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.