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VOL. X COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 15, 1934. NO. 20
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Cadet Quint Swamps Ponies
But Two Defeats By krogs
Almost Ruin Title Chances
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A defeat at the hands of the T.
C. U. Horned Frogs last Saturday
night at College Station practically
eliminated the Aggies as confer-
ence title contenders for this sea-
son. Had the locals won froin the
Frogs they would have been in a
favored position for their first
basketball title since 1924. To date
the Aggie quint has lost three
games, one to Rice at Houston
and twice to the Horned Frogs. All
remaining games, with the excep-
tion of a tilt with Baylor, will be
played in the Aggie’s home gymn.
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Big six foot six inch Richard
Allison, star T. C. U. forward and
leading conference scorer, spelled
defeat for the Aggies in their
crucial game against the Frogs.
As long as he was held in check
the Aggies had a slight edge, but
late in the second half he broke
loose, tallied 14 points in as many
minutes,, and the ball game was
lost. When the giant is hitting his
one-hand, backward push-shots,
there is almost no way, short of
murder, to stop him.
Although going down in defeat
John Reid’s sophomore team play-
ed a great game against their tall-
er rivals and the battle was a close
and nerve wracking exhibition un-
til the final ten minutes when Alli-
son sewed the verdict up with a
barrage of goals. Time and again
the score was tied, with first one
team and then the other taking
the lead.
Allison was almost the whole
-show for T. C. U., although get-
ting nice support from Lester and
Walker. For the Aggies Merka,
Hutto and Wilkins lead the scor-
ing, with Davis playing a splen-
did floor game and Bisbee turn-
ing in a fine defensive game. Both
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Zech C. Dameron, ’33, is ranch-
ing 12 miles from Dryden, Texas.
He reports conditions much better
in the sheep and cattle country.
ARTHUR DUGGAN
T0 MAKE RACE
FOR CONGRESS
Arthur P. Duggan, ’95, of Little-
field, recently announced his can-
didacy for the United States Con-
gress from the new 19th. district
in West Texas. He is now State
Senator from the 30th. State Sena-
torial District. One of the best
known citizens of West Texas,
Arthur Duggan is a past presi-
dent of the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce, and a life long res-
ident of that section. He has play-
ed a large part in the great de-
velopment of West Texas during
the past twenty years. He is one
of the best posted men upon tax
problems in the State. As a mem-
ber of the State senate he is high-
ly regarded as one of the ablest
members of the legislature.
J. Allen Myers, "22, Is
Landscape Engineer
Miss. Highway Dept.
J. Allen Myers, ’22, was recently
named Landscape Engineer for the
State Highway Dept. of Miss-
issippi. His headquarters will be
at Jackson. After graduating in
Landscape Art from A. & M.
Myers did graduate work and ad-
vanced study at Cornell and Har-
vard Universities. He later spent
two years of study in Germany,
Italy and other European centers.
Returning to the United States he
taught at Auburn and practiced
Landscape Architecture in Birm-
ingham, Alabama. He was a Bryan
boy. Mrs. Myers was Miss Nobie
Webb of Bryan. They have one
child. :
Alec Harris, ’20, is Maintenance
Engineer for the Mississippi State
Highway Department and also
lives in Jackson.
NAMED DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT
~ Sterling Evans, "21
_ Election of Dean Kyle as a di-
rector of the Federal Land Bank of
Houston was announced recently,
together with the announcement
that Sterling C. Evans had been
made President of the Bank for
Cooperatives, one of the major
divisions of the Federal Land Bank
for the Southwest. Evans has mov-
ed to Houston to take up his new
duties. Dean Kyle's Directorship
will not interfere with his present
Federal
duties with the A. & M. College.
Dean E. J. Kyle, 99
Evans was formerly a District
Agent of the A. & M. Extension
Service.
Other A. & M. men are taking
an active and- important part in
the re-organized activities of the
Land Bank. Owen W.
Sherrill, ’10, is Secretary of the
Production Credit Bank, while
John B. Jones, 26, is Secretary of
the Bank for Cooperatives. M. E.
“Dime” Dealy, 225, is publicity’
director for the entire bank set-
up, and many other A. & M. men
are connected with one of the four
main divisions. The Bank serves
MATTY BELL
TO S. M. U?
It became known this week
that negotiations were al-
most completed that would
make Matty Bell, Aggie Ath-
letic head, head line coach
and assistant to Ray Morri-
son at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas. Morri-
son and Bell have been close
friends for many years. Final
action on the matter is said
to rest with the S. M. U. Ex-
ecutive Committee which was
expected to act one day this
week. The combination of
Morrison and Bell would give
the Ponies one of the best
coaching line-ups in the
country. If the deal goes
thru Bell will ask for a
month’s leave of absence this
spring to conduct spring
training at S. M. U.
Homer Norton, who takes
over the Athletic situation
at A. & M. in September,
and his line coach Cal Hub-
bard, will conduct one
month’s spring practice at
A. & M. in March.
the entire state.
ROSS VOLUNTEERS
COMPLETE PLANS
FOR BRENHAM TRIP
Senior Members of Organiza-
tion To Act As Guard To
Queen of May Fest.
Plans have been completed for
the trip by the Ross Volunteers
to the Brenham May Fest which
is to be held in Brenham early
this Spring, according to R. N.
Reid, secretary and treasurer of
the Ross Volunteers.
The May Fest, which is an an-
nual affair in Brenham, has ex-
tended an invitation to the R V’s
this year with the object of lend-
ing color to the festival. The pa-
rade passing through the business
district will be headed by the white
uniformed cadets and the feature
of the afternoon is widely adver-
tised as an exhibition drill by the
“Ross Volunteers of Texas A and
M”.
Senior members of the organi-
zation will act as a Royal Guard
to the Queen of the Brenham May
Fest at her coronation on the ev-
| ening of the holiday.
One Out of Eight To
Register Second Term
Aided By Loan Funds
One out of every eight students
registered for second term work at
A. & M. on Feb. first were made
student loans thru the funds ad-
ministered by the Association. A
total of $12,000 was loaned, with
the loans averageing $55 each.
Additional loans will be made thru
the spring to enable students to
meet the monthly
maintenace.
charges for
The loan funds now under the
direction of the Association total
in excess of $100,000.
past ten years a half million dol-
lars have been loaned to students
of A. & M. by the Association of-
fice. The last big increase in loan
fund resources came as a result
of the sale of one of the McFarlin
Farms, at which time the McFarlin
Memorial Student Loan Fund of
$40,000 was set up. Additional in-
creases in the loan funds have been
made by various Mother’s Clubs,
many of whom maintain splendid
and growing loan funds.
During the
Warden-Norton
Guests Annual
Jacket Dinner
Port Arthur Club Honors
High Schosl Team and
Coaches With 150 Present
At Big Banquet.
T. B. Warden, President of the
Association, Homer Norton, new
Athletic Head, and the Port Arthur
High School Yellow-Jacket foot-
ball team, were honor guests at
the recent big annual banquet held
by the Port Arthur A. & M. Club.
For many years this club has an-
nually honored the High School
football team, and the affair has
become an outstanding one. 150
A. & M. men and their guests were
present at this year’s party held
at the Vaughan Hotel on the night
of January 26th. the
second big A. & M. gathering in
the Sabine District in a fort-night.
C.7W." “Ded”
Chairman of the General Arrange-
It was
Hurley, ’22, was
ments Committee.
James C. “Major” Fleming, ’27,
President of the Port Arthur A.
& M. Club, delivered the address
of welcome, and then turned the
meeting over to the Toast-master,
H. Lydell Tucker, '22, who carried
thru the program with his usual
smoothness and humor. Principal
addresses were made by Mr. War-
den, Homor Norton and by Mr.
G. M. Sims, Superintendent of the
Port Arthur Schools.
A delightful program of dancing
and music was thoroughly enjoyed.
Short talks were made by John
Newton, ’12, and Charles Babcock,
’18, of Beaumont, and others.
Coach Tom Dennis of the Yellow
Jackets introduced his team and
assistant coaches, and both coaches
and team were given a great hand.
President Warden related brief-
ly some of the work of the Ex-
Student’s Association, and told of
some future plans and hopes of
that group. He paid high praise
to the High School Athletes present
and their coaches, and likewise
paid tribute to the fine work of
the Port Arthur A. & M. Club.
Homer Norton struck a key-
note of his address when he de-
clared, “You Yellow-Jackets must
of had that spirit of team play
that is necessary to a successful
ball club. I care nothing about
the highly temperamental stars of
the game. I want on my club boys
who are willing to cooperate with
their mates and the coaches and
works in team harmony. They must
also have that determination to
win that marks every real athlete”.
Officers of the Port Arthur A.
& M. Club are, James C. Fleming,
"27, President; I. H. Foshee, ’29,
Vice President; J. W. Simonds, ’32,
Secretary-Treasurer; W. H. Mar-
kle, ’31, Sergeant-at-Arms; K. P.
Brock, ’28, Publicity Director.
Twenty-five years ago the Dal-
las News carried a dispatch, under
a College Station date-line, stat-
ing, “The cadet band of the A. &
M. College is now one of the larg-
est and best musical organization
of the state. The roster of the
band has been increased to 32
members”. Present membership
of the band is 125 men. Which
brings to mind again the classical
remark of Hal Moseley, ’00, at
Commencement last spring when
the band marched by, “Gad!, they’-
ve got more piccolo players in the
band now than there were students
in my day”.
WARDEN EXPRESSES THANKS FOR
HEARTY RESPONGE AS EXUBERANT
EXES BET
ASSN MEETING
PLANS ALREADY
TAKING SHAPE
Plans are already under way to
make this year’s annual business
meeting of the Association, sched-
uled for April 14-15, the best ever
held. Class re-unions are already
taking shape, with the liklihood
that attendance at these gatherings
will exceed those held during the
past several years. Following the
usual custom, sleeping quarters
will be furnished visiting A. & M.
men at no cost. Meals will be
taken at the Aggieland Inn or at
the Mess Hall, with the reunion
classes eating together.
The annual Smith-Hughes Day
is scheduled for April 16th., the day
following the Association meeting,
and many Vocational Agricultura!
teachers are expected to arrive a
day or so early in order to attend
the Association meeting. The an-
nual Highway Engineers Short
Course will be held during the
week before the annual meeting
and this is also expected to resuit
in a larger attendance for the
week-end.
A speaker for the annual joint
Faculty-Former Student Luncheon
has not yet been selected. Presi-
dent Warden is expected to name
a committee for that purpose in
the near future. The custom of
inviting an outstanding Texas
citizen to make an address at this
luncheon will again be followed.
Hon. Coke Stephenson, Speaker of
the House of Representatives of
Texas, was the speaker last spring.
NEW GRADUATION
SCHEDULE T0 BE
INITIATED IN JUNE
An entirely different schedule
of events for the last week of
school has been arranged, accord-
ing to F. C. Bolton, dean of the
college, and the graduation exer-
cises will be the first to differ
from old schedules which time has
made traditional.
These changes, which have been
contemplated for several years be-
cause of the hardship worked on
the graduating students, will offer
many advantages to both the can-
didates for degrees, the underclass-
men, and the officials of the col-
lege.
The new arrangement of events
for the final week of school will be
such that the baccalaureate ser-
mon will be delivered Friday morn-
ing, instead of the usual preceding
Sunday morning, and the gradua-
tion exercises will be held in the
Kyle Field Stadium Friday night,
beginning around seven o’clock.
The date of the Junior Prom hasn't
been changed, and the Final Ball
will probably be made a German,
beginning immediately after the
graduation exercises. The Final
Review has been moved up to Sat-
urday morning instead of Satur-
day afternoon. This will facilitate
the handling of the government is-
sue uniform, and will allow all stu-
dents to get away by moon or
slightly after.
¥,
i GHEaT
“I have not yet fully recovered
my breath”, was the reply of Presi-
dent T. B. Warden when asked for
an initial report on his INTER-
VIEW CAMPAIGN, launched from
his office in Austin on Feb. first.
“Three hundred replies came in
che first day and they have been
coming ever since,” continued the
Association president. “My office
has been swamped. The Campaign
proved one thing, and that is the
deep and sincere interest of A. &
M. men in the problems facing their
college. The Campaign is an un-
qualified success.” i
“Owing to the rapid and heavy
return of the interview blanks i!
will be March first before a final
report on the campaign can be
made. The returns are being
handled as rapidly: as possible
Checks enclosed have been for-
warded to the Association office
at College Station for proper
credit.”
Appreciates Response
“To all those who aided in mak-
ing this effort a success, I wish to
express my sincere thanks and
deep appreciation. I will read all
of the returns, and wish it were
possible to answer each one per-
sonally. This would require time
and an office force that is not
available. I can promise, however,
that every suggestion made will
be considered, every criticisnn
passed on to the proper party
where possible, and your identity
held confidential where this ap--
pears proper.”
“To those who expressed ap-
proval of the work being done by
the Association and its officers I
wish to say that you have made
this work lighter and have en-
couraged us to do even better as
the days go by. Your approval will
be ample reward for the time and
efforts put forth by the officers of
the Association.”
Hands Off Policy
“One of the thoughts most of-
ten expressed by those interview-
ed,” continued Warden, “Was that
the former students of the Col-
lege should not attempt to settle
or mix into the internal affairs of
the School, but should leave those
matters to the discretion of the
Faculty and Board of Directors.
In this I heartily concur. There
was no thought in the INTER-
VIEW CAMPAIGN of meddling
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COLLEGE RECEIVES
FUNDS T0 AID 215
INSTUDENT LABOR
Funds Will Be Available for
Student Labor Over Cam-
pus and Clerical Work.
F TH
Harry L. Hopkins, administra-
tor of Federal Relief and Civil
Works at Washington, assured the
authorities of this college yester-
day that funds would be appro-
priated to aid two hundred and fif-
teen needy Texas A and M students
to complete the school year. The
Federal Government, under the
new relief program, has set aside
five to seven million dollars for
aiding 100,000 college students
throughout the country. The mon-
ey for the relief program for Tex-
as colleges will be handled through
the emergency relief administra-
tion of Texas.