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VOL. X COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 12, 1934. NO. 18
~ WARDEN PLANS INTERVIEW CAMPAIGN
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5E Ao GOURT UPHOLDS
NUTHOAITY A M DIRECTORS TO
TIE OR RELEGT CI-EDUCATIN
Co-education at A. & M. can not
be forced upon the College by law,
in the opinion rendered on Jan.
5, by Judge W. C. Davis in the
suit for a writ of mandamus filed
last fall by a number of Bryan
girls seeking to compel the Board
of Directors of the College to ad-
mit them to the institution. The
case attracted wide attention a-
mong A. & M. men and over the
state. The College was represent-
ed in the suit by Judge Nelson
Phillips and Nelson Phillips, Jr.,
of Dailas, and by Homer DeWolfe,
Assistant Attorney-General. Col.
C. C. Todd, ’97, represented the
plaintiffs.
Judge Davis held that there was
nothing in cons itutional or statu-
atory law which would compel the
admission of girls. On the other
hand, he held that the administra-
tion of the co!lege had been vest-
ed in the board and that under
present conditions he board is the
body to determine this matter.
Whether or not an appeal will
be filed in the civil court of ap-
peals at Waco had not been de-
termined this o afternoon. Cel.
Todd and those who retained him
stated they desired to study the
decision and confer on the matter
before making further plans.
Some Girls Admitted
The application for a writ of
mandamus was filed in the Brazos
county district court after a num-
ber of Bryan girls had applied for
admission to the College and had
been refused. Their action follow-
ed a resolution, adopted by the
board last summer, permitting
daughters of college employees,
living in Brazos county to attend
the college for the present scho-
lastic year. This was described by
directors, who took the witness
stand during the hearing on the
application, an an emergency
measure, operative for one year
only. The action was taken, it was
said, as a sort of compensation to
employees whose salaries had been
reduced and to make it possible
for them, with restricted incomes
to start or continue their daugh-
ters in college. At the present, 11
girls, all daughters of employees of
the institution, attend the college.
Decision in Full
The decision of Judge Davis was
as follows:
This is a suit wherein Relators
seek to compel Respondents, by
writ of mandamus, to permit the
enrollment and matriculation of
women as students in the Agricul-
tural & Mechanical College of Tex-
as at its long or regular session.
Relators allege that the A. & M.
College of Texas was organized in
1871 by the Legislature of Texas
in response to and in accepting the
benefi.s of an endowment by the
Federal Statutes, passed in 1862
offering said endowment to all the
states that would accept the pro-
visions of said statute and estab-
lish and maintain at least one in-
dustrial college in said state, and
that the purpose of said Federal
Statute, was among other things,
“to promote a liberal and practi-
cal education” of the industrial
classes in the several pursuits and
professions in life”; they further
allege that the A. & M. College of
Texas is, under constitutional pro-
vision, a branch of the University
of Texas, and that the law creat-
ing and establishing the University
of Texas in 1881 provided for the
education of both sexes in said
University, and that by reason
thereof, Relators, being a part of
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Renders Decision
Zao ly
Judge W. C. Davis, of the Eighty-
fifth Judicial District, who last
week ruled that the A and M Board
»f Directors had power to act in
co-education case.
WORK BEGUN FOR
PAVING OF THREE
COLLEGE STREETS
Thirty Percent of Funds Nec-
essary for Paving of Streets
Is Appropriated by Public
Works Administration.
Work was begun this week on
four college streets in prepara-
tions for the paving that will be-
gin as soon as the condition of the
streets permit.
Approximately 5000 feet of con-
crete will be laid, according to
the present plans, at a cost of
around $35,000; thirty percent of
which is appropriated by the Fed-
eral Government under the Public
Works Administration. This will
include approximately 1200 feet on
Roberts Street, 1200 on Hubbard
Street, 1000 feet on Ross Street,
and the street running parallel to,
and in front of the new Adminis-
tration Building.
Although this does not include
the new entrance to the college, it
is generally believed that the Tex-
as Highway Department will pave
the entrance and the oval connect-
ing the entrance to Roberts and
Ross Streets. Should the entrance
not be paved by the highway de-
partment, the entrance will be
paved later in the spring and
should be completed within the
next term.
The Public Works Administra-
tion is represented at A. and M. by
A. J. Irwin of Houston, who grad-
uated from A. and M. in 1925.
Charles C. Phillips, ’24, is with
the U. S. Engineering Corps and
is doing Revetment and Levee Con-
struction work on the Mississippi
Flood Control program. His head-
quarters are at Greenville, Miss.,
where he gets his mail at Box 673.
WALTON TO ATTEND MEET
President T. O. Walton will be in
Washington, D. C. on January 15-
16 to attend the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Associa-
tion of Land Grant Colleges, ac-
cording to S. G. Bailey, secretary
to the president. President T. O.
Walton was elected president of
the Association of Land Grant Col-
leges last year.
KYLE AND EVANS
MADE OFFICIALS
IN FEDERAL BANK
Evans President Bank For
Cooperatives—Kyle Direc-
tor Federal Land Bank—
Other A. & M. Men Already
Officials In Set-up.
E. J. Kyle, ’99, Dean of the
School of Agriculture of the A. &
M. College, was named a Director
of the Federal Land Bank of Hous-
ton last Thursday, and Sterling C.
Evans, ’21, was named President
of the Bank For Cooperatives. The
latter is one of the four divisions
of the Federal Land Bank. Evans
will move to Houston to head the
bank. The Directorship assumed by
Dean Kyle will not change or in-
terfere with his duties at A. & M.
in any way.
Under its reorganized plan the
Federal Land Bank of Houston,
handling Federal farm loans for
the Southwest, is composed of four
divisions, the Intermediate Credit
Bank, the Production Credit Cor-
poration, the Bank For Coopera-
tives and the Federal Land Bank.
As a Director of the Federal Land
Bank Dean Kyle will be an ex-offi-
cio director of each of the divisions.
Raised upon a farm near Uvalde,
Evans graduated from A. & M. in
1921, and has served since that
time in the A. & M. Extension
Service System. He is at present
a District Agent of the Service. He
has done much work in the organi-
zation of Cooperatives over the
state, and was warmly recom-
mended for his new position by
these ‘groups. One of the best
known agricultural leaders in the
Southwest, Dean Kyle needs no in-
troduction to the readers of the
AGGIE.
In addition to Kyle and Evans
the A. & M. College is already well
represented upon the official group
in the Federal Land Bank System.
Owen W. Sherrill, ’10, is Secretary
of the Production Credit Corpora-
tion Division. John B. Jones, 26,
is Secretary of the Bank for Co-
operatives, now headed by Evans.
Many other A. & M. men are con-
nected with this giant program in
various capacities.
MEAT LABORATORY
HAS SLAUGHTERED
760 HEAD CATTLE
Work Is Part of Canning Pro-
ject To Supply Food for
Texas Needy; 200 Head Yet
To Be Bought.
In cooperation with the $500,000
HOUSTON CLUB
ELECTS YOUNG
MEN OFFICERS
Pink, Falkenberg and Parr
Youngest Leaders In Club
History—Meet Each Mon-
day Noon At Lamar Cafe-
teria.
Jack L. Pink, ’27, was recently
elected President of the Houston
A. & M. Club, succeeding Charley
Haile, ’12. Roy Falkenberg was
elected Vice President and V. P.
“Senator” Parr, ’26, Secretary-
Treasurer. They succeed George
Forsyth, ’17, and Sam Camp, 27,
respectively. The new officers rep-
resent the youngest group ever to
lead the active Houston Club and
| have promised an aggressive and
.ively administration.
President Pink has been an ac-
tive member of the club for several
years, and has been instrumental
in arranging for many of the club’s
recent smokers and evening par-
ties. He was married during the
Christmas holidays. He represents
the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance
in the city of Houston.
The Houston Club is meeting
each Monday noon at the Lamar
Cafeteria, and have found that ar-
rangement very satsifactory. Each
attendant gets what he wants, with
a private room for the club meet-
ings Visitors are always welcome.
LOUIE CLAY, "24
ASST. MANAGER
HOUSTON PLANT
Louis H. Clay, ’24, was recently
appointed Assistant Manager of
the Houston branch of the Ford
Motor Co. The appointment pro-
moted him from his former posi-
tion as Manager of the Wholesale
Dept. He has been with the Ford
Motor Company since his gradua-
tion in 1924, starting to work at
that time in the plant at Houston.
From that beginning he has work-
ed his way up to his present posi-
tion of second in command of the
big Houston plant.
Norfleet G. Bone, ’23,
Landscape Architect
Texas Park Board
Captain Norfleet G. Bone, ’23,
has been named Chief Landscape
Architect for the Texas State Park
Board, and will have his head-
quarters in the office of that board
in Austin. He will have supervis-
ion over all landscape work now
being done in the State Parks un-
der the emergency government
work plans. The work in Texas is
Federal Surplus Relief Corpora- [under the supervision of the Na-
tion beef canning project in Tex-
as, which began December 9, the
Texas A. and M. meats laboratory
has slaughtered about 750 head
of cattle of its 968 quota which
was determined under the terms
of the contract. Cattle quotas have
been assigned every county in Tex-
as by the A. and M. College exten-
sion livestock specialist to facili-
tate the purchase of the 20,000
beeves that are being canned this
winter to provide relief for Texas
needy.
The Texas A. and M. meats lab-
oratory has facilities for handling
about fifty head of cattle daily.
After the beeves are slaughtered
they are held in the coolers for
forty-eight hours and then sent
to a canning plant in Bryan. The
price paid for the cattle is deter-
mined by the price on the Fort
Worth market, with a minimum of
a cent and three-quarters a pound
insured the farmer.
tional Park Service. A large prog-
ram of work is being planned and
carried to completion.
Bone has recently completed five
years of active service in the U. S.
Air Corps at Randolph Field, near
San Antonio, where he had charge
of all landscape work in the de-
velopment of the “West Point of
the Air.” He also supervised for
two years the landscape work at
Barksdale Field, at Shreveport,
La. He served in an advisory ca-
pacity in the landscape develop-
ment of other flying fields in the
8th Corps area. In addition to his
landscape work, Bone is a splen-
did flyer and aerial photographer.
The landscape development of
Randolph and Barksdale Fields has
brought national recognition to
Captain Bone. His good work on
these details was largely respon-
sible for his selection to the im-
portant post as supervisor of the
State Forest landscape program.
ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT TO ASK
MEN FOR OPINIONS
MATTERS ArrEGTING
DIRECTORS MEET
President T. B. Warden,
03, has called a meeting of
the Board of Directcrs of the
Association for Sund-v, Jan-
uary 21st., at Austin. The
meeting will be held in the
Driskill Hotel and will be
called to order at 11 A. "IL.
Several matters of interest
to the Association and to the
College will be considered.
AGGIES ACTIVE
AT MEETING OF
AGRIC WORKERS
A. & M. men played an active
part in the recent annual meeting
of the Agricultural Workers As-
sociation of Texas, held at Lub-
bock. Jack Shelton, ’17, was the
retiring president of the organi-
zation. Among the new officers
Dan Kiber, ’17, of Arlington, was
elected Secretary. Among the di-
‘rectors of the body were elected
P. G. Haines, ’18, of Austin; V. V.
Parr, ’14, of Spur; James B. Sni-
der, 14, of Waco, Jack Shelton,
and W. L. Stangel, ’15, of Texas
Tech. Many other active members
of the association are members of
the A. & M. System. The organi-
zation is made up of those men
and women engaged in Agricul-
tural extension, teaching, experi-
mental work in Texas.
FRESHMAN WINNER
IN NATION WIDE
WRITING CONTEST
Huguelet Is Awarded Kelvin-
ator As Prize for Letter
Written In Christmas Sel-
ling Campaign.
N. H. Huguelet, freshman stu-
dent of A and M College of Texas,
is the owner of a brand new house-
hold Kelvinator model, awarded
him as a prize in a nation-wide
letter writing contest conducted
this year by Kelvinator Corpora-
tion as a part of its Christmas sell-
ing campaign.
Huguelet, whose letter on “Why
I Want a Kelvinator For Christ-
mas” was adjudged one of the best
out of thousands received from
every section of the country, found
his wish true when the refrigera-
tor was delivered to him.
Meredith James New
President Houston
Real Estate Board
Meredith H. James, ’13, was re-
cently elected President of the
Houston Real Estate Board, an or-
ganization composed of the real
estate men of that city. James has
been an important figure in the
real estate business in Houston for
many years. He is a past president
of the Houston A. & M. Club, and
as a student at A. & M. was a let-
ter-man in track and a star per-
former in the pole vault. His office
in Houston is in the West building.
GOLLEGE
“I'm going to find out what our
individual A. & M. men think a-
bout these matters,” declared T.
B. Warden, ’03, President of the
Association of Former Students,
as a climax to several arguments
that have waxed warm during the
past several months over questions
of importance to A. & M. and of
wide interest to A. & M. men.
“And I'm going to get this infor-
mation through a campaign that 1
am calling an INTERVIEW CAM-
PAIGN. ;
“From my office in Austin,”
continued Warden, “2000 of our
men are going to be asked to give
me their reactions and thoughts on
these matters, returning their an-
swers to me in Austin. They will
be contacted by 200 men that I am
asking to serve as ‘Reporters’, and
by direct mail communication from
me. When these two thousand men
have spoken we will have a real
index to the thoughts of our boys
upon these matters, rather than
the thoughts of a few leaders.
“I do not mind stating that Ce-
education at A. & M. will be one
of the matters upon which this
group of former students will be
asked their opinions. Several other
questions of like interest will be
contained in the communication.
I am calling this move an INTER-
VIEW CAMPAIGN, and when
these 2,000 men have been inter-
viewed I will feel that I can ex-
press their sentiments on these
matters. As president of our For-
mer Student’s Organization, I feel
that this information should be in
my hands should there arise an
occasion where the feeling of the
former students of A. & M. is call-
ed for.
“It is my hope that every man
called upon in this campaign,
either as a reporter or as one to
be interviewed, will give to me
and to those aiding me, their full
and hearty cooperation.”
President Warden declined to di-
vulge further information about
his plans, other than to state that
he hoped to complete his servey
interview of 2,000 men by Febru-
ary 10th.,, and that all replies
would be held confidential, except
for the tabulation of results.
“Sis”’ Hopkins Busy
In Starting Huge
Drainage Program
E. D. “Sis” Hopkins, ’19, is put-
ting in busy days this fall. He is
Assistant State Director of the
huge Malarial Control and Drain-
age project recently started thru-
out South Texas. His headquart-
ers are at 408 Post Office Bldg.,
Houston. Hopkins has been with
the State Health Dept. at Austin
for the past several years and is
permanently attached to that
organization. During the past few
months he has hired several hun-
dred men, many of them engineers,
to direct the work of the big
emergency project. He works
under Victor M. Ehlers, ’05, State
Sanitary Engineer, whose head-
quarters are in Austin, with the
State Dept. of Health.
Hopkins was a member of the
basketball squad as a student of
A. & M. and took part in many
other student activities. After the
War he spent several years in
Mexico on railway location and op-
eration work. He was at one time
Sanitary Engineer for the city of
Fort Worth.