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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1934)
L_ i -* V m THE BATTALION r*; TIIEr irtu>urr woucinoi or TII VfM €011(01 Of TIX45 COLLKTL iTATlOV .TtlAi Entered M second eUaa matter at the Poet Office at Collefe Sution, t Texas, under the Act of Congress. March S, 1879. Subscription rate (1.75 per year. Advertising rates upon request 1 i Editorial Staff B. P. Loris George Worn Walter Fran ' * f t ) Editor Re-write Editor ^ Proof Reader ...Junior Editor ...Junior Editor Sports Editor »r Editor tAssL Exchange Ed*., ; ^ Reporters Jim Lore; Paul Walker; Jack Creighton; Mitchell Bancroft; G. L. De- Armond; J. P. Young; T. O. Allen; M. M. Stallings; W. E. Tardy; Champ Smith; H. P. Mayse; W. W. Gandy; R. E. Storms; M. C. Hsrxik; T. H. Porter; W. E. Hames; H. N. Shea; W. W. “Harris; H. I. Sender; J. E. Greer; C. L. Morgan; M. Woodfield; BiU Bradford; J. Joseph; H. H. Locke; E. S. Pegues; R. P. Murphy; G. H. Hufflnes. P. G. Post; Charles States. | Basil ■J ’ \ W. E. Tom Mats Staff Advertising Manager Aest. Advertising Manager .Asst. Advertising Manager Asst Advertising j Manager .Asst Circulation Manager lege education has probably been over-emphasised by meet students, yet I think it is an important factor. The average human is seeking an opportunity for happiness, for success, for high achievement If he does not have wealth, he may reach the conclusion that wealth assures one the attainment of the goals just enumerated; yet moot of human experience does net justify this conclusion. Happiness is a stats of mind. Provided with the necessities for comfortable living, most men get their greatest measure of happiness not from the amount of cash they are able to accumulate, but from their achievements and from the service they are able to render to others. It seems it is sals to conclude that a college education pays—pays in preparing one to live a broader, fuller, and more worth while life. Any reasonable sacrifice of time or mo hey upon the part of a student of collage age will sorely prove s wise investment for life. “Not a Thin Dime” . • . .1 v i t ^ * 1 r* Senator Huey Long has set his heart on taking Louisans State University's 1,500 cadets and their band to Nashvill* on Oct 27 for ths Tiger-Vanderbilt football game. At a student assembly hour the other day, ths Kingfish told the cadets that this “will not cost you s thin dims." Let’s sea as to that. The regular rouad-trip fare from Baton Rouge to Nashville is (18.90. Ths Senator declared that ha would gat a rail rata lower by 50 per cent than any other school could obtain. Accept that at its face value. Assume that for 1,500 assured passengers the railroads would be willing to make a rate of (10 sad that the Senator's “influence” will cut this to $6. Then the transport of 1,500 cadets would amount to $7,500, mauls in Nashville not lass than $1,500 mors, a total of $9,000. Ths student body is not going at Huey Long's expense to the tune of $9,000. Presumably the influence will be wangled again to put the bill of eoets on the State of Louiaaaa. Moot of the 1,500 cadets will graduate into Louisans lift and Louisans tax responsibility. It will be hard to evade the pursuit of $9,000 in tax money, If it is spent in this way. Ths favored recipients will pay more than a thin dime for their Nashville holiday for every hour they are called upon to support Long tactics and Long generosity with other people’s money. —Dallas News Longhorn Pictures - •f f if > • -I r :\ Two weeks ago. The Battalion conducted a poll of student tastes. Results of the balloting are given in a story on the first page of thie i Mm. l T The reaction of the Corps toward two questions, “What New Dealer do you prefer most of all?” and “Are you in favor of the New Deal?“ was particularly interesting. Practically unanimous answers to these questions were, respec tively, “Roosevelt”, and “Yes”. We may regard this outcome of student opinion as evidencce of either ignorant indifference or thoughtful interest. The chances are, however, that most of the voting cadets scribbled their answers ia a flurry of thoughtless haste, and not with any well-grounded conviction or opinion behind their writing. It is probable that they felt the whole poll of scarce importance. Is this assumption justified? In the first plaee< the New Deal in spirit alone (it is far too large a program to judge from the standpoint of achievement, on the basis that it is one, single movement) iq so reactionary that it would be impossible for it to flourish without serious opposition in many quar ters. The allocation of various liberties from labbr and industry to the government could only have excited, in many instances, scute dissatis faction. - * L, ’' r- j And, though A and M is p cosmopolitan body—made up of the sens of fanners, laborers, politicians, and capitalista—it appears quite logical that a great number of the Corps voted “Roosevelt” and “Yes", because they knew no other answers. There should have been some Union men’s -sons writing “No”, and some industrialists sons writing “Tugwell”, for the poll to have'had even the Aroma of thought or cogitation. Of course, the Corps may have held the attitude that their govern ment could not have been far wrong, and, so. why question it? But laziness has few compensating virtues. Bovine complacency may be peaceful for the individual but it spells war for the economic and social orders. It is this sort of mummified indifference, lamentably characteristic of the American people, that oils keyholes for thieving politicians, that screens the blunders of government incompetents, and paints the aged and moldy walls of too-conaervative legislative procedure with gaudy kaisomine. From Dr. Walton l -. The seniors, more than any other class, will expect a good Long horn next spring. And a good Longhorn can be considerably injured by the failure of seniors to cooperate with ths editors. We refer, in point, to the advisability of having individual pictures made immediately. It costs money to publish a yearbook, and ths funds derived from senior photographs represent no small amount of cash. • <. ^ ! • 1 . / Furthermore, the longer operations are delayed now, the greater the rush later. And a good Longhorn was never rushed ia its pub lication. It takas time! And It takes order)?' make-up to facilitate the final presentation of an acceptable book. Senior commutation checks ard-to be delivered this week—then there will be no excuse! *' / • Students, the New Deal, and Roosevelt -Dad" EIHott to VWt E. J. “Dad” Elliott of Chicago, noted Y M C A worker, will make return visit to the campus for the week of November 18-84. Mr. Elliott has base a leader in Y M C A work for thirty-five years but has devoted the past few yean entirely to student work. Ths pur ine* of this work has taken him to practically every college and university in ths country. He is an ardent football fan as he was once an all'American player him self. ' Although he will hold mootings with small groups and interview individual students, Mr. ^Uiott will speak a least one time each day to faculty members and stodsnta Harvard College has been hon- rsd this year with ths enrollment Of John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President Ha is one of ths 1002 first-year students in ths under- graduate school of Harvard Uni- torsity. Indiana University is called the mother* of college presidents. Sixty two presidents of institutions of higher learning are “I U” man. West Texas Stats Teachers Col lege celebrated its twenty-fifth an niversary Friday ao^/ Saturday. (>ct. 19-20, with a two day prog ram of home-coming activities. The high spot of the program was an sddress by Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. minister to Denmark. | Amelia Earhart, world famed ivjstrix and first woman to fly the Atlantic opened a series of stu dent lectures at Michigan State, Oct. 11, in the People Church. This ieriea will consist of lectures by •ight prominent world figures to appear in East Lansing during the following school year. Naturally enough, Miss Earhart will speak on aviation la her own mqfieft and humorous manner. , University of Missouri, political science teachers were convinced Wednesday that their students knew something about the practi cal skis ot politics. Thera ware 100 mors ballots cast in a student election than there wore persons registered for the election- The student council declared that the election of a junior cheer-lea as null sad void. Prof. E. W. Davis, University Wlmi ‘is Deebt About Y<mr Byes er Your Glasses < oaadR J. W. PAYNE OPTOMETRIST Masonic Bldg., Bryan, Texas Next to Palace Theatre of Minnesota, will soon have his (Continued to page 4) DR. A. BENBOW DENTIST Phone 275 or 835 Bryan Office (>* er First State Bank J Here it is MONDAY. > r rj You, too, can sing the weekly song of a dollar saved. *. mgy^ be more. How? Send vour r I still got a DOLLAR 7 press and insure swift and safe deliverv You can count on the <3o- taundry home. At oo‘extra pendabilltv ol Railway Ea- charge, well pick it up any- press lor shipping anything— tune, take H home, and bring anywhere We give a receipt it beck on time. If you ere de- on pick-up and take a receipt presaton-const toua, you may on delivery, double proof of even send it “coUect" prompt and careful handling. Make a point of suggesting Insurance included up to 850. to the folks that they send the For service or infonnattoo laundry had by Railway Rx- merely call or telephone ATTENTION! We have a NEW SHIPMENT of Fiah Serge! SLACKS Bade on very Short Notice! 1 ZUBll TAILOR SHOP North Gate SO. PACIFIC DEPOT ’Phone 9 College Station, Texas iT Tha 5*a# tkare fa tm SERVING THE NATION FOR 91 YEARS RAILWAY | EXPRESS AGENCY, Inc NATION-WIDE SERVICE I -I [; i . u, 1. r . * A student raises the question: "Is College Training Worth Its Cost?” To answer the question, we perhaps shouk) ask another; “What Does College Training Do for the Individual ?“ In varying degrees college training (a) promotes his mental growth; (b) increases his capacity to reason clearly and logically; (c) acquaints him with the history, philosophy, and ideals of the human family; (d) provides him with vocational and mental working tools; (a) affords him opportunity for physical, mental, and moral growth; (f) helps him to develop a sound philosophy of life; (g) gives him balancq, poise, and self-con fidence. p • ^ These brief statements constitute some of the benefits one may secure from college training. Ths list could be expanded and perhaps the most important items are not included, but it is enough to indicate^ ^ some of the values of a college career to a man. Such advantage* should and,do give those who have them greater possibilities to begin life with a fair opportunity to succeed in a degree above the success achieved by the average man. An eparamation of the records of the de velopment of civilised man will, wk believe, convince the most skepti cal individual that the men and wdmen who have contributed most to the social, economic, and moral order were men and women who were trained for their tasks. In invention, scientific discoveries, in political and social science, the trained individual has always held places of leed- brship. ' Moreover, usually though not always, the time and money invest ed in a college education has paid cash dividends. This phase of col- i* 1 J I 1 V 1; I ‘ ». Ljt*