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The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1949 Number 132 Student Service Fund Drive To Begin Today Two European Schools Will Be Chosen to Benefit From Gifts The campus World Student Service Fund Drive began today and will continue throughout this week, announced Drive Chairman Aubrey Sprawls. Funds raised by the drive will be sent through the Regional WSSF Office in Dallas to aid students in two European schools. These schools will be chosen Wednesday evening when-f the campus WSSF Committee re ports to its sponsoring organiza tion, the Student Senate. Every dormitory and Annex stu dent will he contacted by workers on the WSSF Committee. The pur poses and benefits of the WSSF Drive will be explained by these workers and a request will be made for a contribution. The WSSF Committee, a sub-committee of the Student Senate, has set a goal of $3000 or fifty cents from every student. “This isn’t much when you put it in terms of a picture show tic ket and box of pop corn, or a couple of beers,” said committee member Marvin Rice. “When the students know it’s a worthy cause, I think they will contri bute.” Rice also stated that the Com mittee had sent for two 35mm movie films which explain WSSF. These films will be shown as 15 minute shorts at the Guion Hall theater and the Campus Theater. Dormitory Senators are respon- ihble for collections in their dor mitory. Each Senator should choose enough workers from his dormi tory that each worker, after be ing educated about WSSF, would call on about twenty men, Sprawls said. The committee feels that the success of the campaign depends on each student knowing about WSSF and the worker-method was the best way to accomplish this. Committee members were quick to point out the benefits of the campus driven “It will accom plish two very important things” said Sprawls. “First, our money will- give these students mater- hil aid which they need. And second, the news impact upon the countries where our aid goes will be considerable. When Amer ican students spontaneously give to their student’s aid, I think everybody in those countries will know about it. And the Ameri can cause in Western Europe will be advanced.” Several committee members sug gested that our aid directed to a school in Germany and one in Nor way would do the most good. “Just look at today’s newspaper, and you can see why,” said another committee member Bubba Scrim- geour. Posters have been placed in many conspicuous places about the campus. Also doi’mitory workers will distribute folders illustrating and explaining the WSSF. Two A&M students who were in Europe last summer — Don McClure and Charles Kirkham— told a special session of the Stu dent Senate Thursday why they favored the WSSF. “When you are over there, you can see that they need our aid. And those people will sincerely appreciate it,” McClure said. Kirkham told of qnergetic ad vances of Communist propaganda in Western Germany. “They like us and look to the United States as the great bulwark against the Russians,” Kirkham said. “Some thing like this will help German students materially and give the German people reason to believe that our aid is not motivated en tirely by the selfish motive of maintaining Germany as a buffer state.” The drive has been in the plan ning stage for several months. Several American colleges were contacted for information on how they handled their drives. Stan ford University (about as large as A&M) collected nearly $8000. The A&M drive is different from the others in that the success of the drive will depend on the success of personal solicitations, Sprawls concluded. Geology Club Will Hear Houston Man Herschel C. Ferguson, consult ing geologist, will speak before the Geology Club on Tuesday evening, March 1, at 7:30 in Room 140 of the Geology Building. A graduate of LSU, Ferguson has worked for the Houston Oil Company and the Shell Oil Com pany. For the past 14 years he has been a consulting geologist specializing in micropaleontology. The subject of Ferguson’s talk will be “The Consulting Phase of Geology.” He will be accompanied by Jack Colie who is associated with him. After the address, Ferguson will be open for questions from club members or visitors. Vet Vocational Training Aired By Instructors The possibilities of changing the present three year Veterans Voca tional Training Program into four years were discussed at a meeting of the Texas Coordinators for Vet erans Vocational Training, E. V. Walton of the Agricultural Educa tion Department, has announced. Plans were also discussed to per mit veterans, who have already finished their three year program, to enroll for another year if they desire to do so. Of the hundreds of veterans who have finished the three year training program, ap proximately 70 per cent have in dicated a desire to enroll for an other year without government subsistence, Walton said. Since the beginning of the Vet erans Vocational Training Pro gram, veterans program coordina tors have used the Agricultui'e De partment in an advisory capacity. We have tried to give them assist ance in building a sound program for the purpose of training veter ans in the field of agriculture, Walton pointed out. Members who attended the meet ing are Ralph Evans, president of Texas Coordinators for Veterans Vocational Training P r o g r a m; Doyle Stalcupp, coordinator in Johnson County; Alton Johnson, coordinator in Leon County; and A. L. Bently, coordinator in Tar rant County. The result of the meeting will be of great significance in the future of vocational training for veterans in Texas, Walton conclu ded. District Highway Engineers to Meet The District Highway Engineers of the Texas Highway Department will meet in the Civil Engineering Lecture Room March 8 and the Highway Engineering short course will be held in Sbisa Hall March 9 and 10, according to Lucian M. Morgan, assistant director of the Placement Office. Registration for the District Highway Engineers will be held in the C. E. Building from 8 to 10 o’clock on March 8 and for the Highway Engineering short course in Sbisa Lounge from 8 to 10 o’ clock March 9. There will be a $1.50 registration fee for the High way Engineering short course. Rooms may be secured in Col lege accomodations for $1 per night at the time of registration, and meals may be obtained at the Aggieland Inn or the cafeteria of Sbisa Hall, Morgan said. A dinner will be served March 9 at 7 o’clock in Sbisa Hall. Tickets may be secured at the time of registration. Trotter to Speak To Ag Engineers Dr. Ide P. Trotter, director of the Extension Service, will speak to the Agricultural Engineering Society at 7:15 tomorrow evening in the Agricultural Engineering Lecture Room. “Observations of Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering in the Orient” will be Dr. Trotter’s topic. His talk will be illustrated with colored slides and he will tell of some of his experiences in the Orient. The Agricultural Engineering Society extended an invitation to all the Extension Headquarters Staff and the heads of the Agri cultural Departments to attend the meeting. Moore to Attend Dairy Convention Dr. A. B. Moore, of the dairy husbandry department, will attend the Dairy Products Institute of Texas convention in Dallas March 1, 2, and 3, he said Thursday. It is hoped that knowing the reasons Why a product is consid ered bad, fair, or excellent, will enable the producer to improve his product, Moore said. Churchill’s Son Speaks Tonight On Guion Stage The Great Issues class will hear Randolph Churchill, English jour nalist and son of Winston Church ill, in Guion Hall tonight at 8, S. R. Gammon, head of the History Department, said today. The lecture will concern “Europe Today.” It is the second in the series of Great Issues and will be open to all students without ad mission charge, Gammon added. Churchill is expected to sum up the record of the labor govern ment in England, discuss its present trends and probable fu ture role. He will attempt to describe the reaction of the aver age British citizen to the party’s policies, the extent industry is being nationalized, and the pro gress of socialized medicine in England today. Included in his lecture, he will discuss the present chances re maining to private enterprise in England. One important point he is expected to bring out is just exactly to what extent the person al liberties of the British subject have been affected. Churchill has traveled widely. He has had personal interviews with such men as Marshal Tito, Molotov, Franco, and DeValera. A syndicated column, “Europe Today” is written by Churchill and is published throughout the U.S., Great Britain, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway Por tugal, Spain, Australia, Palestine, Iraq, and several of the Latin American countries. Davis & Buchanan Heading New Units Of Reserve Corps College Station has been alloc ated two additional organized re serve corps units, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott, executive officer for the Texas Military District, announced today. The units are the 4200th Engineer Construction Training Battalion and the 4078th Infantry Training Battalion. Captain Albert W. Stockwell, in structor for the Organized Re serve Corps in the College Sta tion area, said that Lt. Col. Spen cer J. Buchanan will command the 4200th and Lt. Col. Joe E. Davis will command the 4078th. Both of ficers are from College Station. Captain Stockwell said that un assigned engineer and infantry of ficers will be included in these two new units and armory training meetings for pay purposes would be initiated in the very near fu ture. AVMA Will Hear Chaddock Tonight Dr. T. T. Chaddock of Fromm Laboratories will speak on canine encephalitis at a special meeting of the Junior AVMA Tuesday night. The meeting will be held in the amphitheater of the Veterinary Hospital promptly at 7:30 p. m. So You Know A&M? Batt’s Missing Cameramen Photo Contest Casualties By C. C. MUNROE Two Battalion photogra p h e r s were reported missing today after going out early last week on an expedition to secure pictures for the “So You Know A&M” contest. Contest manager Frank Cushing reported that it was necessary to “Throw some crummy assignment at the boys (photographers) be cause there have been too many winners so far.” Searching parties are to he forihed tomorrow to look for the missing cameramen if they do not show up by then. Co-Editor Tom Carter, who was contacted late Sunday night in a booth at George’s, assured Cushing that no means would be spared to locate the missing mer. “After all,” Carter commented, “We’ll need the pictures they should have taken.” Contest editors have been busy all weekend tabulating the results of last week’s contest. When it was discovered that every entry submitted was correct a confer ence was called to discuss ways and means to eliminate some of the competition. “We have only one first prize,” Cushing stated, “so we can only have one winner.” One reason advanced to explain the 100% winning streak was the unfortunate accident which last Wednesday prevented Battal i o n readers from enjoying their daily newspaper. The wreck, which threw the week’s news reporting off schedule, forced contest editors to suspend publication of pictures from Wednesday through Friday. This week, however, Cushmg prom ises that at least five and possibly more photographs will be printed. As everyone knows, the two pictures which appeared last week were a sun dial on the lawn of the President’s home and an ornamental urn at the en trance of the Administration Building. One entry brought up a pi’ob- lem that has plagued Cushing since the first entries were turned into the Batt office. It seems that any answer on the blanks which does not agree with the correct answer has to be investigated before it can be de- Anderson Is Appointed To Naval Academy Wally Anderson, son of Col. and Mrs. Frank G. Anderson, has been given an appointment for 1949 to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Notification of the award was received by Col. Anderson, A&M head track coach, from Congress man Olin E. Teague. A 1948 graduate of Consoli dated High School, young An derson lettered in four sports: three in football, two in baseball, and one each in basketball and track. He placed fifth in the state track meet in the sprint relays. In football, Anderson was voted the best left halfback in the district. He played baseball on the American Legion Junior team this past summer. Anderson was voted the most popular boy in the senior class at Consolidated. He was president of the student body there and grad uated fifth in his class. Wally is studying engineering at A&M at present. He has a “B” average in his scholastic work here and is a member of the freshman track team. On the examination which he took to get the Naval Academy ap pointment, he had the second high est rating among all candidates. RESERVES MEET TONIGHT The 305th Composite Squadron will meet tonight at 7:00 in Room 301 Goodwin Hall. Training films will be shown. There will be a discussion of future training plans and prospects. Biggest Ever Planned Queen And Costumes Feted During Annual Cotton Ball By M. N. BROWN The Cotton Ball, sponsored an nually by the Agronomy Society, is one of the oldest social events on the campus. The first Cotton Ball was held in 1932 and a Cotton Pageant was included in the festivities. The Pa geant was presented from the deck of a mock yacht, decorated in white and gold. Past Cotton Ball and Pageants have adopted a general theme, be ing carried out in the decorations and the costumes. Nautical themes were used in 1932 and 1947, the South (old South, that is) was ac centuated last year, and during the war the patriotic theme was popular. Although the theme of this year’s Ball has not been announ ced, it probably will be better than anything planned before, if the trend established in the last two years is any indication. One of the most successful Pa geants was staged in DeWare Field House in 1947. Decoration experts were recruited from Dal las. A realistic reproduction of a Mississippi showboat provided the setting for that celebration. Originally the Cotton Ball and Pageant was held to finance a cotton tour of Europe for three students whose major study inclu ded specialization in cotton and cotton products. In those days the social part of the Ball was merely incidental. Prior to 1939, the King of the Ball was selected from the Ross Volunteers and was known as King Ross. King Ross, inturn, selected the Queen, who was called Queen Cotton. However, in 1939 the queen was selected by seniors, and the practice continued for several years. King Ross was overthrown in 1937, and King Cotton took the throne. King Cotton is now selec ted from members of the Agro nomy Society. Queen Cotton has also been se lected in several different ways. Queen Cotton was selected by King Ross until 1937 when the seniors took over the job. Nowadays, a se lection committee appointed by the Agronomy Society chooses the Queen. TSCW has provided fifteen queens since the first Ball in 1932. For several years the TSCW Stu dent Council nominated the Queen with her acceptance by the Aggies merely a formality. Later the nominee was chosen among the Rosebud Duchesses, and the present method is for the Aggie delegation to choose Her Majesty from a group of duchesses elected from each class. Regardless of the method used to select Their Majesties, this year King and Queen Cotton will reign over the most elaborate Cotton Festival seen in many years. Long live King and Queen Cotton. dared wrong. For example, this week’s sundial is actually in the yard of the President’s home, but there is more than one sundial on the campus. Thus, any sundial similar to the one pictured in the paper has to be counted as correct. This involved much traveling around the campus. The first week of the contest brought in some answers that re quired Cushing to request gasoline mileage for his car. One answer placed the location of one of the wind vanes at Easter- Wood Airport. Nobody in the Bat talion office could say if there was or was not such a vane at Easter- wood so Cushing had to go out and see. He reported there wasn’t but the trip had already been made. Entry blanks will be publish ed in today’s Battalion and throughout the week to enable person’s to turn their entries in to the Battalion office by the weekend deadline. Since only seven pictures have been published, it will still be pos sible for a well-informed person to enter the contest and perhaps come out on the winning end. As the pictures become progressively difficult those persons who now have perfect records will undoubt edly slip up. So, any person who believes he has a good working knowledge of the campus still stands a good chance to walk off with any of the prizes. Milk Prices to Be Cut, Says Official The price of A&M Creamery milk delivered to College owned apartments will be reduced March 1, according to Jim Ridlehuber, Creamery Superintendent. Milk sold at the Creamery counter has been reduced from 23^ a quart to 19 y2^, and milk delivered to apart ments will be reduced from 23%^ to 21 1 /£«‘ a quart. The reduction was made possible since the South Texas Producers Association cut the prize of raw milk, Ridlehuber said. Pre-Meds to Hear Baylor Prof Talk Dr. Paul Wheeler, associate pro fessor of pathology at Baylor Medical School of Houston, will speak to all pre-medical and pre dental students Tuesday night at 7:30, in Room 32, Science Hall. Wheeler will speak on “Pre medical Educational Ti'ends.” As he is on the Interne Appointment Board of Baylor, he is probably one of the few people who see a student’s entire pre-medical and medical school records. For this reason he is qualified to speak on the ills in present pre-medical cur ricula, J. B. Rochelle, Pre-Med Club president said. Refreshments will be served and all pre-medical and pre-dental stu dents are invited to attend, Roch elle added. TSCW Choir Will Sing Here March 5 Featuring the finest of the vocal talent from Texas State College for Women, the 45-voice Modern Choir, direc ted by Dr. William E. Jones, will present a concert at College Station March 5 at 7:30 p. m. Noted for the radio-like informality of its performances, ■ : fthe TSCW choir differs from the 1 tra( litional choral group by stres- Graduates Will Hear Research Head Tonight “Research Methods in Aeronau tics” will be Dr. Hugh L. Dryden’s topic in his lecture to Graduate students tonight at 8 in the Phy sics Lecture Room. Dr. Dryden is director of aero nautical research of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronau tics and is an international author ity in the field of aeronautics, P. B. Pearson, dean of the graduate school, said. Dr. Dryden received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in physics and mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. During the war he guided the development of the radar homing missile “Bat” used by the Navy against the Jap anese. At present he is chairman of the Guided Missiles and Pilot less Aircraft Panel of the Scien tific Advisory Board to the Com manding General, U. S. Air Force. The lecture, which is being spon sored jointly by the Graduate School and the Sigma Xi Club, is of special interest to men studying engineering and physical sciences, but should also be of interest to those in other fields, Pearson said. 1000th Aggie Applies For June Degree Sherwood C. Jones, 25-year-old management engineering student from Dallas, today became the one thousandth senior to apply to the Registrar for a June degree. According to H. L. Heaton, reg istrar, this is the first time that A&M has ever had 1000 graduat ing seniors. He also said that this will probably be the largest grad uating class that the school will have for some time. Jones, who first entered A&M in January, 1942, served 38 months in the 84th Infantry Division. He is a member of the Class of ’45. He graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas. He is married and lives in College View. sing freedom of expression rather than subordinating individuality in the group. A favorite with Texas audiences the TSCW singers give many out- of-town concerts each season and go on an annual spring tour to music centers. They also have giv en programs for leading profes sional conventions over the state. The choir, recently made a three day tour to cities in Louisiana and Arkansas, singing at Mansfield and Shreveport, La., and at El Dorado, Ark. The repertoire of the choir, is chosen to appeal to the varied musical tastes of a general audi ence. It includes compositions from classic and modern music as well as arrangements from musical comedies and light op era. The programs are inter spersed with instrumental and vocal solos and are announced as radio programs. A string trio, composed of a violin, cello and piano, will appear with the Choir playing “Serenade” by Widor and “Russian Dance” by Tschaikowsky. Members of the trio are Miss Winona Perkins, violin ist, from Evansville, Ind.; Miss Margaret Bebb, cellist, Wichita Falls; and Miss Mary Loyce Webb pianist, Seminole. Other instrumental numbers will be two piano solos by Miss Bebb. Vocal soloist for the concert will be Miss Shirley Caradine of Mem phis, Tenn.; Miss Carolyn Griffith, Grand Cane, La.; Miss Delores High, San Antonio; and Miss Alice Millikin, Burkburnett. Miss Millikin is also mistress of ceremonies for the Choir’s pro- grams. Admission to the Guion Hall per formance will be 25^. BOB SMITH, King of Ootton, from Rule, Texas, will be one of the delegates to go to Denton to select the Cotton Queen. Camera Club to Aid Ag Ed Students Now Being Formed Agricultural education students who wish to receive training in photography are invited to join the Camera Club, W. W. Mclllroy, Ag Ed professor, said today. The Camera Club will be formed in conjunction with the Collegiate FFA Chapter, Mclllroy added. Purpose of the training is to enable persons who will go into vocational training work to be able to make their own slides from pictures they take themselves. Instruction will be given in the practical operation of various types of cameras, light meters, proper lighting for taking pictures, and copy work. Membership in the club will be limited to students majoring in agricultural education, Mclllroy said. Those interested in club or ganization are asked to contact H. D. Stearman, secretary of the FFA chaptei’, he said. Class of ’39 Plans Reunion Tuesday A&M College 1939 graduates living in Bryan, College Station and surrounding communities will meet on the campus Tuesday night March 1, according to J. Wayne Stark. Plans for a tenth anniversary reunion will be made at this meet ing, according to Stark, who is local chairman of the arrange ments committee for the reunion. The meeting will be held in Good win hall Room 301, at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday. Dick Todd, new addition to the A&M coaching staff and a mem ber of the 1939 class, will discuss football prospects at the meeting, TEST LIQUOR SUIT SET FOR MARCH 11 DALLAS, Feb. 28 —GP>—A suit to determine whether restrictions on the sale and consumption of liquor in public places apply to private clubs will be heard March 11 in 44th district court here. Truman’s Speech Both Blamed And Praised by Nation’s Press By The Associated Press Many newspapers deplored and condemned President Truman’s use of the term “S.O.B.” although some defended him editorially. The President exploded the epi thet last Tuesday night at a din ner honoring his aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. The Louisville, Ky., Courier- Journal said “It is shocking” to find Mr. Truman “using barracks language in defense of his friend and military aide.” The Louisville Times said “Pres ident Truman used extraordinarily shabby language in defense of the shabby acceptance by Gen. Vaughn of a shabby Argentine decoration. Yet we doubt if the President’s breach of good taste, gross as it was, quite justified the rhetorical freny of the Rev. Carl Mclntire, President of the International Council of Christian Churches, who criticised Mr. Truman.” The Chicago Tribune said “The public use of this phrase by the President of the United States confirms the impression of his lim itations that most people already hold. In deed as in vocabulary he is a Pendergast President.” The Atlanta Journal said “That simple, honest human way in him (Mr. Truman) which has earned him the country’s sympathy and support has now betrayed him into such a lapse as his recent descent into the gutter epithet.” The Dallas Morning News said “President Truman’s three letter words were not fitting for the oc casion or for the office he holds.”