ii Pag< Mi M M F1 Jen lay PNi I u ■ II b S' tl A 9 \ Battalion Editorials Page 2 FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1951 THE PlAY MUST GO ON Mi Statistics Can Be Used!. STATISTICS can be used, or misused, to ^prove almost anything. Nevertheless, they are really helpful in some cases. Here is a report that should aid anyone intending to go into the chicken raising business. If you want to enter any other business, you should first figure out what your over head will be, how much help you will need, The trouble ivith some college grad- autes is that their education has been spread a little too thin. Real Cowboy On Way Out IT LOOKS as if the real cowboy is on the ■*way out. A recent Idaho report says some inventor has come up with an electric brand ing iron. What would “Wild Bill” Hickock think— to say nothing of the present-day Kiddies— if he knew that a “jeep-riding” cowboy herd ed cattle into a pen, then gently dabbed each steer with an electric iron? At one time anyone who couldn’t ride a horse 14 hours a day without developing saddle sores was considered a “dude.” No doubt the current cowboys will think us selfish if we should begrudge their ac cepting the same social and industrial ad vancement the rest of us have so well en joyed. They have a point. After all, it would ' be foolish to think that because a farmer once rode a covered wagon he should not have an automobile if he could afford one. No matter how absurd our stand, we just hate to see a cowboy spending more time in a car than astride “Old Paint.” Some institutions of learning will lose prestige this Fall on the foot ball field. Two Deaths- For Science rrWO University of South Dakota labora- tory technicians volunteered to take in jections for an experiment that would ad vance modern science and medicine. Today, both are dead. Although the experiment that took the lives of these two was very common in med ical research, the exact nature of the experi ment was not revealed. Their tragic death stands out as an everlasting symbol of “the uncalled for blunder.” Even though science or medicine may not be advanced by their death, they might not have died in vain. Indeed, we all could be benefited if we would always remember what happened to them. In their case, it seems justifiable to say that carelessness was murder. Unthoughtful ness broods carelessness. If their death cau ses just a few people to think before acting, perhaps, they did not die in vain, after all. Getting-rich-quick has broken more people than any other system de volved by the ingenuity of man. give much thought to location, and even more thought to the required capital you’ll need for a given time. Then, it should follow that if you want to raise chickens, you should know how much it will take to feed each chicken for a given time. Here’s where statistics come in. A curious community in Germantown, Ky. conducted an experiment that proved a White Leghorn rooster will eat 171 grains of corn in three and a half days. Chicken raising should be simplified no end due to that experiment. Why, all you’ll have to do now, is to figure out how many grains there is on an ear of corn, how many ears in a bushel, and divide into the price per bushel—then you’ll know how much it will cost to feed a White Leghorn rooster for thirty days. You might have to iron out a few wrink les such as how many grains a Rhode Island Red hen would eat in one day, or how much the rooster would have eaten if he were given grasshoppers in between meals; but that should be simple, also. tt1-0££./S Truman Aims 'Scaremonger' Attack At Sen. McCarthy By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press Staff As we were saying, statistics are val- WASHINGTON, Aug. . , ’ » I /■!/■» f P un n U 17_(/P)_ liable. I resident Truman has mage a lengthy attack, in a speech to the American Legion, on “scare-mong ers” and “hate-mongers.” He said “Americanism is being A political campaign is not the sea- 8071 in ivhich to expect public speak ers to agree. World Loses Top Newspaper Man undermined by some people who s P eec h about, the question in generalities and renewed his said “I don’t intend to get into charges against the State Depart- an argument with the senator.” ment, where he has concentrated Stuck To Policy his fire. He has stuck to that policy himself pretty much although other Since the President was suffi- officials of the State Department ciently troubled by the attacks on many times since have denied Mc- his administration to make this Carthy’s charges and accused him Troubled by Attacks which comes to mind at once is this: are trying to get us to believe our government is riddled with Com munism and corruption ...” Longest Talk It was the longest talk Mr. Tru man has made on that subject. And d hi c i inst the it was interpreted here as aimed n m US-Philippine Defense Pact Nears Completion W/ASHINGTON, Aug. 17—(A 5 )— give American armed forces de- ment, and Great Britain, which ” A mutual defense pact be- fenSe bases in and around Japan, has recognized the Communist re tween the United States and the A proposed draft of the U. S.- gime. Philippines has reached the draft- -Philippine arrangement has been Red China moved yesterday to ing stage, it was learned yester- sent to Manilla, U. S. officials reject the proposed treaty and to day. said today. If it is accepted, they promote separate negotiations be- Informed officials here told a said the U. S. would be bound to tween itself and the states that reporter that American and Fili- regard any aggression against the fought Japan, pino officials hope to whip the Philippines as “dangerous” to Peiping radio broadcast a 6,000- treaty into shape in time for a American peace and security. word statement by Red Premier signing ceremony at the Japanese The alliance represents another Chou En-Lai saying that with the peace meeting next month in San U. S. move to build up safeguards Chinese Communists excluded from Francisco. against possible Communist ag- the San Francisco canference they A similar U. S.-Australia-New gression in the Pacific. There is would consider the treaty “ille- Zealand defense alliance is due to hope here for an eventual eastern gal and therefore null and void.” be approved there Sept. 1. Three defense arrangement to parallel Chou charged that the confer- days later some 50 nations will the intended functions of the North ence was being convened under meet to sign a final Japanese Atlantic Treaty in the West. “compulsion” of the United States peace treaty. Treat y Made Public “ and its sa ' tell ites.” Jap Bases The “final” Japanese peace Read y !° Exchange Views American officials confidently treaty text, drafted jointly by the His government, he added, “is expect a U. S.-Japanese arrange- U. S. and Britain, was made public ready to exchange views on the ment will be concluded later to yesterday. At the same time, its problem of a joint peace treaty chief architect, U. S. Ambassador with Japan with all the states that John Foster Dulles, predicted fail- had participated in the war against ure for any Russian effort to Japan.” wreck the peace conference. Only minor differences were not- And Dulles reported for the ed in the new Japanese treaty first time officially - that Soviet draft as compared to the last pre- Communists have been conducting vious version prepared July 20. a war-of-nerves against the treaty The only change of any importance and “even suggesting that it may made clear Japan’s obligation to be countered by their violence.” pay partial reparations to allied He did not expand on this point, nations who suffered damage and But he declared in a radio speech loss of life from the Japanese. (CBS) that so many World War The pact, however, ruled out full Two allies will sign the treaty reparations now because “the re- “that there will be no doubt in any sources of Japan are not presently quarter as to either the fact of sufficient” to meet them. peace or as to the terms of peace. Familiar With Alliance Dulles expressed hope that Rus sia’s four representatives to the Officials familiar with the pro treaty-signing session would not posed U. S.-Philippines alliance turn, out to- be “a wrecking crew” Said talks started nearly a month which would try to “demolish a a &° ' n . Manila at the request of structure of Japanese peace which tree Philippine govemment. has been built carefully and sound- The proposed pact submitted by of “smearing.” The President has expressed con tempt for McCarthy several times, “If he meant McCarthy, why but very briefly, in news confer- didn’t he name him?” ences when the senator’s name A check through the files since Feb. 10, 1950, when McCarthy On Feb. 21, 1950 Acheson, whom Interpreting The News A TT 7 c Vt r 4 w- • State Department, seems to in at Senator McCarthy, Wisconsin dicate ^ Presid ’ ent and Secre _ Republican, and other congression t of state Aches(m have had al members who have charged there are Communists and Com munist-sympathizers in the gov- T UESDAY the newspaper world lost a e rnment. J T -, ,,, , TTT . 11 . T1 ... But the President never once McCarthy finally came to call the great Editor when William Randolph mentioned by name McCarthy or “Red Dean,” denied there Were Hearst- who was respectively known by his anyone else. Immediately McCarthy Communists in his department but, it . accused the President of speaking as for McCarthy himself, Acheson 27,000 employees as The Chief—died m a coma. Hearst was one of the nation’s most con troversial figures in newspaper editing and publishing. Some called him a “yellow jour nalist” while many others ardently acclaim ed him a genius. Certainly it could be said that his news papers were never dull. He was a man who took a firm stand for or against a cause. Much of the time his papers were fighting public utilities and the government, but they also campaigned diligently for American ences when the senator’s name came up. Once he said McCarthy was the Kremlin’s greatest asset here. But otherwise the President hasn’t said much about the sena tor. Maybe only the historians will pohcV "of ^avoiding “mention 1 of ev ®. i ;. be 1 able to e ^ ain why-for -i • . ■nrmrir»ol toocr*r>q it tnv no orhor* McCarthy directly m any way, No Chinese Asked Although China was an enemy of Japan in World War Two, no Chin ese representatives have been in- Treaty Influenced Relations Greatly By J. M. ROBERTS, JR. terms are all set. A»joeiiUtu Press r ueuuuucmg anu seeiung m m- - . . „ . . teixere wxpn ii uum uie vex/ -uim. fought gallantly m the defense of his con- Bee victions. .. , Now, as tney prepare to attend He was, of all men, most responsible for the Japanese peace treaty coiuer- the syndicated feature and the comic strip. eilce ’ Ultiy are uioU f L LU ictce Newspapermen are generally agreed that with the forging of a vast new these are good for the newspaper. military front in the allied pro gram of containment. No matter how many his faults, he must There will be no great multi- have had something “on the ball’ to have latera l Pacific pact as a direct , . , , , , ,. , . . parallel to the Atlantic pact, but created the newspaper and publishing empire the effect will be much the same. whole scope of the new American Pacific set-up. That is India. just ignored him he might go away. But he didn’t. that he did. It is comparatively easy to make decisions but it is much harder to put them into effective use. Printing is a dangerous device to those who do not want their opin ions permanently recorded. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions '’Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman’* The United States is preparing to sign defense treaties with Aus tralia, New Zealand, the Philip pines and Japan. In addition, two of the treaties resuit in part from fear of the situation which brings about the third. They represent assurances to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines that the American plan for bi’inging Japan into the anti- Communist alliance will not be permitted to endanger their secur ity. San Francisco Treaty The treaties with the former allies are expected to be signed at San Francisco next month. Wheth er the military treaty with Japan will bq signed then or slightly later makes little difference. The 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 or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. 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Phone 4-5124. gPECIAL RATES for the children. emona / Student (denier LPL ABNER Her Master’s Voice By AI Capp ■■■■j I KNOW YOU DON'T Y AW ^ LOVE ME, DAISY MAE- )THINKS BUT WILL YOU MARRY ME-TO PROVIDE A MOTHER FOR MV MOTHER- LPL ABNER The Green Light By Al Capp 7 ! t the United States, they said, con tains these main points: ® Each nation will regard an armed attack against the other as “dangerous” to its own security. • i tw ® The Secretary of State and the vited to the treaty signing, this c . ... j .u ■ m _-r voanNc ™w. w foreign minister of the Philippines can consult to determine how to meet common threats at any time. ® Both governments pledged to take all steps necessary for self help and mutual aid to bolster their security. ® The treaty will last indefin itely. ® A one-year notice by either nation is required to end the al liance. The treaty would reinforce two military agreements the United States now has with the Philip pines. Around 20 Philippine mili tary bases were placed at the dis posal of American armed forces on March 14, 1947. And an agreement initialed March 21, 1947, provided for American weapons shipments and American aid in training Fili pino armed forces. M * i *