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About The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1921)
e pT TEXAS AGGIE Published Semi-Monthly by The Asso- ciation of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical ~ College of Texas. © COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. ay de SF J. WEBB HOWELL ..... President : : Ix MOSELEY...... 1st Vice-Pres. W. A. WURZBACH . .2nd Vice-Pres. GUS STREET by pg 3rd Vice-Pres. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE J. WEBB HOWELL Chairman HAL MOSELEY .. coos ids ob Dallas W. A. WURZBACH .... San Antonio 3 PE GUS STREET .... vious Houston X W. L. STANGEL ... College Station BH ASTIN fee de Bryan <EB.CUSHING". . .\ «2 Houston RAT: POTTS 5 io a aiveike oats Waco WB. COOK vu 4s sis wee . Secretary : Advertising rates furnished fipol ape, plication. Second class postage applied for. Colonel Morrow, who recently in- spected the R. O. T. C. unit of the A. ‘and M. College, paid this institution the highest compliment possible when hesitated that his ispection had con- vinced him that this institution was second to no other military institu- tion, either in the distinguished or honor class. The studens and ex-stu- dents of A. ad M. College have always taken a great pride in the military features of this institution. Many people who have never attended a military school have never been able to realize the wealth of benefit there is to be accrued from military train- he ing. Some people in this state have criticized this institution because of the military atmosphere that prevails on the campus. However, one has oN never heard any criticism of this in- stitution for the splendid service its former students rendered in the late war. When the nation began to as- semble its young men in the training camps the great need was men to train these new renruits in the meth- ~ ods of warfare. The men who had ; gone out from this instituion were able to immediately assume the re- sponsibilities of commissioned and : non-commissioned officers, and assist + in training these men. Military train- ing certainly aids in the making of § good citizens. One cannot pay hom- ; age to the flag of his country at the ‘rising of the morning and the setting of the evening sun and perform his soldier without having gained g high- er régard and a broader appreciation “for the things they represent. It is to be hoped that the young men who attend the A. and M. College in X SN the future will guard jealously the glorious record the sons of this insti- tution have won on the field of battle 4 and as private citizens in the defense Ek) ‘of the ideals for which this country ~ stands. u IEEE. SEL ASS. ¥ PRESIDENT BRALLEY’S LATEST z MOVE y President Bralley’s s latest move ‘to take the administration of home dem- onstration work from the Extension Service of the A. and M. College and place it under the College of Indus-] f trial Arts is a communication ad- 3 dressed to each member of the he lature. Like af ‘the arguments has offered in ‘the past this commun- ication is a tnasterpiece of general, ties and ois sleading statements. The strange. thing about it all is why! A esident Bralley will insult the in- i of our legislators with the rguments he offers. He persists in ignoring the act upon which the ex- ‘istence of farm'and home demonstra- tion work depends, and tries to leave the impression that it is the fault of the A. and M. College that home demonstration work is not being done at C. I. A. Smith-Lever Act Prevents It Section 1 of the Smith-Lever Act provides that home and farm demon- stration work is to be ‘inaugurated in connection with the college or col- leges in each state now receiving, or which may hereafter receive benefits "i of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862.” The act further provides “that in any state in which two or more such colleges have been or here- after may be established the appro- priations hereinafter made to such state shall be administered by such college or colleges as the Legislature of such state may direct.” Under the federal law, the administration of home economics division of coopera- tive agricultural extension work must be inaugurated in connection with the land grant ollege of a state and in those states where there are two colleges receivii i benefits from the Land Grant act ‘he legislature ~ may*direct either or bot! institutions to administer the work. In no inter- pretation of the law can the College | ‘of Industrial Arts be considered a land grant college. Therefore, the Legislature is without authority to designate it to administer home dem- onstration work under the Lever Act. Why does President Bral- daily duties with the punctuality of a | {neither lawful nor wise to develop in 1 the different states a number of sep- Smith- X fits under the act of Congress zp- proved July 2, 1862. By receiving such benefits it woud be possible ‘or the legislature to designate the :«d- ministration of home demonstration work to that school. The Texas Ag- gie is not advocating such a merger of the two schools, but is suggesting it only as a possible solution to meet the ambitions of President Brall: ly for that school. No doubt former students and alumnae of the Collere of Industrial Arts would dislike for that school to lose its identity as a separate institution in the education- al system of this state. A thing that the Texas Aggie does seriously re- commend is a joint board for the A. and M. College and the College of In- dustrial Arts. By such an arrange- ment, conflicts, which have grown more frequent under the administra: tion of President Bralley, could be avoided and the two institutions could be brought closer in touch with each other. Each school would be able to maintain its identity as an individual institution, yet at the same time both could be brough into the close harmony they shoul maintain by reason of their common mission in teaching agricultural, me-| chanical and industrial arts. This+ would also be a solution to the very serious objection President Bralley makes at the new courses in home ‘economics that are being offered in the junior A. and M. Colleges. In creating these branch institutions the legislature made them coeducational. Now that these institutions are offer- ing the courses that the young wo- men attending them desire, Presi- dent Bralley makes the serious objec- tion that they are duplicating the work given at C. I. A. It is entirely possible that a certain amount of duplication could be eliminated if these schools were all under one ad- ministrative board. rangement the ley persistently avoid the facts in the argument? Facts About South Carolina and 3 Florida President Bralley has made much talk of the fact that the home dem- onstration forces are located at the woman’s college in both South Caro- lina and Florida. He would leave the impression that the home demon- stration and county agent work are administered separately. At least he does not go to the trouble to inform the reader that the work in both in- stances is administered by the direc- tor of the extension service in the agricultural college for men. Does Pres. Bralley believe it would be to the best interests of the women’s work in Texas to separate the home dem- onstration work from the Extension Division at College Station, place it at the College of Industrial Arts to be administered by the director of ex- tension who resides at the A. and M. College? President Bralley would also leave the impression that the work in South Carolina and Florida is entirely satisfactory. He refers vo the attitude of the presidents of the colleges in those two states, but un- fortunately he does not quote state- ments from them. In a letter under date of April 23, 1921, the President of Clemson College, South Carolina, states to Dr. Bizzell that by memo- randum of agreement the Director of the Extension Service, located at the land grant college, is responsible for the home demonstration work in that state. He also says that he can see a conflict in the future between the work at Clemson College and the work at the woman’s college over the division of funds. In a letter from the President of the University of Florida, he says he would not advise the separation of tlese activities in Texas. Secretary Houston’s View In his original article President Bralley quotes former Secretary Houston as if Mr. Houston favored the separation of these activities. In the first place there was nothing in the quotation given by Presiden Bralley to warrant such an idea. It has always been the policy of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the JA. and M. College of Texas to enlist the assistance of every agency possible in conducting extension work but they are not permitted by law nor do they think it wise to divide the work in the state into a number of administrative units. In a letter to Mr. Clarence Ousley on this same gubject former Secretary Hous- ton said: < “The fw certainly did not con- template "an automatic’ and mathe- matical division of ‘funds between home ' economics and other rural problems. Our duty is to study the problems of greatest relative import- ance at the time ang to furnish aid as we may. “I agree with you further that eco- nomics has not the restricted mean- ing that some colleges give it. and that it woud be a mistake to segre- gate home economics from general aricultural problems. “I agree with you further that it is home economics ducted in the Junior Colleges would relieve the College of Industrial Arts of carrying short courses for home makers, home demonstration agents and others who have no de- sire to work for a ‘degree and make it possible for that institution to ap- ply the funds it is now spending to maintain courses that are being elect- ed by a few students to the courses that are in greater demand. In sug-| gesting the joint board the Texas Ag- gie is not advancing a new idea. We are suggesting the identical arrange- ment they have in Florida, which President Bralley seems to approve so heartily. In that state the Univer- sity and the college for women are under the same board. The director. of extension ‘in the University of Florida directs the home demonstra- tion division of the woman’s college and the president of the latter insti- tution has no authority whatever in administering the home demonstra- tion division of cooperative agricul- tural extension work in that state. RE rl a. —_™YDOOb SUPPORTING ATHLETICS. No doubt every former student will read with a great deal of interest the letter from Mr. James Sullivan to the secretary relative to financial condi- tion and future outlook of the De- partment of Athletic Training. Every man who has ever attended the A. and M. College is acquainted with the difficulties the Athletic Depart- ment has had to surmount in the past. Mr. Sullivan’s letter would in- dicate that there are difficulties that remain to be solved. ; First of all, Mr. Sullivan and those directing the Athletic Department are to be commended for the excel lent financial showing they made last year. While it might have been wise for them to have carried over some of the notes against the department for another year instead of attempt- ing to pay them at one time, the spirit that prompted them to pay off these old debts and thus maintain the confidence of our creditors was also commendable. Mr. Sullivan is frank to admit that these debts were paid at the expense of the physical equip- ment of the department and the teams representing the different branches of sport. It certainly is self-evident to every reader of this paper that such a policy will prove disastrous if it is carried on for an- other season. X The A. and M. College has a very enviable record in athletics during the last five years. What is meant by this is that we have branched out into other major sports and ‘have put out winning teams in these branches as well as in football. Last year A. and M. put out her first boxing and wrest- ling team and won an easy victory over the University. This year our wrestling team was first in the state meet and was defeated only by Okla- homa A. and M. for Southwestern honors. This year was our first time to put out a tennis team. We ‘von over all other colleges and universi- ties in the state and played the Uni- versity of Texas closer than any of the other teams in the conference. It will be remembered that the Univer- sity racket wielders fought their way arate administrative units and to set aside funds specifically for such units to administer. One controlling thought in the Smith-Lever Act was to coordinate activities and to develop a unified piece of administrative ma- chinery. The act provides that the funds shall be administered in con- nection with the land grant college, the Department of Agriculture co- operating with this agency as an ad- ministrative factor. The Congress desired to avoid duplication of effort, dispersion of effort, friction and waste.” A Attitude at Washington J The above was written when the first attempt was made to reach a cooperative agreement between the College of Industrial Arts and the A. and M. College when the administra- tion of the extension work was under the direction of Mr. Ousley. A tele- gram recently received from Dr. A. C. True, Chief of the States Rela- tions Service, would indicate that the attitude of the Washington officials has not changed in the least. Dr. True’s telegram is as follows: “Home demonstration work and farm demonstration work are admin- istered in all states by one land grant college. In South Carolina and Flor- ida only is there cooperative agree- ment which puts headquarters of home demonstration work there, but it remains under administration of extension directors. Smith-Lever Act does not permit transfer of Exten- sion funds and administration from land grant colleges.” The Solution Since there are such close restric- tions thrown around the administra- tion of home demonstration work by the Smith-Lever Act, there is only one practical way to remove these disabilities in the case of C. I. A. do- ing the home demonstration work in Texas. If the College of Industrial Arts was merged into the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College system tire United States last year and after means must be provided for supply- could be supplied the department Under that ar-| courses as they are now being con-|- from the lethargy into which they it woud be entitled to receive bene- [into intercollegiate finals for the en- Bg | defeating all opponents was defeated for the national championship by Yale, after a very close contest. At the time of this writing it looks as if we shall be southwestern champions in track, and our chances for the conference championship in baseball are good. Every one is familiar wit the very enviable record we have in winning two basket ball champion- ships in as many years. Are we going to maintain the enviable position we have won? One of the main objections that has been raised to playing the Thanksgiving game with Texas at College Station is our inability in the past to properly take care of the crowds that attend this game. As Mr. Sullivan points out, the situation his year is more acute than ever. The football bleachers are old and dan- gerous, if overloaded. They must be completely rebuilt before next year’s football season opens, and as Mr. Sullivan shows in his statement, the department must go in debt again to build these bleachers. If we would ever maintain the po- sition in college athletics in this state that we deserve to occupy some ing the Athletic Department with the necessary physical equipment, other than building it with gate receipts. Every dollar of these receipts should go to maintaining the teams and se- curing more and better athletes by making our athletic raining more at- tractive to the youn® men over the state. If this physical equipment without touching the gate receipts, there is no reason why the Athletic Department could not be self-sustain- ing. Here is a problem that is the duty of every former student of the A.tand M. College to help solve. EXPRESSIONS FROM OLD MEN EX-STUDENTS’ ORGANI- ~ ZATION. ~ Your kind favor of 16th., has been delayed on account of my absence from the city. The four years that I spent at old A. and "M. from 1896 to 1900 are tr easured by me as the happiest years of my life, and while I did not enjoy the pleasure of graduating, I feql sure that there is no graduate who takes a deeper interest in the af- fajrs of A. and M. College than my- self. ; /I believe that the Association of Former Students which you have or- ganized is the best day’s work our ge ever did, and it certainly has my heartiest endorsement, for 1 feel] Sor athletic teams is the develoy- - thelt there are hundreds of men who haye in the past attended A. and M. did not graduate, but have the inferests of our school at heart as m§ch as any of the Alumni. et me know right away what steps ke to become a member of your nization, and will | send you ck to cover. ishing you every success in your w undertaking and if there is any- thing that I can do to boost things along and put “pep” and “push” in- | Sincerely yours, E. P. HUNTER. It should go without saying that I m in sympathy with any movement hich will tend to bring the former students of the Agricultural and Me- chanical College of Texas closer to- gether. By concert of action along well conceived lines of high purpose, the ex-students can do much good for our College and for our State. I hope your efforts to awaken the Alumni and the former students have fallen may be successful. I have seen several similar efforts rise and fall. I hope that your plans may be layed on such lines and so execu- ted, that the present movement may continue through all time to come, and that by the force of united and earnest accion on the part of the ex- studets the Agricultural and Mechan- ical College may be an influential and potent factor in the progress of our great state toward the splendid des- tiny that awaits it. Sincerely yours, E. B. CUSHING. — — -- MANY OLD TIMERS RETURN FOR R. V. The Ross Volunteer festivities brought a large gathering of old tim- ers back to the College. “Newt” Settegast and wife came up by motor from Houston. Hartwell Kinnard and wife, formerly Miss Eleanor Wurz- bagh, of San Antoniq, daughter of Judge Charles Wurzbach, were here from Gonzales. Among the others who returned were “Catfish” Goodman, Pinkney Price, of Dallas; Leslie Ballard, of Houston; T. Burns, of Houston; “Skinny” Vandervoort of Dallas; “Skeet” "Girardeau, of Galveston, “Duggie” Pittman, and a score or more of others. Homer L. Fry, landscape architedt of Waco, who recently was married to Miss Jeanette Seward, of Waco, had planned bringing his wife over for the festivities but had to forego the trip on account of the illness of | THE FIRST YEAR MEN al ¥ RE IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS | : 'd | Campus T Club Wants Former Ath- fair, clean sport. would come, or who would be sent by over-zealous friends, take part in athletics, will not come if they have to remain one year in college before they are eligiblle to play on the varsity team. During their first year they must play apart and in the meantime show that they have the scholastic requirements and the ability to represent the college. coach to make a careful survey of all the athletic material among the first year men and to see that these men come out for the teams. At the end to the varsity coaches a number of men who are able to fill the places this manner it is possible for the var- sity coaches to get the best material with the least possible delay. a first class varsity team if there were no reserve and freshmen teams to help in its development through practice games. freshmen have given the varsity team and Thursday of last week by scores tain-elect of the 1922 basket ball gle. held the Owls to a single binle, but errors by his teammates permitted the only run. Morris, star shortfielder of the Aggie nine, pulled a nifty bit for the College Station lads. Dyer, star moundsman, for the owns in the second game, when they jump- as many runs. for the Aggies, gave up five hits, which scored two runs for the Owls. Dwyer again started the when he doubled to left in the cen- ter and scored on a single by Smith. The Aggies continued to hit until five runs were made in this frame. Again in the fifth they started a batting rally and this time sent the great Eddie Dyer to the Showers. Score by innings: A. and M... Rice . Crawford; Rice—Melton and Walker. Score by innings: A.-‘and “M...o Rice . and Crawford; Rice—Dyer, Dunker- ley and Walker. W. B. “Bebb” Franeis andiwitel of Dallas were here as we raid (Mrs. N. M. McGinnis Das. : vq aod R 3 Ni YX , AL Lr 9] A 4 3 By Frank G. Anderson Freshman Coach \ The Southwest Conference sille which prohibits freshmen from tak- g ing part in varsity athletics is ably the most potent of all me sures. taken to rid intercollegiate. athletics | been, what is it now and what will it of professionalism, and to raise. ‘the prob- | standard higher toward the aim of Many men who ‘simply to, It is the duty of the freshman of the year he is usually able to give of those lost through graduation. In It would hardly be possible to have It has been a notice- able fact during the past year that more valuable scrimmages than have the reserve teams. The varsity and reserve squads usually work together and are interchangeable. In this way they become too well known to each other to give a scrimmage the na- ture of a real contest. The fresh- men, though grounded in the same | fundamentals and by the methods used by our head coach, are given different plays and signals and are capable of giving the varsity team a contest that will be as beneficial, to a certain degree, as a game with | some outside . team. Especially is | this true in football and basketball. One of the chief reasons for sup- ment of the individual participants. By maintaining freshmen teams it is possible to practically double number of men taking part in our, competitive sports. FAA It is very important to give a first | year man a good start in his college athetic training. In schools where freshmen are allowed to play on the same teams with upper classmen, it is noticable that they show a mark- ed lack of confidence and very rare- ly find themselves until the second year. Freshmen will try harder and will put forth their best efforts much better if they are among men of their own class. AGGIES BEAT OWLS IN BASEBALL The Aggies Hook Te both games of a two-game series from the Owl base- ball team on Rice field Wednesday of 5 to 1 and 9 to 2. Pat Dwyer, cap- team, as well as a diamond star, was the hero of the first game by polling two home runs, together with a sin- Olson, pitching for the Aggies, of base running that counted a run The Aggies got revenge on Eddie ad on his delivery for nine hits and Henderson, pitching scoring First game. RA.E. . 021 000 101—5 7 6 mes + Sok 000 001 000—1 1 6 Batteries: A. and M.—Olson and Second game. R.H.E. 050 040 000—9 9 0 eyes 000 011 000—2 5 8 Batteries: A. and M.—Henderson the | REORGANIZATION OFT CLUB PLANNED OLD T MEN CALLED TO COM. 'MENCEMENT TO REVIVE SS -T ASSOCIATION letes to Support the Athletic Association We the members of the T Associa- tion on the campus see the need of a stronger organization. We have had a T Association but what has it be in the future. This is the vital question now and it is only through the members that we can answer. Gentlemen, we want to see you here commencement, but if you are not here personally we want to hear your | suggestion. Some of you have gone out from school and have never returned, others have returned only a few times. While receiving the good old blows and bruises that made you love old A. and M. you realized that every thing that could be supplied the ath- lete was not given you. If you are one of the old timers you may think he athletes of today are receiving more - attention than you did. Be that as it. may, we all know they don’t have enough. We know that the Athletic Department has gone its limit all the time, in fact more than the limit in some things. They have their noses to the grindstone all the time trying to make ends meet. Now we can help them and we can help old A. and M. Don’t you think that the Athletic Department will feel better when they know the T Asso- ciaion is back of them with a real live organized body of men, in every sense of the word who will go to the mat for old A. and M. Let’s get or- ganized in better form and do some- thing. Now is the time, during commenc=:- ment this year. This T Association is going to be a 100 per cent A. and M. oganization. Come back and help. Signed, V. SCOTT, “WOODROW?” WILSON, A. L. SMITH. Cmmittee. HIGH SCHOOL MEET BEST IN HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE ‘Austin High Wins Fast Meet at Col- ~ lege Station. Four Records Broken. Sherman High Wins Relay. pet, " The Eleventh Annual High School | Track and Field Meet, held at Kyle Field April 30, was one of the best, if ‘not the best, meet in the histor } of the College. It was beyond doubt the fastest high school ‘meet ever held in the State. More high school stars were present than ever before, faster ‘time was made on all track events, and the field events were almost equal to those of college meets. Austin High School, presenting a well balanced team, won the meet, with Sherman High and Forest High through. There were over 175 en- tries, representing almost every sec- tion of the State. i Stanford of Austin was high-point man. He won one first and two sec- ond places, giving him 11 points; and his nearest competitors were Wilson of Forest High of Dallas and Rich- ardson of Sherman, who tied for sec- ond place, both taking two first places, giving them a total of 10 points each. Four high school records were broken. Richardson of Sherman hurl- ed the discus 127 feet 4 inches, only 5 feet short of the conference rec- ord held by Keen of A. and M. He also put the 12-pound shot 44 feet 9% inches. Wilson of Forest High, Dallas, broke the record in both the broad jump and the 220 low hurdles, his record in the former was 22 feet 8 inches and his time in the latter 26 flat. Stanford of Austin threw the javelin 170 feet 1 inch. : The A. and M. Cup, which was won last year by Cleburne, was turned over to Austin High, in whose posses- sion it will remain for at least an- other year. The Spaulding Cup was permanently awarded to Austin High School, the winner of the meet, while the banner was awarded to Sherman High School, the winner of the relay. Gold, silver and bronze medals were place men. Saturday night the visiting con- testants and their ‘coaches were given a banquet by the student body. While many delicactes ordinarily in- cluded in a banquet menu had to be excluded,'a wholesome training menu was given instead, spiced with music by the Aggieland-Jazzland Seven. ed a program of boxing and wrest- ling, after which the winning" contest- ants were awarded their trophies. of Dallas close contenders all the way awarded to first, second and third -_ After the banquet the visitors enjoy- |
