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Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Volume 48 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1949 Number 140 Open House Group Discusses Tollies’ '' Dean Barlow Reports on Publicity Each School Will Invite Own Guests The script for the follies to be presented on the A&M Open House Day will be written this weekend, James H. Ed gar of the follies committee announced at the Open House Committee meeting Tuesday evening. G. J. Dillavou, English instructor, and member of Aggie Players will write the skits. All- information concerning the follies which is to appear in the Open House program will be ready for the program committee next Mon day, Edgar said. Letter Sent To Papers Howard Barlow, dean of engi neering, presented a letter which is to be sent to all state news papers. This letter will be ready for the mail on about April 7, Dean Barlow said. The letter sta tes that an estimated 20,000 peo ple are expected to be on the cam pus for the Open House. It continued by outlining the program for the day. The Open House activities are to begin at 9 in the morning and will continue in numerous departments until 8 in the evening. The last major event of the day will be the fol lies, which will depict campus life in a humorous way. In conclusion the letter mentioned the full dress review of the Cadet Corps and President Bolton’s open house that will be held on Mother’s Day. Andrews reported that all ma terial concerning the prbgram for the A&M Open House will be turn ed over to the Ross Volunteers next Tuesday, The Ross V o 1 u n- teers will publish the program for the Open House-Mother’s Day weekend. The program Committee plans to meet Thursday evening to schedule and arrange all events in their final form, Andrews con cluded. Schools to Invite Guests The committee decided that each school in the college should invite its own guests. The departments have been asked by the deans to turn in lists of the visitors to whom invitations should be sent. Dean Shepardson reported that ap proximately half of the agricul ture departments have already turned in their lists. j* 'Dean Barlow said that a pro gram would be sent to each of the invited guests. The committee decided that a program should be mailed to every high school in the state. Marion Harrington, dean of arts and sciences and also acting dean of the college, reported that A&M seniors would receive the oppor tunity to address high school sen iors in their respective home towns during the Easter holidays. He continued that Dean Penberthy and Colonel Boatner are formulating an outline which the seniors will be requested to follow in their ad dresses. If necessary an excused ^ absence will be granted to these/ 0 ' seniors. The committee will con- n 1 sider further possibilities at their next meeting. Dean Barlow told the commit tee that his faculty band is prac ticing every Thursday evening. A picture of the group will be made on March 17, Robert B. Mayes, committee photographer, said. AH Staff Challenges All Bob Weynand, publicity chair man, reported that the animal hus bandry department staff is chal lenging all other college depart- (See OPEN HOUSE, Page 4) Texas School Of Mines Has Name Trouble AUSTIN, Tex., March 10 —UP) The Prospector, student newspaper at the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy at El Paso, is polling students to determine what name they favor for the college. Tuesday the Senate State Af fairs Committee approved a bill which would ..allow the school to change its name. The Senate bill, proposed by Sen. Hill D. Hudson, Pecos, would name the school “The Texas College of Mines and Arts.” Many students, ex-students and people of El Paso voiced opposi tion to the proposed name. The Prospector quoted Dr. W. H. Elkins, college president, as saying thei’e is a chance the col lege may choose “University of Texas at El Paso” as a name if “legal difficulties which arose” can be solved. C. D. Belding has suggested “Texas Western University.” Beld ing was chairman of last year’s Sun Bowl Selection Committee. The college as a branch of the University of Texas (at Austin) has never had an official name. It has been known variously as School of Mines and College of Mines. Regents recently approved chan ging the- schools name and the bill was introduced as a result. The regents acted after Teceiv- ing suggestions from the college’s ex-students’ association and a committee of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. Protests of the proposed name of “Texas State College of Mines and Arts” followed a news story on the new names carried in the El Paso Times . Advice for Funds Given by Simpson Charles Simpson, representing .rtis Publications Company spoke to members of the Marketing and Finance Club last Tuesday on a method of raising funds for the club by selling subscriptions of various Curtis publications. He stated that the subscriptions will be sold on a commission basis. A duchess was selected to rep resent the club during the Cotton Ball. The duchess will be Miss Joan Hill, sophomore Business ma jor at Baylor from Burnet. Miss Hill will be escorted by Don Mon- son, senior Agricultural Economics major from Paducah. Russia, England, Conflict In Near Newt Hielscher, left, and Jocko Roberts, members of the trophy committee for the Brazos A&M Club sponsored State Junior College Basketball Tournament, look over the trophies before they were awarded Friday night. Texas Highwaymen Finishing Annual Short Course Today By H. C. MICHALAK Texas Highway men are wind ing up their 23rd Annual Short Course on highway construction, repair and maintenance, today. Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist, a for- fer highway man himself, gave the address of welcome before 375 members registered for the course. Speaking on “Preparation and Use of Abbreviated Type Plans,” Thomas K. Wood, ( apprentice en gineer, Austin, told how these plans are more economical and more handy in farm to market road building. While these plans do not show as much detail as the larger full detail plans, they are ju,st as effective, he said. Abbreviated plans have only come into use dur ing the last -three years, Woods said. They are about one fourth the size of detail plans now widely used.- Another speaker on the Wed nesday evening program was J. H. Davis, district 18 assistant engineer, who spoke on Public Relations. He emphasized that regardless of the kind of service or business one may be connec ted with, everyday public rela tions are very important. .F. M. Snyder, district engineer, Pharr, Texas, acted as chairman of the afternoon session yesterday. He recalled that several pigs were turned loose in the dining hall during the annual banquet two years ago. The idea was to catch them for a prize. Colonel Ike Ash- burn, executive vice president of the Texas Good Roads Association, was toastmaster for this year’s an nual banquet. Six Highway Engineers from the Philippine Republic are reg istered for the short course. They are U. A. Purrugganan, Rosalio Villalon, L. O. Limjuco, Redolifo Maslog, P. Afable and’R. Nati- vidad. Approximately 10,000 Battalions are being unloaded in each of these newsprint rolls from a boxcar. The Battalion has finally gone “big time” and is now ordering its newsprint by carload lots rather than by single rolls. All are graduates of the State University of the Philippines, Ma nila. They are attending under the auspices of the Public Road Ad ministration. These men have been in Texas since last August, and are employed by the Bureau of Public Works, Philippine Islands. Their purpose is -to observe and study all phases of highway design construction, landscaping, bridging surfacing and draining, which con cerns highways. L. O. Limjuco, spokesman for the group, when asked about the condition of Island highways and bridges, stated that the Japs did not do very much about maintain ing roads during their occupation. He further stated that Island high ways are about 90 per cent restor ed to normal. “Repair is going on,” he said, “and our greatest bottleneck now is the shortage of construction steel to restore bridges, about 85 percent of which were destroyed before liberation.” These men will remain in Texas Loveless to Speak On G.I. Insurance At R0A Meeting Sid L. Loveless, lieutenant colo nel in the cavalry reserve, will be the main speaker tonight at the regular monthly meeting of the Brazos County Chapter of the Re serve Officers Association, accord ing to J. B. “Dick” Hervey, secre tary-treasurer of the local chapter. The meeting, which will be held in the Petroleum Engineering lec ture room, will begin at 7:30 p. m. Loveless will discuss the latest changes in National Service Life Insurance. New officers of the local chap ter, who were elected at the February meeting, will preside. Grady Elms was named president of the chapter, and Allen Made- ley the new first vice-president. Harry Raney was elected to the post of second vice president, and the chapters’ secretary-treasurer election went to Hervey. Two former officers of the chapter, T. O. Walton, Jr., and Prentiss Chunn were re-elected to their positions. Walton is the chapter surgeon and Chunn the chaplain. Meetings of the Reserve Offic ers Association are held every sec ond Thursday, Hervey said, and one active duty credit is given for each meeting attended. for three more months, then they will go back to the Islands to put into use many highway practices which they have observed and stud ied. Texas has built more miles of paved road than any other state in the union since the end of the war, said State Highway Engineer D. C. Greer. Speaking yesterday before 371 city and state engineers Greer said, “this was done with an over head cost of less than average in the United States and appreciably less than larger states as compared with Texas.” He said Texas has built 12,000 miles of paved highways and has under contract and financed 3,000 more. The paving includes high ways and farm-to-market roads. Duchess Named By Shreveport Club Mary Ann Clark of Shreveport was elected Cotton Pageant Duch ess for the Shreveport Club at their meeting Tuesday night. The club also elected as offi cers for the spring semester Ralph Stegall, president, and King Eg- ger, vice president. J. L. Reeger was elected secretary-treasurer; J. S. Bravenec, social secretary and P. H. DuVal, reporter Mrs. Eskol Will Talk on Israel To Hillel Class Mrs. Alisa Klausner Eskol, a native of Palestine, will speak Monday evening in the YMCA Chapel on the new State of Israel, according to Russ Lown, president of the A&M Hillel Foundation. Mrs. Eskol is touring the US lec turing various groups on con ditions in Israel from her per sonal observations. A graduate of the Hebrew Uni versity on Mt. Scopus, shq has written many articles and stories on life in present-day Israel. Born in Jerusalem this daughter of pio neer settlers has witnessed and participated in much that has hap pened to her native land. Her lecture career began during World War II as a public-relations worker of the English-speaking soldiers of the Allied forces. She worked under the auspices of the Tel-Aviv Services Club. In 1948, Mrs. Eskol travelled nearly 115,000 miles in the US and Canada on a lecture tour. She spoke to Town Hall meetings and other organizations. Last summer she returned to her home and has just come back to the United States to start her second series. Residents of Bryan and College are invited to hear Mrs. Eskol, Lown said. The lecture will begin at 7:30 p. m. Memorial Center Explained by Stark The planning, building, and or ganization of the new Memorial Student Center was explained to members of the Industrial Educa tion Club Tuesday night by Wayne Stark, director of the center. Using a scaled architectural mo del, Stark described the unit com position of the building and ex plained the function of each unit. Other business of the meeting included the election of Miss Peggy Kennedy of Corpus Christ! to rep resent the club in the coming Cot ton Pageant. Chris Groneman outlined for the group the tri-club conference to be held here March 11-12. He asked that all members of the club regis ter and attend as many meetings as possible. i u. s. East Area of Strategic Importance, Roosevelt Tells ‘Geat Issues’ England and the United States are interested in estab lishing peace and security in the Near East while Russia is interested in creating disturbances and chaos there. This is what Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, told the Great Issues Class and approximately 350 non-class members last night DR. CHARLES H. HARRIS Saddle and Sirloin Names Harris As Honorary Member By JAMES R. DAY Dr. Charles H. Harris, 79 year old livestock man of Fort Worth will be presented a Certificate of Honorary Membership in the Sad dle and Sirloin Club at the Cattle man’s Ball March 19. Harris was chosen, along with John C. Burns, for honorary mem bership for his outstanding con tribution to the livestock industry of Texas. Each year the Saddle and Sirloin Club chooses and elects as hon orary members two men who have made outstanding contributions to the livestock industry. Dr. Harris has been an out standing Hereford breeder for the past forty years. His Harrisdale Farm is the home of one of the better herds of registered Here- fords in the United States. His cattle have won prizes at many of the major shows in the nation. Harris has been active in en couraging club work among 4-H and FFA boys and holds judging contests for them at his farms. Better Late Than Never SA Club to Name Duchess at Meet A duchess to represent the San Antonio A&M Club will be picked Thursday night, according to Bill Wahrmono, president of the club. The members of the club will present pictures of girls to be con sidered for the duchess when the club meets at 7:30 p. m. in Room 210 of the Academic Building. Plans for an Easter Party at Aggie Park will also be discussed. The park is an area on West Ave nue set aside by San Antonio Ag gies for picnics and dances. It has a large cement slab for dancing, picnic tables, and open fireplaces. The A&M Club, Wahr mono said, has use of the park any time they hold gatherings in San Antonio. LIFE Pictures Cadets And Dates During Big Weekend By C. C. MUNROE “Where there’s life there’s hope” and beginning tomorrow “Where there’s life there’s A&M” for after postponements, delays, and disap pointments the pictorial feature “Life Goes to an A&M Party” will hit the newsstands Friday. Even while you are reading this somebody down in Bryan may be unpacking you, for if you were one of the thousands who took part in the massed formation in front of Duncan Hall over the Military Ball weekend you have been pic tured in Life. And buddy, if any body tries to tell you differently you’ll be able to prove it with a one page, full color photograph that leads off the story of the weekend. The A&M feature was origin ally slated to take up four pages but an advertising schedule that had to be met caused a revision Concert Tickets On Sale Today Tickets for the two concerts to be given by Wayne King, March 19, are now on sale in the Student Activities Office, 209 Goodwin Hall, Grady Elms assistant director announced. Elms said that all tickets are for general admission with student tickets selling for 70 cents and non-student tickets going for $1.50. The first concert will start at 6:30 p. m.; the second one will be at 9 p. m. The college festivities full days have been into two and a half of plans, for two squeezed pages. Just to save you trouble when you plunk down your 20 cents, skip the table of contents and turn to page 135. There you’ll find a two page spread, the massed for mation in color on the left side, and the story with three pictures on the right. The headline is encouraging, “1,500 girls travel to College Station for a weekend to watch the students strut their military stuff.” Flanking that on the right is a very commonplace scene at A&M —a 1949 Mercury convertible fill ed with beautiful women. Even more commonplace are the 23 ca dets falling all over the converti ble. If the attractive driver had suddenly decided to raise the top, many of the great and near great of the cadet corps would have lost their respective heads. Shifting from the convertible to the top of dormitory 12, the pho tographer caught a swarm of ca dets breaking ranks after the mass formation. The caption underneath the picture indicates that the “ca dets scrambled madly out of ranks to join their girls.” What the 2,300 cadets without dates were running for, Life leaves to the readers’ imagina tion. Tessies got their share of pic tures too. At the dance, at the doorway to Walton Hall, and fin ally leaning out the windows of the familiar red and white bus, the girls from Denton were well represented at Life’s party. The story accompanying the fea ture tells of the preparations for the dance from the cadet’s angle. Even that hitherto unpublicized but vital activity of locating lodging for dates was included. The dormi tory lodger’s dating deadline of 1 p. m. came in for a publisher’s im plied opinion that coincides closely with that of the cadets. Commenting on the cadets search for rooms, the Life writer con cludes his story saying “Their search was so successful that 1,450 of the 1,500 girls managed to stay out of the dormitories and of Palestine,” he said. “They want stay up late.” (See ROOSEVELT, Page 4) in Guion Hall. Roosevelt emphasized that this particular part of the world was important to the United States be cause of its strategic location in relation to Russia, and other coun tries, because of its natural re sources, and because this area is one of the major trouble spot of the World. He said that most Americans feel that this part of the world is still living in the days of mangy camels and harems full of women wearing veils. “Some of the people in this area are still in the harem and veil stages like in the seventh century, but they ai*e in the mi nority,” he said. Strategic Location This part of the World is located between three large continents— Europe, Asia, and Africa, he said. Pointing to the map of this half of the World, Roosevelt explained the importance of the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf. “All world conquerors a n d would-be conquerors — Napoleon, Hitler, Alexander the Great, and others—have invaded these coun tries or planned to invade them,” he said. “One of the larger stra tegic errors of Germany was un derestimating the strength needed to over-run this area during the last war.” Natural Resources “Americans feel that oil and for eign policy cannot be mentioned at the same time without blush ing, stammering, and feeling- ashamed,” he said. “If the U. S. had enough oil, she could well af ford to take this attitude. But since she doesn’t, she cannot ig nore the large deposits of petro leum in this area.” Most of the oil is centered around the Persian Gulf. He said that over one half of the world’s supply of oil is centered in this area though not yet fully explored. “The United States doesn’t need this oil now, but she certainly needs it for the benefit of her friends and allies,” Roosevelt continued. “This area and its resources are as important to the national se curity of the United States as the recovery of Europe or the Cold War.” Source of Trouble Two kinds of trouble face the people in this area—local and na tional. He said that because of the strategic importance of this area, any local problem immediately be came the concern of most of the large powers in the world. “An extreme and violent na tionalism has come from Europe into Palestine,” he said. Two pow erful movements, Jewish and Ara bic, have run headlong into each other. In talking about the new coun try of Israel, Roosevelt said that huge sums of money are being pumped into it. He said that the United States is investing $2 hun dred million dollars a year in Israel. Since the country probably cannot sustain herself without help, he said that the Jewish lead ers would probably have to adopt imperialistic aims in order to sur vive and grow. “The leaders of the new Jewish state are not satisfied with half Belatedly, here is DR. PAUL WOODS, instructor in the His tory Department. This cut was scheduled to appear in yesterday’s Battalion along with a feature article on Woods by Frank Cushing.