Battalion
Number 44: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.