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THE BATTALION THEr itUDirt wDucirioi or Tit 4fM COUIOI or TIX45 COlLL(TL ^TlTlORJtlAd Entered aa second cUm matter at the Poet Office at CoDefe Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress, March S, 1879. year here the most enjoyable IP you so deair*. But, unless you allow yourself to understand the symbolism of that tiny white band an dact accordingly your first year, nerer. during the remaining three will you quite be able te appreciate and- under stand those men who will be undersWasmen under you, and f »u will realise that the mucilage binding you to your own ekasmatei Subscription rate $1.75 per year. Advertising rates upon request Editorial Staff your own clasi as strong as it might have been. They went through it, you {ktnt— so—wall, you’re just a boy going to school here, being an Aggie mean much to you. Remember, a freshman can always be spotted; no fish s^ipa necessary, and it is not for the convenience of the uppere for YOU, freshmaa; it’s your passport to better thing*. So l< t known, and be proud of what it symbolises. —r—- ■ I-— Attention Seniors! D. L. Tisinger _. M. P. Pincke Joe Gershovits Jack Shepherd Tom Brown. A. S. Queen B. F- Lw* Qeorge Wonnacut Walter Prance ■r- Editor-in-Chief ...Managing Editor Re-write Editor Junior Editor Junior Editor p Sports Editor .-i——Copyreader •4-1 Exchange Editor Asst. Exchange Editor V Reporters s Jim Love; Paul Walker; Jack Creightonp Mitchell Bancroft; G. L. De- Armond; J. P. Young; T. O. Allen; M. M. Stallings; W. E. Tardy; Champ Smith; H. P. Mays*; W. W. Gandy; R. E. Storms; M. C. Hersik; T. H Porter; W. E. Hames; H. N. Shea; W. W. Harris; H. J. Souder; J. Greer; C. L. Morgan; M. Woodfield; Hill Bradford) J. Joseph; H. H Locke; E. S. Pegues; R. P. Murphy; G. S. Morgan; G. H. Huffines, G. Post; Charles Sinex. Bill Percy M. M. Dikem H. P. Souder. R. T. Durst Pitageraid. Buminewt Staff Advertising Manager Asst. Advertising -h- Manager ■Asst. Advertising Manager Aset. Advertising . Manager Circulation Manager Asst Circulation Manager TZZ hit'. ..-T.'f* — Today’s Reflections Ignorance may be a bliss, but we hardly think sot Contenting himself with the petty, insignificant problems of his own campus, the average American college student, today, quietly pro ceeds on the local green grass unaware of the thunder that rumbles on the collegiate horizon It may be wonderful altruism for s man to spend his entire energy working out the problems of his. own school, but he is rob bing himself of both genuine pleasure and intellectual development. In Europe the colleges and universities are veritable hot-beds of tho ught and radicalism. Until Hitler preyed upoa the poet-war minds of his harraesed youths, young Germany boasted an abundance of free and healthy thinkers. The revolutionary movement of 1848 and ’49, which held so much promise for Germany and all the world, originated largely with the student body. But American students remain disinterested! “And so what? American graduates fit idto the business world as easily as anyone else, don’t they?” j , , If that is your question, the answer is an emphatic NO! For the son of a present-day capitalist or politician, job-finding and job-keep ing are comparatively easy. But for thq son of a farmer, a doctor, or a small town merchant, commencement is k dreaded doorway, ushering the collegiate mass into days of job-seekijtg, disillusionment, and fin al embitterment. To those who doubt, we suggest the reading of Al bert Halper’s "Ice-Cold Turkey", in the October issue of "The Nat ional Student Morror." There are many things that should ekeite interest among Amer ican students today—should hut don’t A {ross-scction of the nation's universities would reveal hundreds of projects and endeavors, yet ad would be shown ss working without the knowledge of the American student body. We have plenty of radicalism today, but it la all spent on some infantile purpose—fraternities, class-cutting, honor systems, or basing. Very little of it is given to the healthy purpose of coordinating Am erica’s student body into one mass moveertment of national endeavor. Movements for such thingp as peace, prohibition, and Socialism have stafted on a hundred different campuses, but they have nearly all been short-lived. American students seem to lack the punch! Here are some things that ought tq strike up enthusiasm, whether destructive or constructive, within the heart of every coilege stadeat in the United State*. In the first issue of the Battalion we encouraged underclassmen te submit themselves to the leadership of the seniors. It eras our pi • that the seniors would progress little with their plan for better dii ripline unless juniors, sophomores, and freshman alike plunged theiliselves wholeheartedly into the program outlined by the cadet officer!!. That is still our contention but far from being the theme kt this editorial We feel that, to date, the slovenliness 1 that exists in the Corps can be blamed on the senior class. Collars unbottoned, sleeves rolled up, pockets crammed with pen cils, peper, and what-not, dusty shoes; and cordless hats are cel tainly not attractive. Neither are they regulation. And most certainty they are ill-becoming to seniors! We do not wish to criticise, or to crusade, but the cadet o fleers of this college pledged themselvee to make this a year of J un-up militarism—we are simply reminding them. It should be to say mors. Young Gentlemen! la not Agricultural Experiment Station ! At Sonora Reports Discovery of Type of Texas Spineless Cactus By R. R. Storms i Complaint has been registered in several campus circles the untidy conditions now prevalent in the dormitories. With the student body crowded to the point of extreme in an inadequate number of halls, H should be the reeponsibii every man to commit himself at much at possible to the keeping the dormitories clean and decent Particular disfavor present'verted toward the occupants of Mitchell and Leggett, 4her« paper, garbage, and all manner of unsightly trash has been dutnp^d into the indoor courts—daily, it seems, since the beginning of the term. ’ I ' Someone has said of A and M students: They are not only ypung officers, bnt young gentlemen in training." Having promised our readers -sbme of the previous findings of the Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, we shall attempt to preterit it in such a manner as will meet with your approval and. perhaps, enjoyment. An item of worth discovered at the sab-station in Sonora a year ago should still prove interesting to you. The experiment dealt with spineless cactus, whose technical nhme is Opuntia (pronounced like inch-i-a) Ellisiana. .uite interesting to us was tlto background of this Latin tens. The word Opuntia eras first used in. the writings of one of the most iiib 'rious students who ever lived. PRay. The derivation at that time came from Opus, a town in Greece. Mow this ancient word cam* te be applied to cactus it a mystery, but hen it la. y To take up the experiment, w« found out that every ranchi could well afford to have a tent acre* of spineless cactus, it he could only manage to cut down all hie spiny esetus. Stock does so well on cactus and eats it down so close that unless an effort is made, the cattle or sheep will eat all the LOTS OF BOOKS AND A FEW IDEAS by Or. T. P. May* The FERA at the present time is employing 46,000 teachers, re cently graduated from various colleges. . It is also employing 100,000 students on a part-time basis, paying them 816 a month and exposing them to beneficial influences on their respective campuses. • • e. '• a ; Student pacifists in various institutions are doing'their best to wreck havoc with ROTC organisation. Reserve officers are inefficient, and should he the joke of the nation, they claim. They had succeeded well enough in 19^0 to exhort the following statement from the Secre tary of Wart "With all due acknowledgement of the splendid corps of ROTC graduate*, it must be recognised that they will require a further period of training on mobilization to fit them for the performance of their duties.” It seems that the Morrill Art has lost its hold. l * * * * * The National Student Fnderation of America, founded in 1926, looks forward this year to gfeater expansion and development than ever before. This organization serves a membership in 120 colleges and universities, conducts national and regional conferences, prints monthly magazine, conducts a news service, and aims in every way at the development of initiative among young Americans. The Fish Stripe + This yaar, tor some unaccountable be a tendency among the first year or rhyme, there ■ to be a tendency among the first year students to attempt to hide from evidently hostile eyes their unfortunate plight by merely turning the left cuff over the little white band—the insignia of the freshmaa So, to you first year cadets (NOT to freshmen) who resort to this crude subterfuge, this is directed as first a bit of friendly advice and second as a warning regarding your future status here a|. school the place you will frequent most the next four years. You are now members of perhaps the most fraternal body of men of its size and kind In the country. Recognize yourselves as such, and appreciate that membership! Your station is such that you are privi leged to make yourself known to anyone you choose by a mere hand clasp and self-introduction. It is your only investment necessary to bay stock in college friendship, the dividends of which yon will treasure more and more in years to come. Then, too, because you are freshmen, your responsibilities are few and your restrictions are actually quite unlimited—this to permit you ample opportunity to adapt yourselves to new surroundings, and, consequently, allow you to make your first WHAT IS A DIRTY BOOK? A dirty book is a book that makes yen feel dirty. It follows that a novel like "A Farewell to Arms,” for example, may be dirty for some people and clean for others. Personally, this particular book seems to be the most beautiful love-story ever writ ten in America. Its combination of extreme frankness about sexual matters, and equal candor in the expression of honest tenderness and the comradely affection be tween two lovers, appeals to me as something that I’ve always hankered after in books as well as in life: that is. Idealism with a solid basis of realistic Common Sense— in other words: Heads ap. bat feet on the ground. I’ve noticed, however, that some people—some very good people at that—are honestly shocked by "A Farewell to Arms.” This means that it made them fed dirty. For these people, then, "A Farewell to Arms” is a dirty book. Now, the last fifteen years have been especially fertile in "dirty books.” That is, in our time writ ers have dared, for the first time in a hundred years, to call a spade a spade. Their readers, unaccustom ed to hearing spades talked of in decent society or to seeing them named in print, h»v* naturally been shocked. The new novels have made thousands of people feel dirty, and so, for thousands of people, the new novels have been dirty. But the old-timers who cry out against this modern frankness ought to remember that it isn’t the modems who are peculiar about such things. It was the Victorians who were queer in their attitude toward sex—tha people of the age which ended about 1910. titude toward books that are 1 rank about sex—a more or leas iidalt attitude, if jrou get what I n can. You are surely past the ag» of snickering over what’a scrawl* i by bed little boys on the back board fence. Reed these frank book!by all means, if someone in whom you have confidence tells you that hey are Interesting. But try to ead them without dwelling too chih ish- ly much on Rie sexy episodes. ITbe author, if h4fe worth anything at all, never intended that these epi sodex should overshadow rest of the lo"k And be frank with yourself a all jthe satisfy it sensibly—partly with books of a scientific nature which explain such matters, and partly with good modem novels which try to depict the way in which sex works itself out in people’s lives. Here are a few hooks which the Library can furnish for such read ing. (The chances are, some of you have read them already!): SCIENTIFIC Popenoei: "Modem Marriage”; Ranter: "Happiness in Marriage”; Rneitf : “Marriage and Morals” (a cool and honest statement of the radical point of view. You may find, as I -did, that you can’t agree with all of hie ideas.); Havelock Ellis: "The Psychology of Sex” (Pretty heavy, but probably the classic on the subject); Westermarek: "His tory of Human Marriage.” NOVELS Floyd Dell: "Moon Calf" and "The Briary Bush”; Gather: "A spineless cactus sad then start on the spiny cactus. Like some human being*, they keep on even though they, see destruction ahead The actual experiment that prov ed the value of spineless cactus was this. Two groups of cattle with fifteen head in each group were pnt into separate pastures In one pasture the cattle ate all the spineless cactus they could pins about two pounds of cotton seed cake. In the other the cattle had the cake alone. Both groups had access to adequate wmter-pa* lure vegetation. At the end of thirty days the cactus take group had gained fifty-eight pounds per head, while the cake-pasture group had gained only thirty-six pounds per head. V If further interested, yeu may be pleased to know that spineless cactus can withstand sere tem perature without apparent injury and cactus from tha first time the first padre saw our great West has been associated with sands and desert. That means the cactus fears drouth very little and will provide a juicy feed during dry winter months. DR. LAMAR JONES Dentist X-RAY Second Floor Natl Bk. Bldg. BRYAN T Schulze to Teach English Nolan Schulze, graduate of Tex as University, was recently engag ed to teach English and modem languages at A and M. He is to devote half hie time to each sub ject. At New Braunfels High School Mr. Schulze instructed in German. EXPRESS SHIPMENTS just Si i • RECEIVED San Brown Bella j Fish Capa Aggie Unionalls Inaignia ( ht*\ rons R. O. T. C. Patchea in all branches of service. . Complete atocka in both our stores. I BRYAN and COLLEGE WALDROP & CO. Two ( onvenlent Stores I I I l r!f DRI-SHEEN DRY CLEANING Saves the Wear of Washing—We have just be gan using this famous process. ’ AMERICAN STEAM LAUNDRY Dry ( U-aners—Hatteri . Dygfii SEE Ol T R AGENT IN YOUR CO. th. pwftctly n-tural .nd h-kn, ^ u ^-. D „ Uwm *.. -s^ curiosity ths| nearly everybo^r— Lovers"; and a play, O’Neili's especially when he is young—fkels j "Strange Interlude.” shout sex. Admit it and try to {One last word: Doa’t overdo it!) 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PreeMent« and Deoartmenr Heed* of tending L'nlrcrcAUej agree with thie o^into*. : l « •/ lAe Mrrr iam-M *bn*r | Abr.JgmunU totfioo enfriej, tnrl'jdlnf hundred* of new word* with definition*, kgelllng*. and correct u*e: a Owtef f «er :»B*vr*pktcal IHritnnary; Foreign Word* and r*nnei; Abbrrrli- turn: FvnctMHo*. Vtt of Capital*. M.iry other feature* of practical value I.1M pace*. 1.70* JHuatration*. It At Tour Colleee Bor Art ore Vrlte for Information to t*e or Write PubSAicra. C. 4 C. COLLEGE ECONOMICS Every period in the history the world except the one between 1800 and 1910 has called a spade a spade ia all its hast hooka. For variety of reasons (too complicat ed to discuss here) our great grandfather* and great grand mothers (Bless their hearts!) "went Victorian” on us. They hush ed up all mention of sexual jnat- ters and put petticoats on every thing—in extreme cases, even on the piano legs! Weil, that was their privilege. But why should w* be asked to go on maintaining this same funny attitude toward eex? Non* of the centuries befere the Victorians mode any bones about it. Why on earth should the centuries after the Victorians be expected to do so? (If you don’t believe whet I any about the pre-Victorian literature, read Fielding's ‘Tam Joaee,” writ ten in 1749. By the way, It’s gfrad novel too.) y SO WHAT? Well, just this: Nobody ought to feel dirty. It’s bad for you. Therefore, don’t read books that make you feel dirty. But try to cultivate a healthy at- THERE ARE Kinds of OH DEAR INDIVIDUAL.THC collective , etc Dlf-FECEMT !E A LOT OF DIFFER entrepreneurs--— Yes - tme WHEN you CHAM FACTORS OF P ALL Sorts of TMIH6S HAPPEN \JFOR INSTANCE .. Mrrriam Co.. *•14, Mm*- .fUNDER NORMAL CbwDiTXw -IF5UCH THECE be, our ANALYSIS MUS im. % the bestH NO » SOUND ECONOMICS "ALWAYS BUY [WHEN IT COSTS Np MORE— ^that's whvU Smoke ^ good Old VVPRINCE j ALBERT MM* AFTER EVERY CLASS IT RINGS THE BELL! 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