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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1939)
f n >'■ > PACK 4 EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MARCH 17, |M [iETTERSTOPREXYREFLECtJLLWILL PtMidcat Walton haa turned over to Tho Bat talion two anonjrtnou* letter* concerning a subject of vital importance to all A. A M. *tudenu As President Walton sutod, anonymous let ters are always a source of irritation, but these ^ two, we believe, should be carefully considered Both letters state that basing has too much importance at A. A M. One letter is from a parent of a student living in a campus co op house, and the other is from a parent of a student living ip » dor mitory. The second letter accompanied a letter which the student had written to hit parents. Neither of the fathers who wrote would sign his name or allow his son’s name to bo known because Of the embarrassment which would bo caused the students. j l| - r : Excerpts from each of the two letters follow: “It is surprisingly shocking to rib to learn what cruel, inhuman basing goes on in some of your project bosses at A. A M. The freshmen are sub mitted to sudi unjust treatment that it really would seem a miracle to me if they were to pass la their studios ...” (signed) A College Parent- (The excerpts from the second letter come from the letter written to his parents by a dorm fish.) * . . J th# •P' heads are gettinj: to b* Just as low down as they can be. They won’t even let ne study in the daytime, the very time when we seed to . .. they said that next term, if they chuk) - us studying in the daytime they would beat as half to death, l hate to write letters like this bat I have to gut (t off my chestL . . I don’t mind s beating every once in u while, but when it beoomes an every day occurrence. I’ll tell you it Juat doesn’t go .L „ I believe I got te stay in my room without being disturbed (last night) about 20 minutes.’’ Do not misunderstand the intention of this editorial—The Battalioa proposes no revolt from tradition. We expect both letters are exaggenwi • EVary freshman whs comes to A. A M. expects and wants some hazing; every freshman who goes to say college wants and expects some hedUfr But. la all fairness, cant we admit that some few or ganlxations and some few co-ops carry things too far? Let’s see who gets the short end of the deal when hazing is carried to too far an extant Pint we are cheating the taxpayers of this state and the parents of students, both of which groups want this school to exist for the primary purpose of teaching something and not to' hinder studying. Second, we are cheating the administrative of-, fkers and mom hers of the faculty, for they are • devoting their lives to making this college baiter. intellectually and scholastically. Third, wa art cheating the graduates of this college, for if stadents are haxed too much to ailc* personality development and mental development a degree from this Institution will gradually mean leas and l«ea,?.. j (1 ' And last but not least, wa are cheating our selves, for we are developing within ourselves a uniform personality, a personality which may lay ■■■I.U ■ .! ■{■ ■ ■ »4 , -> too much emphasis on fitting into n waU-daflnod groove. In addition, wa may ha holding down tho scholastic advancement of the student body by plac ing too many stumbling blocks in tho paths of fresh men and possibly sophomores. We are very happy indeed that the incidents referred to in the anonymous letters are not wide spread; there has been almost a total disappearance of tho brutality of basing within tho Inst four or firs years. Only a faw groups can be criiiaad for basing. But, as we aoo R, it is our duty as A. A M. students, not to eliminate baaing completely, but to modify it eo that it will bo impossible to handicap any student in the college permanently. And wa fast sura that almost all students faal the same way. Ji 111 # ALERTNESS Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Brit ain, indirectly had his way paid through Harvard by Paul Revere. As an undergraduate ho thought up tho idea of a sight-seeing tour over the route taken by the Revolutionary hero's famous rids. A. C. Gilbert the millionaire magic king, earn ed his way through Tale by performing magic tricks at parties- He never left New Haven. H* established his trick and game factory, now tho largest in the world, shout S mile from the college ek^p^k j \ v J Prank Cook, s shoe clerk in Billing*, Mon., now teaches G-men to track criminals through foot prints because in his leisure hours he fooled around with shoe soles and worked out the wax footprint mouage bow used in criminology. Henry Pah, nineteen year old student at Technical High School in Spnngfudd. Mass., do- New Records ; Benny Goodman, Gordon Grif fin, and Jesry Jerome come la for mstrunientsl^olos in the recording by Benny Goodman and bis One baa tra of SHUT-EYE. The reeds stand out again in GOOD FOR NOTH IN’ BUT LOVE, which shares the record Martha Tilton sings BU the lyrics hi both songs When recording brain waees for study, University of Souhern Cal ifornia’s Dr. L. E. Travis amplifies them *00,000 times. During ths first hslf of ths cur rent fiscal year, Princeton Univer sity has received gifts totalling $1,100,7(1. “This is your fourth rtquert for o larger uniform tincu you itartod to work for tol" « • ■ '-I - . - • 1 * | ■ t jflj ,, You barn probably hoard of ths dropped one of these. When ths student who went to school several semester eras over he had flunked years and lost so many hours by nine mere end received so many cutting damn that hs came out ruts that he lost the one he had in the hole, but here is an authen- passed. And so be was back where tie am in .hkh th. collegian oc- b * wnh the college! tually broke even for on# semester. j It seems that a Texas Tech- In ths lest 26 years, Colgate’s Operators of the Oregon State College telephone exchange say “number plena*” bn an average of 2,460 times a day from 8 a. m. to « p. m. OIL CHANGING TIME, DRIVER MIM weather demands A change of oil. We will do It for you speedily—low t j pneeu. AGGIELAND Service Station ' |V vised a shock abwrber which he sold to General noiogical College student enrolled debaters have won a greater per Motors and made a fortune before he was old fa K total of 11 hours. Finding centage of victories than have the enough to vote. that hit lead was too heavy he institution's athletic teams. The amateur thinker-upper can still win. BEFORE THE DANCE AFTER THE DANCE — OR ANY TlMls; It s The - ■ 1 U'w ■ |W‘ *, ' * DE LUXE CAFE ALWAYS OPEN Brygn, Texas -I i- HARD TO REMEDY Ml As Dean T. D. Brooks, of the School of Sciencee at Texas A. A M. College bold the Electric Gob, one of the chief weaknesses of | ths American educational system is the lack of vidual attention to the student But, even thbugh this fact is recognized by teachers and the gsnsral public, the situation is s difficult one to remedy because of the large school attendance. The cost of the public schools is already ao great that th* taxpayers art overburdened. The number of teachers is as large that educators com plain that the average salary of instructors is too low. J | U . Yet to assure the student more individual at tention would necessitate the employment of more teachers. And to keep more complete personal records of each student would require the employ ment of clerks and statisticians. Thus far a large part of the educational ex» pens* in this country has gone for the erection of school buildings. Perhaps, now that the birth rate is declining, the nued for new build^if^ will detrease. This aiay enable school boards to solve thf proh lent to which Dean Brooks calls attention -DALLAS TIMES-HERALD The Battalion Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 3. Ih79 Subscription rates, $2 a year. Advertising rates upon request. : Office in Room 18 AdmMstraftion building Telephone College I. Night phone C ollege 000. Represented for national advertising by Nation al Advertising Service, Inc., 420 Madison Ave., New Turk City. R. L DOSS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF W. H. SMITH ADVERTISING MANAGER James Grits, Bill Murray Managing Kditon Georg* Pulton, B. C. Knetaar Asst Adv. Mgr*. 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L Wehrte, L J. “It te poAiible to satect courses which combine educational value with degree credit; and In almost any course, no matter how dull the subject or deadly the lecturer, them 1s always something of interest to th* inquiring mind. The educated man, as con trasted with the merely gruduated man, has some powers of discrimination and criticism.” University of Virginia’s Prof. T. G Johnson re-states the oft- forgotten axiom that learning; not grades, makes the educated mao. ■!-" ■ On National Affairs BY DR R P. H DLUM Caa It Happen Mere? , This column Is engaged upon a series of descrip tion. of the Euro[>ean dictators and dictatorships. Germany, Spain,^ and Italy—or Hitter, Franco, and . Mussolini—have been described. Before going on to another country and another personality, I want to interrupt the series long enough to mention an American fascist. He is Major General George Van Horn Moseley (retired). Fortunately, he is tot well known, and he seems to have alight influence. Even the Sen tinels of th* Republic, n proto-fascist group be fore which he .poke recently, has disavowed what he said. But although Moseley himself may not be significant, hs is one of a great number of fascists who are at # work in the United States. There are 800 fascist groups in America, and their propaganda reaches one in thr. *• of American adults; how much effect it haa on those it reaches, of course one cannot any. Moseley, therefore, tf not personally impiortant, is highly important as a representative of a type. Speaking recently to the Sentipels, Moaeley warned that Communists in the United States had perfected plans to taka over the principal cities, and he called upon all citizens to form vigilante groups which would be ready at a moment’s notice to quell such an uprising- The governors of some States, he said, could not be depended upon to call out troops to thwart such a Communtet stroke. He went on to say, “Above all, these patriotic ‘reserve groups’ should hold honest-to-God rehearsals at stat ed intervals of every six months or so. Such demon strations would serve the double purpose of giving a show of strength that might discourage the Com munist*, and developing a speed of mobilisation that would be vitally important in a criais. | “Wo do not realise the strength ef the Com munist party in America today is greeter than that of ths party which took over Russia. In America the number of members of th* party te approximately 80,000, but in what they term their united front, they have over 6,000,000 sympathisers.” Moaeley said Communism had grown greatly in this country since 1932, with the assistance of the present Admmi.trstion. He instanced the appoint ment of Justice Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court ns positive evidence of the Administration’s leaning toward Communism. He said that democracy did not work, and called fer^s new leadership. “Our Army te the only good thing left In th* govern- ittefcC he declared. The ageing general (he te sixty-four), bravely preparing against his imagined perils, may be con sidered laughable. But notice the similarity of his ideas to those of Mussolini—as alike as t- good npllca of the original. With 800 fascists organisa tions propagandizing one-third of American adults, perhaps ths Moseley phenomenon is more arrest ing than amusing. \ :— -V “No worthwhile university can be created over night, and Just money and buildings never has, or never will be able to qualify as t real university. Men, time, money and a great love are the prerequi Sites of any outstanding educational Institution, sad the last named, love, Is as essential as men and money.• Dr. 8. G l>obbs, .pmking nt Emory Univer- slty, outlined the real, non-matena. foundation on which nil great Institution, of higher learning are constructed. loliit att uowi /wih ? i Aa AM0W WUM B Ahrayi tight Sit THIS POST I K if -1 * l Enjoy the Post tonight : Vs. t v ■ :tv I' j i !• ' ■ • . i 'j tei ' 'yf ’ •' yadilj In a few hours this lovely girl will be All’llMATICAIJl' MURDERED I T ilt killer will be home safe in bed. No living person will be a witness. The polka will even call U “suicide.” And only the cry of s Siamese cat in the night, and a woman's sudden panic, will keep a docen others from sharing Karen Lunt's fete. The perfect crime? AImmH Open your Post tonight and start hunting for dues, as Colonel 'Primrose feces his strangest, most baffling .a*-. 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