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THE MEGAPHONE
£ditor ......- -.............................................................. Ernest Me it mu
Associate Editor ......-............................. ............................ Blitz Grittin.
Sports Editor ................................... ..... Gillette Sheppard
Intramural Sports Editor ... ................................................. Brad Miller
Society Editor — Ann Walker Assistant — Marlee Baker
Society Reporter .................................................................... june Ashen
Art Editor .................. ..... Watt Winn
Feature Writers; ....... .................... Sammy McLelland, Hal Kennedy
Girls' Intramurals Sports Editor ...................................... Lois Muckleroy
News Editors ................... Chicken Puryear, M. T. Cage
Amusement Editor ................................................................ Leslie Boone
Staff Writers: ........... Clpvis Kendrick, Carson Meitzen
Makeup Editor — John Meitzen Galley Slave -j~ Lee Scott
Photographer and Reporter ............................................ Harper McGee
Advertising Manager .................................................... Melvin Birkelbach
Business Manager ..................................................... M. Howard Knox
Sponsor .............................................................................. Angus Springer
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Published by the Students’ Association of Southwestern University,
Georgetown, Texas. Issued weekly during the school year, except
vacation periods and holidays. Entered at the post office at George-
town, Texas, as second class mail matter, Sept. 26, 1906, under special
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authorized August 20, 1918.
The Editor Reports...
PRESIDENT VS. U. S. MARINES
It seems everybody’s afraid of the Marines. That is,,,
tlie majority of people have a lot of respect for them as a hard
hitting hunch of men who have saved the .U. S. bacon more
times than can he enumerated. Some seem afraid to question
the cause, purpose and validity of the President's statement
concerning the Marines. The main Presidential invective was
directed toward the top-ranking Marine brass and not toward
the fox hole variety of Marine.
The President very meekly ate crow saying that he
hoped the Marines who were sacrificing wouldn’t take his re-
marks too seriously. It was his outspoken qualities which
led him to protect the hack door of the U. S. against further
communist aggression. The decision must have taxed him
greatly t<*gether with added pressure of full scale mobiliza-
tion efforts. It’s not too much to suggest that the President
was, at the time of the Marine catastrophe, strained and over-
wrought to say the least. Any person would have been.
It seems that some people think more of the fighting
Marines than they do of their own President, fairly and hon-
estly elected. One stops to consider the political implications
of the mud slinging that has been underway and is now inten-
sifying as elections near. The Marine Association has gotten
logether a fund from somewhere and is now putting out re-
productions of thfe President’s private letter to another pri-
vate individual by the thousands! Even after the President
publicly apologized for his hasty remarks.
Are the Marines just a fighting organization with no
quarter asked or given? Or are they human and forgiving like
ordinary Army fox hole digging G. I.’s? The President of the
United States should have the wholehearted support of the
nation at all times during his tenure of office. Lack of cooper-
ation leads to the predicament the world finds itself in today.
This Week
Around The World
By M. T. CAGE, Jr.
It was a week packed full of
juicy tidbits from almost every
..corner of the globe.
Tire beginning of the week saw
Douglas MacArthuF start the big
U. N. push into North Korea after!
the Reds flatly rejected hie second
ultimatum te surrender. By the
end of the week the drive had
tujrned into a race between three
or four U. N. columns to see which
cne would reach the Red capital
of Pyongyang first. Only 50 miles
stood between the liberators and
their obpective. Indications were
that organized Red resistance
would eollaspe within a matter of
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weeks. Despite the fact that a
second warning against “U. S. ag-
gression” came from Red China*
and that Soviet Marshall Stalin
sent a message to the North
Koreans wishing them success,
there was no real> move from either
Red china or Russia to aid the
Korean Reds. The world dared
hope that it would soon -be over.
The forthcoming victory in
Korea might be overshadowed
though, for in Indo China, fierce
battles raged between French and
Red forces with the French suf-
fering several set-backs. Gradually
the spotlight was moving to fur-
ther Red aggression.
Washington buzzed with rumors
this week as President Truman and
General Mac Arthur conferred for
two hours on Wake Island. Was
it merely a cheap political trick
on the part of the Democratic
high-command to win the Novem-
ber congressional elections, or was
it a historic making policy confer-
ence out of which would come a
definite plan for U. S. Far Eastern
foreign policy to meet further Red
aggression? Fearfully, the U. S.
prayed for the latter, but were
prepared for the former. Perhaps
Truman’s Tuesday night fireside
chat held the answer.
In the U. N. most of the week
was spent in trying to agree on a
plan to establish an effective world
force. Stubbornly refusing to sup-
port almost any idea sponsored by
the West, India's adamant Nehru
declared that hia country could not
accept any plan, which “made the
U. N. just another war party.”
Also in the U. N., Russia’s loose-
tongued Vishinaky, commenting
upon .what he described as the D.
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S. policy of rearming to scare Runs
sia, boomed, “what a profound and
’crude mistakeL” * t
With the November ejections ap-
proaching, politics wal just bound
to enter the week’s neWs. New; ^
York’s peppy governor Thomas E. ^
Dewey declared that he would
throw his full support to Dwight
Eisenhower for the Republican
presidential nomination in ’52. AJ- -
most immediately HarfeLd Stas-
sen,, also a presidential aspirant,
jumped on the Ike bandwagon*
Ohio’s stone-faced Robert Taft,
another Republican aspirant* was
;not quite so eager. Only cold si-
lence greeted newsmen’s inquires. wl
Ike himself, who still flatly re-
fuses to commit himself, replied,
“I am grateful for governor' ;;
Dewey’s opinion of me? Mean-
while, Harry Truman, never pass-
img up air opportunity to make an
“off the caff” remark, snapped. *T
think that is very generous of Mr.
Dewey.”
Still smoldering because of the ^
Federal Government’s legalized
theft of Texas’ ail rich tideiands,
State Land Commissioner Baacom
Giles roared Tuesday in Austin
that he would go to jail before be
would tuna ever to Washington any
money from tideJands oil. (Ed's,
note—tax money from the tide-
lands gees directly into a state
school fund.)
When you stop to think, don’t
forget to start again.
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Across from hospital —- Georgetown
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