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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1953 BORN WITH THE SILVER SPOON Year’s End: Look Back HTHERE USED TO BE a time when people sat down comfortably at the end of the year and measured progress. Nobody, ex cept a few skeptics, doubted the fact of pro gress. Just as the earth went round the sun, and by some-what similar law, so, it appear ed, humanity was growing wiser and better. We are less ambitious today in our year-end estimates. We are glad to break even, to be able to say that though the earthly para dise has not been attained during 1952, no irrevocable catastrophe has overwhelmed the human race. As we look homeward we see certain plus es and minuses in our life between the two The year has developed or revealed too much crime and too much unemployment. There have been strikes, but little violence. Our liberties have survived despite what the Su preme Court took to be an unwarrantable usurpation by the National Government in the seizure of the steel mills and despite some tendency in certain quarters to de nounce all variant opinions as Communistic, or, maybe, Fascist. We are well on the way * toward a practicable H-bomb, but we seem to be ho nearer the horrible necessity of using such a bomb than we were a year ago. During the latter Administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt a few persons used to wonder, or pretend to wonder, whether there would ever be another free election in this country. Some thought, or seemed to think, that the beneficiaries of the incumbent Fed eral Administration would carry all future elections. They were mistaken. We had a free election. The distinguished citizen who ran on the Democratic ticket was beaten by the distinguished citizen who ran on the Re publican ticket, with the probable aid of many who voted for Mr. Truman four years ago and for Mr. Roosevelt before that. The American electorate can still change its mind, and its change of mind is decisive. In the greater Republic—the unchained world—which history is bringing slowly into being, there were the same ups and downs. In Korea the fighting was on a minor scale, but the truce talks got nowhere. A year-end session of the General Assembly resulted in little agreement on anything, with the Com munist states as major dissenters and the French resenting the interest taken in their affairs in North Afriac. India seemed to be coming over to the Western side in its stand against the forcible repatriation of prisoners in Korea, but she retreated—or at least her spokesman here did— after Russia had de feated the plan. The movement for a closer union of West ern Europe and a better understanding among the free nations made some progress but slowed down toward the end of the year. The NATO council, meeting at Lisbon in February, overestimated what could soon be done to prepare for European defense. There will not be as many effective divisions in 1953 as had been hoped for. But the fer ment continues to work. In Paris, in Bonn, in the Saar, in all the capitals of the West, up and down all the highways, wherever men come together to talk or to wrangle the idea of a closer union is present—even when it is brought up only to be rejected. Here and there over the world we see the future and the past embattled. There is de structive rioting in Cairo, but this is followed by the abdication of a useless King and an attempt at reform. Japan, in the eleventh year after Pearl Harbor, regains her indepen dence. In India, the first Parliament elected by universal suffrage assembles. In Cuba, Batiska takes power by a military coup, but Puerto Rico, under the American flag, pur sues her peaceful, self - governing w a y. Throughout the Orient there is unrest, but we see evidence of a tide toward democracy in the Philippines, in Ceylon, in Malaya and elsewhere. We are not allowed to know much of what goes on in Russia, China and the satelite Communist countries. We know enough to be sure that all is not well. It was not a triumphant economic democracy that exacted the recent blood sacrifice in Czechoslovakia. The Marxian faith that was to have freed and enriched the common man still has to be imposed upon him after thirty-five years by scaffolds and bayonets. Mr. Stalin’s latest outgiving, in which he pays lip service to peace, in no wise changes that situation. What can we say at the end of this year except that the free world holds its lines and its frontiers, and that the faith in free dom which enables it to do so has grown rather then slackened during the last twelve months? With such aii'assurance we can face forward and march with sober courage into the new year that waits for us. —New York Times. Suppose It Was Us HTHERE MAY BE a Communist or two, other than two revealed as such, among 271 of the 974 members of the crew of the French liner Liberte. It is possible that among the crew there was as much as one man who would approve of the overthrow of the United States Government by force and violence. But those of us who have traveled on French ships and who have met the French on their native soil will not take this nonsense too seriously. The Immigration and Naturalization Service was obliged, un der the McCarran-Walter Act, to deny shore leave to the unhappy 271 crew members. Some of these, acting much as an Anglo- Saxon might act under similar circumstan ces, had refused to answer questions con cerning matters which they regarded as their own private business. If they had gone ashore they might, no doubt, have sought out French friends, eaten some French food, drunk some French or even native wine, and 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. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all news dispatches cred ited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Ed Holder ..... Harri Baker Co-Editors Sports Editor City Editor trs-v Maddoii Women’s News Editor Bob Selleck Today’s Issue Chief Editor C. Yates Jobe Chief News Writer Indians THE "BOB” SLID Executive Courses returned to their ships with a kindly feeling toward Americans and America. They can not feel kindly under existing circumstances. Let us suppose that the same measures were applied to the crew of an American ves sel, such as the United States, which sailed yesterday with the intention of touching at Havre, Southampton and Bremershaven. Members of the crew of this ship find no dif ficulty at all in meeting perfunctory require ments for going ashore at any of those three ports when the ship’s business permits. Let us suppose that they were subjected to the kind of scrutiny that is now being inflicted on crews of foreign ships coming into our ports. We imagine that even Senator Mc- Caran, especially if anybody from Nevada were involved, would rise in high dudgeon, and we think that our French and other sea going friends of foreign extraction may also be entitled at the moment to a certain amount of dudgeon. (Continued from age 1) * financial administration, market ing management and employee se lection and development. Recognized Authorities Classes will be based on lec- tm-es by recognized authorities in each field, followed by discussion and the solution of specific prob lems taken from industrial files. * Ike - Taft (Continued from Page 1) Besides Taft and Young, those present at the conference with Eisenhower were: Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, prospective presiding officer of the Senate in the ab sence of the vice president: Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Massachu setts, a member of the Senate GOP Policy Committee; Herbert Brown ell Jr., who will be attorney gen eral in the new administration; Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, assistant to the Presi dent-elect, and Thomas E. Steph ens, special counsel to the general. Eisenhower called the confer ence primarily for discussion of the legislative program he will submit to Congress shortly after he takes office Jan. 20. Taft indicated, how ever, that a good part of the ses sion was devoted to the job ap pointments issue. Taft said he believed Eisenhow er’s main purpose in arranging the meeting was to assure the Senate leaders of his wholehearted co-op eration, adding he had “every expectation” Eisenhower and Con gress Will work together harmon iously. Taft said the conferees went over the whole field of possible legis lation, including whether wage- price controls should be continued beyond April 30, when the pi'esent law expires. He added there had been no conclusions and “no indi cation of policy as yet” regarding controls. Discussion leaders, in addition to members of the Business Ad ministration and Economics staffs of the .college, will include Paul W. Boynton, supervisor of Em ployment, Socony-Vacuum com pany; J. E. Hodges, economist, Hughes Tool company; Webb Lee, general director of personnel, Ternstedt division, General Mo tors; D. P. Loomis, chairman, As sociation of Western Railroads; Robert Newcomb and Marg Sam mons of Newcomb-Sammons, pub lic relations; and Joe L. Stanton, president of Southem Equipment Company, San Antonio. Top Leaders “Many industrial leaders of the Southwest have discussed with us their problem of preparing promis ing junior executives for addition al responsibility to meet the rapid expansion of business and industry in this region,” Dr. Bolton said in announcing the course. “The prob lem of broadening the understand ing of the individual to include his entire industry and its rela tion to American industry as a whole arises from the fact that these men have risen to their pres ent positions through a single de partment of the company, and have never had an opportunity to view the broad scene. “This intensive training course, in which the most promising men from a wide variety of industries are brought together to live and study under one roof and to hear acknowledged authorities in many fields discuss business problems, is believed to be the most practi cal approach. Air Strikes Keep Korea War Awake First Goals Important MONTREAL (A > ) — Scoring the first goal in a hockey game is mighty important. And National Hockey League statistics prove it. In the first 67 games of the NHL season, the team scoring the first goal went on to win 39 games and tic 16 others. In 12 games, the team scoring first, lost the game. SEOUL—(A’) — Rumbling artil lery duels and Allied air strikes opened the final day of 1952 on Korea’S bleak battlefront after B29 Superforts plastered two vital Red targets. A flurry of predawn ground scraps ended at daybreak. No ma jor engagements were reported. Twenty-one Superfoi'ts from Ja pan and Okinawa flew through heavy Communist ground fire and harassing night fighters in their two-pronged attack. They dumped more than 200 tons of high explosives on a sprawling ore-processing plant near the Yalu River and a key supply center near Sinanju. Sinanju is about 45 miles north of Pyongyang, Red Korean capitol. Night Fighters Red night fighters offered a se rious challenge to the B29s with repeated firing passes. The Air Force did not say whether any bombers were hit. Bright moon light helped the Red pilots. Bursting shells filled the air around, the bombers. The Air Force gave no details of damage to the Choak-tong ore processing plant, a 105-acre tar get 25 miles southwest of Uiji on the Yalu, and the 85-acre Wolly- Fans Cheer Grid Play DETROIT 6PL—Detroit fans are still talking about a weird play that happened during the Detroit Lions-Chicago Bears game held here recently. Lion quarterback Bobby Layne tossed a short forward to end Leon Hart. As Hart was being tackled he iateraled to end Cloyce Bo?c. As Box was being bropght down he flipped a lateral to Layne who had staifcd the play. The Lions gained 10 yards against the con fused Bears much to the delight of the cheering fans. won supply center. The Air Force said the plant processed praphite before the war. On the deadlocked battlefront, big guns boomed before dawn. Al lied artillerymen drove off small groups of Reds who probed ac tively at lonely Allied outposts on # the Western and Central Fronts. The Eighth Army announced 1,814 Red casualties inflicted in the week ending Dec. 28, including' 1,092 killed, .711 wounded and 11 captured. In the final week of 1951, Red casualties totaled 3,866. Girls Object To Prof Restrictions LARISSA, Greece— <A>) _ Girl students at the seme; high school here have peti tioned the Greek government to intervene in what they de scribe as “unbearable” con ditions laid down by then- teacher; including his prohi biting them to wear silk un derwear. * A mass delegation of the irate females explained to the office of the government representative that their pro test was based on their rights to bo “treated as hu man beings.” The teacher allegedly abus ed them “brutally”; removed his false teeth when he got mad at his students, explain ing that he could talk bet ter; forbade the girls from ■walking in the streets hold ing hands with each otherc prohibited them from wear ing silk undenvear, and when he suspected that they were, became “furious.” LFL ABNER DISGUSTIN' VOKUM REELIZ£S HOW DISGUSTIN'HE IS —HE WOULDN'T bother 'io'.rr The Uninvited By A1 Capp A FEW MINUTES LArZri — ‘ ^