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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1928)
THE BATTALION 8 DEATH. BOOKS THAT WILL NOT STAY IN THE LIBRARY There are several books that will not stay in the library, no action oh their part implied, it is due, to the acquisitive instincts of the cadets. They know good literature when they see it; and they absolutely re fuse to have anything to do with it so far as swiping is concerned. Some few may read it. It is doubt ful. Such books as Perigrine Pickle, The Monk, The Red Lily, Madame de Maupin, and (if it was EVER there) tThe Decameron, are stolen as fast as they can be replaced. The library breaks no speed records in replacing they can’t afford it, but the evilWinded cadets seem to perch like vultures on the library shelves waiting 1 for some book to come in that has a slight smell of sex about it. Immediately it disappears, per haps tq re-appear in a fish-baiting bull pen, in order to determine the responsiveness of the freshman’s mind tp lascivious literature. Is sex so all important? Is there not enough first hand experience in the world without having to read such vulgar stuff, for though the author may treat his subject ever so artistically, in the hands of the A. and M. Cadet it becomes obscene. Realizing that sex is all impor tant, the question should be restated: won’t subtle allusions satisfy? Or must brutal frankness be the only satisfactory manner of expression for things that should be the final fruition of ideal love. Sex is an impulse quite as much as hunger, but green apples usually result in stomach ache. One can not sublimate the sex instincts by reading of them, one eats no meals through a baker’s window. One looks at a car and longs for a ride, just so vath trashy sex stories. But all of the above named books are not trash as interpreted by the cadets. In fact the major portions of these books are not read at all, an excellent guarantee of their quality, and sometimes only the lewd chap ters of such books as Madame de Maupin are found in circulation J around the halls. Then why destroy a good book, whose “trash,” is only a racy touch when taken with the whole, when stories much better suited for the purpose can be brought on any pas senger train ? Give the Library a chance. (All of the above named books are at present in the library. Lay on, McDuff!) Statistics ? What we have not learned is how ninety per cent of the dentists rec ommend one kind of tooth paste, ninety-five per cent recommend an other, and still eighty per cent rec ommend another kind. * * * Missing Link. Can some one supply the name of that English humorist who has his valet put his hard-toe boots on him just before he died, with this re mark: “James I feel that my time is most up at last, and I don’t want to hurt my corns when I kick the bucket.” Death, ’tis a noble word, in it held peace, freedom, relaxation, and all possible gratification of human de sires. Life is so simple, birth, a span of years, and then death. But that monumental ass, man, abhoring sim plicity as he does the grave, needs must complicate the span of years with getting, striving, keeping, and even sanctimonious giving. Merely for purposes of reproduction. .. .ah how the noble, the brave, the pure of heart, the asinine work with might and main to find some other END for man. The beauty of the grave, .when the noble soul sinks to the all embrac ing love of. . . .worms, dripping wa ter, slime, and the cold reality that lue is but animated dust. When the fainting heart passes to lands of ineffable bliss. . . .and reappears as nitrogenous matter in some thank ful flower. Sixteen years of servitude for the crime of being born, sixteen more years of slavery for the crime of (Continued on Page 4) If V j bn r’ X>>' "Doubled and redoubled” w in ''A f jft leading bridge expert once said, "The aces and kings play themselves; it’s the little spots that make games.” What’s true in bridge seems equally true in the cigarette business. Aces to deuces, spades to clubs—from the very first deal. Chesterfield made every card good! No risky finesses, no sharp double squeezes — Chesterfield rose to world-wide popularity by straight honest selling with a straight honest product — an outstanding success in cigarette history. So Chesterfield can bid higho Tobacco qual ity, perfect blending, purity, mildness, natural sweetness — with a hand like that. Chesterfield can redouble your smoking pleasure.,.and to day, next month, next year, keep right on ful filling the contract. Chesterfield MILD enough for anybody • . and yet, .THEY SATISFY LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO.