The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, January 01, 1936, Image 2

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    THE TEXAS AGGIE
" Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M.
Press, College Station, Texas, except dur-
WEDDINGS
ing the summer months, when d
monthly by the Association of Former
Students of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College of Texas, College Station.
Texas.
IL. A. Uhr, Yi President
Tyree L. Bell. 15......ccciipioeeins Vice President
E. E. McQuillen, ’20...Executive Secretary
1. - B. Locke, ?18........... Assistant Secretary
Subscription Price $5.00
Entered as Second Class Matter at
College Station, Texas
E. E. McQuillen................ Publisher
3 Directors
Knox Lee, ’08 Marshall
H. XK. Deason, 16a. ne ois Port Arthur
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F. .D. Perkins, 9% aoa. mwa. McKinney
W. B. Francis, ’15 : Dallas
Estil Y. Cunningham, *10............ Corsicana
W. Y.. Ballard, 222. 0.5. hs ett Jacksonville
CLR. Haile, cdl Al tind lates tas Houston
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W. C. Torrence, ’13 Waco
Phil S. Groginski, ’16...............Fort Worth
C. P. Dodson, ’11 Decatur
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Marcus Gist, ’22 Odessa
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Oscar A. Seward, 207........ 0nd
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George G. Smith, ’30................
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Albert G. Pfaff, 27
T. W. Mohle, ’19
: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
f. A. Uhr, 17 San Antonio
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.T. W. Mohle, ’19 Houston
Qscar A. Seward, ’07
Houston
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. REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC
i COUNCIL
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OUR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
One feature of the tremendous
development of the A. & M. Col-
iege during the past ten years has
been the growth of College Station
as a normal, residential community.
A decade ago there were no res-
idences at College Station save
those owned by the school itself;
and one or two very small bus-
iness establishments completed the
picture. Today College Park and
Qakwoods are thriving, active and
growing residential sections just
south of the campus. At the north
gate is the business section, also
with its residential areas, with
grocery, drug, clothing, variety,
barber and cafe establishments,
soon to be augmented by the new
U. S. Post Office building. At the |
Northeast corner of the campus is
another residential section, rapid-
dy growing up on the new highway
This development is of tremen-
‘dous importance to the College. It
will provide social contacts badly
needed by the student body. It will
serve as a reservoir where over-
flow students may be housed. It
will mean happier and more con-
venient living accomodations for
faculty and college staff members.
It will bring to College Station an
entity and a personality that at
present is absent; and without
which no community can pose 12s
an ideal place to live, to wori and
to study.
The most important need now
along this line is increased hotel
accomodations on the campus. The
AGGIELAND INN is a splendid
hostelry that has meant a great
“deal to the campus, but its 30 rooms
are wholly inadequate to meet the
demand for hotel accomodations.
Its size should be doubled at the
least and preferably trippled.
There is a great need for suffi-
cient first class hotel accomoda-
tions on the campus for the par-
ents and friends of student, and
for the many business men who are
coming to the College in increas-
ing numbers. With a little en-
couragement Texas parents, Texas
industry, Texas Agriculture, and
more important, Texas’s affection
and respect, will beat a path to the
door of the College. But when they
arrive they must be properly cared
for, and the day is gone when a
couch in the lobby of the “Y”, or
an extra bed in Leggett Hall will
satisfactorily solve the problem.
A. & M. COLLEGE TO
THE TOP
Another tribute goes to A. & IIL.
College of Texas which this fall be-
comes in numbers as well as in
quality the foremost agricultural
school in the United States.
As a result of substantial in-
creases in enrollment this fall, A.
& M. has a total of 1,164 students
enrolled in agricultural work, with
Langford — Degan
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Degan
announce the marriage of their
daughter Mary Regina, to Mr. Wil-
1| liam Harper Langford, ’27, on De-
cember 26, 1935, in Bakersfield,
California. Mr. and Mrs. Langford
will make their home at Chow-
chilla, California, where Langford
is with the San Joaquin Cotton Oil
.| Company. ‘
Herzik — Smith
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Clara Eliza-
beth Smith, to G. R. Herzik, Jr.,
'34. After a wedding trip to Mon-
terrey, Mr. and Mrs. Herzik will
be at home at College Station,
Texas, where Gus is a graduate
student in the Civil Engineering
Department.
Edge — Williams
The marriage of Miss Lurene
Williams, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. S. L. Williams, to Mr. Paul
| Edge, Jr., ’34, was solemnized Fri-
day afternoon, December 27 at the
home of the bride’s parents. Only
members of the immediate fami-
lies were present. Mr. and Mrs.
Edge will make their home in Ar-
cadia, Texas, where Paul is now
employed as principal of the Ar-
cadia Public School.
Moser-Murrin
The marriage of Miss Margaret
Genevieve Murrin and Mr. August
C. Moser, Jr., ’32, was solemnized
on Tuesday morning, December 31,
1935, at Saint Alphonous Church,
Murrinville, Pennsylvania. Mr. and
Mrs. Moser will make their home
in Dallas and after January 5 will
be at home at 1903 Moser Avenue.
Steele-Piper
News has reached this office of
the marriage of Miss Irene Delong
Piper, of Toronto, Canada, to Rezin
B. Steele, 22, formerly of Hous-
ton. The wedding was quietly sol-
emnized November 20 at the
Church of the Redeemer in Toron-
to, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Steele
will be at home at No. 6, Wibber-
' ton Roads, Toronto, Canada. Steele
is in the Engineering Department
of the Canadian National Tele-
graphs.
Wilbeck-Bradford
On June 9, 1935 Miss Lolabel
| Bradford, of Arlington, became the
pride of Sidney A. Wilbeck, ’27, of
Hungerford. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbeck
are making their home in Hunger-
ford, Texas.
|
Hillin-Parks
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Parks an-
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Oma, to Mr. Thomas W.
Hillin, ’32, on November 13 at
Locker, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Hillin
are at home at Jan Angelo, Texas.
Waide-Bolin
Miss Nelle Bolin, of Farwell, and
J. Waide, Jr., 29, of Muleshoe,
a high mark of 488 in the fresh-
man class!.
By reaching this new high, Tex-
as A. & M. goes ahead of Iowa
State College, which has a total
agricultural enrollment of 1,070
with a freshman class of 445, and
Cornell university, which has an
agricultural enrollment of 1,039,
with a freshman class of 390.
These figures reflect enrollment
in undergraduate work requiring a
four-year course. The figures are
remarkable in that they also re-
flect a 40 percent gain over last
year and a 106 percent over the
year before.
Dean E. J. Kyle, the able direc-
tor of the agricultural school, at-
tributes the increase to: “The
strong upswing in agriculture, the
effect of the AAA on agricultural
recovery, the marked success of
vocational and extension programs
in the state, and the improved and
extensively enlarged physical
plant for agricultural instruction
and research at the college.”
An outsider can add what Dean
Kyle cannot. That is that the re-
markable growth is due in a large
measure to the exceptionally high
type of faculty, the excellent in-
struction, and the capable super-
vision concentrated in Dean Kyle
and the college’s outstanding presi-
dent, Dr. T. O. Walton.
— (The Temple Daily Telegram)
—t
v
were recently married. Waide
graduated from A. & M. in 1929
and received his Master's degree
from Iowa State in 1931. Mr. and
Mrs. Waide are making their home
in Muleshoe, Texas, where Waide is
county agricultural agent.
This office has recently received
the news of the marriage of Woody
L. Cowan, ’28, which took place at
Brenham, Texas. Cowan is with
the Soil Conservation Service and
is located at Dalhart, Texas.
Callaghan-Junca
Mrs. Paul Junca, of LaFayette,
Louisana, announces the marriage
of her daughter, Miss Naomi Ann
Junca, of Houston, to Mr. John B.
Callaghan, Jr., ’28, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Callaghan of Hous-
ton. After January 10, Mr. and;
Mrs. Callaghan will make their
home at Silver City, New Mexico.
Heaton-Stout
Mr. C. Eldon Heaton, ’35, of
Nacogdoches, and Miss Frances
Elizabeth Stout were married at
the home of the bride’s sister on
December 26. Heaton is in charge
of a CCC camp at Hemphill, Tex-
as, where they will make their
home.
Graham-Fariss
The marriage of Miss Gladys
Fariss and W. P. Graham, ’21, was
solemnized on November 27 at the
home of the bride’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Fariss in Lake
Victor. Mr. and Mrs. Graham will
make their home in Lampasas,
Texas, where Mr. Graham is
county agent.
Woodland-Sanders
Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Sanders an-
nounce the marriage of their
daughter, Virginia, to Mr. Sully S.
Woodland, ’34, on Sunday, Decem-
ber 22, 1935, at Chester, Texas. Mr.
and Mrs. Woodland will make their | §
home at 535 S. Bonner St., Tyler,
Texas and receive their mail at
Box 1088. Sully is in the sporting
goods business and handles
Wilson sporting goods line in East
Texas.
BERTHS
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Moffett,
1’16, are receiving congratulations
from their many friends over the
birth of a little girl, Joy. Moffett
has extensive farming and business
interests at Chillicothe, Texas and
is one of the leading members of
the House of Representatives at
Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. Laddie J. Lesikar,
’28, announce the birth of their
second pair of twins, Johnie Nall
and Jerry Clair, born on December ||
16. The older set of twins are Lad-
die and Lynda and are now three
years old. Mr. and Mrs. Lesikar
make their home at 514 Sycamore
Street, Palestine, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. “Bob” Patton,
’34, are delighted over the arrival
of Bob Junior on December 11 at
their home at 3244 Thomas Blvd,
Port Arthur, Texas. Mrs. Patton
was before her marriage Miss Al-|
ma Lou Thompson and was secre-
tary of the Mechanical Engineer-
ing Department for several years.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Morrow, 23,
are happy over the birth of a fine ||
son, William Dempsy, Jr., born on
December 11. They make their
home at Pitkin, Louisana and re-
ceive their mail at Route 1, Box
70.
W. Worth Holmes, ’34, is with
the State Highway Department at
Clarendon, Texas. He reports W.
E. Carmichael, ’32, Frank Frey,
’32, and Virgil McGee, ’35, also
with the State Highway Depart-
ment at Clarendon. Commodore
Shipley, ‘31, is at Clarendon with
Cocke-Braden, highway contrac-
tors. H. M. “Flip” Breedlove, '34,
is located there as county agent.
Clyde C. Frazier, ’33, is with the
Texas Co., Masonic Bldg., Shaw-
nee, Okla.
R. S. Dockum, ’30, engineer at
the Hillsboro CCC Camp, was re-
cently transferred to the Pfluger-
ville Camp. Ben F. “Tex” Sanders,
’11, was transferred to Hillsboro
from Corsicana to replace Dockum.
the
THOMAS MAYO---
HIS COLUMN
<4
While Rome is burning, even a
modest columnist probably ought
not to be fiddling. And there is un-
doubtedly at least a smell of scorch-
ing in the air these days. But after
all, this is the night after Christ-
mas, and whoever reads this col-
umn will do so just about New
Year’s. Perhaps under such cir-
cumstances a fellow may be excus-
ed for writing for once about what
he likes, instead of about what he
believes all good citizens should be
puzzling over in the contemporary
scene.
And what he does like, and has
liked best for ten years or so is the
18th Century—everything about it:
its books, its music, its furniture,
its manners and conversation, its
way of carrying on life in general.
He certainly cannot defend the
practice of habitually turning one’s
back on one’s own day and escap-
ing into some real or imaginary
past. This is pure self-indulgence—
so let it go at that!
In Memoriam
Leo T. Peden, 04
Leo T. Peden, age 51, of
1816 Woodhead, Houston,
died in that city on Decem-
ber 11. Burial was in Forest
Park Cemetery. Surviving
him are his wife, Mrs. Mar-
garet Peden, and three sons.
Mr. Peden was born in Jef-
ferson County Mississippi,
coming to Texas in 1899 to
enter the A. & M. College.
He graduated in civil engi-
neering. He was formerly as-
sistant city engineer for
Houston, and prior to that
time manager of the Smith
Brothers Construction Com-
pany. He retired several
years ago as assistant city
engineer and engaged in pri-
vate engineering practice. He
was a member of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engi-
neers.
Cary Neblet Smith, ’34
Cary N. Smith, age 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Travis L.
Smith, Jr., '98, at 308 Hyde
Park, Houston, died at the
Herman Hospital in Hous-
ton on December 15. He was
seriously burned on Thanks-
giving Day while installing
gas meters for the Humble
Oil and Refining Company
at Gulf, Texas. Young Smith
¥ was terribly burned but
E hopes were entertained for
his recovery until the last 24
hours before his death.
In the explosion two men
were involved. To rescuers
young Smith insisted that his
companion be cared for first.
8 Physicians and hospital at-
8 tendants stated his bravery
at the time of the accident
and during his treatment at
the Herman hospital was as-
tonishing.
Young Smith is survived by
his parents, three brothers,
Sidney N. Smith, Travis L.
Smith, III, ’30, and J. Doug-
las Smith, ’37. Burial was in
the Forest Park Cemetery at
Houston.
Young Smith received his
degree from Texas A. & M.
in petroleum production en-
gineering. He was affection-
ately known as “Little Tack”
to his classmates; was a ca-
det officer in the cavalry dur-
ing his senior year; and was
a member of the Ross Volun-
teers.
Dr. Rufe E. Adams, ’10
Dr. Rufe E. Adams died
at his home in Thermopolis,
§ Wyoming in December and
was buried in that city. He
was a practicing physician
and moved to Wyoming sev-
| eral years ago from Coleman,
Texas, where he had practic-
ed for many years. Details
of his death have not been re-
ceived. As a student at Tex-
as A. & M. he graduated in
civil engineering and was a
member of the A. & M. stu-
dent band.
What is still available of the
special flavor of the 18th Century
is, I think, to be found at its purest
in the sayings of its typical people.
And of all its typical people, its
smart women were the most typi-
cal. In Paris especially there flour-
ished, during the hundred years
before the French Revolution, a
score or so of society women who
were able to concentrate into their
“salons” and their parties the best
of the sanity, graceful intelligence,
and social charm generated by a
period and a nation which valued
sanity, graceful intelligence, and
social charm above everything else.
Of course, all this cost somebody,
and the people who in the last
analysis footed the bill were the
exploited middle and working
classes. But in itself and while it
lasted the polished civilization of
the Ancient Regime certainly had
its points.
ES ES *
The Comte de Segur, an amiable
French aristocrat, spent his youth
and middle age in this society but
wrote his Memoirs as a very old
man who had lived through the
Revolution and the Napoleonic Era
into a very different period, the
wildly romantic and democratic and
debasing ourselves in his eyes.”
Madame Geoffrin: “He a man of
intellect ? Bah! He is a fool rubbed
over with intellect as we rub beef
with garlic. (Was she talking about
some college prof?)
And the same lady: “She talked
so agreeably of things she knew
nothing about, that no one wished
her to know more.”
RT ak oh
Madame de Lambert wrote to her
son: “Let your intimacies be with
persons who are above you. With
our equals we grow careless; the
mind drowses.”
And again: “We spoil our tastes
these days by our amusements; we
become so accustomed to intense
pleasures that we cannot descend
to simple ones.”
And yet again: “It is not always
our errors that ruin us, but our
way of conducting ourselves after
we have committed them.”
* * &
Madame de Tencin (a ladv who, I
yegret to report, was as careless in
her morals as she was precise in .
her observations): ‘Never refuse
any offer of friendship; even '
though nine out of ten would not
give themselves a farthing’s worth
of trouble for you, the tenth may
unsettled 19th Century. This is{ become a useful friend.”
how the Paris of his young man-
’ | hood appeared in retrospect to the
octogenarian:
ES ES k
“I often went in those days,” he
writes, “to the houses of Madame
Geoffrin and Madame du Deffand.
Moreover in many other houses,
such as those of the Princesse de
Beauvau, the Duchesse de Chois-
eul, la Marechale de Luxembourg
—and my mother, I found conver-
sation, deep or light, but always
instructive and agreeable, whose
charm is not to be found nowadays.
It contained an indefinable mix-
ture of simplicity and elevation,
gracefulness and reason, criticism
and urbanity. The latest produc-
tions of the brilliant minds who
were the glory of France at that
time were all eagerly taken up. The
conversation found constant nour-
ishment in the recent works of
Rousseau, Helvetius, Diderot, and
Voltaire. Everything was discussed
gently; disputes almost never oc-
curred. And as everybody had a
fine knowledge of the delicate art
of pleasing, nobody ever bored by
laying on too much of anything.
The precept most practised was
that of Boileau, which teaches one
to pass constantly from grave to
sweet, from mirthful to serious.
Thus it often happened that dur-
ing the same evening the subjects
talked about alternated between
Montesquieu’s “Spirit of the Laws”
and the gay and spicy tales of Vol-
taire, the philosophy of Helvetius
and the operas of Marmontel, the
politics of Mably and the charming
verses of Saint Lambert or the
Abbe Delille. The most distinguish-
ed men of letters were admitted
with favor to the houses of the
high nobility. This mixing of men
of the court and men of letters
brought more enlightenment to the
former and better taste to the lat-
ter. Never did Paris more resem-
ble the Athens of classical fame.”
ES ES ES
Unfortunately for us, nobody
took down in short-hand all the
delicate sparkle of conversation
that flowed for a hundred years
through the salons of Paris. But
fortunately, the women who presid-
ed over these dinners and “even-
ings” were all inveterate letter-
writers, and their correspondents
frequently had the good sense to
preserve their letters intact. Here
are a few sentences from the flood
of gossip, observations of human
nature, and light philosophizings
about things in general which some
of the most famous women of the
18th Century poured out on their
note-paper. I warn all Romantics
that they will find little comfort
in these sharp sayings. The 18th
Century was nothing if not realist-
ic, and its great ladies went in less
for Sweetness than for Light. But
if you like keen observation on
small but important matters, w....
a touch of vinegar and pepper to
season them, read away!
% kx 0%
The Duchesse du Maine: “Alas, my
dear, I have the misfortune not to
be able to do without scores of
persons for whom I care nothing
at all!”
Madame du Deffand: (in a rather
cynical mood): “There is not a
single person to whom we can con-
fide our troubles without giving
him a malignant joy, or without
Again: “Intelligent men make
many mistakes in the management
of affairs because they can never
believe people to be as stupid as
they really are.”
* * Ed
And so on, to the extent of pages
and pages, if I had more room and
you had more patience. In its later
decades, as its rather haywire
economic underpinnings began to
tremble, and the revolutionary
thunder to mutter, a change came
over the Grand Century. Its tone
grew sentimental and romantic. It
began to be fashionable to sigh
and weep elegantly—to put the
heart above the head—to trust the
feelings rather than clear common
sense. This change was the ruin
of good conversation. As talk in-
creased in heat it lost more and
more in light—and in lightness of
touch.
k * *
The old Comte de Segur sadly
recalled in his Memoirs this change
which he had lived through just
before the Revolution broke. Re-
turning in 1789 with Lafayette
from helping Washington to defeat
the British, he had found Parisian
society already full of storm and
stress. Perhaps his comment on the
end of an era had better end this
column:
*  %
“I spent my evenings going
about the various circles of the
town and revisiting the social
haunts of my youth. I found them
livlier, wittier, and more animated
than ever. It would have been im-
possible to find languor or bore-
dom anywhere. Nevertheless, the
gentleness, polish, and wurbanity
which had been their characteris-
tics for so long were now no more.
Political passions had invaded the
drawing rooms, transforming them
into battling arenas, where the
most hostile opinions were con-
stantly at war. Discussion was
dead. Disputing took its place.
Everybody talked loudly and lis-
tened hardly at all. Bad temper
revealed itself.”
* * &
(Most of these sayings I found
in “Portraits of the 18th Century,”
translated from the French of
Sainte-Beuve, which I recommend
for casual reading. Each sketch is
short and independent of the oth-
ers.
Graham Hall, 13, of the Ben
Milam Hotel in Houston, was re-
cently elected president of the
Texas Hotel Association in its an-
nual convention held at El Paso.
Hall is already national president
of the Hotel Greeters’ Association
and will spend most of this year
traveling throughout the United
States and Canada on work con-
nected with these offices.
George G. “Hoot” Gibson, ’29,
was recently appointed assistant
Dairy Specialist for the A. & M.
Extension Service and will make
his headquarters on the campus.
He attended Iowa State College
after graduating from Texas A. &
M. and for the past three years has
been doing dairy work for the Iowa
State Extension Service.