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■THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER W, 1940
Government Program Of Using Cotton
For Bagging More Cotton Cuts Surplus
One good way for reducing the-* all wrapped in cotton.
Former President of A. & M.
Succumbs in New York City
cotton surplus is in bagging cot
ton. The program for using cotton
in its own production, is a plan
being carried out by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The program is designed to en
courage use of American grown
cotton for cotton wrapping or bag
ging. A normal crop of cotton in
the United States would require
the use of about 135,000 bales in
the bagging program if it were
A maximum of a million wrap
pings will be used for the current
year’s crop and the six manufact
urers who have received contracts
will get payments of 25 cents per
wrapping to offset losses from
small volume.
The cotton bagging was first
tried in 1938, when less than 17,500
bales were so covered. In 1939, the
number of bales of Jexas cotton
covered with cotton patterns rose
to 233,976.
Dr. David F. Houston, LL.D.,
educator, cabinet member, and bus
iness executive who died in New
York Monday, September 2, was the
eighth president of Texas A. & M.
College, coming to the college from
the University of Texas in 1902,
succeeding President L. L. Foster,
who died in office in 1901.
Prof. R. H. Whitlock served as
acting president from December,
1901, until the following summer
when Dr. Houston was appointed.
Prior to his assuming the position
of president of Texas A. & M. he
had been professor of political sci
ence and economics at the Uni
versity of Texas from 1892 until
his resignation in 1902.
He remained at Texas A. & M.
during the three school years from
1902 to 1905 and resigned to re
turn to the university as its head.
After three years there he again
resigned to become chancellor of
Washington University in St. Louis,
Mo., and remained there until he
was called into President Woodrow
Wilson’s cabinet in 1913 as Secre
tary of Agriculture, which position
he held until 1920 when he suc
ceeded William Gibbs McAdoo as
Secretary of the Treasury. He re
mained as head of the treasury
department until the end of Wil
son’s second administration when
he went to New York to begin his
long association with some of the
largest business organizations in
the country.
In the History of the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of
Texas, written in 1935, Clarence
Owsley had this to say of Dr.
Houston.
“President Houston’s adminis
tration was the third notable epoch
in the history of the College. The
first was the organization and
the beginning of technical educa
tion following the removal of the
first facult. The second was the
Ross administration which estab
lished public confidence. The Hous
ton administration raised the stan
dards of scholarship in the faculty
and the entrance requirements of
student to real college grade. Pio
neering was past; the time had
come for thoroughness, for expert
ness, for scientific knowledge and
skill of the highest order. Himself
deeply learned, he had the scholar’s
respect for real learning and his
contempt for false pretense. More
over, he had a philosophy of edu
cation which comprehended tech
nical as well as academic training
for life, and with this fine intel
lectual equipment he had the cour
age both to plan a larger sphere
of usefulness for the College and
to insist upon execution by those
charged with the responsibility and
by Legislature in furnishing the
means through State appropria
tions.
“In his first report to the Board
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‘Wildlife’ Has New
Meaning, Says Taylor
The term “wildlife” has taken on
a new meaning to the American
public, according to Dr. Walter P.
Taylor, head of the department of
fish and game. Only a short time
ago, according to Dr. Taylor, the
term “wildlife” was greeted with
a smile by individuals or groups
before whom some wildlife mana
ger or naturalist might be speak
ing. Today, the term stands for a
very definite idea in conversation
and, as one of the government of
ficials recently put it “the livest,
most widespread, and perhaps the
most socially significant activity
in the field of American biology
today is the technology known as
‘wildlife management’.”
The potential wildlife resources
of Texas are so vast that this
statement is particularly true for
our state, Dr. Taylor holds. In
former years Texas had a great
number of wild game species in
cluding the buffalo, the pronghorn
ed antelope, the Texas grizzly and
several varieties of white-tail as
well as mule deer and an abundance
of fishes, furs and small game.
Wildlife technology had its ori
gin in the search for better meth
ods of game restoration on private
estates. It has been very largely
taken over, however, by at least
four federal agencies—Forest Ser
vice, Soil Conservation Service,
Tennessee Valley Authority and the
Fish and Wildlife Service. It is
being given increased emphasis by
state agricultural colleges, state
game departments and the other
state conservation agencies.
Among the federal organizations
the Fish and Wildlife Service is
recognized as the wildlife arm of
the executive branch of the gov
ernment, and its research, admin
istrative and other related activi
ties have been helping to build
wildlife resources for 65 years.
Within our own state the Texas
Fish, Game and Oyster Commis
sion, the Agricultural and Mechan
ical College, Texas Wildlife Fed
eration, The North Texas State
Teachers College, The Sam Hous
ton State Teachers College and
many other institutions and pri
vate organizations are vitalizing
and contributing to the wildlife
conservation program.
Of special interest is the work
of the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
of Directors, submitted on Sept.
22, 1902, he remarked that serious
work of the college had been ham
pered by large numbers of imma
ture students sent to the college
for domestic convenience and not
for technical training. He caus
ed the minimum age limit of en
trants to be raised to 16 years and
their scholastic requirements to be
broadened. As a consequence he
noted a ‘slight decrease in attend
ance at the opening of the session
but a marked improvement in the
quality and attitude of the student
body.’
“Several vacancies in the facul
ty had been caused by resignation
during the preceding session and
the Board, on recommendation of
President Houston, had called men
of proved scholarship and training
so that the administration was
greatly strengthened in this re
spect.”
It is interesting to note that
some of the faculty appointed at
this juncture in the institution’s
march of progress still remain as
members of the present staff, and
include Dean E. J. Kyle, Dr. O. M.
Ball, Dr. C. B. Campbell, J. B.
Bagley, Alva Mitchell, and Dr. R.
P. Marsteller, dean of the School
of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. F. E
Giesecke is the only other mem
ber of the present staff who was
a member of the faculty during
President Houston’s term of of
fice.
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