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Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1953 Eisenhower Blasts Book Burning Trend Following are some of the statements made by President Eisenhower on Sunday before the graduating class of Dartmouth College concerning the purging of books on Communism from U. S. college libraries. His remarks came as thousands of books were being removed from United States libraries overseas after investigation by Senator Jo seph R. McCarthy (Rep.) of Wisconsin. “We have got to fight it (Communism) with something better, not try to conceal the thinking of our own people,” the President said. “They are part of America, and even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them and their right to have them in places where they are accessible to others is un questioned, or it is not American. “Don’t join the book burners,” the Presi dent told the graduates. “Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go into your library and read every book. “As long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency, that should be the only censorship. How will we defeat Communism unless we know what it is, what it teaches and why does it have such an appeal for men? “Why are so many people swearing alle giance to it? It’s almost a religion, albeit one of the nether religions. “This country is a long way from per fection. “We have the disgrace of class discrimi nation, prejudice because of religious affilia tion; we have crime on the docks. “We do not have the courage to uproot these things, 'though we know they are wrong. / “Your sense of satisfaction is not going to be satisfied unless you have the courage to do your best to correct them. It is not enough to say T love America,’ salute or tip your hat and sing the Star Spangled Ban ner,” he said. Churchill Praises UN Stand Editor’s Note: Following are excerpts from the statement made by the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons on June 9: As the House is aware, on the 8th June the Armistice Delegations at Panmunjon signed the agreement on the question of pris oners of war. We are satisfied that the arrangements now agreed will ensure that no prisoner of war is repatriated by force. India will be invited to provide the forces to take custody of prisoners under the Neutral Nations Re patriation Commission. Prisoners who re fused to be repatriated will not be detained beyond 120 days after they have been trans ferred to the custody of the Commission. The other provisions have been agreed for many months past. Thus nothing ought now to stand in the way of an armistice except the administrative arrangements. I will repeat again to the House what I said a month ago upon our relations with the United States about Korea:— “The United States, as mandatory for the United Nations, has borne nineteen- twentieths of the burden in blood and treasure. The matter is not one which we have either the right or the responsi bility to decide, but it is our duty without In Korea separating ourselves from our greaty ally to express our opinion frankly and plainly to them as occasion offers.” We made a number of suggestions to the United States Government. These \^ere most attentively considered. In the result we found ourselves in complete accord on the new proposals to be made at Panmunjon. We thought it right in view of this to make public our intention to support the United States. Under the decisive guidance of President Eisenhower a result has been achieved. I do not feel that full justice has been done by us during the last few months in the difficulties to which General Clark and General Harrison were subjected not only by Communist obstinacy but also by the attitude of the South Korean Government. One must remember that it was the policy of the United States to build up a strong, well-armed, efficient South Korean Army which would relieve them of the heavy bur den they have been carrying. This Army has been a factor of growing importance. In my opinion these Generals faithfully sought to bring hostilities to end in terms compatible with the honour of the allied Powers. They had to consider the reactions which might occur in the powerful South Korean forces which they were creating. State Health Suggests Salt If your work is such that it causes excessive perspiration, add a pinch of ordinary table salt to each drink of water you take to help prevent heat cramps. This is advised by Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State Health Officer, to prevent a pos sible increase in the number of heat victims as the Texas thermo meter hits 95 degrees and above. Laborers, mechanics, farmers and white collar workers whose work causes them to sweat pro fusely, are in danger of having theii" body salt content become de ficient with resulting heat cramps or heat fag. . Salt.is a. prominent, constituent of sweat; the body may lose as high as 40 to 50 grams Department In Water of salt during hot days. In industry, a method of preven ting heat cramps is to take a tab let of pure salt or a mixture of salt and dextrose with each drink of water. Workmen whose duties require muscular exertion should be especially careful to add more than the usual amount of salt to what they eat and drink. Salt deficiency may be prevent ed by taking salt in various ways. Where prepared tablets are not available, table salt may be added to each drink of water. Milk is a soui'ce of salt and will help to make up for the deficiency caus ed by sweating. Alcoholic drinks should be avoided. R.J. Anderson DVM Named New Chief Dr. It. J. Anderson, who holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from A&M, 1935, has been named assistant chief of the Bu reau of Animal Husbandry, Wash ington, D. C. He took over his new duties June 7. He is a native of Marshall. He played an important part in the successful administration of the foot and mouth disease eradi cation campaign in Mexico, serv ing throughout the entire cam paign from 1947-52. He is widely known for his part in disease eradication and has been with the Bureau since gx-aduation fx-om A&M. In his new capacity Di\ Andei'- son will be responsible for all the Bureau’s x'egulatory activities in disease conti’ol and ei’adication. r The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” i ,;.n , —.— _i — — — (• ' The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultux-al and Mechanical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer tex-ms, and exanxina- tipjx 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 Thux-sday during examination and va cation pieriods and the summer terms. Subscription rates $6.00 per year or $.50 per month. Advex-tising 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. 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Managing Editor GOING TO BE HARD TO SHAKE Flans Furthered For Better Forecasl ill Plans for securing more x*eliable, daily weather forecasts applicable to forest ax’eas and conditions in the north, central and the south- ex-n coastal section of the East Texas pine belt wex'e made at a meeting of repxesentatives of the U. S. Weather Bureau, Texas Forest Service and the U. S. Forest. Service, at the fire control head quarters of the Texas Forest Ser vice, Lufkin, June 1. Such forcasts as planned, will be furnished daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau during cx-itical fire pexdods. The U. S. Foi’est Service and Texas Forest Sex’vice will fuxmish to the U. S. Weather Bureau in- formation obtained fx-om weather stations maintained by each agency in the forest area. This information will be utilized Married Legislative Team Unique In Capitol Affairs in evaluating climatic cinditk*-^ the x-egion by the U. S. Wt Bureau and will be I’eflecithired i the daily fox-ecasts to the foriday— agencies. Southw Representing the U. S. 'W? ! Christ Bureau at the meeting were w h° Hughes, meteorologist, S; K an s 1 port. La. and J. R. Nationi meteorologist, Washington,: 5011 ’ U. S. Forest Service repKs ch |f nd tives were Frank W. Paul) 1 takes supervisor and assistant supe^ us1 • respectively, of the Texas K.' 1 . 5 ' oe 1 Fox-ests, Lufkin. 1 in alls pi; The Texas Fox-est Service yg. The sentatives were J. O. Bt: 3 passii head, Fii'e Contx-ol Depa: ; he best and M. V. Dunmire, sectior.;hejj mid Plans and Training Sectioiuge win Control Department, Lufkin. 0 f big Anderson, head, Research at j n Texr cation Department, Collegfr 0 re Ju tion; and District Foresteniaugu ra Green, Woodville and iassic a Strauss, Lufkin. After t The fox-ecasts will be is:*' ? B. P. Hughes from the Hf 1 * ai Bureau Station, Shxevepc , “Large and small timbfrk,^ ” ^ ers will benefit fnm ir, weather fox-ecasting,” I f_ ax11 pointed out. Austin, June 14—hP)—Bob Gur ley was a nice looking young man who kept a lonely vigil in the house gallery this session as the only legislative husband in the legistlature. Wife, Dorothy, was busy. She’s the representative from Del Rio, chairman of the important water tei'ested in better government conservation and reclamation com- our state.” mittee this past session and a mem- Miss Duff was chaix-man of the her of four other committees. state hospitals and special schools Three women served in the house committee, a member of foux- other and one in the senate. But Rep. committees, and busy, too. She Dorothy Gillis Gurley -of Del Rio made a pex-sonal visit to every one was the only one who was max-ried. of the 26 eleemosynary institu- will be six in December, and I must get her in school. That’s all I’m going to worry about right now.” The only other woman chairman of a house committee, Rep. Virginia Duff of Ferris, wants to continue in the legislature “because I’m in- in a subject dear to every one’s heart. “Such information will* One policy they established was these ownex-s in their wild ff ^ : controlled “ UV to confine the right of eminent blem, aid domain—or power to condemn land WO rk and —to the area within the district of any new water district formed. Previously legislators have let the districts go with the right of eminent domain “within or with out” their boundaries. “I think it’s important that they don’t overlap on their rights,” Mrs. Gurley said. Introduced Bill serve as against setting field fires o>n ing trash on highly h a : mni( , r f days, he said. lt> pi . 0 , Bob used to gx-in when somebody teased him about forming a legis lative husband’s club like the legis lative wives’s club. The Gurleys and five-yeax*-old daughter-, Susan, went back to their ranch near Del Rio when the ses sion was over. Future political plans? “I don’t legislators. tions in Texas—believed to be the first time any chairman has done that. Both the women are young enough to tell their age if they wanted too, conscientious in their duties and the holders of a good deal of respect from their fellow know right now,” she said. “Susan Has Law Degree Scientists Say Atom Blasts Not Storm Cause Washington—The top scientists of the Atomic Energy Commission and the U. S. Weathex- Bureau are agreed that recent atom bomb ex plosions have nothing whatsoevex- to do with the nation’s worst siege of tornadoes and freak weather. Representative Albert Thomas of Houston reported Wednesday. Thomas, a member of the House appropriations subcommittee which handles atomic enex-gy funds, said he quizzed AEG specialists most of one afternoon in a closed-door subcommittee hearing recently on the bizarre weather which has fol lowed test explosions. “We went into it in great de tail,” Thonxas reported. “And the top expex-ts of AEG insisted that the test explosions have absolutely no connection with weather. They said further that they have dis cussed it w-ith the U. S. Weather Bureau, and that the weather bu- i-eau specialsts agx-ee with them that the explosions haven’t affec ted weather at all. “But,” Thoxxias continued, stx-ange things are happening — and time may prove that the ex perts are wrong. I don’t know.” Miss Duff is a blue-eyed bru nette with a law. degree from Southern Methodist Univei'sity. Mrs. Gurley is a brown-eyed blonde with a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Texas. When 60 men from Palestine and Jacksonville crowded into a con servation committee hearing one time this session, one of them whispered to a reporter, “Who’s that good-lool>ing girl at the head of the table ?” That was Mrs. Gurley. Her committee handled some 60 bills this session, and they tackled each oxxe gingerly, for water was She hxtroduced and got passed in the house and senate a bill to permit land ownex-s to build 200- acre-feet ponds on their land with out a permit from the water board. They’re limited to 50-acre feet un der present law. “And that’s what I think is an important part of water conserva tion,” Mrs. Gurley said. Small, in dividual dams on private property. Conservation will take individuals cooperating with local districts and state agencies.” Miss Duff believes that Texas’ state hospitals ax-e in “fair condi tion.” “There’s room for impx-ove- ment,” she said. “They’re over crowded and they have long wait ing lists. But they’ll always be over-crowded and have waitixxg- lists no matter how many build ings we build.” The serious problem, she said, was the low salaries that must be paid to hospital employes. “It’s difficult to keep qualified men—they do so much better • ixx private practice,” she said. The Texas Fox-est Servi^udent: serve as a cleax-ing house in* 13 -® anr for Weather Bureau fo le h'ter dealing with fox-est conditi 1 ^ ie 1 offici will p.m. M< t suital Intel LOUANNS FOR IIAPPV Ml' 1.01! A NY- Every Friday Happy Music With ^_ \y « Cell Block c U 1 ^even Make farms tween year-. 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Butler who has just x-etuxned to active duty in the axximal husbandry department will present a paper befox-e the Nation al Association of Meat Retailers, on “Some Causes and Measure ments of Colox- Changes in Fx-esh Retail Meat Cuts.” He was gx-anted a leave of ab sence in 1951 to do graduate work at Michigan State College under a Gexxeral Education Board Fellow ship. He x-eceived his degx-ee at the end of the spring term. He did his work under Prof. L. J. Bratzler, nationally recognized authority on nxeats. < Dr. Butler’s work has attracted national attention and his paper to be given befox-e the NAMT soon is j attracting wide ixxterest. He is in chax-ge of xxxeats x*e-l seax-ch and instruction in the] animal husbandry depax-tment. Hours, 45 Minute^ PIOMEEi AIR LINES # l s x-en ihhrp Were i Phone 4-5054 for reservation hlch : value: low [re cit< on for 8 t ites. I V3 s 1 iedu ' * * J DYERSTUR STORAGE HATTtlS moFxcai |o st; 210 S. Main Bryan Pho. 2-158L Air Reserve Meets At New Quarters The 9807th Volunteer Air Re- sex-ve Training Squadron held its x-egular weekly meeting at 7:30 Monday night in its new headquax-- tex-s at 3600 College Road in the old Tl’iangle Drive-in midway be tween Bryaxx and College Station. A special training program was arranged including a guest speaker from Bryan Aar Base. A training film ccmipleted the program. AGGIES!! We Have Food to Suit Your Taste :iest ol f'cil i 8s Excellent Service Wehrman's Cafe :y c ON • W I" Dc 1 * LAI Highway 21 West in Bryan City Limits 1009 W. 25TH STREET WE-STI Across the Highway from Bryan Tractor £ Supply Co.