TEACHER DEMAND
BEING FELT HERE
All Graduates Whe Took Teacher
Training Courses Now Teaching
in High Schools.
The great growth in the demand
for teachers of vocational agriculture
in the high schools of Texas and ad-
joining states in being very keen-
ly noticed by the A. and M. Col-
lege of Texas through the demand
that is constantly being made for
graduates with teacher training ex-
perience. :
All the graduates of 1922 who took
the teacher training courses given
by the Department of Vocational
Teaching have been placed and still
requests are being received regularly
from other schools in Texas as well
as other states for men who can teach
agriculture.
Graduates who are teaching agri-
culture in high schools this year are:
R. V. McGee, Bellville; J. J. Brown,
Buda and Goforth; B. Eubank, Dai-
hart; W. T. Barbee, Donna, and
Wesleco; Edmund Notestine, Falfur-
rias; H. T. Pinson, Groesbeck; J. S.
Sanders, La Firia; R. H. Howell,
Mineral Wells; T. A. Hensarling,
Millican; D. D. Steele, Nixon; V. R.
Glazener, Oklaunion; R. R. Tippit,
Olton; O. D. Dinwiddie, Panhandle;
W. H. Friend, Rio Hondo; E. E. Rey-
nolds, Silverton; C. A. Wilkins, Smil-
ey; J. A. Stark, Spearman; J. A.
Minier, Spur; L. R. Reed, Sterling
City; C. B. Martin, Brazos Co.; and
L. J. Gay, State of Arkansas.
Several other graduates are teach-
ing in positions other than those of
vocational agriculture.
TEST NECESSARY
IN CHOOSING OIL
Fred J. Bedford Gives First Lecture
of Mid-Continent Course Offered
in This College.
The subject of lubricating engineer-
ing was discussed by Fred J. Bedford,
manager of the lubricating depart-
ment of the Magnolia Petroleum
Company of Dallas to the engineering
studerte of the College Friday
night. Mr. Bedford opened the series
of lectures that will be given by
specialists of the oil industry during
the year as the course established in
this institution by the Mid-Continent
Oil and Gas Association to give the
students a practical knowledge of the
oil business as it is practiced by the
operating companies and better en-
able them to understand their more
or less theoretical work in the class-
room and laboratory.
Mr. Bedford said that approxi-
mately 65 per cent. of all the lubri-
cating oils used by the consuming
public in this state was for the lu-
brication of automobiles and trucks,
approximately 20 per cent for the lu-
brication of tractors and the remain-
ing 15 per cent for all other operat-
ing machinery. “It is fair to assume
that this 15 per cent is also inter-
ested in the maintenance and oper-
ation of internal combustion engines
of some character, either the auto-
mobile, stationary gas or oil engine,
or tractors.” he said. “Therefore,
practically 100 per cent of the people
should be interested in the science of
lubrication either directly or indi-
rectly.
“There is a right way and a wrong
way to apply lubricating oil, the right
way is efficient and economical and
the wrong way is damaging and ex-
pensive.
“We are interested in how to choose
the proper grade of lubricating oil.
To this question there is but one re-
ply in my opinion, and that is, that
it takes a practical demonstration
under operating conditions of every
piece of equipment to determine defi-
nitely what results can be secured.
“Specifications cannot be relied up-
on for the very good reason that lu-
bricating oils of practically the same
specifications manufactured from dif-
ferent crudes will not perform the
same work in many classes of ser-
vice, but also that lubricating oils of
widely variable specifications under
certain conditions in some classes of
service will perform practically th.
same work.
“Therefore, the necessity of mak-
ing practical demonstrations or tests
for the purpose of determining which
of the various grades of reputable
lubricating oils and greases are the
most suitable should be emphasized
by engineers, manufactures and
others who have made the science of
lubrication a study.
“My conclusion is then that it is
necessary for a grade for each con-
dition and that must be determined
by the operators of mechanical equip-
ment through a practical test demon-
stration.”
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COLLEGE ANIMALS
Total Purse of $470.00 Won on Six-
teen Horses and Nine Steers
Shown at Cotton Pallace.
Animals exhibited by the A. & M.
College of Texos at the Waco Cotton
Palace have been returned to the Col-
lege. This College exhibited a total
of 25 head, nine steers and sixtecn
horses winning on all a total of
$470.00 in prizes. Of this amount
$245.00 was won on steers and
$225.00 on horses.
This was considered by G. S. Tem-
pleton, head of the Animal Husband-
ry department to be a very creditabie
record as the competition was very
strong. Also the steers exhibited
were not the best animals in the de-
partment. The first string of ani-
mals shown in Dallas were brought
directly from that city to the College
and only the second string individ-
uals were taken to Waco. This was
done through the necessity of having
the best animals here for a short
preparation period before the long
trip to Kansas City and Chicago.
At Waco three steers of each breed
of Angus, Hereford and Shorthorn
were shown. Prizes were well divid-
ed between Angus and Hereford
breeders but on the Angus breed the
College animals made a clean sweep.
In this breed the College had 1st sen-
ior yearling, 1st junior yearling and
1st junior calf., 1st on herd and the
championship on the junior calf. This
champion animal was a gift to the in-
stitution from Dr. W. W. Samuel of
Dallas. Four first prizes were cap-
tured on Herefords and one second
and two thirds on Angus.
EDITOR ADDRESSES
EXTENSION FORCE
Pays Compliments to Work Being
Done by Extension Agents of
the College in Texas.
J. J. Taylor, State Press, of the
Dallas-Galveston News was the honor
guest of the Extension Workers of
the A. and M. College of Texas at
luncheon in the mess hall of the Col-
lege November 6th.
It was the regular monthly lunch-
eon and was attended by all the Ex-
tension Staff who return once each
tion officials on problems encounter-
ed during their work in the field.
President Bizzell, members of the
teaching staff and scientists of the
Experiment Station division were
also in attendance with their wives.
tions.
Mr. Taylor complimented the work
of the extension agents, particularly
that of the home demonstration
agents very highly, saying that the
first essential to prosperity was to
teach the country women to feed her
children scientifically, nutritiously
and palatably. Referring generally to
the extension service he said there
may be ten thousand men in Texas
equally as well equipped with native
ability as was Benjamin Franklin and
that if they were unable to come to
the college or university there must
be such an institution as the exten-
sion service to take the school to
them.
Following these introductory re-
marks Mr. Taylor spoke at length on
the importance of people using sober
thought and abandoning fear as a
determining force in their daily ac-
tivities. He punctuated his address
with facetious declarations of his al-
legiance to a pro-lady, anti-dog and
anit-goat platform.
He arrived on the campus Sunday
afternoon and was the personal guest
of President W. B. Bizzell and Di-
rector T. O. Walton during his stay
and inspection of the College.
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AGGIE JUDGING TEAM
LEAVES FOR CHICAGO
(Continued From Page 1)
out on the trip. In addition to hav-
ing some of the best individuals in
America to study, the Aggie team will
meet K. J. Edwards, a member of the
International Champion Team of 1919
from Texas A. and M. College. Ed-
wards is now herdsman for Mr. Hard-
ing and will be in a position to give
Prof. Stangel much asistance in
coaching the boys. The work-out at
Waukesha will complete the train-
ing of the Texas team. They will ar-
rive in Chicago the night of Decem-
ber 1st and will go into the contest at
8 a. m. the next day. After the con-
test, they will remain in Chicago for
several days to look over the show
return to College Station, Sunday, De-
cember 10th, and we hope they will
have tied the third knot in the bull’s
tail and will bring him home to re-
main for all time in the Aggie corral.
and observe the judging in the arena
where the royalty of the animal king-
dom will hold sway. The team will
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BRONZE TROPHY.
Won twice by International Teams and to be competed for again this year
TEXAS A.&M. OUGHT TO
WIN AT INTERNATIONAL
It is about time for another Inter-
national Livestock Judging Cham-
pionship to come to Texas. There is
no possible way of doping out a rea-
son why Texas should win this year,
but there is a feeling among the stu-
dents of the College and many of the
old exes that the time is ripe.
Whether Coach Stangel has picked
the lads who can repeat the feats of
the teams in 1913 and 1919 remains
to be seen. The success of the team
at Chicago remains rather with the
personnel of the team than with the
coach. Prof. Stangel has shown his
ability as a coach by bringing back a
championship on his first trip to Chi-
cago with a team in 1919.
Represented Since 1904.
Texas A. and M. College has been
represented in the Chicago contest
every year since 1904, with the ex-
ception of 1914 and 1915, when no
contests were held on account of the
foot and mouth disease and 1918 when
the war prevented the training of a
team for this contest. The first con-
test Texas entered the A. and M. team
stood second in cattle and fourth in
horses, seven teams competing. In
1905 with eight competing teams,
Texas won fourth place in judging
horses and seventh in catle. The 1906
team stood at the bottom of the list of
six competing teams in judging all
classes and in 1907 held the sixth
place with eight teams competing. In
1907 the A. and M. team was coached
for the first time by John C. Burns,
a member of the first team from Tex-
as that went to Chicago in 1904. In
1908, Prof. Burns had worked his
team to third place. Iowa and Ne-
braska stood above him with such
strong competitors as Missouri, Kan-
sas, Ohio, Ontario and Minnesota,
trailing him. In 1919 the Texas team
slumped to the bottom with seven
competing teams, but rose to fourth
place in 1910, with nine competing
and in 1911 dropped back to sixth
place with ten in the competition.
Nineteen hundred and twelve found
Texas A. and M. occupying seventh
place with eleven teams competing.
Won, In 1913 and 1919.
Nineteen hundred and thirteen
marked the turning point for the Tex-
as teams. Prof. Burns, who had in
previous years so faithfully made the
trip to Chicago with the teams, who
had gained the larger part of their
knowledge of types and breeds
through pictures in books and live-
stock magazines and meager road
trips to Chicago, surprised them all
with a team of the first calibre in
1913. Twelve of the strongest insti-
tutions in the United States and Can-
ada had representatives in this con-
test and Texas easily won over all.
From this date on, Texas has stood
well up in the contest. There were
no contests in 1914 on account of the
foot and mouth disease, but in 1916
the Texas team stood fourth with fif-
teen teams competing and in 1917
rose to third place with twelve com-
peting. Texas did not send a team to
Chicago in 1918 on account of the war.
In 1919 the Texas team repeated
the victory of the team of 1913, ex-
cept that it was accomplished over
much harder opposition. Eighteen
teams from the United States and
Canada competed and the fierceness
of the contest is indicated by the ex-
ceptionally high team scores. Texas
won with a score of 4119 out of a pos-
sible 5000, a margin of only 16 points
over Nebraska’s team that stood sec-
ond. Only once in the history of the
contest had a score higher than that
been made. McDonald, Canada, won
the contest with a total score of
4363.5, but as eight of the ten teams
competing that year stood above
4100 points, there is a possibility that
the exceptional high score was caused
by a different system of grading.
Stumped in 1920-21.
In the 1920 and 1921 contests Tex-
as has not fared so well. In 1920
Texas dropped to ninth place with
twenty-one teams competing; in 1921
Football will not be the only at-
traction at Aggieland in the waning
days of this November. No doubt the
king of sports will hold the center
of the stage but there will be a small
group of students and ex-students of
the A. and M. College of Texas that
will be equally as interested in six
young stalwarts they have sent to the
far north to do battle with not only
teams representing the leadnig insti-
tutions of the United States, but for-
eign countries as well, for the honor
and glory of Texas A. and M. Col-
lege. There has never been and can
never be the glamor and individual
glory about a livestock judging con-
test that there is in a football game,
yet the prestige gained by an institu-
tion through the winning of one of
these International contests is by far
greater than that gained in winning a
conference championship in the grid-
iron sport.
Individual Counts.
Alivestock judging contest is the
greatest test of individual ability
conceivable. There is no chance of
getting credit that is due another Each
contestant on a team is assigned to
a separate group; so that those among
whom one works are rank strangers.
The rules of the contest do not per-
mit one to become acquainted with
the members of his group until after
the contest is over as one contestant
ig'not permitted to talk with another.
What is more, one does not care to be-
come acquainted with the others in his
group as every mother’s son of them
is his arch enemy.
The ranking of the team is deter-
mined by the totaling of the points
made by each individual, and one of
the most trying things about the ten
to fifteen hour grind is the thought
that is constantly bobbing up after
each class is placed or after each set
of reasons is given:“ Have I done as
I should have done? Will my de-
cision increase or lessen the chances
of our team winning?” And that
question of all questions, “I wonder
how the other fellows placed that
class?”
There is no organized yelling to
cheer the contestants on; no brass
bands to blare out over the battle field
that challenge of the college battle
hymn; not even the friendly slap on
the back by a team mate to encourage
one on. It is more like a battle royal
where every man is the enemy of
every other man and your one prayer
is that they will devour each other
before your own fast failing strength
ebbs away.
the Lone Star representatives drop-
ped to fourteenth place with twenty-
one competitors and in the most hotly
contested battle ever witnessed in the
International arena. Texas has had
two off years and it is our year to
come back. Texas won two out of
four contests entered between 1913
and 1919. If we repeat the feat we
must win this year. The team that
goes to Chicago this year is not as
well balanced as the team of 1919, nor
it is as mature or as experienced as
was the team of that year. But the
team this year will have the advan-
tage of a longer training trip on the
road to Chicago, besides the experi-
ence of going through a contest at the
American Royal, an advantage that
no other Texas team has had, and one
that ought to go a long way toward
getting the fellows in shape for the
dig day December 2.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGC.
(Houston Post Files.)
The A. & M. football team,
accompanied by Professor Pur-
year, visited the Post and were
shown over the plant. In the
company of visiters were: J. B.
Stearns, C. W. Brewster, E. J.
Kainer, R. G. Lamkin, S. H. Cox,
R. B. Boetcher, W. F. Dwyer,
H. H. Tracy, A. C. Love, H. E.
Rawlins, R. S. Farr, Thomas
Beall, H. C. Pfannkuche, C. G.
Robson.
A. AND M. MEN
WILL RUNN.P.
EXHIBIT TRAIN
College will Cooperate with Ira Mec"
Gregor ’16, Agricultural Agent
for Southern Pacific Lines.
The Southern Pacific Railway sys-
tem will run an agricultural demon-
stration train over its lines in Texas
between November 21 and December
12 under the direction of their Agri-
cultural Agent, J. Ira McGregor, a
graduate with the Class of 1916 and
in cooperation with the A. and M.
College of Texas, for the purpose of
promoting cooperation between com-
mercial interests and the rural com-
munities along its lines. The College
will assist Mr. McGregor by sending a
corps of trained instructors with the
train.
Byrom Gist of Midland, an ex-stu-
dent of the College and one of the
leading Hereford breeders of the
Southwest will also be on the train
with some of the best individuals of
his herd for demonstration purposes.
George Long, director of fairs and
exhibits of the College, and a grad-
uate with the Class of 1917 will be
in charge of the agricultural exhibit.
The best prize winning livestock
will be assembled on the tour and
livestock judging will be carried on
for the instruction of the visitors to
the train. Field crops from the best
county and state exhibits will be dis-
played and general information will
be furnished through experienced lec-
turers regarding the advantages of
improved agricultural production.
Prize winning exhibits of cooking,
canning and sewing will be carried
and competent authorities will ex-
plain their relation to improved home
life.
The train will consist of eleven
cars, one of beef and dairy cattle, one
of sheep and hogs, one of poultry,
one flat exhibition lecture car, two
farm exhibits, one home demonstra-
tion car, containing exhibits of
cooking, sewing, etc., one Texas Ex-
periment Station exhibits, one indoor
lecture car, dining car, baggage cars
and freight cars.
Start on the trip will be made from
Beaumont on November 21 and the
train will go first to Dallas over the
T. & N. O., thence over the H. & T.
C. north of Dallas. It will then return
by a southern route, Hempstead to
Austin, then west, San Antonia to
Uvalde, doubling back over the Vic-
toria line to Beasley and then to
Houston.
OLD FRIEND OF
A. & M. PRAISES
WORK OF COLLEGE
San Angelo, Texas,
Oct. 29th, 1922.
Editor Texas Aggie,
College Station, Texas.
Reading your very excellent issue
of recent date I am prompt to express
myself in commendation of your en-
terprise to keep, by publication, this
great school before the people.
It is not long since a college edu-
cation meant only Greek, Latin and
abstract theories. Cultivation of the
mind and body, as available at our
Texas A. and M. now means intellect,
trained to think and also to do. A
busy four-years course of industrious
work and study there turns our
youths into men drilled mentally and
physically to carry the practical af-
fairs of life to success. Parasites or
loafers are unknown among the list of
A. and M. Alumni.
The crown of results from work
and association there is the stability
of character acquired, which is far
above even the material value in fin-
nacial profit. No soldier from A. and
M. was ever a coward or renegade,
either in war or in politics. The wide
world over they are known as valor-
ous men of honor and sought to fill
posts of trust and dange. No A.
and M. Engineer ever has been known
to sell out, with millions in their
hands, as administrators of expendi-
tures and construction. The account
always balances, for they are A. and
M. of Texas Men.
The busiest workers the world
over are the happiest, the sturdiest,
the most trustworthy, and perma-
nently successful. Find a Texas A.
and M. man anywhere, the first
query will be, what is he doing, and
the reply will be, he is busy either as
a farmer, an engineer, a soldier, a
chemist, a dairyman, an instructor,
and best and most important of all,
he has the permanent development of
the good material he takes to the col-
lege and is the noblest work of God,
“an honest man.”
CHARLES B. METCALF.
A. & M. HEADS
HOLD SUCCESSFUL
MEET IN DALLAS
Bizzell is Pleased with Agree”
ments Reached by Presidents
of the Southwest.
Dr.
President Bizzell is very much
elated over the outcome of the con-
ference of Land Grant College exe-
cutives held in Dallas October 30 to
31 and joyful over the reception and
entertainment given him and the
other college officials who attended
by Colonel Frank P. Holland, Dallas
publisher, on whose initiative and ex-
pense the conference was held.
Resolutions adopted favored more
effective coordination of the research
work of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture with the exper-
iment station system in the states,
establishment of departments of rur-
al journalism in all of the land
grant colleges, coordination of sec-
ondary schools or junior colleges of
agriculture with the land grant col-
leges as a means of promoting effi-
ciency and unity of purpose in agri-
cultural education, establishment of :
courses of study that will emphasize
agricultural economics, including
marketing, rural organization and
farm management problems, accep-
tance of the principle of cooperation
between federal and state agencies,
but in the acceptance of the policy
the interests and rights of the state
should be determined by the state
agencies and the urging of financial
support for rural schools.
Those in attendance besides Presi-
dent Bizzell were: Dr. J. B. Eskridge,
president of Oklahoma A. and M. col-
lege; Dr. Harry L. Kent, president of
the New Mexico School of Agricul-
ture; M. A. Beason, dean of the
school of agriculture, Arkansas state
university and M. L. Williams, dean
of the school of agriculture, Grubbs
Vocational College.
It was decided to make the con-
ference an annual affair.
OWLS HOPEFUL OF
SATURDAY GAME
Farmers Seem at Disadvantage for
Biennial Clash on Kyle Field;
Ends Local Games.
The last vision of the Aggie team
of 1922 in action on Kyle Feld will
be given to fans Saturday when the
Rice Owls with their train load of
1000 supporters invade the College
for their biennial local tussle with
the Farmers.
Tt is fully expected in this quarter
that the Owls and their followers will
cone with colors flying designating
high hopes which they entertain of
bettering by at least a small margin
their feat one year ago of holdin
the Aggies to a scoreless tie, being
the first conference team to defeat a
Farmer machine on their own ficld
and accomplishing that which has
been the fondest dream of the Texas
Longhorns in all their historic career
in football.
That the Owls cannot be charged
with unholy assumption of capacity
in the light of defeats that the Aggies
have suffered already this season is
admitted by all. An aditional credit
given to the Owls as support for
their belief that they will defeat the
Farmers this year is the well known
fact that no amount of coaching or
sideline support by the cadet corps
seems to impart sufficient inspiration
to the Aggies to urge them to their
utmost exertion against the Rice In-
stitute team. In the history of ath-
letic competition between the schools
it is an outstanding record that the
Aggies never have been able to get
very ambitious over the prospects
of the game with the Owls. And as
a result the Aggies have always dis-
played the weakest form of the year
in the game with the Houstonians.
On the record of past years it is
safe to bet that the Aggies will be at
least two touchdowns inferior on that
day to their regular season form. If
they did not play above average
form in the Baylor game then they
may be figured at two touchdowns
less strength and still appear much
more powerful than the Owls, taking
into consideration the great superior-
ity of the Bears over the Owls as
shown by the Houston game between
those teams. But it is unreasonable
to place the Aggie stock so high since
their Dallas defeat. It is more reas-
onable to cut the odds at half and fig-
ure the teams well matched for the
coming battle.