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Texas A*M EDITORIAL, PAGE 2 “Administration Busts” The B College alion EDITORIAL, PAGE 2 “Two Strikes on Vets” PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947 Number 55 State Investigation Opens Meeting Tonight in Austin Two Cadets, Six Veterans Are Subpoenaed to Appear A&M Army Day Observed Tomorrow With Cadet Review, Military Show at Goodwin Hall In observance of Army Day, the Cadet Corps will hold a mounted review at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, Co. G. S. Meloy, Jr., PMS&T and Commandant, has announced. Army Day, which was observed throughout the Unites States yesterday, was scheduled tomorrow at A. & M. to avoid a conflict with the Easter holidays. The review will consist of tanks, armored cars, truck-drawn heavy weapons, and other modern field pieces, all of which will be manned by cadets under the supervision of members of the Military Depart ment. These mounted elements will pass in review immediately to the rear of the foot elements. The Infantry section of the mounted review will include: one truck mounting a .30 caliber heavy machine gun; one truck mounting a 60 mm mortar; and one truck mounting a 75 mm recoilless rifle. Each truck will be manned by cad et drivers and assistant drivers, armed with M-l rifles. The Chemical section will in clude: two %-ton trucks with 4.2- inch chemical mortars mounted in the body of the vehicles. Mortar crews will be composed of cadets, with the exception of regular army personnel as drivers. The Field Artillery section will include: two 2^-ton trucks towing 105mm howitzers; one M-5 tractor towing a 155mm howitzer; and an M-4 tractor towing a 155mm rifle. The cadet gun crews for these weapons will be mounted in the prime movers and will be armed with M-l rifles. Regular army personnel will* be drivers for the prime movers. The Armored Cavalry section will include: two light armored cars, MIS’s; two assault guns, M-8’s; and two light tanks, M-24’s. The crews of these vehicles will be cadets, with the exception of regular army personnel as drivers. Guests of Honor Honor guests for this occasion will be, Dr. Gibb Gilchrist, presi dent of the college; Dr. Frank C. Bolton, executive vice-president and dean of the college; Dr. Thomas D. Brooks, dean of the graduate School and of the School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Ross P. Mar- stellar, dean of the school of Vet erinary Medicine; Charles N. Chep- ardson, dean of the School of Ag riculture; Ivan Langford, mayor of Bryan; and Ernest Langford, may or of College Station. Review Highlight The cadet review will be high lighted by the awarding of the La Belgique Criox de Guerre 1940 Avec Palme to Cadet Major Mich ael P. Williams. There will also be displays of all the latest Army equipment on the drill field in front of Goodwin Hall; this will be the first time that most of this equipment has been displayed in this section. The display will be open to the public from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. tomor row and will be manned by cadets who will explain the various equip ment. The public is cordially invited to attend A&M’s observance of Army Day and to become better acquainted with the Army’s new peace-time equipment and meth ods. Faculty Backs Vets, Cadets, Dr. Clark Says New flame was added to the Aggie fire Friday when Dr. F. B. Clark, head of the A. & M. economics deparment, told a meeting of educators in Dal las that, in his opinion, a majority of the college faculty sided with the students in the controversy with President Gibb Gilchrist. Dr. Clark amplified his remarks in an interview with a Dallas Mor ning News reporter, and announced that he was the faculty member referred to by the Veterans Asso ciation in their charge of intimi dation. Clark also said that he expects to be called to testify be fore the house-senate investigating committee this week. Pr efacing his remarks with “maybe I won’t be back next year,” Dr. Clark stated, “Hazing is a minor issue.” If the board wanted to stop hazing at this school, he said, they should have acted through the faculty which Clark believes still has the “respect and confidence of the students.” Dr. Clark made it clear that he does not believe hazing is necessary and that he does not endorse it. All students who have been de moted or dismissed from the corps should be decorated, Clark told the News reporter. Clark has been a member of the A. & M. faculty since 1916. Cotton Show Tickets Go On Sale Thursday Tickets for the thirteenth annual Cotton Style Show Pageant at DeWare Field House will go on sale at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 10. These tickets may be purchased at the Agronomy Department, Aggieland Inn, Luke’s Grocery, and Lips comb’s Pharmacy at College Sta tion, and at W.S.D. Clothier’s in Bryan. General admission price is set at $1 and the reserved seat tickets may be bought for $1.25. Governor Beauford Jester has been invited to crown Eugene J. Vacek of Wiemar, who will reign as King Cotton. Miss Joann Dobbs of Menard has been picked as queen of the Cotton Style Show Pogeant. Miss Joan Jester, daugh ter of the governor, has been chos en as the duchess of the Agronomy Society. Sanger Brothers of Dallas will present 20 professional models who will feature the coming spring and summer styles in cotton, including the latest fashions in everything from evening gowns to bathing beach wear. The TSCW Caper- ettes and Magician Christy, The Great, are also added attractions of the thirteenth Cotton Style Show Pageant. Music for the Cotton Ball fol lowing the Style Show Pageant will be furnished by the Aggieland Orchestra in Sbisa Hall from 10 til 2 a.m. Scrip for the dance is $1.50. R. A. “Bob” Poison Vice-President, VSA Wm. J. “Bill” McCormick President, Senior Class W. S. “Bill” Andrews President, VSA Karl Wallace Parliamentarian, VSA David N. “Ish” Elliott Sergeant-at-arms, VSA Ed Fisher Secretary, VSA Not pictured are Sam S. Williams, treasurer of the VSA, and Ed Brandt, both of whom will also pear before the investigation committee tonight. ap- AE Day Slates Follies, Dance, Military Show This year’s show on Agriculture- Engineers Day will be the four teenth annual show for the Engin eering Department. Their first was held on May 10, 1930, and the last previous one was the day before Monther’s Day, 1942. Heretofore, A-E Day was known as Engineers Day, but this year the Engineer ing Department has been joined by the Department of Agriculture to produce the show which has at tracted scores of visitors in the past. Chairman of the committees for the production of the A-E show have been selected and Terry A. Clark has been appointed overall chairman of the many Engineer ing committees, and LeRoy Nor- vell the overall chairman of the various agricultural committees. A display of military equipment has been offered by Colonel Meloy, PMS&T of the college, which should be especially interesting what with the new equipment re ceived by the Military Depart ment since the close of the last In addition to the show in the field, the different clubs repre senting the two departments will stage a follies in Guion Hall, un der the direction of John M. Hud dleston of the Architecture Depart ment. Huddleston has announced that he would appreciate being contact ed by any talented student or stu dents interested in stage produc tion, or joke artists. Comedy acts and skits are also to be presented on the follies show and there are still vacancies in the program for any comedians or skit workers who would like to participate. All interested students are urged to contact the Student Committees in their respective departments. The follies presentation will be followed by a free A-E Day dance to be held in Sbisa Hall, the or chestra for which will be announc ed at a later date. The public is invited to attend. Hop Aboard Brazos River Showboat! By W. K. Colville Dis am onnnnly da begin- nin’, folks . . . climb on dat ok Brazos Ribber Showboat and les all jine in de Cotton jubi lee! Water or no water, all acts of the annual Cotton Pageant and Ball, to be held April 18, will orig inate from the deck of an old- fashioned showboat. Typical of the Mississippi River days, a ma gician from Dallas will perform his magical feats as an additional feature of the Style Show. The dancing Caperettes, a ten- member tapping team from TSCW, will uphold southern tradition at the Pageant to the tunes of “Swa- nee River” and “Dinah”, with an additional twist—the can-can. Dur ing the war the group performed in hospitals over the State and Okla homa, and for the past four years has danced for the Kiwanis Mins trel at Denton. This year they presented a dance entitled, “Cad- emy Caperettes of CIA.” Two ex members of the dancing team are now performing on Broadway. Mrs. Manning Smith of College Station, director of the Pageant, explained that invitations have been sent out to more than 200 A. & M. clubs in the state to send duchesses, and from all indications this year’s Pageant will be the lar gest in A. & M.’s history. Sweet hearts representing the different Southwest Conference colleges also will be featured. (Editor’s Note: The “Show- boat” will be a backdrop in De- Ware Field House.) Reserve Officers Meet Wednesday In AH Lecture Room Brazos County Reserve Officers Association will meet Wednesday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Animal Husbandry Lecture Room. Plans for the Association’s ac tivities for the coming year will be presented at the meeting, and standing committees will report. Included on the program will be an Army film on compulsory military training. Association President Sid Love less stressed that all former Army, Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard of ficers are eligible for membership in the organization and are cor dially invited to all meetings. Love less stated further that under a recent ruling membership dues for veterans attending school under the GI bill have been reduced. Town Hall Presents Houston Symphony Tomorrow Night Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony”, made famous during the war as the “V-Symphony”, will be the featured num ber of the Houston Symphony Orchestra tomorrow even ing at 8 p.m. This Town Hall program will be one of Ernst Hoffmann’s last appearances as director of the orchestra, since he has resigned his leadership effective April 14. Hoffmann will bring with him 60 musicians and a guest vocalist, Miriam Forman, wife of former Aggie Jack For man of Houston. Having directed the group for the past eleven years, Hoffmann has brought them within the first-20-in-America category. Past performances of the orchestra during the last few years have been well received on the campus. Also included on the Guion Hall show tomorrow even ing will be “Voices of Spring” by Strauss and the “Wil liam Tell Overture”. General admission tickets will be on sale at the door for 60 cents and $1, students and adults, respectively, who do not possess season tickets. Tonight at 7:30 p. m. in the Senate chamber at Aus tin a special senate-house committee will begin its investi gation of recent disturbances at A. & M. The committee has subpoenaed eight Aggie students. They are: W. J. McCormick, president of the Senior Class; Ed Brandt. W. S. Andrews, president of the Veteran Students Association; R. A. Poison, vice-president; Sam Williams, treasurer; Ed Fisher, sec retary; Karl Wallace, parliamentarian; and David Elliott, sergeant- "fat-arms. Presumably the committee will quiz McCormick and Brandt about the senior class action in voting “no confidence” in Brandt as cadet colonel. The VSA officers will no doubt be asked about the vote to oust President Gilchrist, taken at the recent mass meeting of vet erans. No word had been received as to whether or not the committee would subpoena Dr. F. B. Clark, head of the economics department, who last week stated in Dallas that he was the faculty member quoted by the VSA as having been intim idated. Senate members of the commit tee are Fred Harris, George A. Moffett, Dorsey Hardeman, Ben Ramsey, and Walter Tynan. House members are Searcy Bracwell, Ed Hughes, Cecil Storey, Claude Gil mer and Jack Cox. Moffett, Bracewell and Hughes are Aggie-exes. Harris is chairman of the com mittee, Gilmer is vice-chairman. Many Aggie students are expect ed to travel to Austin to be pres ent at the opening night of the hearing. Among these will be members of the Battalion staff, who will report the event. Harris Is Wary Senator Harris, chairman of the committee, told the Dallas News that if the situation is “just a case of school boys sticking their tongues out at the teacher” the legislature ought to stay out of it. He indicated that if, when the investigation starts, the legislature is not directly involved, he would move to stop the investigation. Rollins Appointed Acting Director of Athletics April 1 Dean of Men J. W. “Dough” Rollins was appointed tem porary Director of Athletics by President Gibb Gilchrist, E. L. Angell, vice-president, stated April 1. The Board of Directors, in its last session, was so en gaged with other matters that they had very little time to ♦give to the matter of a Director of Athletics. They did feel that the Athletic Council perhaps had not had sufficient time to canvass the field fully, and they requested that this be done before any final ac tion is taken. Such temporary ap pointment of Dean Rollins was not intended in any way to detract from any of the men who have been considered. President Gilchrist was author ized to make temporary arrange ments, and he asked Rollins to serve as Acting Director of Ath letics in addition to his other du ties. In view of the fact that the Ath letic Council will be reorganized in May with the membership in creased by two and some terms ex piring, it is quite unlikely that the present Council will have time to do more than gather information on other prospects. While the present organization is temporary, it will mave aggressively and make all the plans for the athletic year 1947-48,” Angell, board secretary, stated. Rollins, who captained the Aggie football team in 1916, was gradu ated from A. & M. in 1917. He returned to A. & M. in 1935, serv ing as business manager of ath letics, varsity track coach, and end coach in football. See ROLLINS, Page 4 DEAN OF MEN John W. “Dough” Rollins was appointed Acting Director of Athletics by President Gibb Gilchrist April 1. The Board of Directors, feeling that the Athletic Council did not have sufficient time to canvass the field fully, authorized the President to make the temporary appointment. Veterans Open Cleanup Fund, Get Attorneys The Veteran Students As sociation is establishing a “clean-up fund” and has re tained attorneys, according to announcement by W. S. (Bill) An drews, president. The attorneys are Herman Jones and Homer Thornberry of Austin, who will represent the association at the house-senate investigation in Austin starting tonight. In announcing the fund, An drews stated: “The association has received no financial aid from outsiders any where and we do not contemplate soliciting such aid. “However, the association will need financial support in order to hire a legal advisor and pay for all the expenditures which will be incurred in our fight to give Texas A. & M. College an upright ad ministration. Such expenditures will include telegrams, telephone calls, official correspondence and traveling expenses. “Donations will be accepted only from A. & M. Clubs, the parents of' students, students, (and the faculty if they care to contribute.) “Contributions should be sent to the treasurer, Veteran Students Association, Box 22, College Sta tion. “A receipt will be given after each donation. It is essential that all contributions be endorsed. Upon request names will be withheld from publication. Anonymous con tribution will be turned over to the YMCA and the Red Cross. “The amount left in the fund after the ‘clean-up’ campaign is over can either be put in the asso ciation treasury or else be used for some worthy cause such as offer ing A. & M. scholarships to high school graduates.” Ag Engineers 5 Barn Dance Set April 26 Pull out your old blue jeans and plaid shirts from the dark corners and get them all ready, H. C. “Brick” Bradford, chair man of the dance committee, an nounced. Ready for what? Why, heck, fellers, there’s go ing to be a Barnyard Frolic on April 26. It’s a frolic where you can come in most any kinda gar ment. Yes sir, and it may mean money in your pocket, for a cash prize will be given to the “coun- try’st lookin’ couple”. And plan on bringing May Bell or Daisy June down for the weekend. All of us Agricultural Engi neers, are sponsoring it and by heck we’ll sure be expecting you all, says Bradford. Don’t for- g e t the date, Saturday nite, April 26, in the ole hayloft, Sbisa Hall, or out in The- Grove if weather permits. Music will be furnished by the Aggieland Orchestra. lOAggiesNeeded To Escort 10 Tessies! Miss Mary Anna Grimes, textile and clothing specialist of the Tex as Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, has announced that the Tex tile Class from TSCW which con sists of ten girls will visit the campus on April 18-19. The girls are going to be housed in PG Hall, but are in need of dates for the two nights while on the campus. Any one desiring more infor mation about them is requested to contact Grady Elms in the Student Activities Office. Such data as the name, height, and color of hair is available. LAUNDRY NOTICE! All day students, “A” through “L”, will turn in their laundry at PG Hall on Friday instead of Saturday, W. G. Breazeale, act ing assistant dean of men, an nounced April 1. TSPE Chapter Meets Thursday; to Hear Library Addresses Paul Ballance, college librarian, and J. S. Hudnall, chairman of the library committee of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, will speak to the Brazos County Chapter of the TSPE Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in the CE Lec ture room on the various aspects of the Texas Engineers Library. Ballance will discuss the engi neers library and its value to the librarian. Hudnall, a professional engineer from Tyler and chairman of the board of registration and the library committee of the TSPE, will consider the library from the standpoint of graduate engineers and the board of registration. The public is invited. wiiuft'AiMi.wMM——8aaa> trampling out the vintage.. By Mack T. Nolen All too often the only defense raised for an issue at A&M is Tradition. The question logically follows, “What is Tradition?” Once upon a time a king wqs preparing for his coronation. Call ing before him all the tailors of the kingdom, the king commanded them to weave the sheerest, finest cloth that could be woven for his coronation robes. The tailors had a union meeting after which they all got effectively drunk. When the king’s chamber- lain came the next day to inspect the cloth, two wily weavers hit on a plan to cover their embarrass ment. Holding up empty hands and purring proudly, they asked the chamberlain did he not think this fine cloth they had woven. The chamberlain was a vain man, and not wishing to appear stupid, he agreed that the cloth was as beautiful as any he had ever seen. The same hoodwinking process continued right up to the king, each official praising the cloth so as not to expose his own ignorance. The king thought the cloth strange as he could not see it, but he was as vain as the rest, and ordered his coronation robes to be cut from that material. The tailors cut and sewed and produced a robe of the same non existent cloth. In the cornonation procession the king wore his invisible robes which the multitude praised for their beauty. A child on the curb blurted to his father, “Why the king has no clothes on!” Tradition is a wonderful thing!