The Battalion
JANUARY 2-31
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE^
Number 81. Volume 52
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1952
Price Five Cents
Achievement Prize
Na m ed After Jon es
To Retire Jan. 31
By IDE TROTTER
Batt Staff Writer
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Promising' freshmen agronomy
students will be able to get needed
financial assistance in the future
from a new award, the Luther
Goodrich Jones Achievement
Award in Agronomy.
This new award has been named
for Dr. L. G. Jones, who will re
tire after 30 years of service here,
on Jan. 31.
Dr. Jones is a professor of Ag
ronomy and has for some time
taught Agronomy 301 which is
taken by all students in the school
of agriculture except those who
major in agricultural economics.
According to Dr. R. C. Potts, pro
fessor of agronomy, Dr. Jones has
taught 95 per cent of all A&M
agriculture graduates in the last
30 years, and, “Has done more to
help soil thinking in the state than
any other man.”
Community and student life have
also received the benefits of his
t service. Dr. Potts pointed out,
“Luther Jones has spent as many
hours helping individual students
with any of their problems as he
* has spent in class.”
Freshmen discussion groups were
started in 1930 to fill a similar
broader place in the life of the stu
dent than the Basic Division
now fills. These groups were spon
sored by the YMCA and held on a
company basis. Upperclassmen
chose faculty members to talk to
the freshmen on all matters from
Movie Figures
Accused of Red
Party Leanings
Washington, Jan. 22 (AP)
' —Dozens of doctors, lawyers,
newspapermen and filmland
figures in the Los Angeles
area were accused of Com
munist party activities in testi
mony before the House Un-Ameri-
tan Activities Committee today.
The witnesses who named them
were Max Silver, Russian born
X-ray technician; his wife, Dr.
Louise Light Silver, a Los Angeles
Osteopath; Charles Daggett and
George Glass, publicity men for
merly connected with newspaper
and motion picture industries.
They were called as the commit
tee resumed an inquiry, started at
Los Angeles last September, into
Communist activities in California.
Daggett said he was persuaded
to go to meetings by Morgan Hull,
, now dead. At that time, he said,
Hull was an international organ
izer for the CIO American News
paper Guild. He said he knew Hull
was. a member of the Communist
party.
Others attending the meetings
he said, were Joseph Aidlen, Los
Angeles attorney; Percy Solotoy,
mother attorney; Jack Broman or
Jack Wilson, a newspaperman;
Lucy Stander; wife of actor Lioner
Stander; Herbert Klein, newspap
erman, and Spencer Austrian, an
attorney.
The meetings, he said, consisted
of discussions of Communist poli
tical theory and Marxism, which he
. considered “very dull.”
State Dairy Rally
Starts Wednesday
A state-wide dairy industry ral
ly will be held at the MSC, James
G. Kizer, president of the Ameri
can Dairy Association of Texas,
Inc., announced today.
The rally will be held Wednesday
morning at 10.
“The purpose of the meeting is
to build a greater understanding
of the ADA program,” said Sam
von Rosenberg, field director of
the ADA in Texas.
C. N. Shepardson, dean of the
school of agriculture, and G, G.
Gibson, director of the Agricultural
Extension Service, will appear on
the meeting’s program.
One important portion of the
program will be the presentation
and discussion of the revised con-
•stitution and by-laws for the Texas
ADA organization.
A large representation of Texas
dairy farmers is expected, Kizer
said.
hazing to the reasons why men
come to college, and relations be
tween men and women. Dr. Jones
was regularly chosen to lead these
discussions.
Wrestling Coach
As the A&M wrestling coach
from 1920 through 1922, Dr. Jones
had five of his teams win a major
T and five more to win a minor
letter. One man from the team ad
vanced to the Olympic elimina
tions.
Review and coaching sections
were a reg^ar part of his pro
gram. Thelrwere designed to help
students gain positions with the
government as soil scientists. Jun
ior agronomists, or in other agri
cultural posts through Civil Serv
ice examinations.
Boy Scout Troop 102, the first
in College Station, was organized
by Dr. Jones in 1923. It is still
very active today.
Campus businesses were run by
many students, in the depression
years more than now, as a means
of getting through school. He op
erated an impromptu loan service
in conjunction with other faculty
members so that the boys might
have access to the capital they
needed.
Led Tours
While serving with the agrono
my department he has gone on four
of the Cotton Tours. Last year
the trip covered Mexico and Cen
tral America. The 1948 and 1950
tours which he led included the
textile mills of the eastern United
States, the e n belt, and Canada.
“One of my most interesting-
trips was the one to Europe in
1937, because Europe was just be
ginning to boil,” Dr. Jones pointed
out. Seven European countries
were covered: France, Holland,
Belgium, Switzerland, Germany,
England, and Ireland
grader, Bill.
Temple may claim Dr. Jones as
a favorite son for he was born
there on Feb. 1, 1894. He grad-
(See JAMES, Page 4)
Well Tailored Performers ISoions Want Economy,
Ask For Budget Cut
Combining ?. selection of popular renditions with
selected classical numbers, The Revelers’, one of
the nation’s top male quartets, performed before
a Town Hall audience recently. The Revelers
blended two tenors, a baritone, and a basso to
produce a melodic harmony similar to that of an
organ.
People Perish From Want
Of Science, Dr. Doak Says
An. A&M scientist told a radio ence is truth, veritable truth. The vide them and yet they liquidate
audience recently that “it is for body of this truth is indivisible, in- assassinate or otherwise eliminate
want of the truths of science, that ternational, indestructible _ and al- all who do not conform
people perish.” He said that “there together comm.endable. It is insep- It makes no dilleience by
Fs no mystery or magic in science.” arably linked with freedom and in name they call themselves or what
more than one of the great reli- term is used to justify the murders
The speaker, Dr. C. C. Doak,
head of the biology department,
said that Americans are living in
a scientific age. “We are justly
proud of our accomplishments. We eluding our own, has based
are healthier, better informed, live constitution upon these beliefs
.— , . , )elie y perpetuation of stagnation by as
ngianu arm neia.m. longer and better than any of our am the truth-know the truth and
The first College Station City forbearers. we have crop plants and the truth will make you
Council Was organized in the animal breeds that were unknown truth endureth forever
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in out father’s day. We extend the truths we hold to be self-evident-
power of sight to the remotest prove all things and hold fast to
Chemistry Building in 1939. Dr
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bers and served on the council for stars and the power of hearing that which is good. Each of these h un g er e v e n when food is at hand.
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seven years.
For six years he was also a
member of the A&M Consolidated
School Board.
Dr. Jones has a family of five:
his wife, his oldest son Luther Jn, ^ be in - league w i t h
who is m the army at Ft. Sam ^ ^ ^ . g more likely;
2% ww»rr- i” :?j; ith
in Houston, and a youn B fifth L
around our globe.
“Each day,” Dr. Doak said, “we
do a thousand things which only a
few decades ago would have caused
us either to be worshipped as sup-
made these wonders possible have
been discovered one by one by or
dinary persons like you and me.’
The speaker said that “science
knows neither race nor creed. Sci-
CC Member Drive
To Start Feb. 1
The annual membership drive by College View
the College Station Development chairman.
Association and Chamber of Com
merce will begin Feb. 1 and last
until Feb. 14, according to Marion
Pugh, president of the organiza
tion.
Membership in the Chamber of
Commerce totaled close to 300 dur
ing 1950 with a budget of approx
imately $3,000, the president said.
Chamber of Commerce fees
which entitle membership and vot
ing powers are $5 per individual
and $6 per family with the man
and woman having voting power.
McGinnis Heads
N. M. McGinnis, secretary-man
ager for the Chamber of Com
merce, is in charge of the mem
bership drive. Three committees
have been appointed to contact
businessmen. They are as follows:
North Gate area—K. A. Man
ning 1298 East Marsteller, chair
man.
East Cate area—H. E. Burgess,
124 South Lee Street, chairman.
South Gate area—G. E. Madeley,
Family Specialist
To Speak on Kids
Mrs. Elouise Trigg Johnson,
family life education specialist with
the A&M experiment station, will
speak on “Giving Every Child A
Fair Chance For A Healthy Per
sonality” at a lecture sponsored by
the Travis Parent Teacher Asso
ciation, Bryan, at 7:30 tonight.
Mrs. Johnson was formally an in
development at TSCW.
and Fifth Street,
All persons whose names are
listed on the city mailing list as
utility consumers will be contacted,
either by person or mail, Pugh said.
Committee expenditures during
1950 included the following:
Education: $700 to the Consoli
dated High School library.
Recreation: $800 to the College
Station Recreation Council.
Help For Clinic
Public Health: $170.93 used in
connection with the annua! TB Sur
vey and Clean-Up campaign, and in
setting up an examination clinic
for A&M Consolidated High School.
Publicity: $88 for pamphlets sent
to high school graduates telling
about A&M.
Civic Development: $79.77 spent
in furthering house-to-house mail
delivery in College Station, hav
ing
for The Battalion contest on home Zinn, assistant dean of men
Christmas decorations, and flow
duchess to the Cotton Pageant.
for the part time secretary.
Main Laundry Station
Will Not Take Recess
All laundry stations except the mander concerned, Zinn said,
main laundry will be closed from
noon, Saturday, Jan. 26 until 8 a.
m. Friday, Feb. 1.
During this time, laundry can be tary must secure _ written penms
at the main laundry building.
gions of the world, truth has been they commit,
linker with concept of the Diety
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More than one great nation, in- e ^j ier j m p 0 tent in a modern world
idinff our own. has based its ^ are f 0 p 0W i n g a vicious circle of
statements should heighten our re
spect for our liberal religidus heri
tage, for a liberal government
based upon that heritage.
“There can be neither Marxian
science nor American science,” the
scientist declared, for if truth is
not universally applicable, it is
not science.
“There are those, however, who re
ject the common-sense logic of the
one-two-three-four of the scientific
method. The sequence, one, cur-
osity, two, experimentation, three,
conclusion and four, reasoned ac
tion, to many, seem too complicat
ed, too sinful, too dangerous or
otheiwise objectionable for their
pusposes. These are they v'ho ‘love
darkness rather than light because
their deeds are evil.”
Erect Curtains of Fear
“They busy themselves erecting
curtains, curtains of fear, curtains
of bamboo and curtains of iron,
whereby they seek to block the
benefits of truth from blighted
minds and blighted areas.”
Dr. Doak pointed out that “free
dom of speech and freedom to
teach science thus become one and
the same thing. He who is not per
mitted to doubt, is not free, nor
will he take the first questioning
step in the scientific method.
“Censorships, curtains, and dog
mas thus become the enemies of
truth and those who hide behind
them clamber for the good things
that modern science alone can pro-
Today Last Time
To Reserve Room
j , - Today is the last day room reser-
.i. fe « representative call on new- vations for the spring semester can
comers in College Station, prizes be made, according to Bennie A.
Fees must be paid before reser-
ers for the Chamber of Commerce vations can be made. Veterans can
secure fee waiver slips from the
Dr. M. T. Harrington, president
Reservatiions are to be made at of A&M, was the main speaker at
a c Gnrvn thp .
in Orange, Texas.
Dr. Harrington, accompanied by
A&M’s head football coach, Ray
Other expenditures included $42 Veterans’ Advisor Office in Room
by the Membership Committee, $10 102 of Goodwin Hall.
Students who wish to reserve any
room other than the one they now' , , , , , ,,
occupy may do so by presenting a George, will also speak to the
room change slip from the new Beaumont A&M Club tonight in
housemaster or organization com- Beaumont,
ander concerned, Zinn said. , Following a speech to a noon
Students planning to move from meeting of the Beaumont Rotai>
the Cadet Corps to a non-military Club, Dr. Harrington and Ray
dorm who are not dropping mili- George-will attend a Port Arthur
• A&M Club meeting Wednesday
“They w'ho have not learned the
one, two, three, four of science are
sassination,
Perish For Want of Science
“It is for want of the truths of
science that people perish. They
They thirst with water just be
neath their feet, for the science
of drilling is beyond their training
and capacities. They remain in
ignorance with enlightening infor
mation at hand, for its rays never
reach their shielded brains.
“They are poor and fumbling in
the midst of the world’s greatest
riches, as at present, in the' oil
fields of the Near East, for re
fining techniques are beyond them.
They die young of diseases for
which science has long held easy
cures. In fits of fanaticisms for
orthodoxy in the very teachings
that blocked their source of light
in the first place, they often re
volt against their scientifically
trained and progressive rulers.”
“They repudiate verified truth,”
Dr. Doak declared, “stone their
prophets, crucify their Christs,
shoot their Gandhis, and send all
w r ho cannot conform to some vague
dogma to Siberian prison camps.
“They expel the assassinate all
w'ho seek to lead in the only di
rection that can bring relief from
their miseries. Their foolishness
leads back to the very curse and
the very technique that kept the
dark age dark for a thousand
years.
“Against that curse, teaching
is a more effective weapon than
bullets. The world’s people must
learn about science and what it
can do toward healing the sick,
feeding the hungry and housing the
homeless.
“A democracy in wdiich there is
freedom to question, freedom to
speak and teach and an opportun
ity for an enlightened citizenry to
exercise a free ballot is the world’s
closest approximation to a scien
tifically patterned political sys
tem,” the speaker said in part.
Barrington Speaks
To Orange Rotary
Ware Speaks
To Lions Club
On Citizenship
County Judge A. S. Ware
spoke to members of the Col
lege Station Lions Club Mon
day on the Texas Bar Asso
ciation sponsored Citizenship
month which is being observed dur
ing January.
The man who has held the county
judgeship for many years, pointed
out how few' voters go to the polls
at election time. He said that we
are failing to exercise our light of
franchise, which is actually the
first duty of citizenship.
Of the 8,50Q qualified voters in
Brazos County, only 1,074 voted in
the November constitutional
amendment election, he said. Col
lege Station polling places showed
the highest percentage of votes
per qualified voters during that
election, he added.
The judge showed that the poll
tax is not paid as a fee for voting,
but was set up in the original
constitution of the Republic of Tex
as in 1839 to support a free public
school system.
He said that now, however, the
states gets 50 cents for election
expenses while the county receives
25 cents. This is all included in the
$1.75 paid for the poll tax.
The judge urged the Lions mem
bers to pay their poll tax before
the Jan. 31 deadline in order to in
sure-their right to vote.
Finals Waste
Of Time, Prof
Here is a comforting word for
all final exam plagued Aggies.
Strange as it may seem there is
at least one prof on the campus
who sympathizes with you.
“When finals were first introduc
ed here I favored them but now'
that I have had time to w'atch them
I am opposed,” he said.
It seems that he feels that the
finals merely waste about a week
and a half of potential teaching
time. “By the time I have had a
man in my class for four and a
half months I have a pretty good
idea just how much he know's about
the course.’
No matter what his reasons may
be this policy would make him a
popular figure on the campus if
the word ever got out, except for
one thing.
“As long as we are going to go
on giving finals I don’t think there
should be any exemptions,” he con
cluded.
Washington, Jan. 22—'A 3 )—The
usual wave of economy demands
rolled out of Congress today in the
wake of President Truman’s record
$85,444,000,000 (B) peacetime
spending budget for the fiscal year
starting July 1.
Cuts of up to 14 billion dollars—
enough to prevent a federal defi
cit next year—were demanded.
But there seemed little likelihood
that such a goal—or even anything
resembling it—would be attained.
Congress Limited
Actually, Congress is limited in
trimming the President’s spending
program, since much of the con
templated outlay will come from
money already allocated but not
yet spent.
Congress works only on appro
priations, although it can recapture
unspent money appropriated in
preceding years.
In new appropriations for the
coming year, the President re
quested $85,260,000,001) (B), some
10 billion less than he had sought
for the present year. Congress
cut this year’s appropriations a
little over four billion.
Civilian Spending Is Target
With national security programs
taking 75 cents out of every dollar
Neither Side
Yields Position
In Truce Talks
Munsan, Korea, Jan. 22—
(AP)—Truce delegates dis
cussing the thorny airfield is
sue met today for only 15
minutes.
The quick adjournment—third
such in three days—emphasized the
unyielding positions of both sides.
The Peiping radio said allied de
mands for “restrictions on airfields
can have no reason other than hold
ing up and torpedoing the armis
tice negotiations.”
“We have sumbitted every possi
ble reasonable proposal,” the offi
cial Chinese Communist radio said.
“Further'changes are impossible.”
The radio added, in comment on
the other roadblock in the truce
path, that “we will never move
from the principle of unconditional
release and repatriation of all war
prisoners.”
The subcommittee on prisoner
exchange, which met in an adjoin
ing tent at Panmunjom, was con
tinuing its talk.
Communist witnesses w'ere giv
ing allied liaison officers their ver
sions of an allied plane attack last
Friday which the Reds charged hit
one of their truce convoys near
Kaesong.
The allies acknowledged that
four planes bombed and strafed a
highway bridge in the area and
may have hit the Communist ve
hicles.
Miss Judy Oden Wins
DAR ’52 Good Citizen
Miss Judy Oden, Consolidated
High School senior, has been se
lected as the DAR 1952 Good
Citizen from College Station by
the Consolidated High School fac
ulty.
She will be presented a Good
Citizen pin at the DAR George
Washington birthday celebration
dent is scheduled to speak again.
Miss Judy Oden
Feb. 22, said Mrs. J. M. Nance,
chairman of the Good Citizenship
Pilgrimage Committee.
Her selection was based on the
following qualities: dependability—
truthfulness, loyalty, punctuality;
service—cooperation, courtesy, con
sideration of others; leadership—
personality, self-control, ability to
assume responsibility; patriotism—
unselfish interest in family, school,
community and nation; scholarship
—creditable grades in all studies.
Miss Oden is society editor of
The RoUnd-up, Consolidated High
School paper, member of the na
tional honor society, out-going
president of MYF, and a member
of FHA.
In a recent contest sponsored
by the DAR, she won first prize
on a corduroy dress and third
prize on a suit.
She plans to enter the University
of Texas and major in business ad
ministration.
If she is selected state winner,
she will be awarded a $100 United
States savings bond instead of a
free trip to Washington, D. C. as
in the past. The change is due to
crowded conditions in Washington.
Miss Oden is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Oden of College
Station.
planned for 1953 spending, Con
gress may concentrate its econ
omy drive on the old-line civilian
agencies. Cuts of up to 10 per cent
in civilian employment have been
demanded by leading Republicans,
who claim such a slash would save
a billion dollars in the new year.
Defense spending also is likely
to be curbed, but barring an un
expected turn for the better in
world affairs, no deep cuts are
probable.
Congressional sentiment on mil
itary spending in this general elec
tion year was disclosed pointedly
last week when the House approved
and 832 million dollar annual pay
raise for armed service .personnel
by a topheavy vote.
Tax Hike Unlikely
There was one thing fairly cer
tain about the fiscal outlook: The
President isn’t likely to get any
of the extra tax revenue he wants.
His budget message called for
$4,600,000,000 (B) more taxes.
Congress doesn’t take kindly to
tax increases in election years.
Without new taxes, the Presi
de n t predicted the government
would go another $14,446,000,000
(B) in the red next year, raising
the national debt to $274,922,000,-
000 (B) by June, 1953. The statu
tory debt limit is 275 billion, and
only Congress can raise that.
The President told Congress he
is gravely concerned about con
tinued deficits and reminded the
lawmakers that their refusal to
approve all of the 10 billion in
new taxes he sought last year has
caused him to abandon his hope for
a pay-as-we-go defense program.
Tunisians Call
For Liberation
Tunis, Jan. 2 2—(AP) —
Three Tunisians were killed
and 20 wounded, some seridus-
ly, yesterday in a new Nation
alist demonstration at Nabeul,
a coastal town southeast of here.
A clash between the demonstra
tors and police occurred just at
nightfall.
When the police moved in to
break up the gathering, some dem-
onstrators climber to roofs and be
gan throwing grenades, French
authorities said. It was these gre
nades that caused the casualties,
they reported.
Mobile g u a r d reinforcements
from neighboring Algeria rolled in
to bolster French efforts to quell
bloody Nationalist rioting for home
rule.
Armored cars and troops sur
rounded the Arab section of the
capital, while police in the Euro
pean section stopped and searched
Tunisians for weapons.
Nationalist demonstrators are
clamoring for independence from
French rule.
Wilson Says
US Industry
At New Peak
New York, Jan. 22—(A 3 )—De
fense Mobilize!' Charles E. Wilson
said today the groundwork is laid,
and American industry now is cre
ating unprecedented “new pillars
of power”—for waging either war
or peace.
The year of 1951 was occupied
with preparations, he said, but the
wheels now are in motion for vast,
new production which will surpass
the output that “astonished the
world” during World War II.
“I think a lot of people will be
amazed when they get the full im
pact of developments now well un
der way,” Wilson told the Ameri
can Institute of electrical engin-
eei's.
He said defense deliveries have
now reached the rate of $2,000,000,-
000 a month.
Brazos Co. A&M Club
To Meet Thursday Night
The Brazos County A&M Club
will hold an organizational meet
ing Thursday at 7 p. m. at the
Club House announced Joe Moth-
eral, president.
This will be a special meeting
for officers and past presidents.
The next regular meeting will be
Feb. 26.