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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1920)
Friday, April 23, 1920. THE DAILY BULLETIN Published each morning, except Monday, by the Publicicy Department of the Agri- ealtural and Mechanical College of Texas Official Publication of the College. Dis- | iributed free to all students, instructors and | Campus resiaents. Advertising rates +shed on application. Office: Room 113, first floor Acadeniic Building WILLIAM BENNETT BIZZELL President of the College FRANK ©. MARTIN Secretary of Publicity ORGANIZATION IS BIG WORD OF THE CONFERENCE HERE (Continued from Page 1) the things that were introduced for | Officers of the | their consideration. Animal Husbandry Department em- ployed every bit of the knowledge and every facility that they posses. sed in leading the bankers and farm: ers to see and realize the great vantages and possibilities of the live- | stock industry in Texas. The Ex periment Station Staff sought to ex: plain and demonstrate to the dele- fur- | | tional. gates of the Conference to what | extent the agriculture of Texas might be advanced by the employ- ment of scientific methods of seed selection, rotation and pest destruc- tion. To the faculty of the College and the student body was the task of entertaining the four hundred visitors. Afternoon Session. Walton Peteet opened the meeting Wednesday afternoon with cussion of “Farm Credit.” John Gohman, a farmer near Wa- co, told “What the Farmer is Most in Need of and How the Banker Can Help Him.” Mr. Gohman said that the producer ought always t but instead at the constitutes only about thirty-five per cent of the total population. He did not believe that in the State of Texas more than ten per cent of the people were actually liv- on and working a farm. ing This situation, he said, was caused by the people seeking a more pleas- ant and profitable buriness with less work and more money, which took them away from the agricultural and to the commercial The chief attraction of the commercial life is that there is more brain to be found there. A man an intelligent director, and he can't find that on the farm. Another cause of rural population is the numbers men who move to town to educate their children, and education in commercial life. likes to work under roa lec Y ar] weakened the of the city leads to the and away from the agricultural life. And even education in the country takes the children from the farm, because the country teachers themselves are proparing for a commercial life and unavoidably turn the minds of the children they teach that way. For some children this is best but for others it is unfortunate, as it is lead- ine them “across the grain.” The result of all this is overcrowd- ed cities, city schools which are unprepared to care for the hundreds of students. 7 Gorham said that in his opin- congested | for the SEER + ENROLLMENT AT A. AND M. # 4 COLLEGE UP TO NOON i % YESTERDAY od a a a A a a children must be located in the country, and taught by teachers who | are willing to make their life a part | pupils | of the community. The should be taught home problems and | home making. be a miniature agricultural school. He said that education was to fit one for life and the rural schools ere certainly not doing that thing. For this reason he recommended to the bankers that a valuable invest- ment for them would be to put their money up for a better rural edu- cat’onal work. What Farmers Need Most E. ’ hl i Pre=ident [Farmers jeet of Most.” Lyday of Union, spoke on the sub- “What Texas Farmers Need congratulated the agricultural interests of Texas, bankers and the A. Conference. A well rounded system of agricul- ture He as. Every pound of food and feed used in this State should be raised | within its borders, which would a dis- | | . | | never be solved until we have regu- | o be in the majority, | present time, he I | rral:e it the richest state in the union. | The great problem facing Texas is | one of marketing, he said, which can | lated production. The manufac- turers have always practiced it and | | the | can never solve the marketing prob- | farmers must practice it. We lem until production is. controlled to the effective demand of the world. We must also have the proper storage facilities in the form of | warehouses, curing plants and cold jon the rural school was the farmers’ | ~roblem and always had been. even went so far as to say that the rural schools were the cause of all He | ton storage houses. Cotton has blessed it is known except [and state every where this of ours which produces two-thirds of it. To the South cotton has| brought distress, poverty, poor schools. it has destroyed rural so-| ciety and banished the country churches. And these condifions can never be remedied until we have a correlated marketing system. This | is possible only through a special cot- ton organization which is the only instrument through which we can ac- complich the reforms in the market- ing of cotton. It matters not if the farmers raisz cotton with a three inch staple, they | will get no more for it than for the half-and-half variety, simply because | established trade won’t pay for They know well, this is true, but we cannot force them to pay the dif- the it, ference ganization. United be put behind the marketing to accomplish anything. He said the best chance for cotton man was to get behind the American Cotton Association which has already become well and powerful in nine or ten other states. W. sentiment must reforms L. program for a talk on “What Hous- Bankers Have Done to Farmers to Introduce Pure- Livestock,” but he was not Local Bred our troubles, both internal and na- present. As a remedy of the difficulty | he said that the schools for country | Every school should | the | « combined | the | and M. College | he said, was the need of Tex- | except through a strong or-| the | organized | Stallings, County Agent of | Harris County, was the last on the | Assist | ~~ | PF. M. Law, President of the Tex- as Bankers’ Association, then | occasion to express himself on the | »acalt of the Conference. He said {that he was glad the record of the took | proceedings would include not single resolution passed by the | bankers and farmers, that they had | come here to study and learn and work out each other’s problems and | not to spend their time passing on |a lot of resolutions that meant nothing or had any chance of ac- | complishing anything. He was con- vinced, he said that the conference had been worth while and had serv- ed a very useful purpose in stimu- lating an interest in better agricul- ture and better livestock. Speak- ling for the bankers, he said that of the one hundred present during the two days he was sure everyone of | them would go away a missionary of | this conference and would mend it so strongly to the Texas Bankers’ Association that they would | quickly make it a permanent organi- zation at their next meeting. He predicted that between 1500 and 2000 would be in attendance next | year. Colonel P. L. Downs expressed himself as deeply appreciative of the help and co-operation that had been fextended the conference by the A. land M. College and c=aid the whole | conference was in agreement with him. | President Bizzell replied to Col- lonel Downs by assuring him that | [ what the College had done toward helping and entertaining the bani- ers and farmers had been done with pleasure. If there was any lack of facilities here for their proper en- tortainment, he said, they them- celves were really the ones to blame, I - ere. Speaking further President Biz- told the bankers and farmers | that the responsibility rested in great on them to provide funds for { zell part this College, immediately. He said they should go back to their homes land instruct their congressmen and senators to vote for legislation at the special session of the Legzisla- | ture to be called May 24, providing | funds for the operation of this Cel- lege. $80,000 was needed He said provided by the Legislature in special session next month that AL to open its doors next fall. | There is some $6,000,000.00 in the | State Treasury at this time, whicn has come in as taxes on oil produc- tion, he said, and thus the Legisla- ire does have power to appropriate the amounts needed by this College, C. I. A. and the State University. Farmers Congress. Just before the meeting adjourned Te recom- | for after all they provided all we had = au | | | this time, and if this amount was not | land M. College would hardly be able | HEH is waiting for you among a great collection of up-to-the-minute styles in young men’s clothes, at A. M. Waldrop & Co. EEE Mr. Munson, President of the Tex- as Farmers’ Congress made the an- nouncement of the Congress to be held at this College August 9, 10 and JL asked that the bankers and farmers to give the Congress all pub- licity on their return home. He spoke a few words on the pur- poses and nature of the Congress, saying that it was made up of the swine and of growers, beekeepers, etec., and in ad- affibated organizations {dition to the cpearate meetings or | zroup meetings of the different or- ganization one general meeting of all delegates was held each day to dis- cuss those things common to all {erests. 1n- — El Pee BIG COMPANIES ARE ASKING FOR MORE ENGINEERS (Continued from Page °) | but since announcing his intention he has had even a better offer. Many cimilar positions are — corporations in this country, for | [ open weent graduates or those who will graduate this spring. eet Rr, 1 Oo LC 24 ¢ Cc Two years in the running—no | kicks—goes to show what kind of | kodak work is done by FINN’S FILM | SERVICE. ————eD tle CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK Friday, April 23. Holiday, day R. V. eve- ning, Queen’s Ball, Bernard Shisa Mess Hall. | Saturday, April 24. | second Holiday, third day R. V. Dancing in evening, Bernard Sbisa Mess Hall. Sunday, April 25. 3ible School, 9:15, Guion Hall. | Morning Services, 10:50, Guion Hall. Y. M. C. A. Chapel Service 6:30. Y. M. C. A. Chapel. Baptist Services, Guion Hall, 2:30. Methodist Services, Y Chapel, 2:30 Presbyterian Services, E. E. Bldg. 2:30. Christian Services, Airdome, 2:30. Episcopal Services, Room 10, C. EK. Bldg., 9 o’clock. Mass for Campus Catholics, Room 19, C."E. 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