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-
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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.
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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publish, or do not publish.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.
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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
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Today’s Issue
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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.
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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.
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