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Battalion Number 44: Volume 54 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 Price 5 Cents '25c I9c 29c 45c 25c 69c 5 c C 9« 9- i c Hines Is Named ReligiousErnphasis Principal Speaker The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Bishop-Coadjutor of the Episco pal Diocese of Texas, will be the principal speaker during' Religious Emphasis week Feb. 20-25 in Guion hall. Other speakers scheduled for RE week include Dr. Ellis Nelson and Dr. A. L. Porterfield. Nelson, professor in’the Presbyterian The ological Seminary in Austin, will meet with the faculty each even ing during the week in the biologi cal sciences lecture room. His talks will be followed by group discussions and his topics will, an swer such questions as “what basic religious beliefs are appro priate for faculty members to pre sent to students.” Reservations For Rooms Start Monday Students who want to re serve their present rooms may begin doing so at 8 a.m. Monday in the housing office, Goodwin hali, according to Harry L. Boyer, chief of housing. Students must first pay their fees at the fiscal office in the administration building, and then bring the receipt to the housing office, he said. Total amount due for the spring semester, including meals, is $226. Without meals, the amount for the entire semester is $86.35. The first installment, due by Feb. 6, is $61.75, and withovit meals it is $38.40. Students who want to reserve rooms other than the. ones they now occupy, including students changing between civilian and mil itary dormitories, must present a room change slip when they re serve their rooms, Boyer said. Veterans may get fee waiver slips from the veteran’s advisor office in Goodwin hall. MSS Two Offers Writing Awards The M.S.S. Two, a collection of student creative writing, is offer ing a prize of ten dollars for the best short story and the best poem submitted by Feb. 28, according to Bill Willis, editor. Persons interested in entering the contest should leave their work with Robert Ferag-en of the Eng lish department in room 319 Aca demic building. Character sketches, commentar ies, and other types of writing will be welcomed, but no piizes will be awarded in these divisions. The collection will be released in late spring. Porterfield, head of the depart ment of sociology at Texas Chris tian university, will lead the mar ried students forum and discussion groups which meet each evening in the YMCA chapel. The ques tionnaires containing suggested topics sent to married students re cently have not been returned, J. Gordon Gay, YMCA general sec retary said yesterday, but Porter field’s topics will be based on stu dent preferences according to the questionnaire. In addition to the faculty and married student discussion groups, each dormitory will have a dis cussion leader who will talk on topics selected as most interesting by the students of that dormitory, Gay said. Hine’s daily talks in Guion hall will cover topics selected by the students from questionnaires call ed interest locators which contain ed 17 suggested topics and a write- in space for other topics. First choice of the students was the topic “what should one seek in marriage ?” The dormitory speakers will base their talks on the write-in topics submitted by the students in their assigned dormitories. SPONSORS AWARD—Dr. L. G. Jones, right, who retired from the agronomy department in 1952, presents a plaque to J. S. Mogford, professor of agronomy. The plaque rec ognizes the winners of the $100 award, sponsored by Jones, which is given each year to the outstanding student in agronomy. Potted Plant Mystery Someone’s Stealing Flowers By HARRI BAKER Battalion Co-Editor- The Memorial Student Center has a problem—a mystery of day light theft. Someone has been taking the potted plants out of the Center, and it looks like the stealing has been done in broad daylight. It’s been going on since October. Potted plants staided disappearing from the Ce-nter then, and about 30 or 40 have been taken since then, according to J. Wayne Stark, MSC director. The loss of the plants them selves is not too serious, but the plants are in decorative pots that are expensive, Stark said. The MSC tries to get a variety of pots, and new types. They are used on the coffee tables in th6 promenade lounges, and in other parts of the Center. The plants and pots are paid for by the MSC, and the floricul ture department does the arrang ing and care of them. The flori culture department doesn’t know what’s happened to them either. The stealing has been centered around three locations. The first location is the end promenade table, the one closest to the door by the post office. Ten or twelve plants have beeai stolen from there in the last four months, three of them in the last three days. Another place has been the wall that separates the fountain room from the corridor outside of it. The waist high wall is topped with a planter, and several single pots have been taken out of it. All of these plants are of the same type. “Whoever he is, he’s building up quite a collection,” Stark said. Head Bumps Won 7 Help Examinations Aggies who would like to find out how they will come out on their final examina tions won’t get any help from foidune tellers in College Sta tion, mainly because the seers are not permitted in the' city. Ran Boswell, city manager, said a phrenolist (a person who professes to predict the future by studying the con- formation of the skull) was denied a license last week. Boswell didn’t say whether or not the man was here because of finals. “I guess he thought Aggies have a lot of bumps on their heads that are worth study ing,” said Boswell. For Ag Classes Honor Code Now in Effect The student Agriculture council honor code, which was adopted in November, is now in effect in 50 per cent of the agriculture classes, said Sam McAnally, council re porter. The code will be in effect in all agriculture classes by the begin ning of next semester, he said. In order to explain the honor system to the vanous classes, rep resentatives of each department of the School of Agriculture and council members have attended ag riculture classes to instruct mem bers how the code works. They will also visit dormitories and ex plain the system to freshmen and sophomore agriculture students. McAnally pointed out that they have not been able to visit all clas sed yet, but that they intend to by the first of next semester. The following statement will be posted in each agriculture class room: “Holding my integrity to be of primary importance' in my scho lastic endeavors, I hereby pledge that I will not lie, steal, cheat, or take unfair advantage of my fel low students in this course.” Space for signatures will be left under the pledge, but 100 per cent participation in each classroom will not be required, McAnally said. Purpose of the system, he said, is to give those who feel so moved an opportunity to sign, in the belief that a class member who chooses to sign the pledge will up hold it. About 1,300 agin culture students Weather Today The outlook for today is rain showers in the afternoon and to morrow morning. Yesterday’s high was 55, low 39. The temperature at 10:15 this morning was 57. will have a chance to participate in the honor system, whidh does not put anyone in a position where he is expected to report or inform on a classmate. “The council feels that this sys tem will develop leadership and a sense of personal pride,” McAn- ally said, “and that it will be more effective than official action or punishment.” Princess Margaret Escapes Injury Royston, England —-(2?)— Prin cess Margaret was involved in a slight automobile accident last night, but escaped injury. The ear in which she was riding collided with another while she was on her way fi’om the royal country home in Sandringham to London. Neither was reported damaged. The other place is the dining room. For a few weeks before Christmas, each table in the dining room had on it a plant in a special ‘Nubian Head’ pot. During the weeks these pots were on the tables, about half of them were stolen. Stark figures the stealing is be ing done during the day, because the building is locked at night. After about 11 p.m., only the main door is left open. Anyone coming in through this door would have to leave the same way, past the night desk man, who has seen nothing irregular. “He’s just bold,” Stark says. “He must just pick up a plant and walk out with it as if he (See PLANT, Page 6) Committee Orders No Exam Changes There will be no changing around of final examination per iods, according to Dean of the Col lege, J. P. Abbott. In a notice to all department heads, Abbott said “the Executive committee of the Academic council has asked me to remind you that the schedule of final examinations should be strictly adhered to, and that it is the responsibility of the head of the department to see that no deviation from this schedule is permitted.” The notice also said that the present exam scredule, which has exams set through 4 p.m. Saturday, was designed to “avoid jamming” exams in the first part of the week, and “any departui-e from the schedule would jeopardize the over all plan.” Fellowship Awards Offered To Seniors The Ralston Purina company is offering research fellowship awards to senior animal husban dry, dairy husbandry and poultry husbandry majors interested in graduate work in nutrition and physiology research. “The awards pay $1,560 a year and may be renewed for three years,” said Dr. J. C. Miller, head of the animal husbandry depart ment. Students interested in the awards may see Dr. G. L. Robertson in the animal husbandry department by Saturday for fm'ther information. FORMOSA ATTACK IJ NLIKELY--SCO TT Communist Aggression Would Cause War, He Says The Chinese Communists will probably not attack For mosa, since they know it would mean war, Sir Robert Scott, minister of the British Embassy in Washington, said yester day during his Great Issues series lecture in the Memorial Student Center ballr6om. However, he indicated that there is a possibility of the Communists attacking the smaller islands off the Chinese mainland because they have long expressed their “inten tion to liberate these islands.” “They would be making a big mistake if they attacked Formosa,” said Scott. The U.S. has pledged aid to Formosa in case of attack. As to the possibility of Chaing Kai-Shek invading the mainland, Scott felt that the Nationalist forces are not strong enough to make the attack successful. They probably would not get much popular sup port from the Chinese people if they did try an invasion,” Scott added latei\ He was doubtful if the free na tions would support the Nation alists if they were attacked, but this would depend entirely upon the circumstances of such an at tack. “If the facts are obscure,” Scott said, “many nations would sit on the sidelines.” He explained that in the Korean conflict, the issues were clear cut, and there was no doubt as to who was at fault. Recognition of China Scott also explained during his lecture the British feeling toward the recognition of Red China. He said the whole problem was based on the British tfteory for-recogni- tion of any country, no matter what its political ideology is. “The British ask only one ques tion: “Who is in charge here?” said Scott. “We consider the ques tion 'How is the government go ing to behave?’ as being irreve- lant.” “We did not recognize Commu nist China because of trade, since trade is an altogether different problem,” he said. “We would have been extremely stupid if we hadn’t given them recognition.” When asked, during the ques- tion-and-answer session that fol lowed his talk, if he thought the United States should recognize Red China, Scott’s only comment was, “It is not my place to give advice to the U.S. government.” He did say, however, that the Brit ish public understands why the U.S. has not recognized China. After his talk here, Scott left for Houston where he was to speak at a kick-off dinner for the newly organized Institute on Foreign Re lations. Also on the program was Sen. Robert Knowland. World % News By ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAGUA, Nicaragua—-Presi dent Anastasio Somoza said yes terday he still thinks a duel with President Jose Figueres of Costa Rica would be a good way to settle the differences between the two countries. ★ ★ ★ MOSCOW—The Soviet Union handed representatives of the Western European Union powers notes last night protesting their plan to rearm West Germany. The Russians contended the plan would violate the Geneva con vention barring weapons of mass destruction. ★ ★ ★ QUARRY HEIGHTS, C. Z.— Seven U. S. Navy patrol planes “armed for defensive purposes only in event of attack from the air” are standing by to make peaceful observation flights over troubled Costa Rica, Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, U. S: commander in Car ibbean ai*ea, said yesterday. ' ★ ★ ★ * KINGSTON, Jamaica — Prime Minister William Alexander Bus tamante, anti-Communist kingpin of Jamaica politfcs for a decade, lost his grip yesterday on the island government. But he said no successor could match his accomplishments “perhaps within 100 years.” Ramblers To Play The Aggie Ramblers will play for a dance in Shiloh hall, their first professional appearance, to morrow at 8:30 p.m., said Bill Bare- field, leader of the band. Sam McAnally gnd Ken Kil- lion, members of. the Saddle and Sirloin club, are sponsoring the dance, and all profits will go to the club, McAnally said. Indian Scenes, Portuguese Art In MSC Exhibit The art exhibition now on display in the Memorial Stu dent Center includes a Portu guese collection by Antonio Montano, graduate veterinary medicine student from Portugal, and an Indian exhibit sponsored by the A&M Camera club. The Portuguese exhibit is typi cal of the native art. All of the work displayed is Montano’s own handwork. The collection is un usual in that the work was done with common materials such as roots, twine and bits of clay. The Indian exhibit is a collec tion of photographs showing na tive scenes typical of the life in India. The collection is currently on tour throughout the United States, and the Camera club was able to keep it long enough to put it on exhibit. The next exhibition to be spon sored by the Art Gallery commit tee will be a group of paintings done by students at the student union of Southern Methodist Uni versity. A&M will send paintings to SMU as part of an exchange program, said Mrs. Ralph L. Terry, art gallery advisor. A special request has been made by the Beaumont A&M club for paintings done by artists here at the MSC. “The exhibit to be sent to Beau mont will consist of about 25 pieces,” she said. Election To Fill Senate Vacancies Two vacancies on the student senate, a class of ’50 senator and a Mitchell hall senator, will be fill ed by election Feb. 15. Candidates may file in the of fice of student activities by 12 noon Feb. 12 according to Pete Hardesty, business manager of student activities. Election for the junior class sen ator will be held from 1-5 p.ih. Feb. 15 in the MSC. The Mitchell election is the same day from 5-6 p.m. with ballot boxes located by the telephones in Mitchell hall. A vacancy on the election com mission also will be filled soon a student senate appointment, said Dave Lane, chairman of the elec tion commission. _ AVi - ABOVE GROUND The walls of the new A&M Press building started to rise this week, as workmen point toward an early summer completion date. The building, which is located near the ‘shacks’ temporary classroom buildings, will house the A&jVI Press, now in the basement of Goodwin hall.