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Work for Fun...
If the only reason you work is “to make a living,” you
are wasting your talent, according to H. F. Willkie, vice
president of Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc.
Only in a limited or figurative sense do we actually have
to work in order to live, says Wilkie, since our living is almost
guaranteed by the system under which we live.
If you have other reasons for working, you are rich in
deed, rich in proportion to the degree in which these ans
wers give you a deep, abiding sense of satisfaction, Mr.
Wilkie contended.
“There is a vague but widely accepted feeling that the
worker must escape from his work,- must compensate for
his boredom with synthetic thrills,” Wilkie says. “This in
itself should be enough to indict our system, for how can a
man express himself more fully than through his work? It
seems to me that any man who does day after day a job
which he hates, which requires compensation, which so
deadens his senses that he must escape from it nightly, is a
fool.
“It is possible to make a living at almost anything; one
might as well work at something he likes, even if the finan
cial return is low. But the truth is that if he likes it well
enough, if he brings to it all of his faculties and his cunning,
if he lives his work, in short, it will not only reward him
with a rich and satisfying life; it usually pays hirn a much
greater financial return than he could ever have had as a
slave of dull routine, as a marionette of the system.”
A time when work will be bootlegged by those who find
it satisfying is pictured by Wallkie, speaking with his tongue
in his cheek. When retirement on social security becomes
compulsory—as it soon may be—at the age of 55, he states,
it will be illegal to work after that age. At that time em
barrassed machinists will sidle up to industrial tax-evaders
and propose, “I’ll give you $50 a week if you’ll let me work
on the Q- T. in your machine shop.”
The man who makes things only for money never gets
any more than the money; the other fellow gets the pleasure
and the understanding. The employee should know not only
how products are manufactured, but how the results of his
efforts are used and why they are important. Work must
offer an outlet for expressing and developing the natural
creative urges. Aside from the economic security which they
think they get, people like a sense of control, real or fancied.
They like to feel that what they are doing is important.
—Science Service
: Letters to the Editor :
LET THE AGGIES LEAD
Dear Editors:
My entire ministry has been
based upon the conviction that the
only hope for building a better
world lies in the youth—the youth
of that world. It has been my pri
vilege to conduct Spiritual Em
phasis Weeks on college campuses
from coast-to-coast, and never
have I received a more heartening
response than that accorded by
the eight thousand Aggies of Tex
as A. & M.
★
Too often the church (I used
the word church in its broad sense)
has failed in captivating young
people with the vital, positive, ra
diant way of life of Jesus Christ
because we have preached other
worldly ideology, more crudely ex
pressed in the phrase “pie in the
sky when you die by and by”; or,
we have preached a “safety first”
kind of religion, more crudely ex
pressed in the phrase “come into
the church or you’ll get into
trouble”; or, we have preached a
negative, hell-fire and brimstone
kind of religion based on a fear
psychology.
Thesfe approaches cannot and
will not capture the youth of this
generation, and they are diametri
cally opposed to the method used
by Jesus in selling eleven young
men on a gospel, a way of life that
finally resulted in a world’s being
turned upside down two thousand
years ago.
On the contrary, Jesus told those
young men that His gospel was
primarily concerned with abundant
living here and now, and he taught
them to pray Thy kingdom come
on earth; .He bore down in no
uncertain terms on the very op
posite of “safety first religion”
and told them that when they ac
cepted His way of life, they were
definitely getting into trouble. The
fact that all but one of the eleven
died a brutal martyr’s death bears
out this truth.
In the third place, he used in a
minimum fashion the pressure of
fear psychology. He was the most
radiant person who ever walked the
face of the earth, and people from
children to oldsters loved to be
around Him. This would not have
been true had He been a morbid
type of personality eternally
threatening them with God ordain
ed horrors.
★
I am cognizant of the fact that
our world stands today on a pre
cipice; I am fully aware that the
realistic picture of an atomic
Frankenstein and of inward moral
decay threatens to push us over
that precipice, but in crowded
Guion Hall, in dozens of personal
conferences, in'your YMCA build
ing, and in the afternoon forums
discussing vital issues of our day—
economic, racial, international, as
well as individual problems—I re
ceive a lift which more than coun
teracts the perilous danger points
of our generation.
If in Christian education we can
give the right kind of guidance to
Texas Aggies and hundreds of
thousands of other young people
around the globe, these young
people will build the new world of
tomorrow in which life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness may
be the heritage of our children
and our children’s children.
In this crusade I see the magni-
ficant march of the Living God,
and I hear the thunder of His feet.
It is a haunting call to colors, it is
like the sound of bugles, it is like
the restless rattling of drums in
the dark, and the Texas Aggies
can lead the way.
Sincerely,
W.H. ALEXANDER
★
(Ed. Note: The Batt thanks
Dr. Alexander for this challenge,
and for his messages delivered
on the campus.)
★
SLAPSTICK FOLLIES
Dear Editor:
Just a little note to thank you for
the lavish praise you so generous
ly bestowed upon the Slipstick-
Pitchfork Follies. You really
shouldn’t have done it. After all,
we merely had to send a box top
and $.13 in Confederate money to
A. C. Johnson and Company, and
they sent up the complete show by
return mail—actors, scenery, and
all.
On behalf of the entire cast, dir
ectors, and producers, I wish to
thank you from the bottom.
P. S.—I used to wonder why
A&M was so sadly lacking in stu
dent-created entertainment. I no
longer wonder!!
Sincerely,
RAY SANDERS
(Ed. Note: The Batt appre
ciates all the effort that was
put into the Slapstick Follies.
The scenery was excellent, and
here’s a hand to those who creat
ed it. But we still say, we’d
heard those jokes before—on the
Grand Ole Opry!)
Science . . .
Rockets That
Circle Globe
Seen Ahead
WASHINGTON, May 16—Am
erican scientists were reported to
day to be “working, on a stub
winged rocket that is to be fired
into the upper levels of the earth’s
atmosphere to circle the earth un
til brought down on its target
by radio control.”
The claim was made in an article
by Paul W. Martin in the new
issue of Army Ordnance magazine,
journal of the unofficial Army Ord
nance Association.
Discussing defense against guid
ed missiles, Martin warned that
future wars may be fought with
invasions of a thousand guided
missiles, some with atomic war
heads.
“We would have no way of dis
covering which were which, and
it would be necessary to intercept
each rocket individually—an all
but hopeless task with so many
missiles,” the author pointed out.
He described guided missile de
fense as a three-stage system. De
tection of enemy missiles would
be done with radar, but it would
have to be at a greater distance
than the range of standard radar
today.
Defensive rockets would be
launched against enemy missiles in
the second stage and the final step
would be the actual destruction of
the inxader by the defensive rock
et.
Martin charged, “We are still
working on new types of aircraft,
on ordinary artillery, and on chem
ical explosives; yet we now have
weapons that make these obsolete.
“The two most advanced of these
are guided missiles and the use of
atomic energy for military pur
poses.
“In these two fields,” declared
the writer, “can be seen the pat
tern of future warfare.”
He said the Germans had de
signed a two-stage rocket capable
of crossing the Atlantic but too
small to carry an atomic bomb.
This weapon could have been en
larged for atomic warfare, Martin
reported.
PENNY’S
SERENADE
W. L. Penberthy
This semester has gone like the
wind, and it will be over before
we know it. However, before it is
over, we will have to face Finals,
and they will be met with various
attitudes.
A much too small number of
students have done a consistently
good job and many of that group
will probably be exempt, or so close
that to them Finals will hold no
fear.
A second group
will have gone
along with a re
cord of some good
and some poor. To
these students
the Final will
mean a pretty
good grade, or
one which they
will not be proud
to have sent
home, so they ap-
will approach the
exams a little on
edge.
A third group
are those who
have definitely
not done good work and will have
to have a good grade on their
Final in order to even pass the
course. They will be scared stiff
if they think they have a chance,
or they will take the exam with
out fear in the hope that the right
questions will be asked.
In my opinion the difference be
tween an amateur and a profes
sional in the sports field is consis
tency. The amateur has his good
days, and on those days he may be
a world-beater, but on other days
he will be just a very ordinary
performer. The professional, on
the other hand, plays consistently
well, and his bad days are about as
frequent as the amateur’s good
ones.
Paavo Nurmi, one of the world’s
greatest distance runners, found
he could run a mile best by run
ning each of the four laps in about
the same time, rather than to run
the first three laps and then spurt
the last lap. I believe we can fol
low this plan with success in other
fields.
—TRAMPLING—
(Continued from Page 1)
Arabs insisted on calling me “Law
rence” for some reason. Having a
tender skin that blisters easily, I
left Arabia for the U. S. where a
man named Custer, an army of
ficer, invited me on a punitive ex
pedition against the Indians. I had
to meet Aaron Burr in St. Louis,
and could not make the trip with
Gen. Custer. I have often wonder
ed how the expedition fared.
In World War I my services were
lent to Catherine of Russia. After
that I acquired $7,937,845.62 in
Wall Street transactions and went
to the Riviera where I painted
pictures under the name of Picasso.
World War II found me a Lt.
Gen. in the Australian army. I
fought and bled in North Africa,
New Guinea, Burma, China, Po
land, and Pennsylvania. After this
conflict I went into the sugar
Black Market, one of the sweetest
set-ups I have ever seen.
If any publishers find their in
terest aroused, I will be happy to
talk things over with them, bless
their poor, demented little hides.
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THESE MEN HELPED STAGE THE ENGINEERING
DRAWING EXHIBIT in the Rotunda of the Academic Building
held during A-E Day last Saturday. They are, from left to right:
Front row: Bauerschlag, Cowan, and Noyes. Back row: Burke,
' Heffron, and Bowen.
BETWEEN THE BOOKENDS . . .
Crime, Deception, Power,
Love in ‘The Aerodrome’
By Wilnora Barton
Readers’ Adviser
THE AERODROME
by Rex Warner
The author has called this book
a ‘love story’ because it is from the
incalculable power of love that
have developed both the Aerodrome
with its ruthless, inhuman effi
ciency, and the Village, with its
sensuality, its muddles and stupid
ity. On the one side is the Air
Vice-Marshal, a character whose
satanic pride forces him to reject
the world as it is and to attempt
to reshape the whole material of
human life. On the other side is
the youthful teller of the story
who, brought up in the Village, and
later serving with distinction at
the Aerodrome, discovers an accep
tance of ordinary life which is too
vast to be reshaped by any one
will.
This is a story of crime and de
ception, of love and power, affect
ing the two generations, and serv
ing as a medium through which
the destructive interplay of oppos
ing forces is vividly presented al
legorically. Some readers may
find a ready application to our own
times, but the application is neith
er obvious nor one-sided; the au
thor is completely successful in
his representation of the forces
whose struggle is even now tearing
humanity to pieces, and, by isola
tion and enlargement, he makes
these forces plain to see, to im
agine, and to feel.
Mr. Warner’s prose is magnifi
cent, and this novel must surely
bring to him a much greater mea
sure of recognition as one of the
important creative writers of our
time.
★
THE WAYWARD BUS
by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck’s first full-length
novel in eight years illustrates a-
gain the amazing versatility of his
interests and his genius. Stein
beck is a writer who is still de
veloping, who still refuses to con
form to any expected pattern, who
still brings to each book a fresh
and new approach. In this new
novel he uses one of the oldest
story-telling devices in literature,
one favored by Chaucer and Boc-
cacio. He writes about a group
of people who find themselves by
accident sharing an adventure
which lasts less than a day.
The story of what happens on
the bus ride, though it grips the
reader from the first page to the
last, is not of paramount import
ance. What matters is the sense
it gives us of people and how they
react to one another—bewildered,
aimless, driven by ordinary human
impulses, restless and uneasy in our
bewildered and aimless times. The
writing is Steinbeck at his simplest
and best.
★
UNDER THE VOLCANO
by Malcolm Lowry
This story, which is enacted a-
gainst the glittering background of
Mexico on a feast day, is chiefly
that of Geoffrey Firmin—formerly
a British consul, but now with no
occupation except his fabulous
drinking—and of his efforts to rise
to the occasion of the unexpected
return of his estranged wife
Yvonne. His half-brother Hugh,
and his boyhood friend Jacques
Laruelle, both of whom are in
love with Yvonne, are the other
principal actors in this dark drama
of a man’s inability to defeat the
sinister forces in himself or to
seize the opportunities offered him
to save himself.
“Under the Volcano” is a tense
and dramatic narrative at its sur
face level, but the reader will be
aware of the deeper significance of
which the characters and their ac
tions are symbolic.
★
THE STRANGE ALLIANCE
by John Russell Deane
The author, who has had seve
ral years of experience co-ordin
ating work for lend-lease to the
Russians, believes we “can get
along with the Russians”, but that
their leaders are determined to
spread communism throughout the
world by fair means or foul. He
also believes that they are un
scrupulous and respect strength
only. The author points out the in
dustrial weakness of Russia, which
he says, will encompass the defeat
of the “world communist planners.”
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Hollywood Revel-ations
By Harry Revel
By Harry Revel
Hi’ya Aggies .... With a sweltering heat-wave ushering in the
month of May, beaches provided ample shelter for thousands of Holly-
woodians who swam in the calm Pacific waters or nurtured a deep
sun-tan. Among the celebs who gave beach parties were JOAN CRAW
FORD, RONALD REAGAN and JANE WYMAN, DARRYL ZANUCK
and JOAN LESLIE BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO opened
their YOUTH FOUNDATION in+
Los Angeles the other day. Over
5000 kids swarmed into the spa-
Harry
cious grounds that ai*e truly a
paradise for
the younger
genera-
tion, particu
lar for the un-
derpriv-
ileged ... a
great gesture
by two swell
guys who have
spent nearly
a half million
dollars making
their dream
come true. SCHOFIELD AND
TAYLOR, the two publicity boys
who went to Las Vegas and won
over $104,000 in one night, have
turned producers and their first
movie is titled, well, you guessed it
LAS VEGAS. Shooting begins the
latter part of June. LESLIE HOW
ARD, prominent English movie
star, whose plane was shot down
over France during the war, and
whose body was never recovered,
will have a startling counterpart
of himself on the screens shortly,
when his youngest son RONALD
will be seen starring in WHILE
THE SUN SHINES. The resem
blance is amazing.
GUSTAVO ROJO, a handsome
nineteen-year-old Mexican movie
star is the latest hopeful to arrive
in Hollywood for a test to enact
the role of the late RUDOLPH
VALENTINO .... NICK DELA
NO, a protege of LANA TURNER,
is making strides up the ladder of
success as a song stylist. He re
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