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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1951
ITS A SMALL WORLD
Society Off Base 1
College Not Needed
IN LIGHT of the large number of men on probation, we
wonder if it isn’t time to consider some of the things that
put a man on the dean’s team.
Certainly the biggest single reason for a man being on
the list with 1,832 of his friends, is lack of study. This is one
thing that claims students and the students will not argue
about.
But certainly there are other things to consider when
trying to figure out just “Wha Hoppin.”
Maybe not all of the teachers we have here are top qual
ity men. It is is entirely possible for the men who are hired to
spread out a little learning are not doing a good enough job.
It is entirely possible they are not asking the same things
in class as they ask on their examinations. As one student
said—he covers the course, what he doesn’t cover in class he
covers on the examinations.
This might be a contributing factor. What could be done
to remedy this situation? Well firing a few of them would
go a long way in helping the students.
But assuming that the trouble lie with with the in
structor or the student’s time in study. We have another
way to turn. • % ^
Maybe our whole society is off base. Maybe we are
trying to cram too much college down too many throats.
This seems to be a very plausable reason.
There are men entering school every year—and there
is no reason to think this is any exception—just to please
their parents or to gain social prestige. For these men in
Tanks Fire On Crookedness In Government
Egypt Snipers Comes Partly From. Public
■ Ismalia, Egypt, Dec. 18—
UP)—Four big British Centu
rion tanks exchanged fire be-
By JAMES MARLOW
certain percentage of the popula- only when individual men and worn-
Washington, Dec. 18—(A 5 )—Be
fore dawn today with Egypt- fore public interest in the govern-
ian terrorists blamed for
killing one and wounding three
British Royal military police here
last night.
The tanks and armored vehicles
sped into the city to retrieve
jeep abandoned by the military po
lice after it was ambushed by snip
ing and bombing near the Ismailia
police headquarters.
The city has been one of the
bloodiest trouble spots in the Suez
Canal zone dispute since mid-Octo
ber.
The victims were brought out
by a second M.P. jeep that escaped
the firing.
Both jeeps were returning to the
British base at Moascar from the
Lake Timsah camp on the far side
of Ismailia.
ment scandals subsides there will
be more investigations and, prob
ably, more irregularities exposed.
But the interest, public shock,
investigations and exposures will
cl be a farcical, short-time result un
less steps are taken to make, fu
ture crookedness tougher.
President Truman said he’ll try
to make it harder for government
employes to have outside inter
ests. That should help, by cutting
off some of the avenues that lead
to crookedness or “indiscretions.”
But making crookedness more
difficult won’t keep crooks out, no
matter whether Democrats or Re
publicans are in the saddle, since
government employes are recruited
from the general population and a
tion is full of larceny.
Government attorneys who han
dle tax cases, will show you that
the overwhelming percentage of
tax frauds are committed by peo
ple 'Who have been considered pil
lars of their community.
A special committee of the Sen
ate was set up to study problems
of ethics in government and it re
ported:
“No group in society is in a po
sition to point the finger of scorn
at others. Influence peddlers can
exist only as long as businessmen
or others are willing to patronize
them.
“Favoritism can be a problem
en seek favors of the government,
Gifts, improper pressure, and
bribes come from outside the gov
ernment, from individuals, organi
zations, and from groups which are
part of what we call the ‘public’.”
Several months ago the House
Subcommittee investigating the tax
scandals requested that all internal
revenue bureau employes be order
ed to fill out a questionnaire show
ing all their income. This was
done.
But members of Congress them
selves have shown remarkable leth
argy in disclosing their income or
its sources.
Sixty-Eight Per Cent Drink
MS Class Survey Reveals
Britisher Says
A survey was made recently in
a Military Science class where 91
Egypt Important Defense Link
boys were asked questions pertain
ing to their habits as to drinking
alcoholic drinks.
The survey showed 68 per cent
of the men interviewed do drink.
Fifty-eight per cent drink for soc
ial reasons—drinking only when
(Editor’s note: This is the fourth
of a series of articles expressing
the opinions of British Consul-
General James T. Henderson, who
spoke recently at the MSC.)
When we review the history of
Britain’s relations with Egypt, we
must make some attempt to assess
the motives which led both coun
tries to act as they did. It is too
easy to call each other names, for
Britain to say that' the Egyptians
are a mere incompetent mob and
many cases, there is little hope. If they are not equipped men- for the Egyptians to reply that
Britain is an imperialistic land-
tally to handle the work covered in college
do?
what can they
I ! ; #jlp>|[
However, our society has begun to look upon a college
education as a necessary thing. It is what every well dressed
man or woman must have along with the shorts and stock
ings.
But is it necessary 1 / We still have to have plumbers,
carpenters, and brick masons.
A possible solution might be to be a little rougher and
get rid of the men who are not qualified for college work.
It is worth considering.
grabber.
One must look at the march of
events of which the operations in
the Eastern Mediterranean were
only a part.
Egypt’s first importance to Brit
ain was during Britain’s life and
death struggle with Napoleon. Na
poleon had succeeded, as the Ger
mans did in 1940, in getting con
trol of the Continent of Europe and
his strategy was to outflank Rus
sia from the South by overcoming
Turkey.
wegians are desecrating Russian
soldiers’ graves. They have dese
crated many other peoples’ lives.
And in the South, who is caus
ing trouble in Persia? Who is caus
ing the ferment in the Middle
East ? Who is trying to turn our
flank?
In World War II the French built
a Maginot Line up to the Belgian
frontier. The Belgians were going
to remain neutral. So the Maginot
Line did not need to be carried
along the Franco-Belgian frontier
to the coast.
But what happened to Belgian
neutrality? It was just too bad for
the Belgians and the Dutch. Just
as in World War III (if it should
come) it will be just too bad for
the Middle East and the Egyptians.
The Egyptians seem to rely on
their distance from the Russian
frontier and, of course, they could
buy time with other people’s space,
but the Egyptian record against
the armies of Israel is not such
as to inspire the confidence of the
United States and Britain in leav
ing an unprotected flank in the
bum down the stores where they,
get their food, the lion has held
them off with soft paws.
jury
Probe Into Tax
Scandal Held
The Germans tried to do exactly hands of such people.
Up
Washington, Dec. 18—hP)—The
start of a grand jury inquiry into
Abraham Tcitelbaum’s story of an
alleged attempt to shake him down
for $500,000 in exchange for relief
from tax troubles appeared likely
today to be delayed until next
month.
The White House, meanwhile,
maintained secrecy on details of
the “drastic action” promised by
President Truman to sweep wrong
doers out of the Federal govern
ment, reportedly with U. S. Judge
Thomas F. Murphy of New York
wielding the broom.
And the House Ways and Means
Subcommittee whose hearings fig
ured largely in Mr. Truman’s deci
sion-aranged to question on Thurs
day Henry Gruewald, about whom
some mystery developed in its pre-
- vious sessions.
William P. Maloney of New
York, Grunewald’s attorney, said
Grunewald may be released some
time today from Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital here. He is under
subpoena and Adrian Dewind, coun
sel to the subcommittee, said he
is due to appear Thursday.
Dewind declined to elaborate, but
it was regarded that at least the
initial questioning of Grunewald
would be behind closed doors. The
group last 'week wound up its
presently scheduled open sessions.
Grunewald was hospitalized
when the subcommittee sought to
the same thing in 1940. Both failed
and both were broken by the im
mensity of the Russian distances
and by the tenacity of the Rus
sian soldie|\
It was necessary for Napoleon to
transport his troops by sea across
the Mediterranean and so it was
necessary for Britain to keep naval
control of that sea, hence the Brit
ish attack on the French fleet at
Aboukir Bay and the landing, of
British troops at Acre.
Defense Flank
Egypt was the flank of the de
question him earlier. One thing fense line against Napoleon and
members have said they want to
ask him about is a $1,300 loan
which Charles Oliphant, recently
resigned chief counsel of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, has listed
as a debt to Grunewald.
the French were trying to turn that
flank, so the British prevented it.
If the Egyptians get beaten by
a million Israelis, whose country
is new, unorganized, divided
against itself in many cases, and
very poor, how do they expect to
withstand the onslaught of the
hosts of Russia?
And, if they do not have to,
Who is going to do it for them?
Are they relying upon the Persians
The Lebanon? No! They expect
that the Western Allies will come
rushing to their aid.
Allies Busy
You do not need General Eisen
hower to tell you that the Western
Allies will be pretty busy with
standing the onslaught of 160 di-
The Egyptians themselves were visions with high fire power along
quite unimportant and purely in
cidental to a military operation.
They just happened to be there.
Egypt next acquired strategic
The grand jury inquiry, prom- importance in World War I when
ised by Attorney General McGrath,
is aimed at finding out who lied
under oath to the subcommittee
about the alleged tax shakedown.
Teitelbaum, a wealthy Chicago at
torney, accused Beit K. Naster and
Frank Nathan of offering to help
Allied supplies and troops from In
dia and the Southern Dominions
were coming" through the Suez
Canal.
The Turks tried to prevent this
and were decisively defeated by Al-
lenby in his magnificent campaign
him out of tax troubles if he paid from the only base which one could
them $500,000.
Naster, a Miami electrical engi
neer, and Nathan, Pittsburgh pro
moter, categorically denied Teitel-
baum’s story.
use for that purpose, i. e. Egypt.
If. it had been possible to operate
out of any other base, we would
no doubt have done so and in fact
tried to do so at the Dardanelles.
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Rommel Attacks
In World War II the attack on
the Suez Canal came from the oth
er side. Rommel and his fleet of
tanks attacked Egypt’s western
frontier. No Egyptian'troops took
part in defending their own coun
try. Rommel might have won, and
very nearly did. He was stopped
at Alamein by British, Indian,
South African, Australian and New
Zealand troops—who used the Suez
Canal to get there.
If the Egyptians could not de
fend their own country on . the
West, why should they be so much
better at doing so on the East? In
1941 they were very happy for the
19.'(6 Treaty, which they have now
denounced.
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Assumes Importance
Egypt again is assuming strate
gic importance. The West are
building a defense line from the
Arctic to the Indian Ocean.
We have just taken in Greece
and Turkey as full members of
the North Atlantic Defense Organ
ization. It is America’s defense line
as well as Britain’s. And what do
we see?
Even though there is still no
hot* war, we see the Soviets nibbl
ing at both ends of the line. Why
are they fussing about Spitzber-
gen ? Why are they bullying the in
offensive Norwegians, using ridi
culous excuses such as that Nor-
the rest of the front from the Arc
tic Circle to the Mediterranean.
Unless some appropriation is
made, all the work, effort, expense
and blood put into, the ( defense of
the rest of the line will be com
pletely wasted. Our oil-fields would
be gone, our line of communications
would be cut and what Churchill
called “the soft underbelly” of
Europe would be exposed.
Again I say I am sorry that the
Egyptians happen to live there,
but they do, and as they appear to
have been beaten in every war
which they undertook in the last
3,000 years, it cannot inspire one
with much confidence in leaving
the .gateway of Africa in their
hands.
But the Egyptians are also a
people and it is not the British
way to write off any people in the
world. If it had been, you would
not see the British Commonwealth
slowly developing from a Colonial
Empire into a family of self-gov
erning nations.
So, we offered Egypt—ilgypt, I
said, equality with United States,
France with her wonderful mili
tary traditions, Turkey, whom the
Russians have never beaten, and
ourselves, who have still got a
few claws, even if the British lion
is shown in the newspaper cartoons
as being old and toothless.
So far, it has refrained from un
sheathing those claws and when
the Egyptians have stabbed our
soldiers in the back in dark streets,
have shot, with machine guns, at
Women and children doing their
morning shopping, have tried to
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southern pea, has been developed
by Dr. W. H. Brittingham, pro
fessor of horticulture at A&M.
The new variety was developed
from a cross between extra early
blaekeye and a vinyl midseason,
commercial cream variety.'
We are an excessively patient
people but even we have the ordin
ary human feelings.
they are with friends or at parties. V
Twenty per cent of the 68 per cent
drink because they do not want to
be out of place, they said.
Of those who do drink, 80 perl
cent drink both beer and whiskey,™
and the other 20 per cent alternates (
each of the two alcoholic drinks.
(See SURVEY, Page 4)
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