OU, TCU, and A & M
Cafeteria Food Prices
Compared by A VC
In an attempt to show food prices at various college
cafeterias, the American Veterans Committee at Texas A.
& M. mailed questionnaires to six other schools. To date
only two schools have replied and their figures as compared
to A. & M. prices at Sbisa and Duncan cafeterias are tabu
lated below.
This survey cannot show the size of serving, quality of
food or efficiency in operation of the cafeteria. It assumes
that despite the size of the serving, only one serving will be
purchased; therefore the cost per serving is the basis of
comparison.
When and if replies are received from Texas U., S.M.U.,
or Rice, another tabulation will be printed in the Battalion.
Meats—
RoaJt beef
OU
21
TCU
30
A&M
26
Roast pork
31
Ham
35
30
33
Bacon (2 slices)
12
10
12
Stew
21
25
22
Fried chicken
35
30
37
Chili
21
20
20
Fish
26
25
25
Shrimp
31
Oysters
31
Vegetables—
Potatoes, fried
8
10
Potatoes, whipped
7
8
7
Carrots
8
8
7
String beans
11
8
7
Spinach
11
8
7
Beets
11
8
7
Lima beans
7
8
7
Pinto beans
7
8
7
Salads—
Combination
10
10
7
Potato
10
10
10
Egg
15
10
10
Slaw
10
10
7
Cottage cheese
10
10
10
Lettuce -
10
7
Miscellaneous—
Pie
. 10-15
10
10
Cake
10
10
8
Ice cream
5-10
6
7
Jello
15
10
8
Milk (half pint) __
7
7
7
Coffee
5
5
4
Bread (2 slices
2
0
2
Rolls (2)
4
2
Butter (1)
2
0
2
Eggs
20
15
15
6 A Kiss Goodnight, Is All Right, But
Just Remember This,’ Say Specialists
by Mack T. Nolen -f-
Kissing is here to stay, pre
dicted Dr. Henry A. Bowman
in a speech to LSU students last
week. And I think he is right!
“Kissing used to be the line
crossed near the finish line of
marriage, but today it is the sym
bol of the beginning of a ro
mance,” he continued. Though the
meaning has changed, the purpose
is still the same.
Taken objectively, the kiss is
perhaps the silliest of all man’s
inventions. Besides revealing some
lazy hygiene habits and offending
queasy nostrils, it serves for noth
ing but a step in the right dir
ection.
The phychological value of the
kiss is immense. World crises fade,
time stops, flowers bloom in snow- '
drifts, and life takes on new savor
when two lips lock with two lips .
in the stillness of the night. Kisses ;
have inspired more good and evil
than any nationalistic harangue
ever thought about.
After completing a kiss, what
have you got? An insecure hold :
on your senses, maybe, and any
number and variety of strange
bacteriae. A queer bubbly feeling <
in the pit of the stomach, and an
overall lightness that would seem <
to defy gravity. And if you are
true with yourself, a silly feeling, i
Many men can trace all their
troubles back to a mere kiss. One
is sufficient, and the ramifica
tions are evident, but the kiss is
here to stay. Who really wants to
get rid of it anyhow?
Loveless Elected
Reserve Officer
Association Prexy
The following officers were elec
ted at the regular meeting of the
Reserve Officer’s Association in
the Petroleum Lecture Room Wed
nesday, March 12: Lt. S. L. Love
less, Cavalry Reserve, president;
Lt. Fred Benson, Naval Reserve,
vice-president; Lt. W- A. Aven,
Air Corps Reserve, second vice-
president; Lt. Col. H. F. Murray,
Air Corps Reserve, secretary; and
Capt. Theodore Moffett, National
Guard, assistant secretary.
E. N. Holmgreen, outgoing pres
ident, was presented with the ex
president’s key of the association.
Regular meeting night of the
club is the second Wednesday of
the month. Committees for the
coming year will be appointed at
the next meeting. Reserve offi
cers from all branches are urged
to attend.
Texas A*M
The B
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1947
Number 47
State Foundry
Establishes 2
Scholarships
f
Veterans to Elect Athletic
Representative March 21
AVMA Dance
Set Tonight
In Sbisa Hall
Testing out a plan for pre
training of future employees,
the Texas Foundries, Inc., of
Lufkin has established two
scholarships for engineering un
dergraduates at A & M, Dr. How
ard W. Barlow, dean of engineer
ing announced Thursday.
Recipients of the scholarships,
which will pay $40 monthly, will
be chosen from among a group of
junior engineering students, es
pecially interested in foundry pro
cesses, who will go to Lufkin at
the end of this month for an in
spection trip and a conference with
Col. C. C. Chambers, head of Texas
Foundries.
From this group four will be
chosen to spend their summer va
cation as Texas Foundries employ
ees, and at the summer’s end two
of them will be awarded scholar
ships for their final college year.
The scholarships will be award
ed with the understanding that
the • recipients will enter the em
ploy of Texas Foundries upon gra
duation if it is possible for them
to do so, the corporation guaran
teeing employment for at least
one year. During this time the
scholarship men will be tested in
various capacities to determine
their best abilities.
During his senior year, each
scholarship holder will prepare a
paper dealing with his previous
summer’s work and outlining con
structive suggestions.
Col. Chambers is also inter
ested in offering summer em
ployment to other undergrad
uates, Barlow indicated.
In commenting on the plan, Bar-
low stated. “Through this proce
dure the donor will have an oppor
tunity of securing top-knotch per
sonnel, and the young men chosen
will have an unexcelled opportu
nity for an early start in their
profession.”
Only Classified Seniors Are Eligible;
Must File Names Before Next Wednesday
With less than ten days before the next meeting of the
Athletic Council, the Veteran Students’ Association Board
of Representatives has set up the machinery for the election
of a veteran member to the council. At a meeting Wednes
day night in Goodwin Hall the group laid plans for an elec
tion March 21.
Nominees must be classified seniors to be eligible for
office as Athletic Council repre-4
sentative and must not be attend-'
ing school on an athletic scholar
ship. Voting unanimously, the
board decided that candidates must
file before Wednesday noon, March
19, in the Student Activities Office.
The election will be held on
Friday, March 21 in the rotunda of
the Academic Building and at both
mess halls. The polls in the Aca
demic Building will be open from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and the
polling booths at Duncan and Sbisa
Halls will be open during the noon
and evening meals. E. 0. Court-
ade, J. B. Harwich, Jesse Welch,
and E. D. Hord were appointed
by vice-president Bob Poison to
serve as the election committee.
Yellow slips will be required.
Duchess Picture Entries
Veterans are urged to submit
pictures of their wives or sweet
hearts as candidates for duchess
at the Cotton Ball. R. P. Sanders,
heading the selection committee,
stated that there is no stipulation
as to whether the duchess be a wife
or a sweetheart, and final selec
tion will be based solely on photo
genic appeal.
Pictures of duchess candidates
may be turned in to Room 207,
Goodwin Hall or to Scott Hood,
47, Milner Hall, and the deadline
for entries is Thursday, March
20.
Chairmen were appointed to var
ious standing committees, with
committee membership open to any
veteran. Chairman of the Cam-
(See VSA, Page 4)
Hillel Dance
Slated May 3
by David M. Seligman
The Hillel Foundation has an
nounced the date of its annual
dance as May 3. A highlight of
the club’s social program for the
semester, the affair will be held
in the Veterans’ Lounge of Sbisa
Hall to the music of the Aggie
land Orchestra.
Committees for making arrange
ments have been named by Archie
Broodo, president of the club. The
social will last from 8:30 p. m.
until midnight, and refreshments
will be served, he announced.
Social chairman of the club is
Dick Gottlieb, who is in charge of
the week-end program. Members
of the attendance committee have
been contacting members to dis
cover the number who plan to
attend.
Reports state that past Hillel
dances have been popular and well
attended. In view of the number
of dates anticipated to visit the
campus for the early May social,
Mrs. Taubenhaus has reserved
rooms in the Aggieland Inn. Any
member wishing to obtain a room
in the Inn should contact her in
the YMCA.
Tickets for the dance will go on
sale in the near future at $3 stag
or with a date.
Small, Rain-Swept Audience
Appreciates ‘Cramped’ Ballet
by Vick Lindley
Undaunted by a cloudburst, a
miniature stage, and a miniscule
audience, the Ballet Theatre gave
College Station balletomanes their
quota of thrills Wednesday night.
By rapturous applause of Igor
Youskevitch and Nora Kaye in the
Pas de Deux from the Black Swan,
the audience indicated its prefer
ence for the classical Russian bal
let. Youskevitch and Kaye demon
strated the perfection that comes
from long years of training, and
can be acquired no other way.
That the audience was well ac
customed to ballet was shown by
prolonged applause when either of
these two executed difficult man
euvers.
By comparison, the audience was
indifferent to the “American style”
ballet which has been the distin
guishing mark of the Ballet Thea
tre. This reviewer, who preferred
the delicate clowning of “On Stage”
with Michael Kidd as a stage-
struck janitor, found himself back
ed into a corner of Guion Hall lob
by during intermissions, defending
his preference.
The other two numbers were
“Tallyho” staged by Agnes De-
Mille in the musical comedy vein
which she created on Broadway,
and “Interplay” staged by Jerome
Robbins, an intricate counterpoint
between the classic ballet steps
and the eurythmics of Wigman,
Graham, and other modernists.
If Aggies had realized how
many good-looking girls would be
whirling around the stage in en
trancing costumes, Guion Hall pro
bably would have been packed, even
at the $1.50—$2 tax.
Stage Cramps Company
More disappointing than the
small audience was the way in
which the movement of the dancers
was cramped by Guion Hall’s
orange-box stage. Accustomed to
the freedom of a normal-sized
platform, the dancers frequently
found themselves having to put on
“bi'akes” to avoid crashing into
the side walls.
The company of 80 persons ar
rived here in a special train, in
cluding four box cars of costumes,
musical instruments, and scenic ef
fects.
Most of the scenery, lighting
equipment, and such paraphernalia
was left sitting in the box cars
on the siding. The spectacular
backdrops were twice too long for
Guion Hall, and there was no
place to connect or hang the many
spotlights, floods and special ef
fects.
Even the orchestra found itself
cramped, though Guion does have
a large pit. The music would have
made a concert by itself.
General opinion after the per
formance was that though College
Station enjoys ballet on a con
cert scale, we have no place ade
quate for ballet on the grand scale.
4
IRC to Meet
Monday at 7
US, Russian Aims
In Greece Topic
“U. S. and Russia Aims in
Greece” will be the topic of
discussion by the Internation
Relations Club Monday even
ing at 7 o’clock, H. H. Caldwell,
faculty leader, has announced. The
informal session will be held in
Room 207, Academic Building.
An attempt will be made to eval
uate the conflicting policies of
these two powers and the effect
upon the Greeks, the Balkan na
tions, and the stability of the
world, Mr. Caldwell stated.
The IRC was the first of the
discussion groups to be organized
two weeks ago, and meetings are
scheduled on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month. Due to
a conflicting meeting of Arts and
Science faculty members, the date
of this IRC session was changed
to Monday.
Another problem which prom
ises to encourage rabid discussion
can be titled, “Should the United
States help Turkey out of the
Red fire,”, Mr. Caldwell said, and
perhaps this subject will be selec
ted for the next meeting.
Price, Waterhouse
Officials Address
Accounting Society
Houston representatives of
the world’s largest accounting
firm, Price, Waterhouse Com
pany, whose main headquar
ters are located in New York City,
addressed the Accounting Society
Tuesday evening. L. A. Linoff and
Ray Jordon, of Houston’s Price-
Waterhouse Company, discussed
the policies of the firm and an
swered questions from all prospec
tive accountants.
Dr. Dunham, former professor
at Yale and Harvard Universities
and now personnel director of the
New York office, discussed the
firm’s training program for keep
ing employees informed on latest
accounting methods. The company
’s methods are based on previous
experiences with different clients.
After hearing the accounting
authorities, the society held a busi
ness session to make tentative
plans for a forthcoming banquet
to be held April 8. A duchess to
represent the Accounting Society
at the Cotton Pageant and Ball
was also selected during the course
of the evening.
Petroleum Engineer Picture
The Petroleum Engineering
Club picture will be taken for
the LONGHORN in front of the
Petroleum Building at 12 noon,
Thursday, March 20. Members
should wear coats and ties.
The Junior chapter of the
American Veterinary Medical
Association of A. & M. will
hold its annual semi-formal
dance this evening at 9 o’clock in
Sbisa Hall, with Bill Turner and
the Aggieland Orchestra furnish
ing the music.
The committee in charge has ar
ranged an added attraction in the
selection of the chapter’s Cotton
Ball duchess. This selection will
be made by members and their
guests during the dancing inter
mission.
The chapter held its March meet
ing last Tuesday evening in the
vet hospital amphitheater and
heard Dr. H. T. Cartrite of Can
yon. Dr. Cartrite was introduced
by Dr. W. W. Armistead, presi
dent of the Texas Veterinary Med
ical Association, and a former in
structor of Dr. Cartrite’s.
The speaker’s subject was “Do’s
and Don’ts of Veterinary Practice”,
and recounted his experiences in
practice at Dallas and Oklahoma
City. He stressed the importance
of maintaining a professional at
titude at all times. More than one
hundred attended the meeting, and
a short business session was con
ducted by president H. N. Sturck-
ie.
McGuire Chosen
To Serve on ASEE
Visual Aid Staff
J. G. McGuire of the Engi
neering Drawing department
has been named to represent
the Southwest on the Visual
Aid Committee of the American
Society of Engineering Education
at the coming meeting in Minnea
polis.
The announcement came from
Professor John T. Rale of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Techno
logy, Chairman of the Drawing
Division of the A. S. E. E. It was
stated that the committee has
been organized to determine if
more suitable visual aids in the
form of slides or film strips on
shop processes and their relation
to drafting room dimensioning can
be made.
As an integral part of their in
struction program the Engineer
ing Drawing department has used
visual education for the past sev
eral years. The choice of McGuire
to serve on the visual aid com
mittee was thought to be a result
of his report on this subject in
the- last convention of the society
held-in St. Louis.
Newcomers’ Club to Meet
Wednesday in Sbisa Hall
A dessert-bridge meeting of the
Newcomers’ Club will be held Wed
nesday afternoon, March 19, at
2 o’clock, Mrs. J. G. Potter has an
nounced. The get-together will be
held in Sbisa Hall, and ladies
planning to attend are requested
to call one of the following hostes
ses by Monday evening: Mrs. S. A.
Lynch, 4-8599; Mrs. John Weber,
4-7909; Mrs. L. E. Kapp, 2-5319;
or Mrs. Kenneth Kinken, 4-8899.
Scenes from “A Murder Has
Been Arranged”, which the Ag
gie Players presented at the
Assembly Hall Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday of this
week.
LEFT. PICTURE 1 are Rob
ert Q. Blakeney, Art Stauffer,
Nancy Tucker, and Mary O.
Johnson. Blakeney played the
role of Jimmy North (or Rich
ard Simonson or Simon Richard
son). Stauffer was the victim,
Sir Charles Jasper, who was al
most ready to celebrate his for
tieth birthday. Nancy Tucker,
or Mrs. Arthur, was the mother
qf Mary O. Johnson, Lady Beat
rice Jasper, seated next to her.
PICTURE 2. Orchestra leader
Cavendish, Frank Camp, admires
the body (Stauffer), along with
Bill Krause, who was responsi
ble for “arranging tne murder”.
PICTURE 3. The woman of
mystery, Patty Kirkpatrick, is
trying her best to speak.
PICTURE 4. Mary Johnson
and Bob Blakeney have lots to
talk about.