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Page 2 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947 Pag Jackson, Not Marx... We are still writing about Communism, because of the interest aroused by previous editorials. These earlier articles pointed out the difference between real Communism (world revolution, a movement of force) and the many diverse doc trines which have been mis-labeled “communist” in recent years. One of the best discussions of this question occurs (as a foot-note!) in The Age of Jackson, the volume by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., which last year won the Pulitzer Prize. Schlesinger says: “It may be well to observe contempor ary apprehensions long enough to discuss the relationship of the Jacksonian analysis to Marxism. . . . for conservatives, who declare that any talk of class conflict is communistic, and for Communists who claim any kind of economic insight as the exclusive result of their infallible method. The Jackson ian analysis, far from being Marxist, is the very core of our radical democratic tradition.” Both Marx and Lenin are quoted as acknowledging that the “class struggle” was recognized first by the “bourgoisie” (that’s us) ; the Communist contribution, according to Lenin, is extending “acceptance of the class struggle to acceptance of the dictatorship of the proletariat.” That is quite an ex tension, which has never been acceptable to Americans. What does it all mean? That we have an American tradi tion, historically developed by the Democratic party, which parallels communism in certain respects, but is diametrically opposite in others. This philosophy is older than Marxian Communism. Whatever significance the teachings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin may have for Europe or Asia, they have little domestic weight here. Our guides are Jefferson, Jack- son, Wilson and F. D. Roosevelt. Collegiate Crisis ... Have American colleges passed their peak as educational institutions? We know what the score is numerically—there are more colleges and far more students right now than ever before. But financial figures fill many educators with gloom. The teacher crisis is well known. Just last week, the Buffalo teachers strike was front page news. Many thought less editors fulminated against the teachers with rhetorical thunder, the main thesis apparently being that teachers aren’t people and as such have no financial problems. The only possible result of such editorials is to drive still more teachers out of the profession. Those who pay the teachers have problems too. Many private colleges, especially in the East, report that they are growing broke. Unless they raise tuition fees, they report, they cannot pay larger salaries, and can hardly pay the present ones and still pay construction costs for temporary buildings, made necessary by the huge veteran enrollment. Yet higher fees will bar many future students. State colleges feel the pinch, too. With taxes already high, state legislators are anxious not to push tax rates higher. Yet state schools cost more to operate than is taken in as fees, and the greater the enrollment, the greater the deficit which the state must meet. It is time for a revaluation of our thinking about educa tion. How much of our educational plan is functional; how much is non-functional but traditional?. Don’t mistake this for a suggestion that all courses other than “trade-school” types should be dropped. That suggestion is often made, as a result of shallow thinking. What we need is truly creative thought. If an industry finds itself in as bad a situation as education now faces, it doesn’t try to muddle through. (That way lies bankruptcy.) On the contrary, industry goes behind surface symptoms, examines its product, its market, its distribution system. Radical changes often follow. Education went through a similar revamping after the establishment of land-grant col leges. But that was in 1864; this is 1947 and it is about time for another major change. Words Worth Repeating... Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half-possssion.—Emerson. Emerson means, I think, that sincerity is the foundation of every kind of excellence. If you really do achieve sin cerity in any line of thought, expression, or action, you will have developed, in that line at any rate, what is called style. What Emerson does not tell you, however, is how des perately hard it is to be sincere in your moral decisions, in the formation of your opinions, even in dress, in speech, and in manners. For an opinion, for example, to be genuinely your own, you must have collected and examined all avail able evidence; you must have excluded your own feelings, es pecially your vanity, from your judgment; you must have considered fairly and rejected for good reasons several other opinions on the same subject. Only then can you be sure that your opinion represents the genuine reaction of your own mind to facts. It is no wonder, then, that in most matters most of us are content to be common, to miss distinction. Examine realistically, your own opinions about labor—and—man agement, your notions of right—and—wrong, the goals you have set for your life. You will find, I’m afraid that in most matters we don’t even try to be sincere. All too often, we simply snatch our ways and attitudes out of the prevailing atmosphere. To be brutal about it, in most things we are pretty common. As Emerson implies, however, nearly everybody does have potentially at any rate, some sort of “gift or gifts”. There is for each man some line or lines in which he has a fairly good chance at the distinction which comes from sin cerity. To help you find these lines is, of course, one of the duties of education. To follow these lines of interest too much to imitate others; to trust your own ways of judging and acting because you know that they are based on sound knowledge and careful thought—these, Emerson would say, are the surest roads to sincerity, to distinction, to style. Dr. T. F. Mayo, English Department Steinbeck Hits Jackpot Again On ‘The Wayward Bus’ by W. K. Colville John Steinbeck has given us another one of his unpredictable, and compassionate novels that stands to surpass all of his others. His new novel “The Wayward Bus”, is the story of a bus that goes off route in a California storm and when the people separ ate after one day, none can ever be the same again. Every page of it carries the unmistakable seal and signature of Steinbeck’s mind and style. It is Steinbeck’s subtl est, not his gentlest novel, and is actually an exploration, at once fond and bitter, into the American subconscious. You don’t have to read it that way. You may read it at its sur face level, as the chuckling story of a group of bus passengers in the California mountains, detoured by a flood and mired on the detour. Why Juan does not abandon ev eryone and walk straight down to Mexico, why Mrs. Prichard tears at her baby face with bloody nails, how her daughter finds that she likes the way a free and natural man makes love, and how Mr. Prit chard gets what is coming to him. . . all of this must be left for the reader to discover. opens his mouth, but nothing ever comes out except maybe hot air. Also the one who growls “Uff” without taking the pipe from his mouth. You know the rest of the types, what type ©f speaker are you?— or do you speak? El Paso Club Meets Tonight A special meeting of the El Paso Club will be held Thursday at p. m. in room 127 of the Academic Building. Plans will be discussed for a picnic, and President C. H. Chambers urges all members to be present. ‘Remember when we thoughl that jungle training was impractical? M Boom in Magazine Industry . . . The Battalion The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and the City of College Station, is published tri-weekly and circulated on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. Member Plssocioted Gr>Ue6icrte Press Entered as second-class matter at Post Office at College Station, (Aggieland), Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870. Subscription rate 4.60 per school year. Advertising rates on request. Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Allen Self Corps Editor Vick Lindley Veteran Editor Charles E. Murray Tuesday Associate Editor J. K. B. Nelson Thursday Associate Editor David M. Seligman Saturday Associate Editor Paul Martin Sports Editor Andy Matula Sports Writer Wendell McClure Advertising Manager Martin E. Crossly .— Circulation Manager Ferd B. English, Franklin Cleland, William Miller, Doyle Duncan, Ben Schrader, Jack Goodloe, Wm. K. Colville, Walter Lowe, Jr., Lester B. Gray, Jr., Carl C. Krueger, Jr., Mack T. Nolen Reporter. INVADER Dear Editor: It seems that everybody is grip ing these days. Now, I am not ex actly unhappy but I do hate to be outdone in any field. The other night I started look ing through one of the older annuals. It reminded me of pleas ant experiences and old friends. After looking the book over, I turned to the cover. That name “Longhorn” gave me quite a start. I had never realized how badly it sounded. Can you think of any reason why our yearbook should be given the same “monicker” as that used by the boys over at the Austin trash heap? Brother, 1 am changing that name and quick. Changing annual names is not entirely new as that very thing was done in the “good old days”. The original name of the annual was “The Olie”. I think that we might investigate the pos sibility of such a change being made. Sincerely, S. R. Knickerbocker, ’44 Lost Letter Prompts Advice to Lovelorn by Mack T. Nolan A letter evidently intended for a syndicated advice column got into my Post Office box the other day. I don’t know who wrote it, whether it is actually for me or not, or what I am supposed to do with it, but I have read enough of those columns to branch out for myself. I will therefore answer it. Here it is: Dear Advice Editor: I cannot make up my mind about which girl I should marry. One is beauti ful, smart, a good cook, and her father has eight million dollars. She is crazy about me. The other is rather plain, has an impediment in her speech, is cross-eyed, but her father is an embalmer and will handle my case free when I die. Which one should I choose? J. K. B. N. My advice to you, J. K. B. N., is a quotation from Longfellow: “Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.” Marry the rich one. driving. As a result, despite pa per shortages, rationing, and much overburdened printing facilities, magazine circulations rose to un precedented levels. Publishers were filled with hap py anticipations — since anything printed on paper and fortunate enough to reach a newstand was sold. Many new magazines came out, including half a dozen reason ably expensive magazines for men, from SALUTE to Street and Smith’s revived PIC, aimed at the veteran’s market. The mass appeal general maga zines continued to expand in size, advertising content, and circula tion, and their control narrowed into fewer hands. The Big Five of magazine publishing dominate the entire industry. They are: Crowell-Collier, with C 0 L- LIER’S-AMERICAN, and WOM AN’S HOME COMPANION^ Cur tis with SATURDAY EVENING POST, COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, HOLIDAY, and LADIE’S HOME JOURNAL; Hearst’s still import ant empire with GOOD HOUSE KEEPING, HARPER’S BAZAR, COSMOPOLITAN, HOUSE BEAU TIFUL, and JUNIOR BAZAR; McCall Corporation, with Me-1 changed much in the last decade. Stop That Mumbling Son! Speak Up, Speak That Is! What’s Cooking THURSDAY, March 13 7:00 p.m.—Laredo A & M Club meets in R o o m 224, Academic Bldg. 7:00 p.m.—Grayson County A & M Club meets in Room 306, Ac ademic Bldg. 7:15 p.m.—Southwest Texas A & M Club, Ex-Students’ Lounge. 7:15 p.m.—Y.M.C.A. Forum. C. C. Doak on “Biological Aspects of Marriage.” 8:15 p.m.—“A Murder Has Been Arranged,” Assembly Hall. 7:30 p.m.—Land of the Lakes Club, Room 324, Academic Build ing. 7:30 p.m.—Port Arthur Club meeting, 104 Academic Building. FRIDAY, March 14 3:00 p.m.—A & M Garden Club' meets. 7:30 p.m.—D. S. Lewis, chief aerodynamicist of McDonnell Air craft Corporation, speaks to all engineering studetns in the Chem istry Lecture room. 8:15 p.m.—“A Murder Has Been Arranged”, Assembly Hall. MONDAY, March 17 7:30 p.m.—Class of ’46 meets in Assembly Hall. THURSDAY, aMrch 20 7:00 p.m. — College Employees Dinner Club. Sbisa Hall. by W. K. Colville “Hello”, Howdy”, How ya’ doin’ ”, used to fill the ears of an Aggie, or visitor, walking about the campus, but these lusty, sin cere Aggie greetings, one of A & M’s oldest and best traditions, seem to have fallen into a low state of degredation. Speaking at A&M seems to have become an art, with each person striving to out-do the other in bizarre, unconventional s a 1 u t a- tions. If one were touring the cam pus, a multitude of “speaking idio syncrasies” would be heard, along with an occasional good old fash ion, “Howdy”, (usually spoken by freshmen.) The speakers techniques are many and varied—too many to be discussed in one article, but there College Employees To Meet Thursday For an evening of dominoes, bridge, and dancing, following a dinner, the College Employees Din ner Club will hold its monthly get- together next Thursday evening, March 20, at 7 o’clock in Sbisa Hall. Tickets at $1.25 per plate are now on sale at the Aggieland and should be purchased before noon Wednesday. Attention Annex Students! THE CHURCH OF CHRIST announces the beginning of regular Sunday morning Bible Study and Worship Services at the Bryan Field Chapel. First service to be held next Sun day morning at 10:45. • R. L. NDLEN, teacher of math at the Annex, a gospel preacher, and member of the A. & M. Church of Christ, will be in charge of the service. EVERY MEMBER of the Church of Christ is urged to attend this initial service. ALL OTHERS who are interested in studying the Bible are cordially invited to attend. Remember the Time and Place! 10:45 A. M. — NEXT SUNDAY — BRYAN FIELD CHAPEL College Men Welcome SIMPLER SHAVING! World’s MostModern Razor Wins New Friends Every Day „ ,«'v - Opens 1:00 p.m. 4-1181 11111 THURSDAY—LAST DAY! Ends When GIs Return And Other Amusements Avaiable \ By A. D. Bruce, Jr During the war, it looked for a while like this had become a nation of readers. The army, at its post exchanges here and abroad, had to ration such periodicals as were available. Civilians were reading more than before; wives were waiting for their husbands; war-working civilians were frequently too weary for a night club; and an entire population lacked gas for pleasure^’ ’ CALL’S MAGAZINE and RED BOOK; Time-Life, Inc., with Hen ry Luce’s FORTUNE, LIFE, TIME, and the more modestly cir culated ARCHITECTURAL FOR UM. DeWitt Wallace’s READ ER’S DIGEST is in a class by it self. Its home edition, plus its seven foreign language editions, have a circulation of more than ten million. These are important molders of public opinion, both in this coun try and among the increasing num bers abroad who read American journals—and form their opinions of the United States by what they read. But when the veterans took off their uniforms something happen ed; they seemed to stop reading; they were no longer homesick or bored; their wives were no longer lonely; also, there was gas and people started driving again; no body was any longer too tired to go to the night clubs. All in all, it looks like the gen eral lay of the magazine business has not been greatly changed by the war. For that matter, maga zine publishing has not really PAPE „ R 1 ^ W,T «, . jWWOOOBURYiUARUE o&«6WARE PHIJ^Ro’sEN; I III FRIDAY and SATURDAY « HE SAYS” Fred MacMurray Marjorie Main “Burt and Murt” \s advertised L \ • in Life and Esquire Mystic, Conn. On every campus in America where it’s been tried, the new simpler method of shaving is winning men over. The new Enders Razor gives the world’s simplest shave. Safer, swifter, smoother shaves are assured by the Enders with its amazingly simple construction. It’s all one piece—no mechanics, no gadgets! All you do is click the blade in and shave. Further more it doesn’t clog, it’s easy to clean and stays clean. Blades are sharp and long lasting—the razor is shaped to snuggle right into your hand. Just try it. Your campus store has the new Enders at a special introductory price. You’ll like Enders simpler shaving. SPECIAL OFFER... RAZOR AND 5 BLADES...49^ PALACE ■ PH o hi t 2 ~ & 8 7**' BRYAN, TEXAS THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY Mickey Rooney — In — “LOVE LAUGHS AT ANDY HARDY” PREVIEW SATURDAY NITE SUNDAY, MONDAY, and TUESDAY Joan Fontaine — In — “REBECCA” THURSDAY ONLY are two favorite types that should be analyzed. First, there is the universal, “ ‘Elio!!” type. He fires a sharp, insulting greeting that fairly drips indignities and contempt from the high, whining sound of the “E” to the final clipped tone of the “o”. This individual evidently looks on others as inferior, and probably stands for hours in front of his mirror, practicing the grimace and sneer that helps his greeting give you a strong, primitive desire to rip his tongue out. Then there is the clever boy who is known more popularly as the pantomimist. As you approach this character, he raises his eyes from the ground, gives you a big Pepsodent smile, nods his head, “rowauBw MELCHIOR BDRAHTE PETER LAWFORD PAJAMAS FOR SUMMER SLEEP BYB.V.D. If you’re one of those stalwarts that sleep *'raw” because you’re not comfortable in pajamas — Mister, you can come back to civilization! B.V.D. solves your com fort problem with these smartly striped pajamas. They’re tailored for room — and plenty of it. 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