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I Admire the Human Race:
‘Everybody Is Busy Running Us Down
For the Mess They Say We Have Made ’
By Roger William Riis
J ADMIRE the human race.
I do indeed.
Everybody is busy running us down,
these days, for the mess they say we have
made here and there and everywhere.
Pshaw! That’s short-range stuff, a worm’s-
eye view of our world. Over the marching
and abundant centuries, we haven’t made any
mess. Far from it!
We have done and are doing a better job
than anyone has any right to expect. We’re
all right!
From the beginning, we found ourselves
alone in a vast universe, and not only alone
but the only living thing on this planet
which could realize its loneliness.
We realized it, gave it a good close look,
and then turned our attention to making
something practical and useful out of an un
precedented situation.
First of all, we found for ourselves a
Light, a God, and we got a sense of direction,
a goal to work toward. This was pretty clev
er of us, if you think of it carefully.
We proceeded to set up standards for
our livipg together. Early in our experience
we made the revolutionary discovery that
gentleness and kindliness were more prac
tical than brute strength. No other species
has ever found that out and used it as a
model and practical code of conduct.
We have in actual fact no one we need
answer to, beyond ourselves, and yet we ob
serve our ideal standards in remarkable de
gree. We are honest and trustworthy one
with another so that it is the exception, it
is news, when we commit a theft. We are
decent 99 per cent of the time, when we
could easily, be vile.
With silence and mystery behind us and
ahead of us, we make up gay little songs
and whistle them, and our feet keep jig time
to them. We look life and fate in the eye,
and smile. I like that, and I admire the peo
ple) who do it.
Alone among all living things, we have
discovered Beauty, and we cherish it, and
create it for eye and ear. Alone among living
things, we have the power to look at our en
vironment and criticize it and improve it.
Finding it necessary to live together by
the millions, we created for ourselves gov
erning systems covering vast geographical
spaces. Now we actually have the thrilling
and terrific idea of a world government, a
global government to bring justice to white
and black, to Eskimo and Afrikander, rich
and poor, not because any tribe is powerful
and can exact justice, but because we have
conceived and created the ideal of justice
and plan if for all men. This is great. This
is not the act of a little animal, or a mean
'animal. This is possible only to a great ani
mal. We think in global terms. We inhabit a
star, and we know it.
Finding that we have to work to stay
alive, we work with ability beyond imagining.
Out of the earth we take food, and im
prove that food year by year; we take heat,
and light, so that darkness which lay upon
the face of the earth is dispelled by man
made light. We enjoy all the myriad pro
ducts of our unparalleled ingenuity.
Every morning the necessity for the day’s
work faces us. And we go and do a day’s
work, with an overall average effectiveness
and perseverance that is amazing, consider
ing many of the jobs.
Of a persistence, a daring and ingenuity
Double Censorship
Of Korean News
Will End June 15
HTOKYO, June 6 —CT 1 )— Double Tokyo offices of the correspon-
censonship of war news from dents. 1
irrmossihle to surnass wp find wavs to move Korea wiU end June 15 > the Far „ The I tor ^ s w ? . be telephoned in
impobSiDie XO surpass, W6 unci ways to move g as j. Command announced yester- the order in which^ they are sub-
easily under the water and through the air. day. mitted for censorship.
Now we sneculativelv eve our neiffhhorinff Beginning then, all censorship Stories to receive telephone
1NOW we speculatively eye our neigncoring will be } ian( ji e( j by General Head- handling will include the daily
planets. It should astound no one if man one quarters censors from an office at Eighth Army briefings for corres-,
day begins to move among these planets. ^Eighth A^mfS^ve up^ts P °Censm : s will do the phoning, one
How shall I not admire such a creature? censorship powers. high officer said, to prevent leaks
Daunted by nothing, his horizons constantly res^ond^n'KoTa wiirnotT; 1?1 A 6 correspondent" may ask that-
recede, the territories of his possession and allowed to telephone stories to any specific story be telephoned
cvnnnrl nnrl ovnanrl Tokyo as they have in the past. rather than teletyped, a GHQ cen-
use expana ana expana. The bulk of war stories will be sor said .
Whenever he comes to an impassable moved by teletype from Eighth
obstacle, an apparently final barrier, he goes fSpSeKtoies 0 “cerS
to work at it and, in due time, surpasses it. J ’ " ' 1 " 1 " "
Teletype Machines Used
If he has limits, I do not see where they
are. I do not think he has limits. I think he
is a child of the universe who inherits" eter
nity. I think he is wonderful, I am his de
voted partisan, and I am proud indeed to be
one of him.
—Copyright 1951 by Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.
Battalion Editorials
Page 2
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1951
THE MANAGER AND THE USHER
Two teletype machines will be
the immediate tactical situation used for transmitting secondary
or releases covering unusual stories. There was some question as
events” will be telephoned by the to how well they will be able to
GHK censorship office at 8th Army handle “peak loads.”
to news agencies or newspaper Eight operators will man the
representatives in Tokyo. teletypes over a 24-hour-a-day
Telephone Stories "'stories from which nothing is
Two of the GHQ Censorship per- deleted will be telephoned or tele-
sonnel at Eighth Army Headquar- graphed immediately. When dele
ters will be on duty to telephone tions are made they will be dis-
war correspondents’ stories to the cussed with the correspondent be
fore the story is sent, the GHQ an-
A New Kind of War
the
iAF ALL the wars now in progress,
^ most interesting to us is one in our own
country—one of the few fracases, incident
ally, to actually be officially dubbed a war
instead of a “disturbance” or a “police ac
tion.”
we’ve been raised in the wrong generation,
but we find the sight a slightly amazing one.
Even at a long distance it looks odd to see
prices going the other way for once.
This particular war is a bloodless one. Or
rather it was bloodless until a few innocent
bystanders got shoved through a plateglass
window. So far, these seem to be the only
consumers to have suffered.
We speak, of course, of the price war
that started last week when Macy’s Depart
ment Store in New York vowed that it would
not be undersold. The war has since spread
over the country, leaving in its wake a tur
moil of tumbling prices.
Even where merchants have not started
price-slashing, consumers are throwing the
pad-lock on their purse in hopes that local
businesses may be on the verge of becoming
combatants.
Casualties so far have included suit
prices. Complete suits are selling in some
New York stores for the price of a suit
jacket alone about a week ago. Mix-masters
have been reduced almost 50 per cent in
some places and other merchandise has taken
more drastic cuts.
Slashes hit a variety of goods including
watches, pens, TV sets and drugs. San
Francisco, Newark, Denver, Omaha, Albu
querque and Oklahoma City were among the
cities announcing reductions on name-brand
merchandise. Less popular brands joined the
price down-grade as the replaced sold-out
favorite lines.
Maybe our memories are short or maybe
Iranian Oil
Tension Easier
IRANIAN oil controversy tension was def-
^ initely easier after the British “climbed
down” from their original position with re
spect to the nationalization of the big Middle
Eastren company. The Shah has intervened
in favor of a compromise and American over
tures appear to have been well received in
the more responsible circles at Tehran.
Reconsidering their stubborn refusal to
treat with the Iranians, the British-control-
ed company finally agreed to send represen
tatives for a “full and frank” discussion, at
the same time asserting it was “reserving its
legal rights.” This gesture was hailed at
Tehran as “ending the crisis.”
Interpreting the News
nouncement said.
This is the current censorship
situation:
Russians Wanted
Rearmament Bloc
Representatives Called
A war cori'espondent telephones
his battle front stories to hisjp
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
’frj'ORR/i
Only a Main Point in Decision
‘Freedom of Speech’ Helps
Convict 11 Top Communists
representative at Eighth Army
Headquarters. The recipient sub
mits the story to Eighth Army cen
sors who make any deletions they
deem necessary then return the
story. The story then is telephoned
Paris when it appeared other bases or teletyped toi Tokyo,
for discussion might be agreed There the story is submitted to
upon. general headquarters censors who
IT NOW becomes obvious that The allies are not going to dis- may make more deletions.
Russia’s original suggestion for cuss with Russia business which then the story is ready to be
a big four meeting was to obtain involves treaties with numerous sent to the United States and other
q. forum for interference in west- other countries who would not be countries. . . ,. .
ern rearmament plans rather than represented. This would evoke the W a '' stories originating in Japan
to seek sincere settlements. fear among all pact members that pass through GHQ censorship only.
j, n - the big three might make a deal This arrangement will be contin-
After three months of futile ef- behind their bafks directly improv- ued.
fort to get agreement on an agenda • tbeir sa fet v
for a foreign ministers conference, % he Russians asser t the world’s
the deputies/ma y asked Russia to tension back to the t ig
a meeting m Washington to be h sh .
based on any one of three partially-
agreed agendas “in the interests Russia’s Violation
of strengthening peace. p ac b was a reac tion to Rusr
Russia Glad To Come sia’s violation of the Yalta and + .. ...
Potsdam agreements, to her ob- college graduates to sell life in-
Russia replied she would be glad struction of the peace efforts of surance, Sidney L. Loveless, A&M
to come—provided. The provision the United Nations, to her ag- graduate, class of 1938, says in an
was that the allies accept what gression against her weak neigh- article in the May issue of the
they had repeatedly refused to ac- bors, and to her general prefer- Manager’s Magazine,
cept—a discussion of the Atlantic ence f or a 450-year-old tradition Loveless, who taught insurance
Pact, dragged in by Russia at 0 f imperialist expansion as against in the Department of Business Ad<
cooperation with the rest of the ministration, A&M, 1947 through
world. January 1951, is manager of the
The Russian reply raises some American General Life Insurant
political difficulties for the west- Company, College Station, “we HJu
ern diplomats. Thqy see no point young college recruits,” he said,
in continuing the Paris negotia- He points out that “it is easier U
tions, but do not wish to take the put a man on his first job than it
responsibility of breaking them off is to entiee him away from some
ip the face of Russia’s expressed cither job and perhaps even have
desire to continue. to train him away from the type
“Meeting Knocked in Head” ^ selling which he has been doing
in another business.
Thus the meeting has been .
knocked in the head but the fun
eral may not be held right away. Bible Vci'SC
Loveless Praises
College Graduates
It is a good idea to hire young
An amicable and just settlement would be 'W/'ASHINGTON, June 6—CP)—• Smith Act, which makes it a crime its value must sometimes be sub
for the best interests of the Iranian people ^ Freedom of speech was the to conspire to teach foi’ceful over- ordinated to other values, such as The Paris talks probably will con-
■p w , T , main point involved in Monday’s throw of the government. Nine preservation of the government un- tinue for a time, in order not to IVFOT UNTO us, 0 Lord not unto
-Britain ana tne west. It WOUia eliminate tne Supreme Court decision upholding years later the 11 Communists less the people as a whole by peace- trample on the peace hopes of a us, but unto thy name eive
possibility of Iran’s becoming another Korea, the conviction of the 11 top Com- were found guilty of violating that ful means, such as voting, wish to lot of people just before the June glory,’for thy mercv and fnr fhv
' J - ' ’ 1 law. change it. Therefore the Smith 17 elections in France. truth’s sake. —•Psalm 115-1
The Communists lawyers
for the British are in no mood to be complete- munist pal t> lcadeis -
They had been found guilty in
change
Act is not contrary to the first
ly frozen out of the Iranian oil picture, and 1949 "by rtrial'Tury "inVew 1 York peahng^to‘the* Supreme ^CdurtTo amendment,
forcible measures to protect their interests °t conspiring to teach overthrow throw out this conviction on var- ® There was a clear and pre-
, u , , , , , ,, . , .of this government by force. This ious grounds but they particularly sent danger from these 11 Com-
there would undoubtedly precipitate much is an ABC on how the Supreme emphasized the question of free munist leaders since they “mtend-
fighting. Court reached its decision: speech. They asked the court to ed to overthrow the government of
A rapid clarification of the situation The first amendment to the*:on- 3 ule thlS " e T‘ _
, . , , 1 1 1 i j- ^ -l stitution, part of the bill of rights, Smith Act
would seem to be probable, blit for two un- guarantees everyone the right of Tbe Smith Act is unconstitution
certain factors. One is the fanaticism of free speech. It says: “Congress
the “martyrs of Islam” who say the only the freedom^f speech ” 1 Sinff pass such . a !. aw . smce jf 18 con :
... . . , (T , . , , , „ trary to the first amendment and
solution IS for Britain to get out. They From that time to this—since limits freedom of speech—and that
Pity the poor children whose father
is only interested in the outcome of
the big league games and ivhose
mother’s only interest is in a grand
slam bid.
which would make Iran the political and re
ligious center of the Islamic world.
worst to prevent a settlement.
—The Houston Post
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threaten with assassination all who oppose many other cases involving free- therefore the 11 should not be
. .. . . .. , . , n , dom of speech have come before charged with violating it.
their grandiose design of restoring the glory the court dur i n g the years-the And they a d that the Smith
of Persia through a great Islamic revival court has had to face this problem: Act is an « una bashed attempt to
“How Free Is Speech” suppress political ideals.” By that
reasoning they asked the court to
Just how free can speech be ? believe that the Communist party
The Russian can be counted on to do their the
people, has no right to pass a law government lawyers argued
protecting their government from to the C0U1 . t the n Communists
persons advocating its overthrow were “conspirators” and “enemies
by force. 0 f state” and tools of Moscow,
The court has recognized that seeking to overthrow this govem-
free speech can’t be unlimited. It ment.
has been the court’s problem Court Rulings
through the years to protect the Monday the court ruled:
government and at the same time _ „ , ,, • , , ,
safeguard everyone’s freedom of * Congress has the light to pass
speech as much as possible. sucb a law as the S + m , ,th Act ^
r protect the government from armed
This is illustrated in a famous rebellion. Said the court: “We re
decision, written by Justice Oliver ject.any principle of governmental
Wendell Holmes in 1919, when the helplessness in the face of prepara-
court upheld the conviction of a tion for revolution, which principle,
socialist who, during World War carried to its logical conclusion,
I, sent circulars to draftees urging must lead to anarchy.”
them not to let themselves be taken 9 That the right of free speech
the United States as speedily as
the circumstances would permit.”
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into the armed forces.
What Holmes said, in short, was
this: What a man says one time,
when the government isn’t in real
danger, may be all right but not all
right when there is danger. He
said:
is not an unlimited right but that
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Constitutional Rights
“We admit that in many places
and in ordinary times the defen
dant in saying all that was said
in • the circular would have been
within (nis) constitutional rights.
But the character of every act
depends upon the circumstances in
which it is done. . . . The question
in every case is whether the words
used are of such a nature as to
create a clear and present danger
that they will bring about the sub
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