Published Weekly by the Students’ Association of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
VOL. XXXI.
BRYAN, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 27, 1923.
NUMBER 20
LARGE EXHIBIT
OF LIVESTOCK
TO FORT WORTH
MAJOR GENERAL
LEWIS PRESENTS
COMMISSIONS
Seventy-Eight Head of Livestock
to be Shown at the Fort oWrth
Fat Stock Show.
123 Commissions Presented at Fit
ting Exercises in Guion
Hall.
COMMANDER OF EIGHTH CORPS
AERA INSPECTS A. AND M. CADETS
Major General Lewis Visits College on February 21 and 22 to In
spect Military Affairs of Institution and to Deliver
Address at Holiday Ceremony.
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In the hopes of duplicating last
year’s feat of winning the majority
of the coveted livestock honors at the
Southwestern Exposition and Live
stock Show at Fort Worth the Animal
Husbandry Department of the Col
lege is fitting the best individuals of
its herds of horses, steers, sheep, and
hogs for the coming show in March-
The Dairy Husbandry Department
now under the direction of an ex
perienced commercial breeder and
show man of the Great Lakes dairy
ing district and equipped with a num
ber of new individuals which he select
ed from northern prize winning herds,
and brought south with him last fall,
will also enter the competition for
honors and prizes this spring, which
will enlarge its fame in livestock
breeding.
All together the College will send
a total of 78 animals to Fort Worth.
These will be divided as follows: 19
steers, 35 hogs, 7 horses, 9 sheep and
8 dairy cattle. While in number this
exhibit is a little smaller than the one
sent last year, it cannot be said of it
that it is smaller in potential win
ning strength. Less honor in the
show ring will mean not lower quali
ty in the animals but stronged compe
tition. For among the number of
animals that have already become fa
miliar in the show ring. Of the steer
herd seven are individuals that swept
the field of prizes at the American
Royal Livestock show at Kansas City
and at the International Exposition
and Livestock show at Chicago last
fall. Only one animal of the herd
that was exhibited at these national
shows is missing from the number
that will be taken to Fort Worth, and
that is Tierra Alta II, the Angus
steer that was champion of both
shows, who was sold at Chicago. The
eight animals exhibited by the College,
seven of which will be taken to Fort
Worth, won more premiums at the
International than the herd of any
other exhibitor.
Due to the fact that the Fort Worth
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Washington’s Birthday;—a day set
apart as a tribute to the Father of our
country—will long be remembered by
the cadet corps of 1923. With the
corps assembled in Guion Hall, Ma
jor General E. M. Lewis, Commander
of the Eighth Corps Area, made the
commemoration address and presented
commissions to the cadet Senior of
ficers.
General Lewis opened his remarks
by praising the cadet corps for its
fine upstanding type of manhood and
its excellent military showing in spite
of adverse weather conditions during
his short visit. The College is in
deed to be proud of this praise com
ing from a man of such note and a
man of high scholarly and military
attributes. He next took up the na
tional defense policy and showed the
part the R. O. T. C. has in it. Wash
ington urged a strong policy of na
tional defense, he said, notwithstand
ing that we call him the Father of
our Country and respect his as such,
we have consistently failed to follow
his advice. Every war has found us
unprepared. At present the United
States has three lines of defense: the
regular army, the national guard and
the organized reserves. As a result
of the reduction of the regular army
more importance is placed on the R.
O. T. C. for it is by this method that
we get officers to train the mass of
citizens which will form the army in
case of war.
With these stirring words ringing
in their ears, and with a broadened
vision of their influence and duties,
the cadet officers went forward and
received their commisssions. Colonel
C. C. Todd, professor of military Sci
ence and Tactics, called the names of
the officers and presented them in
grade, beginning with the Cadet Col
onel, to General Lewis, who handed
each man his commission.
Thus ended the exercises which fit
tingly commemorated the birthday of
the Father of Our Country—Georfge
Washington, soldier and citizen.
FIRING COMPETI
TION PROMOTED
College Rifle and Pistol Teams Bring
Organized. Matches to be
Arranged.
Competitive firing with both rifle
and pistol as a form of sport will be
more prominent at the College this
year than in years past according to
plans being made at this time. A
rifle and pistol match with the Ninth
Infantry at San Antonio has already
been agreed upon and practice will
soon begin for these matches Major
W. H. H. Morris stated yesterady.
Other matches are expected to be ar
ranged later.
The College gained much publicity
throughout the United States last
spring by defeating the rifle team of
the Ninth Infantry in a match shoot
on their own range at Camp Bullis.
Practically all of the men who
composed the team sent out by A. and
M. last year are not in school this
year but it is expected that they can
be replaced this spring with others
equally as good.
Of the eleven men who composed
the team that went to San Antonio
last year only three remain in school
today. They are A. L. Parke of Dick
inson, H. G. Johnson, of Chickasha,
Oklahoma and Z. Smith of San An
tonio.
The College did not shoot a com
petitive pistol match last year but
there was some good practice work
done and there is a wealth of good
material available for traniing.
Captain J. O. Tarbox will coach the
rifle team and Captain F. J. de Rohan
will probably coach the pistol team.
Chase-Lister Stock Company at the
Palace presenting “The Naughty
Bride,” a comedy; Tuesday night, and
“Over the Hills” Wednesday night.—
Adv.
Major General E. M. Lewis, com
mander of the eighth corps area, ar
rived at College last Wednesday af
ter.joon for thf^urposcy..>f inspecting
the Cadet Corps. General Lewis was
received with full military ceremony
on his arrival. President W. B. Biz-
zell. Colonel Ike Ashburn, Colonel C.
C. Todd and his staff of regular army
officers greeted the distinguished vis
itor at the train. He was also wel
comed with martial music by the Ag
gie Band, with the salute of thirteen
3-inch field pieces, and was escorted
to the residence of Colonel C. C. Todd
by troop A Cavalry under the com
mand of Cadet Captain L. H. Wood.
A review was scheduled to be held
Wednesday afternoon, but on account
of the rain was postponed till the
next morning at which time it was
held, but under very adverse condi
tions of weather.
In beginning his address in Guion
Hall last Thursday morning after the
review of all units on the drill ground
and concluding his second day of in
spection of the military affairs of the
institution, General Lewis paid the
Texas A. and M. cadets the compli
ment of being the best exponent of
the United States Government’s new
policy of training reserve officers. He
expressed great persoal pride in hav
ing under his command in the eighth
corps which is the largest in the
United States in both territory and
personnel, the leading senior reserve
officers training corps unit in the
country.
He said credit for the splendid mil
itary asset which the A. and M. Col
lege was, was due to the fact that
the cadets were thoroughly imbibed
with President Bizzell’s sense of the
value of a military reserve force.
And he recognized the merit of the
military instructors in his additional
statement that as long as that spirit
was injected in the training course
the government would continue to
keep on duty here the best staff of
army officers in its service.
Following his address General
Lewis awarded the cadet commissions
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