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THE BATTALIOM
Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas.
Subscription price $1.75 per Year.
ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT.
Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of
October 3, 1917, authorized October 18, 1922.
All undergraduates in the College are eligible to try for a place on the Editorial Etaff
of this paper. Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors who are interested in journalism for
its own sake, are urged to make themselves known to some member of the Staff.
EDITORIAL STAFF
L. J. FRANKE ....
S. I. STRATTON, JR.
R. H. JONES
L. H. MADDOX . . .
R. O. PEARSON . . .
S. BAKER
A. R. MENGER
C. M. FLORER
T. A. PTLKEY
R. E. HOMANN . . . ,
W. G. RALPH ....
R. T. FALKENBERG
W. O. MORRIS
G. M. WRENN . . . .
W. T. COLEMAN . .
G. F. STARK
R. B. TATE
N. A. DONGES
W. C. JOHNSON . .
R. C. HAYNIE
W. D. McELROY . ..
L. L. TAYLOR
Editor
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Sports Editor
...Associate Sports Editor
. .Assistant Sports Editor
Exchange Editor
Social Editor
News Editor
. . . .Associate News Editor
. . Assistant News Editor
. . .Associate News Editor
Literary Editor
Literary Editor
Literary Editor
Associate Literary Editor
Humorous Editor
Humorous Editor
Cartoonist
BUSINESS MANAGER
R. L. EDGAR Business Manager
J. A. DAVIS Assistant Business Manager
R. E. O. SLOAN Circulation Manager
TO THE FACULTY AND STUDENT BODY.
At the beginning of the year, I set as my goal in editing the “Battalion”
a “closer cooperation and a more complete understanding between the stu
dents and the faculty” (see Issue No. 1., editorial under heading of “The
Policy of the Battalion). The student council here has never been a success,
and I realize that it never could be a success as long as A. and M. remained
a military school. Since the military training at this institution is one of
its greatest attractions, and as the corps is one of the most worthwhile
things at A. and M., I searched for some other method of drawing the fac
ulty and the students together. I hoped, then, to fill the place of the student
council through the “Battalion.” It was an ideal of mine to so conduct the
Student Opinion column that the cadets would set forth their honest opin
ions and criticisms therein; and I hoped and believed that members of the
faculty individually or the faculty collectively would treat these articles with
consideration and thought, and either answer them in some form of forum
discussion, or reply to them in this publication.
Two weeks ago, just as I was beginning to receive a large number of
student opinion articles, I was required to subject each of these articles to
the Commandant to approval. The initial article to which offense was taken
appeared in the January 19th issue; an article rather sarcastically written,
perhaps, but nevertheless containing a good suggestion in the plea that fac
ulty members form a habit of dropping into the mess hall unannounced and
eating at any seat selected at random. Since that time several Student Opin
ions have been approved and several disapproved. In each case the articles
frowned upon were suggestions or complaints directed to the faculty; in
every case those approved dealt with students.
That shattered my ideal of a closer understanding between the faculty
and the students, for it left no channel of communication between the two
bodies.
The Committee on Student Activities, which deals with student publi
cations (article 51, paragraphs 1, 2, and 3, College Regulations) consists of
Col. Turner, Chairman, and Dr. Lee and Mr. Richey, members. However,
since this committee has never met during this scholastic year, and both Dr.
Lee and Mr. Richey expressed themselves well satisfied with the “Battalion,”
it is apparent that the action toward the Student Opinions was not made in
the capacity of the committee, but in that of the commandant.
Furthermore, I cannot remember a single instance in the past when this
committee required an editor to submit his copy to them before going
to press. As one very prominent member of the faculty expressed it last
Monday, “We have always had confidence and trust enough in the editor of
our student publication to allow him to use his own judgement in the selec
tion of his material.”
If my judgment is not to be trusted and the faculty has no confidence in
me, then evidentally I am not worthy of editing the “Battalion.” If I am to
be denied an opportunity of trying to establish a better understanding be
tween the faculty and student body; if the students are not to be permitted
a free expression of their thoughts and a chance to state their complaints
through the channels of their publication, then I have no desire to continue
at the head of that publication.
I therefore respectfully, though very regretfully, tender to the faculty
and the student body my resignation as editor of the “Battalion.”
LOUIS J. FRANKE.
“CLOSER COOPERATION AND BETTER UNDERSTANDING.”
It has always been the custom of the editor of the “Battalion” to address
an editorial to the students in the last issue of the year. I would like to at
tempt to solve the most prominent problem on the campus today.
For the last few days I have been listening to the opinions of students
all over the campus. I find everywhere murmurings against “petty and un
reasonable” regulations, against the curtailing of the rights of the students,
and against the unreasonable stand taken in regard to complaints concern
ing these matters. I hear dark hints of “revolutions” and “Long Bats.” I
find seniors read}’ to lead, underclassmen ready to follow.
Believe me, the solution of your troubles is not to be found in a “revo
lution.” It has been tried before without success, and even if you won, you
would lose.
Go to the faculty as individuals. Take it upon yourself to visit some
member with whom you are familiar. Tell him of the situation and of the
students’ reaction; if you are wrong, he will show you where, and if you
are right, he will help you.
Send representatives to President Walton. Talk the matter over with
him, and rest assured that you will get not only a considerate hearing, but
that he will suggest a remedy, and a speedy and just one.
And when the present situation has cleared up, see to it that it draws
you closer to the faculty. Much more will be done if the faculty and student
body have some medium of exchange of ideas. You will find as 1 have found
out in the past few days, that the members of the faculty include many men
who are just and fair, and who place the interests of A. and M. above every
thing else. They will be glad of an opportunity of obtaining an insight into
the students’ point of view.
LOUIS J. FRANKE.
A LADY SAYS HER SAY.
We print the following letter, postmarked Dallas.
“Dear Mr. Franke:
Please, please as Editor of “The Battalion,” do not mean the contents
of that article, “A Challenge,” which was published in the week of Febru
ary 2nd. Do not mean or believe that the value and honor of the Senior
A. and M. ring is being cheapened by the minature ring, or that the senti
ment attached thereto is being desecrated. It isn’t. It can’t be.
The Aggie Senior ring stands for all the good there is in men, and is
the highest honor that can be paid a college student. It is revered and
respected by the wearer, and that ring bears so high a standard that it
is not easily detracted from. It is a pass key to any port, and a recommend
ation to any man, and pronounces the wearer a gentleman in every sense
of the word. What higher tribute can be paid?
The minature Senior rings were made for a purpose and that purpose
was to give the young ladies a share of the happiness and comradeship
which they must miss by not being real Aggies. There are those young-
ladies who love A. and M. deeply and sincerely, bbut their connections can
never be other than indirect. They know and feel the Aggie spirit, but at
a distance. All the more glory for them to love that school faithfully and
truthfully, though deprived of the privilege of being its children. When
Aggielahd laughs, she is happy, when it cries, she is sad; when it rejoices,
she is glad and when it mours, she sympathizes. Will you deprive these
young ladies of the privilege of wearing the symbol of the school they love
so well? The Senior ring only brings them closer to A. and M. and accen
tuates rather than mitigates their respect. They too, rever it and all it
means. That privilege granted con only bring joy and deep respect. There
is no disloyalty at A. and M. There can be none among its followers.
Won’t you see and understand that these young ladies realize their
disadvantage, and the minature Senior ring helps to alleviate that feeling
of vacancy, and is a means of bringing them nearer to the school and stu
dents they love individually and collectively, and of whom they are so
proud?
I can only assure you that underlying my attitude is a love for the
greatest school in the world, and that you have challenged a principal upon
which I have always relied and depended.
Keep the minature ring, and “There Shall Be No Regrets.”
ONE OF THE “YOUNG LADIES.”
Editor’s Note: “Somebody’s” girl sent this in. Fellow, if you haven’t
already given her a minature ring, send her one tomorrow; if you have,
send her another.
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