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Number 108: Volume 51
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1951
Do You Think
War Is Glorious?
See Discussion, Page Two
Price Five Cents
MSC Councilmen
Set f iled ion Date
Election machinery was set in motion yesterday for the
first campus-wide selection of members of the Memorial Stu
dent Center Council.
Members of that Council, meeting in special session,
chose Tuesday, March 20 as election date for two elective
positions on the Council.
The two jobs will be open to qualified students in two
categories in accordance with another measure passed at
yesterday’s meet. One student member of the Council, the
joint student-faculty-former student governing board of the
♦'MSC, will be chosen from a list of
qualified candidates with
Baylor Drubs
Ag Debators
With 17-4 Vote
A two-man Baylor Debate
team downed an Aggie duo by
a 17-4 vote in a meet in the
MSC last night. The Baylor
team, composed of Russell
ftennett and Fletcher Brown took
'the affirmative side of this year’s
national question—Resolved: that
non-communists nations should
form a new international organiza
tion.
; Aggies Dan Davis and James
Farmer, members of the losing
team last night will depart soon
for a two day meet at Natchitoches,
La., with Northwest State Col-
lege.
I Another team, composed of Bill
Walker and Joe Murphy, will also
« compete at the contest Friday and
Saturday. Club sponsor Lee Martin,
will also make the trip.
L Yesterday afternoon two Aggies
Bnd two Baylorites participated in
* s 30-minute round-table discussion
of the national question over
WTAW. From Baylor were John
Bagley and John Claypool. John
Samuels and Robert Huffman re
presented A&M.
I Ted Mullinix, chairman of last
night’s debate, was also chairman
for the WTAW discussion.
| The Aggie debaters will meet
a West Point team Wednesday,
March 14 in Guion Hall. The West
Pointers will make the affirmative
side of the national question.
■Tessies to Handle
YMCA Services
Miss Julie Brownlow, President
• of TSCW’s Council of Religious
Activities will bring a delegation
' 1 of five girls to A&M this Sunday
: to conduct the Aggie Chapel ser-
* vice at 9 a. m. in thd YMCA
1/ Chapel.
Accompanying Miss Brownlow
ff. will be Misses Peggy Peacock, Bet-
p ty Clippard, Cynthia Alexander
1;' and Kitty Bethel.
This council sponsors the chapel
I services given in the Little Chapel
. in the Woods at TSCW.
The Aggie Chapel services which
| began just before Ch/istmas are
sponsored by the Inter-Church
| Council.
Patterned after the TSCW ser
vices, they are inter-denomination
al and conducted by students. De-
I votional in nature, the programs
| are designed to develop student
I leadership and participation in re
ligious work.
Any student who wishes to take
part in conducting the services is
urged to see Curtis Edwards in
I room 118, dorm 12. All students
j are invited to attend each Sunday
morning from 8:45 to 9:15.
The purpose of these services
. * is to establish a common meeting
| ground for, and bring about a
| greater understanding of all reli
gions.
| „ The chapel services are always
over in time to attend the ser
vices of the local churches.
15 Aggies Report
For Examinations
Fifteen Aggies reported to Hous
ton Tuesday morning to take
physical examinations for the
armed forces.
Men reporting were James Louis
Kyle, Lonnie Bale, Jr., and Joe
Felipe Martinez, all of Houston;
T. Willson Davis, Jr. and Charles
W. Tate, Jr., both of San Antonio
and Carlos DeHerrera, El Paso.
Other men reporting were Bobby
Gene Touchstone, Brownwood; Ar
thur W. Wight, Odessa; Edward
* Geoffrey, Fredicksburg; John P.
Pickens, Athens; Basil Pete Xres,
Dalis; James Douglas Womach,
Port Arthur.
Even some out-of-state men had
to report. They were Burwell D.
Manning, Jr., Columbia, S. C:;
Conrad Morgan, San Bernardino,
Calif.; and, Peter J. Tremont,
Trenton, N. J.
Ex Accepts Position
With Pampa Concern
Henry Gilchrist, ’46, has recent
ly accepted a position with Doug
las and MacGuire Jaw firm in Pam
pa. Gilchrist, a civil engineering
• graduate from A&M, received his
law degree from the University of
Texas. He is a member of the
Texas State Bar.
year
or more of school work left at
A&M.
The other vacancy will be filled
from a list of candidates none of
whom can have been a student in
college for more than four semes
ters at the time of election.
Continuity of Council
The restrictions placed on the
one job were meant as a matter of
insurance of continuity within the
Council. A man, to meet the qual
ifications of the latter positions,
will be a potential two-year mem
ber of the Council.
That body is composed of four
student representatives from the
MSC Directorate or the outgoing
Council elected by the Council; the
editorship of The Battalion; one
member of the Student Senate
elected by the Senate; five mem
bers of the faculty appointed by
the president of the college.
Also two former students, chosen
by the governing board of the For
mer Student Association, the di
rector of the Center (without vote)
and the two student members elect
ed at large.
Replaced Next Month
The present Council, to be re
placed next month, is the first
governing body of the MSC. All
members were either appointed by
the president of the College or
chosen in conformance with poli
cies set by the Council in the MSC
Constitutiion • which it drew up.
Balloting in the March 20 elec
tion will be campus-wide. Filing
for the two jobs should begin
within the next few days. A filing
deadline will be announced soon.
All candidates will have to meet
qualifications set up in the by
laws of the MSC—grade point
ratio of 1.00, and required one-
year membership in the MSC (all
students who have paid Student
Activities fees are members of the
Center.
The Council, in the words of the
MSC constitution, is charged “with
the organization and operation of
the activities and events within the
Center.”
Liquor Drouth
Proposed In
State Senate
Austin, March 7—(AP)—
A call for a statewide prohi
bition election in 1952 was
sounded yesterday.
Rep. Milton Wilkinson of
Patroon filed the proposed consti
tutional prohibition amendment.
“It will be introduced to the
House today,” Wilkinson said.
His proposal calls for prohibition
of the sale of all whiskey, beer,
wine, or ale except that used for
medical purposes. It calls for a
statewide election in November,
1952.
The co-author is Rep. Joe Gandy
of Winnsboro.
Not Expected
“After days and days of discus
sion, meditation and thought, some
of us thought best not to bring
up the prohibition amendment this
year” Gandy said, “but to cam
paign the next two years to get
more members in the House who
would be more favorable to the pro
position.
“However, since Mr. Wilkinson
has sponsored the amendment, I
will give him by whole-hearted sup
port.”
Mrs. Claude De Van Watts of
Austin, president of the state
WCTU, said this was the first pro
hibition amendment actually intro
duced in the legislature since re
peal.
“Let People Decide”
“We are not asking the legislat
ors to take a stand on this ques
tion. We only want them to sub
mit this to the people and let them
decide, she says.
“We feel Texas is ready for it.
We have petitions urging a pro
hibition election from almost every
county in the state and we will
start delivering them today to the
legislators from these counties.”
Mrs. Watts said that the United
Texas Drys, whose president is
Dr. W. R. White, president of Bay
lor, are with the WCTU in backing
prohibition.
“No Comment”
Notified by telephone that the
prohibition amendment had been
filed, Emmett Morse, general coun
sel for the Texas wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association, said he had no
comment to make.
The annual report of the Texas
Liquor Control Board for 1950
showed 142 counties in the state
totally dry. These are mostly in
the northern half of Texas.
Kind to Animals Pays Off
For Lion Loving Britisher
London, March 8 —(AP)—A laborer proved yesterday
that it pays to be nice to animals—even an eight-ton stone
one.
He scratched the back of the famed old “Lion of Hun-
gerford”—now being refurbished for exhibition at the fes
tival of Britain—and discovered a secret compartment. The
niche, long sealed by dozens of coat of red paint, yielded a
bottle containing some coins dating back to William the
fourth (1830-1836) and a note which hasn’t been deciphered
yet.
The red lion graced the roof of a Thames-Side Brewery
for 125 years.
Dynamic Songstress
Betsy Ross, billed as the “Dynamic Lady of Song and Dance,”
will be featured female vocalist for Denny Beckner and Orches
tra who will play for the military Ball in Sbisa Hall Saturday
night. She will sing and dance with the “Mad Cap Merrymaker”
—Beckner—at a concert in Guion Hall at 7:15 Saturday evening.
Helen Woodard
... is the youngest member of
Vanity Fair, but doesn’t take a
back seat in any other respect.
She’s 5’ 3”, a brownette and has
blue eyes. The 17-year-old Milby
High-School senior from Houston
was a 75th Anniversary Queen
finalist and Armor - Engineer
Regimental Sweetheart. Russ
Hagens has the proud smile.
General Crutcher
Here for Review
Brigadier General Harry Crutch
er, Jr., Dallas, Chief of Staff, Air
Section of the Texas Air Nation
al Guard is just one of the many
military dignitaries who will be on
the campus for the Military 1 Day
review and Ball Saturday.
Gen. Crutcher is a North Dal
las high school graduate and a
1931 graduate of SMU. He began
his Air Force career in 1931 as a
student of the Kelly Air Force
Base Cadet School. His instructor
was the present Air Force head,
Brig. Gen. Harry Crutcher
Judgers Schedule
Oklahoma Meeting
The Junior Livestock Judging
Team will go to Oklahoma City
for a judging meet open to junior
livestock judging teams of senior
colleges.
Six men will make the trip, five
on the team and one alternate.
The members of the team are Tho
mas M. Nanny, John Fuller, J. K.
Miller, Bob Leschper Louis Ams-
ler and Harold Bragg. Waco W.
Alberts is the coach.
The team and coach will leave
Friday and return Tuesday. The
team will spend Saturday at Still
water, where they will be guests of
Oklahoma A&M.
Sunday they will go to Oklahoma
City. They will judge Monday
morning and the results will be
announced Tuesday morning.
Swine, quarter horses, cattle, and
sheep will be the classes of live
stock judged.
UN Club Cancels Meet
The United Nations Club meet
ing scheduled for Friday has been
postponed P. V. Popat, vice-presi
dent of the club, announced, this
morning.
A meeting date will be announc
ed later.
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, who was at
that time a first lieutenant.
Upon graduation in 1932 Gen.
Crutcher was assigned to various
squadron positions with the 9th
Bomb Squadron, March Field,
Calif.
■ In 1934 when the Air Force took
over commercial mail runs for a
while, G'en. Crutcher flew the mail
in a fighter plane from Cheyenne
to Salt Lake City.
Gen. Crutcher received his regu
lar Air Force commission in 1935
and in 1936 was appointed a flight
instructor at Randolph Field in
San Antonio, a position he held for
two years. In 1938 he was promoted
to the rank of Captain and made
a flight commander at the “West
Point of the Air.”
During the period from 1939 to
1942, Gen. Crutcher rose to the
rank of lieutenant colonel and was
at various times Stage command
er, and director of training at Ran
dolph and Goodfellow Air Force
Bases.
6,000 Hours In Air
Gen. Crutcher, who has accum
ulated 6,000 hours flying time in
F-51’s, C-47’s and B-26’s, was
named Assistant to the Chief of
Staff of the AAF Training Com
mand in 1943 and promoted to
the rank of Colonel.
Overseas service in 1944 • and
1945 saw the then Colonel Crutcher
flying in Tinian and the Saipan
Islands. The latter part of 1945 he
was with the Flying Training Com
mand and in 1946 was named Exe
cutive Officer of Randolph Field.
Resigned Commission
He resigned his regular com
missioned while stationed at Tyn
dall AFB in Florida to return to
civilian status.
In 1948 he was appointed a
colonel in the Texas Air National
Guard commanding the 136th
Fighter Group in Dallas and in
1949 was promoted to Brigadier
General and made commander of
the 63rd Fighter Wing in Hous
ton. Last year he was appointed
to his present rank on the staff
of the Texas Air National Guard.
New ORC Outfit
Will Be Organized
Authorization has been secured
to organize the Headquarters and
Headquarters Company of the
420th Engineer Aviation Brigade
in the Bryan-College Station area
according to Captain Marion B.
Findlay, local Organized Reserve
Officer.
This new unit of the ORC has an
authorized strength of 39 officers
and 83 enlisted men. Lt. Col Spen
cer J. Buchanan, Professor of Civil
Engineering will be Brigade Com
mander. The unit will meet twice
monthly.
Captain Findlay urged that local
men interested in becoming mem
bers of this unit contact the ORC
office on Welborn Road or phone
6-1811.
UN Troops Move Ahead
On 70 Mile Korea Front
Tokyo, March 8 — GP) — Allied troops
smashed ahead in Korea today along a 70-
mile front in the second day of their new
offensive.
It was one of the biggest United Na
tions attacks of the war.
A U.S. Eighth Army briefing officer
said 11,039 Chinese and North Korean Reds
were killed or wounded Wednesday on the
opening day of the assault.
The sudden U. N. .push surprised Reds
on the western end of the fighting front—
east of Seoul.
There the U.S. 25th Division crossed
the Han River with tanks at three points.
They inflicted 5,250 Communist casualties.
Field dispatches said Allied losses were
amazingly low.
Front line officers said the surprise at
tack caught the Reds flatfooted as they were
They’re Young Yet
Patience Advised
On UN, US Policy
By CLAYTON SELPH
The United States must take a
common sense view toward Rus
sia—it must deal with her firmly,
but not precipitate a war. At
present our tendency is to creidt
her with more strength and cun
ning than she has. And most of
all, we must not yield to a feeling
of constant panic toward Russia.
That was the advice offered by
Mrs. Vera M. Dean to the Great
Issues Class and a crowd of inter
ested students and college staff
members in the MSC Assembly
Room last night. Mrs. Dean is ed
itor of all publications of the For
eign Policy Association and is dir
ector of research, for that organ
ization.
Speaking to a group almost fill
ing the Assembly Room, she told
her audience that “Our fear of
Russia is stronger than their prop
aganda.”
Russia Not Infallible
It is fantastic, she said, to think
that they are infallible, or don’t
have troubles of their own.
“I do not belong to the defeat
ist group in concerning the U.S.
and world affairs.” A solid for
eign policy is evolving from our ex-
Cotton Queen
Selection Set
For March 31
March 31 has been the date
set for the selection of this
year’s Queen Cotton and her
Court, Eli Whiteley, Agrono
my department instructor, an
nounced yesterday.
A group 1 to be chosen by the Ag
ronomy Society will go to Denton
to select the queen and her court
from the candidates at TSCW.
King Cotton, who will reign with
his queen over the Cotton Ball and
Pageant festivities, will be chosen
here Tuesday.
Invitations to send a duchess
to the Ball and Pageant will be
sent to all organizations on the
campus this week. Organizations
failing to receive an invitation are
instructed to get one in room 201
of the Agricultural Experiment
Building, Tommie Duffie, Society
social secretary, said.
The style show for the Pageant
will be given this year by San
ger Brothers of Dallas.
“Entertainment plans have not
been completed, but they will be
announced soon,” Whiteley said.
Negro Singers Will
Sing at Benefit
A girl’s sextette from Lincoln
school will appear as a special fea
ture of the entertainment offer
ed during the library benefit pro
ject Saturday evening, March 10
at Consolidated High School. The
benefit will be sponsored by the
Campus Study Club.
The sextette, made-up by Ester
line Welbourn, Alma Ruth Searcy,
Johnnie Lois Columbus, Jeffie
Boone, Ethel Mae Steen and Audry
Lee Steen, will sing four numbers:
“Tampico,” “Tennessee Waltz,”
“I’ll Never Be Free,” and “Huckle
Buck.”
St. Patrick’s Day
Dance Scheduled
A St. Patrick’s Day dance is
scheduled for March 17 in the
MSC Ballroom.
The MSC dance committee has
planned a dance with St. Patrick’s
Day as the theme for March 17 in
the MSC ballroom.
The dance will be cabaret style
and refreshments will be available.
The Aggieland Combo will fur
nish the music for the dance.
Admission will be sixty cents.
perimentation in world affairs
since WW II.
Breaking present U.S. policy’ into
two camps, she said the Truman
doctrine advocating aid whenever,
wherever and in whatever form
needed represents one side, while
the “limited commitment” views
of former President Hoover com
poses the opposing attitude.
Hoover Not Isolationist
“Hoover’s policies are not iso
lationist in the old sense of stay
ing at home and exercising no in
fluence in world dffairs,” the aud
ience heard. He anerely feels that
the use of armed might on the
European and Asian mainland
should be limited, Mrs. Dean said.
She praised Hoover’s public
stand on foreign policy as being
responsible for a more construc
tive study of what American atti
tude and actions should be. “It is
time,” she said, “for the well in
formed to quit looking for a scape
goat.” “What is done is past,”
she emphasized.
Lack of Confidence
Explaining that there is no rea
son for the American lack of con
fidence in U.S. foreign policy and
the United Nations, she said that
neither have existed long enough to
prove themselves.
“This country has gone through
a foreign policy revolution. Pre
vious to World War II we had nev
er had to make policies on such
problems as face us today,” she
said.
There is no wonder that our pol
icies have been perplexing, and con
fusing, the tall and slightly gray-
(See ARMING, Page 2)
Robert F. Brown
. . . newly elected editor of The
Engineer, magazine written, and
edited by men in the School of
Engineering. He is a junior CE
major from Dallas. The Engin
eering council named him editor-
in- chief.
Drawing Contest
Set for April 28
Preparations and plans are now
being made for the annual engin
eering drawing contest to be held
April 28 for freshmen students en
rolled in engineering drawing cour
ses, announced L. E. Stark, chair
man of the contest.
Contestants may compete in any
one of four types of drawing: an
instrument working (shop) draw
ing, freehand lettering, a freehand
pictorial drawing, and the solu
tion of a descriptive geometry prob
lem.
“Although the contest will not
be held until mid-Spring the En
gineering Drawing Department, by
announcing at this early date, is
seeking to stimulate interest and
effectiveness of work among all
its students rather in a selected
few,” . the chairman said.
Other members of the contest
committee are Sam M. Cleland, B.
C. Doggett and B. A. Hardaway.
ypreparmg an attack of their own.
Allied warplanes bombed, straf
ed and rocketed Communist forces
ahead of the advancing United Na
tions ground troops. By noori
Thursday, the U. S. Fifth Air
Force had hurled more than 300
sorties against the Reds in clear
weather.
Stiffest ground fighting was re
ported near Hoengsong in the mid
dle of the central front. British
commonwealth troops there ran in
to stubborn Chinese defense of two
hills.
South Koreans Recover
At the eastern end of the line,
South Korean troops recovered
from a setback of three miles in
East Central Korea Wednesday
and have regained some of the
ground they lost to an estimated
13,500 attacking North Koreans.
On the western front, the U. S.
25th Division surged across the
Han River in assault boats and
planted three bridgeheads east of
Red-held Seoul.
The crossing ranged from 12 to
15 miles east of Seoul, near the
point where the Pukhan River from
the north flows into the great Han
River.
Artillery Gives Cover
Engineers who bridged the Han
came under Red mortar fire but
Allied artillery gave them cover.
When the job was done, infantry
men surged across the river and
drove two to three miles north
ward in pursuit of fleeing Reds.
The Reds attempted no counter
attack during the night. On Thurs
day morning the 25th Division
troops jumped off again to expand
their triple bridgehead.
Fake Crossing Made
While the assault crossings were
under way, South' Korean First
Division troops made a fake cross
ing maneuver northwest of Seoul.
Apparently expecting the main Al
lied crossing there, the Reds fought
back with tank fire from the North
bank of the Han. The diversion
kept the Red tanks busy in that
sector while the 25th D i v i s i o n
crossed the river east of Seoul.
Seven American divisions were
in the line on the Allied drive to
the North—the 25th, 24th, Seventh,
First Cavalry, Third, Second and
the First Marines.
In addition, British, Turkish,
Greek, French, Australian, South
Korean and New Zealand troops
drove forward in the new push.
The shock of the Allied blow
numbed the Reds on the western
front and netted the Eighth Army
its biggest one-day prisoner bag
in a long while—260. Of the total,
213 were captured in the 25th Div
ision’s across-the-Han assault.
Solon Proposes
State College
Commission Bill
Austin, March 7—(AP) —
A state commission to control
programs of state-supported
colleges was proposed today.
It would stop unnecessary
overlapping of educational services
and be a central agency to coor
dinate the whole state program of
higher education.
It would determine the degree
programs and educational services
of each college or university but
would not set administrative prac
tices, say what should be taught in
the courses or what books should
be used.
Rep. Callan Graham of Junction,
who wrote the bill, said a study
made by the legislative council
showed that the role of the state-
supported institutions of higher
learning was not adequately mark
ed.
Graham called for a nine-mem
ber commission to be paid $10 for
each day spent on actual duty.
For each student that does to
any state-supported institution,
Graham would charge a per capi
ta equilization fee in addition to
tuition. The fee would be $10 a
semester for undergraduates and
$15 for graduates.
Club Rosters Wanted
Representatives of clubs which
have had their pictures taken for
the Aggie and ’51 are requested to
bring complete rosters of their
club to the Student Activities of
fice by Friday, it was announced
this morning.
The Student Activities office is
in room 209 of Goodwin Hall.