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& M. Scene as it passes in
Wisdom From The Youngsters
Many of the ills and difficulties¢ MUST be paid. The money will be
of various organizations or clubs
might be eliminated if the writers
of their constitutions could be as
succinct, direct, and straightfor-
ward as the group of Eagle Pass
Youngsters, average age 12, who
recently organized an A. & M.
Junior Club. A report of this or-
ganization is carried elsewhere in
this issue of the AGGIE, but con-
sider the bull’s-eye directness with
which these youngsters went to the
heart of some of the knottiest prob-
lems facing any organization. Fi-
nances are covered by two sentenc-
es, “The dues are 15¢ a month and
spent for entertainment and other
purposes.”
Two constitutional statements
take care of erring members; “If
a member should be a traitor to
the club, or the A. & M. College,
he will be kicked out; and a mem-
ber must not speak when another
is speaking unless giving special
permission by the president. A belt
is the punishment.”
Many a harassed board chair-
man, president, corporation lawyer,
and executive secretary, might well
wish for a constitution as neat as
the one written by the Eagle Pass
youngsters.
ASCAP-Radio Fight Hits A. & M., Too
It’s a far cry from Texas A. & M tome from a rancher in Texas, un-
to the current squabble between
ASCAP and the Radio Broadcast-
ing interests, but A. & M. is in-
volved since ASCAP the
copyright and thus controls one of
the most pupular songs of the
college, The AGGIE WAR HYMN.
Until the present scrap is settled
the War Hymn cannot be played
upon any of the big chain radio
stations. The War Hymn has as
interesting a story as any college
song can boast.
J. V. “Pinky” Wilson, ’19, now
ranching at Florence, Texas, wrote
the song in the trenches of France
during the First World War. Upon
his return he completed the song,
words and music, and had is copy-
righted. It became the favorite
song of the Cadet Corps, and one
of the best known college songs in
the Southwest.
With the development of Radio
difficulties arose as long as Wilson
retained control of the song. Radio
stations will not play music upon
which they do not have a clear-
ance from the copyright owner.
Since it was difficult to get clear-
owns
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known in the East, Wilson assigned
Allen Co., a musical organization
specializing in College songs. That
made the War Hymn easily avail-
able and it was played more often
on the radio.
Then came the present fight and
the Thornton W. Allen Co. is a
member of ASCAP. So, the War
Hymn is off the air until that fight
is settled, as far as the big chain
stations and programs are con-
cerned. Nearly every College and
University in the country is in the
same shape, with some or all of
their songs controlled by ASCAP.
The matter is certain to be settled
some time; they can’t keep the
War Hymn, On Wisconsin, and
similar popular college songs off
the air indefinitely.
And by way of reporting, old
rancher “Pinky” Wilson is still
singing around and about. He still
declares his “Cast-Iron” quartett
of 1918 was the best. Included were
himself, Arthur Vandervoort, now
of Houston, Lydell Tucker, Chemist
at Port Arthur, and Arthur Knick-
erbocker, Odessa contractor.
After The Ball Is Over
ved a two-year spree of winring
wd
a ying id ae ofA TST av
Aggie team. Practically that en-
tire team played its last game in
the Cotton Bowl, however, and from
all indications the next few seasons
will find the Cadets fighting des-
perately to hold their own on the
gridiron.
lege staff, have indicated something
4 lem,
AT
A. & M. football fans have Lend all members of the Col-
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A eafg Soutbal
excitement is over, at least for a
while. In their estimation it is
time for us all to come back down
to earth, forget the championships,
bowl games and their excitement
and go back to work. The Ball is
over and from now on its work
Ly
More than one ex-student, and
instead of music and dancing.
Keeping The AAA
Citizens of Bryan and College?
Station are engaged in an active
campaign to insure the construction
of a fireproof building to provide
satisfactory quarters for the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administra-
tion headquarters. The AAA, since
its inception, has been housed in
a temporary frame structure on
the campus and finds these quart-
b The AAA headquarters employ
over 400 people and has an annual
payroll of $900,000. It is an im-
portant enterprise to Brazos County
commercially and its location at
College is tremendously advanta-
geous to the institution in other
ways. If a new building is con-
structed, it will likely also be used
ers no longer satisfactory.
Free Meals
Cadets will again be permitted
to take guests to the mess hall
without charge, following rescind-
ment of the contrary rule by the
Board of Directors of the College.
The board’s action came after a
meeting with a delegation repre-
senting the student body and was
to house other federal agencies.
For Guests
tbody. The board took off the guest
charge only for the rest of this
year as a trial measure.
At the same time, a reduction of
2¢ per meal in mess hall charges
was authorized, reducing the stu-
dent meal costs from 23¢ to 21¢ per
of $16.20 per year for each stu-
joyously hailed by the student
dent eating in the mess hall.
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Placement Bureau
The Placement Bureau has re-$ably one who has operated a co-
ceived the following calls for men:
1. A mathematics teacher for a
‘Texas university; minimum educa-
tional requirement, master’s de-
gree; salary, $1800 to $2000 on 9
months’ basis.
2. Several young men who have
had adequate training in all phases
of hatchery operations to take posi-
tions as assistant hatchery men in
middlewest dairy and poultry
plants; salary, $25 per week.
3. A science and mathematics
teacher for a junior college in
Arkansas; position requires a man
with a master’s degree, major in
science and minor in math or a
major in math and a minor in
science; prefer a young man who
can make community contacts well;
salary, between $1400 and $1500
per year, 9 months.
4. A man who can qualify for
and has actually done the following
work: “Operating electrically-driv-
en refrigeration machinery; fami-
liar with details of butchering, cool-
ing, cutting, processing, packing,
freezing and storing meat, dairy
products and vegetables; prefer-
operative refrigeration storage
plant and has been responsible for
accounting and business success of
such an enterprise; of good health,
sympathetic with farmers and
their needs; preferably a Texas or
Oklahoma man.”
5. A nationally operating Oil
Field Equipment Company is want-
ing to get in touch with several
young engineers who are unem-
ployed or desire a change in em-
ployment. Salary and exact nature
of work not known, Mechanical En-
gineers or Petroleum Engineers
preferred.
6. Man approximately 30 years
of age for safely engineering work
in Texas. Must be registered in
one field of engineering. Salary not
known.
7. Electrical Engineer graduate,
approximately 30 years of age with
sales experience. Desired by na-
tionally operating electrical sup-
plies company for Texas and Okla-
homa territory. Salary not known.
Qualified and interested persons
should get in touch with the Place-
ment Bureau,
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VOL. XII
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, JANUARY 15, 1941
NUMBER 1
Aggies Beat Fordham Rams In Cotton Bowl Thriller
HEAD FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
JACK SHELTON, 17
Clyde Grissom
New President
San Tone Club
Clyde E. Grissom, ’27, was nam-
ed president of the Alamo A. & M.
Club at San Antonio at an election
just before the holidays. He suc-
ceeds Dr. W. B. Parsons, ’33. An-
nouncement of the new officers of
the club was made at the Alamo
A. & M. Club party in December
honoring Carl C. Krueger, ’12.
Also elected were O. W. Som-
mers, '29, vice president; Willis E.
Collins, ’29, secretary; and W. A.
lowe tor Ty aT Treaster:
President Grissom is associated
with Herpel-Gillespie Motor Com-
pany, 321 Broadway, San Antonio.
He has been an active member of
the club for sometime and has
previously served the club in other
capacities.
Vice President Sommers is an
engineer with the San Antonio
Public Service Company. Secre-
tary Collins is a sanitary engineer
with the City of San Antonio, and
Treasurer Howerton is with the
San Antonio Public Service Com-
pany.
The Alamo A. & M. Club has
worked out a program at which
meetings were held both at noon
luncheons and in the evenings. The
club is in excellent shape financial-
ly and has set an enviable record
along that line during the past sev-
eral years. In addition to Dr. Par-
sons, other retiring officers in-
clude, Albert E. Voelkel, 37, vice
president; Clyde Grissom, ’27, sec-
retary; and Wm. A. Howerton, 27,
treasurer.
Chesterfield’s
Free Offer Has
National Appeal
“Tobaccoland, U. S. A.”—
ably the most complete picture-
i aS
prob-
story of tobacco farming and cig-
arette manufacture ever publish-
ed—is offered free to the public
by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Com-
pany in its new Chesterfield Cig-
arette campaign.
"The new 42-page, 14-inch book
illustrates the growing, curing and
processing of tobacco, as well as
scenes from the typical life of the
Southern tobacco country, with
over 100 large photographs and
drawings and interesting story
captions. It is already in use by
7 colleges and libraries in many parts
of the country, and the public offer
has been made as a result of this
great demand.
Copies of the book will be sent
to individuals or groups on request
to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Com-
pany, 630 Fifth Avenue, New York,
N.Y.
The new Chesterfield campaign,
to appear in newspapers from coast
to coast, features such celebrities
as Ann Sheridan and Ellen Drew
of motion picture fame, Carol
Bruce of the New York musical
hit “Louisiana Purchase,” and
Mary Jane Yeo and Jo Ann Dean,
star skaters from “It Happens On
Ice.”
Imended for the appointment by a
4+ Jack Shelton, ’17 and Sterling C.4
Evans, '21, have been named re-
spectively general agent of the
Farm Credit Administration and
president of the Federal Land
Bank of Houston. Their election by
the Board of Direccors of the Farm
Credit Administration of Houston
followed the resignation of A. C.
Williams as president of the Fed-
eral Land Bank of Houston and as
general agent of the Farm Credit
Administration of Houston.
Shelton has beer serving as vice
director and state agent for the
Texas A. & M. Extension Service
and resigned from that position to
accept his new responsibilities.
His headquarters will be at the
Federal Land Bank in Houston
and he will have general super-
vision of the operations of the Fed-
eral Land Bank, the Intermediate
Credit Bank, the Bank for Co-
operatives, and the Production
Credit Bank. He is a veteran agri-
cultural worker in Texas. Prior to
coming to A. & M. as vice direc-
tor of the A. & M. Extension
Service, he served several years
as manager of the Luling Founda-
tion Farm at Luling, Texas. He
has also seen service as a county
agent and is himself a successful
and practical dairyman and breed-
er of Jersey cattle. He is a past
president of the American Jersey
Cattle Association. He was cadet
colonel of A. & M. in 1917.
Sterling C. Evans, ’21, has been
president of the Houston Bank
for Cooperatives, a division of the
Farm Credit Administration, since
1934. He was nanjed to that posi-
FCT inthe nev A Lae Sane
Club Agent of the A. & M. Ex-
tension Service. He went with the
Extension Service! after his grad-
uation in 1921. His home was at
Pearsall, Texas. He received his
degree from A. & M. in animal
husbandry and was a member of
the Ross Volunteers and active
in other student affairs.
Directors Name
E. N. Holmgreen
Business Manager
E. N. Holmgreen, ’22, adminis-
tractive office in charge of the
Agricultural Adjustment Adminis-
stration in Texas, was named bus-
iness manager of the A. & M. Col-
lege by the Board of Directors of
the College at a meeting in Dallas
E. N. Holmgreen, ’22
on December 31. Succeeding Holm-
green in the A. A. A. will be B. F.
Vance, 29, who has been serving
as assistant administrative officer.
Holmgreen will be the first bus-
iness manager of the College, fill-
ing a new position created by the
Board of Directors. He was recom-
sub-committee of the board headed
by Director A. H. Demke, of
Stephenville.
Holmgreen was graduated from
Texas A. & M. College in 1922, re-
ceiving a degree of Bachelor of
Science in agriculture. After two
years with a private concern, h2
became assistant county agricul-
tural agent in Dallas County. From
(Continued on page 4)
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STERLING C. EVANS,
Jake Hamblen
New President
Houston Club
“Jake” Hamblen, ’27,
was elected president of the Hous-
ton A. & M. Club for 1941 at a
meeting held during the Christmas
Holidays. He succeeds C. D. “Babe”
Watts, Jr., 26.
Other new officers include Claude
Everett, 20, vice president; and
J. Steve Cole, ’26, secretary-treas-
urer. Everett is head of Claude
Everett, Inc., well known contract-
ing firm of Houston, and Cole is
Grdrpresrhibetoaerrtm—of ble
plant of the Trinity Portland Ce-
ment Company.
“Jake” Hamblen is general man-
ager and one of the two owners of
the Southern Electric Supply Com-
pany, 1605 Preston Avenue, Hous-
ton. Formed shortly after the big
depression, the Southern Electric
Supply Company has enjoyed an
almost phenomenal growth and to-
day is one of the largest establish-
ments of its kind in South Texas. A
branch store is located at Austin.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamblen and their
two children live at 2120 Blodgett
Street. “Jake” has been an active
member of «the Houston Club for
many years and has previously
served the club as its secretary-
treasurer.
The Houston Club continues to
meet every Monday noon at the
Rice Hotel in Houston and extends
a warm invitation to visiting A.
& M. men to attend these lunch-
eons.
James =P.
Cadet Hitchhiker
Totes Live Turkey
For F.D.R.’s Xmas
Keys Carson, Texas Aggie Se-
nior from Cuero, who is called
the World’s champion hitchhiker,
added another accomplishment to
his hitchhiking laurels by deliver-
ing a grand champion turkey from
Cuero to President Roosevelt at
the White House during the Christ-
mas Holidays. Carson left Texas
on December 20 with the turkey
and hitchhiked to Washington,
where he turned the bird over to
the White House on December 24.
He traveled night and day but
stopped each six hours to take the
turkey out of its box for a walk.
The bird was in grand condition
upon its arrival at the White
House.
Carson has already hitchhiked
well over 202,000 miles and holds
several unofficial records. He has
hitchhiked from New York to San
Francisco in four days. Last fall
he bid the Aggie football team
good-bye at College Station when
they left for the U. C. L. A. game,
was on hand at Los Angeles when
they arrived, and beat them home
from the game. His hitchhiking is
done on a scientific basis and is
recorded in notebooks which he
carries with him. Through this
wneans of transportation, he has
been in every state in the Union
ard Mexico and Canada.
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Sa
ALTOS VVLL
BEFORE 45,000
the Aggie football team in a major
some first class rushing of similar
of victory.
It was a screwy game, with
Aggies were tired and jaded after
velous record.
First downs
Yards gained rushing (net)
Forward passes attempted
Forward passes completed
Yards by forward passing
Forward passes intercepted by
Total yards, all kicks returned
Opponents’ fumbles recovered
Yards lost, penalties
Yards gained, runback of intercepted passes
Punting average (from scrimmage)
‘(See Cotton Bowl, page 3)
"SOUTHWEST'S GREATEST TEAM
CLOSES CAREER WITH 13-12 WIN
RECORD CROWD
For the second straight year a one point margin brought victory to
bowl game, this time by a count of
13 to 12 against Fordham at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year’s
afternoon. Forty-five thousand spectators, all the big Fair Park Sta-
dium would hold, were on hand to watch the Cadets represent the
Southwest against one of the football powers of the East. Marion
Pugh’s successful place kick after
the second Aggie touchdown, and
Fordham kicks proved the margin
Fordham looking the better team
except for a six-minute splurge in the third quarter that accounted for
two touchdowns and the one point margin kick. The visiting Rams en-
joyed an edge in the statistics, their running attack looked better than
that of the Aggies, their line out-charged the Cadet forwards and
their ball-handlers couldn’t match the Aggies in fumbling. But when
the chips were down those Texans would not be beaten.
Although their play was disappointing the Aggie victory was
nevertheless another measure of the greatness of the outstanding team
of Southwestern Conference history. Any team that could still emerge
with a win in the face of its multitude of mistakes made during that
hectic afternoon is still a great team. There’s no question that the
playing 20 games in the past two
seasons with only the Thanksgiving loss to Texas to mar their mar-
Fordham A. & M.
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them all was organized before
Christmas in the back yard of the
home of W. M. Stafford, 01, Eagle
Pass. According to reports, it is
not only the youngest A. & M.
Club ever organized but one of the
most enthusiastic. The club re-
ceived no side line coaching and
was organized entirely upon the
initiation of its members.
Officers and members of the club
iriclude, Reggis Beavan, Jr., pres-
ident, age 12; Meban Stafford, vice
president, 12; Arthur Flores, sec-
retary-treasurer, 12; Bruce Thomp-
son, 14; Billy Howard, 11; Jerry
Grossenbacher, 12; Bubber Car-
son, 12; Charles Carson, 14; E. K.
Taylor, -Jr., 12; Billy Williams, 12;
Billy George, 13; and Jimmy Bea-
van, 9, members.
The following constitution was
written by members of the club
and unanimously ratified.
“This club was formed by boys
Youngest A. &. M.
Organized At Eagle
The youngest A. & M. Club of $times.
who will stick by A. & M. at all
Club Is
Its members are expected
never to double-cross A. & M., but
if a member should be a traitor to
this club or college, he will be
kicked out.
“There will be a president, vice
president, and secretary-treasurer
elected by voting by secret ballot.
Their term of office is six months
at the end of which will be held
another election of officers, Of-
ficers may be re-elected.
“The dues are 15¢ a month and
must be paid. The money will be
spent for entertainment and other:
purposes. :
“A member must not speak wher
another member is speaking unless
given special permission by the
president. A belt-line is the punish-
ment.
“This constitution may be amend-
ed. '
“A bill may be vetoed by the
president and it must then be pass-
ed by two-thirds of the members
before it becomes a law.”
The Guadalupe Valley A. & Ld
Club was organized at a meeting
held at the Manhattan Cafe at Vic-
toria on the evening of December
19. Membership of the club will be
composed of the A. & M. men of
seven counties, Victoria, DeWitt,
Jackson, Refugio, Goliad, Lavaca,
and Calhoun.
Nearly 100 A. & M. men, with
each of the above counties repre-
sented, were present for the or-
ganization meeting. The group in-
cluded men of all ages, with the
College represented from 1890 up
to the present time.
Cody Lentz, ’30, of Victoria, was
elected president of the club. Joe
I Linebaugh, ’38, was named vice
president; W. H. “Bill” Kelley,
R. F. Blackwell, of Cuero,
treasurer.
The board of directors for the
club consists of one representative
from each county and is as fol-
lows: Victoria, W. K. “Bill” Hol-
leron, ’29; DeWitt, Newton Smith,
’38; Jackson, T. K. Watterson, ’31;
Calhoun, R. R. Nelson, 38; Goliad,
Howard Ramsey, "21; Refugio, Har-
ry Nelson, 25; and Lavaca, Bill
Allen, ’40.
At the organization meeting, it
was decided that the club would
hold £our meetings each year. Ob-
’30,
’37, secretary, both of Victoria; and
Guadalupe Valley Club Formed:
Lentz, sPrexy - Meets Next at Cuero
bjectives of the club were declared
to be the furtherance of interest in
Texas A. & M. College in the
Guadalupe Valley Area, in creating
a friendlier spirit among citizens
in the various towns in that area,
and in keeping alive the fraternal
spirit and the loyalty of A. & M.
men.
The next meeting of the club
will be held at Cuero in March,
at which time motion pictures of
some of the football games of the
past fall will be shown.
17, and Sterl-
ing C. Evans, ’21, in recognition of
their advancement to the positions
as heads of the Farm Credit Ad-
To Jack Shelton,
ministration and Federal Land
Bank in Texas. With all its divi-
sions the Farm Credit Administra-
tion in Texas is the State’s largest
financial institution. The selection
of Shelton and Evans by the direct.
ors of the Administration, and their
approval by Washington authori-
uates.
ties, is high tribute to Texas A. &
M. as well as to two of its grad-