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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
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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
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$10.17
11.00
16.02
18.73
12.97
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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. |
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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.
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.- 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
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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."
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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
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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
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'; 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". :<
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