Page Two — THE BATTALION, College Station (Aggieland), Texas, Thursday, April 17, 1947
For the Record ...
To set the record straight:
The night before the Battalion ran an editorial “Unan
swered . . about the Exchange Store, pointing out that no
answer had ever been made as to why that “non-profit’' store
made such a profit last year, W. H. Holzmann gave an an
swer to the state investigating committee. Whether it is
a fully satisfactory answer or not, every man must weigh
for himself. But the statement should not be ignored in try
ing to understand our tangled situation.
Mr. Holzmann quoted Carl Birdwell as learning, shortly
before the ’45-’46 semester, that it would be difficult indeed
to get adequate supplies from wholesalers if the Exchange
Store followed a cut-rate price, as has so often been urged.
Standard prices were therefore set, with expectation of a
moderate profit to be returned via the profit-sharing plan
Because of the enormous increase of enrollment, the actual
profit was about four times what had been computed.
It was admitted that the profit-sharing plan, which the
management had hoped would meet with definite student ap
proval has not succeeded. Few stubs were turned in; that is
why the amount refunded was so small. That amount was
based pro-rata on purchases, and funds not taken by stub-
holders were turned over to other student affairs, as pre
viously announced.
This statement probably won’t make any one love the
Exchange Store, which has been a standard target for gripes.
(As were the PX’s and Ships’ Service Stores in the armed
services.) But it does fill a hole in the record.
Stick With It, .Bud ...
Hundreds of veterans on the campus are losing thous
ands of dollars worth of estate equities and, in some cases,
retirement income, by thoughtlessly allowing their National
Service Life Insurance policies to lapse.
The country’s leading insurance executives heartily en
dorse this government measure, and admit that it cannot
be touched in the matter of having lowest premium rates
—due to the fact that Uncle Sam assumes the administration
and clerical costs.
A veteran has until August 1, 1947 to reinstate his pol
icy without a physical examination, by declaring his health
to be the same as when he was discharged. ’ By paying one
back installment and the premium rate for the current
month, you can reinstate your policy.
Strange Bedfellows ...
Strife, and politics, make strange bedfellows.
Although the Daily Texan has reserved editorial com
ment on the A. & M. situation, the student body of Texas
University appears to be behind efforts of the Aggies to get
our “house” cleaned up. While in Austin last week for the
first of the hearings of the legislative committee, we were
frequently besieged by Texas students. They commonly
expressed their sentiments in this manner:
“Rivalry in football games and sports is all right, and
we may kid you all at A. & M. a lot, but brother, we’re be
hind you in your fight!”
Texas students often make caustic comments on the
sportsmanship of the Aggies and athletic ability of Aggie
football teams, and Aggies are equally vitriolic in their de
nunciation of the “Teasippers”. But when it comes to ques
tions involving the future of higher education in this state,
they both are perfectly willing to slumber in the same ideolog
ical bed.
Last summer, The Battalion published numerous edi
torials supporting Texas students in their fight for academic
freedom. Both student bodies have stood together in de
manding improved salaries scales for their professors. Both,
it seems, want state college administration divorced from the
spoils system of state politics.
It is a tribute to the logic of students of Texas Univer
sity and Texas A. & M. that they do not carry their preju
dices far beyond the sports arena.
Chevalier Maxims ...
Col. Willard Chevalier, Aggie graduate and McGraw
Hill Publishing Co. executive, is now on the campus speaking
to many groups. At the Kiwanis Club luncheon Monday he
left his hearers these statements to ponder:
“The measure of democracy is MY respect for the OTH
ER fellow’s liberty.
“There are two kinds of discipline; self-discipline and
imposed discipline. If you don’t exercise self-discipline then
it will be imposed on you, by outsiders or, even worse, by
some group within.
“We believe in academic freedom and freedom of the
press. But responsibilities go with that freedom. Free en
terprise must also remember that it has obligations.
“Here in America we’ll have to learn the difference be
tween pleasure and happiness. Pleasure can be purchased.
Happiness can not.”
Aggie Muster...
The outburst of dissatisfaction on the campus has allow
ed the annual Aggie Muster to creep up on us. But it will
be held. Monday night, April 21, just as it has been celebrated
since 1908.
Main topic of discussion following the ceremony will un
doubtedly be the “A. & M. situation”; that is only natural,
and as it should be.
However, let’s not allow our personal feelings to mar
the sacredness, the reverence, and the solemnity of the Mus
ter program.
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Researchers
Trying to Use
Earth’s Heat
Possibilities of using the
earth as a source of heat for
households are being investi
gated by the Research Foun
dation, through the Texas Engi
neering Experiment Station here,
it was announced today.
Donald M. Vestal, Jr., 1938 A.
& M. graduate and more recently
Consolidated-Vultee aircraft en
gineer, has been appointed super
visor of the fuelless heat project,
which is sponsored by the Texas
Electric company of Fort Worth.
Vestal said that research into
the feasibility of using the heat
stored in the earth is progressing
on a national scale, and that the
chief purpose of the work is to de
termine the thermal characteristics
of various types of soils at differ
ent depths.
The process of extracting heat
from the earth he explained as a
reversed refrigeration cycle, in
volving a coil buried in the earth,
a compressor and a blower. A re
frigerant fluid in the coil would
carry heat extracted from the earth
above the ground, where cold air
blowing over another coil would
become heated as it entered a
house.
Vestal added that the same equip
ment could be used in the summer
as an air-conditioning system.
Professor Wayne Long and a
number of mechanical engineering
graduate students will assist in
the project by making studies of
sub-surface temperature gradients.
The theory of the heat pump,
or reversed refrigeration cycle, is
an old one, Vestal said, but point
ed out that only in the last few
years has equipment become avail
able which may make it possible to
develop highly-efficient fuelless
heating systems.
Silver Tea to Be
Held by Methodist
Women 9 s Society
The annual Musical Silver Tea,
sponsored by the Woman’s Society
of Christian Service of the A&M
Methodist Church will be held at
the church Sunday, April 20, at
3 p. m.
Mrs. Ralph Steen, general chair
man announced the following pro
gram for the afternoon:
Harp Solos, Miss Cynthia Lancaster
“En Bateau”....Claude Debussy
“Whirlwind” Carlos Salzedo
Reading Miss Betty Jo Cook
“The Guardsman” William
A. Drake
Piano Solos....Mrs. Albert Goodman
Overture from the 28th Eng
lish Cantata” J. S. Bach
(Piano transcription C.
Saint-Saens
“The Singing Fountain”..Wal
ter Niemann
Malaguena from the Spanish
Suite ....“Andalucia”.... Er
nest Lecuona
String Quartette Mrs. Chris H.
Groneman, 1st violin; Mrs.
Earl Vezey, Jr., 2nd violin;
Mrs. Louis Hauer, viola;
Mrs. Tom Leland, cello.
“Opus 18, No. 4” Beethoven
Allegro ma non tanto
Scherze
Minuetto
Allegro
Stephen F. Austin A Capella Choir
Claude Guthrie, Director
“The Creation” Richter
“Gloria Patri” Palestrina
“The Lone Prairie” Wilson
“Swing Low Sweet Chariot”
Arrangement by Nobel
Cain
“The Lord Bless You and Keep
You” Lutkin
THURSDAY, April 17
7:00 p.m.—Tyler Club meeting,
Room 108, Academic building.
7:30 p.m.—Heart of Texas A. &
M. Club, M. E. Shops Lecture
Room.
7:00 p.m.—Amateur Radio Club
meets in E. E. Building.
7:30 p.m.—Heart of Texas Club
meets in M. E. Shop Lecture Room.
7:30 p.m.—Lamar County Club
meets in Academic Building.
FRIDAY, April 18
7:00 p.m.—Chess Club meets in
Vet’s Lounge, Sbisa Hall.
SUNDAY, April 20
3:00 p.m.—Annual Musical Sil-j
ver Tea, A. & M. Methodist Church.
Hollywood Revel-ations
By Harry Revel
Hi’ya Aggies . . . Dancetoriums thruout the nation are complain
ing about the decline in business and many famous bands are losing
their drawing power . . smaller dance combos are much in demand
these days out here in Hollywood, Television is on the upswing
. from a nearby mountain top>
the DON LEE TELEVISION
COMPANY is sending out pro
grams every day .... the rec
ord business, thanks to the juke
box popularity, is still doing big
business with
millions of
discs being'
Harry Revel
be much better
club business thruout the nation
is not as healthy as it used to be,
and in the East, several well known
bistros are in financial straits or
have already folded ....
The theatrical season on Broad
way in Manhattan hasn’t been as
great as had been anticipated al-
tho the old standbys such as
OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL, AN
NIE GET YOUR GUN are still
packing ’em in ... . and there
you have show business conditions
as they are today.
It seems only yesterday that
VIRGINIA WEIDLER was a lit
tle gawky kid prancing thru role
after role in many successful
movies. Last week she upped
and got married .... my, how
tempus fugit.
ALICE FAYE seems to be veer-
sold annually ing away from her cinematic car-
. . . the major j eer . . . she keeps turning down
studios produc-' all offers that come her way . . .
ing pictures guess she prefers the quiet happy
have complet-! martial life she lives with hubby,
ed their reen- PHIL HARRIS, to the turbulent
trench- movie one . . . there are, believe
m e n t period it or not, some very happy couples
and less films out here. . . . GINGER ROGERS
will be made and JACK BRIGGS .... BILL
POWELL and his MOUSIE . . . .
MARJORIE REYNOLDS and her
hubby. The JEAN HERSHOLTS
.... THE JACK HALEYS . . .
BURNS AND ALLEN .... the
JACK BENNYS ... the EDDIE
CANTORS, to name a few. Movie
careers are hectic ones at all times
calls for lots of stamina and
is a constant strain on the nerves
. . . emotions run rampant . . .
temperaments run riot . . and after
working hard year after year . . .
what have they got for their ef
forts? .... a lousy fortune . . .
With this parting thought, your
Hollywood snoopist bids y’all adieu
till next edition.
this year, but
the quality will
the night
means to cover up some deep-seat
ed cause for complaint.
I heartily agree with Mr. New
ton that the employment of a col
lege president is not an issue sub
ject to student advisement. How
ever, when conditions at the col
lege, under the leadership of such
a president, become such that the
parents of sons attending said col
lege find that their sons are not
receiving the education their par
ents are paying for and have a
right to expect, then I consider it
high time a thorough investigation
should be made to uncover the real
reasons and not be shunted aside
by the smoke screen, of hazing.
Furthermore, supposing hazing
were the chief cause of the trouble,
why pick on A.&M. when, if there
is a college in the country which
does not have some degree of haz
ing (not excluding the Military and
Naval Academies) then I wish Mr.
Newton would name it.
As to the effect hazing has had
on freshmen, we here at Eagle
Pass have a pretty good idea. For
instance, out of a total of seven
boys, including my son, who en
tered A. & M. from Eagle Pass in
1945, not a single one left college
on account of hazing, all having
finished their freshman year, yet
only two of the seven are still
there.
This is not just a fight between
the students and the administration
of the college, but is a matter in
which the parents are greatly in
terested.
Let’s quit trying to confuse the
public by throwing in their faces
that hazing is the main source of
the trouble.
Sincerely yours,
W. M. STAFFORD, ’01.
Martha Bonnen to Be
Cotton Ball Duchess
Miss Martha Bonnen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bonnen of
College Station, has been chosen
duchess to represent the AIChE
student chapter in the Cotton Pa
geant to be held Friday night, ac
cording to committee chairman
Bob Huston. Miss Bonnen will be
escorted by W. S. Dixon.
Cathy Wilson to Represent
Bryan-College C. of C.
Cathy Wilson, danghter of Mr. &
Mrs. D. L. Wilson of Bryan, will
represent the Bryan and College
Station Chamber of Commerce at
the Cotton Ball.
Miss Wilson is a former student
of TSCW where she majored in
journalism. She attended A. & M.
last summer and was on the staff
of The Battalion.
AID TO GREECE
Dear Editor:
This letter has a double purpose,
to answer a correspondent in your
issue of March 1, and to compliment
you for your editorial page of an
earlier issue of the Batt.
Your correspondent in the April
1 issue took R. E. Scruggs to task
for raising questions about Presi
dent Truman’s proposed aid to
Greece and Turkey. Rather he as
sumed that everything has been
said on the subject, and without
offering evidence for his position,
he started name-calling. The names
were not very pleasant either—a
Communist and an infant. I submit
that there is much more to be said
on this matter. It would be more
helpful if the correspondent gave
us some facts which might enable
us to see through this major shift
in our foreign policy.
Most Americans are not sure
just what is involved in this move.
We need a lot of light on the sub
ject. The proposed aid to countries
at Russia’s back door, including
some fifty per cent military aid,
doesn’t look right, however. It
bypasses the organization which
surely offers the best hope of peace
in our time, the U. N. O. President
Truman’s reason for not turning
the problem over to the U. N. O.,
as was done in an earlier crisis
like getting the Russians out of
Iran, or in a more recent crisis
like the Palestine problem, sounds
like a cover up of the real motives.
What is worse, we read reports in
the press that the real issue is
oil, not aid for a down-and-out
nation. To the extent that these
reports are true, our country is
therefore launching a policy of
expansion under the pretense of
the protection of weaker nations.
Finally, we hear from observers
of the Washington scene, like Wal
ter Lippman and Thomas L. Stokes,
that Congress itself is confused
about the meaning and motives be
hind the aid to Greece.
The point is that the problem
needs considerably more airing, in
such discussions as Mr. Scruggs
started in his letter.
My second purpose in this letter
is to congratulate you upon your
editorials and editorializing let
ters in the Battalion for Thursday,
March 27. The piece on “Seven
Blind Spots” for research people
to work on, W. B. Stone’s letter
advocating a means of cultivating
in the college student an informed,
intelligent interest in public af
fairs, and Scruggs’s letter on the
Greek situation are welcome signs
of a healthy attitude on the part
of the A. & M. students. Naturally
the column of A. D. Bruce, Jr. on
the need of higher salaries for
teachers was easy for the faculty
to take, particularly as it said the
right things well. In fact, that
article was pure lagniappe, (some
thing added for good measure).
Give us more of such editorial
pages.
Sincerely yours,
J. Q. HAYS
Department of English
★
SCRUGGS REPLIES
Dear Editor:
I have just read Mr. Beychok’s
letter to the editor in which he
very thoroughly discussed my ear
lier letter, “War Bosh!” I wish
at this time to compliment Mr.
Beychok on his analysis of the
question. Although I cannot agree
with his conclusions, his letter does
represent considerable thought on
the situation which is of vital in
terest to every American at the
present time. None can say what
may take place in the future; we
are able only to theorize and base
our conclusions on the knowledge
we have at our avail, on our faith,
and on our variously acquired be
liefs. I want the answers just as
well as you do, Mr. Beychok, and
these are the best obtained through
an exchange of opinions and infor
mation which, insofar as our for
eign policy is concerned, my letter
has encouraged. I might add, in
passing, that I have received more
favorable comment on my letter
than attacks against it although
this of course could not be an ac
curate index of even campus sen
timent.
You have condemned me, Mr.
Beychok, as an isolationist for
stating that “the future of the
U. S. lies within itself.” If it is
the policy of true isolationism to
respect the needs and rights and
privileges of other nations to an
equal extent as we believe in those
of our own nation, then I am cer
tainly an' isolationist. And if I
must be labeled a “Communist”
by refusing to begrudge Russia
her economic interests in her
sphere of economic influence, then
a Communist I must be!
Very sincerely,
R. E. SCRUGGS, ’47
★
HAZING
(The following letter was sent
to the San Antonio Evening News
by W. M. Stafford, ’01, Eagle Pass,
a copy of which was forwarded to
The Batt for publication).
Dear Sir:
I have' reference to an article
published in your paper, April
11th, reporting a statement made
by Mr. John W. Newton, a direc
tor of A.&M. College. This has to
do with a matter of great interest
to a large number of people in this
community and not knowing Mr.
Newton’s address, I respectfully
beg permission to answer him thru
the medium of your paper.
Mr. Newton seems to stress haz
ing as the chief source of all the
recent trouble at A.&M. College.
This has become extremely tire
some to all of us who have been
students at A.&M. College and is
not the chief source of dissension
and should not be continually
thrown into the faces of the public.
If hazing were the chief source
of the trouble I feel sure the vet
erans would not be complaining, as
they are not, generally, members
of the corps, thus not subject to
the hazing, and everybody knows
this; therefore, the only conclus-
one can draw from statements
continually made by the President
and Directors of A.&M., can only
mean that they are using this
Amateur Radio Club to Meet
The Amateur Radio Club will
meet this evening at 7 p.m. in the
Electrical Engineering Lecture
Room, according to Robert H. Rud-
asill, president. All new and old
members are invited to attend.
FLOWERS for the
Cotton
Ball
Our agent in your dormitory will call on you
Day students, drop by the green house.
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