The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1919 Page: 4 of 4
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THE TtihESHRR, FEBRUARY 30. 1$M
/CS77CE ^D^OC^rE
CHANCE OF ^OOE7Y*
(Edttor'H Note.—The following arti-
cle cornea direct from Russia. The
Thresher wishes to acknowledge its in-
debtedness to M. B. Be)!, who made the
translation and offered it for publlca-
tion):
Men behave by the ruie of thumb.
That ruie is the ruie of advantages.
When it pays men are courteous. When)
!t doesn't, they are indifferent, at best,
or contemptuous, at worst.
if your servant girl shouid, one tine
day, take otT her mask and reveal her-
self as a college graduate seeking "ex-
perience," you, Airs. Bourgeois House-
hoider, would feet a certain athtOs-
pitetic change in the sociai barometer.
Vou wouid be chiiied by shame, not be-
cause you had maltreated a mere serv-
ant gir!. but because you (the defender
and paragon of the courtesies,"—when
you are on your good behavior in a
company of sociai equals) had been
caught violating your sham code.
W'e treat our superiors so courteous-
)y tor a very situpie and human rea-
son: out- cringing and fawning is our
p.'ace-ott'ering to the dangerous mighty.
It is our way of warding off the blows
that "might" visits upon meekness
when it is upset or outraged or inter-
rogated.
We seek us<-i'ul advantages. W'e
tuingi" wit)) those who give us en-
hanced power or enhanced joy. The
eteatiou of more respect amongst men
can not be achieved unless we assait
unccremoniousiy and shatter the supe-
rior-inferior dogma. Superior brains
ami superior wealth must be thorough-
ly socialixed. Which is another way oi'
raying that superiority must become a
igtt of wiHingness to serve without
pirath- recompense either in. homage' or -
in i-ohl, ami not, as heretofore, remain
a i. ;!^cn for retiring from usefu) activi-
ties. Parasitism and exploitation arej
human emmgh. but terribly costly.
We must learn to do better. We ;
will gradtmily come to uniearn our
poisonous philosophy of parasitism. ,
Why shouid street cteaning be lteid as
less im])ortant than, say. school teach-
ing'.' Why should any ohsiously use-
ful service in our comptex society be :
evaluated as less praiseworthy in pres-
tige and in doltars than any other neces-
sary sers ice '.' Where occupations are
interlaced, men interdependent, tabors
iniei'tiivided, functions intersecting,
w hat sense or fairness is there in label-
ing one activity inferior to another? it
ali street .'leaning censed for a month.
'It; ', would be a terribie ca)amit.y. if
ail st hoois were compietety shut down
ior a tuonth, that wouid create an un-
fortunate situation, if at) banks ciosed
dow n for a like period, the wor)d would
-utt'er. if all doctors locked their doors
tor a month, we shoutd fee) the ioss
even of their weil-ineant and bungling
advice.
There isn't a usefu! service in the com-
jntiftiiy which a complex, closely-knit'
popttiation could do without. if this
be the case, can't we afford to took upon
every useful member of the community
as a necessary and desirabie worker?
But, everyone is taught to respect cer-
tain vocations as higher than others.
And the result is a mischievous phil-
osophy of superior-inferior status which
hangs iike a sword between nten.
By gilt-edging the bond of kinsh)'
we automaticaily team to cuitivate re-
spect and feiiow appreciatiou. Income
is the btood (that is thicker than wa-
ter) of kinship. Money ties are the
true biood ties in our industrialized
cosmos.
To recapitulate: Justice is the
struggle t'dr equalizing advantages.
Justice can only obtain where the in-
centives to respect and fair dea)ing are
active. Honest respect flourishes best
among economic equals. Justice can
build that economic comradeship of
equals by especiuity favoring the non-
privileged as against the super-privil-
eged. This fine justice, therefore, de-
nies the honesty or validity of any
precedents or rulings or unwritten laws
which in the castle-tainted past aimed
to immortalize sociai cleavages. The
older justice fraukty prociaims in its
theory its advocacy of the phitosophy
of couatily.
To hack down the tyrannies of in-
trenched power, justice must advocate
I he socialization of specia) priviteges,
the pro!etarixation of opportunities, the
democratization of tegisiation. The
onty kind of tegistation that wit) be
useful or acceptablc to the masses wili
be "class" legislation. In proportion as
so-calted class legislation expands its
dominions will plutocracy forfeit its
abusive powers of parasitism and of ex-
ptoitation. Justice, be it repeated, is
the radical ethic of equality in bargain-
ing powers. Justice should consequent-
ly continue to be a distribution of priv-
ileges based upon the existing inequali-
ties in capacity to "earn" big incomes;
big incomes being the co-efficient of
superior productive abitity.
Ko one, as a matter of fact, has vet
made a sui'ficientty exhaustive analysis
of the complex human motives imped-
ing men to exertion. The economic mo-
tive is indeed very powerfut. So is the
desire for se)f-dislinction, which roots
deeper in human nature than possibly
auy other effective instinct. The im-
pulse to surpass and to rise superior is
unextingttishable. The elemental pas-
sion for self-expression is universal.
The extra-economic motives have been
as forceful and as compelling in their
incitement to effort and to useful ac-
tivity as the raw passion for material
gain.
The finest contributions to civiliza-
tion's growth, whether in the acts or
in the sciences, have not been wrought
solely by the inspiration of moneythe-
istn, That is one startling fact which
should help a little to take the wind out
of the braggart boast of commercia)ism
that Hupp)y-and-detnand rutes the dis-
position of a)) things human.
H0071S
indeed!
With the passing of games of chance
one of Mice Institute's finest and most
expensive courses in science and aft
sings its swan song.
A Soliloquy.
You know, folks, I feel
AWFULLY sorry for SHANNON
And BOBB
And the REST of the
THRESHER staff who are
Doing their BEST
To make the paper
WORTH WHILE!
No one denios the statement
That they don't get the
CO-OPERATION
Which they DESERVE.
But merely admitting that
REGRETTABLE fact
Won't heip matters MUCH.
Spring is coning!
Every ED and CO-ED
On the campus
Ought to be able
To spout poetry of SOME kind
These SI'LENOIPOKUS days.
Now. everyone knows
That there are
BETTER space-fillets
KKOWN TO SCIENCE
Than those occasioned
By the HAVINGS
Of a spring-fever patient.
BUT—they are
Space-fillers, nevertheless.
And, once in a
BLUE MOON.
Some one unconsciousty writes
Something reaity GOOD
White in
That DELIRIOUS STATE.
Who knows, but that
RICE is harboring an
HON KST-TO-H E A VEN
Poet in disguise?
And why not
UXHAHTH
The said SPECIMEN?
So. if you can not compose
An ELHVATING
Exposition
Concerning the gradually-growing
Prospects
Of the POSSIBILITY
Of Tennyson's prophetic
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
—Why. for The THRESHER'S sake
Donate a bif of
VEHSE
To the WORTHY cause!
Write it in any
METRE you choose,
Inctuded.
HAVE on any SUBJECT
You p)ease,
And in any LANGUAGE
You prefer.
Hut—WAKE UP
And write SOMETHING
Ant) give the overworked
OFFICIAL STAFF
Time enough to get at ieast
ONE full night's
SLEEP
Before the arrival of
FINAL EXAMS!
What?
MH?
Oh, sure,
I am going to
"Do MY bit,"
And if YOU don't
] Do YOURS—well,
[SLACKER
Will be a
'MILD term
: To use in referring to
' You!
—W. M. B.
(Continued from page 3.)
The National Game.
'Whatcha got?"
' Kings."
iiow many,"
'One."
Coot!! 1 thought you were bluff-
Ttagic.
The passing of the pool halls will be
a great blow to the Freshmen who are
just learning that it takes five stripes
to save their dime.
KING VIVIAN NO
STRANGER TO RICE
nn;.
The Thresher appreciates the re-
i'onse to the appeal for Hoots. Keep
tt up! if there isn't room for your
contribution this week it will appear,
the next. Keep the box tilted.
At the Rice Dansant.
Eat, drink and be merry.
Have a good time if you wit);
Hut God help you when the time comes
.Vttd you—foot the hi)!.
The Thresher Contained Notice of
Hitn in Lust Year's
Issue.
KLtHSTEH KLHMMXGS.
To Hard Moiled Jottny.
"Sa}. w ho's that slime on the grass?"
'Steady, stranger, not so fast,
Bear your -'cruples and )et her pass
To the Sophomores, she's a hard boiled <
lass.
She knows no ru)e higher than her own, )
She knows nothing of the Sophomore }
throne.
if you want to make a fuss, do it over I
the phone;
It wiil save your family purchasing a !
marble stone.
Even then she')) te)) you to—Go west, ;
young man; go west,
And if you go far enough you')) be abte ^
to guess
What she wouid have said if she'd said ;
the rest;
So get on the good side of her; do your !
very best,
For she's Hard Boiled Jen." ,
The Mat tel Stock Exchange.
The following are ruling standings i
for the week ending February 15, 1919. ,
on the Barrel Stock Exchange:
Cloister
SMck. Dates.
Denny 3
Tlmmons .... 1
Mayer *—
livery time I look at zero it reminds
me of the upper extremity of a Fresh-
man who said he liked the mess hall
eats.
Dedicated to Dr. Blanchard, Eng. 400:
"God made the little fly—
If you finch liltn. he wii) die."
But Dies on the wali or in the soup
Are what make life seem real, for-
sooth.
And soupy, soupy, soupy,
Without a single bean,
Would not be such bad eating
If all the flies were lean.
Oh! Children of 400,
Whom Dr. Blanchard loves so well,
These flies are gothlc elements,
As you can easily tell.
Oh. do not harm these little pests.
Oh, do not swat the fly.
For it Is a part of titerature.
And as such, should not die.
Hell in
The devil in hell, we're told, was chained
And a thousand years he there re-
mained:
He never eomplalned nor did he groan,
But determined to start a hell of his
own.
Where he could torment the souls of
men
Without being chained in a prison pen.
So he asked the Lord if he had on hand
Anything left when he made the land.
The Lord said, "Yes. I have plenty on
hand,
But 1 ieft it down on the IHo Grande;
The fact is, old boy. the stuff is so poor
I don't think you could use it in heil
any more."
But the devil went down to look at the
truck,
And he said if it cante as a gift he war,
stuck;
For after examining it carefully and
well
He concluded the place was too dry for
a hell.
So, in order to get it off of his hands
The Lord promised the devil to water
the lands;
For he had some water, or rather some
dregs,
A regular cathartic that smelled like
bad eggs.
Hence the deal was closed and the deed
was given,
And the Lord went back to his home
in Heaven.
And the devil then said: "I have all that
Is needed
To make a good hell," and hence he
succeeded.
He began to put thorns on all of the
trees,
And mixed up the sand with millions
of tlees;
And scattered tarantulas along all the
roads;
Put thorns on the cactus and horns on
the toads.
He lengthened the horns of the Texas
steers
And put an addition to the rabbits' ears;
He put a iittie devii in the broncho
steed
And poisoned the feet of the centipede.
The rattlesnake bites you, the scorpion
stings.
The mosquito de)ights you with buzzing
wings;
The sand burrs prevai) and so do the
ants,
And those who sit down need have sotes
on their pants.
The devil then said that throughout the
land
He'd managed to keep up the devil's
own brand.
And a!) wou)d be mavericks un)ess they
bore
Marks of scratches and bites and thorns
by the score.
The heat in the summer is a hundred
and ten.
Too hot for the devil, and too hot for
men.
The wild boar roams through the black
chaparral,
It's a heM of a place he has for a hell.
The red pepper grows on the banks of
the brook;
The Alexicans use it in a)) that they cook.
Just dine with a Greaser and then you
witi shout:
"I've he)) on the inside as we)) as the
out."
(This poem was written by a cowboy
stationed on the Rio Grande, whose
name has been )ost.)
Question!
George Baiiey says fresh eggs ntay
come from the country, hut the fresh
chickens come front the city. He also
adds that they are never fried, but are
sometimes stewed. Say, George, how
about the hard boiled ones?
Courses.
4
2
3
Close.
1.39
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Hehciihm?
News comes from a certain Galveston
Soph, that the recent change in weather
Itas produced a rare element of rebel-
lion in various Freshmen.
Oil!
Since the recent slogan of no more
gambling in the Rice dormitory there
have been twenty calls for jobs at the
Gulf Refining Company.
Kindness to Hats.
A cruel scientist, kitten squeals, ten-
der-hearted maids. Alas! such a com-
bination for Wednesday lab.
Here's the story:
Doc. Attenhurg desired to sacrifice
four kittens for the advancement of
science and learning. Said kittens were
at the unruly age of two weeks. Said
scientist was In despair.
"Who will help me? My beautlfu)
specimens," he raved, tearing his long,
professional hair f incidentally, it is not
so long at present).
That, afternoon a compaslonate la s
was seen with a crackor-hox of kittens
and a can of condensed tni)k.
Today Attenburg's cats ltve and ttr
growing fat. Soon, longitudinal sc
Hons of the)r wee gizzards will rep"
'neath a cover glass.
King Vivian, whom Rice knew as an
S. A. T. C. lieutenant, is no stranger to
Rice. White he was at S. M. U. he was
hurt fighting a Maze in one of the
dormitories. The Thresher printed an
account of the affair in 1917. The ac-
count appears below:
Fire, early on the morning of Novem-
! ber 28, entirely destroyed South Hall
; and damaged Rankin and North Halls,
men's dormitories, at Southern Metho-
dist University. The cause of the fire
is unknown, but It is thought to be due
to defective wiring in the attic of South
Hall, where it had its origin. It is es-
timated that the total damage done was
near ?25,000. South Hall, which was
vatued at approximately $20,000, was a
complete loss, and the damage done to
the other two ha))s and the persona) ef-
fects of the nten was about $5,000. The
entire loss was covered by insurance.
King Vivian, a post-graduate student
I and assistant to Rev. J. Frank Smith,
' pastor of the City Tempie, was serious-
{ly, though not fatally, injured when a
brick wall fell on hint, while he was as-
sisting the firemen In fighting the blaze.
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