NEWS
IN BRIEF
SOUTHERN “REBS” HOPE
TO BLOCK FEPC
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (^—Re
bellious Soutbern Democrats hoped
to block today one of the civil
rights measures President Truman
wants enacted. The bill would cre
ate a national commission against
job discrimination on grounds of
race, creed or color.
Mr. Truman touched off a polit
ical explosion in the Dixie wing of
his party earlier this week when
he urged Congress to act on a 10-
point civil rights program. Besides
the Fair Employment set-up, it
calls for an anti-lynch law and oth
er measures which always bring
deep-South Democrats to the boil
ing point.
They have denounced Mr. Tru
man, talked of calling a rump con
vention to break away from him
politically, and have discussed
shutting off funds from the south
earmarked for the Democratic par
ty.
NAZI EX-GENERAL
JUMPS TO DEATH
NUERNBERG, Germany, Feb. 5
UP*—Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz, 64-
year-old Wehrmacht veteran, leap
ed to his death today from the top
tier of Nuernberg prison.
He jumped only a short time be
fore he was to go on trial for war
crimes with 13 other German mili
tary leaders before an American
court.
CHARRO DAYS BEGIN IN
RIO GRANDE VALLEY
BROWNSVILLE, Tex.. Feb. 5
Citizens on both sides of the
Rio Grande river began celebration
today of the 11th annual Charro
days fiesta.
MOSCOW BLAMES BRITISH
FOR GANDHI’S DEATH
MOSCOW, Feb. 5 —(JP)— The
Moscow Literary Gazette said yes
terday that a suggestion (made by
a Communist newspaper) that the
British Secret Service was connect
ed with the assassination of Mo
handas K. Gandhi is not without
foundation.
A Tass dispatch from Rome yes
terday quoted the Communist news
paper Unita as saying Gandhi’s
killer “Most probably acted at the
instigation of the British Secret
Service.”
“The British-American Press,”
The Literary Gazette said, “Raised
the cry that the murder of Gandhi
was the meaningless crime of a
fanatic. No. The killing of Gandhi
has meaning. Without doubt it was
advantageous to somebody.”
“His methods of action were not
shared by revolutionary democrats
throughout the world, but Gandhi
was using his authority of late to
prevent internicine war artifically
fomented by British Imnerialism
in India and by (Prime Minister)
Attlee and (British Foreign Secre
tary Ernest) Bevin, those trusty
agents of British Imperialism.”
U. S. ACCUSES ROMANIA
OF DESTROYING OPPOSITION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —(A 5 )—
The United States formally accus
ed the Communist government of
Romania yesterday of intending to
smash ruthlessly “the last vestiges
of democratic opposition” in the
country.
In brief, the United States ac
cused the Romanian government of
having wiped out civil liberties in
the country, of having violated its
new peace treaty and other inter
national commitments, and of hav
ing used “all manner of chicanery
and extreme physical violence” to
break down political resistance.
<168 TEXAS LABOR UNIONS
FAIL TO MAKE REPORTS
AUSTIN, TEX., Feb. 5 —(A 1 )—
The names of 468 Texas labor-un
ions are on their way to the at
torney general because of the un
ions’ failure to file annual reports
with the secretary of state as re
quired by law.
Secretary of State Paul Brown
said he had received 658 reports by
Monday, a one-day extension of the
Feb. 1 deadline which fell on Sun
day.
SOVIET RUSSIA’S PROTESTS
REFUSED BY WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —<A>>—
The first three of Soviet Russia’s
current series of protests against
American military moves abroad
have been dismissed as groundless
by the state department.
But Moscow may have somewhat
better luck with the fourth, re
ceived Tuesday. It charged Ameri
can fliers with ten specific acts of
circling or flying low over Soviet
shipping near Japan last fall. A
department spokesman said the al
leged incidents will be investigated
before a reply is made “eventual
ly."
TRANSPORT COMMANDS JOIN
ED UNDER MAJ. GEN. KUTER
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 —(dPi—
Consolidation of the air transport
command in the naval air transport
service with Maj. Gen. Laurence S.
Kuter as chief was announced yes
terday by Secretary of Defense
Forrestal.
The deputy commander will be
Rear Adm. John P. Whitney.
Kuter is the air force general
whose nomination to head the civil
aeronautics board was blocked by
a senate committee.
The combined transport service
will be called “The Military Air
Transport Service,” and will be
established under the United States
Air Force.
VET INCREASE APRIL 1
IF TRUMAN GIVES 0. K.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —GP)—
Congressional action on a bill
providing increases in veterans
subsistence was completed yester
day by the House. Only President
Truman’s signature is needed to
make it effective April 1.
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST 01 A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 47
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948
Number 106
ARCHIE BROODO
Engineer Award Winner
1). R. HOWELL
Commander, Aggie Band
WILL H. THANHEISER
President, Business Society
J. R. BALLENTINE
Football
FOUR more winners of Who’s Who at A. & M. selected by
the Student Life Committee at the end of the fall semester are pic
tured above. THANHEISER, BROODO, and BALLENTINE graduat
ed at mid-term.
CIT Biologist To
Talk Here Feb. 12
Dr. George W. Beadle, chairman
of the Division of Biology of the
California Institute of Technology,
will address the faculty and grad
uate students Thursday, February
12, at 8 p. m. in the Physics Lec
ture Room.
Doctor Beadle, whose subject will
be “Genes, Master Molecules of
Living Systems,” is a member of
the National Academy of Science
and was Sigma Xi lecturer for
1945. The application of his re
searches is indicated by his mem
bership on the Advisory committee
for Biology and Medicine for
the Atomic Energy Commission.
Gardens Depend
On Proper Timing,
Kiwanis Club Told
80 Senior Students Enroll In
First ‘Great Issues 4 Course
The “Great Issues” course, Administration 405, has an
initial enrollment of 80 seniors, according to S. R. Gammon,
head of the history department, who is chairman of the com
mittee in charge of the course. Dr. Gammon expressed satis
faction over that number, which is about 10 per cent of the
senior class.
However, there are still some
openings for qualified seniors who
wish to enroll in the course. Any
one who is interested should con
tact Dr. Gammon.
Plans have been made to bring
men prominent in various fields to
A. & M. to address the class. They
include A. E. Gibson, president of
the Wellman Engineering Corpora
tion of Cleveland, Ohio, who will
speak March 3rd on the subject,
“Can England and France Recover
their Former Position as World
Powers.”
Also included in the “Great Is
sues” schedule is a debate between
H. R. Knickerbocker and Walter
Duranty on “Can Russia Be Part
of ‘One World’ ” to be given March
8 and an address on March 24 by
Roy E. Dickerson, nationally
known sociologist, on the subject,
“Can the Disintegration of the
American Family be Checked?”
On April 7 Col. Willard Chevalier
who has given commencement ad
dresses here, will be the speaker.
Many other prominent men will
address the class from time to
time as they can be scheduled.
The only text to be used for the
course will be the Sunday editions
of the New York Times. That paper
includes a section summarizing the
news of the week.
“The Palestine Problem and its
Alternatives’” “Russian Imperial
ism via Communism” “Effects of
Population Pressures on Peace,”
“The Taft-Hartley Act and Our
Problem of Labor and Manage
ment,” and “Race, Color and Per
sonality?” are only a few of the
tentative topics which have been
advanced by the committee for dis
cussion during the course.
“Successful gardening depends
upon successful timing,” Fred Bri-
son of the horticulture department,
told the Kiwanis Club at its lunch
eon meeting Tuesday,
“There are three dates you must
remember—that is, if you who
know anything about gardening—
and I’m not telling you anything
about gardening because you would
not pay any attention to what I
might say—but I’m telling you
about three dates for planting to
matoes—and harvesting them,” he
said.
“Remember, plant your first to
matoes about February first or in
the alternative, plant them a few
days later, then on March 16—
you know on March 16 we have our
last big freeze at College Station—
begin to sit back and look forward
to May 15 when the tomatoes will
have ripened.”
The speaker was introduced by
A. C. Magee of the Agricultural
Experiment' Station. He reminded
Kiwanians “gardening relaxes the
body and mind, calms one down and
turning the soil, eases one’s con
science.”
He closed with the proverb, “a
good gardener learns to arch his
back quickly.”
Guests were Harry Stiteler, Ag
gie football coach, and three of his
assistants, Bill Dubose, Barlow Ir
win, and Tugboat Jones, and Bill
Bailey, W. R. Cowley, E. S. Hold-
redge, and L. G. Vela.
Sid Loveless, president, was in
Navasota presenting that club the
traveling gavel. Joe Motheral, vice
president, presided.
‘Brushed Off Like A Gad-Fly,’ Senate
Candidate Clark Says of A&M Directors
Aggie Players Busy Studying
‘Hedda Gabler,’ Next Play
By JOHN W. LAUFENBERG
“When one thinks of Ibsen, one
should think of a man strolling
along a promenade high over a
turbulent sea, trying to decide
whether or not to jump in.” Thus
Dr. S. S. Morgan of the English
Department begins his discussion
on the life, time and works of
Henrick Ibsen, author of the Ag
gie Players’ forthcoming produc
tion, HEDDA GABLER.
Ibsen’s young manhood in the
middle of the nineteenth century,
was not too successful; he flunked
out of medical school and later did
some rather mediocre work as a
newspaper reporter. He next turn
ed to the theatre and began to
make a name for himself as di
rector of the National Theatre of
Sweden. Ibsen then resigned and
started traveling.
While a young radical living in
Rome, Ibsen became a strong
proponent of women’s rights. He
wrote “Pillars of Society” and
“The Doll’s House” in which he
said that there must be an indi
vidual code stronger than any
external code of morals. These
two plays caused a tremendous
howl throughout the Christian
world, and their production was
banned in England and in Ameri
ca.
In answer to his opponents and
in an attempt to show what would
have happened if the chai’acters
had lived by the external code of
society, Ibsen wrote “Ghosts”. This
caused a louder cry—he was called
an enemy of the people; undaunted,
Ibsen wrote “An Enemy of the
People” which contended that free
dom and the whole truth are the
bulwarks of society.
This revolutionized the thinking
world. Iconoclastic beliefs gained a
tremendous foothold, and Ibsen
Clubs spread like wildfire through
out America, England, iahd the
European Continent. Ibsen said he
thought his advocates had gone too
far; but his plays became even
more popular, and every perform
ance was a sell-out.
In the course of his career, Hen
rik Ibsen wooed and won a beauti
ful Sweedish society woman. Their
married life was not happy, and
Ibsen, like many men of his time
found himself a playmate. She was
a headstrong young woman, and
Ibsen left her after three years.
He returned to bis wife and wrote
HEDDA GABLER, in which he de
veloped one of his most forceful
characters. Hedda, a strong-willed
woman with an unholy desire to
mold human destiny, who used
every bit of her intelligence and
every last drop of her sex-appeal
in her lustful greed for power.
George J. Dillavou, director of
The Aggie Players stated that this
is the first time that The Aggie
Players have made such an exten-
TSCW Choir Sings
At Guion Tomorrow
TSCW’s Modern Choir will be
presented on Town Hall tomor
row night at 8, Grady Elms,
assistant director of student ac
tivities, announced today. The
42 girls of the choir will be un
der the direction of William E.
Jones.
Both modern and classical
numbers will be presented on
the program.
Mothers-Dads Club to Meet
The Mothers and Dads Club of
A. & M. Consolidated School will
meet Thursday night, February 5,
at 8 p. m. in the Consolidated gym
nasium.
Social Club Meet
Scheduled Friday
The College Womans Social Club
will meet Friday, February 6 at
3 p. m. in the YMCA, Mrs. M. T.
Harrington, program chairman has
announced.
“The Turn of the Century” will
be the theme of Friday’s meeting,
with costumes of the 1800’s to be
on display. Mr. and Mrs. Berl Er
win will sing selections from that
period, Mrs. Harrington said. They
will be accompanied by Mrs. F. W.
Hensel at the piano. Mrs. G. W.
Schlesselman will act as narra
tor.
The Foods Group, originally
scheduled to meet Friday, will have
their February meeting on Febru
ary 20.
PG, Walton Halls
To Be Opened For
Dates Feb. 13,14
P. G. Hall and Ramps I, J, and
K of Walton Hall will be opened
for students’ dates attending the
Sophomore and St. Valentine Balls,
Benny Zinn, assistant dean of men,
announced today.
Zinn said a charge of $1.25 a day
would be assessed to cover cost
of maid and hostess service and
linen rental.
Students who expect dates for
both nights will be given priority
in making reservations, Allan Mad-
eley of the housing office, added.
Reservations for both nights can
be made at the housing office Mon
day or before noon Tuesday. Res
ervations for a single night can
be made any time after noon Tues
day.
One-Third of World War II
Vets in School or On-Job
One in every three World War
II veterans has taken some form
of education or training under the
GI Bill or Public Law 16 since both
laws went into effect, the Veterans
Administration has announced.
sive study of any play they have
attempted to produce. “In order
to present a creditable perform
ance,” said Dillavou, “each actor
must thoroughly understand and
see the same thing in each scene.
It was for this reason that we spent
two weeks in a study of Ibsen and
his works.” The director added that
every one of the Players was de
termined to make' this production
a mile-stone in the history of the
organization. Dillavou stated that
the final announcement of the cast
was being held back because he
wanted to be certain that each
member of the cast was perfectly
typed for his part.
Dillavou expressed his apprecia
tion for the interest which has been
shown in this production by Aggies,
members of the faculty, and towns
people from Bryan and College
Station.
The Director urged that any
Aggie or member of the com
munity who wanted to take part
in the production of this widely
acclaimed play contact him in his
office in Room 34, Foster Hall,
or attend the Aggie [’layers’
February meeting, on Wednes
day, February 4th.
“We would like for the Aggie
Players to be considered a part
of the community,” concluded Dil
lavou, “and we heartily welcome
new members to the organization.
The Aggie Players, like any club,
constantly needs the addition of
‘new blood’ and the help of any
one interested in any phase of
stage presentations.”
Second Release On Dismissal as Economics
Head Stresses Meeting With Board on June 27
“I was brushed off like a gad-fly when I appeared before the A.&M. Board of Direc
tors on June 26, 1947,” Dr. F. B. Clark, candidate for US senator from Texas, told The
Battalion today.
Clark’s second release concerning the circumstances surrounding his dismissal as ec
onomics department head deals with one of three points made in the letter from Desm
of the College F. C. Bolton advising him of the Board’s action.
— ; — ♦- The three points are: (1) hear-f-
ing before the Board; (2) wide
spread publicity of charges the
administration of the college; and
(3) ability to substantiate charges.
L 0. Tiedt Wins
Four Year, $2,000
Scholarship Award
L. O. Tiedt, 16-year-old farm
boy from LaGrange, Texas, was
awarded a four year, $2000 schol
arship to A.&M. at the Coliseum
in Houston last night. The First
National Bank of Houston made
the award, and E. E. McQuillen,
director of the A.&M. development
fund, and W. L. Penberthy, dean
of men, headed the committee
which chose the scholarship win
ner.
Tiedt was one of the hoys who
won a calf in the calf scramble at
Houston’s Fat Stock Show last
year. All winners entered their
calves in the show this year and
the 10% whose animals received
highest awards were given com
petitive examinations by the A. &
M. development fund committee.
Tiedt won the contest by making
the best score on the examination.
Accompanying McQuillen and
Penberthy and serving on the
award committee was Minor Huff
man, Houston area Boy Scout ex-
ectuive.
A&M’s champion doldrum-busters, as shown in these antique
daguerreotypes, were and are the AS ABAC devotees. One night a
year is allotted by these otherwise serious architecture students to
the release of inhibitions. Saturday night is THE night.
Batten Down the Hatches . . .
ASABAB Prepares to
Its Fury on Populace
Unleash
Again
By JOHN HUDDLESTON
No, it’s not a Hungarian fraternity. A-S-A-B-A-B means
Architectural Society’s Annual Beaux Arts Ball. That’s what
it means to most of the College Station Intelligencia, but to
the president of the college and the B & CU Department it
means hyper-tension, nights of restlessness, and doubt that
there will be any buildings stand-f
ing after February 7, 1948.
Even Sigmund Freud said that
we all have our ups and downs, and
must have outlets for our pent-up
emotions. But no one ever hinted
that there was the ilk of ultra
unrestrained beings dwelling on the
top floor of the Academic building
who plan to swoop down on Brazos
County for a reign of madness the
night of February 7. That’s the
night when the, if you’ll excuse
the expression, “architects” of A.
& M. unleash all the suppressions
they’ve withheld for one year.
Guests, dressed in a general
masquerade motif, will enter Sbisa
Hall that night through an eight
foot papier mache masked head,
walk down a dark alley, and emerge
suddenly into a simulated New Or
leans street scene during Mardi
Gras time while the Prairie View
Ramblers fill the air with music
from a merry-go-round bandstand.
The Revellers will gaze at the wild
animal cage in which a little puppy
will be roaring.
After clearing his mouth of fly
ing confetti, one will begin to look
for his date who was whisked away
by a masked pirate. He will search
through the “real live” park pro
vided (or transplanted) by the
landscape arts department, look
around the ferris wheel, and will
probably find her at the sidewalk
cafe with some costumed Casanova
dresed as a bloodhound.
One architect, when asked what
he was wearing to the affair, cas
ually replied, “nothing.” On the
other hand, one of the department’s
oldest profs, who has allowed the
profession to grow on him, has
stated that for a change he will go
disguised as a human being.
Jack Crook, Art Burch, J. D. F.
Boggs, Harold Jones, Bob Wilson
and Allison Peery are directing
preparations for the ball, but have
overlooked warning the innocent
public about the havoc to be wreck
ed by the uninhibited architects on
“their day.”
However, the board of directors
has prepared for this event, and in
an emergency meeting last night
decided to order 837,903 bai’rels
of Compound Epsilon, a gooey plas
tic which hardens to a protective
film when applied over entire
buildings. “We must protect not
only our college’s high educational
standards,” announced the board,
“but also our college.”
The City of College Station will
quadruple its police component,
State troopers will be alerted for
the night of the seventh, and Bryan
-College Station homeowners will
quiver in their moccasins as they
stay up all night protecting their
homes.
Allison Peery advises everyone
to be on the lookout for a strange
globule of flesh skipping across the
campus with a paint bush in his
hand and a glassy stare in his eye.
Grab him! He is an architect and
can get you a ticket for the ASA
BAB.
HEARING BEFORE THE
BOARD: The board’s statement,
“after hearing Dr. Clark,” must
have been a face-saving device,
Clark said.
“An honest to goodness hearing
was the thing which I was striv
ing for. For some strange reason
the administration has for a num
ber of years resisted anything ap
proximating a bona fide hearing.
If the Board had ever openly pro
vided a hearing, under circum
stances which would have carried
the presumption that results would
have been anything other than that
of solidifying its own notions and
those of the president of the col
lege as an arbitrary dictator of the
conduct of persons under their
jurisdiction, I most certainly would
never ‘given widespread publicity
to charges against the college.’
“My appearance before the Board
on June 26, 1947 could not, under
any stretch of the imagination, be
considered a hearing in its legal
sense. The reasons for this are: (1)
an atmosphere of impatience and
hurry precluded any attempt on my
part to defend myself; (2) no offer
was made for me to defend my
self; and (3) they refrained from
informing me that they had in mind
anything more than a short visit
together.”
The Board proceeding, as Dr.
Clark now remembers, are as
follows:
★
Clark’s Statement
“I was introduced personally by
Mr. (E. L.) Angell (seci’etary) to
each member of the Board. There
upon Mr. Angell withdrew and I
was asked to sit down.
• “The first utterance, as I re
member it was: ‘Dr. Clark, we are
busy men, and we don’t have much
time for such matters as this.’
“In other words I was brushed
off like a gad-fly.
“The member of the Board who
questioned me happened to be the
one member, if any, whom I would
have exnected to defend me. The
very nature of the questions and
my answers seemed to me to be a
valid defense for what I bad done.
“They referred first to the sub
ject of my paper which I read in
Dallas on April 4. It was ‘Discip
linary Action Against Controlling
Agencies of Puplicly Supported
Educational Institutions.’ I don’t
blame them for taking offense at
the title. If, however, they had
taken the time and trouble to dis
cover its contents, they would have
discovered that the paper concern
ed itself with a structural defect in
the administration of our educa
tional institutions.
“I was then questioned about
my meeting with certain students
who were the moving spirit in the
student uprising.
“‘Why did you do that?’ I was
asked.
“ T did it simply because they
came to me for counsel,’ was my
reply. T felt that those students
needed someone in a position of
responsibility to whom they could
talk frankly.’
“‘What did you say to them?’ I
was asked next.
“ T gave them the information
which was contained in the mimeo
graphed sheets which I had pre
pared for the joint committee of
the legislature,’ was my reply.
Copies of that document had al
ready been placed in their hands.
“ ‘In doing that, Dr. Clark, do
you think that you were acting as
you should have done as a member
of the faculty of this college?’
came next.
“ T most certainly do,’ was my
answer. T feel that my duty to
the students comes first.’
“The things which you said were
not, however, conducive to peace
and quiet among the students,” was
implied in their answer.
“I was doing what I could to
help remove the cause of that un
rest so that there could be genuine
peace and quiet among the stu
dents,” was my answer. “It needs
to be remembered that those stu
dents were men, 25 and 30 years
old. I don’t see how I could have
maintained their respect without
telling them the truth—a truth
which was common talk among my
associates. Do you think I should
have lied to them?”
“Having led the discussion up to
the point of making them admit
that any other action on my part
would have amounted to lying to a
group of fine young men whose re-
(See BRUSHED OFF on Page 4)
2 Plots of Land
Are Chosen For
Vets’ Gardens
A meeting will be held Mon
day afternoon at 5 in the Ag
riculture Building to make
plans for veteran garden
plots, Fred Brison, of the hor-
t i c u 11 u r e department, an
nounced today.
The garden program will be
conducted to help veterans with
their vegetable budgets, Brison ad
ded.
Two locations have been selected
for the garden plots. A tract of
land for those in the trailer area
and the south side of college will
be located near the agricultural
farm headquarters, and the other
north of college view for those
who have apartments in that area.
Individual plots will be approxi
mately 30x40, and will be plowed
and harrowed in preparation for
planting. The plots may be re
tained until June 1 or July 20.
There is a possibility that a
contest will be held for the gardens
to be sponsored by a civic organi
zation of the community. Details of
this will be announced later, said
Brison.
The garderf plot program last
year, despite its late start, proved
a success, he said.
A. H. Krezdorn will assist Bri
son with the supervision.
January Graduate
Added to Staff Of
Student Affairs
L. P. L’Hommedieu, mid-term
graduate in mechanical engineer
ing, has been appointed an assist
ant director of student affairs,
according to Dean of Men W. L.
Penberthy.
L’Hommedieu entered A.&M. for
the first time in September, 1933,
but started to work for the Gulf
Oil Company in June 1936. In
February, 1946, he returned to
A.&M. and since that time has
completed his work for a B.S. de
gree in mechanical engineering.
While in A.&M., L’Hommedieu
has served as - a member of the
ASME and the Student Life Com
mittee, secretary of the Student
Council, housemaster, and as an
assistant to Bob Murray, one of
the three present assistant direc
tors of student affairs.
He has also been active in in
tramural athletics.
His new duties will include the
supervision of discipline in Leg-
get, Milner, Mitchell, Law, and
Puryear Halls, and the control of
all school property in these dormi
tories.
College Receives
14 Quarterhorses
At Houston Show
Fourteen quarterhorses were
presented to the College by mem
bers of the American Quarterhorse
Association in a ceremony at the
Houston Fat Stock Show, Mon
day night.
The presentation was made to
President Gibb Gilchrist by Hugh
Bennett, Colorado Springs, Colo
rado, vice-president of the Ameri
can Quarterhorse Association, in
the arena of the Coliseum as a
highlight of the evening show.
Value of the horses ranged from
$1,000 to $15,000 each. Donors of
the horses were Lester Goodson of
Houston, R. A. Brown of Throck
morton, Paul Waggoner of Fort
Worth, J. B. Ferguson of Wharton,
Willie B. Whitehead of Del Rio.
Jess Coy of El Dorado, and Jack
Warren of Hockley.
Others who presented horses to
the College were George North-
ington, Jr., of Egypt, R. L. Under
wood of Wichita Falls, Albert
Mitchell, of Albert, N. M., Matador
Land and Cattle Company of Chan-
ning, Tom Elrod of Odessa, Howell
Smith of Wichita Falls, and Roy
Parks of Midland.