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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1934)
4 i- -1 a •A.i, 1/ Li THE BATTALION Til Ir ft % w- _ inJDLHT PUDUCITial or Til vfi COUIOI Of TIH45 COLLUTL iTATlOl .TLXAi Student Publication of THE A. A M. COLLEGE OF TB|U1 1 College, Station, Texas Entered at second class natter at the Poet Office at Collect Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress, March. 3, 1879. jfcbaulption rate 11.75 per yolr. j Advertising rates upon requtit Editorial Staff D. L. Tisiafer M. F. FI neks P. G» Post .. Joe GershoviU Jack Shepherd Tom Brown. L. D. Myers A. S. Queen _ Editor 1 Mews Editor -write Editor Editor . Junior Editor Asst. News Editor iT* Editor ' Reporters Jin Lots; Paul Walker; Jack Creighton; Mitchell Bancroft; G. L. De- Arnond; J. F. Young; T. O. Allen; Max Stallings; W. E. Tardy; Champ Smith; H. P. Mayse; W. W. Gandy; R. E. Storms; |L G Heraik; T. H. Porter; W. E. Hames; H. N. Shea; W. W, Harris; H. J. Souder; J. E. Greer; C. L. Morgan; M. Wood field; Bill Bradford; J. Joseph; H. H. Locke. * i Basil Staff Bill Percy M. M. Dikeman H. F. Souder W. E. Fitsgerald Tom Mots Advertising Manager l , Advertising A «»t. Circulation Manager Discipline • Last Wednesday, organisation commanders, and field officers and their staffs met with Colonel Emery in the “Y” Chapel The yearly banner was taken out and painted with this sign: M Although military is secondary to academic work, we intend to make this a purposeful year, with the sky as the limit, for the enforcement of discipline, the improvement of drills, the encouragement of good personal appearance, and the attainment qf a cooperative spirit within the Corps." What a goal! But let us hope that it can be realised to the fuDest possible extent. We suppose that every senior class that ever fxisted at A A M g>ad. to some measure, this ambition. Present conditions, then, lead us fco believe that most of these groups failed quite oismally. True, we \cet an "excellent” rating from th« national military inspectors-<er- teirdy, wp look nice in our brass, leather, aad khaki i.. . obviously, we submit ia army fashion to a daily routine, but, moat dearly,, and no maa can deny it. we art' lacking in that exactness, of precision, and that perfection of harmony, necessarily essential in’ the establishment of an honest-to-good ness, Johnny-on-on-the-spot, uiitn*te-m*n Corps. If these delinquencies are to be overcome, and:the fervor of the seniors seems to indicate that an attempt, at leasi, will 'be made to overcome them, there la one obstacle that must be removed. And, if it is removed, the rest will be lasy sailing. It is the same obstacle which has thwarted the good intentions of scoresi of senior classes before. Three-quarters of the job rests on the shoulders of the underclass men. Seniors can plead, smile, beg, pray, rave, and -malt .... yet. It will be to no avail if the underclassmen so ihoose. This place is not governed by seniorA We’ve no prisons here! This pUce is lead by sen iors. The underclassmen can take charge of the whole school if they want to—there ia no power to stop them. We do not mean that in all the years past the uiiderc lass men abas have shown a lack of cooperation, too frequently, me have heard men in boots at three a. m. storming down the corridort like a tornado, and raising all manner of disturbances in general. TW> often, we have seen button-men, even diamond-men. break college regulations that this senior class begs to enforce. No, the seniors, themselves, have been to blame also. And, even this year, they should keep a close eye on their own ranks I Now, as to the sort of cooperation the underclassmen should give the seniors: In the first place, all juniors, sophomores, and freshmen should realise that the word of a man in boots is law—as far as they are con* cerned. one of the college regulations. When a senior is strict, demand ing, or "ambitious", no man in the ranks has the rurHt to object Simp ly because the company commander last year was Ux and “easy” is no reason to condemn your new officer for enforcing regulations. The kind of spirit in which every underclassman isi acquiescent fo the will of his officers is the only spirit that will allow the plans of Aha senior class to succeed, and—is the only true Aggie spirit The cast has been made, but the whole school ifcust flow into the mold- Let the arm end the mailed fist be the seniors, and the mallet be the underclassmen! Entertainment You came to college tq get an education di<hCt you .... or didn't you? If you did, let H be known to yourself that this year you have a chance to get a more complete and well-rounded ctiucstion than you ever had. A golden opportunity is shining so clooeHo your face that it ought to blind your eyes to everything else. • This year it can be your privilege to attend six of the best enter tainment features that this nation affords—the Bryan-College Enter tainment series. Vilhjalmur Stefsnsoon! Clarence Darrow! The Hedge- yew Players! Dr. David Coyle! The All-Star Musical Ensemble. (Lola Tqjmer, soprano, and Chas. Boromeo. baritone, of (he Chicago Civic Opera Co.; Henri Deering, distinguished pianist, and Beatrice Har rison. one of the greatest rellista\in the world). One of the great popular orchestras can also b# at your disposal! At present Paul Whiteman is being sought, and it is probable that ho will be secured—though not certain. For the first time in the history of A and M. the student body is 4 offered real entertainment! This ia a chance to get out of the rut of academic work, an outlet for the pent-up desire to ftee and hear those good things that the aeclasion of this college has phrays stifled. This is a gift! Quit hibernating! Open the doc# of your hermit's hole end come out in the sunlight! Give the strong but nasty armor of your engineering a good polishing! Fill up the shell of your arts and science curriculum with honest experience! Learn! > Learn that there are people in the world who speak decent English! Surprise youmrlf with the fact that all the artists didn’t live in histofty. You can see all of these things ia Guion Hall Don’t be a fool! Take a dollar today to Mr. Cashion, Dr. Mayo, pr Jack Ferguson. If you don’t know either of those three, corns to the Battalion office— its in the new main building on the third floor. For a dollar you get a season ticket. * li tv la confronted can !be stated ia : and axial philo- id to the wole of From pr. Walton America’s greatest need in the crisis with which it. is confronted today, and in all crises that may aria# in its history one word, “Leadership". Leaders trained hi economic sophy, inspired for service to the whole Nation and society. Leaders who have the capacity to aee problems whole. Load ers courageous, unselfish, patriotic. Leaders developed aad trained to execute plans and to actually merit and deserve the influence they exert over the welfare of their fsllowmen. Education Is the shortest route to preparation for this type of ser vice. The public school, the colleges, and the universities ot the State and Nation provide facilities for the character of trailing necessary to achieve high results in leadership. You are a member of the student body of one of the largest Land- Grant Colleges in the Nation. It is assumed that every student who has enrolled In the Collage this year cams to the institution wi<h a serious purpose,—a purpose to put forth all the efforts of which he is capable to assure satisfactory academic progress. It Is further assumed that every man is willing to pay th# price of a higher education. Sacrifices have been made and are being made to provide the facilities and the expense necessary to kosp you in college. Every Ux payer b the State no matter how humble, has made contributions to the funds to provide the facilities necessary for the institutional authorities carry out an efficient program at Instruction. The tax payers continue to provide funds with which to employ the faculty of the college and fur operating expenses. These are not small items, therefore you are the beneficiary no|- alone of your parents’ sacrifices, but of the people of the whole State whose tax money has been used and is now being used to operate the institution. In short, you enjoy a privilege that few young men df your age can hop# to have at this time. Tbs future holds for you as great if not greater than the opportunities of your fa fathers. The Nation Is in a state of uncertainty; it ia stftl of an unprecedented depression; and those who are "lead the way oat" are in many instances uncertain at plans they advocate for the solution of oar every-day shall not again see the same type of economic and oat prevailed prior to 1929. There must be much rebuilding dona. Such parts of the old order as are fundamentally sound and in the interest of the general welfare must be recovered and used; but along with this program there must corns new factors. Perhaps the yotmg men of tomorrow who are trained will have the largest share in the reconstruc tion of our economic and social structure. This makes it highly es sential that you prepare yourself; that every man in the College do his boat. You are at the beginning of a session. You stand upoa the thresh hold of opportunity. If you would take full advantage of our oppor tuaities, it means earnest application. It means the observation of your time. It means the differentiation between the essentials and non- essentials of college life. It means your will to work will bo tested over and over again during the coming months; but it also means that the man who does his port to the very best of his ability will profit more than he can now realise. Sometimes it is contended that only freshmen fail in large numbers to make satisfactory academic progress. Unfortunately this theory is not altogether sound. Many sophomores, juniors, and sometimes seniors waste their time end the result is, they, with the under-claftsm«h, fail A man once branded a failure experiences great difficulty in over coming his handicaps, therefore let every student appreciate the fact that his progress will be in proportion to the intelligent^ directed efforts he puts into his college work. I This is the beginning time. No matter what your record may have been, if you are an old student you have the opportunity tlis year to correct it. A new student has an opportunity to make a fftcord upon which he can build the additional three years of a college dsreer with the assurance that if he does his part well he will not experience diffi culties or have handicaps to overcome in the years he is sn ujjper-class- : LOTS OF BOOKS AND A FEW IDEAS rK Dr. T. F. Ms>o ■an»A Nets: j < Thb Is 1km first mt m •trim ml boafc- afcsta. wtWsm by Or. Mem SMftwftvsW far tux uattaliou; Tftry srr ylvse bars la tbs boss «f sMsmMIbs. tbniiabl and iatallsctaal cur iosity •rntmomm tbs israibrer ml tba atadsat hotel They vll ba printad raaulariy. Is aaeb WHAT CENTURY DO YOU LIVt IN? I should say, just off-hand, that most of my esteemed Aggie read ers (if any!) ore, on the average, living mentally somewhere around SECOND QUARTER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—aay about 1840. all, WHAT DETER- 19 isn’t, it seems to me, eat or what you wear or '*^4 aj.lt>-as ^ To The Foolish^ Last year the campus sieethed with gripes, and gripers. The Chief target for these verbals fusillades were college authoritie*—fnen large ly responsible for the good reputation of this college. With all these good school year resolutions being mad4, it seems proper to make this one shove many others: to cut out the griping. Thursday night we stood at yell practice. Four or five men, each responsible in the affairs of the college, talked to the Corps.’ As these men spilled their advice, we took occasion to Ibok at the faces of the Aggies around us—to ascertain, if we could, the populanty of the speakers from the facial expressions. On not one man was there any regsitering of disrespect. Contrary: eyes were burning with a light of mental enthusiasm; IxhIh-s were lean ing forward, heads sidewise, to catch every word; faces were shining with admiration—in some coses almost levs. „• I There is a moral to this story: If, when you're with a man, you think him a prince, why change your mind and curse him.wrhen his back is turned. 'ell Practice Freshmen are delinquent in many cases. But there is one case in which they always overshadow the upperclassmen. Every night at yell practice, certain boisterous dullards make themselves perfectly despicable with their ungodly conduct. And they are all, nearly every one, upperclassmen instead o^ frealubon. These rowdy follows appear to be seeking every sort of tan excuse to blow tbeir horns. Most of the time their excuse is the incompctenry of the freshmen in rendering the yells correctly. The freflhmen, we feel, will learn if left alone. At least, if left to the instructions of the-f new book that'they were all read- yell leaders. We beg to ask: Why Meet men to lead the Corps in cheering, if, when those men mount the stand to talk, we must drown out their voices with our jokes, our senseless chatter, and our cat-calls?. San Francisco, Sept. 28. —Pat rick John ODea, one-time Uni versity of Wisconsin grid star, who supposedly disappeared in 1919, has reappeared as “Charles J. Mitchell,**! a prominent Northern California business man. Hs ex plained this week be wanted to get away from being just an “ex-Wis consin football player." After MINES THE CENTURY THAT YOB LIVE IN? what you or how you armftM yourself. • * lo isn’t the speed of your ve hicles or the sise of your factories or tfie ftotneat of your movies. WHAT YOU THINK brevity's sake, I have tried to tefl down THE MENTAL CON TENT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTIRY—«ho thought-habits thai make the twentieth century n afly different from all other centuries—to six words. MtefMjr, if you know what these word* mean. If you have thought s bo tit the things that they cover, if you have formed opinions, back ed |y reasons, on the controversial subjects included among them— then I’ll admit that, on the whole, you live in the twenties century. Here are six words and the nai^es of a book or two in which you will find at least s rudimen tary explanation of each—just in ease^you should happen to live in the ‘ twentieth !century. (1) . EVOLUTION for: “The Outline of Science" (fiiat half of Hfolume I) by J. Ar- thuf Thomson. Against: “The Case Agginst Evolution.” by G. B. O*- H* 7 IT (2) : PSYCHOANALYSIS For: “Dreams and the Un- by Valentine. Against: Ways of Behaviorism," by J. B. fVatosn. (3) ! THE DYNAMO ' "Men aqd Machines." by Stuart Chase.| "Our ChangingCiv- iliiation” (last half), by J. H. Ran- *T 1". ! Ul) pragmatism I John Dewey’s article in “Liv ing; PhiKsophifs " The sections on WiOiam James and John Dewey at the) end of Dorant’s “Story of Philosophy." j <5)1 SOCIALISM For: “Letters to Judd.” by Up ton Sinclair. {By the way, we have just bought Upton Sincair’s cocky new book, "I, Governor of Califor- nial. For and against: “Capital ism and Its Alternatives," articles selected by J. E- John sen. («>t THE ELECTRON * "The A B C of Atoms," by Bertrand Russell. “Within the A'.o n." by Mills. CNote: I hsve been very careful to pelect short books that can bo easily read by people who are not specialists. If you should fail to 1 find the book listed, ask at the dejc for another on the same snb- M-) 4 • e Last year, * about twenty-five stifients used (o come to my office in groups of two oy three, once a nxfith, each gSoup discussing some DR. W. H. BUCHANAN Chirieprmctor ■4 Astin Bldg. Bryan, Texas DR. LAMAR JONES Dentist i ' 'X-RAY N^ond floor Natl Bank Bldg Bryaa, Texas jWE STILL HAVE— c •, > t • ! j * j % Plenty of A A M Stationary Just Recehrsd Nsw Shipment of TRENCH COATS and TENNIS SHOES j.Tlie Campus Variety Store % THBAGGIBLAMD GROCERY Candies — Drinks — Sand* ich Meats Cakes — Tobacco '♦I y / * I S. D. HUGHES, Mar. J f= : i * i | - j I • THE AGGIE CLEANERS • . J 1 : M J •J' TOE STUDENTS’TAILOR f 1 i > ! J * iJ* | J 1 Id * - V Let Us Keep Your Clothes Cleaned and Framed Agent ia each hall. Plant at North Gate l W= ----—^ — .. :■■■—r- r,r—= i -h AGGIES WELCOME to the BRYAN COUNTRY CLUB \ \ ( Ii r »• »! i 11 • * ! f ! * 4! The Bryan Country Club is open to the public-*-lt is not necessary to bold membership csrd-^-just come along. * I * 1 iJ * l DANCE THURSDAY EVENING f *1 Alex White’s Orchestra 9’til $1.50 V ing. If anyon^ would like to do •odte general tending and talking on the side. I’ll be glad to arrange S period with him when he and 11 srq both free—one hour a month. ] CAMPUS CELEBRITY Whatever he does—he does with style and form. Lika Stetson’s campus celebrity—The Bantam. Airtight. Two ounces of quality felt. Sntp the brim down. Shape the terown to your hefrt’a desire. You’ll wear it everywhere. THE STETSON BANTAM THE STETSON PLAYBOY OTHER STETSON’S U AND UP John B. Stetson Company ( ome up sometime and inspect oar cleaning plant. We are not operating a wash tab and pressing machine, bat an np-to-date TAILOR SHOP. THE _____ CLEANERS (Ahevs Exchange Store) "Shorty Hoi breaks Joel EagHoh J UNIFORM TAILORS Military Uniforms at Quality and Style That the Well Drained Cadet—At Year MENDL AND HORNAK 1 ~ HOW IMPORTANT IS A FIT? A A Fit is Essential for you to look your best —fr- Every garment we tailor is cut to individual measure, and fitted to perfection, giving you TH r< : I the best in value. - SAM IAII AN i BRYAN TEXAS J !• ’