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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Published By A&M Students For 74 Years Number 108: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1952 Price Five Cents 800 High School Students Expected Advance registration for A&M’s March 15 High School Day in dicates a possible attendance of 800 or more students, announced C. G. “Spike” White, assistant dean of men for activities. Registration for visiting high school students has been moved from the MSC Lobby to Guion Hall, where the orientation meet ing will also be held. /Hit Greeting By Harrington bo 1 ' ^ 'Dr. M. T. Harrington, president of the college, will welcome the visitors. Grady L. Smallwood, pres ident of the Student Senate will speak next on the Basic Division. Bobby Dunn, senior class vice- president, will speak next on the if recreational activities at A&M. He will be followed by Glenn Lippman, Aggie football star, who will talk on intercollegiate athletics. Dan Davis, president of the MSC Coun cil, will then tell the visiting stu dents about the MSC and how it is organization. Eric Carlson, cadet colonel of the corps, will talk on life in the Cadet Corps and Lewis E. Jobe, head yell leader, on the Aggie spirit. C. L. Ray, corps chaplain, will speak next on the religious life on the campus. Other speakers at the meeting will be C. L. Alexander, E. E. McQuillen, director of the develop ment fund and Col. Shelly P. Myers, PMS&T, Dr. John R. Ber trand, dean of the Basic Division, and Ray Perryman, assistant registrar, will also be introduced at the meeting. After the meeting the high v school visitors will go on group tours of the college educational facilities. These tours will be con ducted by members of the student Inter-Council Committee. High uchool seniors will be allowed any »f several tours depending on the yourse of study the student plans to follow. After lunch at either Sbisa or Duncan Mess Hall, the students will be given to visit home town friends. As guests of the “T” Association, they will be admitted to the Sports Day events. That night they will see the football team in an inter-squad game. Housing for the visiting students has been arranged by the various home town clubs on the campus. Transportation to and fx-om the college will be pi'ovided by the fox-mer student clubs, White said. Won’t Claim It New Name For MSC A&M’s $2,000,000 Memorial Student Center has received many names and nicknames since its opening last yeax*. Officials of the MSC got a new name the other day, how ever, that they find hard to ap ply to any department in the ox’ganization—as far as they know. The address on an envelope read: “Memorial Stud Center, College Station, Texas.” Top Danish Military Officials To Inspect ROTC March 14 Highway Meeting ‘Largest Ever Held ? “Biggest yet,” and group evei’,” were fi’equent com ments heard from participants at tending the twenty-sixth annual | Highway Short Coui’se held in the MSC yestex - day and today. Dix*ected by F. J. Benson, pro fessor of civil engineering, the Shoi’t Course got under way yes terday at 8 a. m. One of the out standing speakei’s on the morning program was Robert J. Potts, mem ber of the Texas Highway Com mission. He established and taught at A&M the first course in High way Engineering ever given in any institution in the U. S. Afternoon Session Among the speakers at yester- d a y’s afternoon session was DeWitt, C. Greer, highway en gineer of the Texas Highway De partment. Greer emphasized the fact that Texas built 1,253 miles of federal aid ixxads, 248 bxddges and eliminated moi - e railway grade crossings than any other state in 1951 to lead the nation in this field. He concluded his speech by ui’g- ing members of the State High way Depax-tment to continue their Students to Cotton Ball Select Queen The Agronomy Society of A&M, sponsor of the Cotton Ball and Pageant, will name their Cotton Queen this weekend at Denton. A delegation of A&M students ” who will be in King Bill Lewis’ Cotton Coux-t, leave Saturday for TSCW to pick the Queen fi’om nominees selected by students at i, that school. Nominees for Queen who do not get a place on the Cotton Coui't will model for the style show. Braleys Sponsor Show ^firpnsor of the eighteenth An- ri\yp/ Cotton Pageant Style Show which precedes the Annual Cotton Radar Places 5th In ASME Tourney A paper presented by Glenn Ra der Jr., A&M, placed fifth in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers student confei’ence of the Southern Tier Region Eight, held in Austin last week. 1 First place went to Charles W. Bevier of SMU, second to Hai’- old G. Jindich of Texas, thii’d to James J. Smetana of Texas and fourth to Julius M. Germany of SMU. Ball at A&M Apidl 25, will be Beverly Braley’s of Bi’yan. In years past, the style show had been sponsored by Sangei’s of Dallas. The style show is scheduled in DeWai’e Field House this year and will feature the latest in fash ions in all women’s clothes, says Mrs. Bevei’ly Bi’aley. A comparatively new stoi’e in Bryan, Beverley Bx-aleys will fur nish the Queen with a fashionable dress brought directly from New York. The versatile Bob and Beverly Braley, owners of the shop, were featured in an article in Mademoi selle magazine in 1948. Mrs. Braley studied fashion and design at Stephens College In Columbia, Mo., and at the Chicago Art Institute. Mr. Bi’aley is the former manager of a fur depart ment in a New York stoi’e. Largest good work in 1952 of “expeditious ly and efficiently putting the ‘mon ey under the rubber’ for the max imum benefit of Texas motorists.” Van London Speaks The annual banquet, one of the highlights of the Shoi’t Course, was held last night in Sbisa Hall. Speaking on “A Local Yokel Visits Yurop and the Fur Yeast” was W. J. Van London, engineer-manager of the Houston Uihan Px-oject and member of the Texas Highway De partment. London recently returned from a trip to the Far East, where he was sent by the government to make a report on the condition of the roads in various foreign countries. The Short Course continued un til noon today with such men as R. N. Jennings, district mainten ance engineer, and T. S. Huff, as sistant engineer road design of the Texas Highway Depax-tment speak ing on the vaidous phases of main taining and improving Texas x’oads. Annual Meeting Held annually, this year’s short coui’se was the biggest ever con ducted with almost 500 represen tatives of highway contractors and suppliers attending. Given under the direction of A&M’s school of Engineering and in coopei’ation with the State Highway Depai’tment, the High way Short Coui’se is offered every year to bring together the engi neers, contractoi’s, officials, and othei’s who are interested in the sti’eet and highway problems of Texas. These men ai’e brought to gether in order that they may not only hear various phases of these problems discussed by experts of state and national reputation, but also that they may have an oppor tunity to meet with each other and exchange ideas. A&M Debaters To Compete In SWC Meet Two debate teams from A&M will participate in the Southwest Conference Debate meet this Saturday at Baylor. Going to the tournament for the Aggies will be James Farm er, Dan Davis, Joe Riddle, and Berthold Weller. All of the SWC schools except Rice are participating in the meet. Each of the schools will enter two teams, one affirmative and one negative. There will be five rounds of debate with the winner decided on the basis of both team’s results in the meet. Subject for all collegiate de bate meets this year is “Resolv ed: That the Federal Government Adopt a Permanent Pi’ogi’am of Wage and Price Conti’ols.” Farm er and Davis will appear on the affirmative with Riddle and Wel ler taking the negative. Scheduled to appear with the TSCW Modern Choir at their concert March 8 in Guion Hall will be the TSCW Violin Trio. Members of the trio pictured above are (left to right) Miss Sarah Brown of Gladewater, Miss Myra Shelton of Paris, and Miss Dorothy Orwick of Des Moines, Iowa. Musical Extravaganza Friday Students Prepare for MSC Intercollegiate Talent Show When the MSC Intercollegiate Talent Show gets underway in the MSC Ballroom at 8 Friday night, there will be at least thirteen faces bearing contended expressions. Those will be the thirteen people responsible for doing the back ground work that put the Talent Show oxx stage at A&M. Twelve of them are student members of the MSC Music Committee and the thiideenth is Miss Betty Bo- landei’, MSC program Consultant. Committee Head Top ranking student Extension Service Club to See Film A film on cancer prevention will be shown at the Extension Ser vice Club meeting Thux-sday in the MSC. Mi-s. J. W. Potts will be in charge of the program. The club, whose members are wives of Extension Seiwice em ployees, meets twice each month. The meeting will be held fi’om 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. in rooms 2C and 2D. on the Music Committee is Jimmy Rollins, who is chairman of the committee and a senior liberal arts student. Rollins was wox-ked closely with Miss Bolander in planning and ar ranging the Talent Show and vis iting various Texas schools in search of talent. Since the 14 performei’s who will come from five Texas colleges will be guests of the Music Committee for a snack, buffet supper, and breakfast, food ai’i’angegments turned out to be an important work item, according to Rollins. Head ing up the food detail ax-e Reese Gallimore, senior history major, and Larry Hardwicke, senior BA majoi’. Ticket Sales Ticket sales ai’e under the di rection of Barton Reynaud, junior engineering major; Don McClui’e, junior chemistry and petroleum en gineering student; and Philip Pear son, junior AH majoi’. The three report that tickets for the show will be limited to the 500 seating capacity of the Ballroom. Selling at 50 cents each, tickets are available at the MSC ticket booth, in the Directorate Office, at the Music Hall, and from any Music Committee mem ber. Publicly for the show is being handled by three junior engineer ing students. They are George Ber ner, CE; Frank Vinz, EE; and Joe Slack, IE. Welcoming Committee Another three man committee of junior engineering majors have been assigned to welcome the visit ing performers to the A&M cam pus. Welcoming Committee mem bers are Kirk Schwarz, Ag. Eng.; Haskell Simon, ME; and Jackie Meredith, chemical engineering. Friday night’s performance will feature thirteen acts. They will include male and female popular vocalists, a classical and semi- classical vocalist, a modern jazz dancer, individual and duo-pianists, (See TALENT SHOW, Page 2) Corps Review Is Scheduled Fifteen high ranking Dan ish officials will be on the campus March 14 to view the college and corps of cadets, said Colonel Joe E. Davis, commandant. Arriving by plane at 10 a. m., they will tour the campus, con cluding their visit by inspecting a full dress review of the cadet corps, he added. A&M is only one of many stops the delegates will make as they tour the country viewing outstand ing organized reserve corps and ROTC activities of the Army, Navy and Air Force. These officials hope to promote international good will between their country and the U. S. and also get ideas for the es tablishment of ROTC units in Denmark. The ranks of the delegates in clude those of ministerial, general, field and company grades. Officials Included Among the Danish officials to be present are His Excellency Erick Lindgren, under-secretary of defense; Major General S. E. John- stad Moller, chief and inspector general of the Home Guard; Lt. Gen. Jacobsen, director of person nel and organization of the defense ministry; and Major R. S. Ander son, chief of staff of the inspect or general of infantry. Lt. Col. Charles H. Jones Jr., Aggie-ex, will be on hand here as representative of the Office of Reserve and ROTC Affairs De partment of Washington. Jones is on the staff of Major General Hugh M. Milton II in Washington. After spending the day on the campus, the 15 delegates will leave that afternoon for San Antonio, Davis concluded. Polgar Performance Scheduled March 13 Largest Attendance At Highway Meeting The largest attendance of any previous meeting is attending the annual short course in highway engineering, at A&M, Sol Wright, head of the Civil Engineering De partment, chairman of the opening session said Wednesday morning. More than 500 are in attendance. Weather Today CLEAR Discuss Latest House Action Students Comment on UMT By BILLY COBBLE Battalion Staff Writer The defeat of the Universal Military Training bill in the House of Representatives yester- WBATHER TODAY: Clear to partly coludy. The high yesterday was 66 degrees. The low this morning was 47 degrees. courage a lot of boys from going “I was happy they turned the from Groesbeck. “Not being able to school later on,” said Mickey UMT bill back to the committee to foresee the the future, the boys O’Kane, junior ME major from and killed it,” commented Harold should be trained. This would El Paso. “From the looks of things Hughes, senior business major build up a reserve strength with in Korea, now, we will have to from Abilene. “If I could have vot- out too much interruption of a muster a reserve strength, and ed, I would have voted it down, be- person’s plans, especially the 18- day has caused much comment by UMT would supply that strength,” cause military training at that year-olds. people on the campus. 1 he House h e added. age is no way to defend against “Nearly every other country has voted 236 to 162 yesterday to John Merrill, junior range and Communist aggression, and it some foim of military training and recommit the bill to the House forestry major from Fort Worth, would also mean an extra expense in this respect the United States aimed services committee for fur- j s a j so j n f aV Q r of the bill. “It for the government to undertake, should be no exception,” Rand add- thur study. looks as if everyone will have to In my opinion, UMT is an inade'- ed. “Manpower is now being out- Commenting on the House ac- go sooner or later, and I am in quate safeguard against Commun- moded by technical weapons, but tion Chuck Cargill, junior busi- favor of getting it over with.” ism.” we still need the strength of re- ness major from Eddy, said he is He continued, “Going in right Bob Currey, senior veterinary serve manpower.” favor of the UMT bill and after finishing high school would medicine major from Belton, thinks Dowell Peterson, sophomore ani- thinks it should have been passed, be a good time because most of the bill should have been passed, mal husbandry major from Elgin, Said Cargill, “The six months of the boys are undeciced at that “We need a great reserve said he would have voted the bill training would be invaluable to stage about college, and the train- strength,” said Currey, “and the down. “I think the opposition was a person if he were called to the jng would probably give them passing of the bill would have right by defeating the bill in the service. It would strengthen our more foresight in future plans. facilitated the building of that House, because seven and one- military defenses and better equip “Get Better 4cquainted” strength. At this time anything half years is too long to remain us to meet a crisis. can happen and the experience for in the reserves after six months of “Even that short period of train- “The training would help them the boys just out of high school training.” mg would help people to realize get acquainted with military life would be beneficial to them as _ it is for a common purpose-to and help them to settle down to well as the defense program.” Reserve eriod Bad protect our liberties.” working with other people. During “I think the bill should have He continued, “As far as the act- “I think UMT would be a good that time they can also think about been passd,” said Billy Rand, sen- ual six months training is concern- deal in some ways, but it may dis- a later career.” ior business administration major (See OPINIONS LISTED, Page 3) Dr. Franz J. Polgar, called “Am erica’s greatest one-man show” by the Saturday Evening Post, will present his unusual program of telepathy, mentalism, and hypnosis in Guion Hall on Thursday, March 13, at 7:30 p. m. The mentalist and hypnotist would probably make the perfect Aggie. As part of his show, he offers to meet 200 people and then to pay $5 to anyone whose name he forgets. Long columns of figures, books, and magazines are some of the other targets of his phenomenal memory. Latent Mentalism Talents In explaining his powers, Dr. Polgar states that everyone has the latent talents for mentalism. He also states that it is up to the individual to develop these qual ities. In addition to his mental stunts, Polgar devotes the major part of his show to demonstrations of hypnotism. This is the portion of the show in which the audience will have an opportunity to parti cipate. As a hypnotist, Polgar claims to be able to hypnotize any one who does not consciously re sist his attempts. Although most of the stunts he asks his subjects to perform are of the humorous nature, it is claimed that a person will not do anything while hypnotized that he Avould not do without hypnotism. Drive While Blindfolded One of the more spectacular of the stunts that Polgar will per form while on the campus is his blind driving. With his eyes com pletely covered, he will attempt to drive thimigh the narrow streets of the campus. The only instruc tions he will receive will be those transmitted to him mentally by someone seated in the front seat beside him. Although Polgar holds doctorate degrees from the University of Budapest in both Psychology and Economics, his programs are de voted primarily to entertainment. Education is secondary to his basic purpose of presenting two hours of wizardry and fun. Demonstrated Authenticity In demonstrating the authenti city of his abilities, the mentalist appeared in Camegie Hall before an audience of psychologists from NYU, Columbia, Yale, and Har vard, offering to attempt any test the audience might suggest. At the conclusion of almost three hours of examinations, the group con cluded that here was no fraud involved. Admission for next Thursday night’s performance will be 50 cents for students and student’s wives. Non-student admmission will be $1. Tickets will be on sale at the Student Activities Office and at the door. Water, Sewage Works Short Course Slated The Annual Texas Water and Sewage Works Association short course will be held at A&M March 9-13. More than 610 are expected to attend. School Work Now on Display Displays of work done by A&M Consolidated and Lincoln School children are being shown in College Station as a feature, of Texas Ed ucational Week. “Democracy in Action,” the theme of the observance, is illus trated by displays in the MSC, Madeley Pharmacy at the South Gate, and Lipscomb Pharmacy at the North Gate. The displays will be changed each day. Visits to the schools are en couraged, said school officials. “It is our plan to let parents see the children in the normal school sit- The open house and community supper, sponsored by the Moth ers and Dads Club, has been post poned. Now planned for March 18, the program will be a dedication of the new cafeteria and elementary school buildings, uation.”