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