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Entered as second-class matter at College
Station, Texas, February
17, 1905.
JUNIOR BATTALION STAFF:
W. T. Strange, Jr Editor-in-Chief
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W. G. McMillan, A. S. Vandervoort,
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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. Many professors cling to
their professions, sometimes at the
expense of personal sacrifice, solely
for the love and loyalty toward their
work. But the pressing necessities
of mere sustenance and the attrac
tive offers on all sides are becoming
competing factors that the profes
sors cannot overlook.
Perhaps one reason why our pro-
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