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N THE vEAR 1885, a great and wondrous thing happened in Austin, Texas.
A young University student decided that he would enlighten the masses;
that he would take advantage of the printing press and the First Amend-
ment. So R. L. Batts set forth to publish a magazine at The University of Texas.
He thought and he thought and stretched his great creative powers to the
limit and finally he came up with a clever, biting title for his magazine. He
called it Trrn UNrvnnsrry oF Tpxes MacezrNE. Clever old R. L. Batts.
Seventy-five years later the First Amendment is forgotten, R. L. Batts is for-
gotten. and the clever magazine name is forgotten. All that remains is the mag-
azine and the printing press.The same printing press.
The RaNcpn has been named and renamed, merged and un-merged, cussed
and discussed,and always right in the big fat middle of a heap of confusion
and trouble.
Batts didn't have much of an idea of what he wanted to do with the Mnca-
zrNE (he very cleverly called it the MacazrNr, for short) but he had a lot of
people to tell him what he wanted to do, so the first publication on the campus
was a horrible attempt at finding Beauty, Truth, Meaning, and the Word.
This was surrounded by stupid jokes and R. L. Batts' clever little witticisms.
The MacAZTNEwas financed and run by two literary societies,Athenaeum
and Rusk. 'Twas indeed a noble venture and met with some degree of popular
success.However, nobody wanted to pay for it, and it started a trip down the
road to financial ruin. Just as it seemed that the MacazrNE was doomed to
failure, it was saved by the Protector of All That's Good and Politically Ex-
pedient, the Students' Association. Although the editors were not in favor of
"belonging." the financial situation forced them to give in to the Association.
In 1902 the MacAZTNE became an official University publication. True, this
saved the MacazrNE temporarily, but as a result of the move" it lost in popu-
larity and soon became just a little something to leave around the Association
office and library. Nobody wanted it. And its first editor,
Batts, went on his merry wo;r, sometimes sighing over
the decline of his magazine. But for him there was no
time for nostalgia. He was forced to become Chairman
of the Board of Regents. He was not forgotten, however.
fn honor of his work and dedication (as MacezrNE editor)
the University named a couple of buildings after him.
But all the above material, and much to follow, is not
true according to The Daily Teran. Starting somewhere
around 7922, the Teran began printing "True and Au-
thentik Histories of The Rangere." fn every one there was
a statement like this taken from the 1922 Teran.' "The
editor of the first magazine is not known; nor is the his-
tory of the publication knonm farther back than the year
1902." Let it be known that the his'lory is known; and for
that matter, every magazine that was ever printed at the
University is available to any student (Teran reporters
included) at any time in the Barker Historical Library.
Another point of information: long before the ReNcen got
its name, Ye OIde Daily Teranne was called the Ranger.
Ironic.
Returning to the subject at hand, the MacezrNr, be-
came completely literary, an easy move. The editors
simply stopped printing the one or two jokes that had
taken up space before. From here it was strictly downhill
for the MacazrNn. The students would not support it. but
a small group of enterprising social outcasts saw the need
for a new and completely different magazinc. And so the
CoyorE was born in 1908. It was an off-campus publica-
TEXASRANGER
tion and competed with the MacAzrNE. It was nevi.:
taken under the wing of the Students' Association, but r'. : -
the forerunner of a group of outlaw humor publicati, :.-
and was instrumental in the development of the Rrsci i
Where the MacezrNn had been a thin, book-siz.'i.
totally unappealing horror, the Coyorn was colorful. ii:. l
about the same size as the ReNorn with about half .,-
many pages. It was full of corny jokes and amate'.::
humor at the start, but with time it developed into a dan:::
good magazine. Circulation went up and it looked like ti:,-
CovorB was here to stay. But, alas, the editors realiz" i
their power and began to editorialize with sometin:..-
vicious outbursts against the Administration, fraterniti....
sororities, the Tetan, mothers, political leaders and. Tr:i
I]Nrvpnsrry oF Tpxes Macezrrvn. And so. like an , . i
horse, it was put out to pasture by the Administration ::.
1915. The MacAzrNE reigned again. After all, it \\,1.
official.
Undaunted, some of the Covorp staff and some nr.i'.
blood got together and immediately started printing ti:;
LoNcnonN, a comic monthly. It was published as a pn-
vate enterprise and attempted to buck the Powers-Th,,:-
Be; therefore it was doomed. After a year of life it merge i
with Trrs UNrvsnsrry oF Tnxes MacezrNr, the conri :.
nation appearing under the title of the I-oNcnonN \I..rc r
zrNE. For nine months it continued to run a comic secti,'::
Then thunder and lightning struck and it became ont,.
more a purely literary magazine.
There will always be one clown. someonewho will n,,:

. '('('('l )t
\\'h a t h e is handed,a n d i n 1 9 1 9
:ire \crr-ren began its short, highly
..r,,ntftrl career.A comic, the Scar-pBn
:::,.t u ith immediate faculty disap-
i,r-,r\':il.Btrt it kept coming up until in
l'. )-1.
-l-hat the Faculty Committee On All
Is Unholy And Stinky said,
"I)anrmit. that rag has got to go." And
:, r it clid after legal battles and cuss-
rns on both sides. The Scer-pnnhad
i"'en a private enterprise but the fac-
rrltr- clecidedit was talking about the
['niversity. It was, in effect, masque-
r.rrling as a University publication.
The rvhole affair with the banning
,'f the Sc.qr-pEn was disgraceful,made
llrt' f-niversity Powers look like the
.'l''.olute last word on whether or not
t,' breathe, and set up the precedent
tirat affects the RaNcen today. ,And
that is: the University has every right
t,, throu' down an illegal restraint on
-ttrrlentsof the University as citizens
,'f the State. "The action of the fac-
irltr- committee was more of a star-
, iriinrber processthan of student self-
s,l\-ernment." That's what the Tetan
..iirl. and the situation has not
ciranged.The Rarvcsn and its ances-
t,,ri have been under constant fire as
.r reiult of the ruling of that commit-
t . v 'in 1 9 2 2 .
-\nd the LoNcHonN MacezrNE..con-
t inr re d o n i ts m er r y woy , , p u b l i s h i n g
tr.rqh and making no money, but
i''.rckedup by the University Admin-
i.tration.
.Itrlian Brazelton couldn't have
c.rred less what the LoNcrronN did,
arrrl in 7923, the ;,.ear after the Scer--
pr R \\'as buried, he published the first
I'r.r,-rs ReNcBn. Like the other comic
nr.rgazinesbefore it, the RnNcEn was
frrll of jokes, cartoons, and anti-ad-
nrinistration articles. The very first
R rrcsn had a colorful.cover adorned
s ith a cigarstte-smoking cowboy
the first Hairy Ranger) and a sultry
.r.norita. That was a mistake. The ad-
nrinistration and faculty had fits. A
Ilexican, of all things! And with a
Teran! So the pressure started before
the rnagazine rrl'asopened. The Texas
Strrclent Publications board had al-
n.,rrlr- grabbed the magazine and it
...,. i,fficial so the Administration was
in trotrble. It had sanctionedthe very
thing that it was so desperatelyfight-
I
i n g'l'he
RaNGERgrew in popularity at
th,' expense of the literary LoNc-
n.,rt\. and the TSP board began to
lr,1'1'.1-. With a sigh of "here we go
a{.rin." the board abolished the
R rrcr-n in 7929 and combined it with
th,' strffering Lor.rcrronN under the
urrrrieldy title of Trre LoNcrronN
l\-rln Wnrcn I.s CovrnrNBp TrrB
Tnxas RaNcen. The "Tpxas RaNGER"
part was printed in small type and
usually blotted out by a drawing
which just happened to get in the
way.
The situation looked bad. The stu-
dents hated the whole mess, the staff
hated it, and once again the Adminis-
tration hated it. When the two maga-
zines were combined, the content
formula adopted called for one-third
humor, one-third literary material,
and one-third features. In theory this
was a fine idea. but in practice it
turned out to be impossible. The
nasty editors tended to shape the
magazine according to their own
bents. The result was that the maga-
zine played up the humorous at the
expense of the literary conlent. The
Daily Teran of the time ends a simi-
lar history with: "And that is the
background of the present movement
for' a separate literary magazine."
Just like the Teran to jump on the
wrong bandwagon, for in December
of 1933 the LowcHoRN was deposited
neatly in the wastebasket and the
RaNonn came into power as the only
magazine on the campus. It was any-
thing but literary. This great change
was accredited to Morris Glass.
In the election of 1933 Glass ran
for ReNcBn editor on a ticket of "Kick
o.ut the LoNorronN and return it to the
old ReNcER." He won easily and later
wrote, "It has taken exactly four
years and two months for the ReNcrn
to show its superiority."
In December of the same year he
was ousted and placed on disciplinary
probation for printing "unfit ma-
terial."
Since that time it has been routine
businessfor the Dean to kick ReNcEn
editors out year after year. Al Mellin-
ger (Editor, 1930) narrowly missed
the Dean's boot one month. It seems
that he ran some jokes that didn't
meet with the approval of certain
members of the Department of Jour-
nalism. They at once confided in the
Dean, and he assertedthat if the mag-
azine came out with those jokes, Mel-
linger might just as well pack his bags
and leave, or else the University
would demand that he do so.
A board meeting was hurriedly
called and it was voted that, in order
to save Mellinger's neck, the jokes
should be clipped from the magazine.
Everybody grabbed a razor blade and
sat down to clip all the offensive jokes
from every magazine. A good time
was had by all.
Rexcsn editors have always been
known for their hell-raising, aithough
in recent years hell has settled some-
what. Gone are the good old days,
according to Dr. DeWitt Reddick,
writer, fighter, ex-editor and Director
of the School of Journalism. Dr. Red-
dick claims that back in his day there
was more hell-raising in a week than
there is in a year now. And he should
know. When he was attending the
University he raised most of it. He
slyly admits that he destroyed old
B Hall and started the serenading
I of Whiskey Harper by the Alpha
of the girls which has now become a
regular first-class tradition.
Johnny Latham, Editor in 19+0,
pulled off one of the most daring and
successful hoaxes in Rer.roBnhistory.
The first day of registration, Latham
was up early painting signs. When
the girls started on campus to register
they were confronted with such signs
as "Freshman Women Examined
Herer" "Freshman Girls Get Your
Examination Early in Journalism
Building 5 and Avoid the Rush," and
a sign over the ReNcnn office door
which read "The Health Division."
Presiding were Dr. John Latham
(9-1 p.m.) and Dr. Jimmy Craig (as-
sociate editor) serving from 1-4. Also
Dr. W. L. Harper, for consultation
only; and Dr. Les Carpenter, by up-
pointment only. The "doctors" had
written forms to be filled out by pa-
tients which asked for their name,
address, telephone number, and fig-
ure. Twenty-six girls filled out the
forms before the hoax was discovered.
One of the members of that staff of
"doctors," \M. L. Harper? was to be-
come the most notorious ReNcnn edi-
tor of all time. He was not the best
editor the ReNcER ever had but there
wasn't a person on campus who didn't
know "Whiskey" Harper and fear
him. Legend has it that Whiskey
Harper was unpredictable.
Whiskey just sort of wandered into
the RaNcBn office one day in 1941
and took over. The whole damn town.
His drawings of Flybait, a deformed
character with a Phi Beta Kappa K"y,
adorned the RaNcEn, The Texan, the
I Bryson in the editor's chair. Trouble
Bullboard (a Drag display), Drag
Restaurants, the RaNcBn office walls,
and college and national magazines.
I was brewing, but all eyes were
Although his cartoons won him
many friends, they made him quite a
few enemies. It all started when Liz
Sutherland was made Girl of the
Month as runner-up to Jerry Jo
Schultz, a 500-pound brewing major
from Black Dallas. Liz and her friends
laughed at the little joke. Several days
later the Texan published a cartoon
showing Flybait hanging by his
thumbs. a hag burning his feet with a
blowtorch. Flybait was shouting, "All
(continued on page 35)
right, all right, I will take a date with
Liz Sutherland!" Liz and her friends
laughed again, but this time it was
one of those low, damning laughs.
But when the Bullboard on the
Drag carried a cartoon with a parked
car on a lonely road with the caption,
"Now do you see the advantage of
having the gearshift on the steering
wheel, Miss Sutherland?" the Alpha
Phi's got very, very mad. The whole
affair ended with the solemn burial
Phis.
Whiskey didn't even let the talk die
dovr.n about that incident before he
was off on another plot. When people
who knew Whiskey saw him begin
grinning constantly, they got scared.
Tension mounted. Then one night it
was all over. Whiskey simply took the
entire RaNcen staff, broke into the
women's gym" and spent a few pleas-
ant hours in the swimming pool.
Naked.
Invited to be best man at one of his
friend's weddings, Whiskey acceptecl,
although many people had qualms
at what the irrepressible Harper mind
might concoct. The wedding went
through with finesse, Whiskey per-
forming his duties with saint-Iike de-
votion and the doubters were con-
verted. Then, the minister pro-
nounced the couple "man and wife"
and the smiling groom prepared to
kiss the bride. At that point, it hap-
pened. Harper stepped forward and
deftly planted upon the new bride a
big kiss, and a beautiful friendship
ceased.Soon after he was drafted and
the reign of Whiskey Harper and
Flybait ended.
Then "Candy" Johnson was ap-
pointed, much to his delight. However
his delight was short-lived, for in
Muy, 794,3,the Texas Student Publi-
cations board voted to abolish the
ReNcEn for the duration of World
War II and Candy was out of a job
before he started.
The ReNcpn returned from the war
with a young man named Johnny
pleased at the appearance of Bryson's
more sober, conservative magazine.
Newspaper articles and editorials
praised him for his discarding of the
old flippant RaNcEn. With the news-
paper review of the first ReNcnn in 4
years, Bryson had this to say: "Well,
here it is. You'll find it rather
changed. This is a different campus
now, even if the buildings look the
T E X AR
SANGER
"Sowefig.rr"i;;iiffi##nt
RaNcnn retooled. We've tried to make
it fit the students here today. As the
students change, so will the ReNcpn
change."
Everyone was pleased. But no one
could know that Bryson was prepar-
ing to perpetrate one of the biggest
scandals the University has ever
known. And he did it all with his
little magazine. For in the spring of
194,7,the ReNcERcame out with "The
Cheat Complete."
In this article, Bryson claimed that
66.8 per cent of the students at the
University cheat. And he had four
pages of pictures shtrwing just exactlv
how they did it.
The administration had a fit. This
couldn't be true and they were going
"RA]{G[R"
RI-EI{ACTS
C0ilPttX
CASI
EXAM STARTS o the student gers
questions.These students are re-eriact.
ing actual Texas cce for the Ranger.
CON FEOERATE on canpus calches
questions. He has already been sup.
plied with emptv examination book,
lN CLASSROOM student concen.
trates on blank page, doodling away
the hours. This is "the hardest part."
HURFYII{G BACK to clusroom,
student explains that he has foolishly
left empty book. turns in substitute,
tn"
OUT THE WlllDOW the chesrer
throws copy ofquestions. He wu care.
ful to arrive early, get window seat.
Jttl THE LIARARY the confederate
looks up correct answers to questiotrs,
writes answers in emptt exam book.
:,-,' t Al
AFTER EXAM student, who has left
empty exm book with professor. gets
answer.filled book from confederare.
EXAM GETs.,A.t' "The profcssor
does his part," concludes the Ranger,
"proving it was worth the trouble."
waswrong.The figr'r"'"#X:"";;ii;.l
per cent. It was only 55 per cent. Thi.
was too much for Lrrn magazinr.
They bought the story from Bn-son.
pulled out another story and ran "Tht.
Cheat Complete." There was sonrc-
thing about Bryson's little problerrr
in the Texan every day for 9 u'eeks.
Bryson's February issue \\as s,,
feared by the censors that it was cen-
sored and delayed until March 1o.
The Universit.!' was under fire for
years afterward as a result of the n:r
tional scandal. John Bryson \\'as (l
success.
There is never tranquility n'hilt.
the Reivcnn is around and as soon :r.
Bryson left to go to work for LrrE tht'
Student Assembly began a move t,,
cut the ReNcnn from the blanket tar
funds. The exclusion resulted n'herr
TSP lost so much money on the maga-
zine becauseit could not be sold u'hile
on the tax that it seemeda better ideir
to try to subsist on subscriptions antl
cash sales. In 1949 the RaNcEn be-
came self-supporting and went olt 1,,
become the only real money-makin,J
student publicaiion.
As in the Mellinger case of sniyr-
ping jokes out of
_an already-printerl
magazine, censorship has been one of
the RaNcnn's biggest problems. There
was a time when the ReNorn editr'r'
was the only censor and for this rea-
son many of them were dralvn anrl
quartered at their own expense.
Three years after the Mellinger bir.
the scissorswere wielded once nror'o.
In 1933 Allan Shivers was president
of the Students' Association and un-
der constant fire. One John Patr-ic
managed to sneak in a line on tht,
inside front cover which said, "Ho:lest
gives honest politicians the
Shivers." Shivers blew his top u'hen
word leaked out, and threatened t.
sue. The RaNcrn staff sat down n'ith
razor blades and cut out the objection-
able line. Some uncut copies leakenl
out and John Patric latcr publishe<l
a copy of one in his famotr.
Blunderbuss.
Later that year (immediately after
publication of the Blunderbuss
Shivers caught Patric distributing the
sheet on the Drag and proceedeclt,,
beat the hell out of him. Patric filerl
charges but nothing ever came of it.
In order to pay penancefor his sirr..
Patric drew up a petition which un-
witting students signed. The petition
asked that its signers be hanged. anrl
drawn and quartered on April +.
(continued on page 42)

THE PTITATO.I
I sidewalk.
(continuedfrom page l2)
tirer- n'ere the country version of pres-
r.rrt dal' status seekers"becausethat's
.rll Dog ever got. You could hear Dog's
rrrrrther sing early in the morning:
"\\-e got potatoes,yeh, yeh, all God's
, hillun ain't got potatoes, yeh, yeh,
i,trt ol' Dog he got potatoes.yeh, yeh."
\\'e used to kid Dog a lot about hav-
inq nothing but potatoes to eat.
"Dog." we'd say, "you ain't got noth-
ing but potatoesto eat."
Dog would take this in good stride
r,.ually, though he was mean when
he started slinging potatoes. Mostly,
he n-ould say something like, "Any-
I'trdd)' wanna trade a jelly sammich
f ,,r a fried potato?"
It u'as seldom that we did. Most of
rr. didn't like potatoes.Our valley was
. ran'ling with hungry potato bugs.
\evertheless, Dog grew up. I never
r(r\\' him much after I passed fifth
:rrade. I was drafted. He must have
g,t oLlt somehow though, for the next
tirne I did see him was when f was
HISTINY ! I I
(continuedfrom page 35)
t'lcction day. The petition was sent to
II. Y. Benedict, then President of the
[-nir-ersity, and Benedict fired back
.rrr official answer.
"I regret to report that the peti-
tion cannot be granted fully and
completely. Drawing -a1d quarter-
ing are now prohibited by the Con-
.titution of the United States,
s hich says (Article VIII is
r ; u o t e d) ..
"Even hanging more than ten
I)ersons at once requires a special
permit from the Dean of each stu-
,lent desiring to be hung. One or
nrore students can be hung with-
,rut such a permit if they have the
rnoney to pay for their hanging or
('an find somebody to do a good
j,,b free of charge.
"\{y reply therefore, is that you
crn be hung in groups of two or
three. but cannot be drawn and/or
rltrartered either individually or
t'ollectively, and provided that the
hangings take place at no expense
t,r th€ University."
.igned) H. Y. Benedict, President
The most unusual censorship per-
nritted Tnr Darr.v TnxaN to publish a
piloting my cab down the rush hour
There he was, standing on the cor-
ner of Fifth Avenue in New York
City, contentedly munching on a
piece of potato cake. He hailed -y
cab.
"Hail."
Slamming on my brakes, I barely
missed running over an old lady.
However, I didn't miss the boy scout
with her.
"Tough luck, there, kid. Don't for-
get your motto!"
Dog leaped into my cab.
"Anybuddy wanna trade a jelly
sammich for a roast potato?"
He gave me the address of a well
known pancake house on the other
side of town. He said, "They got these
potato pancakesthere."
He told me to wait for him and
leave the meter running. I said,
"Why Dog, ol' buddy, of course I'll
leave the meter running."
He went in and emerged in thirty-
two minutes, having eaten his fill of
potato pancakes.
"To the grocersr" he cried. "f must
have more potatoes."
On to the grocers.
drawing twice that had been censored
from the Rar.vcpn.The cartoon (which
was to be the magazine's cover) was
supposedly a reference to a well-
known campus figure, a member of
the Texas Cowboys. One of the cen-
sors was a Cowboy himself and didn't
like the idea very much. So out the
cover went. The Texan got hold of
the drawing, published it and had a
story which pointed out exactly what
the drawing was referring to. This
somehow made the publication all
right. Then the Texan article was
reprinted and another story written
about the idiotic censorship.
Last year's RaNcEn editor, Bill
lln flflpururium:
@hBeilitorr snil rtsff ut
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mournthr purringun nf u
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There, Dog rushed in and bought
two sacks of potatoes. He told me to
drive around the city while he ate.
"Dogr" says f, I says, "Dog, you
gonna turn into a potato if you don't
quit eating'em like that.'
"Hmmmm. Potatoes, potatoes, po-
tatoesr" cried Dog. "Potatoes,potatoeso
potatoes."
"Now, Dog, f ain't kidding. You
ever eat anything in your life besides
a potato?"
"Ifmmmm. Potatoes, potatoes, po-
tatoes. No. Potatoes, potatoes, po-
tatoes. Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em.
Hmmmm."
I drove on, musing over Dog and
his potatoes. The musing grew out of
hand. I began to think of Sally Mae
and the Mississippi bottom land. I
smirked.
Suddenly, the car jolted. I swerved
in order to hit a fruit peddler. Then
I looked over my shoulder.
Lying on ths back seat, all by it-
self, was a potato!
I started, and cried out, "Dog!"
Then I reached back and picked the
potato up with loving care.
So I ate it.
Potatoes aren't so bad after all. o
Helmer, raised what was perhaps the
biggest stink ever over certainly the
worst censorship ever. One censor had
red-penciled over two-thirds of the
material submitted to him; H. Y.
(Cap) N4cCown had charged the
RaNcBn with being "gutter-level" and
"beyond the pale of good taste and de-
cency." The editors threatened to quit,
the Austin paper and the wire services
had a ball with the story. and all over
the country went news of the "gutter-
level" magazine down in Austin.
Every paper of size in the country
carried something about it and Texas
papers loved it. The whole thing
ended up with the resignation of the
censor and a great moral victory for
the ReNcBn.
Just this year, the censors decided
that LBJ and George Parr cannot be
mentioned together. It must be LBJ
or George Parr. Also certain numbers
must never be used in the RaNcBn
again. Some of these are 23. 46,92,
and 34y2. 96 is permissible but a
great battle ensued over this number.
And so it is obvious that these Guard-
ians of Our Morals are. on their toes
protecting us from all that is evil and
destroying.once again that good ol'
First Amendment that R. L. Batts
used to publish Volume I, edition 1 of
the first magazine at the University
of Texas 75 years ago. .