THE TEXAS AGGIE
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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-
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Texas.
L. Babcock, ’18 President
P.. Dodson, 211. ou. cece eiteete Vice resident
E. McQuillen, ’20... Executive Secretary
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BH... K. Deason, ?16%...................... Port Arthur
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Add G. Wilson, ’12 McKinney
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J. B. Snider, ’14 Waco
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Louis P. Merrill, ’26.................... Fort Worth
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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, ll... Plainview
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Penrose B. Metcalfe, ’16...........San Angelo
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ASSOCIATION POLICY
Efforts of salesmen to influence
their prospects by intimating some
A. & M. connection with their
companies, or with the salesman
himself, are an old story, and a
troublesome one. Of recent months
more than the usual number of
letters have been received from
A. & M. men making inquiries
following the statements made by
some of these salesmen. The tra-
ditional position of the Association
of Former Students has not been
changed, in this connection, and is
not likely to be changed.
The Association of Former Stu-
dents has never endorsed nor par-
ticipated in any commercial under-
taking or enterprise. The organiza-
tion down through the years has
steadfastly refused to render any
such aid to any such enterprise,
even where the enterprise was
strictly the affair of A. & M. men.
It goes without saying that these
statements are equally true as far
as the A. & M. College is concern-
ed.
Any salesman or other contact
man who claims or intimates that
his proposition is endorsed or pro-
moted in any way by the Associa-
tion of Former Students or the
A. & M. College is misleading his
prospect. The AGGIE hopes his
hand will be promptly and firmly
called by the A. & M. men he ap-
proaches.
A. & M. men as individuals are
connected with many business en-
terprises, and to their credit most
of these enterprises are sound,
legitimate, and well managed.
These enterprises stand upon their
own bottoms and succeed or fail
upon their own merits. They have
not requested, nor received, any
endorsement or aid from the Asso-
ciation of Former Students or the
College.
STREAMLINE CAVALRY
What with swapping horses for
motors today’s Cavalry ain’t what
it used to be! Apparently the
changes have even gone to the
Cavalry’s heads at least at
A. & M.—with the A, B, and C
Troops ranging first, third, and
fourth scholastically in the A. & M.
student body. This information was
divulged in the recent report from
the office of Registrar E. J. How-
ell, 22, covering the first term of
this school year at A. & M. Second
rank went to B Battery of the
Field Artillery.
Gone are the days when the Cav-
alry unit at A. & M. was the bane
of the commandant’s life. Many an
old trooper will be surprised at the
intellectual development in his old
organization. But the AGGIE ex-
tends heartiest congratulations to
A, B, and C Troops, as well as to
Field Artillery’s B Battery.
Incidentally and more important,
there is room for considerable re-
search by College authorities as to
why the members of B Troop Cav-
alry accumulated an average of 1.2
grade points during the first term,
while another cadet unit accumu-
iated only .14.
| vironment.
DR. MAYO’S
COLUMN
ARE YOU THEN A “MODERN”?
Each of the last eleven is-
sues of this column has dealt
with the contribution of some
post-war American writer to
the formation of the typically
“modern” personality. Perhaps
you may be interested this
week in a summary of the
traits or points of view which
have been respectively ascrib-
ed in this column to the most
influential American writers of
our time. Perhaps also you may
like to measure yourself
against the composite “mod-
ern” personality thus built up
(hypothetically !), in order to
determine to what degree you
are genuinely a man of the
second quarter of the 20th
Century.
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* * *
It has been assumed in this
column that the modern man is
likely to be more realistic and
intellectually honest than his fath-
er or his grandfather. His great
liking for Sinclair Lewis and H. L.
Mencken would seem to indicate
this, for these hardboiled gentle-
men have made their fortunes by
pelting him with unflattering facts
about himself. Apparently, then,
the modern man ‘can take it”
pretty well. (Read Sinclair Lewis’s
“Main Street,” “Babbitt,” “Elmer
Gantry,” and “Arrowsmith”; and
Mencken’s “Prejudices” and “Notes
on Democracy.”)
The popular success of behavior-
istic psychologists like John B.
Watson indicates, I think, both
that the modern man likes psychol-
ogy in general and that he is in-
clined to attach more weight to en-
vironment (education, economic
conditions, etc.) than to heredity.
It has always interested me, by the
way, to note that in “romantic”
periods, heredity is stressed; in
“rationalistic” periods like our own
or like the early 18th Century,
more importance is attached to en-
(Read Watson’s “The
Ways of Behaviorism” and Dor-
sey’s “Why We Behave Like Hu-
man Beings.”)
Charles Beard’s economic and un-
romantic interpretation of the
past (especially in his “Rise of
American Civilization”) apparent-
ly represents the modern man’s
notion of what history is really all
about.
By taking to his heart Edna St.
Vincent Millay’s passionate flippan-
cy and heart-broken gayety, the
modern man has indicated pretty
plainly that he has few illusions
left about the permanence of young
love, but that it remains neverthe-
less the source of perhaps the most
intense and precious of all his ex-
periences. (Read “The Harp Weav-
er,” “Figs From Thistles,” and
“Second April.”)
“Strange Interlude,” Eugene
O’Neill’s inspired clinical diagram
of woman’s love, proves by getting
itself accepted as the greatest
American play, that the modern
man is analytically inclined and
ikes to see human emotions taken
apart and examined.
Stuart Chase, by selling his
dozen volumes all over the place,
has likewise proven, it would seem,
that moderns are interested in
economics, particularly in the no-
tion that our troubles are due to
the “cultural lag” of our economic
system behind our excellent tech-
nique of production. (Read “The
Economy of Abundance,” “The
Tragedy of Waste,” “Government
in Business.”)
The popularity of Ernest Hem-
ingway’s hardboiled but softheart-
ed lads and gals makes one suspect
pretty strongly that most hard-
boiled moderns are secretly soft-
hearted also. It took this particu-
larly hardboiled (on the surface)
modern to write the best of all
American love stories, “A Farewell
to Arms.” (Read also Heming-
way’s “Men Without Women” and
“Green Hills of Africa.)
John Dewey’s Philosophy of Ex-
perience seems to have touched the
spot on the modern man’s palate.
It assures him that experience,
cons.antly revised, scientifically in-
terpretcd, is a far, far better guide
to conduct than any set of static
principles, no matter how hallowed
by tradition. (Read “Human Na-
ture and Conduct” or John Dewey’s
paper in “Living Philosophies.”)
Finally, “modern” man is sta-
tistically minded. The only truth
which he really accepts is a truth
built out of facts; but on the other
With Younger Alumni
From The Battalion
Carrol E. Allen, x’39, is farming4
at Bertram. . . Tom a Murral, ’38,
Band Major of ’37-’38, is with the
Houston Bank for Cooperatives,
division of the Federal Land Bank,
and makes his headquarters at
Houston. An older brother, Frank
Murrah, ’18, captain of the band
in his cadet days, died recently. . .
William Arledge, Jr., x’39, is at-
tending Texas University. . . R. L.
Thurman, ’37, is a graduate assist-
ant and expects to receive his mas-
ters degree in August from Texas
Tech at Lubbock. . . Dr. Andy A.
Moore, ’38, is with the Bureau of
Animal Industry, P. O. Box 310,
Arcadia, Florida. . . B. Rex Hur-
ley, ’39, is teaching vocational ag-
riculture at Henrietta. . . Leonard
F. Ray, ’37, is teaching science at
the Judson Grove School, Long-
view. . . John H. Zich, ’37, com-
plains the weather is “nippy” in
Wisconsin. He is with the Allis-
Chalmers Manufacturing Company
and lives at 1511 South 77th Street,
West Allis, Wisconsin. . . Jack W.
Tucker, ’38, gets his mail at 1700
Greenville Avenue, Dallas. . . H. J.
Crase, ’37, is with the Halliburton
Oil Well Cementing Company at
Hebbronville. . . J. Sherwood Spi-
vey, ’37, older brother of the fresh-
man football star and son of Mad-
din Spivey, ’08, Lufkin, has been
made assistant manager of the Luf-
kin Chamber of Commerce and
secretary of the Lufkin Junior
Chamber of Commerce. . . A. J.
4
Hogan, ’38, is living at 2815 Went-
worth, Houston. . . Cyril M. Sta-
tum, ’38, is with the Farm Security
Administration, 3221 Commerce,
Dallas, and lives at 5315 Junius in
that city. . . Jim Q. Wood, ’38, is
taking graduate work in chemistry
and doing part time teaching at
Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa . ..
George L. von Roeder, 38, is with
the Farm Security Administration
at Eastland. .. T. Paxton Johnson,
’38, is farming near Clint, Texas
R. M. Bailey, ’38, is living at
2010 Wentworth, Houston . . . Dick
Powell, ’38, is studying irrigation
problems of the Wichita Valley
for the Farm Security Administra-
tion and the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station and is making
his headquarters at Iowa Park ...
Raymond R. Sartain, ’39, is with
the State Highway Department at
Sherman, Texas. . . W. H. Aiken,
’38, is attending school at the In-
stitute of Paper Chemistry, Apple-
ton, Wisconsin. . . T. A. Hiett, ’38,
is a chemist for the Griffin Gro-
cery Company, Muskogee, Okla-
homa. . . Bryant Holland, ’37, is
teaching chemistry at A. & M. . .
S. M. Greenberg, ’37, is in the
State Chemist’s Office, College Sta-
tion. . . Bennie W. Babb, ’37, is
ranching at Langtry. . . C. B. Ford,
x’38, is Ass’t. Metallurgist, Alma
Syndicate Inec., Denver, Colo. . .
Floyd M. Wilkes, ’37, is with the
Northwestern Grain Co., Orlando.
Men Wanted
Dean of Engineering Gibb Gil-
christ received an announcement
that engineers are needed for some
special projects in the Panama
Canal Zone as follows: 1 Hy-
draulic Engineer ($475.00); 1 Asso-
ciate Hydraulic Engineer ($333.00);
1 Assistant Hydraulic Engineer
($270.00); 2 Junior Hydraulic En-
gineers ($208.00); 1 Structural En-
gineer - Steel ($400-$475.00); 1 As-
sistant Structural Engineer
($270.00); 1 Draftsman, Structural
Steel ($239.00); 1 Structural En-
gineer - Masonry ($400.00-$475.00);
1 Associate Structural Engineer -
Masonry Design ($333.00); 1 As-
sistant Engineer - Masonry
($270.00); 1 Draftsman, Structural
Concrete ($239.00); 1 Associate
Structural Engineer - Steel Struc-
tures ($333.00); 1 Assistant En-
gineer - Masonry Design ($270.00);
1 Junior Structural Engineer -
Steel Structures ($208.00); 1
Junior Engineer - Masonry Design
($208.00); 6 Draftsmen, Structural
Steel ($239.00); 1 Darftsman -
Structural Concrete ($239.00);
1 Mechanical Engineer ($400.00-
$475); 2 Assistant Mechanical En-
gineers ($270.00);
Draftsman ($270.00); 1 Associate
Mechanical Engineer ($333.00); 2
Mechanical Draftsmen ($239.00);
1 Electrical Engineer ($333.00); 1
Assistant Electrical Engineer
($270.00); 1 Junior Electrical En-
gineer ($208.00); 1 Draftsman,
Electrical ($239.00); 1 Chief En-
gineering Draftsman ($270.00); 3
Senior Engineering Draftsmen
($208.00); 4 Engineering Drafts-
men ($187.00); 1 Junior Engineer-
Civil ($208); 1 Assistant Geologist
($270.00-$333.00); 1 Chief Soil
Technician ($333.00-$400.00); and
3 Student Engineers ($150.00).
Most of these jobs require con-
siderable experience. Anyone in-
terested should write to the Chief
of Office, The Panama Canal,
Washington, D. C.
Wm. F. Minkert, ’31, is assistant
supervisor with the Farm Security
Administration and is located at
Canton, Texas.
hand he trusts facts wholehearted-
ly only when they have been in-
terpreted into truth by the science
of statistics. (For a good example
of this double process, read Ray-
mond Pearl’s “Biology of Popula-
tion Growth.”)
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And now, sir, after all this,
do you consider yourself a
“Modern”? Perhaps, if you ac-
cept the above definition of
modernity, you don’t altogeth-
er care about being a modern.
And of course you may very
well be right in this. This
column holds no brief for
modernity. At all events, you
might read (or re-read) a few
of these key books, and see
what you think of them.
1 Mechanical |
Jack Barnes, ‘30, who is a pe-
troleum engineer with the Trinity
Portland Cement Company, has re-
cently been transferred to Corpus
Christi. His new address will be
2222 Alameda - Boulevard of that
city.
Thomas K. Lagow, '29, is an en-
gineer and draftsman with the Cen-
tral Texas Iron Works, Waco.
Winfred C. LaGrone, ’30, is mak-
ing his home at 730 North 3rd,
Mountain View, Oklahoma. La-
|Grone is with the Department of
the Interior, Office of Indian Af-
fairs and at the present time is
working under the supervision of
the Kiowa Indian Agency, Andar-
ko, Oklahoma.
Jack Lair, ’32, is with the U. S.
Department of Agriculture and lo-
cated at Mesquite, Texas.
Orville Laird, ’30, is department
head for shoes and men’s clothing
at Sears-Roebuck and Company,
301 Pine Street, Texarkana, Texas.
After graduation from Texas
A. & M. in electrical engineering,
Laird received his masters in busi-
ness administration from North-
western University, Chicago.
Newton W. Lamb, ’31, is plant
superintendent for The Borden
Company, 1811 Leonard Street,
Dallas. His residence address is
4131 Wyeciffe of that city. Lamb
is married and has one child.
William H. “Sam” Langford, 27,
is assistant secretary and cashier
for the San Joaquin Cotton Oil
Company, at Chowchilla, Califor-
nia. He gets his mail at Box 60
of that city. “Sam” is a younger
brother of Ivan Langford, ’17, and
Ernest Langford, ’13, of Bryan and
College Station.
T. B. “Tony” Ketterson, ’31, who
is with the United Press Associa-
tion, was recently transferred to
the Nashville Bureau, Third
National Bank Building, Nashville,
Tennessee. “Tony” was with the
A. & M. Publicity Department be-
fore he accepted a position with
the United Press Association, New
York City, N.Y.
George A. Linskie, ’36, is with
Joe Hoppe, Inc.,, 4102 Live Oak
Street, Dallas, Texas. Linskie is a
new member of the Association.
“Thomas J. Moon, 31, gets his
mail at Box 282, Navasota, Texas.
Moon is administrative assistant
for Grimes County. He reports that
he enjoys his new location and work
and is still single.
John A. Shellberg, ’31, is owner
and manager of the Futuristic
School of Beauty Culture at Fort
Worth. His mailing address is 4520
Camp Bowie Boulevard.
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| WEDDINGS
Long — Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrew
Thompson announce the marriage
of their daughter, Lucy Tracy to
Mr. Earl Yell Long, ’35, on March
25 at the home of the bride’s sister,
Mrs. Bennett L. Smith, 2529 Sta-
dium Drive, Fort Worth. Only
members of the immediate families
were present, due to the recent
death of Long’s father. Charles M.
Dempwolf, ’35, of San Antonio,
served as best man. Mr. and Mrs.
Long are at home to their friends
at 700 Harrison Street, Mount
Vernon, Illinois.
Rogers — Bullard
Miss Kathleen Bullard, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Bullard, of
Bryan, became the bride of Mr.
John S. Rogers, ’38, of Houma,
Louisiana, on March 25, 1939, at
the First Methodist Church
Bryan. Only relatives and a few
close friends were present. Rogers
is connected with the National Oil
Company and for the past year
has been located at Houma, Loui-|§
siana.
Echols — Brown
In a twilight ceremony on March |
18, Miss Anne Brown, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garland Brown | 8
of Carthage, became the bride of |}
Mr. Walter H. Echols, ’38, of Hous-
ton, son of Mrs. W. G. Voss of San
Angelo. Mr. and Mrs. Echols will
make their home at Fairbanks,
Texas, where Echols is associated
with the Amerada Petroleum Cor-
poration.
News comes to us of the mar-
iage on March 15 of Thomas G.
Holden, 37. The wedding took place
in Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Holden
are making their home at Lake
Village, Arkansas, where Tom is
an Administrative Assistant for the
AAA at Lake Village, Arkansas.
Calloway — Walling
At the First Methodist Church
in Gainesville, Miss Mildred Wall-
ing recently became the bride of 3
G. Eldon Calloway, ’36, of Nava- | §
sota. Mr. and Mrs. Calloway are |}
residing at Navasota, Texas, where
Calloway is manager at Navasota
for the Texas State Employment |§
Service.
Smith —- Steele
Announcement of the approach-
ing marriage of Miss Grayson
Dyer Steele of Dallas to Stanley
James Smith, x39, has been made
by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Ernest Aydelotte. The wedding will
take place on April 14 at the Ayde-
lotte home in Dallas. Miss Steele
is a great-great-granddaughter cf
Newitt Vick, the founder of Vicks-
burg, Mississippi, where she lived
until a few years ago. Smith is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel James
Smith of Dallas.
BIRTHS
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Clinkinbeard,
34, are receiving congratulations
from their many friends over the
arrival o a son on St. Patrick’s
"Day. Mr. and Mrs. Clinkinbeard re-
side at 7303 Thurston Drive, Dallas.
Clinkinbeard is on the Dallas Police
force.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman K. Henry,
’25, are the proud parents of a son
born on December 8, 1938. Henry is
captain of the cavalry reserve CCC
Co. 2884, Winnsboro, Texas.
Clarence E. “Bull” Marcum, ’33,
has recently been transferred as
assistant county agent from Nueces
County, to County agricultural
agent of Zavala County, with head-
quarters at Crystal City.
Grady J. Lane, ’13, formerly
county agent of Dickens County
for the A. & M. Extension Service,
has recently been transferred to |g
the same position in Cottle County,
with headquarters
Texas.
Mack Woodrum, ’27, has been
transferred as county agricultural
agent of Kent County to the same
capacity.in Dickens County, where
his headquarters will be Dickens,
Texas.
R. A. Brotherton, ’18, is making
his home at Olton, Texas.
as
at Paducah, ||
Jim M. Carroll, ’33, is making his
home at 4944 East Side Avenue,
Dallas, Texas. Jim is in the Sales
Department of the Dallas Power
‘| and Light Company and is getting
along fine.
A. P. King, Jr., 38, is an indc-
pendent oil operator in Houston
and deals in leases and royalties.
He offices in the Esperson Build-
ing.
Dr. L. George Grupe, "27, is own-
er and proprietor of the Grupe
Chiropractic Clinic, 225 South
David Street, San Angelo, Texas.
In Memoriam
Wallace Parker Metcalfe, 93
Wallace P. Metcalfe, age
64, died suddenly from a
heart attack recently, having
t been ill only a short time.
Services were from the Brew-
er Funeral Chapel, Dallas,
2 and burial was in the Grove
Hill Cemetery. Mr. Metcalfe [
| is survived by two sons, two
sisters, and a brother.
Mr. Metcalfe was born in
Cincinnati in 1874. His fami- 8
ly came to Texas when he
was eight years old. Shortly
before his graduation from
A. & M., Metcalfe quit school
with pneumonia. In 1904 he
began as a bookkeeper with
the National Bank of Com-
merce at Dallas, and has been
at the note window at the
Elm Street bank for the past
35 years. Mr. Metcalfe was
a Mason and a member of the
First Methodist Church of
Dallas.
Robert Murphey Campbell, ’26
R. Murphey Campbell, age
34, found critically wounded
in bed at a ranch home near
Maryneal, in Nolan County, |
died on March 10 in a Sweet-
water hospital. Funeral ser-
vices were held from the
Johnson Funeral Home, San
Angelo, where int-rment was
made.
Mr. Campbell was found by
his mother, Mrs. Bob Camp-
bell, with a gunshot wound
in his stomach, and both
| wrists slashed. A shotgun
was found nearby. Campbell
is survived by his parents,
his wife, and one son.
Murphey Campbell was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Campbell, prominent pioneer
San Angelo and Maryneal
ranch family. A wool buyer
for S. Sulverman & Sons,
Chicago, Mr. Campbell had
spent the winter at Fort.
Worth buying furs for that
firm. He was one of the most
active wool buyers in San An-
gelo.
As a student at A. & M.,
Murphey was captain of
Company C, a member of the [&
Ross Volunteers, the Saddle
and Sirloin Club, and parti-
cipated in many student ac-
tivities. He was affectionate-
ly known to his classmates as
“Pinkey.”
Jack Browning, ’30
Jack Browning, of Stam-
ford, former electrical en-
gineering student, fashioned
a crude death machine, set
its alarm clock attachment
for 5 a. m., stuck his head
into it, and then calmly went
to sleep on March 15. His
program went off as was
planned. His mother heard a
shot at 5 o’clock and rushed
into the boy’s room to find
him fatally wounded.
The death device consisted
of a box, through which the
barrel of a .38 caliber pistol
protruded, and wires leading
from the pistol to an alarm
clock.
Browning is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
T. Browning, of Stamford.
Charles 0. James, ’x39
Charles O. James, age 24,
died recently at Houma,
Louisiana. James was an em-
ployee of the National Sup-
ply Company. He is survived
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. James, of Houston.
James attended A. & M. from
1935 through 1938 and took
petroleum engineering.