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( Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggielaud), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1949 Number 134 29 Students Elected To Who’s Who At A&M Senate To Decide Use Of WSSF Fund The Student Senate will choose two European schools to send the funds raised by the current campus World Student Fund Drive according to Charles Kirkham, president of the Student Senate. The decision will be made during the regular March session of the Senate to be held in the YMCA Chapel at 7:30 tonight. 4 Aubrey Sprawls, chairman of the WSSP Committee, has an nounced that he will propose to the Senate a motion to send the money raised by the drive to a school in Germany and a school in Norway. “Both countries need our mater ial aid and the reassurance of American support. This is espec ially true during these days of strong communist pressures on those countries,” Sprawls said. Senators will report the success of the drive in their various dormi tories. Two committee chairmen will present reports to the meeting, Kirkham said. George Edwards, chairman of the special traffic committee will report to the Senate the success of the traffic committee’s recom mendations to the college made at the last Senate meeting. A similar report will be made by Fred Hambright, chairman of the special Senate committee, to study possible governing plans for the Student Memorial Center. His re port submitted at the February session of the Senate recommend- rd a combined student, faculty and former student council to govern the new Memorial Building. This year’s Senior Ring Dance will come in for some discussion when dormitory Senators report opinions on the Ring Dance ex pressed by seniors in their dor- kmitoifies, Kirkham said. IpFA member of the Ring Dance Committee will be present to hear these suggestions,” Roy Blanton, chairman of the Ring Dance Com mittee said. “We feel that the sen ators have received some good suggestions, and we’d like to know what they are.” A photographer for Aggieland 1949 will be present to take pic tures of the Senate when every one comes in coats and ties, Kirk ham said. Fishman to Be Guest Speaker At Hillel Meet Morris Fishman, recent supervisor of the Joint Dis tribution Committee in Ger many will be the guest speak er of the Hillel Foundation to night at 7:15 in the YMCA Cabinet Room, Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus, sponsor of the club, has announced. Fishman was responsible for Joint Distribution Committee acti vities in the Kassel area and later in Regensburg. He also visited Austria, Italy, and other sections of Europe in the interest of re habilitation and resettlement of Jewish survivors in Europe. Joint Distribution Committee is the major American agency aiding Jewish displaced persons in Ger many and other distressed Jews abroad. The JDC funds are de rived from the campaign of the United Jewish Appeal, Mrs. Tau benhaus said. Fishman is a graduate from Springfield College and received his rabbinical degree at the Jew ish Technological Seminary. Fishman will present some of the many problems of European relief and rehabilitation, Mrs. Tau benhaus added. The meeting’ will be open to the public and is in tended solely as an educational program. Who’s Who at A&M 1 'm I !I Up EARL ROSE TRUMAN MARTIN CHUCK CABANISS ’49 Cotton Tour Examination Will Be Held Thursday The second examination for the 1949 cotton tour will be held Thursday, March 10, at 7 p. m. reported J. S. Mogford, agronomy professor. The cotton tour is an annual event sponsored by the Agronomy Society. Students making the trip are selected by a series of exami nations on cotton production, dis eases, insects, breeding soil fer tility, grading and stapling, har vestings, and the ginning of cotton, Mogford said. The trip, expenses paid, is con ducted through the U. S. or some foreign country. Three students make the trip when the group goes abroad, but when confined to North America, four are selected. Dr. L. G. Jones of the Agronomy Department led the 1948 group which visited sections of the U.S. and Canada, Mogford stated. The tour is designed to encour age students to study various cot ton courses and also to show in greater detail all of the operations taking place in production, market ing, manufacturing, and research. Mogford reported that the trip is financed through proceeds from the Cotton Ball. Trotter to Speak At Science Club Meeting Tonight The meeting of the Academy of Science Club at 7 tonight in Room 10, Science Hall, will feature a round-table discussion lead by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, director of the Extension Service, on 1948 obser vations in the Orient, Dr. Charles LaMotte, club sponsor, said today. Dr. Trotter left the U. S. last April 1 on a world trip, stopping in Japan, China, India, Pakistan, and Greece. He returned on Aug ust 5. Students of the college who have visited or spent some time in these countries will find this discussion especially informative, LaMotte said. Great Issues Class to Hear Paulo Treves Dr. Paulo Treves, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and vice-chairman of its Foreign Relations com mittee, will speak here at 11 a. m. Thursday in Room 301 of the Electrical Engineering Building. Treves’ speech, one of the Great Issues series, will be on “Italy’s Foreign Policy Since Liberation,” Dr. S. R. Gammon, head of the History Department, announced. From 1926 to 1938, Treves was active in the struggle against Ita lian Fascism, and was exiled in 1938. At the outbreak of the war he was appointed chief Italian com mentator and deputy program or ganizer of the Italian broadcasts from London. Dr. Treves returned to Italy in 1945 and participated in the 1946 elections, receiving his pre sent position in the House of Deputies. He is also a member of the executive of the Indepen dent Socialist Party. “Dr. Treves will speak to the Great Issues Class on issues which he knows first hand,” Dr. Gam mon said. “His long active role in Italian politics should enable him to deliver an interesting and authorative talk.” About 50 seats in the rear of the room will be available for- interested persons not members of the Great Issues Class, Gammon added. Who’s Who at A&M :<y. - gffigggjj : ROY BLANTON Voting Results On Senior Ring Dance Given by Blanton The votes of seniors concerning the Ring Dance have been tabu lated, Roy Blanton, Ring Dance plans committee chairman, announ ced today. The results are as fol lows: Yes . 779 No . 102 Two Dances . 372 1) Corps—Non-Corps .. .. 306 2) Alphabetical . 66 One Dance . 72 Friday and Saturday Dances 276 January Dance ... 84 Balloting was not considered conclusive since only 881 seniors voted, Blanton stated. The Ring Committee will meet Thursday at 5 to decide on final plans after they hear any proposals offered at the Student Senate meeting to night, he added. FFA to Present News Roundup The Collegiate Future Farmers of America chapter will present its regular bi-monthly FFA news roundup at 6 a. m. Friday over the Texas Quality Network, Hal Clark, program chairman, said yesterday. The program will be heard over the regular Texas Farm and Home Program. FFA projects at Weatherford, Cameron, and Ennis will be dis cussed, Clark said. KENNETH BOND Highway Class Planned Here For Next Week The district engineers of the Texas Highway Depart ment will meet on the campus next Tuesday and the high way engineering short course will be held here Wednesday and Thursday March 9 - 10, Fred J. Benson, civil engi neering professor, announced. The Civil Engineering Depart ment is sponsoring the short course. Registration for the dis trict highway engineers meeting will be in the Civil Engineering Building from 8 to 10 a. m. on Tuesday, March 8, Benson said. Registration for the highway en gineering short course will be in Sbisa Lounge, from 8 to 10:30 a. m. on March 9. Engineers attend ing will be required to pay a reg istration fee of $1.50. Wednesday evening at 7 there will be a dinner in Sbisa Hall. Tickets will be sold for $2 each. Benson said that the attendance is expected to be about 300. Approximately 400 engin e e r s are expected to attend the short course, Benson concluded. Aggie Debaters Will Contest West Pointers A telegram has been re ceived from Cadet Harry Griffith of the United States Military Academy asking A &M to meet the West Point ers in a debate on the A&M campus on March 19, accord ing to H. E. Hierth, acting di rector of forensics. The Aggie Discussion and De bate Club has replied by inviting the cadets to be their guests. Un doubtedly the West Pointers will be on a tour at that time, Hierth said. He continued that West Point rates high in debate, - and they should be interesting and colorful opponents. The federal aid question is to be used and A&M is to have the neg ative side of the debate. Two A&M debate teams con sisting of Jimmy Stevens and James Farmer, and A. J. Shepherd and John Shortal participated in the Piney Woods Forensic Tour nament at Nacogdoches last week end, Hierth reported. During the first round the two Aggie teams were rated as “good” and “excel lent.” Both teams also survived the second round in the elimination contest. The Aggie debate team consist ing of Jimmy Stephens and James Farmer survived the final round and advanced into the semi-finals, but were then defeated by Baylor. Student Life Committee Picks 16 Corps, 13 Non-Corps Men Twenty-nine outstanding students were elected to Who’s Who yesterday by the Stu dent Life Committee. The men were elected on the basis of scholastics, popularity, lead ership, and extracurricular activities- In alphabetical order, they are Doyle Avant, sergeant major of the Corps and presi dent of the Junior Class; Dick Baugh, commanding officer of the Composite Regiment; E. G. Bilderback, president of the A&M Anniversary- Stamp Proposed A postage stamp commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of A&M may be issued soon, according to Jack Happy, junior business student and varsity baseball manager. The idea of an anniversary stamp first occurred to Happy when he and a local post-4 office employe were discussing Aggie Players To Meet Thursday The Aggie Players will meet Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the As sembly Hall, George J. Dillavou, director, announced today. Rehearsals for “The Play’s the Thing,” the Players’ current pro duction, are now in progress. The cast for the play has not been announced. “The Play’s the Thing” will be the first Aggie Players production to be presented in Guion Hall, Dillavou said. “Anyone interested in working back-stage on the productions should be present at the meeting,” Dillavou said. were stamp collection. Upon recalling that the 75th an niversary is near (1951), Happy decided that he would see what he could do about promoting the issue of a commemorative stamp. At the suggestion of W. G. “Breezy” Breazeale, assistant di rector of Student Affairs, Happy In reply to a query, Representa tive ‘Olin Teague sent the follow ing telegram this morning: Washington, Dec. 2 Kenneth Z. Bond, Editor The Battalion Newspaper, A and M College of Texas. H. R. 3066 introduced by Con gressman Teague February 28 reads as follows: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Postmaster General is authorized and directed to issue, September 17, 1951, a special pos tage stamp, of such design as he shall prescribe, in commemoration of the : Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. A land-grant college.” Congressman Olin E. Teague referred his idea to Henderson Shuffler, director of information, and also wrote a letter to Congres- man Olin Teague. As a result of Teague’s sugges tion, a letter was written present ing the idea to the Postmaster General. Happy also took the suggestion to the presidents of some of the former student associations who were attending a banquet on the campus and all of them promised their utmost cooperation. A joint resolution was then introduced into the legislature by Representative Herman Yezak proposing the approval of the stamp. J. B. “Dick” Hervey, secretary and treasurer of the Former Stu dents Association, went with Hap py to see Colonel Bunds Jackson of Hillsboro, president of the Na tional Postmaster’s Association. Colonel Jackson promised his as sistance and suggested writing the Texas senators and congressmen. In the meantime, Colonel Jackson while in Washington on business, presented the matter to other of ficials there. The latest development of the story is a telegram from Teague stating that the Texas delegation in Washington has introduced a joint House-Senate resolution for the approval of the issue. Blinn Defeats Laredo In Loser Bracket Blinn Junior College won the first game in the play-offs in the consolation bracket of the Junior College cage tour nament in DeWare Field- house. Blinn’s Bucaneers outlast ed the representatives of Laredo Junior College, 60-45. Laredo kept the game close until two starters, Billy Bob (Stewart and R. G. Gliss- ing fouled out in the last quarter. Laredo used a fast break type of offense that gave the Buccan eers trouble at stages in the game. Blinn jumped to an early lead in the first part of the game on the shooting of Thomas Hoyer and Moon McMillan who each had seven points for the Bren- ham team. Marvin Bosse open ed the scoring when he put Blinn ahead with a free throw at the end of a minute of play. Towards the end of the first half the Bucaneers of Blinn pulled away from a 21-21 tie to gain a 28-22 advantage at the intermission. Bil ly Bob Stewart of the Rio Grande team was tied for scoring honors at the half with seven points. Blinn will meet the Winer of the Paris-Frank Phillips game at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. BONN Eg Ft Pf TP Hoyer, f 2 115 Lovett, f 5 1 3 11 Jecmenek, f 0 3 4 3 Bosse, c 4 4 5 12 McMillan, g 8 3 0 19 Jecmenek, g 2 2 3 6 Totals 24 15 17 63 LAREDO Fg Ft Pf TP Stewart, f 3 15 7 Albebis, f 10 0 2 Paredis, f 2 5 3 9 Bartoni, f 0 10 1 Frank, c 2 125 Richter, c 0 0 2 0 Gissing, c 3 15 7 Herrington, g 12 5 4 Leyendecker, g 0 0 2 0 Salinas, g 4 0 2 8 Totals 16 11 26 43 “T” Association; Roy Blanton, so cial secretary of the Senior Class; Kenneth Bond, Editor of The Bat talion; Charles Cabaniss, sports editor of the Aggieland 1949; Ted Cope land, commanding officer of the Air Force Group; Ralph Daniels, commanding officer of A Athletic Company; Guy B. Daniels, Town Hall manager; J. Fred Davis, Com manding Officer of the Artillery Regiment and President of the Senior Court; Dave T. Gentry, In fantry Battalion commanding offi cer; Art Harndon, Olympic track winner; R. B. Harwood, Editor of the Texas A&M Engineer; Ray Holbrook, track participation; Don Jarvis, Vice-president of the Senior Class; Don Kaspar, President of the Senior Class; Truman Martin, co-Editor of Aggieland 1949; Bob McClure, Corps Commander; Harold Oliver, president of Tau Beta Pi; Jack Qiiirey, Command ing Officer of B Athletic Com pany; Harvey Risien, Student Sen ator; J. B. Rochelle, Commanding Officer of the Ross Volunteers; Earl Rose, co-Editor of Aggieland 1949; Gene Schrickle, captain of the ' basketball team; Odell Stautzen- burger, Tri-Captain of the foot ball team; Jimmy Stephens, head yell leader; Bob Weynand, Student Senator; Gerald York, Editor of the Agriculturist. Initial selections for the award were made by two groups, the Corps members of the committee and the non-Corps members. These two groups met separately and listed all possible candidates. The activities of each of these men were checked to determine if he was eligible. The grade point ratio of these men also was checked. Final lists from the two groups were submitted to the Student Life Committee for approval or disapproval. Each name was con sidered individually and members voted: For, Against, or Preferred. After the first ballot a second vote was taken on those that had received less than half of the votes in favor. This vote was either “for” or “against.” Those not re ceiving a majority were deleted. After this ballot, 29 names re mained and the Committee voted to accept the remaining men as Who’s Who. Members of the Committee are Dean W. L. Penberthy, M. L. Cash- ion, Ray Perryman, Bill Carmi chael, Dan Russell, Ray Holbrook, Ted Copeland, Don Kaspar, Char lie Howard, Tom Carter, Kenneth Bond, Robert Ransom, Doyle Avant, Bob McClure, Charles Cab aniss, Jack Quirey, C. G. White, S. A. Rowe, Dr. R. W. Steen, Dr. J. C. Miller, and Dr. G. W. Schles- selman. Aggieland Then and Now 1913 Board Cans 466 Cadets For Hazing Thus Starting Student Revolt Of ’13 Hedgecocks To Address Seniors E. A. Hedgecock will speak to the Aggie Social Customs and Courtesies Group on “Social Cor respondence” tonight at 7:15 in the Chemistry Lecture Room, accord ing to J. Fred Davis, chairman of the program. This lecture tonight will be the last in Phase I, Davis said, and Phase II will start Monday with the instruction being given to low er classmen by the Cadet seniors. By CHUCK MAISEL A&M just wouldn’t be A&M if everyone wasn’t worried about it going to pot. Never has a class gone through the school that did n’t think their years saw the school sink to its lowest possible level. The junior class, in the 1913 Longhorn, felt the same way. “Everything has gone wrong with the class and the school,” they said. In particular, they were wor rying about the student revolt which had just taken place. On January 28, 1913, the faculty dismissed 27 students for haz ing. These men were rather high in student circles, therefore, the lower three classes presented a petition for the reinstatement of the wrong-doers. The Board refused to consider the petition, so the students came back with a demand for the im mediate reinstatement of the 27 or the lower three classes would stop going to classes. The Board met and the minutes of their meeting states that 27 students were dismissed for haz ing and 466 for insubordination. The juniors, sophomores, and freshmen packed their bags. Be fore leaving, they went to the drill field and held what they felt was their final review. There were many tears as no one thought he would ever return. However the Board allowed students signing a statement that they would abide by “constituted authority” (sound familiar?) to re-enroll. After two weeks, all but 126 were permit ted to return. That spring, the Southwest Con ference baseball championship was slated to go to the Aggies. Be cause of the strike, most of the star players were not in school and the team lost more games than they won. The following fall gave the same story. The football team had a disappointing season because of absent players. Athletic relations were still broken with Texas Uni versity, so there was no Turkey Day game with Varsity that year. Another gripe the juniors had that year concerned an amend ment to the state constitution then proposed. The measure would combine A&M with the state university and move most of the agricultural and engineer ing departments to Austin. Need less to say, this idea didn’t strike the Aggies as being so good. A yearly event that caused many memories in those days was the annual hike taken by the cadet corps to the Brazos River. They would make the hike one day, camp there for the remainder of the week, and then return. This jaunt to the river was looked up on with much disfavor by the freshmen because of the blanket tossings, belt lashings, and gen eral treatment they received dur ing its course. During the camp t the corps was formed into two forces and proceeded to fight a sham “Battle of the Brazos.” The seniors of the Class of ’13 have always been accused of having to burn down the Main Building to get out of school. That class had some rather illus trious members. For instance, there was a certain Tyree Bell who had been captain of the ’12 football team. The Longhorn terms him as being the campus champ “hunter for dear.” We have another term for that now. The fall of ’13 saw the resigna tion of President R. T. Milner. A new president, W. B Bizzell, her alded the beginning of a new era at A&M in which she was to double in size and enrollment and gain national recognition for the first time. Two Dances Will Be Given by RVs A formal dance and a western style dance are being planned by Ross Volunteers for Friday and Saturday night, March 11 and 12, according to J. B. Rochelle, com mander of the organization. Rochelle stated that all associate members may attend the dance and that they will not have to wear the RV uniform unless they de sire. The formal dance Friday night will be preceded by a banquet in Sbisa Hall, Rochelle said, and ten tative plans are to hold the west ern dance Saturday night at the Bryan Country Club. Rochelle asked that all associate members who are planning to at tend the dance, to contact one of the Company oficers. Bastrop-Lee Club To Meet Tonight A social chairman will be elected during the meeting of the Bastrop Lee County Club at 7:30 p. m. to night in tho Annex Chemistry lec ture room, Chester Payton, club president, said Tuesday. Campus members will meet at the YMCA at 7 p. m. Plans for the activities of the club for the re mainder of the semester will be made, Payton said. March 11 Life To Carry A&M Pics Pictures of the A&M Military Ball will not be in the March 4 issue of Life Magazine according to Henderson Shuffler, director of information and publications of the A&M College System. The Dallas office has informed him that, acording to a telegram from the publication office, the pictures will be carried in the Fri day, March 11 issue. Further confirmation is expected from the Circulation Department of the magazine, Shuffler said. Who’s Who at A&M TED COPELAND