^ . rfl 1 f * * yf ' J . > • , j .. v ■ ■ r !.i •' Nation’s Collegiate iy - NAS 1949 Snrvey < i v M l i Volume 49 [ ^ '»■. -V - I'V '’TL ! j i; K ;, > i; 1 :• ‘fj y - fiioctodl ill to utt« jire InvtUKtto attioiut an orlentatltm m-^or atloi mooting utoftareu by'Ntirliijt fttovs toniopow mnltifr nt 7:30 iti tho YMtfA chapel, accouling: to Charles Kirkham, tvtiritiK pnrsl* dent of th» Senate. .The meet iti vr will present reports by senators from the—■ various stnndinjr committees of the retir* intf senate on their 'c'ommittee’s activities, attempts, and nccom* plinhments^over the past year. Also Copies of reports prepared by those committees last sprlnp will be hand ed ’to newly elected senators. • ^ The meeting’s purpose is to ac- (ipaint new senators with the woi-k of the senate, and some of the business of last year's senate that would reoccur this yearTKirkham . saldj : j ' j ; Committee Reports Marvin Rico will report on thf executive icommittee. Richard Denf by will summarize the work of the welcoming committee. Keith All- sup J will review the work of the Smaller Checks - i j, . Due to! Lack Of Leave Time —i— . I ^ ■ > . Veterans who did not re ceive a full month’s subsis- tance payment from the Vet- Ierans4 Administration had their checks reduced because of ,a lack of available leave time dnder the GI Bill, Taylor Wilkino, Veterans udvisof said this morning. Many students receiving VA money , have been in Wilkins of-i flee, he-reportod, wanting to know the reason they did not Receive their full month’s alilottmwit Under existing VA regulations, Wilkins explained, veterans are authorized 30 days annual leave, This leave is not cumulative. . 1 The Christmas holidays take up lb days of the authorized leave thmv Thu second summer' semes ter ended August i/7 and the fall semeiter begin September 17. The rmainlrig lb days leave, Wilkins rontlnuvd, lacked five days covering the time between semvsi tgw, tharefore the cheeks are cut for] thost*_fiVp days. , :i nlnglc yetuemis should receive (02.HO, tnanied veterans $87.50, and fetcrahM with "two or more depon* lients should receive $10(fi ] eommlttoo. Boh Wcynard, 0. E.. |C William Scrimgeour, Charles atdss^ and Charles Kirkh report on tho moss, exchange store, hospital. Student Life, ami social committee's respectively. I Other senators from 1mt. Who are still In school wil hand to add their common ham statod. V j U [■ J Included also In the plrtiinod;,ori eiitation meeting will be a rjouiid of introductions of the new swalors^ 1 |i I' Patting jGOptjst'jej,Iij" 1' 1 This meeting will be the !po|ting chapel, tlje new (Senate will jinitet to elect itft offieeta and «immittee- mon., f. f TM 1 • f i fe There are el^ht standing Commit tees in I the Student Senat^. Theae committees function ihrough • ers givemthein by the sen: stftution and the senate 1 i Each, of too 45 members of tlie senate will ierve on a. pernulnenti conunitteO. j! Accordibg.|to the constitution, torislfro ’ v M. PUBLISHED ■ ,T fWT v* p ll •’ll Ty* IV A- * m LW ■ [-J Ip . -| 7- if . i ! : ■ J , f ■: Ip ' > r ii. : J : "i* m i i I i i I •! COLLEGE STATION IN THE WT< ' w (Aggie mi :i. J 1 T OF ), TEXAS, TUESDA ■ : T 1 1 it’ 'V i -i a, C V’ -1f ' > f ■ ■ -i. J Y,OCTOBER % ; vj 1 ’2l y . jiiii •wT • W> k J f»>f m m i ■ i'K-Hf ;i(i A' ; •'j : J L - ' 1 ll IE K I M mm WM l ■■ ,f m ll( i , h;- ^ - • .f ■t'MT TT .M. ■# ( Station mr ii ; i •-w Pre-Law® Bloek ate^ s t: Tuesda m year. was , lut the term of student senator is October 7 cjf one year through October 6 of the The orientation proposed to the turning members of the old sfenate last Wednesday cvenmgi and ap proved by those present. Several senate members of last year are candidates for re-eleetion. - 1:!: .4-^——-44ft|li ‘‘Book Fair” project has been organized to, add books to the: College Station; Li brary it has been announced by Mrs. 0. K. Smith, < man of the education committee of the Collage Station Dcv^lopmatit Amcodatlon, and Chamber of It’om- inolvo. ]■[ ' ’i I j| . The Pair will be held In tho gym- naidum f of A AM .ConHolkmtcd achbol, bud th# date in tejitidively ket for Nov, 19,20 in Itpnjbiiction With National Book Walk Which open* (it{ Not. Mm. Mvlloh wan appointed bhair- man and Mra. D. L Bwcrir clmirnmn of exhibits. Jil^ Nelson Was named finance * i. Smitb waT pie publicity. t'iv v m l\2 Colonel Frank Swoger, senior ordinance inst.uo- tor In the military M-ienoe department, presnets a plaque awarded; tor outstanding markmansblp to cadet Captain George S. Kent, petroleum ami ntech&nkal engineering major from Fort Worth. :—:—p—t- —4 Kent is receiv.ng the plaque for his company, A Company Ordlnane?. At Aberdeen Frovlng iiuilds this srunmer the cadets in A Company the Idghest total marksmanship seoie. grjoc Imad jporps Trip t)et($ls Mapped In Fort Worth Council Meet A&M’s Organization for em- bryonip la,wyeni, tbe Fre-Law Society, will meet in the YMCA AkaemMy Room im mediately after yell practice Tuesday niirht, according to Dgve Kreager, society vice-ppesUlent last spring. • ; :• I i Kreager added that those stud ents who do not plbb to attend yell practice could expoet tihe meet ing to start at approxi/riately 7:30. The election of officers for the fall seiiieBt|r is the plenary busi ness slated for the session, Krea ger said. O^hcr itrins on the agen da includeii the annual I society trip to a Southwestern law school, vis its to trials in this aVea, and the sponsoring, of puplio. service pro- ^ 1 Statidn WTAW m and charge This Age of Miracles ; BY C. C. MUNROE Plans for the TCU corps trip were pushed well along the road to completion yesterday in Fort Worth. A group of eight students and college officials met in the Fort Worth city hull to map out preliminary arrangements for the coming A&M - T8CW cprps trip. '"’hay worn met by a delegation city officials and members of •Fort Worth A&M Club. The tec organization is handling all tb*i arrangements fur the October If- 'Vrei.elui. \ tentative agenda starting with a funnier student's smoker «a Friday evening and ending with an Aggle-Tfssie dunce on Saturday night was agreed upon. , KVetl A. Blilson, president of the Fi^ t Worth A&M Club, told tin* col- lege group! that arrangements had betni mud Je with the police depart-; • B 1 fcltafo ment to: hold midnight ; jy tieo in front of the comity coiirt house on Main Avenue, j That location was se qcted, El- liston stud, at flic requ»it of the downtown hotelsl “They lave been extremely nice to ua.’hut them are a lot of guests who dike to retire early aiu| they can’t do, hat with 5,000 students outside !: he hotel window!}.i'; , • • [j • I .. Elliston pointed out | (hut the Hotel Tcvus mauagciaCnt had agreed to having the parade re viewing stand in th« riflnito of their main entrance, aiid had of fered th^ use of choirs for the, stsnd. ■' j' • ]. Approval of the ycjll practice site was given by tho cty cmmeil, the tfnvyor, tho dty iniijmgot*, nnu the coriiinlssloner'* two 1. Traffic Englnoojr Uosrt Huek- ley approved a teittut 1) e pnrade route which will take the corps through downtown for. Worth to the county; court IhciiBO and down j Weatherford Street ito Pecan, ,' Street where the tliftmiijisal area is • I located, L ! H Arrangements for hojufling for ose stlidp ell pine- listpn, W. O. Jones, city manager; Paijl Irwin, general chairman; Fort Worth A&M Club; Walter Rice* the cluljj's vice president; Lt Col. R. T. Faulkenberg parade chairman; and R. K. Dysurt, chief of police. Those representing A&M were W. L.i Penbea-thy, dean of students; Col. II. T. Bdatner, PMS&T; Lt. ColL Joe E. Day is, assistant oom- mnjndant; Hoyle Avant, colonel of the corps; Herman Dietrich, corps operation* officer; Glenn Kothman, head yd) lender; Charles Kirk- ha n, miring president of the Student Seriate; and C. C, Munroe, toro* public Information officer. The elty officials and tho college domgntllon worn gnosts of tho Fort Worth Aggies for dinner at tin* lldtel Texas. grams jover G( Phillip le Again Sj oode bf the Business and Accouhting Department has agreed to serve again as one of the sponsors of the group and will be present for the meeting Tuesday. Arthur Stewart of the same depart ment was (jo-sponpor last year, but he has not yet stated ppbether he will act inj the same capacity this year. Goode, a, law graduate of SMU now teaching business 'law courses on the caihpus, explained that all students who are taking pre-law, plan to ert{er law school, or are interested ijn goveriunervt are invited to join the society Kt eager will bo assisted in pre paring the program for tho initial meeting bjy several students who wore either officers or:members of society committed* low. year. The spring vice-president urged that persons who haVe not been mem bers of the organization previous ly should i ittenii fuesday's 1 meatltig In order t > lake part In all of (lie plmmod it'tIvltleK those able to mts who hai’d not been emc BY DAVE COSLETT “Watch the birdie." . ■ -| '• H , j 1 Aggies have something to looki The Aggieland Studio, ; which forward to this year when they this year is handling a,il bf the go to have their pictures snapped <.u '- L king *or A&M a annual, for the Aggieland ’5(K Gone will has provided for this with the re- be the proniema-oL,trying to be cent purchase of $1^00 worth of photogenic when tlie man, says, pnotograpmc lighting eompmont'. « *'»■ tm Thia new system of photographic iuuminanon, says! stuaio.uvvaci »nd mianager Joe Sopolik, is the lat r cat and best available. make suitable provisions were discussed.' Ellistoji said that the Fort Worth A&M Mother’s (Club has Agreed to provide places for the students to stay. All cadets who wish to make reservations for housing through that erganizatiion must turn fa i applications through: company ctmma|id|ers by 5 p. pit, Friday, October 7. „ , Noh-miljitary students will do The new inatallatioii consists of the saipd through thnir house- five ,'photogenis Speed Lamps.’’i n , as tors. These applications will be rtcent developments that eliminate forwarded to the Mother's Club the disconcerting glare common tp ■ Sl) that rclservations mp r be made, posing, I j ! A dance for A&M st idents and The; lights, more commonly their dates will be held in the By L O. TIEDT Hark! Ye writers of purolit his torical facts and fiction. Sharpen your intellect along with your pen cils, bring out any extra paper you known as Strobe lights, work On a photo-flash basis. I >i Until the shutter actually clicks, e lambs emit only enough 1 light! nounced {when they an} complet- posing i ed. EHiston said. Thlw}e the subject Previous lighting syi- mbs aid the photographer in Fr$f Hi. Wi S'V mm- ■At ■ m IP "v- it I n tOma had to produce constantly bright light so that the photo grapher could control shadow angle and intensity to produce the beit po«” ; ble picture. | The new system allows him this control minus | chpi glare. At the liiqtant the picture is taken, the lamps emit a bright flash. Since the actual duration of 4 flash is only l/50,000th of a >nd, the subject hardly notices change in light intensity, i r inis is the typo illumination used ihi taking the so-called “frozen- action" pictures that are common in many magazines. Sosolik boasts thfi! his is one of only four or five Studies in Texas that have fiV« bunk Strobe light*. : The oth»*w '*»•» located in Hdui- top and Fort Worth. For the farther convenience its customers, Aggieland has inatalied an alr-con- ilioned unit. No longer will ids of preopiration .ruin an lerwlse. perfect picture. The ijtrobe light*, incidentally, cause little or no'Kent. / Tiie business of taking photos the A&M yearbook is defin Hotel Texas Saturday! (light. AH detjails as to time and spec ial arrangements w|L be aW- ced when they art complet ed. EHiston said. The>le will be ready [byj the middle >f the week of the corps trip. The Fdrt Worth | pljanping com mittee which met with the A&M group included, ijn udilijtion to El- Complete tabuI&tippA of tjie yotefljln tho Student'SomR* ion were reported ohlv dormitorle« one through election twelve at preua time ( Keith AlUup, chairman Uon committee. Night Hurry on Dov| To Have Yohr Picture Tilea , “No Aggies, no pictl^reB” seems to be the situation! at the Aggieland Studio,: accord* ing to photographer Joe 80s- and the last of the lea olik. All non-corps seniors ' Ja ^ ie ^ whiter, rifitnAa ii'itl, A R nr ^illflPrS 0( t.bc liopr/llti noh-corps whose named begin with A, Bl or C were supposed to haver had tykeilr individual pictures made for the Aggieland 1950 by last Saturday afternoon, non-oorps j co-editor Chuck Cabaniss reports. "Because many j students have had to waty °n checks from' the government before having tlfeir pictures made, we are ailowinf these men to have an extra WMtji to ^•r report to the stadiql,’ , f > Chl said. Other alphabetical' will also be scheduled this 1*: The following schedule |br the! j<-ot, Dormitory Twelve. week lias been prepare, pditor said, for non-corps seniors pictures: ' D & E Monday, ToesJ^y i G & H Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. j Saturday has been set aside: asi; a make-up picture day for every one, A through H, who did: not; have his picture made on time; Cabaniss cautions students not to Wait until a make-up day if they can avoid It since the studio any be Overly crowded at speh a t mo. Although A through C •tudents Wilt be allowed to have their pic tures made at the same time w» P through T students, this Will pot be the practice after , this wo ok, (he co-cultor ernphgslsvd, I SiSHisa M ss *11 saii0*w>iimsiSptMs0ssOi Embryonic History Writers fylay Display {Hidden Talents g, according a ont senate elec- ♦; Votes I from the non-milit dorms hjiu A«t, lill been reoelt AUsup ,Mid. and tAbulAtlons were Ihcomplete. Ho expect^ thorn Ito > m uml counted by eariy after* oon. however. • '! I. ■ ■ Iq the votes received MAX OHcfn- er had taken a commanding lejiii for otie pf the five Student Serifli- tof-At-Lnrgc position W’lth 2.04b Mien. , Behind Greiner was WaJ er (rtmienban wltii 1.93$ rttea ami reathing down Ids nepk with .929 W’$s Bobby Sykes. ' lienk Fourth; j , Jj, j In foiirth position wujs Fldyd of ifw . Henk w)Ui a Vote Count fcf B«U* If I tyinfers of the dorm It tor positions # tii^ | dot Which hud reported have tablished and released by) Alij T7ie hew Senators Smith, pprmitUry one; Sam Dormitqry two; Frank Dormitory 'thrye; Louis Dormitory four, fllert D mitory jKive; Ken I-an mltory Blx; Earl Grant, Dprmi Seven; Jimmie Marrudcr; Do tory Eight; Ji iLri’oronada, mitory :Nlne; Roy Nance, Dorihl* tory Tyn; “Bruce W. Dormitory Eleven: votes, with 78 votes.'* Trememlous St Tli- jmost striking thing in the remainder of the Senator-AttLaYgo !(votes was the tremendous Ppflead between the five leaders apd rst of the field. 7! \While the fifth-place candidate polled 1,760 votes, the sixtt -placc man, Sammy Thompson, had Only - A7 votes. Through the rest of tlic larprih- the spread continued. J. D. Hainp- ton was seventh with 83 votes, Bill >\ Biankrtiship wAs eighth with 81 oteg, |and Hob McCJIurt w r njs n|ntn KodeM 'Tenth th wiS'^rr'[voi adera, Bubka Ror |! a Vas igtour i, and IT. : A&M Profs Active Judging Livestock nral Husban- uCtlve part * ly not now' to Sosolik. He has mont Memltci s of . the An dry staff arc taking as livestoick Judges in a largo hum Iht of fairs mid livfes.dck shows throughout the •SouthwnsL Fnsl Hale rvrtritly judgrt tho swine show at iiho |Ki nsas State Fair htl Hutchinson, IAnsas. He also judged tho swiih fhow at the Panhandle Soutli PiaibH Fair at Lubbock and tbc Wichita Falls Fair at Wichita Fulls. Hu is sup- criaUndent of the awi m show at the Knllns State Fair n| Dallas. F. I. Dahlberg hail ji st returned from the swine show iib the Mid- South Fair in Memp ds Tennessee. J. K. Riggs will j idpe beef cat tle at tho State Fair uf Louisiana in Shreveport, 4-oui dai ia and tho South Texas State Fa r at Bcau- Ik the other lens^Sra^iuL^rimffiriSt „ __ venlences ofS^^ SSJ? UsmTis “subject" Mrs. Eotlll la a photo-retoucher who has worked at the Mrs. M. ! !■ '■ i> Mil j J II,'- J' i ' 7!: m the con- \: Dr. J. C. Mililer ing cattle at the Fair at Temple ajid in the capacity |of official otographer 28 out df the 81 ygars he has been in business. ; I His new equipment was installed beef ca ttle at the jtjiat in time to take care of the -book assignments which have idy started. Sosolik 1 feels that new system will, by insuring the subjects are relaxed and ortable, prove that most Ag are . photogenic. I f jut ged hived Central Texas will judge siana Live stock Exposition atl Biton Rouge. W. W. Albert jdW the Corsi- cans show last Friday, Sept. 80. W. M. Warren has ju iged a num ber of count shows including the shows at Tom Bo! Temple. j* !i '.I' ' , 1 ■ i. i ii-li. bn .■I 'I I, U.L [J-, , Wharton and LSU Sets Open House for Ags An oi)en house program m honor of the students of Tex as A&M will be given Satur day, October 8, 1H49, from 2 tja 5 in the LSU gym-armory, abcording to a letter from Jean Gnaw, director of social reercatibn at LSU. i I .j r , , The program will be given by the Student Life Department, assisted by the Student Council, Block and Bridle Club, and two cadet col onels, president of the Student Government, and the girls of Park ed Dormitory. ; [ i The program will consist of yells and songs of both schools, an all irl stage show', and dancing af- e show, Jean said. The letter invited the cadet Col- olncl and the yell leaders of A&M tr attend and be on the stage to assist in lending the A&M songs Aird yells. I Bennie A. Zlnh, assistant dean of student*, urged all students who fj;o to the game to attend the open louse. | Approximately 10,000 AtbdonU, ! ,0t>0 of which wart Aggros, at tended the open house isst year, !!inn ridded. tLII S l Amarillo Club Elects Officers Ted Lokey was re-elected prosi- lent of the Amarillo A&M Club at ts first meeting Thursday night Other officers elected were Bob- jy Amason, vice-president} Ford iladison, secretary-treasurer; Char- lid Fowlkes, program chairman; El lon Golden, assistant program chairman; and Glenn Williams, re porter. /, Plans for the annual Christmas dance lu/Amarillo featuring the Aggieland Orchestra were discuss ed at the meeting. | can borrow, beg, or steal from your roommate rent a dovk in the li brary re.- earch room, hnd you’re ready to c tart J J Do you know the tactics employ ed that permitted a small handful of Texans to withstand the siege of severajl thousand Mexicans j at the Alamp for such a long time? Do you know why the Alamo was of such itrategic importance that is had to be defended against such odds? Do yoij know who tjhe Texans wdre who gallantly gave their lives ati the. Alamo that Texas might be free! and yhat their deeds we:tf during the siege? : Well, I don’t either, hut that’s beside jtlie point. Heie U where the fore mentioned research desk comes it. handy. Yet, put the answers similar questions tog well wriltten essay it might even be you to whom the San Antonio ( lub will pay the tidy sums.of $150 or $50 nekt spring. Nature By, all of us Texans are proud of the history of our State, but few of us know in detail the circumati.nces surrounding! some tho most important inct _ development of our fight for pendencc. Consequently, the San Antonio Club has .gotten together $200 per year for five years to be giver as prize* for the best treatises bn the events which ha: pened in and artund that strategic city in this historic struggle. Tbit year tiny wont to know "Wha r hopnenec at % Alamo?" Now If you are still ln|tcrt8tod, think yo 1 are pretty good at writ ing (pleise don’t compare this with your writing tr determine your ca. pobility) end could ime a little ex tra cash, read on jahd find , out must bo included, and any prtate footnotes, drawings, itc., iniy be added. For 3 ucky souls who can’t type write neatly and legibly, yo uscript will be accepted. Nohri you’ve been energetic enough to write this thing, pe sore tb( gift it o the School of Military Sciepce not later than Al^l 1, lltod thO awards board will!, reach a decision by April 25. . The awards board who ri'rtk*: to are if you’ve copied,, di from the reference books composed of one faculty tentative each from the ' meats of History -and ) and the School j of M Science, and such special a ities who may be available. Here is what the awardiM board s gonna look for in youiri paper. They want-. t|o finjd origi iplF re search, sound interpretatior of the materials, literary ouality; and the originali.ty in use! of materials and development of ideas. The prize winning treatisea Shall l>e the exclusive 1 property I of '* A&M Club of Sqn Antonjo. "M iSSSJS In Itvnth Ocorge Kadera, had AfjVWoaAd take el ftslph; (mtrnuin and Bi n tlf«l for twelfth spot wit Nuth,! ■ ! I ■! . i fhlrtoenth pyiaitluH < GUyipn Relph with ^ fourteenth wtta Chari with 6ft votoM find a* fifteenth With 34 i n Buruh polled M to tak< ‘ ayo hiui Ai rqU ■■■■ teenth.'. Ill' ♦ ;,T. Fred Hambright tool tVi Irvi slktertith, Bill to go 10 8 tary what you're sUppoi — The jTopIc] the It Club wjanta you to Mill tar; History of! the Alamo." TW* pi this history staff i* Interest in the mlUt Of Text}*. Any thembe • of the Sophomore, Junior dr Sen or C rcgularl; r onnlled Science itudcnt,itkl ixiTi a ratio of at least 1.0 enter thle contest. Paper 1 should be one aide of thje i r t ; lit: ‘ t Eighteenth k eight With votes; Philip Parker was was . to the Individuals sub The awards will be lie convocation' on Mothetf**; Public announcement, of t nere will be made oh th|p presentation. Dr. T. F. Muyo an Gray, EnglUh Depat SJ H. Gammon anc |»»a« iiiix iiv «i enveaiitesj tostonts na nm*ultents. ■Jl Wooten Eb $ of all st mutate history! lit A&M Military minimum spaced, bot to of 5,0011 worla. l i / i* i l I- !' j ' i- A i • 1 To Ag. Lounci c. v. Wooumi renter A, tural Economic major, was ed L* the Agriculture Couiics mevtlng hold by the- Mai ?! nance Club ‘ nber 27.1 leers for this >« Hqcted. Those U McClung < ng ami Finance Club last September 27.1 Officers for thl: also jilueted Billy Roy E. Frierson urer, and Billy R. Joe McConnell, tural Economic to, is the was elected at a spring. Sr. •l.' [' IL I it! >! f; Buruh polled May inthl, ‘-Mi *» ighteenth took clghteei Hp Parker u rm field was twentieth With ,19 \ I Into Hevcntoeh mbrighi i r ir,, _ nlnetpchth with 44 vote*. Hoi teentii Pat Ramsey wad twehty first [with 33, and Don Gordon twenty-second wllh 32 vote*, j! 4 last ten, with thefr number of votes, w«ro "Bltay” Pavia Happy 30, Cleve Wi at! Hensarllng 24, A. D| Ji 2L r Xlvie Paul WUHatei ie, Arlami McRwaln 17', Thomas Ball, Jr. 16, Glynn Neff 10, Julius Jerry Fineg 8. 1. Bilker 10, \ ” .rirl •:' J Pi : Charles Lull lk rU»s .Xjuft, vlre-prcsblcnl of f^ley’s Department Store in [Hous ton, will be qn the campui to make several talks tomorrow, announced I’rofesrtr Ralph Hook of the business department. Luff will nddresK Profcsaor Hooks retailing classes tomortow morning, and at 2:00 in the after noon he will talk before en open meeting in the «ICA chapel- The subject of hi* talk* will pe "Buying for a Retell Store.” (T Luft baa Just recently been moled from general stiperintoi 0t Foley’a to hia presen" “ ili [,T /AmS ; • • 1 Mr: YiL Ik [•' lv 'll 'v