Battalion
Editorials
Page 2 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951
CLEANING US OUT
Empty Seats in The
Old Camp Grounds
I AST NIGHT when the Student Senate met the members
were conspicious by their absence.,Out of the 44 members
of the senate only 24 showed up at the time the roll was
called. This was including the sophomore and junior sitters.
It is a shame when we elect a man to represent us—
and then he doesn’t even take the trouble to represent us.
Such actions make us wonder if we should not have consid
ered a few minutes more before we started voting.
Now several of the men had legitimate excuses—such
as out of town practice teaching. But it appears the rest
were just not interested in coming to the meetings.
A representative is like a payroll check. It is either
there or it isn’t. A group of men are not represented if their
senator is not there—just like there isn’t any money in the
pocket if the check isn’t in.
In the past we fought hard to get a Student Senate es
tablished. It was something we had to prove our ability to
handle. This privilege was not just given to us—it should
not be the right of any group of representatives to tear down
what we have built up over the years.
Without wasting any more words—Senators, why can’t
you make the meetings 100 per cent?
Scandal Spotlight Hits Texan
Who lakes Internal Revenue
By TEX EASLEY
AP Special Washington Service
Washington, Dec. 7—(A 5 ) — The
scandals uncovered in the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau have put the
spotlight on Texas-born John B.
Dunlap, the bureau’s new top man,
but a second Texan, who holds a
key spot in the tax-collecting serv
ice, is equally vigorous in defense
of the bureau as a whole.
“I want to say I am proud to be
with the Bureau of Internal Rev
enue,” says Marguerite Rawalt of
Corpus Christi, chief of the brief
review section. “It deserves no
black eye because of the conduct
of some individuals. The average
career employe is a conscientious,
able and diligent public servant.”
Her job is to make a final check
Under Guise of Protecting
British Take Over Sudan
Isolationism is the idea that you
can have great 'power without re
sponsibility.
Discipline With Justice
Earmarks Bowden
rj\)DAY is the last day for a disciplinarian who showed
justice can be tempered with understanding. Is"it the last
day that Parks Bowden serves as assistant commandant.
Since 1948 he has worked with the cadets — he has
handled their military problems as well as their personal
problems. In solving all of these problems he showed men
were to be treated as individuals and not just beings who had
dirt under their bed.
At the same time he was not soft. He was capable of be
ing as strict as the next fellow—but at the time he was be
ing strict he gave the impression he was working for the
welfare of the individual.
People who met the colonel were impressed by various
things. It might have been the cigar that seems to grow in
his mouth—along with a perpetual smile. Or it might have
been his officerly bearing. But whatever it was, people meet
Colonel Bowden and remember him.
He never seems too busy to talk to a man about any
thing that is troubling the man. At the same time he is talk
ing and helping the other fellow he is taking care of his own
duties in a very capable manner.
It all adds up to this—Colonel, we hate to see you go.
We wish you good luck in your new job. You have done a
swell job here and you are leaving a lot of friends.
When parents tell their children
what to think their children grow
up to be adidts unable to think.
A born trader keeps up with his
relatives when buying and prompt
ly forgets them ivhen selling.
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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JOHN WHITMORE Editor
Joel Austin Associate Editor
Bill Streich Managing Editor
Bob Selleck Sports Editor
Frank Davis City Editor
Pat Morley Women’s Editor
T. H. Baker, E. R. Briggs, Benny Holub, Bryan Spencer, Ide Trotter
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(Editor’s Note — This is the
fourth in a series of seven ar
ticles by Lasheen, teller of the
history of the trouble between
Egypt and England).
By ALY LASHEEN
Egyptian Graduate Student
Under the guise of “protection,”
British policy in the Sudan seeks
to divide the people there.
In fifty years of almost exclu
sive British administration, educa
tion of the Sudanese has not been
marked by the progress one would
expect in this modern age. Illit
eracy is as high as 95 per cent.
Industry is non-existent, agricul
ture backward.
As far as education is concerned,
the main object of the Sudan gov
ernment was to give the Sudanese
such scanty instruction as would
keep them in a dependent situa
tion and at most entitle them to be
come office clerks or minor offi
cials.
This was the same policy they
followed in Egypt, as can be seen
from the follownig figures: The
The number of pupils attending
schools in 1882, the year of British,
invasion'was 162,237.’ , 1 ■
38 Years of Occupation
After thirty eight years of Brit
ish occupation in 1920, the num
ber was only 298,027. But after
twenty eight years of Egyptian
administration (1922 to 1950) the
number skyrocketed to well over a
million and a half.
On the other hand, the British
authorities, through propaganda
arid other more direct methods, at
tempted to silence the mass Su
danese who demand that their un
ity with Egypt be preserved. In
the mosques the traditional weekly
praper for the legitimate Sover
eign, was suppressed. Severe cen
sorship has been established to ban
all newspapers—whether Egyptian
or Sudanese—whose opinion or in
formation is not agreeable to the
British administration of the Su
dan.
Several Aspects
Great Britain’s policy of segre
gation has assumed several other
aspects: raising obstacles- of a
practical nature to Egyptian im
migration which theoretically re
mains unrestricted; keeping com
munications between Egypt and
the Sudan in a primitive condition;
denying Egyptians the post of
Grand Cadi, a religious function
which symbolizes the spiritual
bond between the Egyptian and
Sudanese people; denying the
Egyptian officials agreed upon in
the 1936 treaty the right of entry
into the Sudan; gradually waiving
Egyptians from the Sudan admin
istration; hindering the cultural re
lations between Egypt and the Su
dan and opposing in one way or
other Egypt’s efforts in the field
fo public health; attempting to
create a separate Sudanese nation
ality; issuing official statements
to encourage the Sudanese to se
cede from Egypt.
Split Sudan
On similar lines, the British
have their plans to sever the
southern part of the Sudan from
the northern, a policy which was
expressed in the words of the civil
secretary to the Sudan adminis
tration: “Our policy aims at the
establishment of an autonomous
regime in the south which could
be separate and independent from
the north.”
The program was actually put
into action by such measures as
prohibiting free - access to the
southern provinces; preventing
those northern Sudanese, estab
lished in the south, from practic
ing their religion or o p e n i n g
schools; and forbidding intermar
riage between northern and south
ern Sudanese.’ For political ends
a special consultative council for
the north of the Sudan has been
created.
Profitable to British
It is noteworthy that in this
vast enterprise so profitable to
British industry and so liberal to
British Civil servants, the British
Treasury supports no share in the
expenditure of the Sudan.
It is on totally different lines
that the Egyptians conceive their
relationship to their Sudanese fel
low-countrymen. They cannot look
at the matter merely as a business
concern.
Even after the Egyptian troops
had been forced out of the Sudan
as a result of the British ultima
tum of 1924, the Egyptian govern
ment have maintained their finan
cial contribution to the expenditure
for the defense of the Sudan.
In the same way, the Egyptian
treasury had previously covered all
deficits in the Sudanese budget,
besides advancing the loans neces
sary for the development of the
Sudan.
fieials newly appointed, only 11 are
Egyptians, the other being Briish.
In out! country, we, make no dif
ference between an Egyptian and a
Sudanese. A Sudanese can aspire
tp any of the highest functions of
the State, and Egypt has had un
der-secretaries of state, distin
guished civil servants and officers
of high military rank who were of
Sudanese origin. Hundreds of Su
danese can be found in the Egypt
ian government’s service, while the
number of Egyptians in the Sudan
ese government is very small. Be
tween 1931 and 1941, for example,
out of a total number of 123 of-
(Part Five Will Be Published
Monday)
on tax appeals before they go to
the U. S. tax court. An attorney,
she obtained her law degree from
George Washington University
here in 1933. In private life she
is Mrs. Harry Secord. Her hus
band is a retired Air Force major.
Both Dunlap and Miss Rawalt
are career employes. The term is
applied to federal employes who
have come up through the ranks,
often from the lowest civil service
rating, to distinguisheh them from
political appointees.
Started As Deputy
Dunlap, who started as a deputy
collector in Texas, became commis
sioner of internal revenue Aug. 1,
just in time to face the flood of
scandals that have shaken the
whole tax-collecting agency. His
big job now is to clean out the
wrongdoers and restore the integ
rity of the service.
He contends that the dishonest
and inefficient are relatively few
in number and are being weeded
out as fast as possible.
The 48-yeai’-old Dunlap, a na
tive of Texas, studied business
law, taxation and finance at South
ern Methodist University and en
gaged in highway construction
work before becoming a deputy in
ternal revenue collector in Dallas
in 1934. By World War II he had
risen to chief of the Dallas of
fice’s field division.
In a news conference after tak
ing the oath of office, he said he
would pack up and head back to
Texas if he ever was denied a free
hand in doing the job as he saw fit.
Miss Rawalt started with the
bureau here after getting her law
degree.
Her division handles only civil
cases. These are cases appealed to
the U. S. tax court by taxpayers
who feel that the Internal Revenue
Service has , not been fair with
them. Incidentally, two former
Texas members of Congress serve
on this 16-man court — Luther
Johnson of Corsicana and Eugene
Black of Clarksville.
Miss Rawalt has the responsi
bility of reviewing the cases ap
pealed to the tax court. The cases
vary widely, but mostly they in
volve large corporations and some
times millions of dollars. If she
feels that the taxpayer has a good
case, she can send it back to the
collection district in which it orig
inated with the request that col
lectors, involved settle with the
taxpayer, thus avoiding court pro
cedure.
One such case, she recalls in
volved 14-year-old newspaper car
rier who had charged bicycle main
tenance as a business expense. The
boy’s father, in filing his return at
Atlanta, Ga., listed the boy as a
dependent, noting that the boy had
earned just less than the $500 lim
it permitted before he would have
ceased to qualify as a dependent.
(This limit now is $600.)
The Atlanta collector’s office
checked the case and said the bicy
cle maintenance item couldn’t be
allowed, that the boy’s total earn
ings then came to $500.28 and
that the father, therefore, could not
claim him as a dependent.
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Saturday Night in MSC
A free juke-box dance will be
held in the MSC Ballroom Satur
day night from 10 until midnight.
The MSC Dance Committee is
sponsoring the dance. Boyce
Holmes and John Devine are in
charge of arrangements.
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The case eventually came to Miss
Rawalt. Recalling it, she told this
reporter:
“Can’t you imagine the storm
it would have brought down on the
revenue bureau? And all over 28
cents! Fighting the case further
would cost the taxpayers hundreds
of dollars.”
Weighs Human Element
She sent the case back to the
Atlanta office with the word that
while it might be technically cor
rect, it should weigh the human
factors and drop the matter, per
mitting the father to claim the son
as a dependent. r
Miss Rawalt started her careea
as a secretary to then Gov. Pat;
Neff while she was taking undeji
graduate work at the University o®
Texas in the mid-1920s. Later she
did secretarial work in El Pasql
and accounting work in San Anton*
io. In 1928 she came to Wash
ington as assistant Secretary to
Neff who had become a member of
the U. S. mediation board. She
attended night school at the same
time to qualify for her law degree.
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