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Battalion Editorials Page 2 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1952 IF IT WERE AS SURE AS IT IS SLOW Soul Searching fFHERE COMES a time in the life of every institution or organization when it is well for that group to take stock of themselves and see what is going on. This is the case with the Student governing bodies of A&M. Just a quick glance at the organizational structure of the groups does not give the true picture of what is going on, or what the short-comings are. However, when a person in vestigates the situation he might come to the conclusion that the student government is just a sub-committee of the senior class or of the basic division officer cofps. If a person doesn’t see this after investigating the sit uation he might come to the conclusion that the senate, for an example, is not a representative body in practice. With one exception the lower two classes are left out of active membership. Should this be the conclusion of the person looking at the group he would likely come up with the sug- llfti fsfl gestion that the membership insure a fair representation for^ IgjlM'i tZa UUlxJBl all classes. Such a person might even suggest the constitu tion be revised. At the same time another person looking at the senate might say the members do not know what they are empower ed to do. Their opinion would be based on the records where Annual Clinic Civic Groups Make Plans For Crippled Children’s Clinic In Basic Division Summer school and fall semes ter freshmen probation students are down four per cent this se- the senate has passed resolutions and has not carried them mester in comparison with last out. But with these things showing on the surface there is the indication that there should be a review of the entire student governing set-up at A&M. And such a review should be a carefully considered job. Should the members of the governing organizations be alarmed about the situation they are the logical place for the review to start. semester, John Bertrand, dean of the Basic Division announced. Of the 1,570 summer school and fall semester freshmen, 542 or 35 per cent are currently on scholas tic probation. These figures were released today bv the dean. 732 on Probation After mid-semester of the last term, 732 were on probation. Of this number 104 were removed . ... ■ , , . from probation at the end of the Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine term and 433 continued on proba- -Greeley. McCloy Predicts German Disaster tion. Five per cent were dropped from the rolls of the college. There were 156 first year men who could have returned to school at the end of the first semester, but who did not. These figures show a decrease of four per cent in probation students from the fall mid-semeSter when 732 of the 1,871 freshmen were on probation. Dean Bertrand said the students who are not making satisfactory scholastic progress are encouraged to decide for themselves whether or not it is wise and profitable for them to continue in school at the present time. The dean also emphasized the 12 hour C average probation which has been, used in place of the for mer 12 hour and 12 grade point probation. The 12-C average probation re quires the student to pass a min imum of 12 hours with the same number of grade points that he registered for in hours. This prevents, the dean said, the student from going into a grade - point “sink - hole” which would ultimately eliminate his chances of getting the 1.00 grade point ratio necessary for gradua tion. The annual Crippled Children’s Clinic will again be held in the College Hospital on May 12, said Dr. Luther G. Jones, former agro nomy professor, and chairman of the Crippled Children’s Society. Seven doctors from different cities over the state will volunteer their services to give advice for treat ment of any crippled child brought to the hospital on that date. Names of the doctors to participate have not been announced, he added. Principal Activity The Crippled Children’s Clinic is one of the principal activities of the Crippled Children’s Society which ha sas chairman, Dr. Dan Russell. This society receives mon ey for its work from allocations by the local Kiwanis Club and the College Station Community Chest. Groneman to Judge School Contest The Delta Power Tool Division of the Rockwell Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wis. has announced the selection of Dr. Chris H. Groneman, head of the industrial education department as one of five judges who will de cide the winners of the Delta na tionwide School Shop Layout Con test now being conducted. Groneman will be responsible for the selection of the most out standing shop plans pertaining to industrial arts in six areas of shop and drafting. Other educators com prising the panel are Dr. W. W. Theisen, assistant superintendent of schools, Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. C. C. Caveny, dean, Chicago cam pus, University of Illinois; Hans A sum of $71.43 was donated this year by the Kiwanis Club. At a meeting on Feb. 19, it was decided that the Brazos Robert son County Medical Auxiliary and the Crippled Children Committee of the College Station Kiwanis Club will mail letters containing Prisoner Issue Goes Back To Sub-Committee Crippled Children Easter Seals to residents in this vicinity. Recip ients of these seals will be asked to send $1 to the Crippled Child ren’s Society. Seals are sponsored by the Na tional Society of Crippled Child ren and Adults Inc. and all money received for them goes to help handicapped people. Attendants Consolidated Anderson, J. Those who attended the meeting Feb. 19, were: Mrs. Art Adamson, Mrs. T. M. Lcland, Mrs. J. E. Marsh, Mrs. D. L. Belcher, Mrs. A. A. Blumberg, E. 0. Seike, former director of forestry; Mrs. Frank Munsan, Wednesday, Feb. Anderson, Joe S. Mogford, agrono- 27—(JP)—staff officers today m y department; Les Richardson; turned back to Korean truce superintendent ( u ii. : . f Schools; Mrs. Frame Andersoi .subcommittees the prisoner of M Abe Vcrombi,., of the Veterans war repatriation Pioblem Rehabilitation Bureau; Dr. (ieorge still unsolved. W. Schlesselman, head of the geol- In an adjoining tent at t’anmun- ogy department; and Dr. Jones, jom, an Allied staff officer in the head of the Easter Seal Committee truce supervision talks told the for the Crippled Children’s Society. Reds they apparently were more Mrs. Marsh heads the Easter Seal interested in defining the merits Committee for the Brazos-Robert- of Soviet Russia than in making son County Medical Auxiliary. progress with the Korean trace talks. And the U. N. command flatly told the Reds that the Koje Island riot in which one American soldier and 75 Korean civilians were killed was “no proper concern” of the Communists since it involved “per sonnel who were not of your side.” U. S. Col. James C. Murray told the Reds that the work of the staff scholastic League Music Contest; officers discussion prisoner ex HS Chorus Will Go to Houston A&M Consolidated’s Senior High Mixed Chorus will go to Houston Saturday to compete in the Inter change appeared to bo at a dead end. He said at the close of two hours and 50 minutes of discussion today that the Reds had shown no The 53-voice chorus will enter the Class B division. Six other southwest Texas schools are enter ed in Class B. First, second, and third ratings are given, by points, W. Schmidt, nationally recognized willingness to compromise on their “This is the first time the sen- school planning architect of Mad- position of mandatory repatriation ior high chorus has made this ison, Wis.; and Gilbert G. Weaver, for all prisoners, director of Industrial Training, The Allies have demanded volun- New York State Department of tary repatriation. In other words, trip,” said Robert L. Boone, music director. “Wc might get a second rating.” Education. Bonn, Germany, Feb. 27—GP)—U. S. High Commissioner John J. Mc Cloy today predicted "general dis aster’ unless reviving German na tionalism is halted. He accused most of West Germany’s political parties and even some cabinet min isters of fostering the revival. It was McCloy’s sharpest warn ing to date against the trend to 'nationalism. It came in his quarterly report to the State Department. Commenting on another aspect of the German scene, McCloy said East Germany’s controlled econo my in its fight for industrial self- sufficiency during 1951 may have equaled the 1936 output in that section. In West Germany, he added, in dustrial production is at a higher rate than in any pre-war year and West Berlin’s economic activity has reached its highest level since the end of the war. With his warning against reviv ing nationalism, McCloy also spot lighted the emergence of neo-Nazi parties which he said intended to “discredit and desti’oy parliamen tary Democracy” in West Germany. Of the German parties he said: “Most of the established politi cal parties have been stocking the merchandise of nationalism. Indi viduals or circles and, in a few cases, even the controlling ele ments of an entire state political organization have expressed highly rationalistic sentiments, cither out of conviction or as a vote-getting device. “Even some federal ministers have not been above such actions.” He warned: “The use of the extreme nation alist narcotic creates the need for larger doses. Worse, the users must ultimately find that they can not subsist on talk alone but must resort to some action to avoid decline.” Taft Wants to Postpone a prisoner would not have to go back to the other side if he chose to stay. Murray Said the Communists in dicated “tentative acceptance” of the proposal to return the problem to the subcommittee. FFA Dance Slated In Sbisa March 29 UMT for Three Years Washington, Feb. 27—(API—Sen ator Taft proposed today that the Start of Universal Military Train- The high commissioner said the * r >8’ (GMT) be postponed “for neo-Nazi parties are “extreme about three years. ’ rightist and ultra-nationalist or- “I can’t see why we should try ganizations which invent scandals to start UMT as long as the draft and rumors about the Democratic now is taking most young men for parties and parliamentary leaders t\vo years active duty,” the Ohio and dub anyone who opposed Hit ler as a traitor. “They vilify the Allies and seek to distort Allied policy and the genuine desire of the Western pow- Scale Down The Senate bill has a provision requiring a gradual scale-down in the regular force after 300,000 men complete six months’ basic training and go into the reserves. Taft said he believes men who have served two years under the draft, or as volunteers, would com prise necessary reserves for the next few years. But Senate sponsors of UMT say Rep. Short (R-Mo), a leading op- it is unfair to restrict the nation’s f orc taking up UMT, ponent of UMT. Short predicted reserves to combat veterans. They today of introducing a motion to send the UMT measure back to the House Armed Services Committee. If passed, this would kill it for this session, but it would mean individ ual congressmen would not have to express a direct opinion. UMT is a hot issue, particularly in an elec tion year. officers will meet again tomorrow to work out a problem of trans- '‘■'iatjon. The subcommittee tenta tively was scheduled to resume its talks at 11 a.in. Friday (9 p.m., EST, Thursday). The Allied statement on the Koje riot was delivered by Murray. The Reds last Saturday had demanded clear account of the slaughter” All profs will be cowboys at the ’1 he staff fj rs t; annual dance sponsored by Republican told a reporter, could not vote to do it now.” Other protests were cited “I by ers to bring Germany back into the that northern Democrats from la- say UMT should provide trained community of nations as a Demo cratic partner.” McCloy said the neo-Nazi Social ist Reich Party (SRP) is the “num ber one extremist party in Germa ny.” The West German govern ment already has asked the con stitutional court to outlaw the par ty. probably next week. Second Day The House is in the second day of debate on the controversial measure to give 18-year-olds six months’ training, followed by 7% years in the reserves. UMT bills before the House and Senate would set up detailed au thority for a start of compulsory military training, whenever Con gress or the President determined it possible and funds were provid ed. Taft, a candidate for the Repub lican presidential nomination and chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said he wants Congress to tell the military that The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College before UMT is started, Pentagon bor and farm districts would help reserves from non-veteran ranks. Republicans kill the measure. Short said the expressed qppo- But chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of sition of some farm and labor the House Armed Services Com- groups would swing many north- mittee continued to predict passage ern Democrats against UMT. He of the bill when it comes to a vote, said he was counting on these CLUB DONATES BOOKS San Angelo and Big Spring High School libraries were the re cipients of two books donated by the San Angelo A&M Club. Both books were copies of The Story of Texas A&M by George Sessions Perry. was counting on votes, rather than those of anti administration southern Demo crats, to defeat the bill. Coalition Another opposition lawmaker, Rep. Shafer (R-Mich), predicted earlier a House Republican-Dixie coalition would team up against UMT. Some legislators were talking House Action Senate leaders have said they will wait for the House to act be- The meas ure has approval of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Vinson opened a four-day debate yesterday by contending an early start on UMT was necessary to build up enough trained reserves to permit reduction of standing forces. He said this eventually would save 13 billion dollars a year. Rep. Arends of Illinois, the Re publican whip, said the bill was “unDemocratic, costly, impractical, inequitable and unnecessary.” He said instead of bringing an ultimate saving, UMT would “cost the American people at least sev eral billion dollars every year.” and protested what they called the “barbarous massacre of large num bers of our personnel.” Thousands of Korean civilian prisoners on Feb. 18 rushed about 750 U. S. troops guarding com pound 62 on the U. N. stockade is land of Koje off South Korea. The U. N. command said the Communist protest was “based up on a false premise.” the Collegiate FFA Chapter, said Bart Brooks, chairman of the en tertainment committee. The dance will be held March 2!) in Sbisa Kali. The Music and en tertainment will be furnished by the Mountain Dew Boys, Sam Houston State College. Invitations will be extended to all high school FFA president and sweethearts in an effort to pub licize A&M. and the local chapter. Brooks added. DR. M. W. DEASON Optometrist 313 College Main (Formerly Corky’s) 8:00 to 5:00 Ph. 4-1106 BIG BOOK SALE Old Editions of Technical Books VALLES $3—$6 OUR PRICE Biology Physical 49c — 89c —. 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