Battalion
Editorials
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1951
DIFFERENT SCRIPT
Two Hall Ends
IT MIGHT be just idle thought, but it is a thought—have
■^you ever wondered why so many of the college’s service
organizations are so surly.
For example take the case of Joe Q. Student who goes
up to find out something about his transcript. Joe is a lucky
fellow indeed if he gets a look at this record. He is even
luckier if he can get some one to go over it with him. But
after all the people in this office are there not to serve him,
but to keep track of the records. The only thing that seems
out of place on this count is that the people behind the cages
who are doing the favors forget that if Joe Q. were not go
ing to school and doing something to put on a record they
would not have anything to do.
But who makes the record are not important, it is the
record that IS important.
Or if you have no complaints with this office, let’s just
go down the hall of some building and see some organization
about cashing a check or paying fees. Again we have a group
of individuals that are put on this earth to pay homage to
their records and set themselves up as Demigods. It is not
their job to provide a service to the student.
After all we know the student is an inferior being. He
was placed on this earth only to be spoon fed by others. If it
were not for the other person—say the people who cash
checks or take fees—he, John Q., would be a babe in the
woods.
It is a shame the service organizations cannot remember
who they are servicing.
Legalized Separation?
1I10NDAY afternoon in Hot Springs Arkansas the annual
convention of Southern Governors got underway. One
of the first questions that arose in the convention was Negro
segregation.
Such arguments for segregation as “delicate affairs
such as human relationships cannot be equalized and balanced
by legislation without destroying human freedoms,” were
advanced by some of the more rabid “States-Righters”. Of
course there is a fallacy immediately evident in that argu
ment, for what is segregation but a restriction and destruction
of human freedoms? If the restriction of people from con
gregation in certain public places simply because their skin
happens to be another color is not a restraint or restriction
of those peoples human freedoms, then what could it be
called?!
Even the people who advanced the opinion that “The
high cost of segregation has held back the overall develop
ment of our educational institutions” go on to say that “it is
up to the south to find a way to preserve social segregation
while extending the full benefits of civil liberties.” It is easy
to accept the first statement which says that segregation
has hampered the development of educational systems be
cause of the high costs but one has to wonder if that is a
reason that should be foremost in the granting of civil lib
erties.
Another objection to the argument that the South should
find a way to preserve social segregation while granting full
civil benefits is that it sounds as if we should obey the let
ter of the law and violate the principle.
When the superflous is stripped away, what are civil
benefits but those same civil rights that we are all so proud
.of and pay lip service to that are printed in the great docu
ments of this country such as the Declaration of Indepen
dence and the Constitution?
Do not these papers say all mep are entitled to certain
basic things and that these basic rights and freedoms are
for all and not just the rich, poor, black, white, or yellow.
You have to agree that segregation is something, since
it is human relationships, that can not be legislated into the
people. It is something that has to come with understanding,
education, and something more than the idea that the Bill
of Rights and the Amendments to the Constitution are fine
for me but don’t apply to a minority group that I have an
economic or any other kind of advantage over.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman"
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Johnson Slams Number y
Of Washington Brass Red Railheads
^ U.S. Eighth Army Head-
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH Washington area as there were In his letter to Lovett, Johnson quarters, Korea, Nov. 14—CP)
T'tfypr
during World War II peak strength said he finds it difficult to be-
Washington, Nov. 14—(SP)—The w hen the armed forces were three lieve that an administrative force
Senate Preparedness Subcommit- an( j h a }f times their present size, as large as the present one is ne-
tee complained that the Washing- , • r , pessary, even though “war has be-
ton area is overloaded with “up- come more complex.” The senator
per brass”—high-ranking military In an accompanying letter to added:
officers—and armed forces civilian Secretary of Defense Lovett, chair- « In some respects, it is even
employees. man Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) call- more startling to observe the large sa jd B - 2( > iight bombers destroyed
“It is obvious that the defense ed the situation startling and ask- numbers of Army and Air Force eight locomotives in pre-dawn
establishnients is tending toward ed for recommendations to remedy co i on els and Air Force captains raids. Ten others were reported
administrative top-heaviness it. There was no immediate com- an( j 0 ther high-ranking officers in destroyed in the 24 hours ended at
Allied warplanes today swept,
North Korean skies without '
challenge and dealt new blows
to the crippled Communist rail
system.
Far East Air Forces (FEAF)
Washington who seem to have as midnight Tuesday,
one of their principal assignments
acting as ‘messenger boys.’
General Office Help
An air force spokesman said he
hesitated to claim a total of 18
since there might be some over
lapping. But he said he felt cer-
“At times the impression is ere- tain at least some of the eight
Check? I Have INo Check
Corps Trip Plans Foiled Or
Best Laid Schemes Gang..
By J. Q. STUDENT
Battalion Staff Writer
The little dried up man, who ap-
Planning a corps trip isn’t al- peared set in his ways, just looked
ways as hard as some people make at roommate and said “ .”
it. For instance take the case of Roommate was used to having
my roommate. He never starts to to ask several people in the office
worry about making the trip until for his check,
the last minute.
that is inefficient, wasteful. and ment from the Pentagon
..dangerous,” the armed services The committee’s study showed
group said in a report. that last Sept. 30 there were 361
“Unless the trend is halted now general and flag officers and 91,-
we could, - in the classic phrase, d 81 defense establishment civil-
wind up with the fighting forces ians stationed in the Washington ___ ______ r _
composed of ‘all chiefs and no ^ rea - On April 30, 1945 just be- a te(j that a substantial portion of were in addition to the previous 10.
Indians/ ” the end of th£ war in Eu- the high-ranking officers in the Allied fighter sweeps through
The report said there now are 3 Q 9 J n f 1 ene !' a - 1 1 • and Pentagon have been brought to MIG Alley in northwest Korea be-
almost as maif generals, admirals ;fIa T g <ind 1 C1 I /tLa the Clty for the P ur P 0Se of dellv - f ore 110011 Wednesday failed to
and defense e/tablishment civilians In 194 ° ^ ™ f od forfces totaled fring documents and carrying turn up any Communist jets. It
at the Pentagon and in the general moi ' e t ^ a / 1 12 ’ 090 ’ 0() . 0 m , en and w ?‘ briefcases for even higher ranking was the fourth straight day the
S 5 men. The present strength is officers who testify before con- Reds refused to tangle with U.N.
around 3,500,000. gressional committees.” planes.
Referring to the present situa- Jt)hnson asked Lovet t to pre- n U - N - ground forces Wednesday
. Loti, the report said: recommendations covering threew back two company-sized
The high concentration of up- ^ situation ag well as the man fe _ Red probing attacks on the West- .
per brass is, apparent to the ^iost . taatt and to be re ady to e ™ front and scattered a Commu-
casual observer of the Washington £ resent them ’ at public hearings lllst P lato011 on the Eastera fl ’ ont - „
scene. Even a noondday stroller ^ committee will hold later. No Action
down any street jn the mid-section .
of the city is likely to encounter ., f (> bo hoped, the report An Eighth Army Wednesday .
at least a few officers of general sai d, that time will not be wasted evening communique said there was
or flag rank.” on excuses to justify the situation, T1{) other significant action along
but that a real attempt to elimin-
Top Brass ate wasteful and extravagant per-
Flag rank in the Navy is any- sonnel will be made.’
thing above captain. General rank '
I never have seen him put out
or disturbed about anything that
goes on* in the frantic operation.
But because he was different I ap
pealed to his mob instinct and
convinced him the thing to do is to
make plans like any other student
would.
assorted money matters and asked head of the department of assort-
a man at the cage for the check. ed subjects.
Dr. K. Y. Slurmch was Sitting
in his office, roomate sobbed to
me. When “Old Lady” asked the
department head about the pay
roll for student labor, the grand
old man of the department re
plied “What Payroll?”
the front,
Allied troops Tuesday beat back
two vicious Red atacks at oppo
site ends of the line.
Late Tuesday night the Reds
used about 10 tanks in a moon- ■
light assault on U.N. forward posi
tions west of Chorwon on the
Western front. Red infantrymen
followed under cover of mortar
and tank fire.
The Chinese Communists were .
driven off after a 25-minute bat
tle. At least two of their tanks
were claimed destroyed by U.N.
armor. ■
The Allied tanks were used pri
marily as mobile artillery.
“ 0n iul t tiDlv ba J'uj’-*I| 11 , 1 ? T IT <•«*» for Stale playoffs and midnight"^™ dawn h wSnesday
Now it isn't often 1 can.w* an mined that ho was soing to. make glory. S genoraU and admfrals in Wash- the other two go through the tho Com m „„^ s h d withdraw^
argument with him or convince him his plans for the weekend in ad- He is not planning for a corps ington by three and a half? Would uistlict semi-tmal round this Eastern front •Ulird
the majority is right—they all vance. He was going to make sure trip. He is taking the philosophy we have to staff the Pentagon with week-end in Texas schoolboy f rrmnt j (; ,q N , tb tx
can’t be wrong. But anyway he de- he had his $2.38 check for the past that what will happen will happen. U256 ^general and flag officers? football. bodies on the battlefield afterhurl-
cided to start planning.
He wrote a letter to a girl
he knew and asked for a date
over the weekend. The same time
he wrote for a room in the Lilly
Hotel in Howstom.
Another little man came up to
the window and looked out. See
ing roommate standing there Lit
tle Man turned around and quick
ly began counting the money in
a box on the other side of the
in other services is anything above
colonel.
Declaring the current figures
give rise to some disturbing
thoughts, the committee said:
“The Armed forces of the Uni
ted States that defeated the Axis
powers were approximately three
Roommate is a strong man. He and a half times the size of our
is a patient man. He explained present combined Army, Navy, Air
that the student , payroll had to be Eorce and ^f rin Y 9 or P s ’ ^ 18 ? n "
turned in before the students i'rely possible that in a major
could get a check. wa1 ’ we ' W0 P‘ C * return to that
The payroll went in, roommate strength,
said. This was 14 days ago and
Roommate was bound and deter- still no checks. Roommate is in his to multiply
Way Cleared
For Playoffs
In State
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
Associated Press Sports Editor
Two divisions clear the
mont . h - ,,, , . u His last word before he went Would we have to jam 321,695 More than 30 districts in c i asse s i ng back a coordinated attack by,
Being up on the methods used in back down to the. Office of All civilian employes into the Defense AA an( j A will decide champions, five Red battalions. The attack
the Babylon of Money Changers Money Matters was, “What s the Department buildings in the cap- Thirty-three already have done so. began Monday night.
Only one titiist is yet known in An Allied tank force pushed
he ducked down beneath the win- use.”
dow and set a trap for one of the
employees.
Roommate is an agile person and
Then he went down to get his after t#o hours and 35 % minutes
check from the Finance Office. You he caught a money changer and
see he works as a part time helper got. him to look for his check,
in the Department of Assorted “No check here, see the head of
subjects. the department.” «said the caged
From the story he told me while man. With this he pulled his leg
we blew the foam off the;head of out of the trap and ran away,
our Touchstone root beer it was Roommate was a determined
pathetic. He went to the office of man and he went over, to see the
THE WORLD TODAY
Up and Down
Of British Economy
classes AAAA and AAA but all about 6,000 yards ahead of U.,N,
except five of the 16 districts are hues above Kumhwa on the central
expected to crown kings by the front. Four Allied tanks wen
week-end. These two divisions damaged by Red fire, and onli
have still another week to go. one was recovered.
Ysleta has nailed down the title FrAI waiplaneS mounted 895.
3 Measures Pass, 2
Fail in Early Vote
By JAMES MARLOW
of District 2 in class AAAA and
ajwaits its foe from District 1
where Lubbock’s Westerners, lead
ing with an undefeated record,
meet the last obstacle in their
path to the title.
sorties as skies cleared over Korea
Tuesday. Primary targets were
Red rail facilities.
Locomotives
An operational summary said
the sighting of locomotives wfcrc
It’s Lubbock vs Odessa at Odessa among the highest of the war.
By The Associated Press
Texas voters—the few who cared
enough to ballot—apparently ve
toed three proposed constitutional Yi'r/winn lld
amendments yesterday. about 15() ’ 0()0 votes tr0 ™
the news the British are in a fi
nancial jam again and expect to
ask us for more help.
Shattered by the war, they were
in bad shape when the shooting
was doubtful that late-reported stopped. The U. S. gave them a
votes would overcome this lead. ) oan of $3,750,000,90U. That was
Shortly after midnight, the Tex- 111 UU , ... . 1f ,. 0 ,i TT a
as Election Bureau had counted -* 4nd ’ s ^ aiblll g m 1^ 8 > the U £
almost his first act w'as to tell the
British people, who have been on „ ., , ., ,
Washington, Nov. 14—(/P)—The rationing since the war, that liv- hnday—-and that will tell the story “The Communists are striving
chilling wind which blew across j n g y 0 uld have to become even 01 whether Lubbock, generally rat- g0 bat . d t be j r ra ji ii nes j n
the Atlantic this past week was more austere. , , • 1 ju the state, moves into sbape they are using many locomo-
His government announced a the championship fight or there s tives to haul flat cars loaded with
cut in imports which will mean a three-way tie m District 1 with s ^ ee j ra ils to th areas affected,”
less food and other things for his the committee having to name the ^ be aA . f orc e spokesman said,
people. The reason: to cut down dis t ncts representative. p ilotg alg0 re ported direct hits
on spending. More than 60 per _ this is one of three big games on tunnels, rail lines, fuel dumps
cent of Britain’s food has to be in the upper brackets of schoolboy and bl i dg es.
imported.
football. Fully as important is
And it will be Churchill, or some that matching Port Arthur with n- t d
of his men, who’ll have to ask Baytown in District 8 of class
FEAF said strafing fighters in-
200 casualties on Red troops,
bsTthl —“ “E MP once more, AAAA. Here a re two of the state
But as results continued to be county returns were coriiplete.
state's 254 couaties. Pwenty-eight JlLTette BritislfbeSn"'^ “‘iTj. 0 JS tamte to- g “ LXe bo"X
reported today, two proposals still
The proposal to boost the welfare
were in doubt—one a real nip-and- , to , * j au
, ,, ■ -f-Po- fund had created the most noise,
. but it appeared well beaten m
Rejected apparently were pro- ea riy morning tabulations,
posals to allow'' pension plans for Throughout the'night, the percent-
county employes, an increase in a g e cban g e for and against varied
ceilings of welfare payments and little,
to allow establishments of dis
tricts to provide protection against
fires for rural areas.
The one nearest the win
Present Ceiling
this help the British began to get country in January with his staff gether.
to visit President Truman. The other top game is in District
But it w r as neither the Socialists 5 of class AAA where undefeated,
nor Churchill who put Britain into untied Palestine marches against
the red again. It was the tide of mighty Temple. Temple, loser on-
events, starting with the Korean ly to Baytown during the season,
war in mid-1950 1 wiren Britain was has long been ranked No. 1 in
just regaining its feet. class AAA.
With the start of the Korean In class AA the headliner
on their feet,
By the beginning of 1951 they
were in the black and so confi
dent of clear sailing that they
said they didn’t need any more
Marshall plan aid. But by the
fall of 1951 they were in trouble
again
Student Teachers
Practice Starts
Forty eight agricultural educa-
In this country those who dis- war this country and its allies, in- matches LaMarque and La Porte .
This, proposal would have in- liked the British Socialist govern- eluding Britain, began to re-arm. for the District 27 championship, rtipn students will begin w© weeks
n-or-loso' cresisetl the present ceiling of $35 ment probably blamed it for the Britain plans to spend $13,000,000,- It also brings undefeated, untied °f practice teaching in 20 Texas
b j linp W . IC . 4. b „ rirnnns'il to •it. trillion a y ea1 ' i n public welfare dowuiturn in Britain’s fortunes, 000 on her rearmament program in teams together and is one of three high schools early next month. The
low Yho TTnivpvsitv of Tpya«? to P a y men ts—mostly old age pen- thinking that if only Winston three years. games in that category in the state, students will leave Dec. 3.
invest its permanent fund in wavs s ' ons —^ $42 million. Those who Churchill were running the show This dislocated the British eco- In class A there are twm such W. W. McIIroy of the depart-
which would increase its revenue f^red it said it would makfe each he would by some special magic nomy. It put the British in the pos- contests—Iraan and Wink clashing ment said this training would
The law now allows"the fund to be P ens ^ oners check a little larger. • lift his country into propserity ition of spending more than they for the District 5 title and Eden prove invaluable to agricultural
again. earn. In short, they are living be- and Eldorado battling for the education majors who plan to
Churchill is in power now and yond their means. crown in District 6. teach following graduation.
invested only in various types of Others pointed out that the pro-
govemment securities. posal had removed the requirement
When tabulators quit work early of citizenship. This, they claimed,
this morning, 50.94 per cent of the "would have allowed Such an in
voters had rejected this plan. How- crea se m the number of pension-
ever, Bob Johnson, head of the Tex- ei "s that each elderly person ac-
as Election Bureau, said there was tuall y would receive less money,
a possibility the proposal might The veterans land fund plan in
come out winner. volves allowing the state to issue
Close Vote ^ million more in bonds with
which to help veterans purchase
Another close vote was on the f arms and ranches. The money
only proposition which was ahead wou i d be repaid. The proposal
in early morning tabulations—the took an early lead and kept it.
plan to allow an increase in bonds
with which to help veterans pur
chase farms and ranches.
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Bob Selleck Sports News Editor
Pat Morley Women’s Editor
T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, Al Bruton, Norman Campbell,
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Berthold Weller, Jerry Wizlg, Raymond York News and Feature Writers
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This measure was leading by a
53.7 percentage. Johnson said it
Murdoch Invited to
Netherlands School
The Wagemngen Agricultural
New Hog Killing
Method Used Here
A new method of butchering
hogs was used recently by the ani
mal husbandry department.
One day last week a student
m
frnile.
(MOW!
LPL ABNER
An American In Paris
By Al Capp
College, the Netherlands, has re- demonstrated an amazingly differ-
quested Dr. Philip G. Murdoch, re- ent method of butchering hogs,
search professor in the chemical The event occurred in the Animal
engineering department, be ap- Husbandry 307 (meats) Lab.
pointed as guest professor there
for a year.
The professorship would be a
Fulbright Award administered
The animal was knocked uncon
scious and bled thoroughly. The
hog was then hoisted into the
scalding vat as usual. The sup-
thrcHigh the Conference Board of ^ ^animat
Associated Resea rch Councils. fi ndin ^ the boiling water too warm
Murdoch would lecture on multi- for co ^ fort pr0 ceeded to climb out
component distillation and the de- 0 £ £ be vat ’
sign of chemical reactors
Murdoch has been active in re
Seeing this, the amazed student
search in these fields. He was promptly plunged the animal to
awarded a plaque for a paper on the bottom of the vat only to have
“Multicomponent Distillation” by it reappear. Three duckings was
the South Texas Section of the all the weakened animal could
American Institute of Chemical En- stand. It stayed submerged after
gineerS. • the fourth plunge.