The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1952 Page: 2 of 8
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The need lor an additional parking lot is stffl unaleviated
this week. Cars are parked on the roads. Students arriving
after nine o'clock have difficulty finding a convenient place
to park.
A solution to the problem ^Bf convenient parking is to
extend the dorm lot toward the chemistry building. "What
about the planned extension of the library on that space?"
The library will need this space within twenty years.
Twenty years will mean that our children, another generation,
will be attending Rice and see the addition to the library build-
ing. No so-called permanent parking lot with the wear that
the proposed one will get could last one full generation. By
the time the space is needed for extending Fondren, other
buildings will have been built; the center of campus life altered,
and the parking situation Vitally changed. A lot built this
spring or in the summer would have long, since been used to
disuse.
In other words, those looking ahead twenty years might
well find bifocals. Too much far sightedness is as serious as
too much near sightedness. In their plans for the future of
Rice, it would seem that the planners should not jeopardize
the future, but building a new student parking lot on the space
in back of the library will jeopardize nothing and aleviate the
present parking problem completely. When half the physics
lot is reopened, allowance will have been made for growth in
student cars, which is increasing yearly.
The members of the Building and Grounds Planning Com-
mittee merely have the power to recommend. But we must
start somewhere. We strongly recommend to this committee
that they recommend to the Board of Trustees that additional
convenient parking space be created for the students.
How Many Fingers
Am I Holding Up?
Busboys in Roost
BY TOM BURKETT
One of the major problems con-
nected with managing the institut-
ion so fondly called "The Roosfe" has
been, so the manager tells us, find-
in gsomeone who is able to be in all
places at once, (to satisy the multi-
plicity of contemporaneous shouts
for seven cent cups of coffee and
malts, slightly more than seven
cents) during the rush hours Mr.
Garner hasn't solved this problem,
mind you, for there are more than
two places in The Roost; but he has
come up with a partial solution that
makes very opportune the well worn
(worn out, to be sure) denunciation,
"You ain't* seein' double."
But, in fact "you ain't!'' They're
twins, and their names are JoBell
and Abell Douglass. (Shreveport,
La. products.) The seventeen-year
old identicals were last employed by
Bill Williams, who runs a drive inn
and cafe out on South Main across
the street from Rice Institute.
Amazing, it is, how the boys stick
together. Having been born by two's
they sort of got into the habit of
doing everything that way. They
worked at Russel's Drive Inn to-
gether; they both sing (gospel
songs and the like;) they play base-
ball and football; and they consider
going to night school for to improve
their education. There's bound to be
a split up some time, though, 'cause
Abell talks interestedly of keeping
books, while JoBell says, "I kinda
like busboyin'."
Blood and Iron
Exhibited On
Second Floor
BY JAMES KORGES
Collecting, moulding, painting,
and generally admiring lead, sold-
iers has become a fine art to Mr.
Joe Shimek II, owner and curator
of "The Battle of Waterloo," now on
exhibit in the second floor lobby.
The formations are authentic and
soldiers oauthentic to the scale of
fifty-four millimeters. The collect-
ions range from battles of the glor-
ious Confederate Army (save your
Confederate money, son! The army
rides again!), British colonial
troops, the Franco-Prussian War,
and a battle in the Sudan now being
exhibited at the Houston Public Li-
brary. The soldiers were made in
France, Britain and America; some
are now rare. The British infantry
square in the side case in now con-
sidered very rare, to the point of be-
ing "antique".
Mr. Shimek is also a conniseur of
the bagpipe, owning and playing a
set of pipes, and owner of a -col-
lection of bagpipe records. He was
taught in Canada by the former ma-
jor of the Seaforth Highlanders.
The tartans im-the British troops
of Waterloo include Argyle, South-
erland, (second through fifth rows)
Goi-dons, and the pipers are Black
Watch Pipers, wearing the Royal
Stewart Tartans. All Scots are wel-
come to examine these hand-painted
tartans, and all students are wel-
come to see this rare exhibition of
lead soldiers.
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'Heavenly Express7
Opens At HLT
By ALLYCE TINSLBY COLE
"We are all of ub tramps. I've
even heard it said that the earth
we live on is a tramp in The
Heavens."
This quotation from Gorki's
"Lower Depths" heads the pro-
gram of the latest Stevenson of-
fering at the Little Theater. Stu-
dent rates of 90 cents a ticket are
offered and the Bein play, "The
Heavenly Express" is well worth
it.
The story is a rather complex
one revolving around hoboes and
death, the heavenly express .being
The Great Vagabond's train which
come for the souls of departed
'boes. In a rough tough and roar-
ing play, Stevenson's explosive
and high paced direction accentu-
tates tHe wanderlust of the boe's.
Contrasted with this is the light
touch of Gene Miller in his super-
natural role of the Overland Kid
the Last Ticket Taker. Of the,
heavies, Tom Boyd cast as Peeto
the engineer who was a friend to
the ticketless travellers turned in
a solid performance. The rest of
the loudspeakers had relatively
few lines.
The lines as a whole are spoken
with such clarity and vigor that Editor's Note: The two books reviewed below are among
as with several of the recent HLT the first non-technical books published in English by the
plays those attending will gain Elsevier Press recently - come to make Houston its home.
most enjoyment from seats in the Elsevier is a Dutch publishing house established 370 years ago.
last row or m the sixth, seventh, . ., , , „ , , ,. . ,, , j.i ,
or eighth A year ago^it moved to Houston believing that the cultural
Special mention should go to the growth of) the world moves West and that Houston after its
eerie set and excellent lighting for gigantic business boom would have a cultural boom. Houston
itself was chosen for a variety of reasons, among them being
the presence of two universities which would serve both as
I CL sources of authors and potential customers. Mr. Morehead's
L,0d£U€ DHOWS book with its cover drawing of the Rice Stadium is the first
Rice book off Elsevier's presses. A book on Elizabethan women
by Dr. Carroll Camden will be published (and reviewed here)
_ _ § in May. Elsevier publishes books in French, Dutch, English
By Demelmans and occasionally Italian and its markets are widely spread.
Ludwfg' Bemelmans, internation- As shown by the books reviewed below, this publishing com-
ally-known artist and writer, will pany has high standards for makeup and material. These
visit Houston with an exhibition books are on order for this library.
of his paintings during the week
of March 14-March 20. "Poetny, Religion, and the Spiri-
Sponsored by the Art League of tual Life" by George F. TKomas,
Houston, the exhibition will be Elsevied Press, $2.00', pp 114.
held at the Junior League Tea- Professor Thomas regards the
room, 500 Stuart. Mr. Bemelmans spiritual life of occidental man as
will attend a preview and recept- resting on the twin pillars of classi-
ion on March 13, and will remain ca] humanism and Christianity. A
in town throughout the exhibition. renewaJ of the spiritual vitality of
trated pieces in "The New York- the West is best achieved through
er," "Town and Country,' "Vogue an integrated synthesis of these two
Holiday" magazines, Mr. cultural forms in Western life. Pro-
Thomas recognizes that
man's spiritual life is one of pro-
Two Rice Books Off Press
this whole production.
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Art League Shows
Painting Exhibit
Bemelmans
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and- "Holiday" magazines, Mr.
Bemelmans is noted as a humorist fessor
and bon vivant.
He has • written and illustrated gressive development in which the
some 20 books, in addition to his iower stages are but preparatory to
many magazine pieces. His paint- - the ensuing higher stages. This is
ings have been exhibited in New not reckless optimism since he sees
York and Paris. He is represent- that this activity involves tragic
ed in the private collections of crisis and strife. Spiritual progress
some of the most celebrated occurs when man's highest ethical,
members of international society, reiigi0us and social ideals triumph
t e stage and screen. over the forces leading to stagna-
_ ~ #° tion and retrogression.
Dean S .List Professor Thomas perceives the
(Continued from Page 1) integral character of the spiritual
tri John; Gibbs, 'Fred Ernest; &ll,*'life involving all of man's value en-
William Haywood; Givens, William terprises. In defense of his thesis,
Geary, Jr.; Gordon, Jean Douglas;
Gossman, Ann Mary; Griffith, Rich-
ard McDonald.
Hale, Douglas Denton, Jr.; Hall,
Robert Alvin; Harris, George Den-
nis; Harrison, William Earl, Jr.;
Henry, Charles Linn; Herkommer,
he pointsout the subtle and intimate
interplay between ethics, religion
and poetry. The basis of all spiri-
tual activity is religion and moral-
ity. When these decay in the life of
a culture so too must art, literature,
and philosophy suffer from this
Joerg Andreas; Hildgbrandt, Melvin spiritual impoverishment. Spirit
Leroy; Hill,'Catharine Sue; Hink, speaks the language of the finite
Georgia Alice; -Hooper, Charlotte yearning for the infinite. TKe.es-
Marilyn; Hoopes, Jack Eugene; sence of Spirit is to transcend itself
Hooton, Carolyn Clemons; Howe, by seeking after a transcendant
Charles Warren; Irving, Eleanor Reality which is the soijnd of all our
Ann; Jackson, Sarah Faulkner; Ja- worthy value. The validation Of our
spiritual insights is accomplished
when these values prove efficacious
in bringing about a" unified trans-
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Volume II
"A Handhook of Perspective
Drawing," by J. C. Morehead and
James C.„ Morehead, Jr., Elsevier _
Press, $6.00, 167pp.
"Ever so often, a new way of do-
ing an old thing is developed—a new
way so simple that you wonder
'why hasn't that been done before!"
Thus his publisher, international
textbook printer Elsevier Press, des-
cribes energetic, curly headed Pro-
fessor of Architecture James C.
Morehead's newly revised "Hand-
book of Perspective Drawing."
The method referred to is what is
technically known as the forty-five
degree line method of perspective
drawing—basically a time and space
saving device to reduce the labor
involved in laying out diagrams for
the construction of architectural
perspected drawings. It was deveK
oped here at Rice and at Carnegie
Tech, where Mr. Morehead's father,
the late James C. Morehead, Sr.,
co-authored the volume and to
whom it is* dedicated, was Profes-
sor of Architecture for some twenty
years. The clear graphic illustra-
tions which are duplicated in the
big handsome new edition where
necessary to insure their adjacency
to related text very adequately elu-
cidate the somewhat complex writ-
ten material, whiclf is of necessity
sprinkled with geometric euphon-
isms.
Mr. Morehead teaches freshman
architectural courses at Rice in per-
spective drawing, descriptive geo-
metry and the rendering of shades
and shadows, and advanced courses
in the use of materials, and steel &
concrete construction. The sometime
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