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
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