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By DR. D. S. HEARNE
The Battalion
Published Weekly by the Students’
Association of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College
of Texas.
JUNIOR STAFF:
Editor-in-Chief A. Gr. Wilson
Business Manager T. G. Huth
Associate Editor J. V. Butler
Society Editor Bruce Mansfield
Athletic Editor A. W. Taylor.
Assistant Editors. Mangum and Meece
Entered °s second-class matter at
College Station, Texas, Feb
ruary 17, 1905.
PRICE PER ANNUM $1.25
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1911.
The average student of the Agri
cultural and Mechanical College has
too much work for the amount of
time he has to perform it in. Is that
not a startling statement? Didn’t it
make you look up from that math of
yours and count the, days until com
mencement? Any cadet of this col
lege, whether he be bright, dull or
hard-working, hasn’t enough time t»
do justice to his work. He can not
become thoroughly educated when he
hasn’t the time to give the subjects
a thorough study. It’s true that if the
number of term hours were dimin
ished that the rating of the college
would be lowered just that much, but
it is better that this rating be lowered
than for young men to graduate lack
ing the two essentials of a successful
technical life—accuracy and thor
oughness.
At present there exists a ruling of
the Faculty which entitles Junior and
Senior classes to hold only one dance
each term. We contend that this rul- j
ing is just and fair, but as yet the j
Junior Class has never been allowed
this one dance. Out of fairness and
justice to the Class of 1912 we con
scientiously believe that we should at
least be allowed this one of our few
privileges.
We wish to congratulate the stu
dent council of the University of
Texas on their good judgment in
adopting a “hog-tying” contest as a
substitute for hazing. Such customs
are being abandoned nowadays. We
abolished the “cane-rush” several
years ago, and Tulane has just re
cently abolished their famous “tank-
fight.” In case the Freshman Class
should win, one can imagine what the
state of feeling will be between the
classes.
BILLIKEN II.
The editorial staff of this week’s
Battalion feels greatly indebted to
Mr. C. B. Hull for the cartoons con
tained herein.
Hull is all to the good when it
comes to cartooning. He has original
ideas and knows how to put them into
tangible form.
UNWRITTEN LAWS.
There is a class of unwritten law
which does not and can not become
written law, says Case and Comment,
because it approaches too near the
danger line that man dare not recog
nize it to the extent of publishing it
and declaring it as a part of the posi
tive law.
It is the unwritten law of the sea
that a captain must go down with his
ship. Men dare not write it into the
contract, and nations dare not incor
porate it in their navy or marine reg-
ualtions, yet the tyrants of the sea
know the law, and believe that to
obey it betters their service, and there
are few instances of its being dis
regarded.
It is the unwritten law of the army
and navy that an officer shall not seek
cover, or at least shall not show ap
prehension of danger to his person, in
time of battle and in the presence of
enlisted men or common sailors. In
the Franco-Prussian war nearly four
thousand officers of the German army
were killed and the great majority of
them gave up their lives because they
believed in this law of conduct.
In obedience to this law, Farragut
bound himself to the mast, Lee rode
to the head of his charging column
at the bloody angle, and Lawton
walked coolly in front of the line and
was shot in the presence of his men.
The law of the right of revolution
has been much talked about and much
written about. Every intelligent citi
zen believes that he has the right
under certain conditions to oppose the
established government of his own
land and join in an effort to establish
another in its place. Just prior to and
during the Civil war there was much
discussion in this country by learned
men on either side of the right of
revolution and the “higher power” and
the “greater law.”
The law justifying one person In
the killing of another has required the
serious consideration of every coun
try. Every criminal code provides cer
tain punishments for homicide, and
many of them graduate the punish
ment with minute particularity, ac
cording to the circumstances of the
killing, so that any one of six crimes
may be involved in a single tragedy.
Such codes also attempt to define
what killing is justifiable and what is
excusable and with their interpreta
tion by the courts attempt to describe
the only conditions under which one
human being can kill another and not
be guilty of crime.
The Hebrew code almost stands
alone in its recognition of man’s de
sire to kill and his right to have that
desire and that climax of all satisfac
tions which comes to him who under
great provocation slays another. It is
not at all strange that in this branch
there should be an extended code of
unwritten as written law, unwritten
now and always to be unwritten for
the reason that the recognition given
by its embodiment in the • statutes
would be taken as a license by dis
honest men and would result in harm
rather than good.
CONTRIBUTED BY COMMERCIAL
SECRETARIES’ ASSOCIATION.
The recent federal census report
given out on the manufacture of wool
en goods serves to illustrate the value
of the factory to a community. The
report shows the- cost of the raw ma
terial manufactured in the United
States was $273,466,000 and the value
added by the factory was $146,360,000.
It is production that makes a country
prosperous, and a dollar produced at
the factory or the mine has as much
prosperity in it as the dollar produced
on the farm. Texas needs factories.
When its vast mines of wealth have
been opened the Lone Star state will
take its place as leader industrially
and commercially, and as a producer
of wealth never to be displaced and
without fear of dangerous competi
tion.
The commercial clubs of the state
want secretaries who are builders.
The directors of the Bowie club, in
selecting a secretary recently, refused
to consider an applicant who had not
successfully managed a good roads
campaign for bond issues. It is men
who can do things that are in demand
to manage the affairs of a community,
and the secretary who depends upon
newspaper interviews to keep his
work before the public is fast giving
way to those who can put brick and
mortar together
Scientific methods of farming, diver
sification and the turning of the sod
on thousands of acres of virgin soil
have enormously increased the variety
and total production of crops in Texas.
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