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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24.1947
Baylorites Are Our Guest...
Tomorrow A. A M. (h trylnf an expari-
mant in treatmant of football rto aaa
If wa can traat othara aa wall a* wa hava
traatad on moat oampuaaa during tha
“road tour" of tha taam.
( Tha program can work proparty only If
all Agglaa ara bahind it. A faw two-par-cant-
ara could aaally apoll tha ImpranaUm w# wlah
r L Tha welcoming committae la headed by
Ralph Rothman and indudea John T. Poole,
J. T, Millar. N. G. Galloway and J. T. Rich-
ardaon. Thev hava worked hard, planned
carefully, and dr*, i ve aucoeaa. *5
Uhfortunately one Baylor ‘Hot-heacf*, no
doubt annoyed by tha right of Agglaa in
uniform belnc welcomed on tha Waco cam-
to meke on vliltnn fw.m „ n..r nf Om * P u# * wr,t * • Mroflc latter down
f uU " r l> * rt * of ,l “ Ur*. Th. MUr *M rMd «t jr*U pr»etl«.
« Thera
will be information bootha, rant
rooma nnd loud r|>aak»n giving out Informa-
• tion. Thera will be a recaption committee te
"'meet the aiiactal Baylor train.
, Above and beyond all thin, there rhould
bo tha hand of fallowrhip extended to our
''oppenara, ■ '
The official welcoming committee, ret
• up by the Rtudent Senate, viaited the Baylor
• aampur cnrliar this week and war given a
royal welcome there, by everyone from Prea-
ident PiT^leff to the freshmen.
and created a bad impraaakm.
We have two-pcrcenterr, also, who lova
to writa moronic letters, but they do not rep
resent our student body any more than that
totter writer reurenented the spirit of Baylor.
The Texas A. A M. team Is going to fight
desperately to upset favored Baylor, and
provr that the game last Saturday was "just
me of those things." We’re all going to be
in the stands, backing the team as only the
Twelfth Man can. At the same time wa should
be able to prove ourselves good boats, show
ing "Aggie hospitality" at its best.
Hollywood
B’ Movies Now
Proving Place j
For New Talent
picture it tout/si u
[>0. IntiSert believe
that amount w ould
LSU Game in Cotton Bowl?...
Would you like to see A. A M. play LSU
In the Cotton Bowl in Dallas every other
jrear, instead of hating all games in Baton
Haroid Ratliffe, well-informed Associa
ted Press sports editor, said in yesterday’s
Battalion that he believes the TU-Oklahoma
> games are a thing of the past* due both to
the riot this year and the fact that Oklahoma
has never yet won there. Therefore Ratliff
suggests that Texas schedule be changed to
date Indiana or LSU for that State Fair
football event.
Why not bring A. A M. in on the deal?
There are plenty of Aggie exes in Dallas,
and there is no doubt that we could fill the
Cotton Bowl, playing LSU there in the years
that SMU plays us at College Station. Thar*
has been some talk of moving the LSU game
t<> thtf Sugar Bowl stadium in New Orleans.
Why not make an arrangement for having
PAGANISM
Dear Editor:
The editorial, “Are College Stu
dents Pagan?" was intended to re
fute the charge of paganiam level
ed at college atudmte by Dr. E.
Fay Campbell of Philadelphia. But,
in denial of the charge, the reasons
advanced in the editorial notioe-
ably limped on artificial toga.
Calling students drunken be
cause they are encircled with beer
taverns is no more absurd than
calling them Christian because
their campus is “ringed” with
But that argument is not valid against a
Dallas date. i
Circumstances keep changing, and R
would be well for the athletic committee to
think carefully about adopting new schedules
to new conditiona..*.
Plans are in the works to enlarge the
Cotton Bowl, making it one of the larger churches,
stadiums of the nation; to complete Rice sta- To ho qualified a pagan, a person
dium, making it larger than the present
Cotton Bowl; not to mention our own plans
to add more seats and provide lights for
night games at Kyle Field.
If the Rice enlargement is carried
through, there will be heavy pressure on us
to play one of our games there every year-
in other words, to dAte an intersectional clash
at Houston in the years whan Rice plays us
at College Station. Perhaps Oklahoma or a
substitute could be booked alternate years
for Houston. We are not against any such
r«v "Y? ror Houston, we are not against any such
thtf LSI -AAM game alternate between the proposal, provided tht sch. iulejp reformed
Sugar and Cotton Bowls?
Kven jhough Wa have been on the short
end of the score In the last few tilts with
LhU. all the games have been worth seeing.
Whenever the Aggie Band appear* at them,
and we hope that In future yeara It will be
nosslble to provide official tranapgrtation
for the musicians, there Is presented a spec
tacle that gives as much color as at any col
lege game In the nation.
There has been a financial reason for the
past practice, as admittedly there are more
paying-customers at a Baton Rouge game
, than c+ukUbe persuaded to attend a tilt here.
so that we have more games nearer home.
At present San Antonio sees the AAM
team even’ year, in the battle against Tech,
If the Dallas and Houston daals should be
Completed, then thoee two cities would also
see the Aggies once ever>' year. And if any
reasonable balance is to be maintained, we
must play half our SWC dates here at home.
The two games played on an *4lways-
away" basis, against LSU and Oklahoma,
long have been a source of irritation to stur
dents. We believe a new alignment should be
seriously considered
Regional Negro University....
' A neWjOBaibiUty for solving the problem
of better Negro education was brought up
at the Conference of Southern Governors—
regional Negro colleges.
The Conference voted to immediately in
vestigate the possibility of establishing re
gional colleges in which to teach Negro stu
dents of all the Southern States medicine,
dentistry, law, nursingkndother professions.
The conference also voted to appoint a
committee to explore the possibilities of
making upe of Ihe facilities of Meharry Medi-
3al College, Nashville, Tenn., to provide for
-Ahe education of all Negroes in the South
3bterested in medicine, dentistry. Pursing,
-pharmacy and allied technical subjects.
_ Action of the conference came after Gov.
N. McCord of Tennessee Monday pro
posed regional colleges as the solution of the
^*Jnost acute problem confronting Southern
-States—that of providing equal educational
facilities for Negroes and whites.'.’
Governor McCord pointed out many of
fhe states were financially unable to each
j^Lihlish the large number of colleges which
.. -would be required to comply with the de-
Tision of khe United States Supreme Court
t the Gaines case. In It. the court ruled the
tte of Missouri must provide equal law
'fchbol facilities for the Negro within the
•state or admit to the University of
‘V Vi V
sed the belief that a compact between the
Southern States for regional colleges would
be constitutional and would be ratified by
th* Congress.
If the governors mean just what they
say, this idea of a regional university for
professional study is an excellent idea. The
problem is shown by the current litigation
over the Sweatt case, and the small number
of Negroes enrolled in the new law school
at^ Austin. Admittedly, the number is so
small that it will be difficult to operate it
as a “first class’ professional school.
One centrally located school, of the first
class, would provide far better training for
Negro doctors, lawyers, etc., than would in
dividual state schools with few pupils and
inadequate appropriations.
Four-year colleges are another matter,
as shpwn by the large enrollment in the new
Texas State University for Negroes and at
Prairie View A. A M.
need do nothing more than live
u if there were no God.
Rsther than have any partiea
lar religion monopolise the public
*chool iiyatem, we have endoraed
the principle of separation of
church and etate and eicluded all
religions from the claaaroom. That
ie a rather pagan procedure.
Thomas Jefferson and the found
er* of our country never wotfld
hive subscribed to such a nrjnci-
pl* had they realised that Gofl was
to be banned from the classroom.
It must be remembered that at the
founding of our country all our
schools were sectarian ami public
schools, as ws know them today,
were non-existent. Our founding
fathers were products of these
schools ami the Declaration of In.
dependence together with our (’on*
ablution Is a sample of th* fnilta
produced.
Kdut etton alone will not produce,
the Idetla and aspirations engen
dered in our constitution. It must
Iw education founded on religion.
Education alone win not insure
piasenatkm of these Ides is and
aspirations. It must be education
turned on religion.
Our founding fathers were well
aware of the Important roll e<!u
ration would play in conserving
our nation but they qualified edu
cation to ntean that which was
groumled *n religion. Unfortunate
ly they believed that the sectarian
• ystem of education would prevail
throughout the life of the republic.
To persist in denying God
hearing in the classroom is not
only downright pagan hut, if per
petuated too long a time, will make
itself manifest in our attitude to
ward our government—whose roots
are deeply implanted in religion.
A country too long educated in
paganism will sooner or later be
come intolerant of a government
too solidly rocked on religion.
We, as students, are pagans be
cause we are victims of a principle
our founding fathers never meant
to be applira to education. In the
field of politics, separation of
church and state is an ideal to be
relentlessly pursued. But in the
field of education, this same prin
ciple is a shibboleth which bene
some experience which shattered
their faith. Yet these are not pa
gans, but agnostics, who say
don't know if there la a God or
not, for we have seen no evidence."
To be a pagan, according to
Webster, on* muet worship false
gods, idols. Those who professed
worship of such Roman gods aa
Jupiter, such Greek gods aa Zeus,
such Gormanic god* aa Wotun.
were pagans to the early Chris
tians. Today the term has bevn
broadened to include, from the
Christian point of view, Budd-
hists, Mohammedans, Shintoists.
etc. And of course te an English-
speaking Mohammedan, all Chris
tians are pagans.
When Wordsworth wrote “Great
God, I’d rather be a pagan, suckled
in a creed outworn,” he was speak
ing not of one who did not believe
in God, but one who believed in
many gods, saw them with eager
eyes in the fields, on the shore.
But thqre is no need to quarrel
with Dr. Campbell over a ques
tionable choice of word. His charge
was serious, and rates a serious
reply.
W# do not see that restoring
creed to the school room would
help anyone whose home back
ground nas mad* him unreeeptive
to such teaching. A* for the one
who has been shocked out of hie
faith, he need* private ceneulta-
tion, not public exhortation. The
school cannot take the plsre of
the home or th* church, and we
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By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 28 -(AP)
—Film Studios are finding out
they cant do without B pictures.
First of the big studios to re
instate th* lower budget picture*
la Warner Brothers, which will get
them under war In December,
Warners will call the keeper of
th* B's “proving ground produc
tion unit," and It will compriao less
experisneed actors, writers and dl-
rectors, it is described as being
similar to the farm system of
major league baseball.
Denald O'Connor's 1 career A
booming these days after a slow
postwar start. H* starts “Are You
With It" soon and then in quick
succession will do “One Touch Of
Venus", “White Hmise flirt” and
“Traditionally Yours.” 1 saw him
doing his first tap dancing In six
years and having a dickens of a
time. In the army he danced in
regular 0. I. Shoes. . ..
Dick Hsymes is another starter
In “One Touch of Venua”, With
all this search for a venua going
•>n, why don't they pick Mary Mar
tin, who did the stage role? or
is that too obvious?. . .
Jimmy Roosevelt surprised the
“Prelude to Night” cast by visit
ing the set. They were more Bur
sters are being sent
public. Vaa John
son, Lana Turner and Esther Will
iams are hitting the road and now
Jane Powell will play an engage
ment at the New York Capitol.
Also, Richard Hart hands saat to
‘ of th* Moon.” which
Hollywood break,
getting more corn-
witness the
vnMashi
Man.” Now
la being planned
a couple of Coughdrop
It t* designed for Broadway
Hollywood.
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Sincerely
Herman J. Blubaugh
(Ed. Note — Thanks for
thoughtful letter. But we differ
slightly on What th* founding fa
thers were thinking about when
SisHouri.
Governor
McCord pointed to compact
between states on water control and expres- even vanish
Of course, those whose real wish is to
break down segregation will be against the | b^Uhad'm3-i!rt*^l%toa
regional proposal. But we believe that the but creed—from the school room
real issue is: shall Negroes be given full
opportunity for equal education? If that
demand is met. we believe the demand for
breaking down segregation will diminish or
The Battalion
^Th* Battalion, alficial newspaper of the Agricultural and
In the editors’ opinion, the found
ing fathers expected religion to he
inocilated and taught in the home,
an was the case in the tarty days
of the republic.
Those who live “as if there were
no God" must either have been
brought up In a home whi r* faith
was not svldent, or ha vs suffoyod
H I Mmtoal College of Toss* and tho City
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