On Town Hall Thursday
Teresita Emilio
A program designed to appeal to both the uninitiated
and lovers of the Spanish dance and the colorful composi
tions of Spanish and Latin-American will be presented by
Emilio and Teresita Osta in Guion Hall Thursday night be
ginning at 8 p.m.
Emilio Osta, a pianist possessing
native skill and emotion, will draw
heavily upon the well-known com
positions of Albeniz, the Spaniard,
and Ernesto Lecuona, a composer
of many pieces popular in this hem
isphere. He also will play two
Chopin selections, Waltz in C
sharp minor, and Polonaise in A
flat (Heroique).
Teresita Osta wil interpret with
the dance some of the sprightly
gay characteristic Spanish songs.
Her first performance will be Al
beniz Cordoba, in which a young
girl is torn between the dancing
and gayety of her wordly life and
the peaceful life behind convent
walls, and hearing the calm church
bells toll, makes her choice.
The title to Spanish compositions
is often the key to its theme, as in
English songs. La Sandunga,
a dance of old Mevico, is an ex
pression of grace and elgance. La
Comparsa, an Afro-Cuban piano
melody, depicts a masquerade
dance. Gitanerias refers to the gaily
flirtatious dances of the gitanos,
or gypsies. Lagarteranas, another
of Teresita Osta’s dances, is the
portrait of a sly, cunning woman,
the colloquial translation of the
Spanish lagarta, literally meaning
female lizard.
The performance of Emilio and
Teresita Osta on Town Hall should
provide an entertaining, enjoyable
evening. The selections are speci-
ficially of the type that need not
be analyzed; Aggies seeking rest
from weighty studying may attend
without fear of being bored.
I
Spring and Summer
Calendar Released
Every Aggie, as well as every
faculty member, is greatly inter
ested in holidays and the beginning
and ending of semesters. Lately
there have been quite a few rumors
about the forthcoming college ca
lendar. According to a recent re
port from the registrar’s office, the
dates for the spring holidays and
the summer semesters are listed be
low. However, it must be remem
bered that these dates are subject
to change.
SPRING SEMESTER 1946
April 18, 19, 20, and 21—Spring re
cess.
June 1—End of third semester.
SUMMER SESSION 1946
First Term
June 3, 8:0© a. m. to 12:00 noon—
registration.
June 3, 1:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m.—
Classes begin.
June 7—Last day for registration.
July 4—Independence Day, a holi
day.
July 12-13, {Friday and Saturday)~
first term exams.
Second Term
July 15, 8:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon—
registration.
July 15, 1:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m.—
Classes begin.
July 19—Last day for registration.
August 23-24, {Friday and Satur
day)—Second term exams.
Veterans’ Wives Club
Schedules Evening of
Games and Dancing
The Ex-Servicemen’s Wives Club
will hold an evening of entertain
ment Tuesday, April 16, from 7:30
to 10:00 p. m., in Sbisa Hall Lounge.
Bingo, billiards, bridge, and
hearts will be played, and dancing
is scheduled also. General admis
sion price will be lOtf.
TESSIES CHEER
SINGING CADETS
A very receptive audience of over
a thousand Tessies heard the Sing
ing Cadets of Aggieland in a con
cert presented in the auditorium
of T.S.C.W. last Saturday. Thirty-
seven cadets made the trip by bus.
They spent the night in the Virginia
Carroll Lodge, and ate in Lowry
Hall. After the concert, the Aggies
were guests of the Tessie Fresh
man Class for their dance.
The'program was highlighted by
the solos of Harry Doran, Charles
Thoma, Frank Haines, and the two
gas-light era songs of the barber
shop quartet. At the close of the
concert, the Tessies joined the Ca
dets in singing the Aggie War
Hymn.
As a result of their fine perfor
mance, the Sin^flSg Cadets have
been invited to apear on the T. S.
C. W. Fine Arts Series next year
by Dr. William Jones, head of the
music department.
Senior Engineers
Guests at TSPE
Gathering Friday
Senior engineering students of
Texas A. & M. College will be spe
cial guests of the Brazos county
chapter of the Texas Society of
Professional Engineers when it
holds its monthly meeting at 7:30
p. m., Friday, April 12, in the col
lege civil engineering lecture room.
Dr. Carl L. Svenson, secretary
of the Texas State Board of Regis
tration for professional engineers,
will be guest speaker, and will di
rect his remarks to the engineer
ing students, explaining why they
should register with the state board
and what experience is necessary
to qualify for registration.
Luke Sponsors 20th Easter Egg
Hunt For College, Campus Kids
Hunts On Both Tuesday,
Thursday Afternoons
For the twentieth consecutive
year, Luke Patranella will don his
long silky ears, and, twinkling his
pink nose, go hippity-hop through
the lush spring grass seeking out-
of-the-way spots to hide Easter
eggs for lucky College Station and
campus children.
The Easter bunny is scheduling
two separate hunts this year. The
first will be Tuesday afternoon,
April 16, at 2:30 for the children
of veteran students who may be
away from the campus during the
spring holidays. The other will be
for Consolidated school and College
Station children on Thursday after
noon, April 18, at 2:30.
Happy hunting grounds for both
both affairs will be the draw im
mediately east of Trailerville ad
jacent to Kyle Field.
Many of of the gaudily dyed
eggs will be marked with the name
of local business establishments,
which will present attractive prizes
to the finders.
Texas A. & M. College
BATTALION
Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Wednesday Afternoon, April 10, 1946 Number 46
Over 100 Beauties in Cotton Pageant
Chevalier Talks
On International,
Domestic Issues
Wisdom, patience and tolerance
were cited as the key virtues nec
essary for the achievement of
world peace by Col. Willard Chev
alier at an open luncheon meeting
of the College Station Kiwanis Club
Tuesday.
Col. Chevalier, who is president
of McGraw-Hill publications and
publisher of Business Week, comes
to the Texas A. & M. campus an
nually to give a series of lectures.
Col. Chevalier opened his re
marks by observing that “we are
not only a part of the world—we
are the greatest single influence in
it” and that all other nations will
be affected by this country’s atti
tude in world relations. Our aim in
international affairs is a world at
peace, he said, adding that peace
is necessary for the protection of
our foreign and domestic interests
and that “no one can win a world
war.”
The only way in which we can
control the atomic bomb is by out
lawing war, Chevalier said. He ex
plained that war cannot be elimi
nated by the sweep of a pen or
by a rhetorical declaration but only
by the patient exercise of toler
ance for other nations’ political
philosophies over a long period of
time. The goal is the achievement
of an attitude, of mind rather than
the pi^tension that there is no
such thing as war, he stated.
Col. Chevalier advocated the
maintenance of a strong system
of national defense since lasting
peace cannot be achieved in a short
period of time. The United Nations
Organization he credited with mak
ing “some progress”, but warned
that quarrels and difficulties are
inevitable and should not be per
mitted to destroy faith in the or
ganization as an instrument for
peace. He urged the practice of
patience and tolerance in the opera
tion of the council, stating that
“Above all, we must keep the ‘or
else’ clause out of negotiations.'”
Russia was described as the
“Mickeyvitch Maguiresky” of the
family of nantions, who has been
brought up in “an atmosphere of
hard knocks across the tracks”.
The Soviet Republic will attempt
to capitalize on her good showing
during the war, he said, and will
crowd her advantage up to the point
of war but no farther. He recom
mended that the United States and
other nations make clear the point
beyond which they will not recede
as the most effective way of creat
ing an understanding with the
Soviet Republic.
Turning to domestic problems in
this country, Col. Chevalier referr
ed to the restiveness of Americans
under emergency economic controls
and stated that the error committ
ed in releasing wages from gov
ernmental control should not be
worsened by the sudden release of
restrictions on prices. The OPA is
giving way slowly, he stated, and
(See CHEVALIER, Page 3)
1943 Ag Sweetheart
Is Chosen Duchess for
Wichita Falls Club
Miss Jolene Proctor, who was
Aggie Sweetheart in 1943, will re
present the Wichita Falls A. & M.
Club at the Cotton Pageant this
coming weekend. Miss Proctor, a
student at TSCW, will be escorted
by Thurman (Sheriff) Kennedy.
Final jslans for a steak fry to
be held at Anderson Lake during
the Easter holidays will be dis
cussed at the regular meeting of
the club Wednesday night in Room
222, Academic building, at 7:15 p.
m.
King, Queen Cotton
Will Reign Over
Court in Guion
The 12th Annual Cotton Pageant
and Style Show will get under way
at 8 p.m. Friday night in Guion
Hall under the auspices of the
Agronomy Society.
King Cotton Martin Vick and
Queen Jeanette Hudson, together
with their immediate court made
up of Mary Ann Barrier, Margaret
Ann Browning, Peggy Hendricks,
Katherine Reeve, Laura Sessions,
and Norma Walker and their es
corts will reign over the textile
festivities.
A retinue of 97 duchesses, rep
resenting varjous college organiza-
Faculty Members to
Participate in
Meeting April 19
Economics, Ag Eco
Geography, Acounting
Depts. Represented
Several members of the A. &
M. College faculty will participate
in the program of the Southwest
ern Social Science Association
meeting to be held in Ft. Worth
on April 19-20.
Individuals included in the above
group will be L. P. Gabbard who
will serve as chairman of the Agri
cultural Economics Section, W. E.
Paulson who will discuss “The
Diagramatic Method in Economics”
and A. C. Magu, Joe Motheral, W.
E. Morgan, and C. A. Bonnen,
who will participate in the discus
sion of papers read in this section.
F. B. Clark will discuss “Econom
ics and Full Employment”, L. S.
Paine will discuss “The Southwest
and Industrialization” and Thomas
W. Leland will have as his sub
ject “Contemporary Accounting.”
G. W. Schlesselman will read a
paper on “The Place of Geography
in Postwar General Education”.
Daniel Russell will serve as So
ciology Section Chairman for one
meeting.
McNEW WILL ATTEND
CE SOCIETY MEETING
J. T. L. McNew, Vice-President
for Engineering, will attend the
Spring Meeting of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, of
which he is Vice-President, in Phi
ladelphia, April 13-19.
Mr. McNew will attend Board
of Direction meetings of the Socie
ty, scheduled for April 15 and 16,
and participate in committee meet
ings the preceding weekend.
The meeting proper opens in Phi
ladelphia’s Bellevue-Stratford ho
tel, April 17, and continues through
the 19th. More than 1,000 leading
civil engineers are expected to at
tend the sessions of the 93-year-old
Society, oldest national engineer
ing unit in America.
NEWMAN CLUB PLANS
WEINER PICNIC
The Newman Club will meet at
7:00 p.m. tomorrow evening in the
“New Y” to discuss plans for a
picnic and weiner roast.
The meeting will be over in time
for C. Q.
CALLENDER ATTENDS
CHICAGO CONFERENCE
R. E. Callender, game manage
ment specialist for the Extension
Service, was present at a one-day
conference between representatives
of the Extension Service and the
Fish and Wildlife Service on April
9 in Chicago, according to an an
nouncement by Director Ide P.
Trotter.
tions, and their escorts will add
to the splendor of the occasion.
Tickets to the Pageant, priced at
$1.00 each, are now on sale at the
Agronomy department office in the
Agriculture building and at W. S.
D. dry goods store in Bryan. All
seats are reserved.
The Cotton Ball will begin im
mediately after the Style Show
in Sbisa Hall. Dance ducats, couple
or stag, will be on sale at the door
Friday night for $1.50.
Sanger Bros, of Dallas is pro
viding a group of 15 models, and
Program
Introduction by Joe Woolket, an
nouncer.
Presentation of Duchesses.
Coronation of King Cotton, Mar
tin Vick, by President Gibb Gil
christ.
Presentation of Queen’s Court.
Coronation of Queen, Miss Jeanette
Hudson, by King Cotton.
Dance by Hillis and Flint.
Cotton Style Show, Sanger Bros.,
of Dallas.
Old Fashioned Styles for Men—
Modeled by Agronomy Profes
sors^
Quartet: Grady Griffin, Bob Leath-
erwood, Charles Thoma, Lloyd
Bailey.
Sports Revue of Fashions.
Hillis and Flint.
Qrand Finale—Introducing for the
first time a new song, “Sweet
hearts of Aggieland,” by Cath
erine Phillips of Brenham.
Note: Music by Aggieland Orches
tra, Bill Turner director.
has constructed the settings for
the Duchesses.
Members of the Agronomy So
ciety have spent many hours of
labor on an elaborate setting for
King and Queen Cotton and their
immediate court.
Pageant Escorts
Get Instructions
The following information is be
ing printed for the benefit of those
escorts in the Cotton Pageant who
missed the meeting held Thursday,
April 4, 1946.
As soon as you receive your
card, notice that it is numbered
with 1 or 2. The Number 1 card
holders will enter from the left
side, and the Number 2 card hold
ers will enter from the right side.
In order to get to the right, side,
you will pass through the hall at
the back of the stage. There will
be signs and people at all points
to give instructions.
DUCHESSES — The announcer
will be standing on the stage just
behind the curtain. You will hand
your card to him, step through
the curtain and wait until your
and your escort’s names have been
called before starting off the stage.
WALK SLOWLY, please, as you
cross the stage to the steps at the
side of the runway where your es
cort will await you. You will go
down the steps on the same side
that you entered the stage on.
ESCORTS—As soon as your
duchess hands her card to the an
nouncer, you will pass through the
door leading off the stage and
wait for her at the foot of the
steps at the side of the runway.
The two of you will then go
down the aisle and pass through
the first door leading into the out
side corridor and go into the bal
cony where seats are reserved for
you.
All duchesses and escorts are
urged to be present at Guion Hall
by 7:30 p.m. Those not present at
this time will not be included in
the pageant.
All men who are in the corps
are urged to wear winter uniforms.
Those men taking basic may hold
these uniforms until Saturday
morning. Men not in the corps
may wear either a suit or tuxedo.