Battalion Editorials
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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1951
Tlie Last Word
College Station Financial Review
Peace: End of an Episode...
‘A rmy ’Wife Has
Complex Problems
More Money in Circulation
As Prices Skyrocket Here
A FAINT suggestion of the dove of Peace
looms in the indistinct future and already
there are sighs of relief and urgings to re
duce the defense program. Just how foolish
can people be?
Hopes for peace are, at the most, very
tentative. And, should peace in Korea come,
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Who Wants
Prices Rolled Back?
I ET’S roll back prices and stop the infla-
tionary trend. And we can use any means
possible—as long as it doesn’t hit home to
someone.
How human it is to want to reform every
one but yourself. Thus, while everyone calls
for price slashes, the same voices scream just
as loudly when cut-backs happen to hit
them.
It has been charged that one of the weak-,
nesses of a democracy is the fact that an
especially vocal minority can secure benefits
at the expense of a passive majority. Mr.
John Q. Public sits by and hopes things will
get better while some businessman pulls
strings to make sure that things will get
better—for the businessman, that is.
Let the OPS cut the price on a given pro
duct and the manufacturer of that product
immediately lets out a howl that carries far
and wide. That howl is heard by a Congress
man. And, in his usual eager desire to make
sure he doesn’t lose a vote, the Congressman
steps in to sooth this voice of discontent.
What’s the answer? It will be hard to
find one as long as the average tax-payer
refrains from exerting the energy necessary
to voice his and the majority’s opinion. Un
til then, vote hungry politicians will continue
to heed the only voice they hear.
that will mea,n but one thing—the only “hot”
episode of the Cold War has come to an end.
Few Americans would deny that they
want peace. Few other countries want war.
By VIVIAN CASTLEBERRY
Battalion Women’s Editor
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion News Staff
stort reported that men didn’t give
a five dollar pipe a second glance.
JUST MAKING SURE IT ISN’T LOADED
For the past two weeks and a half we have been busy
trying to adjust ourselves to the idea of running a house prices rose during
without a husband, pur husband, along with several hundred the Bank re-’
But, as long as one country—and that a other Aggie cadets, is away at summer ROTC training camp. p 0rt ed that local deposits re-
strong country-shows any promise of ag- Fortunately most of the cadets are not married^We say for- mained about constant
session there can be no Deace World Deace t ™ a i teI }' fo1 ' the « lr l s "i 10 W ™M, !» 'e** behind. This business !„ certai „ instances b rs be .
g ’ ’ , 1 De 110 P eace - u bp- of playing army wife is something you never get used to; came more price conscious. A drug
is not an attitude m your mind that bades y 0U j us t try to work out whatever problems you have as
you disregard ominous warnings from they arise.
abroad. course, ours is only for another month. We number among
our friends, girls whose husbands are with the armed forces “indef-
The only real world peace is a harmony initely.” We know that our separation could also take on an “indefin-
in world affairs, shown by unstrained rela- ite ” status at any moment - That adds td the P™ blem s-
tions between the major powers of the world.
Any barriers that bar exchange of thought,
goods, and, above all, good will, is a sign
that world peace does not exist.
To wish for peace and to work for peace
are entirely different aims. In the world of
today, real efforts toward peace come only
from logical preparations to resist a breach
of that peace. Any peace of today must be
bought at the expense of armed might.
That does not mean that force must al
ways be the only road to harmonious rela
tions. Quite to the contrary, a peace bought
at the cost of fear and force, could never
endure.
But, until the existing evils spawned by
terrorist governments and rule by oppres
sion cease to exist, an enforced peace seems
to be the only answer.
When the coal-miners of Pennsylvania
and the miners of Siberia can openly discuss
mutual questions, when a man can be assur
ed of a just trial in all corners of the earth,
and when foreign ministers can meet to
calmly discuss the conduct of world affairs,
citizens may well talk of peace and the lux
uries that accompany it.
Until that time, peace will remain as an
ideal toward which all right-thinking people
must diligently work.
But when a family of three per- considerably during the last six
sons paid 15 dollars more for months. A penny here and there on
groceries during June than at the drug articles added up at the end
beginning of the year, the question, of the month, the bills indicated,
“Where did the money come although prescription prices re-
from?” arises.
Examining the conditions, the
following facts were revealed: Al
though the general price of canned
goods remained about the same,
such items as meat, vegetables,
butter, and eggs skyrocketed.
The price of clothing increased
Dewey Calls for World
Peace in Tokyo Speech
You can read hundreds of articles, prepare yourself emo
tionally for days in advance, tell yourself emphatically
that you can spend the time in one of a hundred thousand
ways, and still you aren’t “ready.” You still end up just
making the best of the situation. The worst part of any
separation between husband and wife is the loneliness.
You can be a part of a party, surrounded by people you
really like, and still you never have been before so utterly
alone.
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The great anecdote for loneliness is, of course, work.
We’ve been told that so many times that it’s become a part
of our very make-up and we believe it emphatically. But it
doesn’t tell the whole story. Stay as busy as you can. Do as
many things as possible for as many people as possible.
Visit. Go to shows. Clean house until your bones ache. Get
busy with your church work, and delve into civic projects.
There will still be times when you’ll be so all alone that
you’ll want to scream or sob or just throw in the towel. But
you don’t. That isn’t the answer to your problem.
Besides the loneliness, you never have imagined that there was
so much to running a home. No matter how much your husband left
everything to your own judgment, you find that he was the ever
present assistant when something had to be done.
Now, besides holding a regular job, eight hours per day, you run
all the errands—not just to the grocery store and cleaners, but to the
service station, the hardware store, the bank and the post office. The
latter you visit, not once a day as was your habit, but three or four
times a day.
There is never a moment that at least forty things aren’t
stacked up demanding your attention. You get the car
greased and the oil changed and you remember you for
got to have the brakes checked. So tomorrow, besides the
groceries and the cleaners and the variety store, you
have to go back to the garage. You never realized before
how much fun there was in little things. The walk around
the block that used to be a family outing no longer h.ns
any significance, and the Fourth of July Picnio is only
something to do.
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You never realized before, either, how Society is set up
in couples. At places where you once were a welcome pair, r „ Tjr „ .... , , T ,
you find you no longer fit m. Certainly, there is no place tor 1 6_(^)_ T pp Tnfornpnv.Ai Gmni
you at a dance. Bridge parties and most other game parties
mained about the same.
If bank deposits did not diminish,
more money must have come into
circulation. Loans granted by the
College Station bank increased 10
percent during 1951 over the first
six months in 1950, according to
Harold Sullivan, bank vice-presi
dent. These loans were made most
ly for agriculture and construction,
Sullivan said.
A certain amount of the money
created by bank loans reached the
hands of the consumer through
wages. Some housewives found jobs
to supplement the family income.
Part time work was secured by
other people. By this and other
ways the rising cost of living was
met by the people of College S.ta-
tiion without undue strain.
The outlook for the future seems
to be that clothing prices will con-
tine to rise with consumers possi
bly substituting for less expensive
fabrics.
With one exception, no short
ages are expected by local mer
chants. A grocer said if the ef
forts of Price Stabilizer Michael
DiSalle to roll-back meat prices
succeeded, farmers would refuse
to market their beef, creating
shortages.
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A mas E. Dewey called today for
a world peace based on a buildup
of strength by free nations and
“not a mere peace; of surrender or
appeasement.”
Dewey declared the United
States was not afraid of the “con
tinuing threat of warlike Commun
ist aggression” because of its vast
industrial might.
He said that through unity and
a buildup of “overwhelming
strength” the free world may look
forward to the “gradual exhaustion
and disintegration of the Commun
ist forces of slavery and aggres
sion.”
Speech In Japan
In a speech befoi’e the America-
Japan Society and for broadcast
to the United States. Dewey assert
ed that the U. S. “will never be the
one to start a war in any conceiv
able set of circumstances.”
“The people of America and of
the free world,” he said, “are
building their strength for the
sole and exclusive purpose of pre
venting war.
“It must be a peace of strength
•—not a mere peace of surrender
or appeasement.”
Dewey’s speech was his first on
his six-weeks 29,000-mile tour of
nine countries of the Far East for
a first-hand survey of problems
of the Pacific nations.
He told his audience “I am not
a member of the national govern
ment of my country nor do I
speak for it in any way whatsoever.
On the contrary, I am an active
member of the party of the opposi
tion.”
Dewey made no direct referehce
to the. imminent Korean war cease
fire talks.
“We ai’e acutely aware,” Dewey
said, “of the menace of Communist
aggression both internal and ex
ternal.
Not Hampered By Fear
“But we are not hampered by
fear nor do we have the slightest
doubt of the final outcome. We are
serenly confident of our capacity
to deal with treason at home.
“We are equally unafraid of the
continuing threat of external war
like Communist aggression, because
in America alone we have over
whelming industrial power.
“Solely by reason of the threat
to peace by imperialistic aggres
sors we are proceeding to harness
this tremendous industrial plant in
order to produce weapons the ag
gressors will not dare to challenge.
“Even as the Japanese peace
treaty progresses,” the New York
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governor said, “we are already dis
cussing arrangements for mutual
defense in order to; assure the lib
erty and progress of the free peo
ples of the Pacific.
“As the security of the free
world beconies increasingly firm,
we may expect the threats of ag
gression and the alarms of civil
disturbance will subside.
Subscribe to Objectives
Dewey made clear that he sub
scribed fully to the declaration of
U. S. objectives set forth in a
joint statement by the Senate
Armed Services and Foreign Re
lations Committees following con
troversial hearings into the issues
of arms for western Europe and
the dismissal of General MacAr-
thur.
“Out of these hearings,” he de
clared, “came a notable and his
toric document. Let me emphasize
that the statement was unanimous
and that every Republican and
every Democrat joined in it.”
The statement said the people of
the U. S. “are unshaken in our de
termination to defend ourselves
and to cooperate to the limit of
our capabilities with all of those
free nations determined to survive
in freedom.”
“Countrymen Want No Territory”
Dewey declared, “my countrymen
want no territory, no subject peo
ples, no denomination of any other
people.”
“Our records prove it.”
“Did any nation/’ he asked, “ever
win a bitter war and then pay
more than two billion dollars to
feed and clothe and succor the
fallen as America has done in the
case of Germany?
“Did any nation ever win a bit
ter war and then pay more than
two billion dollars to feed and
clothe and succor the fallen as
America has done in the case of
Japan ?
“We are fated to live in times
of 'great change and peril,” Dewey
asserted. “In such a fateful period,
there can be no neutrality between
good and evil, between freedom and
slavery, between aggressive war
and peace.
call for couples. Eating out hasn’t the old festive air you
remember, and even the movies have lost their zip.
If there are children, the problems are multiplied. You
cannot, you must not, substitute all the loneliness and love
you feel onto them, yet you must play the role of both
mother and daddy as nearly as possible. You never discipline
a child without wondering if you are doing the right thing.
It would be so much easier if Daddy were there to discuss
the problem with before taking action.
You take the child to the play park in the evening and watch
with your own| parental pride as th<I small one enjoys the “horsies”
and the “cars.” But you cannot help, no matter how hard you try,
being a little envious of the young couples who wait together for
the small fry to finish their rides and trot enthusiastically to the
next one.
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Worst of all is the problem of waiting atone when sickness
comes to your baby. You hustle him into his clothes and,
anxious though you are, assure him that everything is
fine. Then you bundle up the hot little creature and drive
him to the doctor’s. Mostly, your fears are relieved immed
iately by the family physician, but if the fever hangs on
for a few days you find that yours is an especial kind
of loneliness that cannot be alleviated by relatives or
friends, no matter how close they are nor how hard they
try.
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Mostly'the children are old enough to miss “Daddy,” but not old
enough to explain anything to. So they ask you a thousand times a
day, “Where’s Daddy?” and you tell them and they still are not
satisfied. Who, with a small child, does not remember the time he
blew kisses at Daddy’s picture and the time he got out Daddy’s shoes
and put them on his own small feet and looked up to remark with ail
the wisdom in his small head: “Daddy’s, Mommy?”
Sometimes you wait for days for pared you quite for the role that
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Exhaustion of Communists Forces
William Dickens. Frank Davis.
Ray Rushing. Tom Rountree. Ray Holbrook.
Owen Lee, Calvin Janak
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cumulation
“But with unity and the develop
ment of overwhelming strength in
the free world we may look for
ward to the gradual exhaustion and
disintegration of the Communist
forces of slavery and aggression.
One day the victims of these forces
will discover the eternal truth of
personal liberty and religious free
dom and will wrest those freedoms
from their masters.
“Then we can look with confi
dence- to the final abolition of
wgr and the instruments of war.”
a letter with a familiar handwrit
ing, but more often than not that
letter doesn’t come. The Amy keeps
men pretty busy, whether they’re
going thrqugh basic training,
whether they are seasoned soldiers,
taking officer’s training or “mere
ly” at ROTC Summer Camp.
There are times when you feel
terribly sorry for yourself, but
this period is always followed
with one of shame and humility.
You know that you are only a
small part of a great big scheme
of things and that this is a vital
period you’re traveling through.
So you assuage your conscience
by baking a batch of cookies and
getting them into the mails im
mediately for your own special
soldier.
You feel a very special kinship
with all other women you know
whose husbands are a part of the
Armed Forces. With them you feel
a very special pride in the part
your husband is playing in national
defense, and even though your own
husband is only taking ROTC ti'ain-
ing, you know that you will be
better prepared if, and when, the
time comes that he really goes
into the Army. It is a part of liv
ing, 1951, and while it is not your
choice of an ideal life, you are
willing to fill your own small niche
in the pattern.
One thing you’ve learned for
sure, as long as possible, until
the Army puts an ocean between
you, you’ll follow your husband.
A home, is after all^ the sum
total of a husband and wife’s
shared responsibilities, and
you’ll keep sharing as long as
humanly possible.
You have read many books and
many articles and ’ talked with
m^riy people, but nothing has pre
modern times has called on you to
perform.
In the meantime, you can only
hope and pray, in this world that
we inherited, that “Peace on Earth”
will come again.
6—CP)—The International Court
of Justice urged Britain and Iran
yesterday to agree on an interim
plan for keeping Iranian oil flow
ing until the court can reach a
decision in the hitter dispute.
Iran quickly rejected the court
proposals.
British officials hailed the pro
posals as “very welcome to us.”
The British indicated that if Iran,
kept on refusing to agree, Britain,
might put the oil case before the
U. N. Security Council.
But Iran clung to I.-e 1 ; uncompro
mising determination to seize full
control of the huge Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company’s wells and refineries.
Hoosein Navab, Iranian minis
ter to the Hague, declared: “We
did not recognize the competence
of the court, and neither do we
recognize the court’s decision of
today.”
Britain had asked the court to
pr-opcse interim measures as a
matter of greatest urgency to
stave off the threatened complete
shutdown of her Iranian oil opera
tions.
Britain also accused Iran of vio
lating international law in national
izing the British-owned company
and asked for an injunction against
its seizure by the Iranian govern
ment. The court apparently will
decide on the charges and the re
quest for an injunction after it
determines whether it has jui’isdic-
tion in the case.
The U. N.-sponsored court re
jected an Iranian request that it
declare outright that it had no
jurisdiction.
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