Point-Blank (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 8, 1937 Page: 1 of 4
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POINT-BLANK
Why hasn't the Daily
Texan Published these
facts?
All progressive Uni-
versities offer ROTC.
Why not Texas?
VOL 1 No. 1.
AUSTIN TEXAS MARCH 8 1937
FREE COPY
R. 0. T. C. FOR TEXAS UNIVERSITY
The Case Against
the Daily Texan
What have the student body
done to be inflicted with the edi-
torial policy of the Daily Texan?
Certainly a small compliment to our
intelligence are the biased editor-
ials on all R. 0. T. C. questions.
Things have been brought to
a head recently by the misrepre-
sentation of this vital question
and it is now time for us to throw
off our disgust and act. We only
want an opportunity to give a fair
statement of facts as a reply to
the mushy drivel expressed by a
small minority who take the re-
sponsibility of student opinion on
their own shoulders.
In this pamphlet we are going
diametrically against the Daily
Texan by presenting as many facts
as possible. We are not present-
ing abstract theories but the cold
facts as they truly exist.
A voluntary R. 0. T. C. organi-
zation would be a definite advan-
tage to the University of the lar-
gest state in the Union and should
be established to justify the expen-
ditures of the many taxpayers who
believe in its value.
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Inventory
The R. 0. T. C. has been so
thoroughly misrepresented on this
campus by the vicious efforts of
a few small organizations that the
students have had no opportunity
to know the R. O. T. C. and what
its purpose is. -
The literature turned out by
these organizations tends to give
the impression that the purpose of
the R. 0. T. C. is to turn us into a
bunch of goose-stepping automat-
ons to deprive us of all individual-
ity and to make us blindly obedi-
ent; in brief to prepare us to be
the perfect cannon fodder.
This is not the purpose behind
the R. 0. T. C. nor has it ever been.
It is the object of the R. 0. T. C.
to ti'ain men not soldiers; leaders
not followers. It seems to us that
more men and more leaders in this
country are needed. Most of the
college and university presidents
in this country are in agreement
on this point and it is for this rea-
son that they advocate R. 0. T. C.
training. -
Forgetting the many social
benefits to be had from the R. 0.
T. C. training there remains its
many material advantages which
go directly to the students. As one
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Do You Know?
LOf what does the ROTC consist?
The complete Reserve Officers
Training Course comprises four
years. There is a basic course of
two years and an advanced course
of two years and six weeks summer
camp all entirely voluntary.
How much time does the course
take?
The basic course requires three
hours of work per week. Usually
this is divided into one hour of
either drill or laboratory work and
two hours hours of classroom work.
There is no homewoi'k in the basic
course. The advanced course re-
quires five hours per week. This
is usually divided into two hours
of classroom work two hours of
homework and one hour of either
drill or laboratory work. Most
students who have taken the
basic ROTC course are agreed
that it is not a difficult course
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very important item he gets two
hundred dollars for taking the
course. Two hundred dollars would
be of no slight assistance to many
in continuing their university work
and there are many in school here
who would welcome such help.
Moreover there is the unalterable
fact that in case of war the man
who has had R. 0. T. C. training
is likely to be an officer and not
a private.
There are many students in
this school who want an R. 0. T.
C. unit. There are taxpayers who
want such a unit. Let the facts be
fairly represented and the Uni-
versity of Te;:as like almost every
great university in this country
will have an R. 0. T. C. unit.
What Other Uni-
versities Think
All but four state universities
all the great universities such
as Harvard Yale Princton Stan-
ford world famous professional
schools such as M. I. T. and
Carnegie Tech in fact nearly
every famous college and university
in the nation now gives its students
an opportunity to take ROTC.
Obviously the opinions of the
presidents of these institutions
should be of value in determining
the merits of ROTC training. It
was with this fact in mind that
answers to a questionnaire sent
to the president of each college or
university having an ROTC were
published in 1935.
Two questions were asked:
1. What in your opinion is
the value if any of ROTC train-
ing as now given in your college?
2. Do you think that the
ROTC training encourages a spirit
of militarism among students tak-
ing the course?
When the replies to this ques-
tionnaire came in it was found
that 77 out of 78 college presi-
dents were unanimous in their
declaration that the ROTC is
beneficial to the student taking
the course and an asset to the uni-
versities fortunate enough to have
the courses. Furthermore they
were completely unanimous in
their declaration that the ROTC
does not cause militarism
Consider the weight of the ex-
perience of these presidents. It
means that not simply a mere ma-
jority but that over ninety percent
of the presidents of those colleges
having ROTC are convinced of the
benefits of the training.
Ninety percent! And among
these men are the heads of our
leading educational institutions.
Contrast these men with the
handfull who oppose this common-
sense cause.
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Blood and Thunder
War! Militarism! Such terms
instantly arouse pangs of repug-
nance in the breast of every citi-
zen. The use of these headlines is
the basis of the argument against
R. 0. T. C. carried on by the Daily
Texan. But is such an appeal to
the emotions to the entire exclus-
ion of the dictates of reason fair?
In any vital issue one can ignore
neither his emotions nor his rea-
son and be fair in his conclusions.
War! What horrors the mere
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Point-Blank (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 8, 1937, newspaper, May 8, 1937; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth78527/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.