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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1953
RE Week Can Help
Increase One’s Faith
RELIGION HELD the nation’s headlines
during the presidential campaign as
President Eisenhower consistently empha
sized the need for spiritual guidance in the
coming crucial years.
Recently in Dallas, religion again played
a part in the news as Southern Methodist
University prepared for its Religious Em
phasis Week. And here, RE Week is in full
swin# and proving to be one of the most suc
cessful ever staged here.
But the SMU problem developed in a
strange and unprecedented manner.
Friday’s Dallas Morning News carried a
story on SMU President Umphrey Lee’s
speech to a local organization where he said:
“SMU has shown no religious bigotry of
which I am aware. . . . Jews, Catholics, Prot
estants of all faiths and students of no re
ligious communion, have passed through the
university without discrimination. ... You
cannot split a country by setting one indi
vidual against another, but you can by set
ting one group against another. One of the
most common causes of distrust and friction
is to imply that those of another faith are
Investigations
CEN. McCARTHY suggested yesterday that
^ the Senate Internal Security Subcommit
tee investigate the possibilities that some
Federal Power Commission employes have
engaged in “communist-type activities.”
We suggest the committee investigate
Sen. McCarthy for his un-American behav
ior: Refusal to kiss two Texas beauties in
Dallas last week. They were part of a re
ception committee. The senator offered only
3 hug.
How un-American can one get?
Shop Teachers Set
Meeting Here Feb. 27
Approximately 150 Texas Indus
trial Education teachers and edu
cators will meet in the, annual In
dustrial Teacher’s Conference at
A&M Feb. 27 and 28.
This is the fifth year the con
ference has been sponsored by the
Chem W eed Control
Gets $200 Support
A $200 grant for support of re
search studies on the use of chem
icals to control weeds has been
received by the Texas Agricultur
al Experiment Station, said Dr.
II. D. Lewis, director.
The Pacific Coast Borax Co. of
Los Angeles, Cal,, made the grant
renewal through F. T. Winters Jr.,
manager of the agricultural sales
division of the company.
Research on the chemical weed
control is being conducted under
supeiwisioh of H. E. Rea in the
agronomy department.
Industrial Education Department
and the Engineering Extension
Service of A&M.
Dr. Arthur B. Mays, professor
of industrial education at the Uni
versity of Illinois from 1921 until
he retired in 1952, will be the
principal speaker of the confer
ence. He also will be the confer
ence consultant. His two talks will
be on vocational and nonwocation-
al arts, and on some of the criti
cal issues concerning industrial
education.
Other speakei's will be represen
tatives of Dupont, Fisher Body
Craftsmen Guild, and Tom Nelms,
Houston businessman.
Nelms will present awards to
the educators in the Texas area
who have distinguished them
selves in the field of industrial ed
ucation for 25 years or more. The
presentation will be given at a
noon luncheon in the MSC ball-
not quite good Americans or that they wor
ship in strange manner. . . . Spreading sus
picion and hatred between faiths is laying
the groundwork for the kind of disrupted
society in which the fanatical leaders of mass
revolution can prosper.”
Saturday’s News carried a story which
said that the Dallas Veterans of Foreign
Wars planned to picket the auditorium
where Dr. Henry iHitt Crane, Detroit, Mich.,
Methodist clergyman, was to speak during
SMU’s RE Week.
The VFW’s reasons: The post objects
“on the grounds that he (Dr. Crane) was
an alleged official and active in such organ
izations (subversive) as the Methodist Fed
eration for Social Action and the National
Council for Conscription.”
Dr. Crane was praised by the SMU of-J
ficials who said he had been selected by -the
students to speak. He had spoken at A&M|
a few years ago during RE Week here.
But the VFW, after being refuted at ev
ery turn by the university, turned to the
public library where, they claim, a few ques
tionable books are present. They have felt
it their duty to act as a totalitarian and fas
cist force to tell people what they should read
and to whom they should listen.
Dr. Lee had warned of persons such as
these: “Their methods (totalitarian govern
ments) are the same: The old maxim, di
vide and conquer. And this dividing is by
sowing suspicion and hatred between groups
which are living together tolerantly and
peacefully.”
These groups mean well, but their judg
ment is unsound. Their faith has weakened
and they need the rewards wrought by Re
ligious Week.
To all whose faith is lax—in country,
man, and God—it may provide a helping
hand.
Aviation Meeting
Set Here Feb. 23
The second annual Agricultural
Aviation Conference will be held
Feb. 23-24 at the MSC, said F. W.
Hensel, assistant director of the
college shoi’t course office.
Fred Weick will be chairman for
the convention.
Those attending the banquet
may register in the MSC lobby
from 1-5 p. m. Feb. 22 and from
8 a. m. until noon Feb. 24. A $3
registration fee will be charged,
Hensel said. •
Meetings are scheduled the even
ing of Feb. 22 in 1’ooms 2C and
2D in the MSC. Other meetings
will be held in the MSC Ballroom.
Attendance of from 175 to 200
persons is expected.
The convention features a ban
quet Feb. 23 at 7:30 p. m. in the
MSC Ballroom Banquet tickets
will cost $2.50 and may be pur
chased at the registration desk,
said Hensel. There will be displays
on the second floor of the MSC.
Hotel accommodations, meeting
rooms, and exhibit space will be
furnished by the MSC. Necessary
forms and personnel for registra
tion will be furnished by the short
course office.
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Advanced air science classes
heard today the first of a series
of informal talks on flight exper
iences from 1st. Lt. Truett B.
Smith, Korean War veteran, said
Maj. J. C. Lowell, Air Force opera
tions officer.
Lt. Smith, a native of Brown-
wood, was sent by Brig. Gen. M.
K. Deichelmann of AFROTC
Headquarters to visit southern
AFROTC units to stimulate inter
est in flight training. He holds
the Distinguished Flying Cross
and the Air Medal with 2 Oak
Leaf clusters. The lieutenant has
1,800 hours flying hime to his
credit.
Lt. Smith is one of 18 pilots sent
by Gen. Deichelmann to speak
to 2 0 0 AFROTC detachments
thi’oughout the United States.
Thursday at 2 p. m., Lt. Smith
will speak to the air science lab
in the Chemistry Lecture Room.
At 3 p. m., he will speak in Room
109, Bagley Hall.
CHS Principal Job
Agronomy Society
Schedules Radio Show
A transcribed radio program,
“What is Agronomy?”, has been
scheduled for Feb. 28 at 6:30 p. m.
The program, to be broadcast over
a statewide network on the Texas
Farm and Home program, will fea
ture officers of the A&M Agro-
rnomy Society.
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion City Editor
When J. J. Skrivanek’s friends
learned he was going to be prin
cipal at A&M Consolidated High
School, they said, “Aren’t you
scared, going down there to teach
all those college professors’ kids?”
“Gosh, no,” Skrivanek answer
ed. “I appreciate the chance to
work with students who are alert
and sharp. The better the students
are, the easier it is for the teach
er.”
Skrivanek came here in August
from Lamar Consolidated at Rich
mond and Rosenberg, where he
was music director for 15 years.
He says CHS students are more
alert than those in other systems
he has known.
“Our students compare favor
ably with any others in the state,”
he said.
Skrivanek was graduated from
the University of Texas in 1936
Emerson Promoted
To Major In Army
Capt. Edwin W. Emerson, in
structor in the infantry section of
the Army ROTC instructor group,
has been promoted to major, the
Department of the Army recently
announced.
with a bachelor of arts degree in
foreign languages. He took his
masters degree from the Univer
sity of Texas in general adminis
tration, and is now working on his
Ph. D.
Skrivanek was in tne Air Force
from 1940 to 1943. Part of the
time he played the cornet in the
379th Air Force Band, where he
was a sergeant. Then he went into
personnel work.
He was bom in neighboring
Burleson County at Cook’s Point,
where his parents still live.
Their family is full of twins.
The Skrivaneks’ mother had a twin
sister. J. J. Skrivanek has twin
children, a boy and a gix-l, in Con
solidated Elementary School.
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