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~ THE DAILY BULLETIN - Vol 3. College Station, Texas, Friday, April 186, 1920. Number 169 PROF. MDONALD WRITES BULLETIN ON CITIZENSHIP J. F. McDonald Prepares “Five Les- sons in American Citizenship” to Instruct Women Voters. On request of Mrs. Hetty Currie, | Chairman of the Literature Commit- tee of the Texas Federation of Wo- men’s Clubs, J. F. McDonald, Head of the Department of History of this College has prepared a bulletin en- titled, “Five Lessons in American Citizenship.” The Bulletin contains five suggestive lesson plans that have | |upon the occasion of any other pro- as “their immediate purpose to be of some assistance to the Clubs in preparing courses of study, help the members meet their respon- sibilities in the coming November elections.” Several thousand copies of the Bull- etin have been printed and will be presented by the A. and M. College of Texas to the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs. Federated | | this year. with accessible references, which will | has attended any performance this In his foreword Professor McDon- | ald says: Foreword. “Women, both pro and anti suffra-| gists, now realize that the ballot will soon be theirs, and, true to their na- ture, earnestly desire to cast their votes intelligently. To that end they are organizing schools of citizenship and planning programs of civic study as a part of their annual federated course. “The question-and-answer method is used. The answers, as a rule, are indicated by specific references to author and page. The principle books referred to, namely, the New Civics by Ashley, and The Revised Election Laws of Texas, compiled by the At- torney General’s Department, are either in the respective communities or can be had at once. The former is a state-adopted text for the high schools; the latter was compiled for the public by the Attorney General’s Department at Austin, and upon re- quest will be sent for five cents post- age. “A most helpful series of articles, which will answer a number of thought questions in these lessons, began in the February 1920 Ladies’ Home Journal. These articles are written from the point of view of the woman who is about to exercise the high privilege and perform the re- sponsible function of casting an in- telligent vote. The articles evaluate the ballot, furnish a fund of timely information, and help answer the question of party allegiance.” The first twelve questions of Les- son II is given below to illustrate the manner of treatment of this subject. To each one of these questions he makes a reference that will enable the reader to answer them intelligent- ly. They follow: The questions follow: Lesson II.—The Voter. 1. Does the national government (Continued on Page 4) VDT OF BAYLOR GIRLS HERE MADE QUITE AN EVENT Entire Cadet Corps Parade as a Part of the Program of Entertain- ment for the Girls. The Baylor their annual Choral Club made appearance in Guion Hall Wednesday night under the auspices of the Battalion. Thirty- five charming young ladies made up this Club of talented musicians and their renditions provoked demonstra- tions of appreciation from the cadet corps that have not been surpassed duction that has taken place here The largest crowd that year heard their program. The program was as follows: PART 1. Chorus—Greeting to Spring, Strauss. Violin—Concerto in A Minor, Ac- colay—Coris Goodrich Jones. Chorus: (a) In May, H. W. Parker. (b) Creamy Lake, Henry K. Hadey. (¢) The Two Clocks, James Rog- ers. | Voice: : (a) Pirate Dreams, Huerter. (b) I've Been Roaming, Old En- glish Classic. (¢c) Song of the Open, La Farge. Miss Marion Barton. Old Southern Melodies (in costume) : PART JI. Piano—Polonaise in A flat, Chopin. Mabel McCall. Chorus— (a) The Rose in the Gar- den. Soprano solo, Luzelle Smith. (b) Pierrot Jessie Johnson. (c) Will O’ the Wisp, Spross. Duet: (a) Passage Bird’s Farewell, Hill- dach. (b) O, Moment That I Bless, Dennee. Misses Askin, Barton. Chorus: (2) From the Land of the Sky Blue Water; The Moon Drops Low, Cadman. The chorus was composed as fol- lows: First soprano: Alleen Jones, Nitis Herrington, Luzell Smith, Mar- garet Russell, Marion Barton, Viva Sheppard, Summie Clark, Aurelia Robertson. Second soprano: Lillian Scott, Mabel MecCall, Sara Mae Crook, Jeffe Mason, Lucile Garri- son, Glady Lusk, Geneva Brown, Ola Whittikar. First alto: Hazel Sturgeon, Louise Barton, Cammie Clark, Ida Mae Garner, Bell Gainer, Velma Strickland, Mary Edna Shaw. Second alto: Lucile Dowdy, Mayme Dew, Inez Grisham, Elinor Connell, Ada Cates, Marie Pryor, Johnie Mae Yarbrough. Miss La Verna E. Askin, director; and Miss Ruth Burr, accompanist. Miss Askin deserves the most favorable criticism for her great work that w:. so clearly revealed in the harmonious concerts of this large group of singers. The pre- (Continued on Page 2) TEXTILE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MANUFACTURES HUNDREDS OF YARDS OF CLOTH THAT IS SOLD IN TEXAS The Mill Operated Here is Exactly the Same as Many of the Smaller Commercial Cotton Mills Throughout This Country Manufacturing Cloth of the Plainer Weaves. One of the most interesting De- partments of this College both to the technically trained person and to the average uninformed person, who clothes himself or herself in gar- ments fabricated from material sim- ilar to that produced by this Depart- ment every day, is the Textile Engi- neering Department. J. B. Bagley, Head of the Depart- ment of Textile Engineering, is re- sponsible for the growth and present efficiency of the Department, for the operation of the mill on a financially sound basis, and for the establish- ment and growth of one of the larg- est and best cotton classing schools in the whole world. He has been connected with the department ever since its establishment in 1905. He operates a small cotton mill, complete in every detail for manu- facturing cloth of the ordinary grade. The raw cotton is bought on the streets of Bryan in the ordinary five hundred pound bale that comes from the gin, brought to the mill and made into cloth, which is sold at market prices. The only difference in this cloth and the other brands that are sold off the same shelf in the same store is that the labor which operated the machinery in- volved in the manufacture of it is done by students of this College who are taking the course in Textile En- gineering. Otherwise the operation of this mill is identically the same as any other one of the thousands of small commercial cotton mills of this country. The chief production of our mill is in the form of “canvas,” the ma- terial used in covering walls prepar- atory to papering. In fact this is the only manufactured product placed on the market by the Textile Engineering Department. But, the more elaborate patterns are made, in small quantities, by the Senior students. They do practice work in conceiving and puttin - into cloth ‘their plans for the fancy weaves. One Senior plans and manufactures a good pattern of shirt goods. He makes a few yards, which the De- partment donates to him and if he chooses he has it made into a shirt. A small sample of the same piece is placed in an exhibition case. A large number of variously designed and colored materials that have been made by the students of different classes are kept by the department and these will be appreciated by any- one who looks at them. This is another one of the de- partments that operates on a com- mercial basis, that pays its own way. Or it should be said, practically pays the expense of its operation. This is done by manufacturing a salable product and selling at profitable prices. The word “practically” is used because there is an appropria- tion of five hundred dollars per year expended by the department. Simply stated, this profit is the difference between the cost of raw cotton used in the manufacture of cloth and the price received for the product of this raw cotton. This year about twenty 500 pound bales of cotton costing approximately $3,500 will be manu- factured into cloth which when sold will bring the department about $6,000. This difference of $2,500, then, is, roughly stating, the profit. Of course if we dwell on the word “profit” there are a number of things that must be taken into considera- tion to protect the above statement that this $2500 is really profit. There is interest on the investment in building and machinery, salaries of instructors, ete., to come off, but to balance these amounts there are other services that the department performs that must be credited. For instnce, classes are taught in cotton classing throughout the school year, and a summer school of cotton class- ing is conducted. The Story of a Yard of Cloth Now if your interest has been ar- oused sufficiently by the above gen- eral statement of the work done by this department, you may take a trip through the mill. But first we will tell Mr. Bagley that we do not know what a Jacquard or sliver is and he will very probably show and tell us by conducting us along the aisles between the whirling machines of a process which is just about as fol- lows: : A 500 pound bale is opened and fed into a machine known as the bale-breaker. Here the matted cot- ton is loosened and torn into small bunches which are delivered to an endless belt that carries them to the “feeder”, a machine containing a series of pin-studded slats which carry the bunches of cotton in regu- lar quantity into the next machine known as the “opener”. Here it is beaten by a revolving shaft, turning at the rate of 1,500 times a minute, so that the cotton gets from forty to sixty slaps a sec- ond. The result is that the sand and other foreign matter is beaten out. The opener then continues the work of picking the cotton to pieces, into tiny tufts. These are caught up by air suction, the dirt being left be- hind and carried to the fourth ma- chine a “breaker picker.” The ‘breaker picker” beats the tiny tufts again and rolls them to- gether in a great sheet on a rod. This sheet is known as “lap.” Four of these laps are fed simul- taneously into a fifth machine, kn~—-~ 2s the “intermediate picker.”