The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 13, 1950 Page: 2 of 4
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THE THBS8HES
Construction
It seems quite possible that the Houston Building and Construc-
tion Trades Council has gone too far out on the unsteady limb of
public opinion this time. This is the same limb that the United Mine
Workers have been tight-rope walking for the past two yean, with
notable insecurity, and, indeed, the same limb that most American
unions have been stumbling over since the war.
Although the AFL has jumped from point to point of objection
in the present fight, it looks like the same old fight for the closed
shop—oops! pardon! the closed shop is illegal—the union shop,
just one skirmish in the battle for complete unionization.
Without being anti-union, it should be safe to say that a
locality which is 100 per cent unionized can be in just as bad shape
as one which is zero per cent unionized—the unions can abuse their
power as well as capital and management, as we have seen in recent
years.
It has been said that the unions are the only third alternative
to facism and communism. But are they an alternative to the latter?
Remember that the unions are the proletariat, the workers out of whom
the great revolution is supposed to arise.
What we need, then, is a balance of power, where the effective
public opinion will be turned against injustices on either side. In other
words, the compromise system which built this country. We are
close to the balance now. —Emmett McGeever.
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nient and the* display of its equip-
ment; but, the Alchemist's den., one
of the most popular centers of at-
traction in the old Engineering
Show will be revived and expanded.
There is a sizable amount of new
equipment to be displayed which
will be of interest to all those in-
terested in the technical advances
made in the field of chemistry. Dr.
Wasser's new X-ray machine will
be shown and the use of a new
ultra-centrifuge which speeds the
process of sedimentation will be
demonstrated. Both of these ma-
chines are rather rare and should
attract many of the scientifically
inclined of Houston and fexas *n
general.
Experiments in hydroponics will
be conducted during the Review. In
these experiments, plants will be
raised and vegetables produced en-
tirely in water.
The process of electro-plating will
be demonstrated and also a cosmet-
ics display, which will be specially
for the enlightenment of the ladies.
Each female visitor will obtain the
opportunity of finding the bad news
about what she has smeared upon
her countenance for lo these many
years and can try the chemistry
department's special home-made, or
Rice-made, lipstick.
The professional glass blowing
exhibition should be of general in-
terest and Dr. Smith has suggested
setting up a furnace to reclaim th«j
silver from the silver precipitates
which have been economically saved
in the laboratory for the last ten
years. Dr. Nicholas, who was the
driving force in the exhibit of bio-
chemistry for the Texas State Cen-
tennial is expected to be of great
help in setting up a bio-chemical
display.
The old Alchemist's den had as its
genii the philosopher scientists An-
ophales and Friar Louse engaging
in a competition including flaming
hands, mystical fires, and changing
crflors. Thfs exhibit can again be
expected to amuse and delight the
visitor as they relax from the study
of the more serious work.
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degradation of individual character.
When the character of the citizens
degenerated, all was lost.
Dr. Lyle then ended his analogy
and proceeded to point out that the
American character, like the Roman
character, had sadly declined. He
referred to the break down of the
family and to the increase in the
divorce rates as some of the many
indications of decline in character.
He referred further to the fact that
the children raised in the flapper
age had recently been found to poss-
es a record percentage of psychiat-
ric disorders.
He pointed out: "the beast of to-
day is the idea that the end jus-
tifies the means. This Is what Aug-
ustus thought; the end was to save
the Roman civilization, the means
was to take away freedom and the
dignity of man, . . I say that one
immortal soul is worth more than
the welfare of a hundi^d thousand
people.*
Urn Weakley
Last Friday night the Rice Dra-
matic Club gave two one-act plays
written and directed by Arthur
Cole; "Out of the Ordinary", a
comedy, and "Return to Nothing",
a tragedy. The classification is Mr.
Cole's.
Of the two, the second was by far
the better because of better writing
and because the parts were taken by
more experienced actors. However,
the performances given by Allyce
Tinsley and Emmett McGeever in
the comedy are not to be censured;
McGeever, though lacking in the
proper facial expression at times,
performed well as a father and hus-
band confused by events outside his
experience. Miss Tinsley was com-
petent and pregnant as his wife.
If the play suffered by comparison,
it was in part due to the fact that
the script seldom was written in the
vernacular, and did not sound like
spoken English. The best perform-
ance was that of Max Hendler as
the little boy with confused, Charles
Addams-like scientific theories.
"Return to Nothing"- was the
high-light of the evening, distin-
guished by excellent writing, good
plot (though confused by a side
plot, unwieldy in a one-act play),
and fine performances, especially
by Pat Lipscomb, Arthur Cole, and
Carroll Camden. Art Cole, as one
of those "introverts" who "go
around attacking old ladies", was
exceptional, as usual.
Possibly a resume of the plots
would be enlightening, if involved.
The first is concerned with a right-
wing American newspaper publish-
er who finds that his 9-year .old
son is engaged in taking cats apart
to see what makes them bad. The
lad reforms a kidnapper by sug-
gesting that his method be applied
for criminal rehabilitation.
In the second, a shy mid-west-
e r n e r with a physchosomatic
speech-impediment shows up at a
New York boarding house. After
being shunned by practically all the
other boarders, he is invited, in as
forthright a manner as possible, to
spend the night with a young lady,
who dies in the morning. Did she
die naturally, after her illness
(didn't mention this before, but it
was there); or did her transient
roommate knock her off as an af-
terclimax to the night's skylarking
and song? "I just don't know",
says Lipscomb as the final lights
dim and fade out; include me in
that.
A word on the mere mechanical
details: makeup, by Raymond Lank-
ford, was excellent, as was the
lighting. The glare of the lights
which formerly annoyed the au-
dience was greatly reduced, and the
lights .were well controlled by Peg-
gy Hall. Casting and direction was
up to the standard we have come to
expect from any Dramatic Club
production.
National Methodist
Student Conference
Report TO Be Given
Next Wednesday, Jan. 18, the
Fourth National Methodist Student
Conference, held at 111. Univeraity,
Uhbana, 111., the week after Christ-
mas, will be reported to the Meth-
odist Student Fellowship. Don Eddy,
June Martin, and Farrell Fulton
will report the addresses of Chan-
cellor Hutchins of the University
of Chicago, Dean Pope of Yale Di-
vinity School, Bishop Oxnam, Wal-
ter White, and others. Every M.
S. F. on every campus in America
has been asked to act at once on
these issues; civil rights and the
filabuster, the Langer bill to out-
law interstate liquor ads, the Har-
vard Wesley Foundation plan to
ship America's two-billion-dollar
food surplus to hungry areas around
the world, and the "Flagstaff In-
cident," referring to one delegate's
inhumane and illegal treatment as
he was passing through Flagstaff,
Arizona. Long-range issues to be
treated the remainder of the school
year: passivism, labor unions, the
United Nations, and segregation.
The meeting is this Wednesday,
12:15, in the library exam room.
Architects' Society
Sponsors Lectures;
Part of Neu) Series
The Architectural Society of
Rice Institute will meet Tuesday,
17 January at 4:00 p.m. in the Fon-
dren Library Lecture Lounge. Mr,
Karl Kamrath, nationally famous
architect, will speak informally and
show slides of his work.
On Thursday, 19 January, same
time and place as above, the So-
ciety will present Dr. C. M. Pom-
erat, President of the Texas Acad-
emy of Science and who has trav-
eled widely and spoken on numerous
topics, in a discussion entitled
"Notes on Mediterranean Architec-
ture."
Both of these lectures are open
to the public and all who are inter-
ested are cordially invited. These
talks are two in a series being of*
fered by the Architectural Society
in order to have men of experience
speak on topics which have great
import for the students of architec-
ture and those who wish to under-
stand the subject more fully.
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