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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1930)
THE BATTALION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: You seem to take a g-ood deal of delight in telling other people how to live and perhaps that is yuor busi ness, but it seems to me that you ex ceed your duty when you arrogate to yourself the right to inform all of those who may happen to enjoy an occasional drink of “Scotch” on oc casions. I have been presented a fine bottle of Scotch whiskey for Christmas and it is before me as I sit at my type writer and indite this letter to you. It bears the label of Sandy McDon ald—a good, fair, well-bodied liquor which I am assured was bought be fore the war and has been in my friend’s cellar ever since. What right has any form of law to make me • a criminal if I partake of this gift as it was intended that I do by the giver. I claim that any such law is an in vasion of my personal liberty. I notice that you have referred often in your excellent column to the so- called Bill of Rights which secures to all men and women certain inalien able rights to their personal liberty, | which as you say, are not inconsistent j with the rights of others. How do you | reconcile your statements ? I have just tasted this bottle of liq uor, I will confide to you, and I can not see where or how I am invading the rights of any other person on earth. I find it excellent. It warms my stomach; it inspires my thought I cannot feel, Mr. Editor, that I have wronged the community or added to the lawlessness of the general society in so doing. It makes me tired to be classed as criminal for any such occasion, and I notify you that be fore long, there will be a revolt against the sort of stuff that you are writing. Just to show my independence of such truck as you are writing, I have taken another drink of the afore said most jubilant Sandy McDonald, and I will say to you that it is about -rnsL. Si It takes more than a degree to make an engineer It’s pretty hard to keep your mind on a study of fatigue-of-cable-sheath- alloys, when you are thinking of the joys of artistic creation. And why try? There is work aplenty in this world for engineers and artists, for doc tors, lawyers, builders, salesmen. The difficultyis that the individual doesn ’t al ways connect up with /i/s work. Too many college men never take the trouble really to analyze themselves. Self examination now with the aid of your faculty ad vis or may save years of groping later on. And at grad- n uation it will help you off to a g° od start - SINCE 1 8 S 2 MANUFACTURERS FOR THE BELL SYSTEM as smooth a drink as a criminal ever put into his system. The second drink, which I shall soon follow by a third, makes me more certain that those who feel their systems require stimulant, should band together; or ganize, and start a campaign to floor this Volstead busienss if it can be done. Now, Mr. Editor, I am no bum and you can’t make me a bum. I like a little drink now and then and I have taken a third or maybe it is a fourth and I am moi’e than ever convenced that any man thqt doen’t is a big idi ot. You say that this evabio of the law is producing a state of affairs in our Grear nand Glorious Kuntry. You are wronh! This ciuntry is jess as good as it ever was and was a great deal better country and I will leabe it to you f iit wsn8t, when we had free rum. I wan8t to say to you that this Pipes save no midnight oil TTF PIPES made the man, anybody at all could rise in the world just by smoking a few pounds of Edge- worth. But pipes do not make the man. Men make the pipe—most men do. Somewhat depends on the individual, more on the pipe, and the tobacco is most important of all. Things must be congenial. Edgeworth is a congenial tobacco, cool, slow-burning, fully flavored. Edgeworth has poise, kindly good nature, real tobacco personality — Edgeworth welcomes new friends. Many a good man has been pledged to pipes by Edgeworth alone. Like to meet Edgeworth? Just ask with the coupon—and the postman will bring your first few pipefuls of the genuine, three years seasoned if it’s a day. Our treat, if you please. Others have found Edgeworth and quit their discontent. So may it be with you! EDGEWORTH Edgeworth is a careful blend of good tobaccos — selected especially for pipe-smoking. Its quality and flavor never change. Buy it anywhere — “Ready Rubbed” or ‘‘Plug Slice”—15^ pocket package to pound humi dor tin. Laras 8s Bro. Co., Richmond, Va. I’ll try your Edgeworth. And I’ll try It in a good pipe. (Witness my seal) (and my scat of learning) (and my posiofficc and stale! Now let the Edgeworth come! V