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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.
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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
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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
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