THE BATTALION
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PRESIDENT ASKS
$180,500 BUDGET
FOR THE COLLEGE
Tells the Board of Control That tha
Cost of Living Has Increased
82 Per Cent
Galveston News, May 14—
A total of $1,519,169 was asked
today by the higher institutions of
learning for emergency, deficiency,
and increased appropriations to meet
the present crisis in educational con
ditions in this state. This requisi
tion was formally presented to the
state board of control today by rep
resentatives of various educational
institutions for recommendation and
transmission to the coming special
session of the legislature. Under the
new law the board of control is the
budget maker and this will be its first
functioning under that provision of
the act.
A summary of the several classes
of appropriations requested today is
as follows: University of Texas
$550,000; College of Industrial Arts
$334,894; A. and M. College, $180,-
500; John Tarleton Agricultural Col
lege, $46,250; Grubbs Vocational
College, $26,200; Prairie View Nor
mal, $49,695; experiment stations
$30,530; Sam Houston Normal, $49,-
350; North Texas Normal, Denton,
$48,510; Southwest Texas Normal,
San Marcos, $47,480; West Texas
Normal, Canyon, $65,100; East Tex
as Normal, Commerce, $56,100; Sul
Ross Normal Alpine, $34,180.
The entire day was consumed in
discussing the various items whicn
make up the following totals, the
representatives of the institutions
having contended that these various
amounts are absolutely necessary.
The greater proportion is under the
head of salary adjustments, which
calls for increased teachers’ salaries
and for additional faculty members.
Estimates Are Considered.
The board of control has the esti
mates and recommendations under
consideration and will prepare its
budget of requisitions to the legisla
ture at the earliest possible moment..
Today’s figures do not include any
relief for the common, graded or
high schools, nor for amounts for re
imbursements for crop losses under
the prospective pink boll worm act,
all of which is to be considered by
the coming special session.
In presenting the estimates for the
A. and M. College, Dr. W. B. Biz-
zell, its president, gave the following
illustration:
“According to the report of the
national industrial conference board,
the cost of living in 1919 was 82 pei'
cent above the cost of living in July
1914. This may be expressed other
wise in two ways:
“One dollar in 1914, had the same
purchasing power that $1.82 had in
1919.
“One dollar in 1919 had the same
purchasing power that 55c had in
1914.
“On this basis let us make a com
parison of the salaries paid members
of the teaching staff of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College for the
sessions of 1913-14 and 1919-20.
“Consider first full professors
only. In 1913-14 the average salary
for this rank was $2,358.82. To
equal this in purchasing power in
1919-20 would have required a sal
ary of $4,395.05. The actual aver
age salary for full professors for
1919-20 was $2,866.66. That is, in
order to yield the purchasing power
which obtained in 1913-14, the sal
ary for 1919-20 would have to be
increased by $1,426.39.
Salary Increases Needed.
“Consider now the salaries of all
members of the teaching staff of the
college proper, including full pro
fessors, associate professors, assis
tant professors and instructors.
“The average salary fo rthese sev
eral ranks in 1913-14 was $1,590.94.
To equal this in purchasing power in
1919-20 would have required an
average salary of $3,245.66. The
actual average salai'y for all ranks
for 1920-21 was $2,112.30. This is,
in order to yield the same purchas
ing power as obtained in 1913-14,
the average salary for 1919-20 for
all ranks would have to be increased
by $1,133.36.
“To put the matter another way:
“In 1913-14 the average salary of
full professors was $2,358.82; in
1919-20 the average, when expressed
in “prewar” dollars, was $1,576.66,
a decrease of $782.16 in “prewar”
dollars.
“Similarily for teachers of all
ranks, the average salary in 1913-14
was $1,590.94; in 1919-20, the aver
age, when expressed in “prewar”
dollars was $1,161.76, a decrease of
$329.18 in “prewar” dollars.
“A later report of the national
industrial conference boai'd, publish
ed about May 1, 1920, puts the in
crease in the ocst of living for the
present time at 95 per cent above
that for July 1914.”
’23
COMPANY A WINS CHAMPION
SHIP
The Company A Fish upheld their
claim to the championship of the
campus Sunday by defeating Com
pany A Signal Corps 17-10. By this
victory and elimination of the last
contended the Company aggregation
are unquestionably the winners in
the fight for the pennant, but are
ready to meet any dispute as to their
claims. This game was chiefly a
slugging match and was anybody’s
game until in the fifth Lawhorn blew
up and was replaced by Murray who
pitched a fairly good ball except in
the eighth and ninth.
Co. A Inf. scored one in the first
inning and the Signal Corps likewise.
This was repeated in the second
frame and the score remained tied
until the fourth when Tate drove
one into center for the circuit. This
broke the ice and when the inning
was over four more had crossel the
plate. They scored two more in the
fifth and the game looked practically
cinched until in the sixth with the
bases full Murray knocked a home
run. This rattled Company A and
three runs were secured by the S. C.
tying the count. A Infantry scored
one in the seventh, but the S. C.
came right back with another. Until
now Murray had been going good,
but successive home runs by Ash
ley and Tate and bunched hits and
two walks put the game on ice as
the S. C. failed to score in either
the eighth or ninth.
Easton for the Infantry, made
three hits in three times up and
Bullock S. C. center fielder, made
several sensational catches. Meri-
weather. Infantry, pitched a good
game but had loose support at times
especially in the sixth and seventh.
This makes Company A, Infantry
six victories out of seven games
played making a percentage of 840.
AMERICAN LEGION
WILL MAKE DRIVE
FOR NEW MEMBERS
Other Plans Are Laid to Keep up the
Interest of Members Through
the Summer
The American Legion met in busi
ness session Wednesday night and
after making arrangements for Dec
oration Day ceremonies elected the
following officers: Ike S. Ashburn,
as Post Commander pro tern; T. F.
Mayo, as Adjutant pro tern; and L.
D. Howell, as Vocational Officer.
Plans were made for the member
ship campaign ending May 22. A
committee was appointed who will
arrange and carry out the details of
the drive and at the next meeting
on Thursday evening it is determin
ed that the Post will enroll at least
one hundred new members.
The Legion is to be made of in
terest to members during the sum
mer through picnics, barbecues, din
ners and a baseball team will be
trained to compete with teams from
surrounding Posts. Every man who
is eligible is urged to consider that
it is a privilege to belong to the Le
gion. In the near future this organi
zation will be in a position to do un
told good and every eligible man
must consider seriously the possibil
ities of the Legion and join during
the campaign week starting Satur
day.
After the meeting the members
repaired to the Airdome where the
motion p : cture, “Uncle Sam, Insur
ance Agent” was shown.
A GLORIOUS FEELING
WHEN you come in tired some night
He * *
AND you flatten out between the
sheets
He H< He
AT about eight o’clock
H« He He
AND you are sleeping peacefully
H< H« H«
THEN there comes to your ears
He He He
THE loathsome notes of a bugle
* * *
AND you get up
* * *
AND there’s your “old lady”
He He He
SITTING at the table
He He *
WITH her nose in a chemistry
He H« H«
AND you ask her
He He H=
IF it’s time for reveille
H* He He
AND she says “No
He He He
IT’S only totoo”
* He He
OH! BOY! ain't it a grand
He He He
AND glorious feeling?
H« H« He
I’LL say so!
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PROBLEMS.
(With Apologies).
I’m forever working problems.
Pretty problems on the board.
I think I’ve worked ’em
’Til I put the answer down,
Then I find
That I’m always wrong.
That answer’s always hiding.
I’ve worked ’em every way,
But still I’m working problems,
More problems every day.
IN ENTOMOLOGY
Q- es^ion-^—Give the life history of
a bu^; hunter genus homo, gender
masculine.
Answer—This specimen has a very
complicated life history. The real
life cycle begins in September and it
usually takes four years for it to
reach maturity. This bug hunter, if
it lives through its first year, has a
good chance to survive. During the
first nine months of its existence it
is preyed upon by older members of
the family. The only color mark
ings of the first year bug hunter is
an occasional red and blue stripe on
the terminal of the spinal column
and one white stripe is always worn
in order to keep people from mistak
ing him for an adult. The larva
stage, better known as a “fish,” takes
nine months to change into the pupa
or resting stags, or sophomore. The
bug hunter passes from the pupa or
sophomore stage into the sub-pupa
or junior stage. After the bug
hunter has completed his fourth or
senior year of growth, he is ready to
descend upon the world as an adult
bug hunter. During the period of
his growth he must overcome every
thing from Agronomy to Zoology.
’23—
CASUAL FISH—EX-GOBS.
Although we are just twenty-five
strong,
We’ve many tales to tell;
We’ve sung full many a sailor’s song,
And we’ve tasted a bit of hell.
We’ve pushed her in the fire-room.
We’ve drank with the mire in the
bar-room.
But we’ve never had dirty necks.
We’ve sipped our tea in old England,
We’ve drank Cognac in gay France;
We feel at home in most any land,
We’re the boys with the wide-bot
tomed pants.
We’ve sailed the seas down to zero
degrees.
With the tropical sun shining down;
We’ve drank many healths on the
seven seas,
And we’ve squandered full many a
crown.
At last we have dropped the old
mud-hook,
To A. and M. our allegiance is
sworn;
Thru trial and strife she’ll not be
forsook,
And we’ll laugh all other to scorn.
We roll a fag and sit and think
Of days on the fo’cle we’ve seen;
Aw! Wake up Jack, snap out of your
hop,
It’s only a nicotine dream.
’23 ;
REGRET
Her lips were so near—
And I hadn’t the nerve.
’Twas the chance of a year.
(Her lips were so near.)
She was angry, I fear,
And her scorn I deserve.
Her lips were so near—
And I hadn’t the nerve.
—Tiger.
’23
Student: “Professor, I think I
just skinned through that exam.”
Prof: “Yes, I know you did, I
was watching you.”