COLUMBIA STUDENTS
PASS RESOLUTIONS
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armament caused by the fear of war.
It is not time for party, for business,
or for religious differences to come
to the fore. It is a time for united
action.
Last spring the country was a pow
der magazine and the college men
were trying to touch the match. The
intervening months should have
taught us wisdom. Last summer col
lege men were drilled in military
camps for war. This winter, con
scription of college men has been pro
posed—seriously proposed by mili
tary authorities.
College men are not mere bystand
ers; they are vitally interested. They
comprise a large part of the pawns
that the militarists would sacrifice.
We are as patriotic as our grand
fathers of ’61, we love our country
and our flag as dearly as those men
did, but we are beginning to realize
the true purpose of our country and
the real significance our our flag.
Columbia has shown her apprecia
tion of these matters, yet other col
leges are concerned as much as she.
Organization, protest and propaganda
must be the chief weapons. They can
do much. Will they be used. It is
up to you.
A CIVIL ENGINEER.
By GEORGE FITCH.
A civil engineer is a quiet man with
a thick coat of sunburn, who spends
his time revising climates, cutting
the landscape and training up rivers
into lives of usefulness.
In order to do this the civil engi
neer does not tear the earth wide
open with a hundred ton spade, or
perform other feats of strength. He
is usually of ordinary size, and if he
only used his own hands he could
■not push around a small creek, let
alone a river. The civil engineer
does not rely on muscle. When he
desires to move a mountain or wipe
out a few hundred square miles of
desert with a dam, he takes his
logarithm book and retires to a quiet
spot( where he fills an acre of brown
paper full of figures. At the end of
six months he emerges with a tired
air and a carload of blueprints and
motions to the steam shovel to come
on up and get busy.
The civil engineer is not generally
known. This is because he cannot
be found on the street corner or in
the clubs or in the act of decorating
a grand opera with a vast white shirt
front.
He usually lives in the wilderness
in hip boots and a last week’s shave.
After the ordinary man has lived in
the wilderness for a few years his
mother wouldn’t know him. But after
an engineer has lived in the wilder
ness the same length of time his
mother wouldn’t know it. The engi
neer is continuously editing and re
vising nature, rearranging mountains
and making rivers back up and go
the other way. He is as restless and
unsatisfied with the way things look
as the woman who always rearranges
the furniture while her husband is
away so that he may fall over it when
he comes home in the dark and re
ceives a pleasant surprise.
The engineer has hung railroads
on mountainsides, run tunnels under
city streets, made oceans shake
hands, harnessed Niagara Falls, made
parks out of Western deserts, and has
put a reverse gear on the Chicago
river. Some day he will begin ex
perimenting with the earth orbit and
he may yet have a Christmas day at
the Fourth of July and a weekly
comet service to Mars. Who knows?
Logarithms and a square jaw working
harmoniously can do almost anything.
—Copyrighted by George Matthew
Adams.
IN THE SAME BOAT.
The University of Texas is broke.
Students who have been earning their
expenses by doing odd jobs for the
University are met at the paymaster’s
desk with the laconic rebuff, “No
funds.” When a man knocks reams
of paper through the typewriter, and
goes after his pay for the job, it is
rather hard to find out that he has
his work for his pains and can whistle
for his money. In the meantime he
can continue to wear last year’s shoes
and stand off the landlady as best he
can.
A. & M. College for once ought to
be able to sympathize with us. If
the downtown papers’ reports of legis
lative proceedings are correct, the
college is out of fuel, or nearly out,
and an emergency appropriation will
be needed to get through the year.
This is apparently what years of sus
picion and discord have brought us
to. It is a token of the trend toward
better feeling which is coming to be
between the two institutions that
there is a realization on both sides
that there is precious little to be
gained by strife.
Over in this neck of the woods a
tiny percolating suspicion is begin
ning to soak in on us that a man who
is over there trying to make himself
of some use as raiser of what we eat
and wear is no worse than the man
who is over here trying to learn
something else. When this suspicion
grows a little—and it is getting
stronger every day—we will be able
to laugh at our former squabbles. Are
we not bone of one bone and flesh of
The First State Bank and
Trust Company of
Bryan
£.5
Solicits the banking business of the cadets and i|
all the other A. & M. folks
one flesh, sister institutions with a
common aim? At all odds we are
broke together, and that is a sympa
thetic bond stronger than hoops of
baling wire.—Daily Texan.
NOT TO BE BESTED.
A city man recently visted his
“country cousin.” The man from the
city, wishing to explain the joys of
metropolitan life, said: “We have cer
tainly been having fun the last few
days. Thursday we autoed to the
country club and golfed until dark,
then trollied back to town and danced
until morning.” The country cousin
was not to be stumped in the least, so
began telling of some of the pleasures
of the simple life: “We have had
pretty good times here, too. One day
we buggied out to Uncle Ned’s and
went out to the back lot, where we
baseballed all that afternoon. In the
evening we sneaked up into the attic
and pokered until morning.” A sturdy
old farmer who was listening, not to
be outdone, took up the conversation
at this point. He said: “I was hav
ing fun about that time myself. I
muled to the corn field and gee-hawed
until sundown. Then I suppered until
dark, and piped until 9 o’clock, after
which I bedsteaded until the clock
fived, after which I breakfasted until
it was time to go muling again.”
THAT OLD BRIAR PIPE.
When you feel blue and it seems that
the world is at its worst,
When you h^ave a headache and think
upon you has come a curse,
When your best girl has gone back on
you, and the rest seem to sway,
When you are tired of the place you
are at and you want to go away,
You can hardly imagine what “a little
smoke will do.”
You can hardly imagine what a little
smoke will do;
It makes you think of your dearest
girlie, reminds you of Sue,
As you are sitting in the parlor blow
ing smoke into the air,
You have a vision of your girl’s face
so sweet and fair.
You can see her coming toward you
with arms outstretched and lips
extended,
And unconsciously you prepare to em
brace her, but your pipe goes
out.
When your past life seems a sad
dream an£ the future seems
drearier yet,
When you had a chance to make some
money, but you wouldn’t take
the bet,
When every friend and others seem
to go against your will,
And you ponder, and drink in all the
sadness and decide you’ve had
your fill.
Friends, please stop and remember
what a little smoke might do.
Friend, please stop and consider what
a little smoke might do.
Many times it smokes away your cares
and keeps you from feeling blue.
Just try the little briar pipe experi
ment while sitting in the arm
chair.
And nine times out of ten you feel like
a ragtime millionaire.
Out in front you see the Pierce-Arrow
and the chauffeur waiting for
you to ride,
And unconsciously you get up to go
out, but—then your pipe goes
out.
EDGAR VAN HUTTON.
Nine presses for $1. Eleven cents
per piece. A. & M. Pressing Club.
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.
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