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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1938)
•fc B. i E BATTALION »JL^Crl|i 1m m M — « »p*ciftli»t on rscMtlj has bm the P9«ibiliUM of f! in Texas. Hospital wo, It »eanu to us that $10 and $11 each nine months l* pretty high health .n.< U rance. considering what wf get from the College Hospital,] Here ewe haw 5.600 students, all of them in the prime of life, and yet they pay a fcospiu! fee hitrn ♦Hough 4 thke care of Civil War veterans. And mran with the high fee, vary little of great nefit edmes to the student It'a tree that if he has a cold the Hospital Will fioie out some pills or put Mm in bed for a week, and, it's true that if be wants s< me mouth wash* they'll give him a bottle of stuff wfeich goes by that name. 1 ’ . However, when he has an operation no matter hj>w small—to he performed, the high fee’s opera- ti»n automatically stops and he is. forced to shell o it cash for it. Sick call is sa endless confusion booause of P>er organisation, the confusion which always is p resent when a bunch of students get together, and s rid last but not least, the noaie which attendants t lemselwes make. The term “absolute errorgem nV used above is t tisleading, both to you and to tm. We don’t know i hat an emergency would be. Last summer a fellow i i school went to the Hospital with s broken fingir, l nd he was told to come back “during sick call” It seems to us that with the hospital operating in the budget H has, far superior service could be < xpeeted. And we think the service could be im- 1 iroved even with a reduction of the ridiculously I igh medical fee. We think the college authorities could do noth- . i ng of more value to the entire student body than to i avastigate means of improving service and the pos- ibility of reducing the fee. , f-i ! !.. '."'-I "'1 ' SAYS SONG O.K. \ X) THE BATTALION: We of the Waco musical fraternity say fie on linx Tucker for stepping out of his sports-writer role to b< ittle the “Spirit of Agfieland”, that truly treat ‘T« Deum,” so haleed with the solemnity,' tiong with the gaiety of stirring football contests. It’s a ghat’s buzs. Brush it away and forget it. We doubt if Richard Wagner, with his freftt sense of musical drams, could have written anything more inspiring, or fitting to the tease and solemn moment before the “kick off,” as Col. Richard Dunn has achieved in this “Praise be to God” anthem. The writer of the letter, while not of the A. A M. alumni, always receive* a flash of inspirit lion of the great purposes of this unique and grand school, when the opening theme of this song is revealed. The eclat as well as the solemnity is inspiring. • l, among many other thousands, will humbly uncover my bald head to the elements, prhenever the IciMit-r flashes his baton for the advent of this great theme song.’' ! ^ , , » v \ ) “WACO PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN" ' ^ jj—— ■; » i "- r Student Forum f km s frequent listener of WTAW and have heard our “Aggie War Song" piaysd several times over tbis station by “non-Aggie’ orchestras. I wilt always love and respect this song no matter what orchestra records it. Bat, don’t you think it would reflect more en thusiasm if we Aggies could make S recording of our oWn song?* Iii a vague way I am trying to suggest that we Aggteb could make a recording of aur school song ^o be broadcast by WTAW. Ppssibly, most of the Aggies could meet iu Guion Hall,.sided by our band, (the beet in the cop* feremei and record “The Aggie War Song." Hie real Aggie song by real Aggiss. submit this as only one Aggie slant. What is Forum ABOUT BLEEDS student Forum: Ogt of every three editoru Is which have appear ed in the Battalion since s«h>oI started, two of them have been in the form bf “Bleeds” from the members of the staff of the Battalion to the student body. The writer of this edit rial thinks that it is time (W this procedure to be eversed. It is good for an editorii I every now and then to be directed to some object onable occurrence but this type of editorial is gettgig far too numerous. To examplify this, J think t ist the article in the last issue of the Battalion by k member ol the staff referring to the “Spoctical" v hich occurred la front of Law Hall last Saturday. 1 ras carrying the Edi torial Department of the Bat! klion too far. It seems to me that there are some me nbers of the staff that go abeut the campus looking for something to bleed about. , \ Although this was a Stjudent Forum and the editor has promised the studpnt body not to refuse soy editorials turned in I think this type of edi torial should be rejected, a writer getting ahead of h As a member of the s member of the editorial S would like to see a more toribls which appear in the ■BMpri COMBINATION OP re is such a thing as If. dent body and not f of the Battalion, I d control of the edi- attaiion. —J. W. Jenkins ! 1 x your beaction? AN AGGIE. Tel THE BATTALION Acred as second class matter ft the post office ^ Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress h t, 1879. . y! . |] * Subscription rates, $1.75 per year Advertising rates upon request, m Room 122, Administration Building. College 8. Offire open from 11 a. m. until 4 p. m. daily. Represented for national advertising by Na tional! Advertising Service, fnc., 420 Madison Ave., Mew York City. n l j; T v I vi *i R L ^-BDtnMLUf-CUfF W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING MANAGER Bill Payne, Jsmes Crils Msnsgisg Editors George Folio* B. C. Kaetcar j Assistant Advertising Managers ** V Bob Oliver, Wayae Stark Associate Editors R. R. (Jeep) Oates —— -J^Epctte Philip Gelman Jtaff Photographer J. C. Diets Circulation Manager J ' Don McCkeeacy, H. G. Howard Clrcalstion Assistants C F. DcVilhlsS , .Xu.Proof-readrr TUESDAY STAFF Tem Darrcw Sports Assistant Jack Puckett . Jeeior Editor BUI Murray — T ..Junior Editor A. f. Wsrrea Junior Editor P. Regers. A. J. Carroll. N. A. Moore, M. G. Fecrmaaa, H. G. Talbot. W. J. Ssndidge, J. R. Scott, l/ewis ChevsilUer, W. T. Gay, George Naa- saapr, E. A. Shields, Carter Beam. J. A. StaaeelL B. M laglefield. C A. Rhode, A. I. Adame, Foeter Wise. Bill Wkall M. H. Robiaeca, R E. Sp. k. k. P. Davenport, J. W.ilmakias, L. J. Webrle Advertising Assistaats FRIDAY STAFF 1 W. F. (Chick) Deeny Sports Assisant C. W. WliHi— liijfndcc Editor Trfsdwi' 1 Jun,„r Id.t., L Thompson — — Junior Editor Pa«l ReUleen - Junior Editor | Frsak Phelan. J. Henderson. Billy CUrksmi. L. A. Bchcfl, Mason Jonas, G. W. DeArasond Ir* U A. Newman. R. W. BurcMirid. Jack Rmitt. r R. W. Gcrlidi, W.iC.'Bagaa. E. L. Adams Advertisiag ED’S NOTE: All student forum articles which are not malicious or libelouaj will be printed in The Battalion. There has been only one exception this year, and it is the subject of the front-page edi torial today. We thought it beat that the staff it self cover that delieaU situi tion, and the writer of the article to Forum was latisfied. The Battalion will continue iU present policies of preventing all views in the Student Forum; We regret that in the editorial column projH-r we‘have "bled" too much, but it has been done only wken we have thought it naosdMry. ON Mi m BY DR. R. P. LUDLUM Mr. John Straehey recently was denied admis sion to this country because: he is said to be a Com munist. His case is still unsettled, but it has raised again the issue of fn>edom of speech. To whom shall we allow freedom of speech j and to what extent? The facts in the case sfe these. Mr. Strschey is the author of intelligent, distinguished books (The Nature of Capitalist Crisis, The Theory and Practice of Socialism, The Coming $truggle of Power, Hope in America, etc.,) which contain Marxist arguments. Mr. Btrachey, however, nay^ he is not a Communist. He made arrangements to give a scries of lectures in the United StaUs, and set sail for this country to meet his engagements. The American consul in England who had given ! Mr. Strschey his visa lesrhed or thought he learned, that Mr. Strschey was. a member of the Coipmunist party and of its executive committee in England. While Mr. Strschey was on the high seas, therefore, his visa was cancell ed and he was not admitted to this country when he srrwed at New York. The chief argum. nt .td .anced by those who ap prove Mr. Strachey’s exclpsiun touches freedom of speech in this way. (Vrrn mists, they argue, take advantage of the free •ijeech permitted in demo cratic countries to create, an opinion which, if the Communist speak to good purpose, eventually will alter the democratic fornt of government and sub stitute another. This nevf, Communist government will then refuse to perniit that very freedom of speech it had used itself'in instituting its govern- maaf. . Can those who favofr democratic government, rather than Communism,: reply to this argument? Certainly they can offer at least one reply. That is the ringing, stirring cry i of Thomas Jefferson, ut tered shout a case precisely in point: “If there be any among us who woald wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its Republican form, let them stand undisturbed as moguments of the safety with which error of opinion t may be tolerated, where reason is left free to cbmhat it." This statement compresses into the briefest space the sweeping! argument of those who fa^or the most complete form of freedom of speech. Any error of opinion is to be allowed, so long as reason is left free to combat* it. It is a thrilling declaration of faith. But there is another argument respecting free speech less sweeping and probably less optimistic than Jefferson's. This is that in “its concrete manifestations, the principle of free speech is resolv ed into a diversity of cral and printed utterances, some of which need to 1 .* suppressed." Thus, shall we allow a man to shout “Fire!” in a crowded theatre, when there is no fire? phall we allow slander and. libel? Shall we allow stktemuaU that Incomparable Nhctar will cure everytliing from fallen arches to falling hair, when in ftict it ia a simple concoction ca|>able of curing nothing? Shull we allow false advertisements of worthless securities, which lure the innocent into losing (heir savings in speculation ? Where shall we draw! the line between limitless freedom of speech and R>-called reasonable freedom of speech? A deeper truth is ibcluded in this kind of argu ment. Freedom of specrh ia not often an issue by itself, unrelated to any: Jung in the society in which the issue arises. Freedom of speech, on political or say other subjects, traditionally has been allowed in liberal democracies^ characteristic of the ninc- tivnth century. Whether free speech will survive depends largely upon whether this type of deibo- esary survives. Democracy will survive if it alleviates social ills, and provides its citisens with a life as land as comfortable as they can obtain under any other system of g4vemment. If democracy does survive, freedom of speech will have justified itself, and if democracy dogs not survive, freedom of speech no dodbt will dpappear in any eveat. of speech, we must see that it is successful enough in ms of its citisens to per* FISH JvOETTFJt If the number five (5) is really lucky, as many races believed of old, then Juergen Koetter (better known around here 4s “Fish" Koetter) must b«i about the luckiest fellow who treads the campus of this col lege. For Juergen is the 1,565th boy who registered here .for this term. Juergen, who is in Battery “F" Field Artillery,, and lives ia 68 Milner, Is taking Agricultural Ad ministration and hopes to be ( a C. P. A. (certified public account ant) apon graduation fro* this in stitution. He has had quite a varied and eventful life from the vary start He was born in 1W2 in the city of Sao Paulo, Brasil. When he two pears old, his family moved buck to the United States, where they had lived previously. At the age ef Ave and a half he his education in a small school, in which he was outstand ing scholastically,»graduating as valedictorian. The Koetter home is ia Houston, where Juergen’s father is a well- known painter and interior deco rator. Mr. Koetter has decorated the interior ef several theaters and other buildings in Houston. , Juergen entered a large public school when he reached the eighth grade. In the ninth and tenth grades he attended Sam Houston High School, and during his senior year of high school he attended Jefferson Davis School His favorite sports are fishing, swimming, and football. He has traveled extensively; besides living in Bkazil the first two yean of his life, he also has spent a year in Germany, and has traveled all over the United States. Juergen ha* an older brother, Gunter W. Koetter, also here art- tanding A. A M. Gunter is a junior, a third-year architectural sudent in “A" Engineers and living in B-2 Walton. Good luck to you in tha future, No. 5555! VICTOR RECORD |j “Yeu’r# from the Models." A #d by Beuay inimitable Gorman vocal refrain ! in the Til- “While ,a Burning’’—A smooth Rrsutifelly recorded Kaye with a Wilson vocal. “Yon Most Rave Beautiful Baby”—1 day styled ia the way. From the Wi era film “Hand to Got.’ “Chant of tW^Ji well named Larry range meat pls'rd in a fast swing tempo foatorinsa tenor aax and trump, t get iff. Play ed by Larry Clinton and his Orchestra. Irfj ; “I Have Kyea“—A populsr recording byriArtk Slaw and Ms Orchestra taken from the Paramount ft* “Parig Honey- moon *' 4 T Droduttion M.WI ASSI2AYRLY HALL Friday, Nov. 4 25* 1 ? 'u At Meet E. S McFadden, Bureau of Plant Industry Agronom st, sppke at the Plant Science Seminar last night on the subject of “Gegetic Link ages and Phyiiological Associa- tftotl." . Mr. McFadden has been located St College Station for Hevtral years, and ha* done research in genetics and plant t > • ng He is 'if HOVKX M0M3S til KNOTS YOU All HAVE SEEN : W Jr g l ( WP / ’ B (■■ ITNDmrKariKad 1 TN fm Om KM •X ■tutaHWMa |JS| 4 Du Stet-Ga KM t Ilk Arm M utow ns SB THIS r. eosr ••MS THE OF ) m I* 1 •*-V beware ire oid EDIKS' VOTE! , .(v- ^ young people’* vote' **y t * $P dw* y ‘But arc s go ' Of the hberah. Prot«« *'** mng fnltft h Of all Amen- draw pen* - - ..oil Pm* OIU — can v« *^2 Sin* ^T' He tion*. one-half wul he P» why . con™. •** *th. ,!«> onto the p«'» on ** ^ frank o* Vwivtrsity if IM"* • PcopkinM^ountalkcd about Tipton ' r ^ ock "*T | hulhed voic«'H, had totlod five men before w . He’d lived wX* Uh,nd h M T ° f wa, ' <)rr ' n ‘ , h, rrtunM to hi* lio"*'o*™' re»l U '' Tbe Roman " of a^you kne* thU ^ 'adventure. I'-, h a *••••* Jews i»» * NUcMNLAY kantor i I il l; ■ - ft, mmnl h" 'ZStr* “IHIS IS WAR! Hortenae IA H » If we want freedoi the society which ptot dialing with the proj petuate itself. Increase in college h**'Oration in 1937 over 1936 as 3.9 per cent, but (the largest sectional .tecroug lis year was in the South, where the gam was 5.7 er cent. wus the Type-Mar* vriou* «®ber red AcoKy-oo^.lt*--^" the boy* went for — tm*e Read ho«C Our Friend Hortense h Bornu* *ann mm ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: MKP SCHOOL COACH. B«l C SUcAHtm. wb. couched Lurry Kelley at P'tld4 (write* of couching ut school where foot bull is played for sport, pot gats receipts. ( ‘ AIRLINE PILOTING IS NO FUN. They bom by radio too much. 1 don't hare to ask anyl I can take oRT’ With that, pnvute pilot Hrndcrson takes off for Mew Or I ran* and trouble' A dramatic »hort ttory, Com mu me* tion*, by Jamieson. 400 NEW DEALER! Vow run Amenca. Reporter* Joseph Alaop and Robert Kmtnsr, continuing their *tory of the Brain Trust and what it haa led to, tell you about them in Wa Shall Malta Amariea Oar. AND . L . Caret Omrctt on the tiaehina Crkia. • ... Short Btorke, edrtorialv Poet Scripts, cartoom and fun ... All in thu week!* Pout, now on *alr. / m ii