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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 75 Years Number 123: Volume 53 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), Texas, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1953 Price Five Cents WRECK SCENE—A county sheriff inspects the car driven by John Sowell, 40, the veter an’s hospital patient who was in a collision Saturday with a car driven by A&M student Jimmie Hodges, 19, of Irving. Charles Arnold, 20, Herman (Gene) Tantzen, 20, and Hodges are still hospitalized as a result of injuries received when the cars crashed. 11 miles north of Waco. Three other cadets were also passengers. 1‘hoto by Will Holliday iWaco Hospital Expects Cadet To Recover Condition of Charles R. Arnold »f Sherman, who was hospitalized Saturday in Hillcrest hospital, Waco, has improved, according to hospital attendants there. His condition is better and he is expected to recover, they said. Arnold was one of six A&M stu dents injured in an automobile accident 11 miles north of Waco Saturday. Only three of the stu dents are still hospitalized. The other two students in the hospital, Herman (Gene) Tantzen of Beaumont, and Jimmie Hodges National Guard Unit Moves to College Station A company of the 36th In fantry National Guard will be looved to College Station Nov. g. The unit will be headquart ers company for the 1st Battalion of the 143rd infantry regiment. First battalion commander is Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, A&M’s as sistant commandant. Headquarters company is being moved to College Station so 25 A& M students who are members of their home town National Guard may continue their training. Local boys may also enlist in the com pany. Anyone who enlists before he is 18% years old, attends 90 per cent of the regular drills and attends summer camp for two weeks is exempted from the draft. The company will drill once a week for two hours. On this day, members will receive a full day’s pay. Summer camp will be at North Fort Hood. A modern quonset - hut type armory is being constructed on old highway 6 just south of Mar ion Pugh Lumber company. The company consists of an intelli gence, a pioneer and ammunition, and a communications platoon. Courses in first aid, compass use, map reading, assembly and dis assembly of weapons, and main tenance of equipment will be taught. of Irving, were repoi’ted in good condition. Robert J. Samples of Muenster was released Monday. “Arnold is improving, although he feels pretty miserable,” Arnold’s private nurse said. “He has re ceived about six blood transfus ions.” Arnold received a broken pelvis, severe groin cuts and a cut artery in the accident. Tantzen has a back injury and Hodges has a broken collar bone. Hospital attendants did not know when the three students would be released. Peggy Lee Not Coming To Town Hall Peggy Lee and Jan Garber have been dropped from the list of tentative programs for this year’s Town Hall. Frances Langford and Stan Kenton now are being con sidered for the Town Hall pro gram. The Lee and Garber pro gram never was contracted, said C. G. (Spike) White, manager of student activities, and the Langford and Kenton show is only being consider ed. Some Non-Flying Air MOTG Cadets May Get Commissions mr -a-7 „ in "Others May Many Classes Honor System Vote For This Year By FRANK HINES Battalion Staff Writer Many classes have voted this semester to abide by A&M’s scholastic honor system, which was first tried during the spring semes ter of 1953. Other classes, according to How ard W. Barlow, dean of engineer ing, don’t know if the honor sys tem is going to be in effect this year and therefore have taken no action. First proposed in the fall of 1952 by the Student Engineers’ council, the honor system was later recom mended for school-wide adoption by the Intercouncil committee, which represents all college profes sional and scholastic clubs. The heart of the honor system is the honor code, which in its first sentence Says “We believe that the students at this college are honorable men who deplore the actions of the liar, thief and cheat.” In the School of Engineering last year, 22 per cent of all sections adopted the system. Eighty per cent of the total ballots in all sections favored the honor code. On Barlow’s advice, each teacher in the School of Engineering whose class was under the honor system asked his students to write a paragraph on how they felt about the system at the end of the semester. Here are some of the stu dent’s comments. “I believe the honor code is good because it helps a man Neivs Briefs Quarterback Club Postponed Weather Today THE QUARTERBACK club will not meet this week because of schedule conflicts. The meeting is set for next Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the MSC. FOR THE FOURTH week in a row, diarrhea is leading the Col lege - Bryan health report. There are 20 cases in Bryan and 9 in College Station. Strep throat is still • second on the list, with 13, cases, 7 in College Station and 6 in Bryan. * * * DR. GRADY P. PARKER of the education and psychology depart- rqent will attend the National Science Teachers Association con ference Oct. 8-10 in Boulder, Colo. He will serve as chairman of a discussion group on “Improving Science Instruction through Teach er Education in Science.” KIWANIS CLUB Texas - Okla homa district convention will be Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Houston. It is not yet known who will represent the College Station Kiwanis club at the meeting. $}c DR. ROBERT JACOBS, former Basic Division instructor, will go to Ethiopia soon under the Point Four program to establish test ing programs for schools and col leges. Jacobs is now with the Edu cation Reference bureau in New York. MISS GLADYS MARTIN, state home demonstration agent, will speak Wednesday to members of an extension methods class taught by Ben Cook of the school of Agri culture she will speak on the work relationship between county agents and home demonstration agents. THE QUARTERLY meeting of the Sam Houston area council of the Boy Scouts of America will be held at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Second Baptist church in Houston. A dinner, committee reports and entertainment have been planned. * * * THE STATIONERY donated last year by the State Federation of A&M Mothers Clubs is still available in the Memorial Student Center. The stationery can be ob tained at the MSC main desk by any student. * * * TWELVE A&M system secre- CLEAR Clear today and tomorrow. .Slightly warmer tomorrow. High yesterday 82. Low this morning 60. High today 85. Expected low tonight 50 to 55. Presbyterian Couples Classes Meet Saturday Two couples classes of the A&M Presbyterian church will meet for a joint social and covered dish supper at 6 p. m. Saturday at the church. Classes will be the Seekers class, taught by Mrs. J. C. Miller, and Newlyweds and Dates class, taught by Mrs. Joe Cambell. taries met Monday with Miss Zelda Ramsey, head of secretarial train ing at Arlington state college, to discuss the secretarial training program now being held here. Be tween them, the 12 secretaries have a total of 216 years of ex perience with the system, an aver age of 18 years apiece. * * * MARTHA ERGLE, former A&M Consolidated head yell leader, was interviewed last Thursday at the University of Texas, where she is now a freshman, for a position on a student government committee Mexican Art Show On Display in MSC increase his own honor and confidence in himself. These are very necessary after he graduates.” * * * “I think the honor system is very definitely needed at A&M but I believe it should be adopted by a three - fourths or a two-thirds majority.” * * * “I personally thing the honor system adopted by this class is one of the finest things to come to students of A&M.” =1! * * “The honor system has given me a feeling of being more at ease while taking a quiz, be cause the teacher is not con stantly looking to see if we are cheating. It also gives us more freedom to get a Coke or smoke.” * * * “Even though I am flunking this course, I still thing the honor code has helped me, and I think it would he good to have in all courses.” Many of the students mentioned being more at ease while taking a quiz as a big advantage of the honor system. Written comments from the teachers also indicated that the system made their job during quizzes much easier and more pleasant. This is how the A&M honor sys tem works: It is an entirely voluntary sys tem. It cannot be imposed upon any student or teacher because it can only be adopted after unanimous secret vote apprqves the system. This means that the honor code is adopted by the individual class and not by the whole school. The code does not require that a student report another student, but it does require him to report cheating to the instructor. The first step in adopting the plan is for a student or group of students to tell the teacher there is a desire to consider adopting the honor code. Then the class discusses the plan, making sure they know what obligations are to be assumed and what privileges will be extended. The teacher, or some member of the class, usually explains the sys tem and its operation to the class. After the discussion all mem bers of the class and the teacher vote by secret ballot. However, only if the vote is unanimously in favor of adoption, the plan becomes effective.' After the plan is adopted, the students and teacher sign an honor pledge. The student pledge reads, “I will take no unfair advantage of my fellow students or teacher, and if I shall come to know of the violation of any of these by a fellow student in this class I will make known to the teacher in private the offense, but not the offender, and leave to the discre tion of the teacher any action that shall be taken in continuing or revoking the honor system in this class.” Ag Judging Team Takes Top Honors A&M’s dairy judging team placed first in the Ayrshire breed at the National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging contest Oct. 4 in Waterloo, Iowa. Coached by A. L. Darnell, pro fessor in the dairy husbandry de partment, the team placed 13th in all breeds out of 33 teams com peting. High man on the team was Sid ney Maxwell, dairy husbandry major. Other men on the team and the alternate were Gary Rosen- bery, Bo Wheeler, and Joel Hillin. Winning team of the contest was from Ohio. Enter AF As A-2Cs The air force was flying a new policy formation today which might give second lieu tenants’ bars to some A&M seniors not qualified for im mediate commissions. A new official order, just re ceived by A&M’s air force ROTC unit, states that a “very small’ number of seniors, not eligible for flying or enrolled in a technical course, will be commissioned. This order applies to AFROTC May graduates throughout the na tion. It stated the number to be commissioned had not been de termined. A previous order had stated that no AFROTC cadet not study ing a technical field or qualified for flight training would be com missioned upon graduating. Can Enter Air Force These students can enter the air force as an airman 2nd class. After two years of active duty, they can receive a second lieuten ant’s commission. According to the new order, chances for a commission will be placed on a competitive basis. A &M’s air force unit has received no indication how many students here will be affected by the policy change. The air force intends to give the majority of commissions in May to cadets planning to take flight training. Approximately 1,000 graduates in technical courses throughout the country will be commissioned. All January garduates will get a commission. Extension Appointees Service Named The following appointments and promotions made by the director of the Agricultural Extension service have been confirmed by the sys tem board of directors. Following are replacements: Le- Jean Alexander, Mrs. Ruby A. Campbell, Jessie Earl Condron, Mrs. Lucy Lee Durham, Neva Joyce Hall, Loretta Jean Henderson, Mrs. By CHUCK NEIGHBORS Battalion Managing Editor A sparkling exhibit of Mexican art breaks the usual appearance of the Memorial Student Center’s promenade and the show case^. along the post office wall. Among the outstanding ex amples of Latin art on display is “Nativity” by Jean Chariot. The painting shows the madonna and the Christ in a modem art set ting. Chariot’s handling of color and the beauty which goes with it is exciting. “Beyond Despair” is a striking painting showing the futility of Mexican village life. Done by Manuel Lozano, the oil is a study in soft pastel colors. i One of the most emotional paint ings in the exhibit is “The Sob” by David Siqueiros. Hung in the center of the main showcase, “The Sob” represents the nearly life like tearing of a woman’s heart. Raul Anguiano’s “Juggler” is a richly colored picture of two circus performers. The picture has a strong hidden meaning as does the “Orator”, a fantastic pictui*e of a speaker waving his arms before a group of cabbages lying on the ground before him. Done by Antonio Ruiz, the “Orator” is one of the smallest painting on exhibition. The only outstanding abstract of the show is the “Dancers of Tlaxcala”, painted by Carlos Merida. It is a bright study of two dancers done in oranges, reds and yellows. This show will be in the MSC un til Oct. 18 when it will be replaced by a one -man exhibit of paintings by Perry Nichols, Dallas artist. Nichols was a judge at the MSC art gallery committee’s exhibit last spring. His show will also run for two weeks until Oct. 31. Mexican paintings on exhibit now were loaned from private owners, galleries and museums from all over the United States. “We’re indebted to Preston Bol ton of the Houston Contemporary Arts Association for help in ob taining this exhibit for us,” said Mrs. Emalita Newton, Terry, ad visor to the art gallery committee. Bolton is the son of former A&M president F. C. Bolton. Shepardson Speaks At Tarleton State Charles. N. Shepardson, dean of agriculture, * will discuss transfer problems with faculty members of Tarleton State college there Fri day. He will also take part in a reg ional workshop on English train ing for technical students. The workshop has a panel of specia lists in technical fields to tell what English training a student in that field needs. Dean Shepardson is on the panel representating students in the School of Agriculture, Lois Hopper, Mrs. Ada Ruth Rank in, Wanda Jo Roach, county home demonstration agents; Sonja Y. Alexander, Billie Jean Beavers, Glenda Ruth Williams, assistant county home demonstration agents in training; Loyce E. Avant, Gloria Ann Cabron, Mrs. Selma H. Har mon, Jimmie Lee Sturdivant, Bet ty Kate Turner, assistant county home demonstration agents. Mrs. Beth Caldwell, Mrs. Ann J. Parker, Mrs. Shirley Smith, Mrs. Jo Ann Yates, secretaries. Tommie C. Duffie, Glenn B. Dunkle, Wilfred O. Eckermann, James Cecil Lewis, George G. Mc- Bee, Jerry T. Mobly, Byron C. Pierce, Berwin J. Terrell, Jack T. Tompkins, Joe Stephen Wheeless, Warren B. Woods, assistant coun ty agricultural agents. Jeanne DuPriest, Mrs. Ruth Mabbett, Annie R. Payne, Betty A. Ralph, stenographers. Freeman M. Fuller, assistant entomologist; Van B. Shaw, Hen derson, Kahal L. Malone, Negro county agricultural agents; Charles Hensarling, poultry husbandry; as sistant Shirley Kucera, Mrs. Mary McCullough, Mrs. Evelyn Miller, clei-ks; Kermit F. Schlamb, poultry marketing specialist; Minnie Ruth Walker, Negro county home dem onstration agent. Promotions: Sonja Y. Alexander, Glenda Ruth Williams, to assistant county home demonstration agents; William J. Bryan, Jack Burkhalter, Jack L. Carothers, Gilbert T. Heideman, Charles W. Hudson, Bert H. Johnson, Robert M. Led- bettei - , William H. Goldston, to county agricultural agents. Mary Jo Garland, Vada Sue Mil ligan, Rozelle Winston, Mary E. Buell, Clara B. Redman, to county home demonstration agents. Bobbie Joe Griffin, Seymour L. Mullins, to assistant county agri cultural agent. ROOF RAISING—More steel frames are added to the gird ers which will support the roof of the new Physical Educa tion building. The steel construction has been delayed by a strike. Sharks Hamper Whaling Activities in Australia Attacks by ravenous sharks ham pered whaling activities in Austra lian waters last season, reports the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Sharks were so bad o£f Point Cloates that whales killed outside the reef were more than half de voured before they could be landed. Eighty sharks were shot attacking a single whale alongside a catcher yessel.