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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1914)
OUR DREAM LADY. When our two souls like barks to night. Shall drift away from conscious shores. Sailing a sea of dream-delight. Perchance, my boat will pass near yours. Would that the winds of love might waft, Our sails so close that we could reach And bind them surely craft to craft Until we gained the narrow’s beach. —Orange & Blue, Auburn. A MODERN SOLOMON. A Georgia magistrate was perplex ed by the conflicting claims of two negro women for a baby, each con tending that she was the mother of it. The judge remembered Solomon, and. drawing a Bowie knife from his boot, declared that he would give half to each. The women were shocked, but had no doubt of the authority and purpose of the judge to make the pro posed compromise. “Don’t do that, boss,” they both screamed in unison. “You can keep it yourself.” A. & M. NOT TO PLAY IN DALLAS. Because the Thanksgiving game in Dallas has not been a profitable thing the past few years, A. & M. and Mis sissippi agreed to play on the Fair Park in Beaumont this year. A. & M. Alumni in Beaumont promise a rare entertainment for their younger broth ers. The team will leave College Wednesday just before drill and feels confident of victory. CHAPEL SERVICE LAST SUNDAY. Rev. R. E. King of the First Baptist Church of McKinney preached at chapel last Sunday morning. He brought out in a very forcible manner the contrasted courses followed in after life from the divergent paths begun in youth. I sell Holeproof hosiery, Walk- Over and Nettleton shoes. Hervey, Room 17, Mitchell. Are you a member of a club? Get your club pins at Room 7, Foster WAR AND PLAY. —Prohibit Guns Not Games— Cruel, murderous war, with its sick ening waste in world-wide proportions and in method most brutal and bar barous, falling upon us with unbe lievable suddenness and now already prolonged into pitiful exhaustion and the disappointments of hopes deferr ed. still rages in Europe with as little promise of peace as when it began. The international honor of treaty agreements flung to the winds, neu tral territory invaded and outraged, and the regulations of war wickedly violated, cruel bombs hurled from the air into innocent peaceful villages of helpless women and children, devas tating stupendously, mangling wick edly, murdering devilishly, destroying everywhere and everything, sparing not even the sacred cathredrals, con taining the irrecoverable artistic and spirutual assets of a hundred years, defaming and degrading the very moral instincts of all participants and transforming civilized peoples into a barbarous horde.—Julias Ceasar with out the inheritance of Christian in fluences, never lost more utterly his sense of humanity or of rudimentary decency. Yet out of it all shall come an abid ing good. Each belligerent country will acquire a spirit of national con sciousness hitherto unknown. In this new and larger sense of national un ity, old domestic difficulties will be absorbed. Russian Jews will enjoy a real citizenship; England’s Irish ques tion will be forgotten; the French “Clerical Peril” will be superceded by a new religious awakening, and most far-reaching and consequential of all —militarism shall be forever crushed. The present war will not cease until this last great blessing is attained. Above and beyond all racial prejudice, above the ill-balanced minds and ill- chosen means of kaisers, czars and kings points the directing finger of destiny. Temporary defeat shall not daunt her. Inconclusive victory' shall not compromise her purpose. The weariness of hopes deferred embit tered by semi-starvation shall not blunt the edge of her resolve. Meantime our great American statesman and president has most ap propriately declared, “My thought is of America.” To the true and ingeni ous American nothing is useless, noth ing in vain; he finds in, every man a teacher, in every event an occasion for self improvement. What, there fore, shall America gain from this beastial European catastrophe? First: The incarnation of America’s most sublime idea, that there are no Germans or French or English here. That irespective of lineage or birth or previous governmental or religious allegiances, every citizen of the United States is an integral part of one great united nation and is first, last and all the time a loyal American. Second: America will gain that commercial spremacy of the world which our legislative policies of the past fifty years have failed so utterly to secure. Our foreign trade will be doubled and new home industries will be stimulated. We shall have learned through necessity to make many of the commodities we now import, and we will supply practically the whole western hemisphere with American products. Third: It will be impressed upon us once for all that contrary to cer tain political demagogues peace can never be preserved by preparation for war; that militarism is not protective but provocative. Instead, therefore, of the manufacture of the siege-guns for. the destruction of life, we will manufacture goods for the preserva tion and comfort of life. Instead of instruments of torture, we will make instruments of pleasure. Instead of the accoutrements of war, we will arm our citizens with the accoutre ments of play. Instead of employing the surplus energies of our youth in the non-productive activities of devas tation and ruin, we will give them those wholesome recreations which increase their capacity for toil. In stead of sending our young men away to weary marches, hunger and death, we will keep them at home, contented and peaceful. Instead of providing our little boys with toy rifles, knives and Indian war dress, with which to develop the savage spirit of destruc tion and murder, we will give them minature bowling alleys and turning poles, home billiard tables and indoor baseball with which to develop the spirit of domestic contentment and a happy family consciousness. Instead of prohibiting gamse, we will prohibit guns. A BIRD OF A STORY. A certain newspaper item is as fol lows: The wife of a minister in West Virginia had been married three times. Her maiden name was Part ridge, her first husband was named Robins, her second Sparrow and the present is Quail. There are now two young robbins, one sparrow and three little quail in the family. One grandfather was a Swan and another named Jay, but he’s dead now and is a bird of Paradise. They live on Hawk Avenue. Cut flowers, red, white and pink carnations, $1.50 per doz.; 2 doz. for $2.50. Yellow and white chrysanthe mums $2.50 per doz.; red, white and pink roses $1.50 per dog., 2 doz. for $2.50. Ten per cent off) on all orders of $2.50 or more. Phone direct.— Scott Floral Co., Navasota, Texas. SHARP--ROMBERG. On Thursday, November 12, C. B. Romberg of the ’12 class was married to Miss Loula Mae Sharp at San An tonio. They will make their home in Port Arthur in the future. PLA.Y is no longer associated sole ly with childhood pastimes. It is recoginzed as being just as necessary for 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. i RForYourDenR i| ^Beautiful College Pennants^ ji YALE and HARVARD jl Each 9 in. x 24 In. J; ;j PRINCETON, CORNELL !’ MICHIGAN 'I \ Each 7 in. x 21 in. 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