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Texas /UM The B allon Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Wednesday Afternoon, May 8, 1946 Number 57 Aggie Band Leaves Friday for New Braunfels Fete The 100-piece Texas university band will be the official band at the Southwest Conference track meet here Saturday, due to a prev ious engagement by the Texas Ag gie Band. New Braunfels will play host to the colorful Aggie organization as it makes ist first all expense paid trip since pre-war days. The Band will be the guests of the New Braunfels Centennial Committee and will appear in concert on Fri day night. Governor Coke Steven son is slated to deliver an address the same evening. After the con cert, the members of the band will attend a huge street dance. On Saturday afternoon they will march through the streets of the ancient German town where, at one time, the proposed land grant college of Texas (Texas A. & M. College) was considered being placed. The Humble Oil and Refining Company invited the Aggie Band to play at the Southwest Confer ence track meet, but the New Braunfels engagement, which was made some time ago, could not be broken. The Band will return to the College in time to take part in the Mothers Day program on Sun day. Herrington First In Design Contest for Senior Class Gift J. D. Herrington, veteran, won the contest sponsored by the Arch itecture Department for the best design of the intramural bulletin board and pick-up station to be given to the school by the class of ’47. Herrington’s design was chosen because of its suitability and the ingenuity shown in the development of the plans to fit the requirements. The bulletin board will be plac ed in front of Duncan hall opposite of the flag pole and will be con structed out of red brick piles and aluminum facing to match the architecture of the adjoining build ings. Seniors 9 Minds As They Step By Warren Rice At the Senior Ring Dance, as you step through the ring you will remember—the white stripe you put on your left arm three years ago; symbol of servitude— the ‘handle’ you were so proud of as you learned the Aggie hand shake—‘humping it’ and yelling until it seemed your next breath would be your last—your freshman buddies you learned to know and love as you suffered in silence with them—how the board felt each and every time—that blind date you were stuck with at the organization party—and the better luck you had on the Dallas Corp trip—‘bleed metings’ when ‘meal service’ efficicency dropped off a little—the afternoons you helped in the fight for the Intramural flag—that senior whose room you cleaned and whose boots you pull ed off each day—‘details’ to the North Gate—victory yell practice and dunking the white-clad yell leaders in Prexy’s Triangle after a success on Kyle Field—mixed Rainey Claims Moneyed Groups Control Texas Political Economy Union Building Dr. Homer P. Rainey, ousted president of Texas university and potential gubernatorial candidate, lashed out at the moneyed special privilege interests who “have wrenched control of the state’s economy, education, and politics from its rightful position with the people”, in a speech last night in the completely filled Baptist church at the North Gate. Shackles on our economics, edu cational, and political life, placed upon them by selfish privileged in terests now in power all over the state, have prevented Texas from rising to its rightful position as a leader among all the states of the union, Rainey maintained. Citing figures placing Texas between thirty-fifth and fortieth in educa tion, and forty-first in public health program, he stated that our reduced standard of living had caused this delinquency. As a background for his conten tions, Rainey held that 80 per cent of the families of Texas have incomes of less than $1500 per year, with a resultant low benefit for education. Again drawing up on Texas’ unearned reputation of poverty, he stated that the number Wamble Tells of Seed Laboratory At Kiwanis Meet Scope and purpose of the Cot tonseed Products Research Lab oratory at Texas A. & M. College were explained to the College Sta tion Kiwanis Club yesterday in a talk by Cecil Wamble, manager of the laboratory. Wamble said that the research unit at A. & M. is the only oil seeds research laboratory in the world fully equipped with full scale processing equipment and in position to operate continuously on a commercial manufacturing scale by either of two different processing methods. He empha sized the laboratory has the bles sing of local oil mills and the cottonseed industry and that the shop is anxious to cooperate in every possible manner with relat ed projects on the campus. Wander Back Through Ring tears and butterflies during Taps I when we lost a tough ine—‘fish’ calls—Mess hall ‘air raids’—trudg ing to class through flooded streets after a shower on the Brazos bot toms—^beautifully sad Silver Taps —football signs you helped paint and games you helped win as part of the Twelfth Man—how “The Spirit of Aggieland” sounded at midnight yell practice—your pride as you guarded the Turkey Day bonfire you helped build—mis takes and consequences of them as you ‘got your head in’ on ‘float outs’—the feel of cold water when you were ‘drowned out’—the def inition of a gentleman—“ ‘Fifteen for team and call it a night”!—or ‘Skyrocket’ at Aggie T formation, paddlefooting at drill—thousands of voices thundering the War Hymn—‘cush’ call—the elbow grease required when your outfit polished ‘Sully’—wotta party! — hall details and Saturday bull rings—farewell hand shakes after Final Review and the indescribable joy as you ripped off the fish stripe. of old age pensioners in Texas is the highest percentage of old folks over 64 of any state in the nation. Going further into Texas’ eco nomic shackles, the aspirant to the governorship complained of the large natural resources of the state in the hands of a few powerful owners. It is these same interests, he said, who have combined them selves in the politics of the state so as to gain an economic advan tage over all others. “Now they have moved in and taken over control of the educa tional system as well as the politi cal and economic life of Texans,” he continued. “The boards of control of state education are now domi nated by the representatives of the special interest groups, and this includes the governing boards of Texas Tech, Texas university, and A. & M.” “We need industrialization,” de clared Rainey. The principal ob stacle now in the way of Texas industry is discriminatory freight rates which make it possible for Northern and Eastern manufactur ers to obtain the margin of profit denied the Texas industrialist, he maintained. CAMERA CLUB MEETS There will be a meeting of the Camera Club Wednesday night in the basement of Guion Hall. Pro ceedings will begin at 7:30. A pro gram is being planned What’s Cooking TODAY 5:00 p.m.: Eagle Scout Club, in American Legion Building. 7:00 p.m.: Navy and Marine Air men’s Club, at Ag. Engineering lecture room. 7:15 p.m:. AAUP and Sigma Xi, spring banquet at Sbisa Hall. 7:15 p.m.: Bryan-College chap ter, American Veterans Commit tee, in YMCA Council Room. 7:30 p.m.: Camera Club, in Guion Hall basement. * 7:30 p.m.: Agronomy Society, in Agronomy Library. TOMORROW 7:00 p.m.: Landscape Arts Club, at College Greenhouse. 7:15 p.m.: Newman Club, at “new YMCA”. 7:30 p.m.: Brazos County Re serve Officers Association, reac tivation meeting in Petroleum-Geol ogy lecture room. 7:30 p.m.: A. & M. Horsemen’s Association, in Animal Husbandry lecture room. 7:30 p.m.: Graduate Club, at YMCA Assembly Room. 8:00 p.m.: Land of Lakes Club, in Room 224 of Academic Building. 8:00 p.m.: Texas Society of Pro fessional Engineers, at Hotard’s Cafeteria, Bryan. FRIDAY 1:00 p.m.: Kiwanis Hobby and Handicraft Show at Consolidated School. science room. 1:30 p.m.: Open house for pa rents of Homemakers Class at A. & M. Consolidated School. 3:00 p.m.: A. & M. Garden Club, final meeting of year, at YMCA. 3:15 p.m.: Southwest Conference track preliminaries at Kyle Field. 3:30 p.m.: Baseball, Texas A. & M. vs. S. M. U. at Kyle Field. 8:30 p.m.: Senior Banquet and Ring Dance at Sbisa Hall. Regarding shackles on our edu cational system, Rainey cited, in addition to the issue of academic freedom, the antiquated idea per sisting in Texas against high-pow ered support through taxes of state institutions, and against full-scale scientific and technological train ing. Because of low salaries, he stated, Texas is drained of any talent that she does develop at home. In concluding, Rainey made pleadings for several things. He asked for more funds for research to add to the scientific knowledge of our state. A new concept of pol itics and politicians must be shap ed, so that young men with the necessary qualities of leadership, honesty, integrity, and character will enter the respectable service of their fellow man unburdened by preconceived notions of politics as a “dirty” game involving the sale of one’s soul to the devil. “I believe that through a better concept of education, politics, and economics, the citizens of this state will realize the benefit of a great ly higher living standard,” Rain ey concluded. Reserve Officers Of Brazos County Plan Reactivation U. S. Army reserve officers of Brazos County have been urged t r attend a meeting Thursday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Petroleum-Geo logy lecture room, for the purpose of reactivating the Brazos County chapter of the Reserve Officers Association. Veterans who are reserve officers were especially urged to attend and were reminded that they can trans fer their memberships to other local chapters when they leave Col lege Station. Naval and Marine reserves and National Guard off icers are eligible for associate mem bership. - The Brazos County organiza tion has been inactive since 1941, when practically all reserve offic ers over the country were called to active duty. The local chapter had at one time over 500 members, with Senior ROTC cadets making up the bulk of the membership. The flawless technic of Miss Vir ginia Thomas, junior concert pian ist on Town Hall Monday night brought sustained murmurs of ap preciation from the lips of an amazed audience; How anyone as young .and dimunutive as the at tractive 16 year old, five foot ar tist could master the intricate and varied passages of the Beethoven Sonata No. 57, and the familiar Concerto in A Minor by Grieg with such perfection is a perplexing question. Many long hours of intensive practice since the age of 7, plus inherent ability seems to be the sole answer. Such a brilliant dis play of finger dexterity impress ed her listeners almost to the point of overwhelming them. Bending low over the keyboard at emphatic points, perhaps in order to achieve closer communion with her instru- Aggies to Suggest Desired Inclusions in Union Plan To Special Committee Continuing its policy of meeting to discuss questions pertinent to the corps and the veterans, the Student Council convened in the Board Room of Sbisa Hall last night. Purpose of this particular discussion was to hear Mr. E. L. Angell, assistant to the President, and Mr. Carlton Adams, A. & M. system architect, present the pre sent plans for the construction of a student union building, and to formulate some kind of a pro motion plan. Mr. Angell stated that the For mer Students Association had rais ed, through voluntary contribu tions, $275,000 and this had been augmented by enough from the Board of Directors to raise the amount available for the union building to between $800,000 and $900,000. This money is for the exclusive purpose of constructing a building here on the campus to serve as the center of the Ag gie’s activities and amusements. The suggestion was made that a committee should be formed to act as awakeners of student interest in the building, and to receive and sift out the ideas coming from the students regarding the desired arrangement and functions of the building. The council moved and passed a motion providing for the appointment of three men from each class in the corps and six men from among the ex-servicemen to accomplish this mission. Carlton Adams, architect for the project, remarked that we. have a problem in the planning of the union building not to be encounter ed in any other school in the na tion. It is because we are essen tially an all-male school based up on military organization that we cannot follow the lead of many other midwest schools which have constructed union buildings. Adams made an intensive survey of all student buildings in the principal colleges and universities of the midwest recently, and has come to the' conclusion that we must house the most necessary activities. Ten tative plans now drawn up include guest rooms, dining hall space, a large memorial hall with cinema facilities, many club rooms, read- (Continued on Page 4) ment, she ripped through several compositions. Her interpretation of Beethoven involved a fluctuating tempo and a dynamic presentation. Her spark ling technic was combined with the insight of an accomplished mu sician at times, and her playing was not that of the mere auto- matom so frequently encountered among child “prodigies”. A noticeable lack in her pro gram was the performance of some of the simpler compositions which, while not affording such fertile ground for display of manual skill, actually require more finesse to put over to a critical audience. In addition to the two numbers mentioned before, Miss Thomas played five shorter selections. A1 Gillespi, a 19 year old Air Corps veteran in attendance at NTSC played the second piano part in the Grieg concerto. Young Pianist Impresses Town Hallers With Flying Fingers
