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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1939)
! i : THE BATTALION LIBRARY FOUND TO BE IN NEED OF FUNDS (ED'S NOTE: $om» time ago we Mrifned ; BUI Mvray, a junior editor of The Battalion, to in recti rate the statu of the A. A M. libatry. Hi* findings are startling, to say the but. View* expressed in Murray's article, which follows, represent the risers of The BatteHI The A. A M. Library possess* obvious that oar Ibrary is te dire need of assistance. Any contributions of books of makasinee, of maaey, or of any other form of aid to our Hbrary, from any puh It spirited person or organisation whatever, will be fervently welcomed and grUtly appreciated. Another fhetor from which the library suffers (in addition to the lack of funds) ts the careless handling, loss, and theft of books by borrowers. It becomes eveft harder that it would normally be for the library to get and keep the books it needs for itUlion. the use of the entire student body anti faculty, when m«> .u i>w u c . (>rUin ^,*1**, or dishonest people, heedless- "SITDOWN* OR BREAKDOWN, WHICH? .volumes, Including magaxines, documents, technical pamphlets, ‘and government-issued bulletins- fo. ue by some 1,700 students and several lurulie i faculty members and other residents of the campus ahd He environs. Now 70,000 is quite a large number of hooks; but for that many users it is fay from enough. "For a school of this else we should hsve library of about 200,00 volumes,’VdasiW* ^ g grvat be*eflt to thecolleg^ Thomas F. Mayo, librarian. “At this time, besides MT » ■ w | basic research requiremMts, we particularly need n gresH many more volumes of the good popular fie- tiop and non-fiction books," he says.."The small sub of $200 a year wbuld go a long way towsjj purchasing an adequate supply of these books. I f The rights of others and of th*t library's needs, steal or lose or irreparably danufee hundreds of books each y«qr. ‘ All thjit The Battalvm can hbpe to do ts to point out the needs opportunities for assistance to opr library. Here are the opportunities. Now it tions and m, conferring t to be hooted that philanthropic dividuals will take advantage of COLLEGE JOURNALISM recently < iters Hg 1 Much bss been written < lege publication*. The writers want the Aggies .own fields but along general lines. The Cushing Memorial Library building is a fine ona, It has the capacity for a library of great stse. And in Dr. Mayo we have a good librarian. WKh a good library building and a pood librarian, all we lack now is a big enough stock of books to fill the building. We heed enough copies of the most popular works so that all of them will hot, nine they would find that the college times out of 10, be already taken out for use at the one of the few profitable, extra-cu very time we waat to borrow one ourselvea. s both educationally and financially, To illustrate the library's sad lack of resources, Student papers may hoi | _ take a look at the following statistics comparing the news writing experience to any of amount of money oar library receives for necessary one writer says, but, strange to sa) expenditures with the sums spent for libraries of aloteni of! college journal ism more, not only in their t j, 4t they are an unnecessary ex studpnt's time, that they give “no f writing experience to any of the “their advertising deportments the business communities If the tensors of our student p thoroughly investigate the condi collegiate (and we might add high ether land-grant college# of importance: concerning fol- tantly declare a waste of the a mental news nts,” and that nuisances in Plications would of our local rhool) journals, ition presents liar activities, the campus, “fundamental students,” «s there are many are enjoying •3 Kansas State 4,12$ $ 42,000 Colorado State 1,266 22,000 Oregon State 4,476 72,000 Iowa State 0,920 111.000 Oklahoma A. AM. 4,142 > 67,000 Texas A. A M. 6,760 18,000 I $10.17 11.00 16.02 18.73 12.97 144 successful careers in that field. None of the advertising In ot is solicited as tip business n school. Students provide a live dycts of modem business and seek their patronage through the the school paper. National advertiser! college man and woman through sgime elusive interest is collegiate. | i L College journalism is not a fhd nor a product of adolescent frivolity but an established insti tution with an enviable record of achievement sur college papers tab favor to the for the pro- busineis men medium— I rs contact the ies whose ex- number of fields of to the educational 1 ent it is fixing basement of the the use of I dub possesses a 16-am. picture projector, this use of which has greatly increased tetarest and added to the turea of the mtet^kgs. The dues and the benefit show it hi the fal addition Alerts- lounge hi the building far Seniors. The • kept M. ‘ _h bf Ue A. S sents each year jmvu keptj Its finances in soundh The local branch C. each year sends compete for priam meeting, and to I between Rice • veraity of Texas, have had many 1 contests. | i The officers branch of this year are Jack Clhrk, Buddy Mandell, George .jKt^iAes, general ehainnan; and Bur; Bt^ns, secre tary-tresburer. THta HISToUCAL RACK, ground of the aiiK^Japnnese Con flict" will be the s< ibjecft disrqaaod by Dr. J. L. IVxi^on, structor, at the meeting of the Sockl Science Sem inar. An account «f the past eco- noraic penetration* of Japan into China and the x gmficano and bearing of theae penetrations oa the war between the two countries will be given. The meeting will be held at 7:80 next Monday night in the lecture room of the Physics building. fir 11- - n -- 4. ^ H j 1 pi 1 he gold-d>gfr!TR 1 ll"# on Broadway :« fur Capita Top .- A1LT N r ilWKSTKKS CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS If you think all the are blondes and you are wrong, Emerich will tell that they are cadets and they UP at Wentworth MiUtary Academy ah- Lexington. Mo. Captain EmerfehTs curiosity was Only oas sf ths four stats colleges compare ! shoe* with oar own is any larger than this one. Yet all slow their libraries a far larger per cent of thi seilege budget All of them spend a great maa dollars per student than oar does. And If oar were compered with those of the universities contrast would be even more disheartening. But the fault liei, not with the Ubrary, mainly bat In the lUct that the State AsgiMature allows it far Uh> small a sum to operate on properly each year. Now right here is an unparalleled opportunity for the desene of A. A M. Mothers Clubs and E> Students Clubs and other organisations conm-cu i with the college to do Texas A. A M. a great ser vice, one of lasting benefit for the future cooj*-rat ing to relieve the distressing shortage of funds and sf books for the library. Ths Conors sad Sen Angelo Mothers Club have already made several valuable contributions whether of hooks and of magesine subscriptions. The Dallas PUBLIC HOUSING IN planning is the subject of recency begun at the Mas Technology, RELATION TO CITY ——— a new-five-year study BY BILL MURRAY ■achusdtts Institute of THE A. S. M. E. in Emerfch’s curios by the infreastag as who ham come I I ITZ On National Affairs of the largest branches in the en tire country. One of the oldest organisations The meetings of the local M. E. on the A. A M. campus is the local group, held on alternate Tburs- BY DR. K P. LUDLUM EUROPEON MEN AND POLICIES In the midst of one of the world’s recurring umr crises, mently, Mr. Walter Lippmann made a penetrating remark. He said H was astonishing to Mechanical Engineers, one of the four original engineering asaocia- and instructors and of lectures by tions organised with branches cov- distinguished visiters In the engi- ering every state in the United necring fields. In the past the club States. The local membership this has succeeded in brtaging to Col- year Dumber* 130, making H one lege Station a number of promin ent men to lecture to the club and to the college. Last year them in- efaiodiflarvay N. Davis, president aroused of the Stevens Institute of tech- of cadets who ham come into his no logy and of the Amerirani So- office to consult his Don and Erad- dety of Mechanical Engineers, who street rating book. In spoke on “The Engineer of the tag one cadet who came in wtte a Future’', and Roy Wright, past long list of namas of presideat of thq A* 8. M. and in several states whose credit rat- ‘ eap- hranch of the American Society erf <Uya, are mainly technical, con- editor of “Railway Age". The dub tag be wished to ajeartefc. Engineers, one of the listing largely of talks by students is now planning to s.-cure as sp. alt- tain asked him what ho was George McCormick, Superirv “Well, captain, I have Undent of Motive Power for the seventeen girls thfc past Southern Pacific Railway on the the cadet replied, “and I West CbasL . j pR | J to find out which one of the The local branch has tnadej a fathers has the most money." i. II ...IW.II »i I ■! i ll »— IRRI WWI.II.I lie .■I—II I I.... 1 00mi m .in.., II. rnrnmm i— .n » ■ i — mm. „ i i, . hear everyont aakutf whether we could Jcwp the peace, when in fact two wars were being waged at that moment, and another had come to an end just a short while before. The world has come a long way in the last twenty-five years, said he, to ths place where, while two wars are {going on, it can peace can be preserved. Bit by- bit, P insensibly, “peace" has become a comparative term, Ex-Students Club is now planning assistant to our aad when most of us think of “wfr", we mean an library. Now if only the rest of the numerous club* til-embracing world war. would take heed of the situation and start to work For my own part, I have begun to have similar oa this matter, It would be an easy task to raise doubts about the queation eTtflton asked the.w t^s $200 needed at this time and to provide even days—whether civilisation as we know it can be greater assistance needed in the future. l[l j MMrved. I have begun to wonder whether H U It cannot be doubted that our library-and any not already too late to ask the question. I have library-la one of the greatest and most important begun to wonder whether the kind»of thing we have eourceeof education, culture, and recreation existing b( ,, accustomed to think of as ciriluation has not anywhere. From what has been said H should be disappeared to such an extent already, as to require THE BATTALION Entered as second class matter at the post office ' at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress * oa March $, 1879. . Subscription rates, $2 00 per year Advertising rates spun request, * ' _ Office in Room 122, Admtaistrajtien Building Telephone College 8. Office open from 11 s. m. until 4 p. m. dally. 1! Represented for national advertising by Na- extent air us to phrase our question, *Can civilisation as we knew it be restored ?" I am not sure I can define what civilixatugi is. Tm sure I know some things that are not civilised. Even if war itself be admitted ^s a concomitant of civilization, surely the making of war directly upon civilian populations has not been considered civilised. Yet attacks upon non-cortbttante, to break down their morale, is a part of present-day war fare. The sacking of cities captured in war surely was a custom the world thought it had put behind it Yet the statement of Naeking must have aroused some parts of the world to the realisation of the 420 Madison Ave., danger to what we had thought I* be an advanced earilkatioD. AH civilised countries certeifly have not wel all types of dis- accustomed to sing unpopular opinions by milder means that) murder. Today, however, there are countries in which the punishment for holding opinions not officially spprived Is death, and ta Mme cases the dissentm Is fortunate U death Is not preceded by a prolonged period of tor „^8psrta Editor tor# . . TT - tiooal Advertising Service, inc., New York City. R. L. DOSS Managing Editors George Fulton, B, C. Knetaar -V ,I A«*li«t'Advertising Managers Bob Oliver, Wayne Stark :• | Associate Editors E. C. (Jrap) Philip Colmar Staff Photographer J. C. Diets Circulation Manager Lion McChesney, H. G. Howard Circulation Assistants | ( C, F. DeVilbia* Proof reader TUESDAY STAFF . Sporta Assistant ■ • -T- ‘ Af —fT ,, r -- - n - ... -'Jeramf Mlpr G. Feennann, H. G. Tolbot, A. Shields, J. A. Stan sell. Wise, A. J. Robinson, Davenport, J. W. Jenkins, L J. WshrU- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF certainly IS ion uf a H- «Wli ..-ADVKRTISINC; MANAGER gf tln“™ IS'« P h.Tb^„ SRI SAfM. CHM I „ ,U W .. I Tom Derrow 1- Bttl Murray A. 0. Warren B. F. Rogers, M. Levis Chevaillier, E. R. H. Inglefield, Foster & P Advertising Asaistanta FRIDAY STAFF C. w. Wilkinson... Ray Treadwell — L. E. Hmmpeon .. Paul Junior Editor ..Junior Editor Editor —Junior Editor Frank Phelan, J. F. Henderson, Billy Clarkson, U A- Scholl, Mason Jonas. G. W. DeArmond J r U A. Newman, R. W. Burchfield, Jack Routt E. W. Gerlich, W. C. Rogan, R. L. Adams : Advertising Asaistanta '; One of the ^roud boast of democratic countries is that their tows forbid thei yaihhment of Individ uato except for crimes whereof .the accused shall have been duly convicted, aad that the laws restrict ths pur lAhment ta those convicted, end do not permit H to be extended to others who had no connection with the guilty except an incidental one. How far is this from the brutal hurrying of an entire nci, extending even to the point of allowing its memb innocent of any crime whatever except membership in the race, to frees# to death in the borderland be tween two nations, because none would harbor them? A catalogue of uncivilised horrors in the con temporary world might be extended without limit The list would be long enough, and the departure from civilised standards wide enough, to give point to my doubt whether we should speak of preserving civilisation. All of these remarks are by way of introduction to the contents of this column fbr the next few weeks. The column will be devoted to a discussion erf certaha. outstanding lenders in contemporary Europe, and to mention of some of their policies and objective. In all fairness, I must acknowledge my debt.to Mr. John Gunlher, and to the tatast edition of his “Inside MBropj". :< —f* 1' I : ail ; 111 - a K FORaTHE > !, I v.ur A VANITY senior; m 1 ' |i im if.I CLUBS, j R. V.’S, I FAIR.. FAVORITES 1 >/ V ifc SOCIETIES/ | "T” CLUB . . FEB. 1! i H- THE LONGHORN WANTS 1 41; (* TO YOUR SNAPSHOTS! • 1 — Reserve Year copy of your school annual at room 126, Administration Building (if you did not pay the student activity fee). V 1 i t lu K ji 4Ji I' a - :