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THE THRE8BM
FRIDAY. DECEMBER It. IMS
POLITICS
More "McCarthyism" As Owen „.. t „ t ,
Lattimore Faces Court Trial
By Bii^L HOBBY
The indictment of Owen Lattimore on seven counts of
perjury by a federal grand jury raises again the whole un-
pleasant issue of what has come to be known as "Mac-
Carthyism."
Specifically, Mr. Lattimore has been charged with testify-
ing falsely when he told a Sen-
ate internal security subcom-
mittee last spring that he had
never been "a sympathizer and
promoter of Communism."
Anti-Red Campaign
If Mr. Lattimore is convicted of
these charges, many people will ac-
cept the conviction as vindication
of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-
Communist campaign. But no court
decision can possibly justify the
guilt-by-association techniques and
the irresponsible destruction of
personal reputations that has been
carried on by the Wisconsin sena-
tor.
What is important is the fact
ihat for the first time, Senator Mc-
Carthy's accusations will be given
a test in court—a test using tradi-
tional legal procedures and safe-
guards. Though it is Mr. Lattimore
that is on trial, it is Senator Mc-
Carthy's accusations that will stand
or fall with the jury's decision.
Little'f'ower
Unfortunately, the senator still
cannot be held legally and personal-
ly responsible for his statements.
He has in the past four years risen
to a position of no little power in
the nation. Perhaps it is one of the
weaknesses of our political system
that he is in no real sense responsi-
ble for the use of that power.
If every person whose loyalty the
senator has questioned were proved
beyond reasonable doubt to be in
fact a card-carrying Communist,
the senator's tactics would still not
be justified any more than would
made about Secretary of State Dean
Ache son and former Secretary of
State George C. Marshall.
Danger
As Alan Earth, author of an ex-
. < lU nt study of th* whole question
of loyalty probes entitled "The
Loyaity of Free Men," stated, the
problem posed by Senator McCar-
thy and those who agree with him,
may be said to be that "Nothing
•.hat agents of Communism have
•!(,ne or can do in this country is
-o dangerous "to the United States
as what they have induced us to do
iLirselves."
Wilson
(Continued from Page 1)
amount to cover tuition. If a Fellow
s called for military service the
fellowship will be set aside for him
until he has completed his duty.
Nomination
Nomination will be made by any
responsible member of the academic
profession in any college or uni-
versity. The country is divided into
twelve regions and.selection is made
to some extent on a regional basis.
Persons nominated should contact
the chairman of the Region Selec-
tion board by January 5, 1953. The
chairman for the board under which
Texas has been placed is Professor
William A. Ringler, Jr., Department
of English, Washington U niversity,
St. Louis, Missouri. Announcements
of the winners will be made on April
1, 1953.
Editor's Note: Rice students in->
terested in these scholarships and
who would like to have more de-
tails should see Dr. Willard Thorp,
M. D. Anderson, visiting professor
in his carrell in the library.
NO
TROW |
SAM
ON BRIDGE
Howdy Gang! Well, we sure are
ready for that vacation. To prove it,
we have asked one of our very
close friends, Sam Stucker, to write
a guest column and here it is.
S—A 7 6 2
H—A Q 7
D—8 7 5
C—A J 3
S—-Q 10
H—9 8 6
D—K J 9 6 4
C—Q 9 8
South
S—K J 5 4 3
H—K J 10 I
D—Q 2
C—K 10 4 !
S—9 8
H—5 4 3 2
D—A 10 2
C—7 6 3 2
Summer Courses
For Americans Set
"There have been many lengthy
discussions on the proper way of
picking up a suit missing the queen
and three small ones. Most players
will tell you to play for the drop,
but others favor the finesse. There
are certain times when capturing
the queen isn't the only problem in-
volved. This was one of those
times."
"South bid 1 Spade, North jump-
ed to 3 Spades and South then bid
4 Spades. This is a very normal
bidding sequence. West opened the
six of Diamonds. Two tricks were
cashed, and South trumped the
third Diamond lead. He led a small
Spade to the ace. West's ten looked
like a singleton, so the jack of
Spades was a doubleton queen.
West got out with a small Heart
and South was .compelled to guess
the Club situation. Two more Heart
i leads offered no clues. It was fin-
ally decided that East should hoicT
the queen of Clubs. Unfortunately,
he couldn't oblige tmd the bid was
down one. Tough luck "
"South gave himself a very good
chance to make the bid, but over-
looked a sure thing in the process.
When both opponents followed on
the first Spade lead, the battle was
over. If the queen doesn't drop on
the second round, it is left out, and
whoever holds it is automatically
endplayed. South now leads as
many rounds of hearts as Hfe 1s per-
mitted, i.e. until the person holding
the queen of Spades ruffs. If he
ruffs, he now must give declarer
either a sluff and a ruff or a free
Club finesse. If the Hearts split, a
Spade is lead to the queen and the
same situation results."
SAM (the original) STUCKER
Oklahoma A & M
NOTE: Sam Stucker is one
of the founders of the Rice
Bridge Club. He was at Rice
for two years and then trans-
ferred to Oklahpma A. & M. to
be closer to his liome in Tulsa.
With John Harris, and Harry
Clampett, he was one of the
driving forces at the beginning
of the Club. Sam is considered,
though his modesty doesn't
show it, one of the finest inter-
collegiate bridge players in the
country, tied with John Harris
as the finest in the Southwest.
The winners for last week's game
were mainly pros, but some of the
Rice players put in a fair showing
Summer schools for overseas stu-
dents will be held at four British
Universities next year and will open
a few weeks after the Coronation,
according to an announcement by
the British Universities Summer
Courses Committee.
The Schools will be Stratford, Ox-
ford, London, and Edinburgh, and
many Americans are expected to
attend, as they have in past years.
Since 1948, when British Universi-
ties organized their joint summer
program, a total of 1,700 Americans'
have enrolled in these summer ses-
sions. Teachers, post-graduate stu-
dents, college juniors and seniors,
and others with suitable qualifica-
tions are admitted. The courses may
be recognized for credits at U.S.
universities and for grants under
the G.I. Bill of Rights.
Opportunities to visit places of
interest will be part of each course.
Also special efforts will be made to
help visitors meet British people
and to become acquainted with their
British environment.
Fees at the four schools for the
6-week courses ranges from $176 to
$202, to cover board, residence, and
fares and meals on organized ex-
cursions. A few scholarships are
available for outstanding candi-
dates.
Application forms for the sum-
mer schools and further informa-
tion about the courses may be ob-
tained from British Information
Services, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New!
York 0, N.Y. or from the Institute :
of International Education, 1 East j
67th Street, New York 21, N.Y.
0
RELIGIOUS NEWS
Religious Council
Schedules Two Films
By JO-ANNE HICKMAN
The Student Religious Council
will sponsor .two religious movies
on Wednesday, January 14, in the
Fondren Library Lecture Lounge
at 8 PM. These films, entitled "God
of the Atom" and "From Dust to
Destiny," were produced by the
Moody Bible Institute of Science.
Admission is free to these techni-
color pictures, and the program will
be approximately two hours in
length.
The Westminister Fellowship is
sponsoring a Christmas Ball to-
night at 8 PM at Central Presby-
terian Church. All Presbyterians
and their dates are invited to this
semi-formal dance.
The Canterbury Club will not
meet this Sunday. Five Rice stu-
dents will attend the Provincial
Canterbury Conference, December
28-January 1, at the University of
Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.
Delegates from seven neighboring
states are expected to attend also.
The Christian Science Organiza-
tion met last night at 6:30 PM in
234 Fondren Library. Diane Akins
was in charge of the program for
this meeting.
The Newman Club met at the
home of Bertha Aydam last night
Education
Boatner
(Continued from Page 1)
President William V. Houston and
other administrative officers of the
Institute; Professor J. S. Waters,
chairman, and other members of
the Institute's military affairs com-
mittee.
Also General Gainer B. Jones,
chairman of the Military Affairs i
Committee of the Houston Cham-
ber of Commerce; Mr. John Temple,
(Class of '32), who has presented
the unit with a Texas flag; Captain
Robert L. Rowan, USNR, President
of the Houston Chapter of the Re-
serve Officers Association; Captain
A. E. Jarrell, USN, Professor of
Naval Science at Rice; Colonel
Richard B. Wheeler, Senior Organ-
ized Reserve Corps Instructor in
Houston; Colonel Otto M. Boerner,
Professor of Military: Science for
Houston's Public Schools.
against one of the toughest fields
that have played so far. First
North-South were Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
thur Stone with H. A. Clampett
and Jim Freeman second and Dick
Sutton and Brad Gentry third. (A
special note to the faculty: Mr.
Gentry is a Physics teacher at La-
mar. Who said that teachers can't
play bridge ?) First East-West
were a couple of sharpies, Mr. Bob
Sharp, a Life-Master, and Mrs. Es-
telle Millar with Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Friedberg second and Dr.
and Mrs. Arlen Brown of the Rice
Faculty third.
. We are going to have a game to-
night, so all of you that unfortun-
ately have to remain behind, get
down there and win. That's an or-
der! (Please, try hard.) Remember,
save those fractional master points.
We have two new Junior Masters,
Hank Cromwell and Bob Willcott.
Keep it up boys.
See you all tonight in the Stu-
dent Lounge!
the unlucky expert
(Continued from Page 2)
use and to develop his imagination
and his creative powers, or else by
the time he gets to the fifth year
they will have just abtfut atrophied.
He should dip into history and
delve into philosophy and dabble in
politics and douse himself with a
smattering of the arts. He should
do all these things for. himself as
a person rather than as an engin-
eer because, say what you will, no
amount of psychology is going to
make him a better and happier en-
gineer as such.
"The Engineer"
Engineers are of such material
that they are happiest and most
successful when they are doing just
those things that engineers are
supposed to be doing, solving prob-
lems. And the problems that en-
gineers solve are practical, empiri-
cal, and usually able to be express-
ed in a mathematical expression of
one sort or another. The successful
engineer, ergo the* happier engin-
eer, is one who is able to solve his
problems as they come up. A knowl-
edge of music ot of fine arts just
does not do much to increase the
engineer's problem-solving ability
or interest.
As an individual, and as a citizen,
every person should have oppor-
tunities to indulge his interests in
all those studies that will make his
life fuller and more worth-while to
society. But the engineer is not
alone in these needs. Why single
him out from among all other in-
dividuals and citizens of the world ?
0
Diboll Addresses
Engineer Society
Last Tuesday
The Rice Engineering Society
met Tuesday night at 7:00 in A
H. 110. Mr. W. B. Diboll, assistant
professor of mechanical engineer-
ing, discussed automatic automo-
bile transmissions.
At the meeting held last week,
Mr. C. M. Hudspeth spoke on "Law
and the* Engineer." Also at this
meeting, Albert Sundermeyer, 4th
year E. E., was elected general man-
ager of the 1954 Rice Review of
Arts and Sciences.
for the annual Christmas party.
The retreat of the club was held
last Sunday at the University of
St. Thomas.
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Plays
(Continued from Page 1)
Miss Patsy Lee in Strindberg's
The Stronger, Mr. James Korges
in Yeat's Purgatory, and Mrs. Bart-
lett and Mr. Frederick Woods in El-
iot's Sweeney Agonistes handled
their roles with ability and under-
standing; the roles are difficult, and
the performances were creditable.
The supporting casts were compet-
ent apprentices; this is not censure,
but merely statement of fact. The
poor timing in Overtones and the
indistinct enunciation of the Brown-
ing Monologues damaged these per-
formances considerably.
Gamble Pays
For the most part the audience
went to see the plays on a gamble;
those who gambled this time won.
It was gratifying to see an audi-
ence at least willing to be enter-
tained; those who were completely
unaware of the extent of their gam-
ble seemed to gain the most, for
without the handicap of previous
conceptions and prejudices, they
Were able to form original opinions.
The people who refused to gamble,
who could not break away from
their stable convictions about mod-
ern drama, modern poetry, and
drama at Rice, have no place in a
renaissance. If you should believe
that Yeats is enfeebled or that Eli-
ot is recherche, disguise your ig-
norance to the freshmen who came
to the plays and saw evidence to
the contrary. Many of the audience
expressed surprise at the partial
conversion of Autry House. Al-
though it is far from ideal, it is
not at all impossible; until Rice has
a real theater, perhaps all produc-
tions will suffer from inadequate
staging. Minimal staging, of course,
does not have to be inadequate.
Renaissance
If this has not been the begin-
ning of a renaissance, it might
point toward one; some customary
bonds have been broken, and a new
possibility has been an experiment.
Perhaps this is another way of say-
ing that there is a small group at
Rice unwilling to submit indefin-
itely to an inherited dramatic tradi-
tion of poverty alone. By combin-
ing curiosity (which the audience
seemed to share) with enterprise,
The Rice Players has imposed on
itself the obligation of perpetual
self-renewal.
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APO
(Continued from Page 1)
Howard Grant, Mike Horwitz, Con-
way Jordan, Noel Kuester, Bruce
Laubach, Morgan Martin, Don
Shannon, Earle Williams, Frank
Williford.
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The Rice Engineer is on sale
in the lounge every morning
from 9 to 1. The price is 25c.
The following changes have
been made in the program of
the Film Society.
January 6 "Le Million," a lat-
er sound film made by the di-
rector Rene Clair is substituted
for one of his early silent films.
"Le Million" is understandable
without subtitles.
January 12, "Great Expecta-
tions" will not be shown. In its
place, Mark HelHnger's "The
Naked City," made in 1948 in
the United States, will be run.
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