Bradley Briefs Senators
Bradley Still Hopeful
On Korean Truce
Washington, Jan. 15—®—Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Mon
day he is hopeful of a workable
truce in Korea which won’t mean
appeasement. That is a price the
United Nations will not pay, he
said.
Any armistice settlement must
be based on sound principles, he
said, because it may well be a pat
tern for peace in future trouble
spots.
Conclusive Armistice
“I am hopeful of a conclusive
military armistice,” Bradley told
the Senate armed services commit
tee, “one which will provide secu
rity and will be a living deterrent
to further aggression.
“By every means at our com
mand, and at every genuine oppor
tunity for honorable terms, we
seek peaceful solutions to inter
national differences.”
“But there is one price we will
not pay—appeasement.”
Bradley briefed the Senate com-
' mittee on truce talks at a closed
session, but a statement he read
was later made public.
Chairman Richard B. Russell
(Dem.) of Georgia told reporters
Bill Turner Heads
Collegiate FFA
Bill Turner was elected presi
dent of the Collegiate FFA Chap
ter for the spring semester in a
meeting Monday night at the MSC.
Other officers elected were Jer
ry Saunders, vice-president; R. R.
Strain, secretary; Judge Sandus
ky, reporter; Cleve Walkup, ad
visor; Ralph Burgess, sentinel;
Jack Davis, parliamentarian; Her
man Brown, second vice-president;
and J. D. McCrady, third vice-
president.
Horace VanCleave was elected
to represent the Collegiate FFA
Chapter on the Agricultural Coun
cil.
Dr. Abrams of the Agriculaural
Education Department was select
ed by the chapter as a sponsor.
after the session that Bradley told
the Senators the Joint Chiefs of
Staff have military plans ready for
use “if the negotiations failed.”
Asked whether the general was
optimistic about an early truce,
Russell said he “seemed to be more
optimistic” than Secretary of De
fense Robert A. Lovett, who was
before the group last week, “but
he did not say he was confident
the negotiations would succeed.”
In his statement, Bradley said
any truce satisfactory to the U.N.
must be one which “the United Na
tions, and especially the Koreans,
can live with.” If possible, he said,
ft should provide “assurances that
hostilities will not break out
again.”
Adequate Safeguards
In addition, he said, any settle
ment “must provide adequate safe
guards so that the security of the
United Nations forces remaining in
the area will not be jeopardized.”
“Our agreements must not allow
the Communists opportunity for
future military “blackmail” or un
necessarily expose the forces in
that area,” he said.
He said in his opinion the U.N.
“command has not lost by par
ticipating in the truce talks.”
Russell said Bradley also talked
over with the Senators the prob
lems of military production. Rus
sell told reporters:
Deliveries Behind Schedule
“Deliveries are behind schedule.
General Bradley did not try to
affix responsibility. There are
some serious bottlenecks in some
very vital items—some of which
were in short supply in korea.”
In adiscussion of the same prob
lem before the House armed serv
ices committee. Secretary Lovett
was quoted as saying “considerable
progress” has been made in elimi
nating bottlenecks.
Chairman Carl Vinson (Dem.) of
Georgia, in a statement after the
closed session, said Lovett forecast
that production will increase at
progressively higher rates as the
tooling-up stage is completed, and
that the monthly output rate will
show “considerable increase.”
In Places Weight a Virtue
Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 14—UP)—The 240-pound Aga
Khan, who is honored by the Ismaili Moslem sect as a direct
descendant of Prophet Mohammed, is due to receive his con
siderable weight in precious platinum next year.
The gift of around three million dollars will be from his
followers on his 76th birthday Nov. 2, 1953, it was announced
today by the Aga’s council of ministers.
On the silver jubilee of his Ismaili leadership, the Aga
was paid his weight in silver, on the golden jubilee in gold
and on the anniversary five years ago in diamonds. That
day. he weighed 243Vs pounds and got the cash for gems
valued at $2,500,000.
Battalion
Editorials
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1952
IT’S STIU CASTOR OIL TO, WIUIE
Boost Expected
To Pass House
Washington, Jan. 15—®—Back
ers of a 10 per cent pay raise for
service men counted on election
year jitters today to put the meas
ure through the House.
They conceded, in advance of a
decisive vote this afternoon, (bill
to Come before House at 12 noon
EST) that the outcome may be
close because of the unusual condi
tions under which the House is
considering the measure.
The bill comes up under proce
dure limiting debate to 40 minutes,
prohibiting amendments and re
quiring a two-thirds majority for
passage. Its backers fear any oth
er procedure would bring a rash
of amendments.
MANY MEMBERS favor the
raise but want it limited to enlisted
men and low-ranking officers.
Others want to make it more lib
eral. Neither group will have a
chance to offer amendments today.
Strong opposition comes, also,
from a bi-partisan group including
Representatives Taber (R-NY) and
Smith (D-Va). Taber told news
men the cost of the bill, an esti
mated 832 million dollars annual
ly, makes it prohibitive at this time
unless there is some indication of
later savings elsewhere by Con
gress.
The House Armed Services Com
mittee, which unanimously approv
ed the measure last year, insists
that the bill be acted on immedi
ately despite objections from many
House members up for reelection
that a vote on a big spending bill
so early in the session puts them
on a spot.
“I AM GOING to give them a
chance to go on record one way
or the other,” Committee Chairman
Vinson (D-Ga) told newsmen.
Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted
the bill would be passed and sent
to the Senate.
Opponents are expected to try
to justify a vote of opposition on
the ground that they want the bill
brought back under procedure that
would permit amendments.
THEY WANT to knock out
raises for some of the high-paid
generals and limit the increases to
personnel below the rank of cap
tain or major.
As the bill now stands, it would
add ten per cent to the pay and
allowances of every person in ac
tive or retired military service.
The Armed Services Committee
calls it a cost-of-living raise.
Foreign Student Writes
Pakistan Women Hold Place
in Moslem Society Equal
By M. A. KAHN
Graduate Student From Pakistan
Pakistan as a sovereign inde
pendent country, in southeast Asia,
appeared on the face of the globe
on the 14th of August, 1947. With
80 million population, homogeneous
in speech, thought and action,
though only four years old, but
with centuries of culture, history
and traditions, it forms the larg
est Moslem state in the world.
MODERN PAKISTAN is very
different from its old counterpart
of the days of Rudyard Kipling. A
large majority of its people are
Moslems in faith, are progressive
and think in terms of equality of
mankind, fair play and social jus
tice for every individual irrespect
ive of color, creed or caste.
Man and woman, in Islam, by
virtue of their humanity, are the
equal of each other, and when they
live together, just as man has. cer
tain rights over woman, so has
woman certain rights over man.
Women can own property in the
same way as men. A husband in
Pakistan has no right to use the
property of his wife, as long as the
wife, of her own free will, does
not let him have some of it.
TO SEIZE her property by force
or in a manner which makes it
doubtful, whether her natural shy
ness has not stood in the way of
her refusal, is wrong. Whatever
the husband of his own free
will should give away to his wife
would become the property! of the
wife and the husband would not
be able to take it back from her.
She is to inherit the property
of her parents just as well as her
brothers. Only considering that all
the family responsibilities fall on
man, and the woman’s concern is
her own self alone, her share is to
be one-half of the share of man,
out of the property of their (de
ceased) parents.
Similarly a mother is to have a
share in the property of her (de
ceased) son as well as the father.
Only according to differing circum
stances and the nature of her
responsibilities in particular cases,
she is to have a share at times
equal to and at times less than
that of the father.
ON THE DEATH also of her
husband she is to inherit, whether
or not there are any children, be
cause she is not to be condemned
to a state of dependence on others.
Her marriage, without doubt, is a
holy alliance, which after man and
woman have cultivated mutual in
timacy to the extreme, it is very
detestable to break.
However, it cannot be that, even
after a frightful divergence of na
ture has been found between the
parties, or, in spite of a religious,
physical, economic, social or mental
discrepancy between them, they
should be compelled, in the inter
est of sheer alliance, to rain their
lives and destroy the purpose of
their existence.
WHEN DIFFERENCES of this
nature appear, and man and woman
agree that they cannot live to
gether, they can by mutual consent
revoke the alliance. If, however,
only the husband should take this
view, but not the wife, and if they
fail to adjust themselves to each
other, their affairs should be con
sidered by a committee of two
members, one representing the hus
band and the other the wife.
If the committee should decide
that the parties shall yet make an
effort to live together, it would
be worthwhile, on their part, to
try to settle their differences in
the way recommended by the com
mittee.
Then if the understanding along
these lines should prove impossible,
the husband can divorce the wife,
but in such a case he would have
no right to the return of whatever
he might have given away to her
(before divorce) including the full
value of mahr (marriage settle
ment) .
ON THE OTHER hand, the wife
should seek separation, and not the
husband, she should apply to the
Judge (Kadhi) and if the Kadhi
is satisfied that there is no unfair
motive behind her application, he
shall order the separation.
Only in such a case she will make
out to the husband such of his
property as had been entrusted to
her as also the value of mahr (mar
riage settlement).
Should the husband fail to ful
fill his marital obligations, or cease
to speak to her, or should ask her
to sleep apart, he is not to go be
yond a certain limit of time. If
he persists for four months in this
kind of treatment, he should be
compelled either to reform himself
or to divorce her.
SHOULD HE stop the allow
ances due to the wife, or go away
from her and no longer take care
of her up to a period of three years,
their marriage is regarded null
and void. The wife is now free to
marry again.
A husband does not own his
wife. He cannot sell her, nor re
duce her to the office of a domestic
drudge. His wife shares with him
the amenities of the household, and
his treatment of her, will have to
correspond to the position to which
he himself belongs. A treatment
below that standard, is wrong.
On the death of her husband, his
people will have no right over her.
She will be free and a suitable op
portunity occurring, she shall have
the right to marry again. Nobody
can stop her from doing so.
NOR CAN A widow be compelled
to live in a particular place. Only
for about 4 months and 10
days, she shall live in her husband’s
house, so that all those conditions
which can have a bearing on her
rights and on those of her hus
band’s people, should have time to
manifest themselves.
For a year after the death of
her husband, a widow, whatever
else is due to her, is to have in
addition, the use of her husband’s
house, so that she should be able,
out of what has been left to her,
to make arrangements for her resi
dence. Should the husband find
himself not on good terms with
his wife, he himself is to keep out
of the house, and not ask his wife
to get out of it because the house
hold is supposed to be the posses
sion of the wife.
IN THE UPBRINGING of the
the children, the woman has to be
consulted. Wet nursing and general
caretaking are to depend on her
advice. If the husband and wife,
finding it impossible .anymore to
live together, should want to sep
arate from each other, the care
of the small children has to be
entrusted to the mother.
When they grow up, they will,
for purposes of education, come
back to the father. As long as the
children live with their mother,
their maintenance should be pro
vided for by the father who has to
also pay for the time and labor
the mother would spend on account
of the children.
Woman, in short, enjoys an in
dependent status. In civil admin
istration she has the same consid
eration paid to her claims as that
accorded to man with the result
that today we find women in every
walk of life. There are women ar
tists and poets.
THERE ARE many women doc
tors. Often husband and wife run
large clinics, the husband attend
ing to male patients, while the wife
specializes in women’s and child
ren’s ailments.
Pakistan has noted women indus
trialists and Pakistan girls in large
numbers are employed in the state'
telephone exchanges. There are wo
men research workers, women
school principals, women account
ants, receptionists, customs offi
cers, and radio announcers.
MANY OF them are in the Wo
men’s National Guard and others
recruited in the Pakistan Naval
Reserves so that in a national em
ergency they may relieve men of
some of the shore duties. Pakistan
has over 1,000 Girl Guides who
nurse the refugees from India,
teach their children and look after
sanitation.
There is hardly any field of na
tional endeavor in which the influ
ence of Pakistani woman is not be
ing felt. Among them are some of
the finest speakers in the country
who represent their constituencies
in Parliament.
Lawyers, doctors, professors,
journalists, civil servants and even
women in the business world all
are sparing no pains to build up
the infant state.
Truman ... A
Character Study
N ONE of the Houston papers there was a very beautiful
column written by Louis Bromfield about Harry Truman.
Mr. Bromfield said, in his column, the President of the Uni
ted States would make a fascinating study for a novelist or a
phychologist.
He even said the life of Harry Truman would make an
interesting bit of drama, except it would come out a bitter
comedy. It could not be a tragedy, the columnist said, be
cause Harry did not have the depth of character or stature
needed to fulfill the requirements of a tragic character.
Woodrow Wilson or James Forrestal, he said, would be
tragic characters because they did have the depth and sta
ture—but not Harry. As an example of the Presidents shal
lowness he cited the President’s choice of clothing while in
Key West.
Temporarily leaving the thespian digs, he went on to
tell a little about Mr. Truman’s background as a farm boy
who he said was “rather timid in character, and handicapped
by the fact that he was forced to wear glasses.”
A piano, Bromfield surmised, took the place of rough
and ready male companionship, but served to shut him off
from the other little boys.
From this Bromfieldjzed version of his childhood, Brom
field jumped into the first World War. Here, Harry of the
Truman family, served as a conscientious if not a brilliant sol
dier who his messmates found a little “stuffy and even
prissy.”
Jumping a few more years we come to the end of the
career of a businessman. Truman jumps into the political
ring and becomes the county judge. Through the help of
Political Machine Operator Pendergast, he went to the sen
ate, Bromfield historically recalled the facts.
In congress, Mr. Truman served on several committees
and gained distinction through the efforts of the “Truman
Committee, where it turned out that the real work was done
by hired counsel.
Hannegan, Bromfield wrote, was the cause of our fair
haired lad getting the vice-presidency. The Democratic com
mittee man pushed the Missouri piano player into the ring
ahead of Supreme Court Justice Douglas.
He won. Roosevelt died. Truman President—that’s just
history. Or as our columnist said is a “Bare and honest out
line of a career and a very strange one which landed the
American people with a president who is without distinction
and the apotheosis (per Webster—exaltion, as of a person or
ideal) of mediocity.
“There is a pathetic note in the story. It is that as Tru
man rose politically and became more and more powerful, he
attracted all sorts of cheap, inferior and corrupt politicians,
and the little boy who had never had many friends found
himself surrounded by them.
“Most of them were cheap, dull and commonplace, but
to the little fellow whose youth and young manhood and army
life had been lonely, they were ‘friends.’ And there were
others who overawed him by the education at Groton and
Harvard, men of the world, who were highly literate and had
been around.”
From this you can get an idea of the picture Bromfield
painted of Truman and his followers.
It is a shame we have a president such things can be
said about. Out of it all there is one bright light.
In an advertisement in some small town paper, the citi
zens were urged to buy a poll-tax because, “Do you want
Harry to win again?”
———<jonc5E ra ii.Mt
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Readers Write About
Airplanes and Hospitals
Dogs Have Hospital
Editor, The Battalion:
I noticed from the recent discus
sion about the college hospital that
it was declared closed over the
Christmas Holidays.
In this regard, I would like to
point out the Veterinarian Hospital
stayed open during the holidays
and many of us did not have a
chance to spend many days at home
... . four to be exact.
The faculty of the hospital stay
ed on call all during the holidays.
Maybe it is nice to lead a dog’s
life.
Max Ward, ’51
Official On Airplanes
Editor: The Battalion:
I would like to take this oppor
tunity to congratulate several of
the men in the class of ’52 for
their glorious action, above and
beyond the call of duty in Duncan
Mess Hall the night of Jan. 11.
In the face of tremendous odds,
consisting of many tanks (or were
those girls—they looked like girls)
and a large number of infantry
(boys) from that particularly ag
gressive land, Sam Houston State
Teacher’s College, these vallient
men poured round after round of
105mm howzer fire (or was that
waded bread) into the oncoming
flood.
One man at the risk of his life
stood in a chair and raised his
sign for all to see—they saw. Sev
eral direct hits were scored on the
tanks at close and long range and
some infantry was annialated.
Then at 1800 the enemy with
drew taking their wounded and
dead with them—probably never to
return.
Hitting visiting girls with bread
—can anything be more childish or
cowardly ?
James A. Reed ’52
The Battalion
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