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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1047
Oh, to Write Editorials...
campus I
by a few
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Because we could hardly hope to put it
M a ^ n * th «^ thoughts by the
.*?* * •>!* citr <Wbr. the editorial board
conamta pf old-time newspapermen
who rfrew up w»th the wire service and the
telegraphic photo and who have felt printers’
2 f ur 5’ nR t brough their veins for at least
wSuHiitS 7 ec * (,t T- P* 1 * onl y duty ia to
write editorial*, and they have a library of
re * er * nc ® niaterial a( their finger-
T^ ir writt «n "ord is read across break-
faat tabies covered with fine linen and
"crutmiied by the *trap-hanKmg commuter
*>•■^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.
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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." K
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govern m
r* "i! was'without found*
tion. Well, maybe the prime min-
lator wasn't making a gesture to
ft* right, but wt can bo excused
for at toast wondering. Certainly
he wasn’t swinging to th* toft.
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HEot mm.
P the “Spactator”. Three ware
few. If any at all
Mr; Wltor, your editorial was
real staff sad a tribute to a fins
t*st kas guto. How about
more like it?
J. A. SHORT AL. ’49
£ 1 ALTE1MAN, ’50
GM. Note: W# feel ttort Mee-
••ear. Skerul and AHermaa
mtoare th* subtle, sarcastic gist
•f Mf. Barrea* totter toward the
HNP( tHf
We are gtod to see that the Bpec-
itater will be mtoaed by other*.)
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Kd.tor, The Bettehtm:
HnW. do you aorount fop the
WeUm* is the fmit reg* artS
' OathRIGW; not Gathrit*. Or
hare you alerted to refbrm the
Pfeiffer Hall, despite the tact that
WrMiLTrr,
"'cr that ong. .
^ • rtW *
that OH Mata is now the Ace-
nrc HulMiag The real Old Main
burned down In mi For therea-
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WIOK VAK KOUEHHOVEN
(Ed Not#: Vick Lindtoy, who mis-
Pfauffar, *
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“n°t" to "near", were responsible
0M Mrta, wfcich
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carters, at Farragwt. Ids ho; Camp
V^toe,. T.xm, nd Norman, OUa-
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