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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1920)
l— “for any amount not less than ten] ~ THE DAILY BULLETIN Vol 3. | College Station, Texas Saturday, May iF 1920. BETTER SCHOOLS |S. & S. CLUB HOLDS COLLEGE PEOPLE | CAMPAIGN IS TO | OPEN HERE TODAY Campus Study Club Will Attempt to Tag Every Resident or Visitor in College Station. Every one will be asked to buy a tag today. work on the Campus and their inten- | tion is to miss nobody. You are re- | quested to help in making this tag! [ day a success. A tag may be had: cents, but you are supposed to con- tribute in proportion to your means. The real purpose of this day is not to raise money, primarily, but to let everybody in Texas know of the dan- ger that is confronting the schools, and incidentally enough money is ask- ed for to defray the expenses of the campaign. This is being called the Better Schools Campaign and Miss Annie Webb Blanton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction is the author of the movement. The day will be ob- served in every city and community in the State. The Campus Study Club as a Fed- erated Club of Texas is conducting the campaign in College Station. A circular from the State Depart- ment of Education says: “A crisis has been reached in the school interests of Texas. Not for a generation has the situation been so grave. It is conceded by all that | there is one hope. “In the November election there will be submitted to the voters of Tex- as an amendment to the State Con- stitution. This amendment purposes to remove the limit on the amount of taxes which the people of any district may vote to support their own schools. If this amendment carries the people of any district can vote money to pay teachers better. “If the proposed amendment should be defeated next November it will probably be several years before the Legislature will again submit it to the vote of the people. No other measure promising adequate relief in our present crisis in the schools is possible at present. 1t, therefore devolves upon -all friends of educa- tion in Texas to unite efforts in the campaign for this amendment. But it will not pass unless extraordinary efforts are made to line up support for the amendment. A hot campaign must be waged. To wage effective campaign thousands of dollars are re- quired. Already the teachers of the State have contributed with enthus- iasm. We are depending on your help to put across a tag day to in- crease the fund.” BUY A TAG. — ~— Just step out of your room and put your kodak work in one of Finn’s Film Boxes. We do the rest, besides save you time and worry. ANNUAL ELECTION OF ITS OFFICERS jaddle and Sirloin Club Banquet Will | be Given on Saturday Night May 8th. The Saddle and Sirloin Club met | lead the Club in 1920-21. The meet- | ing was well attended, some sixty- | five or seventy members being pres- ent, and enthusiasm reigned through- out the meeting. After the meeting was called to order by President Der- rick applications for membership were presented by several sophomores and these were favorably acted upon by the Club. The banquet committee then made | their report and the Club was called | upon to set a date for holding the an- | nual banquet. It was finally voted | that Saturday night, May 8th was the night for this great event. The com- mittee reports that there has been something like seventy-five plates | bought up to the present time and as | the time draws near they expect to | sell even more. As this was the last meeting in| April it was the time for the election of new officers. After the nomina- tions were closed and the ballots were counted the election returns were found to be as follows: S. C. Evans, President; J. E. Bloodworth Jr., Vice- President; Frank Wendt, Secretary; R. L. Patillo, Treasurer; Board of Di- rectors, S. C. Evans, J. E. Bloodworth Jr., Jack Mahan, A. F. Dieterich, and W. L. Ballard;Membership Commit- tee, T. B. Lewis, R. C. Mowery and “Little Red” Reynolds. The meeting was then turned over to the new pres- | ident. ‘Immediately after the meeting the | new president, Mr. S. C. Evans, called | the Board of Directors together to discuss plans and policies for the fu- ture. The old officers of the Club have been laboring under the difficulty of perfecting the organization of the Club in addition to putting on differ- ent attractions in the name of the Club. The fact that the Saddle and Sirloin is one of the strongest clubs in school and is putting on two of the biggest club events of the year in the way of - the . Saddle and Sir- loin Banquet and the Freshman Live- stock Judging Contest speaks well for the efforts of the retiring officers. The new officers already have plans on foot for events they expect to put on next year at the beginning of school that will be greater than any- thing else this club or any other club has done in the past. ——— “KITTY” TO NAVASOTA Professor R. D. Brackett with his all-star cast of dramatic artists went to Navasota yesterday where they presented “The Arrival of Kitty”. Their next appearance will be in Bryan on Tuesday night May 4. WILL OFFICIATE IN EVENTS TODAY A Banquet Will be Given the High | School Contestants by Different | Clubs of A. and M. The first event of the Interscholas- | Twelve young ladies will | Thursday night to elect officers to! tic Track and Field meet will be seen | on Kyle Field this morning at 9:30. The gates will be open at 9 o’clock. The climax of the day’s activity will | be the awarding of the medals at Kyle Field Gynasium at 8 o’clock Sat- | urday evening. The following College people will serve in the meet in the capacities as below specified: Honorary Referees, W. B. Bizzell, 9 Kyle. Referee and Starter, W. Kraft. Assictant Starter, H. J. Jonas. Clerk of Course, J. C. Clutter. Assistant Clerk, A. B. Knicker- | rocker. Manager, W. L. Driver. Assistant Manager, P. F. Fox. Clerk of Jumps, J. F. Mahan. Clerk of Weights, J. T. McNew. Timers, L. R. Hugon, S. Sanders, 0. H. Frazier, H. Cassiday. Judge of Finish, W. M. Denny, W. C. Weir, M. M. Works, J. O. Mor- gan, A. C. Love, L. G. Jones. Scorer, E. E. McQuillen. Assistant Scorer, B. Eubank. Clerk of Hurdles, L. S. Keen. Judge of Weights, O. D. Dinwid- die. -C. F. Scudder, R. J. Ehlert, D. V. Shuhart, J. A. Pierce. Judge of Jumps, D. D. Steele, M. P. Mims, C. N. Hailey, R. C. Har- ris. J. M. Reynolds, W. C. Barmore. Head Inspector, Scott Alexander. Inspectors, A. S. Vandervoort, G. | H. Hartung, E. C. Ward, T. E. Riggs. Announcer, “Catfish”? Goodman. Assistant Announcers B. J. Gar- ritty, = Pinckney Price, “Red” Thompson. Head Marshal, E. S. Wilson. Custodian of Medals, W. J. Young, PROGRAM. Morning—Track. Event No. 1. 9:30 a. m. 120+yard hurdles. Heat No. 1, 2, 3, 4. 4 Event No. 2. 9:50 a.m. 100 yard dash. ‘Heats No. 1, 2,:3, 4. Event No. 3. 10:10 a. m. 220 yard hurdles. Heats No. 1, 2, 3, 4. Event No. 4. 10:30 a. m. 220 yard dash. Heats No. 1, 2, 3, 4. Event No. 5. 10:50 a. m. 120 yard hurdles—SEMI FINAL. Heats No. 1,2. Event No. 6. 11:05 a. m. 100 yard dash—SEMI FINAL. Heats No. I, and 2. Event No. 7. 11:20 a. m. 220 yard hurdles—SEMI FINAL. Heats No. 1,9, Event No. .8 11:35 a. m. 220 yard dash—SEMI FINALS. Heats No. 3 2. Event No. 9. relay—FINAL. 11:50 a. m. 880 yard Number 181 | tion, (Continued on Page 4) MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ASSURED HIGHER SALARIES President Bizzell will Ask the Leg- islature to Provide $200,000.00 for This College. President Bizzell called a general conference of all officers, teachers and employees of the College Thurs- day afternoon and talked over the matter of finances for this institu- making especial reference to calaries. He emphatically stated that his | deepest concern at this time was to procure increased salaries for those deserving members of the College faculty who were ‘delivering the goods,” and who were doing their duty under the strain of inadequate recompense. Although it had been his desire since coming to A. and M. never to let there be a time when the construction of new buildings shouid not be going on, he said, yet now he was determined to sacrifice even that ambition if it was necessary to make that money available for increased salaries. Even considering the fact that every member of the faculty could make more money elsewhere than they were receiving from A. and M. yet he said “it is the duty of some of us to remain with the College through this crisis.” In beginning his talk President Bizzell said that the outlook and possibilities of adequate salaries for teachers was most promising, that in fact this was the most hopeful time he had ever seen for those engaged in teaching because the situation confronting the schools today has become so critical that the people have become alarmed. Especially is this true if the teachers maintain the right attitude toward the situ- ation, if they keep out of all kinds of alliances which might injure their standing in the. community. Dr. Bizzell said that it had oe- curred to him recentlys that perhaps he was being charged ‘with the fault of not being concerned about the critical situation confronting the of- ficers and teachers, and he offered assurance of his diligent--application to the task of alleviating their diffi- culties by relating briefly the work that he has been doing the past two months for the purpose of obtain- ing relief by securing additional funds for this College and all other educational institutions of the state. He said that he as well as all other administrative officers had long since got beyond the point of work- ing only for the institution which they represented, having become cognizant of the fact that the fail- ure of the public schools of Texas would be fatal to the higher insti- tutions of learning. And here he brought to the attention of the con- ference the necessity for some good J work on their part to assure the