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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1947)
, . * ^TT rr • /* f Battalion EDITORIAL [ A Short Story Dealing With Long Lines ... McGargoyle Pedals From Houston to A & M And Uses Military Tactics to Register * • Pag* 2 FRIDAY, JUlfE 18, 1947 Whither Bound?... Wt rtctnUy r*ad a list of objactivM t had b*tn adopud by a aon-ataU-auppor umveralty in Twaa. Ordinarily li|U of Jaetivaa maka dull raading and art u«w Grptum It from I By tram Yaatia , . McGarfoylc waa juaUfiably waary. Aftar ridinf kia W- Houaton to CoUac* Sution, he wantad to earl up under any Wa raoantly rtad a list of objactivaa that had baan adoptad by a non-atata-a upportad - raading and art usually uMrtms. Ks<mi though objactivaa baooma uuLiaiad and outmodtd, thty uiinmBm WlilgMnua and unchanged thrtmghout thr Taaa m nnf that tha obJattivN of this uni- had such a MSS ippipMEi •• wt ohott to reprint •ovtral of them "1, It la tht purptat of this tftM to prartdc the hind of thoughtful, and tanotructivt | wnndad tn tht Malntaoanca and tnrich- BOnt of OtMtcrncy," Wt want to know If our cnglnttrs, our sgrirulturiits, and our doctors of veterinary madlctna art taught that thoir discoveries and techniques must be adapted to the usee •of aodety and to the furtherance of Democ racy? Right now the entire world is in dal twesuse scientists have been busy discoveries; they haven’t taken time to tmu out the social applications of these same dis coveries. Your existence and mine is threat ened as a result of this failure. **2. Realizing the interdependence of nations in the modern world, we accept as a major responsibility the development of constructive world-ndndedneas among all our studenta.** We think that institutions throughout the country have completely missed the boat on this important responsibility. **S. While ■■■— ■ ■ University is anx ious to provide as much technical educa tion aa its resources will permit, it is de termined to maintain an increasingly ef fective program of liberal edneatidn be cause it believes the future of Democracy depends upon the development of persons who know how to think, persons who know how to weigh issues, who are able to dis cern between truth and error ** We believe that there is room at A. A M. for the tame program. Oh, yes, we can hear the howls go up from the engineering and asp-icultural schools, but we can even more distinctly hear the wails of those graduates of the A. & M. College whose education fit ted them for identifying grasses and for; making drill presses, but whose intellectual curiosity had been stimulated so little that they had no understanding of the democratic processes or of their responsibilities as cith lens. Texas University recently received much unfavorable publicity on cheating among Ita i student body. We win wager that the num ber of students currently enrolled at A. A M. G O P in Texas... Should Texas adopt the two-party prin ciple in politics? Tne Republicans of the state not only think so, but are trying to do something about it. Although tbr> shy away from any such designation as “Open tion Lone Star/' the Republican Club of Tex as Is conducting a vigorous campaign from Dallas headquarters. There is little doubt that many citizens of Texxs who vote Democratic every election are really Republicans at heart. They say aa they vote, “What’s the use? Republicans can't win in this state anyway." The Battalion believes that Texas would be much better off if these voters cast their ballot for a party which nationally represents their ideas, nther than confusing Texas pol itics by splitting the Democratic party into two quarrelling factions. Potato Burning Time... who could write a reammahh or tbomo would be *> small as to create u aa I ioiihI n< antltt! We think that the gift +f expression through the written and spokhn word ia precious one. Hut we can't blame the student for adopt ing a false sens# of vaiuee about such things whon his steam lab inetructor teU« him that steam la the only oourao, aid whan his agronomy instructor tails him that hla abil ity to identify grasses la alt that counts When Instructor* who should know better become a party to euch aatnlra pr«H«durea our only kmu si conclusion must tie M ta there aay hope?* kit Y sails • sestet convenient tree and but he | not riddon s hundred mtlss to dose in the shade. The pith and marrow of kia current umi.-risking was education -he wanted lanriu*. Gypeum was s representative veteran student returning to school after having given hia country his all. |U eti>od a rigid tnd dUcipiin,d I'.U" in hts boy boots) his tyts shone with namult-x lu.Ue of pildc in having done s Job well) hi* hair was short and sandy) af new mufti and thread bare khaki, lawn power, Gyp asked ths where- itiated let him oat tW he romplru-d reg istration. Weakly h* started hack. However, tt was too mask for hu man flesh to bear; he collapsed oa the floor, oertaia that someone weald give khn soccer and mors important food. CRACK! And Gyp flashed up from the floor with walla of pain searing across hi* back. Compee Ing himself, he noted the sourse of hts agony. The deaa, looking quite Ilk* Char lee Laughton, stood by ilnnily as hia fnate vneldod tht sat-e’-nlne-talea aa Uw enw Miens had let of those to* weak Is ^Oelbsijf syg^^ to the academW i"*<l of other li him m pa red to I itions A. A M. iHiMli i am a heavy ■■■■■osl. Wo re- Com inatltu sehedule—much heavier than gios oeivt little recognition for this as an inatltu tiion. and wo thin a Hi' trs.'lona given us Mm Iread vmariim litiik iiim ft»t wnlttM ^B^WvVww ie^’W'-’m * m la Ml him wasceB ■sse Ihs n Wla n la where h* sehld ge. s kindly I 1^ m ta ns unvertels terms lata Mm realm sf K Brt it Used itftUMkeepisy sealiW m IMkMkiitmk siimmM«a r - } m f wun n ~wv*mhrfi Piwwnwy papsr* wnh the t • kindly tonkins old rhsp Goodwin out for him, and ■op to the side door with ind we think it la due to a laboratory L llnf ^ueioeUon of being on eras# which axiaU on tha camp m. Some stu- the thrvahnui ef s great event Is dents spond half thair time u alklng to and his life. from two-hour laboratories that actually . “^‘•ha nseA Rek?" ashed the meet for thirty minutes. Still we go through' I'T' 9 theritiul of putting mch Ubor.torio. lntT«~^ curricula. I * ' Most students think the present curricula is loaded with chaff. We think so too. Much of this chaff may be found in those courses in which the instructor feels it his duty to acquaint the students with the textbook by reading therefrom for fifty minutes at each class session. When the chaff is weeded out of the cur ricula, we favor the adding of more courses i -rv. hn . whieh h# honoed to in the fields of English, history, modem lan-1 wound thru* around the off we. did guages, and other Liberal Arts Departments, e serpentine sort of movement We recommend more book reading and more' through the door, and disappeared, report writing. We are not talkm* about J ™ • w,r than a tour of guard some of these reports that have been typed I „ lV .. 0f*r and submitted to instructors for the Gyp* w’as'at^ti^' 1 ^ past ten years. We know of reports that e f ths line Jost as the recess for were originally written in the late 'SO’a that lunch was called Rather than are still drawing doom good grades. There ioae his fortunate standing in line, may be some educational value in the ability he . for ’‘^ ent l un€ *J wm 1 chewed the to retype . theme, but we think that it .pe.kr, u> poorly of the instructor. his desk after lunch, he stared at He ia either pretty “thick* or he doesn’t Gyp with distaste bordering on mpMl hts Mwn ■I, bM Mparted Twe Bset-aefl m «lt » a 1 rwiHimi whvn he tiaset SHp deo't need m lake tatloah. M i on the floor. M I am a new student here. Could you tell me where to register?" “Cheese, they get damber ev ery year," eke mattered. "See that sign k.d- It eayo ‘New ■indents register here.’ hep to wr Gyp hopped to it Here his ar my training stood him in good stead. "Yeah," said the second, "hot tet , s list ms Iff* ho kin take whal w* dish oat. Okay, chum, see ya M onday In dt Adareml* — that buildin r wU da bubble on tep." Gyp’s stomach had been growling spesmodicelty tines neon; new it was roaring ossshamedty. He staggered feebly to the door and told the uniformed guard he want ed to go oot for sapper, hat this minion of law and order refused to »P* was indssd Mm survival sf IT Varnishes, Wall Papsr. CHAPMAN’S Next te P. O. Dtant AraV. /. P. tarpeU Ittesns are eeptien tlnesl stHIBH They ssy hand shalMfl In rr Ltesns are deiegstes I. Iteans mails speesh m. Doans read the srodHs maga- Mtss. Deans meditate and when ■ lone, ting softly to th«*m»elve«, "Curricular, rurrteuls, rarrieulum. Deans are as nates eery te s eel lag* aa chromium la te s tar. With out deans end chromium you have only Junk piles. HMven will bless you If you are kind to deans. •^What bo! my good fellow." DR. N. B/MAIDTT .DCNTIIT vrvwr • rwi wiv*# ^'"10AW? Bryan. Toss# / We keve a complnts ' aturk of OLD SPICK ^ Toll.STS IBH for knd tirnllrmm MADELEY PHARMACY South Side College care. Take your choice. **4. University believes that the bent education for Democracy In trnly democratic education. Heitge, the school will be operated not by the Board of Trus tees alone, nor by the administration, fac ulty, or etudenU alone, but bv all of tbeee groups working In collaboration and coop- With that we must agree. We would add only one qualifying statemakt: "AO priv ileges must be accompanied hv re»i>on»il>ili Men.” Now that Texas baa been 1 the union" (according to Kill* freight rate deciaion of the i we think it time for us to state" In national affairs, that is considered always for the Democratic party, done if Texas goes two-part to this demons tempt He was a frustrated man whom the viciasitodM of life disappointed. He dreamed of be ing e see captain shouting pic turmque orders on a wind-swept deck. Occasionally he forgot hliaaelf ie|h* office and ahoated to his seciatevy to "Reef the Jibsall’’ or "Jetisson the mainmast,” but she was onto his ways and mere ly continued her typing, cursing the unkind fate that forced her te .upix.rt her husband. The desk bound sailor shoved s ream ef pa pers te (o it for ntc signature and told him to go to Bblsa for rogls- IMml Bight separate and dlstinet line* extended from the entranse of Bbl m Mall like the tenaetes of an m topuc. After three trim Gya got Into the right on* and at length hr- rived at ths door, but lacking the proper clearance# from the Regis trar, he had te run down to the thee then | Administration Building, get them thgp then ona #nd ^ ^ ^ over the pocket" again. thxt can be I T** •» the modem las- gssge Is bio is Shies was s pleas ant chap is s beret. He smoked a foul-amelMag cigarette with s flossy, green tip “Ah, our first sucker—I put beck into Aroell by the upreme Court, i "pivot Henry Wallace was roundly jeered for ^killing the little pigs, for throwing oranges in the river, and for plowing under cotton during the depression years. It must be ad mitted that most of the ridicule came after n-yaining prosperity. Last month Americans received a taste of depression medicine when 28 tons off Irish potatoes were soaked with kerosene and burn ed. This episode took place in Alabama, a state with aa high a percentage of malnutri- dtizenry as any other state But Just as we come to this conclusion, the Republican party has demonstrated that there ia one point—just one-—on which the most conservative Texas Democrat cannot I °« r first customer. You look Ilk* go along with hia conservative Republican * bright fellow," h* purred. "What friends. Ah, yea, the tariff again. In fu- Lit ^ team to uericx vous ture histories it may be written that the Re- French.” Gyp »n*wered P ^™diteit publican ariff of 1947, whidi stabbed Will "And you’ve com* to the right Clayton in the back, destroyed thw hopes of p****. young men. I don’t know the GOP for an Elephant victory in Texas. ^ 4«P*rttn*nt her* at ~ ' 'school that teaches French. Ycssir, mighty smart of yoa to ■wing your ltiBhiMi oar way, and we appreciate it, too." He handed Gyp a quarter. “Oh, OH, I see yoa are new here. Before we can fix you ap, you’ll have to get ap- provod by the dean, the athletic deportment, and Good Hooaakoap- state with aa hig | tkm among ita < which we know. The Department of Agriculture explain ed the potato fiasco this way, and we are in clined to believe it—The United States gov ernment is pledged by law to guarantee Al abama fanners $£.70 for 100 pounds of po tatoes. The Alabama market became flood ed. and the government stepped in and pur chased the surplus. Freight costs to trans port them would have been excessive; far mers didn’t want the potatoes for stock feed; and there were no dehydration plants in the ares. So the potatoes were burned. Coming on the heels of a presidential plea for aid to Turkey, Greece, and Latin America, this wholesale destruction raised i cry of protest from an outraged America. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson was the United States gov- Irish potat'K * only to y countries w«n wort asking wky for Canadian po ind Alabama HlMr ' Farm officials recognise dent as only the beginning headaches in such food wheat, tegs, fruits, and have food surpluses in the of starvation. Pictures of Americana don't havs much a On ths othsr hand mast su put to use in rehak world. Bueh foodi fur thS dunuHTitb muss of tip ssrvire to the rights ing. Yoa ran see them and then come beck here." The dean had no record of any (]yp«um McGenjoylOb “Ar* yoa sore that's yoar name?" Mfgked I Gyp Mid he was fairly certain potato inci- it wag. At last the records of one of a series of Gibson O’Grsad.oM were decided to ties SS com, be those sought. The athletic de- Wa will partment offered him a seholanhi nf a wnrM i * h* Would wind an oloetirk or a world twim g wonth ^ \ v The Battalion ■potatoss Itetorfm ■hungry man.B u»«« could 1* impovsrUhad; a|*«k louder I n any amount] man ■ rship clock onth and play football. He not wanting anything ta with his studying. The ‘M isasiawM* tsr AmLUe If BglsSg h te ftbihMii aa. ■■■ mm wrwmwwm. hs don’t need Isgtesh THE A. & M. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WELCOMES YOU! Elementary Sunday School 9:46 at Presbyterian Center North Gate MORNING WORSHIP 11:00 in YMCA Chapel Sermoa Topic: “IS MY LIFE PURPOSE ADEQUATE?" STUDENT WESTMINSTER FELLOWSHIP 6:30 in YMCA CHAPEL Nursery at Presbyterian Center During 11:00 Worship NORMAN ANDERSON, Pastor / ! 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