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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1950)
i, ; . :: u V | -t ' City Of i College Station Official Iffewvpaper j-p 0 '■ ! i v fi : Battalion IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER ARM COLLEGE : ——:—=rrrr— - 1 - 1 . , I ji T5 •y; Nation’s Top Daily 1949 Survey 5 n •f • •••« i r |f j' .ij Volume 49 STATION (AggWtmi), TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, IBM Number n T . “31.^ ,v. -4 ' t i ,1' ; 3 T Klnjc Cotton Ni-lnoti Bninnomnn (aecond from loft, front fow) tuul hln cotton court pose for a formal portrait after their Identity wan revealed by the Agronomy Society. They are (front row, left to right) Roy Cook, Brunneman, 41m Trouble- field, and liave Riven. On the bark row, left to light, are; Leo Mlkewka, Ray Kunze, Tommie Duffle, Corned Ohlendorf, and Don Ilegl. The 16th Annual Cotton Ball and Pageant will be held April 2$. SMU Students Send ‘ - ,1 r r ■ I Ha W ” Apologies to A&M The student body of Southern Methodist University apologized to the student bddy of A&M yester- iday- ’ Bpb Gibson, : president of the BMTJ ‘ Students' Association, ten dered the apology in a letter to Keith Allsup, president of the Stu dents Senate. Allsup wired A&M’s acceptance of the apology to Gibson last night. The SMU student body presi dent said that the hilltop school’s student governing body had joined with SMU authorities in making a full investigation of the fight which occurred last Tuesday night. Three Church Panel in YMCA n . ■i A panel discussion to be held in the YMCA at 4 this afternoon will consist of representatives of three faiths—Jewish, Catholic and Protestant. Rabbi William S. Malev will re present the Jewish faith. He is spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Yeshurum of Houston, the only Conservative Congregation ip that city and one of the largest in the Southwest.. The Protestant faith will be re presented by Rev. Grady Hardin, pastor of the Chapel wood Method ist Church of Houston. Rev. Har din was main speaker for RE Week on the campus in 1948 and at the Annex last year. Rev. Bertrand Abell, Catholic; Priest of the Holy Name Retreat; of Houston will represent his faith: on the panel. ■». j Ned Linegar will act as/thedia-, , tor of the panel. Mr. Linegar, who is regional secretary of the YMCA, is from Dallas. : Notify Parents Of Correct Address All students should notify their parents of their. dormitory room and phone number and the num ber of the housing office (4-5014), so that they can be reached quick ly in an emergency, Harry Boyer, , chief of Housing announced to day. Messenger service is operated after 6 p. m. and on holidays. Messengers are students and re ceive the messenger fee paid to the phone company. Elms Announces Dance Changes Changes in the dates of the Sixth Regimental and Artillery, "engineering, Cavalry, and Infantry regimental balls, were announced today by Grady Elms, of the stu dent activities office. The date of the sixth regimental ball has been changed from Feb ruary J8 to April 15 and that of the Artillery, Engineer, Cavalry, and Infantry regimental Ball from March 31 to April 1. between three Aggi of SMU students. es and a gang SMU students are also doing in their power to assure that si a situation does not arise aga Gibson said. The letter from Gibson folio* by a day an; Associated Press i patch which said that apologies the affair wiere on the way: fr^ SMU to the Aggies involved in fight, the Aj&M Athletic Depart ment, the Stiudent Senate, and college. Gibson’s Letter Gibson sa;id in his letter to A 11- sup, “In 'behalf of the Students’ Association of SMU, I wish to ex press an apology for the incident which occurred on our campus fbl- Towing the A&M-SMU basketball game, February 7. “All of us regret the incident, and we are doing all in our pow er to see that a similar; situation d< es not arise. We students are permitting this matter to go noticed, but are currently conduit ihg a joint investigation with the administration. ; .— “We feel/' Gibson continued, “that relations between our two •student bodies have been very ex cellent, and we hope that such satisfactory relations may be Re sumed in the very near future. | “Please realize that we regret this incident very much, and wish to offer our slncerest apologies.’’ Allsup was contacted in his room late last night and reported (hat he had already wired his accept ance of the apology to SMU. Allnup’s Wire The text of his wire read: )** iregret the incident that occui between the students of our Re spective schools following the bas ketball game there. ■Tt was regretable from the standpoint of our past relations. They have been what they should “We urred between students of college level. I think our relations can be main tained in spite of this Incident. “We here at Texas A&M will do all we can to maintain these re lations. "We accept your apologies and' want ;to thank you for extending them to the student body of Texas A copy of Allsup’s telegram was sent to the Dallas Morning. News, the Student Senate president said. Copies ' of Gibson’s apology fbr the SMU student body were sent to AUsup, The Battalion, and Col onel of the Corps Doyle Avant. Creative Writers Mteet Februaty 16 A meeting to launch the Creative Writing Club will be held Thurs day, February 16, at 7:15 p. m. room 328 of the Academic bull ing, cltib sponsor Harry Kidd an nounced today. Reports from the constitutUonal and nominating committess will be heard, Kidd said, and officers wfll be elected. .l r He re-extended the invitation any and all persons on the cam[ interested in creative writing any form to come to the meetink. 5 House Clears New Cig Tax Of One Cent pitals and special schools. The vote was 112-27. It was the first tax bill passed by the House at the special ses sion. . ■ I Th$ measure would raise the state' tax on cigarettes from a pre sent level of three cents per pack to four cents. On the basis of current cigarette sales in Texas, it would raise approximately 7 % to 8 million dollars additional re venue. ; Five million dollars of this ex tra money would go to a special fund for construction of hospitals and special schools. The increase would remain in effect to Sept. 1, 1957. The bill now goes to the senate. Restriction of revenue for build- ihg purposes to $5,000,000 a year Was provided for in an amendment by Rep. Douglas Bergman of Dal las. The amendment was adopted, 123-5. Rep; S. J. Isaacks of El Paso, who cast one of the five opposi tion, vptea to the bill, said he did 4° In (he belief the tax was in equitable. I “Our constitution says all taxes Shall be uniform. I see no reason for taxing cigarettes four or five tjlmes as much as any other lux uries," he declared. | Then the House by recessing un- U1 10 a. m. instead of adjourning, Paved the way, for immediate con sideration of other tax bills. This means the second adminis tration-backed tax measure pro bably is next up for debate. It is the bill by Reps. Joe Fleming, Cal- lan Graham and Dolph Briscoe to Increase rates in the omnibus tax hill 15 per cent. | The cigarette tax increase is to provide funds for construction. The omnibus tax increase is designed to raise 20 or 21 million dollars for operation of the hospitals and spec ial schools the remainder of this biennium, which ends Aug. 31 1951. Air Force Men To Discuss Benefits Representatives of the U. S. Air Force will .be at the Chemistry Lecture Room at 7:30 Wednesday night to discuss the opportunities now available to former members of the Air Force, Kenneth A. Fu- gett. Captain, U. S. Air Force Re announced today.; A program is now in force which lers four days pay for each two lys of active duty. This work is one weekend a month, and _n days of active duty are available during the summer, Capt. Fugett said. Qualified officers will be on hand to answer reservists questions con cerning their present status in the Air Force Reserve, potential bene fit*. opportunities for promotion, and retirement privileges which new federal legislation provides for former Air Force men. I- " : i Terrific Finish Gives Quintet 52-46 Win Over Wilting Farmers Dorm Discussions By RE Speakers Discussions will jagain be held in the various lounges of the dorms tonight at 9 p. rft. in accord- aiice with RE Week activities. The schedule or speakers and lounges is as foljows: Dorm 2 Rev. Abell Dorm 6 Chaplain Gaskins Dorm 9 [Rabbi Malev Walton Rev. Sweet Hart Hall L Dr. Crane Leggett Hall .... [Rev. Hardin Dorm 16 Ned Linegar YMCA Rev. Wassenich Truman Urges Clamp Down In Vet. Programs Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) —Truman yesterday handed Congress a catalog of abuses under this years $ 2 ; 754 > 0 °0>* 000 GI education program and urged the legislators to clamp dojwn. pointing to Skyrocketing num bers of veterans attending trade anid vocational schools, Mr. Tru- mkn asked new legislators to pre vent inferior trainipg. With 850,000 veterans taking such courses—and 5,635 private trade and vocational schools for them set up in five and a half years—Mr. Truman told congress he was concerned lest the GI edu cation plan “be blemished by the belated growth of pertain kinds” of! such training which wouldn’t be much help to the veteran. The President submitted a re- po|rt of the Veterans Administra tion and the Budget Bureau which estimated that more than 900,000 GI's would be taking the trade courses by 1951 and that the na tional budget for next fiscal year prpbably must be increased to han dle it if the trend swings higher. The report said that $761,000,000 already had been [added to the estimated cost of the GI schooling program fop the bresene fiscal year ending June 30 [because of un- forseen increases ip the enroll ment for trade, vocational and other schools below college level. Rep. Taber (R-NY.) said recent ly hearings indicatep the whole training program needs a careful checking. He declined to make an estimate of how much might be saved from the $2,754,000,000 putlay but he hinted at a billion dollars. The Veterans Administration said that the “starting growth” in trade courses had pccompanied a sharp drop in veterans' enrollment In colleges. The report made these points: Enough poor quality training is (See TRUMAN, Page 4) By SKIP SIMMEN Staging a terrific finish, the Arkansas Razorbacks, after trailing most of the contest, came from behind and downed the Aggies last night in Fayetteville by a 52-46 count to drop the Cadets into fourth place in the conference standings. A capacity student crowd of 5,000 watched the home- courters trail the seemingly hot Maroon cagers in all but six minutes of the exciting fray; but when the Hogs started sinking closing minute goals the Farmers had “had it”, With John DeWitt and Buddy Davis lost to the Ags via the foul route, the Porkers took charge of the clash. . ’ 3 f It was a’ nip and tuck battle all the way, with Ram forward Jim Cathcart contributing most of the amazing ball handling and shoot ing. He was helped i|n both depart ments by his teammate, 6’ 7” Bob Ambler. So Close, Too With only she minutes and ten seconds til the final whistle the Hogs took a ohe point lead on a long push shot from the hands of Cathcart. The Aggies were leading up to this point. Another half minute of play found the Farmer i quintet five points behind the Hbgs. When the two minute rule went Into effect they were trailing by eight mark ers. ‘ McDowell, after being fouled on an ottempted shot, mede only one of two free throws. Before the Amarilloan left the floor after the game, he did Come through with two more field goals, but they were to no avail. Probably having Buddy Davis foul out had something to do with the falling apart of the Ag group. Davis may have played his best defensive ball for the season, but was a little too anxious In the final minutes, drawing his fifth personal with six minutes left. The Razorbacks ji:ame to life about this time when Bob Ambler, tall and capable Hog center was pressed into service after being taken from the garni in early min utes. . |j i -v - W . Tumbow Scored First Winning the game-opening tip went to no avail for the Hogs, who lost the ball on a bad pass. After an exchange of the hide three times. Cathcart was caught fouling Bill Turn bow. Turnhbw, after hav ing the ball wiped off, slipped it through the mesh for the first marker of the night. It took Jim Cathcart only fif teen seconds to score for the Raz orbacks. Cathcart took an almost too wide pass from right forward J. N. Miller and dribbled in for a cleanly netted crip. Turnbow again came through with a charity to pull the fray into a tie. It was a nip and tuck game for the next seven ! minutes with neither team jumping ahead by more than two points. It was McDowell :who made a two-handed jump shot from left court that sailed the Ags ahead by three points with a tittle over two minutes to play in the first frame. DeWitt then made a field goal from the right corner to put the Farm ers out in front by ftye. * Five Point Lead Gayton Warns Against Deals With Soviets Washington^ Feb. 14 (AP) —Will Clayton, former under secretary of state cautioned Monday against an arms agreement with Russia and said the Western powers could never fully trust the Soviet. The Houston cotton man told Senators any arms pact between this country and Russia would be* "unfortunate because It would only lull the United States Into a false sense of security." „ Declaring that a third World War is Inevitable unless the U. S. makes a complete, radical change in its policy, Clayton said the solu tion is for this country to take the lead in forming a union of the Atlantic powers. “Such a union would be so pow erful and prosperous that the pull on all non-Communist countries and on the Russian satellite coun tries themselves would be so much greater from the west than’from the east that such countries would in time gravitate to the west,” Clayton told a senate foreign rela- Vons subcommittee. / Clayton is president of the At lantic Union Committee, which ad vocates a federation among the North Atlantic (lowers. He gave his views to the panel studying proposals for strengthening the United Nations. Curator Gets D. S. Degree H. B. Parks, retired cura tor of the College Mueseir., now residing at 309 Highland Street, Bryan, has been award the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by the Board of Trustees of Blackburn Univer sity, in Carlinville, Illinois. Parks has been invited to at tend the commencement exercises at Blackburn University in June, when the degree will be formally conferred. He will also take part in the dedication of & new dormi tory. The building has a capacity of 300, Parks said, j A two-handed (See HOGS ush shot by Hess push; WIN, Page 4) Glenn McCarthy Am Take Galveston Plane By GEORGE CHARLTON Two extra passengers boarded th<* DC-3 with Glenn McCarthy Friday night on hjis way back to . the Shamrock. They were John Whitmore, junior journalism ma- joi| from Houston, and Frank ‘‘Ship’’ Simmen, Galveston junior majoring in business. During the annual junior ban quet and prom at which McCarthy wajs honor guest, Whitmore asked the oil and gas millionaire if there wojuld be any additional room in his plane back to Houston that night.' ‘fSure. Glad to have you/’ Mc Carthy said. Whitmore made pne more re quest “that possibly this friend" of his could also make the trip. McCarthy though^ a few sec onds this time and answered, “Sure. Bring him along!” ie junior journalism major ed to DeWare Field House to acquaint Simmen with the news. Simmen was covering the Aggie :etball victory for The Battal ion;. In a matter of seconds, Sin- men and Whitmore had raced back to. the dorm, changed their clothes, and returned to the dance where McCarthy was helping se lect the Junior Sweetheart. McCarthy’s plane left at 11:30 p. m. from Easterwood Airport bearing pilbt, co-pilot, and five passengers. The passengers were McCarthy, his physician, his pub lic relations man, and the two Ag gies. Whitmore described the sound proof interior of the private plane as “beautifully plush in beige col- ors." Two couches, a desk, a radio, a kitchenette, and an ice box, had bebu Included in the plane’s inven tory for the comfort of passengers. During the trip back, the Hous ton otvic leader, as many Aggies before him, told the green serge- bedecked juniors about A&M when he was here in 1926. “We were jUst shooting the bull, and, as usual, that inevitable subject of all cam pus conversations—wine and wo men—came up," Whitmore says. The pilots referred to the DC-3 as the “work plane” and called McCarthy’s private Constellation the “Goony Bird.” According to Simmen, they didn’t like the “bird” at all because of those “four huge props that had to be cranked.”' After about 45 minutes the pi lot came back into the main com partment and notified his employer that the ceiling In Houston was too low in Houston for a safe land ing The pilot suggested Beaumont and Galveston as possible landing points. The plane landed in Galveston, at about 12:30 a. m. Cabs were im- ies ip mediately called which rushed the five passengers and [two pilots to the Balinese Room. > \\ "As soon as they saw us com ing,” Simmen says,; “they really gave us a big reception." The manager and attendants came up and met the group. Jan Garber and his orchestra serenaded McCarthy and his party, crowding around their table and playing Irish songs. Steaks were ordered, and the three or four servers at the group’s disposal were kept busy lighting cigarettes here and there, filling empty glasses, and bring ing in hot dishes of food. The steaks and fish dinners were wheeled out on serving carts. Mc Carthy left for minute to make a phone call and his plate was im mediately returned to be warmed on a burner. When he returned, the manager apologized for the meat being cold and tough, i "You could have cut It with a fork,” Whitmore says, abushed. And of course the fabulous Glenn picked up the check. The two juniors slept the next day In Simmen’s Galveston home’ till four that afternoon. When they awoke, Simmen found his exper iences of the night before men tioned In The Galveston News. Some people still don’t believe ’ Slnnm An ' aa\ra ■»K - ..'} ■l-l j/ 3. , i i trrn k v;Sp M ; i, . Great Contributions From Jews—Crane* “Th|; greatest contributions ever —J made to the human race have come from the Jews,” ■ said Dtr. Henry] Crane in his second talk off Religious Emphasis Week thip mornipg at 10 in Guion Hall. Jarvis Miller, senior Ag Ecp major from. Orange Grove, pro- sided jat the service. The opening prayeij- was led by Jerry Byrd, sen ior Business major from Vernon. Buddy; Boyd of Ft. Worth led the singing accompanied t>y organist Jim Rbllins of McKinney. . "Nothing can compare," Crane continued, “with the significance of suejh tremendous values as <1) mightfest moral genius of all time Men, Women Relations Talks In T Tonight % a ! f r us,” Simmen says "And sometimes It myself,” Whitmo: i don’t believe Mejn and Women Relationsfe 1 will the subject of two discus sions !to be held in the Chape), Tuesday and Thursday nights at 9 p. m., according to Allan [Eubank, president of thle Inter-Church Council. These dis cussions are being held for mari- ried students and their wives as well qs other interested students, Eubank said. The Tuesday night discussion wjll be led by Rev. Paul G. Wasj- senich, director of the Texas Bible Chair at Austin. Wassenich is thr president of the University Reli] gious Worker’s Association i University of Texas, and udul] sponsor to the Texas Disciple Stuj- dent fellowship. He also offer* course* in the Bible and-Christian Marriage and Family Life at the University, j Maj|)r Steve P. Gaskins, pos^ chaplain and chaplain Of The Aii tillery Center at Fort Sill, Owlaj, will chnduct the Thursday night discussion. Chaplain Gaskins solv ed with the 168th Infantry Regi mental Combat Team and the 6th Infantay Division through many campaigns in the Southwest PacL fic. 1 Gaskins’ formal education con sists of AB degree from Oklahomi) City Universitv. a, Divinitv degred from Garrett 'Biblical Institute, a graduate school of Theology of the Mlethodist Church located on the caimpus of Northwestern Uni versity. In 1947, he was selected by the! Army for one year of grad uate study at Union Theological and Columbia University in New York City- Agronomy Society Elects Officers jk Zabick, senior Agronomy studeni from Temple/^was elected Agroi " vertU office: v the Cottoi onomy Soc president of the iety Wed. night. Zabick has held se In the ! Society and in it Committee. He of the 1949 judging team officers elected were: Ger- , ,1; R. E secretary; Dewey 8am- W. H/Tanamachlll ; J. Ri Woods parliamen- and Prof. T. E. McAfee memt aid Mi Hoi uels, advisor. \\ —Jesus (4) the invincible princl-i pie of survival. All these have come directly from the Jewish peo ple. The /Intellectual and spiritual history of mankind has been, above all else, the quest Of God. We are Chaplain to Speak at Drill The corps of cadets will hear a talk by Major Steve P. Gaskins, post chaplain at Fort Sill, Okla., Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 5 p'. m. instead * of participating in: company dril, Lt. Col. Joe Davis anoiinced today. This is with the exception of the Artillery Regiment which Will have its regularly scheduled prac ticed parade. hat. not mere brutes—born, eat, grow, die and in all be contact. We eternally ask why, wha 1 who? What’s behind this cosmic^;, ( process? What’s its nature, quali ty, meaning. No single idea has such vast and vital significance as the God concept. It colors, effects and de termines our world view more than anything else, fi v. The errfergence of the prophets of Israel,'800 years before Christ, is one of the most, amazing phe nomena of all time. They proclaim ed their convictions that God is righteous, just, decent, loving, etc. —and„enormou8 strides Were made in our thinking] • / , At long last when man had suf ficiently developed to understand the true nature of God, he spoke to us in the most comprehensible way imaginable. He, wrapped himT self up in the form of a baby and had himself born ip a barn. “And the word became flesh and dwelt among us,'” as John says. In other words, Jesus bears the same relation to the infinite spirit of God that a word does to ap idea. Hence, if you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus;; to kpow what he says, listen to “the word”; As, the master said, “ho that hath seen me hath seei) the father.” i Bines Shows Cooks Latest Methods ‘ L Mlsa Anna Bines demonstrated by actual cooking, several dishes Including beef stew, Spanish pork chops, lamb shoulder roll and broiled ham slice, in. the lecture room of the Animal Husbandry De partment. Monday afternoon. ■ The meet cookery demonstration, sponsored by the AH Department and the Women’s Social club oit College Station, was ’held before a large audience. , ^ Miss Birles is from the Home makers Service Department of the National Live Stock and Meat Board of Chicago. O. D. Butler of the AH Department, was in charge of arrangements. I Duchess Pictures Needed by Rives All campus clubs, societies, and! regiments, desiring to enter a duchess in the Cotton Pageant, 'must have their entries in before March 15, 1950, David Rives, sec retary of the Agronomy Society, feaid today. All clubs that have not received; invitations should contact him at Box 42666, College Station, Rivea said. ' f I}' 1 * ■ •> . 11 ' ' . - v N;