ANOTHER ONE FOR BAYLOR LOOKING AT SITUATION
. . . official signals Beax first down as ... as day gets longer.
Stallings looks on.
WHERE DID HE GO? PACING THE SIDELINES
. A&M mentor looks over . . . head coach is uneasy
shoulder. during game.
A SILENT MOMENT
Aggie Band Plays Spirit.
Of Season
UNHAPPY COACHES HEAD FOR RAMP
. . . Stallings and assistant Jack Hurlbut
look depressed.
Che Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1965
Number 221
Baylor Disciplines Paint Raiders
Reds Aid Protests
Counterspy Claims
By GLENN DROMGOOLE
Battalion Editor
Herbert Philbrick of “I Led
Three Lives” television fame told
the Bryan-College Station Knife
and Fork Club Monday night that
the recent college protests on Viet
Nam employed communist philo
sophy.
“The first step in communist
training is to destroy patriotism,”
the former Communist Party
member and FBI counterspy said.
“If you want to see a good ex
ample of it, just take a look at
some of the statements made in
these anti-Viet Nam demonstra
tions last week.”
“After they break down all
patriotism, all moral code,” Phil-
brick said, “the communists re
place it with communist code of
morality. The communists be
lieve that only those acts are
moral which contribute to the
building of communism.”
Philbrick told the club that
communists are aiming at col
leges for increased strength and
that they are very selective in
choosing members.
“If they can recruit one com
munist from each college and
university in the United States,
they’ve got it made,” ha said.
The speaker, who spent nine
years as a citizen, communist and
counterspy, said communism now
controls 1,000,000,000 people and
more than one-third of the world’s
population are communists.
Philbrick, who never received
a salary for his FBI counterspy
work, said he got into the com
munist movement by mistake in
1940 when he and his wife join
ed the Cambridge (Mass.) Youth
Council, a communist front or
ganization camouflaged as a legi
timate pacifist and freedom
group.
Six months later, Philbrick said
he discovered the council was
“phony, fraud and was dominated
by people I seriously considered
to be members of the communist
criminal conspiracy.”
By then, however, he was pres
ident of the organization. He
withdrew from the council and
told the FBI of the group’s acti
vities. For the next nine years,
Philbrick served as a counterspy
for the bureau.
He said the communists use
front organizations as transmis
sion belts for communist propa
ganda and recruiting grounds.
“Here it is that the commun
ists look for future members of
the communist criminal conspir
acy,” Philbrick said.
“These organizations were be
ing used to convey communist
propaganda from out of the se
crecy of the communist criminal
conspiracy through the commun
ist fronts.
“The party continues to use
more than 150 of these youth
groups,” the expert noted.
Philbrick said in his nine years
he met only one Russian, that al
most all leaders of the commun
ist movement in America are
Americans.
William Z. Foster, former party
head in this country, wrote,
“Within the communists the
end justifies the means. Whe
ther his tactices be legal or moral
or not is not of any concern to
him if its suits his purposes.”
Philbrick said Gus Hall, pre
sent party leader here, makes
frequent appearances at colleges
and universities across the na
tion.
“I don’t think that any college
that invites a known communist
to speak can he called a leading
college or university,” the speaker
claimed.
Philbrick recalled Hall’s com
ments when questioned about his
communist affiliation.
“I prefer America with a Soviet
government,” Hall declared. He
further told interrogators that
he would take up arms “at the
right time” to overthrow con
stituted authority in the United
States, Philbrick said.
Philbrick stressed public aware
ness as an effective combatant
to communism.
“Certainly one big reason for
their success is the apathy of
the American people,” he said.
Silver Taps Honors 2
WAYNE H. WERDUNG
Silver taps was held Monday
night for Joe B. Wilson and
Wayne H. Werdung, Texas A&M
sophomores, who died recently
from burns received in a car
wreck Oct. 15 in Fort Worth.
Werdung who died Monday in
Brooke Army Medical Center in
San Antonio, was suffering from
second and third degree burns
over 78 per cent of his body. Wil
son, also being treated at BAMC,
died Sunday from burns that
covered 80 per cent of his body.
Werdung’s father’ who had
been on active duty in Viet Nam,
had flown in to be with his son.
The accident that finally
claimed the pair’s lives, occurred
while they were in Ft. Worth for
the Corps trip. They were parked
at a red light when a car slammed
into their rear, driving them into
another car and ripped open their
fuel tank.
The gasoline ignited, setting
their clothing on fire. Several
bystanders gave assistance but
both were severely burned before
the fire could be extinguished.
At first there was still some
hope that they might live, Mon
day Wilson’s father said that his
son could hear and understand
what was going on. A physician
treating Werdung at BAMC said
that he was making what he
termed “satisfactory progress.”
Monday, the day that he died,
was Werdung’s birthday. He was
20 years old.
Werdung was from O’Fallon,
111. and Wilson was from Texar
kana.
Werdung was a member of
Squadron 8 and majored in in
dustrial engineering while Wilson
belonged to Squadron 7 and ma
jored in mechanical engineering.
COUNTERSPY ATTACKS COMMUNISM
Herbert Philbrick, after whom the ‘T Led Three Lives”
television series was patterned, tells the Bryan-College
Station Knife and Fork Club of his experience while serv
ing as a citizen, communist and volunteer FBI counterspy
for nine years.
Lecture Series To Present
Seminary President Tonight
Dr. James I. McCord, president
of Princeton Theological Semi
nary, will speak at 8 p.m. Oct.
26 in the Memorial Student Cen
ter.
Aggies
JOE B. WILSON
McCord’s talk, “A Christian
Humanism”, is the first of the
free, public University Lecture
Series.
A native of Rusk, McCord is
former dean and professor of
systematic theology at the Aus
tin Presbyterian Seminary. He
has also served as pastor of
Austin’s University Presbyterian
Church and professor of Bible
at the University of Texas.
McCord has lectured in the
ological seminaries in Canada,
Scotland, Europe and the United
States, and has written numerous
articles and reviews.
Past chairman of the North
American Area Council of the
World Alliance of Reformed
Churches, McCord is chairman of
the advisory committee on faith
and order of the National Coun
cil of Churches; a member of the
committee on faith and order,
World Council of Churches; and
past chairman, Consultation on
Church Union.
The speaker earned a Doctor
of Divinity Degree at Austin
College, plus an M.A. at the Uni
versity of Texas and a B.A. at
Austin College. He also stu
died at Harvard, Edinburgh and
Geneva.
13 Fr&shmen Get
ConductProba tion
By TOMMY DeFRANK
Battalion News Editor
Thirteen Baylor University stu
dents were placed under severe
disciplinary regulation by a Bay
lor faculty committee Monday af
ter the students admitted con
nection in last week’s painting
spree on the Texas A&M campus.
The group, all freshmen, were
placed on full conduct probation
with any minor misconduct re
sulting in automatic expulsion
from school.
The students also agreed to
the following terms of probation:
The seven who own cars must
give them up;
All 13 must be in their dormi
tories at 8 p.m. for the balance
of the semester;
No class cuts will be allowed
unless absences are excused;
The group must personally pay
the cost of repairing the paint
damage;
A committee of five Baylor fa
culty members must personnaly
deliver a letter of apology to
A&M Student Body President Ro
land Smith.
Each student connected with
the incident signed statements
agreeing to the terms and simi
lar papers were sent to each boy’s
parents. The parents must also
agree to the probation or the
students will be expelled.
Baylor Dean of Students W. C.
Perry said Monday that the stu
dents were not dismissed because
they were freshmen.
“They are just a bunch of
young kids who got some wild
ideas,” Perry said. “If they had
been older students there is no
question that they would have
been expelled.”
Baylor Student Body President
Danny Chapman sent a letter
addressed to “the students of Tex
as A&M” Monday apologizing for
the incident.
The text read:
“On behalf of the student body
of Baylor University, may I take
this opportunity to express my
sincere and deepest regret for
the painting incident which oc
curred on your campus.
“May I also assure you that
this does not demonstrate the
general attitude of the Baylor
student body toward the Corps
and the students of A&M, but
rather is an isolated incident re
sulting from a misunderstanding
that new students at a South
west Conference university will
develop concerning campus rela
tions. Remedial action is under
way by Baylor administrators and
student officials and steps will
be taken when all information is
in.
“I is the wish of the stu
dents of Baylor to foster under
standing and good sportsmanship
between our schools at all times.
Incidents such as this are unfor
tunate and I am sure it will take
some time to repair university
relations between our two schools.
The students of Baylor will en
deavor to do our very best to
achieve this goal.”
An estimate of the damage
caused by the paintings was not
complete Tuesday but the figure
was expected to reach several
hundred dollars.
“Let it be known that my opin
ion in this matter will be shared
with the group concerned.”
Members of Sigma Kappa
fraternity displayed a goat pre
ceded by a banner reading “The
New Aggie Sweetheart” twice
during the game, including once
before new Aggie sweetheart
Cheri Holland was presented
during halftime ceremonies.
★ ★ ★
Game Incident
Draws Apology
From TCU
A letter protesting the actions
of the Texas Christian Universi
ty fraternity during the A&M-
TCU game Oct. 16 was dropped
Monday after A&M student lead
ers received an apology from
the TCU student body president.
A portion of the letter, writ
ten by John McDonald, reads as
follows:
“I hope I can speak for the
majority of students in apologiz
ing for the conduct of some of
our student body. The first
float which was carried around
the field during the halftime
was in good taste, and your re
action to it was praiseworthy.
I wish to thank your cheerleaders
and your officers for the con
trol and leadership which they
exhibited. This, to me, shows
an improvement over what has
been, if not in actuality, an in
nate dislike of Aggie spirit. I
wish to praise you for the con
duct of the Corps in general.
“Nevertheless, I feel com
pelled to apologize to you and
to the Corps and to all students
of Texas A&M University for
the conduct of the group who
tried to poke fun at your school
through your sweetheart. That
little eqisode with the goat was
in extremely poor taste, and the
students of TCU wish to express
to your student body our apolo
gy. Moreover, I wish to thank
you for the mature way in which
you handled this “insult.”