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F. E* 3 COPIES College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents n B. COFFER The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published by The Students Of Texas A&M For 73 Years Number 49: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1951 Price Five Cents Capitalism Doesn ’t Cause Depressions Businessmen Say ‘Heave-Ho’--CenterPole Goes Up By FRANK DAVIS Battalion City Editor State ownership and operation of a country’s basic resources leads to more and more governmental control which finally deprives the individual of incentive. This statement made by C. E. Lyon, general manager of the Dia mond Alkali Co. of Houston, sum med up the opinion expressed by a panel of three Texas Business- Ag Councilman To Award ‘Best Prof in School The Agricultural Council will sponsor the Award to the Best Prof in the School of Ag riculture this year. The coun cil made this decision at a meeting last night held at the home of Dean C. N. Shepardson, school of agriculture. James Lehmann, Phil Huey and Austin Haney will head the selec tion committee. The award will be given next spring. Malcolm Dyer, Gerald McEntire, and George Townsend are in charge of securing a booklet to be given to all freshmen agriculture majors telling the activities of each of the technical clubs within the different departments. The Agricultural Council is in vestigating the possibility of join ing with other land grant colleges in forming a National Agricultural Council. Bob Langford, Lynn Pit- hud, and Ed Daniel are in charge }f the project. men last night at a Town Hall meetings in the Biological Science Building. The purpose of the program, sponsored by the Texas Manufac turers Association, was to bring representative Texas businessmen before A&M students to answer questions on business trends in the United States. Capacity Crowd A capacity crowd of students, faculty members, and local resi dents was present at the meeting when William W. Boddie, director of public relations for the Texas Manufacturers Association, as moderator opened the panel to questions from the floor. “What has free, enterprise done to prevent depressions,” was the first question directed to the panel. Lyon received the first nod from Boddie, and proceeded to stress that a wider variety of industrial strength throughout the country was a preventive measure against depressions. Keep Workers Happy K. R. Dailey, assistant manager of the Employee Relations Depart ment for Humble Oil and Refining Company, continued by saying there was greater recognition on the part of management of the needs of the workers. Attempts are made to keep the worker con tinuously employed, he continued. Boddie recognized a question asking, “How can Mr. Lyon ac count for the fact depressions have become more severe with the diversification of industry?” Lyon countered that depression were not caused by the capitalistic system, that all countries have them, and that depression could not be entirely eliminated. (See RESPONSIBLE, Page 4) Egypt Military Attache Agrees To Speak Here “Heave-ho ye hearties, ’tis a might bit heavy.” Brute strength was replaced by numbers yesterday as hundreds of students began work on the traditional Texas University game bonfire. These men are preparing the center pole for erection. The 65 foot pole (two utility line logs spliced together) went into place yesterday as students began hauling wood in around the bonfire area for stacking. The structure will be completed next Wednesday and will burn at 8 that night. —Battalion Photo by Dick Zeek. Usual Classes Here Today As Rural Electric Co-op Meeting Slated Here US Observes Thanksgiving By BERT WELLER Battalion Staff Writer Rrepresentatives of the 81 rural electric cooperatives in Texas will attend the fifth annual Job Train ing and Safety Conference to be held in the Memorial Student Cen ter, Nov. 23-24. The conference is sponsored by the Engineering Ex tension Service, the State Advisory Committee for Rural Electric Co operatives, and the Texas Educa tion Agency. A highlight of the conference will be the banquet address, Nov. 23, by Congressman W. R. Poage »f Waco which will be broadcast Seven Students Win Heep Awards Seven A&M dairy husbandry students have been awarded the Herman F. Heep awards. First and second place awards went to sen iors, juniors and sophomores and one to a freshman. Howard William Kruse, of Bren- ham was first place winner in the senior group and was awarded $100. Fred Bruce McDaniel of Shreveport, La., was second, re ceiving $50. In the junior group Gene Logan Lyon of Ft. Worth was awarded the $100 first prize and Alton Ray Pyburn of Roby, second prize, $50. Wesley Earl Gross of Bonham won first place in the sophomore class, $100, and James Bertram Hardaway of Leesburg won second place, $50. Kenneth Reynolds of Pittsburgh won the freshman scholarship, $200. over the Texas Quality Network at 9 p. m. Safety and training talks will be given by Dr. C. J. Potthoff, national director of the Ameriqan Red Cross, Frank LaMaster, head of the Job Training and Safety Division of, the Rural Electrifica tion Administration, and Harry .C. Hutchinson, factory representative of the White Rubber Company., W. W. Mills, chief of rural elec tric training for the Service and E. W. Kerlick, G. E. Baker, W. O. Wood, and T, S. Watson, field instructors, will report on the past year’s job training and safety ac tivities. To coincide with the day that many of the state’s electric line men will be attending the confer ence, Gov. Allan Shivers desig T nated Nov. 23 as Electric Line men’s Day in Texas. From the battle lines in Korea to our occupation troops in Ger many, today was Thanksgiving for most Americans. In the continental U. S., fami lies gathered around overloaded tables to celebrate and ask thanks. In fact today was Thanksgiving everywhere except at Aggieland and at Texas University. Both schools have postponed their holi days until next Thursday because of the all-important football game in College Station that tradition says must be played on Thanks giving. Since November has five Thursdays this month, the game Was scheduled for the last week end. Turkey—Good Weather The rest of the world will find turkey plentiful but expensive to day. The weatherman has been kind, however, promising fair skies for most of the nation. Football will occupy many peoples’ minds as high school and college teams meet in traditional Turkey Day battles. As most of the nation concerns itself with the small but important problems of turkey, cranberry sauce, and football games, many people will pause to remember that this Thanksgiving Day finds the country only half at peace. Casualty lists, always two or more weeks behind developments, have passed the 100,000 mark for American killed, wounded, and missing in Korea. The Associated Press reports that most fighting men will receive the usual Thanks giving turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Some first line groups may have to wait for theirs, the Department of Defense reports. Prayer for Dead Korean field commander, Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet told his troops that “We must say a pray er of thanks for the men who gal lantly laid down their lives that we might live to further resist the enemy and ultimately elimin ate his threat.” At A&M the noise of another battle disturbs the would-be Thanksgiving quiet. The usual bat tle of tie books has been supplant ed by the roar of trucks, axes, and saws as Aggies struggle to build the biggest bonfire in college his tory. Non-Believer Sees Thanksgiving Grey By HAL BOYLE New York—CP)—Once upon a time a man who didn’t believe in Thanksgiving went to have a drink on Thanksgiving Day at a bar where the bartender believed in Christmas. “Gr-r-r-rumph-h-h-h, and soda,” he said. “Yes, sir,” said the bartender. “Would you like some soda, too?” “Grr-r-rumph-h-h-h-!” “Yes, sir, here’s the soda!” “Well, Mr. Belcher,” said the bartender, “have you noticed the Consolidated Meets Bremond In Football Bi-District Play The bi-district playoff game be tween the Tigers of A&M Consoli dated High School and the Bre mond Tigers will be played in Hearne tonight at 8 p. m. The Consolidated group is the champ ion of District 24-B while the Bre mond team took the title in Dis trict 23-B. C of C Provided Tickets In older to secure the bi-district game for Hearne, the Chamber of Commerce provided game tick ets. Heame police will also be in Giles Talk, Ag-Rice Film Featured at QB Meeting Bascom Giles, General Land Commissioner of the State of Texas, will address tonight’s Quarterback Club meeting. Giles, who has been prominent in Texas politics for the past 13 years, is a humorous and entertaining speaker. Films of the A&M-Rice battle will be showed at the meeting which gets underway at 7:45 p. m. This is the pre- A&M and Texas U. game meeting. Frank Thurmond, winner of last week’s QB contest, will be awarded two tickets to the A&M-Texas Turkey-Day game at the session. Winner of this week’s contest will re ceive two free dinners, with an allowance of $1.50 per meal. charge of traffic control and park ing before the game. Four buses will make the trip to Hearne carrying local fans. One bus has been provided by the Con solidated Independent School Dis trict. The remainder of the buses will be provided by the county superintendent, W. D. Bunting. Ap proximately 1500 fans are expect ed to follow the team, according to L. E. Boze, principal. Following the game, the local Tigers will eat at the City Cafe in Hearne. Fans may see the team there following the game, Bozo said. The team will return to Col lege Station after the meal. Sit In West Stands The playoff game will be played in the 4,000 seat Wood Stadium. Consolidated fans will be seated in the west side stands, while the Bremond supporters occupy the east stands. Parking officials have announced that some parking wil' be allowed in the end zones. Officials for the bi-district clash are John Naylor, referee and Char lie Smith, head linesman. A.n um pire and a field judge will be chosen from the Waco chapter of the SFOA. The College Station-Bremond battle brings together two groups of Tigers, each bearing the same maroon and white school colors. The Bremond team will wear white jerseys for the important bi-dis trict clash. Principal Boze has announced that no classes will be dismissed for the game. Ticket Sales End Today for Sophs All Corps Sophomores must buy heir Texas University game stu- lent date tickets by 5 p. m. to- lay, said Howard Nelson, Athletic Department ticket manager. Nelson said approximately 700 •orps date tickets and 450 non- •orps date tickets were unsold at 1 p. m. Wednesday. He urged all ion-corps students to secure date ickets as soon as possible. Date tickets not sold today will jo on sale to any students Friday. Tickets for the Saturday fresh man game between A&M and TU will not be sold here. They must be purchased in Austin, Nelson said. Christmas decorations in the win dows?” “Shut up, Joe!” “What did you say, Mr. Belch er?” “I said, shut up, Joe.” The bartender looked along the empty polished mahogany bar— empty of its usual customers— and said: “A Place To Go?” “Don’t you have no place to go on Thanksgiving, Mr. Belcher? Gee—” “Shut up!” said Mr. Belcher. “I don’t believe in Thanksgiving.” “Gee,” said Joe, “don’t nobody in the world want you today, sir?” “Nobody want me?” replied Mr. Belcher. “I don’t want them. I •want peace.” He ordered a drink and muscled it down firmly. Joe thought it over uneasily, then said triumphantly: “But don’t nobody really want you, Mr. Belcher?” “Of course somebody wants me, Joe,” said Belcher testily. “You think I’ m alone?” Belcher blooded that over for a (See NON-BELIEVER, Page 2) Nov. 22 is just another day for work at Aggieland. In College Station, grocery stores report that most households will observe the holiday along with the college. James Winn at the Southside Food Market reports only 10 or 12 turkeys have been sold. R. C. Fussell at the Shopping Center remarked that figures would show that only one out of three families will observe today as their Thanksgiving. Mrs. Char lie Opersteny of Charlie’s Food Market says their turkey sales have been very low. People will not even be able to buy a turkey dinner today, with the MSC reserv ing its holiday meals for next Thursday. President and Mrs. Truman will observe their Thanksgiving in the (See THANKSGIVING, Page 3) By JOHN WHITMORE Battalion Editor Final confirmation has been re ceived. The Egyptian Military At tache, Col. Adbel Hamid Bey Gha- leb will be on the campus Dec. 7. He will present the Egyptian side of the explosive Anglo-Egypt- ian question at a meeting open to the public. Arrangements have ten tatively been made to hold the meeting in the Ball room of the MSC. Colonel Ghaleb will fly down from his headquarters in Washing ton D. C. in time for the meeting. His talk is being sponsored by The United Nation’s Club, The Bat talion, the history department, and the MSC Directorate and plans are being coordinated by Tom Rountree, chairman of the MSC House Committee. Egyptian Side The colonel will present the of ficial Egyptian attitude and will attack the problem from the mili tary problems as he sees it as a member of the Egyptian Military. An invitation was extended ori ginally to the Egyptian ambass- dor, Kamil Abdul Rahim during the first part of November. At the Deans to Discuss Teachers Raitngs Student ratings of the teaching staff, and use that can be made of,them will be the title of a dis cussion given by four A&M deans at a meeting of The American As- socation of University Professors tonight. The meeting will be held in the YMCA Chapel at 7:30 p. m. Speakers will be Dean of the College C. C. French, and Deans J. P. Abbott, arts and sciences; C. N. Shepardson, agriculture; and H. W. Barlow, engineering. “This is a much discussed sub ject on the campus, and should be of considerable interest to all,” said, Ralph Lee, A. A. U. P. vice- president. Lee said a question and answer discussion will follow the main presentation. Changes Announced In Editorial Staff Four changes in the staff of The Battalion were an nounced this morning by Editor John Whitmore. Joel Austin, Bill Streich, Bob Selleck and Frank Davis received promotions under the revision. Austin, junior personnel man agement major, was boosted to associate editor of the paper. He is a three year man on The Battalion. During his freshman year, he was editor of the freshman page and during the summer and regu lar semester of his sophomore year he acted as city editor of the pap- Austin was editor for last summer. editorial journalism major from Houston. Prior to this year he was a staff writer. same time an invitation was ex tended to the English Government to send a speaker to the campus. British Speaker J. T. Henderson counsul in Hous ton will be on the campus later in the month to present the English view-point. At present his sche dule is tree about a week before the Christmas holidays start. During the first exchange of correspondence it was hoped by the sponsors to get Col. Gordon- Watson to speak for the British. Due to previous commitments the colonel was unable to accept the in vitation. A need for hearing both sides of the controversial subject came about when members of the spon soring organizations decided the “second hand” information being sent out through general news channels was not adequate. The group saw a need for presenting both sides of the questions to the student body, with a particular interest in informing the future officers. Started in 1882 The controversy between the t\yo countries has been brewing since 1882 when the British moved into Egypt. In 1899 the English en tered into a treaty with the Egyp tians over the joint rule of tha Sudan territory. In 1936 the Egyptian govern ment recognized the British and the" British moved into the Suez Canal region. After World War II the Egypt ians tried to move the British out through arbitration. The Eng lish countered Egyptian proposals with the defense theory. They said they, the English, were in the Suez and Sudan area for protection rea sons, .. V '. Start Talks '/l 'j In 1946 the Egyptians started negotiations to move 'the 'British troops out of the country. The talks were unchanged in England and Egypt until a few months ago when the Egyptians stopped talk ing and started to rebel, against the British power in their country. The : government- of .Egypt can celled the treaties of 1882, 18^9 and of 1936 and asked the English gov ernment . to remove the troops. Basis for the Egyptian cancella tion was the UN' Charter, which says one country will not keep trdops in another without the per mission of the other country. Streich was named managing editor to take the position left open by Austin. He is a senior During the past summer Streich was recipient of the journalism internship to the Temple Telegram. This opportunity, given annually by the Texas Daily Newspaper Publishers Association, makes it possible for a senior journalism student to work on a daily paper in the state. On the sports side of the paper’, Bob Selleck was boosted to Sports Editor. Heretofore he was the Sports News Editor. Under the new organization he is in com plete charge of the sports cover age for The Battalion. Selleck is responsible to the editor, associate (See EDITOR CHANGES, Page 3) Leland Addresses. Jr. AVMA Meeting T. W. Leland, head of the de partment of business administra tion, addressed members of the Junior Chapter of the American Veterinary Medicine Association Tuesday night. He told the group of some of the business problems confronting the practicing veteri narians. The BA department head told the students of the need of getting the services of an accountant in their practices. Leland also spoke on the problems of taxation, pur chase of practice, and business procedure in hospital management. Approximately 100 veterinary students were at the meeting held in the hospital buildirig. Joel Austin Associate Editor Bill Streich Managing Editor Bob Selleck Sports Editor Frank Davis City Editor