The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1916 Page: 4 of 6
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THE THRESHER, NOVEMBER M. MM
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A fortnightly per)<nltc&i published by th^
Btudento of the Riee institute at
Houston. Texas.
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EDITORIAL
THK HHXT!OX.
i't-ncittnUy aH the Rice students
joined with the Utmost enthusiasm in
Houston's celebration ot President Wii-
son's re-eiection iast Saturday. The
day was dec tared a holiday by the In-
stitute authorities, partly, no doubt, be-
cause the mayor ot Houston had de-
< [at'< d it a hoiiday, but also because the
students of Hice were heart and sou!
for the president.
This is not to be wondered at in a
utoup of Southern youths, but Rice stu-
dents had even a greater interest in the
success of President Wiison because of
lite tact that so many of our professors
were co-workers of the president whet]
he was at the head of l'rincton. Riee
feeis that it has a personal interest in
ihe president, that others, however de-
voted to the South they may be, cannot
have. Wo feei that he is a friend of our
friends, and hence we rejoice in his
Kreat victory.
And it was a great victory, and it was
his victory. The democrats lost the
house of representatives, and probabiv
wouid have iost the senate also, if any
great number of senators had been up
for election, but Wilson himself polled
the largest popular vote ever cast for
any candidate in the United States. Ht
carried states that in the past have been
rock-ribbed in their Republicanism; he
carried California, where the demo-
cratic candidate for senator was over
whelniingly defeated.
Aside from rejoicing over the per-
sona] victory of the president, the re-
sults of the etection have given us many
other causes for joy. One is the way
I he women voted. In ten out of the
twelve suffrage States the women rolled
up majorities for Wilson, although they
probably considered Hughes the more
all-inclusive suffragist of the two can-
didates. This is conclusive evidence
that they were putting the good of the
nation above the immediate welfare oi
the suffrage cause, and this in turn it
the best evidence that could be offered
that women everywhere should be given
the ballot.
Another good thing about the elec-
tion is that it shows how completely
the old sectionalism has been done
away with. The sectionalism issue wat
raised by the republicans, but it caused
them nothing but harm; the people of
America, will no longer vote against a
man solely because he is from the
South. If there is any sectionalism at
all today it is the West against the East,
and by the aid of the South the West is
triumphant. And this also Is well be
cause the West is not so steeped in
commercialism as is the East. The
heart of the West is better and more
humane than the heart of the East.
All this, of course, brings no joy
to the followers of Hughes, but there is
one thing in which even they can re-
joice with us-—that is the fact that the
Democratic party won without the aid
of the bosses. Murphy in New York,
Taggart in Indiana, and Sullivan in Ilii-
nois are no longer indispensable to na-
tionai Democratic success, and as result
the Democratic party is under no obli-
gations to them or their kind. This is
well, for whether these gentlemen are
as black as they have been painted or
not, it is well even to avoid the sus-
picion of evil. For this reason the re-
publicans can rejoice with us, for even
they should be glad that the party in
power owes nothing to the bosses or the
interests.
All in all, there was much to be cele-
brated Saturday, and the Institute au-
thorities are to be commended for
granting the holiday.
THE CONTROL OF THE THRESHER.
The editors of The Thresher had In-
tended this year to agitate the organiza-
tion of a Students' Association to take
active charge of alt general activities
at the Institute. Unforseen difficulties,
however, appeared in the way of accom-
plishing the desired result, and the mat-
ter was dropped. The organization of
such an association is being discussed
among the students, however, and It has
been intimated that The Thresher is
opposed to its organization because it
feat 3 there would be a change in the
control of the publication.
In justice to ourselves we desire to
make this statement:
We wouid be giad to see such an As-
sociation at Riee (although we rather
hope than expect to see it here this
year), and when there is such an As-
sociation here cttpabie of getting a fair
expression of the will of the entire stu-
dent body, and capable of giving The
Thresher the financial backing that it
should have, not only will we not op-
pose giving it the control of The Thresh-
er but we will do all we can to bring
about such control. In saying this we
are speaking entirely for ourselves, of
course, and not for the literary socie-
ties, the present governing bodies. But
from what we know of them we believe
they wili admit the jurisdiction of the
larger body, either as soon as it is or-
ganized, or at least at the beginning of
the academic year immediately follow-
ing its organization.
This is not to say that the societies
are not well able to publish The Thresh-
er. The present pian of control is not
a makeshift and was only adopted after
long consideration. We believe it has
worked well, and under present cir-
cumstances is the best one to fol-
lowed. Much can be said in its favor
that can be said for no other plan. But
there is one thing above ail others that
a college paper must have, evan above
a capable and loyal staff, and that is
the conti^epce and support of the stu-
dent body. For this reason we do not
believe that the literary societies wouid
desire to retain control of The Thresher
without the consent of a Students' As-
sociation, if one is organized.
In this editorial we have simply dis-
cussed the reiation of The Thresher to
such an Association as is proposed.
There are many other things that would
have to be considered, however; for in
stance, the control of the Campanile,
changes in the Honor System, the reia-
tion of the Association to athletics, the
matter of giving the Association finan-
cial standing, etc. The problem is not
so simple as it might seem, but if there
is any demand for action at this time
the coiutnns of The Thresher are always
at the service of the students to let that
demand be known. If anyone is inter-
ested in the subject, or any phase of it,
we would be glad to hear about it and
will publish any communications that
we receive.
took like steam rollers, and every man
on the team can give an advanced
course in scrapping. In no game were
these two factors combined to better
effect than in the A. & M. game. In
the Hrst half we let them do all the
work, and in the second half we ran
them to death.
We beat A. & M., they beat Baylor
and Baylor beat Texas, by virtue of
which Bcores we stand as well as any
of them in the State championship race.
It is only by our unvarying support that
we, the student body, can express our
appreciation of all that the men of the
team have given to any school, not for
their own glory, but for the glory of
Rice. As we have always been loyal in
the past, let us so be in the future.
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CITY CLUBS AGAIN.
Some time ago we insisted that there
should be more city clubs organized at
Rice. So far we have observed no ac
tion in the matter, and now we want to
stress the thing again. You students
from Dallas. Ft. Worth, Beaumont and
Galveston, why don't you get together
and form these organizations? There
are plenty of you from each of these
cities to give Rice some real live clubs.
It will take only a little initiative on the
part, of some one to get these organiza
tions started. If you don't know ail the
students from your city go to the office
and get their names, then call them to-
gether and the thing will take care of
itself.
We hope that in our next issue we
will be abie to chronicle some real ac
tivities in this line.
JUNIOR FEIGNS HE'S
A HAZED FRESHMAN
(Continued from Page One)
OUH TEAM.
Rice has not yet reached, we hope will
never reach, that stage in college ath-
letics where we cease to regard our
teams, as well as the component indi-
viduals, with a tensety personal interest.
A football game holds thrills for any
real live spectator. The fierce strug-
gle of man against man, the smashing
drive of a fuilback plunge, the swiftly
moving half-around end, the mere sight
of a smoothly working human machine
in action—all these things would make
any man's heart beat a iittle faster. But
we feel much more than a mere imper-
sonal interest in our team; we experi-
ence the same sort of pride in their
victories that we would feei in the
achievements of our own best friend.
It is our team, and we are behind them
every minute of every game, our satis-
faction, if not our cash, at stake\upon
the outcome.
So far this year none of our pride
has been misplaced. Rice's record on
the gridiron has been a splendid one.
We started the season with a disap-
pointment in the shape of a defeat by
Texas University, but this was no dis-
grace. Our boys were not yet near to
top form when we tackled the Austin-
ites in the initial game of our season,
and held them Z to 16. After this game
we rounded into shape and trimmed
Austin Coilege and Southwestern by
large scores. The T. C. U. tied score
was quite a surprise and was probably
the result of overconfidence on our part.
It turned out for the best, however, and
Imbued in the Owis that indomitable
fighting spirit that beat A. & M. 20-0,
and a week later, the fast Tulane team
23-13.
The two greatest factors in our suc-
cess have begh speed and "Bcrappiness."
Brown and Vance make their opponents
Groans and moans, together with low-
am) almost inaudible cries for help, at
tracted the Attention of a passing car
the driver and occupants of which im-
mediately got out to investigate. Peer-
ing into the dark recesses of the man-
hole, they beheld a huddle figure, seem-
ingly in deep distress. When they
spoke to him his only answer was a
moan of anguish. Remembering that
it was Sunday, which is a day for good
deeds and charitable, the big hearted
motorists decided on drastic action.
One of them, notwithstanding his smart
Sunday raiment, descended into the
depths, and slowly and painfully hoist
ed the victim to the surface.
It was a sad story that the victim
told, a tale of persecution by the upper
classmen, of bitter wrong and oppres-
sion. The story almost brought tears
to the eyes of the women in the party.
It was perfectly barbarous, the way
some of the poor Freshmen were treat-
ed, and the faculty should intervene.
So they hauled him to the dormitory
and assisted him to his room and mod-
estly accepted his profuse thanks. Then
they left with the knowledge of duty
well done.
Could the autoists have witnessed the
wild manifestations of unholy delight
after their departure it is very probable
that much of their pious joy would have
been dispelled, for it was only a jolte.
Later in the afternoon of the same
day some one conceived the idea that
there was a crying need of a traffic of-
ficer for the campus. Reckless speed-
ing should be summarily dealt with.
The idea was conceded to be a good
one, and was immediately put into ef-
fect. A tall, melancholy Freshman was
decided upon as sufficiently imposing
looking to act the part. But the Fresh-
man was not ambitious to be a cop. He
demurred. It availed him not at all.
It was darkly intimated to him that un-
iess he complied at once he would dream
dreams no mortal ever dared to dream
before.
Motorists spinning out along the
boulevard and swinging in toward the
first gate of the Institute grounds were
surprised to see a tall blue coated of-
ficer blocking the way. And to their
surprise was added annoyance when,
with a majestic wave of his hand, he
ordered them to stop. In a few min-
utes a large number of cars were lined
up. Then up came a little Ford, and to
the surprise of all, it was permitted to
pass unchallenged. This was adding
insult to injury, and the drivers of
some of the big cars were preparing to
protest the seeming injustice of the
thing when the cop graciously raised his
hand, for the boulevard was becoming
congested.
The "copper" was dressed in a bor-
rowed band uniform and hia girth was
considerably increased by simple ex-
pedient of stuffing a pillow under his
belt.
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