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«9 \ Attend Church Next Week! THE PLAINSMAN T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R I T ; ••/, , Attend Church Next Week! 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 (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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. * PAGE TWO Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. . Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF A. V. Blankenship '. Editor-in-chief Walter B. Jones Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Managing Editor Robert Hume Associate Editor Rosser Alston Associate Editor H. G. Twomey Associate Editor Gabie Drey News Editor Victor White - News Editor A. C. Taylor Sports Editor Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor REPORTERS A. C. Cohen, '32; K. B. McMillan, '33; J. C. Johnson, '33; J. R. Chadwick, '33; R. K. Sparrow, '33; C. H. Currey, '33; R. T. Wasson, '33; Lewis Bischoff, '33; A. D. Mayo, '33; G. F. Adams, 33; J. C. McFerin, '33; Alan Troup, '32. < BUSINESS STAFF Hugh W. Overton Advertising Mgr. Charles Davis Circulation Mgr. 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. v» 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. Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager A. MEADOWS GARAGE AUTO REPAIRS TIRES CARS FOR HIRE U-DRIVE-'EM ACCESSORIES GAS OIL GREASES PHONE 29-27 TUBES Get What You Want And Like What You Get. COLLEGE BARBER SHOP . . . - - - - - . . 4 STOP! -: AT :- Ward's Place THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES HAGEDORN'S Opelika's Leading Department Store. THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES Its the s JEFFERSON IAKER. HOTEL Mmi Av+— 17th it. Downtown 850 ROOMS l u h wMi Bath, Calling Fana ana OtraiHatlna laa Water. TWO LOUNClf . BALLROOM MNDM BOOM COFFEE SHOP PLAYS FOR DAILY CONCERTS 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 s AWO U» 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. 0PELIKA PHARMACY INC. Prescription Druggist YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED Phone 72 Opelika, Ala. GEO. CLOWER YETTA G. SAMFORD Clower & Samford Insurance Co., Inc. (Established 1872) OPELIKA AUBURN Member Mortgage Bankers Association of America —j TOOMER'S WILL GIVE YOU SERVICE DRUG SUNDRIES' DRINKS, SMOKES THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY ON THE CORNER ..on the track it's SPEED/ ^Jliiliillilill p:Vyyy^y^fiiiiyKA^ix^Aii>S^^y:y HI ...in a cigarette it's "A BIRD IN THE HAND is worth two in the bush." Good taste— what smoker would trade it away for any number of cigarette claims? No Chesterfield smoker would. For its mild fragrance, its deeply satisfying character— in short, its taste—has always been the one thing smokers wanted: JASTE/ TASTE above everything MILD . . . and yet THEY SATISFY hesterfield FINE TURKISH and DOMESTIC tobaccos, not only BLENDED but CROSS-BLENDED © 1929, LIGGETT k Mr u s TOIACCO CO. \ 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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Title | 1930-03-04 The Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | «9 \ Attend Church Next Week! THE PLAINSMAN T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R I T ; ••/, , Attend Church Next Week! 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 (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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. * PAGE TWO Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. . Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF A. V. Blankenship '. Editor-in-chief Walter B. Jones Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Managing Editor Robert Hume Associate Editor Rosser Alston Associate Editor H. G. Twomey Associate Editor Gabie Drey News Editor Victor White - News Editor A. C. Taylor Sports Editor Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor REPORTERS A. C. Cohen, '32; K. B. McMillan, '33; J. C. Johnson, '33; J. R. Chadwick, '33; R. K. Sparrow, '33; C. H. Currey, '33; R. T. Wasson, '33; Lewis Bischoff, '33; A. D. Mayo, '33; G. F. Adams, 33; J. C. McFerin, '33; Alan Troup, '32. < BUSINESS STAFF Hugh W. Overton Advertising Mgr. Charles Davis Circulation Mgr. 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. v» 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. Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager A. MEADOWS GARAGE AUTO REPAIRS TIRES CARS FOR HIRE U-DRIVE-'EM ACCESSORIES GAS OIL GREASES PHONE 29-27 TUBES Get What You Want And Like What You Get. COLLEGE BARBER SHOP . . . - - - - - . . 4 STOP! -: AT :- Ward's Place THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES HAGEDORN'S Opelika's Leading Department Store. THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES Its the s JEFFERSON IAKER. HOTEL Mmi Av+— 17th it. Downtown 850 ROOMS l u h wMi Bath, Calling Fana ana OtraiHatlna laa Water. TWO LOUNClf . BALLROOM MNDM BOOM COFFEE SHOP PLAYS FOR DAILY CONCERTS 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 s AWO U» 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. 0PELIKA PHARMACY INC. Prescription Druggist YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED Phone 72 Opelika, Ala. GEO. CLOWER YETTA G. SAMFORD Clower & Samford Insurance Co., Inc. (Established 1872) OPELIKA AUBURN Member Mortgage Bankers Association of America —j TOOMER'S WILL GIVE YOU SERVICE DRUG SUNDRIES' DRINKS, SMOKES THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY ON THE CORNER ..on the track it's SPEED/ ^Jliiliillilill p:Vyyy^y^fiiiiyKA^ix^Aii>S^^y:y HI ...in a cigarette it's "A BIRD IN THE HAND is worth two in the bush." Good taste— what smoker would trade it away for any number of cigarette claims? No Chesterfield smoker would. For its mild fragrance, its deeply satisfying character— in short, its taste—has always been the one thing smokers wanted: JASTE/ TASTE above everything MILD . . . and yet THEY SATISFY hesterfield FINE TURKISH and DOMESTIC tobaccos, not only BLENDED but CROSS-BLENDED © 1929, LIGGETT k Mr u s TOIACCO CO. \ 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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