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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1914)
THE B1TTI1U0H Published every Wednesday night by Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Subscription price $1.25 per year. Advertising rates on application. Member of Texas Collegiate Press Association. A. E. BURGES, ’15 Editor-in-Chief J. F. HADEN Business Manager P. A. HOMANN, T5. .Associate Editor W. Li. RUTAN, ’15 Asso. Bus. Mgr. E. McR. CLAYTOR, T5...EX. Editor MISS LOUISE PROCTOR.. So. Editor M. T. GARRETT, T6 Agr. Editor UEL STEPHENS, T6 Eng. Editor S. P. McFADDEN, ’16... Sport. Editor G. C. MOFFET, ’16. .Y. M. C. A. Editor D. H. KIBER, ’17 ’Frisco Editor Cartoonists P. T. CROWN, ’15 (Chief), J. M. BUR- KET, ’16. L. A. Von ROSENBERG, ’lb. Assistant Business Managers S. B. HAYNES, ’16, J. B. ROBERT, ’16, Reporters J. R. BARNES, J. B. JOYCE, T. W. TEMPLE, F. W. HALSEY. All material for publication should be signed and turned in by Sunday night. None will be accepted after 8 o’clock Monday morning. Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. College Station, Tex., Nov. 18, 1914. WRITING HOME. Our predecessor in office, Mr. Fea- gin, had occasion last year to urge students to write oftener to the folks back home. There can be no doubt that there is too much neglect on this score. There’s more than one stu dent here whose parents are eating frugal meals and wearing old clothes to keep him here, but who never thinks to write them about what he is doing. Get out your paper and write home now. Don’t tell them about the foot ball game; they are not interested in that. They are interested in you. Tell the little things. Tell them how your shoes are holding out, and about your trip to Mount Bonnel, and whom you met, and about your friends and your boarding house. Remember, they will want to know about your courses and your instructors. And don’t for get to be cheerful. That helps the old folks most of all. But, while we are on the subject, we wonder if the father and mother always write like they should. “The governor,” we suspect, is sometimes too prone to inclose thirty dollars with the brief injunction to make it go as far as possible, as times are hard, and his signature. And only too often the box of goodies from “mommer” is unaccompanied by any message other than that they are all well at home. Parents, did you know that a fellow gets so hungry for home that he is just aching to know about Bulger and whether Sookey has wean ed her calf yet? We are interested in common place things, too. Let us hear more of them from home.—Daily Texan. DO YOU KNOW WHAT “ALL RIGHT” MEANS The Blue Book contains in simple and direct language the regulations of die military department, and among diese will be found a statement of the conditions under which cadets may leave their rooms during study hours. Having placed a printed statement of these conditions in each room, the military department has given us per mission to leave our rooms for these legitimate purposes on condition that we will report “All Right” on honor to all sentinels whose posts we cross while out of our rooms. In thus giv ing us the privilege of leaving our rooms merely by reporting “All Right’’ to the sentinel, the military de partment has assumed that we will act die gentleman by not taking undue ad vantage of the privilege and thus vio lating the report we have made on honor. But it is a common occurrence for cadets to visit openly during study hours and to unhesitatingly report “All Right” to whatever sentinels they may meet. This is a thing which the stu dent who has the proper idea of what honor is will not do, and if he con tinues such practice he will soon find that he can break his word of honor on other occasions with as little re morse. The ultimate result will be that he will completely stifle his sense of honor. The same remarks will ap ply to all reports made on honor. If we value our own honor, it is up to us not to make the report “All Right’’ when conditions are not all right. WE HAVE COMPANY, IT SEEMS. An editorial in the T. C. U. Skiff of the past week states that there were 81 errors in the four-page issue of the preceding week because of neg lect on the part of the printer. We were feeling a little crestfallen be cause of 20 errors, more or less, which appeared in the eight-page Battalion of last week, but when we read that we took heart again. When one con siders the many thousands of errors which might be made on a single printed page, the wonder becomes that as few appear as do. However, we are not endeavoring to shift the blame of last week’s errors from our own shoulders, but instead we shall hereafter redouble our efforts to put out a clean sheet. Those county clubs who wish to ad vertise A. & M. in their home towns should send the Battalion to the senior class in the high schools. The cost of a subscription to these clubs per mem ber would be negligible. All subscribers who are not receiv ing their copies of the Battalion will please notify the business manager at 22 Mitchell, so that the matter can be attended to. Local Notes Invitations have been received an nouncing the marriage of Martin D. Loring, a former member of the class of ’15, to Miss Gladys Ellebracht of Mason, Texas. Loring attended A. & M. for three years, entering the sub freshman and leaving at the end of his sophomore year. Lem Adams, a recent graduate of A. & M., writes the Battalion from Inkon, Idaho, sending his regards and expressing his pleasure at the pres ent bright outlook for the growth of the college. He is assistant engineer of the Oregon Short Line. Who is that flery orator, that fair- minded advocate of justice, that man with the beautiful auburn hair? “Red” Allen is his name. A favorite son of Palestine, he came to A. & M. in 1911 and since the beginning his career has been indeed illustrious. Whenever there is a difficult task to be performed, an unpleasant or delicate duty to be discharged, who is always picked for the work—“Red” Allen. R. R. Allen first proved his ability when he was a Sophomore. As a cor poral in “K” company be proved mosl efficient and showed that he contain ed a spark of military genius. In his Junior year Allen was first sergeant of “K” company. He discharged his duty without hesitation and showed no partiality to anyone. As a Senior “Red” is major of the Third Battalion and he handles his men in a way that makes him admired and respected by everyone. R. R. Allen, President Y. M. C. A. Allen’s popularity is well attested by the numerous offices to which his fellow students have elected him. He is president of the Y. M. C. A., and as such he injects such enthusiasm and vigor into the meetings that a good attendance is always assured. Upon certain occasions he has been known to increase Y. M. C. A. attendance by five hundred per cent within the short space of twenty minutes. In addition to being president of the Y. M. C. A., he is business man ager of the Long Horn. He has the ability to secure the funds necessary to turn out a fine book, and many of his most careful plans have not yet been placed before the public. Allen has the confidence and support of his classmates and everyone feels that he can do anything which he sets out to do. He is the originator and chief pro moter of the proposed trip of the corps to San Francisco in 1915. He secured all the information necessary, found out what arrangements must be made and communicated with the parents of all cadets in the college. Due to Allen’s aggressive spirit, there is a strong likelihood of the corps, making this trip, one of the finest in the world. It is the men who are optimistic, ambitious and energetic who make a class famous. “Red” Allen has all of the qualifications and more. He is friendly and affable to everyone. He will do anything in his power for a friend. He will work himself to the limit to make anything that he has undertaken a success. He .is a man of whom the class of 1915 may well be proud. Light up—Pocket flash lights at Room 7, Foster. Pi. \\ is no longer associated sole ly with childhood pastimes. It is recoginzed as being just as necessary tor the boy of sixty as for his grand child—and Spalding’s can equip them both equally well. A postal will bring a handsomely illustrated Cat alogue. A. G. SPALDING & BROS. 1503 Commerce St., Dallas, Tex. 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