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:v fi • n r. City Of College Station Official Newspaper li / - : ' >•; I i attal IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER ARM COLLEGE I ; - 11. / * Collegiate Jr AS 1019 I »aiy»p Daily Survey Volume 49: F^' Number 113 j- - J V Arena Production STATION (J l), TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 21 Price Five Centa t First Experimental Rv mirv vuu’TnrurtDo * ,1 ’J By JOHN WHITMORE The Aggie Players made their Initial try at “theater in the round’’ last night with an Evening of Experimental Theater in the Banquet room of Sbisa Hall. Competing With kitchen dish washers, the local: group did a cre ditable job with three one-act plays produced without the aid of Cur- .-Hk- tain, fqotlightf! or any other regu- A little richer in theater prop- lor stage paraphanalia. " > erties, this segmaht of the pro- The recent innovation, true to E 1 ® 1 ” used a desk, several chairs, The recent innovation, / its name, .cohsists of drama pref sented in the center of a room. The audience surrounds the player*. The idea has met with success in major cities through-out the na tion and seemed to meet with the approval of the circle-forming group last night. .The first presentation, “Aria drf Capo" by Edna 8f. Vincent . Millay consisted of a piny with- . in a play. Cast in the various parts were ••Hete’’ Vsden as [ Columbine, ‘TdiMy" James as I Pierrot, John Richardson as Cothurnus, “Rip" Toni us Tryr- sis, and Chuck Benshetler its Corydon. 1 The/ Players^ utilised dh sole it tnble, hii urticHoke, two /4 N^d»(mntor, it cuukle, n nf cWrpe paper unit two uropi f»owl» piece, chairs, Colutnlilne uml Pierrot opehed the show dlscusslmr nothing 1 In pnrtlculnr until they were chosetl Loff the singe by GoihnrflUsi a druttksp prompter, - r ' Thyrsls and Corydon then pa me m' as two sheep herders arrft wlth _ » little sharp dlnldgue, proceed to , kill one another. This was done with little on no effect on ’ the audience. Number two production for the night, "One of Those Things," I a one-act play by George Kelly consisted mostly of a sharp dia logue between two women in love with the same man. One held prior- : ity in the form of a marriage li- i cense? The men > in this play, as in most of Kelley’s plays acted only .J ^ ! Highway Engineer To Address ASCE : ■ ‘i., . ^ • n/i Texas’ Deputy State Highway Engineer, George M. Garrett, ’24, will; address the student chapter of the Americari Society ■ of Civil Engineers Wednesday, ‘ Willie Bohlmann, cASCE president, said I tepsy* i i Garrett began his professional !. career as ah inspector for the Highway Department. He is now J second ranking man in the depari- ment.. • x - r Subject of the talk will be "The Opportunities of the Young En gineer with the Texas Highway Department.” ^ "Mr. Garrett is unusually qual ified to speak on this subject,” Bohlmann said, “and he wUl be glad to answer any questions; stu dent might have in regard to n career with the highway depart ment." - - , . - All district engineer* of the highway department have been Invited to attend the meeting, Kohl* maim concluded, Already more than half of the Inventions have been eeeepXfth j The meeting will lie held at Into m. in the Civil Kiiglneerllvf r. a'Cture Room. mmm as foils for the dialogue of the women. I Phyllis was played by Jeanne Ostner, Dr. Lebold by Gordon Milne, and Phyllis Arnos’ did an excellent portrayal of Mrs. Le- Bold. f Sarah Puddy played Mrs. Scott and John Laufenberg completed the cast with his portrayal of Mr. Scott. ’ * and the regular equipment orf 1 a business desk. The final drama of the evening went “hog-wild” in this scene by employing almost all the fittings of a living room. Louisa Maly Alcott’s “Little Women” afforded the audience the hearty bellylaugh of tie evening, Unusal casting w$h major cause for the merriment.; Director George Dillavou, ih in troducing the play kald, “A group of serious men came to me and said, 'TSCW can put on plays us ing nil girls. Give us u good ser- ious play and we can do the same thing.' ” Results—the all-female play w«). oast will) the hlggeat mu|es avail- Burleson Asks Anti-Trust Law Apply to Labor Washington, March 21— (AP)—Rep. Burleson (D- Tex) urged yesterday that fcongress apply anti-trust laws to labor unions. Speaking on the House floor, he said John |L. Lewis has gained the highest; hourly wage rate for miners of all large organized un ion groups, and set a goal for other labor leaders. “The pressure is on every un ion head to make his demand, and so goes the merry-go-round,” said Burleson. <“The union boss must maintain his position as leader and he can only do so by keeping up with the gains of his competitor. “But is it really competition? This type of competition is not strange, to the country 410W, but the union which can tie up a com plete segment or our economy and -thereby finally • paralyze j all business and industry re-| lated thereto, must be pretty much monolopistic.” The way to prevent a recur rence of a situation such’ a exist ed during the coal strike is to en act a bill placing labor Unions un der anti-trust law regulations, he said. Masons to Hear Harvey Williams Harvey Williams, Superintendent of the Masonic Home and School at Port Worth, will speak to, the Sul Ross Research Club, Wednes day, March Itt, at 7:30 p. in. In the YMCA Chapel, M. C. (iarren, reporter, said. Williams Is a 103R graduate of A AM and received his Muster of Science degree here Jn 1042. 1 All Masons In this area are In vited to attend. r , f ter fjyT*. playi Laurii _ Meg j by Roland Guannt. Mitchell vvas cast as Mr. 'archi and Ncpton McDuffie play- 1 Amy. The role of Marmee was ipably filled by George Willman McMahon was cast to per fection as Aunt March. Little Beth proved to be the low stealer. Her dying minutes rare played by Howard Davis. This sad demise also marked le enii of the night of Experimen- d theater. Tonjght beginning at 8 in Sbisa, ic Aggie Players will repeat their erfortnance. d by Edward Abra- by Chuck Benshet- 1 Leland to Talk To ManE Men On Accounting T. W.' Leland, head of the Budiiietia and Accounting De partment, will tell Manage ment Engineers at their Soc iety jfor the Advancement of Management meeting tonight more about;, cost accounting and calcu- lutlonof break even points In man- ufacteiring enterprises, Holt Flake, SAIM/lpfesIdent, announced. Lwland's subject will be n Con tinuation of the theme used by the recent! Management Engineering Conference held earlier this monfh: , Thrii, authorities from severiil manufacturing plants outside of Texas* explained the break-even point!;! relative to their companies,! Lelunjd’s talk; “ will touch upon phases of that subject little dis-‘ cussed by conference speakers. This will! be the regular meeting of the management society for the montfl of March, Flake said. The meetijng will ,be held in Room 301, Goodwin Hall beginning at 7:30, he added. ! On the agenda of business Flake mentibned that selection proce dures, for the Society’s Cotton Ball duchess would be discussed, and also plans Will be made for the annual spring barbecue supper. All ;| students in Management En gineering are especially invited, but anyone interested in the pro- gram is welcomed to attend, Flake concluded. 3 r Build Farms, Fa Assure Food—-Kellogg Mary Eleanor Vaden as Columbine, Charles Benshetler as Thyrsls (center), and Lindy James as Pierrot in a scene from “Aria da Capo” which is being presented as one of three one act plays in Sbisa tonight at 8. ; | Eigh t Scholarsh ip Applications Open eral field of structural ei In special cases, the a » to men majoring in Eight scholarships, with a com bine ; cash available triHi wivm ** value of |2,H33, are In the Registrar's Of- gl flee for e ght deserving AH Stu dents. The winners of the awards will be detenu ned In tt few weeks by a Faculty] Committee on Scholar ship. Applications j for the various scholarships are available now In the office juf the registrar and sec retary of the Faculty Scholarship Committee, before!April 10, All scholarships will be award ed on the basis of scholarship, evidence of leadership and char acter, and financial need. The Krueger Award of ffiOO will be giVen to a,student with an outstanding record who has earned a substantial portion! of his col lege expenses and who plans to graduate jnext year. The Jesse H. Jones Reward for Achievement, worth $300, will be awarded on substantially the same basis. Another $300 in the form of the Albert Banta Award will be given to another outstanding student, scheduled to graduate next year, who has overcome serious finan cial handicaps for his educational career. The W. S. Mosher Memorial Scholarship of $600 will be divid ed between two students with two years of college remaining who are studying for a career in the gen- All College Day Committee Formulates Follies Plans “Who Says We Ain’t Got Tal ent”! !is the proposed theme for the Aggie Follies which Will be pre sented on All College Day this year/ The skit is being planned apd written by Kari Wyler, David Rive*, Jim Hoban, and Frank Cle- Und.” ] Recommendations have been made that the follies be a type] of vprlety show. Anyone who is interested in taking part in the folllfts has been requested to con- tact:Wyler in Room 318 of Dorrtli- tory; 2. - |>'/ At a recant meeting of (he All College Day Committee. Wyler progNMed a number of arts and * s which could probably be aded In t|ie show. The prob lem now Is to decide on the skits p- \ I I 7 The crowd in the front of the bandstand Bad that far away, look, listening to the world famous.or chestra of Duke Ellington at the Saturday night Military Ball, that stood in fr is a Of the 7 to hear the Duke and Us MHHNPf v. all part of the crowd ■ most of the night Mira. "band ! is orchi S 1 ' which are to be used and to find the talent necessary to put on the show, Wyler said. Besides, the All College Day exhibits and the Aggie follies, which wi)l {be held on All College Day, the Ross Volunteers will pre sent a program during the after noon and un All College dance will be held that night. The major events scheduled for Mother’s Day ate the traditional Corps Review, the Awards and Merits Progranb and the Pres!- dent’s Open Houile. The exact time for these events will be set by Frank Cteland, Jim Hoban, Claronco jFreberg, and Dean Boyd. The All College Day Committee will hold Its next meeting Monday evening at R In the eonference room of the Dean of Engineer ing. I Profits Down Says Southwestern Bell St. Louis, Maix-h 21—<A*>- resterday the South- In an annual report veil western Bell Telephone Company said it provided more telephone ser vice in 1949 than ever before— and earned less on its invested capital than ever before. Th4 rate of earnings reached a new low of 3.86 percent, compar ed with 4.09 percent in" 1948. Pointing the way to more ap plications for higher rates, the report said: * “Service cannot be extended without the inducement of a fair and reasonable return.” And, it went on, the only way to bring earnings up to q “satisfactory lev el” it to raise the price of the service. . ructural engineering. (he award may go to men majoring in structur al civil engineering or archltec-: lural ronalnirtlon. A sophomore liberal arte major g military selected!to refen taking selected jte receive the Lulle Hugh ey Lane Scholarship Award of the Texas Society, united Stalks science will lie ve the Lulle Hugh ward of thii y, United States Daughters of 1812. The award] worth $200, Is also i«warde<| on the busts of outstand ing qualities of scholarship, lead ership, ami character with special consideration given to u student who h«s overcome difficult ob stacles. A scholarship of $300 from the Fort Worth AAM Mother’s Club will be presented to a student to use dujring either his sophomorje, junior, or senior year. The studeht chosen must live in Tarrant Couti- ty ’ j ,■ A final award of $100 will be given jan outstanding student by residents of Brazos County, i f Professors Loaned To Turkish Gov’t Twk scientists, H. P. Smith, pro fessor of agricultural engineering, and D. T.' Killough, associate pro fessor 1 in cotton investigations, have been loaned J>y the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station to the Turkish government for one year, according to Dr. R. D. Lewis, sta tion directori Smjith and Killough were in vited I by the! Economic Cooperative Administratibn to join a mission and long-time aricultural program in that country. The two men are now |n Washington, D. C„ for con ferences with ECA officials. Sirjith will-be a consultant ion farm machihery and Killough a consultant on cotton culture and production, Lewis said. 4- Texas College Group Plans 34th Meeting The Association of Texas Col leges, an accrediting agency whose object is to advance higher educa tion by promotion oflnteresl com mon to the colleges of Texas, will |tjav*l its thirty-fourth annual con vention at the Rice Hotel in II ous- ton, March 24-26, accordini' to II. L, Heaton, flrat vice president of the association and Registrar of the college, Those expected to attend the convention from AAM are !)eaii Ide P, Trotter, Dean Hhepdnlson, Dean Houghton, Dean Abbott. I. L. Heaton, John Bertrand, C. N. Hlelscher, W. A. VarveT, anl R. G. Perryman. D.i E. A. Evans, president of Prairie View AAM, will he one of the principal speakers pt the convention. His topic will be "Ed ucation with a Service Mot! re.” Four past presidents of thi As*- soclation who were and are present ly associated with AAM are Charter Puryear-deceased, former ly Dean of the College; Charles E. Frlley-president Iowa State, for merly Dean of Arts and Sciences merly Registrar of Grants Announced n, For Summer Study Scholarships for Textui students In this Bcandlnuvlan countries dur ing the summer have been made available by the Nansen FumLJho., of Htmston. These scholarships will covet approximately one najlf of total expenses, Including ocean tra vel. Thjere are each to stud; $360 four scholarships of dy at the tJjni- veriRy of Oslo Summer School Student’s In Huntinj Amel Omo, from Crane, is eral of his y< rother Killed Trip Mishap ’or EE student .ending, the fun- ;er brother who was killed in aj fall from a peak near Sheffield jin Pecos County Saturday. The boy and! three companions were on a hunting and fishing trip when he fell from near the of the peak. A doctor was su moned froth Irajan, 60 miles away, | but did not arrive in time to save I the boy. top um- :7 / for |American students, June j 26 throUgh August 6; two of $600 each to study at the University of Stockholm for. American stu dents, September 1960-May 1951; and two of $600 each to study at the University of Copenhagen for American students September 1950-May 1961. v ; Applications for these scholar- should be addressed to Oslo ship: Sum No: April >er School Admissions Office, field, Minnesota, before 1, 1960, Science Academy To See Trip Films E. “Monty” Montgomery, stu- senator and senior archltec- major ; from Baytown, will shote motion picture* of his 70- day trip ~ ■ mer 1 Texas ence Montgomery’s rough Europe last sum- at the AAM chapter of the 1 Collegiate Academy of Sci- meeting Thursday nigh turen views, an contempo; in such, cc Switzeriai The m i-oon* 10 mrsday night-.,.; I' films Include pic- evastation, sceni? ent and dtecture d, Italy, devastation studies of ancient European archi iea as England, I: and Holland. | | meeting will be held in 1 of the Science Building. ; By C. C. MUNROE The solution to future prob lems of world, food supply lies in a parallel development of agricul ture and industry,' Dr. C. E. Kell- apil , Ag riculture, told the Great Issues Class last night. Speaking on “Soil and World Food Problem”, Dr. Kell- ■ly itegurtrar 01 tne college; and Dr. T. D. Brooks, Dean Emer itus of Graduate School and! Arts and Sciences. This meeting of the A. T. CJ is to be proceeded b; Texas Junior ! which will be held March >y a meeting College Assi the iation 23. Wentworth Attacks Federal Siibsid Every time the govemmehi puts a subsidy price on a product it lowers the value of the dollar, ac cording to Col. E. N. Wentworth, director of Armours’ Livestock Bu reau in Chicago. Colonel Went worth spoke to an agricultural group in the Chemistry Lfcture Room last Thursday evenii *fWe guaranteed prices op po tatoes -and what have; we got? We’re up to our ears in potatoes,” Colonel Wentworth said. W* have a surplus of com, tooacco and powdered eggs because we put a subsidy price on them. ‘The thing that has tnadt] Amer ica great Is the opportunity for one man to excel another. Subsidy prices have cut down the nmpe- tltive spirit of the Atnerlcar peo ple, Colonel Wenteohh *$I<1. fr, I8 1 the* - - r .incki pie, Colonel Wentworth salt Mexico Study Help Awards Available of $2j[»d each ly at me Uni- Two scholarships for students to study ft verslty of Houston Summer tehool at the National Unlv«raity, Mex ico City this summer are being sponsored by .the Nansen Fund, Inc. of Houston. Students during the first term, June 8 to July IS, will study Mex ico City, the nearby cities, a id the vestiges of Aztec and Maysn civ ilizations. The second term July 20 to August 24, will includi stud ies of both Mexico and Guatemala. Interested students should apply to Dr. Joseph Werlin, University of Houston, Houston, Tex^i. Whata Kick In that Coconut Juice ... ogg said that free flow of infor mation of industrial and agricul tural advances will do much to eliminate present and future food shortages. The job of producing enough food to supply the anticipated world population in 1960 will be difficult, Kellog said. “We dont’ ppmn Carl H. Krelner Krpinei', prealdeilf of the ton Hales Kxe will be m« special forum lions- eetillves Club, e r a I o r pt a Mwtel forum on salesmknshlp blch will lie held In the YMCA Chapel at I p. m. tomorrow. He la regional manager for the Gold Heal Company and suiter- vises selling of that firm's pro ducts In a seven stele area. Carl Kreiner To {Head Sales of selling as a career will be presented by the Business and Accounting Department Wed nesday afternoon in the YMCA Chapel, E. R. Bulow, chairman of the forum, announced today. A large group of sales mana gers from Houston,- headed by Carl B. Kreiner, president of the Houston Sales Executive Club, will conduct the forum. A question and answer period and a series of short sketches by successful sales managers will be included in the, afternoon program, Bulow said. Among the men participating in the program are H. E. Perry, president of Mosher Steel Com pany; Madison Farnsworth, sales director of Gulf Oil Company; Betrain E. Scheff, sales manager, for Wright Manufacturing Com pany; and Herbert T. Crate, sales manager for the real estate firm of Hodell and Company. Professor If. W. Leland, head of the Business and Accounting Department, In announcing the forum, said, “We are especially anxious to pfewnt our business courses In a realistic, practical manner ao that wo may develop young men ready to aasume j>o*f. tlons of responsibility, and also so that Industry will have young men ttalned to fill the needs of modern business enterprise." Kreiner, who will moderate the forum, ha* had a lung rftreer In •filing. A 1823 graduate of the University of tc - ■ ed a retell aul-i > Mid bwa, Kreiner operate 10 parte service bus iness In the Midwest for ten yeanf. In 1933 he moved to Houston and was associated with the Continen tal Box Company. He later became sale* manni-i'i and vice president of that firm.j In 1947 Kjreiner became sales agent for several manufacturers and the following year was asked to open up a Southern district for the newly formed Gold Seal Com pany. At the: present time he fs regional manager for seven Southwestern states and a mem ber of the firtn’s national advisory committee. The forum will begin at 1 < p. m.., Wednesday, Bulow said. ———w r Monkey Pair Given. Shake. Awaken to See 30 Snakes I , Fla., Ms very t propne >f a boa store F AP)—An eight-foot boa con stricter gav ;t a pet shop last night to the amazemen ton outside the store, ved the day before from South Amer ector. Coker, said it was the first time he I aving young in captivity. r at the time, but startled passers-by bolter was called from church to take Youngsters crawling All over his shop md turned over their cage. lories 9 i, !j L the world’s people oqt of a mmon larder,” he pointed out, nd the foods which will 7 be most ■Cded in 1960 are the hardest ones grow." Not Too Big The job of assuring an ad.- late food supply is not ns big 1 it might seem, be continued. Ifficiency on /arms is increasing d individual output is growing ery day. The division chief told the Great Issues class members and more than 60 guests that wool- produc tion increased 16 perl cent in the ‘ req, year period froWi 1946 until This 16 percent increase had the goal set by the United at low for I960, he pointed out, nd it was reached two years fe are seeking a level of Xus. slned production,” he said. An acreage increase of 6fll ;per *nt Is very possiblli because of sw agricultural methods. H«i e<>»- nued by telling the audience’ that n Increase very much higher ban: 60 per cent Is possible If anners atteinjit an "ull-iout" ef- ort. j Thla - Increase Is possible (jnly if Industry, nolshly the powri' Industry, extends Its service io farming areas throughout ;the world. i. : The Agriculture Detutrtrrienjt division chief corrected a elite- fnon false Impression, "MoM of dhe Soils Ip this country were not pro* ductlve urftlf. |l«> farmers, using, Scientific methods, made them Umt way." * j ; . . 1 " Decisions at Hem# Decision* affecting production he world over are not made by foverrtment,' Kellogg continued. They arc made In the hundreds it millions of Individual farm units. It Is Important that all new agfc j rlcultural methods be taught to the farmers, he said. The method 'r I The world’s farmers must Mam 111 to help themselves, he pointed nut. Advisors must be provided for them. However, he emphasized, we must not get the idea that the United States should go into other countries and alter! thetr political or economic set-up just to teach them new methods of agriculture. Free Trade There is a real I need for free trade, Kellogg said. We cannot make a real start toward improv ing world agriculture without free trade, he stated. 1 There is a need for public and private investment in agriculture, in rural power systems, and; in industry supplying the farmers. He cited as an example the Heed for mord fertilizer factories in all nations of the world. There Is also much research needed in undeveloped fields, Kell ogg continued. Hydroelectric pow er, agricultural tool designs, con trol lof plant and animal diseases were listed as examples of this needed rezearoh. r ! "The farmers can and should do even better jobs 6f farm build ing, he said, AleirU wall equipped, well managed farma lire nut teed, for natanre, with the problems of erosion. Such management pays In increased production. I . Wa must all try to understand bf Wor* i'. ■ tha problem bf world food short, agea, he concluded. "To do: this we need tolerance ami,.even higher than that we need appreciation of tha other fellow and his ef- £orta,” 1 || —L ireak' I Thla is too good to pas* up. Wq read in a recent Houston Post column that Dow Chemical: Conru pany has designed un all-pUstic ukulele with Nylon strings. The unusual: feature of this $6j96 In* strument is that It can be played under {water. Next thing you know the Chem ical Engineering. Department will be adding a course In musical ap preciation. ★ j SAD TALE OF THE WEEK END DEPARTMENT—The corps’ communications 1 officer was all setf for a fine Militery Ball week end- He and his attractive/date from down Houston way started things off Friday night by drop- 7 IM ping in at an Air Force party out at the American Legion;' Hall. This ; was to be a preliminary to Saturday’s Military Ball. Fate intervened, however,: Satur day morning found the kaydet a long way from any further parti cipation in the weekend delebrk- ttona. He was confined to tihe col lege hospital with the mumps. ’' ■ I III " t ]j I 7 ■