Wednesday, October 17,1951
THE BATTALION Page 3
Oh, For Luxury!
Failure Is Blamed
On Administration
(Editor’s note: An old friend
wandered into the office the oth
er day. We hadn’t seen him in
quite a while, but he had a few
‘ words to get off his chest, so
we thought we’d just open up
this space for him.)
By IVAN YANTIS
. Battalion Staff Writer
Isn’t this a hectic place to call
a college. It’s quiz time and foot
ball season—all in one package.
What a combination these two
subjects can create, especially
when the Rust County Club will
have its organizational meeting to
night and will make plans for the
Thanksgiving party at home.
Then Thursday night there’s
yell practice and my engineering
society meets to hear one of the
nations top authorities on con
struction of pillars on the lower
floor porch of a 12 story-build
ing.
Then there’s that roster due in
to the Corps Adjutant listing all
classified guard duty men. What
' a chore this corps life turns out
to be. Of course I must make the
special drill this afternoon while
we get the outfit ready for the
* Corps Trip parade Saturday.
It there no rest for the weary?
I know that theme for English
301 is due tomorrow at 8 a. m., but
I just can’t get an idea important
enough to fill three type-written
pages. What does that prof think
I am ? Why I’m practically snow
ed under.
Just like my roommate said
yesterday, “I’ll certainly be glad
when I get out of this college so
I can get into some regular work
ing hours and have a little while
to rest every evening ... at
least before I go out at night.”
Going to school is such a prob
lem these days. I’ll bet grandfath
er never had to worry about getting
date tickets to the Fort Worth
Corps Trip by Thursday afternoon.
^He probably waited until the week
end came when he had enough mon-
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ey to buy it at the gate.
Oh, I just go, and go, and go
some more. I never get a chance
to see all the shows anymore like
I did while a sophomore. What
fun it was to sneak away in the
afternoons from my studies and
catch the latest Tom and Jerry,
in addition to the current feature.
But now that I have passed the
days of adolescense and transform
ed myself into a man of distinction
in the ranks of the green tie and
white belt class, I haven’t enough
time for such pleasant past times.
Now I am a man of respon
sibility and people look to me
for things they needed done.
And I am always so glad to be
of help for I know many times
I am the one who can do the
job just right.
But confound it, seems my profs
keep loading the work on my
shoulders, and I constantly find
myself forced to attend class with
home work only half prepared.
It’s not my fault, though. I was
foxed into the whole deal. Sure
I’m doing a lot of extra-curricular
activities, but it isn’t all my fault.
My low grades and my sleep
less nights can be blamed on one
group of individuals—the admin
istration. It was they that ad
vised me during those hectic days
of freshman week, “You have
some talents of some kind, put
them to use in any of the many
extra-curricular activities offer
ed on the A&M campus.”
That wasn’t all, they told me I’d
flunk out of here or go crazy if
I studied all the time. Now I’ve
done it. I took their advice and my
grades never have been good.
It’s the administration’s fault,
everything that goes wrong around
the campus always is.
Sylvia Rankin
Miss Rankin was Queen Bryan
on East Texas Day, Oct. 16, at
the State Fair of Texas in Dallas.
Price Clinic Slated
In Bryan Thursday
Current price regulations will be
discussed for the benefit of busi
nessmen of Bryan and the nearby
area at a price clinic Thursday at
the Bryan Chamber of Commerce.
The clinic will be conducted from
9 a. m. until 4 p. m.
Price specialists from the Hous
ton Office of Price Stabalization
will hold the meeting and will ans
wer questions about regulations.
The business men will be aided by
the price specialists in their ef
forts to comply with the regula
tions.
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Jesse Jones Memoirs Printed;
Calls FDR ‘Total Politician’
Washington, Oct. 17—id 3 )—Jesse
Jones says Franklin D. Roosevelt
was a ruthless “total politician”
who was eager to get this country
into World War II so that it would
assure his election for a third
term.
Furthermore, Jones says in his
memoirs, released today, Mr.
Roosevelt once tried to get the gov
ernment to buy the Empire State
Building at what Jones considered
an inflated price—to bail A1 Smith
and other Democratic bigwigs out
of a financial hole. ,
A self-tyled “country boy,” Jones
headed the reconstruction Finance
Corporation (RFC) for 12 tumul
tous years and was a wartime sec
retary of commerce.
Ousted In 1945
He was ousted in 1945 and ob
viously this break left some hurts
and some scars. Mr. Roosevelt
replaced Jones with former vice-
president Henry A. Wallace.
Jones’ opinion of the man who
succeeded him: Wallace, he says,
was an incompetent meddler with
“screwball” ideas.
A banker, a financial wizard and
owner of the Houston Chronicle,
Jones now is 77. But the years
haven’t mellowed him.
Jones came to Washington at the
depths of his depression. Under
his guidance, the RFC loaned or
spent $50,000,000,000 which, inci
dentally, gave him his title for his
book, “Fifty Billion Dollars.”
Jones’ opinions of Roosevelt, his
longtime boss, are scattered
throughout the book. Sample
quotes: Tr ittliliilM
Voted Out—Carried Out?
“He had no intention of leaving
the White House until voted out—
or carried out.”
“Regardless of his oft-repeated
statement, T hate war,’ he was
eager to get into the fighting since
that would insure a third term.”
“In the beginning his purposes
were undoubtedly high; but as the
years went by and the mill seemed
to require a new kihd of grist to
keep him in the driver’s seat, he
never hesitated to provide it.”
“In no sense did I feel his su
periority over other men except
that he was president and the
greatest politician our country has
ever known, and ruthless when it
suited his purpose.”
“I do not understand exactly
what Secretary of State Dean
Acheson meant recently by ‘total
diplomacy,’ but I understand per
fectly what is meant by ‘total pol
itician,” —• Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He employed all the arts known to
politics .... He changed his tac
tics whenever politics seemed to
dictate.”
As for the Empire State Build
ing, Jones says that in 1942 when
he was asked by Mr. Roosevelt to
see if he could buy it for federal
office space “without speaking to
anyone else about it.”
Jones says Mr. Roosevelt said
in his memorandum: “‘We all
know that the Empire State Build
ing is a losing proposition.”
After an investigation, Jones
says he found:
A1 Smith, former governor of
New York and 1928 Democratic
presidential candidate, owned 10
per cent of the stock.
Stockholders
John J. Raskob, former Demo
cratic national chairman, owned
82 per cent.
Pierre S. Du Pont of Delaware
owned eight per cent.
Jones says the price put on the
world’s tallest building was far too
high. When he told the president
the government could get the same
space for less than half the cost,
Jones quotes FDR as saying, “Yes,
Jess, all that is probably true, but
I would like to do something for
A1 Smith.”
Jones adds: “I am sure he was
displeased that I had not carried
out his wish to buy the property,
and that he never forgave me for
not doing it.” He said Smith “in
dicated clearly his real feeling to
ward the president — which was
Dr. Doak Has T aught
At A&M Since 1925
One of the oldest members of
the A&M faculty, considering the
number of years served, is Dr. C.
C. Doak, professor and head of
the biology department. He has
been on the department staff since
1925, with the exception of a two
year leave of absence to study at
the University of Illinois.
When Dr. Doak joined the staff
of the biology department in 1925
as a graduate assistant, there were
seven regular teachers on the de
partment’s staff. Today there are
18 full-time teachers and five grad
uate assistants.
Dr. Doak is the second professor
since 1900 to serve.as head of the
department. In 1937 he succeeded
Dr. Owen Ball who had held the
position since the beginning of the
century.
While a freshman in college,
Dr. Doak said he failed to make
good grades, but by the time he
graduated, his scholistic record
enabled him to do research work
at several colleges and universi
ties, including the University of
Southern California, North Tex
as States, and the University of
Texas.
Between 1929 and 1931, he stud
ied for his doctor’s degree at the
University of Illinois, where he
was awarded Phi Beta Kappa for
his academic work.
With gardening and all living
things in general as a hobby, Dr.
Doak said, “I like to view the re
lationship between living things
and watch especially how other liv
ing things help man.”
By the study of living things, he
explained, it means almost any
thing a person can think of. “The
study of gardening, agriculture,
health education, family affairs,
and fishing and hunting for a hob
by are all applications of how liv
ing things affect each other,” he
said.
Dr. Doak recalls the most amus
ing incident in his long teaching
career occun’ed shortly after he
became a member of the biology
staff.
“I had been trying to impress
one of my laboratory classes
with the importance of keeping
the microscopes clean, but one
day I found that it was impossi
ble to see through any of them.
After a time I discovered that
Jr. Chapter AVMA
Will Meet Tonight
The Junior Chapter of the
AVMA will meet tonight at S p.
m. in the home of Mrs. Harold
Redmond.
The program will be sponsored
by the VWC ’53, according to Jer
ry Bell, club reporter.
The Redmond home is on Munson
Drive in College Hills.
Dr. C. C. Doak
someone had filled the tubes of
the microscopes with shelled
corn,” he said with a laugh.
Dr. Doak, who is currently the
president of the Texas Academy
of Science, believes the world to
day is divided into competing
groups.
“The group which is the most
advanced scientifically will event
ually win the struggle,” he said.
“I would advise all young men of
ability to be serious minded in
preparing for a career, particul
arly those men who plan a career
in any of the sciences.”
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that of utter contempt.”
According to Jones, Mr. Roose
velt had one great ambition which
never was realized—to bring Sta
lin under his influence.
“I shuddered at the thought of
the President, weakened mentally
and physically, as he obviously
was, leaving (for the Yalta Con
ference) to meet Stalin and his
horde,” Jones says.
“There he made still further
commitments from which our coun
try arid the rest of the non-com
munist world may never recover.
A few weeks later he was dead—
his ambition unattained.”
Likes Truman
In contrast to his sometime vio
lent opinions of Mr. Roosevelt,
Jones says he likes President Tru
man “very much.”
He says he told Mr. Truman six
months in advance that he would
be nominated for the vice-presi
dency in 1944.
But Jones didn’t vote for Mr.
Truman in 1948 because he thought
a change in administration would
be good for the country. Mr. Tru
man apparently had thought he
was voing to get Jones’ vote: He
had asked him to head the Demo
cratic campaign financial commit
tee.
In recent years the RFC has
been under attack. A congression
al committee has claimed that it
has allowed political pressure to
sway its decisions on loans.
Jones insists that during his
RFC regime none of Mr. Roose
velt’s attempts at influence suc
ceeded and there was “no toadying,
no catering.”
He says plenty of persons were
hanging around “trying to get
something they were not entitled
to. . . . There still are, and
I am ashamed to say they are
meeting with magnificient suc
cess.”
In addition to the Empire State
Building episode, Jones cites these
instances of what he calls White
House interference in RFC busi-
White House Interferences
1—Marvin McIntyre, a presi
dential secretary, asked Jones “to
take care of” David Stern, then
publisher of the old Philadelphia
Record and a Roosevelt supporter
who sought a $1,000,000 loan. Jones
says he balked and “McIntyre call
ed me again and • stated that the
President was impatient. ... I
told (Stern) if he expected to get
the loan from the White House to
quit bothering me about it.” Jones
later arranged to have the loan
made by a private bank, not the
government.
2 — The President personally
mentioned a loan to George Fort
Milton, then publisher of the Chat
tanooga News in Tennessee. Jones
says he explained he didn’t make
loans to newspapers because the
government could be accused of
dictating editorial policies. He says
Mr. Roosevelt replied, “What the
devil, Jess! They are good friends
of ours, and we ought to help
them.”
3—“I had one or more suggesr
tions from the White House that
maybe we would like to sell” the
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“SMUGGLER’S ISLAND”
Brazos River Fish
Studied by Knapp
Prof. Frank T. Knapp of the
wildlife management department
and his class in ichthyology are
making a survey of fishes in the
Brazos River. This group expects
to reveal considerable new infor
mation on the kinds of species and
distribution of fishes in Texas.
According to Knapp, the Brazos
has never before been completely
seined to find what species live
in the stream.
“Since it represents a virgin
field,” Knapp said, “we have high
hopes of discovering some species
new to science.”
Knapp, accompanied by 14 stu
dents, began the survey Saturday.
The group expects to be in the
field through Wednesday.
The President of the United
States is usually addressed as “Mr.
President.”
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ciation, set up by RFC to buy and
sell insured home mortgages.
Jones says the White House told
him that James A. Moffett, who
“claimed close friendship with
President Roosevelt,” was interes
ted “an annual profit in the mil
lions, we were not interested in
selling it.”
4— Tommy Corcoran, a White
House brain truster, told Jones
“the President was very anxious
for us” to make a loan to an Alas
kan gold mining firm so that G.
Hall Roosevelt, the President’s
cousin and Mrs. Roosevelt’s broth
er, “could get a job with the com
pany as chief engineer, and that
the President wanted to get Hall
as far from the White Hous as
possible.”
5— A law firm which included
Atlee Pomereme was counsnl for
the RFC’s Cleveland office. Pom-
erene, a Democrat, was a former
U.S. senator and served briefly as
an RFC director under President
Hoover. Pomerene and Mr. Roose
velt “were not mutually congen
ial.”
Although the law firm’s fees
were smaller than those in any oth
er RFC office, some New Deal
Democratic firms “began angling
for the RFC’s legal business, and
I would hear from the President
about it.”
Foot Notes to History
Further footnotes to history as
told by Jones:
1— President Roosevelt an
nounced the resignation of Dean
Acheson, now secretary of state,
as undersecretary of the treasury
in 1933 “without first telling him
(Acheson) about it.” Acheson
then wanted to be secretary of the
treasury.
2— Elliott Roosevelt wanted to
nominate Jones for vice-president
in 1940 and “remarked that his
father did not know what he was
doing in wanting Wallace.” Jones
refused to run because Mr. Roose
velt didn’t pick him.
3— Jones repeatedly was offered
cabinet posts by Mr. Roosevelt, in
cluding the posts of secretary of
che navy and secretary of War,
but he turned them down. He
joined the cabinet only after Con
gress fixed it so that could remain
with the RFC as secretary of com
merce.
4— Wallace was Mr. Rooesvelt’s
“Crown Prince,” picked by F D R
to be the next president. Wallace
would have made it, too, Jones
says, if he hadn’t scrapped public
ly with Jones and thus lost his
chance to be renominated as vice-
president in 1944.
Mr. Truman became vice-presi
dent instead—and President when
Mr. Roosevelt died.
Jones tells how the RFC used its
money while he was with it—First
in loans to save banks and busi
nesses and lick the depression, and
then to pile up war materials and
plants for the “arsenal of democ
racy.”
Tells About Loans
He tells how the loans ranged
from $20 to a barber to $30,000 to
Jack Dempsey’s New York restau
rant to $200,000,000 for a single
steel plant.
And along the line he mentions
how he once felt like swatting
Secretary of the Interior Ickes in
the jaw, and how he concluded that
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau didn’t seem to know the dif
ference between giving money
away and lending it.
But it isn’t all adverse critti-
cism, by any means. Jones writes
with high praise of men whom he
credits with saving the economy in
the 30’s and winning the war in
the 40’s. He is particularly high
on those with whom he worked in
the RFC.
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TSCW Girls Plan
Trip toFort Worth
At TSCW, THE DAILY LASS-0 reports that plans are
progressing rapidly for the annual A&M-TSCW Corps Trip.'
A welcoming committee from A&M was. on their campus in
Denton Monday and tickets for girls attending the game are
on sale at $3.60 each.
“Students leaving Friday afternoon will ride the regular ‘
buses leaving from the Denton bus station. Saturday morn- •<
ing buses will load from 7 to 8 along Oakland Avenue, the
last bus leaving at 8.
“Bus tickets will be sold in the rotunda of the Adminis
tration Building all day Friday. Students are urged to buy
all tickets here so that an adequate number of buses may be
arranged. Those who purchased tickets on the campus will
be given first preference.”
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A worried Texas University student thinks our annual is still
called The Longhorn. In a letter to the editor of THE DAILY TEXAN,
the worried reader said:
“Some enterprising candidate in the forthcoming student gov-
ernment elections might take as a platform plank a promise to try to
stop Texas A&M’s misappropriation of the title ‘The Longhorn’ for
the Aggie yearbook. The good farmers wouldn’t approve of TU’s
Cactus being called The Aggie.
“Perhaps this inter-collegiate problem can be handled by the
appropriate-sounding Steer Here committee. Aggie use of the word
‘Longhorn’ is unheard of horning in on a label now generally asso
ciated with UT.
“It’s something to beef about. Ex-Aggies on this campus will
probably roast this suggestion.”
The editor’s answer appropriately stated, “The Aggie yearbook
IS titled The Aggieland.”
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Enrollment figures at Arkansas University are looking
good these days, as far as the female situation is concerned.
THE TRAVELER, campus newspaper, compiled these facts:
“Enrollment figures for this fall term show there is an
added three-tenths of a girl for every male student over last
year’s ratio.
“Despite the microscopic relief, a sad situation for boys
and heaven for girls still prevails in the Ozarks.
“Of the total Fayetteville enrollment of 3,659 there are
2,683 male and 976 female students. A little division shows
there are 2.7 boys for every girl, putting the boys at a dis
advantage and the girls in a hard-to-get mood.
“Last year’s average was a flat 3-to-l ratio.”
•
Baylor Chamber of Commerce is cashing in on a ‘spirit
ribbon’ sale to pay for their Bear’s trip to football games.
THE BAYLOR LARIAT said, “The ribbon money pays for
Josephine’s football trips, and she travels in a shiny trailer I
it bought.
“The Baylor Chamber of Commerce introduced the rib
bon sales to the campus back in the early 1930’s; no one
remembers just what year.
“ ‘Stomp the Steers;’ ‘Take Tech;’ ‘Gig the Frogs’ . . .
these are some of the forceful words we will be wearing on
our ‘spirit ribbons for the week preceeding each Baylor foot
ball game this Fall.”
The TCU SKIFF introduced a money-saving plan for banning cor
sages at the Freshman Prom, first formal,dance of the year scheduled
for Oct. 28.
“Pui’pose of the request is to increase attendance at the Prom,
thereby decreasing the $571.50 Student Association Congress (stu
dent government) expects to lose on the dance.
“Said Dance Manager Wes Steele, ‘If congress will put this re
quest in the form of a motion and pass it, I’ll stand at door of the
Casino and refuse to admit wise guys who insist on buying corsages
for their dates.
•
Student interest in, politics seems to be sagging at SMU
according to an editorial in the SMU CAMPUS. Said the edi
torial:
“Interest in student elections seems to be at a low 1 ebb this
fall as the time for the class balloting nears.
“With football frenzy reaching a peak for the coming
games, nobody seems to be particularly interested in who runs
their classes and sits on their Student Council for the year.
“Perhaps the cloud of apathy will lighten a little by voting
time next Wednesday when balloting for Student Council
representative is held. It should, for the health of student gov
ernment as a whole.”
•
Rice plans to hold their annual homecoming at the A&M
contest in Houston Nov. 17. THE THRESHER quoted a few
plans for the forthcoming week end which will also be a
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