« Bjl tt a l i o M editorials Pit'S FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1047 Oh, to Write Editorials... campus I by a few ‘TKE! r* Jr. Because we could hardly hope to put it M a ^ n * th «^ thoughts by the .*?* * •>!* citr •■^7 Wllh insomnia and regarded aa the •wnee of wisdom. - n ^ n 7 ^"Ider the plight of the poor Barometer board member. Instead of being housed Jn an office surrounded by scholarly a lifetime of reporting •n4 editing behind him, he has spent a year or possibly tlvo on the Barometer, and yet tha editor expecta him to Interpret current What Is The Farmed Like?.. * campus happenings with a Mencken-eye and few whisks of the typewriter keys sdve problems of the hour in a few r Ttlilil 5nch is hardly the case, though, for editorial writer Joe is usually burdened down with about seventeen hours of home ec or education and * weekly skt* of noon meet ings hoard meeting*, club meetings, nights at the printers, and, on rare occasions, an hour or two with hia baby. When ha sits dow-n at the typewriter he thinks about the deadline down at the printers and about get- Ulg home to dinner and more often about how wonderful his bed is going to feel (whenever he gets around to uippinf into •ome PJ’s). “Who his reading public is he never knows—-until he slips up!! Hen the devil breaks looee and he ia taken aaide by the editor and shown a little pile of letters which fwfWei in in protest of so-and-so being al- k.wed to write sueh staff as this for a college publication. “Rut. like a Journalism prof once aald In a moment of weakneaa, It’a good training.” u~ Wh i* t i. to I h ^ Am#rlci,n ,annir f«Ur IHte? ^ DiVergl U. n. C ongressmen. members of the kgrlcuKural committee, tossed bitter t* at each other recently, defending their oum ideas of what fanners were like, dad blistering others for disagreelAg. ^ We would hate to be sworn on a witness stand and be ordered to tell exactly what the •terHR, Texas farmer is like. We’ve seen some on the hackroada. living in tumbledown shanties. We’ve seen some «h the country highways, in neat houses surrounded by fwwers, with a water-tank behind the house and REA lines carrying eHetrWW. We’ve seen some fairly palatial homes on the bot toms, on many-acred plantations. Rett. Gross (R-Pa.) threw the joint ses- rion into an uproar as he accus'd the agri culture department of “deliberate fklse- hood.s, downright lies" in its description of the plight of the average American farm family. ; Gross bitterly denounced this statement puf into the record by Assistant Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, describing the "typical farm family.” . “They' Mve in an old house, either in ser ious disrepair or perhaps unrepairable. Th^y are without running water, telephones, cen tral heating or a bathtub. If they have elec tricity,-it is still new enough to seem an in novation. The windows and doors are poorly screened. Flies attend every meal, spring and summer. There are mice in the kitchen and rats in the barn.” ^ . . The statement was made as a part of a department presentation urging Congress to take steps toward improvement of rural living conditions. Gross said “this is ah untruthful, malic ious indictment of farm families; It is an insult to every farmer. This indicates the farmer is just traah.’t Rep. Hoeven (R-Iowa) said the state ment is "an unwarranted indictment of the American farmer. If I made such a state- mtnt I would be driven out of my district.” Rep. Poage (D-T«.) argued wrth'GroM. aaylng It is timthat more than one half of H l PL^ p,<, J. n flomf MrNU the country llvh In tumble-down shacks." He said the farmer* of Gross' district, in Uncastor vOMty. Pi., art not average farmers, that they have "accumulated wealth for genera- ‘ - “It seems to me,” Poage shouted, "If con ditions on the farm are as good as the Penn sylvania gentleman describes them, we now nave the millenium and we might as well adjourn these hearing* now.” Senator Thomas (D-Okla.) said: “I am r not prepared to take exceptions” to the des cription of living conditions in some rural : JJ®* 8, s * nee M I l* ve< i on * backwoods Indiana farm in Indiana for many years and I know •ofl^tyng about,flies, gnats, mice, mo* |ui tow and rats. « But, he asked Brannkn, "how do rou re concile your description of farm living con ditions with your department’s activities in trying to break the market?" Brannan in his description of farm con ditions. said family income in rural areas is 66 per cent less than that of “their city Counterpart” T He told the eommittee^that in discussing :a typical farm family, he was not referring to the farmers in any particular area but an * vera * e based on statistics on facilities of farm homes. » Chairman Hope (R-Kas.) closed off the debate on farm living conditions bv pointm* out that one half of the farmers produce 90 percent of farm commodities, while the other half produce only 10 percent. We hear a lot about “doing something for the fanier. But it seems the folks in Wash ington can’t even agree on what a farmer is like. 'The farmey" can no more be conjured up as a type than can "The Worker," or “The ( apitahst or ‘Small Business Man”. Above all else, farmets are people. They may be rich, comfortable or poor. They may be ex ploiters or exploit'd. They may be induatri- ous or lazy. Whenever we try to put all peo ple in a vast class into a single pigeon hok*. we are certain to be at least half i Al MarKenzie Sees ft,,,, Attlee’s Cabinet Shakc-l p Is Helpful for Long-Range Peace By DsfTlTT Mar MINUS A* rwMM Affair* Analval British Prime M i n 111 # f Attlee's drastic shake-up of his Labor (Socialist) Cabinet --the ousting of five minis- Un and tha demotion of furl and power minis tar F, man a* I Hhlnvtll. powerful Wfl-wing trader i« K notable develop ment, both in the political |i Ilfs of England and In relation to the general European eco nomic criai*. Mr. Attlee'* paramount ob ject clearly I* to secure the stowet Britain's OaNfcMadU life and death ■tniggle agahnt the treat aepraanon H;ivmy r,'( ,-ntl> created Sir Stafford Crippa aa min- iatet for oconoaiic affairs, with tutorial power in that field, the Priate Minister now ia •arroanding hia key man with new exaoitire talent to ytrengthen the mackme. ^ma ltfar porta are jnvohfM In the mrilriMling and fir ing. All in all It’a im encouraging dvmonatrmtion of J6hn Bull’* in tention to tee the criaia through. ot the iltustion I* perhaps even more Important, Jpgsi the long-range jS»Wb»t of world paaee. fn ouat- Mg shlnwetl from the vital fuel **d sower ministry (coal prodoc• ^ ^ c ™* of the ertalsi, and giving him the relatively un important poat of war mlniater, l ^ t r? k Polltkal life in his hand*. He was dealing with the most important loftist in his cabi net—a man with a big following. Small wonder then ttf| the ques- tion immediately should arise whether Shinwell's motion repre sent* a Socialist swing to the right. Several London newspapers expressed the flew that it was, Letters SPECTATOB ^Kor, The Battalion) . We road the letter to you in Wedneaday’s BatUlion. We do not have a sarcastic remark to reply because the letter ia itself is onoogh sarcasm for one week; but we do want to point out our thoughts on the matter. Your editorial on "The Texas Spectator ’ was one at your best. The heading “Texas Stands to I*«. . * Again" ia tactual. This etati la laeking dreadfully in lib eral minded people. It has too many people who don’t care, don’t have the intereat. and are too lasy to ftoht and vole for th. righto <*f aB the rithen*. These people toak read the propaganda put out by the big boya through their papers and vote accordingly, when thay vote. Whan someone has the nerve and the couraga to stand up for the right and tell the people the inside truth* on issues as he sees It, he ia quickly criticised, blackened, and broken to ■Hence. It ia a shame that such people are financially un- ■Mr to pot forth (heir ideas with the same fore* and endurance aa tha others. True, the "Spectator" did hit A. AM. on last sprtng’a incidents. TMa hit hard and with ideas that swoha th* lasy people <4 Texas end put them to Uttaktoi«. But tha mass of the people don’t like to think, and no wonder, ainee some one cl** has 4mm their thinking for eo long. It i*]{i*le like Mr. ■smea, who, becoming angry with th * ^MsiirA asy it did the school harm We sak you to look bock and soe how many big papers ot Texas tried to see and seek the truth and both sktoa of tha I shoe but nmerit spokesman fleeter. - - Our new McCall Pattern Department Buy your Pattern and Material *t the same time- - The FABHlC SHOPPE Tour Exclusive Eabric Center Acrtma from P.O. - Bryan wrong. PARIS, —(AP)—A cartoon in The In- drptndenl I/hhunMif/mut depicU • French fimlljr st dinntr. One »t the children taka: “What an- wt having for deahertr’ "I •!" T 1 ?* 10 ^ XW the Marshall Plan, the father replied, {\l •The Indeimndently lAjftlat Combat pic- tuhi* two Amtricai pualntmammi in an • offuc. > “Hav' Home gum,” the first man aaya, offering a package. .... "No. jhaafc you^ HpRea the other. ''Europe first CI^ASSIFIED ad in the IN THE house-for-atle claaaified section of the Fort Worth (Tern) Star-Telegram re- oMitty: NEW 5-room brick. Hie drain, full tile bath, shrubbery, vre*tion Moad*. r "fOR 8ALE- ‘lM? - a,', 1 ,"''by Fr»nk Suddoth, with Ioom Iwtrlnn and cracked block." HMfy Is ths houaing shortage in 5Z^OTvX 0 Sr:" ,l " mtath, ”>X)RT BAM HOUSTON, Tex.-Staff RtfC Andrew J. Btrickland . . , whose wife ind chlMnn reside st Box 507, Florosvllle, Tex. «T7 has been promoted.” EXCERPT from s wedding atory In the Ar ? n S?? VV Cfcr0,lW4J! "Mise Shirley Rau and Mias Jeanne Belab-nn*. brideemaida, wore maid of honors and carried yellow green gowna similar to cut to the snapdragons and hi onae daisies." 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