the week. A varied program of entertainment, though, remains on a seven-day schedule and offers a fare that should suit everyone. The summer cadet crops will probably re call certain times past to some of the old- timers who remember the Aggieland of the early 40’s. That, however, is no sign of retro gression. The campus has, indeed, a host of mod ern attractions to boast. Leading the list is the Memorial Student Center which, even on a restricted summer schedule, promises to continue the job of serving as the “Living Room of the Campus.” The building has been in operation since last September. Continued improvement over the recent years have made the Grove the focal point for the Summer Entertainment program, so summer students will probably spend a good bit of time there, too. In the class-room and out there’s going to be plenty to do. We think you’ll find it a profitable and an enjoyable summer. Two hundred and thirty-four boys are on the campus today as part of that program, and they are finding a new life made up of military discipline and regulations which are not quite like the school life they have been used to. The campus will be a little hard for them to understand at first, and even more diffi cult to understand will be the ways of the cadet corps and the hundreds of traditions Aggies have known and loved for years. Interpreting The News Doubts Van Fleet’s Report But as an institutioin of higher learning, A&M is not unlike most other colleges. In addition to these many little things the freshman corps students must familiarize himself with, he must also get in the routine of college life and learn how to study and work as a college student. At A&M we try not to make military life an added hardship for the incoming fresh man, but he should understand that this is something he must become accustomed to, in addition to the transition from high school T'EXAS farm and ranch owners learning to college work. To help the incoming freshman at A&M, Farm and ranch real estate taxes there are many top counselors waiting to go over problems with him and to get him on his feet. There is no chance for a mistake if he exercises care and seeks counsel when in doubt. You made a wise choice by coming to A&M, freshman. We hope you are as proud to be an Aggie as A&M is to have you here. Farm, Ranch Men Pay More Taxes By J. M. Roberts, Jr. Associated Press News Analyst ^ ENERAL Van Fleet’s announce- ^ ment that the “pursuit phase” of allied operations in Korea was over now seems to have been mere ly a report that the enemy had quit running. The allies continue northward, but only in hard fighting. There is growing expectation that the allies will soon let Peiping know how, from the U. S. stand point the war can be stopped if the Communists wish it. Trygve Lie’s statement that a cease fire providing for peace and security would be sufficient was taken as a forerunner of what might be expected. First Objective The first objective of the U. N. was to repel aggression in Korea. The aggressors are now back be yond the line from which they star ted. A corollay objective was to re-establish peace by force after the communists had refused the U. N. plea that they do so volun tarily. That is today’s question as the 13 allies confer in Washington. A secondary object was to end the division of Korea which had existed since the war, and which was responsible for the trouble. Until the entry of Red China into the fighting, this was a military possibility. Now, unless the allies decide on the use of far greater force than seems politically feasible in view of the global situation, unification becomes a strictly political prob lem, and one not likely to be solved any time soon. No slightest sign comes from China or Russia that they are in terested in ending the present sit uation. The heavy Red casualties seem to mean little to them. Conviction that they can’t win, which has been a major allied mil itary objective, might not weigh half so heavily with them as the expenditure of allied strength which they are able to require. Russia might hope, through sud den formal entry into the Korean situation as a peacemaker, to cre ate an atmosphere which would weaken the West’s determination to rearm, but that hope would probably appear to the Kremlin as a very tenuous one at the present stage. The military situation which was expected to open the possibility of peace negotiations has been created. The political situation seems unimproved, and possibly even favors continued fighting from the communist standpoint. increased again in 1950 for the fourth straight year. Although the increase is not general over the entire state— ; some counties are actually showing a decrease—the average for the Increases also were not con sistent over the state some coun ties showing a much greater in crease than the state level, while others actually showed decreases. The major factor in the increase of farm and ranch taxes in 1950 has been the trend to improved school facilities, the school districts being largely responsible for the state was four percent higher for increases. State and county taxes Short Course Given For Poultrymen A poultry short course is now being held here to train agents who do flock selecting and pullo- rum testing for Texas hatcheries. Speakers at the short course are poultry specialists of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, authorities on poultry diseases of the A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and members of the staff of the Poultry Husbandry Depart ment. Certain ideas take on high values and become precious in our sight. For a time they seem to be of first importance to us. Then they lose their value and other ideas take their places. Friendships come and go in much the same way. —Tom Dreier. 1950 than 1949. But this is a mod- erate increase as compared to the 15 percent increase in 1949 over 1948. Total taxes levied by all units of government averaged 26.6 cents per acre in the stable years of 1936-46. The record high of 29 cents occurred 1931. • These figures were furnished by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology of A&M as compiled by L. P. Gabbard head of the department, and Robert G. Cherry, assistant professor. Tax Rate Variation The survey indicated a wide var iation in the tax rates ranging from a low of five cents in Trans-Pecos area to a high of $3.41 in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. generally have shown no appre ciable change. Special District Special district—water, drainage and navigation—are of minor im portance on a statewide basis, but are a major tax factor in some sections, the report says. Special district taxes increased slightly in 1950. The relative importance of tax es levied by the various types of governments has changed consid erably in recent years. Schools have increased their share of the total tax bill. County levies gen erally have declined. School dis tricts accounted for 50 per cent of the 1950 farm and ranch bill, Comunity-hy-Comunity Program Slated Food Price Curbs Promised WASHINGTON, June 5 —<A>)~ ''' Price Director Michael V. Di- Salle said today that within 30 days he plans to clamp price lids on 15 or 20 food items in a com munity - by - community program modelled after the wartime OPA. DiSalle gave no hint as to the items to be controlled. He outlined his program to the United Labor Policy Committee Which has been sharply critical of price controls, saying they have failed to check inflation. The government official said prices would have to vary by com munities across the country be cause products could be obtained cheaper in some areas than in others. Like OPA That was the way OPA con trolled prices during the war, in stead of having a nation-wide ceil ing. DiSalle said ceiling prices on placed under ceiling lists, but said pork is now selling below parity prices. Under the 1950 defense produc tion Act, farm products are ex empt from ceilings if they are sell ing below parity or below pre- Korean war levels. HCL Being Stabilized DiSalle said the cost of living is “pretty close to being stabilized right now.” Federal rent controls came in for sharp attack and defense in the battle over President Truman’s re quest for a two-year extension of government control powers gen erally. Calvin K. Snyder, speaking for the National Association of Real Estate Boards, told the Senate Banking Committee the govern ment should keep hands off rents. Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods said he is fighting for a stronger' rent control law because every American family is vitally affected. “Rent A Major Item” “Rent is a major item in the family budget,” Woods said. Unless Congress grants an ex tension the 1950 defense production act—the legal authority for the controls program—expires June 30. Mr. Truman has told the law makers that even stronger curbs are necessary to combat the thi’eat of inflation. Senator Says Acheson Will Remain in Office Until Fall coui$ies 29 percent, state 14 per cent, and other districts 7 per cent. Extension of Levies A major factor contributing to-, the growth of school taxes has : been the extension of levies to most land by the Gilmer-Aiken school laws. Less than 1 percent of the farms and ranches in the Department’s sample tax study showed no local school taxes in 1950; before revision of the school laws there were extensive areas which did not have a local tax. Despite this picture of mounting tax tolls, there are two bright fea tures to the present outlook. Farm ers and ranchers found the taxes easier to pay, because of higher farm crop prices. And there are indications that the upward spiral may be stopped, the experts pre dicted. Offsetting the increased tax bill was an increased per-acre income in 1950. At least this was time from the standpoint of prices re ceived from produce and livestock produced on the land. The price index (Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics, USD A) rose from 275 in 1949, to 306 in 1950, while the tax index rose somewhat proportionately less, from 284 to 296. As a result, the tax-price ratio declined from 1.03 to .97 slightly less than in the base year, 1913. food costs. He noted that food makes up at least 34 percent of the family budget in the federal cost- of-living index. DiSalle indicated veal would be a.pother of the meat items to be eign Relations Committees today (9 a.m., EST) to elaborate further on his theme that the administra tion policy of fighting a limited war in Korea null avoid the risks ^WASHINGTON, June 5 —(A 5 )— President Truman’s dismissal of _ _ ” An administration senator said Gen. Douglas MacArthur as Paci- beef will be listed in butcher shops today he expects Secretary of State fic commander, beginning June 18 as the first Acheson, currently under Repub- But he said he and some other move in his fight to hold down Beans’ fire in the MacArthur in- Democrats who also support Tru- quiry, to remain in the Truman man foreign policies believe Ache- of all-out war he said are inherent cabinet until sometime this fall, son is a political liability and must in MacArthur’s proposals. The Democratic senator, who be replaced before the next presi- « p > T - » didn’t want to be quoted by name, dential election. y supports the administration’s for- Acheson was recalled by the The Democratic senator who eign policies in the clash over Senate Armed Services and For- spoke of Acheson as a political lia- bility mentioned specifically the secretary’s much-quoted assertion that he would not turn his back on Alger Hiss. Senator K n o w 1 a n d (R-Calif) . brought into the MacArthur in- Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder or Aggie Traditions quiry yesterday the name of Hiss, "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" fo ™ er State Department official ’ 1 * •' jailed after his conviction on a Represented nationally by National Ad- charge of lying when he said he vertieing Service Inc., at New York City. P a . ss secret documents to Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, a Communist CQUner, T Knpwland asked if Acheson, then The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published assistant secretary of state, had five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published anything to do with assigning Hiss four-times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are to the Yalta Conference in 1944. 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Acheson evidently changed no senators’ minds by his opposition to this program as one which would give Russia a legal excuse to intervene or by his long defense of postwar administration foreign policies in China. He attributed Communist seiz ure of China to an over-extension of military forces on the part of Chiang Kai Shek, plus Chiing’s failure to institute reforms, in his government. LI’L ABNER Shapes That Pass In the Night By Al Capp -ALL I WAK1T IS SOMETHING STURDY AND WELL BUILT '??- BELHOLD/r- THERE'S ONE/T The: vepcv answer to a YOUNG YAK-HERDER'S DREAMS/:''