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.
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leaders should come in and offer
“to cut out four or five divisions.”
“I have not heard any such of
fers by our military leaders,” he
added.
71 Cases of Flu
Reported in Area
Influenza again led the list of
illnesses in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area during the week ending
Feb. 23. Seventy one cases of the
diseases were reported in both
communities according to the
Bryan-Brazos County Health Unit.
College Station had 28 cases of
the disease compared with 43
cases in Bryan. Also, College Sta
tion reported 14 cases of septic
sore throat.
Other diseases in the locality
included chickenpox, one; diarrhea,
29; gonorrhea, three; measles, six;
mumps, two; pneumonia, eight;
syphilis, three.
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