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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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- |
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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
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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.
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lot of cigarettes lately.”
“If that’s one, you must be.”
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