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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4,1951
-People in Glass Houses
Austin Sports Scribe Off Base On Aggies
Professionalism
At Work
W/HOEVER grants concession rights at the stadium should
” stand around the gates during the game and just see
what happens. We had a group of professional salesmen sell
ing to our fans and students.
The men on the campus looked as if they should have
been run in for vagrancy ... or scalping.
Why is it that our student body cannot provide the ne
cessary number of men to sell the souvenirs? Why couldn’t
the college officials give this job to some student or to some
organization ?
We had a group of the crumbiest looking men on the
campus we have had the privilege of seeing in a good many
years.
But if that were not enough, our fans were assailed by
a group of men representing the Disabled Veterans of Amer
ica. They buttonholed our guests and students, trying to get
donations from them. If the donations did not come in fast
enough the men would get out and scalp tickets.
This is not rumored ... it was seen by members of The
Battalion. Another thing that was observed was that one
of the DVA bought drinks at a concession stand out of his
“donation.”
" It would almost be said the men were collecting for their
own favorite charity.
Why couldn’t the Campus Security officers take care
of these men? Are they afraid to arrouse the wrath of public
opinion ?
■ In the future are we going to permit the people on this
campus to be assailed by the type of non-student conces
sionaires we had at the last game?
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion Associate Editor
People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks...
A&M won a football game Thursday and the name-call
ing, excuse-making forces have been fast at work while Ag
gies have enjoyed a belated Turkey dinner, plus an extra
holiday.
A newspaper code which is supposed to mean something
to journalists says writers should focus their stories on
events and occurances that demand the greatest amount of
interest to local readers. Also accuracy is a prerequisite that
is understood to be a newspaperman’s golden rule.
AN EARLY LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS
Boyle’s Column
(Editor’s Note—This is the
first of a seven part discussion
of the Egyptian’s claim to free
dom and the expulsion of Brit
ish control in that country. It
was written by Aly Lasheen,
graduate student from Cairo,
Egypt.)
By ALY LASHEEN
Egyptian Graduate Student
In our time, there is no man
in the world who can afford to
ignore the straggle of any peo
ple for genuine unconditional
freedom. The world has learned
the hard way that a threat to
liberty, regardless of where is
exists, implies a definite danger
to global peace.
That is why the man in Col
lege Station, is directly con
cerned in what takes place in
Egypt or any other remote area
of the globe.
That' is why the Anglo-
Egyptian dispute, climaxing six
ty-nine years of fighting, argu
ing, talking and bargaining, is
how important to all persons.
Egypt Wants Freedom
Egypt today demands its
complete freedom and indepen
dence. She demands it on the
basis of justice. She demands
it as her right as a sovereign
state. She demands it in the
name of her people. She de
mands it, not alone for Egypt,
but for the Sudan, for the mil
lions of' people of the same
blood, the same religion, the;
same interests, who inhabit the i
Valley of the Nile. She demands
it for the sake of peace and se
curity in the strategic middle
East.
Egypt as a law-abiding nation
wants to cooperate fully, but
with full sovereignty, with all
the other countries of the free
world.
Wants British Out
British troops remain on
Egyptian soil, as they have done
for the last 69 years. Egypt
wants them removed. She con
tends that it is not possible to
conclude a fair treaty or al
liance with the West, as long
as they remain.
How did Britain come by a
place in this picture?
The long and sordid story can
be understood only if one can
lift himself out of current live-
and-let-live ideas, and resurrect
the devious assumptions of nine
teenth-century Imperialism.
In the ’70’s and ’80’s of the
last century, under the reign of
Khedive Ismail, the grandfather
of King Farouk, Egypt’s finance
reached a low ebb. In those days,
however, the moral outlook did
not condemn the use of force to
collect an international debt.
And that is what happened.
First came interference
By HAL BOYLE
Associated Press Columnist
ty-nine long years have passed
—and the “temporary” presence
of British forces still continues.
British occupation is in con-
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British and the French. Theirs
was the ,high mission of protect
ing the foreign bondholders.
Later, on various pretexts, the . ,, , , , .
British bombarded Alexandria bequest does rule it is
in 1882. They followed through v , alld ’ how f^d the Irish spend
by occupying * the whole of ^ money? Do they, as Mrs.
jrgypf- Shaw intimated, need lessons m
“self control, elicution, deport-
British in Temporarily ment, the arts of personal con-
British statesmen disavowed tact ’ and soc * a ^ intercourse?
any intention to hold Egypt per- These questions have stirred up
manently. They declared time a number of old sod’s ex-nativc
and time again that the occupa- son s here,
tion was but “temporary.” Six- Shaw Shy?
James McGurrin, president
general of the American Irish
Historical Society, suggested that
tradiction to the principle of Mrs. Shaw made the bequest be-
the UN Charter that troops of cause her playwright husband had
one member country shall not been painfully shy and awkward in
be permitted to remain in the public. But as for the Irish as a
territory of another member in race, well, says McGurrin:
time of peace. Egyptians look “Although Mrs. Shaw was her-
upon continued occupation as an self bom in Count Cory, I’m afraid
unwarranted infringement upon that her knowledge of her native
the sovereignty of their sup- land was either very defective or
posedly free and independent her use of it’s disingenuous.
na ^ lon ‘ i “During her own early years in
Ihe people of Egypt fur- London the most brilliant talkers
ther resent the internal confus- at the English dinner table were
ion and constant friction which Irish—Oscar Wilde, Justin McCar-
result from foreign occupation, thy and T. P. O’Connor.
For many years, as the world : ‘ Curiously enough; ghaw him-
knows, British officials enjoyed se ]f W as an outstanding exception,
a privileged position in Cairo. According to Mrs. William Morris,
Time and again, they interfered w jfei 0 f the poet, he was the only
in the purely domestic affairs of awkward and reticent Irishman she
Egypt. Backed by military pow- had ever met.”
er, they were able to bring pres- And then McGurrin delivered
sure to bear whenever they saw this verbal shillelagh:
fit.
„ Promote Knowledge
Claim Retards Progress
. .. . ,, “My own suggestion about the
Such a state of affairs could bequest ig that it be uscd in Eng ,
not hope to bring either free- j and to p romo t e a sounder know-
dom or contentment to Egypt. ledge of Irish history) i ifc and
Her people have seen their na- character. For anyone who knows
tional progress retarded, their Ireland is welI awarc that in the
plans for social reform fore- al , ts o:f dc p or t me nt, courtesy and
stalled, and the development ^of na t ura i eloquence the Irish peo
ple need neither advice nor in
struction.”
A reporter who entered an Irish
man’s bar and brought up the
subject was first made to show
credentials to remove any suspicion
he was a British spy.
He subsequently noted down
T ,. . , „ .. the following observations by the
In the Anglo-Egyptian dis- p atr(mS;
Taint Done
their own defenses either de
layed, or prevented altogether.
The world cannot live half
free. If the Egyptians and all
Arab and Islamic nations are to
contribute to the cause of peace
and freedom Epypt must nat
urally gain first its own free
dom.
Over in Austin, a journalist caused the readers to quiver
in their boots to think such mighty monsters of the gridiron,
such demons of bad sportsmanship, such untrained-illman-
nered perpetrators of decency, such hard-slugging outlaws
as the Aggies were allowed to face the lily-white, fair-haired
members of the Texas University football team.
He Threw’ Stones
Sportswriter Morris Williams of the Austin American
threw stones and followed the precepts-partially-of a “good”
journalist.
He said, “ . . . the boys (Texas) were highly critical of
the officiating. ‘Not because we lost—hell, we’ve lost before
—but it just seemed they were after us from the start. . . ’
Failure to stop the clock when it should have been stopped,
failure to penalize for an Aggie moving the ball up with his
foot (which was seen by the linesman who moved the ball
bapk) and other things.”
to show the best of good sportsmanship, but the slugging cer
tainly wasn’t unpremeditated.
And couldn’t the Cadet Corps members easily have been
freshman trying to carry the Longhorn player off the field,
as is traditional at A&M ?
Then there is the time when Aggie Charlie Hodge
rolled out of bounds near the Texas bench and received a
good punch in the kisser from a Texas bench-warmer. And
Billy Tidwell’s treatment of Texas’ All-American defenseman
Bobby Dillon could not be classified as poor or dirty football
in this writer’s books. A good hard tackle can sometimes have
many results. In this case Dillon was taken from the game
with a slight brain concussion that cleared up before the
game was over.
“Beaten—Started Slugging”
Egyptian Says
[British Came Into Egypt % "
When Force Used on Debtors Puzzles jury
, * New York—(tP)—Why did the
Egypt’s internal affairs by the Iate Mrs _ Gef)rge Bernard Shaw
leave $263,000 to teach the Irish
people “the social graces?”
If a London court now consider-
Another Weepy Williams
It is a shame that Mr. Williams noticed poor officiating.
Now we wouldn’t begin to say the officiating was first class,
because in a game where tempers flare and fists fly, more
than one man should have been asked to leave the field. But
this writer’s accusations remind us of Texas’ one point de
feat at the hands of National Champions, Oklahoma Uni
versity last year. Poor officiating was bellowed from every
corner of that same paper as an excuse for the Longhorn’s
defeat.
We see a great similarity in both cases—the only real
difference being that one Mr. Fred Williams sounded off
against the Sooners while associate Morris (of the same last
name) had the say about A&M.
Mr. Williams does a brilliant job of discussing the brutal
attack by four Cadet Corps members of Longhorn Bob Raley.
Now really, does he have the facts when he says, “When one
young footballer is reclining on the turf and four other young
men—not footballers—are trying to knock his teeth out,
matters ARE out of hand, For him anyway.”
And his other statement concerning this same incident:
“Questioned later in the dressing room, Boh (Raley) said
he didn’t know (If it was a trick of the eye or the real
McCoy). ‘All I know is, there I was on the ground with four
guys from the Cadet Corps working me over—the blank-'
blank-blanks.’
i
Authentic Version—If You Please
Longhorn Raley had been knocked down, but not by^
members of the Cadet Corps, so the authentic version
states that we received. As the game ended Mr. Raley made
a vicious swing at Aggie tackle Russ Hudeck but made the]
sad mistake of not making his punch connect. Opponent Hu-j
deck countered with a haymaker that found its mark. Now!
A&M End Coach Hank Foldberg said he believed in ,
practically every instance any slugging by an Aggie was in
answer to a similar action or an actuating cause from his
opponent.
Waco Times-Herald columnist Jinx Tucker summed up
the situation in a few words, “The Longhorns beaten, start
ed slugging.” M
Williams quotes Longhorn Don Cunningham as saying™
“ ‘They were the dirtiest bunch I ever played against ; Baylor
and Arkansas were plenty rough. But these guys were the
dirtiest. You may quote.’ ”
Cunningham also had this to say: “They (The A&M
players) started cussing us right at the start. Those blank-
blank officials heard ’em—but they didn’t do anything about
it.”
Dillon Writes A Great Climax
But as a great climax to an afternoon filled with thrills
and dissappointments, Texas’ Bobby Dillon, already listed on
an All-American team, was the key figure. Evidently Mr.
Williams didn’t know of this or he may have altered the gist
of his whole article. '
This great defensive halfback from Texas was taken
from the game on a stretcher in the final quarter after a j
bruising tackle by Aggie Bill Tidwell. ■/
Dillon knocked on the door to A&M’s dressing room after
the game and asked permission to enter. Although the re
joicing Aggies were few in number that heard his state
ments, halfback Yale Lary said they went something like
this, “I just want to apologize for the way our team played
today. You Aggies have a great ball club and rightly deserved
to win. Naturally, I’m sorry we (Texas) lost.”
There’s the article Mr. Williams could have written for
his paper. Many more, people would be interested in reading
about the great things their players do than the supposedly
“bad” deeds of the opponent.
And trying to make excuses for a loss without all the
Aggie Hudeck could have sin Bed and turned the other cheek^facts can shatter the glass house with only one stone.
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pute, there are at stake those
principals upon which the Al
lies fought their war against
The whole thing must be a
Fascism and Nazism, and for fraud. Now, who ever heard of an
which they have committed English judge handing down a de-
themselves to fight anywhere: cision that would give $263,000 to
equality between large and Ireland?”
“Self control, is it? I’d like to
se e anybody try to teach me self
or strength, to enjoy its full control.”
freedom, unfettered by imperial- Oh, pshaw, Mrs. Shaw. It’s hope
less. The Irish like themselves as
they are—shy though they seem
to the rest of the world. ?
small nations, and the right of
every nation, whatever its size
istic design or ambition of oth-
(See EGYPT, Page 4)