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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951
Decrease Federal Spending
■Illustrating Sports writer's Views
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Food for Thought: On Sports Scandals
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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
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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'
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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.
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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
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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
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JOEL AUSTIN Editor
Andy Anderson Associate Editor and Sports Editor con Rict and final settlement.
Pat Moriey. Women’s Editor Chinese and Russians alike,
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Wy J. M. 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-
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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
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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.”
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