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Last] Words
INDUSTRIALIZATION
OF TEXAS
WOfliD'S
BY BOBBITT L DOBS.
Battalion Kditor-in-t fci<-f
Thin iasoc of Ttai Battalion marks the eni of
tha school year and the last iaaoe af the thirty-
eighth relume of Tha Battalion, whk* it has been
my privilege and great pleasure to adit.
Since this is tha last article I will write'for
The Battalion, I feel I should write something of
importance, something which would aid those who
will taka over the "sheet” next year, something f
which would be a help to the entire student body.
But I'm -not up to it. Just like all seniors. I'm too
jittery at reaching the end of the four-year trail
to graduation. i* _ i .
I would, however* like to say a few things. First
of all, 1 would like to thank the student body for
harfcig given me tha opportunity to edit its news
paper. I hope very few' have been disappointed with
it - 1
Next, I would like to thank this year's staff,
which has been entirely loyal, <juite willing to work
and profoundly interested in making The Battalion
more modern in makeup, style and content.
In here also should go the thanks of the Staff
and the student body to the merchants of College
Station and Bryan, whose generous support has
made the transformation of The Battalion from a
weekly into a semi-weekly newspaper poesihle. For
many years The Battalion has been the only way
of reaching the entire student body with advertising.
This year its Circulation included not only students
but tha entire faculty and all college employees. I
believe they will get even better results next year
through the tri-weekly Battalion.
The faculty of A. A M. has been cooperative
in every respect, and my personal thanks as well
as those of the entire staff are due it. The Battalion
is one of very few college papers which are entirely
uncensored. There has been no censorship this year
or in any other, year. I hope next year’s staff and
the ones which follow will appreciate this fact and
conduct the paper so that there will never be need,
for censorship. 1 '.
j My thanks also go to E. L Angell, managsr of
studant publications, who has, without exercising
any censorship, sided me in keeping The Battalion's
editorial policy clear and as unyrejuAcUd as was
possible.
The Student Publications Board has dene
great deal this year, to aid in building tradition on
The Battalion, a factor which has been sadly lacking.
The men on that body have proved beyond a doubt
tkkt they are vitally interested in seeing publica-
tkgia here progress.
I also offer ray thanks to the A. A M, Frees
for the aid its men have given me this year.
Before I leave my deek, I think I should clear
up some points, which have been unintentionally
confused by some. I have not ever led any political
clique. By no means have I ever wanted to bo unfair
in news coverage; it has been my earnest endeavor
to give everybody the same fair deal in news, and
rumors I was "against” one military branch are
pitifully foolish, particularly when I did my military
in that branch.
Some students think 1 go s round
dark corners for secret frst men and i
despise them. I hnve never believed in
—or any other social frats—but 1 don
private “blacklist” of members.
The/Battel ion has been criticised
having carried some editorials with “i
criticism in them. The policy I have trii
is to get tj>e facts first and then if eri
order, go ahead. If such a system is ft
I-have tried bo follow it—then there is
tive” criticism. I have never written an!editorial I
did not firmly believe would aid the student body
oae way or another.
That winds op this last effort; L hope I hove
cleared up some points which have from time to
time come up.
I have enjoyed putting out your paper and I
appreciate the honor of being your editor more than
anything that’s ever happened to me. Good luck* and
thirty.
The industrialisation of Tesaa Is not going to
develop under present conditions with a sudden rush
of capital into this State aad with tha construction
of huge factories on the scale of manutailiiilin
already well established in the North and East.
There are many reasons why an industrial boom of
that caliber is not to be expected, s primary ob-
staele being high freight rates which would handi
cap disposal of surplus production.
Hbwsvsr, there ten be development along the
lines suggested by Walter M. Wi Splswn, chairman
of, tbs’Interstate Commerce Commission, in his ad
dress to the West Tessa Chamber of Commerce con-
vention. As a native Texan and former president of
The University of Texas, Mr, Splswn is closely in
terested in the future progress of this State. His pro
posal was for the establishment of numerous “small
scale” factories, which, he reminded, could utilise
abundant oil and gas resources for processing plenti-
raw materials, such as livestock, wool, cotton and
wheat. One of his suggestions, tanneries, was con
tained in the final report of the State Planning
Board.
The idea of dispersal of vast industrial units
in the North by breaking them down into smaller
factoruss in. rurkl sections is already developing in
this country. Otic of the arguments in favor of
decentralising industry has been that “smaller fac
tories^ in rural communities would enable the plant
worker to supplement his income during idle periods
of the yev by producing food products on his small I
farm. In Texas, numerous small factories well lo- ™
“ted could start in the opposite direction to bring wwgww-v- r w ¥ -,w 1Tr , j ww w-retwwvwwrrv
about the same result They would permit the rural PREVIEWS And REVIEWS
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^ , auks from Joshua thru Esther.
Summer Bel. 90S will cover the period in
eg Summer New Testament dealing with
Department ^ development of Christianity
will offer ‘“mediately following the death of
307 aal f Jesus to the does of the first cen-
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under the tablishment of the original church.
the formulation of the teachings
which now constitute the essential
Rri. 307 wm covpe the brntory. chrlrtUllity , ^ ^
social conditions, and religious 4e- oppoMn* groups confronting the
veiopment at the Hebrew People early church.
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BY BOB NISBKT The plot Is rather simple, but it
“BROADWAY SERENADE”—A works in more thaii the usaal
congested industrial centers of ' the North, with
their factories shut down and i majority of the , .
population on relief,'have been the soro spot, of "
the depression. Texas enn avoid this utter depend—k mf" UpUm - John T * ,ntor Foo#e ’
of the Worker on industry if it plans wisely and
acts moderately.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
COLLEGIATE REVIEW
from the factories.
In the long run* Texas will be a happier and
mare prosperous State if its industrial evolution de- —— _ . „ . . - „ .. , .
velops along line, suggested by Mr. Splawn. The Pr °: tTT « t
«e ' th. _4»k duc « < i by Robert Z. Leonart and ett * “ »» Mary Hale, the wife
adapted to the screen by Charles °f musician Jimmy Seymour, who
is swarded a scholarship to study
musk abroad. In order to make
and Hans Kraly, with mus|c fur- encaigh money to go along, Mary
nished by Herbert Stothart and Ed- joins a musical show. As a surprise
ward Ward. Showing Sunday and even to herself, she is a hit and is
Monday at the Palace. immediately billed as a star. Jimmy
THE CAST becomes jealous and Mary decides
Mary Hale Jeanette MacDonald “> *■» • Much trouble and
James Geoffrey Seymour mmny 1 « U K*“ » r * encountered be-
-■ ;■ 1- ■ ' 1 1 • ■ \ ' '’’d-— Ayres for *'* the two are reunited. Ian
'I -h4re is every sign that the capital of Western Larry Bryan Ian Hunter “ unt * r
civilisation may cross the Atlantic and find itself Cornelius Collier Jr Frank Morgan r “ nk -’fontsn fumishi* the
in another generation or two on the shores of this Jo^F. the Jinx -— Wally Vernon * 0<r *'
hew laud, so to spask. because that land hat in Ha Judy Tyrrell Rita Johnson
power the intelligence and moral courage to make Jeannette MacDonald has always wwts ,y •
itself the outstanding exemplar of those policies been one of-, my favorite movie \\ flAL S OslOWinfiT
of libmty, of progress and of human service which *taro, so natwally I’d say this as —— ■ ■ h . .
alone tan save and develop our civilixation.” Colum- • * ine pietaro. Her combination of AT ffjp ASSEMBLY HALL*
bia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler bamMg and fine voice is something Tbnicht _- Th . Young in Heart,”
points to the contmaed decline of cultural Europe, wit b whl< ^' ■° ot hnr actress can wjti) J anet (j.ymor, Douglas Fair-
“ The re is no such thing as a cut and dried oomp * r ' T * -re "“F b * tter * ct ' banks Jr, aad Paulette Goddard,
curriculum which cannot be modified to the needs re *®**’ *• tmr “ acting goes, but
of individual students.” Requirements-hound studenU for Pending an hour’s entertain- AT THE PALACE:
rise up and cheer the progressivenem of Ohio State m * n *- MacDonald rates at Thursday, Friday, and Saurday—
University's Dean L L. Lore. fh* to P- fb's picture she sings “Dodge City”, with Errol I Flynn,
'Democracy and its hsaardous position form “ r °'- Every Lonely Heart”, "Flyin' Olivia De Havilland. and Anh Sher.
no basis for a ‘new’ educational program. Better ‘ "****'2*°***'’ “° n * at ‘dan.
educational foundations are certainly needed. Mit „ , ln!,e Changes Everything , Saturday night preview, Sunday,
they can be built steadily; no complete break with «° J*™* • medley ami Monday—“Broadway Sere-
old procedures is required.” President Henry M. “ f 01,1 f»shione<i songs. Lew Ayres nsde”, srith Jeanette MacDonald,
Wrifton, Brown University, votes against a sweep- baa nssde a qukk climb back to L/w Ayres, Ian Hunter, and Frank
mg revision of educst.on.1 polkiro and procedures * tMrdom ‘“f* ir ™* ntl y Morgan.
his comeback^The part*of a com
poser of musit is somewhat a real- 111 1 11 1 ■■
life role since he has devoted s Ci _ ’ _ _ /“k
great part of his life to the piano. ViOlllgS Ull
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An Experiment
He started his musical career under
his grandmother, who was a con
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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The New Deal Is making an experimental at- his father, who played with the .Jirne 2, Final BaU, Mess Hall,
tempt to move surplus agricultural products. The Minneapolis Symphony. One of hit 9 p. m. to 1 a. ML
experiment it worth watching compositions which has received June S, <5, and 7—Semi-Annual
It works this way. Any family receiving relief professional recognition U called meeting of State Veterinary Medi-
or W. P. A. wages may buy orange stamps to the “Symphonic Fantasy”. cal Association ef Texas.
amount of not leas than $1 or more than 31.30 per " ' 3 ' "t 11 '* ' ' ' T 1 1 ■■ 11 ■ 1 1
week per member of the family. These stamps may ■
be used to buy all kinds of food. Instead of taking
the money and using it to buy food, in other words,
the family buys orange stamps and uses the stamps
for buying food. But with each dollar's worth of
orange stamps, the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation givea the family fifty cents' worth of
blue stamps. The stamps may be exchanged at any
grocery store for products declared by the F. S. C. C.
to be on the list of surplusses. Later the F. S. C. C.
redeems the blue stamps.
The phm is being tried out at present in Roch-
ter, N. Y, and soon it will be tried in other cities
throughout the country. The foods on the surplus
list at present are butter, eggs, oranges, grapefruit,
dried'fruit, flour, cornmeal, and dry beana. Tike list
is subject to constant change, otf course. The plan
has been in operation for only a week or so, but
about half of the eligible families have taken
advantage of it. Probably more of them will do so
whan the plan becomes better known. So far about
325,000 worth of blue stamps have been used, and
already the price of surplus commodities has been
lowered, owing to the larger turnover, atad that, in
turn, in expected to mean a still larger turnover—
especially as the lower prices are available to all
purchaaers, not simply to those having the blue
stamps.
Tha plan is expected to benefit several groups:
farmers, by moving their surplus products in larger
quanities; relief clients, by giving them a chance
to buy the surplus commodities In quantities which
they can readily use; grocers, by increasing their
sales both to relief clients end to other customers
attracted by the lowered prices; the other customers,
for obvious reasons; and business, through whose
channels the stamps pass.
Of course this is an experiment. B it nt first
blush it seems to have almost everything. I like it
especially as an alternative to the varioui. plans
for subsidising exports of surplus commodities
I freely admit that a system at free international
trade is desirable. At present, though, there is no
such system. la practice, we usually get one of
two things in return for our exports: (1) bad
debts, and (S) gold. Rather than axpOrt our fer
tility in return for either bad debts or for gold
which we bury in Kentucky, 1 prefer to distribute
the surpluses to the groupe in our populsticR which
need them most.
SO - LONG
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BEST OF LUCK, AGGIES
4i
AND
We want to thank each of you for all favors, and
try and tell you how much we appreciate your friend
ship. p ' 1 ‘
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