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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.
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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<ews Auuiyst There is another nation, outside
rrrj iNurui Auanuc rreaiy the Communist bloc but not inside
- oaoiy naa had ine greatest rm- the anti-Communist bloc where it Acheson got. together annd decided,
pact ui an tilings wmeu have nap- would seem by nature to belong, when McCarthy began his attacks
principals such as the eight hour day and iieiieu to AilieiWau-ivusbrau rem- which will be unhappy over the in February, 1950, that if they
political reasons, if for no other
the President and Acheson have
shown such reluctance to tackle
McCarthy at length and by name.
McCarthy Hurt Policy
There’s no doubt McCarthy has
done the Truman administration
political damage, filling the minds
of some people with doubt and
suspicion 'about the State De
partment’s operations and the ef
forts of the administration to weed
out any Communists left in gov
ernment.
McCarthy certainly had a very
direct hand in helping defeat the
Democrats’ Senator Tydings of
Maryland who, with two other
Democrats investigating McCar
thy’s charges last year, called
him a liar and said his charges
were a fraud and a hoax.
It may be that Mr. Truman and
results from an agreement be
tween the U. S. which recognizes
the Chinese Nationalist govem-
Correction-Please
Pardon our error! In Thurs
day’s Battalion on page 2 a
headline at the top of the page
read, “Senator Suggests A&M
as Top Officer School.” The
“Senator” is a Representative
by the name of W. R. “Bob”
Poage from Waco.
Our apologies for this over
sight. We certainly haven’t
heard of any intentions on Mr.
Poage’s part for running for
Senator in the coming elections.
woman suffrage.
wons since uiey uecarne opemy im-
imccu ui lU'to.
His propulsive nature many times an- me ivussians have been squirm-
tagonized public opinion. Nevertheless, he in fe> 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
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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
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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.
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