4 THE BATTALION THE BATTALION Published every Thursday night by the Stu dents’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Subscription price $1.50 per year Advertising rates on Application Member Texas Collegiate Press Association ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT EDITORIAL STAFF Tom Cheeves Editor E. E. McQuillen ... Associate Editor K. J. Edwards Associate Editor C. A. Castillo Associate Editor Bill King Managing Editor C. W. Thomas. ..Assistant Managing Editor Art Knickerbocker Sport Editor R. V. Easley Assistant Sport Editor F. L. Bertschler Contributing Editor B. H. Frazier News Editor H. S. Hudson Social Editor Henry Fowler Cartoonist F. M. Schiwetz Cartoonist Mark Swain Staff Poet REPORTERS Company A, Arnspeiger, J.; Company B, Franke, P. C.; Company C, Sherrill. W.; Company D, Hatley, E. A.; Company E, Smith, A. B.; Company F, Williams, H. W.; Company G, Black, L. S.; Battery A, Huff, R. P.; Battery B, Roper, W. N.; Signal Corps Company A, Schlachter, E. G.; Signal Corps Company B, Dillingham, H. C.; Signal Corps Company C, Clanton, R. W.; Band Bill Frame; Campus, Mrs. D. V. Graves, Mrs. R. P. Marsteller. BUSINESS STAFF Henry Harrison Business Manager F. L. Bertschler Assistant Manager R. P. Huff Circulation A. L. Forbes Assistant Circulation Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. THE BLANKET TAX Whenever another form of ath letics that is old to other colleges and universities but new to A. and . are tried to be introduced here tre is always one thing staring the •omoters in the face, and that is the Willr ounc ^ t° 0 bad a long goaiV finanft&l assistance. f u m c h •iv.tg n n y iv&pfeMfia % financial condition of the Council; for we are not in a position to know all of the facts, but we do intend to offer another plan that ought to help pay the indebtedness of the Council. In nearly every other college and university in this state has what is known as the Blanket Tax. This tax is for the maintainance of student activities, athletics, and various other things. The tax is required to be paid by all students when they reg- iter for the first time of the current school year. When this tax is paid the student is given a coupon book. There is a coupon for each event in the*school year. At one of the large universities in this state, this tax pays for the students 'entrance to all athletic contests, the subscription to the college paper, all lyceum num bers, all intercollegiate debates, and various other things. A certain per cent of the proceeds from this tax is apportioned among all activities according to their importance and the expense of maintaining that par ticular phase of college life. This tax saves the time of the students; in as much as it does away with the financial campaigns for the different things. By the tax method, every man helps pay for every thing and enjoys the same privileges with the other fellow. The only way that this tax is a success is that it be required of every student. The tax must be paid through the Fiscal Department when the student registers. It gives all activities their money at the begin ning of school, and it enables all of them to be operated cheaper. By the old method it is necessary for the Battalion, the Longhorn, and various other things to be higher, than it would be under the tax method. This is true because the most loyal students are the ones who support college affairs by the sub scription method, while every man must pay with the tax system. The writer favors a blanket tax of fifteen dollars per student beginning with the fii’st term of 1920-’21, ap portioned as follows: 65 per cent for athletics; 15 per cent for the Longhorn subscription; 8 per cent for the subscription to the Battalion; 6 per cent for the Y.M.C.A.; and 6 per cent for the lyceum numbers that the Y.M.C.A. brings to us every year. A tax of fifteen dollars ought to have a good effect for at least two years after its adoption. 1. Evei-y student will pay the Athletic Council $9.75 instead of $6 An increase of $3.75 and that ought to pay the Council out of debt the first year and give them a surplus the second year. After the second year the tax could be reduced by a vote of the student body, if de sired. 2. The Battalion would receive $1.20 from every student in school. The tax would insure a 100 per cent circulation of the Battalion among the students. 3. The Longhorn would receive $2.25 from each student. This would also give the Longhorn a 100 per cent circulation among the students. The writer believes that a fair esti mate of the total subscription to the Longhorn among the students does not exceed 800. If this estimate is fair the management of the Long horn would make $1.75, by counting the eight hundred copies at four dol lars and fifteen hundred copies at $2.21. Fifteen hundred being the normal enrollment of the College. 4. The Y. M. C. A. would re ceive $1.80 from each student— Ninety cents for the support of the Y and ninety cents for the lyceum mber. Considering 1500 students I ' iie u.c