VOLUME XXX
THE E/Xri/XLItS
Published Weekly By The Students Of The A. & M, 'ollege Of Texas
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MAY 25, 1932
NUMBER 34
Cotton Winners, Plans, Complete
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Senior Class Honors Commandant
Class Pays Attribute At Banquet To Live Stock Show J
Colonel Nelson For Five Years Here Will Be Staged
At College—Dr. Marvin Graves Talks By A H Seniors
CALLED FOR
In appreciation of the five years of service at this college
as commandant, the Senior Class paid a tribute to Col. C. J.
Nelson in a banquet Monday night presenting him with an
engraved silver serving tray. The presentation was made
by cadet colonel A. C. Moser of Dallas.
Further commenting on his work here, President Walton
stated, “To show how capably Col. Nelson has handled his
task records reveal that no other man has served as many
as five consecutive years in the office of commandant.”
Replying to the occasion, Col. Nelson stated, “It’s about
the finest thing that has ever hap-* -
pened to me, and boys, I’ll never
forget you and my five years here
which have been the happiest in
my life.
“The only thing that bothers me
is what am I going to do next.
I’ve either been so darned good or
so damned poor that they don’t
want me anywhere else. However,
I assure you that I certainly have
enjoyed working here with you and
I feel very sorry for the one that
will follow me here.”
Following the presentation, Dr.
Walton introduced the speaker of
the evening, Dr. Marvin L. Graves
of Houston. He spoke at length on
the parts of the body, and how
each builds up the spirit of the
whole structure. “As a physician,”
he said, “let me admonish you to
watch your health. The human
body reaches maturity at about
twenty-five years of age, and the
mind reaches maturity at about
fifty years of age. The body, then,
is the home of the spirit and
should be kept on a firm founda
tion to accomplish its task.’ ’
The meeting was presided over
by Luther Bell, president of the
class.
New Officers Of Saddle And
Sirloin Club To Be Intro
duced At Show.
Case Will Be Put In Rotunda
Of Main Building.
Seeligson Judged Three Students Will Tour
Winner of Soph Cotton Cities of America
And Europe During Summer
Speech Contest
Winner Receives Twenty-Five
Dollar Cash Prize.
New Yell Leaders Will Be
Made Public Thursday Eve
ning.
Davis and Irwin
Given Valuable
Player Awards
Davis Finishes Season With
Good Records; Irwin Out
standing In Track.
The Seniors will get their last
injection of the Aggie spirit while
students when the corps gathers
on the “Y” steps next Thursday
night for the final yell practice
called by newly elected yell leader
Tommie Goodrich.
This yell practice will mark the
end of the careers of a number
of men as backers of the Aggies,
and the corps, out of respect to
these men, is urged to attend.
According to Tommie Goodrich,
Marlin, chief yell leader elect, a
number of important announce
ments are to be made. As yet,
Goodrich has not divulged the per
sonnel of his staff for 1932-33,
but he promises to have them pres
ent and will announce them to the
corps.
Goodrich stated that his policy
in conducting the yell practice next
year had not been definitely plan
ned, but that he would follow a
plan very similar to that of his
predecessors.
Senior students in Animal Hus
bandry will stage their annual
livestock show Friday afternoon,
commencement week, in the A. H.
Pavilion. The program will start
at 1:30.
Short talks on the classes of
livestock to be exhibited will be
given at the beginning of the pro
gram and the show will be closed
with an introduction of the new
officers of the Saddle and Sirloin
Club who will assume their duties
next year.
Official presentation of all the
awards won by students in con
tests sponsored by the A. H. de
partment and in contests held in
various other places will be made
by Dean Kyle. All senior awards
are given by the Saddle and Sir
loin Club and the sophomore and
junior prizes are given by the Pal
ace Theater, Haswell’s Book Store,
J. C. Penny, Caldwell’s Jewelry
Store, Campus Cleaners, Uniform
Tailors, Campus Shoe Shop, Zubik’s
Tailor Shop, and D. W. Williams
of the A. H. Department.
Installation of the Senior Class’
parting gift to the college, a case
to house A and M’s trophies, will
begin the last of this week. Theo
Voss of the Voss Ornamental Iron
Works, San Antonio, will arrive
Thursday to supervise the installa
tion of the case in the center of the
main building rotunda.
The case, which was designed by
S. C. P. Vosper of the College Ar
chitects, is octagonal in shape, nine
feet high, and set on a stone base
eighteen inches high. It will be
lighted electrically from the inside,
and the entire case is highly orna
mented. The approximate cost of
the case was set at three hundred
and fifty dollars.
New Members “Y” Cabinet
New members for the 1932-33
Y M C A Cabinet were elected from
nominated underclassmen last week.
They are as follows: sophomores
Cochran, W. B., Schumpert, M. C.,
Harbin, A. L.
Freshmen Sluggers
Close Season With
Win Over Giddings
Jack Mooty, Ft. Worth, Stars
In Closing Game.
Aggies Lose Last
Game As Longhorns
Win Championship
Six Men Close Season Split-
ing Series With Steers.
Palace Theater
Announces New
Trophies given yearly to the
most valuable player on each A and
M athletic team were presented to
Walter E. “Sweetie” Davis, Fort
Worth; and B. M. “Honk” Irwin,
Kosse; as the most valuable men
on the baseball and track teams,
respectively this season. These
trophies have been a yearly cus
tom since their establishment in
1930 and are given in all four ma
jor sports—football, basketball,
track, and baseball.
Davis, with a hitting average of
.320 for the season and a fielding
average of .924 was easily the
mainstay in the Aggie line-up. He
finished his career in the game
against the Longhorns in Austin
Saturday. Two letters in football
have been won by him also.
Irwin easily is the most out
standing track star to compete in
an Aggie uniform in many years,
with his discus throwing and shot
putting. His best mark of the sea
son in the shot-put is 50 feet and
one inch, which is more than two
feet farther than the present con
ference record. Irwin’s winning the
“most valuable” player award is
the second time this year a soph
omore has won this honor. Joe
Merka, Bryan, was first when he
was selected as the most valuable
man on the 1931-32 Aggie basket
ball team.
Stipulations concerning the award
make the team captains ineligible
(See DAVIS on page 4)
A band of weary Aggies failed
Summer Prices 1 ^ fi " <1 th ' slan ‘ s ° £ charley w i"-
ton, Longhorn hurling ace, m the
final scrap of this season and “Un
cle” Billy Disch gathered in his
nineteenth flag as the Aggies took
a 11-4 lacing from the hustling
, j rn. ^ i Steers. The win over Coach Hig-
theater, has announced. The fol- i . , ^
, . . ^ 'gmbotham s hopefuls was neces
sary to the Longhorn nine since
the former had taken a 12 to 9
Beginning Sunday, a new sum
mer price policy will be effective
at the Palace Theater in Bryan,
Morris Schulman, manager of the
lowing are prices for shows this i
summer: all week-day matinees be
fore 2 o’clock, twenty-five cents;
from 2 to 5 p. m. thirty-five cents;
and all night shows forty cents;
Sunday matinee, thirty-five cents.
This summer policy will afford
the people of Bryan and College
an opporunity to see the latest
shows for a greatly reduced price.
“The picture show in the summer
is the ideal place to find comfort
in the hot weather, and the same
standard of recent pictures give
unparalleled entertainment,” said
Schulman in his announcement.
Led by Jack Mooty, star curve
ball artist from Ft. Worth, and
paced by several consistent slug
gers, Coach Earl L. Lyons’ fresh
man baseball team brought their
season to a successful close when
they defeated the Giddings High
School nine 11 to 0 and 11 to 2 last
week on the Kyle field diamond.
This double win enabled the
freshmen to close the season with
a percentage of .861, winning nine
and one-half games out of eleven
played. Their only setbacks were at
the hands of the strong Blinn Col
lege team from Brenham. The
Blinn team tied the freshmen 6 to
6 in an eleven inning framed af
fair one afternoon, but soundly
beat them the next with a score
of 10 to 5.
Several men have been outstand
ing throughout the season. Prob
ably the most outstanding was
Mooty who pitched the entire sea
son with only a tie with that
against Blinn to mar a perfect
record. Particularly encouraging
was the fact that there were sev
eral consistent hitters with more
than just the average ability.
(See SLUGGERS on page 4)
H. G. Seeligson, II, Dallas, a
member of Battery E, Field Artil
lery, was named winner of the an
nual Sophomore Speech Contest
held in the Assembly Hall the eve
ning of Thursday, May 12. As win
ner he received tlie twenty-five dol
lar cash award offered by Owen
W. Sherrill, class of ’10, and presi
dent of the City National Bank of
Georgetown.
Seeligson spoke on “The Income
Tax as a Source of State Revenue.”
Other contestants and the titles of
their speeches were as follows: V.
A. McCollough, Houston, “Cancer,
a Social Menace”; H. N. Irvine,
Fort Worth, “Truth and Progress”;
and G. K. Ashby, Evansville, Ind.,
“Lysozyme.” Cadet Colonel A. C.
Moser, Jr., debate medallist 1931
and 1932, presided.
Student judges for the contest
were B. M. Gottlieb, Corsicana; I.
A. Handler, Galveston; J. F. Hil
liard, Rosebud; G. E. Schunior,
Edinburg; and H. G. Stromberger,
San Antonio.
Battery E boasts winners of the
three major speech contests of the
year. J. W. Wells, Aransas Pass,
was winner of the Eighth Annual
P. L. Downs Oratorical Contest
and D. L. Tisinger, Garland, was
the recipient of a ten dollar cash
prize offered by Dr. George Sum-
partment, to the best freshman
mey, Jr., head of the English De
speaker.
Winners in the first A and M cotton contest who, as
recipients of prize awards offered, will visit American and
European cotton centers this summer, were announced Fri
day by Professor J. S. Mogford of the agronomy department
as follows: J. O. Beasley, Wells; T. M. Drew, Livingstont
and H. B. Horn, Spur. Beasley made the highest general
average of any competitor in the contest.
Immediately after graduation, the three winners, all
senior agricultural students, will leave on a trip of inspection
to continue their study of cotton in its various phases. Mr.
^Mogford, associate professor of
agronomy in charge of cotton pro
duction, who advanced the idea of
the cotton contest and was chair
man of the contest committee, will
direct the tour. Mi's. Mogford will
accompany him. Curtis Vinson, di
rector of publicity of the college,
will go with the group to write a
series of articles on conditions in
the cotton industry as observed on
the tour.
The contest, held this year for
the first time, was originally de
signed to be of material benefit
to industry through emphasizing
the need of a more thorough knowl
edge of cotton in all its phases,
including production, marketing
and manufacturing. The scope of
the contest is expected to be en
larged by the knowledge of the in-
The summer session of A and M j dustr y S ained b y visiting the lead-
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College Faculty Will Be Sup
plemented With Two Teach
ers For Education Depart
ment.
Twenty-Eight Get
Letters For Work
In Track Baseball
‘T” Award Made To Fifteen
Trackmen And Thirteen
Baseball Players.
decision on the previous day, leav
ing the Owls of Rice Institute a
mathematical chance at the title.
The apparently dormant willows
of the Aggies in games previous
to the one Friday, came to life
so consistently did they gather in
base-blows that even the all-con
ference Taylor could not silence
them, and was retired to the show
ers in the early innings.
“Bugga” Moon, the Aggie soph
omore who boasts of the lowest
earned run average of any A and
M pitcher this year, tossed well
for six frames, in the opener, but
left the hurling duties to Freddie
Marshall Shaw at the start of the
seventh. Sixteen base-knocks were
garnered by the Aggie sluggers.
F, J. Kana, La Grange, was chos- „ Bob „ Scheerj noncha i ant Aggie
en president of the Newman Club,! curve ball artist) faced Charley
an organization for Catholic stu- Winton Qn the mound in the second
dents, at its final meeting for the affah . for fiye innings after which
year in the club room of St. Mary’s he was replaced by “Bugga” Moon
Chapel, Sunday, May 15. Other for a pair of stanzaS) only to re _
officers for the 1932 ’33 session are, turn to the hmock in the eighth
T. M. W eaver, Dallas, vice-presi- for the remainder of the game .
dent; H. G. Seeligson, Dallas, sec- Scheer was not successful in re-
retary; E. O. Wurzbach, San Anto- tiring the Steers with eaS6j but
nio, treasurer; R. E. O'Connell,
W T aco, social secretary; and J. L. ! (See AGGIES on page 4)
Kana Chosen By
Catholic Students
For Newman Head
Fish Trackmen
End Season In
Defeating Owls
Numerals Awarded Eighteen
Members O f Freshman
Track Team.
The strongest freshman track
and field team to represent A and
M in recent years and probably the
strongest aggregation ever to com
pete in first year competition clos
ed its season last week by defeat
ing the Rice and Texas freshman
team in a telegraphic meet. The
Aggie fish garnered 63% points
by taking eight first places. Texas
was second with 48% followed by
Rice with 44 points.
They took three and four first
The coveted Aggie “T” has been
awarded fifteen members of the
Aggie track team and thirteen
members of the baseball team for
the 1932 season just closed. Fresh
man numeral awards went to ten
freshman baseball players and
twenty freshman track men.
Varsity letters in baseball were
awarded to George Carpenter,
Houston; Pete Crozier, Ft. Worth;
Walter Davis, Ft. Worth; Arthur
Fischer, Cuero; Captain-elect Bob
Garvey, Livingston; Andrew Golas-
inski, Houston; Ike M. Loewen-
stein, Ysleta; Joe Miller, jr., Prince
ton; W. W. Mitchell, Longview; W.
T. (Bugga) Moon, Holland; Bob
Scheer, Marshall; F. M. Shaw, En
nis; Captain Lester (Squawk) Velt-
man, San Antonio.
The varsity “T” in track was
awarded to T. W. Akins, Ft. Worth;
O. L. Billimek, Poth; H. Fuentes,
Saltillo, Mexico; Jack Hester, Gulf;
B. M. (Honk) Irwin, Kosse; Jack
Kohler, Palestine; J. H. Lightfoot,
Rockdale; George Lord, Jourdan-
ton; Salvador Marquez, Yorktown;
Sam McCluney, Waxahachie; Joe
Merka, Bryan; Captain Percy
Mims, Ft. Worth; Tom Morris, For-
reston; Melton Smith, Sulphur
Springs; Dave Wingo, Wills Point.
Freshman numerals in baseball
were awarded to E. H. Bobbitt,
Hillsboro; W. B. Cochran, Houston;
R. E. Connelley, Ft. Worth; T. L.
Hutto, Coahoma; J. T. Jones, Bel
ton; Jake Mooty, Ft. Worth; C. M.
College will open June 7 with a
few additions to the teaching staff,
a change in the duration of classes,
and an outlined program of enter
tainment for the sessions.
In addition to the regular mem
bers of the college faculty teach
ing during the summer session, Mr.
J. C. Webb, assistant director of
j Houston high schools, will be on
| the staff of the department of
Rural Education for the first term.,
and Mr. J. P. Buck, superintend
ent of schools at Harlingen, for
the second term.
In an effort to make the class
work in summer school as thorough
as in the regular session, class
hours have been lengthened so that
the student will spend as much
time in the class room in summer
j school as he does in the regular
sessions.
To accomplish this the class
schedule is as follows:
First period: 7:30 to 8:45.
Second period: 9:00 to 10:00.
Third period: 10:00 to 11:15.
Fourth period: 11:30 to 12:30.
In registration there will be an
optional fee to cover entertain
ments. Strickland Gillian, nation
ally known humorist, will give an
address on the campus about June
16 and a week later Mr. and Mrs.
Glen Wells and company will pre
sent a three act play, “Let’s Go
Somewhere.” In addition to this
there will be the regular assembly
hall shows.
Definite assignment of halls for
the summer sessions has not been
announced yet but there will be
separate dormitories for men, wom
en, and married couples. Miss Era
G. Pierce, supervisor of rural
schools at Sulphur Springs, will be
in charge of the gilds dormitory.
ing milling centers in this and
European countries.
The first phase of the tour will
be an automobile trip through cot
ton producing sections of the
South. The group will visit Green
ville, Miss., New Orleans, Clemson
College and commercial mills in
South Carolina; Washington, D. C.,
(See COTTON on page 4)
Intramural Awards
Given Tuesday To
Wrestling Victors
H. D. Fool And H. C. Smith
Only Repeating Winners;
Ellis Wins Heavyweight.
Gershowitz Chosen
President Of Hillel
Club For Next Year
(See TRACKMEN on page 4) ,(See TWENTY-EIGHT on page 2)
Walter Gershowitz, Hillsboro,
was elected president of the Hillel
club at a meeting held Sunday af
ternoon in the Asbury room of the
library. Gershowitz served as vice
president of the club for the past
year.
Other officers elected at the
meeting were Max Bordenstein, of
Donna, Vice-president, Silas Hoef-
fler, Tyler, Secretary, and Albert
Handler, Galveston, Publicity di
rector.
Seven wrestling champions were
crowned Tuesday, May 23, as in
tramural wrestling came to a close
with the final bouts. Only two men
from these, H. D. Pool, Troop A
and H. C. Smith, Battery F, were
repeating winners from their
weights last year.
Peter Ellis, D Infantry, took over
the heavyweight honors by down
ing J. G. Cooper, Battery F, in
five minutes and twenty seconds
in one of the toughest bouts of
the finals. For the first five min
utes, the match was a draw, both
men taking turns on getting ad
vantage, Ellis finally getting a
hold that enabled him to pin Coop
er to end the match.
In the other weights, only tivo
were won by falls, the others be
ing won on decision. J. W. Craven,
B Engineers, pinned G. H. Draper,
I H Infantry, in a close match after
over seven minutes of wrestling
to win the 145-pound class. In the
115-pound class, W. B. Hinkley,
A Engineers, downed R. D. Valle,
Battery F, in a little over three:
minutes to win the championship.
The results of the other matches,
winners of each being determined
by decision were: 125-pound class,
H. D. Pool, Troop A, won from G.
Naggi, B Engineers; 135-pound
class, H. C. Smith, Battery F, won
from E. C. Roberts, Troop A; 160-
pound class, L. C. Roots, C Engi
neers, won from T. R. Qualls, A
Coast Artillery; and 175-pound
class, T. E. Sargeant, Battery F,
won from J. E. Caswell, B Coast
Artillery.