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And that's where you'll find the answer-in your "T-Zone." Try Camels and let your own experi­ence tell you why more people are smoking Camels than ever before! 
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Discrimination 
NOTE to Jim Crow: The Daily Texan 
style book insists that "Negro" be capitalized, but "white" gets the old discriminatory lower case. 
Another Spin 
CAMPUS WHEELS, to our way of 
thinking, are straining a spoke in planning to lease-yeah-a ferris-wheel for the outdoor Varsity Carnival next month. The Ranger's contribution to the sideshow, in case you're wondering, will be a trained geek. The Ranger has a corner on the geek market. 
''Un-11exan,, 
FOOT-IN-MOUTH disease was bother­
ing Governor Jester again last month. No sooner had the classic "un-Texan" statement escaped him than an anguished cry was heard from campus vet leaders. · If the Governor stuck to his gums (sic) about it being "un-Texan for World War II veterans to ask for a bonus," then, they predicted, he might very well have to denaturalize about 80 per cent of the 
W. W. II vet population. Or possibly deport a governor. 
1'urnctbout 
O UR GULF COAST correspondent re­
ports that the Millenium has arrived in Houston. Rice students are grading (you'll never guess) their professors. And they claim to be getting some ad­mirable results, or repercussions. They rate the profs on, among other things, enthusiasm, interest in the course, lec­turing ability, receptiveness to questions, and gum chewing. Just what results, other than "admirable" ones, are being· obtained our informant didn't say. 
Crime 
O
PERATIVE C-321 reports from .the book-stacks that crime was at an all-time high last semester. Official re­
2 


about 


ports set the number of book thefts at "about 100." ( C-321 estimated the num­ber at near the G-mark.) Highly alarmed over even a 1/800,000 casualty rate, the bibliothec COMINCH mobilized a sort of Elite Guard. All imports and exports were closely checked and auditor's re­ceipt-passports inspected. Most people who found it necessary to read a book took the manifesto philosophically. But there were those who saw it as another step toward regimentation. "Ah," said one disgusted student, giving the checker the old straight-arm, "The heil with it." The pun is the lowest form of humor. 
Politics 

}Jouster 
PROSPECTIVE member of the next 
Legislature (species grassroots) came boiling out of Gregory Gym during exam week after taking the departmental final in Government 10. As nearly as we could decipher his remarks, "There's gonna be an investigation if I get elect­ed." He said that if the Legislature went so far as to make the government course compulsory they ought to keep tabs on the monster of their own cre­ation. Present plans, according to the aspirant, are to submit the following question, from the government final, to the Legislature. If a majority of them can't figure it out he is going to introduce a bill making the course compulsory for legislators, too. The typical question, from a batch of 100: 


Which of the following must be in­cluded in the meaning of laissez-faire capitalism? 
I. Use of property to make profit. 
II. Freedom of contract between employer and worker. 
III. Exploitation of colonialism for national benefit. 
IV. Econo!flic life governed by "Nat­ural Laws." 
A. Only I and II 
B. Only II and IV 
C. Only I, II, and III. 
D. Only II, Ill, and ff. 

Platforms 
THIRTY University students were 
members of last year's Fifitieth Leg­islature, and at least nine of these, ac­cording to a recent report, are going to ask for more in the corning elections. We are gratified to note that one aspirant has courageously come out for "making Gatesville into a reformatory instead of a crime school," and another is going to give a re-run of the farm-to-market­r.oads spiel of the '46 campaign. The 
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others have not committed themselves but we presume they will be red-hot for free speech and a democratic form of government. 
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The Gerrn 

J UST HOW MUCH the holiday season 
had to do with it we won't hazard any, but from all evidence the contagious foot-in-mouth disease (see above) was rapidly spreading northward from the Capitol and engulfing Forty Acres of­ficialdom. The holiday headline gems from the Daily un-Texan: 
DEAN NOWOTNY SAYS 'STAY OUT OF THE DARK' -December 12. 
'DRIVE SAFELY,' SAYS PAINTER -December 19. 
STEPHENS SAYS­
DON'T PARK YOUR 
CAR IN THE MUD 
-January 11. 
Evidence 

Headline from page 1 of our favorite campus newspaper, pre-Sugar Bowl edi­tion: 
'T'-MEN TO EYE 
BOWL SCALPING 
IN WANT ADS 
And from the same edition, page 3 : 
SUGAR BOWL tickets for sale. Call Bill after­noons and nights, 7-4837. 
SUGAR BOWL tickets for sale. Phone 2-3179. 4 COTTON BOWL tickets, 4 non-student Sugar Bowl tickets for sale. Call 4967. 
2 35-yard student tickets at cost for Sugar Bowl. _!'._hone_ 2-0285.__ask for Moe or J ake. 4 CHOICE SEATS, reserved, for Sugar Bowl. For tickets write T-TW, University Station. SUGARBOWL special! 4 non-student tickets at 
cost plus round-trip N. 0. for 2 or 3 with re­served room. All for $90. Leave 31st, return 2nd. Phone 5442 after 6. 

1lt~at!z.e 
Polish, Polish 
LOREN WINSHIP's direction of 

L'ecole des ·Femmes was the best thing that's happened to the Drama De­partment this year. It is a witty but talkative play as Moliere wrote it; the ~tage business and interpretation which pointed up the lines are Professor Win­ship's. 
A ·small but intelligent cast headed by Bill Pitts gave a good account of them­selves-during Dead Week, too. Pitts was on the stage almost continuously­a terrific strain on any actor, unless he likes being in every scene. Pitts seemed to enjoy it. Betty Voertman and Bill Hogan as the young lovers were con­vincingly young and enthusiastic, and Willie Russell was for once out of his usual clownish character. Very fine, too. 
Two natural comedians, Jeanne Daw­son and Jerry Harvey, easily carried off every scene they were in. High point, however, was Mouzon Law's superb bit as the notary. Mr. Law seems to make a practice of polishing jewels to per­fection . 
William Epstein and Tommy Jones walked on at the last moment-Jones with another variation of his almost­legendary makeup. 
Those who saw *
the first run-through of Dona R osita claim it's something terrific. This Lorca combination of mu­sic, drama, and dancing is being directed by James Moll. Marjorie O'Madigan (in the title role), Chappie Pitt, Marie Ho­kenson, and Bill Green head the cast. It will be in performance when this issue hits the campus. -B. J. 
Pablo's Progress 
PABLO PICASSO made the Academic 
Room again last month, this time with several series of his modern litho­graphs. These purported to show, step by step, just how he produces whatever it is he produces. The Daily Texan, al­ways willing to improve on the masters, ran by way of comment on the exhibit a painting by Art Student-Ranger Art­ist Charles Schorre which, as far as we could make out from the caption, was a picture of J. Frank Dobie as Picasso would have done it. Over J. Frank's dead body. Always willing to improve on Pablo Schorre, our own artist has exe­cuted the following series depicting, a la Picasso, "Fruit-fly Ascending Stairs." 

Step 1 is a very simple line draw­ing. Art in the raw. How raw can you get, Pab­lo? 
In Step 21 the stairs take on two 
--~ 
dimensions, indi­cating fruit-fly's dual personality. 

/.
Fruit-fly takes on two dimensions. Probably some­thing the matter with its genes. 
The finished prod­uct. Modern art is to be felt, not appreciated. Do you feel some­thing? 

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W OODY HERMAN's first coupling 
from his new aggregation will dis­

appoint most fans of his former Hot 
Herd, although the clarinetist does bring 
forth the top dance platter of the month. 
Woody takes over the vocal chores on 
both I Told Ya I Loved Ya, Now Get 
Out and If Anybody Can Steal My Baby. 
"Bei,bop" followers will be delighted 
with the solos by Herman's youngsters, 
but it's still good music. 
June Christy, Stan Kenton's pert vo­calist., tries to sing I Told Ya I Loved Ya, Now Get Out in front of a brass section that insists on attempting to crack the echo chamber. It wound up as a draw. Unison Riff, another of the Kan­sas man's "riff" series, illustrates Ken­ton's ability to play "be-bop," too. Un­fortunately, Capitol's small recording studios necessitates use of the echo chamber which gives the band a..metallic, · two dimensional sound. This '.'riff" series is good balm for neurotics. (Even Kenton 
admits it.) 
The Sammy Kaye of the Cuban bands 

(quoting Kenton again) and the best 
commercial singer in the field (quoting 
Barry Ulanov, Metronome editor) com­
bine for some pleasant, innocuous music 
entitled You Don't Have to Know Lan­
guages and An Old Sombrero. Cugat and 
Buddy Clark give balm for the ro­
mantics. · 
A group of pleasant jazz tunes ably 

presented by Dixieland specialists such 
as Pee Wee Russell, Bobby Racket, Max 
Kaminsky, "Wild Bill" Davidson, Pea­
nuts Hucko and George Wettling are 
wrapped up in an album dubiously titled 
Eddie Condon -We Called It Music. 
Condon has as much to do with jazz 
as beer does with wine--in other words, 
they don't mix very well. 
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Said the artist: "I'll give you $5 if you'll let me paint you." 
The old mountaineer shifted his to­bacco from one cheek to the other and back again. 
"It's easy money," said the artist. 

"Thar haint no question 'bout thet," the mountaineer replied, "I wuz jist a-wonderin' how I'd get it off." 
Papa Rabbit, most annoyed, put down his evening paper and asked of Mamma Rabbit: "What in the world is the mat­ter with Junior? Why is he bouncing around and laughing and turning flips? 
"Oh, it's just that he's so happy," an­swered Mamma Rabbit. "At school to­day he learned to multiply." 
"You should be more careful to pull your shades at night; I saw you kiss your wife last night." 
"Ha, ha, ha, the joke is on you; I wasn't home last night." 
Senior: "Say, kid, you gotta match?" 

Frosh: "N-n-n-o sir, but here's a cig­arette lighter." 
Senior: "Aw, keep it. I can't pick my teeth with that." 

OOPS ... 
AFTER A QUICK GANDER at this pie· ture, we think you'll agree it should have been larger. We worked hard getting it, but hell is paved with good intentions. 
Just as we had the Aquabelles all posed -after carefully arranging twenty legs­two of them fell in the pool. They swam out under their own power, but with ruined hair-dos, so there was no question of tak­ing the picture over. 
R. to L., Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, Bean, Pliny, Cluny, Hattie, and the twins­Veloz and Yolanda. 
WE CHOSE THE MONTAGE of Adding­ton and his party card for the cover in­stead of the leg art. Our thanks to Betty Wallace for effectively merging the profile and the card in her darkroom. 
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RANGING 

In case you're wondering what ever 
happened to the Ranger's campaign 
against certain loan companies, the score 
in court thus far is one victory and one 
loss. 
The suit against Grand Finance Com­
pany, on a charge of illegally advertising 
themselves as a bank, was thrown out of 
court on a legal technicality. It seems 
the County Attorney couldn't prove the 
auto finance company wasn't a bank. 
They had a couple of lawyers from Houston for the defense. They presented several Houston newspapers in which loan companies had advertised them­selves as banks. Possibly there will be a chance for testing the legality of such advertising after all-the details of the matter have been forwarded to the Hous­ton Better Business Bureau. 
You will probably recall that the in­junction was granted against Mike Don­oghue and the Federal Finance Company. They have appealed their case. 

The case against the Louisiana bank (on a charge of illegally -doing business m Texas) should come up before long. Incidentally, this bank does business with 29 loan companies in Texas. 
But back to the Grand case. Since all this legal bickering was too much for our non-legal minds, we took a break for a cup of coffee. At the cafe we ran into Mr. Eugene Scheffels of Houston, owner of the Grand Finance Company (with offices in several cities). 
We introduced ourselves and were somewhat surprised to find him very cordial even though we were on opposite sides of the fence. We told him we were interested in his side of the story. His arguments and explanations regarding added loan costs, such as insurance, in­vestigation fees, mortgage fees, etc., made his case convincing to Mr. Scheffels. 
While Mr. Scheffels expressed appre­ciation of the Ranger, he believed we should print more jokes and less serious stuff such as ( for example) the loan shark expose. 
About that time J . P. Porter came running in from the courtroom and shouted, "Gimme a cup · of that coffee! Black!" It wasn't necessary to ask him the outcome of the case. 
Mr. Scheffels shook hands with us and said, "Look us up when you're down Houston way." As he turned to leave, we said, "You never can tell." 


BILL BOGGS 



IGNORING POOL'S LURE, SUN-BAKED STUDENTS 
e The Yankee wildcatter who brought in the fabulous Spindletop gusher forty years ago didn't have a geology degree-
But the men who have found the greatest Texas fields since then have been geologists, and the chances are a hundred to one that the man who strikes oil tomorrow will be a trained scientist who has substituted a multitude of facts and skilled methods for the divining rod. 
Geology is concerned with many things besides locating an oil pool, but at least 95 per cent of the geologists who graduate from the University of Texas are obsessed with the one dream of some day bringing in their own gusher of black gold. That's what they're studying for, and that's largely the reason the University of Texas has one of the world's largest and best equipped geology departments. 
A lot of University-trained geologists have made good, too. But not many have struck oil by themselves. The search for oil today is carried on by a highly intricate machine involving many people, and the individual geologist is merely one cog in this machine. But an important, and usually highly-paid, cog. 
CONCENTRATE ON MAPBOARD 
SIXTH IN A VOCATIONAL SERIES 
When the first geology course was taught at the Uni­versity in 1888 oil was not yet an important commodity. The study of rocks and earth formations was still con­sidered just a bit frivolous-a nice bit of knowledge for the well-rounded education, but not of much practical value. In fact, the first geology professor, R. T. Hill, quit in a high dudgeon when the University refused to buy a micro­scope "for studying rocks." 
The real study of geology at the University began in 1909, the year that Dr. F. L. Whitney, now senior member of the geology faculty, joined the Department. In the same year the all-important Bureau of Economic Geology was established. 
Today the Department of Geology has its headquarters in a modern ( 1933) $350,000 building. Housed here are some· of the world's most complete collections of geologic specimens and well equipped research laboratories. And the Central Texas hills which surround Austin, the plains country near Brady, and the fabulous geologic wonders of the Big Bend country serve as the world's biggest and richest natural laboratory for University geology students. 
FEBRUARY 1948 

a geology major surveys his own field 
The Geology Museum, hidden away in a corner of the Journalism Building basement, is a foreign land to most students except geology majors, partly because of names like brcichiovod on the fossil exhibit;; and partly because not many people know the museum even exists, stuck as it is off the beaten path. 
Four fully equipped study-and-research labs in the Geol­ogy Building are devoted to work in paleontology, mineral­ogy, petrology, and micro-paleontology. 
Women geologists, since they are not admitted to any of the upper-class field courses (which become pretty in­formal during several weeks of continued study in the open), usually concentrate on the micro-paleontology. This course, which was originated at the University and first taught by Dr. Whitney, does not require field work and is mostly concerned with the preparation ·of slides and the identification of specimens. 
• 

One of the things that attracts a geologist (and now we're speaking of the male species) to his particular profession is a love of nature and a yen for the great outdoors. As upperclass students they get plenty of both when they start going on ext.ended field trips, some of which last the better part of the summer season. 
Three undergraduate field courses are now offered each summer. Since these courses are similar,· let's take a look at one, Geology 60. 
"Geo. 60" is taught on the wide West Texas plains near Brady. A six-hour course which is required for the .Bachelor "of Science Degree in Geology, it is designed to give the student an opportunity to learn by doing. He becomes fa­'miliar with various methods of geologic work by actually. working under conditions required for commercial and sci­entific investigations. 
The Brady area is particularly satisfactory for student 
field work because of the many types of geologic exposures 
available. It is a center of exceptional geologic interest, 
and is not too complicated for undergraduate work. 
From a central camp at Brady the students travel by 
station wagon to surrounding points of interest for their 
outdoor lectures and research. As noted before, life is very 
informal on . these field trips-and the dress as well. Some 
students may learn more geology than others, but they all 
come back to Austin with the same ber;y-brown suntan. 
In addition to the undergraduate camps, the Department 
maintains a permanent camp at Fort Davis, Texas, for 
graduate students. From this headquarters the students 
study the surrounding Davis Mountains and the Marathon 
Region, 
Geology students, possibly more than any other group in 
this crowded post-war University, have the best opportuni­
ties to get acquainted with their classmates. Especially on 
the extended field trips, where the students live, work, and 
study together, there are often formed fraternal bonds which 
rival those found in any organization, social or academic, 
on the·campus. 
• 

One of the most important contributions to Texas industry, and particularly the oil industry, has been made by the Department through its Bureau of Economic Geology, 
The Bureau, now operating on a budget thirty times the original appropriation in 1909, is engaged mostly in research problems and the furnishing of information to oil companies and other fields of industry interested in geologic data. Dr. J. T. Lonsdale, director, and Dr. E. H. Sellards, director emeritus, head a staff composed of faculty members, grad­uate students, and special researchers. 
(Continued on Page 20) 
JUST ROCKS to the uninitiated, these fossils mean bread and meat to embryo geologists. 
STUDENT peers intently at magnified sections of rock to determine structure, 
LAB INSTRUCTOR shows how to determine mineral content by chemical test. 
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1 

NOT long after I started to school (a number of years ago) my father re­tired. He closed the office over the ~~ug store where he had practiced ~edi~me and moved the big brown desk mto the corner of the little den that opened off our living room. Sometimes a very ?ld patient would come by and talk to hi~. But most of the time .he was alone m the little room, leaning back in the ~ld­fashioned swivel chair or slowly turrtmg 
through the file of unpaid accounts on his desk. · "Here are two hundred and seventeen people who belong to me," F ather said one day as he waved a stack of the slips at Mother. "Two hundred and seventeen babies that I've never been paid for." "That's an awful lot of babies," Mother said. 
"Guess some of them are grown now. Probably have babies of their own, but I still own them." 
"You don't really own them, dear." 
"Of course I do " Father said gruffiy. "I brought them 'into the world. They wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me. I haven't been paid for my work, so I owrt them." 
"But they could have had some other doctor." "But they didn't," Father said. "They had me, and th~y didn't pay me, so I still have first rights to the baby." "Do you own me?" I asked. Mother looked up from the potatoes she was peeling in the sink. 
"Of course we own you, darling. No­body else could own you but your father and I." 
Father slipped a rubber band around the slips in hJs hand and put them in a 
Doc W eever thought he should be paid for bringing Willie Brace into the world 
I I 

if Willie was worth $50,000 to Detroit 
Opening the box, he took out the stack

cigar box on the top of his desk. of account slips and began to turn
I was still awake that evening when through them slowly as he continued·
John came into the bedroom. He didn't have to go to bed as early as I did. eating. "Who owns you?" I· said to him. "You may have owned him once," John "Mother said that she and daddy owned said, "but Detroit owns him now." 
me." 
"Go-to sleep," John said. 
"You may belong to somebody else," 
I said. v1 don't belong to anybody. I belong to myself." "Mother and daddy own me," I said. "I belong to them." 
•. ;i, 
"Houston sold their* first baseman to the Detroit Tigers today," John said one evening at supper. "Got fifty thousand dollars for him!" 
"That seems like an awful lot of money 
for just a baseball player," Mother said. 
"What's his name?" 
"Willie Brace. He's a good player." 
"He must be a very good player for 

anyone to pay that much money for 
him." 

"Brace?" said Father. "I used to wait 
on some Braces." 

"They're probably not the same ones," 
Mother 'said. 

"There were several children," Father 
went on. "I think they lived on 14th 
Street." 

"Willie Brace comes from Houston," 
John said. 

"Maybe you own him," I told Father. 
Father said, "Maybe I do," putting 
down his fork. He left the table and re­
turned with the cigar box from his desk. 
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C. W. NELSON 

FEBRUARY 1948 
ny People does Detroit own?" "HOW rna 
I asked; be so dumb," said John. "You "Don t anything about baseball." don't know.11 do boys," Mother said. "I "~hat W1 you ~rguing at the table." 
wont hbave as halfway through the stack 
Fat er w .
h found the Brace slip. before ; the evidence." He began read­
"Heres . 
. · f the paper. " 'Timothy Brace, ing Sro~h 14th Street. October 11, 1907, 71~ ou f baby Timothy Brace Jr., $15. 
0
dehver: 1 1908, delivery of baby, Wil­~ece; erce' $15.' " \Ja:.;,h~a l~ng ago and they still owe 
?" M ther said. yo~They0made only one payment," Fa-tl·nued "'January 15, 1909, $5 
ther con · 
'd ccount ' They still owe me ten 
pal on a • 
for Timothy and fifteen dollars
11
do ars f $ 5 " 
f Willie. That makes a total o 2 . 0~'Father owns Willie Brace," I said. J hn looked at me from across the tab~ and started to say something,. then went on eating. 
"They should have paid you before now," Mother said. "Twenty-one years is long enough for anyone to pay a baby bill." 
"Old Man Brace never was any good. Never could keep a job." 
"He should be able to pay you now,!' said Mother. "With fifty thousand dol­lars he should be able to pay all his bills." • 
John put down his fork and cleared his throat. 
"My father owns 217 people besides 
me," I said. "They've got to do what 
he says." 

"Father, the Braces won't get any of th t I . .
a money. t was paid by Detroit to the Houstpn baseball team." "But father owned him," I said. "Fa­ther owned him ever since he was born." 
"They paid the money for Willie Brace, didn't they?" Father said. "It stands to reason the Braces would get some of the money. Willie is their boy." 
.
As Mother began clearmg away the 
dishes, Father opened the cigar box 
again and read over the Brace account. 
I went and stood beside his chair, look­
ing at the slip. 
::w:here does ,!t say you o~n hi~?". 
Right here, Father said, pomtmg 
to the last line. "'Balance Due, $25.'" 
John banged the front door as he left 
M h · f h
the house. ot er came m rom t e
k" h
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"Think we cou n t e race ouse after dark?" asked Father. "I wouldn't try to go down there to­night, dear. Tomorrow morning is plenty of time." "Can I go with you Father? I've never seen a real ball player.. " "Of course," Father said. "I'll show you the .only ball player' your Father owns." 
The small house on 14th Street needed a coat of paint. There were several cars parked in front and the house was crowded with people. There must have be'en half a dozen men sitting on the front porch, and children were playing in the yard. As we got out of the car a large dog came running from under the house and barked at us. Father kicked at the dog, but it kept on bark­ing. 
"He won't bite," one of the men called from the porch. 
As we crossed the yard, which was worn bare of grass, the man who called came down from the porch. He picked up a stick and threw it at the dog, and it stopped barking and darted under the house. 
"Guess it's been twenty years since I 
was here," Father said. "But I remember 
delivering those babies right in that front 
bedroom." 

An old man, who looked like he had 
been asleep, came to the door. His blue 
overalls were torn at the knee and he 
had no shirt on. There was a tattoo mark 
on his arm with the word "Louise" under 
it. 

"Howdy, doc/' he said. "Howdy. You must be old Tim Brace." Mr. Brace laughed as he moved across the porch and showed teeth the color of tobacco juice. He sat down on the top step and rubbed his eyes. "It's been a long time since I've seen you," Father said. "Just wanted to check on your ftCcount." . Mr. Brace hunted in his pocket for a toothpick which he found before he spoke. "You're the fourth bill collector's been here today. Guess you read in the paper about my boy, Wlllie?" "Yes," Father said. "I'm interested in Willie, since I've never been paid for bringing him into the world." Old man Brace laughed and slapped his thigh. 
"Guess you never thought he'd be worth fifty thousand dollars, did you, doc?" 
"Never know how they'll turn out." Father drew the account slip from his pocket and read it a moment. 
"According to my records you never paid but $5 on Tim and nothing on Willie." 
"I've had a hard life," Mr. Brace said. He rubbed his hand through his gray hair. Two of his fingernails were blue and they looked cracked. 
"You've got money now. I'd like to collect the bill.'' 
"You got me wrong," Mr. Brace said. "I didn't get any of that money. Looks like they ought to give something to the 
. old father of a boy worth fifty thousand dollars, but they won't." 
Father stared hard at the account slip for a long time, then he returned it to his pocket: He kicked at the sandy ground with his foot. 
"Who got the money?" "I dunno," Mr. Brace said. "I didn't get any of it. I know that." (Continued on Page 22) 

"The future of this University 1s limited only by the size of the men in charge of it. If they have the vision, the courage and the integrity, the University of Texas will be great." 
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WALTER FRESCO!! 

WEE:S 

BY ROBERT E. V. JOHNSON 
Editor, The Texas Ranger 
e Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, professor of history, is prob­ably most famous for his books. He dedicated The Great Plains to his parents, and The Texas Rangers to William 
E. Hinds.· He intended to dedicate his third book to his wife, but changed his mind when he decided on the title: 
Divided W e Stand. 
Of the three books Dr. Webb has written, this has been 
the best seller. In it he points out that the United States 
is still divided into three distinct regions-the North, the 
South, and the West-and big Northern corporations have 
extended their control over the nation. With big money at 
their disposal they are able to impose a system similar to 
feudalism on the South. 
To illustrate his point, Dr. Webb wrote a chapter entitled 
"The Story of the Texas Milk Bottle." This true story 
concerned the plight of some Texans who built a mi:k bottle 
factory at Santa Anna and were closed up by a Connecticut 
corporation which controlled patent rights on important 
machinery. Fearing a law suit from the corporation, the 
publishers omitted this chapter over Dr. Webb's protest. 
Seven years later, after the government had broken up 
the Connecticut milk bottle monopoly, Dr. Webb and a friend 
organized the Acorn Press and reprinted Divided W e Stand 
to include not only the dele~ed story, but the government 
investigation. 

There was a photograph in the second edition showing 
the site where the Santa Anna milk bottle plant had once 
stood. The buildings had been wrecked and weeds covered 
the land. 

On the former site of the plant was a big sign erected 
by the National Association of Manufacturers. It said: 
. I'M GLAD I'M AN AMERICAN 
And underneath were the words: 

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FREE ENTERPRISE AND OPPORTUNITY 
CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES 
At another place in Divided We Stand Dr. Webb wrote: 
"The tractor came with a thin coat of paint and several 
coats of tariff." Later he received a curt letter from a 
tractor manufacturer who gave notice that his company's 
tools were well-painted. 
Dr. Webb is not content with writing a series of unrelated data ; he is interested in the significance of historical facts. While teaching a course in "A.merican History Since the Civil War," Dr. Webb discovered that the two factors which had had the greatest effect on America since the Civil War were the closing of the frontier and rise of corporations. The i·esult of his extensive research was Divided W e Stand. 
The economics of Divided We Stand isn't hard for the layman to comprehend. Dr. Webb is gifted with an ability to take a complex subject and present it in a manner any literate person can understand. 
In connection with the Texas Centennial, Dr. Webb re­leased The Texas Rangers, the story of Texas' colorful and unique police force. Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights to the book, and a year later a motion picture 
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e WENDELL ADDINGTON, the only Uni­versity student who is an announced Communist, gives his reasons. He's a veteran and a junior economics major from Lubbock. As to future plans, he says, "I haven't any job offers.'' 
"·-e BEN -JEFFERY, Ranger managing editor, doesn't' feel that Communism is the answer. Jeffery is a senior English major, claims Austin as his temporary home. He describes himself as a liberal democrat, will argue with anyone. 
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Just mention the word Comrnunism. You will find a variety of reactions. The most common are either fear or violent cursing. Most people seem to think that a Communist is a bomb-throwing zealot who is out to destroy the American form of government. We are neither Red-baiters nor Communist­sympathizers. The Ranger prints these articles by two stu­dents, with the firm conviction tha.t both stories should be told. Opinions expressed are those of the authors. 
-THE EDITORS 

Civil War, being forced to migrate \ves without clothes? Men need jobs, peo­ward to Texas. She told me how po need goods-why must the plants whites had helped the Negro people i closed? Why is prosperity around nearly every one of their repeated corner-why isn't it with us all the volts against slavery. She told me ho e! a great many Texans, Sam Roust I guess, though, that our family made 
among them, had refused to support t slave owners when war came--the ye she was born. 
Grandmother grew up in the days Reconstruction, when the common P ple of the South, Negro and whit were getting their first chance to gove themselves. Together they establish public schools for the first time, gran women their first political rights, shift taxes from the poor to the rich, an made other democratic advances. 
They made mistakes too, but demo 
racy was on the march in the Sou~ It was smashed by the force and vi 
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Klux Klan, which closed ma~Y of;~ schools and ended free elections. Klan ruled by lynch-terror, and abo as many whites as Negroes were lynch t 
But the people of the South were 
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better than most during the de­ion. We were not forced on relief, were a lot of our neighbors. I didn't ve to leave school to go to work, as a good many of my schoolmates. I er went hungry, but I knew some pie were actually starving to death the ~o~th, particularly in the Negro 
unities. .Ythe time I got to high school I was g a great deal of reading. I found (Continued on Page 26) 
this in an unfair way to discuss Com­munism in America. They say they have no ties with Russia aside from the nat­ural fraternal feeling of one Communist for other Communists. I have noticed, however, that.American Communists will defend every phase of Russian foreign policy and every official act of Soviet .Russia. 
I agree with the American Communists 
that the present regime  in  Russia  has  
done  wonderful  things  in  wiping  out  
illiteracy, improving  the  health  of  the  

Russian people, and industrializing a backward country. I am impressed with Russia's contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany, and I have seen the fig­ures which show their losses in lives and 
"THERE ARE ABOUT ·40 MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN AUSTIN, AND 
APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THEM  ARE. IN THE UNIVERSITY. THE COMMUNIST  PARTY  
OF TEXAS HAS ABOUT 500 MEMBERS."  
WENDELL ADDINGTON  

TEXAS RANGER 
I mention this incident because it is indicative of one of the things I like least about American Communists. They're too. set in their ways. They're too sure of the answer. If it's not Com­munist, it's Fascist. If it's not Party Line, it's reaction. 
This doctrinaire approach does not prevent American Communists from do­ing amazing mental back-flips. 
Before Russia's non-intervention pact with Germany was brought to a sudden end by the German attack on her "ally," all proposals for U. S. intervention in the recent war were branded by Ameri­can Communists · as imperialistic; when the German armies blitzed into Russia, American Communists immediately came to the fore in demanding that the United States join the war to stamp out fascism. 
I change my own mind on occasion, but never, I. hope, so obviously. 
The Communists I know, as far as I know, are not dangerous. It is my opinion that any actually subversive 
activities  they  may  engage  in  cannot  
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(Continued from Page 13) The Bureau has published, or promoted the publication of, many books, pam­phlets, and charts, and serves as a store­house of' information on all phases of geologic endeavor. One of the most val­uable possessions of the Bureau is the Well-Sample Library, which without doubt is the most unique library on the campus. The "books" in the Well-Sample Li­brary are rocks and other geologic speci­mens, which are called well samples be­cause most of them have come from wells (mostly oil drillings) all over the State and the Southwest. These samples may be checked out of the library for study just as books are checked out of other libr.aries. Besides two permanent samples which"remain in the Library the Bureau furnishes duplicate samples to other edu­cational institutions and to oil com­panies which request them. 
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A. H. Deen, as present chairman of the Department, heads a list of twenty­eight teachers, among whom are the men who have given the University of Texas the reputation of being the world's best training ground for oil-hunting geologists. 
This year there will be over 100 geol­ogy graduates. While this may not seem like a large number in comparison with the number of BBA students coming out each semester, the significance is in the fact that there have been only 650 grad­uates since 1888. 
Opportunities in the field of geology have just begun to be recognized. While the main oil deposits in Texas may have been picked over, there undoubtedly are many traps still to be discovered and tapped. And scientifically-trained geolo­gists will be the ones who will do the discovering. 
Oil hunting is not the only vocation open to geologists-not by many means. More and more industries are recogniz­ing the importance of geological re­search-any industry interested in the location of mineral deposits, from coal to uranium, has in interest in geology. 
Ang the University of Texas Depart­ment of Geology is well represented in the executive offices of the largest oil companies all over the world. University graduates fill such positions as President of the Continental Oil Company, Vice­President of Humble Oil Company, and Superintendent of Foreign Exploration for Standard Oil of New Jersey. 
These positions, and many others sim­ilar, will in all likelihood be filled to­morrow by the students of today. 
-THE END 
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One of the young men on the porch got up and came over to the steps. He stood by Mr. Brace. 
"Willie, this is Doctor Weever,'' Mr. Brace said. "He's the one who brought you into the world." 
"Glad to meet you, Doc,'' said Willie. He came down the steps and shook Fa­ther's hand. 
"Doc wants to know who got that fifl.y thousand dollars," old man Brace said. "I told him we didn't see none of it around herre." 
"That's right, Doc,'' said Willie. "We sure didn't get any of it here. I wrote to Detroit last night for traveling money." 
"I was just checking up on my account with your dad," Father said. "Thought maybe he could pay the bill with that money." 
"I guess Houston got the money. They sold my contract to Detroit." "You were the man they sold and you didn't get any of the money?" 
"That's 	right,'' Willie said. 

"That's a mighty funny way to do business,'' said Father as we drove home. "How could they sell him when you own him?" "They probably think,they own him,'' Father said. 
"Willie says Detroit owns him. Don't people know who owns them?" "It's a mighty funny business,'' said Father. 
After lunch Father announced he would not take his afternoon nap. He was going to see the ·president of the Houston baseball team. 
Mother said, "I wonder if it's the right thing to do to go to the Houston baseball team." 
"I don't see anything wrong with a man trying to collect an honest debt," said Father. 
"John thinks the Houston team doesn't have .anything to do with the debt." 
Father looked at John as if he didn't believe John said it. John stared at his plate. 
I said, "When you own a man he's got to mind." 
Father kept looking at John. "Speak up,'' he sai.d. "If you've got something to say, speak up." 
John didn't answer right away. He took a sip of water and seemed to be trying to think of what to say to Father. Then he cleared his throat. 
"It'd be better to get a lawyer to collect the bill." The words were muffled and Father didn't understand them. 
"What's that?" 
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(Continued from Page 22) "He says you should get a lawyer," Mother said. "Lawyers always want half. Might as well get nothing as only half." "But you don't need the money," John said. "You'd never have thought of the Brace account if Houston hadn't sold Willie." "The money is beside the point." Fa­ther's head shook from side to side. "It's the principle of the thing. If Willie Brace is worth fifty thousand dollars to someone, I should be paid for bringing him into the world." John said, "The Houston team won't listen to you." His face was very red. "They don't owe you money." "But they got fifty thousand dollars for Willie Brace," Father said. 
The Houston baseball team had its office in rooms over the entrance to the ball park. We entered the outer office where a woman was working at a type­writer. Father explained that we wanted to see the owner, and after going into another room the woman came back and told us to go on in. 
The second office was bigger. There was a carpet on the floor and the windows had blue curtains with the words "Hous­
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out that the unemployment, race hatred, poverty, and fear that my generation of Texans had grown up among were not things confined to ,the South, nor to the United States. They seeme~ to character­ize the entire capitalist world. I grad­ually came to realize that a good portion of the population of the globe apparently considered capitalism obsolete. I under­stood how capitalism itself had. once re­placed an outworn system, feudalism­but was it. possible that capitalism had in its turn played out its role upon the stage of history? 
Then I began to find out that along­side of the old and dying capitalist world, there was being born a new world, the world of socialism. I started to read everything I could get my hands on con­cerning the remarkable social experi­ment being conducted by the people of the Soviet Union. I read books by all 
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sorts of authorities--journalists, church­men, social scientists, statesmen-and ·1 became proud of the job the workers and farmers of Russia were doing in con­structing the first socialist state known to man. I thought that, in many ways, the Soviet Union was to the world today what revolutionary America· had been to the world of a century and a half ago. It seemed only natural that when war came America should find Soviet Russia its staunchest ally. 
Of course, I was beginning to wonder what sort of people the Communists could be--who could lead the world's largest country in one of the biggest jobs ever undertaken by man. And some­thing else had occurred which made me wonder about the Communists. 
I had been working part.-time for a theatre chain while going to Texas Tech. The projector operators, who were get­ting about thirty-five cents an hour, de­cided to organize themselves into a union. I knew how badly they needed a raise and some measure of job security, and it came as something of a shock to me when they were all fired. They set up a little picket line, but were forced to give that up, defeated, after a few months. The other employees had all been warned against associating with or helping the union men, who were "act­ing like a bunch of Communists." 
Could there, then, be Communists even in Texas? I began to recall some stories from the 1930's. Hadn't the Communists led a big demonstration by the unem­ployed in Houston? Weren't they accused of organizing the pecan shellers in Cen­tral Texas? Perhaps, I decided, there would be Communists anywhere in the world where working men and women fight for progress. 
But I didn't actually run into my first Communist until I was an infantryman in the Southwest Pacific. He was Herman Bottcher, the most heroic, the best-loved, the most famous man in my outfit, the 32nd Infantry Division. General Eichel­berger had called him a "one-man Army" when he commissioned him a Captain on the battlefield at Euna. Captain Bottcher had the most dangerous job in the di­vision -leader of the econnaiassance troop-and kept on getting decorations for bravery until he was killed, on Leyte. He had been the most democratic officer we knew of, always refusing to ac­cept any privilege which his men couldn't have also. 
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I knew that Bottcher was no exception -that everywhere Communists were proving themselves the most loyal and effective fighters against the fascist barbarism which threatened to enslave all mankind. 
Another hero of our division, for ex­ample, was Staff Sergeant Bob Thomp­son, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in New Guinea, and today chairman of the New York Communist Party. When we got to the Philippines, our division was fortunate enough to work for a while with the outstanding guerrilla army in · Luzon -the famed Hukbalahaps, who were led by Communists. In tortured Europe, the underground resistance to Hitler initiated by the Communists was gaining the support of all democratic people. While on occupation duty in Japan, I learned of the courageous role the Japanese Communists had played in opposing the disastrous course to which their nation was led. 
I resolved to find out, when I returned 
to Texas, what the Communist program 
for peacetime would be. 
But I discovered that to search for 
the Communistic answer to the prob­
lems of post-war America was no idle 
academic pursuit. I was facing a host 
of pressing problems to which no other 
group-certainly not the Republican or 
Democratic parties -offered adequate 
solutions. Every veteran knows what 
these problems are-the high cost of 
living, the housing shortage, the educa­
tional crisis, the threat of a coming de­
pression, the attack on civil rights, and 
the danger of a new, atomic, war. 
In reading the Communist publications 
and listening to their speakers, I be­
came aware for the first time that so­
cial problems can be approached scien­
tifically. Every position taken by the 
Communist Party, I found, is based upon 
an exhaustive scientific analysis. Com­
munists don't just talk about inflation, 
for instance-they examine its causes, 
trace its course, and present the neces­
sary solution. The science employed is 
Marxism, the science of society, the most 
significant intellectual force in the world 
today. 
I saw that it is this science which 
makes the Communist Party truly the 
party of socialism. Through its applica­
tion, in accordance with the specific 
conditions of American life, the Commu­
nists are able not only to favor socialism, 
but to know concretely how to achieve 
socialism. 
The Communists explained to me that 
socialism can only come when a majority 
of the common citizens . want it, and 
that the American people will have to 
blaze new paths to socialism, that we 
could not follow those being taken by 
the people of Russia, China, or Eastern 
Europe. I was told that the Communists 
feel that the issue facing the United 
States today, however, is not socialism 
versus capitalism. It is, rather, democ­
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(Continued from Page 27) Communists are expected to bend all their efforts to defending peace, the living standards of the people, and the achievements of American democracy against the monopoly of capitalists who would destroy all three. Then I investigated the Communist Party organization itself. I found that the Party is as democratic in structure as in outlook, each member participating fully in making decisions and in carry­ing them out. I had never seen any group as self-critical, as anxious to acknowl­edge its own mistakes and profit by them. I was tremendously impressed by the honesty, the ability, the unassuming good nature of the Party members I had met. I had confidence in the leader­ship of the Party, as symbolized by Wil­liam Z. Foster, National Chairman, and one of the outstanding figures in the American labor movement for the last fifty years. So I joined the Communist Party, in the fall of 1946. I believe that to be a Communist is the highest honor in the world today-for the Communists rep­resent the future of mankind. To fight for the people against their oppressors is never the easiest thing in the world. I knew that--like Jefferson­! would be called a "foreign agent." I knew that--like Lincoln-I would be accused of "advocating force and vio-


Jenee." I kn.ew that--like Paine--! would have my character and morals maligned. 
I did not realize, however, that in a short time there would be semi-official threats against the very lives of Texas Communists. In November of last year, an important State official said that Communists "are so dangerous to the American form of government that there should be a bounty placed on the heads of every one of them." Three days later another high official said that when we find a Communist., "we ought to treat that person to a necktie­party." 
Such statements, coming in a period increasingly reminiscent of Germany in the early 1930's, should be profoundly shocking to a'.l Texans. It is not the welfare of the Communists which is at stake today. It is the welfare of the whole American people. There is danger that the upward march of humanity can be seriously impeded. 
I am confident that it cannot be halted. 
-THE END 


LETTER 
(Continued from Page 24) ton Buffs" on them. Around the walls were pictures of baseball players.· Be­hind a glass-topped desk was a small man who wore horn-rimmed glasses. He looked at us as we came into the room. "My name's Fred Kruger," he si;tid, holding out his hand to Father. "I'm Doctor Weever. This is my son." Kruger nodded to me and we sat down in the leather chairs. "I wanted to see you about the sale of Willie Brace," Father said. "I don't think you had a right to sell him." Kruger had struck a match to light a cigarette, but when Fat.her said this he dropped the match and burned his hand. "What do you mean?" Kruger sat up orl the edge of his chair. "We have his contract and it's air-tight." "I'm a doctor," Father explained. "I waited on Mrs. Brace when Willie was born. I've never been paid. Now I read in the paper where you've sold him for fifty thousand dollars. I don't think you had the right to sell him. I had first call." Kruger leaned back in his chair and lit his cigarette. "Of course I don't want to stand in the boy's way," Father continued. "I could claim the fifty thousand, but I'm willing to sell my interest for the amount of my bill against the Braces. I knew as soon as I explained the situation that you'd want to do the right thing." "My Father owns 217 people besides me,'' I said. "They've got to do what he says." Kruger looked at me severely, then exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Really, Doctor Weever," he said, "I don't see ... " "Jn 1908 the bill was $15," Father in­(Continued on Page 30) 
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(Continued from Page 19) be curbed by banning the American Communist Party, forbidding Commu­nists to speak on the campus, or re­fusing to employ them as scenario writ­ers, professors, and janitors. I do not think you can prove a person plans to betray this country by exposing him as a Communist; prosecution should be based on facts produced by actual in­vestigation. At least that is my under­standing of what the Bill of Rights means. Persecution of party members (and that it how I regard much of the present hue and cry about the Red Menace) merely serves to make martyrs of Com­munists and to keep them underground. And their underground nature is one of my big objections to the Communist movement in America. I cannot blame them for not coming into the open: they have to make a living. I understand that the chairman of the Austin Communist Party cannot make public his affiliation because he would be fired from his po­sition with an Austin firm-and his job is just an ordinary one having nothing to do with national security. Thus the attitude toward Communists in America perpetuates them as an un­derground organization. I might add that martyrdom makes Communism more at­tractive to some. I would like to see American Com­munists in the open because the present state of ignorance concerning them makes it entirely too easy to obscure any liberal motives as Communist-inspired. I have been known to criticize the methods of The National Association of Manufacturers; I don't like the Taft­Hartley Bill; I think the Thomas Com­mittee's investigation of Hollywood was a disgusting display. American Com­munists say the N.A.M. is potentially (or positively) fascist, that the Taft­Hartley Bill is an attempt to enslave 
American labor, and that the methods of the Thomas Commit.tee are the be­(Continued on Page 30) 

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(Continued from Page 29) ginning of concentration camps in the United States. 
In the eyes of many people (including some of my family) this similarity means that I am Communist. The fact that I am willing to argue for the civil lib­erties of Communists is proof positive. Yet I am not a Communist-that some of my aims coincide with Communist aims means nothing: I voted for Roose­velt in 1944; I assume that Mr. Beauford Jester did likewise; so did most Com­munists. If this proves me a Communist, it also proves Governor Jester a Com­munist. I think I have made my point. 
This confusion in the minds of most Americans is perpetuated by the fact that most discussion of Communism (in the press and elsewhere) is either pur­posely or ignorantly misleading. I would like to see more clarification of the dif­ferences between Communism and liberal democracy and less cloudy hysteria. 
I am not a Communist because the Communist aims which happen to coin­cide with mine can be achieved-without the danger of totalitarian control-under a liberal democracy. -THE END 
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(Continued from Page 28) terrupted. "That was my fee at that t.ime for delivering a baby. I believe that I'm entitled to a reasonable rate of interest, say six per cent. Six per cent for twenty­one years on fifteen dollars would make the bill thirty-three dollars and ninety cents." 
Mt. Kruger pressed his lips together and smashed his cigarette out in an ash tray. 
"That's simple interest, not com­pound,'' Father said. 
"This is all very interesting." Kruger stood up. "But I've got to meet an ap­pointment now and I'm late already." He walked across to a hat rack and took down his coat and hat. "Besides, I was only acting for the St. Louis Cardinals. You see, they own the Houston team. I just work for them. The fifty thousand dollars went to St. Louis because Brace was their property." 
Father followed Mr. Kruger into the outer office. He looked very mad and I wondered if he could whip Mr. Kruger. 
"Glad to have met you, Doctor," Kru­ger said, and went out the door. 
Father stood for a moment and looked at the Brace account slip in his hand. Then he turned to the lady at the type­writer. 
"Who owns the St.. Louis team?" Fa­ther asked. 
"The owner's name is Mr. James Hig­gins," the lady said. "Would you like his address?" 
"Yes," Father said. "If you don't mind." She wrote the name and address on a (Continued on Next Page) 
FEBRUARY 1948 

LETTER 

(Continued from Page 30) slip of paper. 
As we drove home from the ball park, Father didn't say anything. When he got to the house he went straight to his desk and began writing. He was still writing just before supper when ·John, Mother, and I were in the kitchen. 
John said, "Father's doing wrong, writing to St. Louis." 
"Weli, I don't know," Mother said. 
"What if the fellows found out my old man was writing to the Cardinals trying to get some of the money they received for Willie Brace? Everybody in high school would laugh at me." 
"Maybe · Father will sell you," I said. "Then you can go to another high school." 
John ignored me. "Won't you try to stop him," John asked Mother. "You could tell him." "You know very well that you can't tell your Father anything," Mother said. 
Father brought the* letter to the table, sealed and ready ·for mailing. He was in a good humor. The next train to St. Louis was leaving at nine o'clock. As soon as supper was over we'd all drive to the station and put the letter on the train, he said. 
"Will Willie Brace take this train 
when you let him go?" I asked at the 
station. 
"He may," Father said. "Or he may 
go straight to Det!oit, without going by 
way of St. Louis." 
"He'll go straight to Detroit," John 
said, while father was talking to the 
man on the mail car. 
We hung around the station and 
watched the train leave. 
It was a week before* we heard any­thing from the letter to St. Louis. Then one day the postman brought a fancy envelope with a red cardinal . on the left side. We crowded around as father tore it open. 
"'Dear Doctor Weever,'" he read 
aloud. "'For several days we have been 
considering your letter, claiming a first 
mortgage upon Willie Brace, who we re­
cently sold to Detroit. • 
" 'My lawyers tell me that they can 
find no precedent in the cases for your 
position. It appears that neither the 
common law nor the Missouri statutes 
cover this particular point. However, 
they believe that it might be best to settle 
this matter outside the courtroom. Espe­
cially is this true should a jury trial 
result.. 
"'Therefore I'm taking advantage of 
your offer to settle the account for $25, 
your present fee for delivering a baby, 
in lieu of the original fee at interest 
for twenty-one years. 
"'I have directed Mr. Kruger of our 
Houston office to settle this matter with 
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(Continued from Page 16) by that title sta:tring Fred MacM,urray and Jean Parker was released. The world premier, complete with spotlights and celebrities, was held in San Antonio, and all the Texas big shots were invited to COJ1?e down and rub elbows with the Hollywood stars-all but Dr. Webb, the author. Judging from the picture, the movie producers hadn't bothered to read the book, so their failure to invite the author is understandable if not ex­cusable. While writing The Texas Rangers Dr. Webb became intimately acquainted with the Rangers. For years he rode with them and listened to their stories. They made him an honorary Ranger after the book was· published, and he served immediate nitice (via the Daily Texan) that "law and order has come to stay in Garrison Hall." His interest in the Texas Rangers il­lustrates why Dr. Webb continues to stay at the University of Texas when he could probably teach at any university in the nation. He likes Texas. However, on leaves of absence he has taught at Duke, Northwestern, Harvard, Wyoming, London and Oxford. He was appointed to the position of Harmsworth professor of American His­tory at Oxford in 1942-43. This is con­sidered one of the highest honors that can come to an American professor. Dr. 
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Webb is equally at home sitting around a campfire on a Texas ranch or teaching at the world's oldest University. And whether the subject is the resistance movement in Europe or how to trap armadillos, Dr. Webb will contribute to the conversation. 
Dr.· Webb is not only a good speaker, he is a good listener. In conferences at his office he gives his full attention to students, listens sympathetically, and offers a quiet encouragement that seems to get the best results. 
You won't find our much about Dr. Webb's accomplishments by talking with him. You'll have to refer to Who's Who and question his intimate friends like Roy Bedichek, Mody Boatright, J. Frank Dobie and Bob Montgomery. He is ex­tremely modest, and instead of talking to you about himself, he will maneuver the conversation around until you are the subject for discussion. 
Ask any historian about Dr. Webb's The Great Plains. You will find that the book is recognized all over the English­speaking world as a revolutionary and completely new treatment of Western culture. It is required reading for most advanced American history courses throughout the United States. Its repu­tation continues to grow. Last year it sold more copies than any year except the first year when it came out seven­teen years ago. 
When the book was released in 1931, Henry Steele Commager, professor 'of history at Columbia, in a New York Herald-Tribune book review, called 'i:he Great Plains "one of the most original, suggestive, and thoughtful contributions to the science of history in recent years." 
Bernard DeVoto, then editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, said in 1937 that The Grieat Plains should have been first choice for the Pulitzer Prize in 1931 rather than second. General Per­shing's My E xperiences in the World War (which DeVoto called "the worst book on the list") won first prize that year. 
Two years later The Great Plains was given the Loubat Award, an even higher honor in some respects, because the field of selection was wider and the judges were.all scholars. 
In his "Great Plains" course here at the University, Dr. Webb brings a paper sack to class for one of his lectures. In the midst of his discussion, he whips a Colt six-shooter out of the sack. This startles some of his students, but none of them forget Dr. Webb's lecture on the importance of the six-shooter. He collects Colt revolvers as a hobby. He also collects books and once thought he might try to keep all the books written in Texas, but gave it up as impossible because "there are too damn many of them." ' 
Dr. Webb has donated his original manuscripts, publishers' proofs, cor­respondence, and all notes used in writ­
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FEBRUARY 1948 


ing his books to the Texas Collection of the University Library. He has per­suaded ·other Texas authors to do the same, with the result that a wealth of inform·ation is now available to stu­dents interested in book writing. 
In 1939, Dr. Webb launched The Hand­book of Texas, a four-volume encyclo­pedia of Texas which will be indispen­sable to all well-informed Texans. This is probably the biggest single program of research ever undertaken in the state. Over 200 people are contributing in­formation to the handbook which will be completed in 1950. As Dr. Webb puts it, "This is the people of Texas writing their own history." 
Dr. Webb's interest in Tex:is history 
undoubtedly prompted him to buy a 
600-acre ranch near Austin. When look­
ing around for some good ranch property 
a few years ago, he found an old build­
ing which had housed Texas' first school 
for boys. It had been built in 1853 by 
a man who had consumed much liquor 
in his life and knew from personal ex­
perience the evils of alcohol. So he built 
the school as far away from bars as 
possible. Dr. Webb bought the ranch, 
old building and all. 
This has turned out to be a good in­
vestment as have most of Dr. Webb's 
business ventures. Royalty checks from 
his books have undoubtedly provided Dr. 
Webb wit.h fairly nice financial assets. 
Still, with his unostentatious nature, he 
wears dark suits which don't look like 
the very latest from Hart, Shafner and 
Marx, and his old '38 Studebaker coupe 
has surely seen better days. 
Rather than spending his vacations on 
Miami's beaches, Dr. Webb prefers to 
sit around the campfire with some in­
timate cronies and have bull sessions. 
Or maybe he will take a trip to some 
part of the United States or the world 
he hasn't seen before. Dr. Webb likes 
to keep active. You might call him a 
contemporary historian, for he is in­
tensely interested in the history being 
made every day and its effect on our 
futures. 
Today he is gathering information 
and data for a book on "Frontiers and 
Democracy,'' the subject of a seminar 
course he teaches. He believes that our 
democratic way of life has been effected 
greatly by the closing of the frontier, 
and there hasn't been a book which treats 
the subject completely. His theory on 
writing is: "You ought to write a book 
when you have one in you. Anything 
else is a pot-boiler." 
Long an advocate of a great University 
press, Dr. Webb thinks Texas should 
have a press comparable to those of 
North Carolina and Oklahoma, where 
books are printed locally. Texas writers 
today must have their books printed out­
of-state because our press doesn't have 
the facilities for much more than cata­
logs, bulletins, and small booklets. 
While he thinks the University of 
Texas is a wonderful place, Dr. Webb believes it has some serious defects, the worst being lack of faculty benefits. He cites these points as examples: No re­tirement system (Faculty members can go on half time when they reach 65) and no sabbatical year (Most colleges give the faculty every seventh year off). 
Dr. Webb has criticized the Univer­sity administration on several occasions. Ordinarily he hasn't much to say, but when he speaks, it means something. He can compliment a person for doing something right; likewise he is capable of a verbal blast that packs a wallop. After the recent dismissal of J. Frank Dobie, he called on the University ad­ministration to rehire the professor­folklorist to get both "out of the trap into which they fell together." 
After thirty. years of association with 
the University, Dr. Webb has seen it 
grow in enrollment, size, and wealth. 
He has seen many improvements and 
sees much more that needs to be done. 
Looking ahead, Dr. Webb says, "The 
future of this University is limited only 
by the size of the men in charge of it. 
If they have the vision, the courage, and 
the integrity, the University of Texas 
will be great." THE END 
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THE most interesting* new creation in 
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(Continued from Page 31) you. If you will sign the enclosed form, which releases us of any further claim you may have upon the person of Willie Brace, and deliver it to Mr. Kruger, he will pay you the $25. 
"'Sincerely yours, James Higgins.'" "I'm so proud of you, dear," Mother said, and she kissed Father on the cheek. 
John took the letter from Father and read it again. I went to the bookcase in the den and pulled out the atlas. 
"Willie Brace is going to Detroit," I said. "Show me where Detroit is.'' 
"It's in Michigan.'' 
"Will his mother and father go with him to Detroit?" "No, they only bought Willie," Father said. "If Detroit paid fifty thousand for me, would you sell me?" 
"We wouldn't take a million for you, baby," Mother said, and she squeezzed my hand. 
I looked at all the cities on the map. They seemed so small. It would take an awful big city to pay a million dollars. 
-THE END 
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With more and more shiny new cars being driven off the second-hand lots every day it seems only fair that some remedy be provided for the atrocious pedestrian hazards on San Jacinto Boulevard. It is really dreadful what a pedestrian can do to a radiator grille at 40mph. 
And these un-Texan veteran pedestrians who per­sist in wearing cast-off GI clothes with metal but­tons. Tires aren't exactly being given away these days, you know. 
But the most insidious thing about this pedes­trian menace is that there is a low-down conspiracy going on against the honest, democratic car drivers. Just why is it that a flood of student pedestrians appear at exactly the same time that the motorists (who, after all, are the taxpayers) are trying to get to work so they can earn enough money to pay taxes to keep this University running? Just why is it that these ambulatory ingrates gang up not once but three times every day-morning, noon, and night-to make life miserable for the defense­less motorist? Those frat boys who live on the corner, for 
instance. They take a fiendish delight in running across the street one and two at a time-just trying to hit a car. And those 300 veterans in the 
FPHA dormitories across San Jacinto-how many of them do you think carry collision insurance? 
And those married veterans in the Oak Grove pre-fab units. Some of them even bring their wives down to get in the act. It's this sort of thing that makes brake linings old before their time. 
The police have been very cooperative in the matter: So far they haven't had the audacity to stop cars for pedestrians, the way they do at some school crossings. And they did agree not to put any signs or safety islands in the street. (They'd better not. The first driver who hit a street sign could sue hell out of the City for obstructing traffic.) 
But even with the police on his side, the motorist needs and deserves better protection. We are go­ing to get our grass-roots representative to intro­duce a bill in the next legislature making it a penal offense for a pedestrian to hit a moving vehicle. That, at least, should take some of them out of the 
streets. 
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