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College Station, Texas
Thursday, July 11,-1983
THE BATTALION
Editor,
*The Battalion:
Sound Off
On July 4, 1963, I had an un
fortunate heavy fall on my cycle
on College Main. This occurred
while trying’ to avoid an unlit
construction barrier while ap
proaching the college. The road
is extremely hazardous, and with
no signs, even more so. In the
whole stretch, most of the flares
were out. If this is the work of
pranksters, it is unpardonable. In
the . aim of traffic safety, more
pointing opt such traffic hazards
where they exist and of making
such knowledge publically avail
able. It was only by extreme
good luck that I was not more
seriously hurt or killed.
I would like to express my ap
preciation to the two Aggies who
gave me assistance at that cru
cial time, and would like them to
drop me a line. A bouquet is also
due our Aggie Hospital,-the nurse
and two doctors who stitched me
up promptly, and to the many
others who contacted my wife
and brought her to the hospital.
I am proud to be an Aggie. It
has always been my experience
that when a fellow Aggie needs
assistance, other Aggies put aside
their personal duties to concen
trate on the job at hand. Fel
lows, keep up our fine tradition.
H. A. Kendall ’56
Y-2-D Hensel Apts
College Station
Editor,
The Battalion:
I have always had faith in
America’s greatness, for she is
among the greatest of nations if
not the greatest. Never in his
tory has a country existed which
has done more for the world than
America. America has been the
bulwark of freedom, the prince of
peace, the Democratic stronghold
of the world. But America today
is on the threshold of two paths,
one leading forward and progres
sively upward, and the other
down, down and away from God.
What is wrong with America?
Since the advent of the Atomic
Bomb after World War II and
the developing “cold” war ten
sion between the two powers of
Russia and America, the people
of America seem to be gripped by
fear. We seem to be afraid of
losing our security, our produc
tiveness, our democratic way of
life. This fear seems to dominate
our thoughts. Let’s take a lesson
from the Bible. It was Job who
said “The thing I fear has come
upon me”. Fear is only a habit
of expecting the worst, and what
we expect we usually get. We can
easily see that Job’s faith was
nullified by fear and that he got
exactly what he expected. What
can we do about fear? America
and its Democratic way of life
was founded upon the Pioneer
Spirit. Let’s return to the Pio
neer Spirit, that spirit of our
founders that faced fear with
courage, grit and determination
—a determination to win against
all odds. What is it? To me, it
is a way of living, an attitude to
ward life, it is a deep .personal
feeling of self reliance, belief in
oneself and in his*God. It means
to stand for something, to face
life with vigor and determina
tion, to be a man. One has to
fight for what he believes in, re
gardless. Only then can one have
self respect and the respect of
others. To face fear any other
way one loses his own self re
spect and the respect of others.
This then is what America needs
as a nation among nations. Let’s
wake up our Pioneer Spirit!
We the people are dilly-dally
ing around hunting for security.
Or if we think we have it, we are
too busy protecting- it while the
world passes us up. When we
think too much of our own inter
ests and how to protect them, we
neg’lect those very things which
give us our democratic way of
life. This right now is affecting
our government, our economy,
our foreign relations, and under
mining our democratic system of
government.
Faith without works is dead.
We have faith in Democracy so
let us be tr-ue to this faith. As
citizens of a Democracy we must
face responsibilities as no one
else in the world. Simply living
a Christian life can help the
world tremendously. We can set
examples of fair play, honesty
and helpfulness. Let’s face our
daily work with new determina
tion and zeal. If we put the pio
neer spirit in our daily lives it
will spread to larger and larger
spheres of influence. It has to
start with the individual. You
and I must put the pioneer spirit
back into the heart of America.
If our forefathers had wanted
security, they would never have
come to this country- They could
have idly sat by and waited for
better times. But they knew if
they wanted freedom and the
ideals they yearned for, they
could never have them till they
did something about it them
selves. Their belief in the rights
of the individual is the very foun
dation of our government. In our
democratic system, recognition of
the individual and his rights are
basic doctrine. This is as it
should be so each man can fill
his proper place in society. Each
man’s desire determines his sta
tion in life. He is free to go as
hig’h as he can. Or if he sinks
down, the democratic system
makes it possible for him to be
helped so he can help himself.
The individual is never forgotten
in a Democracy.
Security is stagnation. It is
also a false “peace of mind”. Our
Democracy should go onward and
upward. If it stops or hovers at
a certain level, it stagnates and
begins to weaken and fall. We
do not want security. We want
progress!
Through the years the greatest
men have been spoken of as “He
gave this to the world.” Why?
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Man’s deepest longing is for cre
ative self expression and when he
gives himself whole-heartedly to
helping his fellow man through
this creative self expression he is
fulfilling God’s purpose for him.
Our forefathers realized their
responsibilities. They created a
vision of a Democracy and they
worked for it. They gave them
selves fully to their ideals. They
gave their lives so that future
generations could live and work
in a Democracy. They had the
Pioneer Spirit!
This pioneer spirit which made
America can preserve her. The
pioneer spirit k n e w fear, but
fought for what was right. It
had moments of weakness but
never lost hope. When problems
arose, it met them. It had its
eyes on a clear definite goal of a
govemment “of the people, by the
people ,and for the people.” It
gave no excuse for failures, but
rose up and overcame them. This
is the Pioneer Spirit so woke up
America. Wake up your Pioneer
Spirit!
Robert D. Fitzgerald
Education Student
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
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Announcement
s
Monday Dance Plannm
Ted Gentry, new publicity man for the Memorial Stuq)
Center Summer Directorate, said Wednesday that anoi
dance is planned Monday night.
Pat Garrett, WTAW disk jockey, will officiate at?
record hop similar to one held two weeks ago. Gentry
no dance was held Monday because of the presentation]
“South Pacific” in Guion Hall.
A $5.00 door prize has been donated by Loupot’s Trad
Post. Admission for the MSC Ballroom affair is 75 cd
stag and one dollar for couples. The dance lasts fromStof
Gentry said the last record hop was a “big success."
Senior Vet Wives Meetm
The Senior Veterinary Wives Club will meet tonights]
7:30 p. m.
The meeting at the A&M Veterinary Hospital will feat®
Dr, C. K. Jones, who will speak on the “Business Aspect;!
Practice.”
TSPEPlans Family Meetin
“Why would they leave last semester’s grades up this long
except for intimidation!”
The Brazos Chapter of the Texas Society for Professi®
Engineers will have a family meeting Thursday, July 18,!!
Hensel Park Area No. 3.
At 5:30 p. m. there will be a softball game for the enti
group, children included. The game is to be umpired byl
Rudy Jimenez.
Cold watermelons and cantaloupes will be served at 6:1
The meeting is expected to end by 7:00.
Texans Know Little About
Their Past, Says Historian
GALVESTON GP) — For people becomes an important stabilizing
who are so proud of their state,
Texans know very little about how
the whole thing began, says R.
Henderson Shuffler, advisor to the
chancellor of Texas Collections for
the University of Texas.
Henderson said, in a recent in
terview here while collecting infor
mation, that the Texas Declaration
of Independence was not signed on
March 2,_ 1836, as many suppose.
“There is so much misinforma
tion in Texas history,” Shuffler la
mented. “The Texas Declaration
of Independence was not signed on
March 2, for a very accurate diary
reports that the signatures were
not affixed until March 3.”
“WE KNOW SO little about
what actually went on there,” he
added.
In an effort to understand more
clearly the events of early Texas
history, Shuffler has examined
aerial photographs taken in the
early morning when the dew re
flection betrays the position of the
old streets of Washington-on-the-
Bi-azos where the document was
signed.
A check with deed records may
repeal the actual location of the
various buildings.
“It’s ridiculous that we don’t
know what happened there in 1836,
for our hfstory began there,” the
Texana director said.
Shuffler expressed concern that
the average citizen has little or no
interest in history. Many priceless
documents are destroyed or lost
each year because their owners
don’t realize their value.
“There is a gap between the his-
influence.
“Our gangling Texas culture,
groping toward maturity, feels the
need to understand more clearly
its origins and the struggles by
which it was brought to its present
place in time and civilization,” he
said.
SHUFFLER DESCRIBED revo
lutionary Texas as a far different
place from the one pictured on
television or in frontier lore. Tex
as was cosmopolitan from the be
ginning, particularly Galveston.
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torian and the public,” Shuffler
said. “They simply don’t under
stand the work the historian is at
tempting to accomplish.”
ALL IS NOT hopeless, however,
in the world of the historian, he
hastened to point out. Only recent
ly the Texana collection acquired
the rarest Texas book published by
the Galveston News in 1865, “Ad
ventures of a Prisoner of War.”
There are only two known copies.
It is the overall picture of the
Texana program which intrigues
Shuffler as well as the specifics.
He hopes to instill in Texas citi
zens a knowledge of Texas history
which will fulfill the basic need of
the individual for roots in soil and
heritage. This need, when fulfilled,
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