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U Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, January 8, 1954 Six Encores Crowds Appiaude S.A. Symphony By BOB HENDRY Battalion Feature Editor The San Antonio Symphony opened its Town Hall concei'ts last night with Rossini’s “Overture to William Tell” to gallop away with the hearts of the audience. Two crowds thundered for six encores by the orchesti'a after it had finished its scheduled perform ances. “They were really a great audience,” said conductor Victor State o! Union (Continued from Page 1) tended unemployment insurance, long-time housing loans and slum cleai'ance, and federal aid for state school building needs. Sen. Duff (R-Pa) said the rec ommendations indicate “the Presi dent’s firm intention to fulfill all his campaign commitments.” Sen. Bridges (R-NH) voiced con fidence the President’s program would have “overwhelming sup port, not only of all Republicans, but all thoughtful Americans as well.” Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R- Ky) said the President “is assum ing the leadership that the people ‘want.” He predicted enactment of most of the program. But Sen. Morse (Ind-Ore) found the message only “a masterpiece of platitudes, thereby raising false hope.” Significantly, perhaps, there was almost no criticism of the Presi dent’s disciission of foreign poli cies, on which Secretary of State Dulles supplied additional details in a 214 hour closed session with the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee after the message was de livered. Dulles told the senators that both the United States and Russia were having foreign affairs troubles, but added: “As bad as our troubles are, I wouldn’t trade our troubles for theirs.” Dulles defended the proposal to withdraw two divisions from Ko rea, explaining that additional South Korean troops are being trained. He was quoted as saying tne North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization (NATO) is “in good shape.” Sen. Clements (D-Ky) said he sees in the President’s speech ap proval of “the foi'eign policy which the Democrats developed” and he hopes Republicans now would sup port the President, especially in- continuing and expanding the re ciprocal trade program. But plenty of conti'oversy was brewing in that field, as it was learned a presidential commission plans to recommend shortly fur ther tariff cuts, carefully safe- guarded. Many GOP lawmakers have been urging higher import duties on some items. One administration headache in the field of foreign relations per sisted — the controversial amend ment proposed by Sen. Bricker (R- Ohio) to limit treaty-making pow ers. President Eisenhower, Secre tary of State Dulles, arid other ex ecutive and legislative leaders met yesterday with Bricker seeking a compromise acceptable to him and the administration. But the senator said afterwards they “reached no agreement and nothing definite was accomplish ed.” Alessandro. “When they like some thing, they let you know it.” Because the new field house has not been completed, two perform ances Avere given by the orchestra in Guion hall. The symphony played Bizet’s Symphony No. 1 in C major; Divorak’s Slavonic Dance, opius 72, No. 2 in E Minor, and opus 46, No. 1 in C. Major; White’s Five Minia tures; and Saint-Saens’ Bacchanale from “Samson and Delilah.” Providing some of the best show manship by any symphony director, Alessandro carefully picks his pro gram before giving a concert. “Symphony music should be list ened to for pleasure and enjoy ment,” he said. “No matter what people say about listening to opera music for art and education, they actually don’t like it unless they enjoy the program.” Asked if classical music is still considered to be for older people and “high - brows”, Alessandro said, “Absolutely not. That’s prov ed by the fact that 15-30 year-olds buy more symphony recordings than any other age group.” Alessandro joined the San An tonio Symphony three years ag'o Avhen he became its permanent musical directoi’. He is a native Texan and attended Allen Academy in Bryan in 1929 for one year. The conductor started his musi cal career in the East, ti’aveled to Europe to study, and then returned to America whex-e he founded the Oklahoma City Symphony oixhes- ti'a. “It seems eyei'ytime I change I ti’avel tdwax’ds the Gulf,” Ales sandro said. “The next time I change I’ll be in the watei\” Editors Letters Editors, The Battalion Instead of so .much publicity to the dangers you believe to be in- herent in the Student Life Commit tee’s delibei’ations as to the neces sity of a standing committee to supeiwise student publications, why do you still fail to introduce i-efine- ment and discretion in the selection of news articles to be planted? To consider a newspaper above censoi’ship is proper and in line with the American ideals of a fi’ee press, as is to consider tastefulness and polish a necessity. Many of your ai’ticles are definitely bimtal and inurbane to this reader. In considei'ing your x-ights, you fail to consider the readei’s’ rights the persons who most often decide Avether a newspaper Avill succeed or fall by the Avayside. Now about try ing to please the readers as well as youi’selves in the near futuro, please ? It is my conviction that the pi’e- sent deliberations on censorship for the Battalion ai'e a rosult of the editors’ colossal inurbanty. Shorty Clark ’54 Although Negroes foi’med 20 per cent of the U. S. population about 1800 a. d., they noxv foi-m less than 10 per cent of the U. S. population. News Flashes READING, Pa., Jan. 7 OP)—The Reading ai’ea was shaken by eax-th tromors today that tumbled sleep- ei's out of bed, toppled chimneys, x’attled houses and tumbled liquor bottles from shelves in a state liquor store. The tremors Avere centered in the Sinking Springs area, a com munity 60 miles from Philadelphia. * * * BASTROP, La. (/P) — Six persons died — five from one family — in a head-on auto mobile crash north of here yes terday. Two others were in jured. Police said Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lynn and their three children, all of Bastrop, and Mrs. Ida Moore of Jones, La., wei - e killed. * * * WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — (TP)— Chester Lee Davenport, sought by the FBI as one of its 10 most Avant- ed fugitives, was arrested today near Dixon, Calif., as he sat down to milk a cow. Davenport’s name had been posted on the 10 most wanted list only yestei-day. * * * HOUSTON, Tex.—(TP)— Three persons were killed and thx-ee injured when a fire truck col lided with an automobile and rammed it through a shoAv whxdow here last night. * * * CLEVELAND—(A 5 )—A 17-year- old high school student who punch ed his teacher in the eye was sen tenced yesterday to an indefinite term in the Cleveland Boys School at Hudson. Eniest L. Cookson, 62-year-old science instructor, suffei’ed a lac- eration above his eye after he asked the boy to take his seat in class. Sfc * 5«« WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 riP>— —The Agriculture Department failed today to decide on more drought aid funds for Texas, but an official said he expected final action tomorroxv. ' . •••sH * + JOHANNESBURG, South Africa UP)—Premier Daniel Malan’s Na tionalist government has failed to sell its racial segregation progi’am to South Afi’ica’s most modei'ate gi’oup of native leaders. Outright rejection of Malan’s Apartheid segregation program AA T as voted yestei’day at the con clusion of the foux’-day Location Advisoi’y Boax-ds Congress — the moderate native group. Student Councils To Hear Reports Three student councils will meet Monday night, with committee re ports as the main item of business for all three. Meeting Avill be the Arts and Sciences council, the Agriculture council and the Memoi’ial Student Center council. The Arts and Sciences council Avill hear a report on the Academic council’s opinions of the evalua tion x-epox-t made by W. H. Dela- plane, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The A&S council will also dis cuss the honor code. No agenda has been nxade for the Agriculture council meeting, accoi'ding to Ken Hall, president. J. Wayne Stark, MSC dix-ector, will X’epoi’t on the MSC financial situation to the MSC council. The group AAill also hear reports on the audio committee x'eoi’ganization and the constitutioxxal revision. All thi'ee groups will meet at 7:30 p. m. Monday in the MSC. Extension Leaders Planned for Panel Four extension leader's are ten tatively scheduled to conduct a panel discussion before Ben D. Cook’s agricultural education 441 class on Jan, 12, Member's of the panel are J. D. Prewit, W. M. Williamson, Floyd Lynch, and Miss Gladys Mai'tin. Prewit and Williamson avuII dis cuss advantages of woi'king in the extension field and retirement bene fits of the extension service. Miss Martin will tell how the home demonstration agent woi'ks in conjunction with the county agri cultural agent. Lynch wil cover all phases of 4H club work. What's Cooking Friday 7:15 p. m.—Fraternity of Alpha Zeta, social room, MSC. To discuss honor code. 7:30 p. m. — Texas A&M Radio club, radio room, MSC. Monday a ^ ... T>1 ”' Kaxos Tyu ' rocv *oo v4^b.og. b..ecx.vx of ***5>AAf , The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official neAvspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school year. During the summer terms, and examination and vacation periods, The Battalion is published tAvice a Aveek. Days of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods and the summer terms'. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .76 per month. Advertising rates furnished on request. Bntered aa aecond-Claas matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally by National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Too Angeles, and San Fran cisco. 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