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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1920)
Thurcday, January 15, 1920. THE DAILY B Published each morning, except Monday, by the Publicity Department of the Agri- eultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Official Publication of the College. Dis- tributed free to all students, instructors and Campus residents. Advertising rates fur- nished on application. Office Room 113, first floor WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL President of the College ROBERT EMORY HICKS Publicity Secretary FRANK O. MARTIN Assistant Publicity Secretary Academic Building i > THE COMING DAY The year goes wrong and tares grow strong. Hope starves without a crumb; But God’s time is our harvest time, " And that is sure to come. . —Lewis J. Bates. 2) y THE FORUM By Dr. Frank Crane. President Wilson turned a happy phrase when he called this “a govern- ment by discussion.” He also said “Discussion rationalizes everything it touches.” This is the basic idea of the Open Forum movement. A Forum is a meeting where, after the address of the chief speaker, the audience dis- cusses the subject. It is the most satisfying kind of a meeting, as much better than the or- dinary lecture or sermon occasion, where the listeners have no chance to talk back, as Thanksgiving dinner ex- cels the free lunch in the late la- mented saloon. The Forum idea should be fur- thered. Every city and village should have gatherings where the cit- izenry can air their views. Churches are substituting the Open Forum for the evening service. with good results. Colleges are ex- perimenting with the plan. We have noticed recently Forums held at Del- aware College and the University of Minnesota. Last summer successful Forum assemblies, financed by the city, were held on the Common in Boston, with such speakers as John Haynes Holmes, Louis F. Post and Beatrice Forbes-Robertson. Many cities and towns throughout the nation have been trying out this idea. It is a good sign. What we need most of all is to Get Together and Talk Things Over. Why would not a Forum be an ex- cellent thing in a Factory or Steel Mill, or among Miners, Railway Men, Longshoremen, Post Office and Ex- press Employes, or the Workers in any large concern? If teachers and preachers and doctors have their | conventions to discuss affairs, would ROSE AORENTRENERORE AE REO HORE RENEE REN "ENROLLMENT AT A. AND M. COLLEGE UP TO NOON YESTERDAY 1613 comes objective, it may not be so dangerous after all. More than like- Flee | ly it will be funny. Free speech is essential in a de- mocracy. It alone keeps the air pure. Let the legislature authorize the Forum; this, as Gifford Pinchot says, would “prevent suppression of free speech by thick-headed police author- ities.” Such suppression, he rightly observes, makes for the spread of radicalism by the multiplication of martyrs, in that it causes people to sympathize with fallacies which need only to be voiced to come to a speedy death. If you are interested, write to Miss Mable B. Uay, 26 Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass. She is sec- retary of the National Council of the Open Forum, and will give you par- ticulars. (Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane) CONFERENCE OF ENTIRE STAFF AT Y TONIGHT Social Hour to Mark Close of Second Quarterly Meeting of Officers and Teachers. Special attention of officers and teachers of the College is called to the staff conference which has been called by President Bizzell to be held in the chapel of the Y. M. C. A. building tonight. The program, Dr. Bizzell stated yesterday, will begin promptly at 7:30 o’clock. Officers, teachers and specialists in all divisions of the Col- lege will attend. Ladies are cordially invited. At the close of the program re- freshments will be served and a social hour will close the meeting. ST Ae = Che FIRST if not be equally as beneficial for other workers? Regular assemblies of workers, where each is understoon to be at liberty to say what he thinks, would let off a deal of the pressure that now explodes in strikes. Talk in its place, is a great med- | icine especially for incipient grouch- | OE es. Let the meetings be free. Give | the Bolshevik, the Anarchist, the Free Thinker a chance. Nothing | turns the apostle of protest and un- | rest into a menace so much as re- | pression, silence and brooding. And nothing cures the grouch microbe | like plenty of air. Let the intellectual horned toad or | the crooked stick speak his piece; | for when he pronounces it and it be- | National Bank Of BRYAN, TEXAS Wishes you A Prosperous and Happy New Year. A MODERN BANKING INSTITUTION Courteous, Prompt, Efficient Service. A YOUR ACCOUNT INVITED = 0e€sS All sizes and widths now in stock. STER MAN LECTURES T0 STUDENTS OF ENG. TONE & Explains to Men What Opportunities They Will Have by Working for Big Corporation. W. E. Wood, of the Stone and Web- ster Company and also connected with the Galveston Electric Company paid a visit to the College Tuesday even- ing in order to interview the Engi- neering Seniors with reference to their future employment by Stone & Webster. Tuesday evening Mr. Wood gave a very interesting and instructive talk to the engineering students outlining their opportunities with this com- pany. He explained how the Stone and Webster properties are divided into districts for operation from the home office in Boston, the district of- fice for Texas is located at Houston. Going further he told how the Corpo- ration followed several branches of engineering, one being construction, another railway operation, a third light and power, all utility operations. One of the largest power plant properties erected by his company he said is the Mississippi Power Com- pany’s Plant at Keakuk, which de- mmm dam impounding the waters of the ' Mississippi river for several miles up- stream. In his remarks he outlined the steps | followed by men on entering the or- ganization in the lowest positions and advancing to places of authority, thus * 0 * * ae a ae 2c a 2 0 J + oGeefeedes + ’ 3 2 ay oo \J Lg oaosds \ J oy Roalaad SO market affords. Ge ge of + Foods ge J 0.) joefectostocts * 2 *% RW Yar 3" 3 Sar 2dr 4 ae LJ | 3 ED a a a a 2 2 J 2 J 2 2 2 (rives its power from a huge water CHAS. NITCH THE CAMPUS TAILOR Invites new and old students to call and see his lines of tailoring—the very best the CLEANING AND PRESSING CLUB TICKETS $3.00 WORTH OF WORK $2.50 no matter which of the above branches of the organization’s work he may select for entrance is the same. It was very interesting to note that the Stone and Webster Company during the war did $60,000,000.00 worth of construction work, including in the'number of contracts the numer- ous cantonments erected in this country and ordnance depots abroad. He showed how by means of its large organization the Corporation was enabled to do so much during war times. Touching on the street car indus- try, which is his own specialty, Mr. Wood told of its early history, how horse cars were used first, then cable cars, before the first electric street railway was put in operation in Rich- mond, Va,, in 1888. = He devoted the latter part of his talk to a discussion of the latest de- velopments in the new safety car which permits of faster and safer service. Some of the financial problems of the street car industry were also touched on by him, showing why the street railway industry today was face to face with the problem of mak- ing their income meet their operating costs, and why increased revenue was necessary for continued satisfactory operation. — Ae” non “I have been smoking an awful lot of cigarettes lately.” “If that’s one, you must be.” —Burr. 0 20 3 a 2 a J J 2 a a ¥ TEXAS BLUE GRASS *. * Green chicken feed all year and yields 4 to 6 tons hay per acre annually. Sets and seed for sale. CYRUS HOGAN Bryan, Texas. BE J J 2 J 2 2 2 a 2 a 2 a 2 oP kA EA 9 L020 0 20 0 od 0 eefuefunfrofoofesfesfefonfunfoafeodesfocfofunionfoofosfocfofonfrufrofosfocfofonfrntoofesfeofofocfunfoofoofoefeonfunfoofoofocfocfefunfrafoofecfiod ft ei ob nd Cn i: a a ae a a a a a ae at
