Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOL. XXVIII
BRYAN, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 13, 1929.
NO. 9
WALTON URGES INVESTIGATION
ROSS VOLUNTEER
ELECTION HELD
Company’s Quota Complete With
Addition of Juniors.
The Ross Volunteers held their
Junior election last Sunday after
noon in the Physics Lecture room,
taking in fifty-two new men. This
completes the Company’s quota of
125 active members and drill will
start sometime in the early spring.
Those elected were: W. R. Swank,
Wills Point; C. L. Williams, San
Antonio; E. D. Giffen, San Antonio;
E. M. Moore, Houston; J. D. Har
rington, Plano; F. S. Buford, Dal
las; G. R. Bryant, Temple; C. Her
der, Jr., Weimar; W. L. Combest,
Olton; D. P. McNeel, San Antonio;
J. A. Cotton, Abilene; T. B. Bag-
ley, College Station; J. L. Hawley,
Dallas; W. C. McGee, Jr., Dodge
City; S. E. King, San Antonio; J. G.
Floyd, Rosewood; R. H. Stiteler,
Smithville; R. E. Denison, Temple;
J. B. Fitzpatrick, Sweetwater; J. H.
Conway, Bryan; E. N. Strieker, Wa
co; T. S. Jobson, San Marcos; R. N.
Winders, Houston; H. F. C. Rumfelt,
Dallas; T. A. Henderson, McKinney;
K. W. Tottenham, Brenham; I. D.
Breedlove, Houston; M. C. Todd,
Austin; J. E. Connell, Gilmer; W. T.
Askew, Ft. Worth; C. A. Tracy,
Houston; H. A. Lang, Dallas; E. E.
Roberts, San Antonio; R. A. Wood-
all, Celand; A. R. Stark, Groveton;
G. H. Bigham, Ft. Worth; R. D.
Hardcastle, Houston; P. J. Sloan,
San Saba; T. K. Watterson, Bas
trop; L. T. Burns, Yoakum; R. M.
Welch, San Antonio; E. B. Laughlin,
Houston; R. L. Herbert, Lufkin; M.
Sessions, Austwell; H. A. Pendleton,
Wichita Falls; V. A. Vaughn, Ver
non; J. L. Horsac, West; J. C. Gil
breath, Port Arthur; E. C. Brum-
leu, Houston; M. G. Perkins, Mt.
R. L. McAlpine, Dallas, and W. Me.
Evoy, Houston.
Rev. J. B. Gleissner, chaplain of
the Catholic group at A. and M.,
accompanied by six students, L. B.
Howard, T. C. Frol, V. T. Kallus, J.
J. Janak, J. A. Revak, W. H. Car-
sons, and N. J. Yentzen, attended
the Gulf District Newman Club
meeting at Southwestern College,
Lafayette, La., as delegates from
the local group last week.
Delegates attended the meeting
which opened Friday morning and
closed Sunday, from the state col
leges and universities of' Florida,
Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas.
Stock Judging Team
Begins Contest Trip
Six members of the Texas Aggie
international livestock judging team,
accompanied by their coach, A. K.
Mackey, entrained early Wednesday
morning for Fort Worth enroute to
Chicago where they will participate
in the International Livestock Con
test November 30.
The six members of the team are:
J. W. Greenwade, Whitney; R. W.
Howe, Seymour; Geo. E. Love, Jr.,
Del Rio; K. E. Simank, Ellinger; J.
E. Tatum, Dublin; and M. D. Lacy,
Marble Falls.
The team planned a practice work
out in Fort Worth for Wednesday,
and Thursday are to enter the con
tests of the National Livestock
Farm at Wichita, Kansas. Friday
they will visit a number of out
standing livestock farms at Kansas
City and Lee’s Summit, Missouri,
according to the program arranged
by the Chamber of Commerce at
Kansas City for the A. and M. team
and the teams of several other col
leges.
The Kansas City A. and M.' Club,
John Mayo, president, will take the
team in charge Friday night, and
Saturday they will enter the contests
at the American Royal Livestock
Show, Kansas City, where they will
stay a few days.
They will visit Iowa State Univer-
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DEBATERS MEET
FOR DISCUSSION
Seeking to destroy the prevalent
opinion that A. and M. students are
unable to reason, the candidates for
the A. and M. debating team dis
cussed among themselves last night
the proposition: Resolved, that a
Department of Education should be
organized with a secretary in the
President’s Chamber. The affirma-
time was upheld by W. O. Alexander,
Gulf; W. A. Porter, Terrell; and
G. H. Norman, Kaufman. The neg
ative was composed of S. C. Leslie,
Houston; H. M. Secord, Millican;
and Davis from .
The debate was described by Pro
fessor C. O. Spriggs as unusually
interesting and the debaters them
selves as “promising.”
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Announces WTAW
Radio Programs
Brief talks on agricultural topics
of timely interest combined with
music by the A. and M. 100-piece
band will feature programs for the
winter over Station WTAW, the
A. and M. College of Texas radio
broadcasting station, Dr. E. P. Hum
bert, program director, has announc
ed. Under present arrangements the
A. and M. station is giving three
daily programs a week, on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, from 11:50
to 12:20 (noon). One night program,
largely musical, is given on Wednes
day night, from 8 to 9, every week.
On Sunday mornings, from 11 to 12,
convocation services, at which an out
standing speaker appears every Sun
day, are broadcast.
The performance of the A. and
M. band given on the Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday daily programs,
is broadcast from the campus where
the band plays for mess formation
for the cadets.
C. M. Bowden, senior electrical en
gineering student, of Granbury, is
assisting in the announcing. H. C.
Dillingham, of the college, supervises
the operation of the station, assisted
by T. L. Hiner, senior student, also
from Granbury.
Station WTAW is a 500-watt sta
tion with frequency of 1120 kilo
cycles and wave length of 267.7
meters.
MEMORIAL SERVICE
HELD FOR CADETS
The memory of fifty-two A. and
M. men who died with the colors
during the world war was fittingly
commemorated Monday morning at
special Armistice Day services held
at Guion Hall. As W. A. Porter, Ter
rell, read the name of each of the
fifty-two, D. C. Lentz, Red Rock,
rose and responded with the words,
‘Dead on the field of honor.” Ren
dition of “Silver Taps” followed.
The ceremony opened with the A.
and M. Orchestra playing “The Star
Spangled Banner,” followed by
‘America.” Cadet G. H. Norman of
Kaufman recited “In Flanders Field”
and “America’s Answer.” W. O.
Alexander of Gulf, delivered the pa
triotic address.
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PAID ATHLETICS
CRITICIZED IN
S. W. CONFERENCE
Findings of Institute Prove Startling
to Public.
In view of the uncovering of sub-
sidation in athletics through an in
vestigation by the Carnegie Insti
tute of Teaching, and in appreciation
of the statement by the investiga
tors that the furthering of this in
vestigation could be realized only
through the initiative and individual
efforts of the various college and
athletic conference officials. Dr. T.
O. Walton has expressed his earnest
desire th^.t athletics of the Southwest
conference be rigidly investigated
and that any of the undesirable ele
ments found through such an in
vestigation be made public and erad
icated.
It is in the realization that au
thorities, not ever-present during ath
letic arrangements and manipulation,
are unable to know everything which
exists in the athletic department;
and in the desire, stimulated by his
deep interest in everything concern
ing A. and M. in particular and
necessarily the Southwest Athletic
Conference in general, to learn of
any such existing qualities, that he
urges the completion of the investi
gation initiated by the Carnegie In
stitute.
Such an investigation could be
conducted by the recently formed
Association of Texas Colleges which
is composed of the presidents of the
five athletic conferences in Texas
with the president of the Southwest
conference as its head.
The revelation of the prevalence
of subsidation in athletics has not
affected the institutions involved as
much as the Carnegie report would
infer, it seems, but since conditions
exist which seem repulsive to many,
it should be the immediate action of
S. W. Conference officials in clear
ing this matter up and sustaining
the present high basis upon which
college athletics is placed.
O. B. Martin, director of the Ex
tension Service, H. H. Williamson,
vice-director and State Agent, and
Miss Mildred Horton, State Home
Demonstration Agent, left the ear
lier part of last week, for Chicago,
to attend the annual meeting of the
Land Grant College Association which
is to be held from November 12th,
to November 14th.