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TTh i F f # ihe Battalion Number 15: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1954 Price 5 Cents CHECKING IN—Dr. William G. Pollard, left, who spoke last night in the Memorial Stu dent Center, registers for his room at the MSC desk. With him is the Great Issues committee, sponsors of the program. They are, left to right, Bryan Dedeker, Herman Hassell and Bud Whitney, chairman of the MSC forum group. Science Not World Savior Declares Physicist Pollard Exchange Store Allocates Profits The Exchange store’s $23,957.82 profits for last year have been di vided • up and given to the Memo- rial Student Center, the Student Life committee, and the A&M band. The MSC got $20,000 for its stu dent program, the Student Life committee got $1,000 to be used mainly- for intramural athletic equipment, and the band got $2,900 for awards and a band trip next fall. The balance of $57.82 was kept by the store for operating capital. The money was allocated by the Exchange Store advisory board at their first meeting of the year Monday. Staff members of the board are C. A. Roeber, chairman, F. W. Jen- A&M Administrators Set Meeting in Washington The entme top level of A&M’s administration leaves this weekend for the annual meeting of the As sociation of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities in Washington next week. Attending the meeting will be M. T. Harrington, chancellor; Da vid H. Morgan, president; J. P. Abbott, dean of the college; C. N. Shepardson, dean c>f agriculture; W. H. Delaplane, dean of arts and sciences; Ide P. Trotter, dean of the graduate school. W. W. Armistead, dean of vet erinary medicine; R. D. Lewis, di rector of the agricultural experi ment station; G. G. Gibson, direc tor of the agricultural extension service. D. W. Williams, vice-chancellor for agriculture; Miss Mary Anna Grimes, acting head of the rural research department, agricultural experiment station; and Miss Maurine Hearn, state home dem onstration leader, agricultural ex tension service. Day Student Lot Ready for Autos Half of the new day student parking lot noi’th of the temporary classr’oom buildings (the shacks) is now ready for cars, Howard Badgett, manager of the physical plant, announced yestei'day. The completed part of the lot, which had to be constructed when the old day student lot was closed to make room for the new A&M Press building, will hold about 100 car's, Padgett said. When the en tire lot is finished, there will be room for about 130 more spaces, he added. Other student pai’king lots are being planned by the college, in cluding one behind Law hall. Padgett said construction on this lot will begin as soon as the grav eling of the Academic building lot is finished. “The lot behind Law hall will add about 100 more cars, and this will probably provide enough space for all the students who have been parking in the streets near Law and Puryear halls,” he said. “Stu dents who have been parking in the Law hall lot have been doing it in a very orderly way. Their parking has been the best on the campus.” This additional lot will extend from the street by the drill field to the street lunning in front of the president’s home. It will be 60 feet wide and will accommodate two rows of cars parked head-in at 90 degrees. “Students parking in this new lot Fees Now Due At Fiscal Office Third installment fees are now due at the fiscpl office and must be paid by Nov. 24 to avoid pen alties. The payment due, $35.15, is for the month ending Dec. 17, and is broken down as follows: board, $24.60; room rent, $8, and laundry, $2.55. Students paying the fee after the Nov. 24 deadline are charged $1 a day for each day late the payment is made. must park at 90 degrees,” Padgett said. I " Next on the list of the student lot additions is the construction of the first of three units for the east area dormitories. This first unit, which will provide space for 200 cars, will take care of the cars now parking on Lamar street and near 'the Music hall and on the (See PARKING, Page 3) Military Day Guest List Decreases The guest list for the Fall Military Day ceremonies Sat urday has decreased slightly, with two generals and the Rice institute staff members unable to attend. Maj. Gen. Haydon L. Poatner, assistant fourth army commander and former A&M commandant, and Maj. Gen. Robert H. Terrill, com mander of the 15th air force will be unable to attend. President W. V. Houston of Rice told President David H. Morgan that he and his faculty members would be unable to attend the cere monies. Eight persons from Rice had originally planned to attend. The guest list still numbers about 20, including Lt. Gen. I. D. White, commander of the fourth army, Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin, army chief of staff for operations, and Congressman Olin Teague of College Station. They will be guests at a corps review at 11 a.m. Saturday, a luncheon given by the president, and the A&M-Rice football game. Gavin and Teague will come by plane from Washington, with their wives and members of Gavin’s staff. An honor guard of Ross Volunteers will meet them Friday night at Easterwood ah-port. Pecause of the absence of a dean of engineering caused by the resig nation of H. W. Parlow, A&M will send no engineering representatives to the meeting. The week-long meeting officially begins Tuesday, but some of A&M’s representatives will go to Wash ington earlier for committee meet ings. The meeting will cover all phases of education and operation in the land-grant colleges. All of the 52 land-grant institutions will be rep resented. Sections of the meeting will jjte devoted to each facet of the lam- grant program, with each school and service represented. Two of the A&M representatives will participate in the program. Shepardson • will give a report as chairman of a committee on or ganization and policy of the resi dent instruction section. He will also be on a panel on developing programs to meet per sonnel needs of agricultural indus tries and government, and will pre side over a division meeting. Delaplane will be on a panel on professional and general education in the state university and the sep arate land-grant college. Morgan said yesterday that no items of special interest to A&M would be discussed at the meeting, although everything discussed at the meeting would pertain to A&M in some way. The A&M z’epresentatives to the meeting Avill return Thursday and Friday. Dr. Steen To Speak Dr. Ralph W. Steen, head of the history department, is attending the annual.meeting of the South ern Historical association in Co lumbia, S. C. and will present a paper on the “Progressive Move ment in the South.” Weather Today CLEAR The forecast for today is clear "'ith northeasterly winds at 15 miles per hour this afternoon. There will be high scattered clouds. "Yesterday's high was 77, low 51. The temperature at 11 this morning was 67. SMU Officials Still Checking Float Fires Southern Methodist u n i- versity officials are still checking license numbers of cars seen near the fires of two SMU homecoming floats Saturday night, and the informa tion they get will be sent to A&M. Two floats were burned — one about 7:15 p.m. Saturday and one about 2 a.m. Sunday. An SMU student who saw a car driving away from the 2 a.m. fire says he is “reasonably sure” the occupants were Aggies, and he also has part of the license number of the car. He was not exactly sure of the license number, but two of the four numbers he thinks it could have been are on car makes and models of the type he says he saw. A boy was seen near another float about 7:30 p.m. Saturday. SMU officials also have the license number of the car he drove away in. Dallas fire department officers who put out the 7:15 p.m. fire said that it had definitely been set, and not caused by electrical short cir cuit or spontaneous combustion. Damages on one of the floats were estimated at $500. No total estimate was available on the other fire, but destroyed in it was a $100 airplane propellor. Benefield Praises' Football Seating The football seating plan has worked fairly well except for the mixing of the civilian and senior corp sections, John Benefield, chairman of the seating committee, said yesterday. Benefield stated that the main problem with the seating arrange ment is the overcrowded conditions in some sections. A check on the number of student dates and the number of student date tickets sold is being made, he added. The seating arrangement for the Rice game will not be changed. Two ushers will be placed at the bottom of each ramp to insure proper distribution of students. Ushers will also be in the stands. Horticulture Show Set for Dec. 7 The annual horticulture show will be held Dec. 7 in the Agricul ture building, Morris Bailey, presi dent of the Student Horticulture society, announced. Orders for Christmas gift pack ages of citrus fruits and pecans displayed will be taken during the show, Bailey said. Profits from the sale of pack ages will be used to help finance the annual inspection trip of the senior class. L. E. Spangler of the horticul ture department is faculty sponsor of the dab. sen, E. C. Klipple, Ernest Lang ford, O. D. Butler, and C. G. White. Student members, appointed by the Student Senate, are Clay Mc Farland, David Parnell, James Pat terson, and Dale Southern. Invited to attend the Monday meeting were W. L. Penberthy, head of student activities, and Carl Birdwell, manager of the Exchange store. A statement of profit and loss for the store showed that this year’s profits were less than last year’s — $23,957.82 for this year and $30,007.91 for last year. Roeber said the difference was caused by a loss of revenue when the Exchange store was undergo ing repair. The store operates on a fiscal year from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31. Tickets Off Sale Friday for Game Tickets for the Rice game will go off sale at 5 p.m. Friday ac cording to the athletic department. Students purchasing date tickets must present student activity and ID cards. About 25,000 are expected to be present at the game, according to Pat Dial of the athletic depart- ment. Student and date tickets for fhe University of Texas game will go on sale Monday at 8 a.m. and will remain on sale through Saturday noon, Nov. 20. MSC Music Group Sets Record Sale The Memorial Student Center music group is sponsoring a re cord sale after the listening- party in the Birch room of the MSC at 7:30 p.m. today, Frank daggers, group chairman, said yesterday. Records to be sold are the ones taken from the juke box in the MSC fountain room, and will be sold for 10 cents each, daggers said. More Than 500 Hear Oak Ridge Director The world today should not rely on science for salvation, because “science does not have within it the power to save mankind.” More than 500 persons heard a man who has a doctorate in physics and is also an ordained Episcopal minister say this last night, as Dr. William G. Pollard gave the first Great Issues talk. His topic was “Secrecy; Security, and Science.” Pollard is director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. “Our big moral choice today is whether we are to con tinue to i ace c r trust in science or whether we can free ourselves of this illusion and place our trust in Him who "fmade us,” he said. Although describing sci ence as “this terrible idol atry,” Pollard said he was not against the present pro- gram of encouraging young men to become scientists. “Science at its best—as it is car ried out by one who loves his work —is a glorious thing,” he explain ed. However, he added that the role of science has tended to seize con trol over the whole natural order. Some people think if we only put our faith and trust in science, we would have complete mastery over our fate, Pollard said. Speaking of the research on and discovery of nuclear weapons, he said some people feel it is wrong for scientists to create such weap ons, since these discoveries make the world a dangerous place to live. Some think, he said, that we should have turned from this proj ect and studied something else that was not so terrible. “Even if we had not originated the Manhattan project, we would still know about atomic and hydro gen bombs and wonder if Russia or some other nation was making them,” Pollard said. In the light of this atomic re search, ha said, “if we place our trust in science and not God, theafe*-' our destiny is annihilation.” As to the government regulations that have been placed on scientific study of atomic energy, Pollard said that scientists in this field had adopted their own security and secrecy measures before the gov ernment regulations. “Security measures are inevit able with the progress of science,” he said. “We cannot have a monopoly on nature,” he said, “but only for a (See POLLARD, Page 3) Rev Needs Training To March Reveille, A&M’s mascot, probably will not march with the band during football half time ceremonies anymore un less she receives some addi tional training, Col. E. V. Ad ams, band director, announ ced. Adams said the dog was not “field broken” and would have to be further trained before she could participate in the halftime marching activities. He didn’t say how long this woirf dtake. “I understand that the orig inal Reveille did not have this particular trait,” Adams said. Cross Will Visit A&M Vet School Dr. Floyd C. Cross, president elect of the Americaji Veterinary association, will arrive on the cam pus tonight for a series of talks to the staff and students of the School of Veterinary Medicine. Cross, dean of the division of veterinary medicine at Colorado A&M, is expected at Easterwood airport about 8:25 p.m. and will stay at the Memorial Student Cen ter during his visit. First scheduled talk by Cross will be to veterinary medicine seniors and faculty member’s Friday in the amphitheater of the new vete rinary hospital. PLAYERS PRACTICE—The Aggie Players began their final rehearsals this week for their first production of the year, George Bernard Shaw’s “Misalliance,” to be pre sented Monday through Thursday in the Memorial Student Center ballroom. Those prac ticing, left to right, are Harry Gooding, Anne Tishler, Ted Castle and Mrs. Florence Delaplane.