City Of
College Station
ficial Newspaper
Number 103
ers Ease Living
Tells Students
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PUBLISHED
Battalion
3V THE INTEREST OF A GREATER ARM COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (
Survey
Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 7,
Manners are tlie rules which
make living easier, the audience
, i at the opening 4ecture of the Sen-
* idr etiquette cfutfsc was told last
night.
Mrs. Fred E. Smith
on “The Value of ^
speaking
ourtesy in
ed the need
Everyday Life'
for correct, "commpn sense” social
behavior In the
talk series.
“Emily Post ha:. ...
“that good tpste is the suit
able thing, the comfortable thing,
the useful thing for the occasion,
Troop409 Wins
District Court
Boy Scout
ing its first ap
>p 409, mak
arance at a
Court of ’ Honor j Sunday" was.
judged .the best Brazos Dis
trict troop oft the basis of a
r-polnt evttluutiojn system Work-
trici
foi»r
ed; out by
district ad'
scoutmasters and
Jvance committee.
The winning tr«|«p scored 22(1
out of » possible 4|I0 points. Next
In line were Troop HH|l with 1117
points, Troop 102 With 104 points,
TroePvHI with Itil points, and
Troop 18 with mil polpts.
Court troops scoring over MOO
points will molvi u certificate
with M hluo ribboni Hcoresof 200
to M00 points wll bring n red
ribbon, and scores under 200 an
unadorned certificate. |A trophy
WI lb bo awarded at the end of the
year to the troop sborltlg the most
pojwtia. ■ I
Twenty seven boys Were .raised
th rafik; 13 to second class, 10
to flAt class, two to Star Scouts
and tfwo to Life Scouts. Slxty-flve
. merit'badges were awarded to 20
: boys from Troops, 12, Si, 102, 383,
and 411. I 7 . ■
Walter Parsons was presented
with a sliver Boy Scj>ut ring in
recognition of haying, made the
best advancement recoWi of any
boy in the district djuring 1949.
JaCk Linn, district field execu
tive, 1 presented i certificates to,
troops 12, 81, 102, 383, and 411 for
achieving self-set goals during the
[ 1949 Crusade to | Strengthen the
Arm of Liberty. , 1
Scoutmasters wer«t presented
belt buckle and tie clasp sets
through the courteisy of the Hikock
Company. L-
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CC Dorm Donators
Raise Fund $350
Campusv Chest collections turned
into 'Student Activities office by 9
this morning totaled $358.36.
Amounts turned in listed by the
tillery of Dormitory : 5, $38; Pur-
year Dormitory, $36j7G; “B” Bat
tery Field Artillery, $27; / Milner
Hall. $45.54; “B” Transportation,
$19.30; “A” Transportation, $43;
Mitchell Hall, $8; Milner Hall
$14.42; Walton Hall, $44.20; “D”
Flight Air Force, $14;3B: “D” Field
Artillery; $33.85; “B” Vpt Com-
pnny, $9.40; and Leggett Hall,
^JA” Company llrnnsportatlon
Corps reported MHlOSi participation
4tvlne Caim)us Chest drive. They
gvoruged $1.00 per man. ;
Like election returns soon after
.-■the,poll* close, the results are only
fragioentary, Monty Montgomery,
Chest drive chairman commented
this morning. The Chest j rlv/wTli
continue through t««lay and Wed*
nm \ixy t ^ .
Tonight nt 7:30 tn stage show
featuring Dean Barlow’s band and
Faculty nUlbllI)rbanjd, and the flint
“We’ve Never Been
be presentinl in Guii
its from the show
Campus Chest fund,
pries will be CO cents, Montgomery
reported.
Licked” .will
>n Hall. Prof-
will go to the
Admission
the place, and the times.” *
A large group of students and
several guests from College Sta
tion heard Mrs. Smith explain the
value of good manners.
^ The value of all types of back
ground were pointed out. “Few
people have what we might call
an Emily Post background”, Mrs,
Smith said, “and there are many
people not of the ‘front families’
which ‘arrive’ at high stations.”
Where Manners Learned
J “We learn both good and bad
manners at home. In church we
learn mostly good planners. In
schobl, as in the home, we learn
both kinds. But the greatest source
from which we learn Our manners
is from people we respect and ad
mire.”
There are many books devoted to
good ' manners, Mrs. Smith em
phasized. She singled out Emily
Post’s “Etiquette", the "Officer’s
Guide,” “Etiquette in Business”,
and several others.
These are all available on a two-
hour reserve book shelf in the li
brary during the senior etiquette
course.
Essentials
“There are four essentials to
gpod manners as listed by Emily
Post. They are decency, integrity,
self-respect, and loyalty and faith-:
fulness.
“When I speak of v loyalty and
faithfulness,” she continued, “I
moan not only loyalty to ones
friends and family but to princi
ples. ' '
“You will find when you leave
A&M that there are many people
who do not abide by the same'
code that you do. That is their
privilege. Just remember to set
your own standards, retain them
and live by them. But, at the same
time, allow others the privilege
of abiding by their principles and
standards.”
Mrs. Smith used the Aggie hitch
hiking procedure as an example of
polished manners. “If you,can take
a perfectly illegal thing like that
and make of it what you have,
juat think of what you as indivi
duals ana as a group con do with
th* oocrirtod standards of social
behavior.”
Local and regional customs were
noted as examples of accepted be
havior.
Good' manners affect everyone
with whom we come in contact,
she continued.
Decencies of Behavior
Concluding her talk, Mrs, Smith
summarised Emily Post’s "decen
cies of behavior". They Include (1)
Don’t sponge, (8) do not make
vulgar display of money, (3) do not
discuss family affairs, (4) never
criticise a person In public, (S)
remember a gentleman respects
the rights of others and demands
others respect his, and (6) exer
cise the simple courtesies at all
times:
Mrs. SmUh was introduced by
Senior-Class President Bobby By-
ingtem. j , • i'
Who’* Who
J. A. Orr
Orr is unopposed for
position of councilman of Ward
I in the current <ity election.
The filing deadline was last
Saturc ay, March
Homer B. Adams
Homer B. Adams, College Sta
tion insurance man. has an
nounced his withdrawal from the
city alderman race. Adams was
running for Ward 1 colndlman.
Movie,
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Aids CC
Local entertainers from College
Station and Bryan will combine
talents tonight on the stage of
Guion Hall for the Campus Chest
Variety Show. The film “We’ve
Never Been Licked” will be shown
as part of the three hour perform
ance.
Tickets for the show gfe 50 cents
with all proceeds going to the
Campus Chest. Through this organ
isation, funds, are being raised
for a Twelfth-man Scholarship,
WCCF aid, and for a “reserve for
student aid.”
The main orchestra for the night
and His
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will be Bud Barlow and Hi
Boys”. Uncle. Ed. Harrington am
his hillbilly band will take the
second portion of the music mak-
ing. i
In addition to these two musical
Gty Officials
To Be Gjiosen
From Nine Men
eli ction showed
most of the
total of nine
ve positions.
slim competition foi
city offices, with a
candidates for the f
The jpffiees of m: yor, corpora-,
tion court recorder
councilman had only
each, but Ward II showed an abun
dance pf competitioi as four men
filed for the positio i. There were
two applications far councilman
of Wapd III.
Earnest Langford, veteran may
or of ^ollege Static i, will be un
opposed in the ele tion, as will
C. J. Gorxycki who has filed for
re-election to the p< sition of cor
poration court recoi ler.
i J. A; Orr, prese it councilman
ami professor in the C. E. depart
ment, was left unoi posed for the
Word i position wlen Homer B.
Adams, College Sta ion insurance
and tpulty man, i nnounced his
withdrawal from th f race.
<: Candidates filing i or councilman
of Ward III are E, E. Ames, in
cumbent councilman of the ward,
ahd W| H. Freibergu r, College Sta
tion bprber.
j The (.highly contei
position i
iiy H. B. llalpl
men and professor
cultural Economics
Department; Billie
i tail Ward II
on the council la sought
Hatpin, present council-
In the Agrl-
and Sociology
’hell, CoL
>e held April
over by Pro
acting elec-
station Insorat re
Berm
leal Engineering Department; and
Jack Krone of the Olvl) Engineer
ing Department,
jl The, election, to
4, will be presided
fessor A. Mitchell
tion judge.
Those people who have paid their
poll tax or have £h Hr exemptions
and live within the respective
wards are qualified voters.
The parts of Coll ige Station in-
Oakwood
itioti, College Pai k, West Park,
Ireeze Heights, I elick edition,
and the part of Southeast College
Park that is within the city lim
its. f
Ward II includes- the area south
of Sulphur Springs road and west
of Highway 6, taking in College
Hills.
The part of the city north of
Sulphur Springs rot d, including the
North Gate area md all of the
campus, composes Ward III.
Charles Kirkham
Marketing Cl?b Selects
Cotton Duchegss Tonight
The Marketing and Finance
Club 'will select p Cotton Ball
duchess qt its regular meeting to
night,
A guest speakef W >N talk on
marketing problems that pertain
to agricultural commodities ac
cording to Joe E. McConnell, club
president. A motii >n picture will
also be shown.
■ - Late Wire Briefs - ■
London, March 7—(AP)—Britain’* Labor government risked the
threat of a new election today by accepting a Consenfative challenge
to fight out the issue of state ownership of the iron arid steel indutry.
Prime Minister Attlee picked up the gage of battle In the opening
session of parliament, where his forces hold a precafloua seven-seat
majority. He said his government has no intention df dropping the
nationalisation of that Industry.
Houston. March 7—(AP)—The Texas Prison Bow
prison guards to shoot to kill, Micaping convicts
The board also ordered compulsory, supervised
Improve guards’ marksmanship, and will consider bu
accurate rifles. , ',
Taipei, Formosa, March 7—Generallaalmo
drew teara and cheers today In a 46-mlnute speed
Chinese Nationalists to win the civil war or perish.
Chiang spoke at a memorial service for Dr. Sun Yai-sen, founder of
the Chinese Republic. !
Speaking with deep emotion to 2,000 members of Ills Kuomintang
(Nationalist Party) at the City Hall, Chiang repeatedly said that mis
takes which had led to disaster on the mainland mutt be a'
today ordered
fie practice to
them mor«
''IS
r Kai-shek
ng on his
there would be no hope of defeating the Communists!
svoided or
TotvnHallLines Up
Ssigeti For Finale
By HERMAN C. GOLLOB
When Joseph Szigeti puts bow to
violin in Guion next Tuesday,
March 14, as Town Hall’s last at
traction of itd eminently success
ful season, audiences will be lis
tening to one of the six acknow
ledged great living violinists in
the contemporary music world.
Szigetti takes greatest pride in
his versatility. True, he is an im
peccable technician. But if is the
sheer musicality of his playing,
and his comprehensive under
standing of every type of music
that have lifted him above the
rank and file of today’s violinists.
Szigeti’s range of interests is
unattacked by musicians in any
field; after a torrid session play
ing Bach’s unaccompanied music,
he switches with the greatest of
ease /to something in an ultra-
modepn vein.
Hare in Ssigeti speaking on the
advantage of versatility: ’Typing
la just as dangerous for a musi
cian as it is for an actor. Actors
and actresses of stage and scram
complain bitterly about being typ
ed. Sometimes the same thing hap
pens with mluBicians. Either de
liberately or through following
the easiest course, they permit
themselves to be type-set us Inter
preters of Bsoh and Beethoven nr
Chopin; people then get the Im
pression that the artist can’t play
anything else; ,
•The artist should constantly
set himself new tasks ami perform
them to the best of his ability.’’
By glancing at a list of Szige
ti’s recordings, one may obtain
- Who’*
Floyd Henk
Two City Men
Join Water Board
W. E. Boney of Madisonville
and, Clyde Acord and Col. D. R.
Alfonta, both of College Station,
were appointed to the Camp Creek
Water Company, board at a meet
ing of the directors which was
held last' week.
The directors also accepted the
resignations of W. C. Mitchell, Ira
Kelly and R. B. Butler, all of
Bryan. Acord will replace Mitch
ell as secratary of the board.
Officers Elected
By Coryell Club
The Coryell County Club mat
last Thursday availing and aaloet-
ed offlcera for the spring semester.
h Men elected were Bill Chamlee,
president; Ross Vandiver,, vice
president; Eddie A pel, secretary-
treasurer, George Ricketts, report
er and Michael Brown, social
chairman.
Plans were discussed for an
Easter party to be held In Gates-
vtlle. March 28, was the data sat
for the next
something of an idea of the Vir
tuoso^ almost unlimited range.
Concerts by Block, Brahms, Bee
thoven, Prokofieff, Bach, Tartini,
Mendelssohn and Mozart share
equal prominence with works by
Charles Ives, Handel, and Scriabin.
Szigeti will leave this country
for an extensive concert tour of
Europe in May.
This November, Szigeti will mark
the 26th anniversay of his Ameri
can debut, which he made in 1925
with the Philadelphia Orchestra
under Leopold Stokowski.
Experiment Set
For junior Hi
'"Exploration” courses will
be offered to junior high stu
dents at A&m Consolidated in
the near future to supplement
the four basic required stud
ies—mathematics, English, history,
and science.
Junior High principal, W. T.
Riedel and his faculty have com
pleted plans to broaden the cuiy
rlculum of the achool for next
year. Plans call for Inclusion of
up-to-datp methods In Junior high
oduosUon. Riedel has made visits
to several large junior high schools
In Texas to observe Improved teach
ing methods.
As before, basic courses will bo
required of all students. Time then
will be put to use during the day
In such studies 4* art, crafts,
Industrial arts, ^horal music, band,
orahestra, Spanish, home econo
mics, and others. Students having
difficulties in the basic courses
will be required to enroll for re
medial courses in reading, spelling,
and mathematics.
The object of the new courses
is to give junior high pupils a
background of advanced courses
which they may desire to pursue in
high school and college. Some of
the exploration courses will be
nine weeks in length and others
are to be eighteen weeks in dura
tion, Riedel said.
Cates to Address
Great Issues Class
A specialist on the United Na
tions, John M. Cates, public lia-
son man with the State Depart
ment, will address the Great Is
sues Class in room 301 EE build
ing, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, acconl*
ing to S. R. Gammon, head of the
History Department. His topic will
be “Accomplishments of the Uni
ted Nations.”
Today’s Great Issues class at 11
a. m. was canceled, Gammon add
ed. t
Cates is coming here from Del
las. After his talk here, he will
continue on to Houston, Gammon
said.
Bupel and Schrode
Leave for Meet
Dr. I. W, Rupal, Head of the
Dairy Husbandry ’ Department,
and Dr. Schrode of th* Genetics
Department left A AM Friday to
raprasent Texas at th* Regional
Technical Committee meeting at
Cltmaon, South Carolina.
Texas la one of three active
states in th* program of breed
ing gnd developing better dairy
cattle for the south. Louisiana and
South Carotins nra also included
In the program.
Representatives from the three
schools are meeting in Clemson to
dlsouae the different projects car
ried on by each of th* experiment
stations. ! j ;
usic in Guion
Drive Tonight
giWs the Campu* Chest Variety
Show will feature two vocal groups
of girls from Stephen F. Austin
Hjgh School ~
- duet.
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short
Bryan—a trio and
W. P. Singleton, petroleum en-
11 give a "
giheering major, will gi
session of magic, and the Sing
ing Cadets will finish out the live
of- the program.
Barlow—who; j is better
portion of- the program.
'■—wnoi
at'o .
engineering—organised his band in
jBud
known os W. H. Bqrlow, dean of
1947 at the request of some stu
dents who were planning an En
gineer’s Day program. The origin
al request was for . a skit or (a short
act. Bud said he couldn’t act, but
in his college days he worked his
w$y through college playing for
a dance band.
Plea for Musicians
I i ' ’
He called on all the departments
in the college .and sent out a plea
for men who could play any musi
cal instruments.
At first 17 men answered his
caill for musicians. Now the total
has been raised to 20 musicians.
In the early days of the band,
Bud says he had a piano player
wfio could only play with one hand
at a time. Now he aays he has a
pianist who can play with two
hands—all at the same time.
Kd Harrington is n newcomer
to the faculty musicians. His group
specializes in hillbilly numbers.
And as C. N. Hielscher puts it,
“They play hillbilly music so that
it comes out pretty.”
When masked what his band n
like, Uncle Ed says, “We’re ap
old lime band that plays the olfl
time songs like the old-timers
like to hear them.”
Campaign Ends Thursday
This program is designed to
raise funds in .'the Campus Chest
campaign which was launched Mar.
1. The campaign will continue un-*
til Thursday. j >
In addition to this show the
Campus Chest will conduct a per-
son-to-person solicitation.
A program is also being plan
ned for the Annex. The film “Ro
mance on the High Seas” will be
shown. This show will start at
7:30 p. m.
Twelfth Man Scholarship -
The Campus Chest has setj
aside half of its $4,000 goal to go;
into a student body Sponsored
scholarship. This scholarship will
be called the Twelfth Man scholar
ship. 3 j
Another quarter of the *goal
will go to the World Student Ser
vice Fund. This is an internation
al student-to-student relief fund
promoted By CARE.
The remaining fourth of' the
funds will be held in reserve fund
to meet charitable needs of the
student body.
Journalists Hear
Beaupiicr Tonight
/f W. R. Benumler, vice prosident
and general manager of the Luf
kin Dally News, will address jour-
nallsm students tonight nt 7:30
In tha YMCA Cabinet mom. Hie
tuple will he "Your Newspaper Is
Vou.” ! •.
Baautnier has been n newspaper
man for 80 ixld years, For a time
he ,wa« engaged in chamber of
commerce work. He U president of
theiLujfkih Rotary Club and a di
rector of the North and East
Texas Press Association.
Beaumier has held his present
position, stnoe 1944, which be took
after serving two years as mana
ger of the Lufkin Chamber df
Commerce.
All journalism students and oth
ers interested in writing are in
vited to the meeting.
Stolen Drafting
Machines Found*
» The drafting machines stolen
from the Engineering Drawing De
partment have been recovered, the
Brazos County Sheriff’s office
announced Monday.
Two former students, Bob War
ren Roberts and Robert Leon Son-
field Jr., were charged with steal
ing the machines, and are now un
der bond, according to the report.
The two former students withdrew
from school Jan. 30.
Mrs. Betty Joe Barron
She’ll sing at jCai
Sbowtoni
pus Cheat;
tonight
Ring Committee
Changes Order,
Delivery, Dates
Senior rings may be or
dered by all qualified juniors
on the naais of forthcoming
mid-semester grades and win
be available for delivery Aug
ust 16, the Senior Ring Commit-
tec announeiMl this morning,
The Hew ruling roplxcott n for
mer regulation which would have
delayed delivery of the rlnga un
til after school started In Septem
ber.
Any student who lacks not more
than eight hours of having com
pleted the number of hours requir
ed through the junior year of his
curriculum and has a grade point
ratio of at least one Is eligible
to order a ring as soon ns grades
have officially been posted.
The preliminary grade* for the
Spring Semester will be consid
ered as the student's final grade
in determining his eligibility for
the ring.
The mid-semester grades will be
posted on May 1. Rings may be or
dered after that date.
Delivery of rings prdered at that
time will be made on and ' after
Aug. 15. The rings will be deliv
ered on Aug. 15 and 16 in Room
16 of the i Administration Build!
ing from 8 a. m. until noon and
from 1 until 5 p. m. After that
time they will be delivered from
the Ring Window in the Regis
trar’s office from 8 a. m. until
noon.
All rings must be called for in
person. After Aug. 16, the Ring
Window will not be open in tfie
afternoons.
Egger Awarded
European Tour
By Life Group
R. King Egger, corps chap
lain, yesterday was awarded
a $400 grant from the Stu
dent Life Committee to help
finance a study tour of Eu
rope this summer. Egger, a pert-
roleum-mechanical engineering ma
jor from Shreveport, La., was orte
of seven applicants for the grant.
The tour he will take lasts tqn
weeks and includes trips through
England, the low countries, add
France and Germany. Some Of
the students will also tour. Italy,
the YMCA, which is sponsoring the
tour, reported. ■
Final portion of the study toqr
is a work and study seminar to he
held at Geneva, Switzerland.
' Students on the tour will spenjl
several days with students in se
lected foreign universities where
they will observe living conditions.
Egger, in addition to serving as
chaplain of the cadet corps, if u
member of the YMCA Cabinet, p
lieutenant in the Ross Volunteer^,
member'Bf the .Scrniov Etiquettp
Committee, chalrmph of the Relij-
gious Emphasis Week Committed,
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tfittlva-MM
^ Talker of
MeDonaM, another
Anglcton, and Jeon
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tunloy
ore Mary Louise
Mary Margaret Rmlth of
ouston. f
and a member of/ the .Petroleum
Club. 1 —
Hla father, II. W. Egger ls> X
member of the Claaa of r 21. Wljllh
at A AM he was u member \of the
RV’a. \\ r.
Every applicant fur tim Imp' hml
In meet tiuallflrations *<>( up hy the
Student Life Commit Ic^, The per-
son ap "
agree ■■
of nrtlclea for The HnttalioH.
also promised to be available ti), ;
talk, to local campus umllj civic
clubs, A grade polirt ratio iiliilcaj-
ing the ability to pass (his course
while participating |n extraruni-
culur work was necessary. f
Area FFA Contest
Held in Bryan
FFA chapters from 24 count!
in Area III took part- in a leadi
ship contest at Bryan Saturday,
March 4, to select contestants for '
the State Invitational Contest ;at
Huntsville, Saturday, March 18/ '
Contests were conducted Hh
Chapter Conducting, Farm Demon
strations, and an FFA Quiz for
both Junior and Senior divisions.
The two top teams, in each contest
will compete at Huntsville.;
In the chapter conducting con
test, La Grange and Rockdale
placed first and second in the jun
ior division while Cameron and
Ro.kdale placed first and second
in the senior division. J . .>
Edna and Schulenburg in Hhc
junior division and Bryojn gnd
Schulenburg in the senior dfvi-
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sion placed first and second in the
farm demonstrations. .
The FFA quiz contest was won
f,, - 1 -* Sax' e
by Fayetteville and La Grange I of
the junior division and Victoria and
lola in the senior division.
Navasota won the Public Speak
ing Contest and will represent the
Area in the State Contest; at $an
Antonio in July.
Governor Shivers will address
the students at the Huntsville. ;Hc
will b« awarded an hohorary de
gree of Lone Star Farmer—:the
highest Degree awarded I by :thu
State FFA. * '
Calendar of March
Events Available
Thn Official Aggie Calmidar
of Events for Mgrrh, puhllklmd
by Student Publications, la how.
available, according to Sidney L,
Wise, assistant manager of pub
lications. I
The calendars arc nvallabl* at
the Aggieland Inn, College Ex-
change Store,'Student "
Tim Balt
Arilvljtlea,
'' the! In-
tallon office and ....
formation Office at Goodwin Hall.