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« THE TEXAS AGGIE "E. E. McQuillen................ Publisher Published Semi-Monthly at the A. & M. Press, College Station, Texas, except dur- ing the summer months when issued menthly, by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechan- College Station, ical College of Texas, Texas 4 OF. DD. Perking, 29%... orn.an ll. President C, L. DBabeoek,. '18...... x. Vice President E. E. McQuillen, ’20.. Executive Secretary L. B.iXocke, 18.0 5. Assistant Secretary Subscription Price $5.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at College Station, Texas Directors H. K. Deason, ’16 Charles L. Babcock, AG Pate, 397. F. D. Perkins, ’97..... J. P Crockett, ’09 0. A. Seward, Jr.. J. V. Butler, ’12 Graham G. Hall, TM. Smith, Sr '?01........ East Columbia Charley wK. Le.ghton, 82.5.0... ustin P. L. Downs, Jr., ’06 Temple Ju Co ykes; 201 ran Fort Worth C. H. McDowell, ’12 Towa Park A. E. Hinman, ’25 Corpus Christi H.0B. Pat’ Zachry, Laredo R. S. Reading, ’10 El Paso G. Dudley Everett, 15... ..... Stephenville G. C. McSwain, 20 : Amarillo E V. 3 BCE, PAL Hiei, Big Spring EB. Aldridge, ’16.................... San Antonio Penrose B. Metcalfe, 162.0. ones San Angelo E. R. Eudaly, ’10 ...College Station | C. A. Thanheiser, 01... Houston A. P. Rollins, "06 Dallas RA BIrk, 218s fo oes Wichita Falls EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE F.: D. Perkins, 20%7....cociuiil McKinney C. L. Babcock, ’18 Beaumont . C.. A. Thanseiser, ’01 Houston E.R. Eudaly, 210........5..... College Station Oscar A. Seward, Jr., '07............ Groesbeck STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES F. D. Perkins, ’97................. McKinney ASF. Mitchell, 00.....c...0 ct iomsees Corsicana E. E. McQuillen, ’20............ College Station REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC COUNCIL Tyree L. Bell, "13 Dallas A. G. Pfaff, "27 Tyler THANK YOU - As reported elsewhere in this is- sue, the A. & M. library recently received a very valuable gift from the Texas Company in the form of 100 chairs. The equipment was badly needed and is appreciated not only by the College officials but by the many students whose comfort. and study opportunities have been greatly increased. On behalf of thousands of former stu- dent of A. & M, the AGGIE ex- tends its thanks and appreciation to the. Texas Company for its gen- erous gift. Thomas Mayo His Column (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the fourth of a series .of five columns, prepared by Dr. Mayo on ‘Trends in Amer can Literature.”” The last will ap- pear in the next issue of the AGGIE. These articles are reproductions of a se- ries of radio broadcasts made during the Summer by Dr. commended and that brought to Mayo wide notice.) TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (IV) The prevailing trend in the American literature of the 1930’s would seem to be romantic. We have seen, in other columns of this series, how the emphasis on critical raticnalism which characterized the Post-War Era, has recently given place to the romantic ten- dency of writers like Thomas Wolfe, the novelist and Paul En- gle, the poet. These men are ro- mantic because they respect and trust their emotions. To them and to other romantics will belong, I think, the immediate future of American literature. k ck kk sk 3k Mayo that were highly Dr. But though romanticism would seem to be the dominant theme, there are other notes to be heard in the concert. In particular, a large section of recent American literature is occupied by writers who are generally called, in rough generalization, the Proletarian School. By the Proletariat, of course, is meant the working class, the people who earn wages, largely by performing physical labor in enterprises owned by someone else. The vigorous and flourishing Prol- etarian movement in American lit- erature has a strong Marxist fla- vor. Its novelists, dramatists, and poets are for the most part either Communists or sympathizers with Communism. Their books some- times, but not often, preach com- munist doctrines directly through the speech of some im- portant character. ever, their best books merely imply, by the turns and developments of the theory, that the profit system is a failure, both as a purely eco- nomic arrangement and as the basis for a civilization; that the private ownership of industry must . be replaced by social ownership; that no middle ground is possible— that one must be either for the or. As a rule, how-. nizer finally results in a rebellion of the foundry workers against the employers. k ok ok ok What we notice primarily in “The is, I think, the contrast between the unhappy, dissolute, and fundamentally decadent char- acters of the three employers, and the coarse, rich, lusty unspoiled humanity of the workers. The own- ers seem to have been rotted out partly by their wealth itself. The owners seem to have been rotted out partly by their wealth itself. The owners seem to have been rot- ter out partly by their wealth it- self, partly by the degrading ac- tivities necessary to its accumula- tion. The author evidently wants us to feel, however, that these em- ployers would not have been bad fellows, on the whole, if an evil economic system (capitalism of course) had not undermined and broken their characters. The work- ers, on the other hand, are depict- ed as tortured and half-starved and coarsened by capitalism, but as being at bottom far less spoiled by the system than are the wealthy owners themselves. kk ok kk ok Foundry” Clarence M. “Lefty Gay, 28, has been made county agricultural ag- ent for Pecos County with head- qgaurters at Fort Stockton. L. E. “Cap” Bailey, ’25, who has been agent at Fort Stockton for several years, was recently transferred to Karnes County, where he makes his home at Karnes City. Prior to moving to Fort Stock- ton, Gay was county agent for The same point (the evil effects | three years for Lipscomb County. of capitalism on the capitalists themselves) is the theme of Isador Schneider’s powerful poem “In A Hotel Lobby.” The poet sees, in the sumptuous lounge, “the well-to- do, the managers of the nation.” “Beside them stir their imperious W. W, “Bill” Barnes Jr., ’37, is attending the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he gets his mail at 3920 Lake Park Avenue of that city. “Bill” says he would be mighty glad to hear from any of his old classmates here women. Their hair threatens like lion’s |at A. & M. manes; Their eyes rove like killing eagl- Harvey L. Chenault, ’32, is with - es; Black, Sivalls, and Bryson, Inc., i nthe Engineering Department, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is Their lips cut from stone; . . . Strange beside their cruel beauty are living at 700 N. W. 17th Street of The mutilated men . . . gouged | that city. and torn With pointed worries and with hooking scorn. Here anxiety has almost split a cheek; and here Suspicion digs deep trenches |. round the eyes; And greed has sliced and envy burned And graft has squeezed and flat- tery turned . . .” % kk 3k 3k The chief virtue, I think, of the J. P. Douglas Jr., 31, is living at 112 East Jordan Street, Shreve- port, Louisiana, where he is with The Texas Company. E. P. “Pete” Nowatny, ’27, of New Braunfels, was recently made executive vice president of the South Texas Region by the Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce at its recent annual convention. | WEDDINGS BIRTHS Grant — McCulloch Miss Pauline McCulloch, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. CcCul- loch of Bryan, became the bride of Dr. Richard B. Grant, 29, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Grant of Bryan, at the First Presbyterian Church of Bryan on November 30. Dr. and Mrs. Grant will make their home in Bryan, where Richard is a promising young physician of that city. Pettit — Weems News has just reached the AG- GIE office of the marriage of Miss Mattie Lou Weems, of Kaufman, to D. Kirk Pettit, ’35, on June 30. Mr. and Mrs. Pettit are making _their home at Whitesboro, Texas, where Pettit is teaching vocational agriculture. Thomasson — Klein The wedding of Miss Dorothy Klein and E. D. “Red” Thomasson, ’33, both of Louisville, Kentucky. was solemnized on September 2. “Red” is Police Chemist for the city of Louisville Police Depart- ment and is enjoying his work very much and finds it most interesting. Mr. and Mrs. Thomasson are at home at 716 South 38th Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Rasor — Wilkinson Miss Lila Wilkinson, of Denton, became the bride of Jesse J. Rasor, 36, on November 7 at the First Presbyterian Church of Denton. Mr. and Mrs. Rasor will make their home in Frisco, Texas. Mrs. Rasor was formerly employed at the A. & M. Extension Service. Biffle — Flyn Miss Margaret Louise Flynn, of Mt. Pleasant, became the bride of Mr. Roy E. Biffle, ’30, of Gaines- ville, on October 3. The wedding was solemnized at 8 a. m. in the Tennison Memorial ~~ Methodist Church at Mt. Pleasant, Texas. Mr. ~and Mrs. Biffle are at home to their Pleasant, where “Bif” is with the State High- many friends at Mt. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Mec- Carthy, ’29, are receiving congrat- ulations from their many friends over the birth of a baby girl on November 10 at the Scott-White Hospital, Temple, Texas. She has been named Mary Sue. George and Mrs. McCarthy make their home in Bryan. He is assistant poultry husbandman for the A. & M. Extension Service at College Station. Mr. and Mrs. Earl J. “Hoss-Fly” Berryhill, ’31, are delighted over the birth of a little daughtr, Bar- bara Ann, on November 13. They make their home in Port Arthur, Texas and get their mail at Box 997. “Hoss-Fly” is with the Sabine Grain Company. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. “Sweetie” Davis, ’32, are the happy parents of a little daughter born on Aug- ust 25. They make their home in Memphis, Tennessee, where “Sweet- ie” is a pilot for the American Air- line. Davis is a former Aggie ath- lete. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Erskine, 34, are the proud parents of a fine son, James Christian Erskine, Jr. They make their home at 3841, 9th Street, Port Arthur, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. “Billie” Car- others, ’26, ares rejoicing over the birth of a little girl born on Octo- ber 4. She has been named Carol. Mr. and Mrs. Carothers also have a little boy two and a half years of age and make their home at Sul phur Springs, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Buckley, ’28, announce the birth of a son, Bruce Bernard, on November 21. Mr. and Mrs. Buckley make their home at Matador, Texas, where Frank is county agricultural ag- ent of Motley County. M. M. Wren, ’02, is making his home at San Marcos, Texas. WINNERS | revolution or against it; and that ; itis thes Br working class og plays, fra peams of tedhirn, DePasquale, "Bl, Js secre: oa ep Wi i died Stephen A. Jones, ’34, is living oo dk A “The AGGIE extends its eongrat-| which must brin gor about “thie: Proletarian group is their vigor | ry of the New Braunfels Mason- a - 0 _~ r ri ot at Fort Worth, Texas, where he ulations to the A. & M. Cadet change. and sincerity. No one can read ic Lodge and active in National mosh popelar fipirsnen te sand gets his mail at Route 1, Box 323. Dairy Judging Team for its recent . Wok ok do “The Foundry,” for example, with- Guard Work of that city. MWeampns, Jones is with the Fort Worth Pub- victory in the national contest at the National Dairy Show at Colum- bus, Ohio. Coached by Professor A. L. Darnell, the team not only took first place from teams represent- ing 24 of the nation’s leading insti- tutions, but hung up the highest score ever recorded in the 28 years’ history of this big Dairy Show. The team, Coach Darnell, and Professor C. N. Shepardson, department head, have every reason to feel proud of their wonderful record. Arthur H. Stenzel Jr., ’35, is connected with his father, Arthur H. Stenzel, who is proprietor of the Stenzel Pattern Works, 3536 Navigation Boulevard, Houston, ‘Texas. J. D. Toole, ’36, is with the Nor- | vell-Wilder Supply Company and at the present time is located at Lake Charles, Louisiana. L. L. Marquette, ’37, writes to send his AGGIE to 403 E. Dodd- ridge, Kingsville, Texas. J. W. Dodson, ’32, is with the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Comp- any and is located at Ada, Okla- homa at 408 South Broadway. Robert F. Miller, ’09, is “spend- ing his salary on a ranch” that he gets from teaching Animal Hus- bandry at the College of Agricul- It is the working class, then, and not any one person, which is the “hero” of the typical proletarian novel or play. The ancient literary convention of the individual hero or heroine is condemned by thee Marxist critics as a manifestation of capitalist or bourgeois individ- ualism. The proletarian writers try to show how evil are the effects of the profit system on the characters of both the working and the own- ing classes. They present the work- ers as coarsened and thwarted by capitalism, but as still fundamen- tally sound. In other words, the working class, we are to infer from the Proletarian writers, is the hu- ' man basis for the classless society of the future. kk Xk sk kM The authors of “proletarian” books are sometimes working class §i origin, but most of them are ‘educated men from the middle class. As a matter of fact, it is also the middle class, not the proletariat which apparently furnishes most of the readers of proletarian litera- ture. The plays of Clifford Odets, especially “Waiting For Lefty,” are powerful and well-constructed, and drew crowds in New York. Several Proletarian poets of some distine- tion have appeared, particularly Horace Gregory and Isador Schnei- der. There have been about a dozen successful proletarian novels, ture, Davis, Calif. His home ad-|2MON& the more recent, “The Big dress is Route 1, Box 126, Davis | Money,” by Dos Passos, the “Studs ’ Calif. Lonigan” trilogy by James Farrell, “The Land Of Plenty” by Robert D. Cason Mast of the Class of | Cantwell, and “The F oundry” by ’23 is living at 423 East E St. Ontario, Calif., where he is em- | ployed in the Cost Accounting De- partment of the Exchange Orange Products Co. at 161 Grove St. That guy with the biggest smile in South Texas these days is R. B. Boettcher, ’04, East Bernard bank- er, planter and business leader. He is the happy father of R. B. Boettcher Jr., ’38, who is a Cadet Lieutenant-Colonel in the A. & M. Cadet Corps and in command of the Cavalry regiment. - Warren N. Moore, 31, is an ac- tive member of the Brazoria County Ex-Students’ Association. Warren and his father operate extensive cattle and farming interests near 3 Alvin, Toxss. be J ' Albert Halper. * kk k kx This last novel, “The Foundry,” may be selected as one of the best and most typical products of the proletarian movement. It is the story of the struggle between the three employers and the hundred or so workers in a Chicago foundry. With great skill, the interest is kept distributed among the char- acters without being weakened thereby. Yet each of the three own- ers is carefully individualized, and about ten of the workers stand out as realistically drawn individuals. The foundry, which is a unionized plant, is contrasted throughout with an open-shop or non-union plant in the same building. The dramatic tension reaches a climax the work of a skillful orga- out feeling behind it the honest love of the author for the racy human qualities which he finds in the working man, and his equally honest indignation against the profit system which seems to him to be twisting and thwarting the decent traits in both employer and laborer. The chief trouble with D. D. Peden, ’94, an official of the Peden Iron and Steel Company of Houston, sends in his Associa- tion dues and reports that he will be on hand Thanksgiving. Richard O. Montrief, 03, is chief engineer for the Ward Heater many. “proletarian” books is that it is hard to make a good story out of a sermon, no matter how earnestly the preacher may believe in his doctrine. qk Rk kk Company, 1800 West Washington | Blvd., Los Angeles, California. | { li R. F. White, ’24, is vice presi- dent of the A. & M. Club of South- ern California and is owner-man- ager of the Bendix Building Gar- age, 12th and Maple Streets, Los Angeles, California. Bob will soon complete his new home in the ex- clusive Rossmoyne Village in Glen- dale, California. The best of the proletarian lit- erature, however, is very good in- deed. And it is good for us middle- class people to read it, too. Leisur- ed aristocracies and climbing mid- dle classes have been written about for centuries, with sympathy and understanding. It was high time that a group of honest and skillful writers should take up the task of interpreting, without sentimen- tality, the lives and the point of view of the millions and millions of people who earn weekly wages with their hands. Chris A. Steinman, 29, is an occasional visitor to the campus. He is with the Graybar Electric Company with headquarters in Houston. Aryles H. Dawson, ’37, is work- ing for the A. & M. Extension Ser- vice and gets his mail at P. O. Box 704, Paducah, Texas. One of the A. & M. men in the East who got a kick out of the Aggie-Manhattan victory was J. C. “Six Eggs” Moore, 22, who is superintendent of the Paint De- partment, Sinclair Refining Comp- any, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. Jack Davis, "17, is living at 1208 East Marvin, Waxahachie, Texas. Davis is working in the Southland Cotton Oil Company Laboratory where he is running analyses .on cotton seed and all its products. Johnny Morrow, ’37, former star | athlete, is associated with the W. A. Holt store at Waco. Although he had one more year of eligibil- ity, Morrow found professional baseball offers too tempting to be turned down. Earl T. Duke, ’37, is an instruec- tor of Agronomy in the Depart- ment of Plant Industry at Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas. Duke reports that he likes his work very much, and says that Texas Tech has an enrollment of 3,100 students. He is living at 2417, 22nd Street, Lubbock. W. P. Kimbrough, ’17, of Grand Junction, Colorado, writes and sends regards to his A. & M. friends. He is a pioneer in the life insurance business in Colorado. He is a member of the Grand Junction Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Com- merce, and Masonic Lodge and ac- tive in civic affairs in that city. He writes that although he is far away, he is still loyal to A. & M. and interested in its welfare. William D. Scoates, ’35, is taking graduate work in the Agricultural Engineering Department at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. W. B. Cook, 27, has recently completed building a beautiful new (home at 3301-8th Street, Port | Arthur. Cook is with the Gulf Oil Wm. R. McCullough, ’36, is work-)| Corporation where he has been em- ing for the Farm Security Admin- | ployed since his graduation. istration with headquarters a Bonham, Texas. “Billy Bob” is ing at 721 N. Center Street, Ban ham. } George W. Beams, ’29, is with the Texas Power & Light Com- pany, Dallas, Texas. R. A. Davis, '02, is president of the First National Bank at Plano, | Riverside Senior High and Dag- Texas. J. G. Blevens, ’36, is with the Production Department of the Texas Company and when last heard from was located at Crane, Texas. N. A. McNeil, ’35, is teaching vo- cational agriculture at Alvin, Tex- as, and gets his mail at Box 501. McNeil states that he likes his new work very much. O. Byron Magrill, ’33, is still with the A. & M. Extension Ser- vice as county agricultural agent of Real County. He gets his mail at Box 178, Leaky, Texas. Magrill is a former Aggie athlete. Robert W. Maxwell, Jr., with the Company, Lubbock, Texas. 36, *is Aetna Life Insurance Elo J. Urbanovsky, ’31, is with the San Antonio Public School System as supervisor of landscape gardening. He gets his mail at 930 Drexel Avenue, San Antonio. A. C. Elliott, ’33, is a geologist with the Shell Petroleum Company. His residence address is 4610 Park Drive, Houston, Texas. Clarence M. Lamkin, ’36, is as- sistant county agent in Hempstead and Miller Counties, Arkansas. He gets his mail at Bix 18, Hope, Arkansas. Lamkin reports that he likes his work lots and enjoyed seeing the Aggies play Arkansas even in defeat. Harrison H. Fischer, ’13, is liv- ing at 748, 5th Avenue, Port Ar- thur, Texas. Olen W. Abbott, ’37, is with the Natural Gas and Gasoline Depart- ment of the Magnolia Petroleum Company. Abbott was. recently transferred from the Stonewall Gasoline Plant to the Dallas Labo- ratory and gets his mail at 3233 McKinney Avenue, Dallas. Zeke Tipton, ’34, is a salesman for the C. F. Adams Company, Houston, and gets his mail at P. O. Box 692. 610 Myrick Building, | lic Schools as Commandant of Ca- -dets in two of the high schools, gett Junior High. Jones anticipates a great year, V. E. Hafner, ’16, is county ag- ricultural agent at Childress Texas. Hafner is president of the Child- ress Lions Club and was sent as a delegate to Chicago, Illinois to the national convention this sum- mer. He enjoyed his trip very much. Gordon G. Langston, Jr., ’34, is with W. C. Nabors Company, Hous- ton and is living at 1203 Arlington, of that city. LeBron Hardie, ’35, is an as- sistant in agricultural conserva- tion with the A. & M. Extension Service and is located at Asper- mont, Texas. W. W. “Pete” Hewitt, ’33, has accepted a coaching position at -Columbus High School this year. “Pete” is a former Aggie football player and for the past four years has been coaching and teaching in the Groesbeck High School. John M. Kindle, ’25, is with the Lone Star Gas Company and is located at Trinidad, Texas. Fred D. Zalmanzig, who receiv- ed his masters degree in 1937, is research engineer in the Industrial Development Department, of the San Antonio Public Service Com- pany, 201-203 N. St. Mary’s Street, San Antonio, Texas. Edward Mauldin, ’17, has chang- ed his address to 512 West Rusk Street, Marshall, Texas. Mauldin was formerly located at 413 Mer- cantile Building, Dallas. W. W. Simpson, ’36, is sales en- gineer for the Lone Star Cement Corporation, Dallas, Texas. He states that he likes his work fine. James B. Crozier, ’32, is office engineer for the State Geologist at Santa Fe, New Mexico. He gets his mail in care of the State Land Office, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cro- zier wishes to know the where- abouts of Nicholas S. Covaeevich, ’28.
