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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1933)
I i A A *ruDtrr pomjoatioi or ] m AfM CCUIOI Of uk43 com.(ft tflKTIOK .TCXAi 1 , I j ' J j • i Bnt«r«d u second class matter at the Post ]• Texas, under the Act of Congress, Subscription rate $1.75 per Advertising rates upon College Station, 187». 4 G. M Den Lewis Gram.. C. L. Williams W. O. Sanders E. J Smith L. W. Storms C. -BaMamari T. S. Room— EDITORIAL STAFF | ♦ I ' * / 1 -I- —JL—- Editor | .4-. Manm»n« Editor 4 Sports Editor —4 Associate Editor Associate Editor ..Associate Editor .1 i XgCWhamM Art Editor +•* Reporters: S. S- Summers. H. G. Seeligson, gendahl. D, L. Tisinger, W. M. Watson, Jack BUSINESS STAFF Martin, J. L. I. A Reid. Ber Tltfre Bogevofc R. N. Reid Sam Cooper 9. B. Heir.en F. W Breadle... W. M. Wataon W. A. Co anally C. B. Hussey .... tAsataMt Manager dvertisiag Manager Asaistpnt Advertising Manager Assiatknt Advertising Manager Assbtant Advertising Manager ^ • rive*lotion Manager Assistant Prcultnon Manager Assistant ('irrul .ion Manager THE B A T T A I. I •) S’ THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode Wl r 6 far HOet£ E5tES *V | NOB. E *JtRt MKKM 91 BXllt.HONl coNtUiSetiP ar i A SMftfNS I met Of CfMRO WAS CffOWNfDl <MlN Of fORfibhL RflER SHE , WAS DEAD / A 31WISH M0v namco GREEN6 was born in THt SWEDISH HOSPITAL ON ST. PATRICKS OAV Minneop4Ha.Mhis . ' i EXPENDITURES 'For the benefit of the student body, an itemfsed statement com prising the expenditures per term has been compiled and is presented here. It is hoped that this statement will succeed in explaining the hitherto unexplained dis|K>sition of the funds rolUcted from each stu dent each term under the heading of Matriculation Fee aad Mainten ance Fee A total sum of $9&00 is paid to the college by each student per term far maintenance. Of this sum 189.26 goes tx> the mess hall for food and the remaining $6.7^maintains the laundry service. This sum provides s daily ration allowance of $0.71. per Hk The college catalogue describes the Matriculation Fee as covering the cost of certain incidental supplies and allowing the students the use of the library. The laws of Texas provide for A maximum Matricu lation Fee for state-supported educational instRAtions of $30.00 for the entire year, but so far this school has <tea4egad to stay with in a $25.00 maximum. The State Legislature in racking appropriations expects the Matriculation Fee to cover numerous items for which it makes no appropriations. These items in connection with this college have been itemized and listed as follows: ESTIMATED INCOME: First Term. 2000 students ^ $16.00 Second Term, 1726 old students $10.00 .... Second Term, 60 new students £ $15.00 I ! rs would be appointed by the President with the approval of the Legislature, with lifr tenure of office for six members, And six year terms for the remaining three, one of these terms to expire every two years. These men w ould be nationally recognised as leaden* in the field of education and would be equipped to assume the responsibilities of such vitally important positions. Each state would be divided into dis tricts with a local governing board in charge of MMty fiientional dis trict. This local board would be directly responsible to the main gov erning board in Washington. Other administrative details could he easily worked out, end it is believed that the above plain is entirely iMMte j • - it »j i- n ri In the matter of revenue, certain taxes would be set aside for the use of education only. An estimate would be made by competent ex perts of the funds heeded for the maintenance of national education and this amount could be set aside by an Act of CongrUss, not to ha touched for any other purpose A yearly budget would be comprised and maintained by the governing board, providing tor no surplus re mailing at the end of the year. This plan affords national handling of educational affairs by men equipped specifically for this purpose. If educstioaal evils of the pres ent day are to be eliminated, place this stupendous task in the hands of’Ete educationalist! 1 ■ 1 ‘ i . 1 • 11 1 ',angGtrd Addresses Scholarship Society Eme^ . Langford, professor of architecxiSrb and head! of that de- partnierfti spoke to th« Scholarship Honor ^oqjety Tuesdhy night in the As^gy Room of j the library. The titlp of the speech, which was Mr. l.nugfjp'd's conception of the scope of learning necessary for an educated man. was ‘‘The Back- i ground to Intelligent Thinking." I The spedqh was not pfepared with out a gryatdeal of thought and re search Mr. l^ngford spent six months Mjapiling it a few years ago fAr|iresentation: before the same RtuBh, although pt that time circumgtgnrys prevented his deliv ering it In hid'presentation j of a work able phnbduphy for an intelligent man Mr) Upngford included the fol lowing divisions:- perfection of n mathemdtiial synthesif of physical nature M by Einstein and hia con temporaries; discoveries in astro nomy, a dlpcussion of the spectro scope. the interferometer, and cel estial pHotpjgraphy; discoveries in geology, man’s place ip the scheme of things;frqm the geologist’s view point; di*ifcreriea in physics; the era of Indention, on this point Mr. Ijingfordt said, “What to do with his spard time has come to be a real probtem of the tbipking man.” This sanu <;u. mon is occupying the sttent?cmJk>f;our great manufactur ing corporations, our social work ers, our economic authorities, and its use—W misuse—must ultimate ly be refj'fted in Jiny civilization making pretenses toward intelli gence”; genetics, the part that ge neticists and eugenista pro playing in the study of heredity and acquir ed characters and their application to biological problems; {and scim tific development in the field of industry; emphasising synthelk and applied chemistry. |g itofinss ing the scientific generalisation commonly called the theory of evo lution, mr. Langford reviewed the salient facts leading op to its pro aMlRgtM by Charles Darwin and nMbL If. — RN IN DOUBT Tsar K?m m Tser CImms Aw I. W. PAYNE T Jr Jr j FOR QUALITY At Reaaoaable Cost i. f. HOLICK & SON Formerly Cam pas Shoe Shop . ^ i i [THOSE GOOD MALTED MILKS We SHU Make Them! King's, Whitman's and I’anpbum’a Candies Holmes Bros. Bryan Confectionery Phone m ^ ' the latest - - - NEW SPRING SAMPLE PATTERNS ! Made by M. BORN OR INTERNATIONAL TAILORS ,i i Gaaraateed Fit In the I.atcet Styles CAMPUS CLEANERS 1, -L. 11 J? un r Bitch Ideal SHAMPOO and TONIC For Your Hair Campus Barber Shop ’am the Y) \ | Bart Smith Pfop. We have a nice assortment of 99 ‘•HEART PACKAGES Place your order with us. We will attend to mailing it Aggieland Pharmacy “Your Drug Store” -i- $30,000.00 - 17,260.00 ... 750 00 $48,000.00 , Total ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE^: ' For salaries for Instructional staff and Library staff, not provided for by State Appropriation $19,120.00 For Departmental Maintenance not provided for by State Appropriations: President's Office 4- $ 4,600.00 Registrar’s Office i X !.... 5,260.00 Commandant’s Office , 4*..,..., :4— JJUX) 00 Fiscal Office. ..— •...„ 4,600.00 Library .— — -4.4..—. 1— 1.800.00 W i ». v provide for State fitoi L » For Miscellaneous Items not Appropriations: Classroom Supplies Repairs to Classroom Buildings General Breakage and Damage Printing Catalogues and other Official Ubeumrnts Commencement and Contingent Expense -iTFr 1-V 1 Total *...444J4——f I $17,960.00 44 $ 2,760 00 . 3,000.00 . 2.000.00 . 1^00.00 1,680.00 IIO.IWO.OO 'estemet TOTAL ESTIMATED EX PEN DITURU.,.. $48,000.00 ^ e ‘ I ■ f III ' From the above statement it will be seen tlmt the Matriculation Fee does not ge for classroom supplies alone, as is the prevalent idea rous Assent 97 pn this campus, but it is expended for numerous itial purposes u EDUCATION l A vital problem confronting the American public of today is edu cation. -Revenue for the promulgation of the educational policies of | this country- is lacking, and on all sides the hue ati4 cry for additional texation is being raised. Rural schools are being run for oaiy four and six month terms; the teachers in the large city primary schools and i high schools sometimes go for months without I>ay( the instructors in the state-supported institutions of higher education are often being paid in script with a resulting high interest rate they must pay if the cash value is to be realised at once. These conditions might easily be called the “Crime of the early 1930’s” just as the abolition of the free •coinage of silver has often been referred to as the '‘Crime of 1873." To what causes can this existing situation $e I attributed ? There Are two main causes which may be listed in the order of their impor tance as follows: the interference of politics, and religious restrictions. If education was placed above the reach of politi<ians, the resulting conditions would provide all that is now lacking in the educational policy that this country is trying to maintain. The quest ion is raised: Where does the church enter in? Public schools cannot compete with church schools in the wsy of equipment and salaries for the faculty and administrative officers, ss the sectarian schools charge a tuition fee that provides an ample fund for these items,; Yet these sectarian institutions are complaining of the lack of a tuiiion fee in the man- 1 agement of state-supported institutions, and even now Ri is rumored that plans are under- way in the Legislature of tjkis State to legalixe the extortion of such a fee from students in the ffture. A solution presents itself: Place education In the hands of the educationalist! Bar the politicians and religious Riaatics and funda mentalists from meddling in s sphere outside their natural scope and then the bane of education will be lifted. How Is ibis to ba done? The '■> answer unfolds in a clear, concise, and logical form Education has attaiaed such gigantic proportions that it should be dealt w ith as a national problem. This problem can be handled by the national government by increasing the number *f administrative of fices from three to four, namely: executive, legislative, judicial, and educational. 1 .’’I |j| This proposed educational branch would operate in much the same ! fashion as the judiciary branch operates today. A board of nine mem- VITHEN amokers keep buying the T ▼ same cigarette day after day.. - it*a a pretty good sign that they’re getting what they want... mildness» better taste—a smoke that’s alway* the same. So we’re going right on making (.hesterfields just as we always have.) . .. selecting choice, ripe tobaccoe . . . ageing them . . . blending and cross-blending them... making them into cigarettes in the most scientific ways that are known. As long as we do these things we know that smokers will continue to say,“They Satisfy**. For that’s what people are saying about Chesterfields. If you smoke, why not find out about them? A package or two will tell you the whole story. V J -i K !- THIY’RI MILDER- TAST * SETTIR