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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1951
HIS TICKET—IF THE SHOW OPENS
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Help A Sick Fellow .
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TWO GROUPS—one large, the other small
—had a good time last night. The large
group was made up of patients at McClosky
Veteran’s Hospital in Temple and the small
group consisted of talented residents of Col
lege Station area recruited by Miss Betty
Bolander to entertain the vets.
Miss Bolander, assistant social director
at the Memorial Student Center, has taken
numerous groups to the Temple hospital this
past year. All those in last night’s troupe
were veterans at entertaining in vet hos
pitals.
Many of the veterans who witness these
performances have been bed-ridden month
after month. Some have little other enter
tainment than that provided by groups such
as the one from A&M. And they all make
it a special point to express their deep grat
ification for the shows.
These patients would be the first to agree
with us in giving a great big pat on the back
to the work being done by Miss Bolander
and the entertainment groups she has or
ganized.
Along with these orchids, though, we’d
like to hand out a few onions. The latter
present goes to all talented people in this
area who did not offer to make that trip
last night.
Through The Battalion, Miss Bolander
made a plea slightly over a week ago for all
persons with any kind of entertainment tal
ent to contact her as soon as possible. Her
response to that plea was a flat zero.
From that we may conclude that the
college and the community have a scarcity
of talent. We hardly believe that is true.
Perhaps, then, many people consider them
selves too much of an amateur to attempt
this type of entertainment. This is a poor
excuse, since the vets make about the most
appreciative audience to be found. They
aren’t expecting professionals. But, says
Miss Bolander, they’ll give the amateur the
same ovation they would give a professional.
Another alternative is that students and
community residents just aren’t willing to
devote the ttime and interest to such under
takings. A record like that would look mighty
poor in view of the fact that one of the en
tertainers in last night’s troup was here on
the campus only for the duration of the
short course being held in the MSC. He
could find the time and interest, though.
Miss Bolander will probably take one
more trip to the Temple Hospital during the
summer. We hope that her next pleas for
talent get some response from those in this
area who realize that gifted persons only en
joy their talents fully when sharing them
with others.
TV Color
Debut Nearing
TIEBUT time is drawing near for the recent-
** ly approved TV colorcast. And CBS,
whose color system is the only one approved
by the FCC, is not the only major concern
readying its lines for transmission of the
rainbow hues.
RCA, who lost out to CBS by virtue of a
supreme court ruling, is said to be planning
a “public demonstration” of its process, pos
sibly even before the initial Columbia color
cast.
General Electric, too, is putting finishing
touches on what it calls a “composite sys
tem,” combining features developed b y
several companies, including RCA.
The CBS system can be received, in lim
ited size, on any present TV set—if the own
er purchases a converter.
RCA and GE are criticizing the CBS pro
cess on the grounds that it is “incompatable”
—color telecasts can not be received on pre
sent sets in black and white. Both firms
claim their process does not have this fault.
From where we sit, the whole thing
sounds like good old fashioned competition,
even if it is among the big boys. That being
the case, TV audiences will be the ones to
benefit in the long run.
And TV audiences, like car owners, have
come to comprise a large segment of our
population. After all, it looks like most 1 folks
would let the mortgage lapse just to keep
up payments on the TV set—color or no.
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Rain or Drowth-Texas
Co I S on Raise r Fights On
By Associated Press
ipOR THE Texas farmer it’s got-
ten so if it ain’t a, drouth it’s
too much rain.
And weeds, and insects. And
boll weevils.
Two months ago farmers up in
North Texas were praying for
rain. Now they’re cussin’ because
it’s rained so much. and the fields
are so wet they can’t get in and
hoe out the weeds and spray the
insects.
Down in the valley they’re talk
ing about a shortage of water in
the Rio Grande for irrigation.
Top Cotton State
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But Texas — the country’s top irrigated and we cannot
cotton-producing state—still aims every request for water
to grow a record crop. The Agri- time.”
culture Department has asked for
11 million bales from Texas.
They’re saying the crop in Texas
reach 12 million bales Denton they haven’t been able to
get out with a hoe since about
June 2, when the rainy spell began.
Boll weevils showed up in Har
rison County. Around Paris, Lamar
County Agent Tom E. Prater re
ported a build-up of boll weevils
and warned farmers to hit the
pests as soon as possible. ' i;
Cotton insects were reported
moving into Grayson County, too.
Get rid of the weeds and the in
sects, and the next problem is
pickers.
In Waco, J. Walter Hammond,
president of the Texas Farm Bu-
The continued dry reau Federation, said he believed
might even
—the weather willing.
The first Texas bale, and also
the first in the nation, was sold on
the Houston Cotton Exchange June
18. It came from the lower Rio
Grande Valley.
But down in the valley the thirs
ty million-acre cotton crop was
demanding more water than irri
gation districts could furnish.
Nearly all districts were rationing
watei’.
“There’s the heaviest demand
I’ve ever seen for water,” said
District Manager Hard Redford at
Harlingen. “ rri ’" —dw
days and nights with high winds the Mexican farm labor situation
blowing continously are drying out will be ironed out satisfactorily in
lands almost as fast as they are the near future.
supply
at one
Interpreting the News
New Problems in Store
For Britain in Iran Crisis
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
r T'HE IRANIAN crisis seems to
A be approaching the point where
British hopes of maintaining a
hold on the oil may be superseded
by thoughts of how to deny it to
Russia.
The British, rebuffed in their
latest effort to reach agreement
whereby Iran can take ownership
of the wells without ending Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company operation, are
now reported considering a com
plete evacuation.
Two Alternatives Discussed
Beyond another appeal for a
great war potential, to the Soviet
sphere.
Just as dangerously, any British
attempt to maintain their position
in the oil fields by force would
give Russians an excuse for inter
vention under her treaty with
Iran. That also might mean war.
These points bring us to a
brutal point which the Iranians
have apparently not taken full
cognizance.
Can Russia Be Denied
If Britain cannot safely stay
and cannot safely leave -the oil in
Iranian hands, how can the oil
be denied to Russia? One means,
mentioned above, is an agreement
from a Russian domination which
Is far worse than any ignominy
which now might come through
compromise; that she can attain
her major desires without the ex
treme measures she has adopted;
perhaps with guarantees from the
United States.
One Of The Best
Oldtimers said the crop still was
one of the best-looking in years
and many a man hoped to make up
in cotton some of what he lost in
the freeze that killed his citrus
trees this past winter.
Farther north the fields were
just beginning to blossom in Cen
tral Texas. McLennan County ex
pects its first bale come August.
Over in West Texas, where irri
gation from wells is swelling the
crop, some 3V2 million acres of
cotton are planted in the 16-county
district around Lubbock. They’re
expecting upwards toward two mil
lion bales.
It was in North Texas that
farmers stood at the edge of their
muddy fields the first of the week
and tried to spot the cotton amid
the weeds.
In the Pilot Point area near
The Mexican government an
nounced Tuesday that it would
keep the migrant worker recruit
ing stations at Monterrey, Her-
mosillo and Chihuahua until July
15. They had been scheduled to
close Saturday night.
negotiated settlement which would w ^j. I ran guaranteeing the oil’s
seem to have little .hope of success, 9 on ^ 11 l ue y westward flow. But Iran
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two alternatives are being discuss
ed. One is to call in troops and
maintain the British hold. The oth
er is to stop production, insure
the safety of installations, put out
the 3,000 British who are running
the fields and keep the rights to
whatever oil Iran may produce.
This raises the question of which
situation will most gravely endan
ger the peace of the world. De
pending upon Russia’s readiness
for war about which we do not
is refusing to negotiate prior to
the hand-over. Can the hand-over
safely take place before such an
agreement ?
One bare possibility might be for
Britain and Iran to agree on Amer
ican operation of the wells under
nationalization. But for Iran this
would be an equivocal political
substitute for her aims. For Brit
ain it would be defeat.
The situation may come, then, to’
decision on the brutal point—leajv
Mississippi Senate Reports
Vicious 4 Job-Selling’ Racket
WASHINGTON, June 21—(#)—
A Senate subcommittee re
ported yesterday it had found a
“vicious job-selling racket” involv
ing federal government positions
in Mississippi.
It attributed the “deplorable sit
uation” to the action of the Demo
cratic National Committee which,
the group declared, “saw fit to in
voke political reprisals” on Miss
issippi Democrats who bolted from
President Truman in 1948.and sup
ported the states rights ticket.
The seven-man expenditures sub
committee headed by Senator Hoey
(D-NC) spoke of a small group as
having “corruptly extorted politi
cal contributions” from persons
seeking postal jobs, but said the
practice has ended.
No Evidence
It said there is no evidence the
national committee got any of this
money.
The subcommittee submitted a
15,000-word report summing up
the results of its investigations,
which included hearings at Jack-
son, Miss. It said federal offi
cials are investigating and that
prosecution may follow.
The report named leaders of
the Mississippi group it asserted
had used political power “to ex
tort contributions” from federal-
jobseekers and criticized the Post
Office Department for failing to
uncover “these illegal job-selling
activities.”
It noted that the pro-Truman
group had sought the advice and
assistance of Donald S. Dawson,
presidential aide, and added:
Democrats Responsible
“However, in the opinion of the
subcommittee the evidence is clear
that the Democratic National Com
mittee was responsible for turn
ing over federal patronage” to
the pro-Truman group.
The background of the matter
is this:
In 1948 the regular Mississippi
Democratic organization bolted
from Mr. Truman and supported
the states rights ticket. A pro-
Truman faction, known as the
Mississippi Democratic Committee,
organized to support the Presi
dent.
In 1949 the administration denied
the Mississippi Congressional Dele
gation the privilege of recommend
ing appointees to federal jobs and
gave this privilege to the pro-Tru
man group. Leaders of the group
included Clarence E. Hood, Jr.,
recognized by the national com
mittee as acting national commit
teeman for Mississippi, Frank F.
Mize, Curtis Rogers, Forrest B.
Jackson and B. C. Beasley.
Federal Jobs Sold
In February of this year after
published reports appeared in
Mississippi papers, senators Sten-
nis and Eastland, Mississippi Dem
ocrats, charged in the Senate that
federal jobs were being sold. The
investigation resulted.
In addition to Hoey, investigat
ing senators included McLellan (D-
Ark.), O’Connor (D-Md), Hum
phrey (D-Minn), McCarthy ,(R-
Wis), Mundt (R-SD) and Nixon
(R-Calif).
Senator Hooy, in submitting the
report to the Senate, briefly traced
the history of the investigation.
He said control of the Mississippi
Democratic committee was “usurp
ed by a small group of wilful men
who corruptly extorted political
contributions from a substantial
number of persons” seeking postal
jobs. In addition, he said, the same
group extracted political contri
butions from persons who were
promised some non-existent Office
of Price Stabilization jobs.
“Some of this same group,”
Hoey said, “sought without success
to use improperly their political
power to further ther own financial
gain by influencing defense con
tracts, RFS loans and other mat
ters involving the activities of
federal agencies.”
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rot war ciuout wmui we uo not ing the welIs uselesS) through de-
know, this could be the most sei- s t ra ction or some other means.
ious crisis since Hitler invaded
I he possibility has been discuss
ed, but no one has wanted to set
tle down on it even as a last re
sort. It might mean the surrender
to Russia of an emasculated but
still strategically located Iran and
an allied step backward toward
the heart of all the middle eastern
oil lands.
None of these choices is anything
but bad. The only hope for any
thing like a satisfactory outcome of
the dispute lies in convincing Iran
she is endangering her freedom
Poland.
Would Threaten Oil Supply
To leave the rich oil fields in the
hands of small, weak and political
ly chaotic Iran would threaten
their continued operation and the
flow of oil needed by Britain and
western Europe. It would create a
power vacuum which, by all the
standards of history, would invite
Russian entry. This would either
produce a war or the surrender
of another country, containing a
Bible Verse
TTF. THAT findeth his life shall
lose it: and he that loseth his
life for my sake shall find it.
—Matthew 10:11.
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