Battalion
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1951
THE RED MEDLEY
Authority Misused
IN SETTING up any order, the commander must take into
consideration what will happen if there is an exception or
a violation of the rule. This is not an abstraction, but it is a
cold fact. * * ;* «»4Kiall
Bringing it closer to home, it is a problem that is con
fronting the cadet leaders.
A short time ago the corps leaders set up a system of
afternoon bullrings. This was published under the order set
ting up company punishment. The motive for making such a
method of extra duty was to get around the old use of the
board.
Under one of the numbered paragraphs of the order it
specified that a man would not be given more than one hour
per offense nor would he be made to walk more than two
afternoons a week.
This ruling has not been carried out. There are men who
are gettinng more than one hour per offense. Sh as not to
pull an illustration out of the air take the case of one junior
who was ill and did not make a yell practice.
• His company commander looked upon this as a serious
crime and worthy of the most severe penalty. In the past
times he would have ordered the junior to his room and ad
ministered corporal punishment. But at the request of the
members of the corps, such corporal punishment is ruled out
and what remains is the afternoon bullring.
SancitityoflndividualsVioIated
In Atrocity Killings in Korea
By HAL BOYL
New York—(A 5 ) — There is no
parallel in American history to the
cold-blooded massacre of some
5,500 U.S. prisoners of war by the
Communists in Korea.
It is by far the gi’eatest atrocity
committed against our nation since
its founding.
It negates the principles upon
which our republic is built—the
value of individual and human
rights.
In the seven-year struggle to
achieve American independence the
U.S. Army estimates “at least
4,044 American soldiers were
killed” in battle.
Yet in less than a year-and-a-
half of the “police action” in Ko
rea the enemy has murdered in
cold blood more than 5,500 cap
tured and defenseless American
troops. They have murdered more
Lovers Overcome Trials In
MGM’s 6 American In Paris’
By FRANK DAVIS
Battalion Staff Writer
(“An American In Paris,” star
ring Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant,
George Guetary, Nina Fock, and in-
. This company commander gave the junior twelve hours vrmSnt^MinneU^nT’produced 1 by
on the afternoon bullring. No interpretation of the order Arthur Fredd, MGM. Showing
could make this punishment justifiable—a man can not get
over one hour per offense.
When queried about the punishment, the junior said,
if he did not get the hours all at once he would probably get
them for a dirty sink twelve days in a row.
Now we are attempting to say the punishment was out
of keeping with the breach of Aggie rules. But we are saying,
it is a breach of the ruling.
The corps leaders must decide now whether or not the
new order gives them enough room to administer a just pun
ishment. If it doesn’t, let them ask for an expansion on the
order. If the order is not to be changed, let each of the com
pany commanders follow it.
through Saturday at the Queen.)
Love at first sight still hap
pens realistically in the movies.
Boy meets girl. Something in the
mind snaps and says “this is it.”
That’s the way it was when
Jerry (Gene Kelly), an Ameri
can ex-GI painter in Paris, saw
Lisa (Leslie Caron) sitting at
another table in a French cafe.
Lisa, being a nice girl, at first
Red Complaint
To Divert Big
Soviet Blunder
resisted the advances of Jerry, but
force of personality eventually
wore her resistance down. Conflict
entered the plot, when Jerry
learned Lisa was going to marry
George Guetary, a French A1 Jol-
son, who had “nearly saved her
life” during the war.
While Lisa was picking up hus
bands, Jerry was picking up ad
mirers, ie, a rich sun tan oil
heiress (Nina Fock), who just lov
ed to sponsor talented artists, mus
icians, or whoever might come
along.
Then there was unforgetable Os
car Levant to complete the main
cast in “An American In Paris.”
As the misunderstood concert pian
ist who had never given a con
cert, Levant only had to act natur
ally to be convincing.
Complications rapidly worked
themselves out to a happy end
ing which delights any audience.
Jerry and Lisa return to each
others arms after Guetary nobly
stepped aside. Levant and Miss
Fock are lost in the shuffle.
\ Besides the brilliant photogra
phy, realistic street scenes, and
song and dance routines, one mag-
“An American in Paris” is con
sidered by some as better than
“Royal Wedding” starring Fred
Astaire and Jane Powell, but
Americans than died to make us a
free people.
The figure is almost too shock
ing to comprehend. For these out
right murders of our men arc only
a small fraction of our total Ko
rean casualties—now at the 100,000
mark.
And the murders of our men
are only a small fraction of the
murders committed by the Reds
among captured South Korean
troops and the South Korean
civilian population.
But the number of disarmed
Americans they have brutally shot
down or clubbed to death makes
the Custer Massacre of the Indian
wars or the Malmedy Massacre of
the last world war look like mis
demeanors.
These endless, fruitless and use
less slayings by the Chinese and
North Korean Reds must put be
fore civilized mankind again its
oldest Question—does human life
hold any dignity, or must peoples
feed upon each other as animals?
The 20th century mind, brought
up in a time of atrocity, is dulled
to the very word atrocity. It tends
to regard atrocity and propaganda
as the same word.
There are people today who
already are willing to believe
that Hitler’s human death fac
tories were only legends.
Gen. George S. Patton was aware
of people’s tendency to shrug away
government did to helpless men.
These massacres in Korea are no
more legendary than the massacres
of Hitler, and no more to be con
doned.
In the prison at Taejon is
Sept. 1950, I saw the corpses of
400 civilians shot by the retreat
ing Reds. What crimes had
these dead folk committed? The
crime of many consisted in the
fact that they owned a rice pad
dy, were landlords or merely
had remained indifferent to the
Communist cause.
In the courtyard of the Taejon
city jail I watched as they dug out
the bodies of a line of American
soldier prisoners. They had been
tied together at the wrists, forced
to kneel in a quickly dug ditch,
then shot down. Two of the Amer
ican boys died holding each other
in a final handclasp.
There have been scores of mas
sacres like this in Korea, some
smaller, some larger.
How can these dead soldiers ev
er rest easy in their graves until
America does somthing about it?
A Dog’s Life
Cold Monday Finds
Roomey Love Sick
By LESTER McIVER
Battalion Staff Writer
You know it’s funny about these fillies—a fellow never
knows exactly where he stands with ’em. One minute he
thinks he has her right in the palm of his hand—and bingo
there she goes leading him around by the nose.
Well something like this always pops up after every
inferior to‘“Slmw Boat”"featured distasTeful facts.”"When hls & Third corps trip. A fellow goes to the big city with all the hope ill
Katherine Grayson and Howard
Keel.
With the music of Jerome Kern,
“An American in Paris” is anoth
er highlight in Hollywood’s road
to getting classical music across
to the public.
Army captured a Nazi concentra
tion camp, he forced the civilian
population o fthe nearest town fro
walk through the camp and gaze
at the inmates—the piled dead, the
starving living. He wanted them
to remember forever what their
Day-Night Fighter
Fleet In AF Future
By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press
Military Affairs Reporter
Religion is a great blessing if you
really have it but it can be a nui- *
sauce if you only think you have it.
Conduct Commendable
Washington, Nov. 19—(fl?)—The
Air Force is beginning to build to
ward a new interceptor fleet in
which all fighter planes instead of
only a few will have electronic
Washington, Nov. 19 UP) nificient thing was done in the eyes for hunting down enemy
The latest Russian complaint m ^ e - . , ,. .. ,
m . , . . j The fantastic workings of the
concerning Tlieste is Viewed } luman mind were illuminated, re-
by officials here as an attempt vealing in each instance the hid-
to divert world attention from den depths in the actor’s person-
what they consider a blunder made a bty- Utilizing the full effects of not seem to make sense to havfe
by Soviet Foreign Minister Vi- imagination, Jerry’s mind, in the interceptor planes which can work
land of make believe, saw himself only in daylight and in good visual
the world.
A couple of nights later he heads back to the institution
with all the energy and ambition of a broiled oyster.
Take for instance the case of my roommate.
He got ready to go down to the big city on the corps
trip. Roomy isn’t the type of fellow to worry much. He’d
been going with this gal for some time and as a matter
of fact he didn’t even bother to go through the formal
channels of asking for a date.
The last time he wasi in the big city he just said, I’ll
pick you up in time for the dance .... and that was it.
Now I don’t know what it is, but something like that just
seems to rub a gal the wrong way.
Guess it all gets down to the simple rule a girl is not to
T , ., be taken for granted. But why—well, bud it is just one of the
^bl^ < to ) ^make 6 a 1 surprise 0 strike things you have to take into account when you think, talk,
timed to bring the bombers in over or dream about the female of the species,
the United States under cover of But all of the philosophizin in the world won’t ever cure
darkness and, if possible, in cloud f ee ij n g y 0U g e t when you start heading back to the
covei ‘ _ campus. You just kinda sit back and look at the lights
An alert from the radar warning S q U i r ten aroun dthe columns of the Administration Building
ii r*r» vt ervvi^»ri nn /"vr nrhi/»h ic ■nocn* A j i i •ji 1.1
those damned women—I m through with then?
bombers in any kind of weather,
day or night.
Discussing the trend toward the
“all-weather” fighter force, one ofr
ficial commented today that it did
IIOUSTON WAS a town of disappointment. The Aggies
were unhappy because they lost a football game. But
there was also another person in Houston that was unhappy armament,
for another reason. The iron curtain countries’ press
shinsky at Paris,
Vishinsky told the U. N. General
Assembly last week that he had
stayed awake all night laughing
about Western proposals for dis-
made no mention of this in report-
He was a reporter for one of the big papers in the city, ing Vishinsky’s speech. And the wa ™ reaction when Lisa returned
belief here is that the Kremlin u ls arms -
sees now that a serious proposal ... Levant, in an unforgetable
as a pursued male, sought by all conditions.
females except the one he loved. Back of his comment was the
. Finally in his escape from real- f act that the best conditions for a
ity, Jerry won the lady of his modern bomber force, equipped been some indication that the day
heart, but this was iollowed by a with radar bomb sight, is in the fighter MIG-15s are using at least
cold awakening. Ot course, the blanketing protection of darkness some airborne radar equipment in
net, construction of which is neai
ing completion, therefore might be
flashed at night. Whatever the
flying conditions, the interectpor
force would have to go into action
instantly.
All Weather Fighter
The Soviet Air Force reportedly
has in use at least one type of
all-weather fighter to bolster Rus
sia’s defense against attack — a
twin-jet Lavochkin night fighter.
Also, in recent months, there has
He was waiting around the police station for some Aggies to
be arrested. He is unhappy. No Aggies, by an unofficial
check, were arrested for any violation of the rules of the
city of Houston which warranted taking them to the Police
Station.
This is a commendable turn of events, not saying that
any Aggies should have been jailed or have been jailed in
the past. Tfee student body conducted itself in a commendable
manner throughout the weekend.
It is surprising to find this out, because any student
body that loses a ball game is generally a discontented group.
for ending the arms race comes
too close to the lives and fortunes
of people to be dismissed with
ridicule.
It was against this background
that State Department press offi
cer Lincoln White said yesterday
American officials are convinced
Russia’s new charges about West
ern military development of Trieste
was an effort to revive an old
issue as a diversion. The Soviets
are “beating a dead horse,” White
asserted.
. ... ., „ ... „ • , The essence of -the Russian
Adding it all up we say, “Men you did a swell job of charges, in notes given to ambas-
cold awakening was followed by a, an( j clouds.
The move toward a complete all-
weather force started some time
ago, but now is being accelerated
scene, imagined himself as the
misunderstood genius. Via the
vehicle of imagination, Levant
pictured a concert hall, with
himself as the composer, direct
or, orchestra members, and cri
tics. Needless to say he was ac
claimed by all during his mental
escapade.
representing the school.’
Progress: The old man who used
to brag about doing thirty miles
an hour has a .son who brags about
350 an hour.
sadors in Moscow, is that the U.S.,
Britain and France are carving up
the Trieste territory to establish
military and naval bases.
The note also revived old com
plaints that the Western powers
have long violated the Italian peace , , • ,. w . ,
treaty which provided for division
of the port city and the surround
in the USAF’s new aircraft pro
curement program. Quantities of
all-weather fighters are on order
to add to planes already delivered.
Urgency
Revision ,of estimates during the
last two years of Russia’s strate
gic bombing capabilities have given
urgency to an effort to provide the
air defense; command with a com
plete force of interceptor’s capable
of operating at any time under any
conditions. Russia has added large
numbers of long range bombers,
based on the American B-29 design,
Editor, The Battalion: to her strategic force and has
Has anyone seriously considered demonstrated she now has the
the cost of sewing stripes on shirts a t° mjc homo,
of all non-commissioned officers? Strategists assume that if Rus-
The average NCO would have to sian navigation and radar equip-
have about ten sets,' of stripes ment has progressed at the pace
mt uniforms of the Soviet bomber and jet fight-
LETTERS
Down With Stripes
working against American B-29s
and jet fighters.
Three Types
The U. S. Air Force now has in
operation three types of all-weath
er fighters, two of them jets—the
Lockheed F-94C and Northrop F-
89, and the piston-engined, twin
Mustang North American F-82, an
older plane outclassed by the jets’
speed.
Currently, test models of the
North American F-86 sabre, the
day fighter which has had the most
frequent duels with Soviet-made
MIG-15’s over Korea, are being
tried as night fighters. Radar
equipment has been fitted into the
nose of the new senes, designated
as F-86D.
and think-
.... I’ll die before I look at another one.
Well now I guess you know just about how roomy felt
when he came back to the campus this weekend.
I had to help him off with his boots and remind him
not to step on the laundry bundle on the floor .... guess
I spoke to him just a little too harshly, because he start
ed out telling me about woitiei\ . . . (both the specific
kind and the general kind.
After a while he started talking about the woman. It
seems as if this gal he had been carring the torch for just
looked at him carring the torch and laughed. This puts out
even the biggest fire in a man.
Well Roomy is down in the dumps. All he does is just sit
and look at the snap shot picture he has of her and says
.... nope I’d better not tell you what he says on accounta the
linotype operator takes this copy home for his wife to read.
But it all adds up to this—What makes women the fickle
delectable creatures they are? I asked Roomy to answer this
question and all he would sdy was—Goodnite.
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Yugoslavia least two shirts of their own and
These charges, White said, have a ,^ en shil ' t and a summer scr S e
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to Moscow and in the U. N. f Let alone the cost of sewing, the
He added that there had once ^npes would cost each man six
been some talk about the possibility dollal \ Sewing mcidcntally costs
of building up Western military as much stn P e / Throughout
strength at Trieste to assure g e corps thm wouM cost several
speedy assistance to Yugoslavia thousand dollais. Undoubtedly, this
should that country be attacked ! s S ood n ? WS t0 , thc Mici ' ent al *
from beyond the iron curtain. But teration shops and we wonder who
he said any basis that ever existed e !f’, Is there a ni ^ cr ln thc wood
for this kind of development had P 1 ? ’ ,
been swept away with the working , A 3 on K as ’ we are m the stripe
out of a military aid arrangements business, let s give the fish and
sophomores private stripes so that
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JOHN WHITMORE Editor _
Joel Austin Managing Editor the fines! band in the land, both field jacket?
we can recognize our subordinates,
as they are supposed to recognize
their superiors.
Incidentally, could you tell us
where we can get some rubber
cement for gluing stripes on rain-
new army”
Wrong Letter
Editor, The Battalion:
If someone has any gripes
bleeds about this school or any coats. Wc expect a
part of it, he should at least be order any day now.
man enough to sign his own name In closing we offer two more
to it without falsifying thc name suggestions: 1. lighter material
of another to his letter. We are for stripes on underwear, and 2.
making reference to the letter a low rate for tattooing,
which appeared in The Battalion P. S. Does the colonel of the
concerning the band. corps have a different set of dia-
We regard the Aggie Band as monds for each shirt, blouse, and
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in playing and marching, and any
one who does not feel the same as
we has just never realized what
a really good band is.
As for the appearance of the
letter, we neither know the reason
it was written or by whom, and
would greatly appreciate it if the
low-life, whoever it is, would make
himself known.
Bert Gorrod, ’52
Bob Blum, ’51
Claude G. Elliott, ’53 S/Sgt.
Douglas E. Flatt, ’53 S/Sgt.
Pete Hutgren, ’53 Tech/Sgt.
Jess M. Thughett ’53 S/Sgt,
Eugene Zesch ’53 S/Sgt.
Gordon Shearer ’53 S/Sgt.
Jack Crockett ’53 S/Sgt.
Ralph Hartman ’53 S/Sgt.
Jim Moore ’53 1st Sgt.
Benny A. Hood ’53 S/Sgt.
Charles Slone ’53 Tech/Sgt.
Dub Holland ’53 Tech/Sgt.