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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-
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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