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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 . . .”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Blvd., Los Angeles, California. |
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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.