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THE BATTALION
THE BATTALION
Published every Thursday night by the Stu
dents’ Association of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas
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R. V. Easley Assistant Sport Editor
F. L. Bertschler Contributing Editor
B. H. Frazier News Editor
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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.
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Henry Harrison Business Manager
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R. P. Huff Circulation
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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<a.i.r*~ xvoar: ,wi - its a. ^
as the average enrollment per year,
the Y would receive $1350 for itself
and an equal amount for the lyceum
numbers, or any other high class en
tertainment the Secretary of the Y
would see fit to bring to College.
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The suggestion of giving our yell-
leaders a remembrance appeared in
The Battalion a few weeks ago, and
it has not been commented upon in
either way. In our opinion, the most
appropriate way that this college
could remember onr yell-leaders
would be for the Athletic Council to
award the chief yell-leader an hon
orary “T" and for each of his assist
ants be awarded with an honorary
“T” second. There should be some
distinguishing mark on their sweater
to show that they were yell-leaders
instead of an athlete.
During the first part of the year
our yell-leaders woi’k as hard as our
football team. Every man on any
athletic team has hopes of winning
his letter, but the yell-leaders have
none. All that they receive is the
satisfaction of knowing that they
have tried to do their part. These
men do not have anything to carry
away with them as a token of ap
preciation for the services they have
rendered to our College. It is a
neglect on the part of the students
for not demanding such a remem
brance for our yell-leaders from the
Athletic Council. If the Council
will not heed our demand, then the
students should see that every yell-
leader and his staff should recive
a remembrance that he can always
be proud of. Then he can enjoy the
feeling that his efforts to help urge
our team on to victory have not been
spent in vain.
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