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Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, April 17, 1953 Fight for Freedom Free Men Must Stay Expendable Even In Peace In Judge’s Hands Conley’s Fight for Freedom Next | Will! ( There will;! gie alle this % By KENNETH L. DIXON Managing Editor of the Lake Charles (La.) American Press) (From an address delivex-ed at the University of Iowa) “Free Men Must Remain Expendable.” To that arbitrary statement I will add an equally arbitrary conclusion: Unless free men start remaining expendable, they will con tinue to lose their freedoms periodically—as they have in the past—until the day comes when they can no longer., recover those lost freedoms in a blaze of fire and glory. . . . It is difficult to forget those moments of fire and glory when free men—or brave men fighting to be free—have finally stepped upon the altar of expendability and shouted out words that still send a chill down the spine. BOSTON, April 17—(A>)—Texan Louis B. Conley’s fight for free dom from a record 32 months in Plymouth Jail for contempt rested last night with Superior Court Judge Lewis Goldberg who took his plea under advisement. Conley, 31, Amarillo, seeks his release in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He contends the Plymouth Coun ty Probate Court had no authority to jail him for failure to return his eight-year-old daughter, Lyn- ette, to her mother, Mrs. Lucille Heroux Conley, Brockton. The child is in Texas. The Conleys are divorced. Opposing counsel were given a week by Judge Goldberg in which to file briefs. Also, Plymouth County officials were authorized to submit briefs. They vary from “They shall not pass” to that sergeant’s sarcastic cry as the ramps slapped down in the surf and the men of the first wave hesitated, “Come on, men! Leave us look good in the newsreels!” Stories of Heroic Words Sometimes these stories of heroic words of expendables on the spot are true; sometimes they are apocryphal. In either case they have served their purpose, the purpose of pointing out that there is a time when free men must accept the fact that they are expendable or there will be no freedom. . . . AFROTC to Use T-28s for Flights But those are men at war—and here we come to the pro blem. History has long since established that the greatest threats to the rights of free men come during times of peace. The war that follows such threats and sometimes restores those rights is only the climax, the finaf phase. . . . Why was it not stopped before it ever reached that phase? Why? I’ll tell you why: Because, for some reason unknown to me, men generally decline to consider themselves expendable except in war— or so I have come to believe. Why do men and women who stand ready to give their lives and their loved ones during the false drama of war tremble so quickly when lesser dangers confront them in times of so-called peace? Why will a man throw himself into battle without regard for his life at one point in his existence and refuse to risk ten dollars’ worth of business at another point when the battle is the same in both cases? Air Force ROTC orientation flights will be made in T-28s as soon as A&M instructors can be checked out in the faster craft, said Col. John A. Way, PAS&T. Reason for the change, expected next week, is the transferral of Bryan AFB’s T-6 trainers to an other base. The T-28 cruises at 200 miles per hour, compared to the T-6’s 160, which gives the plane some of the flight characteristics of a jet plane, said Way. More comfortable and roomier, the T-28 is a moi’e advanced air plane. Its tricycle landing gear makes for safer, quicker landings because of the greater visibility obtained, said Way. “We are very happy with the change,” he said. Suckers For Drama Perhaps I am wrong, but the only hardboiled solution I can find is that we are still suckers for drama . . . false drama . . . phony drama. Interview Needed To Get Half Wings And war provides all that—and some drama that is not phony. If that be true, then the job ahead of us, as citizens and especially as newspapermen, is to accept it as such and set out to dramatize the continuing peacetime fight to protect our freedoms until its appeal transcends that of the inevitable tragic fight to regain them. We must make it clear that while it is a tough job to be come an expendable in wartime, it is a far tougher job to come home and remain willingly expendable at any and all seemingly peaceful times when our basic and individual rights and freedoms are threatened .... And this I fully believe: If we do not start remaining constantly and alertly ex pendable on a world level, then not only will we lose all our freedoms and have to fight once again to regain them but also, if that fight comes, we stand in deadly danger of losing our final struggle, once and for all. Air Force ROTC students who intend to fly after graduation will get their wing certificates after an interview with Col John A. Way, PAS&T. The certificate authorizing wear ing of the wings will be given to all seniors who have made ap plication for flight training. Sen iors should get their certificates from Way. Juniors who intend to fly will receive their certificates after an interview with Way. Sophomores who have passed the flight physical and display a de sire to fly will receive their certi ficates after the interview. And I, for one, would far rather be expendable than en slaved. “Cadets desiring an interview should come by my office at their own convenience,” Way said. The wings will be worn over the left brest pocket as regular AF wings are worn. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” Consolidated Joins School Study Group The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. A&M Consolidated School is a charter member of the newly form ed Gulf Coast School Research Development Association. Entered as second - class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. 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Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN. ..Co-Editors Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett ..Managing Editors Harri Baker •• City Editor Peggy Maddox Women’s News Editor Greyhound Bus Co. Changes Location Aggies who ride home by bus are in for a long walk before they climb aboard for the ride home. Today’s Issue Jerry Bennett Managing Editor Harri Baker News Editor Bob Boriskie Sports News Editor The local Greyhound and Kerr- ville Bus Company station has been moved to a new location, north of Highway 6 and Sulphur Springs Road intersection. Bob Hendry, Joe Hipp, Chuck Neighbors /..News Editors iorisl Vernon Anderson, Frank Hines, Bob Alderdice.Al Leroy Bruton, Guy Dawson, W. P. Franklin, R. D. Gossett, Carl Hale, Donald Gus Becker, Bob Boriskie, Jerry Estes Sports News Editors tie. '-+J A-'O. W OV/Xl, *V . A . A A , A V. . *-*'-'* 1 ° L ^ I O. J. U. 1 ^ ^ * 1 1 V* Kemp, Alfred McAfee, Bill Rogers, Ray Smith, Jerry Sonnier, Edward Stern, Roy Sullivan, Jon Kinslow, Dick Moore, Lionel cia, John Moody, Bob Palmer, izig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Pli Floy Sullivan, Jon Kinslow, Garcia, John Moody, Bob Palmer, Bill Shepard Staff News Writers Jerry Wizig, Jerry Neighbors, Hugh Philippus, Bill Thomas Sports News Writers Jerry Bennett, Bob Hendry Amusements dry. John Kinslow, Dick Porter, Calvin Pigg City News Writers Conrad Stralu Circulation Manager The station was moved from its old site at the North Gate when the location’s owner decided to place second-hand furniture there, said Mrs. H. R. Seay. Seay is the owner of the new location. Lawrence Casheer, Jewell Raymond, J. R. Shepard, Fred Her- rlei avi Longhofer, Herman Meiners Photo Engravers Gene Rydell, Perry Shepard, John Merrill Advertising Representatives nandez, Charles F. Chick Circulation Staff y, Longhofer iez. Bob Godfrey, Davey Davidson, Roy Wells, Keith Nickle, Melvin Herman Meiners. Dean Kennedy File Cleric A distance of approximately a mile and three quarters separates the new station from the New Dormitory Area. Freshmen are one mile away. phase of his troubles, it was not Presently, Conley is serving one empowered to jail him for con- of several sentences which total 43 tempt in refusing to return the months. child. Conley testified he had never au- Dartmouth Students Get Revenge for Town Poll Tax thorized a Supreme Court appeal by his lawyer from the divorce and custody decree obtaind in 1948 by Mrs. Conley. He said he had paid fes in the matter of custody in a petition of his former wife for separate sup port in March, 1948. program, sct, : April 25, U' “TH "W jS •-aid Betty gjf f ^ Petition Filed Conley Testifies Conley testified he never was domiciled in Massachusetts and al though notice by publication in the divorce proceedings gave the probate court jurisdiction in that From The West Virginia Wesleyan: University students have had their little squabbles with the City of Morgantown, but nothing to compare with the troubles of Dartmouth students when the voters of Hanover, N. H., levied a poll tax against them a few years ago. Hanover is one of the New England towns which retains the town meeting as a method of voting. Some outraged student, realizing that the poll tax implied that the students had voting privileges, thought of a plan. So soon after, the students, vastly outnumbering the townspeople, descended on the town meeting and exercised their new right of franchise. Accordingly, the young men passed laws providing that Hanover build a side walk with a canopy over it to Colby Junior College, New London, N. H., an 8-lane concrete highway to Skidmore College, Sara toga Springs, N. Y., and a subway to Smith, North Hampton, Mass., all women’s colleges. Then they put through legislation, requiring the town to erect a town hall an inch square and a mile high, adjourned and went back to their studies. After much legal rigamarole, the town officials got the state leg islature to annual the laws, and needless to say, the poll tax was quietly dorpped. Testifying he knew a divorce pe tition was filed, Conley said he did not know until later that a hearing was held July 12, 1948, and that his wife was granted a divorce, custody of the child and an order fen' support. Conley contended th*e probate court exceeded its jurisdiction in jailing him because he said, it had never served him with proper notice in the custody and support proceedings. . 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