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... To Our Readers, Merry Christmas New School Offers Industry Training In Plant Protection A permanent industrial plant 11,10teetion school designed to aid industry in achieving a tighter se curity against saboteurs, thieves and vandals will hold its initial class here February 7-11, 1955. The school will be under the direc tion of the Texas Engineering Ex tension Service of the A&M Sys tem. The new training program, to be sponsored by the Industrial Plant Protection Officers’ Association of Texas, will be the first permanent school of its type to be instituted in the United States, Extension Service officials said today. The school will provide industrial plant protection personnel with practical, down-to-earth training, W. D. Beasley, coordinator of po- ■.lice training for the TEES says. The guest instructors will be wide ly known officials from the plant protection field. ♦ Some of the subjects to be cov ered in the training course include responsibilities and duties of plant Dfficers, patrol activities and re lated problems, search and seizure laws, prevention of sabotage, in dustrial thefts, handling disturb ances (crowd and mob psychology), personnel investigation, methods of screening applicants and visitors, arson investigation and others. The course is open to all super visory personnel in plant protection work. With the suggestions and the help of supervisors attending the first course, a basic course will be developed for future schools. Serving on the school’s advisory committee will be J. E. Clegg, su perintendent, plant protection de partment, Humble Oil and Refining Co., Baytown; William S. Brog- don, chief, plant protection, Mur ray Company of Texas, Inc.; Ai 1 - thur W. Allen, chief, plant protec tion department, Lone Star Steel Company, Lone Star; M. L. Shaw, chief, plant protection, Pan Ameri can Refining Corp., Texas City; A. L. Dymond, Universal Match Corp., Longhorn Armament Divi sion, Marshall; A. C. Hooper, su pervisor, industrial relations, Ethyl Coi'p., Pasadena; I. B. Hale, chief, industrial security, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Coi’p., Ft. Worth; Paul Hansen, director. Security di vision, Reynolds Metal Co., Louis ville, Ky.; E. W. Mayi’, chief, plant protection, Hughes Tool Company, Houston; Richard E. Smith, super visor, plant protection, Chance Vought Aircraft Inc., Dallas; A. T. Deere, general superintendent, plant security, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport; George Gil liam, Central Power and Light Company, Corpus Christi. Morgan Address Flyers Told Faith Is Prime Essential , “The prime essential for a sound structure of future life is faith,” President David H. Morgan said Saturday in an address at Bryan Air Force Base. He spoke at graduation exei*cises for 73 Amer ican and Belgium jet flying offi cers. “Faith in your God, faith in your country, faith in your fellow- men and, finally, faith in your self”—these concepts Morgan ex pounded as the foundation for all belief in the future. “The possession of your abun dance of abilities,” he said, “car ries with it the responsibility of using them fully for the maximum service to your God, your country f^nd your fellowmen. If you do so, you will at the same time be using them to the best advantage for yourself. “Probably in the minds of most of you,” Dr. Morgan said, “there are certain elements of uncertain ty, of doubt—even of fear—as you go from the known to the unknown, from the relatively sheltei’ed life as a student to one of more re sponsibility—a period of changing from a learner to a doer, from a passive preparatory stage to an active participation stage. “I do not mean that you will cease to learn,” Dr. Morgan point ed out. “On the contrary, you should now be ready to learn. You have gained certain basic infonna- tion, both general and specialized, but even more important you should have developed those atti tudes, techniques, devices, etc., which make it possible for you to continue learning, to profit from your experience, to make the most Influenza Leads Influenza continued to be the leading communicable disease in the College Station-Bryan area with 41 cases reported for the week ending Dec. 18. Second was diarrhea with 31 cases reported and pneumonia third with 11 cases. out of your opportunities. You have been provided with a foun dation. The structure of life vchich you build on that founda tion depends on you.” Col. James A. Gunn III, com manding officer of the 3530th Pi lot Training Wing at the Bryan base, introduced Morgan. The 515th Air Force band played the national anthem of both the Uni ted States and Belgium. The ceremonies, in which offi cers were presented silver wings for completing five weeks of ad vanced training, were held in the base gymnasium. A flight of jet aircraft staged a “flyover,” simi lar to an army full-dress review, immediately preceding the indoor exercises. The Belgium trainees will return to their home air force and the U. S. Air Force officers will be as signed to commands at home or abroad. Yes, Yirginia There 7/ (Many, many years ago when the late Charles A. Dana was ed itor of the “New York Sun,” he received a letter one morning from a little girl named Virgin ia O. Hanlon, who wrote: “Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say that there is no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?” This letter written to one of America’s foremost journalists made a great impression on a great man and received an an swer that has been treasured, re read and remembered Christmas after Christmas,, down through the years. Mr. Dana’s famous reply in the following editoriol is presented once again.) “Virginia, your little friends are TEXAS-STYLE SNOWMAN—It took an Oregon gal to show Texans how to have a snowman when there was no snow around. Mrs. Jack Gary, whose husband is in the Air Force at Wichita Falls, used tumbleweeds to construct this giant “snowman” on her lawn. She is from Portland, Ore., and her husband from Elkhart, Ind. Mrs. Gary said they missed the traditional snow and decided to improvise. Firmer Foreign Policy Demanded by Demos Republicans Say Policy Has Proved Effective Hedgcock Attends Writer Convention Ernest D. Hedgcock, professor of English, will atend the Nineteenth Annual National Convention of the American Business Writing asso ciation at the Hotel Statler in Washington D.C., Dec. 27, 28 and 29. Hedgcock is a member of the Association’s Board of Directors and is program chairman for this year’s convention. He will also participate in a panel discussion of business and professional re port writing. Theme of the convention, “De serving and Getting Recognition for College Business Wi’iting,” will be discussed by noted professor from colleges and universities all over the United States and by high ranking executives of leading business enterprises. Extension Service To Hold Rescue Operations School A school designed to teach Tex as “minutemen” how to perform rescue operations in the event of enemy air attack or disaster* will be set up by the Fir emen’s Train ing School of the Texas Engineer ing Extension Service, A&M Col lege System, under the sponsorship of the Office of Defense and Dis aster at Austin. Classes will get under way early in 1955. The school will be loca ted on a 26 acre area set aside by the college. Eight-man rescue teams repre senting cities throughout the state will be taught through realistic drills how to use special rescue equipment and how to coordinate their activities with those of other civil defense and disaster relief functions. The students will' be taught how to operate a specially designed res cue truck equipped with every con ceivable type of emergency gear, including a multi-band two-way radio. A simulated disaster area, Mechanization of Labor Has Doubled in 30 Years WASHINGTON — ^ — Mech anization of American labor has more than doubled since the late 20’s, the Commerce Department announced, and production per Aggie-Ex Earns AF Silver Wings Second Lieutenant Gerald J. Mc Farland of Grapevine Saturday re ceived the silver wings of an Air Force jet pilot. The presentation was made in ceremonies at the Laredo Air Force Base Theatre and culminated fourteen months of intensive pilot training in both pi-opellor driven and jet type air craft. McFarland is the son of J. T. McFarland of Grapevine. worker has increased by about the same amount as a i*esult of this plus “improvements in technol ogy, management, organization, and labor skills.” Over all, the report said, the durable equipment of American business increased by 103 per cent from 1928 to 1953. In production industries, the in crease was about 144 per cent, or 1% times, and output per worker increased about IY2 times. The biggest increase in mechan ization was on the farms, where the use of agricultural machinery and tractors in 1953 was three times as great as in 1928. Non-agricultural machinery in creased by 136 per cent, from 1928 to 1953, the repoi’t said. consisting of structures built to resemble bombed - out buildings will give volunteers I’ealistic train ing in the finer points of rescue woi'k. They also will be taught how to reti’ieve victims from beneath collapsed walls and* floors, piles of brick, concrete and 1’ubble and from rooms filled with smoke and gas. The use of ladders, stretchers and improved rope lashings in low ering injured or trapped persons from upper floors of buildings will be demonstrated. The volunteers will be taught how to “sound” rubble in search of the injured by signal-tapping buried pipes, water mains or con duits. They will practice digging tunnels through debris and shor ing up escape passageways. First- aid, of course, will be a necessary feature of the training. Each training class, consisting of four or five eight-man teams, will be given a one-week course. Volunteers from various cities, in dustries and other organizations will be scheduled for this training. Emergency trucks, rescue and communications equipment similar to that used in the training school will be made available to cities through a 50-50 matching fund program of the federal govern ment. H. R. Brayton; director of the Firemen’s Training School and di rector of rescue training for the state, will head the school. Always Be A Santa Claus wi-ong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. They do not be lieve except they see. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, compared with the boundless worlds about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasp ing the whole truth and knowledge. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas, how dreary the world would be if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Vir ginias! There would be no child like faith, no poetry, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment ex cept in sense and sight. The eter nal light with which childhood fills the world would then be extin guished. “Not to believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chim neys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus; but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Not ev erybody sees Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn ? Of course not; but that’s no proof that they wei*e not there. No one can con ceive or imagine all the things that are unseen or unseeable in the world. “You may tear apart a baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world that not the strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strong est men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. It is all real. Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing else real and abiding. “No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives, and he lives forever! A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of children.” By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON—UP)—Democrats in the new Congress who consider Eisenhower administration foreign policy inef fective are setting up a cry for more toughness and bi-parti sanship, less “loose talk” and “bluster.” A few Democrats say that policy is improving. In overwhelming proportions, congressional Republicans term the policy effective. Yet some of those who approve the program in general fling a few brickbats at portions of it. Results of an Associated Press poll show that the law makers participating line up 65-27, largely according to party, in saluting the administration’s handling of foreign relations as effective. But 35 of them, including some Republicans, had some advice to offer. And others jotted down comments on their questionnaires ranging from criticism to occasional high praise. The poll brought replies from 128 senators and repi’esentatives from 41 states. There is a total of 351 members in the House and Senate. Democrats who thought some changes were in order hit at such things as “vacillation and confu sion,” “too much indirection,” “di plomacy by slogans,” “loose talk,” “bluff and bluster.” They urged “more firmness,” a “positive pol icy,” “more forthrightness,” more emphasis on “a bipartisan ap proach.” Only those who ci’iticized admin istration foreign policy as ineffec tive were asked what they thought should be done about it. A few others volunteered their ideas. Rep. Judd (R-Minn.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Cofh- mittee, gave Eisenhower policy a vote of confidence and wrote: “Guatemala, Egypt, Iran, SEATO, Trieste, Atlantic Alliance — finest series of diplomatic victories the United States has won this cen tury.” In contrast, Rep. Lanham (D- Ga.), another member of the com mittee, said this should be done: “Vacillation and confusion . . . Expect 200 Grads At CHS Reunion The third annual reunion of Con solidated ex-students will be held at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Dec. 27, in the study hall of the new high school building. Pi-izes will be given for the old est graduate, the graduate with most children, and the graduate who has come the greatest distance. One hundred fifty to 200 gradu ates are expected for the informal get-together, which will include dancing. Anyone willing to donate cookies, punch or coffee should contact Ed- sel Jones, Consolidated assistant coach. $3000 Gra n t-in -A id Helps .Rice Study The General Foods Corporation, Central Laboratories of Hoboken, N.J., through Manager Harvey K. Murer, has made available to the Texas Experiment Station a grant- in-aid of $3,000. According to Station Director R. D. Lewis the funds will be used to support research on the evaluation and development of varieties, types and new selections of rice for their probably suitability for the rice milling and processing industries. (See FOREIGN POLICY, Page 4) WHAT’S IT SAY, HUH?—Rickey Fisher, not quite old enough to read and a puzzled lad when Santa wasn’t in his chair in an Odessa department store, turns questioning eyes to his mother, Mrs. Peggy Fisher. The 3-year-old boy agreed to wait to transact his business with Santa when the jolly fellow returned from feeding his reindeer.