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VOLUME LIII
AUBURN, ALABAMA. TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930 NUMBER 43
Band Returns
From Five-Day
Stay in Mobile
Is Accorded Honor Of Acting
As Royal Band In Carnival
Festival
Hundreds Are
Taking Part in
Spring Sports
Track Claims Largest Number
As One Hundred Report
To Hutsell
Honor Students Entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Knapp
PLAYS IN FIVE PARADES
Tennis and Golf Now Minor!
Sports, Making Speedy
Progress
Appears In Daily Concert In
Bienville Square; Is High­ly
Praised
The Auburn Band returned to Au­burn
early this morning after a five-day
stay in Mobile during the Mardi
Gras season. From the several col­lege
bands that were in attendance at
the Carnival celebration the Auburn
Band was1 selected to act as the "Roy­al
Band of King Felix, Emperor of
Joy, Monarch of Mardi Gras." As
such the boys from the Cornerstone
led the king's parade on Tuesday and
played at the coronation of the royal
pair Tuesday night.
Following its first appearance on
Friday, February 28, in the elaborate
parade of the Krewe of Columbus, the
Auburn Band led the Parade of Flow­ers
on Saturday, and thereafter
marched in the Infant Mystics,
Knights of Revelry, and Order of
Myths processions. Daily concercs in
Bienville Square were another feat
lire in the schedule of the bandmen.
The appearance of the band boys in
the trim new cadet gray uniforms,
with their blue capes lined with
orange, was highly praised by Mo-bilians.
In every pa'rade the band
was greeted with enthusiastic ap­plause
by the thousands of spectators
lining the streets.
Members of the band were guests
of the several mystic societies at their
carnival balls following the parades.
They entrained for Auburn following
the Infant Mystics' Ball on Tuesday
night.
"Miss Blue Bonnet"
Be Given March 17
Will Be Presented Under Auspices
Chi Omega Sorority
On March 17th the musical come­dy,
"Miss Blue Bonnet", given urn
der the auspices of the Chi Omega
sorority, with the aid of choruses com­posed
of high school girls, and su­pervised
by Miss Celeste Vause, will
be presented in Langdon Hall. Writ
ten by the author of "Flapper Grand­mother",
and "Microbe of Love",
"Miss Blue Bonnet" is said to be the
best of Wayne Sewell's productions.
Consisting of three acts the play deals
with the love affairs of the young
people of a little town in South Cafo
lina. Several old maids/ also have
their minds upon love. They want
to marry. Miss Blue Bonnet, a psy­chologist,
comes to town. The ro
mances of the youths, the ambitions
of the old maids and the meeting
of Miss Blue Bonnet and a former
lover of hers cause a great compli­cation
which is not solved until the
end of the play. From the first
to the last the play is one display
of humorous events.
The stars of "The Rock", Murff
Hawkins and Mildred Wood, will be
seen again in "Miss Blue Bonnet".
The title role will be played by Mil­dred
Wood. Playing against will be
Abie Hardin. Inez Shepherd, as
Magnolia, and Murff Hawkins, as
Hickory Stout, will act as the two
devoted lovers. The other parts in
the comedy will be Lillian Meadows
as Ma Evans, Virginius Taylor as
Doctor Evans, Katherine Porter as
the prattling old maid, Minerva,
Clara Parsons as Janie Belle, Mi­riam
Toulmin playing as, Kate, Ber­tha
Northrup as Susie, Bessie Ra-by
as Una, Ruth Murray as Sally,
Wes played by Joe Jenkins, and Thad
by Harry Riley.
Nine choruses will feature the come­dy.
Elaborate costumes and scen­ery
from Atlanta will be displayed.
The choruses, respendent in color and
beauty, will sing many songs and
already have been working over two
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SIXTY OUT FOR FOOTBALL
Approximately three hundred stu­dents
at Auburn are out for spring
sports. Track claims the largest
number as over a hundred report to.
Coach Wilbur Hutsell every after­noon
at Drake Field. Football, golf,
tennis and baseball occupy the minds
of the other participants, as three­score
report to Coach Earl McFad-en,
about the same number to Coach
Fred Sheridan; around 25 have sign­ed
up with the racket wielders, and
close to the same number can be
found on the links every afternoon.
The number of aspirants to posi­tions
on the Tigers 1930 gridiron
team have only another week of work
until next September as a practice
game Friday afternoon will bring to
a close five weeks of intensive work
in fundamentals, suc^ as blocking and
tackling and necessary pointers in
carrying,the pigskin. The 1930 edi­tion
of the Plainsmen moleskin team
should show noticeable improvement
in blocking and tackling as Coach
McFaden has stressed these two al­ways
necessary fundamentals at
every practice.
The large number out for the
Orange and Blue cinder team lack
experience as they are largely soph­omores
and juniors. Graduation will
hit the thinly-clad team less than any
of the other major teams as only
a small number receive diplomas with
the class of 1930.
The baseball contingent includes the
best talent that has been at the Cor
nerstone since 1928 when the Tigers
boasted of such stars as Ebb and
Fob James, Ben Sankey, Buck Ellis,
Frank Currie, Cush Wood, Jelly Akin
and others. Promising sophomores
are crowding some of the veterans
for their places and it looks like the
Plainsmen will be in the fight for
Southern Conference championship
honors from the very first.
Tennis and golf, minor sports, are
making rapid advancement and should
have*formidable teams this year.
Dance March 7 Opens
Faculty Social Season
Abie Hardin And His Auburn Colle­gians
To Play For Hop
An elaborate evening of dancing at
the Alumni gymnasium Friday, March
7, will open the spring social season
for Auburn faculty members. A ten-piece
orchestra, Abie Hardjn and his
Auburn Collegians, will play for the
occasion beginning at 9 o'clock and
lasting until midnight. This an­nouncement
comes from Profs. F. E.
Guyton and M. L. Nichols, secretary
and president of the faculty dance
club.
Preparations have been made for
the largest attendance at any faculty
dance; between fifty and one hundred
couples are expected'.
Coach Of Golf Team to
See Aspirants On Sat.
Mr. Nixon Will Be On Golf Links
Saturday Afternoon and Sunday
Mr. Nixon, coach of the Auburn
golf team, announced today that he
will see anyone interested in member­ship
on the team at the golf links
Saturday afternoon or Sunday. He
stated that he will arrive at the links
at 1 p. m, Saturday, and will be
there alKday Sunday. He especially
urged that all students interested in
golf see him at that time.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the Re-tores
of the Plainsman staff at the
Phi Kappa Delta house at 6:30 Sun­day
evening.
^"*:**S'**W:
The Fourth Annual Twelve Students Make
Metermen's School Ninety Or Above On AD
Is In Progress Here
Professors In Course Furnished
By Power Companies Spon­soring
School
The fourth annual meter school
sponsored by the National Electric
Light Association in conjunction with
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
and the light and power companies of
the South is underway. This school
is for the men employed by the com­panies
sponsoring it.
The professors in ^the school are
furnished by the companies offering
the course. They are Mr. Fletcher,
Alabama Power Co.; Mr. Hilley, Gen­eral
Electrical Co.; Mr. Snyder, West-inghouse
Electric Co.; Mr. Gearheart,
Duncan Motor Co.; Mr. King, Sanga-.
mo Meter Co.; and Mr. Melcher,
Leeds and Northrup Instrument Co.
These men are instructing and teach­ing
the practical side with the pro­fessors
in the electrical school in­structing
in the theory.
Those attending the school are
men from Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
and Mississippi, and all the senior
electrical students whom so desire.
There are fifty-two regular meter
men enrolled outside of the school
here. These men have fourteen
courses from which to choose any
six. There is no tuition and the
school has the use of the electrical
laboratory here through the permis­sion
of the school here.
Tuesday the Alabama Public Ser­vice
Commission had three men here
to give talks on the rates and regu­lations
of public service utilities.^All
of these men were graduates of Au­burn.
They were Chief Engineer I.
F. McDonald and two of his assist­ants,
Fred Armgren and Arthur Dun-stan.
Monday night the electrical 'de­partment
in connection with the col­lege
gave a smoker to the visiting
men. At this meeting Dr. Knapp was
the main speaker and Prof. Dunstan,
toastmaster. Mr. S. A. Fletcher, su­perintendent
of the meter department
of the Alabama Power Co., gave a
short talk to the men present, as al­so
did Mr. Harold King of the San-gamo
Meter Co., and Mr. Gearhart
of the Duncan Meter Co. of Jackson­ville,
Fla.
These men have classes and lab­oratory
periods from 8 a. m. until
8:30 to 9 o'clock at night. The night
classes are discussion groups led by
the professors.
Professor Dunstan went to a re­cent
meeting of the National Elec­tric
Light Association, held in Birm­ingham
and ""this has put Auburn in
closer touch with the industries of
the South and East. This trip also
proved to create more interest in the
meter school which is the principal
one in the South. A similar school,
but not so large as this one will be
held at the University of Florida
later.
The present meter school is the
largest since they were begun four
years ago. The visitors praised very
highly this year's course.
Courses In First Term
Are Guests Of Dr. and Mrs.
Knapp At President's
Mansion
When the registrar checked up on
grades made by all students during
the first semester of the present ses­sion
he found that 12 had made a
minimum of 90 on each subject, and
that their averages were well above
90. The highest average—98.4—was
made by Jesse Leon Stone of Syla-cauga,
a junior in electrical engineer­ing.
Next to Stone stood John J.
O'Rourke of Selma, senior in electri­cal
engineering with an average of
97.29.
The 12 high-ranking students are
shown on the veranda of the Presi­dential
Mansion, as they visited Dr.
and Mrs. Bradford Knapp. They are,
bottom row,- left to right, Wilmer F.
Jacob of Selma, sophomore in the
school of science and literature, aver­age
92.9; John J. O'Rourke, Jr., of
Selma, senior in electrical engineering,
average 97.29; President Knapp; Mrs.
Knapp; Eugenia Smith of Roanoke,
senior in education, average 90.84;
and Mrs. Ellison Romary McCulloch
of Auburn, junior in education, aver­age
96.11.
Top row, left to right, Malcolm
Franklin of Birmingham, senior in
mechanical engineering, average
93.69; Fred E. Copeland of Auburn,
senior in electrical engineering, aver­age
93.15; Kermit Gilbert of Fair­field,
junior in mechanical engineer­ing,
average 94ll4; William T.
Wilks of Opelika, senior in education,
average 91.98; William Keister of
Montgomery, senior in electrical engi­neering,
average 94.88; Jesse Leon
Stone of Sylacauga, junior in electri­cal
engineering, average, the highest,
98.4; Fair Jones Bryant, of Gads­den,
senior in civil engineering, aver­age
94.86; and R. Wallace Montgom­ery
of Mpulton, sophomore in agri­cultural
education, average 93.95.
Religious Week to
Begin February 10
Announced Today
Four Visiting Pastors To Lead
Services At Auburn Churches
During the Week
Religious week in the college town
of Auburn will open with a convoca­tion
of all students in Langdon Hall,
Monday, Feb. 10. It will continue thru
Sunday, Feb. 16, and four of the
churches here will hold daily services
of especial interest to students.
At the Monday convocation resi­dent
and visiting ministers of the four
churches participating will be intro­duced.
Visitors will be Mr. Coleman
Jennings of Washington, D. C, for
the Episcopal Church, Dr. John W.
Inzer, pastor First Baptist Church,
Montgomery; Dr. John W. Frazer,
pastor Court Street Methodist Church
of Montgomery; and Dr. Donald Mac-
Guire, pastor First Presbyterian
Church, Montgomery. Resident min­isters
are Rev. William Byrd Lee, rec­tor
of the Episcopal Church; Rev.
Sam B. Hay, minister Presbyterian
Church; Rev. Bruce McGee, pastor of
Methodist Church; and Rev. James
R. Edwards, pastor of the Baptist
Church.
Services at the Baptist, Methodist
and Presbyterian Churches will be
held twice daily, once in the morning
and once in the evening. Episcopal
services will be held in the evening
only.
President Bradford Knapp has an­nounced
that there will be no test's or
examinations for students during the
week and that all members of the ins­titution
will be excused from classes
during service hours.
All the visiting ministers are noted
for their special appeal to young men.
Dr. Frazer is prominent in the stu­dent
life of the State, being chairman
of the Board of Trustees of Birming­ham
Southern College. He also was
minister for four years at the Metho­dist
ejiurch in Spartanburg, S. C, the
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DEAN PETRIE IS AN EXCELLENT BICYCLIST
-• But The Eminent Dean Is Not A Gambling Man :-
STARTLING BIT OF INFORM A TION REVEALS
By C. E. Matthews
Holder of the bicyclists title for this
section, aware of his prowess, and with
a desire for new competition he chal­lenged
the engineer of the railroad
which runs from Cheehaw to Tuske-gee
to a race. By so doing he scored
a moral victory as his challenge was
not accepted by the pilot of the steam
locomotive.
The ambitious and aggressive chal­lenger
of 1895 is now a sedate old
gentleman who serves in the capacity
as Dean of graduate studies and head
of the history department of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, Dean
George H. Petrie. Dr. Petrie related
the incident with pride because of the
laugh he had on his friend, the engi­neer.
When asked, if the challenge was
accompanied by a wager, the dean
colored a bit and quickly replied:
"No! I am not a betting man, and
have never made a bet in my life."
Other bits of information reveal
that Dr. Petrie extended his bike rid­ing
activities to the point of aiding
in the mapping out and the construc­tion
of an excellent bicycle path from
Auburn to Wright's Mill. He was
assisted in this venture by Dr. Bennett
Battle Ross, Dean of Chemistry at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The
path was looked upon with pride by
these two gentlemen and scores of
other bike enthusiasts of the faculty
and student body of Auburn. Dr.
Petrie said' it was one of the best in
the country.
"It was kept almost as smooth as
pavement by the darkies who travers­ed
it packing it down with their two
big dogs. By dogs, I mean the two
big bare feet of the 'niggers'," Dean
Petrie said. \
Kiwanis Club
Observes 2nd
Anniversary
Dr. Thomas Relates History of
Local Civic Organiza­tion
PLANNED PROJECTS
Professor Eaton Elected Dele­gate
t o Annual Convention
In June
The Auburn Kiwanis Club observed
Its second anniversary at the meeting
Monday. The history of the club was
presented by Dr. B. F. Thomas, a
charter member and former president,
while Capt. B. C. Anderson outlined
important projects for the club to un­dertake
in the future. He mentioned
improved sanitation facilities, a swim­ming
pool, a new school building, and
the observance of laws as the four
major projects that the club may con­sider.
Prof. W. H. Eaton was another
speaker on the birthday program.
Dr. Thomas, in relating the history
of the organization stated that it was
first known in Auburn as the Village
Club, and in November, 1922, became
a member of the Lions Club. It serv
ed in this capacity until 1928, when it
was given a charter by Kiwanis In­ternational.
Dr. Thomas concluded
his historical narrative with the sug­gestion
that the club have prepared
a history to be recorded in the per­manent
files and to be revised from
time to time to keep it up-to-date.
A large W-i+lw'fiw calr" nrenared by
Miss Dana Gatchell and her class in
home economics was served. Decora­tions
were arranged by Miss M«ry
Drake Askew, a member of the club.
Prof. Eaton was elected delegate to
represent the club at the annual con­vention
of Kiwanis International at
Atlantic City in June. Dr. R. S. Sugg
was elected alternate. Dr. Roger Al
len, president of the club, presided.
LIBRARY SCIENCE
COURSE OFFERED
Miss Mary Parrot Will Teach Course
During Summer School
Due to the long felt need of better
organized libraries in the high schools
of today, a course in library science
is to be taught here in the summer
sessions, by Miss Mary Parrot. Miss
Parrot is a graduate of the Alabama
College at Montevallo and is assisting
Miss Mary Martin this year in classi­fying
and cataloging books at the col­lege
library.
The course is especially designed
for teachers who have charge of high
school libraries. It will consist of
three courses in library science in­cluding
book selection, library admini­stration,
and book classification, ac­cording
to Miss Parrot. The course
will be taught both summer sessions,
and is classed as a five hour course for
the summer school students.
Lions Club Reports
On Three Projects
Members Plan To Attend Charter
Night By Opelika Club
Reports of the cemetery, town-plan­ning,
and education committees feat­ured
the luncheon-meeting of the
Lions Club on Tuesday. A large
number of club members expressed in­tentions
to be present at the charter
night festivities of .the newly estab­lished
club in Opelika on Thursday,
March 6.
Lion James Gullage of Camp Hill
entertained the club with a brief talk.
New Dentist Opens
Office In Auburn
Dr. W. M. Fuller, Former Dentist Of
West Point, Practices Here
Dr. W. M. Fuller, former dentist of
West Point, Georgia, has opened a
new office in Auburn. Mr. Fuller, a
graduate of the Dental College in At­lanta,
finished in '25, and since that
time has been practising in the Geor­gia
town.
Gamma Sigma
Epsilon Pledges
Six New Men
Four Seniors and Two Juniors
Pledged By Honor Group In
Spring Election
WILL INITIATE SOON
Prof. Z. M. Pirenian Is One Of
Grand Officers Of
Fraternity
Extended bids by Gamma Sigma
Epsilon, national honorary chemical
fraternity, are four seniors and two
juniors, it was announced today by
officers of the organization.
Those receiving bids are Henry
Reeves, senior, LaGrange, Ga.; H. Y.
Shaefer, senior, Opelika; J. C. W.
Stewart, senior, Attalla; A. S. WrigHt
senior, Opelika; John L. Christian,
junior, Oxford; Thomas P. Brown,
junior, Mobile.
Members are selected at elections
held during the fall and spring o:
each year, and membership is open
to those juniors and seniors who at­tain
a high scholastic standing coupl­ed
with general prominence in cam­pus
activities. The object of Gamma
Sigma Epsilon is to increase the in­terest
and scholarship in chemistry
and to promote friendship and gen­eral
welfare among chemists.
The Auburn chapter was' installed
in the spring of 1923, and the present
officers are: J. F. Mitchell, president;
O. W. Allen, treasurer; H. L. Hub­bard,
secretary; J. D. Atkins, Ser-geant-
at-Arms. Professor Z. M. Pire­nian
is a grand officer and Dr. B. B.
Ross is a past grand officer of the
fraternity.
Four Candidates Are
In Race For Catcher
Quartet of Able Catchers in Keen
Competition for Position
A four-cornered fight is being stag­ed
for the position behind the plate
on Auburn's 1930 baseball team. A
quartet of capable receivers are bat­tling
for the post in the personages
of Chas. Kaley and Aubrey Lewis,
sopohomores; Travis Brown, junior,
and Rupert Ingram, senior.
Passed balls and etc. cost the Tig­ers
several games last season, but
this will hardly be the case this year
as all o fthe candidates for catcher
are showing up well for this time of
the season.
Coach Fred Sheridan is using Kaley
and Ingram in the majority of the
practice tilts as both have had more
experience than Lewis and Brown.
The latter two are by no means out
of the running as they are advancing
fast and might receive the call to
start in some of the 28 games facing
the Plainsmen.
Kaley looked mighty with the 1929
frosh team as he showed the makings
of another Ebb James, one of the
greatest wearers of the mask Auburn
has ever had. In some departments
he has the distinct advantage over
Ingram, while Ingram has the same
advantage in others. Ingram has one
of the surest pegs of any of the quar­tet
but passed balls might prove his
undoing.
The first-string receiver probably
will not be decided until after the
Orange and Blue diamondeers have
played a few games as Kaley and
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Town Council Plans
Tree Planting Here
Asks Civic Clubs Of Auburn To Coop­erate
In Project
Carrying out the idea of a "Bigger
and Better Auburn," the town council
at its last meeting adopted a resolu­tion
to ask all civic clubs to co-operate
in the planting of trees and shrubbery
about the city. The U. D. C. has al­ready
arranged about the planting of
trees on the Jefferson Davis highway
between Auburn and Opelika, and
ing will be done.
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THE PLAINSMAN
—feels sure that the dramatics tournament
to be held in Auburn the early part of
next month bids fair to be the best of the
four held to date. It is a good advertise­ment
for the institution.
—thinks that Vanderbilt should feel hon­ored
to have the opportunity to award a
letter to Dr. Knapp for his playing on| her
first team, for through the decades since
he departed from that college he has al­ways
been a proponent of hard fighting
but square fighting athletic teams.
THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930
E n g i n e e r s A r e Making
P l a n s For Annual Occasion
In the past the men on the north side of
the campus have had very few ways in
which they might get together and cele­brate
the profession as a whole and to pay
homage in some instances to the leaders of
the field. However, a couple of years ago
found several members of the junior class
working on some sort of event to let the
engineering students get together for a
short while one afternoon, while last year
the newly formed Engineer's Club and
Tau Beta Pi combined to put on very suc­cessfully
a day of activities, a banquet,
and a dance afterwards.
Much praise was abroad last year after
the occasion, for it had ended well; every­thing
had been done as it was scheduled,
and its stability, as far as being a success,
was intantly made.
There is no question but that much bene­fit
is derived from Engineer's Day; this
is recognized by the college who has given
it solid support. Actual phases in the
technical field are brought to the atten­tion
of the students; a day of fun and en­tertainment
is the result of getting the
men together, and social relationship among
the students is materially strengthened.
Plans for the third annual Engineer's
Day have been made for a more elaborate
observation of the occasion than either of
the other two.
With the recent announcement concern­ing
Engineers' Day, comes the realization
that this affair has become more than an
occasion; it has become an event of rec­ognized
value, and if the enjoyment of this
custom increases in proportion with the
size of the program, even those afflicted
with the worst of grouches toward such an
event should have a good time. The holiday
starts with a short address at the Tiger
Theater by Dean Wilmore, followed by the
showing of a technical movie and a comedy.
A parade, which if successfully carried out
will be long remembered by all, is to be
held at two, and ends at the athletic field
where various athletic contests and events
are to be staged. At seven comes a ban­quet
at Smith Hall and as a closing feature
of the day a dance is to be held in the
Alumni Gym.
This is a day when all engineers can lay
down their slide rules and Hudson's Man­uals
and enjoy themselves to the fullest
extent. The men responsible for this day
and its program are certainly to be con­gratulated
upon their work. It is a means
of bringing the engineers of the institution
into better harmony and cooperation with
each other.
Bad Check Writing
Encountered Again
The American Institute of Accounts
states that more than two billion dollars
are lost yearly through bad check writing
activities of some people. This a terrific
economic drain and is to a large measure
attributable to the carelessness of mer­chants
in cashing checks in the first place
and then failing to prosecute the giver of
the check in the second place, it goes on to
state. Many merchants are to blame for
the continuance of this nefarious practice,
and it will continue as long as merchants
are lenient in prosecution of the offenders.
Many merchants find their profits going to
make up losses incurred in this way.
We mention these things, for it seems
that the annual season for writing bad
checks has struck Auburn again. It is dif­ficult
to understand the exact reasoning
employed by the students who practice
this, as it proves costly in the long run,
but it is prevalent at the same time.
They not only destroy the credit and
confidence the merchants of the town have
in them but what faith they have in all
the students. All must pay for what a
few thoughtlessly do. Money may be
raised for a short period, but it becomes
increasingly harder to succeed by this meth­od
as time goes along.
From the complaints registered by cer­tain
of the townsmen, the situation has
been bad for sometime, and we would
suggest that no check be received unless it
be known that the writer's credit is abso­lutely
good. If those who have bad checks
out against them do not pay up, then the
law can be used as a last resort. Until a
unified effort is made to eliminate bad
check writing, it will continue to be done
with the result of the merchants of Au­burn
bearing the loss.
College Record Is
Forecast Of Success
Colonel R. I. Rees, assistant vice-presi­dent
of the American Telephone and Tele­graph
Company, and President of the So­ciety
for the Promotion of Engineering
Education, recently wrote an article on
"The Student's College Record as a Fore­cast
of Success." In this article he points
out the elements of college experience that
go to indicate the success one will have
after leaving college. After showing evi­dence
of sound judgment inherent in carry­ing
out a well-planned curriculum, con­sideration
must be given to the time-con­suming
factors such as academic work, par­ticipation
in extra-curricular activities, and
the necessity on the part of many students
to earn part or all of their college expenses.
One thing noticed by the author of this
article is that the scholars are usually
higher than anyone else after having been
out of college a period of ten or twenty
years. Their earning capacity goes as
high as fifty-five percent over that of the
median of the class. The type of campus
activity chosen in many cases tells some­thing
of one's ability, while earning the
money necessary to go to college shows the
determination to get ahead.
Colonel Rees, in summing up the funda­mental
characteristics which an employer
expects to find in a graduate, says, "He
expects to find a man able to think and to
work. Contributory to these two small in­centives,
engineering education should and
does, develop trained intelligence, analyti­cal
ability, and sound judgment, based on
fundamental knowledge.
"Life on the campus and specific train­ing
also develop that important element to
success-cooperation in human relationship.
A college education does much to assist
the student in clarifying his life's objec­tive,
and in a well organized curriculum,
such as engineering, in his senior year he
has come a long way toward determining
a specific career. All his college experi­ence
should develop power, vision, and
clear thinking."
Any course that is backed up by sound
reasoning in choosing the correct curricu­lum,
and letting other activities occupy
their place in proportion to the time the
student has for such things will be profit­able
to the student. He will be getting the
most from his college training.
A POINT OF ETIQUETTE
A point of etiquette which bids fair to
cause the famed Gann-Curtis controversy
to fade into obscurity, is presented by the
predicament of "Ma" and "Pa" Jolly.
A few days ago there was no disturbance
of the calm placidity of the Jolly life the
Jollys led in .their little home in Mount
Vernon, 111. Then things began to happen.
The telephone rang and "Ma" Jolly an­swered.
She turned away beaming and
breathless to announce that a son had been
born to her son Carl and his wife. Hardly
had she hung the receiver on its hook than
the phone rang again. "Pa" Jolly answer­ed
and told his wife that a daughter had
been born to his daughter and her hus­band,
Gus Whitson. The third time the
phone rang and "Ma" and "Pa" looked at
each other in trembling apprehension.
Finally one of them picked up the instru­ment
to learn that Mr. and 'Mrs. Nelson
Jolly were the proud parents of a boy.
The three births came at practically the
same moment and the Jolly grandparents
are placed in the most difficult position
of now determing which baby will be hon­ored
with the first formal call of "Pa"
and "Ma."
No book of etiquette available gives in­formation
of what is the procedure under
just such a circumstance. "Pa" Jolly has
never smoked cigarettes and neighbors say
that his attempts at nonchalance at this
time are rather pitiable. —Mobile Press.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Next week begins a
series of meetings
which are well worth­while.
The govern­ment
of the United
States was founded on
the conception that
the state and the
church are to be sep­arate.
I am inherent­ly
devoted to that
American principle. At the same time I
believe profoundly that character and re­ligion
are of supreme importance in the
making of a useful life. I cannot help but
believe that how we live here is going to
have a great deal to do with our future
state—whether of happiness, or of unhappi-ness,
as the case may be. These religious
meetings in the churches, with their full
cooperation, are, therefore, important—im­portant
in that they permit each student to
choose the faith which suits him but at the
same time to devote some interest to the
church and to the highest side of his nature
during the school year. I am very glad
indeed that we do have the cooperation of
the churches here without any distinction
whatever, eligious Week is worth your at­tention.
It will help you to fit yourself for
life. I urge you to go to some one of the
churches and spend a little time at least in
thinking upon these deep and important
parts of your life and mind. There are two
problems which you need to solve while you
are yet young:
1. To establish a proper relationship
with your fellow men, a regard for the
rights of others, an attitude of considera­tion,
a well poised, earnest desire to under­stand
and appreciate your fellow beings.
2. The other is your relation to the Di­vine
Creator himself. That is your re­ligion.
If you establish that relationship,
you will be an infinitely happier being. I
hope and pray that eligious Week may be
worthwhile in Auburn in 1930.
* * * * *
A "prank' is one thing, a wrong is qufte
another thing and a crime against the laws
of the state and good society is still a more
serious matter. Laws are passed by the
city, the state, or the nation for the purpose
of protecting life, property and the rights
of individuals and to promote the peace and
welfare of the community, the state or the
nation. The man who takes it into his hands
to violate those laws, no matter how simple
or insignificant that may be, commits a
wrong. I am led to say these things be­cause
there is a little tendency on the part
of some students, who think they are mere­ly
committing a "prank," to commit a
wrong which happens to be in violation of
the law. I wish you could look me square
in the eye and let he tell you it does not
pay to do that kind of a thing. It is not
funny; it is not sport and what is more, it
will injury you ultimately. I care much
less for the injury you perpetrate against
others than I do the inescapable and tre­mendous
injury you perpetrate upon your­self
when you commit such an act. The
stealing of some gasoline from an automo­bile
the other night came dangerously near
resulting in something quite serious. I
know that certain other and similar inci­dents
have been perpetrated but have not
gone quite so far as this one. It is about
time that thoughtful students called a halt
of that kind of thing. It injures your repu­tation,
it destroys your character, it hurts
the reputation of the rest of us and ulti­mately
somebody is going to have to be
arrested and brought to trial and punished
for the violation of the laws of the state,
unless you have the good sense to see that
the thing is stopped and stopped now. Gas­oline
and education do not mix very well.
There is no need of a lot of gasoline to go
carvorting around the country to miss clas­ses.
If there is need of the gasoline to go
home and you have not the money, come to
me and I will help you get it and get it the
right way. You do not need it so badly as
ever to have to get it the wrong way. Part
of education is to think straight, to reason
clearly, honestly and to exercise to its ful­lest
extent the power of self-control.
"Little Things"
By Tom Bigbee
There must have been something of rath­er
unique interest going on down in the
gym Wednesday evening between the hours
of nine and — (?). From all reports, we
presume that "a good time was had by all,"
and those who took part will "live happily
ever after."
Just how and why the Goodwater prep
school five managed to emerge winner in
last Monday night's conflict is -a bit baff­ling.
Without throwing any discredit on
the above quintet, which certainly performed
ably, the Tallassee team seemed to hold
the high edge until the final tilt.
Three times in a row, each night drawing
a full house—that is a record of repute,
which was made by the Auburn Players
last week, in the staging of their big hit
for the season, "The Rock."
H AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
Professor Callan has opened a savage attack on red-backed algebras, judging
from the negative quantity obtained by Tom Irby from that source. He seemed to
have learned enough new methods of calculating to write a few new mathematical
laws. Anyway, his knowledge was negligible.
* *. * * * * * ~ * * *
It seems that everyone stood the military brawl fairly well last Friday night.
Apparently everyone was in a very conservative frame of mind that night.
* * * * * * * * * *
By the time some of those oat fields were through moving around it's a wonder
there is a floor in the gym.
* * * * * * * * * *
Since Dr. Snook was put to death in the chair several days ago, the life insur­ance
of^anyone associating with co-eds has gone up considerably. The insurance
companies demand protection.
* * * * * * * * * *
Then there was the Scotchman who refused to take out any life insurance to
cover his burial expenses from fear he would be lost at sea.
* * * * * * * * * *
Psittacosis, the new parrot disease, may be causing a great deal of alarm, it is
our opinion that the worst disease they have is waggistis, or talking too much, which
was undoubtedly caught from association with humans.
* * * * * ^ * * * * * -
Once there was a speaker who had been invited to speak before a literary so­ciety.
He was just finishing up when the secretary offered him a check which he
refused, saying that it could go for some charitable purpose. The secretary then
said it would be added to a special fund of the society's which the inquisitive speak­er
then found out to be one for getting better lecturers the next year.
* * * * * * * * * *
It seems that Miss Sallie Hamilton of the zoo was much embarrassed last week
when a visitor of long years standing—thirteen, we believe—came in and found
ashes on the floor. Even women get careless after so long a time; this case simply
proves that one. can never be toojiareful.
* * * * * * * * * *
Mayor Lane's room was searched the other day and fifteen different brands of
cosmetics were found there. We haven't been able to determine whether his father
owns a drugstore, he has a lot of girl friends, or whether he is simply trying to keep
that schoolboy complexion.
* * * * - * * * * * *
For a long time two prominent members of the Senior class, "Co-ed" Taylor
and "Cutie" Milligan, have been trying to keep their actions in as dark a corner as
possible, but last week the truth leaked out—and well that it did.
Last week-end these two young men of fashion, as dazzling in their gentleman­ly
qualities as the fair maidens of Agnes Scott in their beauty, toured (we say
"toured", for they had a lot of trouble before they got there) up to said college to
give the girls a treat, knowing as how Georgia Tech boys could not begin to rate
along side of them.
After overcoming a disastrous accident along the route, they finally reached
the college to let the damsels feast their hungry eyes on these examples of young
manhood. Before their arrival the college juniors had appeased their physical
hunger, but only the presence of these masculine Venuses could appease that soul-thirst
so prevalent at the girls' school.
They seem to have completed a rather successful trip, and when interviewed on
their return, merely and modestly stated that the college should pay their expenses
in the future on these good-will tours. We agree that no better representatives
could be selected.
* * * * * * * * * *
Much excitement has been aroused concerning the "Roscoe" evil that has crept
into the blood of the storekeepers of Auburn. H. Overton, noted reformer and lec-turist,
was noted in conference, with an eminent merchant of the town, in the late
hours of the evening last week. Is it possible that at last we have some conscien-tous
worker who will champion the cause and remove the stigma from the fair name
%of Auburn?
* * * * * * * * *
One advantage of a girl getting married two or three times is that if her par­ents"
missed the first wedding, they will still have a chance of being present at one
of them.
WELL, FD SAY THIS
IBy cAaton ^Billoivheel
& WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
WHY FOOTBALL
Stanford University has cleared more
than $2,000,000 since 1922 from football
alone. This money is expended on all the
other sports.
* * * *
NATIONAL RIFLE MEET
In a field of national competition re­cently
Robert B. Champlin of Newark, New
Jersey, and a sophomore in the Commerce
school finished eleventh in the National
Prone Rifle shooting contest sponsored by
the War department.
The targets were set at a distance of 50
feet with 400 being a perfect score. Champ­lin
succeeded in getting 397 out of the
possible 400. Before entering Washington
and Lee Champlin engaged in rifle shoot­ing
while a student at Kiski preparatory
school.
* * * *
HO! HO!
Many have been the times when students
have been criticised for activities or ar­ticles
appearing in college publications but
seldom has the incident appearing at the
University of Maine recently been dupli­cated.
In the issue of the undergraduate
magazine appeared a story in whose char­acter
the officials took exception and con­sequently
suppressed the story. The pe­culiar
and unique thing in regard to it was
that it was written by one of the professors
of English at the University. And we
thought that all profs were perfect.
* * * *
WELL
The Michigan legislature at its last ses­sion
passed a law prohibiting the wearing
of fraternity or lodge badges or insignia
by anyone not a regularly enrolled for init­iated
member of the organization.
It seems rather tough on the fraternity
man who wants to have his pin on the "girl
of his dreams."
* * * *
BROADCASTING FOR COWS
And now we hear that radio is being in­stalled
in barns for the benefit of cows.
It makes for contented cows and makes
more milk and butter. Thus is radio
brought down out of the air as ft were and
devoted to something practical.
At that some announcers we have heard
would make good cow-callers. However,
no disrespect is intended; for it is a new
and rising profession that calls for many
delicate and high-priced qualifications. A
new announcer of National proportions has
just been imported into San Francisco at
$80,00.
* * * —' *
BRINGING THE MOON CLOSER
If an elephant on the planet Mars show­ed
up the size of a toothpick through the
present largest telescope in the world, the
100-inch instrument on the summit off
Mount Wilson, California, its size through
the 200-inch instrument now under con­struction
would be increased to size of a
two-foot rule. While elephants may not
inhabit Mars, the comparison indicates the
added visibility that will be attained with
the elescope being built for the California
Institute of Technology and the Carnegie
Institution of Washington.
* * * *
MORE, LONGER DATES ASKED FOR
BY UNIVERSITY CO-EDS
The women's student government of the
University of Georgia will hold its regular
monthly meeting in the University chapel
Monday at 12:30, at which time an amend­ment
will be proposed to allow all women
students to have dates any night in the
week and until eleven o'clock, if so de­sired.
If this measure is passed, it will be in
the form of a petition to the University
authorities expressing the desire and opin­ion
of a majority of the women students.
All women students are asked to attend
this meeting as it will be an important
one.
* * * *
MAYBE NONE
We read in the papers we get as ex,
changes that at Furman there are seven
co-eds, at Mercer about ten or twelve, at
Wake Forest six or eight, at V. P. I. a few,
at Davidson a few, at infinitum. All of
which leads us to prophesy that within ten
or fifteen years the only colleges that
won't have them will be West Point and
Annapolis.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed iq
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.
* * * * *
ANEW HIGH has been reached for
the depth to which talking pictures
can flounder. Those who saw John
Mack Brown in "Jazz Heaven" will surely
agree with me. In the dumb pictures,
John Mack was sufficiently dumb to play
the rather dumb, masculine lover passing
fair. But to see our own little Alabama
Jonnie paw at a piano with a far away
look in his eyes and affect the role of an
aesthetic dweller of Tin Pan Alley is more
than motion pictures should expect of any­one's
constitution. And when he opened
up his handsome face and began to moo
like a Jersey being boiled in oil, I was
taken suddenly and violently ill.
Because Mr. Brown is good to look at is
not indication that he can play a piano or
sing mammy songs. I am sorry that the
talking pictures have found our Alabama
boy so inadequate. Besides lacking ability
to act, sing, play, dance or to make wise
cracks, Dothan's hero is a sensation.
I do not mean to pan John unnecessarily,
but, in a few cases, the slipshod and idiotic
productions that makers of pictures fling
at the public are disgusting.
Possibly the biggest mistake that motion
picture producers have made since the ad­vent
of the sound picture is the halucina-tion
that every husky throat in Hollywood
must sing. Everybody sings in the movies
now except the kitchen sink and that
gurgles. Ramon Navarro sings syncopated
love ditties in the time of Napoleon, and a
jazz orchestra can burst into tune as easily
in the Sahara desert as it can in the ball
room. When "The Merchant of Venice" is
screened, no doubt Shylock will hoist his
coat tails and do a Mike Rooney tap dance
and Portia, oh dear, will probably do splits
and one armed hand springs.
Diogenese Teufelsdrockh just strolled in
and we had quit a nice little chat regarding
the awful life of one who writes a column.
We shed a few tears for each other and
solemnly decided that we must carry on.
Carry what on? I've forgotten. Anyway,
we are going to carry it on. For a two­pence
I'd carry my part way out some
where and bury it.
And a man just came in and tried to
sell me a subscription for some kind of
paper, which I didn't buy and neither did
I buy a broom from a blind boy who could
thread his way through Auburn's thickest
traffic as sprightly as myself. I am steel­ing
myself against the future when I shall
have chances to buy oil well stocks and bug­gy
factory bonds.
But back to the theatre. When one goes
to a mystery play, and it is the best of all
sports, one must pick the guilty party by a
simple process of elimination. (This is
my own idea.) At the beginning, suspect
everyone. If you have a maiden aunt, sus­pect
her. If she is dead, then you may for­get
about her for it is fairly certain that
she is innocent. Then you come on down
through all your acquaintances and dismiss
them one by one until you have combed
every possible murderer outside the picture.
Pay particular attention to your friends
and fraternity brothers and take the finger
prints and photographs of those near you
in the show. When you have satisfied your­self
that those next you or your friends and
acquaintances are without stain, look under
your seat and then begin an inquiry into
the lives, habits, and kin of the players in
the picture. You are getting warm now.
Eliminate the crooks, bootleggers and the
family butler. Well, you know the rest.
Just forget every person who could profit
by the murder. If there is a sweet old
mother in the play, it is probably she that
you want. Failing there, find the sweet-faced
virgin for she is most certainly the
murder.
Taken From SCIROCCO
Out of that high pavilion
Where the sick, wind-harassed sun
In the whitesness of the day
Ghostly shone and stole away—
Parched with the utter thirst
Of unnumbered Libyan sands,
Thou, cloud-gathering spirit, burst
Out of arid Africa
To the tideless sea, and smote
On our pale, moon-cooled lands
The hot breath of a lion's throat.
And that furnace-heated breath
Blew into my placid dreams
The heart of fire from whence it came:
Haunt of beauty and of death
Where the forest breaks in flame
Of flaunting blommosm, where the flood
Of life pulses hot and stark,
Where a wing'd death breeds in mud
And tumult of tree-shadowed streams—
Black waters, desolately hurled
Through the uttermost, lost, dark,
Secret places of the world.
—Francis Brett Young.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Furman Students Get
Advice On How To
Work More Efficiently
Advice to the student on how to
do his work quickly and efficiently,
is contained in an article in one of
the Furman publications.
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.
Pay special attention to the first and
last 'sentences of paragraphs as the
topic and summary are usually con­tained
in them. The same is true of
chapters; be sure to study the first
and last paragraphs very carefully.
Have a study schedule and let noth­ing
interfere with it.
Concentrate on a subject to the
point of absorption.
Make marginal notes and underline
important sentences if you own the
book.
Keep a notebook for each course in
a businesslike way. Always take your
notebook to class. Quote exactly and
correctly.
Learn how to use the library. Con­sult
a dictionary often.
Never forget to take essentials to
classroom. Include two sharpened
pencils, fountain pen, paper, a watch
that will go, and a sense of humor.
Above all, keep your work up to
date. If you do so, you need not wor­ry.
The Sport Of
Our Ancestors
FAILURE TO EMPLOY
CATHOLIC MAY COST JOB
Albany, N. Y.—(IP)— William J.
Hoffman, school principal of Harri-man,
N. Y., has been asked to appear
before state education authorities here
to explain why his license should not
be taken away from him because he
refused to employ Miss Anna Mull-holland,
of Pittsburgh, as a teacher
because she was a Catholic.
"Fox hunters the nation over will
rejoice to learn that a group of Amer­ican
and English sportsmen have pur­chased,
for $3,000,000 a tract of 18,-
000 acres near Nashville, Tenn., which
they will develop and devote exclusive­ly
to racing, and "the chase." Thus,
come what may, "the sport of our an­cestors"
is assured of preservation.
Time was when a prophesy that fox
hunting in America was threaten­ed
with extinction would have been
greeted with derisive hoot's, for in
colonial days, when a single landed
proprietor owned estates far larger
than this one in Tennessee, fox hunt­ing
was the popular sport, enjoy­ed
by gentry, farmers and tradesmen
alike. But with the division and sub­division
of these estates, and the in­stallation
of barbed wire, fox hunt­ing
became restricted in scope and ex­pensive
in means. Nowadays a twen­ty-
mile run unencumbered with wire
and uncrossed with concrete roads
can be had in only a few localities:
in parts of Virginia, Tennessee,.Mary­land
and Pennsylvania, and most of
these are doomed to eventual engulf­ing
by towns and factories.
It is sincerely to be hoped that the
acquisition of the tract in Tennessee
will not only insure against extinc­tion,
but will give fresh vigor to a
sport so exclusively American and
English, a sport which is—in the cele­brated
toast of John Jorrocks, Esq.,
grocer, Great Coram street, London—
"The h'image of war with h'only five-and-
twenty per cent of its danger."
Blue Bonnet: Burton Hills started
out a barefoot boy.
Mrs. Evans: Well, I wasn't born
with shoes on myself.
See Miss Blue Bonnet.
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College Men Are Too
Much for George Ade
"When I went down to Purdue in
the eighties I was the only matricu­lant
from Newton County, Indiana,"
confesses George Ade in his article
concerning Purdue in the April Col­lege
Humor, "and only three resi­dents
of the county were attending
so-called higher institutions of learn­ing,
although some of them were not
so altitudinal in those yappy and
formative years.
"Now the main streets and coun­try
lanes are congested with sophisti­cated
lads and lasses who know all
about Paul Whitman and 'Strange
Interlude' and 'Bob' Zuppke, and how
to put it over on the dean of men.
Among all of tm5m there is a -simi­larity
of costuming. The faint note
of originality seldom overcomes the
iron-bound dicta of prevailing modes.
They are a new crop, bearing no out­ward
resemblance to the whiskered
juniors and seniors whom I knew
long ago when the plug hat, the single
breasted Prince Albert, the 'gates
ajar' collar and a swollen cravat re­sembling
a liver pad were the trade­marks
of undergraduate eminence.
"Just to size them up at a party
or see them in action, which is usual­ly
slow motion picture stuff unless
art orchestra is playing, they all grew
in the same garden or had their heads
moulded in the same foundry or drop­ped
off the Tree of Life simultan­eously
and a little before they were
ripe—whichever figure of speech you
prefer. All of them pass the same
hard boiled and dogmatic opinions
regarding parents, elders, profs and
—girls. Their appraisements are
positive and unaccountable. They
have a way of being bitterly indiffer­ent
toward all young women approved
by their sisters and relatives. They
glory in their ignorance of current
events and sober issues confronting
the world of thought, and very often
this ignorance is abysmal and cannot
be. fathomed by any deep-sounding
apparatus yet devised. On the other
hand, each of them is an 'Encyclope­dia
Britannica'' of unassociated facts
having to do with major sports, com­parative
merits of motor cars, sex
phenomena, Greek letter politics and
those mysterious rules of classifica­tion
by which the 'muckers' are set
apart from the 'good scouts' and con­demned
to obloquy and perpetual ob­livion.
"They are too much for me. I know
that anyone who is still damp behind
the ears and has not had time to ac­quire
either wisdom or working capi­tal
has no license to lord it over a
gray head who is an L. H. D. and an
LL. D. and a Member of the National
Institute, author of a dozen success­ful
plays and twenty assorted books
and landlord over two thousand acres
of unremunerative farm land—no
sophomore has a right to give me the
cold eye, but when he does so, I shriv­el
up and feel unworthy. He is the
aristocratic heir to all the ages, and
I am just a worker in the fields. Most
adults have been worrying since the
war about the vices of youth. I'm
not. The thing about the under­graduate
which intrigues me and ex­cites
my wonderment is his beauti­ful
superiority complex, bathed in the
golden sunlight of self assurance. I'd
like to get one just like it."
Students At N. C.
Give New Angles
On Scientific Facts
DANCING
RATES
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DEKN HOTEL IN THE SOUTH maamamm
Summer Session Poster
Now Being Distributed
An attractive poster announcing the
1930 summer session at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, has been pub­lished
and is being distributed under
th edirection of Dean Zebulon Judd,
director of the summer school. It is
an announcement of the dates along
with illustrations and a brief state­ment.
The first term will open on June 2
and will close July 11. The second
term will open July 14 and will close
August 16 a t which time the annual
summer school graduation exercises
will be held. The poster carries pic­tures
of several beautiful scenes on
the campus at Auburn. Students hav­ing
suggestions as to where to send
copies are requested to make their
wishes known to Dean Judd.
Dr. Arthur A. Mitten, only son of
the late Thomas E. Mitten, has re­nounced
his right to his father's mil­lions
because his father's will left the
bulk of his estate to the cause of co­operation
between capital and labor.
Legally, the money should go to the
qounger Mitten in spite of the will be­cause
under the Pennsylvania state
law, no bequest to charitable institu­tions
made within 30 days of a man's
death is legal.
"Valence is one adam of hytrogen,"
says a freshman at North Carolina
State. This and many other answers
on the recent chemistry examination
served to shatter the time-honored
facts and theories of Lavoisier, Priest­ley,
etc.
Among the several new methods
for the preparation of oxygen advanc­ed
by the frosh were:
"A way of preparing oxygen is by
running hydrogen through a cylinder
with an electric current attached to
it and when it comes out the other
end it will be oxygen."
"One method of making oxygen is
by pumping it into steel drums."
"Oxygen is made by running water
through an electric spark."
"One method of containing oxygen
is by heating red phosphorus until
oxygen is given off."
A few of the chemical definitions
were:
"A metal is something that contains
no elements whatsover."
"An element is the smallest com­pounds."
"Generally when metals are placed
on, water they float."
Student's Progress Is
Sent to Home Papers
News about those freshmen who
were initiated recently into Greek let
ter fraternities at Auburn has been
sent back home, and it will be print­ed
in "home-town papers".
After sending general news stories
to the daily papers of Alabama the
Department of Public Information
sent to local papers names of fresh­men
from their respective counties
initiated into fraternities. Even out­side
states were included in the ser­vice.
The work was done by Walter
L. Randolph, news editor. About 60
stories were written.
This is only one of many ways in
which the Department of Public In­formation
is sending news about Au­burn
back to the home folks. The
policy of the department is to let the
home paper know whenever a local
son or daughter is honored or figures
in news at Auburn.
American Travellers
Collectors On Tours
"I have never understood why so
few Americans collect things in their
own country," writes Beverly Nichols
in the April College Humor, in an
editorial on "Hobbies." "It can't be
because they do not possess the col­lector's
instinct, because when they
are abroad they collect everything
in sight. I have seen elderly Ameri­can
women scrabbling in the earth on
the Acropolis in search of some stray
marble pebble which Socrates may
have kicked aside when Alcibiades was
being tiresome. I have seen earnest
young students in Egypt loading their
pockets with scarabs of 'enormous an­tiquity'
(manufactured in Berlin).
And I have often wondered during
the annual American invasion of Eng­land
how long it will be before our
poor island, with its primitive and un­couth
m habitants, vqll be transported
in its entirety to Chicago and placed
in the middle of Lake Michigan, with
admission at a dollar a head. Yet
in America itself nobody seems to
collect anything except- dollars."
Mrs. Evans: Pa', you're just in
time. Tell me what a psychologist is.
Pa: A darn fool. Ask me another.
See Miss Blue Bonnet.
A CORRECTION
The article in the last issue of
the Plainsman concerning chemis­try
work at Auburn contained an
error in the statement that Dr.
William C. Stubbs was at one time
president of the University of Ala­bama.
It was Dr. N. T. Lupton
rather than Dr. Stubbs who was
professor of chemistry and presi­dent
of the University of Alabama
from 1871 to 1874. He went from
Auburn to Vanderbilt University.
We regret this error and are
making this record to correct it.
Murder Story
Leads Demand
M-E-A-T
The Very Best
And Any
Kind
MOORE'S MARKET
Phone 37
As a result of statistics compiled
by librarians over the country it has
been shown that in 1929 "The Bishop
Murder Case" led all fiction in popu
lar demand, indicating that the cry
for mystery has by no means ceased
Next came "All Quiet on the Western
Front," one of the year's sensations
"Peter Victorious" ended third in the
race, followed by "Dodsworth," an
other of Sinclair Lewis' satires. In
non-fiction "Elizabeth and Essex" led
the list, although this volume was
fourth on the best sellers' list. "The
Art of Thinking" ran second, closely
followed by "Strange Interlude."
The best sellers' list was almost
totally different. "All Quiet on the
Western Front" led the list followed
by "Dodsworth." "Dark Hester",
third on the list, gained no place at
all on the list of the most popular.
The "Bishop Murder Case" earned
fourth place, followed by "Ro­per's
Row." In the rank of non-fic­tion
"The Art of Thinking" gained
first laurels, followed by "Henry the
Eighth." "The Cradle of the Deep"
and "Elizabeth and Essex" won third
and fourth places respectively.
Yale Head Attacks
Attitude Assumed
By Wet Attorneys
Dr. James Angell, president of Yale
University, speaking here recently be­fore
the Cleveland Bar Association,
chidded attorneys who assert the na­tional
prohibition act need not be obey­ed
and argue that it is not based on
a generally recognized custom or
principle.
"In the first place," Dr. Angell said,
"it is mere nonsense to define law as
always being custom expressed in le­gal
form, or made articulate. How,
then could all our legislation on traf­fic,
the air-plane, or radio be explain­ed?"
In this fast moving age, he argued,
society is confronted with problems
and legislative bodies pass laws to
solve these problems.
MISS BLUE BONNET
Mr. Evans: Magnolia will appear
in due season. She's upstairs takin
a little siesta.
"Doc" Evans: And me a doctor,
with my family, with my family liv­ing
on patent medicine.
See Miss Blue Bonnet.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1930
Constitution Contest
Attracts Attention
Although March 25 is the closing
date for entries in the Sixth National
Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest on
the Constitution, already 81 colleges
and universities from 29 states have
written to P. Casper Harvey, national
director, Liberty, Mo. Northwestern
University, Evanston, 111., national
winner in 1925, was the first school
to enter the 1930 contest.
Although April 15 is the closing
date for each school to select its rep­resentative,
the distinction of being
the first arator to win his local con­test
to F. B. Carr, A. and M. College
of South Carolina, Clemson.
The competition for the greatest
forensic honor open to college stu­dents
in America foreshadows bring­ing
together this year the largest
group of colleges and universities in
any project of the kind in the history
of American higher education, ac­cording
to the announcement made
this week at the national headquart­ers.
A total of $5,000 in prizes will
be awarded, and the winner, who will
become the national intercollegiate
champion orator for 1930, will be
awarded a prize of $1,500. Second
place will give a prize of $1,000, scal­ing
down to $4.00 for seventh place.
The national director is sending
this week to 902 colleges and univer­sities
an urgent request to make their
entries early even if the schools may
wait until April 15 to choose their
contestants.
.RELIGIOUS WEEK TO
BEGIN FEBRUARY 10
IS ANNOUNCED TODAY
site
(Continued from page 1)
of Wofford College. Dr. Mac-
Guire is head of the Canada-Dixie
Boys Camp, held in Canada during
summers. He is former Boston min­ister.
Dr. Inzer is noted for his work
with young men as a chaplain during
the World War.
Mr. Jennings, a former young bus­iness
man of Washington, is a volun­teer
associate secretary under the de­partment
of religious education of the
Episcopal Church. While an under­graduate
at Harvard, he was captain
of the soccer tea mand a good tennis
player, being a member of one Ameri­can
Olympic team. In Washington,
he has been associated with the Na­tional
City Company as assistant
manager of their Washington branch.
Finding that his interest lay with
social service and philanthropic agen­cies,
he resigned a year ago to give
his full time to Christian work.
Noted Baseball Player
Now Orchestra Leader
'MISS BLUE BONNET"
BE GIVEN MARCH 17
Pa Evans: Sich etiket I've never
seed.
Mr Evans: Pa, don't say 'sich. Do
try to masterkate the English lan­guage
better.
See Miss Blue Bonnet.
• Hear "Gin" Taylor as "Doc" Evans
sing "Oh Doctor." See Miss Blue
Bonnet.
(Continued from page 1)
weeks in preparation for -opening
night.
The rehearsing of the members of
the cast, the training of the choruses,
and the costuming of players is in
charge of Miss Celeste Vause. Miss
Vause, a graduate of Mississippi
Tech, College for Women, live iti
Columbia, Mississippi. Interested in
the stage as both a hobby and a pro­fession,
she has coached plays fo-student
groups widely in the south.
Realizing that "Miss Blue Bonnet"
had qualities that could be easily
worked up to a degree of perfection,
she chose it.
See Mickey Wood as Miss Blue Bon­net.
K^EIN & SON
Jewelers
GRUEN WATCHES
Montgomery, Ala.
More birthdays in March than any other
month, so statistics say. Don't forget to
send your friend a birthday card.
Burton's Bookstore
Something New Every Day
WEDNESDAY
Olive Borden and Morgan Farley in
A Drama of Youth
"HALF MARRIAGE"
1 0 0% TALKING and MUSIC
THURSDAY
Here It I s ! Here It I s !
See it! Hear it! It's the thrill of a lifetime. A love story worthy
of a millionaire's mansion, set in the floating island of Ghost Ships
in the Sargasso Sea!
"The ISLE OF LOST SHIPS"
with VIRGINIA VALLI, JASON ROBARDS
and NOAH BEERY
F R I D A Y
SEE HER— HEAR HER— LOVE HER—
"STREET GIRL"
All Song and Dialog Dramatic Triumph with
BETTY COMPSON, NED SPARKS, JACK OAKIE
See the Forty Dancing Beauties
SATURDAY
JACK HOLT and DOROTHY REVIER in
"VENGEANCE"
Powerful love story "silhouetted against the colorful background
of the Congo. It will entertain you—enthrall you—thrill you!
Rainbow Theatre
Opelika, Alabama
"In '09, '10 and '11 Carleton Coon
was studying medicine at the Univer­sity
of Kansas" writes Quin A. Ryan
in his article, "Coon-Sanders," in the
April College Humor. "Cooney was
playing for dances and hayrack rides
at school. In those pre-hey hey days
a hot orchestra consisted of piano,
banjo, cornet, trombone and drums.
The lure was too much for the young
medic, and he fled the laboratory and
its cadavers- as fast as a pickaninny
would have. He joined the Riley
band, and the next five years were
astonishing. Soon he had many or­chestras
operating under his com­mand.
"Joseph Sanders had a marvelous
boy's voice and had studied to be a
concert vocalist. The fact that he
had attained the dignity of a success­ful
oratorio artist deteriorated not
one jot nor titter from his clowning
popularity with the younger set. He
was the idol of the 'teens in Kansas
City. Handsome, hearty and humor­ous.
What mattered was that he
played the piano as wallopingly well
as he played Baseball, and in baseball
the professional scouts were already
flirting with him.
"The sport writers who reminisce
about rare feats in baseball history,
and the believe-it-or-don't cartoonists
who record freak happenings in the
newspapers, have probably never as­sociated
orchestra leader Joe Sanders
with pitcher Joe Sanders whose rec­ord
was once flashed to every news­paper
in the country. While pitch­ing
against another well matched
team in the Kansas City Athletic
Club league he struck out twenty-seven
men in nine innings! That's
history!"
Mr. Ryan reveals that Coon-Sanders
orchestra was once kidnapped and
taken from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to New
York where they were entertained as
the guests of a famous oil man for
two weeks. Traveling from Chicago
to Springfield, they were in the vivin-ity
of a tornado. The dining car be­came
an operating room and during
those hours two infants were born,
with Doctor Carleton Coon in atten­dance.
FOR NAPOLEON'S NECKLACE,
$300,000, MARIA THERESA GOT
ONLY $7,270 FROM N. Y.
FATE OF BROADWAY HIT RESTS
ON TEXAS' MOTHER'S DECISION
Amarillo, Texas, March 1—A grey-haired
mother in Amarillo, Texas,
wondered today whether she should
close a show which admittedly is one
of Broadway's biggest "hits," or
whether she would" permit it to con­tinue
as a protest against capital
punishment.
The mother is Mrs. Ella Blake.
Robert Blake, her son, died in the
electric chair at the state penitenti­ary
at Huntsville, Tex., April 29,
1929, after being convicted for mur­der.
Mrs. Blake reached this decision
today—she will go to New York and
see the play herself. If it is "real,"
if it in any way creates sentiment
"against these murders committed by
the states," she indicated her final
decision would be to allow it to con­tinue.
Article Appropriated
Her son's copyrighted articles,
published in The American Mercury,
is the theme and setting of "the last
mile" by John Wexley, now running
in New York. The article was ap­propriated
bodily by Wexley without
a definite agreement.
Mrs. Blake, who has eight grown
children living in Amarillo, is about
60 years old. She is a sweet-faced,
soft-spoken woman. Robert was the
only child touched by tragedy.
"Would it be possible for me to
close 'The Last Mile?' " she asked to-
<4ay. The reply was that attorneys
here say Wexley took something that
did not belong to him, and it was
their opinion the courts would sustain
an injunction.
"I am going back all the way to
New York to decide," she then said.
New York, March 3—For the neck­lace
of 47 diamonds which Napoleon
gave his empress, Maria Louisa of
Austria, after she had presented him
with a son, the Arch-duchess Maria
Theresa of Vienna, received only $7,-
270, her legal representative in New
York said today.
Sale of the necklace, which had
been appraised at a figure well above
$300,000 and at never less than $200,-
000 by Charles L. Townsend, Maria
Theresa's former agent, to D. M. Mi­chel,
a Fifth avenue jeweler, for
$.60,000 is now under investigation
by the district attorney.
Laurence Steinheardt of the lav/
firm retained by American friends of
the arch-duchess to protect her inter­ests,
said he- had been informed by
Vienna police that Maria Theresa re­ceived
a letter from Towiistnd. dated
Chicago, February 13, advising her
that he had- sold the necklace for
$60,000 and enclosing a check tc her
for $7,270, stating that the balance,
approximately $53,000 had been re­tained
by him to cover expenses inci­dent
to the sale.
Mr. Steinhardt said that on Jan­uary
20, the arch-duchess revoked
Townsend's power of attorney !o sell
the necklace and informed him that
her friend, Baroness Annie Eisen-menger,
would arrive in New York
February 10 to take charge of it.
The sale took place February 11.
On January 14, Mr. Steinhardt
said, Townsend was advised from
Vienna that an offer 'of $175,000
which he had received for the
necklace, was not acceptable. Town-send
also was advised, Mr. Steinhardt
said, t h a f the owner was "not desir­ous
of spoiling a price by too great
haste." He said Townsend was told
confidentially that the owner would
accept $375,000, and that smaller of­fers
were absolutely useless. v
The Archduke Leopold, a nephew
of the arch-duchess residing in New
York, has been asked to appear at the
district attorney's office tomorrow
to tell whatever he may know about
the sale.
The Arch-duchess Maria Theresa
was the grandmother of Karl, the last
emperor of Austria-Hungary. She is
76 years old.
John Held, Jr., Gives
Interesting Low Down
On Life of Cantoonists
REGISTRATION INCREASE
OVER ENTIRE COUNTRY
I
According to a report in the Uni­versity
of Washington Daily, Calif­ornia
ranks first in enrollment with
17,242 students, Columbia second
with 14,952 students, New York uni­versity
third with 12,418, Illinois
fourth, with 12,413, Minnesota fifth
with 10,657, Michigan seventh with
9,688, Wisconsin eighth with 9,468,
Harvard ninth with 8,377, and Wash­ington
tenth, with 7,258.
The rush of new students to col­leges,
which has increased the enroll­ment
in schools from 200,000 in 1913
to more than 850,000 today, has come
to an end, said the report. Accord­ing
to President Emeritus Chas. F.
Thwing of Western Reserve univer­sity,
there are several reasons why
the college enrollment has increased.
They are as follows:
1. The most evident and immed­iate
cause has been found in enroll­ment
of high school students. The
high school increase in the last dec­ade
represented a doubling.
2. An increased prosperity and
higher living standards, which have
resulted in many families sending
sons and daughters to college for the
first time.
3. The increased number of high
school courses which are acceptable
for college entrance.
4. The increased number of vo­cational
and popular courses offered
by the colleges.
5. The increased tendency o f
law, medical and other professional
schools to demand a liberal education
of their candidates, resulting in add­ed
enrollment in the arts and sci­ences.
Blue Bonnet: But you proposed to
Magnolia of your own free will.
Burton: But I did it to save her
life.
Did he save her life? See Miss
Blue Bonnet.
AN ORDINANCE
City of Auburn
Be it ordained by the City Council
of the City of Auburn, Alabama, as
follows:
Sec. 1. That each person, firmor
corporation who is now or shall be en­gaged
in operating or conducting a
miniature or Tom Thumb Golf Course
in the City of Auburn, where a charge
is made for play, shall obtain a li­cense
therefor from the City Clerk
and pay therefor $50.00 for each
calendar year or portion thereof dur­ing
which such business shall be con­ducted,
and in addition thereto a fee
of $0.50 for issuance.
Sec. 2. That any person, firm or
corporation who shall engage in or
conduct such golf course without first
obtaining such a license shall be, on
conviction, fined not less than one
dollar nor more than one hundred
dollars, and each day of operation
without such license shall be and con­stitute
a separate offense or viola­tion
of this ordinance.
I, Bert Newton, City Clerk of the
City of Auburn, Alabama, hereby cer­tify
that the foregoing is a true copy
of an ordinance adopted by the City
Council of Auburn, at a meeting on
March 4, 1930.
Bert Newton,
City Clerk.N
."The most successful way to build
a foundation for a career as a car­toonist
is to have your nurse drop
you when you are an infant," un­covers
John Held, Jr., in an inter­view
on "Why is a Cartoonist?" in
the April College Humor. "Take
my case. I worked and struggled and
starved for years, trying to be a suc­cess
and make a decent living. But
study and laboring and burning mid­night
oil got me nowhere. I was un­able
to get a hearing at newspaper
work until I got kicked in the head
by a horse. After that it was clear
sailing.
"There are a great many legends
about the amount of moneys that are
paid for comic drawings. You have
no doubt heard about the famous
Chicago cartoonist who, when he sign­ed
a contract for one hundred thous­and
dollars a year, was presented
with a Lincoln automobile. Don't
take stock in such wild stories. This
is entirely untrue. I happen to know
that they didn't give him a Lincoln.
It was a Rolls-Royce. So you see
how this kind of story gets exagge­rated.
"There is another likely story going
around, that the originator of the best
known comic strip characters has not
touched a pen to paper for years.
Rumor has it that he pays a ghost
thirty thousand dollars a year to draw
the daily strip. This is also untrue.
The ghost does not draw the strip.
The ghost's ghost now does the work.
So, dear aspirants, don't believe all
you hear and be encouraged by these
tales. Give up the idea of being an
artist now before it gets the better
of you. Cast aside these false ambit­ions
before it is too late. Take this
advice from one who has been thru
the mill and carries many scars.
"I have among my acquaintances
many cartoonists and artists and il­lustrators.
A number of them I have
known ever since they were office
boys. They all wish now they had
led a different life, hut fate was
against most of them. They were
continually being fired from one job
or another. Then they went from
bad to worse. Finally they were
driven to making drawings.
"Another thing that is pretty re­volting
about cartooning—I would
say, off-hand that seventy per cent
of the women who enter an artist's
New Novel Opens
In College Humor
"Woolly Boy" opens the April Col­lege
Humor, a novel of Long Island
society and an oil man from Texas
who crashed it and fell in love with
a Dresden member of it—by Eric
Hatch, the young author of "A
couple of Quick Ones"—The contin­uation
of Holworthy Hall's novel in
which he takes up the social, ethical
and emotional problems of a "kept"
athlete—"Colossus" is a timely col­lege
story. . . . "Brain Like Napo­leon's"
by Rosemary Casey, one of
those first short stories for which
College Humor is becoming justly
famous. . . "The Girl with Talent"
by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, a
i character study.
FOUR CANDIDATES ARE
IN RACE FOR CATCHER
(Continued from page 1)
Ingram will share the post in the
early games. The practice contests
are giving Coach Sheridan a good
line on their possibilities but their
performances against Fort Benning,
Birmingham Barons and Selma Clov-erleafs
will determine the regular
catcher.
Scandal Sheet Stopped
And Copies Destroyed
Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela­ware,
Ohio.—A scandal sheet of some­what
undetermined origin was sup­pressed
and all printed copies confis­cated
when released from the press
recently. The sheet was printed out
of town and is thought to be the work
of some student who vented all of his
wrath upon the faculty, fraternities
and all things collegiate in general
through the medium of this paper. A
scandal sheet issued among the stu­dents
of the coll°e""- »11 i»*w the na­tion
is not an uncommon thing but it
was thought that one of such tenor
as this one seemed to be was consid­ered
to be too absurd and ridiculous
for distribution.
studio expect they will be forceful to
defend their honor. This is embar­rassing
for a family man."
STUDS THREATEN BOYCOTT
Chapel Hill, March 3.—Threats of
a group of university students to boy­cott
the Carolina theater, local movie
emperium, unless the present admis­sion
price is reduced from 40 to 30
cents, failed to materialize today, the
date on which the boycott was to
have put into effect.
The students sponsoring the boy­cott
claimed they had secured the
signatures of 1,500 students who had
agreed not to attend the theater un­til
the admission price should be re­duced.
AUBURN, TIGER THEATRE ALABAMA
WEDNESDAY, March 5
—ALL-TALKING—With WILL ROGERS In
" T H E Y H A D T O S E E P A R I S "
Hear WILL ROGERS sing "I Could Do It For You". Mingle
among the Madamoiselles with the Funniest Man in', the World! A
comedy drama with more sparkle than champagne and with a kick
twice as powerful.—ALSO SOUND CARTOON.
THURSDAY, March 6
MARDI GRAS MERRIMENT and Mississippi romance mingled in
the South's greatest musical drama . . . a gay gambler and a lovely
lady play a reckless game of hearts.-
" C A M E O K I R B Y"
FRIDAY, March 7
RICHARD DIX in
" S E V E N K E Y S T O B A L D P A T E "
—a—KILLER owned the 1st Key to Baldpate.
—a—GHOST owned the 2nd Key to Baldpate.
—a—LOVELY GIRL owned the 3rd Key to Baldpate.
—a—DESPERATE WOMAN owned the 4th Key to Baldpate.
—a—GRAFTING POLITICIAN owned the 5th Key to Baldpate.
—a—MAD FINANCIER owned the 6th Key to Baldpate.
—a—MAN OF MYSTERY owned the 7th Key to Baldpate.
DON'T MISS THIS GREAT MYSTERY THRILLER
SATURDAY, March 8
William Fox Presents ZANE GREY'S
" T H E L O N E S T A R R A N G E R"
Soul stirring, pulse beating action drama of the old Southwest . . .
the double barreled romance of a dreamy girl and a delightful bandit.
With Geo. O'Brien and Sue Carroll—ALSO TALKING COMEDY.
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Already many American business men are
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The future possibility of talking direcdy
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