The Ruston Daily Leader from Ruston, Louisiana • Page 1

tVMWftiTIfti for School UM. Loader VOLUME 63 THE WIATHtft Tonight and Sunday eon- tinued fair. Follow the Leader RUSTON, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1936 NEA Feature Service PRIClC FIVE OBNTt BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS TO TECH SENIORS WILL BE DELIVERED HERE TOMORROW Dr. Wada H. Boggs to Deliver Address at First Baptist Church; Loud Speakers Installed to Accomodate The Overflow Crowd 'TECH SENIORS OFFER "CLASS DAY-PROGRAM ALSO WORTHY OF NATION'S HONOR Dr.

Wade H. Boggs, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of Louisiana Tech Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, as one of the features of the college's 41st annual commencement activities. The baccalaureate services will be held at the First Baptist church in Ruston. Loud speakers will be installed in the basement and young people's department of the church to accomodate the expected overflowing crowd. Class day ceremonies, followed by the senior prom Friday night, ushered in the series of graduation programs.

Monday's events will.include the faculty-senior garden party at 7:30 p. on the lawn west of the home economics building. The program for Tuesday will be as follows: President's reception for the graduating class to be held at 10 a. m. on the campus near the Home Management house; alumni business meeting, 3:30 p.

m. at the Tech library; alumni-senior picnic at 5 p. m. on the lawn west of the science building; and the graduation exercises, 7:30 p. m.

at the Tech stadium. In case of unfavorable weather, the commencement exercises will be held at the Ruston high school auditorium. The loss of the main Tech auditorium, destroyed in the burning of the administration building last January, has Jack Thigpen, Class President Presides at First Ceremony Of Its Kind As Friday's twilight was gleaming its last upon the new concrete stadium at Louisiana Tech, there came the dawn of a series ol events arranged to put the finishing touches to 165 members of the college's 1936 graduating class. It was a senior class day program they were new venture in commencement procedure at Tech. The activities will end with the conferring of diplomas in the stadium next Tuesday at 7:30 p.

m. Relieving themselves of the academic responsibilities of their final year in college, the seniors Friday evening passed on that trust to the present juniors who will follow them to the shrine of graduation next year. The transfer of the dignity was effected by the presentation of a copper which was suspended from a ribbon around the neck of Jack Thigpen of Ruston, president of the graduating group. The senior president made it necessary to conduct some gave the emblem to Billy Mitchell of the programs off the campus. of Ruston, who will head the next Besides the sermon to be delivered by Dr.

Bobbs, the bacallaureate program Sunday morning will be as follows: from "Tannhauser" (Wagner), with Mrs. Stella B. Kidd of the Tech music depart- fient playing the organ; invocation, Dr. Bolin, pastor of lie First Baptist church of Rus- 0 Mass" (Mozart), by a vocal quartet including Elbert Haskins, Billy Hilton, James Mays and Rex Nelson, accompanied 'by the Tech or- ohestra; benediction by Dr. Bolin, and the recessional, "Priests' March" from "Athalie" (Mendelssohn).

Post Members of Legion Urged To Attend Memorial Salem Church To Be Scene of Services Tomorrow Afternoon Dr. P. K. Smith, commander of McFarland Post No. 2 American Legion, today urged every member of the Post to be present at Salem Church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, when the Post will hold its annual Memorial Day services.

The members who do not have transportation of their own, are requested by Dr. Smith, to meet at Marbury Drug, where Walter Krousel will arrange transportation. The party will leave Ruston not later than 2:15, according to -announcement by Geo. L. Nicol, who is chairman of the program com- senior class at Tech.

A gold Linotype matrix, awarded annually by the Omega Kappa social fraternity to the "most valuable" journalism student, was presented to James Price of Logansport, who has been the. student editor-in-chief of the Tech Talk the past year. Although, the senior class gift, lectern for the new auditorium to be started soon at Tech, did not arrive in time for benig given to the college at the class day program, the "presentation" was made by Harold Fincher of Mansfield, a member of the graduating class. President George W. Bond of Louisiana Tech, accepted the gift.

Hazel Lea Nowell of Mansfield, was presented a medal given by ANNUAL FOLK SCHOOL TO OPEN FOUR DAY SESSION HERE JULY TWENTY FIRST R. L. Reese Named Chairman, Mrs. P. K.

Smith, Co-Chairman of Association. Miss Mims Attends Enthusiastic Meeting Here Today The Lincoln Parish Folk School, which is an annual affair held here, will open its four-day session, July 21, and continue through July 24th, it was decided today at a meeting of interested parties, which was also attended by Miss Mary Mims, of Baton Rouge. R. L. Reese, head of the department of agriculture, Louisiana Tech, was named Chairman of the Folk School committee, and will be assisted by Mrs.

P. K. Smith, co-chairman, and Mrs. W. E.

Colvin, secretary. WILLIAMSON FUNERAL HELD THIS MORNING Frazier Said to Be Much Bettar After Resting Well During Night (Continued on Page Pour) LEGION HONOR AWARD GIVEN TO 2 STUDENTS William Cole and Illizabeth Baker Honored by Classmates and Teachers We Acknowledge Our Debt to Those Heroes Who Freely Gave Their Lives to Save Nation HEN the last veteran of the War Between the States has gone to his grave, They paid, indeed, a staggering price for it. They paid it with undue fuss about it, and the Memorial Day processions no longer arid we owe them a debt that no money could include any of those bent, aged figures in ever pay. blue or gray broadcloth, the United States We set aside one day in eacli will have lost something distinctively Ameri- morial make a formal acknowledg- can, something that helped to shape and to ment of that debt. And in making that ack- mittee.

The principal address of the day will be delivered by Hon. WD. H. Rodriquez, city Finance, Monroe. Hon.

W. K. McBride, district attorney, Ruston, will also deliver a brief memorial oration. Music for the occasion will be furnished by the Ruston high school band, under the direction of Harvey Nelson, Mr. Nicol stated.

The route to be followed by the post in going to Salem church is said through Vienna, thence West six miles to Welch Stone, then South to Sister of Ruston Man Critically Hurt In Wreck Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Stallings Injured in Auto Accident Near Crayson Mr.

and Mrs. J. J. Stallings. of Grayson, were seriously injured late yesterday afternoon in an automobile accident near Grayson, it was learned here last night.

Both were rushed to the St. Francis Hospital, Monroe, where their condition was said to be critical by hospital authorities. Mrs. Stalling is the former Lydia Staples, of Ruston, and a sister of Lloyd Staples, who is still a resident of this city. Mr.

Staples left early night, for Monroe, where William Cole, president of the senior class of Ruston high school, and Elizabeth Baker, honor student in the class, last night received the American Legion honor awards, given annually to the two students selected from each year's graduates. The awards were made by Dr. P. K. Smith, Commander of McFarland Post No.

2. local American Legion unit. They consisted of a certificate, a bronze medal and a pen to each of the two students. Inscribed on the medal resented to Miss Baker are the words: and while on the one presented to Cole ore "Leadership" and The stars of the American Legion are also engraved on the medals. In presenting the medals Dr.

Smith stated the two recipients were selected by vote of the senior class and by the teachers of Ruston high school, and are given in recognition of the qualities exhib- color whole generations of national life. The war in which those men fought is something that can well be committed to the abyss of time. It was a dreadful and destructive thing, incalculably costly in all the human values that go to pay for a war, productive of wounds that have been long in healing. But the men themselves those men who once were young, tough, slangy, and irreverent, after the time-honored manner of soldiers, and who survived to become old men who lived in eternally vivid we shall not get on so well when the last of them has left us. Memorial Day is a good occasion for remembering our debt to them.

Funeral services for J. W. Williamson, 48, were held from the Mineral Spring church, this morning at 10 o'clock, with Rev. S. E.

McFadden, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Ruston, officiating. Interment was in the Mineral Springs cemetery. Williamson was fatally injured in an automobile collision Wednesday morning, near Alexandria, and died Friday morning in the Baptist Hospital, Alexandria. Two automobiles and six persons were involved in the crash, which is said to have demolished the two autos, and taken the lives of three of the occupants, the other two being ack Hogan, of Cooper, Texas, and Milton Walker, 42, Dry Prong The various department superintendents will be selected within the next few days, it was stated, following which their committee members will be selected. Much optimism was in evidence as plans for this year's school begun to unfold at today's meeting.

It was stated by A. E. Phillips, that in view of the fact that hig Training School for teachers will bring to Ruston several very prominent men in the educational field, they will be available as lecturers and speakers at the Folk School. Mr. Phillips' training course will last nine weeks, he stated, with a few of the men being brought into Ruslon for the course staying seven weeks, but with the majority staying for the full course.

W. E. McBride, president of the Ruston Chamber of Commerce, also assured the Folk School chairman of full and complete co-operation by the Chamber of Commerce. "The Chamber of Commerce feels that the Folk School is one uf the most worthwhile projects ever undertaken Mr. McBride and it will be our purpose to support it to the Mr.

Reese was also assured of I the support of the Soil Conserva- i is a wholesome thing for us to be reminded that our country was not bought and paid for in a 5-and-10 cent store. It is nowledgment, we remind ourselves that the debt we owe to these men is simply the other side of the debt which we owe to our country. HE battlefield is not the only place where that debt can be paid. Some men are called on to die for their country; all of us are called on to live for live in good citizenship, in remembrance of the great ideals of liberty, and freedom, in a steadfast determination that this land of ours will always be the abiding place of the bright dreams and high hopes of the human heart. We can rededicate ourselves to that task today, as we pay homage to the battle flagH and the men who march behind them.

These Memorial Day ceremonies are a challenge to the best that is in us. The names on the and St. Mi- farmer. Deputy Clyde Frazier, the I tion Service unit here, of which driver of the car in which Hogan I Mr. A.

A. Breeden is in charge, and Williamson were riding, was anc the support of the Parish painfully, but not critically injured, and is at present under care of physicians in the Alexandria hospital. His condition early this morning was described as "considerably and it was thought that he would be able to leave the hospital within the next few days. X-ray pictures revealed no fracture of the skull, which was at first thought probable. Mr.

Williamson is survived by his widow, the former Miss Genie Mathews, and two children, Gerald, 24, and Clarice, 20. He is also survived by his mother Mrs. J. N. Williamson, and two brothers, J.

H. Williamson, and Emmett Williamson, all three of whom live in Vienna. McLure Funeral Parlor were in charge of arrangements. what it is great and rich homeland nie1 Vicksburg and Montfaucon, Chicnmau- for free men and in past a and thti quiet, blood-bought generations, it managed to produce the cour- reminders that America was built by men age and the devotion which could send men who coulu I )ut du tlbove Belf out to lay down their lives for it. May we, in time or peace, follow that They bought it for us, with blood and principle as nobly as the heroes of Memor- pain and hardship.

ial Day followed it in time of war! ittd by them. the students in earning 35 DIPLOMAS PRESENTED AT RUSTON HIGH Rev. Guy Hicks Delivers the Commencement Address; Folk Presents Diplomas Bible Classes Meet Tomorrow The Men's Federated Bible Class will meet Sunday morning at the Presbyterian church, with Truett Scarborough, Ruston attorney, scheduled to be the speaker for the meeting. The class convene at 9:30, it was announced. The Women's Federated Bible Class will meet at the same hour, the First Baptist church, with Mrs.

E. H. Fortson, Horner, being the teacher for the morning. Mrs. Fortson is an aunt of the Rev.

R. W. Vaughn, superintendent of 1 W. J. Bolin, of First remain at the bedside of tha Louisiana Methodist Orphan- Ruston.

Thirty-five seniors at Ruston high school received their diplomas Friday evening at the annual commencement exercises of the school. J. T. Folk, president of the Lincoln Parish School Board, presented the diplomas, and Rev. Guy Hicks, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Rusun, delivered the commencement address.

William Cole, president of the graduating class, delivered the welcome address, and Ruth Foster, the valedictory, "School and Living." The program began with the processional, "Marche by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Nelson, which was followed by the invocation, by OB Thomas White To Finish at Baylor Monday Evening Dr. and Mrs. S.

L. White will leave tomorrow for Dallas, wheio they will attend the graduation of their son, Thomas White, from Hay lor University. The exercises will bf held at the Baptist church in Dallas, on Monday evening, June 2. His medical degree will climax a brilliant carreer, for he is the possessor of a B. A.

degree from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, and of both B. S. and M. A. decrees in chemistry from Vanderbilt University.

Young externed at High land SamtaiiUin Shreveport during his med.cal courtf. and will serve his at Charity Hospital in For the past two years he has had the distinction to on the faculty at Baylor Medical College in the chemistry department. He has lived his childhood and young manhood in Ruston, where (Continued on tow-) The floor show in the German restaurant of the $250,000 Black Forest villano of the Texas Centennial Exposition will be performed on ice by world's most artistic skaters. Gardner Coring Ahead at 6050 Is Report Today Gardner No. 1, section 10-17-4, West, today were- reported coring ahead near 0,000 feet, after having lost considerable tirno during the week due to lark of sufficient water supply.

The test is becoming more important to oil and gas men as it is deepened, due to the nearness of anticipated producing levels. The operators contemplate drilling to approximately 0,700 feet, it was satt- ed unless production is located above that depth. Dave M. Lide, associate of the group who own the oil rights and are drilling the block, stated several days ago, that the top of the Travis Peak, a producing level of the Texas fields, is anticipated at around feet, however, it it is not located at that level, the tost will probably be carried several hundred feet deeper in an ef- ford to locate it lower. Agent and Home Demonstration Agent departments by J.

A. Shealy and Miss Sophai Stone. Chairman Reese stated at the meeting that it was his plan to bring in at least two or three nationally prominent speakers, to be used in addition to those who come from Louisiana Tech, Louisiana State University, and other neur-by points. Attending today's meeting, among others, were A. A.

Breeden, T. L. James, W. E. McBride, Rev.

Guy M. Hicks, Rev. Louis Hoffpauir, Mr. and Mrs. Dowling, Geo.

A. Shaw, J. T. Folk, A. E.

Phillips, J. A. Shealy, Mrs. P. K.

Smith, Miss Stone and Miss Mims. There were also several ladies, the names of whom we were unable to get, from surrounding communities, in attendance. Due to the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the Jews are gathering in Jerusalem. They are purchasing the land from the Arabs. Since the persecution began in Germany the population of Palestine haw increased from 175,000 Jews to 375,000.

BEHIND THE SCENCS IN When a stranger approaches us these days and offers to shake hands we can't figure out whether he is now a candidate or whether having been a candidate in the past he became so used to shaking hands habit. that he cannot break the Around the Corner By Elmtr Zilch Hoy don't it make you feel good when someone comes in with a big order that you haven't been working on for months. Mr. Cupp's got his working now. big freezer Hopkins a in off unscathed from is appearance before the House appropriations subcommittee, con- Mdering the administration request for $1,500,000,000 more for WPA.

That was because nobody had any ammunition to shoot at him. The record, now public, shows that this fast talking head of the va.it WPA organization was armed with an overwhelming array of facts, figures, tables, and charts whild the hostile committee members, in no position to dispute tins evidence, could explode only a few pop-guns in the form of isolated incidents which previously had been hashed and re-hashed in Congress and Hopkins' large research und sta tistical staff had prepared all the answers and anyone who wanted to check ovi-i- the WPA program would have uoeded a more or less similar of his own. When Hopkins pointed out that WPA had 17.0UO projects and that only 100 or 150 had been held up Heie it is commencement time and the Tech Gruds have a sinking feeling in the pit of their tummys whtn they realize all the fun is over und the world looks at them with a mean grin just daring them to try to make a living. The high scho grads feel kinda funny and silly when they think about: being out of school and that the world givss hem credit for to public as horrible examples I being just about and they of "boondoggling" or I feel just like they did all along, he insisted was a good none could him nay. But Hopkins went on further tc insist that in most instances even those criticisms were unjustified.

Then there is all us pore bus- mess folk who look at the long iununer months and hope. Defending the WPA white-collar I Oh, well, tomorrow is SuncUty. I and the poachers will probably (Continued on two) us something, to tor..