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THEDAILYBULLETIN Vol 3. College Station, Thursday, December 4, 1919 No. 67 COLLEGE EXHIBTS ARE SUCCESSFUL That the College exhibits at the state and county fairs have proved important educational features in every case was the statement of George A. Long, Director of Exhib- its and Demonstrations of the A. and M. College, today. In his report to President Bizzell Mr. Long states that he has cooperated with thirty-one county fairs and supplied judges to sixty-four. Exhibits were provided from the A. and M. College and the three branch colleges, including Joha Tarleton Agricultural College, Grubbs Vocational College and Prairie View State Normal and In- dustrial College, for the Texas State Fair at Dallas and the Cotton Pal- ace at Waco. It is contemplated that the assistance rendered by the Col- lege for next year will be greatly in- creased, as the College authorities believe that the county and state fairs have great educational ad- vantakes and other unusual oppor- tunities for presenting the possibii- ities of service of the A. and M. Col- "lege to the people of Texas. BR ——,. PROF. THORNTON’S CLASS ADDRESSED BY GEOLOGIST Professor Thornton’s chemical class enjoyed a lecture by Dr. Rob- ert T. Hill, Consulting Geologist of Dallas before he left College on Tuesday morning. He remained over night here after lecturing to the Science Seminar Monday eve- ning. Dr. Hill chose as the topic of his discussion “Oil Production in Tex- as.” He treated the subject in a gen- eral way relating the work of dis- covery in particular to the science of geology. He stressed “Wildcat Prospecting” terming such as worse than folly “Even after an expert geologist has pronounced a drilling site a good prospect the chances even then are twelve to one against a producer. and from this fact alone a sensible person can easily imagne the fool- ishness of ‘wildcat’ investments,” he said. M'GINNIS RESIGNS COLLEGE POSITION That Professor N. M. McGinnis, Associate Professor of Floriculture in the Department of Horticulture, has tendered his resignation and that the same has been accepted, was an- nounced to-day by President Bizzell. Mr. N. M. McGinnis is a graduate of this college and joined its teaching staff four years ago, having come here from the professorship of Rural Arts in the College in Industrial Arts. He has also served very efficiently as Alumni Secretary of the college. His work in connection with the publica- tion of the Alumni Quarterly and the careful compilation of the war re- cord of the college is well known to all the friends of the institution. Mr. McGinnis resigns in order to join his brother, Kemp McGinnis, also a graduate of the college, in commer- cial work in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis have made many friends among their associates on the campus and this family will be sorely missed here. i ..S A NUMBER OF STUDENTS MAY EARN FARE HOME Students who would like to earn their expenses during the holidays by taking part in an important en- terprise connected with this College should see Rev. Millar Burrows, Sup- ervisor of the Texas Rural Life Sur- vey, at the Y.M.C.A. office. County survey workers are needed all over the state. No special training is necessary, and the information and experience acquired in the work are of great value to any person inter- ested in rural community welfare. The surveyors receive no salaries, but their expenses are paid. By being sent to their own home counties and doing this interesting work there, a limited number of students can get a free trip home for the holidays. Goefrefeataodoatactradsctraoatroeatoodoatsdanfofuadoatradoateeiraocts te ENROLLMENT AT A. AND M. COLLEGE UP TO NOON YESTERDAY 1568 sfosdrafeadeadredeedeaiocdects & & 4 EX oes | PROMINENT EDI- TOR VIMTS HERE Geo. N. Cornwall of Portland, Or- egon, was a guest of Mr. O. E. Siecke of the Forestry Service yesterday. Mr. Cornwall is editor of “The Tim- berman” the foremost lumber journ- al in the country, he is an enthus- iast on the iniatiation of Government acquisition of cut over timber lands, ‘the only efficient way for these lands to be reconverted into producing areas is for the Govern- ment and not the individual to take them over. The Government should acquire these lands, segregate them whereby the lands best suited for the growing of timber will be intelligens- ly utilized for that purpose and the lands suitable for agricultural pur- poses will be returned by the State.” He is disseminating this idea where- ever he goes in the promotion of the scheme. The real object of his tour, the itinerary of which includes all the southern states, however, is to look over and study the probable duration of the pine production in the South, in order that he may accurately gauge the competition which will ex- ist in the future between timber pro- duction in the South and the Pa- cific states. “More than half of the standing timber in North America is in the five Pacific Coast States and contain in round numbers eighteen hundred million feet exclusive of British Columbia,” he said in an in- terview. Continuing he said, “There was fourteen billion feet less produc- tion in 1918 than in 1906 and 1907 when the high water mark in pro- duction was reached and he esti- mated the total cut in the United States in 1919 probably would not equal that of 1918, accounting for the high prices of lumber, as the law of supply and demand regulates prices in lumber as well as other pro- ducts. The limited production has been caused by unfavorable weather conditions and labor unrest.” He has found that the Pacific Coast States are already shipping considerable quantities of lumber in- to Texas and estimates that their busienss will increase steadily
