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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1947)
Battalion EDITORIALS Page 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1M7 TRIAL BALLOONS o o Soldiers, Statesmen, Knightly Gentlemen? One of the leut troublesome and easiest ways to build a wholesome reputation, the showing of simple, friendly courtesy, has been neglected, if not actually branded taboo at A. & M. by the majority of the present student body. - / # j The juvenile and vandallstic attitude of “If-we-can’t-whip-’em-on-the-iield, - we’U-do it-in-ths-streets" has prevailed to an amaz ing extant amon^ the rank and file of stu dents. Leaping to Ue center of the stage with the o|H-nmg of football season each . year, this inhibited i>oint-of view has piti* ^wlly crippled the once proud dignity of A & M„ and placed it in a class with the typical small town or country high school. Painting the buildings of opposing col* lege* and unlveraltis*. destroying valuable D »rty, and In general ‘'raising as much as poealble with an Institution due to oppose Us on ths gridiron the following Saturday, am typical of ths hoodtumlstic nntlos smiled upon snd dedsrvd "Good Stuff" by fsr too many studsnts on this campus. Occasional attempts in ths past few years st improving this disreputable situation have been swamped by shouts of "tradltlon H from ex*studenta brought up Ln the same era as •, the cadets of today, Older brothers, cousins, and acquaint ances have firmly convinced their younger wotegM's that the performance of such dar ing deeds as mentioned above are the verv essence of "Akki<“ Spirit’*. However, suen is not the case. The standard, set by Law- kni^htly gentleman", was at one time rev ered and maintained by A. A If. students. It was during this time that the lasting and meaningful school traditions were formed, and that the saying "an Aggie is always a gentleman" was bom. " \ Somewhere down through the years this standard was dropped and another substitu ted, perhaps in the "roaring twenties" or depression ridden early thirties in any case, the more fitting phrase "an Aggie is never a gentleman" might be applied today. It is time that students started thinking for thsmselves and deciding in their own minds what type action reflected A. A M. . Coaches and pla their wish that tne "Twelfth Man" refrain from actions that would give an opposing team a psychological advantage, but year iniand year out ardent Aggies have journey- to the foes backyard, stuck out their •nd raced back home to Aggieland. raault, A* A M. has not only gained quite an unsavory reputation In certain areas of the state, but has also placed our athletic teams at a 4j»advantag«. We are at present living on the reputa tion of a past A. A M.; it is time that we a an to provide for the future classes, as, ortunatehr, a student body la not known for ita own actions, but rather for those of its predecessors. What will the people of Texas think of credit on payers alike have stated 0, fence Sulllvaq Ross, "soldier, statesman, A. & M. five years from now? ‘Just An Editor’... At MacKenzie Seeill.... House of Lords May Lose Only a Debating Society What’s Cooking? AGOIZ WIVI8 CIRCLE (Col- logo station MttWist Church) 7 J0 p. m., home of Mru. R. M. Pinkerton, Collect HUU EaUtee. AUSTIN CLUB, 7:S0 p.m. Monday, Room 108, Academic. (Originally October 28.) AGGIE RODEO. October 24 25. COOKE COUNTY CLUB, 7:80 p. au, Thu reday, Room 207, Aca demic. COLLEGE WOMAN’S SOCIAL CLUB, S p. m., Friday, Loonfe of Sbiaa Half. DENTON COUNTY CLUB, 7:10 p. m., Thursday, Room 80S, Good win. DEL RIO CLUB, After yell practice TtalWay, Reading Room YMCA. EAST TEXAS' CLUB, 7:20 p. m., Thaieday, Reading Room of the YMCA. ENGLISH STAFF, Annex Eng liah ataff to entertain campua Eng liah faculty, 7:20 p. m., Thureday, Annex Student Canter. FALLS COUNTY CLUB,Nf::«) p. m., Thuraday, Room 121, Ata- damic. GREENBELT(VERNON)CLUB After yell practice Thuraday, Room 202 Academic Building. JOHNSON COUNTT CLUH BARBSCUE • p.m. Friday, Heneal Park, Contact A. R. Huckar, 8-L Fenrmr, MMrv noon. Thuraday, LITTLE AGGIELAND DIBCUl- HION AND DEBATE CLUB, or. ganlaational meeting Momlay, Oc- loiter 27, OiM p.m. (n building 147, room 1, Annex. ■NAVARRO COUNTY CLUE meeting Thuraday night after yeU practice In Boom U Aradrnm- BuiUimg. PALESTINE AAM CLUB, 7:20 p.JBU Thursday, Room 107, Aea- RIO GRANDE VALLEY CLUB moating in YMCA at 7:20 Thura day, Oct, 22. TEXAREANA CLUB, 7:20 p. m Thuradar, Room 204. Academic TRI-CITIES CLUB, 7:! Room 108, Academic Ths By DeWITT MacHKNftlK as Saratfa Arr«ir« a mum England’* flnt Sociallat Houee of Commona, finding Iteelf threat ened with obatruction at the handa of the Houae of Lorda In carrying out the nationaliaation program, haa decided to put a further curb on the Vagialative power of the conaenrative upper body of parlia ment That curb will fairly well reduce the .Lorda to tha atatua of a debat ing nonet n time to tterhapa all month*, aaaaga of auch a f Because no greater truth has been writ ten about editors of colle'giTpapers, and be cause so much of what is said seems applic able to the situation as we have seen it, we herewith reprint "Just an Editor”, from the Milisape College paper of Jackson, Miss. JUST AN EDITOR Profs can sit crosslegged on the top of a desk; dean’s first list students can let down their guard; student body presidents can fraternize with the massea. . l Only an editor is required to be pontifical always. ' _ i Only an editor is supposed to know every thing that happens, so it is taken for granted that he always knows It, and nobody ever tells him anything; only an editqr is suppos ed to keep an open mind always, and at the same time to make snap decisiops for each political imptaae; only an editor, is required to keep his nose out of pdlltit:^ in. iinwhilc keeping tab on the strength of each separate lineup, -iPean'a list students get their quarterly reports;' student body presidents hear com plaints in (Rudent Council meetings. Only an editor has to guena. Only an editor has to grope blindly along, trying to put out a paper for a student body who will talk only behind his baqk, who will never tell what they like orJUmt like, who will squawk auriMy only when they are mo*> tally or irreparably wounded, wno never thank him when he says anything nice about them or censor anything nasty, who have to be tracked down, cornered, and beaten in give sensible before they will so much as him a news lead. Profs have the satisfaction of seeing their teachings put into piuetke; dean’s list stu dents are an inspiration to their successors; student body presidents can point with pride at each year’s end to long rows of achieve ments. Only an editor never accomplishes any- . thing. i Only an editor has to endure the spec tacle of 641 of his 642 loyal readers, each and * ^ f° wer , .fry week tumm immediately on receipt of the paper to the gossip column, ignoring 1909 they rejected the m every thing else in the irsue; to find the lay out* on which he and his staff have spent hours of work, editorials which he has plan ned for months, which are^iis only method of criticism of his school and society, coldly ignored. very Profs get to sit on the stage; dean's list students don't have to attend cIsm ; student body presidents get to introduce visitore. Only an editor la fool enough not to want to trad« places with anv of them. And when all la said and done, only an wgtor ha* the satisfaction of knowing that hit thouaaiuf* of word* a week are written down in letters that van never be erased; of feeling something in a way which-muat have Immediate and Taatlng effect; of knowing that if he knew how to use It, he hen the whole state for hU audience; of sensing that he la doing a Job for the atudents which no ope else could do In quite the sam* way; and iBat but not least, of being sure a staff that no matter how much hel* forced to abuse them, overwork them, deny them any reward for their work, will be driven for more by pure love of literary effort. Only an editor would gripe about It „• dW- •fngaal. istion, u> be sure, but rirtu • Ur impotent insofar as inter ference with Commona ia concerned. For clo»e to 800 years the House of Lord* functioned sa a benditery in • ititution, amid- flory of ormine Lords exe! •r in tev rejected the national budfet which had been paaaad by the Houae.-df.Lnmmdaii Liberal Prime Miniater Herbert Aaquith rote up in wrath and led a terri- tie* fifht against the power of the Lorda. It waa one of the greatest poli tical battle* of Engliah history. The upshot of It was that ia 1911 Aaquith secured the passage of a ! bill in Commons to deprive the Houae of Lords of ita veto power, Then he jammed this down the throats of the Lords by threaten* Ing to have the King create enough liberal poers to outvote the con* •ervatlvee In the upber hogs*. The Urri* ai'cepiad the BUI, be< cause (here waa noth lug else for them to do, sine* the Monarah * OSBiiSp would have had to create the liber al peer* If the Prime Minister re- auested It. Later the Lords were further crippled by sn act under which the Commons can override any action in Lorda by voting it down in three succeosivt sessions of parliament However, three sessiona of par liament cover two years, which the Socialists fad is too great a delay if they encounter obstruction by the Lorda. The real point at issue ia nationalisation of the iron and steal industry. This waa one of the items on the Socialist platform when they were elected to power •••age of auch a bill can be at* cured—If necessary - by the same method employed a generation ago ilth. Til 1* upper house could with HodaBet peers cretftefrrmm the ranks of labor. It Would be a hardy houae of Lorda which would try to buek such a line as that. day, Room 106, Academic Bldg. VETERANS WIVES CLUE — YMCA Cabinet room, Thuraday, 7A8. ' ’ WACO-MeLENNON COUNTY CLUB meel> Thuraday night at 7:20 in Room 201 Goodwin HaU. Barlow Speaks On Progress to I.E-'s Dr. Howard W. BarloW, dean of engineering, addraeaed an eetimat- •d one hundred members of the In dustnal Education Club laat night He spoke on the progress the en irmeenng d.-partmente art mak ing. During a discussion period there was one question asked that seemed to interest the whole The question was “Whan n (I. E. Dept) have any safety, per- •onnel relations, aiyl industrial lation# ttnirses offered in the duatrial Education curricula?" Dean Barlow stated that a group of men and himself wera trying to orgunlse something te that effect now a ad noaaihly rouraee of this type would be offered by next se- g Uf. !• Ian* fnr the Industrial Kdura- ’• 4*nce and serial wera else useed. by Asquith, be pac|»d w rested" Trom s little over two yean ago. Be cause of the economic crisis the Socialists want to delay this na- tiona’,nation for perhapa another year, so sot to interfere with the present industrial set-up. So Prime Minister Attlee’s ra- has decided to put another the prerogatives of the tipper house. It is said that a hill will be introduced to cut down the length of time that the Lords can delay passage of a bill, reducing 'A - 1 L&M. Food Market FREE DELIVERY TO COLLEGE STATION Ph. 2-6189 in The UrxfMt Electrical Appliance Store In ■raHi’. 5 * i f' mr n and ••• U« for large or email appliances RmHou, Electric Irons, Stu dent Lamps, Floor Lamps, Frenio Cookers, Coffee Makers... and many other uaefula UNITED APPLIANCES, Inc. 25th A Washington HU. > Phono 2-1498 FR1. - NAT. Story In Dsllsa (Texas) Morning News about Joe Louis' 10th anniversary as heavy weight champion ended up I After every title defense he speaks the same words over the radio: YALE WINS i EASTERN TTTLI Files of the CHILTON (Win.) Homs show how an editor in the 1860s handled the story of birth of quadniptts: . "A Large Yield Four Children at One Birth . . . This is the largest yteki we have ever heard of anywhere ... Don't talk any more about big crops until you can come somewhere near the above.” ? C. E. Palmer, publisher of the Texar kana (Ark.-Tex.) Gazette and News, received this letter from a former subscriber: "Gentlemen: Enclosed find $2.50 in payment tor three months subscription to the Gazette. I cancelled the order for your paper recenUy. I waa in the hospital and thought I waa going to die. but now it seems I may live a little while longer, and in the meantime I believe I’d enjoy life a little more if I had your paper to read.” There's a moral, says J. Q. Mshaffey, as sistant editor of the Gazette: "Don’t cancel your Gazette just because you THINK are going to die you cancel" Be sure you ARE K yc befoi The Battalion m 8w lam **r hi to rta*. 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