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All Texas should feel proud of the spirited article on our beloved State in this issue of TIME (June 8). Certainly the Centennial board, the City of Dallas, the City of Fort Worth and Jimmy Allred should send orchids.
Naturally, some of our more particular citizens are going to cause you to "chase a jack rabbit" for some of the more obvious errors such as misspelling the name of Justice Robert Lee Bobbitt; placing Lubbock (the Hub of the Plains) below the caprock on the map and failing to show, on the map, that Texas Technological College (third in enrollment in Texas) is at Lubbock; failing to mention El Paso's "garden valley." . . .
ANDERSON V. WEAVER JR.
Attorney at Law
Lubbock, Tex.
Sirs:
In the June 8 issue of TIME, in your article on the Texas Centennial, in giving credit to the men responsible for the Texas Centennial you either purposely omit the name of one of the most outstanding men so vitally responsible for the Texas Centennial or does the Editor of TIME justly intend devoting a full article in TIME'S next issue to this man who deserves so much credit for his accomplishments? I refer to Mr. Fred F. (for Farrel) Florence, president of the Texas Centennial. Mr. Florence, president of the Republic National Bank & Trust Co. and one of the country's leading bankers, has devoted a great deal of his time working untiringly and without any compensation to make the Centennial a reality. ...
L. F. BERVEL
Dallas, Tex.
Sirs:
. . . The University was doubtless flattered with having been called one of the best State universities in the country, but equally doubtless chagrined with having been called the richest.
The University is so rich it is poor. Like a little boy who has inherited a fortune, but who, because of the bigotry of his parents, can spend it on kiddy cars and patent leather slippers, but not on licorice and other things that would make a better man of him, the University is prohibited from spending anything but the interest derived from her oil and grazing lands, and that only on physical improvement.
The upshot of this has been that the University has crowded many pieces of architecture on a well be-shrubbed 40 acres, has mortgaged its available fund to amortize loans for their construction, and is now turning hand springs in an attempt to convince the Legislature and the people from whom it derives all power (?) of the University's poverty.
This is made plainer by the fact that while the enrollment of the University has increased over 50% since 1926, its total expenditure has increased barely 2%. There are 20% more students per teacher here than at the average, not to say the best, State university. Our professorial salary scale is pitifully far below that of the leading State and endowed universities. The cost per student here is about $212, while at the leading State universities it is frequently above $400.
Otherwise, we are rolling in wealth.
JOE STORM
Editor expired
The Daily Texan
The University of Texas
Austin, Tex.
Sirs: