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CENTENNIAL BAND
If efforts of the Dallas A. & M.
Club and college authorities, work-
ing with Centennial officials, are
successful, the full 140 piece Ag-
gie band will open the Texas Cen-
tennial on June sixth. Present
plans call for the band to serve
as the official Centennial band for
the opening exercises, at which
time President Franklin Roosevelt
is expected to be present, and to
serve as the official band during
the entire opening week.
Particularly fitting would be this
honor for the A. & M. Band and
its leader Major R. J. Dunn. Rec-
ognized as both the largest and
best band of the Southwest, it like-
wise represents the oldest State
school of Texas and presents a
military spectacle that sets it
apart from the usual collegiate
band.
The Dallas
Club and its offi-
cers and members will have ac-
complished a splendid thing if
their plans work out and the A.
& M. Band opens the Centennial.
CHARLIE FRILEY
Selection of Dr. Charles E. Fri-
President of Iowa State
College, one of the leading educa-
tional institutions of the United
States, will prove a genuine com-
pliment to Texas A. & M. As both
a graduate and a former faculty
member Charlie Friley was large-
ly trained at Texas A. & M. The
pride engendered by his appoint-
ment will be tinged only with the
regret that Texas and its educa-
tional system was unable to suc-
cessfully compete with Iowa to
keep one of its brilliant sons at
home. The AGGIE extends the
congratulations of A. & M. men
to Charlie Friley, as he is still
known locally, and to the Iowa
State College as well.
ATTENTION “BAT”
EDITORS
The “News Editor” of the A. &
M. Student Battalion of 1924 will
recover a gold pin if he will com-
municate with Lawrence M. Ho-
vey, ’32, P. O. Box 57, Goose Creek,
Texas. Anyone knowing who this
gentleman is will do him a favor
by advising the Association office
or Mr. Hovey.
Allen M. Early, ’34, who com-
pleted his masters work at Colum-
bia University last year, is work-
ing for Arthur Anderson and
Company, Accountants and Audi-
tors, 67 Wall Street, New York
City. For the past six months, his
work has taken him to various
sections of the East and Southeast.
He writes that when he gets back
into the office after a long trip,
he has a big time sitting down
and reading all the accumulated
issues of the TEXAS AGGIE. He
is a former A. & M. band member
and sends regards to all his AG-
GIE friends.
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TOMMIE MAYO,
HIS GOLUMN
I suppose that everybody, one
time or another, stumbles on a
book which changes his whole
point of view. Or perhaps these
upsetting books just make us real-
ize that our point of view has al-
ready been changing, so gradually
that we haven’t been conscious of
the shift. At any rate, one book
occurs to me just now which start-
time to be new. If you won’t mind
the personal touch I should like to
recall its chief idea, just by way
of a little senile reminiscence.
* * Ed
Bertram Russell’s small book,
“Political Ideals,” came out about
1916, but didn’t find its way into
the A. & M. library until 1919. Its
extremely aristocratic but also un-
compromisingly radical author at-
tempts in a hundred and fifty
pages, first, to set up a stand-
ard by which to judge wheth-
er an economic system is good or
bad. Having thus whittled out his
English noblemen
can be said to “whittle”!) he pro-
ceeds to measure by it both capi-
talism and state socialism. Finally,
having found these systems defi-
cient in the qualities which he
thinks are essential, he ends his
little book with a rough outline of
the sort of set-up which he would
like—as I barely remember, some-
thing or other on the Gild Socialist
side.
RAL
It is the very first chapter, the
yardstick part, that is the most
impressive part of the book—or
was to me, anyhow. All human
impulses, Russell says, are either
Possessive or Creative; that is, ev-
ery wish we have is either: (1)
a desire to get something, to pos-
sess something that is personally
profitable (a living, wealth, pow-
er, praise, victory) or (2) a desire
0 make or create something, to
work away at something for its
own sake, just to be doing it be-
cause we want to (a house, a
bridge, a pair of shoes, a dance
step, a garden, a friendship, a love
affair, a painting, a book, a better
world).
* ES *
Thus far Bertram Russell in
“Political Ideals.” But the idea
kept growing in my mind. This
simple-appearing division of all
our motives into those of seeking
our own profit and those of creat-
ive self-expression, somehow be-
came the basis for all my judg-
ments as to what is good and what
is bad in everybody’s nature and
conduct, especially in my own. If
I ever did a passably good piece of
work, I'd try to figure out how
much of the thrill I got from the
process was genuinely creative in-
terest in the work for its own
sake, and how much of it (alas,
usually all too much of it!) was
the commonest species of posses-
siveness, plain vanity. It came to
seem to me that everything that
is decent and genuine and valuable
in our actions springs from the
creative impulse. Every good
sound piece of work, every unsel-
fish attachment or enthusiasm is
creative: that is, the energy that
drives you into it and keeps you
at it is the desire to express some-
thing that is in you. In the case of
creative work, it is the urge to
mould something into the shape]
that seems to you to be useful or
beautiful or interesting,— to be
just “right,” in other words. In the
case of creative thought, it is the
effort to arrange facts and ideas
into a pattern that seems to you
to make sense, to be your concep-
tion of the truth.
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The pleasure which you get out
of such activity is not necessarily
that of “Helping others” or that
of “Making the world better.” The
latter may give creative pleasure,
but it is usually cherished because
it flatters the vanity. Creative
pleasure is rather that of express-
ing in some activity the deepest
and most real part of your self:
namely, your conception of the
way things ought to be.
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To create something, to give to
some little fragment of the uni-
verse, some piece of material or of
action, the form which you think
it ought to have, is to express
yourself. And to express yourself,
in this sense, is really to fulfil the
whole meaning of your existence,
or more accurately, to spend your
energy creatively is to make your
existence have a meaning. Other-
Beaumont Club
Gets The Credit
Members of the Beaumont A. &
M. Club were amused, while Texas
University Exes helplessly raged
on March 2. This is the day on
which University Exes hold their
annual celebration and a big one
was planned by the Beaumont
Longhorns for the night of March
2. So active has been the Beau-
mont A. & M. Club, however, that
it was a rather natural mistake
for the Beaumont paper to headline
the occasion as an affair of the
Beaumont A. & M. Ex-Students.
affair, consisting entirely of a
struggle for the profit and exalta-
tion of a miserable little ego
which, even if you manage to puff
it up for a while and make people
say “Ain’t he grand!”, is absolute-
ly certain to die on you after sev-
enty years or so of desperate and
painful and more or less dirty
grabbing and scheming. So what’s
the use?
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The Possessive motives,—desire
for security, wealth, power, praise,
and self-satisfaction,—should not,
it would seem, be allowed to set
our goals. At best their prizes may
acquire a certain value as means
to Creative ends. You may be
obliged, for example, to go in to
a certain extent, for grabbing
money or power or prestige in or-
der to put yourself in a position
to get your chosen piece of Creat-
ive work done. Our competitive
economic world is based funda-
mentally on the law of the jungle.
Accordingly, everyone, no matter
how much he may desire to expend
his energies in creative work, in
work that he likes or respects for
itself, must under present condi-
tions waste a large part of them
in intrenching himself financially
and socially. Otherwise money
troubles, if not actual want, will
so continually press on his atten-
tion as to spoil any sort of creative
work.
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And the worst of it is that these
Possessive desires grow by being
satisfied. The first thing you know
your only motives have become
the barren, unsatisfying, and
rather silly ones of blowing your-
self up like a frog so that you may
feel big. The vague but vigorous
desires you once had to do some
fine piece of engineering or agri--
cultural work, to put straight
some hitherto messy corner in
human thought or conduct, to work
out that invention which was your
hobby, perhaps simply to work out
for yourself a certain sort of sym-
metrical and well-filled life—what
has become of all such creative
urges? They have come to seem
impractical or childish. . . As a
matter of fact, my hardboiled
friend, they offered you, while you
still believed in them and could
lose your own precious ego in
them, your only chance at a life
of some sort of distinction, instead
of just another existence.
* * ES
You can see how deep Russell's
casual idea cuts. And it spreads
over a lot of territory too. For one
thing, it forms, as Russell intend-
ed it to, a pretty searching test
for an economic system. A good
society, according to this criterion,
is one which stimulates creative
living in its members, which at
least makes possible and fairly se-
cure this life of a man who wants
to devote his energies largely to
creative work. A bad society, by
the same token, is one which drives
its members or allows them to be
driven into habitual possessive-
ness, which penalizes the man
whose chief desire is to express in
some sort of activity his notion
of how such activity should be car-
ried on, which praises and puts a
premium on ruthless and, after all,
pointless egotism.
We are all born both creative
and possessive since, like other ani-
mals and like vegetables too, we
are born with the urges of self-
preservation and of self-reproduc-
tion. Whether our creative or our
possessive impulses take command
of our lives depends, for most of
our sheeplike race, largely on the
kind of economic society we grow
up in. Hence the urgent necessity
for pushing politics and economics
as far as possible in a creative di-
rection.
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But there is also room for a cer-
tain degree of self-determination.
To some extent it is up to the in-
dividual to develop into a pig (or
ORGANIZE GLUB
AT NEW ORLEANS
Reorganization of an A. &
M. Club at New Orleans,
Louisiana is well under way,
following a meeting held on
March 2. On this date eleven
A. & M. men met at the New
Orleans’ “Y” to discuss the
prospects of a new New Or-
leans A. & M. Club. The meet-
ing was an enthusiastic one
and it was decided to hold
another and larger meeting
on the evening of March 23.
This meeting will be held
at 6:30 p. m. at Maylie’s, 1001
Poydras. Dinner will be served
and the party will be a stag
affair. J. A. ‘Carpenter, 31,
313 Florida Avenue, or 1804
American Bank Building, is
acting as secretary for the
New Orleans Club. All A. &
M. men in or about New Or-
leans are urged to get in con-
tact with Carpenter and to at-
tend all meetings.
W. T. McDonald, ’33, "is area
supervisor for the Bureau of Ag-]
ricultural Economics on a Farm
Mortgage Survey. His headquar-
ters will be in Bryan, where he
lives at 2802 Baker Avenue. He
has just returned from work in the
Laredo area, where he was in
charge of a Rural Research Sur-
vey for the WPA.
McDonald will travel during the
next few months through Liberty,
Center, Marshall, Paris, Sherman,
Fort Worth, Denton, Temple, and
Lampasas and hopes to run across
many of his A. & M. friends in
those cities.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Baker, Jr.
’23, and family recently moved
from Houston to Mineral Wells.
Mrs. Baker is the daughter of Dean
and Mrs. E. J. Kyle.
Sam E. Woods, 33, is with the
Shell Petroleum Corporation in
Houston and gets his mail at 505
Woodland in that city. He is just
settled in Houston after a period
of “road work” for the same
company and reports that it is
pleasant to stay in one place for
a while.
Larry F. Lightner, ’26, recently
resigned his position with the Cot-
ton Qil Mill at Brownsville, Texas
to become a member of the firm
of McDavitt and Lightner Incorpo-
rated, successors to McDavitt Bros.,
the oldest produce shipping firm
in the Rio Grande Valley. He re-
ports an excellent business this
fall and winter with the best pros-
pects for a good spring crop that
the Valley has had in five years.
His firm hopes to ship from 1,200
to 2,000 cars of Rio Grande Val-
ley vegetables to northern mark-
ets this season. The Lower Rio
Grande Valley is celebrating the
opening of a new winter port at
Brownsville and Lightner’s firm
en,oyed the privilege of shipping
the first produce out by boat from
this section. They expect to have
a citrus packing plant on the dock
next season and to move consider-
able fruit and vegetables by water.
Lightner sends regards to his
A. & M. friends.
Donald C. Glass, ’33, was re-
cently transferred to Freer, Texas,
where he is a junior engineer in
the Engineering Department of the
Humble Oil and Refining Company.
He reports that there is an oil
boom on at Freer and that there
are quite a few A. & M. men lo-
cated there.
L. E. “Coot” Bumgarner, ’33,
has returned from New Orleans to
Freeport, Texas where he con-
tinues with the Freeport Sulphur
Company. While in New Orleans,
Bumgarner was active in stirring
up interest in the New Orleans A.
& M. Club but was transferred
before the club was really organiz-
ed.
Lieutenant Colonel Ralph A.
Densmore, ’14, of the Coast Ar-
tillery Reserve, passed through
College Station recently on his way
to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
where he will attend school for
three months. He and his twin
brother, Robert E. Densmore, 14,
make their homes at Monrovia,
California. Colonel Densmore was
paying his first visit to the campus
in "many, many years and was as-
tonished at the many changes and
wise a human life is a pretty sorry
wolf) or an artist.
improvements made.
To Honor Bizzells
At Houston Dinner
Dr. W. B. Bizzell, former presi-
dent of Texas A. & M., and Mrs.
Bizzell, will be honored with a din-
ner at the Rice Hotel in Houston,
at 7 P. M.,, Monday, May 4. Dr.
Bizzell, now president of Okla-
homa University and one of the
leading educators of the United
States, will be in Houston as one
of the featured speakers at the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
meeting.
The dinner will be $1.50 a plate,
and reservations should be made
at the office of Col. Ike Ashburn,
612 Chronicle Bldg., Houston. Col.
Ashburn is president of the Hous-
ton A. & M. Club.
Former students and friends,
with their ladies, are invited to be
present. Dr. and Mrs. Bizzell dur-
ing their many years residence
upon the A. & M. campus endeared
themselves to thousands of A. &
M. men as well as to Texas citi-
zens in general.
Lee Ilse, ’30, is with the South-
ern Bagging Company and gets
his mail at 3211 Hamilton Street,
Houston.
T. K. Morris, ’16, is in charge
of the E. C. W. Camp, Soil Con-
servation Service at Taylor, Texas.
E. A. “H. R.” Miller, 08, A. &
M. Extension Service Agronomist,
judged the hay and grain exhibits
at the recent Fort Worth Fat
Stock Show.
Preston M. “Pete’ Geren, ’12, ar-
chitect, recently moved his offices
in Fort Worth to 806% Burnet
Street of that city.
Sale of the Howell and Company,
wholesale grocery concern of
Bryan, to the Schuhmacher and
Company, of Houston, was an-
nounced recently. The seller was
Robert W. Howell, ’96; the buyer
Henry Schuhmacher, ’92, of Hous-
ton. Mr. Howell has other exten-
sive business interests in Bryan.
1 The Schuhmacher Company, whole-
sale grocery, is one of the largest
concerns of its kind in the South-
west. Its president is Mr. Schuh-
macher, who is a member of the
Board of Directors of the Texas
A. & M. College.
George E. Schultis, ’35, is stu-
dent operator on a seismograph
party for the Carter Oil Company.
He sends greetings to his A. & M.
friends who can get in touch with
him at Box 342, Ruston, Louisiana.
| WEDDINGS
Kerley-Hill
Announcement has been made of
the wedding of Miss Emmie Lou
Hill, of Victoria, to Mr. Odus C.
Kerley, ’33, of Overton. The wed-
ding occurred at the home of the
bride’s parents in Victoria on Feb-
ruary 29. Mr. and Mrs. Kerley
make their home at Leverett’s
Chapel, Overton, Texas, where
Kerley is teaching industrial edu-
cation.
Alexander-Parks
The wedding of Miss Mary Nan
Parks, of Dallas, and Mr. Robert
T. Alexander, Jr., ’34, took place
on March 7. Mr. and Mrs. Alexan-
der will make their home in Vega,
Texas, where Alexander is county
agricultural agent.
Zubl-Eden
On March 2 at Little Rock, Ar-
kansas, Miss Nelle Eden, of Bryan,
Texas, became the bride of Dr.
Andrew M. Zubl, ’35, of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. Since receiving his
degree, Dr. Zubl has been in the
“employ of the Government. At the
present time he is stationed at
Richmond, Virginia.
Brockett-Sammons
In a simple ceremony at the
home of her parents, Miss Fran-
ces Sammons became the bride of
Mr. E. Delwin Brockett, Jr., ’34,
of ‘Fort Worth. -Mr. and; Mrs.
Brockett are at home to their
friends at Crane, Texas
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Loessin, Jr,
28, are the happy parents of a son
born on February 25. He has been
given the name Leslie Eugene. Mr.
and Mrs. Loessin make their home
at Route 3, Granger, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wendt, ’30,
are receiving congratulations from
their many friends over the birth
of a lovely little daughter. Mr. and
Mrs. Wendt make their home in
Brenham, where “Pete” is with
the Sun Oil Company.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Love,
’28, are delighted over the birth of
a daughter on March 12, who has
been named Sara Garner. Mr. and
Mrs. Love reside in Louisville,
Kentucky, where Love is connect-
ed with the Merchants Ice and Cold
Storage Company.
(This column hopes to serve as a ciearing house for the opinions, the ideas and the
suggestions of A. and M. men.
“IOWA!! IOWA!!!”
Dear Mac:
Attached our check for the years
dues. We just couldn’t get to you
any sooner.
I am away from my home ad-
dress, Uvalde Box 454, and just
received the forwarded letter. I
hope I can get under the dead
line. ;
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haven’t been on the campus since
I enjoy the Aggie even
1912. It’s the only way I can keep
up with the Boys of ’07 to ’11. I am
traveling over the entire valley
now out of Laredo, and hope to
meet up with a number of the old
gang.
I am supervisor of Emergency
Education in District 11, Corpus
across to Laredo and all points
south.
I have three boys all raring to
go to A. & M., when they get that
far along. Say my deceased broth-
er, “Red Wing” Palmer, yell lead-
er, and side kick of “Dutch Hohn”
has a 10 year old son. Would it be
possible to get a copy of the “A.
& M. History” for his boy, George
C., Jr.? Please advise me about
this matter. I would like to give
him a copy in memory of “Red
Wing” and his career at the Col-
lege.
All communications mnst be si
the writer given. Thev must be free from libel  ozned 2nd tie Alires of
and preferably short. Readeis of THE AGGIE are invited to express their views upas
» Dersonal abuse or critical personalities,
Man! Do you really think we will
ever have just as good a team
again as the one made up of Chas.
De Ware Sr. Luie Hamilton,
Chock Kelly, Red Symes, Heavy
Cornell, Stud Barnes and a num-
ber of those “Immortals” that had
to hit the line with both eyes full
of tobacco juice, when Chas. Mo-
ran yelled “scat” they found a
hole. Has them days gone forever?
I am coming back to the cam-
pus some time and stay a whole
week and see how many of the
houses D. W. Spence and I built
down in “Honey Moon Flats” are
still standing. We also built the
first “Tent Row” and all the oth-
ers that followed. I watched the
old “Sbisa Mess Hall” burn down
while the Mexican waiters yelled
“Towa, Iowa.”
I enjoyed the article about “Bull
Moses” —the author didn’t do him
justice, because he was all the fine
things he said about him, and
then some. He was one of the fin-
est men I have ever known. I
also enjoy the ‘Bull Pen.” Only
wish that more of the men would
write of their experiences when we
only had four Companies, about
400 boys all told. Some Battalion
if you ask me. More anon.
Yours very truly,
H. B. Palmer, ’12
1615 Hidalgo St.,
Laredo, Texas.
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