- '*■' - ■■V: \ »> • I T: City Of College Station Official Newspaper ; :T: ' ■ 1 r ■ ■-V: I. l\ Volume 49 \ ■V ■' .i i i’ . r •* ^ i; The •M Ll. A&M Plans First \ ’ \ '' ' Debate Tournament ttalion -■ ;; — 4^- —r I ill V| n m S': 1 ; PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland) . TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1950 14-1- ■ • - 4 • ! !t Nation's Top Collegiate Daily AS 1949 Survey Number 79 14 Invitation^ have been mailed to 24 Texas senior and junior col leges for the debate tournament which the A&M Discussion and De bate Club is Broirte to spondsr on March 10-and 11, Harry fe. Heirth, club sponsor, announced. This will • ®e the first tournament of this "Hypo ever to be heMat A&M. IHie invltat Ions were addressed to -inomber schools of L the Southwest ^Conference (incluiling the Univer sity of Arkansas} and junior col- .Iokcs near here that may bfc in- iterestod, lluirth said. A&M is plan- ninif’to enter three freshman teams in the junior division and ifour-teams in the senior division, j Debate Subject The subject for-"debate at the A&M tournament will be thlB^ -year’s national debate subject: “Resolved that the United States Tfhould nationalize all its basic CluB Officers’ Conference On Campus Jan. 21 More than 150 former students are expected to attend the fourth annual club officers conference to be held at Texas A&M College January 21-22. Past and present officers of Texas blubs and other states will be on hand. In fact, some are al ready on the campus. The conference is to be held for the "purpose of! orienting new of ficers in the rhatter of club man agement and for the exchange of Ideas relating to A&M club work. Panel discussions \ witht studen body leaders, faculty. Association ofrFormer Students officers and cliib representatives, are included on the agenda. Registration vvill begin at 1 p.m. January 21 in the lobby of the YMCA. At 2 p.m. the officers will go on ah officially conducted tour of the ‘Memorial Student Center, expected to be completed in Sep tember. J. Wayne Stark, director, of the Center, will be in charge of the tour. The main business session will he held Sunday morning, following a breakfast at 8:30. The officers will attend the Braz os County A&M club and the Ath letic Council banquet at Sbisa hall at 7 p.m. Saturday; honoring the football team arid the cross-coun try team. I • Louts A. Hartung of San An tonio, ts president of the Associa tion ofr Former Students and Dick Hervey is executive-secretary. W. N. (Flop) Colson is president of ihe Brazos County A&M club. Experiment Station Receives Grant A research grant of $7,250 has been made to the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station, v The grant is effective January 1, 1050 through' December 31, 1950. . The grant will be used in the “conduct of research project ‘The Effect , of Diet on the Embryonic Development of Chickens and Tur- -keys,’ ” Dr. R. D. Lewis, direc tor of the station, announced. non-agricultural industries”. Sev eral teams from the A&M going to debate the same subject in Waco, February 4, when Baylor will sponsor Club a tou I' Ll niversity nament, L. J. Martin, co-sponsor of the; local debate cluj), ‘said- Visting debate teams to the A&M tournament will be housed In the vacant wlng pf Walton and In P. Q. Hall. j ;; A&M Debating History! A&M students have been Inter- ctscd in debating for many years. C, O. Spriggs, sponsor of Aggie debate teams for a number of years, recalled that when he came to A&M in 1926, debate teams were already on the campus. Spriggs woiked with the teams from 1926 until 1935 when funds for the col lege became ^so low that debating was discontinued. The Discussion and Debate, Club remained dormant unt^l 1946 when it was reactivated under the spon sorship of Karl Elmquist. j Spriggs said that the most dis tant group that the A&M team ever debated on the A&M Campus was a team from Istanbul, Turkey. Last year an Aggie debate team won the deMison over a visiting team from the United States Mil itary Acaderiny at West Pointy New York. The subject was on cotnpul- sory military training. The Aggies argued the negative side of the question.' U .' ' "We are optimistic over debating prospects this year,” Joe Fuller, club president said. “There seems to be a lot of interest on the part of several good debaters her*, and A&M should do well in competi tion this spring.” " -—Hr Music Program Planned Today A musical program for the benefit of the Negro children of College Station and the surrounding area will be pre sented Friday evening jin the gymnasium of A&M. Consolidated High School. A girl’s glee club, the elepiontary chorus,\ a boy’s chorus, and ja mixed chorus ^ill present the pro gram. .x ,!; Some of the pieces toj bei sung include "Lift x , Every VWce arid Sing,’’ “Jesus Toy of Man’s De siring,” “Beautiful DMamerr “Stars of the Summer Night?* “De Boatman,” "The Voice of the Old Village Choir,” “InfUmatusL” "Cheer the Weary Traveler,” nij.l "Good News.” , „ [ ; | Tickets are now nvajlalMeLj Neg ro children will sell them fro) door to door. The price is 50 cents fdr adults and 26 cents for children. I The Campus Study Club Is spo^ soring the ticket sale, with M; R. R. Lyle in charge. Sha Will assisted by Mrs. Lynn L. Gee. lusical Depreciation Revue Rocks Guion ‘Music Lovers’ The Maddox Brothers and Rose, popular re cording stars, will appear in Guion Hall February 27. Thfs popular hillbUly band has recorded such favorites as “Tramp on the Street,” “Flowers for the Master’s Bouquet,” and “Whoa Sailor." These recordings have been on many of the Western Hit Parades. The Fantastic Forties Texas Booms, Faces Fifties As Uncertainty Palls Scene Rotary Varieties Set in February The first annual variety shc( w staged by the Bryan-College Sta tion Rotary Club will be held in the S. F. A. -high school auditor ium Thursday Feb. 2 beginning bt 8:00 p. m. J- By WILBUR MARTIN (This is the last of three ar ticles on Texas and the Fan tastic Forties). You could rent a four-room, furnished apartment for $45 a month in Dallas bn Jan. 1, 1940. That same ogy pork chops were advertised at 15 cents a pound and six cans of sardines for 19 cents. The first day o£\pur decade was the beginning of siotae^ bewildering times and prices were a major item of the Fantastic Forties. The high cost pf living became an almost fanatical .subject in the years right after the war ended. Thousands' of veterans carrie back with a hundred dollars discharge pay in their pocket and not much prospect for anything but another nundred-dollar payment. \ They cariio back to glut colleges> to overwhelm trade schools, to dry up 'a job market that for years had gone begging. War workers joined the vete rans in n mass switch from the temporary to the permanent. Statistically, the times were abundantly prosperous. Banks had record deposits bn hands; industry had set new records; Crop values were astronomical. In 1947, for Instance, Texas’ wheat harvest was a record 121, $70,000 bushels. It brought high prices. The state’s livestock was val ued at $996,369,000 in 1948. That same year some 892,632,000 bar rels of oil was worth $2,329,769,- 00. Cotton, cotton seed, grain sor- I’hums, corn, rice,: nuts, and citrus growers were part of a multi million dollar industry. And their production totals were in the mil- ions of bushels and bales. The Forties were a changing times. Many tried to keep pace. The state started a general re form of the prison system under u new general manager, O. B. Ellis. The Gilmer-Aiken school , bills j overhauled the state’s school sys- ! tern and provided for an elective ! board bf education and an ap pointive superintendent. Miles of i rural roads were authorised, i For a while, money ran free. It was easy to make during the war. There was a lot of saving stacked up for the years after the war. Sports cashed in on this back log of cash. So did the entertain ment world. Baseball boomed until Texas had seven professional leagues. Foot ball attendance mushroomed until almost every game of i note was a sellout months in advance. The pinch is on right how.. Night club operators ! and ; bar owners are frank to adjmit that the lush days are over. But they’re still far, far ahead of! business in 1939. These Were funny j times; the forties. There was a period When most people juijt ditln’t giv^ a hoot for anything. This was during the war. To S\lot of people, it was "live now, for tomorrow you ipay die." There\was u period right after the war, a period of confusion, un certainty. x For a lot I of people— especially veterans—there was n firm conviction that filings were permanently snafued. | There’s another period now. It’s n period where Jthe major- cure. \ j f There are fewer applications for loans to start small ^businesses. There’s a much smaller\ turnover among workers. “Hahg bp to it, you don’t know what’s gbing to happen” is the general attitude for many. \ You’ll find this feeling in Nall groups, the white collar class, tnp small business man, the industrial, worker. You can point to booming Texas: A new oil field in Scurry County: millions of dollars worth of new construction, highly variep indus try, more people w'orkiiig than ever before and making more mon ey for the most part. You can quote statistics to show that the Forties are fantastic in the opportunities they provided. You’ll still get his answer from many: “Yeah, but; I haven’t got any of that.” An ex-bomber pilot might have summed up these times. “Look, I was in the army for nearly five years. I didn’t get any of that easy money in war plants. I topk the best job I could get. I; haven’t got a house of my own or! an automobile. I’m in a rut and I know it. Three, four years ago I’d have said to heil with it and gone out looking for something better. But not now. I don’f know what’s going to happen today, much less tomorrow. I can’t leave something for nothing. I don’t know where! I’M going and.I’m sure as hell not! getting there very fast. You tell me." i . j ? The Fifties might. The Forties 1 can’t. District YMCA Officer Speaks For RE Week D. Ned Unegar, regional YMCA secretary for Arkan sas, Oklahoma and Texas, will be one of the seven, spec ialists to hold open forums land discussions during Religious Emphasis jWeek, February 13 through 17,1 according lb Gordon Gay, associate secretary of tKe A&M YMCA. I ■ '.' Some of Linegar’s special fields «re Rbcreatjon and Religion, Per sonality Grojwth! and Development, Christianity! and Communism, The Campus Community, Education Is Not Enough^ Brotherhood—a mat-! ter of Hearf and Mind, and Moral Leadership. [ : The sevep specialists will hold informal disjeussions. in the YMCA each afternoion from 4 to 5:30 p. tn. They will also be available for discussion ip the dormitories at 9 p. m. each night. The discussions will be operated on a come jand go basis thereby ing the students without much time come |and| leave when they want to, Gjay said. Subjects dis cussed will jbe at the discretion of the groups,! and will be held be fore any si^e group. Linegar received his A. B. De gree in 1936, from Miami Uni versity, then entered the Univer sity of Cincinnati to work on his. Masters in jthe field of sociology. In 1938, hC entered George Wil liams College to do sociology work in Group Work Education. While in Chicago (he Also studied at the University of Chicago Divinity School. After graduation, Linegar join ed the staff of the Pennsylvania State College Association, where he served until he accepted the executive secretaryship of the as sociation ai; the University of Kansas in 7946, From this job, he accepted hi i present position, i While at Pennsylvania State College, Letjiigar was secretary of the ministe rial alliance, preaching often in lo more than 500 musicians. Kurt* was signed to a three year contract as director of the orch estra In 1948 and the number of musicians in the orchestra was tncreasiKI from 78 to 8S. The aver- of the musicians in the orchestra is 28. Kurtz has conducted opera, ballet and symphony orchestras on six continents. He is now an American citizen but he was born in Russia and was forced to flee the IPissian revolution in 1917. Kurtz first visited the United States as principal conductor of the famed Ballet Russe. He has served as permanent con ductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony and others. He has served as guest conductor of major orchestras including the San 'Fran cisco, Cincinnati, Detroit and Chi cago. He estimates that during his twenty-odd years as a conductor, he has directed more than 300 different symphony orchestras. An expert linguist, Kurts speaks five languages fluently, Rngllzh, French, German. Rus sian, and Italian. In addition to the Town Hall per formance on February 6; the Hous ton Symphony will also ulay for a matlnef. The time Ond prices for the matinee will be announced lator. 1 mste Paul is keepirjg the hamsters because he says they make good pets, but the* main j importance of the little rodents (today is their use as laboratory animals. They are, in many instancbsX replacing the guinea pigs and white rats for ex perimental purposes. Hamsters are important in researchX work on human diseases because \they are susceptible to njariy thibgs tha)t man is. When Paul first got his pets he thought ’he w!as starving them to death, since there never was any food remaining in sight. After i. few days he cleaned out their nest, and much to his surprise he could not find anything but food. Hamsters have a pouch on each side of their jaw where they put their food while eating. After re turning to their neat, the hamsters remove the food and Store Ht away for a rainy day., Hodges doesn’t know whether, to take it as an insult or ■wrhether to accept it as ; part bf their na ture. Anyway] the hamsters 'al ways wash i themselves thoroughly after being* handled by him. When he was asked how many younguns a hamster raises, ‘Paul just shook his head. But accord ing to his knowledge bn the sub ject, a female hamster must be 37 days ol