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The 4 Vol. VII College Station, Texas, Tuesday, April 15, 1924. atly Bulletin No. 162 “LOCAL SCHOOL WINS IN SEVEN RENTS, Will Send Representatives to Austin for Annual Meet of University Interscholastic League The A. & M. Consclidated School will be represented in seven events at the annual Spring meet of the Tex- as Univrsity Interscholastic League, as a result of the meeting of the 24th district of the League, held here last Friday and Saturday. The meet was conducted by George B. Wilcox, director general of the district and superintendent of the A. & M. Consolidated Schocl. A. M. Blumberg, princiral cof the A. & M. Consolidated, was in charge of the track events. The results of the meet follow: High School Declamation Con- test—Junior girls, Susie Wilcox of Tola, first; Stella Kuhn, Wallis, second. Senior girls, Helen Green Wcod, Navasota, first; Ruth Dixon, Millican, second. Junior boys, Ar- nold Balke, Sealy, first; Thomas Clarke, Chapel Hill, second. Senior boys. Joe Hyland, College Station, first; Adolphus Autrey, Caldwell, second. High School Debate—Bryan first, team compcsed of James Pipkin and Edwin Jancik; girls debate, Bryan first, team composed of Nina Mae Ferguson and Annie Vanderworth. Track and field, Class A schools: 100-yard dash—H. B. Downs, Nav- asota; Edward Popek, Caldwell. 220-yard hurdles—Horace Dowell, Caldwell, 30 seconds; Clint Henslee, Caldwell. 440-yard Dash—W. J. Harris,! Caldwell, 56 seconds; Shine, Nava- sota. 9290-Yard Dash—H. B. Downs, Na- vasota, 26 seconds; Jack Simpson, Caldwell. 880-Yard Dash—H. B. Downs, Na- vasota, 2 minutes, 30 seconds; Benj Mac Hillard, Caldwell. Relay—Caldwel, team composed of Jack Simpson, Horace Dowell, Clint. Menslee and W. J. Harris. Time— 4 minutes, 30 seconds. Class B track and field events: Discus—L. F. Perrette, Wallis, 98 feet, 6 inches; Marvin Lawless, A. & M. consolidated. (Continued on Col. 1, Page 4) | WOMEN OF EXTENSION SERVICE ENTERTAIN GREATEST CHALLENGE SOCIAL CLUB i anrIIN SOCIAL PROBLEMS The College Women’s Social Club met Friday afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. with the women of the Exten- sion Service as hostesses. Mrs. T. O. Walton, general chairman, present- pei ed Miss Helen Higgins, program | “Ill health, premature death, and chairman, who took this opportunity | mental disability are problems in the to acquaint the College women more | Social life of today constituting a thoroughly with the work done by the | greater challenge to the scientist of Home Demonstration agents over the | today than the economic troubles of State. She discussed briefly the num- | the nation” Dr. J. C. Gillin, profes- erous activities that the agents are |Sor of sociology of the University of called upcn to enter into. She then | Wisconsin, told the student body in introduced Mrs. M. M. Daugherty, {Guten Hall Sunday morning. “Even home demonstration agent of Distriet | the economic value of human energy Dr. Gillin Says Social Waste Is More Important than Material. Miss Blodgett of District two, each of | whom gave scme points of interest in her respective district. interesting statistics concerning the | women’s and girl’s to work in this | county. Five 4 Bi Bj niky olub. girls, each intro YM Rofeh, KE gave data provi efficiency practice tion of the local clubs. Following the program a social! were served. ———————————— MUSTANGS WIN FOUR OF TENNIS MATCHES HERE The S. M. U. courtmen defeated the | netters of A. & M. here Saturdy af- terncon, taking four out of the six matches. The last set of doubles was played in the dark. Results of the meet: Doubles: Baird and Knickerbocker (S. M. U.) defeated Rounds and Dar- by (A. & M.) 4-6, 5-7, 6-2; Brooks and MeIntosh (S. M. TU.) defeated 6-3, 6-2. Singles: Knickerbocker (S. M. U.) defeatd Underwocd (A. & M.) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; McIntosh (S. M. U.) de- feated Hinman (A. & M.) 1-6, 6-3, 6-2; Rounds (A. & M.) defeated | Beard, (A. & M.) defeated Brooks (S. M. U.) 9-7, 6-1, Screwing a focd chopper on the kitchen table will ruin the oilcloth cover unless a piece of cardboard is inserted between the table and the vice. an enormous state educational system. Hinman and Underwood (A. & M.)! {greatly postpone weakness. (S.-M. U.) 6-4, 6-1; Darby seven, Miss Hill of District four, and is greater than all the material wealth f the nation. And there is the same waste product of human life as of material life, but nevertheless greater Miss Roten, Brazos county agent, | progress is being made in preventing was then introduced and gave some | material waste than in overcoming the waste of human energy’, he said. It is estimated that thirteen days a ye are taken out of the working yman, While health is not all- ood it /is\a | great sign of re- Ae Terr, {Capt olen a rio. of [Christianity than | any other factor in a community. A hour was enjoyed and refreshments movement for public health to save the disturbance of social and econo- mic life is deserving of the best at- tention of mankind. “Mental disease which also causes economic waste is amenable to scientific treatment and should be one of the problems engag- ing the attention of every community, state and nation,” he said. “In Wis- consin,” he stated, “the cost of mental incompetents to the state is one third the total expenditure of the entire Measures for control should be both curative and preventative,” he stated further. “Mental health must be taken care of as well as physical health. Those : who have inherent mental weakness can by careful attention to their ten- But the most important method crying for in- tellectual attention of the citizenship in the matter of human breeding” he declared. He spoke again at 3 o’clock in the afterncon. —————————— A sophisticated girl is one who has rracticed for years to attain her charmiro ratnralness, {
