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Number 115: Volume 51
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951
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Replies — See
‘Letters ’ Page 2
Price Five Cents
House, Senate
Differ!100,000
(>n A&M Fund
Based on AC Reports
H Both House and Senate bills for
Igftho 1951-63 biennium appropria-
Hflion to A&M have boon voted from
■committee and will to the floor
Hof the two bodies. The Senate
Heommittee appropriation, if ap-
Hproved, would exceed the House
Hsum by almost $100,000.
| A difference of more than a mil-
w'lion dollars exists in appropriations
Hlfor the A&M System, not including
11 branch colleges.
j The college originally asked
■$6,566,702 of the economy-minded
■legislature. Neither of the propos-
Hed appropriations reach this sum.
Ip.The House bill would give the col-
||lege $5,126,278 while the Senate
measure would allow $5,223,052.
Riders Freeze Education
, Both measures contain riders
r that would freeze education in all-
B jstate-supported colleges and uni-
jversitiec.
[ The House bill says flatly that
^ the state-supported institutions of
1 higher learning “are hereby pro-
hibited from adding any courses,
Hg degree plans or departments, which
p were not offered or existing at any
■ time prior to Oct. 15, 1950.”
The Senate bill says no money
p be used “for the continuance or es-
'Hablishment of a department of in-
B struction which was not in exist-
■ ence on Oct. 1, 1950, nor for courses
B of instruction required for any
i- degree which was not being offered
! *by the institution on Oct. 1, 1950.”
Only Initial Step
Passage from committee, howev-
B er, is only an initial step in the
■; legislative process. After going
|| to the floors of the respective bod-
|I jes for passage, the measures will
pf probably be referred to joint com-
{■ mittee because of the wide differ-
■ mce they represent.
In the overall picture, Texas col-
f lege appropriations as advocated
4 by the committees would increase
1 between $300,000 and over a mil-
SMU Debaters
Top TCU, A&M
In SWC Meet
Southern Methodist Univer
sity won the first Southwest
Conference Invitational De
bate Tournament held in the
Y M C A Saturday with a
record of three wins and one loss.
Baylor University placed second
with two wins and two losses,
while A&M was last, winning one
tnd losing three.
Two SMU girls won the only de
bate on the affirmative of the is-
«ne “Resolved that the Non-Com
munist Nations of the Worlds
Should Organize a New Interna
tional Organzation.”
The tournament was run off in
two rounds, with each school de
bating twice in the affirmative
and twice on the negatitve.
A debate team from A&M com
posed of Dan Davis and Joe Farm
er will go 'to Gainesville, Fla.
‘April 2 to 4. They will compete in
the Southern Speech Association’s
tournament. H. E. Hierth, one of
the sponsors for the A&M De
bate and Discussion Club, will ac
company the group.
The Aggies will be host to the
Second Annual Invitational Tour
nament, April 13 and 14. Approx
imately 25 schools have been in-
* vited to compete, Hierth said. In
the tournament last year, TCU won
the senior division and Baylor the
junior division.
Debate activities will' be con
cluded for this semester the latter
part of April, Hierth said, when
A&M plays host for an intercol
legiate debate wirh the University
of Texas.
lion dollars the current spending in
the colleges. The Senate figure is
$63,363,320 for the entire state
while the House committee sug
gests $62,238,182.
Reserve Fund Set.
The House Bill calls for a ten
per cent “reserve fund” in all col
lege appropriations to be held back
from each college and distributed
throughout the state-wide system
according to need created by un
foreseen enrollment or other mat
ters.
Among other riders now attached
to the college appropriation bills
are prohibition against state-sup
ported colleges and universities
from buying any new cars in the
next year, and prohibition against
state colleges spending any money
on air-conditioning.
Since both House and Senate
Bills cut into administrative spend
ing in colleges, heated floor fights
are expected in each body.
Wild Irish Roses
Entertainers during intermission at Saturday night’s St. Patrick’s
Day dance, this green-bedecked trio gave forth with songs of the
old country—Ireland. On the accordion was Mrs. Doris Martin,
accompanying at the piano Miss Betty Bolander, and vocalizing
the Irish melodies was Mrs. Gloria Martin,
Destination: Turkey
Lilley Named 4-HDelegate
To International Exchange
William Steve Lilley sophomore
animal husbandry student, has
been selected as one of the two
Texas 4-H Club representatives to
participate in the 1951 Internation
al Farm Youth Exchange Project.
Floyd Lynch, state 4-H Club lead
er on the campus, announced the
acceptance of the nominations last
week.
The program which is in its
fourth y6ar is sponsored by the
extension service of the State De
partment in conjunction with sim
ilar agencies in various foreign
countries.
The purpose of the exchange
transaction is for American farm
boys to gain a better knowledge
of rural boys in foreign coun
tries and agricultural situations
in those countires.
Lilley, who is a veteran of nine
years in 4-H Club work, is sche
duled to go to Turkey, where he
will live and work with rural
families in that country. Tentative
plans call for him to leave Wash.
ington, D. C. sometime early in
June, if the present world situa
tion does not seriously change by
that time.
The 4-H boy, who owns a herd of
nearly 25 cows and heifers, most of
which are registered, has done
most of his farm work with beef
and dairy cattle.
However, he has also done con
siderable work along crop lines,
including cotton, corn, pasture
improvement and truck crops.
Lilley holds such honors as Gold
Star Boy, Stgte Fair Honor Award
Winner, and county meat animal
champion. He has attended the
Garden Contest
For Students
Slated May 4-8
The College Station Devel
opment Association is spon
soring a garden contest for
student gardners who have
plots near College View.
Encouragement awards are being
offered by the Agriculture com
mittee, composed of F. R. Brison,
chairman, J. E. Hutchinson and
J. E. Roberts. First prize will be
$5, second prize $3 and third prize
$2.
The awards will be given after
the gardens are judged sometime
between May 4 to 8. J. E. Huthcin-
son, extension horticulturist, will
determine the winners on the fol
lowing points:
Number and kind of vegetables,
25 points; general appearance and
attractiveness, 25 points; qual- r
ity, uniformity and condition of
vegetables, 30 points; indication of
approved garden practices such as
insect and disease control, staking,
pruning, cultivation, weed control
and inter-cropping, 15 points, and
record of quantity of vegetables
harvested from the plot and the
value, 5 points.
State 4-H Club Round Up annually
since 1946. Other honors include
the presidency of his local club
four times and a member of the
county dairy and rifle teams.
He has won 28 ribbons, including
three grand championships, for his
entrants in cattle shows in his
area.
Funds for thte trip will be
taken partly from the national
4-H Club treasury, but a major
ity of the money is expected to
hie donated by business men,
service vlubs, and individual cit
izens in Lilley’s home town of
Nacogdoches.
From time to time, the Texas
representative will send stories to
his county agent and local news
paper on what kind of work he is
doing in Turkey, and other ex
periences that he may have during
his stay in that country.
The other Texan, who will ac
company Lilley on the trip, is
Billy Roy Whitaker, of Panola
County.
W. S. Lilley
. 4-H Work Abroad
A&M Film Society
Slates ‘Morocco’
“Morocco” with Gary Cooper and
Marlene Dietrich will be sixth in
a series of nine programs of the
A&M Film Society when it ap
pears tonight in the YMCA Chapel
at 7:30.
The movie, made around 1936,
was one of Cooper’s earliest starr
ing vehicles and the first of a
series of torrid roles for Miss
Dietrich.
Members of the A&M Film
Society who do not wish to use
their tickets may present them to
friends, and they, in turn, may use
the ducats for admission, according
to George Charlton, secretary-trea
surer of the organization.
Family Meeting
Held in MSC
The annual meeting of the
State Family Life Conference
began with registration last
night and today in the MSC.
Dr. Reuben Hill, professor
of Family Life, University of North
Carolina, spoke to the gathering
last night, followed by a panel
discussion by A&M and TSCW stu
dents.
Dr. Mattie Lloyd Wooten of
TSCW presided over the student
panel.
Following registration this morn
ing Sam Davis, chief probation of
ficer, Dallas Juvenile Court was
in charge of a symposium on “Cur
rent Family Life in Tevas.”
From 10:50 to 12 noon a panel
on community projects of marriage
and family living was held in the
MSC Ballroom with F. E. McGahan,
superintenden of Cunningham, Tex
as Independent School District pre
siding.
Speeches by Dr. Hill and Mrs.
Elwood Street, traveling lecturer
for the Hogg Foundation of Aus
tin followed luncheon in the MSC
Assembly Room.
A business meeting in the MSC
Ballroom concluded the conference
at 2:30 this afternoon.
Work of Extremists ... in Their Panic
Martin Dies Lashes UMT
TISA Admits Negro School,
Establishes 10 State Districts
TSUN Gets
Unanimous
Entry Vote
By DEAN REED
Two major steps’ highlight
ed Saturday’s TISA conven
tion meetings in the Memorial
Student Center.
• A Negro college was unan-
mously voted into the organization.
• TISA was divided into ten state
districts.
Texas State University (for
Negroes), of Houston, received a
27-0 vote for admission into TISA-
Texas Intercollegiate Students As
sociation. Two other schools Way-
land College of Plainview and
Southwestern University of
Georgetown, were also admitted.
Delegates gave the five repre
sentatives of TSU a standing ova
tion as they returned to the meet
ing in the MSC Assembly Room.
The Houston university thus be
came the first Negro school to
gain admission to the statewide or
ganization.
Began Friday
TISA, organized in Denton two
years ago, began its third annual
convention in the MSC Friday
morning, after delegates had reg
istered that day and the previous
evening.
Student government representa
tives from 34 colleges and univer
sities of Texas participated in the
two-day convention. Twenty-eight
came as member schools, and three
were admitted at the meeting.
TU Leads Districting
Bob Duke of Texas, Frank Lady
of Baylor, and Ann Price from
Trinity led the fight for district
ing TISA. The association was
divided into ten districts upon a
favorable vote by the delegation.
District members are as follow:
I. Texas Tech, Wayland, West
Texas State.
II. North Texas State, TCU,
TSCW, Texas Wesleyan.
III. Austin College, East Texas
State, Hockaday, Paris
Junior College, SMU.
IV. Stephen F. Austin, Sam
Houstan State, A&M.
V. Lamar Tech, University of
Houston, Rice Institute,
TSU.
VI. San Antonio College, Trin
ity University.
Leading the Texas Intercollegiate Students Asso
ciation in 1951-52 will be these five officers elec
ted Saturday afternoon, during the closing session
of the two-day TISA convention in the Memorial
Student Center. Officers are, left to right, Frank
Lady, president, from Baylor University; E. J.
Ritchie, parliamentarian, of Stephen F. Austin
State College; Evelyn Hargrove, secretary, Austin
College delegate; Harold Brannan, vice president,
from Texas Tech; and George New, University of
Houston student elected treasurer.
VII. Del Mar College, Texas
A&I.
VIII. Abilene Christian Col
lege, Hardin-Simmons.
IX. Baylor, Southwestern,
Southwest Texas S t a t e,
Texas.
X. Sul Ross, Texas Western
College.
Purposes of the districts, the
three committee leaders explained,
were to promote beneficial policies
for TISA, to promote .membership,
to serve as information centers,
and to allow each disti’ict a defin
ite yearly project.
The committee listed several oth
er colleges in each district which
are potential members.
Joe Fuller, A&M’s retiring TISA
parliamentarian, offered a resolu
tion which would have requested
the State Legislature to act with
“extreme caution” in cutting bud
gets of state-supported colleges.
Texas University led a strong
group against the resolption and it
failed to receive a majority vote.
A report'submitted by Ralph La
cy, Texas Tech delegate, to estab
lish a “Who’s Who in Texas Col
leges and Universities” was tabled
until further information on finan
ces for the publication could be
obtained.
Votes Down “Prohibition”
In other actions, TISA members
voted down a proposal for a by-law
which would prohibit alcoholic
drinks being served at association
functions, and passed a by-law
which requires officers to remain
in school during their tenure of
office.
The TCU delegation, led by Stu
dent Body President Bill Hooser,
offered a resolution which ex
plained TISA’s stand on the alco
holic beverage by-law, proposed
by Baylor.
Hooser said he believed students
were mature enough to realize the
propriety of such actions and did
n’t think it necessary to pass the
proposed by-law.
Delegates also voted resolutions
commending A&M for its “excel
lent convention program” a n d
“outstanding facilities.”
Frank Lady Named
Baylorite to Head TISA,
’52 Convention in El Paso
Frank Lady, delegate from Bay
lor University, was elected presi
dent of the Texas Intercollegiate
Students Association in its final
meeting Saturday.
Lady was elected over Don Dreys
of Trinity University in San An
tonio.
Vice president for 1951-52 is
Harold Brannan, Texas Tech del
egate. Other officers are Evelyn
Hargrove of Austin College, sec
retary; George New, University of
Houston delegate, treasurer; and
E. J. Ritchie, from Stephen F.
Austin in Nacogdoches, parliamen
tarian.
Texas Western Is Site
Texas Western University in El
Paso was selected as the site of
next year’s TISA convention. The
The Texas Western delegation
made the only bid for the conven
tion, telling of the educational ad
vantages which could be derived
from a trip West.
“Many students here know little
or nothing of our West Texas
Martin Dies, former chairman
of the House Un-American Activ
ities committee, told TISA dele-
1 gates that the “gue mobilization
program” now proposed in Con
gress is the work of “extremists
^. . . in their paic and fright.”
“’these same people who are
now going all-out to defend us
against Communism are the same
ones who were coddling the Reds
twelve years ago.”
Dies’ committee waged a long,
semi-successful fight to rid Wash
ington of employees who were ac
tive in Communist-front organiza
tions in 1938 and 1939.
The former Congressman spoke
at the TISA banquet Friday night
in the MSC Ballroom. He was in
troduced by master of ceremonies
Allen Eubank.
“We are mortaging the happi
ness of future generations by so
selfishly over-protecting oursel
ves today,” Dies said. “Surely we
must arm. We must arm ade
quately. But we must not fall
into economic chaos and play
directly into Stalin’s hands.”
He pointed out the near-$300
billibn national debt of the United
States.
“It would be a grave mistake to
exhaust resom-ces of our youth in
vain and futile wars over the globe.
This is just the mistake Stalin
wants us to make. Our course is
certainly not all-out mobilization.”
Interviewed after the speech,
Dies further explained his ideas
on mobilization.
He advocated a middle-road pol
icy with “a crack, small standing
army” with a “large reserve pool.”
He said six months was “plenty of
time for students to train,” then
we should “let them go back to
their education.”
Dies asked for “decent and hon
est men in Washington and Aus
tin.” “If we cannot secure these,
we are lost.”
“Today we are elevating men to
office, wholly unqualified, who are
in office for strictly their own
benefit.”
“We must develop a dynamic and
positive program to fight Commun
ism,” Dies said. “Too many mil
lions of Americans believe in ab
solutely nothing. At least the Com
munists have a belief and are work
ing for it. That’s one thing that
can be said for them that we can’t
say for our own population.”
“Until the American people can
pick between politicians and states
men, our country will continue its
backward fall in Washington.”
Martin Dies
“mortgaging future”
schools. We would like very much
to be given an opportunity to show
other TISA schools what we have
at Texas Western,” the El Paso
delegate said.
In the officer voting, Lady won
over Dreyer who was the only op
ponent. Dreyer had been nomi
nated by Austin College, Lady by
North Texas.
Tie Vote Broken
A 14-14 tie between Brannan and
Dreyer in the vice presidency elec
tion necessitated a five-minute re
cess and another vote. Brannan
came out on top after the recess,
15-12.
Miss Hargrove was elected sec
retary by acclaimation. She was
nominated by A&M’s delegation,
led by Student Senate President
Bill Parse.
New was elected treasurer over
Ben Guant of Rice Institute, while
Ritchie defeated Bill Hooser of
TCU for the parliamentarian pos
ition.
Fuller Leaves Office
Retiring TISA officers are Tom
Eubank of Rice, president; Bill
Farrow of Austin College, vice
president; Dick Schmidt, also of
Austin College, treasurer; Marie
Collogne, Hockaday, secretary;
and Joe Fuller, A&M, parliamen
tarian.
Two executive officers will soon
be named by Texas Western to be
gin plans for next year’s conven
tion in El Paso. They will assume
the duties carried this year by Al
lan Eubank, executive vice-presi
dent, and Charlie Royalty, execu
tive secretary, both of A&M.
Convention Workers
Eubank and Royalty were gen
eral chairmen for the convention
here. Committee chairmen were
Bill Cornish, registration; Autrey
Frederick, housing; Duane Van-
denberg, publicity; Bill Brabham,
banquet; Bob Sturdivant, dance;
and Joe Fuller, proglram.
Petroleum Meeting
Slated April 19-20
The second Petroleum Research
Conferenqe will be held at A&M
April 19-20.
Walter D. Rose, assistant direct
or of the Texas Petroleum Re
search committee will be program
chairman.
Paul D. Torrey, consulting pet
roleum engineering and geologist
of Houston, is general chairman
for the conference.
Half Of Debate Audience
Changes Opinion on Topic
How much are you influenced when you hear a deliber
ate, forceful speaker? Would you change your opinion on a
subject?
Chances are good that you would.
During last week’s A&M-West Point debate, the English
Department conducted a change-of-opinion survey. Here are
the results: ^
Total votes cast were 472. Over 58 per cent changed
their opinion, according to the ballots. Fifty people changed
to the affirmative, 226 to the negative.
Question being debated was “Resolved, That the Non-
Communist Nations Should Form a New International Or
ganization.”
Ag Enrollment
Increase Asked
By Shepardson
In an announcement to the
Agricultural Council, Dean C.
N. Shepardson of the School
of Agriculture stressed the
importance of increasing the
enrollment in the Agriculture cur
ricula. ,1
He also urged the members of
the Council to talk to potential
students in various high schools
and to encourage them to take
Agriculture 1 courses at A&M.
The council decided to make the
Ag Journalism Club a member of
the Council with three representa
tives, the same number as the rest
of the agriculture clubs are allow
ed.
Men wishing to file applications
for editor of the 1952 Agricultur
ist magazine, should turn them in
at the Student Activities office in
Goodwin Hall.
A committee, consisting of Jim
Tom House, the present editor;
Nick Deck and Lester Taylor, has
been appointed to check all ap
plications for the position.
Also on tap at the meeting was
the appointment of Joe Lenamon
as Doug Wythe’s replacement on
the Junior College Day Committee.
Malcolm Dyer made a report on
the progress of the Committee to
select agriculture professor of the
year. The council decided to make a
final selection at the next meeting.
The award will be a personal
plaque for the winner’s desk.
Trade Magazine Runs
W. E. Wright Article
The March issue of the Indus
trial Arts and Vocational Educa
tion Magazine, contained a shop
planning ai’ticle by Welcome E,
Wright, assistant professor of In
dustrial Education.
No Dancing Classes
Regular dancing classes will
not be held this week, according
to Miss Betty Bolander, assis
tant social director of the MSC.
Private dancing lessons will be
held as scheduled.