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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1952
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Presidential Election Methods Same
Governor’s Guard
(Editor’s Note: This is the first of
four stories on the voters’ struggle to
, pick a president.)
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tio ANOTHER HONOR has been given the Ross Volunteers,
of /V £j me „ the governor of Texas has seen fit to desig
nate the group as the official representative body of the
at State of Texas to the annual Mardi Gras celebration in New
Br Orleans.
to We at A&M often fail to realize what a fine job the Ross
mi Volunteers have done. Not only have they brought credit
intt othemselves through their marching proficiency and dis-
in cipline but they have brought credit to the entire Corps of
Cadets at A&p. ,
The RV’s act as the official honor guard for the gover-
of nor at the A&M-Texas football game each Thanksgiving Day
They take part in many military activities, last year repre-
Sh seating the college in San Antonio.
Washington, Feb. 13—t®—For 165
years the voters have been in a long and
not very energetic struggle to get a
word in edgewise in picking a president.
This election year is a good time to see
why.
The 55 men who met in Philadelphia
in 1787 to make the Constitution, saw to
it the people couldn’t vote directly for
the president. We still don’t. We have
to vote for electors who vote for the
president.
We can’t even choose the candidates.
The professional politicians see to that.
They do it for us as they will once again
at the Republican and Democratic na
tional conventions in Chicago this sum
mer.
the choice of a proper character for their
chief magistrate to the pepole as it
would be to refer a trial of colour to a
blind man.”
THE ONLY point they conceded was
in letting us vote directly for the mem
bers of the House of Representatives.
Until the constitutional amendment of
1913 we couldn’t vote for senators. The
state legislatures picked them.)
Actually, it worked out that way only
twice: In 1800 the House chose Thomas
Jefferson over Aaron Burr when both
tied in electoral votes; and in 1824 the
House named John Quincy Adams over
Andrew Jackson when neither got an
electoral majority.
over the naming of electors for whom
the mass of the people could vote on
election day. So now the electors of the
paryt getting the biggest vote in each
state vote for that party’s presidential
candidate.
Cleveland was 5,540,329 to 5,439,826 for
Benjamin Harrison who won the presi
dency because he got 283 electoral votes
to 168 for Cleveland.
And the 55 men worked out a plan—
it’s in Arfticle Two, Section One, of the
constitution—which, it was expected,
wolud let Congress itself pick the pres
ident 19 times out of 20. Each state
would select a group of electors who’d
vote for a president.
Those 55 conservatives of 1787 agreed
with George Mason of Virginia who
thought “it were as unnatural to refer
If the electors in each state voted for
“favorite sons,” as it was thought they
would, any one candidate would have a
time getting a majority of the electoral
vote. And when no one did, the House
of Representatives would choose the
president from among the top runners.
BUT ON THE important question—
who’d elect the electors, and how? —
the 55 constitution-makers left that up
to each state legislature to decide. In
those earliest days, when only one-sev
enth of the adult males had the right to
vote, a few legislatures let the people
vote for electors. The rest of the legis
latures kept the right to themselves.
Eventually—but it wasn't until Civil
War days, and the South Carolina leg
islature was the last to yield—all the
legislatures let the people vote for elec
tors. This came as more people voted
and the big political parties emerged.
There had been no parties as we know
them up through Washington’s first
two terms. The parties finally took
This would seem to mean the electors
have become mere rubber stamps, which
they are most of the time, and harmless
parts of an old-fashioned election system
which we have been too lazy to change.
It isn’t quite true.
UNDER THE constitution the number
of electors in each state is limited to its
total number of senators and representa
tives in Congress. So it’s possible, be
cause the population of some states is
greater than in others, for a candidate
to get a greater popular vote (total vote
for electors) than the man who wins the
election because he got more electoral
votes.
AND, ALTHOUGH the electors almost
always vote for their winning party’s
candidate, there’s no law, except in a
few states, which says they have to. So
far we haven’t shown enough energy to
change this ridiculous and outdated sys
tem which some time may let a little
group of electors, chosen by the people,
vote contrary to the people’s choice for
president.
To abolish this system would be a
slow, tedious process, requiring a con
stitutional amendment. There’s been
talk of it. But no action.
It’s happened and could happen again.
In 1888 the popular vote for Grover
It’s not an issue this year. In 1952
more attention is being given another
question: How to strip the political
bosses of some of their control over
choosing presidential candidates and
letting the people express some prefer-
Governor Shiver’s invitation is the first big recognition
the RV’s have gained from a state official. They have shown
they are worthy of this honor through weeks of extra drill
ing in preparation for the New Orleans trip.
A recognition of the work and accomplishments of the
Ross Volunteers should come from every A&M student and
former student. They have done a fine job.
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W/HAT MIGHT well prove one of the great tragedies of our
’’ times would be too-wide acceptance of the already too-
widely urged doctrine that liberalism and communism differ
only in degree—that every inch away from the ultimate in
laissez-faire conservatism means an inch down a long decliv
ity toward a world of Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin.
Actually, Russian communism represents a throwback
to the worst of all possible forms of conservatism: the en
trenched tyranny of an elite-dominated state over the indi
vidual. And liberalinsm stands always for the free individ
ual, the master, not the servant, of the state.
Nine years of experience as an FBI undercover man op
erating within the innermost councils of the Communist
Party taught Herbert A. Philbrick not only the validity of
this thesis but also the fact that it can be spelled out in ob
servable behavior.
—Christian Science Monitor.
Truman, FDR Office-Seeking
Tactics Follow Same Pattern
Spring Touche#
Korean Front
Washington, Feb. 13—(A 5 )—Poli
ticians said privately today that
President Truman may be follow
ing a pattern used by the late
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in
seeking another White House term.
Rep. Sabath (D-Ill), dean of
Congress in service, came out of
the White House yesterday saying
the President told him he might
take another term if it would serve
world peace.
So far the chief executive has
had nothing to say directly about
seeking re-election, but a series of
Couple’s Forum
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FBI Undercover Agent
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ExpL
Sophs Air Views
(Continued from Page 1-
(From a press interview with uses any means at his disposal—
Herbert Philbrick, author of the lies, blackmail, bloodshed, murder;
book, “I Led Three Lives,” and the liberal, although he may have
FBI undercover agent who spent some of the same ends in mind,
nine years penetrating into the uses honorable means,
innermost circles of the Communist 7. A Communist uses the arts—
Party in the United States.) —' literature, painting, music—in a
Christian Science Monitor. strictly functional sense, to further
1. A Communist believes the in- the aims of world communism; a
dividual must be sacrificed for the liberal appreciates the arts for
good of the masses; a liberal has their own sake.
high regard for the value and in- 8. A Communist is absolutely in
tegrity of the individual. dcfatigablc in “serving” an organi-
2. A Communist interprets and zation he wishes to control. He
misinterprets history for his own will do anything, even stay at
purposes; a liberal studies history a meeting until 3 a.m., by which
honestly and learns from it. time, unfortunately, the non-Com-
3. A Communist uses the ills munist liberals will have gone
and defects of the capitalist system home.
to fqment anger and class strife; 9. A Communist, although he
a liberal points out those ills, but pretends to be independent, always
tries to cure them. takes his orders from above; a lib-
4. A Communist believes that eral makes up his own mind.
the government is the master of 10. A Communist, because he
the people; a liberal believes that takes orders from above, is some-
the government is the servant of times trapped by an over-night
the people. change of party policy; a liberal
5. A Communist will attack so- can change his mind but he does
cialists and progressives even more so slowly, painfully, and by his
violently than he attacks conserv- own volition.
atives; a liberal tends to agree and 11. A Communist participates in
to compromise with people holding secret, underground activity. He
the same general point of view. feels that he has something to
6. A Communist, to attain his' conceal. A liberal works toward
seemingly bright idealistic goals, (See COMMUNIST, Page 4)
Col. E. W. Napier, PAS&T, is
reported to have said he did not
realize there would be as much
opposition to the move. To back
up his statement he said they
•were not taking the problems of
the corps to heart. He reminded
them they were only one year re
moved from their freshman year.
He clarified the impression that
once in the Freshman regiment
there was no way of getting out by
saying it was possible to move out.
1.5 GPR Possible
A man from the floor asked the
question about lowering the grade
point standards for entrance to the
freshman regiment. Colonel Davis
is reported to have said if a man
has less than a 1.5 GPR, he might
drop from contract qualification.
Brooks Receipes
Professional Degre
The Battalion
Morton Palmer Brooks of 7830
Amherst, Dallas, has been award
ed a professional degree, electri
cal engineer by A&M. Brooks
holds a BA degree, 1932, civil en
gineering, from A&M.
He is a colonel in the infantry
stationed in Korea.
Joel Austin, Corps Staff, asked
the question “If CO’s recommended
it, would you change your minds.”
The men are reported to have
felt this might have some effect
on the number who might want
to go.
To the statement from the floor
about how the Basic Division men
were looked upon this year the
comments were:
Colonel Davis—More non-coms
and commissioned officers wanted
to get in than could at mid term.
Smallwood—The position of the
Basic Division officer and non-
com has risen since last year.
Wallace—You don’t realize the
value of leadership opportunities.
The sophomores brought up the
question of the changing of the
uniform.
About this Colonel Davis is re
ported to have said “A&M can des
ignate the uniform to be worn
here. An inspector on the campus
said—T haven’t seen two cadets
dressed alike yet’.”
The uniform question will be
decided later, they said.
One member of the panel was
said to have brought up the fact
are about to redesignate,
are about to reclassify the mili
tary colleges and a mixed uniform
might lower A&M’s standing.
Dr. William E. Denham, Jr.
main speaker during Religious
Emphasis Week, will lead the
student couples’ forum Feb.
18 and Feb. 20 in the YMCA
Chapel from 7:30 to 8:39 p. m.
“How To Handle Tensions” and
“The Place Of Prayer In Tjie
Home” will be discussed Monday
and Wednesday nights respective
ly. The topics were selected by in
terest indicator sheets that were
distributed in the housing units
for married students Saturday.
Dr. Denham will discuss the
subject about 20 minutes. An open
discussion by the students will be
held for the remaining time.
Mrs. Peggy Maddox will pre
side Monday night and Warren
Bradford Wednesday night.
A nursery for the children will
be kept by Mrs. Roberta Inglis in
the Methodist Church nursery lo
cated in the east end of the first
floor of the educational building,
said Gordon Gay of the YMCA.
The nursery will be open from 7
to 9 p. m. each evening.
White House callers have produced
widely varying reports.
Sabath said Truman told him
the presidency is “a killing job”
but that if he “actually felt he
would be of aid and help to Ameri
ca and the world in bringing about
a peace,” in that case he would be
willing to “sacrifice himself and
possibly shorten his life expect
ancy.”
The veteran congressman, a fre
quent White House caller, said he
told Truman he “owed it to the
country to run.”
Politicians recalled that other
White House callers gave similar
reports after talking to the late
President Roosevelt just before he
accepted nominations for third and
fourth terms.
Senator Anderson (D-NM), who
served as Truman’s secretary of
agriculture before entering the
Senate, said the report confirms
his belief that the President will
Sparkman with Senator Hill has
been trying to keep the Alabama
Democratic organization in line to
support the party’s presidential
nominee, whoever he may be. Four
years ago Alabama bolted to the
states rights candidate, J. Strom
Thurmond.
Sparkman said every Democrat
who has been mentioned as a pos
sible candidate “would work for
the peace and advocates the same
foreign policies as Mr. Truman.”
“So it doesn’t seem to me it nec
essarily means' he is going to ran,
if that is what Mr. Sabath was
quoting it for,” he said.
Other White House callers re
cently have insisted that the Presi
dent has. not made up his mind
about 1952.
Seoul, Korea, Fob. 13— ( 7P>—A
light touch of spring hit Korea’s
Eastern front today—along with
probing Communist infantrymen.
The mild weather was continuing
and a thaw was starting.
Allied troops stopped about 200
Reds in the Mundung Valley, but
the Communists did not attack.
In the same area Tuesday U. N.
soldiers killed 96 Reds and wound
ed 130.
run again.
A western Democrat, Senator
Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado, who
thinks Truman will not run, said
he was much interested in the Sa
bath report but added:
“It’s still my personal hunch
that President Truman will not ran
Ellis Arnall, former governor of
Georgia who has been picked by
Truman as price control chief, said
some time ago he believes the
President will ran. That is why
Arnall agreed to take the appoint
ment, some politicians believe.
again.”
Senator Sparkman (D-Ala), a
southerner who has helped put
parts of the Truman program
through Congress, said “maybe it
sounds crazy for me to say so,
but I still don’t think he is a can
didate.”
Jackson, Bonnen
Are Sweethearts
Speakers
(Continued from Page 1-
Agronomy Society
Names Committeemen
The Agronomy Society has cho
sen chairmen for committees to
prepare the organization’s Moth
er’s Dal exhibit.
Committee chairmen are Shelby
Newman, forage crops; Tony Bock-
holt, cotton; Quinton Johnson,
turf; Ed Daniels, soils; J. P. Hitt,
weeds; and P. J. Hendee, fertiliz
ers.
Philadelphia, where he received his
B. D. degree in 1942. He received
his degree of ThM from Princeton
Theological Seminary and his ThD
from the Union Theological Semin
ary.
Since 1947 he has been Associate
Professor of Philosophy at Gus-
tavus Adolphus College, St. Peter,
Minn. Doctor Forell is the author
of a book on Luther’s doctrine of
the church entitled “The Reality
of the Church as the Communion
of Saints” and has published num
erous articles in the field of church
history, ethics, and philosophy.
Dr. Forell is a member of the
American Philosophical Society,
the American Society of Church
History, and Secretary-Treasurer
of the American Society for Re
formation Research.
Bobby' Jackson and David Bon
nen were presented as sweethearts
of the Consolidated High School
Chapter of Future Homemakers at
the annual sweetheart banquet
and dance held in the Maggie Park
er Dining room Thursday.
The boys were selected by secret
ballot and the identity of the
sweethearts was kept a secret un
til the banquet. Both boys were
presented gold initialed belt buck
les.
The Rev. Norman Anderson, pas
tor of the A&M Presbyterian
Church, was the after dinner
speaker. Following his address,
the “Four Little Girls In Blue”
sang three selections. The quartet
included Misses Louise Street, Sara
Puddy, Glenda Brown, and Wanda
Goodwin.
U. S. Fifth Air Force warplanes
cut Communist rail lines in 35
places Wednesday morning. Pilots &
also reported destraction of two
locomotives and one Red anti-air
craft position.
The air force flew 301 sorties
Tuesday and cut rails in 105 spots.
Nine B-29 Superforts bombed
the Sunchon south bypass rail
bridge Tuesday night. Three oth
er B-29s hit the rail yards at Sam-
dong and one raided,the Kyomipo
steel mill.
Allied fighters and bombers at
tacked 100 Red trucks Tuesday
night and destroyed 19. Pilots
also reported a string of 16 box
cars destroyed in northwest Ko
rea.
U. N- warships pounded road and
rail networks off the East coast.
At Hungnam, the destroyet
U.S.S. Halsey Powell worked ovel
rail yards, rail and highway junc
tions and a nitrogen plant with
five-inch shells.
The destroyer U.S.S. Twining f«
fired night and day at targeti
around Wonsan.
Motheral Makes Study
Of Labor in Plains Area
Dr. Joe Motheral, assistant pro
fessor of agricultural economics
left College Station Sunday for
the High Plains area near Lub
bock. He will return Monday.
Motheral is aiding in a study
being made of the labor use in
the 1951 cotton harvest in the
plains area.
DON’T FORGET!
No, don’t forget that Val
entine of yours. Show her
how much you care with a
gift from CALDWELL’S
JEWELRY STORE, Bryan.
DR. M. W. DEASON
Optometrist
313 College Main
(Formerly Corky’s)
8:00 to 5:00 Ph.4-1106
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Tradition!
"Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman”
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Aggie Riflemen
Defeat Allen Squad
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Holuh Weds
Miss McCarty
In Taylor
Aggie riflemen defeated Allen
Military Academy of Bryan and
Quachita College of Arkadelphia,
Ark., in a triangular match Sat
urday.
Firing in the shoulder to should
er match the Aggies scored 1826
points to 1819 for' Quachita Col
lege and 1809 for Allen Academy.
Harry L. Gayden was high point
man for the A&M team with 374.
J. T. Blackmon of Quachita Col
lege also fired 374. High point
man for Allen Academy was R.
D. Jones with 371.
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Joel Austin
Bill Streich
Bob Selleck
Frank Davis
Editor
Associate Editor
- Managing Editor
Sports Editor
..City Editor
Peggy Maddox Women’s Editor
T. H. Baker, B. R. Briggs, Benny Holuh, Bryan Spencer, Ids Trotter
Edgar Watkins, Carl Posay, Gene Steed, Jerry Bennett,
Bert Weller Staff Writers
Bob Cullen, Jack Brandt Staff Cartoonist
Frank Scott Quarterback Club Director
Dick Zeek Staff Photographer
Pat LeBlanc, Hugh Philippus, Gus Becker, Joe Blanchette
Ed Holder Sports Staff Writers
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Russell Hagens Advertising Manager
Robert Hayaie Advertising Representative
lam Beck Circulation Manager
Miss Carol McCarty and Benny
Holub were married in the St.
Mary’s Catholic Rectory in Tay
lor Feb. 3.
Holub is a sophomore journal
ism major. He is the son of Ben
F. Holub of Taylor.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. She wore a light
blue suit, gray accessories, white
gloves, and carried a bouquet of
sweetheart roses. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mc
Carty of Taylor.
The couple are row residing at
703 W 28th Street, Bryan.
Hundred Wives
Attend Meeting
More than 100 students’ wives
attended the- Aggie Wives Bridge
Club meeting Thursday night in
the MSC.
High Score was won by Mrs.
Sparks and second high was won
by Mrs. Darla Harlin. Mrs. Bar
bara Lee Gavin had high score in
the beginners group the past two
weeks.
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ed Baylor ba
the upset of t
ence season h
ing the Unive
horns, 71-59.
Howard He
Bill Fleetwooi
est performai
and Ralph Jo]
on seven fi<
the 13 free ti
After his oj
Scaling nevei
for Texas.
He got se
nine points,
with 13, and
Baylor.
Texas grab
on goals by S
then the Beai
ed to a 19-7
The Brains c
• rebounds
ts during
The Steers
in the seconc
Johnson, Bill
Hovde kept
led, 32-27, at
The Longhi
by one point
third period,
fourih starte
scorer, Jim ’
tallest rebou
and Ted Pric
Baylor alsc
performers fc
Bill Fleetwoc
their replacen
it of their 1
through brilli
Ahead onlj
of the fourth
the victory i
its margin to
utes left. Te:
reserves, 12-
minutes but •
done.
TCU cagei
victory in It
Rice tonight
first place ir
ference race
Texas, 72-59.
The Frogs,
record to six
single defeat
goal attempt
throws.
Getting f:
from the stai
10 points or
Intrar
Four!*
Mon.
Wrestlinj
pong, and
spring Int
next Mond
spring spo
ming, handba
boxing, badm
and softball
Welch, Intra
The bowli:
place at the
will enter a
three men. 1
fifteen fram
Ihe three me
team score.
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the Little
Club under
Griffith will
tion bout
Wrestlers in
become acqui
and holds usi
Boxing is
opening on I
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March 20. Th
ent upon the
House. .
The closins
softball and
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April 12 is
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events. May
for all entrie
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