The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48 ~~ ^ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949 Number 136
Architectural
Survey Planned
By 25 Seniors
Twenty-five senior design archi
tectural students will make an in
spection tour of the north central
and northeastern parts of the Uni
ted States Professor Bill Caudill
said today. The group will leave
College Station April 18 and re
turn May 7.
The 25 students and Harry S.
Ransom, faculty member in charge
have two objectives. They wish to
experience first hand the architec
ture of the area and to meet its
architects and second, to record
this acquaintance on film, sketch
pad and notebook, Ransom said.
Visits will be made to Little
Rock, St. Louis, Chicago, Niagra
Falls, Boston, New York, Philadel
phia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and
surrounding areas.
Students making the trip include
David M. Seligman, Edna; Charles
R. Russell, Tyler; Sam M. Marshal
Alexandria, La.; Harry J. Matu-
sik, West; Tad Felger, New Or-'
leans; Martin L. Andrews .William
Enochs, Cecil M. Boatwright, Rob
ert L. Palmer, all of Dallas,
Kenneth J. Marak, Cameron;
Clayton Shiver, Amarillo; George
S. Halfin, Port Arthur; Jean E.
Donaho, San Angelo; James D.
Tittle, Abilene; Ray A. Morse, Jr.,
Paris; Edwin F. Redondo, San An
tonio; Hubert T. Watson, Jr., Fer
ris; John 0. Chenault, College Sta
tion; Harry W. Gooding, El Paso;
Gene R. Summers, Bryan; Pat Y.
Spillman, Lancaster; Mr. and Mrs.
Jack V. Smith, Houston and Mrs.
Ransom, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Two Ring Dances Planned;
Choice Of Nights Allowed
By TOM CARTER
‘College Speaks’
Offers Tips On
Writing Technique
Tips on writing will be offered
A&M students and radio listeners
in the Bryan-College area at 4:45
p. m. today when the Journalism
Department takes the regular “Col
lege Speaks” program over Sta
tion WTAW, D. D. Burchard, jour
nalism head, announced Thursday.
Burchard and Prof. Otis Miller,
also of the Journalism Department
will give a dialogue on writing-
techniques. We will discuss the
value of writing knowledge to
technical students, and will offer
several suggestions for improving
writing, Burchard said.
The College Speaks series is
presented each afternoon at 4:45
except Saturday and Sunday over
WTAW. The following program
schedule has been issued.
March 7 “Biological Science and
Human Life Span,” S. 0. Brown.
March 8 “The Use of Infra Red
in Chemical Work,” A. 0. Frenzel.
March 9 “Man’s Number Work
I”, R. V. McGee.
March 10 “Some Historical High
Lights in Spectroscopy,” R. J.
Carls.
March 11 “The Editor Speaks,”
The Battalion Staff.
Cattleman’s Ball
Tickets on Sale
Tickets for the annual Cattle
man’s Ball are on sale in the Ani
mal Husbandry Department office
in the Animal Industries Building,
according to Ralph Wheat, chair
man of ticket sales.
The ball will be held March 19
in Sbisa Hall. The price of admis
sion is $2 with or without dates,
Wheat said.
Music will be furnished by
“Jesse James and all the Boys.”
All animal husbandry and dairy
husbandry majors, including fresh
men, are eligible to attend, Wheat
announced. Animal husbandry and
dairy husbandry minors who are
paid members of the Kream and
Kow Klub or the Saddle and Sir
loin Club, may attend.
84 Cedric Copeland
73 Murray Holditch
61 Bob Davidson
53 Pat Diffie
64 W. T. Rush
74 Russ Hudeck
81 Jaro Netardus
11 Don Nicholas
24 John Christensen
31 Jim Dobbyn
42 Augie Saxe
82 Clinton Gwin
75 Dick Scott
65 Bill Davis
55 Hugh Meyer
63 Bill Hasson
85 J. Jones
12 Delmer Sikes
22 Frank Torno
33 Bill Tidwell
46 * Gary Anderson
35 Bernard Lemmons
88 Dick Callendar
86 Charlie Davidson
Two Senior Ring Dances will be
held this year according to fRoy
Blanton, social secretary of the
Senior Class. One dance will be
held on Friday night and the other
on Saturday night. Students grad
uating anytime between now and
next January will be able to at
tend either dance.
Sixteen hundred couples are ex
pected for the dances and tickets
will be divided between the two.
Eight hundred will be placed on
sale for the Friday dance and eight
hundred for the Saturday dance.
Students will be given the choice
of attending either night, but as
soon as the tickets for one of the
nights is sold out, then only tickets
for the other night will be sold.
The committee members said this
would be the fairest method of
John Cole Speaks
To Ag Ed Classes
John B. Cole of the State Soil
Conservation Board spoke to agri
cultural education classes Wednes
day on “The Operations of the
Soil Conservation Districts in Tex
as.”
Cole, a former vocational agri
culture teacher, now assistant
planning engineer for Soil Con
servation Board for State District
4, explained the operation of the
soil conservation districts.
81 Carl Hill
73 Sam Moses
62 Elo Nohavitza
50 Jimmy Flowers
63 Mickey Spencer
70 Dwayne Tucker
85 Dan Spears
11 Dick Gardemal
20 Glenn Lippman
35 Bob Smith
44 Doyle Moore
36 George Roberts
82 Jerry Crossman
74 Percy Burk
65 Carl Molberg
54 Bob Bates
67 A. J. Dugas
75 Alex Strobel
80 Dorbant Barton
19 Jimmy Cashion
24 Charlie Royalty
39 Kenneth Shobe
42 Robert Shaeffer
46 Charlie McDonald
handling the large number expect
ed. This plan was presented to the
Student Senate and apparently it
had the approval of that body.
The Friday dance will be held
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and the Sat
urday dance will be held from 8
to 12 p.m. because of a college
regulation which states thdt no
dance can be held on Sunday.
Only one banquet will be held
this year and it will be on Satur
day night. Preparations are being
made for 1400 people. This is the
maximum number that can be
handled in one night. After the
1400 tickets are sold, no more will
be available. The banquet will start
at 6 p.m. and no food will be serv
ed after 6:15 p.m. This rule was
made so as to have everyone
through eating by the time the
program starts..
The oi’der in which a student
“Though our trains still arrive
on time, we can complain about
this and other things under our
democratic government and know
we will not have to go to prison,”
Dr. Treves told the class.
The Italian version of the U. S.
State Department has exactly one
piece of paper and a pencil to
work with after 20 years under
the fascist regime, he said. The
partisans had to re-orient them
selves to international affairs since
they had spent the past 20 years
in opposition to the government.
Reconstruction Begins
“Peace was the important con
sideration. Under the occupation
of the friendly troops, we were
able to begin reconstruction work
immediately.”
“Though we signed the tx-eaty,
we did so with mox-al reservations.
We people who had been opposing
the government for 20 yeax-s didn’t
feel that Italy should have her
colonies, Trieste, and her fleet
taken from her.
“The Communists in Italy took
advantage of these three clauses
to campaign actively last year.
The Communists, being very pat
riotic at this time, actually fought
under the name of ‘Popular Front.’
They fooled no one, however, and
they lost the election.”
He gave the high birth rate as
one reason why Italy needed hex-
colonies. He pointed out that these
colonies could aid Italy in dispos
ing of her extra people and sur
plus products.
Beware of Communism
He emphasized that Italy had a
very important part in determin
ing the destiny of Europe. “We
have something to offer the world”
he said. “Italy is the southwestern
bulwark of Communism.”
“Our country dates back far
beyond the Roman Empire,” he
concluded. “We are old in every
thing except our government; it is
new and democratic.”
goes through the ring will be de
termined when the tickets ax-e
bought. The time of going through
the Ring, within 15 or 20 min
utes, also will be given.
Nine committees are woi’king on
the details of the dance and the
time of ticket sales and the cost
of tickets will be announced as
soon as the final arrangements
are made.
As yet, no orchestra has been
contracted for the two dances.
Contrary to rumox-, Russ Morgan
will not be hex*e for them.
The committees each have co-
chairmen, one Corps and one non-
Corps man. These committees and
their chairmen are banquet, Jerry
Stewart and G. R. Sawyer; dec
orations, Charlie Estes and D. D.
Mathews; ticket sales, Truman
Martin and Gerald York; program,
John Dieb and Jack Graugnard;
orchestra, Doug Pitcock and R. L.
Schodde; refreshments, Herb
Schwax-tz and Frank Rousseau;
guest, Goerge Edwards and Paul
Landx-y; publicity, Tom Carter and
George Morgan; ring ceremony,
J. B. Rochelle and Paul Davises.
Blanton asked that all seniors
cooperate on the Dance. He said
that every effort is being made
to make the dance satisfactory to
all concerned. Any suggestions for
improvements should be turned in
to one of the committee chairmen,
Blanton said.
The next meeting of the com
mittee chairmen will be held
Thursday at 5 p.m. in the lobby
of Student Activities Office.
Ag Ed Seniors To
Judge FFA Contest
Four agricultural education sen
iors will go to Waco Saturday, to
judge the Ax-ea VIII FFA senior
chapter conducting contest, accord
ing to W. W. Mclllroy, professor of
agricultui-al education.
They are John Bradford, FFA
Collegiate Chapter president; Paul
F. Bx-eeden, chairman of the area
judging contest committee; and
Benjamin J. Suster and Lewis E.
Vickery, members of the area lead-
ex-ship contest committee. Mclllroy
will go to Waco to assist in the
judging.
All members of the team have
had experience in judging similar
chapter conducting contests from
m-evious semesters at A&M, Mc
lllroy said.
According to A. B. Childress,
Area VIII supervisor, the contest
will be between FFA Chapters
from Area VIII and it will begin
at 9 a. m. at the Waco State Home.
The two chapters with the high
est total score will be eligible to
participate in the state chapter
conducting contest.
Juniors Asked For
Duchess Pictures
Membex-s of the Junior Class
have been asked to submit pictures
for Cotton Ball and Pageant duch
ess by Doyle Avant, class presi
dent.
Avant asked that each picture
be at least a 5x7 pox-trait. Color
of hair and eyes, height and weight
should be given.
The pictures should be turned
in by March 16, to D. R. McClure
in Room 315, Dorm 10, Avant said.
Roster for Saturday’s Scrimmage
This roster is tentative and may be changed prior to
game time.
Time of the scrimmage game is 2:30 and it will prob
ably be played on Kyle Field instead of the practice field.
WHITE SQUAD MAROON SQUAD
Italians On Time
Without Mussolini
“We have found in Italy that we don’t need a dictator
to get our trains to leave and arrive on time.”
This is what Paolo Treves, member of the Italian Cham
ber of Deputies, told the Great Issues Class yesterday. Spon
sored by the Institute of International Education, Dr. Treves
-f spoke on “Italy’s Foreign Policy
' Since Liberation.”
Regimental Ball, TSCW Choir,
Football Planned for Weekend
The Sixth Regimental Ball, two concerts by the TSCW
Choir, and a football scrimmage are the activities of the
weekend.
The newly organized Sixth Regiment will hold its regi
mental ball Saturday night in Sbisa Hall.
Eight girls will be presented at the ball, one of whom
will be chosen to represent the Sixth Regiment at the Cotton
Ball in April. i -H
The nominees to be presented are Dorothy Lovelace,
Atlanta, Texas; Shirley Strickland, East Texas State College
Austin Legislators Discuss
Problems Of A Law Student
By CHUCK CABANISS
Contrary to usual reports, it
seems that legislators do not like
postmen’s holidays—at least those
visiting the campus last night
much preferred to discuss the Uni
versity of Texas School of Law
rather than current political ac
tion in Austin. And this desire
seemed quite in accord with a ma
jority of the pre-law students pres
ent who wanted details on the
problems of the Texas law student.
Ben Lampkin, Pre-Law Society
president, opened the informal
discussion which followed a fine
steak dinner in Sbisa Hall by in
troducing T. W. Leland, head of
the Business and Accounting De
partment; R. L. Elkins, executive
assistant to the President; E. L.
Angell, executive assistant to the
Chancellor; and Representative An
drew Rogers of the 121st Legisla
tive District.
Rogers then introduced the visi-
MRS. MARTHA LOU JONES
of Dallas is one of eight beau
ties who will compete for the
title of Sixth Regimental Sweet
heart on Saturday night. She
was chosen by the members of
C Veteran Company, and will be
escorted by her husband Roy
C. Jones.
Rescheduled LIFE
Display of A&M
Appears March 14
The pictorial story of the Mili
tary Ball, which is to be run in
Life, has definitely been sche
duled for release in the March
14 issue, according to Henderson
Shuffler, Director of Information
& Publications.
An announcement was run in
yestex-days Battalion to the effect
that the story would be run March
18. After the paper went to press
the editors desk received notice of
Shuffler’s latest telegram from
Life’s Dallas representative, Miss
Laverne Frey.
Miss Frey has notified Shuffler
that the original spread has been
changed and will be two and one
half pages in black and white.
She also announced that the stu
dent news stands will be supplied
with 2500 extx-a copies. Extra cop
ies will also be available to TSCW.
The telegram read: “Another
flash from New York on A&M
story: story closed for two and
half pages for release in March
14th issue, will be on newstands
March 11th. This is absolutely pos
itively definite.”
Banker Will Speak
At AH Seminar
Sterling Evans, president of the
Federal Land Bank of Houston,
will speak to the animal husbandry
seminar Monday night, J. C. Mil
ler, head of the Animal Husban
dry Department, said today.
Evans has been called to Wash
ington and in the event that he is
unable to return before Monday
night D. W. Williams, vice-chancel
lor of Agricultui’e at A&M will
speak, Miller said.
GIFT TO SCHOOLBOY
COMES FROM KING
BIRCHAM, Eng., March 4 —UP)
George Ward, 12-year-old school
boy, kicked for goal in a school
soccer football game.
tors from Austin: Ray Horany,
Bill Brown, James Presnal, and
Peyton McKnight. All of the men,
with the exception of Presnal, are
now attending law school.
Arthur Stewart, society co
sponsor, presented State Senator
W. T. Moore of the local 14th
Senatorial District, who is an
other former Aggie. After a few
questions and statements had
been made about the controver
sial “basic science” bill, Rogers
told of a couple of his bills
which are now pending before
the legislature. His bills are con
cerned with the purchase of road
equipment from the state by
counties and a local bill appro
priating $10,000 to aid a dam
building program to improve the
water control and supply in his
district.
Rogers explained that law class
es at the University are quite
large, numbering several hundred
students. Individual recitation may
be very infrequent, but will last
for about an hour when a student
is called upon to recite. He added
that the quiz for a coui’se is given
either at the end of the semester
or, if the coui’se is a nine-months
course, at the end of the second
semester. When a mid-semester
MISS PATSY WILLIAMS from
New Orleans has been chosen as
the sweetheart of A Composite
Company and will represent
them at the Sixth Regimental
Ball on Saturday night. She will
be escorted by Glenn Cummings
of Bryan.
DAHLBERG TO JUDGE
TYLER BEEP SHOW
F. I. Dahlberg, professor, Ani
mal Husbandry Department, will
be a judge at the Smith County
Baby Beef Show at Tyler, March
17.
quiz is given it will count only a
small part of the final grade, he
stated.
Bi’own announced that the cur
ricula at law school has been in
creased from 80 hours to 92 hours
for gx*aduation. This new plan will
require six semesters and a sum
mer session, and persons may en
ter the school only in the fall, he
said. Bi'own stated that he had re
ceived a three year deferment from
service in the army (the 21 months
service now required of all ROTC
graduates) in order to complete
his law course. He received this
deferment after he had enrolled,
he added.
Classes are held irt each course
on three consecutive days, either
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes
day, or Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday and last two or three
hours each day, McKnight said.
Unless a course is one of those
regarded as required, a person
can flunk it and will take an
elective course rather than re
peating the flunked course, he
said. McKnight added that in
order to remain in law school a
person must have an overall
average of 65 in each of his se
mester’s work, however.
Phillip Goode, co-sponsor, stated
that persons attending the next
meeting of the society will be able
to learn all of the information pre
sented at the discussion during a
forum with the society officers.
The discussichi ended when several
of the legislators remarked that
they had a hai’d day ahead of them
tomorrow, “even if the Senate has
adjourned.”
James G. Sears will escort
MISS MARTHA ANN GILL of
Houston to the Sixth Regimental
Ball Saturday night. Miss Gill
was chosen as company sweet
heart by B Athletic Company.
■f-Martha Lou Jones, Dallas; Hope
Kincannon, Baylor; Anne Martin,
Dallas; Emilie Folds, Del Mar Col
lege; and Patsy Williams, New
Ox-leans.
The duchess will be selected by
Col. H. L. Boatner, Coach Harry
Stitelex*, Lt. Col. William S. Mc-
Elhenny, Lt. Col. Frank S. Vaden
Jr., Lt. Col. M. T. Bowden, and
Capt. Lester W. Stiles.
Dean M. T. Harrington will pre
sent commissions to cadets who
have been commissioned in the new
Sixth Regiment.
TSCW’s Modern Choir has been
invited to attend the daixce after
their performance in Guion Hall.
Seniors with dates are also invited.
TSCW Choir
The TSCW Modern Choir will
present two concerts here Satux--
day, the first in the Annex Student
Center at 5 P- m. and the second
in Guion at 8, C. G. White, direc
tor of Student Activities has an
nounced.
The concert will be presented at
Guion between the regular shows,
and no additional charge will be
made.
The Modern Choir is composed
of 45 Tessies. It is noted for its
informality and freedom of expx-es-
sion.
Music for the show is arranged
to appeal to lovers of both classi
cal and swing music. The opening
selections will be “Hymn to the
Night,” “Sea Moods,” and “The
Old Boat Zion.” Closing numbers
will be “Jealousy,” “Begin the
* Beguine,” and the “Donkey Sere
nade.”
A string trio composed _ of a
violin, cello, and piano, will ap
pear with the Choir playing “Sere
nade” and “Russian Dance.”
The group has given opt-of-town
concerts and makes a spring tour
to music centers each year. Trw
Choir recently made a three day
tour to cities in Louisiana and Ar
kansas.
The choir is under the direction
of Di\ William E. Jones.
Football Scrimmage
Tomorrow aftex-noon at 2:30 the
Texas Aggies will conclude their
third week of spring training with
a practice game between the Ma
roon and the White squads.
This will be the second dress
scrimmage for the A&M team.
Thex-e was no game last Saturday
due to the bad weather. The game
will be held on the practice ground
since Kyle Field is still covered
with dirt, prior to being resodded.
Coach Stiteler has completely
reshuffled the teams for tomoi--
row’s contest.
Houston A&M Club
To Elect Duchess
A Cotton Ball Duchess for the
Houston Club will be elected at
its meeting Monday evening at 7:15
Robert Drago, president, announ
ced today.
Plans for the Easter holiday
dance will also be formulated, he
said.
So You Know A&M?