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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1944
—Y.M.C.A.—
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the English department, acted as
v secretary from September 1919 to
June 1920. He was succeeded by
1 J. E. Lewis who had been in
France during the World War and
who served for one year at A. &
M. He resigned to accept a secre
taryship in a city association.
Dr. L. G'. Jones was appointed
general secretary in June 1921 and
served until January 1923 at which
] time he resigned to attend Cornell
] where he received his doctor’s de-
] gree in agronomy and is now a
j member of the A. & M. College
; Faculty.
Rev. W. H. Matthews succeeded
: Dr. Jones in January 1923. He was
a Presbyterian minister and re-
his work in the ministry.
M. L. Cashion was appointed
secretary September 1, 1926. In
September 1928 the services of J.
Gordon Gay were secured and in
September 1940 Alfred C. Payne
was added to the staff. Gay is a
graduate of University of Ala
bama, of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate
School of Nashville, Tenn., and has
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a masters degree from Vanderbilt.
Alfred Payne is a graduate from
Clemson College and did special
work in Yale University. Payne
has a leave of absence and is now
somewhere in Europe as a 1st lieu
tenant in the army.
During this period since 1926
seventeen Aggies have served as
presidents of the Y.M.C.A. Cab
inets and about four hundred have
been members of the cabinets and
chairmen of committees. Frank
Leslie of Dallas served two years
as president of the cabinet 1926-
27 and 1927-28. The follbwing men
have been presidents of the Cabi
net:
Dave Hardin, Terrell, 1928-29; A.
P N McDonald, Leasville, La., 1929-
30; David Sherrill, Kerns, 1930-
31; Isaac Corns, Harlingen, 1931-
32; Percy Sharp, Mooringsport,
La., 1932-33; Robert Porter, San
Antonio, 1933-34; Kirk Monier, San
Antonio, 1934-35; Carter Speed,
Kerps, 1935-36; Jeff Horns, Dallas,
1936-37; Dick Powell, Dallas, 1937-
38; David Thrift, San Antonio;
Earl Aldrich, San Antonio, 1939-
40;Preston Bolton, College Sta
tion, 1940-41; Fred Smitham, Dal
las, 1941-42; Albert Smith, San
Benito, 1942-43.
Eben Junkin (resigned) Wich
ita Falls, 1944.
Outlook Bright for
Poultry Raisers
When hogs are fed on three-
minute eggs and French fried po
tatoes, it’s time to check up on the
livestock feed and production situ
ations, Charles N. Shepardson told
visitors to the A. & M. College
poultry short course Thursday.
More than 100 feed men, hatch-
erymen and poultrymen and wom
en were in attendance at the
meeting during which various
problems were discussed. Ross
Sherwood of the Experiment Sta
tion and Prof. D. H. Reid conduct
ed the meeting, which included a
luncheon at the Parker dining
room.
Use of deflourinated rock phos
phate to supply phosphorus, made
necessary in poultry rations due
to the shortage of bone meal, was
advocated for growing chicks, but
tests have not been conducted long
enough to advise it for laying hens.
No hope of a solution to the corn
shortage, short of imports from
Argentina, or a new crop, was seen
by the feed men.
The national poultry conserva
tion movement was successful for
the first time in 16 years in re
ducing mortality in the laying
house three per cent last year, it
was reported. Hens laid more eggs
last year than any previous year
in history, it was said.
Poultry raisers have been asked,
as a feed conservation move, to
reduce laying hens of the nation
from 572,000,000 to 450,000,000
during the coming year.
Progress is being made to sup
ply analyses of the amino acid con
tent in all proteins used for live
stock feeds, and the day may come
when poultry raisers will buy feeds
for the amino acids they contain
rather than the percentage of pro
teins in the various mixtures.
Speakers questioned the wisdom
of shipping eggs from New Eng
land states to Texas, the second
largest egg producing state in the
Dr. Fountain Of
EnglishDepartment
Is Father of YMCA
During its history of thirty
three years the Y. M. C. A. of
A. & M. College has progressed
under the shadow of a personality
nation. When the New England
eggs arrived they broke the egg
market in Texas and the result was
a 20 per cent reduction in sales of
Texas hatcherymen, while in the
New England areas from whence
came the eggs hatcherymen in
creased their sales over last year’s
figures.
Increased quality of Texas tur
keys has gone a long way in wip
ing out the price differential for
merly made against this fowl on
Eastern markets, and the outlook
for the Texas turkey industry is
very bright, it was declared.
A poultry and livestock nutrition
conference is being planned by the
college and dates will be an
nounced, as a result of a meeting
held during the afternoon in. the
offices of Prof. Reid.
Some men are said to have a
checkered career. Then there are
others whose careers seem to be
pokered.
who was instrumental in organiz
ing it and in raising the funds
for the present building, Dr. C. P.
Fountain, who was formerly head
of the English Department.
The original plans of the first
committee set up in 1910 was to
organize a Y. M. C. A. and to
erect an Alumni-Y.M.C.A. build
ing. Dr. Fountain was a member
of the original Alumni Committee.
When the Y.M.C.A. was chartered
in 1911 the alumni as such with
drew and the Y.M.C.A. Board was
formed with Dr. Fountain as
chairman. It was under his leader
ship that the present building was
finally finished. The raising of
$65,000.00 in those days was an
undertaking of faith, and hard
work. Most of the subscriptions
were small and time and patience
were required in collecting the
pledges. It is interesting to note
that in the first efforts of the
campaign the student body sub
scribed $10,000.00, the famulty
$5,000.00 and the citizens and bus
iness of College Station and Bryan
subscribed $10,000.00. Over a period
of years these people were solicited
the .second time and new students
added to the original amount of
student subscription.
In spite of the fact that many
times construction work on the
building was at a standstill for
lack of funds the entire structure
is one of the most substantial on
the campus. The brick work both
inside and outside is as near per
fect as is possible to make it. Dr.
Fountain had an artist’s taste
which he put into the construction
of the building as he slowly but
surely raised funds for its com
pletion. There is not a building
on the campus that has as strong
a foundation as does the Y.M.C.A.,
nor is there one that has more
perfect masonery both in durability
and in artistic finish.
To any one who learns the story
of Dr. Fountain’s sacrificial efforts
and who looks upon the structure
that he built will be revealed the
true worth of his character in that
no matter how hard the going nor
how difficult the task he never
substituted good for the best.
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