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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THURSDAY, Auugust 2, 1951 .BLED FOR HIS COUNTRY •.& U. S. War on Polio--1951 Tomorrow’s Big Leaguers... T ITTLE League Baseball has spread over the United States almost as fast as Bob Smith would crash through the line of a high school football team. It is the spon taneous character of this movement that is ■both its most astonishing feature and its greatest charm. Little League Baseball, like Jack’s beanstalk, just grew and grew. In addition to giving a youngster many bf the thrills of major league play, Little ! League baseball unifies the boy, his family and his community in a healthy recreational program. Contributing to the mental and physical development of youth, it makes a lasting impression on their character. Teach ing the elements of sportsmanship and team play, it touches one of the basic roots of our American way of life—respect for individual rights. The background of Little League Base ball goes back to 1939. Carl E. Stotz of Wil liamsport, Pa., noticed that a boy under 13 had little if any chance to play baseball in a regular game. The vague, formless idea of The high cost of living is being dis cussed again in the land of oppor- tunity and it tvill be talked about for 1 some time. Poor Students Get Deferment Chance T'HERE is some consolation in being in the lower portion of the class after all. Selective Service reported Tuesday that 38 per cent of the college students who took the first draft aptitude test flunked it. But 40 percent of the poorer students who would not have rated consideration for the draft deferment on the basis of their showing in the classroom got by the test with scores of 70 and better. In the upperportions of classes, however, the passing grade was 5 points higher than the 70 required by lower classmen. The draft boards have been asked to give a score of 70 or better the same consideration, as a basis for deferment, as is given to a student ranking in the top half of the freshman .class, to two thirds of the sophomore class, or top three quarters of the junior class. ! Considering the fact that a greater per centage of lower classmen passed the apti tude tests than upper classmen, we might conclude that dexterity is not always a pre requisite of upperclassmen. Judging from the “squabbling” and man- feuvering done by some of the Aggie students for grade points and exemptions, the words of one of our math profs could be used to further emphasize our point. Said he, “If you guys worked as hard on the problems, as you do trying to work me, you would all be exempted.” It might be even better to say in some instances, all that glittlers is gall. If you visit a hundred cities in the United States, you will find, in each one, the same little vocal strutters and bluffers. Mr. Stotz’s took shape years later as he watched two of his favorite nephews sitting on the sidelines while bigger, older, and more experienced youngsters made use of the only diamond. Whaf the little fellows needed, he reasoned, was a competition in their own age group, with a field and other equipment cut down to their size. There the Little League movement began. Little League has nothing to sell except its principles, yet sponsors are forming a waiting list. True enough the sponsors put their names on the uniforms but this is a meager return on a $200 to $250 investment. At the formation of the League, four managers are assigned to each league. These managers, incidentally, are not necessarily chosen for their knowledge of baseball. They are picked on a basis of character, because they are dealing with youngsters who are easily impressed. It is much more important that the managers create a proper influence on the boys than be able to direct hit-and- run strategy. Little League is a non-profit organiza tion designed to promote good health, good sportsmanship and good citizenship in the youths of America. Little League essentially is a community activity with a national scope. Regional and championship playoffs provides youngsters with a challenge to do their very best. Little League is Big League Baseball adapted to the mental and physical capacities of boys of America. Polio Foundation Develops New Iron Lung that Coughs (Editor’s note: This is the third and last in a series of stories by Associated Press Science Editor Howard W. Blank- eslee on the fight the United States is waging against the dread disease of polio.) ]VEW YORK, Aug. 2—<A>)_An ^ iron lung that coughs is under design for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. This lung will breathe in the usual way by change of air pres sure, and also will use a quick pressure pulse to cause a cough when the patient wishes or his doctor orders. That will solve a sometimes troublesome iron lung problem, due to excess fluid in air passages. There are other ways of removing this phlegm, but coughing is the natural way. The cough and several other iron lung improvements have been portation of the lungs, usually by air, to emergency cases. Along with the additional cen ters will go special research units, to study the problems of iron lung victims and how better to given to New York University’s engineering department to develop. One improvement is a new col lar for the person in the lung. The collar seals him in. Sponge rub ber has been used. The new one will be plastic and work like the get them to do their own breathing, old-fashioned tobacco pouch, which Some have to use iron lungs for automatically closed after you took years, and some permanently. This out a fistful of pipe mixture. The year the foundation has placed closing is due to pleating the pouch opening. Similar pleats will close the iron lung collar’. Another improvement is a push- pull lung, so-called because it uses excess air pressure to push down the chest to exhale, and a lowered pressure to let the chest expand. Iron lungs have been using low more than 100 respirators in pri vate homes for patients well enough to leave the hospital but unable to live without the lungs. There is a third kind of respi rator, the electric current hooked to the phrenic nerve. This is the electrophrenic respirator, invented by Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff of Har- Compromise Sought on DP A; Educate Veteran’s Children By OLIN E. TEAGUE Sixth District Representative WASHINGTON, D. C. —Seven ” members each of the House and Senate began conferring to day in an effort to reach a com promise agreement on legislation to extend the provisions of the De fense Production Act. After completing its own ver sion of the Defense Productiion Act extension in a final 14-hour ses sion, the House adopted the Senate Bill, but substituted its own pro visions affecting various controls, credit, housing, alloca- consumer iLuu^ig, To the men and women who have made tions and termination date. Brazos County’s Little League possible and Senate to Extend Act to the future “big-leaguers” who took part in the games, a 21 gun salute from us to you. ership might encumber national de fense. ' ifcjg Question Began in 1936 You will recall that this question of ownership started in 1936, when the then Secretary of Interior Har old Ickes laid claim in the name of the federal government to the sub merged lands off California in or der to transfer to the federal gov ernment the revenues from the oil production. His claim was upheld in 1947 by the Supreme Court ruling on the premise that state ownership might encumber national defense 0 There are in the U. S. .some one hundred thousand children whose fathers were killed in combat. If pressure alternating with the or- vard School of Public Health. Or dinary pressure of air. dinary cases are unable to breathe Bette St mi - because their chest muscles are too 1 r ’ 1 h weak. Iron lungs do well for them. Other steps are better means of B ut there are complications when piping oxygen and other gases the patient has chest muscles to into the iron lung and more port- breathe, but the nerves are so holes for better care of the pa- damaged that the brain cannot send t len t- messages to make the muscles Rocking beds are supplementing move. That is where the electric iron lungs and other respirators, current comes in. These are teeter-totter beds. First ah. j * xr j j * they rock so that your head is Attendant Needed higher than your feet, and then Lacking the messages, the chest lift feet high above your head, muscles may fight against the When your head is high, viscera breathing pressures of an iron pull down your diaphragm, and lung. The electric current can be that causes natural indrawing of used only where an attendant is breath. on unremitting, 24-hour watch. When feet are high, the viscera That makes this treatment too ex- I thought I could secure the pass- re verse their push and'force breath pensive in most cases. The cur- age of such a bill, I would intro- mi , • . , , vovn io i Nearly any lobbyist can make a convincing plea for prompt govern mental action, ivith the necessary appropriation. Red Tactics Found At Home (ECENTLY a woman of Indianola, Miss. son and the federal government had “paramount rights.” Such a doc trine in my opinion is dangerous in The Senate voted to extend the ^ _t eight months, while the House . t or 8 natu ral resources in voted a one year extensmn. Both ^ ^ nt disclaimers of the House and Senate are prepared f ^ eral off f cials . to act on the confei’ence report as soon as it is submitted, as the one Veteran Children’s Education month extension previously agreed Last; but not leastj j am greatIy to expired July 31. concerned over several letters Other legislation of vital inter- which I have received from my Dis- est to Texans is being debated trict taking me to a task relative while this letter is being written; to legislation I would sponsor to the question of ownership of our grant the educational benefits of Tidelands. (Editor’s note: This the G. I. Bill to the children of question was settled with a vote veterans. I commanded an Infan- of 265 to 109 in favor of return- try Battalion during World War II ing the Tidelapds ownership to the and had some 300 men killed in states Monday. The bill is now action. awaiting Senate action before being The majority of these men were sent to the President for his sig- i n the lower ‘brackets as far as reported that her 17-year-old missing. A deputy sheriff and a private de tective “ran in” four Negroes who had been seen with the missing farm hand. Typical of some law-enforcement agents, the deputy and the detective applied the “heat” treatment. This treatment left marks on the Negroes that later required medical treatment. But three of them confessed to murder. nature.) The U.P. Chamber of Commerce, in a letter to all members of the House of Representatives, has tak- was en a stand upholding the State’s title in these lands, and questions the Supreme Court ruling that the Federal Government has “par amount rights” because State own- finance is concerned, and I know their last thought was concern for their family. So, when I first came to Congress in 1946, I did introduce legislation which would have conferred the educational rights on the children of these deceased servicemen killed in ac tion. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR For Mr. Trail ' my, reasoning or what have you. But to do these ladies justice, Editor, The Battalion: I thing you should at least give After reading the letter from the correct facts as related to Mr. Carroll C. Trail, we couldn’t their case. They are not holding The missing youth showed up, unharmed think of letting it go by without an out for pay, but rather because and still very much alive. He had decided to take an unannounced vacation. No one can question the prompt and thorough job done by the deputy and the detective. The Reds in Hungary and Czechoslovakia who have been extorting confessions from innocent people could not have done much better. The human race, for all its boasting and puffing, is merely standing on the threshhold of knowledge. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman" The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are Monday through Friday for the regular school year, Tuesday through Friday during the summer terms, and Tuesday and Thursday during vacation and examination periods. Subscription rates $6.00 per year public servant like J. Wayne Stark, answer. In the first place, from the mo vies you mentioned Mr. Trail, you have just about seen them all, which goes to prove that you came back again for more since there are other places in the MSC that you can get your “quiet supper” that you speak of. You also show your ignorance about how the MSC is operated. If you were a regular reader of The Battalion you would know, from a series of articles not too long ago, in detail about how the MSC was run and how its finances are hand led. You would also know, if you kept up with The Battalion’s articles, that the operator of the projection machine is not paid with state tax payer’s money, and that most of the equipment and furnishings used are a part of the $200,000 given by the Former Students. Now aren’t you ashamed to sit on their chairs, and at their tables, and criticize them at the same time? What type lodge do you belong to? One that encourages alcoholic beverages? I would suggest that you find a meeting place across "the river and leave the MSC to students that appreciate it. You will be lucky to sell train tickets or peddle magazines for you will never be a leader, or they question the constitutionality of a law requiring everyone to sub scribe to insurance whether they want it or not. Perhaps in time it will occur to them that these same taxes ($.03 on the dollar) will prevent their having to support these same em ployees in their old age by main taining rather enormous relief roles. R. T. Jones or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas, under he Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Ad vertising Service Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. 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Jim Thompson _ Photo Engravers Owen Lee Advertising Manager Editorialist Aiien Pengelly, B. Editor, The Battalion: It was with some interest that I read your editorial in the Tues day edition. I refer to the one concerning the Marshall housewives who have refused to collect Soc ial Security taxes from their do- F. Roland. Frank Davis. William Dickens ,. „ ,, staff News Writers the operation of the female Tom Rountree, gus Becker, Ray Holbrook niind is an intricate procedure Spo ^„^ w 4n. W S which has long defied the best known laws of probability, econo- TODAY Thru SAT. FIRST RUN Starts—1:50 - 3:28 - 5:06 6:44 - 8:22 - 10:00 NEWS — CARTOON _ , _ T . . , ou t- These rocking beds cost $1,300 duce it today. However, my original ea ch, nearly as much as iron lungs, bill was not favorably considered They are useful for selected cases, and I have not re-introduced it. and a i so W ean patients away from I have never, at any time, given respirators, thought to introducing legislation whereby veterans’ children, as a (See EDUCATION, Page 4) rent is used mainly for experiment. Most of the $33,000,000 March of Dimes money this year is go ing for care of polio patients, in cluding nearly 35,000 victims of The foundation this year is set- former years. Half of the Dimes ting up new iron lung distribution money is retained by the 2,800 centers. 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