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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1920)
10 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 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. 19 05. STAFF SOPHOMORE EDITION. —’22— C. W. Thomas Editor-in-Chief J. T. Carlisle Associate Editor A. P. Lancaster Associate Editor W. C. Weir Associate Editor H. L. Dreeke Art Editor P. C. Franke , Art Editor B. Naschke Art Editor —’22— F. T. Wendt Business Manager A MAN’S WORD AT A. AND M. What should a man’s word be worth in A. and M ? It is possible that a good many of us have thought of asking ourselves the question: What is my word worth between me and my fellow students and between me and the people other than students that I come in contact with ? Many of us have, as it were, weighed our fellow associates in the balance. Have we found them to be men who meas ure up to our ideals of what a four square man should; be, or have we found them wanting ? If we have found them wanting, we have been quick to take noticfe of the mote in their eye, but have! we been able to detect the beam in our own eye ? Do we regard our own word so lightly that we are found wanting when we are weighed on the scales used by others ? rPt When God gave Moses the law, He gave him the ten commandments. One of these commandments was, “Thou shalt not lie.” It seems to us that the crime of lying is one of the most, if not the most detestable crimes that one can be guilty of. The man that is giiilty of murder commands far more respect than the man that is guilty of lying. There are times when murder is excusable, there are times when a murderer is thought to be honorable, but is there ever a time when it is honorable to lie ? Here at A. and M., we students get the impression and come in contact with the influences that mold our lives. Here we form our lifetime friendships. Whether or not we stand out for the truth as we travel through life will largely depend on the atti tude of our friends and associates here in college towards the untarnish ed truth. Let us not forget that some of us will in the near future take important part in the development and progress of this State. If this is to be done as it should be, it is neces sary that we have a high regard for the truth. We students are the con trolling influences in each other’s lives; so we are in a measure respon sible to one another and for one another. Benjamin Franklin said, “Honesty is the best policy.” From all accounts of his life, Franklin lived the kind of a life that would qualify him to cre ate this time-worn adage. It has been said that money is the root of all evil, but, where truth and honesty reign in one’s life, money or the lack of money ceases to be of much con cern. Truth may be said to be the root of all that is high and noble. If we consider the good will and good opinion of our associates of any val ue, if we take into consideration the fact that all social and business life is held together by one’s faith in his fellowman, and if we realize the fact that we are constantly exerting an influence for good or evil on the lives of others, it behooves each and every one of us to so conduct ourselves that we merit the compliment “His word is as good as his bond.” OPEN TO ALL. A. and M. is outgrowing its knee- pants. The sooner the people of Tex as realize this and vote to put this College into long trousers, the sooner will we reach that ambition of every man here—the greatest Agricultural and Mechanical College in America. Next year promises a student body of twenty-five hundred. We are crowd ed with eighteen hundred. Will we have to turn them down? Not if we can help it! But, rather, talk every high school graduate that you can into coming to A. and M. We must grow! The people of Texas must realize that we WILL grow. When they see these knee-pants our College is wearing breaking out at the knees and patched in the seat—they must know that we are growing. The most convincing argument that v/e can use to set forth our need of funds for growth is a battalion of tents on the drill field next September. Then bring the Legislature, a Barker- Farmer Conference, or any represen tative body of Texas citizens down here—and those tents will stay there just long enough to give us time to erect dormitories to accomodate every Texas boy who wants to be some thing. A. and M. must be open to all. We must not have a selective entrance situation. But we must prove our needs to Texas. Talk it at home; and run those high school men down here next fall. If our short- pants split wide open, some humane agency will see to it that we won’t look indecent! LEARN TO LIVE. low men and active participation in outside activities of the college are of a value that equals if it does not exceed the value of academic work. The existing social disorder of the world is due only in a small way to lack of education. This disruption of economic peace is due to inapprecia tion of the other man’s interests and to a mis-shaped idea of the relation of one individual to another and, more especially to his relation to, and duties toward the complex social fab ric of the modern day. In simple language, man doesn’t yet know how to live with his fellowman. If a col lege education would function in its highest sense it must give to the stu dent as well as pure knowledge, a proper foundation for living. Man cannot live in the world of today and live alone. We believe that A. and M. presents to every man an oppor tunity to learn to live among men. Its democracy, its freedom from sup erficially, and, above all, the standard of manhood and true worth that it has set up—these are the training that fits a man for life. The man who does not get into ac tive college life is tying a handicap to his later life. He is shirking his first duty to society—that of learning to live with his fellows. He is miss ing the greatest and finest enjoyment that can come to him in his young manhood, the best days of his life. His life is narrowed forever—and by his own hands. Come out of it—be one of us! Prepare to live! ALL-ROUND ATHLETICS. A. and M. is just about to wind up its most successful athletic year in history. Not only have our teams covered themselves with glory on the field but this year has also brought to us three hitherto comparatively unknown sports. These are Tennis, Wrestling and Boxing. The three together have brought out over one- hundred and fifty enthusiastic follow ers, and everything points toward these sports winning their proper niche in A. and M. Athletics. We have it on good authority that Polo will be introduced here next year. This will being a corresponding in crease of the number of students working out for the various teams. It is very gratifying to note this widening of the sphere of A. and M. athletics. It signifies a progressive spirit and a better college life, This means a greater influx of new stu dents ’/Cxt fall. These are just steps to a bigger and better A. and M. Jump in and help do your part. AN OLD TALE. where they were working. “When we stopped and got out they knew what we had come far. And they dropped their chains and left their transits and gathered around our man. They were a dozen or more and we were only five. But our bus-, iness was to get him and we started to do it. “It seemed impossible to win one against three, but sonny, they didn’t know a Sophomore could fight. They laughed at us and saw visions of a bull pen in Milner that night with the hero on a trunk telling how twelve Juniors whipped five Sophomores. They laughed, sonny, and we got mad. But they didn’t laugh long. The whole thing was over in five minutes. We five went through them and took our man and put him in the car. And while two of us held off twelve Jun iors, the other three drove on off. Sonny, you ought to have seen your grand-dad them. And those twelve Juniors— why they even forgot to holler ‘Scudder’ ”. ‘And what did they say about that,’ the little boy asked. “Oh”—and the old man’s eyes twinkled and chuckle rose from his throat—“They called us ‘sack-hold ers!” ’22 If any o four late guests found it disagreeable to have every action watched they should not be too hard on us cadets, when they consider the greater tortures we have to endure. College Station is an isolated spot and we are but the poor products of our environment. Every day we are tattooed, tapped, reveilled, police called, and class- called. We are lectured, quizzed, questioned and drilled. In the Mess Hall we are sky-juiced, regulated, milked, flaked, souped, slummed, and sometimes even desserted. Our only recrea tion is physical exercise, Mexican Athletics, sleep, or a letter to home —only to home. Sometimes some one slips off to Bryan, but that usually ends by compusing. Don't blame us for our actions. It’s a miracle that we aren’t all padded- celled. ’22 CLASS REPORT Capt. A. L. Tuttle. Subject: “Bull-ticks.” Students enrolled: 30. Present: 28. Absent: 1. “Sleeping through”: 1. (Captain, page Preston). Student interested: 5. Those having boks: 25. Those who will have books next week: 30. Those who know the lesson: 10. Those who read it over: 25. Expecting to get by on their “line”: All. Those who attend the military movies: 2. “Hopes” for being cadet colonel: 2. Students desiring to make mil itary science their life work: 0. Those craving the 19 bucks: All. Those wishing the hour were long er: None. Number of ears “craned” for the bugle: 60. ’22 At a recent meeting of the Jun ior Class a resolution w'as unan imously adopted that every member of the class say a prayer to the Goddess of Luck every night for the remainder of the year. In all prob ability it is a prayer of thanks. The surroundings of A. and M. are such that there are not many things to divert the student’s mind from his work. There is little of what the world calls society to interfere with studies. What organized entertain ment we have is regulated upon a schedule in which school work is the first consideration. Consequently we believe that a man has a better chance to study at A. and M. than any other college in the State. But we have, in this seclusion of ours, a society that is peculiar to A. and M. and which is one of the great est developers of the man within a man that exists. We mean the col lege life. Against the opinion of some of our instructors, we venture to as sert that studies are not all of col lege life. At times we even feel that lessons make up less than half of edu cation. Clean contact with one’s fel- The old man had taken his grand son upon his knee, and in answer to the insistent demand, “Tell me about how you used to fight, Grandpa,” was beginning the thrice-told tale of the stirring days when his young blood ran strong. “I was in kahki, sonny, and all the men with me wore the uniform of my country. We had the traditions of years behind us and we fought to make new ones that you would look back on with pride. The day of days was rapidly approaching when word came that we would raid the enemy the next day at three in the after noon. Such an adventure in daylight was unheard of before. But we knew what we could do. Five of us were assigned to take one man and hold him in the Brazos bottom. We knew he was out with a surveying section of Juniors and we drove a car out to
