Battalion Editorials
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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
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Today’s Issue
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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)
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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
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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.”
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