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Battalion Editorials Association Binds Students Together
Page 2
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951
Marshall Retires Again
iiFklPLOMATIC action, without the backing
” of military strength in the present world
can lead only to. appeasement.”
General George Catlett Marshall, quiet,
soft-spoken, modest—said the above while
testifying before a Senate Armed Services
Committee in 1948. Yesterday, it was an
nounced that he is again retiring from the
service of his country, this time leaving the
post of Secretary of the Defense.
Time upon time, President Truman has
said that Marshall is “the outstanding man
of the war period.”
Reason enough for that can be shown in
the service which the 71-year-old Virginian
has rendered to his country.
Always a staunch advocate of a “perman
ent citizen army which could be ready for
mobilization on moments notice”, Marshall is
leaving a post which he has held for 14
months and at a time when mobilization of
United States troops seem to be tending to
slack.
Will Marshall again have to be called from
retirement ?
After having helped to direct the great
effort of the western world to win the peace
on the fields of battle, he was called upon to
take a leading role in the effort to preserve
the peace in strengthening democracy
abroad.
It was while Secretary of State, a post he
held for two years, that the soldier-states
man conceived the Marshall plan which in
four years was already a $17,000,000,000 un
dertaking.
He left this post because of a kidney op
eration, then later served as chairman of the
American Red Cross before being named Sec
retary of Defense.
It can be with little doubt that the nation
agrees wholeheartedly with President Tru
man in saying . . . “with great reluctance
(accept his resignation) ... no man has giv
en his country more distinguished and pa
triotic service than have you . . . you have
earned your retirement many fold and I
wish you many good years at Leesburg. . .”
To this we add, “. . . may your retirement
see the coming of a world of peace, one which
you strived so hard to attain. . . .”
Go to Church
TJ/IONDAY morning will mark the beginning
of a new school year for more than
6,000 A&M students. It will also mark the
beginning of a college career for the newly
arrive 1,600 freshmen.
It is not too early-Yor the incoming stu
dents to notice the efforts put forth and the
profits to be gained from the churches of the
local community.
Almost every denomination is represen
ted in either Bryan or College Station and
surely no where can there be found a more
progressive movement than that shown by
the local churches.
Added improvements and new buildings
add to the physical attraction of the churches
but the spiritual attraction will be the same
here as it is in any student’s home town.
We remember when our first Sunday
rolled around at A&M. It then seemed to
us that we could at last sleep late on Sunday.
But we found out that attending church is
the one way to find comfort and relief from
the world around us.
It’s a good habit to get into, and pardon
us if we quote, “Attend the church of your
choice Sunday . . . Take your problems, mil
lions leave them there. . . .”
Interpreting The News
USSR Starts Propaganda
Campaign Against France
By J. M. ROBERTS, JR.
AP News Analyst
Soviet Russia has just launched
another propaganda blast at
France in an effort to interfere
with the accord now being worked
out for Germany by the tri-power
foreign ministers meeting at Wash
ington.
If France goes ahead with plans
for incorporating West Germany
into the Western European defense
system, the Russians imply, then
she need not expect Russia to honor
the Franco-Soviet mutual assist
ance pact negotiated in 1944. That
' pact was directed against a revived
Germany.
The fact that old European ene
mies are being forced to form a
united front by Russia’s aggressive
intentions is, of course, ignored
by the Kremlin propagandists.
The Russians are wise, of course,;
to direct a part of their blast at
the Schuman plan as well as at the
Pleven plan for a unified European
army including Germany.
The Schuman plan is what the
French rely on to prevent Germa
ny, no matter how the wind may
blow there politically, from turning
again on Western Europe.
The Shuman plan provides for
a pool of Europe’s coal and steel
production. The charter under
which it will operate is one of the
most amazing documents ever
drawn in Europe. It is designed,
its title page says, to create “a
European coal and steel communi
ty.” The members of an interna
tional managing authority are in
structed to “exercise their func
tions in complete independence, in
Senator Tells of Force
Of New Atomic Wcapons
Washington, Sept. 13—(A 3 )—Sen
ator McMahon (D-Conn) said yes
terday the destructive fury of
America’s atomic weapons is “truly
fantastic ... a frightful threat”
that dwarfs anything previously
known to man.
McMahon, chairman of the Sen
ate-House Atomic Committee,
made the statement to newsmen on
emerging from an “important”
closed-door session with members
of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Tight-mouthed a' to details, Mc
Mahon told reporters:
“We have made truly remarkable
progress in the development of
atomic weapons. The destructive
power in the atomic stockpile today
is by any standard^ we have pre
viously known truly fantastic.”
McMahon shied away from any
comment about new weapons, but
it was noted that in speaking of
progress he used the word “devel
opment”—a hint perhaps of great
ly improved weapons—rather than
mere production.
The exact size of the nation’s
(See WEAPONS ARE, Page 5)
the general interest of the com
munity.
“In the fulfillment of their du
ties, they shall neither solicit nor
accept instructions from any gov
ernment or from any organization.
They will abstain from all conduct
incompatible with the supranation
al character of their function.”
A few years ago, nobody would
have believed it. That’s what Rus
sian pressure has done for the
solidification of Europe since the
war. If Rssia is worried about the
future of her expansionist pro
gram, she has good cause.
Actually the latest Russian at
tack is nothing new. It is almost
word for word a repetition of what
she had to say before she proved
at the recent Paris conference that
she was no more ready than ever
for a European settlement. That
conference was part of her effort
to block or delay German rearma
ment, just as she has made talk
about the new Japanese peace trea
ty leading to war.
The broadcast early Wednesday
referred again to what the Reds
call allied efforts to turn Hitler
away from the West and toward
Russia in 1939, but never is there
any mention of the Russian-Ger
man pact by which Hitler was turn
ed against the West and Poland
partitioned between the two totali
tarian partners.
' Russia will hardly attract much
attention in France or elsewhere
with this new blast. The facts of
life are becoming too well known
everywhere. If she wants to stop
the rearming of Germany and eve
rybody else, she has been told how.
All she has to do is stop doing
like she does.
By J. B. “DICK” HERVEY
Executive Secretary
The Association of Former Stu
dents is the official organization
binding together alumni of Texas
A&M College. It is a peculiar ani
mal among organizations in that
it is a non-profit corporation char
tered by the State of Texas with
headquarters in the Memorial Stu
dent Center on the Campus. Its
elected officers serve without pay.
Any man who enrolls in a regu
lar course of study here, whether
his length of stay be one week or
eight semesters, is eligible for
membership automatically when he
leaves school. The Council is the
top governing body of the organi
zation, and establishes its policies
and program. Then, too, there are
the usual number of committees,
both standing and special, neces
sary in the administration of an
organization with some 25,000
world-wide members.
After Graduation
Upon graduation, the young for
mer student may continue his as
sociation with the College and fel
low former students by becoming
affiliated with one of the 169 A&M
Clubs which are scattered around
the world. These clubs are an im
portant component of the program
of the Association. Of course, it
is possible for an individual’s chos
en profession to take him to a lo
cale where no club exists. It is not
uncommon, however, for ‘an A&M
man to drive fifty to a hundred
miles to enjoy the fellowship af
forded by these clubs.
The club officers and leaders
are keenly interested in the young
A&M graduate’s active participa
tion in the affairs and program of
the club.
The official publication of the
Association is The Texas Aggie, a
seven column newspaper published
twenty times a year as a means
of keeping the former student cur
rently informed of happenings on
the campus as well as personal
news items about his classmates.
All students, after they leave
school for the last time, are placed
on the mailing list to receive this
publication.
Annual Contribution
The Texas A&M Development
Fund is. its only financial activity
of the Association. To this fund,
A&M men make an annual contri
bution of whatever amount they
can to provide some of those extra
things for the College which are
not otherwise available.
The Development Fund was or
iginally started in 1942. Since that
time initial funds were provided
for the construction of thq; magni
ficent Memorial Student Center, a
building long needed on the A&M
campus. The Gold Star Scholarship
Fund, to aid in the education of
sons and daughters of A&M men
killed in World War II, was also
a project of the Fund. One of these
boys is in school now, and others
are expected as they become of
college age.
The first major scholarships pro
gram in the Southwest, the Op
portunity Award Scholarship Pro
gram, was initiated by the gifts of
former students to this Fund. Bas-
iscally, tire purpose of the Oppor
tunity Award Program is to pro
vide an education for worthy Texas
boys who otherwise would not be
able to attend college. At the pre
sent time several hundred boys
are in school as a result of these
scholarships.
Opportunity Awards
While the former students,
through their contributions to this
Fund, made available the first Op
portunity Awards, many individ
uals followed our example and
more than doubled the number ori
ginally made available. As evidence
of the interest in this program, the
student body has set up its own
Twelfth Man Opportunity Award,
a project unusual among college
and university campuses.
The Former Students Endowed
Scholarship Trust Fund is anoth
er project of the Development
Fund. It will provide a scholarship
for an outstanding student every
year forever. Other projects of the
Development Fund have been new
flags and standards for the Cadet
Corps, A Directory of Former Stu-
students, dress rifles for the Cadet
Corps, the Accumulation of his
torical material about the Col
lege and an 18-hole student golf
course.
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THREESOME. A writing instru
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“Serving Texas Aggies"
This year, former students’ gifts
to the Development Fund will fin
ance the publication of a full-
length book about the College. The
nationally known author, George
Sessions Perry, is writing the
story. Gun cases for the famous
Metzger gun collection, recently
presented to the College, will also
be provided.
The Loan Fund maintained by
the Association of Former Students
will be of interest to the prospec
tive student and student already
enrolled. These funds are avail
able for loans to students who need
assistance in paying college fees
and expenses. Students must meet
basic requirements to be eligible
for loans. They must have com
pleted their first semester, have an
acceptable grade point ratio and
evidence of ability to repay the
loan.
The hub of this ever-expanding
program of the ex-students is the j
Association’s campus offices in the
Memorial Student Center, about
which the program of the organiza- 1 j
tion is centered. The Association f
staff stands ready to be of assist- !
ance or service to the student or
former student alike.
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