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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1951)
I J Battalion Editorials Page 2 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951 Decrease Federal Spending ■Illustrating Sports writer's Views ; v Food for Thought: On Sports Scandals 4 During the past week, the West Point “cribbing” incident I^VERYTIME the high cost of living is men- ^ tioned, many Of us start screaming loud and long denouncing excessive spending by the federal government. It’s only natural that we should scream because if we are to economize; federal ex penditures is usually the logical place to start. Don’t think for a minute the people’s voice is not heard in Washington. Especially during an election year. However the reaction to that voice is typically political. For instance, a senator may meet with a group in the lobby and say, “Look fellows, the people over in my district are demanding a decrease in governmental spendings. I can’t igore them. We must start the log rolling and find some place we can cut down on spendings.” This hypothetical example is not the ex act words of any senator, but it it is near the truth of the matter that it should serve as a basic for stimulating thought. There we have the senator apparently gearing his actions with the desire of the people. He is willing to cut down on gov- vermental spending. The fault lies in his whimsical decision as to where and what to cut and how much to cut it. In most in- piad when a, horse race was fixed Since the King had the fastest a wheel and the king went through and he can throw the game in a on the plains of Olympia. horse in the land, he raced thirteen the windshield, breaking his regal cathedral.” It seems that a king named foolish and ambitious youths, de- neck.” “Cynical commercialism is a Oenomaus had a beauty for a feating all “whom he then skew- Smith also shows where Em- spreading peril on the gridirpn; daughter who went by the handle ered with his spears. This provided peror Nero, while fighting in the except that it is more difficult to Hippodamia (Greek). She was the fun-loving king with healthful Olympics, had “a whole covey of fix a football game than a basket- “luscious and lovable and royal and exercise and kept Hippodamia opponents go to the water.” ball match, there is no guarantee also rich.” So the king recognizing home to help with the dusting.” “In short, jobs have been bought that the most popular of campus these qualities fixed up certain But as always, love finds a way, off as long as men and animals entertainment is safe from the in rules whereby suitors of the love- or a man that wants to win badly have engaged in organized compe- fluences that fouled basketball, ly princess had to abide. The rules enough will, and a sharp character tition. There are no grounds for “Where ever boys are paid to were “to qualify as a son-in-law, named Pelops, also a Greek, fear that the present-day skul- attend college and play football-— a swain must wheedle the little “bribed the king’s charioteer to druggery will discourage the suck- and some or them are—they are But much too often the lawmaker’s ac- > i ssue , Esquire, pigeon into a chariot and get her tamper with the royal surey. When ers.” outrageously underpaid. When they ,. ' , _ . . Red (“Views of Sports”) Smith across the county line ahead of the their race turned into the home tions are dictated, not by the demands of the writes about the recent earthquake sire.” public, but by selfish desire for power and ha i f „ f stances he and his collegues will agree that a stop-gap is needed. The people must have it. “After all,” they want the people to be lieve, “we’re the public servants and being such, we must succumb to the dictates of the people. has placed the spotlight on foot ball similar to the “black” light shining on basketball. Following we have a running commentary on an articel written for a na tional magazine by one of Amer ica’s leading sportswriters. We think it’s food for thought. — The Editor. “Sports: Hail or Farewell?” their race turned into the home stretch, the monarch’s chariot cast Chandler Ousted prestige. Conditions existing throughout the the twentieth century witnessed the country today should verify the fact that boom in sports since Zeus pmned Kronos, two falls of three (even though the people s demands for stop- A LITTLE QUIET MIGHT HELP the last honest wrestling match ping waste in government has been answered °n record. _ . , , , \ , , , , The second half of the century by various cut backs) those cut backs have began with basketball players been on vital and necessary projects and pro- dumping games for profit, baseball .... .... , dumping Happy Chandler, football grams without consideration on the part of dumping the Purity Code and the the lawmakers whether they were the exact court s dumping the Jockey Club.” ones that should be cut. Yet to See Views A few years ago the public demanded At the time o( this writin?i economy in the White House. The lawmakers Smith had yet to see that his obliged. With careful thought-thoughts of ’XJ X't haThap- where they could save without losing the pened had set the American peo- goodwill of some graft infected parasite, ^ to^wondermg what would oc- thoughts of how they could economize with- “The answer is that nothing is out losing political prestige—the lawmakers ^ any P thu cs h 1 brto re^ The re figured the best place to whack the spend- will be scandals and investigations, thrift’s vein would be on the funds alloted abases and reforms, and sports , 1 will continue to grow as America to the Kansas-Missouri-Oklahoma I H lood Preventive Program. The American people got the cut back, The empty honors that the ivorld bestows do not last beyond the grave. grows—in travail and turmoil and contentiousness and inexhaustible vigor.” Contending that bribery “is at alright. But judging from the terrific lo 8 s hUma " due to the recent flood in the Kansas River pies of “putting Basin, we got our throat cut in the process. firet bribe rccorfed was in 776 B. C. during the First Olym- exam- in the A 4, W&ext. Over The Top In A Barrel Being courteous may require a little extra time but, in the long run, it often saves time. Interpreting the News IT IS usually easy to understand why 100,- * 000 rabid football fans would gather to see a Rose Bowl game, or why 75,000 base ball enthusiasts would wedge into Yankee Stadium to see a World Series. However, it it difficult to understand why 200,000 sup posedly intelligent people would risk life and limb scaling the clifts along Niagara Falls just to see a foolish stunter go over the falls in a rubber barrel. Earlier this week, a daredevil defied the laws of nature. He had previously built a barrel from old innertubes, then he crawled into this barrel and had it towed some two hundred feet upstream from the turbulent rapids of Niagara. We can only surmise how he felt as he plunged over the falls which race downward at the speed of 250 miles an hour. It’s doubtful if he could hear, over the mighty roars of the falls, the blood-thirsty cries from the 200,000 spectators lining the clifts to watch this tragic scene. We do not know what this man was try ing to prove. Had this venture been a success, nobody would have been benefited. Science nor geography, medicine nor navigation— none of them will suffer due to his failure. Success could have meant nothing more than vain glory, whereas, failure left ang- usished loved ones. Such a small reward for so dangerous endeavor. Cotton For Publicity Problem of Withdrawing Troops Faces Negotiators' FT. * U- whare him out wid a cotton stalk.’ No doubt, as a publicity man, “Boll The Communists seem to be try- Weevil” Keane is superb, but as a cotton Sf™thTthfaU picker, Keane isn’t so keen, after all. Almost anybody can get a free job for the public good in any com munity. Wj Personally, we prefer for the go- getter type of women to go-get somebody else. lies are actually demanding an ad vance beyond present lines. Then, if an agreement is reached as of the present lines, the Communists will be in the position of having resisted allied demands which ac tually were never made. Fits Beautifully The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions "Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” This fits in beautifully with the sometime workings of the Chinese mind as well as with typi cal Communist tactics. The fact that the shooting will end with the allies still in possession of some ground formerly administered by the NoxTh Korean puppet govern ment will then be minimized. If this is a correct estimate of The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published Peiping tactic, the allies will five times a week during the regular school year. During the summer terms, The Battalion is published £> rou nd^ the heights four times a week, and during examination and vacation periods, twice a week. Days of publication are lom t0 le pci any possi e JLlyUJ. IrllliUo CV W C/txv.j dllU. evil V.X * UlV/ll pi V. i. 1V/W O J VV 1. 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ROBERTS, JR. things as observation of the man- prolonged. t.iv,H Associated Press News Analyst rier i n which both sides are observ- You will notice that little has t ' al kea to B7D “Boll Weevil” Keane, the heretofore ’ hig a truce. been said as yet about a call for r. . o aa. nrHE prospect that the latest Tb e United Nations feeling that a meeting of the United Nations unheralded record spinner Of a South I j n Korean truce negotia- sucb an Observation system must General Assembly, which seems Texas radio station, has just been crowned tions will be followed by another ba se ^ ll P \ n this case is therefore likely to be the tipoff that negotia- loihlio horn rmmhpr nno step toward agreement seems to be llk . el y become the real focal tions in Kaesong have reached the puuiio neio iiuixiDcx uiie. ^ j eag |. £ a [ r g ut mos |. de ii ca t e point of cease-fire negotiations, point where the military men are Old King Cotton, who has always been item on the agenda will still re- and ma y be the chief reason^why satisfied^ and some gesture of poli- white with modesty, might timidly admit raam - that he took part in ths sucess of the hero, Tbe re al step toward a . . . „ Tr . _ , . cease tire came with Communist because it it had not been for King Cotton agreement to leave the matter of no hero. foreign troops withdrawal for ’ . , . . Tr , , later conferences at governmental The way in which Keane became a hero levels rather than to try to settle substantiates the theory that heroes are it as a part of the military arrange- ITlGTltS made not born. He vowed to pick a bale of cotton in seven days. He did. He’s a hero. Neutral Zone Squabble Simple as that. During the neutral zone violation t j. j? n , . squabble, which seemed Thursday Last tall, we weie on our way to a place to be working itself out through in the Brazos bottom and stopped at a coun- an exchange of unpleasantries, the try store for refreshments. A small, gangly St"the d^Lreatio^rne^^ 1 ^ Negro boy, appaiently about 12 years old, broadcasts are subject to was whistling merrily as he bent over a tbe interpretation—although it small stalk of cotton at the end of the row. Jeculativ^tha'rthf CmnmTnksts “How much can that kid pick?” We asked will not insist on an allied with- nn nlrW NTporn drawal from important terrain, in an O aer Negro. some places considerably north of “Dat’s my boy,” replied the old man, “If the 38th parallel, merely for the ho don’t o-pt three hnnnert a da’ T’« p-nnna P ur P 0Se of restoring the pre-1950 ne aon^ get tnree nunnert a aa i s gonna political situation down to the last detail. CO MANY have asked that the Smorgasbord-MSC be repeated ^ soon, that we are happy to announce the acceptance of res ervations for Sunday, August 12, from 7 to 8 P.M. jpLEASE CALL early so you won’t be disappointed. A NEW MENU of culinary delights will be offered for your approval. Special rates for children. ET A GROUP together for a pleasant evening of good food, ^ cool enjoyment, and satisfying fun. OoO ^mor^adlyorcl— Sunday, August 12, 7 - 8 p.m. Ballroom realize this and resent it, they be come ripe for plucking by the Even though, A. B. Chandler was fixers. It can happen here. It may voted out of a job, by a minority happen here.” of his employers—seven out of Hence, the NCAA, Smith says, sixteen—it was this determined fearing this brought in the Chas- minority that on three occasions tity Code “establishing ceiling pri- voted “No, No. NOOOO’” that put ces on cleated livestock.” the commissioner out of his $65,- “It put college authorities on 0()0-a-year-job. their mettle, challenging their in- But, Smith says, “meanwhile genuity in evading the rules . . . baseball is going on, prosperous The only schools put on trial for and popular and exciting . . . violating the Code were those that Nothing short of total war will discovered they couldn’t ?Jhde by loosen the game’s grip on the the letter of the law and declined people.” to lie about what they were doing.” Concerning the basketball fixes: A repeal of the Sanity Code was “ . . . unless one is prepared to brought about by the unity of the believe that all cops and college South with the “ivy-covered in- pre^idents are infallible, is must s titutions of the East which be true that basketball players po Se d hypocrisy feeling the NC were throwing games before any- would destroy itself . body got caught at it. Disclosure of the extent to which Cadillacs Over-commercialized Football and steam yachts had displaced Alma Mater in affections to a “There is the growing conviction spreading evil and the necessity in responsible campus circles that of remedial action.. the antidote for over-commercial- “Growth, not decay, led to cor- Red football must be furnished by ruption in basketball.” individual college presidents, not Moving the games, said Smith, be any set of national rules. Col- from areas which housed but 1,500 leges committed to the amateur to a capacity arena of 15,000, col- spirit need schedule only those with leges began'to make money on a similar views, and if one endeavors sport that previously was a dreg to cheat, the remedy is to quit play- on an athletic department’s cash, ing with him.” “Emphasis shifted from char- “The more ambitious ones will acter building to the development expand as their financial ability of successful—and therefore pro- permits until a scandal, a major fitable—teams.” war or economical depression calls With the expansion of public in- a halt.” terest on basketball, gamblers saw From here on, Smith goes on to a profit and also moved. point out how courts tossed out “The more popular the sport, the fabulous Jockey Club which the bigger medium of gambling it controlled the licensing power of* becomes, as baseball, football, box- horse racing, and where boxing ing, and horse racing have shown, has taken some bad punches yet And wherever there is gambling may manage to keep its head above there will be efforts to re- the water, duce the financial risks created by honest competition.” As to location of where games think Smith sums it up best when are played and where schools are he says, “If the game has meril located Smith says, “A boy who it will survive and grow up and can ‘be talked to’ by fixers can be prosper, as all sports have sun in a telephone booth, vived scandals of their own.” in- i 4 But the thought as to whether or not sports will continue, we 1 :.Jx We've Moved... 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