April 14-15.
THE TEXAS AGGIE
Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M.
Press, College Station, Texas, except dur-
ing the summer months, when issued
monthly by the Association of Former
Students of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College of Texas, College Station,
Texas.
T. B. Warden, ’03 President
Ti ATURE, 2075 cc tiiessivimmottuosite Vice-President
E. E. McQuillen, ’20...... Executive Secretary
1. B. ‘Locke, #19............. Assistant Secretary
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E. E. McQuillen.............. Publisher
Directors
C. M. Evans,
R. C. Black, Beaumont
Max D. Gilfillan, *17.......c.. tec cccicirssnsees Lindale
B. PF. Gray, ’23 Sherman
A. .P. Rollins, ’06 Dallas
H. C." Dillingham, ’22............ College Station
M. H. Mimms, ’28 onroe
W. W. Lawson,
J. A. Scofield,
M. J. Miller,
R.A. Birk, "13
Willson Davis, ’
E. Vv. Spence, *25 0 er ear Big Spring
W. A. French, ’13.... Abilene
Colonel O. A. Seward, "0T.....cccc....... Amarillo
DIRECTORS AT LARGE
T. B. Warden, ’03 Dallas
Verne A.4 Scott, 714.0... ...0i Stephenville
AS FPS Mitchell, 709... cieini coe ns Corsicana
JAB A MAller;  218....08 ccsssuniinsssanes Jacksonville
C. A. Thanheiser, ’01 Houston
I. A. Uhr, "17 San Antonio
HR. Denson, 10:0. 8 vse Port Arthur?
REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC
COUNCIL
Houston
Dallas
C. A. Thanheiser, ’01
Julius Schepps, ’14
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
T. B. Warden, 03 Dallas
LA. Uhr, '17 San Antonio
R. C. Blaek, ’17 Beaumont
Jack Shelton, ’17 Luling
E. E. McQuillen, ’20.............. College Station
STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES
T. B. Warden, ’03 Dallas
A. F. Mitchell, *09..........cccccoezeereane Corsicana
E. E. McQuillen, ’20.............. College Station
THE ANNUAL MEETING
Only a small proportion of the
members of the Association real-
ize the extent in material worth of
the organization, or its tremendous
potentialities for good to the A. &
M. College, to the State of Texas,
to A. & M. men themselves and to
young men of the State. One ex-
ample of the extent of the Associa-
tion is the growth of its student
loan funds from $2500 twelve years
ago, to over $100,000 at this time.
The very nature of the organiza-
tion makes necessary that most
of its business be transacted by its
officers and directors. But the
annual business meeting, schedul-
ed this year on April 15th., offers
an opportunity to every member
to participate in the affairs of his
Association. To that end the AG-
GIE would like to see a thousand
members present at this year’s an-
nual meeting.
George Ade has said that no man
was to be more pitied than the
University or College product who
had lost all interest in the friends,
the scenes, and the experiences of
his student days; for that man had
lost something that was precious,
that could not be bought now, and
that could make its owner live
longer, and feel younger and hap-
pier.
Two or three days upon the A.
& M. Campus will have a wonder-
ful effect upon a jaded former
student. Contact with the vitality
and spirits of 2,000 Texas youths
is a tonic in itself. Worries and
cares will fade away in the pleas-
ant atmosphere and in the renewal
of old friendships. Delightful
remembrances of youthful days will
prove a tonic that your physician
cannot equal.
Treat yourself to a week-end of
pleasure and profit by attending
the annual meeting on the campus,
BEN WARDEN
The Association of Former Stu-
dents and its membership has al-
ways been very fortunate in com-
manding the services of Presidents
who have rendered outstanding
work. That statement is mild in
relation to the past year’s work
of T. B. Warden, ’03, who com-
pletes a year as President of the
organization this month. He has
met with A. & M. Clubs from El
Paso to Jacksonville, Amarillo to
Port Arthur, and points between.
He brought to the office a fresh-
ness, an enthusiasm, and an inde-
pendence that has been the delight
of A. & M. men.
Ben Warden has given liberally
to the Association, and through it
to the College and to A. & M.
men, not only his brains and lead-
ership but his money, time and en-
thusiasm. If such a gift can be re-
paid with appreciation and high
regard, the AGGIE feels the ac-
count is square. The past year has
enthroned Ben Warden in a secure
niche in the hearts and high regard
of A. & M. men.
THOMAS MAYO---
HIS COLUMN
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Your correspondent, after living
in Texas on Texas money for eight-
een years or so, and rather stupid-
ly failing, during all this time, to
interest himself in regional South-
western culture, is now beginning
to see the light, and to develop a
mild yen for the books, music, and
other objects of art which are
growing out of our local soil
* * * *
In short, he is a brand new con-
vert to SOUTHWESTERN CUL-
TURE, his conversion having been
due largely to hearing Carl
Sprague sing two cowboy songs at
a Lions’ Club Luncheon—‘“Home
on the Range”, and another ditty
about a wild horse or something.
Now new converts are notoriously
eager to share their enthusiasms.
Accordingly, at the risk of telling
what to many of you may be an
old story, he wishes to call to your
attention some of the books upon
which he has stumbled recently—
to his great pleasure.
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Harvey Fergusson’s RIO
GRANDE is a history of the upper
part of the Valley (especially the
Taos country), as it has been domi-
nated by the Pueblo Indians, by
the Spanish Conquistadores, by the
Mexicans, by the Yankee ‘“Moun-
tain Men” who followed the beaver
streams, by the Cow Men and the
six shooters, and finally by the
modern banker, merchant, and
commercial farmer.
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It seems to me that this lively
and entertaining little book offers
to a Southwesterner the best pos-
sible opportunity of grasping, not
only the outlines of the history of
his own section, but, in terms of
his own section, the ESSENCE OF
HISTORY ITSELF.
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Ever since Karl Marx made THE
ECONOMIC INTERPRETATION
OF HISTORY a fundamental doc-
trine of the Communistic creed, all
of us, whether Communists or not,
have been developing the habit of
looking for a group of money-
getters or a class of food-seekers
behind every event of national im-
portance.
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I believe that, on the whole, this
is a sound habit. Of course, ex-
plaining all movements by any one.
factor makes human history appear
much simpler than it really is. But
let’s be realistic about the average
man’s mental processes. Isn't it
true that this oft-cited, though per-
haps mythical creature, the AVER-
AGE MAN, always over-empha-
sizes some one cause, in his feeble
attempts to explain why history
happens? If this is true, as we
think it is, isn’t THE FOOD-AND-
MONEY MOTIVE about the saf-
est one for him to over-emphasize
in intrepreting history ?
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After all, the desire for property
comes nearer to being IDENTICAL
in each of us than any other of the
human urges. “But”, you may re-
ply, hand pressed to bosom, per-
haps—eyes uplifted soulfully,
“What about LOVE? Doesn’t
LOVE CONQUER ALL THINGS,
as they used to inscribe on ladies’
brooches in Chaucer’s day? Why
not explain great historical events
by the LOVE MOTIVE? Why not,
for example, account for the su-
premacy of Rome over Egypt and
the Orient by dwelling upon An-
thony’s runious passion for Cleo-
patra, which enabled Octavius and
Rome to win the war?”
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Of course, in any given indivi-
dual, any one of several motives
may outweigh the economic urge.
In Anthony, for example, sex was,
according to the old story, more
powerful than acquisitive ambition.
Very many great leaders have set
RELIGION far above economic
considerations, and led their unsel-
fish lives accordingly. The Michael
Angelos and Beethovens, moreover,
have lived (and suffered economi-
cally) for ARTISTIC BEAUTY.
But the objection to explaining
history by these motives is that in
their sexual and religious and aes-
thetic desires, men are ALL DIF-
FERENT FROM EACH OTHER.
Every man’s LOVE, or every man’s
RELIGION, or every man’s ART
is necessarily different from every
other man’s.
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Now, to cause a great historical
movement, to set a whole nation
in motion, some urge is required
which vast numbers of men res-
pond to in common, and respond
to very much alike. And, to your
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amateur philosophy of history, it
looks very much as though THE
DESIRE FOR FOOD-AND-MON-
EY IS THIS NECESSARY HIGH-
EST-COMMON DENOMINATOR
OF HUMAN URGES.
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This, I think, is especially true
now that man has learned to re-
duce all kinds of property and most
kinds of power to MONEY, which
has practically uniform value all
over the world. This money stands
for something that we all want.
Examine any one of us, and you
may find that he prefers his RE-
LIGION, his SENSE OF DE-
CENCY, or his SWEETIE to any
amount of money. But lump us all
together in a mass large enough
to cause a national event, and you’ll
be likely to find that the religious
motive won’t move the mass be-
cause, even though you and I may
be members of the same church,
our conceptions of religion are
sure to be different. Our DESIRE
TO BE DECENT won’t move the
mass, because ‘‘decent” means one
thing to you and another to me.
Our LOVE motive won’t move the
mass, because you, perhaps, like
brunettes, while, on the other hand
(we have it on excellent authority)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLOND-{
ES.
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With all these other motives con-
flicting, the movements of the
mass are likely to be left largely
to the mercy of the one fairly uni-
form urge which every one of us
shares in some degree: The desire
for bread and meat and a roof over
our heads; and (when we have got-
ten these) for oysters and cham-
pagne and a penthouse; and then,
at long last, for the power and pres-
tige that come with large accumu-
lations of money.
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Now, I have purposely drawn
this map of human motives in
crude, bright colors, in order to
catch and hold the dim, glazed eye
of the bored Aggie. In the course
of a long career devoted cheerily
to the making of indefensible
statements, I have rarely if ever
made one, I believe, which is open
to attach at so many points as this
one. And yet, I also believe, the
statement is ‘substantially true.
(This false humility is supposed
to disarm INDIGNANT IDEAL-
‘ISTS to whom THE ECONOMIC
INTERPRETATION OF HIS-
TORY seems a gross belittling of
spiritual values.) g
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To these idealistic gentlemen, I
should like to say further that
spiritual values like. JUSTICE,
DECENCY, BEAUTY, and LOVE,
seem to me STONES TO BE
BUILT INTO HUMAN FUTURE
rather than KEYS TO AN UN-
DERSTANDING OF THE HU-
MAN PAST. We shall get no clos-
er to the creation of a world in
which JUSTICE, DECENCY,
BEAUTY, and LOVE shall be the
ruling forces, by protending that
they have ruled our race in its
violent and brutal past.
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As a matter of fact, if we al-
low ourselves to be kidded into be-
lieving that great mass movements
are actuated by the desire for
spiritual values, we simply play
into the hands of the boys in
whom the ECONOMIC MOTIVE
holds undisputed sway.
By the way, isn’t there such a
thing as A REALISTIC IDEAL-
IST? Or is this a self-contradic-
tory term?
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Anyhow, be sure to read FER-
GUSON’S RIO GRANDE, HOL-
DEN’S ALKALI TRAILS, DOB-
IE’'S CORONADO’S CHILDREN
(of course you have, already) and
MILBURN'’S books of Short Stor-
ies, OKLAHOMA TOWN and NO
MORE TRUMPETS, and try out
the ECONOMIC INTERPRETA-
TION on the history and literature
of your own Southwest.
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(Passing thought: Don’t ever be
a theatrical producer!)
Carl P. Brannin, ’09, for many
years has followed newspaper and
publicity work in connection with
organzied labor movements. This
work has taken him all over the
world. He is living at 419 S|
Mary’s St. in Dallas at the present
time. As a student at A. & M. he
was Editor of the Battalion and
Captain of the Band. He is mar-
ried and has one child.
W. P. McOsker, ’19, is living at
Milan, Mich.,, where his mail ad-
dress is 240 Second St.
Harrie A. Smith, 27, is with the
Big Lake Oil Co., Box 453m, Tex-
on, Texas.
IN MEMORIAM
Richard Overall Wilson, ’24
R. 0. “Dick” Wilson, ’24,
died at his home in Coleman,
Texas, on March first, 1934.
He was 34 years of age. He
had been making his home in
Coleman for several years
and had been in poor health
for some time. Shortly after
graduation he spent several
years in central America on
engineering work. He took
his degree at A. & M. in Civil
Engineering.
“Dick” Wilson was a let-
ter-man in both football and
track while at A. & M., play-
ing tackle on the gridiron
and throwing the discus on
the track team. He was
Captain of Company C in
in the Cadet Corps in 1924,
was Student representative
on the Athletic Council and
a member of the Ross Vol-
unteers.
Burial was
Texas.
at Coleman,
The many friends of William
Pitt Martyn, ’13, will regret to
hear of the death of his son, Wil-
liam Pitt Junior, in Dallas last
week. The youngster was 11 years
old and was a feature member of
the tumbling team of the Dallas
Athletic Club. He is survived by
his parents and one brother. They
live at 5318 Ridgedale, Dallas.
G. D. Heye, 27, is with the Gen-
eral Electric Co. at their plant at
Pittsfield, Mass. His address is 11
Dorchester Ave., that city.
H. W. Hass, 33, is teaching at
the Sharyland High School and
gets his mail at Mission, Texas,
in the Rio Valley.
H. S. Price, 26, is with the Hor-
ton-Price Construction Co., located
at present at Ferriday, La.
W. H. Elliott, ’14, is in the Do-
mestic Sales Dept. of the big of-
fices of The Texas Co., 135 East
42nd. St., New York City.
Arthur D. Boswell, 30, is with
the Carbide and Chemical Corp.,
Box 456, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Reids, La.
Robert L. “Soapy” Suggs, ’32,
is with the Humble Oil & Refin-
ing Co., 215-B, Humble Bldg. An-
nex, Houston.
Elmer O. Cox is teaching in the
Houston City Schools and lives at
5117 Inker St., that city.
L. M. Johnson, ’14, is with the
Producers and Refiners Corp., at
Parco, Wyoming.
Weldon B. Morris, 32, is taking
graduate work this year at the
Towa State College. His address,
2228 Lincoln Way, Ames, Jowa.
Nomination of
Directors Slow
Nomination of Association
Directors from the Congres-
sional Districts of the State
has been unusually slow this
year with only four Districts
having sent in nominations
to date. Without these nomi-
nations from the Districts,
and the presence of the
nominees in person or by
personal proxy, the Nom-
inating Committee must nom-
inate candidates for the
places. Since it is essential
that a quorum of Directors
be present at the annual
meeting it is difficult for
the nominating committee to
secure wide representation
for the members of the Asso-
ciation without the aid of
nominations from each Dis-
trict. A map showing the
new congressional districts
of the state was carried in
the preceding issue of the
AGGIE. A. & M. Clubs or
individual members are urged
to see that a Director is
nominated from their dis-
trict, his nomination sent to
the Association office, and
that he or his proxy be pres-
ent at the annual meeting,
April 15th.
beautify the corner.
Wm. D. Morrow, 23, is living at -
GATHRIGHT SITE
BEING CONVERTED
INTO GARDEN SPOT
Campus Beautification Plans
Call for Preservation of
Gathrigh Foundation as
Border for Sunken Garden.
Even though the old Gathright
Hall has been torn down and the
area is now to bc bexutified, the
old foundations are to be preserved
The
old site is to be made into a sun-
in the beautification plans.
ken garden very similar to the
sunken area between Law and Pur-
year Halls, with the old founda-
tions as the borders around the
sunken portion, according to F. W.
Hensel, who is in charge of the
beautification program of the cam-
pus.
Sidewalks are to be placed
through the garden along about
the same lines that the paths have
previously followed, and shrubs
and flowers are to be planted to
will cover the bare walls of the
Exchange Store Building and add
immensly to the beauty of the
campus, especially at this popular
corner near the Mess Hall. Work
is progressing rapidly on the job
and is to be completed in a few
weeks.
Leaving the old foundation
walls, this landmark of the first
building of the A and M College
will remain for the memories of
those who did not want to see the
old building go. For many, this
old building represented their
dormitory, class rooms, mess hall;
and the offices of the college.
Other areas on the campus to
be beautified under this present
program are: between the Aggie-
land Inn and Walton Hall, the Tex-
tile Building and the M. E. Build-
ing, around the Animal Industries
Building, ‘around the Chemistry
Building, and the front of the new
Administration Building which is
about half completed.
W. J. Faulk, ’32, is with The
Texas Company and lives at the
Goodhue Hotel in Port Arthur.
J. S. Welboan, ’06, is with the
Freeport Sulphur Co., at Freeport,
Texas.
J. J. Adams, ’31, is with the
Cities Service Oil Co. and gets his
mail at 4111 Bryan St., Dallas.
Milford B. Corey, ’32, is teach-
ing in the Greenfield Community
High School and gets his mail at
229 N. Harrington, Girard, Ill
J. B. Fitzpatrick, 31, is with the
Alabama State Park Board and
located at the Little River State
Park, Uriah, Ala.
George M. Garrett, ’24, is with
the State Highway Dept.,, and
located at Ballinger, Tex.
James W. Foley, ’32, is with The
Texas Co., at Dobbin, Texas.
B. P. Gregg, 28, is with the
Shell Petroleum Corp., and lives at
3219 Austin, Houston, Texas.
Edgar L. Granau, ’20, is with
the Gulf States Utilities Co., at
Port Arthur.
John A. Lacy, 23, is with the
firm of Bruton & Brown, 2120
Jackson St., Dallas.
R. D. Brooks, ’30, is with the
Texas Power and Light Co., at the
big plant at Trinidad, Texas.
G. R. Robertson, ’31, is with the
Texas Power and Light Co. at
their Trinidad, Texas, plant.
J. C. Herren, ’29, is with the Air
Conditioning Corp., and gets his
mail at 112 Seward, Detroit, Mich.
Chester A. Schwope, 31, is Sup-
erintendent of Construction for the
Texas Highway Dept., and at pre-
sent located at Edinburg, Texas.
Wm. C. “Bill” King, 21, is as-
sociated with the State Highway
Dept. of Texas on a program of
highway beautification. He still
makes his home at San Antonio.
W. C. McMurrey, ’31, sends in
his dues and reports himself, Ed
Liem, ’32, Tom D. Quinn, ’32, and
Jack Barron, ’33, all with the State
Highway Dept. at Center, Texas.
This planting |
WEDDINGS
The wedding of Robert Barron
Webb, ’27, and Miss Alliene Bran-
don, of Dallas, was recently sol-
emnized in the First Baptist
Church, of Dallas, with Dr. George
W. Truett officiating. Webb was
attended by Leon Maddox, ’27, as
best man, with C. R. Coward, ’30,
Chris A. Steinman, 29, and Ben
Pochyla, 29, serving as ushers.
After a wedding trip to Monterrey,
Tampico, and Mexico City, Mr. and
Mrs. Webb will reside at 5826 Viec-
kery Boulevard, Dallas, Texas.
Webb is with the Southwest Bell
Telephone Company.
BIRTHS
An -
Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Crevelling,
’25, are receiving congratulations
from their many friends over the
birth of a little daughter, born
March 24, 1934 at St. Paul’s Hos-
pital, Dallas. They reside at 5318
Rowena St., Dallas, Texas.
Wm. T. Coleman, Jr., '29, was
recently transferred to the CCC
Camp at Cooledge, Texas. He was
formerly stationed at Weatherford.
T. F. White, ’12, is Educational
Director and Advisor in the CCC
Camp located at Woodville, Texas.
He writes that several of the men
in his company have announced
their intention of attending the
A. & M. College. White was known
to his Class-mates by the nick-
name of “Grand-ma”.
George H. Lacy, ’13, is with the
Gulf Production Co., and lives at
4320 Greely St., Houston.
R. L. McMillian, ’27, is in the
production dept. of the Sand and
Gravel Co., 1806 Milam St., in
Houston.
Orville Laird, ’30, is associated
with the operation of the Norel
Hotel in Chicago, located at 5517-
19 Kenmore Ave. He reports many
Texas people staying at this hotel
last summer and expects many
more when the Worlds Fair crowds
start coming again this summer.
He offers his aid to any A. & M.
people who might come to Chicago.
In addition to working at the hotel
he is taking graduate courses at
Northwestern University.
Herbert W. Hass, ’33, is Princi-
pal of the Sharyland High School
in the Rio Grande Valley and lives
at Mission, Texas. He was a “Dis-
tinguished” student at A. & M.
and a member of the Scholarship
Honor Society.
Save Your
Pennies
The special committee,
named by President T. B.
Warden to put over the Spe-
cial Train and Tour to Phil-
adelphia and New York next
fall for the Temple Univer-
sity-Texas Aggie football
game, held a meeting in Dal-
las on March 22. The commit-
tee is composed of E. P. Hal-
tom, Ft. Worth, John P.
Garitty,, Corsicana, I. A.
Uhr, San Antonio, Graham
Hall, Houston, Julius Schepps
of Dallas, and E. E. McQuil-
len, College.
Although no definite an-
nouncements regarding the
trip are ready, it is known
that the committee is con-
sidering the staging of an
All-Expense Trip to Phila-
delphia and New York, with
a return by Chicago if desir-
ed. It is likely that the World
Series will be under way at
the time the trip is made.
The committee, with the
cooperation of the interested
Rail lines, is working on
plans to make the trip the
most reasonable one from a
cost standpoint that has ev-
er been sent from the South-
west. At the same time no
expense will be shared to
make the tour comfortable
and pleasant. Further an-
nouncements will be made
when ready. In the meantime
vacation plans should be
held in abeyance until the de-
tails of this trip are avail-
able.