NEWSIN BRIEF

SOUTHERN “REBS” HOPE TO BLOCK FEPC

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (^—Re­bellious Soutbern Democrats hoped to block today one of the civil rights measures President Truman wants enacted. The bill would cre­ate a national commission against job discrimination on grounds of race, creed or color.

Mr. Truman touched off a polit­ical explosion in the Dixie wing of his party earlier this week when he urged Congress to act on a 10- point civil rights program. Besides the Fair Employment set-up, it calls for an anti-lynch law and oth­er measures which always bring deep-South Democrats to the boil­ing point.

They have denounced Mr. Tru­man, talked of calling a rump con­vention to break away from him politically, and have discussed shutting off funds from the south earmarked for the Democratic par­ty.

NAZI EX-GENERAL JUMPS TO DEATH

NUERNBERG, Germany, Feb. 5 UP*—Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz, 64- year-old Wehrmacht veteran, leap­ed to his death today from the top tier of Nuernberg prison.

He jumped only a short time be­fore he was to go on trial for war crimes with 13 other German mili­tary leaders before an American court.

CHARRO DAYS BEGIN IN RIO GRANDE VALLEY

BROWNSVILLE, Tex.. Feb. 5 Citizens on both sides of the

Rio Grande river began celebration today of the 11th annual Charro days fiesta.

MOSCOW BLAMES BRITISH FOR GANDHI’S DEATH

MOSCOW, Feb. 5 —(JP)— The Moscow Literary Gazette said yes­terday that a suggestion (made by a Communist newspaper) that the British Secret Service was connect­ed with the assassination of Mo­handas K. Gandhi is not without foundation.

A Tass dispatch from Rome yes­terday quoted the Communist news paper Unita as saying Gandhi’s killer “Most probably acted at the instigation of the British Secret Service.”

“The British-American Press,” The Literary Gazette said, “Raised the cry that the murder of Gandhi was the meaningless crime of a fanatic. No. The killing of Gandhi has meaning. Without doubt it was advantageous to somebody.”

“His methods of action were not shared by revolutionary democrats throughout the world, but Gandhi was using his authority of late to prevent internicine war artifically fomented by British Imnerialism in India and by (Prime Minister) Attlee and (British Foreign Secre­tary Ernest) Bevin, those trusty agents of British Imperialism.”

U. S. ACCUSES ROMANIA OF DESTROYING OPPOSITION

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —(A5)— The United States formally accus­ed the Communist government of Romania yesterday of intending to smash ruthlessly “the last vestiges of democratic opposition” in the country.

In brief, the United States ac­cused the Romanian government of having wiped out civil liberties in the country, of having violated its new peace treaty and other inter­national commitments, and of hav­ing used “all manner of chicanery and extreme physical violence” to break down political resistance.

<168 TEXAS LABOR UNIONS FAIL TO MAKE REPORTS

AUSTIN, TEX., Feb. 5 —(A1)— The names of 468 Texas labor-un­ions are on their way to the at­torney general because of the un­ions’ failure to file annual reports with the secretary of state as re­quired by law.

Secretary of State Paul Brown said he had received 658 reports by Monday, a one-day extension of the Feb. 1 deadline which fell on Sun­day.

SOVIET RUSSIA’S PROTESTS REFUSED BY WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —<A>>— The first three of Soviet Russia’s current series of protests against American military moves abroad have been dismissed as groundless by the state department.

But Moscow may have somewhat better luck with the fourth, re­ceived Tuesday. It charged Ameri­can fliers with ten specific acts of circling or flying low over Soviet shipping near Japan last fall. A department spokesman said the al­leged incidents will be investigated before a reply is made “eventual­ly."

TRANSPORT COMMANDS JOIN­ED UNDER MAJ. GEN. KUTER

WASHINGTON. Feb. 5 —(dPi— Consolidation of the air transport command in the naval air transport service with Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter as chief was announced yes­terday by Secretary of Defense Forrestal.

The deputy commander will be Rear Adm. John P. Whitney.

Kuter is the air force general whose nomination to head the civil aeronautics board was blocked by a senate committee.

The combined transport service will be called “The Military Air Transport Service,” and will be established under the United States Air Force.

VET INCREASE APRIL 1 IF TRUMAN GIVES 0. K.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 —GP)—Congressional action on a bill

providing increases in veterans subsistence was completed yester­day by the House. Only President Truman’s signature is needed to make it effective April 1.

The BattalionPUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST 01 A GREATER A&M COLLEGE

Volume 47 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1948 Number 106

ARCHIE BROODO Engineer Award Winner

1). R. HOWELL Commander, Aggie Band

WILL H. THANHEISER President, Business Society

J. R. BALLENTINE Football

FOUR more winners of Who’s Who at A. & M. selected by the Student Life Committee at the end of the fall semester are pic­tured above. THANHEISER, BROODO, and BALLENTINE graduat­ed at mid-term.

CIT Biologist To Talk Here Feb. 12

Dr. George W. Beadle, chairman of the Division of Biology of the California Institute of Technology, will address the faculty and grad­uate students Thursday, February 12, at 8 p. m. in the Physics Lec­ture Room.

Doctor Beadle, whose subject will be “Genes, Master Molecules of Living Systems,” is a member of the National Academy of Science and was Sigma Xi lecturer for 1945. The application of his re­searches is indicated by his mem­bership on the Advisory committee for Biology and Medicine for the Atomic Energy Commission.

Gardens Depend On Proper Timing, Kiwanis Club Told

80 Senior Students Enroll In First ‘Great Issues4 Course

The “Great Issues” course, Administration 405, has an initial enrollment of 80 seniors, according to S. R. Gammon, head of the history department, who is chairman of the com­mittee in charge of the course. Dr. Gammon expressed satis­faction over that number, which is about 10 per cent of the senior class.

However, there are still some openings for qualified seniors who wish to enroll in the course. Any­one who is interested should con­tact Dr. Gammon.

Plans have been made to bring men prominent in various fields to A. & M. to address the class. They include A. E. Gibson, president of the Wellman Engineering Corpora­tion of Cleveland, Ohio, who will speak March 3rd on the subject,“Can England and France Recover their Former Position as World Powers.”

Also included in the “Great Is­sues” schedule is a debate between H. R. Knickerbocker and Walter Duranty on “Can Russia Be Part of ‘One World’ ” to be given March 8 and an address on March 24 by Roy E. Dickerson, nationally known sociologist, on the subject,“Can the Disintegration of the American Family be Checked?”

On April 7 Col. Willard Chevalier who has given commencement ad­dresses here, will be the speaker.

Many other prominent men will address the class from time to time as they can be scheduled.The only text to be used for the

course will be the Sunday editions of the New York Times. That paper includes a section summarizing the news of the week.

“The Palestine Problem and its Alternatives’” “Russian Imperial­ism via Communism” “Effects of Population Pressures on Peace,”“The Taft-Hartley Act and Our Problem of Labor and Manage­ment,” and “Race, Color and Per­sonality?” are only a few of the tentative topics which have been advanced by the committee for dis­cussion during the course.

“Successful gardening depends upon successful timing,” Fred Bri- son of the horticulture department, told the Kiwanis Club at its lunch­eon meeting Tuesday,

“There are three dates you must remember—that is, if you who know anything about gardening— and I’m not telling you anything about gardening because you would not pay any attention to what I might say—but I’m telling you about three dates for planting to­matoes—and harvesting them,” he said.

“Remember, plant your first to­matoes about February first or in the alternative, plant them a few days later, then on March 16— you know on March 16 we have our last big freeze at College Station— begin to sit back and look forward to May 15 when the tomatoes will have ripened.”

The speaker was introduced by A. C. Magee of the Agricultural Experiment' Station. He reminded Kiwanians “gardening relaxes the body and mind, calms one down and turning the soil, eases one’s con­science.”

He closed with the proverb, “a good gardener learns to arch his back quickly.”

Guests were Harry Stiteler, Ag­gie football coach, and three of his assistants, Bill Dubose, Barlow Ir­win, and Tugboat Jones, and Bill Bailey, W. R. Cowley, E. S. Hold- redge, and L. G. Vela.

Sid Loveless, president, was in Navasota presenting that club the traveling gavel. Joe Motheral, vice president, presided.

‘Brushed Off Like A Gad-Fly,’ Senate Candidate Clark Says of A&M DirectorsAggie Players Busy Studying ‘Hedda Gabler,’ Next Play

By JOHN W. LAUFENBERG“When one thinks of Ibsen, one

should think of a man strolling along a promenade high over a turbulent sea, trying to decide whether or not to jump in.” Thus Dr. S. S. Morgan of the English Department begins his discussion on the life, time and works of Henrick Ibsen, author of the Ag­gie Players’ forthcoming produc­tion, HEDDA GABLER.

Ibsen’s young manhood in the middle of the nineteenth century, was not too successful; he flunked out of medical school and later did some rather mediocre work as a newspaper reporter. He next turn­ed to the theatre and began to make a name for himself as di­rector of the National Theatre of Sweden. Ibsen then resigned and started traveling.

While a young radical living in Rome, Ibsen became a strong proponent of women’s rights. He wrote “Pillars of Society” and “The Doll’s House” in which he said that there must be an indi­vidual code stronger than any external code of morals. These two plays caused a tremendous howl throughout the Christian world, and their production was banned in England and in Ameri­ca.In answer to his opponents and

in an attempt to show what would have happened if the chai’acters had lived by the external code of society, Ibsen wrote “Ghosts”. This caused a louder cry—he was called an enemy of the people; undaunted, Ibsen wrote “An Enemy of the People” which contended that free­dom and the whole truth are the bulwarks of society.

This revolutionized the thinking world. Iconoclastic beliefs gained a tremendous foothold, and Ibsen Clubs spread like wildfire through­out America, England, iahd the European Continent. Ibsen said he thought his advocates had gone too far; but his plays became even more popular, and every perform­ance was a sell-out.

In the course of his career, Hen­rik Ibsen wooed and won a beauti­ful Sweedish society woman. Their married life was not happy, and Ibsen, like many men of his time found himself a playmate. She was a headstrong young woman, and Ibsen left her after three years. He returned to bis wife and wrote HEDDA GABLER, in which he de­veloped one of his most forceful characters. Hedda, a strong-willed woman with an unholy desire to mold human destiny, who used every bit of her intelligence and every last drop of her sex-appeal in her lustful greed for power.

George J. Dillavou, director of The Aggie Players stated that this is the first time that The Aggie Players have made such an exten-

TSCW Choir Sings At Guion Tomorrow

TSCW’s Modern Choir will be presented on Town Hall tomor­row night at 8, Grady Elms, assistant director of student ac­tivities, announced today. The 42 girls of the choir will be un­der the direction of William E. Jones.

Both modern and classical numbers will be presented on the program.

Mothers-Dads Club to MeetThe Mothers and Dads Club of

A. & M. Consolidated School will meet Thursday night, February 5, at 8 p. m. in the Consolidated gym­nasium.

Social Club Meet Scheduled Friday

The College Womans Social Club will meet Friday, February 6 at 3 p. m. in the YMCA, Mrs. M. T. Harrington, program chairman has announced.

“The Turn of the Century” will be the theme of Friday’s meeting, with costumes of the 1800’s to be on display. Mr. and Mrs. Berl Er­win will sing selections from that period, Mrs. Harrington said. They will be accompanied by Mrs. F. W. Hensel at the piano. Mrs. G. W. Schlesselman will act as narra­tor.

The Foods Group, originally scheduled to meet Friday, will have their February meeting on Febru­ary 20.

PG, Walton Halls To Be Opened For Dates Feb. 13,14

P. G. Hall and Ramps I, J, and K of Walton Hall will be opened for students’ dates attending the Sophomore and St. Valentine Balls, Benny Zinn, assistant dean of men, announced today.

Zinn said a charge of $1.25 a day would be assessed to cover cost of maid and hostess service and linen rental.

Students who expect dates for both nights will be given priority in making reservations, Allan Mad- eley of the housing office, added. Reservations for both nights can be made at the housing office Mon­day or before noon Tuesday. Res­ervations for a single night can be made any time after noon Tues­day.

One-Third of World War II Vets in School or On-Job

One in every three World War II veterans has taken some form of education or training under the GI Bill or Public Law 16 since both laws went into effect, the Veterans Administration has announced.

sive study of any play they have attempted to produce. “In order to present a creditable perform­ance,” said Dillavou, “each actor must thoroughly understand and see the same thing in each scene. It was for this reason that we spent two weeks in a study of Ibsen and his works.” The director added that every one of the Players was de­termined to make' this production a mile-stone in the history of the organization. Dillavou stated that the final announcement of the cast was being held back because he wanted to be certain that each member of the cast was perfectly typed for his part.

Dillavou expressed his apprecia­tion for the interest which has been shown in this production by Aggies, members of the faculty, and towns­people from Bryan and College Station.

The Director urged that any Aggie or member of the com­munity who wanted to take part in the production of this widely acclaimed play contact him in his office in Room 34, Foster Hall, or attend the Aggie [’layers’ February meeting, on Wednes­day, February 4th.“We would like for the Aggie

Players to be considered a part of the community,” concluded Dil­lavou, “and we heartily welcome new members to the organization. The Aggie Players, like any club, constantly needs the addition of ‘new blood’ and the help of any­one interested in any phase of stage presentations.”

Second Release On Dismissal as Economics Head Stresses Meeting With Board on June 27

“I was brushed off like a gad-fly when I appeared before the A.&M. Board of Direc­tors on June 26, 1947,” Dr. F. B. Clark, candidate for US senator from Texas, told The Battalion today.

Clark’s second release concerning the circumstances surrounding his dismissal as ec­onomics department head deals with one of three points made in the letter from Desm of the College F. C. Bolton advising him of the Board’s action.—---- ;---------- —------------------------ ♦- The three points are: (1) hear-f-

ing before the Board; (2) wide­spread publicity of charges the administration of the college; and (3) ability to substantiate charges.

L 0. Tiedt Wins Four Year, $2,000 Scholarship Award

L. O. Tiedt, 16-year-old farm boy from LaGrange, Texas, was awarded a four year, $2000 schol­arship to A.&M. at the Coliseum in Houston last night. The First National Bank of Houston made the award, and E. E. McQuillen, director of the A.&M. development fund, and W. L. Penberthy, dean of men, headed the committee which chose the scholarship win­ner.

Tiedt was one of the hoys who won a calf in the calf scramble at Houston’s Fat Stock Show last year. All winners entered their calves in the show this year and the 10% whose animals received highest awards were given com­petitive examinations by the A. & M. development fund committee. Tiedt won the contest by making the best score on the examination.

Accompanying McQuillen and Penberthy and serving on the award committee was Minor Huff­man, Houston area Boy Scout ex- ectuive.

A&M’s champion doldrum-busters, as shown in these antique daguerreotypes, were and are the AS ABAC devotees. One night a year is allotted by these otherwise serious architecture students to the release of inhibitions. Saturday night is THE night.

Batten Down the Hatches . . .

ASABAB Prepares to Its Fury on Populace

UnleashAgain

By JOHN HUDDLESTON

No, it’s not a Hungarian fraternity. A-S-A-B-A-B means Architectural Society’s Annual Beaux Arts Ball. That’s what it means to most of the College Station Intelligencia, but to the president of the college and the B & CU Department it means hyper-tension, nights of restlessness, and doubt that there will be any buildings stand-f ing after February 7, 1948.

Even Sigmund Freud said that we all have our ups and downs, and must have outlets for our pent-up emotions. But no one ever hinted that there was the ilk of ultra unrestrained beings dwelling on the top floor of the Academic building who plan to swoop down on Brazos County for a reign of madness the night of February 7. That’s the night when the, if you’ll excuse the expression, “architects” of A.& M. unleash all the suppressions they’ve withheld for one year.

Guests, dressed in a general masquerade motif, will enter Sbisa Hall that night through an eight foot papier mache masked head, walk down a dark alley, and emerge suddenly into a simulated New Or­leans street scene during Mardi Gras time while the Prairie View Ramblers fill the air with music from a merry-go-round bandstand.The Revellers will gaze at the wild animal cage in which a little puppy will be roaring.

After clearing his mouth of fly­ing confetti, one will begin to look for his date who was whisked away by a masked pirate. He will search through the “real live” park pro­vided (or transplanted) by the landscape arts department, look around the ferris wheel, and will probably find her at the sidewalk cafe with some costumed Casanova dresed as a bloodhound.

One architect, when asked what he was wearing to the affair, cas­

ually replied, “nothing.” On the other hand, one of the department’s oldest profs, who has allowed the profession to grow on him, has stated that for a change he will go disguised as a human being.

Jack Crook, Art Burch, J. D. F. Boggs, Harold Jones, Bob Wilson and Allison Peery are directing preparations for the ball, but have overlooked warning the innocent public about the havoc to be wreck­ed by the uninhibited architects on “their day.”

However, the board of directors has prepared for this event, and in an emergency meeting last night decided to order 837,903 bai’rels of Compound Epsilon, a gooey plas­tic which hardens to a protective film when applied over entire buildings. “We must protect not only our college’s high educational standards,” announced the board, “but also our college.”

The City of College Station will quadruple its police component, State troopers will be alerted for the night of the seventh, and Bryan -College Station homeowners will quiver in their moccasins as they stay up all night protecting their homes.

Allison Peery advises everyone to be on the lookout for a strange globule of flesh skipping across the campus with a paint bush in his hand and a glassy stare in his eye. Grab him! He is an architect and can get you a ticket for the ASA­BAB.

HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD: The board’s statement, “after hearing Dr. Clark,” must have been a face-saving device, Clark said.

“An honest to goodness hearing was the thing which I was striv­ing for. For some strange reason the administration has for a num­ber of years resisted anything ap­proximating a bona fide hearing. If the Board had ever openly pro­vided a hearing, under circum­stances which would have carried the presumption that results would have been anything other than that of solidifying its own notions and those of the president of the col­lege as an arbitrary dictator of the conduct of persons under their jurisdiction, I most certainly would never ‘given widespread publicity to charges against the college.’

“My appearance before the Board on June 26, 1947 could not, under any stretch of the imagination, be considered a hearing in its legal sense. The reasons for this are: (1) an atmosphere of impatience and hurry precluded any attempt on my part to defend myself; (2) no offer was made for me to defend my­self; and (3) they refrained from informing me that they had in mind anything more than a short visit together.”

The Board proceeding, as Dr. Clark now remembers, are as follows:

★Clark’s Statement

“I was introduced personally by Mr. (E. L.) Angell (seci’etary) to each member of the Board. There­upon Mr. Angell withdrew and I was asked to sit down.

• “The first utterance, as I re member it was: ‘Dr. Clark, we are busy men, and we don’t have much time for such matters as this.’

“In other words I was brushed off like a gad-fly.“The member of the Board who

questioned me happened to be the one member, if any, whom I would have exnected to defend me. The very nature of the questions and my answers seemed to me to be a valid defense for what I bad done.

“They referred first to the sub­ject of my paper which I read in Dallas on April 4. It was ‘Discip­linary Action Against Controlling Agencies of Puplicly Supported Educational Institutions.’ I don’t blame them for taking offense at the title. If, however, they had taken the time and trouble to dis­cover its contents, they would have discovered that the paper concern­ed itself with a structural defect in the administration of our educa­tional institutions.

“I was then questioned about my meeting with certain students who were the moving spirit in the student uprising.

“‘Why did you do that?’ I was asked.

“ T did it simply because they came to me for counsel,’ was my reply. T felt that those students needed someone in a position of responsibility to whom they could talk frankly.’

“‘What did you say to them?’ I was asked next.

“ T gave them the information which was contained in the mimeo­graphed sheets which I had pre­pared for the joint committee of the legislature,’ was my reply. Copies of that document had al­ready been placed in their hands.

“ ‘In doing that, Dr. Clark, do you think that you were acting as you should have done as a member of the faculty of this college?’ came next.

“ T most certainly do,’ was my answer. T feel that my duty to the students comes first.’“The things which you said were

not, however, conducive to peace and quiet among the students,” was implied in their answer.

“I was doing what I could to help remove the cause of that un­rest so that there could be genuine peace and quiet among the stu­dents,” was my answer. “It needs to be remembered that those stu­dents were men, 25 and 30 years old. I don’t see how I could have maintained their respect without telling them the truth—a truth which was common talk among my associates. Do you think I should have lied to them?”

“Having led the discussion up to the point of making them admit that any other action on my part would have amounted to lying to a group of fine young men whose re- (See BRUSHED OFF on Page 4)

2 Plots of Land Are Chosen For Vets’ Gardens

A meeting will be held Mon­day afternoon at 5 in the Ag­riculture Building to make plans for veteran garden plots, Fred Brison, of the hor- t i c u 11 u r e department, an­nounced today.

The garden program will be conducted to help veterans with their vegetable budgets, Brison ad­ded.

Two locations have been selected for the garden plots. A tract of land for those in the trailer area and the south side of college will be located near the agricultural farm headquarters, and the other north of college view for those who have apartments in that area.

Individual plots will be approxi­mately 30x40, and will be plowed and harrowed in preparation for planting. The plots may be re­tained until June 1 or July 20.

There is a possibility that a contest will be held for the gardens to be sponsored by a civic organi­zation of the community. Details of this will be announced later, said Brison.

The garderf plot program last year, despite its late start, proved a success, he said.

A. H. Krezdorn will assist Bri­son with the supervision.

January Graduate Added to Staff Of Student Affairs

L. P. L’Hommedieu, mid-term graduate in mechanical engineer­ing, has been appointed an assist­ant director of student affairs, according to Dean of Men W. L. Penberthy.

L’Hommedieu entered A.&M. for the first time in September, 1933, but started to work for the Gulf Oil Company in June 1936. In February, 1946, he returned to A.&M. and since that time has completed his work for a B.S. de­gree in mechanical engineering.

While in A.&M., L’Hommedieu has served as - a member of the ASME and the Student Life Com­mittee, secretary of the Student Council, housemaster, and as an assistant to Bob Murray, one of the three present assistant direc­tors of student affairs.

He has also been active in in­tramural athletics.

His new duties will include the supervision of discipline in Leg- get, Milner, Mitchell, Law, and Puryear Halls, and the control of all school property in these dormi­tories.

College Receives 14 Quarterhorses At Houston Show

Fourteen quarterhorses were presented to the College by mem­bers of the American Quarterhorse Association in a ceremony at the Houston Fat Stock Show, Mon­day night.

The presentation was made to President Gibb Gilchrist by Hugh Bennett, Colorado Springs, Colo­rado, vice-president of the Ameri­can Quarterhorse Association, in the arena of the Coliseum as a highlight of the evening show.

Value of the horses ranged from $1,000 to $15,000 each. Donors of the horses were Lester Goodson of Houston, R. A. Brown of Throck­morton, Paul Waggoner of Fort Worth, J. B. Ferguson of Wharton, Willie B. Whitehead of Del Rio. Jess Coy of El Dorado, and Jack Warren of Hockley.

Others who presented horses to the College were George North- ington, Jr., of Egypt, R. L. Under­wood of Wichita Falls, Albert Mitchell, of Albert, N. M., Matador Land and Cattle Company of Chan- ning, Tom Elrod of Odessa, Howell Smith of Wichita Falls, and Roy Parks of Midland.