CLARENCE CHANCY HUDSPETH.
To Hondo, Tex., queen city of the
land of cactus bushes and greasers,
has befallen the honor of giving to
A. & M. this year’s captain of Com
pany “K,” Clarence Chancy Hudspeth
by cognomen.
Hondo provided well for Clarence
in his younger days, for the founda
tion of his present education was ob
tained at the Hondo public schools.
With the idea of being a preacher,
Clarence decided that the Hondo
High was not broad enough and
switched his affiliation to Wesley Col
lege of Terrell. (By the way, Wesley
is a co-ed prep school and the tales
Clarence tells of “my prep school
days” will excite tire envy of any
ladies’ man.) After leaving Wesley,
Chancy entered A. & M. and was as
signed to “C” Company, which at that
time was an extremely “peppy”
bunch, and the effect on Hudspeth
was so great that he still possesses
a certain degree of meekness. Next
year he was a private in Company
“C” and also a member of the famous
“466” organization. The year follow
ing he was a sergeant in the same
company, and this year he is our il
lustrious captain of “K” Company.
CLARENCE CHANCY HUDSPETH,
Captain of Company “K.”
“C. Ci” (another cognomen) is
taking E. E., but is more than a mere
follower of Steinmetz and “Doc” Bol
ton, for he has several well-developed
theories of his own pertaining to
electrical phenomenan. He ranks
near the top in all his studies.
“C. C.” is president of that club
from coyote land, or rather sand,
known as the Southwest Texas Club.
He is also an assistant editor of the
Long Horn, a member of the Senior
election committee, a member of the
A. I. E. E. and a member of the Y.
M. C. A. cabinet.
His strongest characteristic is
sticking to what he thinks is right.
He certainly follows out David Crock
ett’s saying, “Be sure you are right—
then go ahead.” This quality and his
past record make us wonder, as Prof.
Chastain so often does, “what’s going
to come from him?”
LADIES TO HAVE MITCHELL HALL
Lieutenant Hill has given out the
information that Mitchell will be the
hall turned over to the ladies during
commencement.
JOBS ARE NOW SCARCE
IN SAN FRANCISCO
Danger signals are being flashed to
young people bound for the Panama-
Pacific Exposition without money,
friends or definite positions, as noted
through the Survey Press Service. To
show that warning is needed, the
American Social Hygiene Association
points to a report indicating that
there is much unemployment in San
Francisco and calls attention also to
the city moral conditions, which give
cause for anxiety.
A survey of unemployment of
women in San Francisco has just
been completed by the California
branch of the Association of Col
legiate Alumnae. According to a re
port based upon this survey, there
has been a large increase in the num
ber of applications for positions,
while in no established business has
there been discovered an increase in
the number of positions available.
At the exposition alone the manager
of the employment bureau reported
to the investigators that there were
on file in his office December 7 be
tween 90,000 and 100,000 applications
for positions. Of these, between 9,-
000 and 10,000 are applications of
women. But the number of positions
for women to be filled directly by the
exposition authorities is not more
than 1,000. The exhibitors, boTii Na
tional and State, supply their own
employes, most of whom are brought
from the home locality of the exhibit,
so that this sourse of employment
proves to be limited.
Employment bureaus are crowded
with applicants. One, for example,
which has kept statistics for 1913,
stated that 1,978 applications were
received for three months, September
to November, 1914, as compared with
824 in 1913, while the number of
places filled in 1914 was only 217.
Factories, department stores and
offices also have an oversupply of la
bor according to the study made by
the Association of Collegiate Alum
nae. One store reported a daily ex
cess of twenty applicants over this
time last year. A second has receiv
ed 177 requests for work made from
October 24 to December 4, of which
110 were made by Easterners who
applied in person, showing that these
women were on the ground and job
less. Another very large department
store had so many inquiries about
employment that they mailed a letter
to applicants advising them to keep
away from San Francisco.
Similarly, a firm which hires cleri
cal workers is sending out word to
its branch offices all over the country
that “We have received information
from our branch offices in California
to the effect that there are between
15,000 and 20,000 unemployed sten
ographers and office assistants who
are destitute. All charitable institu
tions and organizations are over
whelmed with the relief work neces
sary to take care of these people;
therefore we would request that you
inform those who expect to go to
California of the exact state of af
fairs.”
Especial warnings have been sent
out against the moral dangers. There
has been a startling multiplication of
dance halls and a general expansion
of the “segregated districts.”
The exposition authorities, who
wield the greatest influence in the
situation, have made themselves re
sponsible for moral conditions inside
the exposition grounds by pledging
themselves repeatedly and publicly to
maintain satisfactory conditions for
visitors and to co-operate with pro
tective organizations. The mayor has
given many general assurances of
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his intention to maintain order and a
high standard of public morals.
Social and civic organizations, Na
tionally as well as locally, are fully
alive to the city’s moral dangers.
Their work is difficult at best, but
every addition to the number of
young people coming to the city with
out money or very definite assurance
of employment makes the problem
increasingly serious. The News has
been urged to repeat this information
at this time.—Dallas News.
AUSTIN LIT. ELECTS OFFICERS.
Monday night, at its last meeting
for the year, the Austin Literary So- |
ciety received two new members and |
elected officers for 1915-16. The of- j
fleers elected were: A. Dickie, presi- j
dent; R. W. Stiles, vice president; j
H. A. Jopling, secretary and treas- ;
urer; W. R. Nisbet, critic, and J. D.
Brown, sergeant at arms. The so
ciety now has about twelve under
classmen in its membership.
Ernest Gibbens, ’14, now of the
Alabama Experiment Station, spent
the week-end on the campus.
NEW BOOKS FOR M. E. LIBRARY.
The M. E. Department has just re
ceived about one hundred new books
for the library. Some are standard
reference books, while others are for
popular reading. They are all up-to-
date in every respect. The library
is open to everyone and all students
are urged to use it freely.