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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947
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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
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\ 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
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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,
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