Official Paper
Of Texas A&M College
And College Station
Number 40: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY' n’oVEMBER 9, 1951
Published by The Students
Of Texas A&M
For 73 Years
Price Five Cents
Gen. Jones Speaks
At Commissioning
Brig. Gen. Gayner B. Jones of de Guerre with palm leaf cluster.
Panel Discussion
Houston, former general staff of
ficer with the Eighth Corps of the
Third Army, will be the principal
speaker tonight at the annual
Cadet Commissioning Exercises.
The program wjll begin at 7 p.
m. in Guion Hall.
Some 523 cadet ofticers will
receive commissions at tonight’s
ceremony. General Jones, in addi
tion to making the main speech,
will present the army commissions.
Air Force commissions will be
presented by Col. James C. McGe-
hee, commanding officer at Bryan
Air Force Base.
General Jones, who is chairman
of the Military Affairs Committee
of the Houston Chamber of Com-
merce, attended A&M from 1917-
18. He is a graduate of the Uni
ted States Military Academy at
West Point. At present he is vice-
president of the National Bank of
Commerce in Houston.
He served in Germany with the
Eighth Corps and holds the French
Legion of Honor, and the Croix
Colonel McCehee commanded a
fighter squadron in the ETO dur
ing World War II. He is a grad
uate of the University of Alabama
and attended Howard College in
Alabama. In 1934 Colonel McGe-
hee was appointed a flying cadet
and was commissioned a second
lieutenant in 1935.
During the war, he flew 21 mis
sions and holds the Distinguished
Flying Cross with one cluster,
Bronze Star with two clusters,
Croix de Guerre, British Distin
guished Flying Cross, and the Bel
gian Fourragere.
The program will open ’with the
playing of General’s March by the
Drum and Bugle Corps. After
cadets and guests are seated, C.
L. Ray, corps chaplain, will give
the invocation. j'
Following the invocation, Cadet
Maj. James H. Hughes will sing
the Star Spangled Banner and
Eric Carlson, cadet colonel of the
corps and master of ceremonies
for the occasion, will introduce
President M. T. Harrington, who
will make the opening speech.
General Jones will talk following
the speech by Dr. Harrington.
Lt. Col. M. P. Bowden, assist
ant commandant, will administer
the oath of office to officers of
this year’s corps, and commissions
will be presented.
Chaplain Ray will give the bene
diction following the commission
ing and the audience, lead by
Cadet Lt. Col. Dale Walston, will
sing the Spirit of Aggieland. Jim
my Rolins will play the postlude.
Uniform for tonight’s ceremony
will be No. 1 with blouses. Boots
will be optional.
Cadets will be seated in Guion
Hall according to rank and a spec
ial section in the center of the
auditorium will be reserved for
guests of the cadets.
Colonel Bowden urged all stu
dents receiving commissions to be
in their seats at 6:15 p. m.
4&M,SMU Student
Groups Hold Meet
A six man delegation of members
of the Student Senate Welcoming
Committee went to Dallas Wednes
day to discuss plans for the week
end with members of the SMU Stu
dent Council.
Those making the trip were Han
sel Kennedy, Lyle Wolfskill, Ralph
Ellis, Dan Davis, Jack Milligan,
and Guy King.
This committee also made ar
rangements to meet the SMU spec
ial train from Dallas when it ar
rives here at 12:30 Saturday
afternoon.
Headquarters for the SMU stu
dents Saturday will be located in
the Social Room of the MSC. Plans
were also discussed Wednesday to
have a luncheon Saturday f o r
members of the SMU Student
Council.
A&M Graduate
Now Teaching
At Tenessee
Richard A. Erickson, Oak
Ridge Graduate Fellow from
A&M, has accepted a position
as Acting Professor of Phy
sics at the University of Ten-
Erickson completed his research
for the Ph. D degree in physics
at Oak Ridge National Labora
tory Oct. 1. He will be a candidate
for degree at the June commence
ment at College Station.
He will take a final oral exam
ination on his thesis this fall,
which he will complete while on
the University of Tennessee fac
ulty.
His thesis was in the field of
neutron diffraction studies of anti
ferromagnetic materials. On his
graduate committee were Drs. E. C.
Wollan and C. G. Shull, of the
Oak Ridge Laboratory staff, and
Dr. J. G. Potter, Professor of
Physics at A&M.
Aggies,
Escape
Aggies Form T
For SMU Game
Tomorrow
Probably the biggest T in
; A&M’s history will be formed
! Saturday afternoon on Kvle
| Field between halves of the
A&M-SMU football game. Ap
proximately 4,()()() Aggies are ex
pected to participate in the for-
I mation.
Members of a three man panel of Moslem Stu
dents line up in front of a display made up by the
Browsing Library Committee. They are, left to
right, Mazen Abdel Hadi, Abdullah Kahn, and Aly
Lashleen. Hadi is a graduate student from Pales
tine, Kahn is from Pakistan and Lasheen is from
Egypt. They spoke to a group in the MSC As
sembly Room last night.
Armor to Raise Bonfire
Flag, Senior Class Votes
The Armor units won their fight
to fjy the flag on this year’s bon
fire ( at a special meeting of the
Senior Class last night.
By an overwhelming majority,
the seniors agreed to uphold the
recommendation of the Traditions
Committee. This committee sug
gested the Armor be allowed to fly
the flag.
Bob Langford, chairman of the
committee, explained that he and
others on the committee had con
tacted ex-students, looked in old
copies of the Longhorn, and Bat
talion and spoken to several peo
ple who had been on the campus
for many years.
“Some of these people,” Lang
ford said, “told us the Jocks had
put their flag on the bonfire for a
long time. Others said they could
remember flags on the bonfire but
couldn’t say for sure which outfit
had put them there.”
Langford added “We also talked
to ‘Mom’ Claghorn at the hospital.
She told us the Jocks flew their
flag back in the 1920’s and ’30’s.”
Armor Won Fights
That was the time, he explained,
when the Armor, then the Cavalry,
was one of the largest units on
the campus.
“They had fights to see which
outfit flew the flag,” Langford
said, “and the Cavalry always
won.”
Before the vote was held, Ed
die Sick told the class the Armor
units would agree to follow any
ruling the class made on the is
sue.
Other matters discussed includ
ed bonfire committees, and a pro
vision to make a senior privilege
to take soft drink bottles outside
the dormitories.
Bonfire Committees
Committee chairmen for the bon
fire work are: Chico Mason, wood
cutting; John Storrie, center pole;
Bob Chapman, communications;
James Lehman, refreshments; Bob
by Dunn, guard duty; and Ted
Stevens, transportation.
Stevens issued a call for trucks
to help take men to the wood cut
ting area and bring the lumber in
to the campus.
“The landscape department has
one track which does nothing but
Yell Practice Set
Tonight in Grove
Midnight yell practice will be
held tonight at 11:30 in The Grove,
Lew Jobe, head yell leader said
Thursday. The band will fall out
about 15 minutes before that time
and lead Aggies to yell pracitce.
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Swamp AnimalsHelp ‘Educate ’Comics
pick up empty Coke and Dr. Pep
per bottles. The truck takes the
bottles and dumps them off the
campus.’
Stevens said approximately
$2,000 was lost each year because
of this waste. He then proposed
that the class vote to make a sen
ior privilege to take bottles out of
dormitories. The class unanimous
ly passed the motion.
Four minutes before the end of
the first half, Lew Jobe, head yell
leader, said seniors will begin
forming on the track. Because of
the box seats set on the track, it
will be necessary to form partici
pants in two columns, he said.
Column 1 will be formed at the
north end of the track, facing
south while Column 2 will form at
the south end of the track, fac
ing south. Each column will be
nine men wide.
When all men are formed into
the two columns, Jobe said, they
will march toward each other,
turning onto the field. This will
form an 18 man front on the
field.
Aside from being the biggest T
in A&M history, a feature, used
in the 1930’s will be used Saturday.
Each man in the formation will
hold a red cloth in his right hand
and a white handkerchief in his
left.
These cloths will be held over
the head when the T yells are
given.
If the T is formed smoothly,
Jobq said, the Aggieland will take
a color picture. This picture, which
will cost about $1,000 to produce,
will be printed in The Aggieland
1952.
Mooney Melodies Move
Saturday Mte Dancers
By BILL STREICH
Battalion News Editor
A superstitious, genial Irish
man, formerly a linetype operator,
but today one of the most popular
orchestra leaders in the nation,
will be on the stage of Sbisa Hall
tomorrow night when the second
all college dance of the year gets
underway. ,
The dance begins at 9 p. m. and
will be preceded by a concert,
played by the Mooney Band in
Guion Hall at 7:30 p. m.
Although hard to believe, Moon
ey was at first reluctant to make
a recording of the sensational hit,
“I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf
Clover.” However, Fate stepped in
and the Detroit ex-serviceman re-
luctlantly agreed to make the re
cording.
He wasn’t disappointed either.
The song was a hit almost over
night, selling over 1,000,000 copies.
The record, by actual surveys,
became the most played record on
American juke boxes.
tional vocalist, got her first job
singing with the Mooney aggrega
tion. Others he has helped are the
DeMarco Sisters and the Ames
Brothers.
Resembles Waring
If dancers tomorrow night no
tice any resemblance between
Mooney’s renditions and those of
Fred Waring, it will come as no
surprise to the ex-serviceman from
Detroit.
Mooney is a great admirer of
the Waring style of choral and
comedy patter and uses many of
his musical adaptations.
The popular orchestra leader
and his band have appeared in such
nationally known night spots as
the Capitol, Roxy, and Strand in
New York City; the Downtown in
Detroit, and the Palace in Cleve
land.
In addition to the friendliness
and pleasing music of Irishman
Art, other featured performers in
the orchestra are Alan Foster, Ker-
win Somerville and Johnny Ro
mano.
Something has happened in
American Universities. College
Profs have been seen taking comic
books into their offices, closing the
doors and reading them.
No, it isn’t an indication of a
mental degenration, but rather it
is an indication that there is
something intelligent in the comic
strips.
The reason for this change in
the reading habits of great masses
of people—both the high brows,
middle brows, low blows and no
brows—is Pogo.
To many the name Pogo is mean
ingless. To some it is an idiotic
little animal designed to amuse
only the smaller children. But
luckily, to the majority of the peo
ple it is a comic strip filled with
subtle humor seldom found on the
comic pages. For this reason, The
Battalion is adding the little ’Pos
sum from the swamp to its pages.
Pogo will be run daily.
But for those who are not ac
quainted with the ’Possum and his
friends a brief description of each
is in order.
Pogo is the type of guy every
one thinks he is. He is noted for
his reasonableness and patience.
While at times he goes off the
deep end on things, generally he
is just a good all round guy.
His friend Albert the Alligator
is just the opposite. He is the oth
er fellow. Being the “other fel
low” type of man, Albert is full
of knowledge and gusto that back
fires. Deep down in his alligator
heart he is generous, but he does
n’t'really like to let anybody know
it for fear they’ll think he’s soft.
Porcupine, or Porky, is a pessi
mistic realist. He sees the sour
side and acts it, but underneath he
has a heart of solid gold.
Personifying the backyard sci
entist is Howland Owl. He is a
pseudo-scientist. . . something like
one of the ancient alchemists . . .
he is convinced that he knows
everything and so he plunges into
every experience with the con
fidence of ignorance.
Every continuing strip has to
have a detective in it to add mys
tery. Beauregard Bugleboy, a dog,
is the master of mystery that is
needed. In addition to 1 being a
canine, Beauregard talks aebout
himself all the time, and actually
possesses many of the qualities he
boasts about, such as loyalty, brav
ery, etc.
Behind all of these characters
is a man named Kelly—Walt Kel
ly to be exact. In his biography,
he says, he was born in Bridge
port, Conn. Bridgeport refuses to
make a comment.
Bragging a bit he says he was
educated. Educators refuse to make
a comment.
But the end result is what
counts, and there are found the
comments. College students all ov
er the nation are acclaiming the
newcomer to the comic strip busi
ness.
With that, its up to vou to fol
low POGO.
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IN PERSPICACITY.
Another Hit
Encouraged by what he consid
ered a tremendous reception to his
first effort, Mooney began plan
ning a follow up to his success. The
second time, wasn’t long in the re
cording stages before it too was
a hit.
That was “Baby Face,” like
“Four Leaf Clover,” a tune written
several years befort but never a
success.
Mooney is the type boss who has
the concern of his employees at
heart. When the band travels by
bus at night, he sits up with the
driver, making sure he stays
awake.”
Also, the “lucky Irishman’ be
lieves in giving newcomers to the
entertainment field a chance to
get a start. Fran Warren, sensa-
Talk on Average
Income Set Here
“Two Thousand Dollars Disposal
Average Income by 1957—It’s Our
Job,” will be discussed Nov. 15 at
8 p. m. in the Biological Sciences
building lecture room. The grad
uate lecture is open to the public.
The speaker will be Dr. John
D. Black, professor of economics
at Harvard University. He is an
international authority in the field
of agricultural economics.
The lecture was arranged by
Dean Ide P. Trotter of the Grad
uate School.
3 Regiments
Hold Joint
Ball Tonight
Something new in the manner of
choosing a dance sweetheart will
be instituted tonight at the Band,
Seventh Regiment, and Composite
Regiment Ball. The dance begins
at 9 p. m. in Sbisa Hall.
Instead of selecting sweetheart
candidates in the usual manner—
by judging pictures—members of
the three units will pick finalists
from girls attending the ball.
These girls will be judged by a
committee made up of college and:
military officials attending the
dance.
Honor of kissing the sweetheart
has not yet been determined, but
it is certain one of the three regi
mental commanders will be on
hand to continue the custom.
Committee chairman for the
dance are Don Y’oung and Chick
Russeck.
There will be refreshments at I
the dance, Young said, and seniors
in other regiments who have dates
may attend.
Tickets for the dance will be on
sale at the door and are priced at
$1, stag or drag.
SMU Battle To
SWC Cellar
By ED HOLDER
Battalion Sports Writer
It will be A&M’s powerful run
ning attack against the deadly
passing of Fred Benners and his
SMU mates tomorrow afternoon
when the two teams meet on Kyle
Field. Kickoff time is 2 p.m.
Neither team has a chance at
the championship, but this game
could decide who is to occupy the
bottom of the win column when
the season is ended.
Last year’s game between the
Cadets and Mustangs was an up an
down affair with the Aggies on
top 25 - 20 when the final gun
sounded.
The ponies will be out to avenge
this loss in tomorrow’s tilt, as they
place all their hopes on the whip
like right arm of Fred Benners.
One of the top passers in the
conference, Benners has proven he
is a threat to any team at any
time. His great throwing arm
makes any game undecided until
the clock runs out.
Islam Religion
Explained By
Foreign Student
There are very few major
differences between Christ
ianity, Judism and Islam, a
group of Moslem students
pointed out in a meeting spon-
sored by the Browsing Library.
Four men from the middle east
explained the major elements of
the Moslem religion at the panel
type meeting. They were Aly Lash
een from Egypt, Mazen Abdel Hadi
from. Palestine, Abdullah Kahn
from Pakistan and
from Egypt.
Lasheen took the six major prin
cipals of the faith and explained
them to the group. The points are
a belief in: one God, the prophets,
the devine books, resurrection and
day of judgment, predestination,
and angels. He said that by believ
ing in these six things a true mos-
lem can be said to be a true Jew
or a time Christian.
An elaboration of the similarity
between the faiths was brought
out further by Kahn. The main dif
ference, he said, between the three
was the emphasis placed on Jesus
Christ.
Moslems do not accept the
Christ, he said, as one in the same
person as God. They do believe
that He was a prophet and in
spired by God. In Islam, they be
lieve in the miracles and the vir
gin birth of the Christ.
This game also promises to bo
another battle between a passing’
squad and a running team, since!
the Cadets have the best SWC rec
ord in yards gained rushing.
Glenn Lippman, Aggie halfback^
leads all conference ground gam
ers, but should have a rough time
bucking the defensive wall of the
Ponies.
The Mustangs boast one of the
top defensive records in the SWC.
They have allowed opponents only
302 yards in their two conference
games.
But the Aggies aren’t completely
out of the aerial picture. Quarter
back Ray Graves of the Cadets
holds fourth place among leading
passers in the SWC.
All-American Fullback Bob Smith
and Halfback Billy Tidwell will fill
their usual spots and add their
power to the ground game for the
Maroon and White.
In the SMU backfield with Ben
ners is ,one of the top pass receivers
in the conference.
Benton Musslewhite is one of
Benner’s favorite targets, and has
shown he can catch his share of
passes. His record is 18 completed
passe for a total of 258 yards.
Another top notch pass received
will be at end for the Ponies. Ben
White, three year letterman, will
be one of the Aggies big worries
as he threatens to break for a
touchdown pass on every Mustang
play.
However, Coach Ray George of
the Aggies should come out with
something to stop the deadly pass
ing game of the Mustangs.
He will be hindered in his plans
by an injury dotted defense. Bill
Ballard, who ran defensive half
back against tbe Porkers last week,
is out of the SMU game.
And Augie Saxe, starter at the
first of the season in the defensive
secondary, has been out since the
Trinity University tilt.
Yale Lary and Charlie McDon
ald will be two of the defenders
in the backfield, but the third
party is yet undecided upon. ,
In the line two of the nations
top centers will meet. Dick High
tower of the Mustangs and Hugh
(G’ar) Meyer of the Aggies.
These two stalwarts each boast
high standing records, and are both
top contenders for All-American
honors.
The Ponies will have their com
plete squad ready for the game
while the Aggies will he suffering
from the loss of W. T. Rush, start
ing offensive guard.
Rush was injured in the Baylor
game, and although expected to be
ready ofr tomorrow’s tilt, he is
still absent from the lineup.
Ballard and Saxe add to the in
jury list of the Cadets, but despite
these casualties, nation wide pre
dictions have rated the two teams
! about even, and have called for a
close battle all the way.
Mr. Pass
Ranked as one of the nation’s best passers, Fred Benners will
provide the big kick for the Mustangs’ powerful aerial attack.
The 6 ft. 3 in. back has received such praise as the comment
Notre Dame's Coach Frank Leahy made Following his battle with
SMU. Benners is “probably the greatest passer I have ever seen.”