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The Battalion
Friday Afternoon, May 24, 1946
Was Rainey Shushed? . . .
The Battalion has received a challenging communica
tion which needs more than the ordinary reply. Writes Rob
ert L. Manly, ’42, a veteran student:
“Could you answer the following question, or
is your mouth closed on this subject? Why was
Dr. Homer P. Rainey refused an audience on the
campus, while a spokesman for the C. I. O. was al
lowed the privilege of free speech? An explanation-
is due us veterans.^
No, the Batt’s mouth is not closed on this subject, nor
on any subject affecting student life and activities. The
BatFs voice is stilled only in one of two ways; it cannot
print anything libelous or obscene, and it cannot take a
stand for any particular candidate for office.
Dr. Rainey is now (since yesterday morning) an avowed
candidate for governor of Texas, and his qualifications for
that office are outside the BatFs field, although he has
both friends and enemies on this campus.
However, the circumstnaces of his appearance in Col
lege Station recently are quite publishable. Many rumors
have been going around on the campus about censorship and
attempts to prevent that meeting, or to keep faculty mem
bers from attending. The Batt has investigated, and here
are the findings:
The invitation to Dr. Rainey was made by the Archi
tectural Society. Student members applied to Ernest Lang
ford, head of the department, for permission to hold such
a meeting in the Chemistry lecture hall. The request was
referred to Dean F. C. Bolton, who ruled:
“Although Dr. Rainey is not an avowed candidate for
governor at this time, it is generally understood by every
body that he will be a candidate in the coming election, and
will announce his candidacy in time. Such a meeting as pro
posed would be a political gathering, and as such cannot be
held on the campus of a state-owned college.”
Accordingly, two changes in the original plans were
made. The meeting was held off the campus in the First
Baptist Church, and it was agreed in advance that no polit
ical matters would be mentioned. Therefore, Dr. Rainey
just grinned when asked about his future plans. The grin
didn’t leave much doubt about his intentions.
An even more important question than those asked by
Mr. Manly is: Was any pressure jjut on faculty to stay
away from the meeting? Well, the attendance at the affair
was 60% faculty and staff. The small attendance of stu
dents has been ascribed to a belief that the crowd would be
too great—that the meeting was “oversold.”
That’s the story of the Rainey meeting. The rest is
state politics, and the Batt must be silent.
But while we are on the subject, some questions are
still being asked about the C. I. O. leader speaking on the
campus. He was present, not as an organizer, but to give
an economics club some information about his labor group.
A short time before an A. F. L. representative appeared be
fore the same club. These appearances were an excellent ex
ample of free speech at work.
Batf's Researcher Discovers
A &M Is Unique Institution
Letters
PETUNIAS DON’T SMELL,
EVEN AT A. & M.
The Battalion:
Congratulations on a decidedly
different editorial! Although your
charming “sweet-smelling” petun
ias around Gathright’s burial plot
don’t smell, and. although you did
ocassionally trip over your own
feet like a playful cow, that May
22 editorial was good. It was a
genuine shock to have something
peep demurely forth from the Bat
talion’s blood-soaked pages.
But “an alert student body
marching forward?” Poo!
Lloyd Jones
(O. K., so it was the nasturtiums
that smelled—Ed.)
Morning is that time of the day
when the rising generation retires
and the retiring generation rises.
—RUSTY—
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man support our post-war foot
ball team, the next Champions of
the Southwest Conference?
All you cadets and veterans
have to do to show approval of
my offer is by uniting the Batt
or by WRITING IN A VOTE for
Rusty in the forthcoming election
on May 28.
When you see Rus out strutting
with band, then and only then
can you understand her handle,
Rusty. It will be obvious.
Tom H. Westbrook III
Bryan Field Village
YELL PRACTICE
There will be a yell practice
Monday night at seven p.m. for the
purpose of hearing the rest of the
candidates for junior yell leaders
and the candidates for veteran yell
leader.
All veterans are urged to attend
to see their candidates in action.
By Wick van Kouenhoven
The Batt’s demon researcher has
just come back from a long ses
sion at Cushing Library, during
which he came across a large col
lection of information about Texas
A. & M. and its particular place in
the scheme of American educa
tion.
Did you know that no Texas
institution of higher learning has
ever been named among top doz
en American universities ? The
big three, for scholastic rating, are
Harvard, Chicago and California.
East, Middle-West and Pacific
Coast. Note how a Texas college
would fill up a hole in the geo
graphical pattern.
The rest of the golden dozen
are in the same districts as the
leaders; the ivy-leaguers of Yale,
Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and
Pennsylvania in the East; the great
state universities of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota in the
Middle-West; Stanford on the
Coast.
For years a certain near-by in
stitution has expected to put a
Texas name among those leaders.
All the makings of a great univer
sity are there, stately buildings, a
fine library, lots of students, but
the mixture has never jelled —
yet.
Another near-by educational in
stitution, privately endowed and
very strict in its entrance require
ments, is making a good reputa
tion for itself in science and may
be the first from the Southwest
area to receive the accolade of
high rank.
Wouldn’t it be nice if A. & M.
could fool them both and receive
such honors itself ? Some of our
A. & M. graduates make good.
This year many of you young
men graduating from the A, & M.
College of Texas will be going
into industry or into one of the
professions. It will be well to
remind yourselves that the indi
vidual or concern for whom you
will be working has the right to
departments do have international
recognition now. If all depart
ments came up to those same
standards—well, we can dream,
can’t we ?
NO CLOSE RELATIONS
The problems of A. & M. differ
in large degree from thos e of
other schools because A. & M.
itself is so different. The only
kindred college in the county is
Clemson A. & M. in South Caro
lina. It also has a cadet corps at
the heart of its traditions.
Most other land-gTant colleges
have take an different pattern. All
are pledged, under the Morrill Act,
“without excluding other scientif
ic and classical studies, and in
cluding military tactics, to teach
branches of learning pertaining to
agriculture and the mechanic arts.”
In the East, most land-grant col
leges are small agricultural “State
Colleges” located near some larg
er liberal arts university. They
teach agriculture only. Engineer
ing is taught in endowned techni
cal institutes or the universities.
Up there A. & M. would be split
into “State College of Texas” and
“Texas Institute of Technology,”
two separate institutions. That
solves some problems, but we
wouldn’t care for it here.
In the middle west, the land-
grant college is frequently a part
of the state university, where agri
culture, engineering, and the
“learned professions” law, etc., are
all taught at a single institution.
More extreme is the California
pattern, where a single state uni
versity operates on half a dozen
campuses. One of them is the agri
cultural college. If Texas used the
same plan, we would be “The A.
& M. College of the university of
expect the following from you:
^ 1. Industry
2. Accuracy
3. Punctuality
4. Neatness^
5. Cheerfulness
6. Courtesy
7. Loyalty
8. Honesty
FEATURES -
“I’m back In school which is evi
dence enough that the educational
benefits of the G. I. Bill of Rights
are good,” said Mr. Robert A.
Grabowski of Westfield, 111., Pe
troleum Engineering Major. “I’m
one of the many yankees who mar
ried Texas girls. My wife is the
former Miss Patty Stevens of Los
Fresnos, Texas,” said Bob. His
wife resides at Walton Hall with
Bob.
Mr. Grabowski was discharged
in July, 1945 with 98 points after
service overseas with the 448fti
Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force
where he earned the Air Medal
with Four Clusters and the Eur
opean Theatre Ribbon . with six
Battle Stars.
Texas”, out at Lubbock there would
be the “Technological College of
the U .of T.” and so forth.
Although A. & M. is legally de
signated as a technical branch of
T. u., and our two major institu
tions have set up a cooperative leg
islative committee, it is doubtful
if a complete consolidation would
be welcome or practical.
Doesn’t look as though we can
find help from other colleges in
solving A. & M.’s problems. We
are independent as a steer, and
must solve many of our problems
our own way. *
ANOTHER CAR GOES
TO THE SCRAP PILE
All over America, cars
are going out of business
; . . leaving their owners
“high and dry” . ; . with
little chance of getting a
new car for probably quite .
some time to come.
,tr ^
Don’t let your car join
this hard-luck parade. v
Keep it in action . . . run
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and safely ... by bringing
it "back home” to us for
regular servicing and in
spection.
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k
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Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood