The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 21, 1954, Image 2

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 21, 1954, Image 2

Newspaper Page Text\ Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1954 Profs Offer Hospitality; Students Must Do Part The professors have done their share, and now it’s up to the students to do their part. One hundred and twenty-two professors and staff members have signed up to open their homes for “Prof Hospitality Night”, the student-faculty relations plan that was formerly “Applepolishing Night”. Starting today, students can sign to vis it for that night with any of the professors they choose. The lists will be in the student activities office today and will be in the Me morial Student Center tomorrow. Each of the professors has asked that about eight students visit him that night. This means that about 1,000 students will have a chance to see and talk to professors without the academic barrier of a row of chairs and a desk. It’s a great chance for the students and the professors both. Too often, in a class room, both students and professors forget that the other is a person, too. Now that the professors have come half way and opened their homes, it’s the stu dents’ turn to accept the invitation. Who knows, you may even find that you like your instructor. Morgan Helps Students President David H. Morgan is going to bat for A&M’s military students. Morgan has written to John Hannah, as sistant secretary of defense for manpower, protesting the transfer of service branch ROTC graduates to combat branches. In his letter, Morgan says in effect that a man who gets a contract in a branch, and qualifies for a commission in that branch, should be allowed to serve in that branch, unless there are severely mitigating circum stances. And he’s right. This year has seen many examples of lack of faith on the part of the armed services, both air force and army. The “higher ups” seem to regard a con tract as a one-way proposition, to be kept faithfully by the students, but to be broken or bent at will by the service. Although a vaguely-worded clause in the contracts seems to give the service this right legally, it is not right ethically. The student’s concepts of the armed services are being formed now, while he is young and while he is having his first contact with them. Some of the high-handed dealings con tract and near-contract students have been subjected to are not co-ndusive to building respect for our military establishment. It’s time someone took the students’ side in the quarrel as Morgan has done. CONGRATULATIONS, MR. PRESIDENT—Buck Schiwetz, ’21, a well known Texas art ist,, congratulates Charles Parker on his installation as president of the MSC Council. H. W. (Bud) Whitney, the new vice-president, looks on. Ex Picks Different Job By JOHN AKARD Battalion Feature Editor Modest, mild-mannered E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz, ’21, has an oc cupation which is not common to ex-Aggies; he is a painter. Buck, as he prefers to be called, will give a demonstration lecture on watercolor work at 7:30 tonight in the fountain room of the Me morial Student Center. The picture which won him the 1954 non-member award by the American Watercolor Society is on display in the MSC. Buck said he didn’t know whether to send it to the Houston show or to the New York show. One of his friends sug gested he flip a coin, which he did. The New York side turned up, so he sent the picture off, not expect ing to win an award. At present he is a special con sultant for the Texas Historical Survey committee. This committee will pick historical landmarks which it feels should be perpetua ted. Buck hopes that the commit tee recommendations will stimulate enough local interest to get these landmarks preserved in their orig inal state. Just before Falcon dam was com pleted, Buck made a group of hu man interest sketches in the townc which are now covered by the lake. “It is awfully sad to see those towns go. They are trying to give those people a better life, but they are not happy,” he said. “Pencil is my medium,” Buck said. He feels that his greatest contribution is in the field of pen cil sketching since there are only a very few artists who use this media. Buck wanted to go to art school when he graduated from high school, but his father felt Buck should study electrical engineering since the family had several suc cessful friends in that field. Buck obediently came to A&M and he did “miserably” his first year. President Bizzell got father Schi wetz to allow Buck to change to architecture. He was graduated with a degree in this field. He never had any art training except for a brief period in New York. “You can teach yourself from observation,” he said. Buck helped start The Humble Way, company magazine. “It gives artists a chance to sell then - work”, he said. He is now a partner in the Hous ton advertising firm of Schiwetz and Tipps. Buck, with another ex-Aggie, George Fuermann of The Houston Post, is preparing a book of sket ches on Texas called “The Reluc tant Empire”. He would like to live here and teach part time. “I will never loose my love for the school and there are so many interesting things to sketch,” he said. “Buck had done many many fav ors for the college,” said Mrs. Ralph Terry, advisor to the art gallery committee. “He has brought shows to the campus and had judg ed our exhibits; we owe him a vote of appreciation,” she said. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Agrrie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” The Battalion, official newspaper 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 twice a week. 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 inonth. Advertising rates furnished on request. Hntered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, Texas tinder the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1870. Member of The Associated Press Represented nationally bj National Advertising Services, Inc., at New York City. Chicago. Loi Angeles, and San Fran cisco. News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room 209 Goodwin Hall. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republi cation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors Cadet Slouch . . . by James Earle Plans Completed For Parents Day Witness Says Dickenson Gave Information WASHINGTON, April 30— (IP)—A man who once shared a foxhole with Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson testified today he heard Dickenson give the Chi nese Communists the names of American prisoners who were plot ting escape from Korean prisoner of war camp. Cpl. Thomas A. Garrick of Blacksburg, Va., gave the testi mony in the second day of Dick enson’s court-martial. Dickenson, who once elected to stay in Red hands but finally came home, is accused of informing on fellow prisoners to get favored treatment for himself. Garrick said under cross-exami nation that, listening through a paper door in the POW camp, he also heard Dickenson confess that he—Dickenson—was among those planning escape. Guy Emery, counsel for Dicken son, asked why Garrick hadn’t men tioned this before, and the witness replied: “I try to forget things, sir.” The defense objected strongly to admission of testimony by Garrick, who said he shared a foxhole with Dickenson—a Virginian from the mountain hamlet of Cracker’s Neck —just before they were captured Nov. 5, 1950. It was nearly a year later, he said, that he and Dicken son confided to each other they were planning to escape. That same day, Garrick said, the Chinese Communists accused him of making escape plans and he denied it. Stevenson Leaves Hospital Y esterday CHICAGO, April 21—hP)—Adlai E. Stevenson, weak in body but nimble of wit, left Passavant Hos pital today after a kidney opera tion. The 1952 Democratic presidential nominee had a stone removed from his kidney a week ago. Supported on each side by two pretty nurses, Stevenson paused briefly at the hospital door to talk to reporters and pose for pictures. While in the hospital, he said, he thought of a good little proverb to describe his predicament. “He, who thinketh he standeth, letteth him take heed lest he fall.” “That little ditty,” he said, “also applies to politicians.” Stevenson said he will have to cancel all engagements for at least two weeks, including a dinner speaking date next week in Louis ville, Ky., and a Democratic fund raising dinner in Chicago tonight. Three Units Tie In Recent Review Squadron 4, A anti - aircraft artillery and the band tied for first place in the federal inspection re view. The final results of the annual drill competition for the school year 1953-54 are as follows: Band, first place, 543 points; A AAA sec ond place, 530 points; squadron 10 and the freshman band tied for third place with 492 points. WhaUs Cooking THURSDAY 7:30 p. m. — Rusk county home town club meeting, room 307, Goodwin hall. Waco McLennan county A&M club meeting, room 301, Goodwin hall. All members please be pre sent. Beaumont A&M club meeting, room 104, Academic building. Plans for the annual Parents Day program May 8-9, have been completed. Each department in the college will have an exhibit of its own, said Bennie A. Zinn, asst, dean of men. In addition, he said, many special events and exhibitions have been scheduled. The schedule for these special events and exhibitions is as fol lows: Saturday: 9-10 a. m. Federated A&M Mothers club coffee in the assem bly room of the Memorial Student Center. 10 a. m., Annual conference of the Federated A&M Mothers club in the MSC. 10 a. m.. Auction and presenta tion of awards at the Poultry cen ter. 10 a. m., Smoke demonstration sponsored by the military depart ment to be held on the main drill field. 2 p. m., Music, film in room 125, Academic building, shown by the modern language department. 2- 5 a. m., Open house in ball room of the MSC. 3:30 p. m., Pouring molten iron demonstration in mechanical engi neering building. 3- 4 p. m., Color slides of Latin American countries in room 125, Academic building. 4- 5 p. m., Color slides of Korea in room 125, Academic building. 7:30 p. m., Aggie Follies in Guion hall. Jackson To Back Governor Shivers AUSTIN, April 21—<A>)—Presi dent Guy C. Jackson of the Texas Water Conservation Assn, said to day he will back Gov. Shivers for reelection in the hope that another two-year term for Shivers would see Texas’ water problem solved. “The record of Gov. Shivers to date is that he solves those prob lems to which he dedicates his talents and abilities,” Jackson said in a prepared press statement. ' 9-12 p. m., All College dance in the Grove. Sunday: 7:30 a. m., Breakfast. 8:15 a. m.. Flower pinning ceremony. 8:25 a. m., Presentation of best dialled sophomore and best drilled freshman awards. 8:30 a. m., Presentation of ap preciation gifts to organization commanding officers. 8:50 a. m., Corps review honor ing parents and presentation of individual and unit awards on main drill field. 10:40 a. m., Freshman drill team performance on the main drill field. 11 a. m., Convocation program in Guion hall. 11 - 4 p. m., Dormitories open for inspection by parents. 12:30 p. m., Lunch in Duncan and Sibisa dining halls. 2 p. m., Exhibition drill on main drill field by Ross Volunteers. 2:30 - 4:30 p. m., Reception for parents and students at President David H. Morgan’s home. Thornton Raps By Counties ij AUSTIN, April 20 — Up state Highway Commission Chairman E. H. Thornton jr. said today it is “high time” for gaps to be closed in the state’s farm-to-market road sys- tern. At a public hearing he criticized attitudes of some county commis sioners courts for allocating farm road money only to areas where votes are concentrated. “If you’re going to have a healthy body, you need good circu lation to all parts of it,” he said. “The same is true of a county.” The criticism followed testimony by two separate visiting delega tions. One said Milam County commissioners would not vote to spend money in a sparsely settled area. The other said Kaufman County commissioners would not vote to 'spend an entire year’s road allotmen in one precinct to close such gaps. Graduating ROTC CADETS UNIFORM DISPLAY By Leon B. Weiss of College Station Wed. 21, Thurs. 22 at the Memorial Student Center 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Room 234 LI’L ABNER By A1 Capp (-AT LASKTHEV REELIZ.ES SEATDOS /S u/ce rr- but; HOW H/H SOMETH/H' . SCt A//OET ROOM TH/S COHMTRYP-) P O P o By Walt Kelly

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 21, 1954, Image 2

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