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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1952 Clarity Of Commands Needed For Efficiency THHE PROBLEM which now confronts the ^ Corps of Cadets apparently isn’t so local. It seems to be popping up in far away places with just as much prominence. The Associated Press recently carried a story which went like this: A certain warrant officer at a Royal Air Force Base in Britain was famed for his un usual and not always consistent orders. He prided himself on the briskness and efficien- • Six More Days ’Til Voting Time CIX MORE days. ^ Only 144 hours until a new President is elected for the United States. Wire services, radio broadcasts, pink and green circulars have been carrying various opinions of both candidates and what well- known persons have to say concerning the different parties. But like a football game or a major quiz, few people remember the battle, it’s the final score which counts. Your vote on Nov. 4 will determine the score. Everyone’s vote is important. Decide now to vote Tuesday. • Wrong Ideas Held About Free Press jUREEDOM OF THE PRESS is essential to ■■■ political liberty. Where men cannot free ly convey their thoughts to one another, no freedom is secure. This is true in college liberties. A&M is endowed tf/ith this freedom, yet many students think this is not true because of the ‘‘letters to the Editors” which we publish, or do not publish. Every month many letters are turned in which we refuse to print. We talk with the person who writes these letters and explain why: It is not freedom of the press to come out and call someone a “Hitler” or even a “bum,” unless proof is available to support the writer’s statements. False statements harm all concerned. We hope all students will write on ques tions which they want answered, and to crit icize where operations or operators deserve such treatment. v It is repeated often that “objective criti cism is helpful” yet we feel persons or plans that are the subjects of these letters have the right of protection from false remarks and traditional grudges. Therefore, both sides should consider the other, and neither should bear arms be cause of a letter. Our faults we easily over look. cy with which he dispersed of various duties and coped with problems. One morning parade found him busily assigning his men. Soon there were only five airmen standing before him. He fixed them with his stern eye, and thundered in his usually loud manner: ‘ ’Arf of you go to the cookhouse! ’Arf to the food store!” This order left a solitary man hesitating ly poised of the horns of his considerable dilemna—how to proceed in two directions at once? Shyly he said, “What am I to do please sir?” The fault in this case was brought about by muddled and unclear orders originating from the commander. This is easily com pared to the murky commands passed down at times from Ross Hall. No one can place the blame for the situ ation on the airman. And likewise it hardly seems possible for the blame of our present dilemna to be placed on the corps which doesn’t know which “ ’Arf” to follow. The solution? If the commander of this English unit were to back off and think, he would see the fault lies more in the preparatory command than in the command of execution.| This is the problem here. • High School Days, College Daze (fPONCERNING an incident which occurred ^ last Friday, the following from a high school paper concerns a problem which the school faces. “In the army, the term ‘mess hall’ is simply two words used to name a place to eat, or lunchroom as the case may be. This has proved tb be a very inappropriate term in the sense that army ‘mess halls’ are usual ly kept clean. Not so at Forest. “The lunchroom at Forest is not a ‘mess hall’, but apparently a few absent minded students of the school have forgotten this fact and seem to be doing their best to turn the lunchroom into a very unsightly mess. This can very easily be accomplished by leav ing trays, bottles, lunch sacks, and other items scattered carelessly over the tables. “Should an unsuspecting visitor behold this sight, he would probably execute an im mediate exit in favor of a pig pen or a simi lar port of rest. This last statement is of course highly improbable, but the fact still remains that our lunchroom could stand some improvement. “If you want your lunchroom to be a wel come sight for visitors instead of an unsight ly mess hall,’ please do your part in helping to keep it as clean as possible.” We’re glad there aren’t any trays here at A&M. Someone might get hurt! The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examina tion and vacation periods. The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publication are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and va cation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Tex as under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. . Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. 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MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors Ed Holder Sports Editor Harri Baker .....City Editor Maddox Women’s News Editor Today’s Issue Joe Hipp News Editor Jerry Bennett Assistant News Editor Gus Becker Sports News Editor ferry Bennett, Bob Hendry, Joe Hlpp, Chuck Neighbors, Bob Selleck News Editors Gus Becker Associate Sports Editor Vernon Anderson, Bob Boriskie, William Buckley, Arnold _ Damon, Robert Domey, Allen Hays, Joe Hladek, Bill Foley, Ed Fries, Raymond Gossett, Carl Hale, Jon Kinslow, H. M. Krauretz, Jim Larkin, Steve Lilly, Kenneth Livingston, Clay McFarland, Dick Moore, Ro land Reynolds, John Moody, Bob Palmer, Bill Shepard, and Tommy Short Staff News Writers toe B Mattel. Editorial Writer Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippas Gerald Estes Sports News Writers ferry Bennett Bob Hendry Amusements Jon Kinslow, Ed Fries City News Editors Willson Davis Circulation Manager Gene Ridell, Perry Shepard Advertising Representatives Bob Godfrey Photo Engraving Shop Manager Bob Selleck, Leon Boettcher Photo-Engravers Keith Nickle, Roddy Peeples Staff Photographers Carder Collins File Clerk Thelton McCorcle Staff Cartoonist LETTERS Saturnine Admits Mistakes, Explains Editors, The Battalion: When I wrote my letter to the Batt, I thought I knew what I was writing. It appears, however, that I did not. When one of the news editors came up to my room last night (Oct. 22) and told me that I had started an uprising on the campus with my letter, and I had seven replies to it already, at first I didn’t believe him, then was over come by surprise. I tried to think what I had said wrong, and even went back and read the letter several times, and could find noth ing wrong with it. I couldn’t even find anything I thought anyone could reply about. That shows the difference in interpretations, be cause when I read your letters I could also see your points of view. I would like to tell you mine. I have decided that I can best answer your letters one at a time. To Cloud, Wilcox, et. al.: I will admit that what I said about serving the government was miswritten on my part, else we would not have had a controversy in the first place. The point is the fact that I was not trying to look at it from my viewpoint, but from the viewpoint that I supposed the government would be looking at it, just as people who were non-reg and those who were not. I know that if I was in a military posi tion, I would automatically think of the regs before the non-regs, so I assumed this was the way it would be and based my assumption on it. Those who are veterans, in fact, those that have any real, legal, or what have you, reason for being out of the corps would be mistak enly unseparated from the rest, and would be considered “just plain non-regs” by the govern ment, I thought. Thus the state ment seemed reasonable. To Roger Terk: You said A&M is a state sup ported school. Due to the fact that it is so, that means that I was wrong again, and in err in that statement. When I spoke about being in ser vice more than the guys that act ually were, I was taking it in gen eral. I did not mean, however, the guys on the fronts, as many of you tried to read into my words. I imagine that I should have been more precise in my choice of words for the few of you who just can’t seem to visualize this. To Sutton: I realize that I made another mistake in the assumption that any non-reg who wishes can live pff the campus. I understand now that this was wrong. To Linnarty, Warren, and Chap man : I know that you are veterans as are many of the other non-regs now attending A&M. For this I respectfully salute you. I believe, however, I have answered your letter already in the one to Mr. Roger Terk. To Boeing, Walter, et. ah: I would like to straighten you out on a little matter. I believe that if you will reread my letter you will find nowhere that I said that the 24 hour duty at A&M “got me down.” In fact, I feel exactly the opposite, I like the Army and always have. I have never said anything against it, though many of you seem to be making me say it by the interpre tation of my letter. I was only us ing the 24-8 hour duty as an ex ample to back up the theory as to why the government would back (See LETTERS, Page 6) Stalin’s Hoax-2 Lenin ‘Equality’ Scrapped By Hierarchy in Kremlin Second in a series of articles by Ernest S. Pisko of Ihe Christian Sci ence Monitor exposing Stalin’s repudiation of communism in Russia, ase upon firsthand observations behind the Iron Curtain. The Editors. * The hoax which Stalin has played upon the Communists can nowhere be seen more clearly than in the Soviet concepts of the state, of the value of the individual, and of equality. They are the very opposite of the original Marxist views on these issues. On all three points the “Communist Man ifesto” of 1848 was quite definite. And later writings by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels show that the founders of communism never saw any reason to modify their opinions. Their utopian aim was the formation of a free association of people—not a “state”— and this aim was to be achieved by the so- called “emancipation of the proletariat.” The “proletariat,” according to their terminology. comprised all the oppressed and exploited classes. Marx and Engels contended how ever, that the proletariat could not “attain its emancipation without at the same time, and once and for all, emancipating society from all exploitation, oppression, class distinctions and class struggles.” . . In 1917, when Lenm began mapping his plans for a Bolshevik seizure of power, he re-.^ iterated Marx’s and Engels’ utopian promise of total and universal freedom and professed his belief in their doctrine of the state. He promised to do away with the state which he# called an organ of class rule . . . legalizing and perpetuating the oppression of one class by another.” LETTERS Spirit Lacking? Ole Army Forgets? Editor, The Battalion: Say, Army, wliat hac happened to the- 12th Man? Has it forgotten how to wildcat to talk it up ? During the TCU game I saw Fish and sophomores, and some juniors and seniors, just standing with arms folded. Some of them had dates, but I think that they should have had enough spirit and love for that Aggie team to yell some. Others did not have dates, but they were having a grand old time shooting the bull among themselves and watching the game. What happened to the 12th Man during the first quarter and the last three minutes of the Baylor game ? It seems that we have for gotten the meaning and words of “The Twelfth Man”, Army. We don’t know what it means when it says, “When we’re down, the go ing’s rough and tough—We just grin and yell we’ve got the stuff.” It sure looked like we forgot that Saturday, Army. That fight ing Aggie team was out there fighting all the way, and the 12th Man was up in the stands yelling only when the men opt on the field were rolling up the field. Any cheering section will do that much. I didn’t notice the yell leaders having much strouble stopping the wildcatting at either the TCU or Baylor game, because there wasn’t much wildcatting in the first place. Let’s get the spirit, Army, and pass it on to that fighting Aggie team—not -wait for the team to give it to us. I’m proud of that team Army, and proud to yell for it. Let’s show them what we all are. Bert Hardaway ’54 Class Rifts Developed Under Stalin Under Prime Minister Joseph Stalin, who took over in 1924 and has been the uncontested supreme authority since 1929, the Soviet Union has drawn farther and far ther away from the fundamental the§e proclaimed by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The power of the So viet Government has grown con stantly. The number of laws has multiplied, and so has the number of prisoners to insure their en forcement. In short, the Soviet Union has become more, instead of less, of a state. It is not surprising to find that this state by now has developed classes whose antagon isms are irreconcilable and that the order which Stalin created is of the type Lenin branded as “legalizing and perpetuating oppression.” Although the nature of the state might seem, at first blush, a rath-* er academic question, it is actually of overriding importance, for it ultimately determines what rights are granted and what values is accorded to the individual. IiJ this respect, too, there is a striking contrast between the promises com munism initially held out to the in dividual and what has happened to him under the Bolshevik regime. Lenin Claims One Income Scale In addition to freedom for all, Marx and Engels also insisted on equality for all. Fulfillment of both demands was promised by the Bolsheviks. ' Lenin stipulated that there would be only one scale of income for all citizens of the new state—working men wages. Nobody, and specific ally no member of the government was to receive higher pay, he an nounced, adding that governmen tal functions ihust be stripped “of every shadow of privileges, of ev ery appearance of official gran deur.” Stalin, some 20 years after that announcement, called the idea of eliminating the distinction between intellectual and manual labor an idea that could be conceived only by “windbags.” Today, inequality is one of the hallmarks of the Soviet regime. Wages of industrial workers aver age $125 monthly, but reach up to $500 for top specialists and to $1,000 and $2,000 in the case of widely propagandized shock work ers. Managerial salaries a v e r a g 5 $12,000 to $20,000 a year, and top annual incomes of professional peo ple and artists easily reach th? $25,000 to $50,000 bracket. Hand in hand with gradatiom in income go fantastic differences in housing , clothing, access to high er education, and so on. y The right to inherit, abolished in 1918, was reintroduced in 1923, limited to an estate value of 10,000 rubles. In 1936, this limitation was removed and a stiff inheritance* tax was instituted. In 1943, the tax was abolished. The technical and managerial staff in Soviet factories has its own. dining rooms where better quality food is served. The same goes to upper grade officers of the Soviet Army. Secret Police Coddled by Government Groneman Helps Write Instructive Pamphlet The American Vocational Asso ciation has just released an eight- page leaflet titled “A Statement of the Place and Purpose of Indcs- trial Arts in Education.” Dr. C. H. Groneman, head of the industrial education depart ment, was a member of the In dustrial Arts Policy and Planning Committee which prepared this material for use by elementary and secondary school administrators. The leaflet includes purposes and descriptions of various areas of industrial arts in public schools. Special privileges are accorded to the MVD (secret police). They have their own food, clothing, and furniture stores, where choice, mer chandise is sold at bargain base ment prices. Their children—at least in Moscow—attend separate model schools in which the best available instruction is provided. Thus it can be said without ex aggeration that the system of graded class privileges and dis crimination which flourished in Czarist Russia and which the Bol shevik Revolution promised to wipe out, has come back with a vengeance. In the western countries, instan ces and trends of discrimination can be and have been attacked. Thei’e, as a result of these attacks, discrimination often has been halt ed or lessened. In the Soviet Union no disclosure or criticism is per- missable, no remedy is possible be cause perpetuation of inequality is one of the chief instruments of government. The masses, down graded on the scale of human val ues instead of being freed and lifted up, have to keep silent. The next article: Why the Kremlin changed the Soviet an them. Gunsmith Warns Careless Hunters Members of the College Station Lions Club heard Morgan Smith? local gunsmith, give a few “dos and don’ts” about handling a gun at their weekly meeting Monday in the MSC. Smith quoted various statistics concerning people using guns care lessly. He gave hunters in the audience advice about gun safety. Capt. Erwin Brigham thanked other members of the club for the help they gave the Lions Club Boy Scout Troop 450 last vreekend. The scouts camped out at Hunts ville and also attended the prison rodeo. P O G O By Walt Kelly WHAT'5> UP? i VV£ le VOUUNT&EKS TO \ YOU GONB 1 FlNP poeo WITH YOU. ) PSlNOHlM he gotta come back WITH FOP THE pi-Vt. ^O'arr HAc*. *v-ym>iCLArie. MY gun le mere UOAPEP WITH /z£/j?r£ : &S‘- -- po0o^> LOVE ‘EM so. 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