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
monthly, by the Association of Former
Students of the Agricultural and Mechan-
ical College of Texas, College Station,
Texas.
C. Lic Babcock, *18.c. cp eireitogernceitss President
E. E. McQuillen, ’20.. Executive Secretary
LL.B. Locke, 13..5.5.% Assistant Secretary
Subscription Price $5.00
Entered as Second Class Matter at
College Station, Texas
Directors
Dr. R. L. Lewis, ’05 Paris
HH iK.Deason, 16....c.0 0 noni Port Arthur
M. H. Bivins, 07 Longview
Add G. Wilson, *12..0: .. nis. McKinney
Dr. WM. B, Starnes, 27.....cc:tusoiss Dallas
Colonel O. A. Seward, Jr., ’07....Groesbeck
John R. Saunders, ’27.................... Huntsville
Victor A. Barraco, ’15.............io...: Houston
G. Graham Hall, ’13 Houston
T.'M. Smith, 201... ....... East Columbia
A. C. Love, ’99 Austin
J. B. Snider, ’14 Waco
Pol, Downs, Jr., 206. nr ite Temple
Louis P. Merrill, ’26.... ...Fort Worth
E. W. Harrison, ’13............. South Bend
A. E. Hinman, *25................ Corpus Christi
Charles E. Richter, Jr., ’30............... Laredo
E. V. Spence, ’11 Big Spring
R. T. Shiels, ’10 Dallas
Guy C. McSwain, ’20 Amarillo
Joe W. Jennings, ’11............. Plainview
Major E. E. Aldridge, ’16........ San Antonio
Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’ ..San Angelo
F. Dudley Perkins, ’97.................... McKinney
Paul G. Haines, "17................ College Station
Roy D. Golston, ’03 Tyler
Charles L. Babcock, ’18................ Beaumont
STUDENT LOAN FUND TRUSTEES
C. L. Babcock, °18 Beaumont
F. D. Perkins, "97 McKinney
E. E. McQuillen, ’20............ College Station
REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC
COUNCIL
A. G. Pfaff, '27 Tyler
Joe A. Wessendorff, '07................ Richmond
‘MRS. ROBERT M.
McFARLIN
The AGGIE learns with deep re-
gret of the death recently of Mrs.
Robert M. McFarlin, wife of the
donor of the McFarlin Memorial
Student Loan Fund at Texas A. &
M. At the time of the gift of the
farm lands, from which the funds
were secured to establish the loan
fund, Mrs. McFarlin was as inter-
ested and as generous as was her
husband. Mr. and Mrs. McFarlin
have given liberally of their for-
tune to churches and to schools and
to charitable organizations in the
Southwest. The death of Mrs. Mec-
Farlin takes from the Southwest
one of its most beloved women.
COLLEGE STATION
COMES OF AGE
With the election of a Mayor,
Aldermen and Town Marshall the
City of College Station takes its
place with other incorporated com-
munities of the State. The action
of residents, both on the campus
and adjacent to it, in voting to in-
corporate is a healthy indication
of the growth of College Sta-
tion, the Texas A. & M. Community.
In the opinion of THE AGGIE the
college and its students are greatly
benefitted by the development of
the community. More social life
and contacts, better entertainment
possibilities, better accommodations
for the comfort and care of visitors,
all will result from the growth of
the community and its organization
as a political unit. College Station
has come of age, with a fine
community spirit and an oppor-
tunity to become one of the finest
small towns in the Southwest.
WHAT NEXT?
With work actually under way
upon the new dormitories, the
thoughts of friends and authori-
ties of the College turn to the next
steps in the development of the
physical plant of the institution.
Without question additional class-
room facilities must be next pro-
vided. Close upon the heels of that
need is the need of a student union
building, or some center around
which the social life of the college
community can revolve. Perhaps a
first class hotel would solve both
the social center need as well as
the need for such accommodations.
Fully as important as these phy-
sical improvements are the need
for additional library facilities, par-
ticularly in the field of books and
reference works. Additional scien-
tific equipment is badly needed by
many departments, as well as ad-
ditional teaching forces to handle
the present huge enrollment. Most
needed, of course, are additional
funds to pay teachers, in order
that the college may hold its best
men and hire other outstanding
men to teach the sons of Texas.
C. C. Neighbors, ’29, President
of the Chicago A. & M. Club, is
with the Alladdin Radio Industry,
466 West Superior St., Chicago,
Ill. His residence is at 11 North
Ave., Chicago.
BIRTHS
Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Wilson, ’33,
are receiving congratulations over
the birth of a son, Walter A., Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Wilson make their
home at 1608 Fourteenth, Wichita
Falls, where Wilson is practicing
veterinary medicine with Dr. L. T.
Lucey.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gremmel, 34,
are delighted over the arrival of a
daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Gremmel
are making their home in Tucson,
Arizona, where Fred is connected
with the Animal Husbandry De-
partment of the University of
Arizona.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Edge, 34,
are the proud parents of a fine son,
William Lawrence born recently in
Bryan. Edge is superintendent of
the consolidated school at the A. &
M. College.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rogers,
36, are rejoicing over the arrival
of a little daughter born at the
Wilkerson Memorial Clinic on Nov-J
Eleven Prophets of Modernity
IV. EUGENE O’NEIL
Surgical Dramatist
When you have seen or read
O’Neill’s haunting masterpiece,
“Strange Interlude,” you feel as
though you had been watching a
keen and delicate-handed surgeon
at work with a sort of tender ruth-
lessness on an illustrious patient,
able and beautiful but desperately
diseased.
What has happened to Nina, his
heroine, is that her healthy, many-
sided love for Gordon has been viol-
ently split by his death before mar-
riage, into its four component
parts: passion for a lover, trustful
leaning on a father, possessiveness
toward a son, sense of partnership |
with a husband. The tragic compli-
cation in “Strange Interlude” aris-
es from the fact that each of these
component strands of Nina’s frus-
trated and disrupted love attaches
itself to a different man. The un-
fortunate woman is thus driven to
fulfill her imperious
needs by the ruin of three lives:
her husband’s, because he has to
emotional
be content with half contemptuous
ember 28. They make their home at | tolerance ; that of her father-substi-
College Station, where Raymond is
with the commandant’s office.
| WEDDINGS
Langford — Kimzey
News comes to the AGGIE of the
marriage of Miss M. Eunice Kim-
zey of New Orleans and Stuart S.
Langford, ’30. They are now mak-
ing their home in Grosse Tete,
Louisiana, where “Fats” is push-
ing tools for the Humble Company.
News has been received of the
marriage of K. Lester Kirkland,
21, last summer. He is with the
Feed Control Service of the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station
and travels in West Texas.
Thompson — Moehlman
Uel D. Thompson, 38, and Miss
Doris Moehlman of Bryan were
married in that city on November
23. They will make their home at
Itasca, where Thompson teacher
vocational agriculture.
Broiles — Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Palmer Ben-
nett announce the marriage of their
daughter, Elaine, to Mr. Hiram
Broiles, 29, at Portland, Oregon.
A former Aggie baseball captain
and star, Broiles is no co-pilot for
the United Airlines, with head-
quarters at Portland.
Healy — Hendricks
Ardmore Healy, ’28, and Miss
Helen Hendricks were married re-
cently in Fort Worth.
Middlekauf — Pike
Charles B. Middlekauf, ’36, and
Miss Mollie Mae Poke of Sugar
Land were married on September
17. Middlekauf is with Harry D.
Payne Architect, 120 Studio Biuld-
ing, 3908 South Main Street, Hous-
ton.
Familiar Names
Among Officials
College Station
Names of men familiar to thou-
sands of former students of Texas
A. & M. are included in the officers
recently elected by the new muni-
cipality of college Station. Dr. J.
H. Binney, professor of mathe-
matics is mayor of the new incor-
porated city of College Station.
Aldermen for the city are Dr. L.
P. Gabbard of the Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, George Wilcox,
23, professor of agricultural ed-
ucation, Ernest Langford, ’13,
head of the department of Arch-
itecture, A “Scrip” Mitchell, 94,
head of the department of En-
gineering Drawing, and Dr. Luther
G. Jones, ’21, of the Agronomy De-
partment.
First Town Marshall is Sam Hop-
per, Mechanical Engineering teach-
er, who hails from Texas Tech.
Incorporation of the City of Col-
lege Station was decided by a re-
cent vote of the residents of the
areas surrounding the campus. Re-
cent rapid development of these
areas, both along business and res-
idential lines, and the need of reg-
ulations along sanitary and other
lines brought about the incorpora-
tion.
tute, “good old Charley,” who is
helplessly tied to her, yet receives
from her only a sort of mild filial
affection; her lover’s, because he
cannot marry her, yet he can never
marry any other woman. As for
her son, he saves himself, at the
| crisis of the play, from being emo-
tionally devoured by his mother,
only by violently breaking away
from her and marrying his girl.
Nina’s tragedy, it seems to me,
is not only intense “theater,” but
universal drama. Nina is Everywo-
man. Just as Nina’s love for the
man of her choice is composed of
four strands, interwoven, so is Ev-
erywoman’s. Only, in the woman
that you and I know, the four
strands are perhaps never frayed
apart by frustration, and so we
never realize that there really are
four separate strands. Or, in many
cases perhaps, they are indeed
frayed apart, but the women suf-
fer their frustration in silence, too
respectable to seek their attach-
ment to separate man, or not pow-
erful enough to achieve it.
This, I think, is O’Neill’s special
contribution to our “modern” minds
and personalities: He has helped
to form in us modern men our
characteristic habit of breaking
down our emotions and experiences
into their component parts, exam-
ining them intently and coolly, and
consequently, perhaps, understand-
ing them better than other genera-
tions have been able to do.
LIVESTOCK TEAM
PLAGES 17TH IN
NATIONAL MEET
The Senior Livestock Judging
Team of A. & M. won 17th place
in the Annual Livestock Judging
Contest which was held in Chicago
Saturday, according to a wire re-
ceived by the Animal Husbandry
Department Monday. Iowa and
Kansas tied for first place at the
meetings.
There were 27 teams from all
over the United States entered in
the contests. The team from Texas
J was 91 points behind the top team.
Edwin Brown, one of the repre-
sentatives from A. & M., was high
man for the sheep division of the
contest and was 10th in cattle
judging. The team as a whole won
3rd in sheep and 9th in cattle jud-
ging.
The team left College Station
Nov. 15 to be gone for 15 days. Ac-
cording to members of the Animal
Husbandry Department, this is the
most extensive trip ever made by
the team.
The members of the group mak-
ing the trip to Chicago are Doss
Buntin of Plainview, Emil Prugel
of Menard, Ed Campbell of Brady,
Ed Brown of Beeville, Herbert
Mills of Sterling City, and Marvin
Smith of Sonora. The team was ac-
companied by Prof N. J. Schuless-
ler, team coach, and Mrs. Schuess-
ler.
M. M. Dikeman, ’36, recently
moved to Oklahoma City, OKkla.,
where he is accountant for the R.
W. Drake and Co., 1511 First Na-
tional Bldg. The company is a
large insurance concern, doing a
state-wide business. Dikeman
would like to hear from any of his
friends who might be in Oklahoma
City or passing through.
WINSTEAD
MEMBER OF
ASSOCIATION
G. B. Winstead, director of pub-
licity at A. & M., was elected to
membership in the Texas Editorial
Association at a meeting in Austin
this weekend.
Membership in the club is open
to newspaper men who have been
in the business 20 years. Mr. Win-
stead was admitted with only 16
years of journalistic experience but
the Association voted to add to that
the four years he carried a news
route.
Attending with Mr. Winstead
were Louis Franke of the Exten-
sion Service and A. D. Jackson of
the Experiment Station, a charter
member of the organization.
A. K. Short, ’00
Writes Book
Finally yielding to the oft re-
peated suggestions and requests of
his friends, A. K. “Dad” Short, ’00,
has written and published “Ancient
and Modern Agriculture”. The book
was published by the Naylor Com-
pany Publishers, San Antonio, Tex-
as and shows clearly the relation-
ship between the crude agricultural
practices of Biblical times and
modern scientific farming. The
author of the book uses illuminat-
ing quotations from the Bible to
show that modern agriculture is
but one step in the evolution of a
science which was practiced by
ancients.
One of the best known figures
in the agricultural field in the
Southwest, “Dad” Short has been
actively identified along that line
for nearly forty years. For many
vears he was with the Extension
Service of the A. & M. College, Fed-
eral Land Bank of Houston, and the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
He is past president of the Asso-
ciation of Former Students. It was
largely due to his fine work that
the Sears, Roebuck Student Loan
fund was established by that great
company at the A. & M. College. At
the present time he is making his
home in Laredo, where he is re-
gional manager for the Texas
Game, Fish, and Oyster Commis-
sion.
Thousands of Texans have been
privileged to hear, in various
speeches and talks by Mr. Short
during the past twenty years, many
of the thoughts and quotations that
are contained in his book “Ancient
and Modern Agriculture”. These
friends are jubilant that Mr. Short
has taken the time and performed
the labors necessary for the publi-
cation of this book.
Faculty Members
Engaged in Writing
Books at A. & M.
Several faculty members are en-
gaged in working on manuscripts
for books, which are in various
stages of completion.
A book on agricultural resources
is being written by J. W. Barger,
head of the Agricultural Economics
Department, and Dr. G. W. Schles-
selman, professor of Agricultural
Economics. It is a background book
for students of agriculture and it
stresses the relation between eco-
nomics and geographical factors,
commerce, agricultural commodi-
ties, and production.
A text on economic policies for
agriculture is being written by Dr.
F. H. Arnold. It consists of a
critical analysis of past and pres-
ent programs of governmental
agencies and farmers’ organiza-
tions for the economic betterment
of agriculture.
The history of the Spanish horse
in America is the subject for a
book by Robert M. Denhardt, in-
structor in Agricultural Economics.
A manual on farm management,
based on Texas conditions and prob-
lems, is in the making by T. S. J.
Lund.
A book on cotton marketing is
being written by Dr. R. L. Hunt.
The book is a survey of the de-
velopment of cotton marketing
problems with a description of va-
rious markets, price determining
factors in those markets, and a
critical analysis of cotton policies,
existing and proposed.
A laboratory manual on agricul-
tural statistics is being written by
Dr. T. R. Hamilton.
Waco Wants Him
In Highway Post
Robert J. “Bob” Potts, 06, one
best known engineers
of Texas’
and highway material men, is be-
ing boomed for appointment as a
of the State Highway
Commission. The Waco Chamber
of Commerce recently unanimously
endorsed Mr. Potts for this ap-
pointment. He has been engaged
during practically all of his life in
highway engineering fields.
After receiving his B. S. degree
in Civil Engineering in 1906, Mr.
Potts took graduate work at A. &
M. and received his C. E. degree
in 1907. He taught at A. & M. for
several years, resigning to enter
business at Waco, where he or-
ganized the Potts-Moore Gravel
of which he
member
Company,
president.
As a member
lines.
BRYAN MILLER
HEADS INTNAT'L.
CITY MANAGERS
J. Bryan Miller, ’18, Wichita
Falls City Manager, was elected
president of the International City
Managers’ Association at that or-
ganization’s meeting last summer
in Boston, Mass. The Association
is made up of men in city mana-
gerial work throughout the world.
Miller has had over 16 years of
experience in this field. He has
served as city manager of the
Texas cities of Lubbock, Jackson-
ville, Bryan and others during his
long career.
A. P. Hancock, ’24, city manager
of Kerrville, is vice president of
the Texas Section, City Managers’
Association. Among other A. & M.
men in this line of work, and all
of whom are compiling fine records,
are E. V. “Gene” Spence, ’11, Big
of the firm of
Potts and Prentice, he engaged in
general contracting from 1917 to
1926, and among other projects,
built sixty-five miles of concrete
road in Wichita County. Since his
graduation from A. & M. he has
been a leading figure in the or-
ganization of civil and highway
engineers in Texas. He served the
Association of Former Students of
A. & M. College as president in
1917 and 1919, and has held many
other offices of honor ond distinc-
tion along civic and professional
Waco; Hal Moseley, 00, Dallas;
T. E. Thompson, ’10, Shawnee,
Okla.; E. E. McAdams, ’11, is
closely allied with city manager
work as Executive Secretary and
Director of the League of Texas
Municipalities. Bill
Longview, is a Vice President of
the League.
Fowler, ’13, will regret to know of
his severe injury and the death of
his wife in an automobile accident
near Peeskill, N. Y. on Thanksgiv-
ing morning. Fowler: suffered a
broken jaw and other injuries, but
is thought to be in no serious dan-
ger. A well known architect, Fow-
ler was architect for the Dallas
Park Board during its Centennial
construction program and more re-
cently has been supervising con-
struction of the General Electric
Company’s exhibit for the New
York World’s Fair.
from the Texas A. & M. Extension
Service on January 1, to make his
home at Eden, where he will be
owner and manager of the Eden
Wool and Mohair Company. He is
at present the County Agent at
| Uvalde.
Spring; Bill N. Taylor, '19, Long-
view, Col. W. C. Torrence, ’13,
N. Taylor,
POULTRY JUDGING
TEAM PLAGES 4TH
The A. & M. Poultry Judging
Team placed fourth in the Midwest
Poultry Judging Contest which was
held in connection with the Inter-
national Livestock Exposition at
Chicago Saturday.
The team placed third in exhibi-
tion and tied for third in produc-
tion in the contests. There were
teams from 10 different land grant
colleges in the west present at
the meet. Louis Jurcak, a member
of the A. & M. team, was high
individual in production and placed
third in the entire contest.
The members of the team, which
left College Station Nov. 19 and
which will return Nov. 30, who
made the trip to Chicago are Alex
G. Warren, Fort Worth, Louis Jur-
cak, Cameron, Ted Martin, Gates-
ville, and W. L. Braddy, Fort
Worth. The team was accompanied
by E. D. Parnell, team coach.
Reveille in Hospital
Reveille is in the hospital. A
member of the staff of the vet-
erinary hospital disclosed yester-
day that the mascot of the corps
had been in the hospital for several
days with a cut foot but “she is
doing fine and will be out of the
hospital in a few days.”
Reveille missed her first football
game between A. & M. and Texas
University since she has been at
A. & M. last Thursday, being in
the hospital at that time.
ATTENTION GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Dr. T. D. Brooks, Dean of the
Graduate School, Texas A. & M.,
has called attention to recent
changes in Graduate School regu-
lations that will be of interest to
those who have done or are doing
graduate work at A. & M. The
regulations in point follow:
1. Effective Sept. 1, 1939, all
work accepted in fulfillment of the
requirements for the Master of
Science degree must have been
completed within a period of six
years prior to the award of the
degree.
2. The practice of permitting
graduate students who expect to
be in attendance for a period of
three weeks only in a summer term
to establish credit for M or N
portions of courses contingent on
the later completion of the other
portion be discontinued.
AUSTIN
BRIDGE COMPANY
DALLAS, TEXAS
CONTRACTORS - BUILDERS
MANUFACTURERS
Roads - Bridges - Road Machinery
COLLEGE COURTS
The New Tourist Camp
Opposite College on Highway 6
Tile Baths - Simmons Beds
P. O. Box 118, College Station
Phone College 451
KEN W. HOOE (°29) & CO.
Writing All Lines
GENERAL INSURANCE
BONDS
806 Medical Arts Bldg.
Waco, Texas
Telephone 7555
The many friends of W. Brown
Fred W. Hall, ’30, is resigning
WELCOME AGGIES
Make Our Station
Your Headquarters
While in Austin
19th and Guadalupe Streets
Service Station 277
Ray Williamson, Agent