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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 ?
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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.”
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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
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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.”
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