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    THE MrmLIEN
Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M. College Of Texas
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VOLUME XXX
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 23, 1932
NUMBER 25
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FROM COT
Ex-Commandant
Guest Speaker
Speech and Writing
Contests Announced
At Class Banquet Open To Fish-Sophs
TfflTHIX
ELIGI8LE FOR
Livingston Girl Chosen For
Bride’s Part Of Ceremony
In Cotton Show.
Col. Ashburn Tells Juniors
How To Combat Mental
And Physical Fears.
Two Games Billed Cage Awards Made
For Beaumont This At Team Banquet
Week-end On Coast Captain Is Elected
PECfilf SHORT
Members of the Junior Class
were honored with a banquet Mon
day evening in the banquet room
of the mess hall by Doctor T. 0.
Annual P. L. Downs Speech
Contest For All Upperclass
men Due In May.
Student speakers and writers
will be given an opportunity to
prove their ability in May when
^ _ the department of English holds
A display of bride s costume and ;-yy a ^. on , p^gj^g^ 0 f ^] ie College, 1 several contests for Sophomore
and by the Y. M. C. A. Guest and Freshman students. Also dur-
speakers of the evening were Col- ing this time, the P. L. Downs
her complete trousseau, all made
of cotton, will be the feature of
the exhibition preceding the Cot
ton Ball to be held Friday night,
April 1st, in the mess hall.
Miss Justa Peters of Livingston,
and Tom Drew, also of Livingston,
have recently been chosen repre
sentative bride and bride-groom in
the exhibit by the students of the
Agronomy Society.
Bride Wears Cotton
The bride will wear an expensive
wedding dress, made entirely of
cotton material, which has been
furnished by the Textile Institute
of New York, while her ladies-in
waiting will be presented wearing-
dresses which are symbolic of her
trousseau, also made of cotton, and
furnished by the Textile Institute
of New York and by local stores of
the state.
Varied Program
The events for the evening,
which will be open to everyone are:
a banquet in the mess hall at 6:30
one! Ike Ashburn, former comman
dant of the College and Professor
R. M. Hughes, president of Iowa
University.
Colonel Ashburn gave a helpful
message on how to cope with phy
sical and mental fear, the enemy of
the man who comes in contact with
Oratorical Contest open to all stu
dents will be held.
Prizes offered in the speech con
tests include an award of $25 cash
offered to the winning sophomore
by 0. W. Sherrill of Georgetown,
and a $15 cash prize to the Fresh
man winner, presented by Dr. Geo.
Last Nou-Coitference Games Seven Letters And Numerals
Election Of Valedictorian. Will
Be Held By Senior Class
Monday Night.
Scheduled Before The Be
ginning Of The Conference
Season.
Awarded To Players; Moody
Elected Captain For Next
Year.
the business world for the first Summey, Jr., of the Department of
I time, and was enthusiastically re- English.
I ceived by his audience. President j Preliminary contests for the en-
rlughes commented on ihe SP' 1 '^ grants of the Sophomore and Fresh-
at A and M and upon the courteous man speech events will be held in
attention he had received while on April, followed with the Contest
the campus. .f or Sophomores at a date which
At a meeting of the Junior Class will be definitely announced lat-
immediately after the banquet, it er. The Freshman contest will pro-
was decided that the class banquet bably be held within a few days of
would be held the same night as the other class event.
j The first series of practice
games for the champion Aggie
Of the list of twenty-six eligible | baseball nine is scheduled with the
for the valedictory honors of this Beaumont Exporters of the Texas
years graduating class, T. E. Den- League playing hosts in their own
man, Jr., student of Agricultural | “back yard” on Friday and Satur-
Education from Brownwood leads day afternoons of this week,
with 324 grade points to his credit, ; While this will be the first series Aggie basketball teams last v r eek
statistics compiled this week from of non-conference practice tilts, it! „ . . p , ,. .
the registrars office show. This fig- will also be the last before the con- . am a 6 ea ’ 6 g
ure is taken from a list of appro- —
ximately 350 grades of seniors, and
includes only those that have as
many as 200 grade points to their
“T” awards were made to sev
en members of the Aggie varsity
basketball team and an equal num
ber of freshman numerals were
presented, along with the election
of Joe Moody, forward from Cor
pus Christi, as team captain for
1933 at a banquet in honor of the
Agriculture Department Hold
ing Three Day Session For
Agriculture Specialists.
the Junior Prom, June 3rd. Detail
ed arrangements for the orchestra
and program will be handled by
committees, which will be appoint
ed this week.
Contestants planning to enter
the Downs Contest will have their
event early in May, C. O. Spriggs,
incharge of the contest announced
Wednesday. This contest is open
“It has been rumored that sev- to all students excepting freshmen,
eral Eastern orchestras are to The winner will receive a gold me-
(See COTTON on page 2)
Fifty-Four Attend
Student Volunteer
Meeting Last Week
P. A. Sharp Elected Treasurer
Or Organization For Next
Year.
i make a tour of the South this
spring,” said R. E. O’Connell, sec
retary and treasurer of the class,
“and an attempt will be made to
engage an orchestra of renown and
national recognition.”
The Student Missionary Confer
ence of the South Texas Union of
the Student Volunteer Movement
held this past week-end on the A
& M campus was judged a success
by the fifty-four delegates who
represented six schools in the state.
The conference started with regis
tration on Friday afternoon and
ended with a meeting in the Y M
C A Chapel at eleven o’clock Sun
day morning.
Dean Charles E. Friley, of the
school of arts and sciences, deliv
ered the welcoming address at a
banquet Friday night in the ban
quet room of the college mess hall.
After the dinner, Paul Porter, stud
ent secretary of the League of In
dustrial Democracy, spoke on “The
World Situation Today That Chall
enges Christian Students.”
Saturday morning was filled
with worship, addresses, and round
table discussions by all members
present. Saturday afternoon the
missionary play “Ba Thane” was
presented by delegates from the
Injuries Darken
Hopes For Aggie
Track This Year
Addicks Pulls Leg Muscle In
Competition Saturday Af
ternoon; Will Be Out
Over A Month.
For
dal, offered annually by Colonel P.
L. Downs of the class of ’79, of
Temple.
Writing contests will be open to
all Sophomores and Freshmen this
term. The contest for second year
students will be offered to the writ
er of the best book report or term
paper, written in either of the So
phomore English courses. First
prize will be $25 cash offered by
William Morriss of Dallas.
A similar contest for Freshmen,
for a cash prize of $20 offered by
Dr. J. Allen Kyle of Houston, class
of ’90, will be conducted at the
same time. It will be awarded the
writer of the best long paper en
rolled in English 104 this term.
That Aggie jinx, injuries and
sickness, again prevails in the
midst of the spring track season,
tearing down new-born hopes that
perhaps Aggieland would again be
represented by a strong aggrega
tion of track and field men. Hopes
ran high when untried material
came through in a most convincing
manner during practice periods.
Perhaps the most trying and dis
couraging of these injuries was
when G. R. Addicks, La Grange,
fast dash and relay man, pulled a
muscle that will probably keep
him out of competition for at least
a month, which will materially
weaken the apparently strong re
lay team.
Doped at the beginning of the
season to finish far down the line,
Coach Anderson took the best he
had and has developed it into well
University of Texas in the Asbmy j b a i ance( ] team with few if any
outstanding men. One of the most
encouraging moments of the past
Room of the Library. In the even
ing all those attending the confer
ence were entertained with a bar
becue supper by the College YMCA
Cabinet at the “Y” Cabin.
At the business meeting of the
conference on Saturday afternoon,
the following were elected officers
of the South Texas Union of The
Student Volunteer Movement for
the coming school year; Lillian
Gorzycki, Southwestern University,
president; Clarence Pearson, Uni-
evsrity of Texas, vice-president; P.
A. Sharp, Jr., Texas A and M,
Mooringsport, Louisiana, treasur
er; and Ilice Lio, Sam Houston
State Teachers College, secretary.
week w r as when T. W. Akins, Fort
Worth, surprised the coach and
probably himself also, by running
the quarter mile in 50.6 seconds.
Aggies Tie Score
In Ten Inning Run
with Houston Team
j credit.
Elect Monday Night
Luther Bell, president of the Sen
ior Class stated Wednesday after
noon that the election of the class
valedictorian would probably take
place next Monday evening at a
called meeting in the
Hall.
The complete list of those eligi
ble for Valedictorian is: C. E. Bee
son, St. Louis, Mo., (210%); Luther
Bell, Hereford, (237%); M. L.
Benke, San Antonio, (248%); L.
M. Cook, Dallas, (229%); W. M.
Curtis, Covington, Okla. (227%);
G. W. Davis, San Antonio, (228%);
M. L. Denman, Brownwood (200);
T. E. Denman, Brownwood, (324);
and Geo. Fix, Dallas, (236).
E. P. Fortson, Ashville, S. C.
(203); O. T. Halliday, San Antonio,
(223) ; W. B. Hemphill, Gainesville,
(277); C. W. Herring, San Antonio,
(203) ; J. E. Hurley, New Orleans,
La., (276); M. D. Jackman, Fostor-
ia, (202); M. P. Kelsey, Deport,
(204) ; B. D. Lee, Nixon, (211);
F. B. Lester, New Orleans, La.,
(224) ; and T. S. Lighthouse, San
Antonio, (204%).
E. K. Moody, Tlahualilo, Mex.
(237); C. C. Nash, Dallas, (247%);
C. A. Rechenthin, Waring, (259);
E. A. Stobart, Orange, (210); J.
B. Turner, Longview, (214); R. J.
Van Roeder, Jr., Yorktown, (233%)
and B. N. Young, Stephenville,
(202%).
ference race begins April 2, with , , ,, , . ,
a o 1,t , , . . m, tt, tt and pencil set as the captain s
A & M entertaining T C U’s Horn- , . T ,
, „ Tr , , award g-ilt and Joe Merka was
ed Frogs on Kyle f.eld. , roted the most va]uabIe p!ayer for
Shows Fielding Power which he was given a bronze statue
Some idea of both the hitting land desk set. Both of the latter
and fielding ability of the team l gifts were made by the Aggieland |
may be had after the two games Pharmacy, with Mr. Lipscomb as
with the Exporters, for the Texas
Leaguers boast a fast hard-hitting
team possessing a vast amount of
potential power which is likely to
Assembly 18'ive the Aggie fielders plenty of
work.
Two pitchers who lettered last
the donor.
Of the seven lettermen Captain
Beard of Fort Worth, was the only
member of the team to gain a
third “T” in basketball. Lester
“Squawk” Veltman, San Antonio;
Joe Moody (Captain elect), Cor-
year, “Bob” Scheer of Marshall and ! pus Christi; and Clarence “Bull”
Freddie Marshall Shaw of Ennis, Marcum, Estelline; won their sec-
will be available but as yet only ond letter, while Joe Merka, Bryan;
A short course in pecan growing
for farmers, county agents, and
teachers of vocational agriculture
will be held here March 29, 30 and
31. The purpose of the course is
to assist those interested in the
pecan industry in coping with the
problems incident to budding,
grafting, top-working, insect con
trol, and other phases of this work.
The course is open to all persons
interested in pecan work.
The instruction work of the sec
ond annual short course will be
under the supervision of Dean Kyle
and he will be assisted by Dr. S.
W. Biising, Professor F. R. Brison,
Professor O. S. Gray, and J. F.
Rosborough. A small registration
fee will be charged those who en
roll and certificates will be issued
to those who satisfactorily com
plete the course.
Scheer is slated to see service due
to Shaw’s wrist injury.
Moon and Fischer, both soph
omores and freshman numeralmen,
will probably bear the brunt of the
burden in the pitching assignments
for this week end.
Line-up For Game
The starting line-up will prob
ably resemble very closely the one
which opened against the Southern
Pacific nine last week. It consists
of Garvey, catcher; Weber, first
base; Davis, second base; Carpen
ter, third base; Mitchell, shortstop;
Crozier, left field; Veltman, center
field; and Andrews, right field.
Several utility men will be carried
making the total up to around
eighteen on the trip.
Reveille Starts
Next Friday A. M.
S M U Music
Dean Speaks
Here Monday
and J. E. “Jocko” Roberts, Terrell;
lettered for the first time. Fresh
man numeral men are Tommie Hut
to, Coahoma; W. B. Brezeale,
Crockett; T. H. Terrell, El Paso;
Joe Bisbey, Houston; J. C. Greg
ory, Tyler; M. L. McNeeley, Bryan;
and R. E. Connelly, Fort Worth.
History Journal
Accepts Work of
Local Professor
Debaters Argue
With Centenary
SMU And Florida
No Decision Event Held Tues
day Night On, Centralized
Industrial Control.
Translation, Of Bulgarian Ar
chive By Prof. Sugareff To
Be Printed In Professional
Magazine.
Darkness Calls Game With
Score Tied As Mitchell Is
Thrown Out Attempting A
Steal.
Orders issued this week by the
j Commandant’s Office will start re
veille for the rest of this term
next Friday morning it was learn
ed this morning. A change in the
I order of calls will also be effected.
Ten innings were not sufficient
to decide a listless opening ball
game between Coach Higginboth
am’s champion Aggies and the
Southern Pacific semi-pro nine of
Houston, and darkness intervened
to end the affair at an 8-all dead
lock, Saturday afternoon on Kyle
field.
Many Hits
Beginning Friday March 25th,
the following schedule of calls will
be effective:
1st Call, Reveille, daily except
Sunday and holidays 6:15 a.m.
Reveille 6:25 a.m.
Assembly 6:30 a.m.
Recall from Reveille
Mess call, breakfast
Notice was received yesterday
from the editor of The Journal of
Modern History that a translation
of “The Constitution of the Bul
garian Revolutionary Central Com-
Social Science Seminar Bring- mittee” by Professor V. K. Sugar--
eff of the History department, had
ing Dean Y an Katwijk Here been accepted for publication. Pro-
For Lecture-Recital. fessor Sugareff found the consti
tution while he was working in
the Archives of National Renais-
Dean Paul von Katwijk of the sanc e in the National Library at
Southern Methodist University’s ; Sofia, Bulgaria.
School of Music will give a lecture- translation by Professor Su-
recital at Guion Hall on Monday 8 ar eff disproves a common belief
evening, March 28, at 8 o’clock un- among the writers of Modern Eu-
der the auspices of the Social Sci- ropean History texts that the Bul-
ence Seminar. Since 1919 Mr. von 8 ai 'i a n Revolutionists had no defi-
Katwijk has been Dean of the nite P lan in liberating their father-
6:35 a.m. School of Music at S. M. U., com- land from the Turkish rule. The
6:55 a.m. ing there from Drake University translation is literal in form and
The A & M affirmative debate
team composed of D. L. Tysinger,
Garland, and I. A. Handler, Gal
veston, met the University of Flor
ida debaters on Tuesday night in
the Asbury Room of the Library.
The question chosen for debate
was that of the Pi Kappa Delta
for the current year, Resolved that,
“Congress Should Enact Legisla
tion to Provide for the Centralized
Control of Industry.” The debate
was a no-decision affair.
The same team returned from a
j trip to Shreveport ajid Dallas early
this week after meeting teams
from Centenary and S M U. The
debate with Centenary was a no
decision one but A and M was
awarded the decision in the argu-
| ment with the SMU debaters.
Friday night, March 18, A. C.
! Moser, Jr., Dallas, and B. M. Gott
lieb, Corsicana, who make up the
negative debate team for A and
M were defeated by Milton Mehl
and Regan Sayers who represent
ed T C U on the Pi Kappa Delta
! question.
Assembly 7:00 a.m. a t Des Moines, Iowa. follows the original closely. Throu-
The change in the schedule which For five years Dean von Katwijk translation, Professor Sugareff
usually is made earlier in the was the conductor of the Dallas ma kes available to Scholars of Eu-
spring, was late this year because Municipal Chorus, and for three ro P ean History an important docu-
Frequented by miscues and ex
tra-base clouts by both teams, scor
ing was rather free throughout the
struggle, and only by a freak play
with the bases loaded in the ninth
did the Aggies manage to eke out
,,,, , , , , a tie with the railroaders. Three
Although not closely approach- , „ , ,
, ,, , „ „„ „ home runs and five triples were
mg the pole vault record ot 13 feet among the , ong hits ot the after .
of unusual weather for this season
of the year. Last year the change
was made on the fifteenth.
and three-quarters inches set by
Harry Stitler, Smithville, in 1931,
J. G. Hester, Gulf, numeralman,
bettered all his previous trials by
clearing the bar at twelve feet. In
another part of the field B. M.
Irwin, Kosse, also a numeralman,
threw the discus 150 feet, a feat
that will list him as among the
contenders for first place in con-
Retiring officers were David ference competition.
Minter, University of Texas, pres- ij^g ggQ y ar( ] r un was further
ident; I. C. Corns, Harlingent, Tex- strengthened by the return of W.
as A and M, vice-president; Lynn g Nance, Lometa, last year let-
Brown, University of Texas, treas- terman, who was recently declared
urer; and Owen Hutchinson, Uni—.
versify of Texas, secretary. (See INJURIES on page 2)
noon. Errors totalled ten for the
visitors, and six for the Aggies.
S. P. Scores In First
Southern Pacific started hostil
ities early in the games when they
scored twice on a walk, a triple
and a single in the first inning.
The Aggies, not to be outdone, re
taliated with three tallies on one
hit, two walks and an error by the
opposing shortstop, and to make
matters worse for the railroad nine
the Aggies counted again in the
second and third inning to mount
(See TIE SCORE on page 2)
Fish Nine Play
First Game With
Cameron Friday
Thirty-one Men Working For
Position On Team; Much
Progress Shown.
ment concerning the Bulgarian re
volution of 1876 which brought on
the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-
1878.
years he conducted the Dallas Male
Chorus. Under his direction the
first Municipal Opera was success
fully produced in Dallas, “The Tal
es of Hoffman” by Jacquez Offen-
| back. A year later, on May 5, 1924
he produced the opera “Carmen”
by George Bizet at the Dallas Col
iseum.
Mr. van Katwijk was born in
Rotterdam, Holland, and began his
musical studies at the age of six. !
In 1904 he graduated from the Roy- The Universitv of Texas - swim .
al College of Music, The Hague, ming team uphe j d their reputation
Holland, as a pupil of Call Ober- 0 f jj e j n g strongest team to be
stadt in piano, Laurent Angenot offered in the Southw e st conference
in violin, Henri Vollmar in theory, for several years by defeating the
and Dr. Henri Viotta in ensemble Aggie team 64 to 20; in the Long _
E. E.’s Hop Friday
Tops Long List Of
Dances For Spring
Steers Win Pool
Meet With Heavy
Scoring Saturday
and orchestra. He spent three ho ^ s pool at Austin ; Saturday,
years in Berlin and Vienna under
Leopold Godwsky and was award-
The Aggie freshman baseball ; ed a free scholarship in the master
squad, coacher by Captain E. L.! school of piano playing of the Roy-
Lyons, will open their season Fri- 1 al Academy of Music in Vienna,
day against the Yoe high school j On tour with the famous Bel-
(See FISH on page 2)
(See MUSIC on page 2)
The Texas aquatic stars literally
walked off with the field, winning
first place in nine out of the ten
races, the only one they lost being
the 100-yard breast stroke in which
R. R. Osburn of the Aggies was
first.
Dancing* season will soon be in
full swing with the coming of
spring. Almost every week-end is
devoted to Terpsichore, with a few
exceptions, till the close of the
school year.
The Electrical Engineers have
their annual dance Friday, March
25, which will be followed by a
coi-ps dance on Saturday. Friday
April 1, is the date for the Cot-
ton Ball, which will be also fol
lowed by a corps dance on Satur
day night, April 3. The Engineer
Corps will have their annual Ball
Friday, April 15, with a corps
; dance on the next night.
R. V. week will be the date for
three consecutive dances, on Thurs
day, Friday, and Saturday nights,
April 21, 22, and 23. The Saddle
and Sirloin Club has selected Fri
day, May 6, for its dance day, to
be followed by a corps dance Sat
urday.
CORPS DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT