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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1947
Three Batts a Week . . .
Happy days are here again. World War II is over at
last so far as the Battalion is concerned. Next week we
will resume tri-weekly full-size publication, as in pre-war
days.
Although we are happy about resuming our former
schedule, after so many obstacles and difficulties, we do
not consider that this is the end of the line.
Back in 1941, everyone was looking forward to the time
when the Batt would be a daily paper. The war stopped
that, of course. Now a number of other papers in this part
of the country have gotten ahead of us. Our sister-sheet
The Lass-0 of Tessieland, has been a daily for some months.
At the beginning of this semester, the Reveille of LSU be
came a daily. By September at the latest, we hope to be
publishing The Daily Battalion.
Live Religion . . .
Religion was no dry subject for the Aggies who packed
Guion Hall every day this week to hear Dr. W. H. Alexander.
If any went hoping to get a few winks, they were sharply
awakened by Dr. Alexander’s astringent remarks about the
world and the shape it is in. We all know what a mess the
world is today; it takes a man like Dr. Alexander to remind
us that we can do something about it, and that we are the
very ones who will have to do something about it, if future
disasters are to be avoided.
Dr. Alexander, a young minister himself, knows how to
talk to young men. We hope to have him back on this cam
pus again. In the words of one of his hearers this week,
“That red-headed preacher speaks our language.”
To Dr. Alexander and the many religious leaders on
our campus this week: Thanks for coming.
P. S. Those coffee-hour forums at the Y this
week have been good—too good to drop. How about
keeping them going?
They Mean Business ..
Those in the Cadet Corps who thought there was a
chance that violations of the Articles of the Cadet Corps
would be overlooked, or that punishments meted out would
be light are due for a rude awakening.
The Faculty Panel, in dealing with a junior who was
caught with a board, returned a punishment of revocation
of ROTC contract, removal from position as first sergeant,
suspension from college for a week, transfer to a civilian
dormitory, and restriction to the campus for six months.
Sounds rough, doesn’t it?
Another punishment just about as bad, was the fate of a
senior whose freshman orderly was caught carrying his
boots to the North Gate.
It may be that Dean Bolton and the Faculty Panel are
making examples of these first few who have been caught
violating the rules and regulations, or stringent punishments
such as these may be continued or even intensified. At any
rate, the great English jurist Blackstone once said, “It is
not the severity of punishment that deters commission of a
crime, but the certainty of conviction.”
Although certainty of conviction is not with us yet,
severity of punishment surely is. It looks as if there is little
alternative to obeying the regulations if one wants to remain
in the Corps.
Labor Problems at A.&.M ..
Aggies as a rule are not either legally or business mind
ed, but as a result of the “no freshman detailing” order,
some clever upperclassmen have negotiated contracts with
fish, paying them forty cents an hour for cleaning rooms,
etc.
The practice is not widespread as yet, due probably to
the extreme poverty of upperclassmen.
Business law students, after due consideration, have
pronounced such contracts valid and binding, providing val
uable consideration (silver for sweeping) is exchanged. Such
contracts need not be in writing, either.
No statement concerning this new threat to the fresh
man class enrollment has come from the administration, but
they will probably claim, logically enough, that the contracts
were made under duress, and are therefore invalid.
Of course, the case could be taken to the Supreme Court.
It’s Gardening Time! .. .
We applaud the School of Agriculture’s action in spon
soring a garden program for veteran students.
On the surface such action may appear insignificant,
but a closer examination reveals a program that could mean
a great deal financially to married veteran students. In
addition to financial savings, the goodwill that such a pro
gram can create will be of inestimable value.
Human nature being such as it is, all of us know that
Hawthorne Owes
Fame to Faith
Of a Publisher
“He who hesitates is lost.”
The literary world would have
been denied one of its greatest
works, had not Nathaniel Haw
thorne taken timely heed of this
age-old proverb.
Hawthorne, who was very shy,
received a visit in 1849 from the
Boston publisher, James T. Fields.
The author was in a despondent
and self-belittling mood, but the
publisher, who had just taken over
Hawthorne’s short stories from a
former publisher, was full of en
thusiasm for the work of the Salem
writer. He urged him to start at
once to write something for pub
lication, and even accused Haw
thorne of having a manuscript
hidden in his bureau drawer. The
writer shook his head and saw
no reason why he should attempt
anything since his publishers had
been so many years trying to sell
his “Twice Told Tales.” But as
Fields hurried away to catch his
train, Hawthorne called him back
and gave him a manuscript. “I
don’t know how you knew it was
there,” he said, “but take it and
see if it’s worth printing. It’s
either very bad or very good.”
Fields took it and published it.
The title was, “The Scarlet Let
ter.”
Try Alaska to Get
Away From ‘It’ All
If you are a veteran and are
tired of the trying times at Aggie-
land, the Veterans’ Administration
announces that there is some land
in Alaska available for homestead
ing or purchase.
Some areas are suitable for
farming, but the chances for suc
cess on such farms are limited by
lack of markets and transportation
facilities, the Veterans’ Adminis
tration said.
Veterans interested in climate,
farming conditions, and markets in
Alaska will find their best source
for such information is the Direc
tor, Agricultural Extension Serv
ice and Experiment Station, Col
lege, Alaska.
What’s Cooking
SATURDAY, Feb. 15
9:00 p.m. — Annex Valentine
Dance, Student Center. Annex
Orchestra will play. Melody Maids
from Beaumont will sing.
9:00 p.m.—All College Dance,
Sbisa Hall, Aggieland Orchestra
will play.
MONDAY, February 17
7:00 p.m.—Navy and Marine
Corps personnel organizational
meeting in Geology Lecture Room.
5:00 p.m.—Veteran students who
may be interested in growing a
vegetable garden meet with F. R.
Brison, Horticulture Dept., Room
309, Agriculture Bldg.
TUESDAY, February 18
7:00 p.m.—Saddle & Sirloin Club
meets in A. & I. Lecture Room.
7:00 p.m. — Agronomy Society
meets in 312 Agriculture Bldg.
5:00 p.m.—All seniors in engi
neering who will graduate in Jan
uary 1948. P.E. Lecture room.
Former Navy-Marine
Corps Personnel To
Meet Monday Evening
Navy and Marine Corps person
nel will hold an organizational
meeting Monday evening, Febru
ary 17, Joe Cullinan reported. The
meeting will be held in the Geology
Lecture Room at 7 p.m.
The purpose of the club is to
disseminate information from bul
letins pertaining to Navy and Mar
ine Corps reservists, he stated.
by the group.
Cullinan urges all former “sail
ors” and “leathernecks”, both en
listed and commissioned, to attend,
to attend.
understanding and appreciation of the other fellow’s prob- social events will also be planned
lems often go a long way in smoothing over difficulties and
misunderstandings. On too many occasions students and ad
ministration have been unable to follow that admonition of
Josephus Daniels “Put yourself in his place.”
We think that a wise choice was made in selecting F. R.
Brison of the Horticulture Department to supervise the
program. Brison, instead of accepting the job as another
thankless task and waiting to be smoked out of his office,
is meeting the challenge squarely and we know that he can
be counted on for an outstanding performance.
Pick Up EE Lab Reports
Tuesday and Saturday
BUY DEFROSTERS EARLY
NEW ICE AGE: The world is due to be covered with ice again,
a University of California scientist predited. (But don’t worry; he
looks for it 200,000 years hence.)
REASON FOR TRIAL
The joke of 1946: Did you know that the reason John L. was
brought to trial was because he was contributing to the delinquency of
miners ?
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The Electrical Engineering
Department is returning to
the owners all laboratory re
ports now in storage, M. C.
Hughes, departmental head,
stated Tuesday. The store
room will be open Tuesday
afternoon, February 18, and
Saturday morning, February
22. Reports will be delivered
only to the owner in person,
and unclaimed reports will be
destroyed, he stated.
Organization of A
New Athletic Club
The Volleyball Recreational Club,
a new organization established for
those students interested in vol
leyball, will meet every Monday
and Thursday night under the
guidance of Nickie Ponthieux. Stu
dents can meet at those times or
contact Ponthieux at the Physical
Education office.
The club plans to enter the Reg
ional YMCA Volleyball Meet in
Fort Worth on March 7-8, and also
the Open National Volleyball Meet
which will be held in Houston on
May 15-16.
Challenges are also going out
to an all star team from the Col
lege Station and Bryan recrea
tional league. If possible, the club
will match games with recreational
clubs in other colleges and uni
versities.
PENNY’S
SERENADE
W. L. Penberthy
Penny
Last week the music teacher
from whom our children are taking
lessons gave a recital of her pupils.
On the way to
the recital I
asked my t e n-
year-old daugh
ter how she felt,
to which she re
plied, “Dadd y,
I’m a little
scared.” In our
car was a coup
le who are dear
friends, and the
wife had a fine
musical b a c k-
ground. She had
a grown daugh
ter who had
played at many recitals and so she
was experienced at “sweating out”
recitals and so understood our
situation. Before I could say any
thing to my daughter’s answer to
my question, this fine lady gave
my daughter a very fine piece of
advice. She said “don’t worry
about making mistakes, but if you
do make one just make the best of
it, hut whatever you do, don’t stop
playing.” I surely do like the
philosophy tied up in that piece of
advice.
In my opinion fear of mistakes
is one of the primary reasons for
the failure of some individuals to
perform their best. I have heard
coaches tell players before a game
to “Go in there with lots of confi
dence and determination and don’t
be afraid to try something.” All
of us are prone to be a little “on
edge” before a contest or a per
formance, but fear that we will
bungle will not help us to be at our
best.
Again, when many of us make
a mistake we quit, which is prob
ably a bigger mistake than the or
iginal one. I have seen officials
worry so much over a play they
felt they missed that they were not
at their best the rest of the game.
The only people who do not make
mistakes are the ones who don’t
do anything. We are going to
make some mistakes, and we
should certainly be concerned, but,
we will make fewer, and they will
be less harmful if we won’t worry
about it and make the best of it
when we make one. The sin is
not in erring but in quitting after
we have erred.
Four Teasers Keep
Phoenix Operators
Busy With Calls
Phoenix, Ariz—Four small ads,
each asking the same question,
“What is 2-2322?” were published
in a recent edition of the Phoenix
Gazette and the results were suf
ficient to prove to the switch
board operator at the Central Ari
zona Light and Power Company
that “It pays to advertise.”
The power company published
the ads to acquaint the public
with its new telephone number.
But the .switchboard operator
hadn’t been told about the ads be
forehand so she was greatly puz
zled when the calls to her board
came in as ( rapidly and as num
erous as though there had been
a power failure and every sub
scribed wanted his lights restored.
But this time the situation was
different. As quickly as she could
handle the cords and switch keys,
she would plug in the answer:
“Power Company.” Then, most of
the time, she was greeted first
with a dead silence and then a
click of the receiver on the other
end.
Or there would be surprised
questions. She would explain it
was the firm’s new number. And
there was disappointment. Some
callers thought it was a contest
and they asked about the prizes.
As the evening came on, the calls
became so numerous, tying up the
switchboard and interfering with
the regular business of the utility,
that it became necessary to make
an explanation over the radio.
Still, the calls kept coming in;
that night and the next day. Well
one thing is clear. It pays to ad
vertise.
Letters
Groneman Chosen Editor By
Science & Mechanics Magazine
C. H. Groneman, acting head of
Industrial Education Department,
has been appointed a contributing
editor on the advisory committee
of the Editorial Department of
the Science and Mechanical Maga
zine of Chicago, 111.
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Your editorial, “The Right to
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was the most correct, timely, and
needed that I have ever read in a
Battalion, and I’ve been reading
them for a long time. How about
some more like it so that some of
these people might awaken from
their long sleep.
Leslie Shrader
Class ’44.
Holmgreen Will Address
Horticulture Society Tues.
“Horticultural Enterprises o f
Southern Italy” will be discussed
Tuesday night, Feb. 18, by E. N.
Holmgreen in a meeting of the
Horticulture Society. Holmgreen,
Business Manager of the college,
is a Horticulture graduate of 1921.
The meeting will be held at 7
p.m. in the Animal Husbandry
Pavilion. All Horticulture majors
are urged to be present.
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“Selected Letters of W i L L i a m-f
Allen White,” edited by Walter
Johnson, appears to be that much
longed-for complement to “The
Autobiography of William Allen
White”, which was published last
year.
This edition of the letters of
White has certain inadequacies;
it contains no letters earlier than
1899. It includes only White’s own
letters—and but a partial selec
tion of these. Yet it does have
the great merits of authenticity
and contemporaneousness. Here we
can see the Kansas editor not as he
remembered himself hut as he re
vealed himself day-by-day; here
we can trace the development of
his ideas, his character, and his
influences. Here we can read the
impact of public events upon White
—and of White upon those events
•—as they occurred, not as they re
arranged themselves in his mind
years later.
It is a tribute to the skill and
the sincerity of the autobiography
that the picture that emerges from
these letters does not differ in any
important detail of line or color
from that which White himself
drew.
These letters display the
varied interests that compet
ed for White’s time and atten
tion throughout a long and
busy life; they make clear,
too, that politics was obvious
ly the primary interest. Per
haps he was a born politician;
it is difficult to know; certain
ly he achieved political power
and had it thrust upon him.
There was no mystery about his
influence or his power. He was the
most characteristic of American—
the voice of middle-class, Middle-
West America. He was often wrong
in his predictions, but rarely mis
taken in his judgment of men of
particular issues. He was wise and
sincere.
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The political letters constitute
a rich source for the study of
American history during the first
forty years of the twentieth cen
tury. It is a great pity that Mr.
Johnson found it necessary to be
so selective, and to omit all the
letters to White—letters which
might well modify our interpre
tation of the period.
But politics was one of White’s
interests. Almost equally impor
tant were journalism and litera
ture. His concern for journalism
as profession, for the integrity
of the newspapers, was a lively
one, and many of these letters
are-addressed to that interest.
Equally important, and last
ing, was White’s activity in
literature. This generation has
forgotten White’s novels, but
it would do well to return to
them, as there are no better
political stories in our liter
ature than -those to be found
in his works.
Politician, news-paperman, and
an important figpre in secondary
American literature, William Allen
White proved himself one of the
most important and influential men
of our time.
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