Battalion Editorials
Page 2 THURSDAY, Auugust 2, 1951
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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"
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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
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Charles E. Cosper ’53
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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-
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_ , _ 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. These insure quicker trans- local chapters of the foundation.
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