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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1927)
4 THE BATTALION THE BATTALION •:«]l!IIIIIIIIIIC]llllllllllll[]llllll!lllll[3lillllllllilC2lllllllillllE]llllllll!lll[]lllillllllll[]IIIIMIIIIil[31lllll!lllll[3lllll!IIIIIIC]||||||llilll[||||||llllll|[]llll>> Published every Wednesday night by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. Subscription price $1.7 5 per Year. ALL ADS RUN UNTIL ORDERED OUT. Acc October ep ted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of 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 R. T. FALKENBERG R. O. PEARSON R. H. JONES L. H. MADDOX S. BAKER A. R. MENGER C. M. FLORER T. A. PILKEY R. E. HOMANN W. G. RALPH W. C. MORRISS W. T. COLEMAN . . . B. P. GREENWADE . G. M. WRENN E. L. ANDREWS G. F. STARK R. B. TATE N. A. DONGES W. C. JOHNSON W. D. McELROY .... L. L. TAYLOR Editor-in-Chief Managing 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 . . Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor Literary Editor Literary Editor Literary Editor Associate Literary Editor Humorous Editor Cartoonist CONTRALTO “Grand Old Grenadier of Motherhood and Music” ASSEMBLY HALL - A. & M. COLLEGE MONDAY, MAY 2 AT 8:15 P. M. FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Direction George Engles, New York Local Auspices Y. M. C. A. and Senior Class of the College Prices: $1, $1.50, and $2. ALL SEATS RESERVED 700 of the best seats in center of the hall at $2. RESERVE SEATS EARLY Tickets available on campus at Y. M. C. A. BUSINESS MANAGER »Z*m:mimiaiiimumiimimmaiiwiiiwi[]uiwiiiiii[]iiiiiiiiiiii[miiiiiiiii[Jiiiiiiwiiicmiiiiiiii[3iiiiiiiiiw[mwwiiiijmii/m»? R. L. EDGAR . . J. A. DAVIS . . . R. E. O. SLOAN TEXAS VS. MINNESOTA. School spirit has always been an important factor in the various insti tutions of higher learning in Texas and after graduation the student usually continues in his loyalty to his Alma Mater. Now it seems that all these school spirits will have to combine into a state spirit to uphold the honor of the state of Texas against the slanderous and libelous statements issued ity the commissioner of immigration of Minnesota. This statement charges that “the stage is being set in Texas for an artificial boom” and also that “the best agricultural districts in Texas are hardly comparable to the poor er sections of Minnesota.” When we stop to consider the cotton production of Ellis, Bell, and Williamson counties, which lead the world; the citrus fruit growing all the year long in the entire Rio Grande Valley; the Pine forests in southeast Texas; the rice fields in the southern part of the state and the many other districts that are noted for some production and then think that this is incomparable even to the poorest part of Minnesota we gasp, awe-stricken, for breath and marvel at what a wonderful place Minnesota must be. It might he surprising- to Minnesotans if they were presented with the facts that Texas leads the world in sulphur production and petroleum refining; that it leads the South in manufacturing with a billion dollar annual man ufacturing output; has exports three times as great as those of the Pacific coast; and that the banks have deposits of over nine hundred million dol lars. But we should not let this worry us—such a small remark can do little harm to such a big state. Daniel Webster once said before the United States Senate that Texas was a desert, so desolate and barren that a crow would starve to death in attempt to fly over it. In speaking of Texas the famous General Sherman said that if he owned both Hell and Texas he would live in Hell and offer Texas for rent. We have lived over these remarks so why should we let the statements of an ordinary uninformed immigration offi cer worry us? ABOUT MUCH WRITING. Someone has suggested that if Sunday came every three days we never would get through reading the Sunday newspaper editions. In America, people are trained to read constantly a great deal, any thing)—advertisements if nothing else. There is one condemning feature to this condition. People pay little attention to such condensed writing as editorials. Poor Richard would not be noticed now-a-days. What’s the good of reading editorials, people say, when the world all around us is full of throbbing, living maxims. Yet, on the other hand, reverting to habit, the modern American will read a three hundred page novel just to get one small spark of a new thought on how to better live. Again, they will spend two nights at the theatre listening to a long philosophical play by Shaw or Ibsen. 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