Battalion
Editorials
Page 2 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1951
Humanity And The Fog
^OUMANITY is groping through a fog and those of us who
try to see ahead can see only dimly. We can’t be sure
of the shape of things to come—of the shadowy figures
shrouded in the uncertainty. We know only that in the murk
the masses of the world are on the march, impelled by forces
we vaguely comprehend.
“We are trying to deal with peoples who don’t understand
us nor do we understand them. We don’t speak the same
language. Things we try to say to them when translated into
their tongue don’t convey our meanings.
“Two world wars have thrust world leadership upon this
nation of ours. We don’t want it. We don’t like it. We
were content to let alone and to be let alone. We were com
fortable. But now we are having to adjust our thinking, and
that is the most painful and most difficult adjustment hu
mankind can make. It calls for the acceptance of new re
sponsibilities.
“We, as a people, not as isolated individuals, are going
to have to change our attitude toward the peoples of the
world. Mass thinking is the force that counts. Each of us
thinks he comes to his own conclusions. We don’t. Most of
us think in unison. We are confronted with universal needs.
The backyard fence is no longer an ample boundary. To
doubt that statement is to ignore your fellow man.
“I would like 100 years from now, when historians can
take a perspective of our times, to sit down and read what is
the meaning of the upheavals through which we are passing.
They are part of the evolution of mankind.”—J. D. FERGUS
ON, president and editor, the Milwaukee JOURNAL.
The Press And
International News
66IN THEIR COVERAGE of both national and international
the press and radio today suffer, in varying degrees,
from three ailments that tend to undermine the potential
effectiveness of their public service:
“CONFLICTITIS. This is nothing new in journalistic
circles, but it is far more serious today, when world tensions
run high. It is a tendency to regard almost every event, ex
cept the most routine, as a “conflict” to treat it as a conflict,
to give an appearance of conflict where no conflict exists, and
thus to make it difficult for nations to get along peacefully
because any normal adjustment or compromise is treated as
a “victory” or a “defeat” and thus raises the issue of national
prestige. This is an aspect of what Harry Overstreet called
the newspapers’ “vested interest in catastrophe,” a subject
with which he deals in his book, The Mature Mind.
“ERNIEPYLEISM. This ailment results in reporters
and editors developing a kind of myopia-of-the-mind by which
they seem to regard the best source of news, and the best
authority on developments in foreign lands, as being the near
est taxidriver, charwoman or elderly gentleman. The reports
then are written with a restrained sob or with a gay and
heroic abandon that purports to convey the true human “feel”
of the situation. The idea seems to be that the little man is
a brave and wonderful guy, but he surely is having a rough
time in a world he never wanted and doesn’t understand.
This adds up to nothing substantial, but it makes easy read
ing, which is what the public seems to want.
“HOT FLESCHES. This feverish ailment results in a
delirious condition by which editors are persuaded that the
human products of our educational system cannot understand
anything unless it is written in baby talk. By appealing to
the lowest common denominator they expect to attain the
highest readership quotient aand thereby make the quantum
theory interesting to Joe Doakes and Mrs. Doakes. The re
sult is that more people read more words, nobody really un
derstands anything, but everybody joins the happy parade
to nowhere.
—Dr. Robert Desmond.
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Brazos A&M Club Elects
Motheral 1952 President
JOE MOTHERAL
| Joe Motheral., 1314 East Mil
ner, was recently elected 1952 pres
ident of the Brazos County A&M
Club.
Other new officers elected were
W. W. Meinke, first vice presi
dent; Freddie Wolters, second vice
president; Ben Boriskie, secretary;
Theodore Boriskie, treasurer; and
P. L. Downs Jr., good Samaritan.
Joe Faulk, John Longley, Cot
ton Price, and Reed Wipprecht
were named directors. Roland
Dansby was elected club represen
tative to the former students’
council.
Serving on the nominating com
mittee were Newt Hielscher, Tony
Crain, J. E. Roberts, Fred Hale,
and W. N. Colson.
Despite a slight increase from
1949 to 1950, the decrease in the
rural rate from 1937 to 1950
amounted to 40 per cent. The ur
ban rate dropped 61 per cent.
As the bells ring out and the New Year
enters, it carries with it a promise of
opportunity for one and all. It is the
freedom, afforded by our way of living,
for each, in his own way, to make this
the most successful, happiest year yet.
Caldwell’s jewelry Store
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Harringtons Plan
Open House Jan. 6
An annual event of each new
year, the president’s open house
will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. on
Sunday, Jan 6.
All faculty members, employees
of the A&M System and friends of
the college in Bryan and College
Station are cordially invited ac
cording to Mrs. M. T. Harrington.
Official Notice
The Fiscal Office will begin taking fees
for the Second Semester immediately after
the Christmas Holidays, beginning Janu
ary 4.
In order to hold the rooms they now
occupy, for the second semester, students
must pay fees and reserve rooms at the
Housing Office in Goodwin Hall before
January 22.
First installment fees xor military stu
dents for the second semester are $75.20
and for non-military students are $48.80.
Fees for the entire semester for military
students are $244.60; for non-military,
$92.85.
Seniors! YoW will hie a better
citizen if you take Post Graduation
Studies.
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