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EDITORIAL STAFF
R. T. FALKENBERG
R. O. PEARSON
R. H. JONES
L. H. MADDOX
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C. M. FLORER
T. A. PILKEY
R. E. HOMANN
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W. T. COLEMAN . . .
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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
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700 of the best seats in center of the hall at $2.
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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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