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.
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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!