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~ IKE ASHB URN lection of Col. Lyndsey Blayney, THE TEXAS AGGIE Published Semi-Monthly by The Asso- ciation of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. BRYAN, TEXAS CCL KERUBGER. ». « vesas President Leal. BALLARD... .; Vice-President BON IED, ies Vice-President M. J. MuLLER .......Vice-President Ihe AdDHBUKN eo 0 00 0 0 0 Executive Secretary Subscription price $56.00 including membership in the Association ol Former Students; $2.00 to those noi eligible for membership. ADVERTISING RATES: Per Inch. For year’s CONract. cau cuvivns 30c For s:x months contract_____ 40c For less than six months______ 50c Kntered as second-class matter at Bryan Texas. Publishel es 00 0 0 00 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. WILL R. EDRINGTON..... New York City LOUIS HS POWELL, «aiveve ess Chicago, lu. varl., kA wirrReoUHT.. coves $F LRGs folate de site's) ls" innetetsle washington, D. C. DR. OLiVeR OBAK....cce0 St. Louis, Mo. Fie due 208ININA Lt te sess eee Tulsa, Ukia. Jubum w. A. 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Lhe crew, headed by Bill as president of the Fort Worth Baseball Association, brought home the bacon again this year in their con- test with the Memphis Chicks, cham- pions of the Southern League. The world is beginning to realize that in professional baseball and intercolle- giate sports Texas holds its own with the best of them. All Texas is proud of the Fort Worth Cats. & kx Xk *¥ Texas, her educational institutions, and more especially the State College for Women, formerly known as C. I. A., are to be congratulated on the se- of Kice Institute, as president of the Woman’s College. Dr. Blayney, as he is better known in educational circles, has a wonderful equipment as an edu- cator. Born in Kentucky and spend- ing nearly a score of years in a Texas educational institution he knows this State and its traditions. He will en- ter upon his new duties having the best of relationships with all other Texas educational institutions and the whole hearted cooperation of the administrative officers of those insti- tutions. We venture the assertion that there will be no clashing of interests be- tween A. & M. College and the Wom- an’s College as long as Dr. Blayney directs the destinies of that institu- tion. Dr. Blayney was the chapel speaker at College last Sunday. BR a LOUIE MILLER Sometimes it seems that the finger of misfortune weighs rather heavily against one man. So it is with Louie Miller. Denied the right in the season of 1923 to lead the football team which he captained—denied that right through a broken leg sustained in spring training, Louie was back on the squad again this season as Capt- ain and giving every ounce of his strength and ability to put the Aggies back at the top of the winning col- umn. And then came a eo break in the same leg, just a little above and involving the old break. The Captain was carried from the field, heartbroken, not because of his injury but because he will not be able to go again this season, because he has completed his athletic career. Hard working, clean, asking no fa- vors, no odds, Miller is one of the fin- est types of athletes and all sport lovers everywhere are greatly grieved over his tragedy. He will be retained as Captain, no doubt and will be taken on the trips with the teams. In that way his silent influence will to a great extent overcome the burden of his loss to the team as a player. Every son of Aggieland salutes you, Louie, as an athlete and as a Man. — — THE AGGIE SPIRIT ol — From the heart out come the yells of the cadet corps of the A. & M. Col- lege. Yell Leader Cy Edwards and his assistants, Abercrombie and Oaks and Buck have wrought well and the old fighting spirit of Aggieland is rampant. There is a bark, a bite, a determination to the yells that were lacking last year. The mechanics of the yelling is just as good and in every shout there is a spirit of fight and determination. The fighting spirit flows from the Corps to the team. If the corps takes a game seriously the team takes that game seriously. The effect and influence of the twelfth man in the stands is not only immediate but it is tremendous. The team this year seems to be taking every game as they come to it. Realizing a lack of strength and abil- ity which characterizes other confer- ance teams they are trying to make 1p in heart and fight and devotion to rictory what they may lack in capac- ity. And that augurs well for the season. BE THE FALL REUNION The Thanksgiving game is played ly every other year at the A. and M. College. Then of course there is a tremendous gathering of old men hack on the campus. In the absence »f a home game on Turkey Day this vear the Association of Former Stu- dents voted at the commencement meeting to provide a fall reunion to be held this year at Waco, Nov. 1, when the Aggies and the Baylor Bruins engage each other at the Cot- son Palace field. . Waco Aggies with characteristic "ospitality are preparing to feed free 500 of the former sons of A. and M. There is to be a brief but inspiring srogram, no collection, and a general rood time. YOU MAKE YOUR °LANS NOW TO BE THERE. —_————— . FOR “SILENT” MILLER. Dear Ike: When I saw “Silent” Miller being taken off the field with a broken leg, I felt like erying like his team-mates were doing. From what I can learn Capt. Miller was an exceptional play- er and will be greatly missed by his team. He has the true Aggie spirit and was game to the last. I think it would be a nice compliment to Miller if the ex-students would see fit to contribute $1.00 each to a fund and buy him a fine watch and charm. : 1 dont expect nor do we want all of them to send in their dovl- lar but want about 200 fighting Aggies that will deem it a privilege to send in the amount mentioned. Trusting this will meet with your approval and be a success, I am Yours very truly, J. Webb Howell. Note: Send your checks to J. Webb Howell, Bryan Cotton Oil Co., Bryan, Texas. Xa ORO OOS ORO OR OSORIO ORO OSORIO SOIR ORO BAKER IN HOSPITAL HAS 3 OPERATIONS FOR APPENDICITS J. F. Baker ’24, of Fort Stockton is in the hospital at Brady finishing up a six or seven weeks stay there with that same contrary appendix that put him to bed in the last term of his year here. Members of last year’s class will recall that when the surgeons operated on him here for appendicits they could not find the appendix. He has had two more op- erations at Brady and faces a third before he is discharged. “Never the less I will see you in Austin on Tur- key Day even if I have to be there on a stretcher,” he writes. “Tell the bunch to pour it on Sewanee. I have a radio and will be listening in.” Baker was one of the most popular members of the Senior class, bein: Lieutenant-Colonel in the cadet corps and business manager of the Long- horn. His many Aggie friends are wishing him a speedy recovery. coll -— vel—— ~A— CAMP °’16—JONES °’23 ROOMING TOGETHER AT FAR-AWAY BOSTON THE AGGIE had a very interest- ing letter from T. R. Camp ’16, who is doing advanced work at the M. I. T., at Boston. He has completed one full year’s work at Boston Tech and is now entering upon the second year’s study. That you can not keep these Aggies separated is shown by the fact that he and T. Lewis Jones ’23, in C. E., who is taking some advanced work at Harvard are rooming to- gether. Their address is 21 Ellery St., Cambridge, Mas.. “Through the courtesy of A. D. Johnson ’16, whom I happened to run across at the Bolton Air Port, I had the privelege of giving the Round the World Fliers a part of their official welcome back to the U. S.” Camo wrote. “A. D. is a captain assigned to the 13th U. S. Infantry and was in command of the company selected to do the honors for the fliers. A. D. just returned a few months ago from a three year detail to the Panama Canal Zone.” Of course Camp and Jones are in- terested in the football games and are looking for the THE AGGIE to give the details to them. BROTHER OF FIVE A. & ML. MEN WAS KILLED IN WRECK A. M. Puckett Is Killed in Southern Pacific Crash Near San Antonio. Son Now Senior at A. & M. The many friends of the Puckett Hoys, five of whom are old A. and M. men, are deeply grieved over the trag- ¢ death of their brother Almor M. Puckett, Sr., of 632 Hays Street, San Antonio, who was killed in a South- ern Pacific freight train wreck at Pearson on Thursday, Oct. 2. A son A. M. Puckett, Jr., is rounding out his career at A. and M. now, being an outstanding baseball player and axceptionally popular boy. Mr. Puckett was engineer on a fast moving freight train which crashed nto a freight bound in the opposite direction, but which was standing on the main line at Pearson. Failure of the operator at Hondo to deliver orders to the east bound freight was responsible for the wreck. That Mr. Puckett did not attend A. | and M. because of financial difficul- ties was the statement of Felix S. Puckett, United States Department cf Agriculture, 701 Polk Ave., Hous- ton. He was the only one of the six boys who did not attend A. and M. He has a son, Manor Puckett, who is completing his fourth year at A. and M., however. My brother entered the employ of the Southern Pacific as a fireman in 1898. As far as his abil- ity would permit he helped his broth- ers through A. and M. and always has been a great friend of the insti- tution. He had been an engineer for some fifteen years. The accident that re- sulted in his death was the only one he had ever had. There is some comfort in the fact that he met his death carrying out his orders as was verefied by the copy taken from his clothing. Mrs. Puckett, his wife suffered a severe break down as the result of his death and her recovery was fear- ed for several days. She 1s though to be completely recovered now, hov- ever. MANY OLD TIMERS SEE AGGIES WIN IN DALLAS GAME Lots of Good Fellowship Prevails at A. and M. Headquarters Follow- ing Victory over Sewanee. While not so many old timers were at Dallas as are expected to be at Waco nevertheless there was a con- siderable influx of former students at the Jefferson hotel, A and M. headquarters throughout Friday night and all of Saturday. E. P. Huater and Marion Church, former president oi the Association were on hand early and late as was Polly Eraeger, the present president. Polly brought Runt Hanson with him from the Alamo City. : Hal Mosely, Carl Scudder, M. H. Adams, M. B. Barnett, all of Dallas, visited with the Aggies at the hotel, too. Bob Potts, Hunter, Walter Crip- pen, and a half dozen others were there from Waco. Walter G. Lacy, board member from Waco also was in for the game as was Judge Byrd E. White, of Lancaster, another mem- ber of the Board. Sangster Bizzell and “Nemo” Knapp headed a party of a half dozen Jack- sonville boys who were up for the contest. Joe Bloodworth from Mar- shall was another East Texas repre- sentative present. J. T. Little and Dough Rollins were over from Mt. Pleasant. Jack Roberts, of Brecken- ridge, was there. Josh Stears, one of the early football men who now lives at Shreveort, La., and Hyde, another old football man from Jacksboro wera on the job too. In fact there was a goodly group of old men there. All were pleased with the outcome of the game and all of them were making their plans to be on the job at Waco and at Aus- tin for the big football struggies there. No registration of visitors was made. SR GALVESTON COUNTY CLUB HOLDS MEETING AT TEXAS CITY (By Hiram) On September 5th., the Galveston County members with their wives and sweethearts and lady friends motor- ed over to Texas City for their regular meeting. Dutch Zincke, chair- man of arrangements, got up the party and believe us, it was just like the invitation he sent out. The in- vitations were made up in book form and the cover design was an old fas- hion Bar Room door, and above the door in big letters were: “Mike's Place. Upon opening the book was an old, but familiar picture of a bar- One of the most use- ful services performed by General Electric Company is the manu- facture of little motors to operate the appli- ances that take the drudgeryoutofhouse- work and farm work. The new G-E Farm Book, giving interest- ing facts on the sub- ject of farm electrifi- cation, will be sent on request. Write Section S1, General Electric Company, Schenec- tady, N. Y., Chicago, 111., or San Francisco, -Cal. BEE = (4 7 7 77 fn pf, The first labor-saver that the woman of the family wants when the farm home is electri- fied is a washing machine; it banishes “blue Monday” by sub- stituting electric power for her back-power. Then comes the electric iron— and after that the man of the family can decide where he needs electric power to take the load off his shoulders. Electric light and power on the farm is an investment in better and happier living. GENERAL ELECTRIC room counter with all the bottles, a bar tender and a customer under the weather. It seems like some of the boys thought that there was such a place called ‘Mike’s Place’ over there and upon arriving at Texas City stop- péd-several of the natives and home guards to find out where it was. No one knew of such a place and it had every body asking where “Mike's Place” was. Mike Mekeska and his hand full of ex-Aggies had a real old fashion chicken dinner with all the trimmings. The dinner was held al a cafe by the dock. Mike welcome:i the gang but this time, as his wife was there, did not have the kick in his speech. He told the boys that he would not make a long talk like he did the night Judge Church came to Galveston and that he would turn the whole party over to Dutch Zincke and that he could have as much time as he wanted to make his talk. The gang yelled for a speech from Dutch, but he put it off until after the big feed. Dutch was under tnz weather that night and we think on account of the ladies he could not get started, anyway, he thanked Mike and the rest for the interest they took in getting the dinner and reminded the boys that there was big time coming and that time was a trip to Austin. The Galveston ex- Aggies are going to have special pull- man to make the trip and Dutch is now working up some kind of en- tertainment for the bunch. He has told us that the stateroom would be open for a big party and reminded the gang that every one would be searched and anyone that was broke could not get into the stateroom, from that remark he must have some- thing in shape of a midnight golf game. After the dinner Mike invited the guests to come over to his house for a dance. Mike opened up his cel- lar and you can use your own judg- ment as the dance lasted until the early hours of the next day. The next, meeting for the ladies will be some time in October, but as yet we have not made arrangements what it will Le, but it is going to be something big and we hope to have a big crowd again. pha —Ap— I FORT WORTH AGGIES A meeting of the Fort Worth A. & M. club was held at noon, Thursday, September 4th, 1924, at the West- brook Hotel. The president, Mr. T. B. Hoffer, was out of the city and the meeting was presided over by the vice-president, Chas. H. Fleming. Short talks were made by Mr. W A. Polk, D. H. B. Todd, John C. Burns and Melvin J. Miller. Mr. Polk told of his days at A. & M. back in "95. He was a CE, but quit that profession sometime ago to engage in the mercantile business. He has been very successful and is at present president and general manager of Ad- 4 kins-Polk Co., wholesale grocers of Fort Worth. There was a general discussion of ways and means of getting high school athletes interested in A. & M,, and a committee was appointed, con- sisting of Mr. Williamson, E. P. Hai- tom, D. H. B. Todd and M. J. Miller, to make a special effort to meet all local high school football men this fall and visit with them and tell them about A. & M. It is probable that the local club will take four or five of the best local players as their guests to the Sewanee-A. & M. game at Dallas or to the A. & M.-Baylor game at Waco. The general opinion is that if a man once sees the A. & M. team and the A. & M. student-body in action, it will go a long ways to- wards making that man want to be one of the bunch. The local A. & M. men will attend the A. & M-Sewanee game at Dallas in a body. The secretary, Mr. Wil- liamson, will get a block of choice seats and all of -the old men in this part of the country will be invited to get one of these tickets and be with us. Our next meeting will be held the first Thursday in October and plans are being made to get all A. & M. men in Ft. Worth to attend. Ta. == i .-w gy. BEAUMONT AGGIES ELECT OFFICERS By RABBI BERTSCHLER. At the regular meeting Monday night, August 4, on Hotel Beaumont Roof, the Beaumont Ex-Students’ Club received the report of the nomi- nation committee, “Bugs” C. M. Fa- bian, chairman. H. L. “Squarehead” Braunig, ’16, was offered for presi- dent; Ben “Bully” Irby, ’17, secre- tary; W. D. Atkison, 1st vice-presi- dent; I. H. Bettis, 2nd vice-president; F. L. “Rabbi” Bertschler, 3rd vice- president and press agent. On mo- tion of “General” A. Cavitt Love, the recommendations of the committee were unanimously adopted. The retiring prseident, John New- ton, who has been devoted to the res- ponsibility of his job as first presi- dent, gave vent to a “spread-eagle” address which rivaled the humorous fluency of the noted “Tanlac” Strange. Here it may be said that with the first officers of a club rests its future history. If it goes big it is their credit. If it fails, to a great ex- tent the responsibility is theirs. Beaumont has had unusually strong and loyal men at the helm during the past year and the fact that a mini- mum attendance of 30 is now the rule at the regular meetings bears out the statement. “Squarehead” Braunig, introduced as being the owner of a head not square but almost, briefly expressed his appreciation of the honor bestow- ed on him and indicated the spirit and energy with which he assumes the du- ties. Another successful year is as- sured if untiring effort on the be- half of the President will make it so. The A. and M. dance was definitely decided to be held Wednesday, Sep- tember 3, at the Pleasure Pier, Port Arthur. The Pier extends haif a mile into ‘the water terminating in a pleasure park with dance pavilion. A cool and delightful place. All Ag- gies who can arrange to be here for the occasion are invited. John Brazleton, 25, of the local Y for the summer months, made an in- teresting talk as did R. W. Hall of Port Arthur. The Port Arthur gang are regular attenders at the Beau- mont Club and Monday night, August 11th, they propose a reorganization and a dozen or so from the Beau- mont Club have offered assistance on the occasion. A watermelon party had been pre- viously proposed but was postponed until August 18th, at which time “Ladies’ Night” was held in Mag- nolia Park, After the dinner and conclusion of business the club adjourned tempo- rarily and reassembled at a near-beer parlor across the street where the new president treated the gang. fr i ————— HAVE YOU? (By Luke Ballard) Have you Old Former Student giv- en the A. & M. college a square deal? Boosted its work, help solve its problems, shouldered your share of its burdens. * ¥ Had something to say or nothing to say when asked to express your opinion ? * kx x Criticized work done and urged ac- tion on work undone, yet failed to assist with your thought and energy when the time for action came? * Xx *k Ever take the trouble to find out for yourself just what work the executive secretary and other offi- cials of the Former Student Associa- tion handles from day to day? Iw you know the internal workings of this, your organization? * % *x Taken the trouble to find out what volume of information is compilad by the association of the number of positions that are filled through the efforts of the secretary’s office of which the association is backing ? * %* * Frankly—Have you given your Former Student Association of the old college a square deal during the last twelve months? If you have, well and good, you have rendered a worthy service to the institution and the state in which you are proud to live and to do business. TT ——
