1930-01-14 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930 NUMBER 31
Initial Mid Term
Commencement
Be Held Jan. 23
Dr. Knapp Will Confer Degrees
Upon Students In Seven
Schools
EIGHTEEN CANDIDATES
Graduation Exercises To Be
Held At Convocation In
Langdon Hall
Eighteen students are candidates
for graduation in the first mid-term
graduation exercises in the history of
the college, to be held on Thursday,
January 23. Diplomas will be pre­sented
to the graduates by President
Bradford Knapp, at a special convoca­tion
to be held at this time in Lang­don
Hall. Degrees will be conferred
upon students in seven departments
of the college.
The following gives the school, the
pending degree, and the names of
the candidates for graduation:
School of Engineering:
B. S. in Electrical Engineering,
Richard Henry Boyd, Philadel­phia,
Pa.
John Ledbetter Condon, Mont­gomery.
Julius Frederick Pomeroy, Jr.,
Eufala.
School of Science and Literature:
Bachelor of Science,
Robert Taylor Butler, Auburn.
William Warren Rogers, Morris.
Raymond Edwin Spann, Dothan.
John Wesley Sentell, Ashland.
School of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Chemist,
Joseph Alvin Dunnam, Camden.
James Boulware McKissac, Roa­noke.
School of Education:
B. S. in Secondary Education,
William Lee Little, Piedmont.
Blanche Marie Tancredi, Birm­ingham.
Frances D. Whatley, Loachapoka
B. S. in Agricultural Education,
L. J. Nix, Detroit.
School of Home Economics:
B. S. in Home Economics,
Ruth Dobyne, Auburn.
School of Graduate Studies:
Master of Science,
Leonard Geoffrey Brackeen,
Athens.
Clyde Drummond, Montgomery.
Oliver Turner Ivey, Beatrice.
Fred Leslie Sheridan, Bessemer.
Dr. Sugg Appointed
Lee County Agent
Succeeds L. M. HoIIingsworth Who
Has Been Transferred To
Randolph County
D*r. R. S. Sugg has been appointed
county agent for Lee County, suc­ceeding
L. M. HoIIingsworth, who was
transferred to Randolph county. This
change in personnel was announced
by Emmett Sizemore, district agent.
Dr. Sugg will be employed jointly
by the Extension Service of Auburn,
in cooperation with the Lee County
Board of Revenue, of which Judge G.
P. Butler, is chairman. He will begin
work at an early date.
In announcing this appointment,
Mr. Sizemore said that it will give to
Lee county a man especially qualified
to serve as county agent. Dr. Sugg
graduated at Auburn in agriculture
in 1914, and veterinary medicine in
1915. With the exception of one
year spent in educational work in
North Carolina and two years in the
Army during the World War, he has
been connected with the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute continuously
since graduation. For ten years he
was in the college of veterinary medi­cine.
In June, 1928, he became live­stock
specialist for the Extension
Service and was assigned to the Black
Belt section of the State. He was in
this position when invited to accept
the Lee County proposition.
In all of his work Dr. Sugg has
demonstrated his ability as a leader.
Although he specialized in livestock,
he has been a careful student of other
phases of agriculture.
NEW RADIO STATION
IN MONTGOMERY TO
HOOK-UP WITH WAPI
Station KSFA When Completed
Will Operate In Connec­tion
With WAPI
When radio Station KSFA, is in­stalled
in Montgomery, it will ope­rate
in cooperation with Station
WAPI, Alabama's super-power sta­tion,
in Birmingham, with studios in
Auburn and Montgomery.
Seeing that the two stations can
operate to mutual advantage the
hook-up was recommended by Com­missioner
S. P. Storrs and P. O.
Davis. The recommendation was ap­proved
and provision for making it
effective was made by the State
Board of Agriculture at a recent
meeting. Representing the board of
control of WAPI, Dr. O. C. Carmi-chael,
president of Alabama College
at Montevallo, appeared before the
board in behalf of the proposition. He
told the board that Dr. Bradford
Knapp of Auburn, and Dr. George H.
Denny, of the University, are in fa­vor
of it.
The idea to link the two stations
originated with Mr. Davis, who saw
in it an opportunity to extend the
radio service of Auburn. With the
two stations on the air the programs
now being broadcast daily from Au­burn,
will go over two stations instead
of one as at present. Montgomery
difficulties in reception will be elim­inated.
When the combination becomes ef­fective
Alabama will have a two-sta­tion
chain for broadcasting state
programs of an educational nature
along with entertainment features.
The plan now is for the two stations
to have the same program two or
three hours daily. Other programs
will be exclusive to each of the sta­tions.
This combination will give to Ala­bama
a super-power station in Birm­ingham,
serving most of the state
and supplying certain programs to
the small station serving Montgomery
and vicinity; and, in return, several
programs originating in Montgomery
will be broadcast over both stations.
Negotiations are now being made for
a full-time wire connection lfetween
the two points in order that either
station can go on the air in co-ope­ration
with the other any time be­tween
eight in the morning and mid­night,
during which time the circuits
will be available.
With this arrangement, the Mont­gomery
station will use the speech
in-put equipment which is now locat­ed
in connection with the WAPI stu­dios
in the building occupied by the
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Death Of Father Causes
Long Brothers To Leave
Howell and Grady May Not Return to
Auburn This Year
J. R. Long, father of Grady and
Howell Long, died at his home in
Falkville, Alabama, Monday after­noon,
after a brief illness of pneu­monia.
The Long brothers left for
Falkville Monday night, and it is not
definitely known whether or not
they will return to school this year.
Grady and "Shorty" were two out­standing
football luminaries last
year, the last named being captain
of the 1929 eleven.
Members Auburn Staff
Will Visit Martin Dam
Prof. Hixon and O. S. Quennelle Will
Spend Thursday At Martin Dam
Of Power Co.
To make a special study of the cor­rosion
of water tm-bines Prof. Charles
R. Hixon and 0. G. Quennelle of the
engineering research station at Au­burn
will spend Thursday at Martin
Dam of the Alabama Power Company.
The trip is being made at this time
because of an opportunity to get the
information wanted.
One of the engineering research
projects now being conducted at Au­burn
is a study of corrosion.
Blue Key Gives
Bids To Seniors
In Fall Election
Chosen In First Election Of
Year At Which Time Only
Seniors Eligible
FIVE EXTENDED BIDS
Four Of New Men Are Mem­bers
Of Departmental
Publications Staffs
That bids have been extended to
five prominent members of the senior
class by the Blue Key Honor Society
was made known today by Charles
F. Davis, president of the honor
group. The new pledges were elec­ted
to membership in the society at
the fall election, at which time only
seniors are eligible. Another elec­tion
for juniors and seniors will be
held in the spring. The new men
are as follows: W. W. Bryant, A. V.
Blakenship, Mallory Collins, A. A.
Strauss, and A. L. Morrison.
Bill Bryant is a member of the Pi
Kappa Alpha social fraternity. He is
Cadet Major of the Engineer Unit of
the R. O. T. C. unit and is a mem­ber
of Scabbard and Blade, honorary
military fraternity. He is also presi­dent
of the Auburn Glee Club, hav-nig
been an active member of that
organization for the three and one-half
years that he has attended Au­burn.
A. V. Blankenship is editor-in-chief
of The Plainsman. He is a member
of the Sigma Pi Fraternity, and an ac­tive
member of several forensic or­ganizations.
Mallory Collins is a member of the
Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity.
He is enrolled in architecture and is
architectural editor of the Auburn
Engineer.
A. A. Strauss, a member of the
Thette, Chi fraternity, is editor-in-chief
of the Auburn Engineer.
A. L. Morrison is enrolled in agri­cultural
education and is a member
of Alpha Gamma Rho. He has been
an active supporter of the Alabama
Farmer during his years at Auburn,
and this year is business manager of
the agricultural monthly.
New Post Office For
Auburn Is Assured
Congressman Steagall Wires That
House Passed Appropriation Act
That Auburn would be given a
new "government-owned post office
was almost assured the townspeople,
when a telegram stating that the ap­propriation
for a post office had been
passed by the House of Representa­tives
was read by Director L. N. Dun­can
at the Kiwanis Club meeting
Monday.
The telegram, from Congressman
Steagall, further stated that Auburn
was to be given the preference un­der
the new appropriation act. The
Senate recently passed on the appro­priation,
and now it remains only
for the president to act on the meas­ure.
The Kiwanians expressed their aim
to accomplish for Auburn one major
project for 1930. It was announced
that an anniversary meeting will be
held on next Monday, and that John
Wilkins, of Opelika, the Kiwanis lieu­tenant-
governor, will be in charge of
the meeting.
A full attendance of members at
the meeting was reported.
Thendara Elects
Twelve Students
Members Of Eight Fraternities Ex­tended
Bids After Fall Election
Thenodara Interfraternity Organi­zation
announces the election of
twelve students to membership. The
pledges are as follows:
W. A. Robinson, Kappa Alpha;
John Lewis' and Alex Burton, Kappa
Sigma; Gus Wingo, Alpha Tau
Omega; Kelly Sullivan and Earnest
Bell, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; W. S.
Myrick and A. M. Pearson, Pi Kappa
Alpha; Fred Hardy and Marion
Jones, Sigma Nu; Edward Gavin,
Theta Chi; Rex Sykes, Pi Kappa Phi.
TO LEAD GRAND MARCH Administration Building Ml S S
Will Soon Be Known As
William J. Samford Hall
Miss Maiben Hixon
Kappa Delta Pi Initiates
Fourteen New Members
At Banquet On Monday
Dean Zebulon Judd Acts As
Toastmaster At Elaborate
Affairs In Thomas Hotel s
With an elaborate banquet at the
Thomas Hotel Monday evening, 14
new members were initiated into Kap­pa
Delta Pi, honorary educational fra­ternity
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. Dean Zebulon Judd of the
school of education was toast-master
and the speaker of the evening was
Dr. Paul Irvine, professor of educa­tion,
who addressed the fraternity on
"The Meaning of Kappa Delta Pi."
Following are the initiates who
were selected because of their high
scholarship, qualities of leadership,
and personality: Frances Moore, Au­burn;
W. W. Cotney, Lineville; L. I.
Lumpkin, Millerville; Ruth Jackson,
Opelika; W. B. Story, Opelika; Lottie
Collins, Fayette; Dewey Turney,
Hartsell; Mrs. Ellison McCulloch, Au­burn;
Lane Graves, Mobile; Eugenia
Smith, Roanoke; Allen M. Pearson,
Leroy; John J. Parks, Scottsboro;
Howard Crey, New Market; and Eliz­abeth
Brownfield, Opelika.
Kappa Delta Pi is a national Edu­cation
honor fraternity, whose pur-
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Professors Duncan
And Crenshaw Are
Improving Rapidly
Two Members of Faculty Con­fined
In Hospital Follow­ing
Operations
Radio Program Will
Depict Campus Life
Program to Be Presented Over WAPI
Will Picture College Life At
Auburn
Following condemnation and pro­tests
from students of the leading col­leges
and universities against the mo­tion
picture producers and others for
depicting college life in an unrealistic
manner, the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
will add further impetus to
the upholding to the public the cause
of the college.
Plans are now under way to present
a program over Station WAPI which
will depict campus life as it exists on
the Auburn campus. The program
will carry listeners to the heart of
college activity and campus life. The
speakers will be a number of repre­sentative
students.
It was said that the program will
be broadcast late in February .and
will in all probability be one of a
series. Mr. P. O. Davis, Manager of
WAPI, stated that one of the leading
student organizations will probably
be asked to sponsor the student pro­gram
which will be augmented by the
Auburn Band or Glee club.
Two members of the faculty of
Auburn—Prof. L. N. Ducan, director
of extension, and Prof. B. H. Cren­shaw,
head of the department of
mathematics—in a hospital at Mont­gomery,
following operations are im­proving
as rapidly as could be expect­ed,
according to the latest reports re­ceived
at Auburn.
Professor Crenshaw underwent an
operation Monday morning for goitre.
He will be in the hospital several
days. Mrs. Crenshaw, who is in
close touch with him, said that he is
improving steadily although no date
has been named for his return to Au­burn.
Professor Crenshaw's illness
came rather suddenly. He was hur­ried
to Montgomery, where physicians
advised immediate operation although
his condition was not alarming, they
said.
Professor Duncan's operation was
minor. It was performed Tuesday
and an attending surgeon said that
he would be in the hospital two or
three days. It was a minor operation
as a result of a slight injury incurred
by an accident while horseback riding
on a hunting trip in Dallas county
three years ago.
Professor Duncan and Professor
Crenshaw were hospital neighbors,
one being in room 105 and the other
in room 103. Near them was the
wife of an Auburn man, Mrs. L. O.
Brackeen, who underwent an ope­ration
for appendicitis immediately
following Mr. Duncan's operation.
Mr. Brackeen graduated at Auburn
two years ago and is director of pub­lic
information for the Alabama Farm
Bureau Federation. Rapid recovery
for Mrs. Brackeen is expected.
Name Chosen By Board Of
Trustees In Honor Of Late
Governor Samford
Bill Myrick Chosen
President S. A. M. E.
A. C. Taylor Elected Vice-President
and Rex Sikes Secretary-Treasurer
Of Military Society
Election of officers of the Society
of American Military Engineers on
Tuesday night resulted in the choos­ing
of W. S. Myrick as president of
the organization. Other selections
were A. C. Taylor, vice-president, and
Rex Sikes, secretary and treasurer.
The retiring president, V. L. Taylor,
was given a vote of recognition for
his work as executive of the society
during the first semester.
Workmen arc placing an inscrip­tion
reading, "William J. Samford
Hall" on the double-towered structure
here which has been known to Auburn
men of two generations as the "Main
Building" or "Administration Build­ing."
This action follows a resolution
passed by the Board of Trustees of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
their May, 1929, meeting in Auburn,
in which they named the building the
"William J. Samford Hall." >
In doing this they honored the
late Governor Samford, who did more
than any other, for the erection of
the building. As a member of the
State Senate, he wrote the law by
which the legislature appropriated
the money. In addition he rendered
distinguished service to Auburn in
many other ways. He was a mem­ber
of the Board of Trustees before
becoming Governor, when he became
chairman of the board. His son, Col.
T. D. Samford, of Opelika, has been
a member of the board for many
years.
Gov. Samford died in office in
1900. He was an alumnus of Au­burn,
and the only Auburn alumnus
ever to become governor of Alabama.
Since then his sons and grandsons
have become Auburn men.
Samford Hall was erected in 1888,
on the site of another main building
which was destroyed by fire in 1887.
The old structure dated back to 1859.
The present structure of red brick
served for many years as the princi­pal
class and office building. Offices
of administration are still housed in
it, but will be moved when the new
Bibb Graves Administration Build­ing
is erected.
Block and Bridle Club
Will Initiate On Feb. 7
Four Pledges Of Fraternity Will Be
Conducted Through Initiation
Rites At This Time
Hixon Will
Lead Junior Hop
With Ernest Bell
Popular Montevallo Sophomore
Chosen To Lead Mid-Term
Dances
1000 BIDS SENT OUT
Five Fraternities Will Give
House Parties During
Dances
Miss Maiben Hixon, of Monroe-ville,
Alabama, will lead the Grand
March of the Junior Prom with
Ernest Bell, it was announced today
by Henry Reeves,- chairman of the
Student Social Committee. Miss
Hixon is a sophomore at Alabama
College, Montevallo. Bell is presi­dent
of the Junior class and is a
member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity.
One thousand bids have been sent
throughout the entire South, and the
acceptance of over two hundred is ex­pected,
it was stated. Entertainment
for the fair visitors will be provided
by house parties given by Theta Chi,
Sigma Nu, Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma
Phi Sigma, and Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternities.
Al Katz and His Kittens are being
heralded as the most novel dance and
entertainment combination ever to
appear in Auburn. Al Katz, its peppy
director, is of the newer school, in­troducing
singing and dancing into
his numbers, drawing forth unique
effects from the instruments, and
acting in general as a snappy super­visor
of smart syncopation.
The program of the dances has
been announced as follows: Thurs­day
night, Opening Ball; Friday
morning, Thendara Dance; Friday af­ternoon,
Key Tea Dance; Friday
night, Junior Ball, at which Grand
March will be held; Saturday morn­ing,
Scabbard and Blade Dance; Sat­urday
afternoon, "A" Club Dance;
Saturday night, Farewell Ball.
Initiation of four men into the
Block and Bridle club will take place
on February 7, officials of the so­ciety
announced today. Two seniors,
D. M. Turney, of Hartsell, and C. A.
Harris, of Alexander City, both of
whom are enrolled in the agricultural
engineering course, will receive the
rites of the society. The others to be
initiated are Professor J. C. Grimes,
head professor of animal husbandry,
and Professor A. D. Burke, head pro­fessor
of dairying.
The Block and Bridle club is a na­tional
honorary organization for stu­dents
of animal husbandry; the Au­burn
chapter, has only recently been
organized. President Knapp and
Professor E. E. McLean are at the
present time the only faculty mem­bers
of the organization.
Prexy Makes Address
At U. Of 111. Jan. 14th
On Return Trip Dr. Knapp Will
Speak In Nashville
Illinois farmers heard Dr. Brad­ford
Knapp in an address delivered
at the University of Illinois on Jan­uary
14. The bigger problems in
agriculture were presented by Dr.
Knapp in his address, based upon
many years of experience and a life­time
of study of agriculture and the
problems of the farmer.
The address was delivered by Dr.
Knapp by special request during the
annual meeting of farm people of
Illinois at the University, which is al­so
the State College of Agriculture.
On his return from Illinois, Dr.
Knapp will stop in Nashville, Tennes­see,
where he will address the farm­ers
of that state at the annual meet­ing
of the Tennessee Farm Bureau
Federation.
On the north-bound leg of his trip
Dr. Knapp spoke to the farmers of
North Carolina at the State College
of Agriculture, Raleigh.
New Ag Course Will Be
Offered 2nd Semester
Three-Hour Course In Rural Sociol­ogy
Will Be Open to Sophs
And Above
Beginning with the second semes­ter,
a course in rural sociology will
bet offered by the department of
Farm Management of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. It will be a
three-hour course for sophomores and
above, and will be taught by Dr. H.
C. Hoffsommer.
The course, as announced by Dr.
Hoffsommer, is designed to meet a
distinct need at Auburn. It will be
an important addition to the courses
offered in this department.
In college, Dr. Hoffsommer major­ed
in rural sociology. It was in this
field of study, that he completed his
work and received the degree of doc­tor
of; philosophy at Cornell Univer­sity
of Chicago. He also worked at
the North Dakota Experiment Sta­tion.
Before coming to Auburn, Dr.
Hoffsommer had five years' experi­ence
in teaching at different colleges
and universities.
Dr. J. V. Brown Attends
M e e t In Charleston
Will Take Part On Program Of Con­clave
Of College Alumni
Officials
Dr. J. V. Brown, executive secre­tary
of the Auburn Alumni Associ­ation,
and Kirtley Brown, of the de­partment
of public information, left
Auburn Wednesday to attend a meet­ing
of college alumni officials and
secretaries at Charleston, South Caro­lina.
Dr. Brown will take part on
the program.
In view of the fact that much at­tention
will be given to alumni pub­lications,
Kirtley Brown is attending
the meeting. Much of the work ne­cessary
to edit and publish the Au­burn
Alumnus is done by him.
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THE PLAINSMAN
—hopes the quietude noticed is indicative
of some real work in preparation of the
coming examinations.
E x t r e m e s Often
Fatal To Students
Youth spends much time and effort in
chasing false illusions. The early part of
life is a wild goose chase wherein the run­ners
grasp at the things of which moon­beams
are made. Yet, there is one saving
grace, for it is apparent that youth is
striving to satisfy a longing for something
better, something of substance something
more lasting than is enjoyed at present.
An equally large percentage of college
is likewise consumed in following glitter­ing
trails which lead one away from schol­arship.
We who follow them do not look
at them in perspective before starting down
the course. One of the most tragic things
in life is to see things too late.
We were interested in the question of a
student recently who asked: What is the
relative importance of extra curricular ac­tivities
and scholarship? It is a question
that has occurred to many of us, but we
dared not ask it because we have encom­passed
ourselves with a veil that defies
penetration.
Extra curricular activities are import­ant
and should be entered into to some de­gree
by every registered student. The
inevitable crime comes when we enter into
them at the expense of scholarship.
The more ambitious of us enter into too
many attractive side-lines which invariably
sidetrack us in our college work. Yes,
scholarship is important. Those who desert
her to follow popularity or who enter a
wide variety of extra curricular activity
are prostitutes. We have unknowingly and
unintentionally become involved in a com­plex
life which consumes our spare time and
leaves us off the main line. There is a
balance of power for those who are not at­tracted
by a popularity neither satisfying
or lasting.
Will This Be
Done In Auburn
Auburn is admittedly a leading school
when it comes to the development of young
commercially and technically trained men,
and the evidence supporting the fact lies
in the large number of successful graduates
that are scattered over every state in the
Union, as well as foreign countries.
Time always brings changes, however,
and today we recognize the fact that it
takes more than a good technical or com­mercial
education to make a successful
to make a successful man. This added
quality that we believe necessary in the
make-up of every individual in Auburn is
the ability to handle him or her-self cor­rectly
under the social standards of today.
To attain this degree of perfection the in­dividual
should have a foundation of good
"everyday" manners to build upon. Au­burn
students, being quite distant from
cities of any size, do not have the social
advantages that other students have. The
attainment of manners, both social and
otherwise, are left largely to the individu­al's
desire for such. Not always recogniz­ing
the importance of being able to conduct
themselves properly, many students over­look
this particular phase of college life
that is not obtained by merely being in
college. Like everything else worth while,
good manners are the result of a certain
amount of study and practice.
One of the few social events of our
school, the Junior Prom, is almost upon
us. It is here that the good manners of
the Auburn students will be exhibited. We
believe, in fact, are confident, that the
majority of the student body will carry
themselves in such a manner as to shower
credit upon themselves as well as their
school..
The harm will rest with those who are
indifferent, or those who display no apti­tude
for the culture that should be a part
of their college career. It can only be
urged upon these students to resolve to
better themselves at these social affairs in
later life, the appreciation of having good
manners can be partly traced back to their
social contacts in college life.
Beauty of Tower Being
Marred Ere Completion
Many words of admiration have been
uttered concerning the beauty of the tower
on top on the new chemistry building.
These have come from the many visitors
and students-who have gazed upon it dur­ing
construction and now that it is com­pleted.
Ross Laboratory is a beautiful
structure and the tall tower does much in
increasing this beauty and attractiveness.
However, before the building is even ready
for occupancy, the black smoke from the
college; heating p(lant has deposited its
sooty marks. At this rate it will soon be
but a black spot in the sky. The money
and time spent in its construction will be
giving small returns. We can but wonder
if the smoke and soot from the tall stack
of the furnace will be allowed to continue
to mar the beauty of this towering obstacle
as it is surely is doing at the present time.
City Officials Must
Take Notice
Many campaigns have been held in Au­burn
in an effort to get the citizens to
keep the town looking as clean as possible,
but too often these pleas have fallen on
deaf ears. Occasionally temporary heed
is taken, but consistency is never seen.
These campaigns have been put on by civic
organizations and by the officials of the
town, in an endeavor to lessen the filth
that literally finds a regular resting place
in the streets, alleys, and vacant lots.
The latest deplorable condition to come
to our notice is in the first block of South
College Street. Unsightly premises and
exceedingly offensive odors are all that
greets one as he passes along the street.
We cannot but wonder if the authorities,
who have tried to hard to keep the town
presentable, are intending to allow this
condition to remain as it now is. Such a
filthy investment is a bad advertisement
for Auburn and cannot possibly prove very
inviting to visitors.
Letters to the Editor
My Dear Editor:
A few days ago I was delighted to learn
that Auburn is about to become a fully
modernized and up-to-date knowledge fac­tory.
When the new system is finally in­stalled
Auburn will be prepared to turn
out a completely standardized product with
interchangeable parts and exactly similar
to that produced in other institutions of a
like nature. And how is this to be at­tained?
you ask. Well nothing could be
simpler. Some enterprising psychologist
has discovered that the average class at
Columbia or Johns Hopkins contains a cer­tain
per cent of outstanding students and
a certain per cent of failures. Ergo, every
class in every other college in the country
must have the same amount of genius and
the same number of failures to insure that
there shall be no deviation from the aver­age.
No class can be allowed more than a
set proportion of brilliant men for to do
so would mean that the product is no longer
standardized, the prime essential of mass
production. Ah, imagine the sublime spirit
of those other men, the failures, who are
to be immolated on the altar of mechanized
education! They are the martyrs, they
who fail in order that the banner of mass
civilization may be advanced. Well may we
look forward to the day when the ne plus
ultra of education will be reached, when
the raw material will be fed in one end of
the machine and the standardized human
being taken out at the other, requiring but
one size of hat, but one mode of thought.
But, seriously, what is to eventually be­come
of the individualist? Is individuality
so terrible a trait that we must use every
possible device to eradicate it? Appar­ently
the individual has no place amid the
exigencies of modern progress and every­one
must conform in thought and action
to the average man's idea of himself. We
come to college ostensibly to learn how to
think out the problems which will confront
us later in life but what really happens
is that we are forced to assimilate an en­tirely
heterogeneous mass of facts and at
set intervals repeat them to the instructors
while the college busily engages itself in
directing our social life, our diet, and our
modes of expression. Perhaps this is a
desirable state of affairs but it seems to
me that the college student ought to be al­lowed
to retain his individual preferences
and to captain his own soul. Therefore,
with best regards, I am,
Yours for fewer and better restrictions,
LLEWELLYN LADYFINGERS.
" 1 L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
Join the Marines, did you say? Well,
perhaps that is the way to see "The Cock-
Eyed World;" but we prefer seeing it a
different way. If you didn't see the above
named show this week, you're different to
about ninety-five percent of the remaining
Auburn residents—you are.
The flying game is a big one, and still
growing. But when even one lone eagle
gets stranded, it gives the other mates a
searching time. We read yesterday where
sixty planes hopped off in a search for two
high altitude testers that failed to "return
to earth" at the appointed time. We won­der
if they over-topped the forces of gravi­ty!
We see where the grand old man of
chemistry in Auburn as well as the State
of Alabama is fast recovering in Arkan­sas.
It will not be but a few weeks until
he is here to start the biggest thing in his
life. Dr. Ross has worked a long time,
faithfully and untiringly, for a dream that
is about to become a reality. It is indeed
fitting that he should be here to start
work when the building is first completed.
It was due to his endless efforts in find­ing
the latest designs for the Chemistry
building that it is to be so elaborate.
A button from the Batchelor runs:
"Nothing is so useless as worry unless it is
advising other people not to do so." A
line of truth, no doubt.
Five Monteroy convicts escaped by saw­ing
their jail bars with razor blades. Quite
a lot of shavers will recognize those blades.
A pessimist is a person who expects all
of his nightmares and none of his dreams
to come true. But can an optimist be the
reverse of this maxim?
The inevitable search for better quarters
by college students in this "revolutionary
and disturbing" town has begun. Poor
feeding, too much noise, too large a crowd
—these and many others are the proffered
excuses. But possibly the gist of the mi­gratory
urge is contained in a pulsating
restlessness acquired before the individual
arrived here. We wonder if this will be
their case throughout life? Maybe this is
their way of getting to see more of the
world!
Semester exams usually claim a toll of
careless gliders. This is indeed a deplor­able
fact; however, judging from comments
a-float, a new group will be added to the
list within a few days. The trends are that
the present Freshmen are unusually care­free.
Maybe this Vigilance Committee will
cause a spark to flame up within some of
them—what?
Statistics taken during the past year in­dicate
that there are considerably more
autos in this country than bathtubs. But
one can't get a good trade-in on his tub.
Some men are a great deal more careful
about the alcohol they put in their cars
than the kind they put in their own radi­ators.
If large purses can hire the best athletes,
pretty soon the small colleges won't be able
to offer anything but an education.
The girls might send their discarded
short shirts to the Fiji islands; they're still
in style there.
"A Woman swears she won't—
And though a bitter pill,
If Fashion says she must
She meekly says she will."
What about the efficiency expert who
went to a formal Washington dinner party
and had two knives and a fork left over?
Then there's the man who sprinkled salt
on his shoulders to give the impression that
he has dandruff.
Alimony was invented so a woman
wouldn't have to take a man's name in vain.
And now a little diversion—final exams!
Then there was the Scotchman who was
so close that he got slapped.
"Some of the busiest people in the world
are only picking up the beans they spilled."
Reading of clipping in popular weekly:
"He's So Dumb He Thinks."
The Gecko
I'm the Gecko who painted 33 on the
tank several days ago. I can't see who the
upperclassmen insist on beating the rats
and acting so mean about it either, for even
they should be able by observation that my
class is by far the best and most intelli­gent
in school. In fact, I am going to try
and get through the main gate the re­mainder
of the year and never wear my
cap anymore. Why should I?
I painted the tank and next year I'll be
bragging that it was I. I am afraid to
tell now, but just watch me tell the boys
about it later. The upperclassmen have
been saying what they would do if it were
painted, and now I want to see. Person­ally,
I think the whole lot is just bluff, and
when they get ready to do something, I'll
be ready. I am just as good as they are,
and I don't intend to take a darn thing
from any of them. Anyway, I didn't get
beat for it. The whole class is taking the
beating, but I haven't been down there yet.
I am not going either, for before long they
will forget about it, and I will have done
all the mischief, while the others had to
pay for it.
« AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
The extreme penalty of bigamy is more than one mother-in-law? Worse than
murder, isn't it? Probably is in some cases.
* * * * * * * *
We understand that some of our eminent professors are being framed. Yes,
the photographer is attending to it.
Reports are still rotating around the scandal circle about certain prominent
students on the train from Montgomery to Auburn last week. They'll probably re­member
it quite a while too.
* * * . * * * * *
lb appears that Hoover is protecting himself with his prosperity propoganda.
He believes in good reports, to say the least.
* * * * • * • * *
Miss Dobbs has decreed that there shall be no more petting at the zoo. Any
co-ed that is caught will be shipped. The idea is not to be caught. We feel sure
that this new rule will cause some to be more cautious anyway.
* * * * * * * *
We suggest that the picket line be established on the first floor of Smith Hall,
thus barricading the girls on the second floor. If this is done, the unpardonable sin
may be overcome, but seriously doubt it.
* * * * * * * *
A cold is contracted by petting, but they are easily cured. Then if there were
none, what would the doctors and drugstores do?
* * * * * * * *
A reliable sleuth has reported that a large spotlight is used to find the lovebirds.
* * * * * * * *
i
Why not ring the student's cops in on this job. They would appreciate the op­portunity
to show how competent they are.
* * * * * * * *
Even Miriam isn't as bashful as she was.
* * * * * * * *
Ah: "I like your cigarette holder."
Authur: "Why I never use one."
Ah: "Don't be so dense."
* » » * • * • *
A few days ago Professor Petrie went to lunch, pinning to his office door a
card which read: Professor Petrie will be back at 1:00 p. m. He returned at 12:30,
read the notice, pulled up a chair, and sat down to wait for himself to come back.
* * » * * * * *
Have you heard the story about the three Scotchmen who went to church? Their
only worry was how to get out of church before the collection pllate was passed.
They finally agreed on a plan. After listening to several hymns and the sermon,
the first man fainted and his two friends carried him out.
* * * * * * * *
NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE
Senator Wheeler told a story in the course of a Senate debate of a young man
in Montana under examination for citizenship papers who answered most of his ques­tions
correctly, until the judge asked him "Who is President of the United States?"
"Al Smith," was the prompt reply.
"What makes you think Mr. Smith is president," asked the judge.
"Well," replied the applicant, "all I know about it is that the Republican orators
told us that if Smith was elected we would have a general panic in the country; that
prices in Wall.Street would drop; and that men would be out of employment, that
farmers would go broke and banks would fail. All of these things have come to pass,
so I am sure Al Smith must be President of the United States."
* * * * * * * *
Who was that guy at the South Carolina-Auburn game Saturday night who
couldn't find the seat on the floor he hunted so long for.
* * * * * * * *
Some men do not have to wear a hat—there is nothing underneath to protect.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
WHO'S TO BLAME?
On the door of William Hand Browne,
Jr., head of the department of electrical
engineering, at State College, the follow­ing
notice was found by the students after
they had finished their exams at the end of
the first quarter:
"NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE! The
papers for the senior class in electrical- en­gineering
are the poorest I ever got in
twenty years teaching experience. The
average for the entire class is 12% percent.
It would be wise not to bother me during
the rest of the week, which I must spend
in humiliation and prayer."
Which all goes to prove that too much
experience along one particular line does
not broden one's mind. We don't think, if
the above notice is true, that the students
were all to blame.
* * * * *
HOW'S THIS?
College students are beginning to exert
their power over their instructors. At
Texas A. & M. College a very clever stunt
was staged just before the Christmas holi­days.
Clever?
Annoyed because a certain instructor
gave them a quiz on the last day of the
scholastic year, all of the students in a
certain class in German merely wrote
"Merry Christmas," signed their names to
their papers, and walked out of the room.
Whether they wrote it in German or not
has not been definitely stated yet.
The papers will not be difficult to grade,
and will be extremely easy to read. Per­haps
the students had this in mind when
they performed the experiment. We won­der
if such profs can possibly possess any
Christmas Spirit what-so-ever.
* * * * *
NOTICE TO FRESHMEN
Walk to class—never run. If you're
sleepy, don't worry for you can sleep thru
your eight o'clock, but be sure to get up
for your nine o'clock, so that you can be
dressed for your ten o'clock in time to make
your eleven o'clock. Then, too, it would
never do to be late for dinner.
* * * * *
NOW, A MECHANIZED COLLEGIAN
All is grist that comes into the college
mill. Raw freshmen are drawn in, undergo
the acid test, are smoothed, rolled and
finished and turned out as Seniors, as near­ly
identical as possible. Throughout a
prolonged four-., car period this machine-made
product is prepared. The copy-right­ed
process used is no secret. It consists
in three easy movements. First take end­less
notes, second memorize them, and
third give them back to the professor let­ter-
perfect in an exam. And the best par­rot
wins.
Believe it or not, that is college and the
machine-made collegian, whether or not he
is a real student is a question for conjec­ture
.
* * * * *
SOME MORE
Conformity to accepted ways of thinking;
to professors' ways of thinking, is the uni­versal
credo of our colleges. Being "dif­ferent"
is severely frowned upon, individ­uality
is thwarted, standardization has
become the aim and substance of the edu­cational
processes. A student fashioned
in the mold of one college differs little
from those turned out by other colleges.
The making of college students has become
just as precise and machine-like as making
nuts and bolts in an efficient factory. "And
many nuts are turned out.
WHAT EVERY STUDENT OUGHT
TO KNOW
"The chief purpose of an education is
to train the mind and the will to do the
work you have to do in the world, when
it ought to be done, whether you like to do
it or not."—Huxley.
How to do rapid reading. Learn to do
skip reading. Read phrases and sentences,
not words. In reading sentences pay at­tention
to the beginning and end. In read­ing
paragraphs pay attention to the first
and last sentences in order to get the topic
and summary. In reading chapters, notice
the first and last paragraphs.
Have a study schedule—let noting inter­fere
with it.
Concentrate on a subject to the point of
absorption.
Underline the important sentences, if
you own the book.
Use the dictionary.
Keep your work up-to-date.
Keep a note-book for each course, in a
businesslike way.
Always quote exactly.
Always take a note-book to class.
Learn how to use the library.
On going to a classroom take the es­sential
things—two sharpened pencils,
fountain pen, paper, a watch that will go,
and a sense of humor.
Don't worry.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
<iBy aAaron ^Billoluheel
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * *
AN experiment along the lines of col­lege
instruction is being carried out
by Rollins College, a small school
in Florida, that we believe is worthy of
watching, at least it is interesting. From
the Rollins Record we quote the following:
"Rollins College adopted the Confer­ence
plan of study in the fall of 1925. It
has been both an 'educational adventure,'
and a return to 'old-fangled education.'
After three years of operation its general
endorsement by students as well as faculty
leads administration officers to feel more
certain than before that Conference Plan
is an educational success both in theory
and in «practice and is capable of develop­ment
and extension.
"Briefly, the Conference Plan consists
of substituting informal conferences or dis­cussions
for the formal lectures and reci­tation
system. Its purpose is to effect con­tinuous
consultation and co-operation be­tween
teacher and student. During the
conference period, students spend their
time in study, in conferring with the in­structor,
in holding discussions in small
groups, in developing outlines, in writing
class papers, and in other preparation inci­dent
to the mastery of the subject. The
theory behind this innovation is that the
student's mind is immature, that frequent­ly
he does not know how to study, and that
he most needs the professor when he is
preparing his assigned work and not after
he has learned or failed to learn it."
For the past three years this plan has
been in practice at Rollins and has won
much praise from both students and facul­ty.
* * * * *
I'LL BE mighty glad when a few people
around this campus get tired of remind­ing
us through this paper that students
other than nice boys are among us. In the
fall it was about ungentlemanly conduct at
football games, the stealing of train furn­ishings
by students, the bad conduct of
students away over week-ends and other
unbecoming reports. I have done some of
it through this column, but soon learned
that it is like braying at the wind. And it
does become tiresome.
Every so often someone writes a letter
to this paper deploring some existing con­dition,
or imaginary condition, that gives
me a big laugh. Not that the incidences
spoken of are not true because they prob­ably
are. But what of it? It is bad that
some students will tear up trains and it
is bad that some students will steal maga­zines
from the Y. M. C. A. Those things
are bad of course, so are pimples, student-cops
and hail storms, but what are you go­ing
to do about it? Write sobbing letters?
Nothing, would be better.
It is foolish to believe that in a group
of eighteen hundred students there would
not be some few lacking in principle, or
whatever it is that makes them tear up
trains and steal magazines.
Of course, if one wanted to, he could
stay up nights looking for things to cry
about, but what good would it do? Those
things just happen for no reason at all and
the less said about them the better. The
"Gold old name of Auburn" is not in dang­er
because a few people have no sense of
decency. There will always be more than
enough students of character in Auburn
to maintain the usual college reputation of
fairly good demeanor.
* * * * *
PRESIDENT LOWELL, of Harvard is
vieing with the president of Howard
College, for the honor of receiving
the nation's greatest horse laugh of the
year by venturing the idea that colleges
should play only one game in each of the
several sports during a year. The only
difference is that President Lowell's idea is
possibly the most sensible one of the year.
But I ask you, who would pay for a billion
or so dollars worth of football stadiums
in this country?
* * * * *
THE TRUTH
Since I have seen a bird one day,
His head pecked more than half away;
That hopped about, with but one eye,
Ready to fight again, and die—
Ofttimes since then their private lives
Have spoilt that joy their music gives.
So when I see this robin now,
Like a red apple on the bough,
And question why he sings so strong,
For love," or for the love ofi song;
Or sings, maybe, for that sweet rill
Whose silver tongue is never still—
Ah, now there comes this thought unkind,
Born of the knowledge in my mind:
He sings in triumph that last night
He killed his father in a fight;
And now he'll take his mother's blood—
The last strong rival for his food.
—William H. Davies.
Q
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
NEW AUBURN CONSTRUCTION ERA
RECALLS PIONEER MAIN HALL
By T. R. Gray, '30
The construction of a new Admini­stration
building at Auburn will
mark, as the Old College Building,
did in 1859, the beginning of an­other
era in the illustrious history of
Auburn.
A mere handful of Methodists es­tablished
the East Alabama Male
College in 1856, without the support
of the Methodist Conference, which
favored a college that was establish­ed
at Greensboro. This colege,
Southern (now Birmingham-South­ern),
was the official school for men
in the Methodist church. Undaunt­ed,
the citizens of Auburn and other
supporters erected the College build­ing,
which was three stories, brick,
modernly equipped on the site of
Samford hall. At this time the
building was recognized as one of
the finest college structures in the
South. Upon completion of the hall
a steady increase was noted in enroll­ment.
In describing this period Dr. H. M.
Hamill says: "From the beginning the
college prospered. Young men came
pouring in from most of the southern
states. There were no dormitories or
college buildings except the main
structure. Students boarded in the
town and Auburn swarmed with
them. The Female College was
flourishing and occupied the corner
fronting t h e present Methodist
church. Much social life was gene­rated
by the two schools, and I doubt
if anywhere in the South there was
a community so saturated with col­lege
spirit. 'Commencement Week'
the little city was in its glory, and
the streets and hospitable homes were
thronged with visitors. At dawn each
day the college bell in the tower was
rung by the janitor, and again at
sunrise, and from hundreds of homes
issued a disgusted host of compul­sory-
religious students who had to
answer to their names at sunrise
chapel."
Old Bell Silent
Just as the college was firmly es­tablished
and well on its way to pros­perity,
the Civil War broke out. Dr.
Hamill writes: "War and battle and
numerous deaths, and the call of the
South closed its doors. We tried to
pull it through the four terrible years,
but in 1863, I think it was, the boys
had all gone to the front except the
'kids,' and the old bell ceased to
ring."
In the face of the various difficul­ties
of the Reconstruction Days, the
college re-opened in 1866, and the
following year 110 students enrolled.
Hampered by every force, the college
emerged from the period of Recon­struction
on a firm footing. The
curriculum, presented in the cata­logue
of 1867-68, included: Cicero's
Orations, Livy; Xenophon's Anabasis,
Latin and Greek Grammars, etymo­logy,
ancient geography; algebra,
mythology, and various courses in
history and philosophy. The Wirt
and Websterian literary societies
were in existence at this early date,
making them over 60 years old at
present. School was in session 10
months of the year, beginning in Sep­tember
and closing in July.
Imagine the Auburn student of to­day
adhering to these rules: "Stu­dents
are required to be in their
rooms after 7 o'clock on nights of
study; and not to be out of them
after 9 o'clock on any night. No
students shall go outside the corpo­rate
limits of Auburn, without the
permission of some member of the
faculty. . . Every student is required
to attend Divine service twice on the
Sabbath and daily morning and eve­ning
prayers, in the college chapel."
Low Cost of Learning
Many alumni would re-enter school
for life if they could go as cheaply
as students did in that day. Tuition
for the year was $75, contingent fee
$5, and board and room $20. Con­tingent
fees at least remained con­stant
for 62 years.
The present college of agriculture
and mechanics was definitely estab­lished
February 26, 1872. Acting
under the Morrison Act of 1862, the
State of Alabama came to an agree­ment
with the Methodist conference,
whereby the East Alabama college
was to submerge into a school known
as the Alabama A. and M. college.
Later, due to the establishment of
other technical courses, it was voted
to change the name to Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
One short hour before dawn June
Four Members Cage
Team Sophomores
Four regulars on Auburn's 1930
basket ball team are sophomores.
Capt. Louie James, senior, is the only
veteran on the first five. Ralph
Jordan and Roy Pate, forwards; Jack
Stewart, center, and Howard Lawson,
guard, are the first year varsity men
that have won regular berths on the
Orange and Blue hardwood team.
Pate entered the "Cornerstone" at
mid-term so will not be classed as a
sophomore after semester exami­nations.
This is his first try for
the varsity hoop team, as he gave up
the art of looping goals after a very
successful season with the yearlings
in 1928.
The sophomores have shown up
mighty well, but still lack experience
which will come to them as the season
progresses. Jordan is leading the
Tigers in scoring as he has been high
point man for the Bengals in every
game to date.
In addition to the quartet of reg­ulars
who are sophomores, Odis Ald-ridge,
Tom Lumpkin, Lindley Hat­field,
Willie Roe Tamplin, David
Rogers and Martin Curvin are other
second year candidates who have
been showing up well.
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College Professor Plans
' N e w T y p e ' School
Denver, Col.—(IP)—The co-ed
who goes to college merely to study
campustry and the male student who
attends for the sole purpose of dis­playing
his prowess on the football
field have struck a mighty blow at
the foundation of higher education,
according to Daniel E. Phillips, pro­fessor
of psychology at the Univer­sity
of Denver.
In the current issue of School and
Society, Professor Phillips advocates
a "new type" institution which would
literally abolish the modern universi­ty
with its "undermining" influences
and begin all over again, free from
the shackles of tradition and conven­tion.
This time, however, he proposes
to do the job right.
"I am not at this time attempting
to patch up a rotten ship," he as­serts.
"I propose the building of a
new type of ship."
His new shop would not produce
mighty warriors of the gridiron,
sorority sisters and fraternity broth­ers
infalted by their superficial
knowledge of the classics, but
"students of purpose, scholarship and
invention of the highest kind."
He would drive from the halls of
the institution the "flapper, the
loafer, the sport and the idle rich,"
eliminate the red tape of e x a m i ­nations
and the grading system,
abolish sororities and fraternities and
ignore athletics.
I SHALL NOT CARE
When I am dead and over me
bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched
hair,
Though you lean above me broken­hearted,
I shall not care.
I shall have peace, as leafy trees
are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.
—Sara Teasdale.
Great Many Ways To
Spell English Words
Des Moins, Iowa—(IP)—Thare
ahr 396 milyon waze tu spel won werd
—if you get what we mean.
That word, as a matter of fact, is
circumference, and Dr. Ernest Horn,
of the State University of Iowa, who
addressed the education section of
the American Association for the Ad­vancement
of Science, is authority
for the fact.
Circumference, he said, can be
spelled in 396,000,000 ways by using
the spellings of identical or similar
sounds in words likely to be known
to a sixth grade child.
"Our alphabet is inefficient," Dr.
Horn declared. "There are more
sounds in English than there are let­ters.
The sound of long E can be
made in 22 ways. There are 47-
sound letter combinations which the
child must learn for the letter A
alone by the time he has finished the
third grade.
"Such hope as exists for national­izing
spelling is to be found first in
the gradual casting out of parasite
letters—dropping the u in words like
honour—dropping prefixes and suf­fixes
are added to base forms to
make derived forms.
"Webster himself bumped this
snag when he tried to spell women as
'wimmin' and was forced to 'back
up'."
College Men Praised
In Speech Over Radio
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—
American college men were given
large bouquets recently when Dr.
John M. Thomas, president of Rut­gers
University spoke over a nation­wide
radio station hook-up.
"By and large," he said, "American
college men are clean, manly and hon­orable.
They will tell the truth, al­most
all of them, even in a tight
place. They are neither yellow, red
or even pink. They have much to
learn, but they are learning it faster
than any generation of any people
on record. They prefer hard games
to easy ones, difficult jobs to soft
snaps. They will attend to the work
that needs doing and the problems
that need solving equally as well—
and I honestly believe a little better
—than we of the older generation
have attended to ours."
The Rutgers president said he be­lieved
the college student of today
"has a pretty hard time of it," for
he is asked to continue the prepara­tory
stage of life at an age when his
parents were out in the world and
had families.
"It is hard to be always getting
ready to do something by and by. It
takes a good deal of patience and
grit to stick at it through the long
years of preparation necessary for
superior service in this complex
world. In youth it is the itch to get
away and get at something practical
and real. Parents may well be pati­ent,
sympathetic and encouraging.
Don't balme the boy for being rest­less
and perhaps unappreciative of
his opportunities. College is prob­ably
the first thing he has under­taken;
challenge him to make a suc­cess
of it."
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Palo Alto, Calif.—(IP)—The fifth
Annual Congress of the National Stu­dent
Federation, assembled on- the
Stanford University Campus, heard
Almon E. Roth, controller of Stan­ford
University severly criticise the
soiled corduroy trousers of college
men.
Too often, Roth said, the public
gets the wrong impression of univer­sities,
and the soiled trousers are a
contributing factor.
Speaking on the "academic dol­lar,"
Roth urged students of Ameri­can
Colleges and Universities to
"sell their schools" to the public.
He advocated strict control of radio
broadcasts of university functions
and urged care in permitting the
taking of campus scenes by motion
picture companies.
Philadelphia (IP)—Under t h e
terms of a bequest upheld here re­cently
Dartmouth college will have a
sum estimated at between $1,500,000
and $2,000,000 at its disposal 150
years from now for the founding of
fellowships and professorships.
When Asa Wilson Waters, a Dart­mouth
alumnus, died in Nov. 1927, he
left $1,500 of his estate to be held
in trust to be invested and reinvested
for a period of a century and a half,
at the end of which time the accumu­lated
sum should go to his alma ma­ter.
PHYSICIST RESIGNS FROM
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Chicago—(IP)—After celebrating
his seventy-seventh birthday, Albert
A. Michaelson, famous physicist has
resigned his position as head of the
physics department of the University
of Chicago. He will leave the Uni­versity,
because of ill health, at the
end of the present school year.
The physicist has devoted 54 years
of his life to scientific research, and
is now engaged in discovering as
nearly as possible the speed of light.
Wilbur Declares Radio
University Premature
Washington—(IP)—S e c r e t a ry
Wilbur has declared that a proposal
to establish a radio university for
national education is premature, and
that before this is done experiments
should be conducted on a smaller
scale. The magnitude of such an un­dertaking
would be astounding, the
Secretary said.
"Education by radio is a new prob­lem
under the sun," he said. "Here­tofore
education has. rested largely
with local communities, the state
and with institutions privately ope­rated.
Those communities and in­stitutions
provided such education as
they saw fit for those whom they
serve.
"The advantage of the situation
lay in the fact that every community
and every institution enstituted an
independent laboratory as well as a
geographical unit for the development
of educational practice.
"But now comes radio which knows
no state nor county nor institutional
boundary. The • development of
means for making proper use of it
calls for new viewpoints in educa­tion.
It calls loudly for experimen­tation."
Toronto—(IP)—The Rev. Samuel
A. B. Mercer, professor of oriental
languages and Egyptology at the
University of Trinity College here is
to leave soon for the half-civilized
sections of Abyssinia with a camera
with which he plans to photograph
the manuscript copies of the Old
Testament in the Ethiopic language
which have been the prized and care­fully
guarded possessions of the Cop­tic
monasteries for centuries.
On his return to Toronto he plans
to produce a reliable text for publi­cation.
It is said that the manuscripts
which he proposes to photograph
have never been viewed by Euro­peans.
The professor will travel,
without white companions through
hundreds of miles of African coun­try
where no roads exist.
FIVE COLLEGE PROFS. ON
SCIENTIFIC BOOK BOARD
Seat Of Learning Need
Of American Education
Bethlehem, Pa.—(IP)—W h a t
American education needs most is a
seat of learning such as Cambridge,
in England, according to Professor
Oswald Veblen, of Princeton Univer­sity,
who addressed the annual meet­ing
of the American Mathematical
Society here during the Christmas
holidays.
"We try to educate people in this
country," Professor Veblen said,
"and we have established institutions
especially for this purpose, while
England and European countries
have established genuine seats of
learning such as Cambridge, where
serious minded students go in quest
of knowledge."
The Princeton professor said, how­ever,
that he looked forward to the
development of such a center in this
country in the not far distant future.
The shifting of too many of the
ablest men from the teaching to the
New York—(IP)—Five American r e s e a r c h p r o f e s s i o n w a s criticised be-college
professors have been chosen
by the newly organized Scientific
Book club as an editorial board to
pick the best scientific books each
month.
The five named are: Dr. Kirtley
F. Mather, Harvard University, ge­ologist,
chairman; Dr. Arthur H.
Compton, University of Chicago,
physicist; Dr. Edward L. Thorndike,
Columbia University, psychologist;
Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, Princeton
University, biologist, and Dr. Harlan
T. Stetson, director of Perkins Ob­servatory,
Ohio Wesleyan University.
New Haven, Conn.—(IP)—Yale
University will send three of its
paintings in the Jarves collection of
Italian Masters to the exhibition of
Italian paintings to be held in London
during January and February.
fore the meeting by Professor J. L.
Coolidge, of Harvard University.
"This means," he said, "that the
teaching profession may suffer from
a lowering of standards and that
teaching may become a decidedly sec­ondary
occupation in college life."
STUDENTS ARE SUSPENDED
ON CHARGE OF HAZING
Swarthmore, Pa.—(IP)—Two up-perclassmen
were temporarily sus­pended
and 50 others were deprived
of their right to cut classes by the
faculty of Swarthmore college as a
result of a hazing party for freshmen
here recently.
College rules adopted by the Men's
Student Government Association pro­hibit
the use of physical force in
hazing.
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24,1887, the town was awakened by
the shouts of "FIRE! FIRE!" The
main building was in flames. The
anxious citizens were forced to stand
by and see the treasured structure
go up in smoke. The origin of the
fire has never been ascertained, but
it was supposed to have started from
the chemistry laboratory, located in
the basement. This fire, many
thought, would be the end of the
school. It proved, however, to be a
blessing in disguise, for the follow­ing
year the state appropriated $50,-
000 for new buildings. This enabled
the construction of the present Main
building and the Chemistry building.
With history from this time, most
alumni are familiar: how Langdon
Hall was divided into four compart­ments
which housed Dr. Petrie, Dr.
Cary and the other professors of the
time, and the gradual growth from a
small A. and M. college to one of the
best technical schools in the country.
Madison, Wis.— (IP)—President
Glenn Frank, of the University of
Wisconsin, has announced plans for
abandoning the Experimental College
established here three years ago by
Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn, and ex­tending
the plan to the entire uni­versity.
The experiment, Dr. Frank
said, has been tremendously success­ful.
Some people go through life touch­ing
red hot pokers to see if they will
get burned.
PROFESSORS MEET
Durham, N. C— (IP)— The Associ­ation
of American Professors meet­ing
here during the holidays was fea­tured
by a report of the committee
on academic freedom and tenure
charging the repression of freedom
of speech among faculty members at
the University of Pittsburgh.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930
Dr. Joseph Slepian Presents New
Circuit Breaker to Elec. Engineers
Dr. Joseph Slepian, Research En­gineer
of Westinghouse, presented to
the Electrical engineers of the coun­try
the Deion (De-i-on) circuit break­er,
a small simple device which is the
product of Dr. Slepian's research
work.
Large circuit breakers are used in
great numbers in power stations the
same was as small electric light
switches are used in homes. As its
name implies, the function of a cir­cuit
breaker is to stop the flow of
electric current by breaking the me­tallic
path over which the current
passes.
When the circuit to be broken is
carrying thousands or hundreds of
thousands x>f horsepower, the mere
pulling apart of the metallic contacts
a reasonable distance is not suffici­ent
to stop the passage of the elec-,
tricity. The current's "momentum"
causes it to span the intervening gap
in the form of an electric arc. It is
this phenomenon of arcing that has
made circuit breaking one of the
most vexing problems in electrical en­gineering,
a problem which had never
been solved satisfactorily before Dr.
Slepian's invention of the Deion de­vice.
The best method of extinguishing
circuit-breaker arcs heretofore known
to engineers, and the method now in
general use everywhere, is to immerse
the separating contacts in oil. Oil
is a good insulator. Thus, when the
metallic contacts are drawn apart,
the oil stops the formation of, or
"quenches," the arc.
But oil, besides being a good in­sulator,
is also a good fuelv The elec­trical
industry has for many years
had as one of its chief goals the de­velopment
of a better means of in­terrupting
currents, preferably with­out
oil.
Dr. Slepian's Deion method elimi­nates
entirely the use of insulating
oil. No attempt is made to "quench"
the arc, but when the arc is formed,
it is driven at a mad pace over a
circular race track until it dies of ex­haustion.
,
After five years of analysis and
calculation, Dr. Slepian discovered a
method of using a magnetic field to
drive an arc at the terrific rate of
2,400 miles an hour. Arcs traveling
at ordinary speeds and coming in
contact with metal would melt the
metal rapidly and use the metal's
ions to prolong its life. With the
Deion breaker's extraordinary arcing
speed, however, this process is just
reversed. The arc is driven into a
series of copper plates where it is
broken up into a series of small arcs.
If one of these small arcs should
come to a stop for one-twentieth of
a second, the copper plates would
melt instantly and fuse together.
The copper plates into which the
arc is driven are circular in shape.
The magnetic field which drives the
arcs causes them to follow a circular
path around these plates. Thus,
when an imprisoned arc has made
the circuit of the plate 30 or 40 times,
it is so completely drained of ions
that its life is snuffed out.
An outstanding feature of the
Deion circuit breaker is its ability to
stand repeated short circuit tests
without the need of maintenance or
attention. One of these breakers
was recently given 100 operations at
current values ranging from 5000 to
15000 amperes without any mainten­ance
whatever.
The speed of the circling arcs
churns the air into such a turbulent
state that special openings in the
arcing chamber are used to give the
machine the necessary ventilation.
Circuit breakers embodying the
Deion principle have been made in a
variety of forms. The present list
of applications include small safety
switches, electro magnetic switches
for starting and stopping motors,
small circuit breakers for 2500 volt
service and large breakers for 15000
volt service.
Local Dealer Member
100-Automobile Club
J. A. Bain, manager Auburn Motor
Company, branch of Tatum Motor
Company, Opelika, has just been offi­cially
advised of his election to mem­bership
in the 100-Car Club of the
Chevrolet Factory. Candidates must
sell at least 100 cars in a calendar
year to become members of this club.
In addition to the honor carried by
such membership, the members are
given a trip each year to the factory
or other interesting points, with all
expenses borne by the company.
For his success as a salesman Mr.
Bain praised the people of Auburn
and vicinity. He thanked his custom­ers
for their business and extended
best wishes for the new year.
NEW RADIO STATION
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Personal Criticism of New Records Made Each
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Montreal—(IP)—R. H. G u n n,
president of the Montreal English
Rugby club has received a tentative
invitation from Yale University to
take a rugby team there next season
for an exhibition game at New Hav­en.
It is almost certain that the game
will be arranged.
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Department of Agriculture and Indus­tries.
The equipment will be moved
to the Exchange Hotel. It will be
replaced by smaller equipment which
will feed the State Capitol programs
into the same equipment in its new
location; and will supply both of the
stations. The agreement making it
effective will be signed by Commis­sioner
Storrs and officials of the
Montgomery Broadcasting Company.
Announcing the hook-up, Commis­sioner
Storrs said that the new ad­dition
is another important forward
step in extending the best of radio
service to the people of Alabama.
In addition to this added station the
actual cost to the State will be re-duced,
he said.
Due to one of the peculiarities of
radio, reception from WAPI is not
satisfactory in Montgomery and vi­cinity.
Interference from other sta­tions
is the trouble. Station WAPI
comes into Montgomery with good
strength but distant stations with the
same or with less power and a fre­quency
near that of WAPI have a
stronger signal strength in the Mont
gomery district and thereby interfere
seriously with WAPI. The situation
has been reported repeatedly to the
Federal Radio Commission at Wash­ington,
but nothing has been done to
improve it, Mr. Davis said.
Commissioner Storrs says that in
his opinion this is one of the most im
portant announcements yet made con
cerning radio in Alabama. With a
local station operating in conjunc
tion with WAPI, which has become
widely popular in a large number of
states, the radio service to the people
in Montgomery and vicinity should be
excellent.
Installation of KSFA at Montgom
ery is to start at an early date. It is
being backed by Howard Pill and
Gordon Persons, Montgomery men. It
will have a power of 1,000 watts but
will not operate on full power at
night.
Station WAPI in Birmingham is
owned by the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, the University of Alabama,
and Alabama College; and operated
by the owners in cooperation with the
City of Birmingham. Main studios
are in the Protective Life Insurance
Building in Birmingham. Montgomery
studios are in the Department of
Agriculture building, and Auburn
studios in Comer Hall at Auburn.
The Montgomery station is to go
on the air within a few weeks. No
changes will be made in the sched­ule
of WAPI until KSFA is ready.
I have never heard so many good
tunes in all my life as I have lately.
The "Talkies" and the radio audience
have created such a demand for good,
catchy tunes that the country is
flooded with them. Just turn on the
radio and listen to Ted Weems or
Coon-Sanders; you find it impossible
to sit and listen, you jump up and
dance. Next week we'll get a chance
to see as well as hear a prime orches­tra.
Al Katz and his Kittens are
world-famous and are well known to
the record and radio fans. If you
want to have an advance hearing get
his new record, "A Year From To-
Day" from New York Nights and thaL
bewitching tune, "I May Be Wrong,
But I Think You're Wonderful."
Ted Weems and his Orchestra, still
the best in the country, play "Re­markable
Girl" and "There's Too
Many Eyes That Wanna Make Eyes."
Ted can be heard almost any night
over WBBM in Chicago.
Paul Whiteman plays two good
ones—"Should I" and "A Bundle Of
Old Love Letters" both from the show
"Lord Byron Of Broadway."
The Columbia Photo Players have
French Society Offers
Prize For Wine Song
France, the home of wine, is
searching for a good wine drinking
song.
"A prize of $40 will be paid by la
Societe des Amis de Vins de France
(the Society of the Friends of the
Wines of France) for a first class
wine drinking song.
made a record of "To Be Forgotten"
and "What Is Life Without You."
The latter is really worth hearing.
The hottest record, out is "Sittin'
On A Doorstep" and "You Came, I
Saw, You Conquered Me." Both are
played by Ted Wallace and his Camp­us
Boys.
Here's one you must hear, "I'm Fol­lowing
You" from It's A Great
Life." This show, which stars the
Duncan sisters, will be at the Tiger
Theatre Friday. On the other side
of this record is "I'm Sailing On A
Sunbeam" from the same show. Paul
Specht and his Orchestra play them
both. This orchestra is now filling
an engagement in Cincinnatti and can
be heard every night over WLW.
Guy Lobardo and his Orchestra
play "Singin' In The Bathtub" from
the "Show of Shows" which features
Ted Lewis. "Little By Little" is on
the other side.
The first rate tune, "Look What
You've Done To Me" is played by Lee
Morse and her Orchestra.
Al Katz and his Kittens will play
all these new tunes and many others
at the Junior Prom. Looks like we're
in for a big time. Let's go!
Professor Callan
Leaves For New York
Attends 77th Annual Meeting Of A.
S. C. E. Conducted At Society
Headquarters
World Is More Speedy
Than Present Jazz Age
Des Moins, Iowa—(IP)—Those
who believe this jazz age is speedy,
and that the world is much faster
today than ever 'before, had better
look into the report given the Ameri­can
Association for the Advancement
of Science here by Dr. J. S. Plas-
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AMONG AMERICAN COLLEGES
New York—(IP)—So far in 1929-
30 American colleges have stressed
wrestling as an intercollegiate sport
more and more until it seems defin­itely
to have assumed a major role
in undergradaute athletics.
Lehigh University this year won
the Eastern Intercollegiate champion­ship
for the second successive year,
while the Oklahoma Aggie took the
National Collegiate Team Champion­ship.
Michigan won the Big Ten title
for the first time in history.
Ed George, of the University of
Michigan and a member of the Amer­ican
Olympic team of 1928, success­fully
defended his title of national
amateur heavyweight champion.
their drinking songs, but France feels
that it has none. Poetry and prose
eulogizing the wines of France it has
in abundance, but still there is no na­tional
drinking song.
For some years the wine producers
of France have been worrying be­cause
the French have been drinking
beer instead of wine. The days before
the war when an ordinary table wine
was an excellent bordeaux or bour-gogne
have passed. Today the ordi­nary
table wine is neither like bor­deaux
or bourgogne. It tastes like
a mixture of water and vinegar and
lots of both.
As most Frenchmen appreciate the
taste of wine but cannot afford to
pay more than the price of ordinary
wine, they have switched to drinking
beer. Although they still regard wine
as the national drink, statistics show
an alarming increase in the consump­tion
of beer. Wine growers are be­ginning
to fear that France will soon
turn into a beer drinking nation like
Germany or England.
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pose is to encourage in its members
a higher degree of social service by
fostering high professional and scho­larship
standards during the period
of preparation for teaching and by
recognizing outstanding service in
the field of Education.
Juniors and seniors in Education
whose grades rank in the upper
fourth of the entire student body are
eligible to membership.
After a welcome to the initiates
by W. C. Kelly, a response in behalf
of the new members was made by
W. B. Story. Miss Frances Moore
and Eloise Floyd presented a vocal
duet and Miss Elizabeth Brownfield
played the accompaniment. There
were short talks by J. D. Jackson,
Alice Sandlin, Victor Savage, Misses
Elizabeth Brownfield, E u g e n ia
Smith and Frances Moore.
physical Observatory at Victoria, B.
C.
According to Dr. Plaskett, this old
planet has for billions of years been
traveling at a speed of 711,000 miles
per hour, and, rhoreover, the earth
has been traveling four ways at once
all along.
This 711,000 mile an hour speed is
the rotation about a huge massive
center not only of visible stars but
of everything for many billions of
miles beyond them.
It is the formation of stars in the
shape of an immense flattened ball,
whirling with their center in the di­rection
of the constellation Sagitarius
a center so distant that its light takes
about 47,000 years to reach the earth.
The four simultaneous motions
which the earth is going through con­stantly
are:
The daily rotation on its axis, about
28,000 miles in 24 hours.
The yearly trip around the sun at
a speed of approximately 18% miles
a second.
A "random motion" in which the
earth is moving along with the sun in
a journey apparently not in the direct
patch of the great whirl.
And the high speed spin of the en­tire
near-by section of the universe.
This whirl is so vast that Dr. Plas­kett
estimates it takes about 300,-
000,000 years for one rotation about
the center.
Professor John A. C. Callan left
early Monday morning for New York
City, to attend the seventy-seventh
annual meeting of the American So­ciety
of Civil Engineers, which is be­ing
conducted this week at the society
headquarters.
The Wednesday morning session
was devoted to the conferring of
honorary memberships, the awardings
of medals and prizes, and the intro­duction
of President-elect Coleman,
who is the first Southern president of
the society.
Committee meetings were sched­uled
for part of Wednesday and
Thursday. A boat excursion is plan­ned
for Friday, which will include
visits to Kill Van Kull Bridge, con­necting
Bayonne, N. J., with Staten.
Saturday will be devoted to the
inspection of the New York subway
construction, which is to cost the city
six hundred and fifty million dollars.
Accompanying Professor Callan to
New York was J. H. Johnston, di­rector
of the Southeastern district,
and consulting engineer with the
Georgia Public Service Commission
in Atlanta.
Civilization Extending
Far Into Eskimo Lands
NEW LABORATORY TO BE
ERECTED BY WESTINGHOUSE
Pittsburgh, Pa.— (IP)—A labora­tory
in which storms, sunshine, and
rain will be made at will for experi­mental
purposes, is to be erected in
East Pittsburgh by the Westinghouse
Electric company at a cost of $1,-
500,000, officials have announced.
The building will house one of the
world's best equipped laboratories, ac­cording
to F. A. Merrick, the presi­dent.
Ottawa, Canada—(IP)—Like the
dodo bird and the passenger pigeon,
Canada's rolypoly Eskimos are grad­ually
bein^ wiped off the earth by
civilization, according to officials
here.
There are about 6,000 of them
dwelling in the northern vastnesses of
the Dominion, and all are especially
susceptible to tuberculosis, grip,
whooping cough, measles, chicken-pox
and other diseases introduced to the
Arctic by the white man, but propa­gated
there by the unsanitary condi­tions
under which the natives live.
With the long range rifles supplied
by the white traders, the eskimos
transform a natural wild life para­dise
into a land of famine.
One thing in the Eskimo's favor in
his fight with new conditions is the
fact that generally speaking he has
no inherited craving for liquor.
Government officials hope early
preventative measures may save this
simple but admirable race from ex­tinction.
EAST DEFEATS WEST IN
FIRST GAME IN ROSE BOWL
Pasadena, Calif.— (IP)—The first
Tournament of Roses game, held here
Jan. 1, 1901, was nowhere near so
disastrous to the East as the game
this year between Pittsburgh and
Southern California when the latter
defeated the Easterners 47 to 14.
In the first game the University
of Michigan defeated Stanford 49 to
0.
Eight thousand people, a record
crowd in those days, saw the game.
The Michigan team was the same
that ran up 501 points and held all
opponents scoreless. Prominent mem­bers
of the team were Judge William
Heston, Neil Snow, Curtis Redden and
HugTi Whiten, captain.
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port has been received by Harvard
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discovery of the year's brightest
comet by Professor Wilk, of Cracow,
Poland.
It is said the comet was eight de­grees
west of the bright star Vega in
the constellation of Hercules.
MARRIED PLAYERS AT UNIV.
OF FLORIDA END CAREERS
Gainesville, Fla.—(IP)—After go­ing
through several seasons with the
distinction of having more married
men on it than any other college foot
ball team in the country, the Univer­sity
of Florida eleven will find itself
next year without a benedict, unless
someone on the squad takes the fatal
step.
None of the three married men who
were on the 1929 squad at the start
of the season—Dale VanSickle, Joe
Bryan and Alex Reeves—will return
next fall, and Captain Rainey Caw-thon,
who was married during the
season, also has finished his college
football career.
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Cleveland, Ohio—(IP)—The aver­age
American, whose everyday con­versation
sometimes seems confined
to a few stable bromides, really
knows four times as many words as
Shakespeare used.
The creator of "Hamlet" was the
world's greatest employer of words;
he used 15,000. The average Ameri­can
knows 60,000 says Professor
Miles A. Hanley of the University of
Wisconsin.
He hasn't a speaking acquaintance
with that number however. He mere­ly
recognizes them as distant ac­quaintances.
Shakespeare knew his
intimately.
"Just take a dictionary, run down
a few pages at random under each
letter of the alphatbet and see how
many words you recognize," said Dr.
Hanley here recently. "You will be
surprised.
"The average person knows a great
many more words than he is given
credit for. He may not be able to
spell them or even use them in a
sentence, but they convey meaning to
him.
"It is a mistaken notion to assume
that the number of words a man uses
gauges his intelligence. So the fact
that Americans may know four times
as many words as Shakespeare used
is not especially significant."
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