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ig ] a ii 3 ena PI r———— \ A ————— , MAHAN BREAKS from the "ww Fi THNCIRR” AS”. 4 » od ¥ { ot J} { | { . AGGIES DEFEAT OWL CINDER PATH MEN SOUTHERN RECORD IN JAVELIN HURL. Lindsay of Rice Ties World Record in Hundred Yard t Dash. On April 30 the Aggie track team, headed by Coach Rothgeb and Cap- tain Weir, journed to Houston for a dual meet with the Owls. The Aggies were victorious by a score of 83 to 84. In this meet the Aggies scored ten first places. Captain Weir took first place in the 220-ard dash, and Jack Mahan, captain of last year’s Aggie football team and a member of the Olympic team representing the United States in 1920, broke the con- ference record in the javelin hurl, with a distance of 187 feet 9 inches. Sammie Sanders won first and Davis second in the 440-yard dash, while Nye and Bickford of Rice were no matches for the fleet Herd and Lynch in the two-mile run. The Aggies won both the high and low hurdles, as both Denny and Fra- zier easily outdistanced their oppo- nents. The Owls forfeited the relay to the Aggies. Captain Lindsay of Rice tied the world’s record of 9.8 seconds in the 100-yard dash. WIND STORM M DESTROYS FARM MACHINERY BUILDING College Station, Texas, May 10.— A swifth wind storm that accom- panied a heavy rain here yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock completely destroyed a large temporary build- ing housing about $15,000.00 worth of farm machinery used in the in- struction of agricultural engineering students of the A. and M. College, causing a loss in the building of "about $2,500 and damage to the ma- chinery of about $500. The wind struck the building from the north, lifted both sections of the roof of about 9000 square feet area and the gables intact, carried it over the auto mechanics laboratory, a large frame structure 30 feet in height and 100 feet wide, which stood across the road over 100 feet wrecked structure, and shattered the form of plank and roof- ing paper against the Animal Hus- bandry Building. The roof, clinging in the form in which it sheltered the building from which it was lifted, was raised to a height of forty or fifty feet and transported a distance of over 300 feet before it struck the obstacle which wrecked it. About 100 students were at work in the Auto Mechanic Building when the great mass of timber went over and had it been just a few feet lower and struck the dilapidated shack the results would have been in all prob- ability a tragedy. Another freakish circumstance of the destruction was that it occurred at about the only time of the day when students were not at work in the wrecked building, It would certainly have been fatal to anyone who had happened to be in the building at the time. The machinery in the building was only held on consignment by the col- lege and belonged to various man- ufacturers in the United States. The loss on this is represented in the re- pair cost of the implements. A. & M. CLEANS BAYLOR WITH LITTLE TROUBLE IN PAIR OF CONTESTS A. and B. had little trouble in tak- ing a pair of contests from the Baylor Baptists baseball club at the College during R. V. Week. The first game, played on Friday morn- ing as result of too much rain on Thursday was a track meet for the Farmers. It ended with a thirteen to two score resting in the lap of the College Station lads. : Bible started Henderson but yank- ed him in the second inning when the Aggies got to knocking the ball out of the lot. Olsen finished, pitching a good game and fielding his position nicely. In the second contest, Cap- tain Matthews’ charges played stellar " ball. Lyons on the mound for Bay- lor worked well. He yielded eight knocks to the Aggies which netted a trio of runs as compared with one made by the Baptists. Henderson worked in the second contest and al- lowed four hits. Both games were seen by a large crowd, which includ- ed practically all of the visitors here for the R. V. Govan N. Stroman ’1 Ag., is tak- ing special work in the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Stroman went overseas with Company G, 360th In- fantry. and was at the receiving end of one of Heine’s H. E.’s. At any rate, Govan came back, but the Kai- ser couldn't. WITH THE OLD TIMERS Class of 1916 . Hans E. Runge, T. E. is Assistant Superintendent of The Trion Com- pany, Cotton Mills, Trion, Ga. Captain Leon C. Dennis, Ag. is still with Uncle Sam. He is Captain, Coast Artillery Corps, Battery I, stationed at Camp Jackson, S. C. J. I. McGregor, Ag. is now direct- ing the activities of the Camp Travis School of Agriculture and Farm. His address is E. & R. Office, Camp Travis, Texas. 0. R. Olson, M. E., formerly of Galveston, is now with Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., of Philadel- phia, Turbine Engineering Depart- ment and is located at Essington, Pa. Class of 1915 Capt. C.- J. Davis, Ag., of Corsi- cana, is now stationed at Forth Leav- enworth, Kansas, as Captain U. S. Cavalry. W. N. Connell, Sp. Ag. is located at Midland, Texas, ranching. J. R. Jarvis, C. E. is with the oLne Star Gas Company and is Superin- tendent of Gasoline Plant at Petrolia, Texas. S. F. Davis, Agr., of San Antonio, is Prof. of Chemistry and Physics in John Tarleton Agricultural Collega, at Stephenville, Texas. C. C. Hudspeth, E. E. of Hondo, is also with Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., as Foreman of Transform- er Test, and is located in Wilkins- burg, Penn. He asks ‘‘what makes the wild cat wild?” A. E. Burges, Ag. of Weatherford, farmed for a couple of years but is now employed by the Dallas Semi- Weekly Farm News, Dallas, Texas as Staff-writer. Class of 1914 - G. P. Knox, Ar. is now operating the Knox Nurseries, of San Antonia. His address is 123 W. Commerce St. J. A. Peterson, M. E., is now con- nected with Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., as instructor in Ma- chine Designing. He will also receive his M. E. degree in June, in Indus- trial Engineering. J. K. G. Fisher, Ag. of Ft. Worth, is now Sales Manager, Swift and Com- pany and is located at 320 Glenwood Ave., East Orange, N. J. Dr. B. C. “Botany” Ball, Ag. 1s practicing medicine in Fort Worth. E. L. Ayers, Ag. of DeLeon, is with Ayers Nursery Company, of Houston as Landscaper Gardneer. Class of 1913 J. P. Lidiak, M. E,, is Condenser Engineer for Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., Philadelphit, Pa. E. A. Eversberg, Ag. is owner and manager of a Piggly Wiggly store at Brenham, Texas. R. A. Birk, C. E. of Iowa Park, Texas, is now with Amerada Petro- leum Corporation. He is District Geologist of Southern Oklahoma. His address is Duncan, Okla. Ernest Langford, A. E., of Bert- ram, is Instructor in Architecture, University of Illineis, Urbana, Ill. Class of 1912 J. A. Block, C. E., has just recent- ly resigned from the Highway De- partment as Division Engineer and is now with Tibbetts Construction Com- pany, Mineral Wells, Texas. S. H. Burchard, C. E., is a Junior Member of the firm of Burchard and Burchard, Gonzales, Abstractors of Land Titles and is also County Sur- veyor of Gonzales Co., Texas. A. B. Collins, E. E. is with Em- pire Gas and Fuel Co., Bartlesville, Okla. He is Vice-President of this company. His address is 508 Choe- tow. Quinlan Adams, A. E., is District Manager, Continental Insurance Company, 80 Maiden Lane, New York, N. Y. Class of 1911 C. A. Martin, A. H., is in the ranching business at Mensrd, Texas. He states that he expects to attend commencement this year. B. E. Giesecke, A. E., is a member of the firm of Walsh & Gieseke, Ar- chitects, Austin, Texas. B. M. Brown, M. E., is Master Mechanic for the Southern Pacific Railroad and is located at El Paso, Texas. J. R. Christian, ’11 and B. H. Christian ’10 are partners in Chris- tian Bros. Lumber Company, at Houston, Texas. J. R. Christian is in charge of production and B. H. Christian is in charge of sales, Class of 1910 ’ Chester M. McKay, E. E., is now Secretary-Treasurer for Longview Iron Works, Longview, Texas. O. L. Eversberg, ‘Ag. is with B. E. Norvell & Co., Real Estate, 415 Beat- ty Bldg., Houston, Texas. H. J. Mikeska, C. E., is Chief En- gineer and Purchasing Agent for Texas City Terminal Co., Texas City, Texas. Mr. Frederick V. von Rosenberg, 84, is an attorney at law in Austin. Mr. von Rosenberg, it will be remem- bered, was formerly commissioner of insurance and banking, and was at one time chairman of the State Min- ing Board and president of the board of trustees of the State Blind Insti- tute. clude a good girt with it. A. AND M. MAN EMPLOY- ED ON SUGAR HARM (Continued from Page 1) at Guaymate. This division is §bout 25 kilometers from Romana oi ‘ap- proximately 18 miles. Out here we have some of the conveniences of Romana. We have a club house, a restaurant, dormitories and a few stores to spend our money in. | We have electric lights, ice, ete., toa. "About every eight miles therelis a community like this situated on| the railroad. My A. and M. friends| are in Higural, the next station. Mog: of them have been here for nearly a vear and all seem to like the work but despise the lonesomness of! it. You see, each superintendent has about two thousand acres under his charge. He has to see to every oper- ation connected with the growing of the cane. He hires his own men, keeps a payroll and makes a daily re- port to the office of his division. Each superintendent has three horses, for he must ride a great deal, in fact, all day long. The company furnish- es everything, horses, saddles. brid- les, blankets, revolvers and catridges. We do not have to care for our horses or take care of our own rooms. Other men are hired for that purpose. The old timers here tell me that I got here just in time to take part in the busy season, harvesting. They are to begin cutting next Monday and continue to cut until next May. Be- sides this 200,000 acres in cultivation this company has extensive holdings in Porto Rico. farms also where they raise their own horses and mules, and oxen for the cane carts. They have been using Brahma bulls, so you can imagine the big brawny type of oxen they ‘have here. They operate a big dairy in Romana where they produce all the butter for these plantations. They ought to start a poultry farm also for eggs are selling at ten cents a piece here. I want to ask you to get me a used saddle and send it to me. pany furnishes McClellan saddles but these men here who ride so much do not like them for an everyday diet. Get a used saddle so that I shall not have to pay duty on it. Be sure to in- I have a quirt around home or perhaps I'left it at the Lincoln ranch, so I wish that you would send that too. I have two pairs of white duck pants in my lock- er please include them. Don’t send them clean, because I'll have to pay duty on them if they look new. Be sure to wrap every thing so securely that the package or bundles won’t break if it were dropped from a third story window. They throw things out of the hold of a ship onto cars about twenty feet below, so you see every- thing has to be wrapped securely. Now don’t worry if you do not hear from me. Mail service is fierce. A man told me this morning that he has received only two letters from his home in the states in the last four months. We get mail every two weeks but there is no telling “how long it is ‘on the road. Don’t worry about bandits either because we have a detachment of Marines about eight blocks from here. *.” ARCHIE. — A ANSON GIVES A. & M. MAN LARGE MAJORITY FOR MAYOR Anson, Texas.—John D. Hale was elected mayor by the biggest major- ity ever given any one for that place. There were more votes cast than at any election ever held in this place. Mayor llale was honorably dis- charged from the army about a year ago, having served with the First di- vision for nearly two years in France and Germany. Whiic in the service his promotion was rapid. He was commissioned first lieutenant in Au- gust, 1917, and soon promoted to cap- tain. Mayor Hale was reared in Anson, is an electrical engineer, having grad- uated as such from A. and M. Col- lege of Texas in 1913. The aldermen elected are: Dr. John S. Bowyer, W. J. Ely, E. L. Orr, Dr. F. C. Prichard and J. H. Warren. EEE MURRAY-ROBERTSON. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Robertson an- nounce the marriage of their daugh- ter Francis Elizabeth to Dr. Fred A. Murray, Thursday evening, April 28, 1921, at Bryan, Texas. At home in Taylor after May 3. HIE HORN-TAPPENDEN. .Mr. J. H. Horn, ’17, and Miss Mar- tha Tappenden were married Satur- day, April 30, at Dallas, Texas. Mr, Horn is assistant county agent of Grayson county, and Mrs. Horn was formerly of Portland, Oregon. Ben P. Bludworth, ’19 Ag., is how engaged in the cattle business in partnership with his brother, at Mid- land, Texas. BE Le —————- W. E. Dorsey, ’11 E. E,, is supzerin- tetndent of Austin Military Seciool, Fairview Park, Austin, Texas. J. H. Pirie, 06 E. E., is nov de- tailed to Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Florida, as Major, U. S. Air Service. They have big stock |. The com- LONGHORN TRACK MEN DEFEATED BY FAST AGGIE TEAM Invincible Farmers Take Meet by a Large Score. Denny High Point Man; Mahan Breaks Amateur ~ Record for U. S. The A. and M. cinder path men continued their string of victories when they defeated the Longhorns, Friday, May 6, in a dual meet here by an overwhelming score of 79% to 37%. Regardless of the difference in the score the meet was an exciting one, since in nearly every event the me fiished close. Denny of the Aggie team was the high-point man of the meet with 15 points to his credit, having won first place in the 220- yard low hurdles, the 120-yard high hurdles and the pole vault. The Aggies made a clean sweep of the javelin. Mahan won first place with Deiterich second. “Harvard Ed- die” hurled the spear 189 feet 5 inches, which is the amateur record in the United States. The one mile relay was won by the Aggies and was run in 4 minutes and 37 secods. + To date the Aggies have met and defeated Southern Methodist Univer- sity, Baylor University, Rice Institute and the University of Texas in the ‘order named in dual meets. They en- ter the Conference meet at Waco, May 13-14, as favorites. Fr ett BRAZOS CO. CLUB SUGGESTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR NEXT ANNUAL MEETING (Continued from Page 1) tive to the difficulty of conducting membership campaigns every year. Under the present provisions of the constitution the secretary will be foreed to conduct membership cam- paigns almost continuously and thus he will have little time to devote to the interests of the former students. If the suggestion of the club is car- ried out at the next annual meeting, A. and M. men will be called upon to sign a pledge to pay the amout of five dollars annually for life. By gning this pledge the man assures e association of his membership for iife. It will not be necessary to con- duct a membership campaign every year to get these men to renew their membership in the association. When the annual pledge is due, if a man las not already paid. it, the secretary ill feel at liberty to draw a draft upon him for it. ‘Another advantage cf this system 5 be that the association. will know efinitely as to what its yearly in- ¢ome will amount to. With a definite income assured, obligations can be made and met as the interests of the sssociation demands. It was pointed | put in the discussion of tie amend- te nts that it would be possible for the | Association of Former Students wie, incorporate and issue bonds ‘against the income from these pledges. If these pledges are made legal as well as moral obligations, there is no reason why they should not be as good collaterial as can be had. For example, suppose five thou- sand men pledge themselves to pay {five dollars a year for twenty years, land these pledges could be collected by legal process, if necessary. If the expenses of operating the secretary’s office amounted to as much as ten thousand dollars per year there would be approximately fifteen thou- sand dollars annual net income. Five, ten or twenty-year bonds, as the ne- cessity might demand, could be issued by the incorporated association against this income. With these bonds could be built .a stadium, a home for the association, or any other structure the association might see fit to construct on the campus. A part of this money might be set aside as a students’ loan fund for poor boys who haven’t the means of attending college. Such a plan, it was pointed out, would alleviate much campaigning to secure money for very worthy pur- poses we might wish to put over in the name of the association. It would put the organization on a business footing rather than make it a charit- able organization always begging for money. A motion to recommend to ‘the Association of Former Studets the adoption of this amendment was unanimously adopted by more than seventy-five former students attend- ing the meeting. A movement is already on foot in the cadet corps to pledge the entire student body on the 16th of this month in accordance with this plan. The pledges are to be made volun- ‘tarily by the students with the idea that should the Association of For- mer Students so amend the constitu- tion they will transfer these pledges to membership in the association. Un- til the association has taken action on this amendment at the annual meeting the 23rd of May membership in the association will be taken out under the provisions of the present constitution. a ALUMNI ASSOCIATION RE- ORGANIZED AT COLLEGE (Continued from Page 1) duties of that office shall devolve upon the Vice-President successive- ly. 3 Section 5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary and Treasurer to keep a record of all minutes of the Asso- ciation, make and keep in his posses- sion a list of all members of the As- sociation with their last known ad- dresses, collect all dues and keep a fair account of his receipts and dis- bursements in a book provided for that purposes, to pay out of any available funds jin his hands, any proper charges and expenses directed by the Association or any duly au- thorized committee thereof, and to make a full report in writing to the Association each year of the receipts and disbursements since the last meeting. It shall be his duty also immediate- ly after each annual meeting to noti- fy each absent member-elect of his election, and to notify absent mem- bers of their election to office or duty. Section 6. In case of the death or resignation of any officer of this As- sociation, it shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to fill the va- cancy at once and such appointee shall hold office until the next an- nual meeting. Section 7. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to act as a committee of arrangement for each meeting of the Association; they shall also have such power and shall discharge such duties in the interest of the Association as are not herein otherwise provided for. Article’ V—Annual Dues. Section 1. No member-elect shall be entitled to the privileges of this Association until he shall have paid an initiation fee of one dollor and furnished to the Secretary and Treas- urer his name and post-office. In ad- dition to the initiation fee there shall be an annual assessment of two dol- lars against each member. A member may purchase a life membership by - the payment of fifty dollars. Section 2.- Any member who fails to -pay his regular dues for two con- secutive years shall be denied the privilege of the Association until he has paid up all arrears. Section 3. The annual dues of each member of this Association shall be due and payabe in advance during the commencement exercises of the A. & M. College of Texas of each year. Article VI—Annual Meeting. There shall be one regular meet- ing of the Association, to be held at the A. and M. College of Texas at such time and place, during the com- fImencement exercises of the A. and M. College, as the Executive Com- mittee shall appoint. Article VII—By-Laws. It shall be competent for the As- sociation from time to time to adopt such rules of order for its govern- ment as may seem proper and neces- sary, provided they be not inconsist- ent with this Constitution; and such rules may be changed from time to time upon such terms as may be pre- scribed by the Association. Article VIII—Amendments. This Constitution as amended shall be in force from the date of its adop- tion, and shall replace all previously existing laws. All amendments to the Constitu- tion shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Committee before they are presented to the Association, and a two-third vote of all members pre- sent at an annual meeting shall be necessary before an amendment can be adopted. BY-LAWS—Order of Business The following order of business shall be strictly enforced at all reg- ular meetings: 1. Call to order. 2. Reading of Minutes of previous meeting. 3. Report of President. 4. Report of Executive Commit- tee. 5. Report of Secretary and Treas- urer. 6. Report of Special Committees. 7. Election of New Member. 8. Unfinished Business. 9. New Business. 10. Good of the Association. 11. Election of Officers. 12. Adjournment. Publication of Proceedings. The proceedings of this Associa- tion shall at all times be secret un- less ordered to be published by a majority vote of the members pres- ent. Expulsion of Members. ‘Upon the recommendation of the | Executive Committee, any member who has been guilty of conduct un- becoming a gentleman may be ex- pelled from the Association by a vote of four-fifths of the members pres- ent at any regular meeting. es — Robert Ross, ’02 C. E., is now sta- tioned in Maracaibo, Venezuela, S. A., where he is engaged in surveying and platting oil lands for the Sun Company, Philadelphia. STAFF OFFICERS PLACE A. & M. SECOND TO NONE (Continued from Page 1) after the colonel had departed. But he found him so stocked with utterly “absurb’’ compliments which the col- onel had been paying him in the form of criticism that he declined to run the risk of exciting the unbelieving multitude by quoting one word ‘the president said. He was almost as unreasonable as the colonel. Inspection Begun Monday Colonel Morrow arrived at College Station, Monday afternoon, May 9, and addressed the cadet corps in Guion Hall that evening. President Bizzell in introducing the Colonel stated that there was no man who would give him more pleasure by ad- dressing the student body than Col- onel Morrow, who had never failed during the busiest times at Washing- ton to give ear to the troubles of a land grant college president. Colonel Morrow stated that a sold- ier was out of place on a platform | and immediately proceeded to dem- onstrate that such was not always true, his speech being one of the best the cadets have had the privilege of hearing. The Colonel stated that a man obtained three things from his college education: 1. Physical dev- elopment. 2. Mental development or academic work. 3. A vision of pub- lic service, his duty to his associates and his country. The first two were defined as “selfish.” The third fac- tor included the characteristics by which a man was known and remem- bered and loved and admired. Colonel Williams, District Military Inspector, who frequently visits the college, was then introduced. Col- onel Williams stated that A. and M. was his best institution, his district being the 8th Army Corps Area, and that he wanted the boys who went tc camp to continue «to uphold his ex- pectations and send a championship rifle team to the National field meek in New Jersey The following morning the inspec- tion proper was begun dt 7:50 with a review of the corps. Infantry, cav- alry, artillery, signal corps, and air service were included in this formal- ity, the cavalry being mounted and one battery being motorized. After the review the respective units de- monstrated their training in the work of the various branches. This con- tinued until noon and afterwards cer- tain_ organizatios were called upon for various duties as ‘desired. The classes in Military Science were vis- ited, the range work was inspected, the trench system was viewed while the Junior M. S. classes charged imaginary foes. It seemes that in n> phase were the units found wanting. At the conclusion of the outside in- spection at noon Wednesday, the band marched out on the Military Walk and started Wildcat” the never failing war cry of Aggieland. Immediately, "from class rooms, labs, shops, and quarters came streams of cadets flying to answer the “call to arms.” With “Red” Thompson at the head of the column the entire student body gave a lock-step parade and ended with a regular pep meeting and yell practice. Colonel Morrow stated that he had over-looked this one point and was glad to have seen it, saying that he would rather witness that demonstration alone than any other phase of college life. When “fifteen” were give for the Colonel he waved his cap and joined in the cheering when Wildcat again sounded. EE ._._.eon h aA-B CAESAR HOHN PUTS OLD TIME PEP INTO BRAZOS COUNTY CLUB ir (Continued from Page 1) days and add a bit of humor to their visit here. There will be a great many details to be worked out in connec- tion with this parade, and those who expect to stage a stunt are requested to communicate with Secretary Cook in order that he may be able to make the proper arrangements. Students in the College have volunteered their services toward helping construct floats or collect the necessary mate- rials for the parade. —_————————— UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GIVE LIBERALLY TO SUPPORT THE LEAGUE (Continued from Page 1) raised in Austin by the State Meet Finance Committee. Five thousand dollars of this has been raised, by school fees. two thousand is to be raised from ex-students; and one thousand is to be raised in the Uni- tin business and professional mer. “The result of the expenditure of $146,000 is a tremandous advertise- ment of the Usafeérsity and Austin which reaches repeatedly through the newspapers - some 2,000,000 Texas citizens. . The business men realize the importance of this State Meet and are coming to the assistance of the committee on finance.” SE C——— wt Mr. Ernest E. Scholl, ’07, is Chief Inspector, Orchard and Nursery Di- vision of the State Department of Agriculture. versity. The other eight thousand dollars is to be raised among the Aug X A J STE