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I / V. ’i 7 ■ THE BATTALION THIr iruptirr poducitjo* or Til VfM CCIIIOI Of 11X45 COLLLtfL imton .TtXAi Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Collect Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress, March S, 1179. Subscription rate f 1.75 per year. Advertising rates upon request Editorial Staff D. L. Tisinger M. P. Fincke •J Editor . Managing Editor B. F. Laris..... - Re write Editor Jack Shepherd....... - .......Junior Editor A. S. Quren tports Editor f • T r * Walter France — — txchange Editor George Wonnacott G. S. Morgan Copy Render Proof Render Reporters Jim Love; Jack Creighton; Mitchell Bancroft; G. L. DeArmond; Tr O. Allen; M. M. Stallings; W. E. Tardy; R. E Storms; M. C. Hersik; T. H. Porter; W. E. Hnmes; W. W. Harris; J. E. Greer; C. L. Morgan; Bill Bradford; G. H. Huffiaes. '*Hsss M may not wear a tax bat this is >h#w he does it. (See K-DET KAPERS) Why they are striving lor sa edu cation so they can support them selves. * . rcrrr&r noons AND A rtW I MAS WKfc n«eh »Us—i •S'* mkmn to A. J. •m «r td* (an m Staff Bill Percy. M. M. Difa H. F. Souder R. T. Durst W. E. Fitzgerald Tom * Manager Asst Advertising Manager . ..Asst Advertising Manager Asst Advertising • Manager ... Circulation Manager ...Asst Circulation Manager R. S. J. Henna. Asst Circulation >,«?. Manager ll. McNamara.. j ——. Aset Circulation N * Manager Praise From Dallas Dallas thought we were allright! ial ia the DALLAS JOURNAL: The following is from an editor- “The showing of A and M College in the Armistice Day •parade here was magnificent. It was nearer to brigade than regimental proportions. And the demeanor and soldierly bear ing of some of its units would befit regulars seasoned in discipline and drill. The American who could behold unim pressed the approach of that military band followed by so splendid an army of young manhood is surely dull of heart and vision/* We wouldn’t spoil the effort by saying more. The Monetary Policy of tjhe Roosevelt Administration” will be the subject of a lecture to be delivered to the Social Science Seminar in the Physics Lecture Rboni at 8:00 o’clock. Wednesday evening. Novem ber 26. The speaker, Mr. JamM C. Dolley, Associate Professor of Banking in the University of Te$as, will describe*and explain President to ite I Seminars Roosevelt’s program relative financial side. Students are invited to attend this and all meetings of the Social Science Seminar. No fees are charged and no roll of members is kept. The lectures are given every other Monday evening in the Physics Lecture Room, for anyone who wishes to attend them. The programs for the rest of this term will be as follows: November 26: The Monetary Policy of the Roosevelt Administra tion,” by Profeeeor James C. Dolley of the University of Texas. December 10: “Modern Trends in Education,” by Mr. G. B. Wilcox. January 7: The English Language in America,” by Dr. George S. Summey, Jr. Jaanary 21: "The Economic Geography George W. Schlesselnian. of Switzerland,” by Dr. Against Hoover The Republicans are already disclaiming the merits of the present administration in the tone tha*<sounds more of campaign fervor than sincerity. * ^ , y/ Peculiarly enough, one of the loudest of these shouters is a man who left the Presidential chair only a short time ago, his lips sealed because he lacked the confidence to speak. Now, Mr. Hoover not only blusters to reporters, but has tried his talent with the pen. Did you read his article in the SATURDAY EVENING POST of September 16? Very cleverly he skirts the economic issues of the question, and brings up the old cry of farm and firenide, a man's “gawd”-given rights, and that terrible word, regimentation. For a college newspaper, edited by men who will probably be crying in vain for jobs next June, to criticise an article written by a man so brilliant that he succeeded to the Presidency, is probably ridi culous, both in aspect and actuality, but we honestly believe that Mr. Hoover is crying because he has been bitten. * 1 If not a scholar, if not an economist, and if not a thinker, then . Mr. Hoover could certainly have had some braiay pernot write an article for him—someone who could have bayoneted the NRA in the middle, instead of,'slapping this entire nation in the face! Why did his article have to cry: “We are losing liberty!”? Can a man who dees anything sit in the White House four years and still not know that the only people who have liberty in this land are his coddling putronixers? Yes, he has been bitten! Regimentation has been practiced on the American public before, without any boatload of criticism., Capitalists, industrialists, “baars”, and "bulls” have enjoyed decades m it. Doesn’t our Republican friend know that section 7-a of the Act endeavored in purpose to stop the regimentation of labor by capital ? i ' L S' ' 4 S The word isn’t something uewly coined either! Hoover, himself, helped regiment public opinion toward the World War. What can we say to men who allow us just enough money to build paper houses, and then, when the lighted match of their capitalistic endeavor begins to burn their fingers, throw if flaming at our roofs? **I Went To Pit College” By Laarea GilfHlaa “No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.”. Pew people would take exception to James Russell Lowell’s beautifnl expression in The Vision of Sir LaunfaL But af ter reading Lauren Gilfillan’s true story of conditions in the strike- torn mining notion* of Pennsyl vania. one can hardly believe that evgn nature—fresh pure air, sun shine, trees, birds, flowers—as free to the poorer classes ia our own country. So plain, yet so absorbingly in teresting- is Miss Gilfillan’s book, that the readers know from the first page that it is certainly true and that it is the unbiased record of a real experieace. She tells us of a people in enlightened America, liviiv under worse conditions than the Mexican peon. Aliens and na tive-born Americans living in filth and degrading poverty thru no fault bf their own. Everyone knows that even the poor can be clean. But these people can't Their only source of water is so laden with sulphur that H causes their hair to fall out And they have soap only when some organised relief gives them some and then, only enough soap for a day or so. They are lucky if they get to wash clothe* once a month. *' And a warm clean bath is prac tically unknown to them. And . their health—They don’t suffer from dissipation, from too much to eat and drink and riotous living. But their lungs are weak because they breathe air generous ly supplied with coal dust. And their far-too-many children are de formed in mind and body as s nat ural result of their contaminated | insufficient food supply and their depressing environment. And their daughters and sisters are not like ours. How could they be when their only chance for picture shows, pret ty dresses and automobile rides is to be the mistress of some design ing cop or mine official? “Sure”, says the typical Atneri can. That’s all true. But It’s their own fault. They’re all communist and reds anyhow. They’re all the time striking. What right has a bunch of foreigners like them got to be over • here ? All of them are ignorant; and they don’t have any morals or religion and every fam ily has ten to fifteen children.” But they are here; and they are Americans; and they are making profits for many a mining com pany and pajring out dividends to us real Americans who believe in America for Americans. And cer tainly they strike. They are only slightly worse off when they are striking than when they are work ing long hard hours for starvation wages. And a strike is their only chance of bettering conditions. And they are ignorant; but H is mighty hard to go to school on sn empty stomach, barefooted and dressed in rmgy. And it’s difficult to profess a religion of brotherly love, which is generally carried out by the Christion mining officials so long as it does not interfere with their profit motives. And of course they have far too many children when our government forbids the dis simulation of birth control infor mation. One cannot help but become im passioned when he reads I Went to Pit Callege. But Miss Gilifillan is aot impassioned. She does not crit icise our system which allows such conditions to exist. She doesn’t blame anyone. She merely gives a true account of condition* as she really saw them. In an account of a trial in one of our District Courts which was so obviously un fair to tbs strikers, this twenty- two year old girl does not insert SCHOOL SCOOPS “Compulsory military training la not required in land grant col leges, but the college board of re gent* may reserve the right to order it compulsory in their own schools”.. This was tbs dscision handed down by the United States Supreme Court ia the ease of 4I-. bert Hamilton and W. Alonso Rey nolds, Jr., who objected to military training at U C £ A . Justice Van DeVanter, who in terpreted the ease said- “so one was compelled to attend this uni versity, but those who do must comply with the regulations.” \ ‘ ______ To aid those who are bashful or backward in social activities, Jim mie Cantrell and R. D. Hitt, of E T S T C, Commerce. Texas, have established s “dating agnscy”.Tbey supply dates for blondes, brunet- s, and red-head*. Two of their first .clients have embarked upon the sea of matri mony and now they coma forth with the statement This is not a matrimonial agedty and we will not be responsible in case of Occidents”. This little piffi* didn’t go to market, she went to college instead. The mascot of tlie University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) Is a real Arkansas rmxorback hog. David Mean is working his way through Butler University by dig (ring graves. ; The War Department has an nounced that, beginning next sum mer, every student at West Point will receive St least 20 hours of flying as part of his college course. . How would you like to study an embalmed Cow ? Each year stu dents taking veterinary anatomy and physiology at Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas, embalm a bovine for laboratory Instruction. This is a junior course in the department of animal husbandry and is taught by Dr. F. G. Harbaugh, assistant professor of animal husbandry. Students at Texas Tech were asked to bring to class a schedule showing how every hour of his day was spent. After a careful analy sis one student reported; Saturday, —8:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m., data; 9:00 tp 10:00—driving; 10:00 to 11:00—parking. The professor's only comment was that the boy spent too much money for gas. Thera are over 400 bicycles on the campus of Smith Collage, Northampton, Mass. They have be come such a menace that the stu dent government association is forming special bicycle traffic rul es. Do you go to school here or ride a bicycle? President Elliet. of Harvard, prophesies that college fraterni ties will, in Urns, cause the Amer ican universities to be broken up into colleges after the English plan. When la Doubt A host Year Eyes srYeur Gladasa - J. W. PAYN’B OPTOMETRIST Masonic Bldg., Bryan, Texas Next to Palace Theatre GREyHOUNDT^ ^ OF DUE GIANS FOR RAVEL SAMPLE ONE-WAY FARES HOUSTON ^, $1.90 WACO — 1.85 DALLAS 3.55 Ft. WORTH 3.55 AGGIELAND INN Phone 250 College Sfetion, Texas it is as popular as a snap coarse . , here's shy: Frequent sched ules every day . . . Modem coaches with deep-cushioned, reclining chairs .Liberal stopover priv ileges ... Low, money saving fores. , SOUTHWESTERN GREY/HOUND & ■ Co-ed* at the University of Okla homa state that their ideal mSte mvst be “stalwart of character, ro bust in manner, courageous,, virile, dynamic, straightforwand mentally and morally. Which may explain a single heated word. And can you imagine a young girl just out of college and accustomed to the com mon luxuries of our middle class, who, of her own accord and ap parently with no hope of fame or financial gain, but with a real love for humanity, wonld go anid live in the same shs^ks with theSe des titute people? She ate their food; she washed in their caustic prater; she exposed herself to their filth and disease; she risked her life when they finally suspected her of gathering evidence which could be used to convict them all on “red” charges. Her books is a monument to the spirit of at least f few* young Americans who would really like to see the United Atatee a “government of the people, by the people and for the people.” > ( COULD NOTHING AROUND FORD ANCIENT HISTORY -EGYPT DECLINED VERY .VERY MUCH^IN THE TWENTY-THIRD DYNASTY, WHICH WAS , JAN1TE. OH .YES .YES/, DYNASTY AND THE MONARCH .BOCCHORIS. 1 WAS, AH.ER, LIQUIDATED. T5KJ5K' .SABACO WAS DY W TARKUSJ 40- ETC v r* MODERN HISTORY tses. a. /. 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