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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1920)
8 THE BAT T ALIGN THE BATTALION 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 C. W. Thomas Sport Editor F. L. Bertschler Contributing Editor H. S. Hudson Social Editor 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, Miles, M. J.; 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. R. P. Marsteller. BUSINESS STAFF R. H. Harrison Business Manager F. T. Bertschler Circulation J. E. Stevens Assistant Circulation F. Schulze Assistant Circulation Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas, February 17, 1905. JUNIOR BATTALION STAFF: W. T. Strange, Jr Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors W. G. McMillan, A. S. Vandervoort, W. C. King, J. W. Baucom, E. M. Schiwetz. B. H. Barnes Business Manager TO OUR HEROIC DEAD for a valliant son of democracy. When you passed from this earthly habitation into the Great Unknown, a loyal mother received the news and rejoiced that you, at least, had died for the sake of democracy. The Spirit of A. and M. abides with you, even in your grave. It hovers in the air above and around the mounds of others like you; you are its memory, sacred to the honor of old A. and M.. Its spirit be with you always. Rest on, ye honored dead! Rest on, ye heroic dead! the spirit of old A. and M. hovers over you yet and shall until time shall end. The moments of hell that you spent in No Man’s Land midst the bursting - shells, fearful every moment of discovery, shall be'TnarkecU down in history as the heroic feats and mar velous endurance power, both phys ical and mental, of the scions of staunch old A. and M. That spirit that sent the football team to victory; that spirit that brought you other athletic honors; that spirit that imbedded itself in your own personal life and was im bued in your college life; that same spirit took you to victory on the bat tle-scarred fields of France and laid you to rest ’neath the poppies that grow in Flanders’ fields. Taught to play fair and fight clean your blood rose at the horrible stories of Hun vandalism: The tales of how a nation, thwarted by op posing man-power, turned its re- vengful armies upon womankind, made you furious; the scarcely un believable and unimaginable stories of cruelty and torture insatiated you, and, when you met on the field of blood that same old spirit took you to victory and showed a world how clean tactics would win. You made daily sacrifices for your comrades, for the world, democracy, and America. That holy patriotism which so characterized each of you was not expended in vain. You died that a world might live. You suffered untold pain that your sweet heart, mother, family, might live in free America. You passed days be tween life and death for a sacred cause; and at last you passed away on the field of battle and another soul went to find the reward of the right. The day that you stood on the mountain height and crossed the Gread Divide and on into the Valley of Death, a nation wept aloud for its son. The day on which your life string was loosened and you passed from “dust to dust”, tears were shed It is becoming a tragic fact to the great mass of American brain-work ers that shipyard employes, freight engineers, etc., are getting larger wages than the salaries paid to the governors of thirteen states; that thousands of clergymen receive less than day laborers or window clean ers; that college professors often pocket the same wage as the men who rake the leaves and remove ashes about the campus. In the vast major ity of wage earning occupations the period of preparation is a mere noth ing as compared with that of those who follow so-called brain occupa tions. In many cases it is a matter of serving only a few months as an apprentice before the regular scale of wages can be demanded—and re ceived. It is easily seen that strong men can learn to drive rivets in a ship in a very short while, thereby earning about $60.00 per week. Glass manufacturers command salaries of $100.00 per week, and the trade is learned in less than a month. The intellectural leaders of so ciety—professors, teachers, and clergymen—are falling far behind in the money race as compared with the wage earners. How long will it he before the flannel shirt rather than the stiff bosomed shirt will become the emblem of social standing? Will it be possible for professors who re ceive less than cotton mill help to impress high standards if they lose their social standing? The present financial ascendancy of brawn over brain has come about naturally. In our country we have had a comparatively small number of immigrants to do our manual labor. The men who constituted our huge army were mainly from the laboring class, and for this reason, cooks, win dow cleaners, hod-carriers, etc., have made upward stride in the financial scale. During the past year or more the general agitation through the press for higher pay for teachers and pio- fessors has resulted in a more or less improvement. The extent to which some of our colleges have increased the salaries of professors shows a de sire to better conditions and revive the hope that, after all, the chosen profession might provide a means for a livelihood. Dollars talk just as truly in the world of the teaching pro fession as in the great commercial struggles. This is being recognized by college and university boards, the reasons for which may be briefly sum marized. Almost any teacher of fair ability can double or even triple his yearly income by entering work other than teaching. 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