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Jfl| JLJL 1i ® Hattalion Number 25: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1954 Price 5 Cents Hutchins To Speak Sunday in Guion For Great Issues Dr. Robert M. Hutching, an edu cator who believes students should think, will speak here Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Guion hall. Hutchins is being brought here by the Memorial Student Center’s Great Issues series. , Hutchins, who is never shy about saying what he thinks, is consid ered one of the most coloi-ful and controversial figures in American education. He is the former chancellor of the University of Chicago and is now president of the Fund for the Republic, Inc. When he became president of the University of Chicago in 1929, Hutchins began his new program of education by saying . . we have confused science With infor- YMCA Offers Three Services For Students The YMCA is offering three services for students during the approaching Christmas season, said Gar rett Maxwell, president of the YMCA. A printed sheet of Christmas carols is available to all units, said Maxwell. Representatives from each outfit may pick up this sheet at the front desk of the YMCA. A note has been sent to all unit commanders advising them about this publication, he added. Students are invited to use the free Christmas wrapping service, either wrapping for the mail or for individual gifts. Gift wrapping will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, said Maxwell. Students are asked to allow a few" hours for their gifts to be wrapped. This is the tenth year the YMCA has offered this service for A&M students. The YMCA is selling decorations to all outfits wishing to decorate their dormitories for Christmas. * Profits from this service will be sent to the World Student Christ ian federation in Geneva, Switzer- * land, for world universities service, said Maxwell. The funds will be distributed among-colleges to help financially handicapped people attend college. Most colleges in the United States have a special drive for this or ganization/he said, but A&M con tributes the profits from the dec oration sale. mation, ideas with facts, and knowledge with miscellaneous da ta,” and that . . students must primarily come to college to think.” In keeping with his belief that colleges are for education, he abol ished intercollegiate athletics at the University of Chicago in 1939. He also once announced that he believed all babies should be given college degrees at birth, so they could concentrate on getting an ed ucation instead of a degree. Hutchins attended Oberlin col lege and Yale university, getting his BA, MA, and PhD in law. He served as dean of Yale for several yeax-s. He was president of the Univer sity of Chicago from 1929 to 1945, and chancellor from 1945 to 1951. He resigned to become associate director of the Ford foundation. Last May he was elected presi dent of the Fund for the Republic, Inc. After World War IT, Hutchins campaigned for the establishment of a World Organization and for international civilian control of atomic energy. From 1933 to 1936 he was chair man of the Commission on Interna tional Economic Relations. In 1943 he was named chairman of the Commission on Freedom of the Pi'ess. In 1945 he was elected pi’es- ident of the Committee to Frame a Woxdd Constitution, a position he still holds. Immediately after his talk, the Gx-eat Issues comxnittee will spon sor a reception for Hutchins in the Birch x’oom of the MSC. Attending will be both studexxts and faculty axui staff members. The students of the Great Is- sxxes committee will have a dinner for him at 6:30 that night. He will ai'ilve hex-e from Houston Saturday aftenxoon, and will leave Sunday. Dr. Robert M. Hutchins “. . . studexxts must think.” Blockade Possible; China Defense Set Kiwanians Hold Annual Toy Drive The annual Christmas toy di’ive, sponsoi’ed by the Kiwanis club is ixx full swing, according to Dick Hervey, px-esident. Members of the club are collect- ixxg toys and repairing them for distribution among needy childi'en of this area. The first x*epair ses sion will be held tonight ixx the A.&M Consolidated wox-k shop, ac- coi'ding to Taylor Riedel, principal of junior high. Anyone having unwanted or brokexx toys can take them to the CHS or call Riedel at the school. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (A 3 ) _ Secretary of State Dulles said to day the United States might block ade Red Chixxa if peaceful means fail to pi’otect the rights of citizens like the 13 Americans jailed by Peiping on spy charges. He said he was confident, but not certain, that peaceful means would be sxxfficient. Dulles made the statement dui*- ing a xxews conference which he opened by announcing- agreement with Nationalist China on a mu tual defense treaty pledging the United States to retaliate, prob ably against the Communist-held China xnainland, if the Reds attack the Nationalist stronghold of For mosa. The ti’eaty, Dulles said, would be signed sometime this week. He said it is “another link in the sys tem of collective security” against Communist aggx-ession in the West- ei-n Pacific. Dulles’ remarks aboxxt blockad ing Red China came when report- ei’s sought clarification of his statements in a speech Monday night at Chicago. The secretary said then the United States would “exhaust peaceful means of sxxs- taining our international rights and those of oxxr citizexxs.” He ruled out for the present any blockade of Red Chixxa such as Senate Re publican Leader Knowland, of Cal ifornia, has called fox-. He recalled that he had said at Chicago that the United States had a duty, as a peaceful nation, to exhaust all methods short of war. If those failed, he said, a reap- praisal was in order. Dulles said the effect of the Foi'- mosa treaty would be a declaration to the world, particularly the Com munists, that Formosa was not on the block in any deal for stability in that area. In this regal’d, he said, the treaty had its dijxlomatic as well as its military aspects. Directory Sales Now Underway The 1954-55 student direc tory are now on sale and may be purchased from dormitory salesman, the office of student publications anounced yester day. Price is 75 cents. A new addition to the direc tories this year is a directory of all offices of the college. Besides dormitory sales, di rectories may be ordered from student publications by send ing 75 cents for each directory wanted, said Mx-s. Cecilia Pri- hoda of the office of student publications. Construction --2 Bond Issue Approved y CS Voters -20 New Lot Being Opened For Students A new parking lot is being opened today for students in the Law-Puryear dormitory ai’ea, according to Howard Badgett, manager of the A&M physical plants. The lot will make room for about 100 cars, and should take care of everyone now parking on the streets in the area, he said. These streets are Jones street, which runs in front of the px-esident’s home, and West Boulevai'd, which x’uns along the north side of the drill field Notices will be placed on cars who are now parking on these streets, said Fx-ed Hick man, chief of campus security. Construction May Start Next Spring Colleg-e Station voters yesterday approved by a land slide vote of 431 to 20 the proposed $300,000 bond issue for building a new sewage disposal system. The voting by wards, out of 451 total votes, was as follows: Ward 1, 205 for and 9 against; Ward II, 193 for and 9 against; Ward III, 33 for and 2 against. City Manager Ran Boswell said last night it would prob ably be at least next spring before contracts can be let on the new disposal system because of the details that have to be finished. “We have to print up the bonds and then sell them,” he said, “and the engineer has to complete his plans and speci fications.” He indicated that'* after the contracts are let it Seniors Hear GE Executive Lecture Today James M. Crawford, vice- president and general man ager of the motor and genera tor division of the General Electric Co., spoke to electrfc- cal and mechanical engineering seniox-s at 8 a.m. today in Bolton hall. Crawford was graduated from A&M, and joined GE in 1922. In 1929 he x-eceived the Charles A. Coffin award, the company’s high est honor to an employee. After early assignments as assistant su perintendent of the motor and generator manufacturing division, the turbine manufacturing plant at Syracuse, N.Y., and the Schen ectady works testing division, he became assistant to the Schenec tady works manager in 1947. Later that year he was named manager of the lax-ge motor and generator division, and was appointed man ager of the transformer and allied pi-oducts division in 1950. Mr. Crawford is on the campus at this time to attend the initia tion ceremonies of the Texas Del ta chapter of the Tau Beta Pi as sociation. Several Buildings Get Repairs should be about 15 to 18 months before the system is c o m p 1 e t e d, including the $138,000 treating plant. “We appreciate the expression of confidence by the voters,” Bos well said. “The results of the election show a definite interest of the people in seeing their city con tinue to gx-ow and progress.” Mayor Ex-nest Langford said, “Naturally, the council is pleased with the vote of confidence of the people of College Station. Give us a little time now, and we will be on our way toward cleaning up a lot of conditions which have been woirying us for yeax-s.” The bonds will be paid from an increase in sex-vice charges. For the average home owner, the monthly charge would be about $1.50 and each additional connec tion would cost 75 cents. The new system will cost $365,- 000. Howevex*, $110,000 of this amount was authox-ized in 1951 but not issued. The city will keep $45,000 of the bonds for future improvement and expansion. Langford said the plan will mean adequate sewer and a disposal plant and “every lot within the city limits will be accessible to a sewer line.” It will also take care of expansion toward the south, he added. At the present rate of growth, Boswell said the system would be adequate for “at least_ the next 25 yeax-s.” He described the plan as the “finest system for any town this size.” The City Council will hold a special meeting today at 5:15 p.m. to canvass the election returns. Employees to Hold Christmas Dinner The annual Christmas dinner fox- college system employees will be held Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. in Duncan hall in honor of those who have given 25 yeax-s of service. Tickets will be on sale at the desk of the Memox-ial Student Cen ter until noon Dec. 15, W. R. Horsley, general chaii-man, has an nounced. CHS Students To Attend Meet Staff members of the Round-Up, A&M Consolidated high school pa per, will attend the Texas High School Press association meeting at TSCW in Denton. The group will leave College Station Friday and will return Sunday. Those attending the meet are Tom Ivy, Maurice Olian, Barbara Ax-lt and Mary Lou Ergle. News of the World By the ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW—Red China’s ambas sador to Moscow said yesterday his countx-y’s millions stand “shoul der to shoulder” with Russia and 2 “not afraid of a wax- directed against aggx-ession.” He assex-ted the Western powers would “suffer a fate worse than Hitler’s” if they fight the Communist countx-ies. ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON — The Senate ’ condemned last night by a vote of 67-20 the conduct of Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy on the first of three censure charges against him and cleared the way for final action on two other counts today. ★ ★ ★ AUSTIN—Comic books sold in Texas are being screened at both wholesale axxd retail levels for ob jectionable material, a repox-t to Atty. Gen. John Bem Shepperd said yesterday. Shepperd said C. J. M. Roesch, chairman of a committee of distributors and retailers which has undertaken a pi-ogi-am to eli minate undesirable comic books, repox-ted the scx-eerxing actioxx as the latest step in the campaign. F 'At ★ NEW ORLEANS—Democratic National Chaii*man Stephen Mitchell said yesterday the time has come “to drop such adjec tives as ‘Southern Democrats’ and ‘Northern Democrats’ and think instead in terms of a na tional party.” Council To Hold Joint Initiation The College Station council of the Knights of Columbus will hold a joint initiation with the Bx-yan council Sunday. Initiation begins at 10 a.m. un der the direction of Jerome Zubik, Grand Knight of the Bx-yan coun cil. (Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles on recent and future con struction at A&M.) Some of the most noticeable woik done on the campus in the last year is the renovation of Several classx-oom buildings, and for a few of the buildings it was the first time such major repair woik had been done since they were built. The Animal Industries building, for instance, was entirely i-epainted inside, and a new acid resistant non-skid tile floor was laid in the meats laboratory and stox-age vaxxlt. This was the first such work done on the building since 1935 when it ^vas built. Another ovei’hauling was done on the Agricultui*al Experiment -Station building, which is now be ing used by the agronomy depaxt- m'ent. It was remodeled and re- Weather Today The forecast for today is con tinued cloudy with fog in the area late this evening. Yesterday’s high was 81, low 57. The tempex 1 - ature at 11 a.m. was 57. paix-ed, an asphalt floor was laid, and hew lights were installed. It now houses most of the personnel of the experiment station, exten sion sex-vice, and all but one teach ing laboratory of the agromony de partment. Guion hall got trimmed up dur ing the summer with repainting and repair of the outside of the building. The next project for the building will be a new x*oof, ac- cox-ding to Howax-d Badgett, man ager of the A&M physical plants. The interior of the Civil Engi neering building was repainted, re- paii’ed and x-efinished, along with the installation of new floors. Re maining to be done in the near future are the installation of new lights and Venetian blinds. The electrical engineering build ing x-eceived new tile floors and the basement laboratories were painted. It also now needs Venetian blinds and new lights before the job is complete. Among some lesser jobs wex-e the interior axxd exterior painting and enclosing of the base of all 10 temporary classx-oom buildings (the shacks); moving of the journalism depax-tment from the house across from the Mexnorial Student Center to Building J; and the painting of the exterior of the MSC. The library was releveled, re painted,/ x-elighted and repaired. The building is now ready for thx-ee additional stories over the stacks of the libi-ax-y to give more book shelves. Two moi'e large jobs were done on the Academic and the Agricul ture buildings. The Acadexxxic build ing has been repainted, replastered where needed, leveled, and refloor- Sophomore Class Votes Assessment The sophomore class voted in fa vor of 'a proposal to assess each member a dollar for the yearly class fund at a class meeting held x-ecently in the chemistry lectux-e room. “We want to build the fund large enough to pay for the sopohmore ball and have money for other class functions,” Doug DeCluitt, class president, said. “Last year, we did not have enough. This is the only time this year that the class membex-s will be asked to contrib ute,” he added. A sophomore in each dorm will be appointed to collect the money. ed. It was last painted in 1946. Badgett says plans are now under way to install arm type chairs in all the classrooms, since the bench type chairs have “probably been in the building since it was built.” The Agriculture building was re modeled and refinished, and re painted. New lights and floors were put in the gx-ound floor. Also on the list of Improvements was the relighting of the lectux-e x-ooms in the Petroleum Engineer ing building and the Mechanical Engixxeei-ing building. Work has stax-ted on the repainting of the first two floors of the Petroleum bxxilding. Dormitory work inclxxded interior plaster repairs and interior and ex terior painting in Milner, Mitchell, Leggett, Law, Pxxryear and Hart. The biggest job was in Milner, Bad gett said. For sidewalks, curbs and glitters the last year the college spent about $35,000. An additional $20,000 is being" spent now to further the work. These projects are what Badgett considered the “majox*” items done in the past year, and he said there “were always many minor jobs be ing done.” ONE MORE VOTE—Cotton Price, College Station insurance man, casts his ballot in the sewerage bond election yesterday at the A&M Consolidated school box. Recording are election clerks Mrs. W. W. Armistead (left), and Mrs. C. B. Godbey.