THE BATTALION
Published every Friday night by the
Students of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas
Editor-in-Chief,
A. E. Burgess, T5.
Associate Editor,
F. A. Homann, T5.
Business Manager,
J. F. Haden, T5.
Associate Business Manager,
W. F. Rutan, T5.
Entered as second-class matter at
College Station, Texas, February 17,
1905.
Price F‘er Annum $1.25
College, Station, Tex., Friday, Sept. 25
The adoption of the new system of
election by ballot last year by the
corps was probably the wisest reform
ever brought about by the student
body of this college. Previous to this
year elections have been called with
out much warning and candidates have
been nominated and voted upon with
out sufficient thought, or no thought
at all by the mass of the voters. The
result has been that unsuitable men
were frequently placed in office and
suitable men have as frequently been
overlooked. Not only was such a
lack of system unfair to capable men
; who should
have been
placed
in
positions
of
responsibility
and
in-
fluence,
but
the student
body,
,it:
self, suffered to just the extent that,
by its votes, it placed mediocre men
in positions which should have been
occupied by capable men.
According to the new system, for
which we are principally indebted to
former Colonel V. V. Parr, all elections
will be by written ballot, in much the
same way that state elections are
held. The election will be held by an
election committee composed of three
representatives of each of the upper
classes, elected last year. This com
mittee will before each election secure
from Registrar Friley a list of the
members of each of the upper classes.
These names will be nuinbered and as
each cadet reports at the plaice of vot
ing his name will be checked off and
the vote he casts will be numbered be
fore it is slipt into the ballet box.
This plan will prevent errors and in
sure justice to all. All nominations
must be signed by at least twenty
voters and handed in to the chairman
of the election committee by a specifi
ed time, two weeks before the election.
One week before the election these
nominations will be published in the
Battalion so that the corps may know
who the candidates are ahead of time
and have time to become acquainted
with their relative merits. The com
mittee will count the votes and an
nounce the results. The proper mem
bers of this committee will supervise
all class elections and the whole com
mittee will be in charge of corps elec
tions. The members of the committee
from the senior class will hold the
freshman cass elections.
One provision of the present plan of
election plan which may not appeal
to the freshman class is that the fresh
man will have no voice in the corps
elections. However, past experience
has shown that the freshman vote, to
say the least, is not calculated to in
crease the chances that the proper
men will be given corps offices, for
the reason that freshmen are poorly
acquainted with members of other
classes and seldom know the candi
dates they are voting on. But for this
fact the Battalion would be opposed to
this part of the plan as being alto
gether undemocratic.
Class elections will be held in a few
days and will be followed after a few
weeks by the general elections. The
Battalion wishes to earnestly urge up
on all cadets that they adapt the fol
lowing two principals and vote accord
ingly.
(1) Vote for the men who are best
fitted for each office, altogether regard
less of their affiliations, past or
present.
(2) Distribute the offices so that no
man will be given more than one im
portant honor.
We believe that if the two foregoing
principles are observed by the student
body that all dissatisfaction and agita
tion will be avoided and that the corps
will enjoy a period of harmony and
unison such as has seldom been known
before.
“A. and M. has been more or less in
a state of choas for several years; it
will be a hurculean task to untangle
the webs of discord and bring the col
lege into smooth running order, silenc
ing dissension and creating in its stead
a leeling of amity between all parties.
We do not doubt for a moment the
ability of Dr. Bizzell to do this if he is
given a free hand, but we cannot but
wonder why anyone would voluntairly
undertake such a job.”—Examiner Re
view.
Among the newspapers of the state
A. and M. has a reputation for tur
bulence which it does not by any
means merit. The same dissension
which the Examiner-Review had in
mind, the strike of 1913, was in itself
a most remarkable demonstration of
loyalty and orderliness. In that tur
moil the students took great care to
obey all military regulations and after
the dramatic dress parade marcbod to
the armory and stood patiently in line
while the hundreds of guns being re
ceived. Practically every cadet had
by that time realized the futility o < the
strike, but they had pledged them
selves to stand by their fellows and
stand by them they meant to do. That
was loyalty. This same intense loyalty
awaits the president who can ommand
it, and, if the Battalion knows the
sentiment of the corps, Dr. Bizzell is
the man who can do i+.
DAEDALIAN EXTRA.
The Daedalian of C. I. A., tho a
monthly publication has issued a six-
page extra announcing Dr. Bizzel’s ac
ceptance of the presidenlcy of A. and
M. The extra is a newsy little sheet
and suprisingly full of ads in view of
the short time its promoters had to
secure them.
Last year’s Junior Battalion set
forth several reasons why we thought
C. I. A. ought to be consolidated with
A. and M. The process has begun.
We have C I. A’s. president and now
five hundred and fifty C. I. A. girls
warn us to “be nice to him” or else
they “will all be down.”
A number of girls have been vrrit-
ing the new president of A. and M.
College what Mrs. Bizzell says are
regular love letters. Is it possible
that this is on account of previous A.
and M. experience?—C. I. A. Daedal
ian.
The Battalion exchanges will be
placed on the table in the press room
and all persons in the college are in
vited to come and read them.
The new president of A. and M. is
named Bizzell. That sounds like bus
iness.—East Texas Register.
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