The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, March 15, 1939, Image 2
THE TEXAS AGGIE E. -B. MeQuillen:. =... ..... 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. L. Babcock, ’18 President C. P. Dodsony "11..ci.ceecumgesvese Vice resident E. E. McQuillen, ’20...Executive Secretary L." B. Locke, ?18.. 5% "i Assistant Secretary Subscription Price $5.00 Entered as Second Class Matter at College Station, Texas Directors Dr. R. L. Lewis, ’06 Paris H. K.. Denson i 0. .cocicuiacsiin Port Arthur M. H. Bivins, 07 Longview Add G. Wilson, ’12 McKinney Dr, M, Bl Starnes, 100. udm Dallas Colonel O. A. Seward, Jr., ’07....Groesbeck John R. Saunders, 227........ccsesieres Huntsville Victor A. Barraco, ’ G. Graham Hall, "13 Houston T.-M. Smith, 5 20.....cc00 seeceen East Columbia A. C. Love, '99 Austin J. B. Snider, ’14 Waco P. Li. Downs, Jr., 100. .cerrsencissisesmssses Temple Louis P. Merrill, ’26........ccccceen.cce Fort Worth E. W. Harrison, ’18................... South Bend A, BE. 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, ‘1l............... Plainview Major E. E. Aldridge, ’16....... San Antonio Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16........... 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 D. Perkins, "97 McKinney E. McQuillen, ’20............ College Station REPRESENTATIVES ON ATHLETIC COUNCIL Tyler A. G. Pfaff, "27 nd Joe A. Wessendorff, IMPORTANT AND NEW FIELDS OF SERVICE Rich 07 Chief business of the March 1 meeting of the Directors of the Association of Former Students was the initiation of the “Thanks- giving Home Folks” idea, and con- sideration of the establishment of a Placement and Personnel Bureau as a part of the work of the Asso- ciation. The possibilities of these two programs are as great as any work or projects that have even been tried or considered by A. & M. Ex-Students. If the “Thanksgiving Home Folks” plan is successful the vex- ing problem of football ticket dis- tribution for Turkey-Day games at. Kyle Field will be solved. The full possibilities of the Placement and Personel program cannot be visualized at a glance, but grow and develop as the mat- ter is studied and discussed. Suen» a program would mark a new de- velopment in the educational and alumni field of the Southwest al- though similar programs are the darlings of top notch institutions in the older east and mid-west. The project offers tremendous and val- uable possibilities to both students and former students. Campus response to this program has been whole-heartedly favorable from both faculty and student body. Additional details will be worked out by a campus commit- tee appointed by President Bab- cock. The program will of neces- sity dove-tail itself into the a:- ready fine work being done along this line by college deans and fac- ulty heads and will supplement and assist their work rather than re- place it. The AGGIE recommends the study and consideration of these two proposals by every A. & M. man. They offer new and wide fields of service to A. & M. men and to the Association. STUDENTS APPROVE PLACEMENT BUREAU The Former Students Association of A. & M. has announced a plan to create a placement bureau here, an institution needed possibly more than any other. Graduating from A. & M. in it- self means a great deal, but not as much as it used to mean. This year approximately 600 Aggies will graduate. This is a far cry indeed from the days when only a few students graduated each year and were immediately hired because of the small number of graduates both here and elsewhere. Because A. & M. is a state-sup- ported institution, it has lagged be- hind some of the important private schools, where placement bureaus have been in operation for many years. The state legislature has almost always adopted the atti- tude that as soon as a student has completed a four-year course of study in a state school—largely at state expense—the duty of the state to its young citizens ends and the duty of the young citizens to their state begins. While this point of view may be questioned by stu- dents in state-supported institu- tions, there is some justification of that attitude. Had things been allowed to rock on, we would eventually have had around 1,000 graduates each year from A. & M. with no chance of obtaining employment except through their own pavement pound- ing and the work of their already- worked-down department heads and deans. The Former Students Associa- tion has hopes that the plan may become operative next fall. Next year almost 700 students may grad- uate here. It seems as if the bu- reau will begin its operation with a full schedule. However, when the Former Students Association of A. & M. undertakes something, the re- sults are generally quite readily seen. The Battalion, for the student body, offers its sincerest congrat- ulations to the Former Students Association on taking a step which will result in fine opportunities for all A. & M. graduates. (From The Battalion) MORE ROLLINSES In spite of very careful research efforts, the Editor of the AGGIE in last issue’s story on the Rollins’ family, missed two additional mem- bers of that clan who attended A. & M. Allen Rollins, son of C. W. “| Rollins, 93, was a student at A. & M. in ’37, but resigned after one year to enter the study of theology at Baylor University. John R. Gillham received his mas- ters degree in 1935 and is secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce and teacher of agriculture at Clar- endon, Texas. He is the son of one of the Rollins’ sisters and took his masters degree after several sum- mers of work at A. & M. When Col. Ike Ashburn, Execu- tive Assistant to the President, Texas A. & M., spoke recently be- fore a joint meeting of all the luncheon Clubs of the City of Shreveport, La., he was introduced by W. L. Rutan, ’15, Shreveport representative of the National Cash Register Co. The occasion of the huge luncheon was the observance of National Defense Week. Covering the story with a fea- ture write-up for the Shreveport Times was Haynes W. Dugan, ’34, newspaper man and feature writer. Col. Ashburn reported upon his re- turn that the ex-students of the college in Shreveport had made that city an “A. & M. Town”. Theo. A. Polansky, 08, has been made Sales Manager of the Gulf Concrete Pipe Co., of Houston, ac- cording to a recent announcement by that firm. He comes to his new position with over 15 years expe- rience in the concrete pipe business. For several years he has made his home in the East. He received his degree in Civil Engineering. Edward D. Brewster, ’26, is Dis- trict Manager of the American Rolling Mills (ARMCO) Interna- tional Corp., in Venezuela, with headquarters at Caracas, Ven. He moved to that location last year after serving in a similar capacity in the Republic of Mexico for sev- eral years. Harry M. Saunders, 22, has been made General Traffic Supervisor of automatic equipment in the of- fice of the Vice President of the Western Union Telegraph Co., New York City. One of the new duties of the assignment will be to visit engineering schools to interview prospective employees for his de- partment, and Saunders hopes to pay the A. & M. Campus an occa- sional visit. He makes his home in Plainfield, N. J., and has been with the Western Union since gradua- tion. Jack C. Jones, ’26, has been transferred from Houston to Pam- pa by the Humble Oil and Ref. Co., to become District Foreman in the Pampa area. J. W. “Jimmy” Monk, ’22, re- cently returned from the Republic of Mexico and will make his head- quarters at Fabens, Texas, He is with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and for the past year or so has been doing special inves- tigation and study in Mexico. 1 | WEDDINGS | Lednicky — Radle Miss Billie Radle, of Waco, be- came the bride of Ben J. Lednicky, 37, of Sulphur Springs, at Waco on February 12. Mr. and Mrs. Led- nicky are making their home in Sulphur Springs, where Ben is connected with the State Highway Department in charge of a beau- tification project. Dawson — McDaniels The marriage of Miss Josephine McDaniels, of Gonzales, Texas, and Aryless H. Dawson, ’37, of Tulia, was solemnized on February 4. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson are making their home at Uvalde, where Dawson is with the Soil Conservation Service on the Elm Creek Water Facilities Project as junior range examiner. Johnson — Cheney Miss Neva Cheney, of Fort Worth, became the bride of J. H. “Blackjack” Johnson, '34, on De- cember 2, in Fort Worth. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are living in Denton, where Johnson is an engineer with the Soil Conservation Service. Reitch - Bryan News comes to us of the mar- riage last fall of Miss Mary Bryan, daughter of Mrs. L. A. Bryan of Hawkins, to Mr. Tom C. Reitch, ’25. Reitch is attached to the mobile soils survey unit of the Soil Con- servation Service, and he and Mrs. Reitch are at the present time lo- cated at Minden, La. Gates — Finkelstein Mr. and Mrs. R. Finkelstein an- nounce the marriage of their daughter, Flo, to Mr. John J. Gates, ’33, of Houston. After a short wed- ding trip to Monterrey, Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. Gates are making their home at 1901 Berry, Houston, where Gates is with the Conti- nental Can Company. Crockett — Abbott Mr. J. B. Crockett, 08, and Miss Vhilma Abbott, of Dallas, were married in that city on New Year's Day. They are making their home at Goldthwaite, Texas, at the pres- with the Morgan Construction Company on a big highway pro- ject. He recently completed a sim- ilar project at Hughes Springs in East Texas. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bowden, ’30, are the happy parents of a little daughter, Marilyn, born on Feb- ruary 26, 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Bow- den make their home at Hillsboro, where Bowden is with the South- west Bell Telephone Company. Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Burns, ’23, are receiving congratulations from their many friends over the birth of a little son, Jack Patton, on March 4. Dr. and Mrs. Burns reside on the A. & M. campus where Pat is head of the Department of Vet- erinary Physiolog., and Pharma- cology at A. & M. This is their second son. Charley Waugh, 25, former Ag- gie star tackle, is with the General Electric Co., at Chicago, as a Field Engineer. He lives in Elmhurst, 111. J. C. Oliver, Jr. ’382, is a civil engineer with the State Health De- partment and at the present time is located at Kaufman, where he gets his mail at Box 660. Stona N. Powell, "21, is division engineer for the State Highway Department at Effingham, Illinois. Fred L. Montgomery, ’13, is chief cost accounting clerk for the Phelps Dodge Corporation, and makes his home at Morenci, Arizona. A. E. Caraway, ’34, is with the Lufkin Foundry & Machine Com- pany, Kilgore, Texas. Jesse D. Moore, ’36, is teaching vocational agriculture at Coolidge, Texas, where he gets his mail at Box 343 of that city. C. C. Apperson, Jr., ’30, is living at 1602 McGowen, Houston. Apper- son is with the Curlee Manufac- turing Company, Houston. ent time, where J. B. is associated’ +Can You Help Us Locate These Galveston, Texas. (Last Address). Eleven Prophets of Modernity Dr. Mayo’s Column Dr. Mayo presents herewith his Eleventh and last “Proph- et of Modernity”. In the next issue of the AGGIE, on April 1, he will sum his discus- sions with a column headed, “Are You, Then, a Modern Man?”. He will supply the material for an answer by sum- marizing the traits which he has outlined in other columns as those of the typically “Mod- ern” man. In connection with each trait he will list the author with whom the trait is associated and mention ‘the best of that authors books. The whole business will con- stitute both a summary of Dr. Mayo’s articles and a rather full annotated reading list in recent American literature. ELEVEN PROPHETS OF MODERNITY XI. Raymond Pearl: Statistics! | Statistics! Certainly the “modern” man is more respectful of statistics and of the statistical method of turning facts into truth, than the man of any other generation has ever been. In a sort of bull session, for ex- ample, I recently asked a biologist and a sociologist to name the most significant trends in their respec- tive sciences. Without any hesita- tion they both replied: “The ap- plication of statistical method.” Raymond Pearl of Johns Hop- kins University has perhaps done more than any other one American to make us statistically minded. His articles in Mencken’s old American Mercury and in Harper’s, and his highly readable book, “The Biology of Population Growth,” enjoyed and discussed as they were by thousands, have undoubtedly in- fluenced in a “statistical” direction the minds of the people who have in turn influenced most modern minded men. Hence, even if you yourself never heard of Raymond Pearl, you probably owe to him, if you are a “modern”, some of your characteristic respect for sta- tistics. I should like to recommend “The Biology of Population | Growth” as a painless illustration of how a good statistician can make truth out of mere facts. By means of charts and curves, clear as crystal and much more enter- taining, the book proves, among other things: (1) That the population of a country follows the same sort of growth curve as does the body of a man. That is, in any one period (such as our own, which began with the introduction of power- driven machinery) the population of a country first increases very rapidly then less rapidly, and fi- nally flattens out into stability. This tendency is indicated on paper by a curve that looks like an S pulled out rather flat and then tilted forward into a diagonal posi- tion across the page. Thus, we need not be worried about over-popula- tion. Unless a new era in production should set in, and so start a new cycle of growth, our population in- crease will diminish and then flat- ten out in due time. (2) The rate of increase of pop- ulation tends always to be less in + densely populated areas. (3) The rate of increase tends always to be greater among poor people. (Raymond Pearl suggests that this somewhat alarming ten- dency may be counteracted to some extent by the wide and free dis- semination of the knowledge and the means of birth control.) (4) Sexual activity tends to be greatest among farmers, next among industrial’ workers, next among commercial people—least of all among professionals and “brain workers”. The narrow and mentally cramped lives that result from 2a poor economic and social environ- ment actually tend to stimulate sexual activity. Such profoundly interesting gen- eralizations as these are some of the fruits of the science of sta- tistics. But of course, you may say, there have always been plenty of interesting generalizations, even before statistics were heard of. The truth is, I think, that what the science of statistics has really given to us “moderns” is a feeling of assurance that such sweeping statements as the above are not only interesting but soundly built up out of millions of hard facts scientifically collected and scien- tifically interpreted. To the statisticians then, in general, and especially, I think to Raymond Pearl, the modern man owes one of the most characteristic traits of his modernity: An impatience with generalizations, however inter- esting and authoritative in tone, which are not solidly based not only on facts, but on facts turned into truth by statistical method. Roy Lee Huckabee, ’36, has been appointed assistant county agri- cultural agent for Young County with headquarters at Graham, Texas. John B. McCluskey, Jr., ’36, has! recently moved to Anderson, Texas, where he gets his mail at P. O. Box 133. W. F. Keeton, ’29, asks that his TEXAS AGGIE be sent to Dilley, Texas, where he is now making his home. Harry R. Guiberson, ’24, is an architect and engineer, with offi- ces at 3908 South Main Street, Houston, Texas. He has recently designed several new homes to be built at College Station. William C. Young, ’35, is with the Wallace and Young Lumber Company, Kyle, Texas. David L. Tisinger, '35, is an at- torney with the firm of White, Taylor and Gardner, Norwood Bldg., Austin. He received his law training at Fordham University in New York City and at Texas 1 University. At A. & M. he was Editor of the Battalion and winner of many student oratorical and de- bate honors. He and Mrs. Tisinger make their home at 807 E. 30th, Austin. Walter R. Swank, ’31, is sales engineer for the Atlas Supply Co.,| Salem, Ill. He has been with this company since Jan. 1936, and prior to that time was with Gifford, Hill & Co., and Allis Chalmers Co. Lost - Strayed - Stolen Men? Mike Coleman, ’18, % Ed J. Bower, Gallup, New Mexico. dress). R. D. Crawford, ’18, 317 E. 10th St., Dallas, Texas. (Last Address). A. A. Dean, ’23, 1147 Montana, El Paso, Texas (Last Address). (Last Ad- Winston M. Brook, ’26, 3407 Gaston, Dallas, Texas. (Last Address). M. D. Chapman, ’26, Texas Power & Light Co., San Marcos, Texas. (Last Ad- dress). Carl D. Clardy, ’30, 3516 R14, D. F. Cheaney, ’31, 218 Latham, Houston, Texas. (Last Address). Alvin A. Druckhammer, ’34, 1204 Westheimer, Houston, Texas. (Last Address). Wm. P. Alexander, ’35, CCC Co. 2868 F-37-N, Carlsbad, N. M. (Last Address). Theodore M. Dorsett, 37, 2220 Avenue G, Galveston, Texas. (Last Address). Louis J. Bourg, ’37, 304N. Russell St., Ames, Iowa. (Last Address). James C. Chatman, Jr., ’37, Coleman, Texas. (Last Address). A. Pete Dowling, 38, 3210 Noble St., Houston, Texas. (Last Address). W. W. Scott, ’28, was recently appointed City Engineer for Bryan and has already assumed his new duties under City Manager James Aston, ’33. For the past several years Scott has been an examining engineer on WPA projects, work- ing out of the San Antonio office. He was also a member of the en- gineering department of the City of Dallas for several years, Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their five children will make their new home in Bryan. George L. Ellis, ’28, recently moved from San Antonio to Scotts- dale, Arizona. In Memoriam T. J. Hardeman, ’79 Thomas J. Hardeman, of Minden, La., died recently ac- cording to information re- ceived from Judge W. M. Sleeper, of Waco, through Colonel G. Wash. Hardy, "79, of Shreveport. Mr. Harde- man lived for many years at Minden, whre he was one of the best known civil and highway engineers in the state of Louisiana and where he was employed in that state’s Highway Department. He was the son of General Hardeman for whom Harde- man County, Texas was nam- ed and he was one of the first graduates and first stu- dents of Texas A. & M. Col- lege. Louis John Kopke, ’80 L. J. Kopke, age 83, of Beaumont, died March 13 at three p. m. at his residence, following a long period of ill health. Services were held from the First Baptist Church of Beaumont, of which he was the oldest dea- con. Burial was in a local cemetery of Beaumont. Mr. Kopke is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jessie Kopke; a son, Norman Koepke, and a daugh- ter, Miss Ethel Belle Kopke, all of Beaumont. Born in San Felipe de Aus- tin, Texas, 1856, Mr. Kopke was one of the first two grad- uates of the A. & M. College in 1880. Since his graduation,’ Mr. Kopke has been steadily engaged in engineering work. During the past 58 years, Mr. Kopke had probably survey- ed every acre in Jefferson County and knew every square foot of Beaumont. Mr. Kopke was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Beaumont and also of the Beaumont A. & M. Club. Frank V. Murrah, ’19 Frank V. Murrah, age 40, died at his home in Bartles- ville, Oklahoma on February 26 from a heart attack. He was buried at Bartlesville, where he has made his home since graduation from A. & M. He is survived by his wife, his mother, one sister, and three brothers. Two of the brothers are W. E. “Cap” Murrah, ’22 of Bartlesville, and Thomas Murrah, ’38, who makes his headquarters in Houston and is with the Federal Land Bank. Born at Holland, Texas, Murrah came to A. & M. from Plano, Texas. He re- ceived his degree in electrical engineering in 1919 and serv- ed in the World War as an officer in the Machine Gun Corps at Camp Hancock, Georgia. He went to Bartles- ville, Oklahoma in 1919 as a junior engineer with the Em- pire Companies. After five years with that organization, he resigned to teach music and for many years was in charge of the Dewey high school band, in addition to his regular musical class work. He was a 32nd degree mason; a member of the American Legion; and Secretary of the Bartlesville Musicians Union. As a student at A. & M,, Frank Murrah was captain of the Aggie band, a mem- ber of the Ross Volunteer, and a leader of one of the first student dance orches- tras.