The Utah State Quarterly, Vol. 6 No. 3, February 1930

February, 'Volume

'The Campus in Winter

~

1930

'N..._umber 3

\"( _:- .•---········--------iiiiiiliiiii_____

~"'~ . oo \'-- > c

•

~

AGGIES' NEW LIBRARY

~

.lllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllll t lll 1 11111111 11 1111111111 11111Ullll11111!11111111lllUllllllllllUlllUllllll1llllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllUllllllllllllU llUlllUlllllll~tlll llllllllltllUllUllllltlUllUlllUlllllllUllUlllllllllllllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllltllllt llllllllllllllltl lll tlll tlll tl lltll:U· .

t

11111 11111111111111111r111 11 11 1111 111111111 111111111111111111111111111111 11 11 t11 111111111111 11 111111111111111111111111111111r111111111111r111111111111111111 1111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111 11 1111111 1111111111111111111111111111•

DES C RIPTIO N

C

onstruction on Uta h State 's new libra ry building will be begun as soon as weather conditions permit, according to Fred W .. Hodgson, the architect who has had charge of drawing plans for the building. Final pla ns were a pproved by the sta te building commission some time ago. The contract calls for the completion of the building by September 15, 1930.

The library will be located on th e eastern edge of the quadrangle facing west. C entral cement walks will lead around the north and south sides of the quadrangle to th e two entra nces of th e building and walks will run dia gonall y across the quadra ng le to the entrance doors. The building will be a three stor y structure of buff texture brick with artificia l stone trimmings. Naturally it w ill be of fireproof construction.

The library will be built to provide for the growth of the College during the next ten years. The reading room will have •

c>. sea ting capacity of 270 and the book stacks will have a storage capacity of 80,000 volumes which can be increased to two or three hundred thousand volumes by adding additions to the building.

P lans for the ground floor provide for coat rooms, toilet rooms , a document room and quarters for the Moore childrens ' library as well as for extensive space for book storage. The main floor prov ides for a reading room 40 by 137 feet in size, a deli very room and a ma in stack room for books most commonly called fo r. This main stack room will have a capacity of 11 ,000 volumes. There will also be 27 carrels or booths for the use of faculty and graduate students in the stack room.

The third story will contain a number of small study rooms. two la rge experiment station study rooms, class rooms for speech a nd debating and other features not at present decided upon.

!11r1111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111 11111 11 111111 11 11111n11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 •111111111111111r11111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111r111111111111r1111 .

,,.

i: /

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I I

I

I

I

I

/I

I

_......... ..

I

// /

1 I I

::l I :;

I

l : ,'

..., ...

I I 1 I, I

11 I

¡,'

Vo lume VI

FEBRUARY, 19 30

Number 3 .

Utah Agriculture Approaches Maturity

By P . V . CARDON , ' 09

Director, Utah Agricultural Experiment Station rah is within seventeen years of the one-hundredth

to constructive m eas ures founded on facts and developed by careful trial. Farmers of this state realize, also, that A region which has bee n settled for nearl y a cenbecause of geographic location it is advisab le to ship their tury is leaving its youth behind and is enterin g upo n products in concentrated form in order to avoid excessive maturity. costs of transporta tion.

As Utah comes of age it is fair to ask what she ha s Another gain , nex t in importance on ly to the first , to show for h er experience in agriculture , and to what is the stun rea li zat ion that , with all her reso urces, Utah extent she will be guided in maturity by the lessons has certain definite natural limitations. No longer does lea rned during an eventful youth spent amid circumthis state expect to see all of h er deserts " blossom as the stances as adverse, perhaps, as any to be found in rose '', that is , not beyond the reaches of her limited irri America. ga tion ditches and her still more limiteq dr y-fa rming This is not an occasion to attempt an exhaustive a reas. Rather she looks to the successfu l rehabi l itation treatment of an engaging theme which challenge the of her broad desert ranges which , with characteristica ll y imagination whil e demandin g rational consid eration. yo uthfu l abandon , she has allowed to be reduced to less But some pertinent observations ma y be recorded tn than half their former carrying capacity. R ehabilitation order to stimulate thought on a subject of profo und is sought beca use Utah now clearl y recognizes the fact importance to this state. that graz ing on these ranges is not the temporary practice The greatest gain mad e by Utah during the last that has bee n co mm o n on ran ge lands in ot her parts of eighty-three years is , I believe, a reaso nabl y comprethe country where , with each westward surge of civi lihensive know ledge of her major agricultural poss ibiliz ation , ranchin g has given way to extensive crop culture. ties. At no other t im e in i' _ ,._ ,._ .,_ ,._ ,._ ,,_ .,_ ,._ ,,_ ,,_ ,._ ,._ ,._ ,._ ,._ ,._ ,,_ ,._ ,._ ,._ ,._ ,t Utah 's ranges, if they are

U anniversary of her first effo rt at colonization.

her history has she bee n so well ba lanced in this respect . Never before has she seen so clearly the close inter-relationship of ran ge , forest , water-supply , ani ma ! husbandry , and crop culture. And never has there been a more pro-

i

to be used at all, must always be used for grazing ; and the effici ent uti lization We sha ll accep t our heritage for what it is worth a nd make 1 of these ranges is esse n tial 1 to. the state's prosperity . the most of it.

We shall st!el-: th e truth so that we may know and fu ll y apIt could not be otherwise, prcciate our limitations as well as our resources. !• when upwards of 90 per vVe shall retain a long view-point, plan our activities in the 1 cent of the total land area light of fac t, and refu e to be swayed by fads and fancies. of the state is invol~ed !

A CODE FO R THE GUIDANCE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN UTAH

i j

i

l

1

nounced intention on the 1 • I complishmrn t of which our major activities must lead with unpart of the farming pop umistakable directness. lation to avoid u nsou nd We shall labor a lways in th e light of common understanding , practice in farm operation common interest, a nd common sense. and to confine attention ~._,,_,._,._,,_,,_,,_,,_,_,,_,,_,,_,,_,,_,,_,._,._,._.,_,,_,,_,._+ We sha ll se t for ourselves a definite objective, toward the ac-

i I

1

Happily , Utahns no longer apologize for this condi tion nor do they strive vainly to alter it. On the (Co ntinued on Page 14 )

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

2

February, 19 30

Our Extension Workers

By WIL FORD D . PORTER. '22 Twenty-two agricu ltural agents are carrying out extension programs in 21 counties of the s ta te, whi le six home demonstration agents assist the farm women in ten counties in solving the problems of the home. b 1929 the Utah agricultura l agen ts made 21.243 farm visits and assisted 14,517 farmers who called at their offices. In add ition, a slaff of 16 directors, specialists and aides assists the agents in building , directing and executing th eir programs of work. Mo re than 500 project leaders in Uta h volunteer their services each year to promote th e extension cause and a survey shows that a la rg e majority of th e aides are eithe r form er students of the Sta te College or they a re Agg ie-minded.

D

Wilford D . Porter, '22

T

hroughout the United States today th ere are 5,820 extension se rvice workers giving their time, talents and efforts for one purpose : to assist the American fa rm popula tion in building satisfying farm ente rprises and farm homes.

Dr. W. A. Lloyd, in charge of the western states extension service work, who was guest s peaker a t the annua l conference of the Utah extension workers Ja nua ry 14 to 18, predicted tha t th e future held much in store for the national extension organiza tion .

The government authorities are realizing more a nd more that American agriculture, the basic industry of this grea t nation , is being placed on a desira ble , scien tific , a nd firm business foundation largely through th e efforts of the extension worke rs and their cooperators.

The extension service syste m is Uucle Sam's method of carrying scientific fa rming a nd home-making informa tion from the institutions of lea rning to the farmer as he plies his tra de. and his wife as she plans her house work.

Figures for the enrollment of farm boys and girls in 4-H clubs in 1929 are not yet ava ila ble but indica tions point toward th e possibility of a n increase over last year's enrollment of 665,000, by an addition of at least 35,000 boys a nd gi rls.

Utah boasts a staff of 44 extension workers. 36 of whom are loyal Aggie alumni.

irector W illiam Peterson , '99, is one of the most outstanding a lumni the College has train ed. He has a n unusual capaci ty for work and his duties a re numerous, va ried and demand great tact , judgment. and efficiency in their execution. His motto is, "Tht=re is only one way a nd tha t is th e right way."

W. W . Owens, ' 16, assistant director a nd county agent leader, worked his way up through the ra nks , being one of the first county agents a ppointed in Utah.

The director of the womens' work , Mrs. R ena B. May cock, fee ls honored because she ta ught President E. G . Peterson, President P. D . farre ll , K. S . A. C .. and William M .

Ja rdine, former Secretary of Agriculture, th a t it is not ac cording to good gramma tica l usage to say. " I ha ve we nt." and "We was righ t" " isn't right a t a ll.

D . P. Murray , ' 16, state 4-H club leader, has made a n enviable record. Three out of fo ur of his state demonstration tea ms have won first honors at contests held at Portland, Oregon.

Among the staff of full-time specialists are Prof. J. C. Hogenson, "99, extension agronomist; Mrs. Effie S . Barrows, '26, home mana gement s pecialist; Miss Afton Odell , ¡22. clo thing specialist; Mrs. Lottie K. Esplin, ' 15, home reading , an d Wilford D .

Porter. '22, secretary to the director and e xtension editor. As part time specialists the following are wea rers of the " A ": Prof.

George B. Caine , "12, dairy husbandman; Prof. Byron Alder. ' 12 , poultryman; Prof.

Alma Esplin, ' 16. sheep a nd wool specialist.

"Y

ou A sk What School We Love the Best" is lustil y sung by the following agricultura l a nd home demonstration age nts: Lew M a r Price, '17 , Beaver; R . H . Stewa rt. ' JO, Box Elder; R. L. Wrigley, ' 11. Cache; 0 . P . M adsen, ' 16, Carbon-Emery; D e Lore

Nichols, ' 17, Davis; LeRoy C. Funk, '21 , Duchesne; C. A. H ymas, '28, Garfield-Piute; A . E. Smith , ' 18, Juab; Morg an P. McKay, '21, Millard; V. L. Martineau , ' 12, Sa lt Lake; C. 0. Stott, "16, Sanpde; S . R. Boswell, "16, S evier; D avid Sharp Jr., ' J3, Summit; E .

Peterson, ' JO, Uinta h; W. J. Thayne, '17 , Uta h; Russell R. Kee tch . '29, Wasatch ; A. L. Christiansen , ' 14, Weber; Miss Myrtle D avidson, ¡ 17, Cache-Box Elder; Miss Ellen Agren, "14 , Weber-Morgan; M rs. Ivy L. H all, '18, Salt Lake-Summit; Miss Ruth Zollinger, 28, Tooele; Miss Ruby Stringham, "28, Davis; M iss Alice E . Pedersen, "24 , Uinta hDuchesne.

0

ur beloved Alma M ater has trained a~o th e r group of extension workers who have a llied themse lves with forc es in Ida ho , Wyoming , Montana , Ne vada , California , N ew M exico a nd Old Mexico. A recent investigation gave the writer the fo llowing na mes and addresses to be included as form er w ea rers of the white and blue : S. L. Owens , ' 16, Yuma , Arizona; A . B. Ballantyne, "JO. assistant director , Tuscon, Arizona; Ka rl H a rris, '23, a nd Miss Hortense White, ' 16, Sa fford , Arizona; John P. Beason, "IS, Fresno, Ca lif.; J. H . Wittwer, "17, Las Vegas, N evada; Ezra T. Benson, ex-"24, P reston , Idaho; Chase Kearl , '20, Paris, Idaho; T. H . Morrell. "20. Ida ho Falls; D .

E. Smith , "24, Rigby; D elbert Bollingbroke , '25, Rexburg ; R. J. Smith, ' 17, Ma lad; R. E. Brossard, 'J 4, Twin Fa lls : Miss Leatha Christensen, '26, Ida ho Fa lls; Grover E .

Lewis, ' 17 , Terry, Mont. ; Golden Bingham, '29, Ma lta, Mont.: Curtis J. Spa lding , '29 , Columbus, Mont. ; D. P. Thurber, '25, Fairfield , Mont.; A. E. Bowman, ' 11 , director , Laram ie, Wyo. ; S . B. Murra y, '26, Afton; W. R. Smith , '23, Orla B. McKinnon , '27, Evanston, Wyo.; A . C. Cooley, 'I I, Indian Service, Salt Lake City ; Ma nrique Gonzalez, '13, Chihuahua, Mexico.

T

he sta rs in the extension firmament predict tha t Uta h's extension fami ly is destined to grow. Within the very near future a farm economist will be added to th e staff.

A bill is now before congress aski ng for appropriations for economists in every state.

Uta h needs more specia lists in club work to help direct the 4,500 boys and girls now enrolled and to pla n for the 10,000 that will be enrolled within the next generation. There is immediate need for work in organization throughout the sta te among the farm ers a nd many urgent requests are being made for a dditional agents in Uta h and surrounding states.

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

February, 1930

3

William Peterson--An Appreciation By

G EORGE STEWART,

'13 Uta h"s relation to the Colorado Ri ver compact.

F

ew are th e a lumni of the Agricu ltural College w ho don't know William Pekrson by sight and by name. His close acquaintances who love him (a nd they a re many) even know his nickname. During the last few years, as Director of the Extension Service, he has become widely known for the S ummer Encampment and for his tireless pushing of the campaign aga inst farm weeds. Most important of recent assig nments and r"'cogn itions was his ppointment by President Hoover on the Public La nds Commissio n.

The urg ency for some sort of control for these 190 million acres of unreserved P ublic D omai n was finally crystallized into action by Sec reta ry Wilbur, who has called for the investiga tion by th e commission, complica ted as it can well be, elusi ve of solution a nd a ftecting practica lly eve r y social a nd economic interest in the \ Vest. Control of the Public Domain ca lled for our men of w idest experience, w hose judgment is sound a nd whose courage is undaunted. On the commission a r'! several national figure s such as chairman J. A . Garfield, exforester Col. W . B. Greeley, Elwood M ead of th e R eclama tion Service, George Horace Lorimer of the Saturday Evening Post and Mary Roberts Rineha rt. This is big company.

Among them, Director Peterson will not be lost sight of. In the la nguage of the street, " he knows his public domain "- a nd from many sides. Perha ps no one either on or off the commission has had contact in so many places.

A

s a boy, William grew up on th e Public Domai n. Consecutively, he worked on a farm, on a ra nch, logged two years, ran a sawmill for a summe r and even "broke" horses. His home in Bear Lake was in the midst of the range country. H e came to the College in 1894 at 20 yea rs of age. H e studied chemistry, mathematics. metallurgy, geology a nd horticulture. One of his first positions was assista nt in horti culture under U . P. H edrick, fa mous for his fruit classification studi es.

But geology called loudl y. Young Pete rson taught school at Almy . Wyoming to help himself through college. Graduating in 1899. he was enrolled in the co mmerci a l department. H e played footba ll, debated

F

Director William Peterson , '99 and was a member of the band. Then , while instructor in mathematics, he worked three yea rs for the Elk Coal Compa ny at Diamon dvi lle, Wyoming . D uring the summers of 1901, 1902 a nd 1903 he studied under the great geologist Salisbury at the Uni versity of Chicago. H e worked with the U . S . Geological Survey on the glacial geology of the W asatch, U inta h and Bear River Mountains. Then later he made a special stud y a nd report on the phospha te lands. While state geologist for U tah, 191721, he a ppraised practica lly every coa l min e in Uta h a nd worked out a plan of ta xa tio'l.

For yea rs he was a member of Uta h's Sta te Road commission, a nd a t present is a member of the Sta te W a ter Storage commission.

In th e latter capacity he has been influential in getting the H yrum Reservoir for Cache V a ll ey. P reviously he had prepared several reports on dam sites for federal reclamation reservoirs, and two yea rs ago gathered special information for Governor Dern on

or some years he was joint director of the Experiment Station and Extension Service. During his directorship the Experiment S tation added a series of county experiment farms: the a lfa lfa seed farm in Uinta h, the swamp farm in Sanpete, the rawland farm in Carbon and the new dryfarm in San Juan. This expe ri ence in research, su pplemen ted as it was a nd still is by studi es in ground water, brought a uniqu e point of view to the Extension Service. For several years as member of an advisory committee on public-domain legislation, he has had first-hand contact with the stockmen. It is not to be wondered at that a man of th ese many contacts a nd experi ences should be chosen from the whole Sta te to constitute with eig ht oth ers President Hoover's Public Land comm1ss10n. We may be sure, now that Director Peterson is on the commission, he will make his presence known.

Incidentall y in a ll this career of public affairs, he found time to serve on th e Boy Scouts' commission. H e has a ten yea rs' veteran's badge and is chairman of th e Court of Honor for th e Cache V a ll ey district. After the first flush of scou t success, when fina ncing troubles arose , he, a long with others. found a substa ntial basis in a budget pla n, which is still used. H e is also president of the loca l Fish and Game Association.

N

ational. scientific and honor societies have recognized him for several yea rs.

H e is a fellow in the A merican Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Geographic Society and the Utah Academy of Science. H e also has membership in the American Institute of Mining a nd Metallurgica l Engineers, in the Natural History Society of New York and in P hi Kappa Phi. H e has several times been president of th e U . S . A . C. Alumni Association. Under hi s direction the first directory of the association was published in 1921 .

H e has been influential in promoting many important a lumni undertaki ngs.

It is these qua lities, a long with infinite patience and friendliness, that have made William Peterson known to a lmost every member of the Alumni Association.

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

4

7Jje Utah ~tateQuarterlg

Published quarterly by the Alumni Association of the Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, Utah. Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice, Logan, Utah, under the act of M arch 3, 1879.

Subscription: O ne dollar a year. Annual dues in the Utah State Agricultural College Alumni Association, $2.00 a yea r, $1 .00 of which is for a year's subscription to THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY. Life membership, $25.00. Change of a ddress should be reported promptly to the executive secretary.

G. P. Barber, '21 .............................................. Editor and Manager Ray B. West Jr., '32 .................................... Advertising M anager P . V . Cardon, '09 ........................ Member Publications Committe-e O FFICERS O F THE ASSOCIATION A . H. Saxer, ' 10 .................................................................... President G . P. Barber, '21 ................................................ Executive Secretary EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE A. H. Saxer, '10 Vere L. Martineau, ' 12 George R. Hill, Jr .. '08 W . D. Porter, '22 Caroline B. Hendricks. '27

Vol. VI.

February, 1930

No. 3

DEATH'S CALL COMES

D

eath has again visited the ranks of the Alumni Association and ta ken from us four of our dea r friend g and fellow workers. These alumni were a ll in the full flush of lives of accomplishment and service. We have heard with sadness and a feeling of loss of this succession of deaths of our fellow rilumni. Just why the Great Judge should summon th ese gifted ones at the full tide of their lives we cannot know. We bow our heads in acceptance of His supreme wisdom. To the families and relatives of John Herbert Pack, ' 13, Joseph Preston Welch, ' 13, D ella Morrell, '13 .

Hobart Greenwood White, '25, and Richard Armstrong Pearse, '3 1, we extend our tenderest sympathies. To them we believe great comfort will come w hen they review the li ves of these w ho ha ve left them. They represented in the ultimate what the College holds sacreed of its graduates, and a ll the Alumni Association asks of its a lu mni,- characters, ideals, a search for the truth, service and a llegiance. In giving more than they received they make their own lives rich and they left a rich heritage for others to strive for.

They will live always in our memories.

February, 1930

outside of coilegiate circles, have been embraced by the College as worth y ar:d with her help they have been carried through to completion. By all such movements, the farm interests of Utah have been advanced.

Interested always in constructive measures, the College has stood out steadfastly against ill-conceived notions which periodically have arisen to threaten Utah agricu lture. Sometimes, under such circumstances, the attitude of the College has been properly questioned and only after time has proved its correctness has it been accepted.

There have been occasions, also, although extremely infrequent, when the College, being in human hands, has erred.

But serious error has been so rare as to be negligible when compared with the notable contributions that have been made by the College to agriculture.

These contributions are of three major types issuing , respecti \'ely from the College proper, the Experiment Station, a nd the Extension Service.

From the classrooms and laboratories of this institution during the last forty years have gone scores of men and women trained to cope with the problems of farm and home and capable of leading others onward to a realization of higher ideals in rural living.

Today th ese men and women are to be found occupying important places in a number of different states , as well as in the federal service of this and other nations. Successful farmers, responsible officers of farme rs' organizations, capable farm women, county agents, teachers, scientists, college presidents, and noted commissioners on boards helping to shape the destiny of American agriculture- a ll of these and others, good citizens wherever they are found, are numbered a mong the a lumni of the Uta h State Agricultural College.

The Agricultural Experiment Station, established within a year after the college was created, has contributed regularly and constructively to rural welfare. The results of its researches have been adopted in larm practice with confidence and usually with dispatch, certainly as rapidly as their practicability has been demonstrated. Besides the more practical findings of the researchers, results of a more technical nature have been added by the Experimnt Station staff to that great body of facts commonly known as Science, thereby helping to establish the principles upon which modern ag riculture is founded.

THE COLLEGE AND AGRICULTURE

Especially direct in th eir influence on rural living in Utah have been the contributions of the Extension Service, which for twenty y ea rs has been in close contact with the farms and homes of this state. Though the untiring efforts of subject matter specialist, county a nd home ¡demonstration agents, 4-H Club leaders, and thousands of voluntary workers, the College has occupied an enviable position of leadership among the people whose interests it serves.

H er four decades of service, therefore, she may justly review with pride, but the Uta h State Agricultural College in all of that time has never been in a better position to serve th an now. Nor has there ever been greater need for her service. With better facilities, a la rger and more thoroughly trained staff of teachers. investiga tors, and demonstrators, and with a rich experience upon which to base her efforts, this institution may be expected to cope successfull y with the newer a nd more complex problems which constantly arise to challenge her. -P. V. Cardon.

full forty -year per_iod of service to a griculture and rural life is just closing for the Utah State Agricultural College.

Since openinoJ her doors in the fall of 1890. this institution has been prominently identified with every movement which has had as its objective improvement in the status of ag riculture in Utah. Some of these movements were initiated by the College itself; whereas others, originating with equally interested agencies

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY brings to you news of Alma M ater. It keeps you informed of Campus events .. . tells you w here your friends are and what they a re doing ... . revives cherished memories . . . . brings back scenes and associations of H appy Days. Payment of annual dues entitles you to receive the Quarterly.

-0----

A

-0----

February, 1930

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

5

Utah Aggies· In Washington Solon R. Barber Says They Are Not Forgetting the School on the Though Some Forget the Secretary

N

Solon R. Barber, ' 19

I

_was sitting at the typewriter in my office th e other day, vai nl y trying for a new a pproach to a ra dio talk on sloppin9 hogs, (which , among other kinds of talks. l am paid for writing) , when a very prominent member of the Class of ·os. {who occupies a neighboring office ) , stepped in to extend his l.lsual friendly greetings. After asking abou t my healt h and urging me with perfect good na ture to keep my love for American agriculture at a high pitch , he got down to more serious business. " Wh y,·• he asked, " did th ey change the na me ot the College?" l risked the opinion tha t perhaps it was to keep the Utah land-grant school in line with land-gra nt sc hools in other pa rts of th e country. "'There is the Kansas STATE Agricultura l College," I said. "and Iowa STA TE and Michigan ST A TE a nd Pennsylvania ST ATE-" M y friend of the Class of '05 did not seem to be satisfied. " Well ," I said, " perh a ps it ha d something to do with a ppropria tions from the Leg islature."

"I don 't think so," he said. "And I don 't like the change. It's too long for one thing .

And there was a sort of rhythm a nd swing to the Utah Agricultural College as a na me.

Anyhow," he concluded, " I hea r they a re going to sta rt the new libra ry building soon."

And th en he went back to his office. ·

ow it has taken me about 225 words to tell this little story a nd very likely you will ask w hy I brouyht it up in the first pla ce.

I brought it up , not to show th e keen interest in and loyalty to the College of my friend of '05, but to indica te, in a manner that all will unders tand , that Uta h Aggies a re not forg etting the School on the Hill even if they are 2500 miles away. Uta h Agg ies in gen eral. I do not know of a single graduate who does not watch for the Thanks~iving D ay footb all returns from Salt La ke City. One of them actua lly succeeded in getting the Aggie-Utah ga me announced in a local paper. Washington papers have a very sorry tendency to believe tha t tea::1s in the Rocky Mountains play squashball, lacrosse, medi cineball , almos t anything but footb all. To them, it is never news to know that " Powerhouse· · Pomeroy and " Dutch" Clark- not Aggies, I a m sorry to say- a re favorab ly mentioned by All -American pickers. I doubt if these loca l sports wri ters would give the Rocky Mountain Conference a news break if a football bit a player a nd la id him out for a full quarter.

Which, a lso, is neither here nor thereunless you ca n interpret it as meaning tha t the w riter , too , has not forgotten his Alm a Ma ter. n.e woul.d be somewh~ t preciously idiotic to iudg e a man s s upport of his coll ege purely by how he reacts to a cha nge in name or a report of football scores. I hasten to assure you that I ma ke no cla ims to idiocy. even in a magazine article, And, w ha t with the magazines printing onl y " big na mes'" a nd on ly literary " tripe"- but this is not an editorial in a H a ldeman-Julius publica tion. Coming back to th e matter of judging a gradu a te"s loya lty to his college, I refe r yo u to the Secretary of the Alumni Associa tion for exa ct figures on that. H e wi ll doubtless a lso be pleased to tell you how the W ashington chapter stands. M y job-although you would never guess itis to tell you something about what Aggie gradu a tes in Washington a re doing.

Tha t, too, depends. It depends on how much I am bid to give a graudate a reall y first rate w rite-up . Rates: $50.00 for saying tha t Soandso, Class of Umpty ump , is a confidant of the President and plays medicine ball with him twice 3 week; $25.00 for saying tha t Miss or Mrs. Soandso, Class of Umpteen, atte nds a ll th e White House social a ffairs and lives a t the Ma yflower ; $10.00

0

Hill---

for saying tha t young Soandso, ' I 7-'25, was see n wa lki ng down Connecticut A venue with the First Secreta rial Attache of the Bessa rabian Legation-and so on.

W

ithout stopping to consider the quain t tolk saying that Westerners always M a ke Good better 2nd faster tha n E asterners , even in their own country, I will now proceed with the roll-call. William M .

Ja rdine, "04, was a confidant of th e President until he resigned hi s secretaryship of agri<..ulture a nd went into private business. For a time he was connected w ith a large fruit cooperative in F lorida; he is now president of the N a tiona l Ra dio Service Burea u, I understand. Brig . Gen. Frank T. Hines, '20, still with the a rm y , is now Director of th e U . S .

Vetera ns' Burea u. H a rold La Fount, a form er Uta h State student , is one of th e Federa l Rad io Commissioners a nd I, for one, do not envy him tha t job what with the radio ta ngl e being what it is. G eorge D .

Casto. "16, is very <icti ve in Uta h Society a ffa irs here, as a re Dr. E . B. Brossa rd , Dr. M . C. Merrill , Amy L yman-Merrill, La ura Cowley Brossard, Bessie Law, Norma H ansen, Preston N eilson, E a rl Sutherland, Weston V ernon, Edwin Wood , George H a rris, ilnd others. Mr. C asto, was form erly Alien Property Custodian for the Federal Government but I am not sure w hether he holds 1ha t position now or not . Dr. Brossa rd , 'I I, is on the U . S . T ari ff Commission where his knowledg e of economics sta nds him in excellent stead a nd w hi ch, I understand, is no place for a Free Tra dist which D r. Brossard is not. Dr. M errill , '05, is Editor of Publica tions for the United Sta tes D epartment of Agricu lture. Bess_ie Law, '22. is teaching ; her close fri end , Norma Hansen, '27, is w ith th e interior decorating department of Woodward a nd La throp' s store. one of W ashington's most exclusi ve sho ps.

And this brings me naturall y to Bert Law , former Aggi e tennis star. Bert graduated from George W ashington Uni versity three or four years ago. H e held a job with a N ew York la w firm for a tim e a nd then returned to W ashington , w ith his wife, a nd accepted a position in the D epartment of Justice. Weston V ernon, '25, an a ttorney, is with Dunnington , W a lker a nd Gregg . V ern C. Woolley,' ! I, is a n economic a nalyst for the Tariff Commission. Edwin Wood , '25 , is a math ema tician for the Coast and G eodetic Survey, a violinist, and a medical (Continued on Page 14)

6

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

• • •

February, 1930

CAMPUS NEWS

AGGIE DEBATORS MEET U. OF U. TEAMS

COLLEGE ENROLLMENT WAS 383 THIRTY YEARS AGO.

T

I

he Aggie debating teams are off to a good start and show promise of developing into a strong squad. Janu.ary 17 the affirma ti ve tea m composed of Rex D ibble and Lavell Cra po met the University of Uta h team a t the Logan junior high school. The same night the nega tive tea m composed of Darrell Crockett and Russell Cranney met a Utah team in Brigham City. Janua ry 20 this same tea m met an affirm a ti ve tea m from th e Uni versity in Vvellsville. The debates w ere a ll non-decision a ffairs.

* •• * • PROF. C. E. McCLELLAN TO VISIT IN THE EAST

P

E.

rof. C. McClellan of the department of Educa tion will lea ve February 20 for Atlantic City where he will a ttend the a nnual convention of the N ational Education Association Department of Superintendents. The convention w ill be in session from February 23 to 28.

• * •••

PRESIDENT E. G. PETERSON IN WASHINGTON

P

resident Peterson a rrived in W ashington Janua ry 23 where he began work immedia tely with the first of two committees of which he is a member. The first committee is the U . S. Cha mber of Commerce committee on immigration. This committee will investigate a report of immigra tion problems tha t has just been prep<1red and make recommendations to congress covering the subject of immigra tion. The second committee of which President P eterson is a member is a ppointed from th e association of La nd Grant colleges a nd will work on a progra m of cooperation between these colleges a nd the U . S. Burea u of Education. While in the East President Peterson intends to interview possible prospects for a ppointment to the fa culty next yea r.

• * * • • EIGHT RELIGIOUS SECTS REPRESENTED AT THE COLLEGE

I

n a sur vey of the various relig ious denominations represented at the College, Dr. Thomas L. Romney, director of the Logan L. 0 .

S. Institute, found representa tives of eight different churches.

"Mormons" headed the list with 738 adherents. N ext ca me Presbyterians w ith -13 , then C atholics w ith 6, M ethodists with 4, a nd Lutheria ns w ith 3. In addition there was I Congrega tionalist, I Sikh and 1 Jew. T wo students listed th emselves as P rotesta nts and one even went so far as to call himself a Ch ristia n. Student Life, College weekly. in giving the results of the survey, adds , "All very religious thus far ," says Or. Romney, ""but our hearts w ent chill with terror w hen we counted up ninety students w ho listed themselves as having no religious preference whateve r.''

• • * • •

ANNUAL EXTENSION SERVICE CONVENTION HELD AT COLLEGE

T

he a nnual Extension Service con vention was held at the College Ja nuary 14 to 18. Director Willia m Peterson was in charge. The principal spea kers of the convention were J. Clyde Marquis of the Burea u of Agricultural Economics; W . A. Lloyd, in charge of extension service in the western sta tes, and Director William Peterson a nd President E . G . Peterson, together with members of the staff of extension specialists and home and county demonstration agents.

n an issue of the Logan Journal published 30 years ago we read, "The Utah Agricultural College enrollment shows a material increase with the enrollment of last year for the first term. The enrollment now is 383, which is 30 in advance of the number enrolled for the first term of last year. "

* * * • * REGISTRATION FIGURES SHOW A SIX PER CENT INCREASE

R

egistrar W . H. Bell reports a registra tion for the winter term at the College of 1274 students, as compa red with an enrollment of 1228 at about the same time last y ear. The cumulative total for the year is 1332, as compa red with 1261 for last yea r a t this time. This is approxunately a six per cent increase.

• * •••

TWENTY-TWO MEN RECEIVE FOOTBALL A WARDS

T

wenty-two gridders were given letters in football this year .

The men who w ere so honored included Captain Ed Jensen, C a ptain Doug Bergeson, Joe Ca ll, Clive Remund, D an Gillespie, Odell Thompson, Golden Welch , Cyril Maughan , H erb Griffin, Elmo Smith, Ivan Smith, Joe D ay , Waldo Peterson , Bernard N elson, D emar Wilkins, Ed Cliff, Ken V anderhoof, Alma Gardner, Richa rd Pea rse, Ed W a rd , George Judah a nd Lidell La rsen. Eight, and possibly ten, of these men donned the moleskins for the Aggies for the last ti me. Romney lost the services of Jensen, Bergeson, Gardner, Day, Call, Welch, V a nderhoof, Judah a nd possibl y W a rd and Griffin.

• * * * • JUNIOR PROM COMES MARCH 21

T

he Junior promenade, one of the season"s most outstanding social events, will be held at the Palais d'Or March 21. The committee in charge of arrangements includes Marriner Merrill, chairman; Clare Hayward, Arminta Hogan, Ruby Mitton and Kenneth Shields.

• • * • •

TOMPKINS ACCEPTS PATHOLOGIST'S JOB IN SUMATRA

D

r. C. M. Tompkins of the United States Department of Agriculture, who has been working cooperatively with the Uta h Agricultural Experiment Station on sugar-beet diseases, recently accepted a position with the Goodyear Rubber company as chief pathologist of the plant research department of the Goodyear Rubber Pla nta tions company at Bolok Ma rangir, E . C., Sumatra.

Dr. Tompkins left Logan Janua ry 16 for Akron, Ohio, where he held conferences with officials of the Goody ea r compa ny. After spending some time at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota advancing his plans for research in Suma tra , he plans to leave for his post a bout the middle of Februa ry . * • • • •

BASKETEERS WIN TWO AND LOSE ONE ON COAST TOUR ·T he Aggie ba sketball squa d invaded C alifornia during the holida ys and w ere successful in bringing back two victories out of three games played. They won from the U. S. C. Trojans, 32 to 29, D ecember 27 ; lost to the Trojans by a score of 44 to 39 the following evening and won from Whittier College, 48 to 12, December 30.

February, 1930

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

BRIEFLY TOLD JONES AND CARLSON WILL BE AT COACHING SCHOOL

H

oward Jones, head football coach at the University of Southern California, and Dr. H. C. Carlson, nationally famous basketball coach at Pittsburg University, will be the principa l figures at the fourth U. S. A . C. summer coaching school which starts June 9 and ends June 13. Coach E. L. Romney will aga in have charge of the school and will handle the tra ck division. C .

S. Leaf, swimming coach at the College, will have charge of swimming and George Nelson will act as wrestling instructor. * • * * *

ZETA CHI, COLLEGE SORORITY, JOINS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Z

eta Chi, the youngest sorority on the campus, pledged Theta Upsilon, national collegiate sorority, D ecember 16. This is the first national sorority to be installed on the campus. * * •••

TRIO OF PROFESSORS REVEL IN CALIENTE

The fee for the course will be $9.00. There are no prerequisites for registra tion. * • * * *

KAMPUS KAPRICE COMES MARCH THIRD

K

'impus Kaprice, co-ed musical comedy, will be given March 3 ~ t the C a pitol theatre. In a contest held recently for the best musical comedy for the production, Ray West, Clare Hayward and William Ballard were awarded the $35.00 prize. * * * * *

HILL AND HASLAM WIN ROTARY A WARDS

R

euben L. Hill, Jr. was awa rded the $100 Rotary scholarship tu the Uta h State Agricultural College a nd Reuben Haslam received the $50 schola rship at the regular luncheon meeting of the Rota ry club held at the Hotel Eccles January 17. These scholarships are awarded deserving high school students whose scholastic and other attainments make them worthy of the honor.

* * • • *

S

eeking amusement, human interest and escape from the dull drudgery of college teaching , Professor F . R . Arnold , Dr. William Wanlass, and a professor from the Brigham Young University spent the Christmas holidays tra ve ling in California and also visited Mexico's famous gambling resort, Agua Caliente. The three learned men went only for th e purpose of viewing a human phenomena and to engage in philosophica l discussion thereof, but once before the Roulette wheel. their human weakness overcame them and they turned their professional a ttentions to the whirling colors and numbers as eagerly as any professional. And it pleased heaven that they should win. Professor Arnold, we understa nd , reduced the croupier's pile by ten silver dollars and Dr. W an lass did even better. The B. Y. U . man did not play but just the same all three came jubilantly back to Logan with contented minds, leaping hearts and jingling pockets. -Student Life.

• * * * *

ROMNEY ELECTED VICE-PRESIDENT OF WESTERN COACHES

C

oach Dick Romney was recently elected vice-president of the Western Coaches association, an organiza tion of th e coaches of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast schools. Romney has served as secretary of the organization since 1924. H e recently resigned this position and was then elected vice-president at the meeting of the association in December.

• • * • •

PHI DELTA EPSILON BIDS EIGHT MEN

E

ight men were recen tly bid by Phi Delta Epsilon, nationa l journalism fraternity. The men receivi ng pledges were John Loosle, Alan Hulme, David Mcinty re, Bob Hadfield, Weldon Burnham, John Christianson. Ronald Flamm a nd Lloyd Da vis. * * • * *

COURSE IN APPLIED ANIMAL NUTRITION BY DR. F. B. MORRISON

D

• • •

r. F. B. Morrison, now head of the division of Animal Industry at Cornell University , a nd joint a uthor with W . A .

Henry of the famou s book on animal nutrition, " Feeds and Feeding," will give an intensive course in Applied Animal Nutrition during the summer session at the College this year. The course will be of two week's duration, starting July 7 and ending July 18.

DR. LINFORD ANNOUNCES SUMMER SCHOOL PLANS p reliminary announcement of plans for the 1930 session of the su mmer school a t th e Utah State Agricultural College have just been made by Dr. J. H . Linford, director of the session. The session wi ll open on Monday June 9 and continue for six weeks u:itil Friday , Jul y 18. Several v:siting faculty members have a lready been engaged to give classes during the period and a ll of th e reg ula r facu lty will be available for course work according to Dr. Linford.

Among the v isiting facutly members who will be present are Dr. F rank W . H a rt of the department of education a t the University of C a liforni a, Dr. E. B. Branson, chairman of the depa rtment of geology at the U niversity of Missouri, O sbourne McCona th y, editor of the progressive music series a nd one of the leading au thorities on school music in the country. Birger Sandzen, head of the school of fine art at Betha ny College, and regarded by critics as one of America 's leading modern pa inters, F . B. Morri son, head of the di vision of a nimal industry at Cornell University, H. F. Bla nks, associate professor of public speaking at the Unive rsit y of C a lifornia, and Clara Brown of the Uni versi ty of Min nesota who will give courses in the teaching of home economics.

The work in geology will be fi eld work simila r to that given last year. The departme nts of geology a t the Uta h State Agriculture College a nd the University of Missouri , will combine in giving a field course for six weeks in various selected sections of W yoming. Actual work will begi n shortly after the opening of the regular term here.

A number of special lecturers ha ve a lready been engaged for the a nnua l lecture course which is held in connection with the session. Some others will be added during the coming months.

Among those who wil a ppea r on the progra m a re Edward Howard Griggs of N ew York City , H enry N eumann, director of the Brook lyn Society of Ethical Culture, Howa rd Driggs of New York City, and Professor A . M . H arding , professor of astronomy a t the Uni ve rsit y of Arka nsas. The same genera l program of lecture periods wi ll be followed this y ear with daily morning lectures Bnd evening lectures on two evenings each week.

Dr. Linford is now engaged in ma king the schedule of classes for the term. H e expects tha t ma terial for the summer session ca ta logue will be ready soon, a nd it is planned to distribute the catalogue in early March.

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

8

February, 1930

ATHLETICS Aggie Basketeers Make Strong Showing In Opening Games

By MI LTON M E RRILL, '2 5 RESULTS OF GAMES January 10-11 at Logan U.S.A.C. , 17 Uta h. 10 Utah, 38 U .S.A .C ., 10 January 17- 18 at Provo U .S.A.C. . 39 B. Y . U .â&#x20AC;˘ 37 U .S.A .C .. 37 B. Y. U ., 53

T

he season's forecast for basketball in the western di vision of the Rocky Mountain Conference has a lready suffered considerably in accuracy due to the surprising showing of Coa ch Dick Romney's Utah /).ggies. And w hen the prognostica tors selected the Aggies for the cella r posi tion, they were basing t~. e ir predictions on a pparently substantial evidence. The Fa rmers faced the present season with two greaf guards, and one of the grea test centers eve r to pl~y in the conference, missing from the list of candida tes. Ellis W ade and Theron Smart, regular gua rds , and Glen Worthington , center, graduated at the close of 1929.

Tq~ only B. Y. U . losses were O wen Rowe and Ingersoll , w ho intercha ng ed a t center. Utah lost Goodwin, but picked up Pete Dow, a form er regula r, while Mo nta na State Jost " Brick" Breedon by gra dua tion.

Inasmuch as the Aggies barely nosed o ut th e Utes in the division ra ce la st season it wa s natural to assume tha t the real fight would be between the other three teams.

Aggies Win Three of Four Games.

The season is now in its third week a nd the two significa nt things a bout it are tha t the Aggies seem to have possibilities, and that Montana State ca n be bea ten, altho ugh that hasn 't taken place ye t.

Romney's quint made their unexpected bid for recognition by downing Uta h in the first of a two game series , and then made the res ult a ppear to be something other tha n a stac k of horseshoes by scoring a second w in on the second night.

There were still doubters however, but th e Aggies came through w ith a split series with the B. Y . U . on the la tter's ow n flo or and without two regula r fo rwa rds in the lineup. Natura lly it is still too ea rl y a nd basketba ll is a ltogether too un certa in to predict that the Aggies a re the tea m to bea t this season. They have shown rather consistent strength so far this season , but ga mes where three or four points separa te the teams, are likely to go to either one.

M

ilton R. M errill, w ho w rites our s ports news, is direc tor of publicity a t the C ollege. H e has bee n w riting fo r the Qua rterl y since it began publica tion in : 921. As an a thletics prognostica tor Milt has a high ba tting average. H e has w ritten spo rts fo r the D ese ret N ews, Ogden Standard , the D enver Post and the Rocky Mounta in N ews. So he knows his press box.

Milt is tennis coach a t the College. H e also plays ha ndba ll- and how! H e won the College ha ndba ll singles tourna ment this year.

Many New Players N ew players a re the basis of the new hoop machine tha t Romney is building this season. Returning vete ra ns a re C a ptain C arl D avis, Du W ayne H enr ie, and D elos W a tkins, a ll forwa rds. H enrie is going to undergo an o peratio n and he is lost to the tea m a fter playi ng th e first two ga mes. The new men who have demonstrated considera ble a bility and even more determination a re Pa rkinson of Ricks College, G eorge Young of the Bra nch A . C. , E verett C ampbell of W asa tch A cademy and Los Angeles, D on Bennion of Davis High, W a rren Allsop of Grace, Idaho, Elwood Drysda le of G race .

Idaho, and O gden, Ole H ervilla and John Vra nes of Bingha m, C a rl Belliston of N ephi , G ilbert Moesinger of W eber, a nd Cla ud P ra tt of Hinckley.

Young a nd Bennion have been getting the ca ll for guards on th e first fi ve and so fa r they have come through nicely. Allsop is beg inning to give Young a race for the ru nning gua rd position. Ca pta in C a rl D a vis is playing th e best baske tba ll of his four yea r career a nd is now leading the scorers of the div ision. H e w ill play through the season a t either cen ter o r forwa rd. If D avis is a t forward the cente r post w ill be fill ed by th e length y C ampbell. H e is improving rapidly. Parkin son is certain to be a t one forwa rd post, and the other w ill be fill ed by either D avis or W atki ns. If W a tkins is in D avis w ill play center.

Seth Parkinson . the youngster from Ricks, received a broken nose in the first ga me of the regula r schedule. H e has been out since but he will be back for the next series which

will be pla yed w ith th e Bobca ts a t Bozeman on Ja nua ry 31 'and Februa ry 1. Parkinson is a wonderful tea m man and he will add considera ble strength to the Fa rmer lineup.

The Final Games Follow ing th e Bozema n seri es the Aggies will play two ga mes in Sa lt Lake w ith Utah.

Four games a t home conclude the season.

On F ebrua ry 11 a nd 15 th e Cougars will be entertained here w hile the fina l series is with the cha mpion Bobcats on F ebrua ry 21 a nd 25.

The pla y of the Bobca ts in the second night aga inst Utah seems to indicate that while Breedon is grea tl y missed on th e guard line, th e great scoring combination tha t D yche has a t Montana Sta te is just a bout enough to pull the Monta na ns through to a nother cha mpionship.

C. S. LEAF TO COACH SWIMMING. C oach C. S. Leaf , form er B. Y . U . coach. has assumed the duties of swimming coach a t Utah Aggies. Leaf has stimulated interest in the acqua tic sport to such an extent, tha t a strong Aggi e swimming team is in prospect. Though the cha mpion Utes have an a lmost undisturbed lineup , the Aggies hope to give them a real ba ttle for honors this season.

AGGIE GRAPPLERS BUSY. After dropping the division championship last yea r, the Utah Aggie gra pplers are determin ed to return to championship win¡ ning form. Coa ch G eorge N elson is sendin\ his candidates through strenuous workouts every day. H e w ill be w ell represented in a ll of the lighter weights, but he is a ttempting to discoover and develop a good hea vyweight a nd a light hea v yweight.

-0---

BUD SHIELDS Bud Shields, nationa ll y know n as a swimmer is now registered in school here. Shields, besides ca pturing every thing in th e sta te in breast stroke, ba ck stroke a nd free style swimming, expects to ma ke a n excellent showi ng in the nationa l meet. At a practice recently Bud broke a na tional intercollegia te record in the 220. The record is held

by Schwa rtz w hose time is 2: 18 2-5. Shields made the distance in 2:17 2-5.

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

February, 1930

9

Dr. Reuben L. Hill and Dr. George Stewart TWO ALUMNI WHO HAVE MADE IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES

I

t is expected of a professor in a modern college that he devote a part of his time to original scientific research in add ition to supplying his daily modicum of inspiration to his cla ses. More and more the college professor is being looked to for scien tific help in solving riddles that eternally beset society. Any college is known by its faculty. And its faculty , in turn, is known by its contributions to science.

Dr. R. L. Hill, ' 12

D

Among the members of the College faculty who have brought recognition to Utah and the College through their 11nportant scientific discoveries may be mentioned Dr. R . L. Hill, professor of chemi try , and Dr. George Stewart, Âľrotessor of agronomy. Unusua l success has attended th e efforts of Dr. Hill and Dr. Stewart in their recent scientific investigaÂŤ1ons in the fie lds of physiological chemistry and plant breeding , respectively.

r. Hill has discovered a process by which the toughness of the curd formed by the natural coagulation of milk can be measured. The results obtained from the use of this test is a direct index to the digestibility of the milk by infants. This curd test makes it possible to go through a herd of cows and discover the cows that give milk that can be easily digested by infants.

Certain cows have a curd that is tough and very difficult of dig estion when taken into the stomachs of infants; others have a curd that is soft a nd easily digested. Results of the curd test indicate that on the average not more than 10 per cent of the cows give milk that is soft-curded enough for the use of delicate infants. By use of the test it is possible to obtain milk that closely approaches human milk in its digestibili ty by infants.

A s indicating the importance of Dr. Hill"s discovery, it might be said that a number of hospitals, and large commercial dairy herd owners a re adopting the curd test. The Walker-Gordon herd at Plainsboro, New Jersey, has recently indicated its intention of applying the test to its en tire herd of 2300 head of cows. The Mayo Clinic at Rochester recently wrote Dr. Hill for equipment to apply the test. Mathews Industries, Inc. , and Hoa rd "s D a iryma n have written articles on the discovery. The test is being put to practical use with marked success in an increasingly genera l way.

Dr. H ill received his Ph. D . degree in biological chemistry from Cornell in 19 J5. Following a year as instructor in biological chemistry at that institution he became connected with the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington for a short time. He then went to the Maryland Agri cultural Experiment Station as biological chemist. During the war he was a membe r of the Food Division of the Army as nutrition officer. He came to the College in 1919 and has been a member of the faculty since that time.

Dr. Hill is a member of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society, Phi Kappa Phi , and th e American Society of Biological Chemists.

H e has published a number of technical articles on milk secretion. and a number of articles and bulletins on the coagulation of milk.

He gave a paper on the curd test at the 13th International Physiological Congress at Boston on August 21. 1929.

Dr. George Stewart, ' 13

D

r. Stewart has charge of agronomy work at the College which includes plant breeding, and under his direction a series of new strains of wheat are being developed. Already two new varieties have been produced. The first, known as " Utac" , a contraction of Uta h A. C., is a pure-breeding hybrid from a cross of Sevier

by Dicklow. Utac is a drought-resistant wheat and is a consistent, reliable performer that on the average outyields a number of standard varieties that a re usua ll y grown in Uta h. A much stiffer straw than Turkey or Kanred keeps it from lodging under any dry-farm conditions. It is a lso successfully grown as a spri ng wheat on irrigated lands where soil conditions are somewhat raw.

The second variety, known at present only by its plant breeding pedigree number, " 14-85'' , is a pure-b reedi ng hybrid out of a cross made at the College in 1922 between S evier and Federation.

It is a rust-resistant, bearded wheat with white grains and yie lds under ordinary circumstances about the same or a trifle more than D icklow. Its standing abi lity is a lso a trifle greater than that of Dicklow but it is not nearly so good as Federation . The va lue of 14-85 is probably limited to sec tions of the state that have more or less rust, either regula rl y or occasionally. In rust tests conducted in twenty-Ave of the great w heat-growing areas in th e cen tral a nd eastern Uni ted States a nd C anada this wheat rusted only to the ex tent of 0 to 5 percent, whereas a number of common wheats were rusted to the extent of from 30 to 50 percent.

Dr. Stewa rt was graduated from the College in 1913. He ltas the M. S. degree from Cornell, 1918, and a Ph. D . from the Uni versity of Minnesota in plant breeding, 1926. He has been a member of the College faculty since 1913. H e is the author of several books, notably one on alfalfa , and numerous bulletins and popular and scien tific articles. Among the fraternities and societies of whi ch he is a member may be listed the fo llowing: Gamma Sigma D elta, Alpha Zeta, P hi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, the American Society of Agronomy , American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, American Genetic Association, and American Naturalists. Since 1927 he has been listed in, "Who's Who in America.' '

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

10 •

i .

February, 1930

IUllll llll l llllllll lllUlllllllllll/llllllll Jl ll Jl llllll llt ll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll111\ UJ •lll lllllll ll lllltlllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllUlllllllJllUlllllllllllUllUlllllllUl ll lllllllllJllJlllJllllll ll UlllllllllllJlllllllllllllJllUlllUlllJlllUllUll ll llllllllltllll ll llllllllllllUlllJllllllllll lll ll ll tll .

From The Secretary's Office

i

111/ l llllllllllllllUlllUllllllll l lll l llllllll l llllllllllll l llllllll ll ll l ll lll ll Ull ll l lll l llll ll ll l l llltllJlllllll lJ lllltlllllllllllJlllllllJlllU l llJJllll l llJl ll ll l lUt lll llll lll llllllll ll l ll llllllllllllllllll l llllllll l llllllJl ll Hllll l lllllllllll lll llllll l lltlllll l UtlUlllJllllJl lll llll lll lJ ll l ll lll ll lll lll l l lJll ll lllll ll Ul ll Ul lUlllll.

CLASSES O F '05, '07, '08, '09, ' 10, '25 AND '29 TO REUNITE Under the so-called Dix plan, w hich was successfully la unched last year and which will be continued this year, the classes of '05, '07, '08, '09, ' IQ, '25 and '29 will hold reunions during Commencement this year.

The distinctive features of this pla n are three in number: First, classes tha t were in school togeth er reunite tog ether; second , classes that have bee n gra dua ted fl ve, twentyand fifty years hold reunions, and third, classes reunite either four or fi ve times in a cycle of twenty yedrS. The Alumni A ssociation has modified lhe pla n somewhat a nd has included a reunion of the pre vious yea r's class. The Class of '29, therefore, w ill hold a reun,ion this year.

The Class of '05 havi ng been graduated · twenty-five years, will hold its Silver Anni versa ry reunion. An especia l effort w ill be made to have as many of its members as possible return to the College for the reunion.

This effort will also be exte nded to the members of all the re uniting classes.

It is too earl y to announce the p rogram for the 1930 Commencemen t and Alu mni Reunion, but it should be said that a committee is a lread y at work on a program that should interest every Aggie and make it well worth his time to come home th1s year.

The complete program w ill be announced in plenty of time for a lumni to ma ke their plans.

DR. W. W. HENDERSON IS NEW LIBRARY FUND CHAIRMAN Dr. W . W . H enderson, professor of zoolog y and entomology at the College, was appointed cha irman of the executi ve committee of the Alumni Library Endowment Fund Janua ry 9 to succeed D r. B. L. R ichards. who found it necessary to resig n his position as chairma n of the committee du e to the growing responsibilities connected with his professiona l and other work.

Dr. Henderson has been a member of the executive committee since the Library Fund was started more than two years ago. H e was formerl y president of the Brigham Young College where he was la rg ely responsible for engineering th e endowme nt fund campaign a t that institution. The fund there reached a tota l of $ I00,000 in subscriptions and was only interrupted by th e closing of th e college.

The experience gained in that campa ign and Dr. H enderson's enthusiasm and faith in the endowme nt idea as applied to worthy educational move-

ments have ma de him a n extremely va luab le member of th e execu ti ve committee of the Libra ry Fund. In his new position of cha irma n he will doubtless be enabled to be of even greater service to the fund a nd to th e College.

Dr. Richards has served as chairman of the exec utive committee si nce the Libra ry Fund was sta rted. Und er his direction the fund has grown from nothing to more than $64,000 in cash and pledges. H e w ill not be lost to th e committee entirely as he will be retained as a member of th e sub-co mmittee on organization.

MORE ALUMNI PAY DUES THAN EVER BEFORE All records for the payment of ann ua l membership du es as we ll as life membership fees ha ve been broken this year, according to figures made ava ilable by the execu ti ve secreta ry January 23. These figures showed tha t since the beginning of the yea r 251 alum ni had paid their annua l dues, 2 hac.l paid life membership fees of $25 and 12 had begun paying on life memberships. The tota l number of pa id members of the associa tion this year, 265, plus the 8 a lumni w ho became life members in previous years, makes the to ta l 1n1id membership up to Ja nua ry 24,

1930, 273.

Life Memberships Issued in Past Years.

E . G. Peterson, '04 $25.00 S. Grover Ri ch, '05 25.00 Mildred F . Rich , '06 25.00 A. C. C ooley , ' l l 25.00 Lucille J. Cooley, ' I I 25.00 P hebe N . Peterson, ' 13 25.00 D a n A . Swenson, ' 15 25.00 Effie S . Barrows. '26 25.00 Paid Life Memberships Issued This Year.

F. D. Farrell , '07 25.00 E. T. Ralphs, '1 i 25.00 Paying on Life Memberships This Year.

William Peterson, '99 5.00 F . L. West. '04 5.00 George R. Hill, Jr., '08 5.00 M . C. H arris, '09 12.00 R. L. Judd . '09 10.00 Li zzie 0 . McKay Hill , '09 5.00 John A . Alder, · 12 5.00 V ere L. Martinea u, ' 12 5.00 B. L . Richards, ' 13 5.00 G eo rge Stewart, ' 13 5.00 Frank T . Hines, '20 5.00 George P. Barber, '2 1 5.00 Ten Leading Classes- Annual Dues.

Class of 1929 23 Class of 1911 19 Class of 1916 15

C lass of 1927 14 Class of 1928 14 Class of 1923 13 Class of 1913 12 Class of 1925 12 C lass of 1921 11 Class of 1926 II Every member of th e Class of 1906 except one has paid his annua l dues, subscribed to the Library F und and sent in his questionnaire for the 1930 Alumni Direc tory. That member has not as yet pa id the an nua l du es.

ADDITIONS ARE MADE T O LIBRARY FUND COMMITTEE. The problems arising out of the need for careful investment of the funds pa id into the Library Endowment Fund and the plan to incorporate a body to receive a nd invest these funds , tog ether wi th other problems conn ected w ith the importa nt undertaking of the A lumni Associa tion to raise a $ I00,000 endow ment fund for the College libra ry , have made necessary a number ol a dditions to the Executive Committee and the a ppointment of a new committee, to be known as the G enera l Committee.

The new members of the Executive Committee include Alma Sonne, cashier of the First N ationa l Bank , Logan ; Orval W . Ad3ms, vice-president, Utah Sta te N a tional Bank Sa lt Lake ; Frederick P . Cha mp, president, C ache V a lley Banking Co., Logan; V ere L. Martineau , ' 12, chairman of the Salt Lake Library Fund committee: A . H. Saxer, dean of the Schools of Arts and Science and of Ed uca tion at the College; F. L. West, dea n of the facu lty, and M . C. Harris of Logan, district judge of th e First District of Uta h.

The complete membership of this committee is now as follows : W . W . H enderson, chairman; Alma Sonne, Orva l W . Adams, F rederick P . Cha mp a nd Ray B. W est, '04, investments; B. L. Richards , ' 13, V ere L. M artinea u , '12, A. H . Saxer, '10, and F . L .

West, '04, organization; P. V . Cardon, '09. publicity; George Stewart, ' 13, library rela tions, an d M . C. H arris, '09, legal ma tters.

The G eneral Committee has the following membership: Robert L. Judd, '09, a member of the law flrm of Judd, Bag ley a nd Ray , Salt Lake, chairman ; John A . Alder, ' 12, a Sa lt Lake realtor; E. B. Brossa rd , ' 11, a member of the U . S. T ariff Commission.

W ashing ton , D . C. ; John F. Ben nett , president, Ben nett Glass a nd Paint Co., Sa lt Lake ; A . P . Bigelow, president , Ogden State Ba nk: Roy Bullen, gene ral manager, Sego .Milk Products Co .. Salt Lake; H ervin Bunderson, (Continued on Page 13.)

February, 1930

DEATHS Dr. Herbert John Pack, ' 13 The death of Dr. h . J. Pack, alumnus a nd professor of entomolog y at the CoJJege, on January 5, came as a surprise a nd a shock to faculty, alumni, students a nd the people ct the Sta le. Dr. Pack died of cancer 01 the bowel. from which he had been suffering for some time. It was thought tha t he was suffering from appendicitis until about ten days previous to his death when he was taken violentl y ill and was taken to a Loga n hospital.

Dr. Pack -..vas born at Wood 's Cross, Utah, October 26, 1893, the son of Walter X . a nd Bertha Z . Pack. He was educated in the Davis county schools and th en attended the Uta h Sta te Agricultural College, f1om which he was graduated in 1913. Following his graduation, he was instructor i. 1 ;;oology at the College for one year. In 1914 he accepted a . position as professor of biology at the Latter D ay Saints Uni versit y and served until 1918. H e was one of th e must popular instructors tha t institution has ever had. Later he ta ught at the D avis county high school a nd returned to the College as instructor in zoology a nd en tomology in 1920. He was made assistant professor in 1921. H e received the master 's degree from the College in 1923, and the doctor's degree from Cornell in 1925. H e was made associate professor of entomology a t the College in 1925 and professor in 1926.

Dr. Pack was admired and respected by students a nd faculty alike. H e was invaluable as a teacher and in research work, and was held in high esteem both in his department and in the farming communities thoroughout the western states. H e was an indefa tigable worker a long scientific lines and was engaged in writing a technical article a t the time he was taken sick.

Dr. Pack is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bessie T . Pack, and three children, Ka thl yn, Bessie and Herbert John Pack, Jr. Three brothers and four sisters are living : L. W. Pack, Ogden : K. M. Pack. Sal t Lake, and Dr. R . X. Pack, Los Angeles: Mrs. Ruby Parkins, Mrs. N ellie Mabey, Mrs. M a rie Hill, a nd Mrs. Bertha Weight, a ll li ving in or nea r Salt Lake.

Impressive funeral se rvices were held in the Loga n tabe rnacle Ja nua ry 8. The funeral was a ttended by the entire facu lty a nd ma ny students a nd townspeople, as well as by many people from many parts of the sta te.

---0---

Joseph Preston Welch, '13.

By L. M . Winsor, ' I I .

Nove mber 19, marked the passing of Joseph Preston Welch, ' 13. one of th e most aggressive extension workers known to the

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY PAl?ADISE There w here tim.:: and space is not, There is w eariness forgot.

There where co:1sciousness is clear Man to man- himself is near, There w here every deed and act R evea ls to one the naked fact, There where soul of man does learn Good to keep, and bad to burn, There the soul reaps what is sown, All desires of ea rth outgrown, There, when soul of man doth rise H e is reaching Paradise.

- Emil H a nsen.

Note: The abo ve poem was written by Mr. H ansen not long before he di ed.

Utah force. Joe died a t a hospital in Logan as a result of contracting a cold wh ich developed rapidly into lobular pneumonia . H e was born in Paradise, Cache Cache county ; fought his way through district schools and under the handicap of poverty, went on to the B. Y. Coll ege and later took his B. S. degree in ag riculture a t the U . S . A . C. in 1913.

Joe's work in the Extension S ervice began in Millard coun ty in 1913 when a state leader, Robert J. Evans, and four agents were appointed under the then new Smith-Lever Act. Th ere he worked untiringly until Sept.

I , 191 8 when he was transferred to Utah county.

In Millard , Joe carried on to successful completion a program of improvement, which, among other things, resu lted in draining and placing under culti va tion thousands of acres of hitherto waterlopged a nd a lkalin e farm lands.

In Utah county he followed up a program of dairy cow improvement and dairy production which has placed that county in th e fore front in da irying .

Joe occupied a ¡leading place among extension workers and was the first president of the local county agents' organization. He was very active in organizing club work and promoted leaders hip among the mothers in lines of home improvement.

In Ja nua ry of 1925, Mr. W elch a nd his family left Uta h coun ty a nd public se rvice a nd moved to Paradise where they purchased a farm a nd proceeded to make of it a home.

In an amazingly short time th e little farm was transferred into a home w here joy and love prevailed. A newly remodeled house, a new barn, a nd some of the choicest stock in Cache V a lley helped to pave the wa y toward the happy contentment for which Joe and Effie had planned a nd worked.

Joe li ved but 45 years, a short life as measured by years: but measured by accom plishment his life was rich and full.

11 Della Morrell, ' 13.

Alumni of the College as well as countless fri ends and rela tives of Miss Della Morrell, '13, received a distinct shock Janua ry 19 on lea rni ng of her death in a Salt La ke hospital following an operation performed la te the previous night. Until she was taken ill a short time before her death , D ella was teaching E nglish in the East high school in Salt Lake. She accepted that position last fall, following a yea r spent in graduate study in Ca lifornia.

Miss Morrell was a teacher in the Logan high school for ten years. She began her teaching career in the Logan city schools in 1917. She became head of the English department at the high school in 191 8, serving in that position until 1928. She was dea n of girls at the high school during th e time she was there and was also on the executive committee of .the student government board for several years. As a teacher, she was a n inspiration to a ll students with whom she came in contact. H er personal interest in each student, her w illingness to give freely of her time and self, her devotion to her work, <Zndeared her to students a nd faculty alike.

1\-Iiss Morrell was born in Logan, March 9, 1890, th e da ughter of Joseph and Marga ret Rowland Morrell. She received her early ed uca tion in the Logan city schools and was graduated from the Utah State Agricultura l College in 1913. During the summer of 1917, she studied at the University of C a liforni a and in 1921 -22 studied a t Columbia Uni versity. She resigned her position at the Loga n high school in 1928 a nd spent the yea r in C alifornia studying at the University of California.

Alumni w ill remember D ella as an active, interested a nd enthusiastic alu mnus a nd as a member of the executive committee. While in College she was a member of the Sorosis sorority. For ten years she served as a member of the Cache Stake Sunda y School Board. She was the winner of the second prize story for the M . I. A . drama contest in 1928.

Miss Morrell is survived by her mother and th e following brothers a nd sisters : Dr .

Joseph R. Morrell, Ogden ; Mrs. Ray B. W est, William Morrell. and Mrs. S . R. Egbert , Loga n; Mrs. C. Y . Cannon, Ames, Iowa : Thomas H . Morrell , Ida ho F a lls, Ida ho.

---0---

Hobart Greenwood White, '25.

N ews of th e dea th of Hobart G. White, '25 , was received during th e summer but the article was misplaced a nd escaped mention.

H obart died from the effects of injuries received when a horse dragged him more than 100 yards a nd across a bridge, a loose plank of which ran enti rely through his thigh. H e was rushed to Beaver. where his (Continued on Page 14.)

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

12

+-·----··-· ·- · - · - · - · -··-··-··- · - · - · -··-··-··- · -·--·+ i CLASS NEWS t i i i +i-••-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- · -··--·-··-··- · - · -··- · -··-··-+ 1900

Burton P. Fleming is manager of the Elephant Butte Irrigation District in New Mexico. His address is Las Cruces, New Mexico.

1904 Warren G. Swendsen, formerly comm1ss1oner of reclamation in Idaho, is a consulting engineer and general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar Company, Twin Falls, Idaho.

1905

February, 1930

agricultural a nd political conditions of the leading countries, especiall y of W estern Europe.

For a number of years Dr. Brossard taught the subjects of economics, agricultural economics and farm management in the University of Minnesota and the Utah State Agricultural College.

He also assisted in making farm business analyses studies in Illinois, Minnesota and New York. From S eptember 1, 1923, until his appointment as a member of the tariff commission , July 9, 1925, he was employed as economist for the United States Tariff Commission.

Dr. Brossard is a member of th e honorary scholarship fraternities of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Zeta, a nd of Pi Kappa Alpha , social fraternity . H e has also served as president of the Washington a lumni chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. and recently was elected a member of the Cosmos club of Washington, D . C. While in College he was very active in student body affairs a nd was one of the greatest athletes the College has ever produced.

J. Edward Taylor is secretary and general manager of the Mutual Coal Co., Salt Lake City. His address is 400 McCornick Building.

1908 William L. Walker was appointed manager of the Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution of Salt Lake in th e fall. Mr. Walker was formerly vice president and general manager of the Washburn Manufacturing Co. of Worcester, Mass., a large mercantile and ma nufacturing concern. He a lso has been associated with the Certified Public Accountants and Management Engineers of Boston and is a recognized authority on management engineering.

Mr. Walker was graduated from the H a rva rd school of business a dministration in 1914. He is a member of the Harvard club and a diiector of the Personal Finance corpora tion. He has written a number of magazine articles on business management and has lectured on this subject before civic orga nizations and social clubs.

1909 Alfred E. Aldous is professor of pasture ma nagement, Ka nsas State Agncultural College, Ma nha tta n, Ka nsas. His wife was formerly Carol L. Kerr, 'I I. H er address is 200 West 16th Stree t, Manhattan, Kansas.

John R. Horton is entomologist in charge of cereal forage insect investigations laboratory, Witchita, Ka nsas. His stree t a ddress is 128 South Minneapolis ave nue.

1911 Dr. E. B. Brossard was appointed chairman of the United States Tariff Commission to succeed Thomas 0 . Marvin by President Hoover on January 14. The promotion was given Dr. Brossard in recognition of his meritorious service as a member of the commission since July, 1925. His elevation to the chairmanship seems to insure his retention in case the tariff commission is reorganized after the passage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill.

Dr. Brossard is an economist and is recognized as one of the leadi ng authorities in the country on tariff questions, particularly ag ricultura l tariffs. He was born and raised on a cattle ranch in Idaho, and knows first hand the farm and livestock problems of the country. By study , travel and contact he also knows first hand the problems of industry.

After graduating from the Utah State Agricultural College, Dr. Brossard studied at Cornell University and the University of Minnesota . From the latter institution he recei ved the M . S. and Ph. D . degrees. He spent three years in study and travel in Europe where he became acquainted with the economic, industrial.

Dr. E . B. Brossard, ' 11 L. Samuel Christensen is ma nager of the America n Beet Sugar Company at Belmond, Iowa.

Sara Huntsman Sturgess is professor of public speaking and drama tic art at the Uni versity of California, Berkeley. H er husba nd is Ma jor F. A . Sturgess of the British Army.

1913 Dr. Leslie A Smith is practicing medicine in Ogden. dress is 943-30th St.

His ad-

1917 H . Grant Ivins was appointed instructor in animal husbandry at the Brigham Young University in November to succeed Dr. C. Y. Cannon, ' 12, who resigned to accept a position as head of the dairy husbandry work at Iowa State College. Grant was proprietor of the Ivins Trap-Nest Leghorn farm a t Murray at the time he accepted the position at the B. Y. U . He has had extended

THE UT AH ST ATE QUARTERLY

February, 1930

experience in livestock work. Following his graduation from the College he became manager of the Ivins ranch near Enterprise, in Washington county , Utah. He gave up this position to engage in intensive poultry breeding work. His pedigreed stock has won many awards at intermountain exhibits. He is well known throughout the intermountain country for his frequent writings on poultry which have appeared in western publications.

Dr. Joseph E. Otte is a physician a nd surgeon. He lives in Grace, Idaho.

1931 H . B. Hunsaker, president of the U. S. A. C. chapter of Delta Kappa Phi social fraternity, was recently elected president of the na tional organization when delegates representing the twelve chapters of the fraternity held their annual convention in Logan.

The Logan chapter also placed two other men on the national orga nization. Prof. Joseph R. Jenson was elected national adviser and Lowell Jensen, vice president, was named western provincial commander.

1921 Morgan McKay, was elected president cultural agents at the United ¡ States held in

county extension agent in Millard County, of the national association of county a griannual convention of county agents of the Chicago in D ecember.

1923 Rulon T. Magelby is superintendent of school distri t No. 19 His address is R. F . 0 . 3, Ida ho r a ils, Ida ho.

ii! Idaho.

1925 L. Lester Hirst has been promoted to the position of associate physical chemist with the United States D epartment of Agriculture. with office hea dquarters in Pittsburg, Pa . Mr. Hirst is a son of Prof. C. T . Hirst of the College. He was the first Honor student of the institution. He completed work for the Ph. D . degree in physical chemistry at the University of C a lifornia last year.

Howard M. Woodside's address is 21 8 Dolores Ave., Exeter, Calif. He tea ches physical education and coaches at the Exeter high school.

Lloyd J. Austin is principal of the Moccasin high school in Moccasin, Montana.

1926

13

---0-----

ADDITIONS ARE MADE TO LIBRARY FUND COMMITTEE (Continued from Page 10.)

'12, manager Stohl Furniture Co., Brigham; Mrs. Ellen Eccles, Loga n; Jesse N . Ellertsen, , 11, mayor of Provo; F. D . Farrell, '07, president. Kansas State Agricultural College; George R. Hill, Jr., '08, director of agricultural research, American Smelting and Refining Co., Salt Lake, Frank T . Hines, '20, director of the U. S. Veterans ' Bureau , Washington, D . C. ; T. H . Humphreys, '97, of Logan engineer; Willi a m M . Ja rdine , '04, president, National Radio Service Bureau, Washington, D . C .; A . G . Lundstrom, mayor of Loga n a nd manager of the Lundstrom Furniture and Carpet Co.: M . C. Merrill. '05, chief of publications, U . S. Department of Agriculture, Washintgon, 0 . C.; E . T. Ralphs , ' 10, manager, Beneficial Life Insura nce Co., Salt Lake; Mrs. Mildred F. Rich , '06, Salt Lake, and A . N . Sorenson, associate professor of English, Utah State Agricultural College.

---0-----

' '"'""'""'""'"'"""""'"'""""""""""'""""'""'"'""""'""'"'""""'""'""""""'""""""""'"""""""""""'~ -

-

Miss Elsine Nielsen is a graduate student at the Iowa Sta te College in vocationa l home economics education and clothing.

Since her graduation from the College she has taught two years in Utah and two in Wyoming.

Individuality

1928

The Thing You See In

Russell R. Keetch assumed his duties as county agricultural agent in Wasatch county December 1. He took the position formerly held by Curtis J. Spalding, '29, who resigned to acce pt a position in the extension service of the Montan a State Agri cultural College.

Yoshihiko Yamanouchi has been appointed to a position with the agricultural department of the South Manchurian Railway company in Manchuria, according to word recently received from Mr. Yamanouchi by Prof. F . M . Coe, horticu lturist at the College.

Mr. Yamanouchi will handle the horticultural advisory and developmental work for the railroad, which is one of the la rg est concerns in Manchuria. Motosuke Susuki and M. S. Durrani, two other graduates of 1928, are also engaged in horticultural work in foreign lands. Mr. Suzuki is a member of an agricultural school in Japan where he has charge of the horticultural department. Mr. Durrani is now in charge of an experimental fruit farm for the British Government in Quetta, Baluchistan , India .

BOSTONIANS SHOES FOR MEN

Thatcher Clothing Co.

1929 W. W. Hammond is doing exceptionally good work in geology at the University of Missouri. according to word received at the College from Prof. E . B. Branson, head of the department of geology at the university. Mr. Hammond and Othello T . Hansen, both last year's graduates, received scholarships to the University of Missouri last fall.

LOGAN. UTAH

â&#x20AC;˘

111111111111 11 1111111111111111111 111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 .

v

THE UTAH STATE QUARTERLY

14 UTAH AGRICULTURE APPROACHES MATURITY. (Continued from Page 1.) contrary they accept it, and they are preparing to make the most of it.

Still another gain that has come from the experience of over three-quarters of a century is the farmers ' fuller appreciation of group responsibility as regards the relationship of agriculture to other industries. Farming no longer is regarded as something to be done blindly. Today husbandry rather is being planned to satisfy market requirements, both as to kind and quality of products.

And there is an increasingly strong conviction on the part of farmers that only through group action can agriculture keep its place amid rapidly changing industrial relationships. Cooperation thus conceived differs, in my opinion, from those forms of cooperation practised in pioneer days. Then, cooperation sprang from religious unity, desire for protection against Indians, or mutual interest in water supplies. Now, the need of adjustment to changed economic conditions is largely responsible for cooperative effects.

The sentiment favoring cooperation is, of course, shared in common by farmers in all states of the Union and, being fortified by the announced policy of the federal farm board. it ¡promises to result in the realization of effective nation-wide cooperation-the essence of a dream long-cherished by forward-looking farmers in every part of America. Utah finds aligned in this movement her poultry raisers, wheat growers, and wool growers; and she sees her dairymen, fruit and vegetable growers and others taking steps leading to effective cooperation.

Fortunately, the economc pressure that is forcing group action among the farmers of Utah has not obscured the social virtues of farm village life in this state. Wherever natural conditions permit of their existence, progressive communities are to be found in which many of the conveniences and some of the luxuries supplied by American manufacturers contribute substantially to contentment with the advantages found in rural living. The abundant life, abounding in faith, hope and charity, founded upon high ideals of citizenship and stimulated by unfaltering belief in the destiny of this land -this, despite the vicissitudes of weather, pests, and markets. is the farm community life of Utah nearly a century after it began.

Whatever else has been responsible for Utah 's enriched maturity in agriculture, there can be no doubt that behind it lies a hardy home-loving farm folk, possessing vision, character, and an indomitable will to win.

When people of this type seek truth upon which to build their future , when through an effective educational system they constantly cultivate enlightenment, and, when,

combining intellectual with physical effort, they decide to press forward, the forces of Nature yield, insofar as they can yield, and progress is assured.

Hence, it may be stated with confidence that Utah has a great deal to show for her experience in agriculture during the last eighty-three years. As for the future-well , experience prompts me to be cautious.

Time moves rapidl y and the unforeseen is constantly arising to plague the bold prognosticator. Still, I believe that during the next seventeen years much more advance will be made in the affairs of agriculture and this state will reach her century mark with justifiable pride in her achievement.

So, also, will she go on through all the years to come--building upon the lessons learned through a century of hard experience and bringing to her aid all of the truths acquired by an enlightened people.

-----<>-------

UT AH AGGIES IN WASHINGTON (Continued from Page 5.) student. Ed bought a bicycle the other day so he could reach the class room quicker after work. Gerald Kerr, '14, and Quayle Peterson, '16, are employed by the U . S. Geological Survey, while Louis Ballif, "22. and Preston Neilson, '25, were with the Tariff Commission. Preston, I hear, has accepted a position in New York.

A number of former Aggies, naturally enough, are with the U . S . Departmem of Agriculture. Among these are: James A. Holden, 'II ; John I. Lauritzen , ' 13; C. Coulsen Wright, '21; Fred Daniels, '24; and Nephtune Fogelburg , '27. Roland P. Monson, '27, is an auditor in the U. S. Gen. Accounting Office; Scott Ewing, '20, still follows a mechanical bent in the Bureau of Standards; Howard Brossard, '16, is connected with Investors' Syndicate; and Dr. W. J. Snow, '21, has a private practice.

Some of our most active Aggies here are law students. Not all of them are graduates of the college. but a year or two spent at the s:hool qualifies them as Utah State supporters. Mark Pedersen, Marriner Morrell, '26. George Nielsen, come in this class.

However, the student population changes so rapidly that no one save a trained statistician could keep a record of all the comings and goings. I am not a trained statistician.

I used to see Archer Willey, '16, Leonard Andrus, '20, and Frederick Schow, '16, occasionally. But I suspect they have left these parts as I never see them any more.

On the other hand, I meet Earl Sutherland, '25, quite frequentl y. Sometimes we have dinner together. He is now doing engineering work for one of the Government departments. am certain that I have left out of mv list a number of charming and influential

February, 1930 Aggies and that they will begin cutting me on the street. Anyhow, I suspect that some of them never let the Alumni Association know where they a re and that always makes it difficult for a reporter. I shall be very glad to make amends for any omissions and to correct any mistakes I have made in this brief article. I am sure there are plenty of both. Fan mail addressed to me in care of this publication will reach me in due course.

M eantime, there will have been a good chance that hard feelings will have been forgotten. I hereby apologize to one and all whom I have inadvertently omitted or spoken of incorrectly.

-----<>-------

DEATHS (Continued from Page 11.) miuries were deemed so bad as to require attention at the Cedar City hospital.

Hobart was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. White, both of whom survive. His wife, Lucile Kunz White, a graduate of the College. and four brothers and four sisters also survive. They are Dr. Edgar White, Tremonton, Azmon D . White, San Jose, Calif., Morland and Dennis V./hite, Beaver; Mrs. Etelka Robinson, Beaver, Mrs. Luella Storrs, Price, Miss Hortense White, Safford, Arizona, and Miss Edna White, New Britain, Conn. Of these, all but Dr. Edgar White and Morland and Dennis White are graduates of the College.

Mr. White spent a year at Cornell University after he was graduated from U .S. A . C. in 1925. At the time of his death he was farming at Beaver.

-----<>----Richard Armstrong Pearse, '31.

Richard Armstrong Pearse, '3 I. known during his College career as " Boots'' Pearse, died of spinal meningitis January 24 at Brigham City following an illness of six days.

Mr. Pearse was born in Brigham City October 22, 1905. He entered U . S. A. C. in 1927 and played center on the College football team last fall . H has been playing guard on the basketball team this season.

He is a member of the Delta Nu fraternity.

Mr. Pearse took his high school work at the L. D. S. in Salt Lake, where he began his career as an outstanding athlete. He played football , basketball and baseball from 1920 to 1923, and in his senior year won the Heber J. Grant medal for the best all-around athlete. He was also picked as all-state football center in 1923 and as all-state basketball guard the same year.

He performed a mission to the eastern states for the L. D. S. church after graduation from high school.

Surviving him are his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Pearse; three sisters. Mary, Janet and Ruth Pearse, and two brothers. Harper and Richard Kinney Pearse, all of Brigham City.

Electric Refrigeration Be Sure the Nameplate Reads

FRIG I DAI R.E PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOT ORS

Home of GRUEN GUILD WATCHl!S T ime Hill, Clncinoati, U.S. A.

Sold Onl y tn

Cache and Franklin Counties By

Cache Valley Electric Company LOGAN, UTAH

PHONE 53

BANKING AT

ITS BEST"

The First National Bank LOGAN,

-

Resources $2,200,000.00

UTAH

·~ 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11 1 1 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111 111111 1 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 .

at the

Utah State Agricultural College Will begin on Monday, June 9, and continue for six weeks to Friday, June 18. Special circularsCannounc-ing the visiting faculty members and various features \\'ill be available for distribution in February. The Summer Session Catalogue will be distributed in March. ~llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllJllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllll/111111111111111111111111111+