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VOLUME LIU AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930 NUMBER 55
STUDENTS AND OFFICIALS
WILL PARTICIPATE IN
MEMORIAL DAY FRIDAY
Sgt. J C. Ball To Be Presented
Cross of Service
U. D. C. IN CHARGE
Members of R. O. T. C. Unit To
Fire Salute At Soldiers'
Graves '
Large Auburn Delegation Expected
To Attend Conference at Blue Ridge
Plans are now under way for sending
a large Auburn delegation to the
annual Y. M. C. A. conference at Blue
Ridge, North Carolina, from June 14
to 23rd. A total of about three hundred
boys, representing all the colleges
and universities in the South, are expected
to be present, and a full program
of activities has been planned.
The colleges of Alabama will send
"An Alabama Caravan" which will
meet in Birmingham, and from there
make the trip in a large bus accompanied
by several automobiles to be
used for visiting places of interest
along the route.
Representatives from Auburn, University
of Alabama, Birmingham-
Southern, Howard and Jacksonville
will make up this caravan. While in
camp the group will live together in
the Auburn Cottage.
Plans Are Made
For Horse Show
Annual Show Will Be Held On
May 1, On Baseball Field
Students and officials of Auburn
will take part in the annual Memorial
Day celebration which will be held
here Friday afternoon under the direction
of the Admiral Semmes Chapter
of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy. The exercises will begin
at four o'clock.
Mrs. P. P. Powell, president, announced
that the Hon. Claude E. Hamilton,
mayor of Greenville, will be the
speaker. Dr. Bradford Knapp will be
master of ceremonies and the Rev.
' Samuel B. Hay of the. Presbyterian
Church will give the invocation.
John W. Brigham and O. D. Langs-ton
will sing.
A feature of the program will be
the presentation of a cross of service
to Sgt. J. C. Ball of Auburn. Ball
made an enviable record as a soldier
"during the World War and this will
be reviewed by Major John T. Kennedy.
The presentation will be made
by Mrs. J. M. Burt of Opelika, State
president of the U. D. C.
Following the indoor program
graves of soldiers in the Auburn
cemetery will be decorated. A salute
will be fired by members of the R. O.
T. C. regiment. ,
Program for the exercises follow:
With Major John T. Kennedy acting
as Marshall of the Day, and Dr.
Knapp president, the program in full,
will be as follows: March, Band; Invocation,
Rev. S. B. Hay; Dixie or
Bonny Blue Flag, Band; Solo, Prof.
John Brigham; Introduction of Speaker,
Dr. Knapp; Address, Hon. Claude
E. Hamilton; Solo, Rev. O. D. Langs-ton;
Sergeant Ball's Record, Major
Kennedy; Presentation of Cross, Mrs.
J. M. Burt, President Alabama Division,
U. D. C ; March, Band; Decoration
of Confederate Monument by Thomas P. Archer., Cadet 1st Sgt
Grammar School Pupils; Firing Sa- in the ROTC unit at the Alabama
Last year'the Auburn delegation to
the Blue Ridge conference was composed
of Cleveland Adams, G. L. Williamson,
Roy Sellers, and W. T. Edwards.
These men joined the delegates
from the other Alabama Colleges
in Birmingham, and made the trip
from there in automobiles.
The local Y. M. C. A. officers are
trying to create more interest in this
annual summer camp, held among the.
hills of North Carolina for ten days
each summer. The line of activities
in which instruction is offered is varied.
Much time is devoted t to baseball,
volley ball, tennis, golf, hiking,
canoeing, swimming, and track. Many
competitive matches are held between
the various delegations.
During the mornings informal discussions
will be held on subjects per-
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TWO NEW MEN TO BE
ADDED TO CHEMICAL
FACULTY ON JUNE 1
Will Give Concert Friday, May 2
All preparations are being made for
a very successful horse show, on May
1, at the baseball field", according to
Captain B. C. Anderson, who is in
charge of the annual affair.
Captain Anderson stated that the
jumping has been extremely satisfactory,
and it is expected that practically
all the jumping horses will make
excellent showings.
An added feature this year will be
the sophomore exhibition ride.
It is reported that the turpout from
the senior class members has been the
best in several years.
The list of entries and participants
have not yet been announced.
Archer Goes To Meet
Of Military Society
Will Represent Auburn Scabbard and
Blade at Minnesota Convention
lute over Soldiers' Graves; Taps.
Purina Scholarship Is
Given to Howard Gray
Senior President-Elect Is First from
Auburn to Receive Honor
Howard Gray, president of the class
of '31, has been awarded one of the
W. H. Danforth fellowships with the
Ralston Purina Company of St. Louis,
for the summer vacation months.
Mr. Danforth, president of the Ralston
Purina Company, gives two hundred
and fifty dollars on each fellowship
and this is supplemented with
one hundred and fifty dollars from
the company. Only one representative
is allowed from a college and this
is the first time an Auburn man has
received one of these fellowships.
This fellowship calls for eight
weeks, six to be spent in the factory in
St. Louis learning the workings of the
company and two weeks to be spent
on Lake Michigan and its shores as a
vacation. While working in the factory
the men will study distribution,
production, and management of the
company. The time of the fellowship
is from July 7 to September 1, allowing
the men plenty of time to return
to school in the fall.
ARCHERY MEET TO
BE HELD SUNDAY
An archery meet is to be held Friday
afternoon, April 25, at five
o'clock at the Auburn Country Club,
at which time a dual meet will be weekly luncheon of the club,
held between Rogers Knapp of Auburn
and A. B. Wessell of New Brit- that the cup would be presented this
an, Conn. Sunday at the Presbyterian church
Both contestants have had much to the winning fraternity which, this
experience and the match is expects year, is Tau Omega Chi, was intro-ed
to be closely contested.
The proceeds of this tournament Reeves and he made a short speech
will be donated toward the sponsor- Results of the finals of the club
ing of a meet with Birmingham- tournament played on the Tiny Tiger
Southern College and Howard Col- Links between F. M. Orr and W. T.
lege in Birmingham, the early part Ingram, won by the latter, were an-of
May. nounced.
Polytechnic Institute will attend the
Silver Jubilee convention of Scab
bard and Blade, national honorary
military fraternity at B ^Company,
1st. Regiment, University of Minnesota,
April 24-25-26.
Approximately 200 delegates from
46 states and representing the 77
chapters of the Society will attend.
All delegates from the active companies
are Junior or Senior cadet
officers in colleges and universities
offering advanced course work in
military science and tactics
Among the speakers who will address
-the convention are: Governor
Theodore Christensen, Governor of
Minnesota, Dr. L. D. Coffman, presi
dent of the University of Minneso
ta, Col. T. S. Moorman, in charge
ROTC affairs, 7th Corps Area, Brig.
Gen. Edward Orton, Jr., Senior Vice
Pres. ROA, and Maj. John H. Hester,
Commandant, ROTC unit, University
of Minnesota.
The national officers of the Socie
ty are Capt. Harold L. Hays, 166th
Inf. ONG, division commander, 1st.
Lt. Claude C. Skaates, ORC, 29th Inf
second in command and Maj. Harris
C. Hahin, ORC, 429 F. A., executive
officer.
Go-to-Church Contest
Cup to Be Displayed
The silver loving cup donated each
year by the Lion's Club to the winner
of the Y. M. C. A. Interfraternity
"Go to Church Week" contest was
displayed Tuesday at the regular
At that time it was announced
duced to the club by Prof. Keith
Flying Club To
Meet On Monday
Glider Enthusiasts Will Discuss
New Constitution and Rules
A meeting of the Auburn Motorless
Flying Club will be held in room 109
Ramsay Hall at 7 o'clock Monday evening.
All students and townspeople
interested in flying are being urged
to attend. Co-eds interested are also
requested to be present.
At this time the constitution and
flying rules of the club will be discussed
and voted on. Finances will
also be considered, and plans made
for purchasing a glider the early
part of next year. According to the
budget already made out, the maximum
charge per member per year will
be twenty-six- dollars, this covering
the local and national dues, purchase
of a new glider each year, and. the
cost of flying instruction.
The instruction to be given will
cover the theoretical and actual flying
problems. Six weeks of ground
instruction will be given before any
actual flights are made.
The club is to be a member of the
National Glider Association, and will
be in position to grant licenses, ap
proved by the National Aeronautical
Association to students qualifying.
From time to time during the next
college year aviators of note from various
parts of the state will come here
to give"'talks and instruction to the
club members.
LIONS CLUB WINS
GOLF TOURNEY
Civic Club Meet U Held Saturday
and Sunday at Country Club
The Lion's Club won the inter-civic
club golf tournament which was held
Saturday and Sunday at the Auburn
Country Club. The team, composed
of J. ETSeal, H. W. Nixon, W. T.
Ingram, and G. W. Hargreaves, was
hard pressed by the other teams but
managed to beat them by a fair margin.
The second team in the tournament,
the Rotary Club, consisted of
H. M. Martin, M. J. Funchess, Rev,
S. B. Hay, and Major J. T. Kennedy
The Kiwanis Club represented by
Elmer Wright, Homer Wright, Dr,
B. F. Thomas, and Rev. W. B. Lee
was third.
Gym Swimming Pool
Now Open to Students
The swimming pool in the basement
of the Alumni Gymnasium is
now open to those students who wish
to use it. E. C. Taylor is in charge
of the pool which is open from two
to five on every week day except
Tuesday. Towels will not be supplied
to men going in swimming unless
they are training with some team.
Dr. Knapp Invited
To Speak to Bankers
Dr. Bradford Knapp has accepted
an invitation to speak at the Alabama
Bankers Association convention in
Birmingham on May 22. His subject
will be "Relation of Credit System to
Agriculture."
Dr. H. B. Gordon and C. B. Od-way
To Begin Duties As
Faculty Members
Dr. H. B. Gordon and C. B. Odway
will be added to the faculty of the
chemistry department June 1, when
they are to begin their duties as
teachers and research experimenters.
Dr. Gordon will be ranked a full professor,
and will be a teacher and research
experimenter in the School
of Chemical Engineering. Odway will
teach textile chemistry in the
School of Textile Engineering.
Dr. Gordon graduated from Miami
University, and later received a Ph.
D. from the University of Illinois.
He has taught four years at Texas
A. and M. and two years at Rutgers
college. He has more than 10 years
experience in industrial chemistry,
particularly with the U. S. Testing
Company at Leeds and Northrop.
His varied experience includes work
with dyes and textiles, the application
of electrical control to industrial
processes, and similar work that will
be of value in teaching. He will also
teach physical chemistry and research
experimentation.
Odway graduated from this institution
in 1922 and is coming back
to teach textile chemistry. He will
also do research work in textile chemistry.
Professor Hare Is
City Council Member
Professor C. L. Hare, of the chemistry
department and acting State
chemist, has been elected a member of
the town council of Auburn to succeed
the late Dr. B. B. Ross. The
election was by the Mayor and members
of the council and was by unanimous
vote, he being the only person
nominated.
W. D. Copeland is mayor of Auburn.
Other members of the council,
in addition to Professor Hare, are
Homer Wright, Felton Little, Professor
J. C. Grimes, and W. D. Martin
Fwsh Battle With
Rotten Easter Eggs
Hen fruit, both fresh and overripe,
flew thick and fast Sunday
afternoon down in the famous Ag
Bottoms. The group -of seventy-five
to a hundred freshmen who
participated in the annual knockdown
and drag-out affair presented
a sight unequaled since Coxey's
army marched to Washington. v
There were girls and girls, infants,
"coons," hulu hulu dancers,
with a sweet breath of spring
thrown in, but to Donald "Caveman"
Jones, Lambda Chi Alpha,
and truly a barbers nightmare,
went the prize for the best costume.
The prize being a smoking stand.
Plenty of eggs were found but
one of the freshmen went them one
better and found a Nehi bottle full
of the home-made remedy. Unfort-nately
he did not receive a prize
for his effort. Evidently, Brer'
Rabbit has at last fallen for the
modern customs. George Cauthen,
A. T. O., came in with fifty-eight
eggs and received a card table as
first prize.
The egg fight contained plenty
of life and went on for some time
as the 'aigs' would rarely ever
break but would merely bounce and
roll. After the "ammunition" gave
out there was'a mutual treaty of
peace and both sides retired satisfied
to escape with as few direct
hits as were made.
The scramble for the golden egg
added a most decidedly finishing
touch to the whole occasion. One
of the infants attired as a babe in
the arms experienced a little difficulty
with his costume but was
luckily on the bottom of the heap
and came up withoufr-a bobble. Rhea
Lapsley, A. T. O., finally came up
with the 'egg' and a mouth full of
dirt and was proclaimed the winner.
MONTEVALLO GLEE CLUB
Band Will Play
Concert Sunday
Will Be First Concert To Be
Given Here This Year
Sunday afternoon, at four o'clock
the Auburn Band will be heard in the
first concert to be presented in Auburn
this year.
' The scene of the musicale will be
in front of Langdon Hall.
Professor P. R. Bidez announces
that the program will consist of
marches and concert numbers.
It will be the first presentation of
the band since the Mobile Mardi Gras
last February, and it is hoped that
a large number will be on hand.
Travelling Exhibition
Is Being Shown Here
Exhibition From Leading Architectu-ral
Schools Included
The school of architecture and allied
arts cordially invites the faculty,
student, visitors and citizens of the
town to view an exhibit of 115 designs
and renderings of 21 of the
leading accredited schools of architecture
of the country. The exhibit
will be on display between the hours
of 4 and 6 during the remaining
week days of April in rooms 201-
202, 204, and 206 Samford Hall.
Each school year under the auspices
of the association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture, one
of the main major activities of the
American Institute of architects, two
exhibits of examples of designs of
the accredited schools of architecture
done during the previous year
leave headquarters, one on a circuit
of Eastern schools, the other on a
circuit of Western schools. Auburn
at this time is honored by the traveling
exhibition covering the Eastern
circuit.
The exhibition is of unusual interest
this year in that a great variety
of buildings, both large and
small are represented. The presentations
are of special interest and usually
executed in water color, tempera,
pencil and pastel. The purpose
of this yearly undertaking is to let
each of- the accredited schools know
what the other is doing and thereby
it is hoped to approach a more uniform
standard in the teaching of design.
In addition to Auburn the schools
represented are:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cornell, Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Carnegie, Syracruse, University
of Pennsylvania, University of
Michigan, University of Illinois, University
of Kansas, University of California,
University of Southern California,
University of Washington,
Ohio State University, Pennsylvania
State College, Kansas State College,
Georgia Tech and Armour Institute
of Technology.
Chemical Society
Elects New Heads
Officers of the Chemical Society
were elected at a meeting Monday,
April 21, and the fojlowing were selected
to serve next year: J. F. Turner,
president; W. B. Strickland, vice-president;
Marshall Caley, secretary
and treasurer.
Senior Banquet
Be Held Friday
Dr. Knapp and Judge T. D.
Samford To Be Speakers
Plans for the annual senior class
banquet of the class of 1930 to take
place in Smith Hall Friday night at
7:30 have been completed, according
to an announcement made by Hayley
Milligan, president of the class. Dr.
Bradford Knapp and Judge T. D.
Samford, a prominent Opelika lawyer,
will be the principal speakers at
the occasion. Milligan, who is to
be toastmaster, stated that the banquet
will be strictly informal with
short speeches from various members
of the class.
The event will be the last social
gathering of the class as a group,
and all members of the class are
urged to be present. About two
hundred are expected to be present.
Among the guests to be present will
be Mrs. Bradford Knapp.
Tickets for the banquet are now
on sale by representatives of each
of the departments of the colelge.
Under the direction of Colin B.
Richmond, twenty-eight members of
the Montevallo Glee Club will appear
in concert in Langdon Hall Friday
evening, May 2, at eight o'clock. This
concert is being given under the auspices
of the Auburn Glee Club, and
plans are being made to insure a large
attendance at the performance.
The program will consist of full
choruses, quartettes, solo numbers,
and a dramatic skit. The music will
range from the classic to the modern
popular songs. Vocal, piano, and violin
solos will be offered.
Previous to the trip here, the Glee
Club appeared in Clanton, where they
were highly acclaimed as a notable
musical organization. The concert in
Auburn will be the second given away
from their campus this year.
While in Auburn the Montevallo
girls will be the guests of the Auburn
Glee Club. They will stay overnight
in the homes of several of the Auburn
townspeople and the sorority houses.
Tickets for the performance are on
sale at the Tiger Drug Store for
thirty-five and fifty cents each.
Links Will Defray
Golf Team Expenses
To Donate Half Proceeds of May 1st
to Help Send Team to
Birmingham
Due to the failure of the Auburn
golf team to receive appropriations
from the athletic department, an attempt
is being made to raise the
necessary funds to play pre-arranged
matches with Howard and Birmingham-
Southern Colleges.
On Thursday, May 1st, through
the kindness of the management, the
Tiny Tiger golf course has been
turned over to the golf team, and
fifty percent of the proceeds on that
day will go to defray the expenses
of the trip to Birmingham.
All students are urged to cooperate
with the team, and are requested
to refrain from the use of thrift
books on that day. The need of a
golf team has been felt for some
time, and this opportunity is offered
the student body to help make golf
an outstanding minor sport on the
campus.
Following this match the team will
go to the Southern^Conference tournament
as spectators. They will not
enter the competition due to the infancy
of the organization.
Lamps To Hold A
Meeting Monday
Five girls from the junior class will
receive formal bids to the Lamps, honor
sorority, at the meeting of the
organization to be held Monday afternoon
from 4 to 5 o'clock in the lobby
of Smith Hall. The prospective members
will be pledged according to the
traditional custom of pinning a flower
on each of the girls. Special speakers
will be present at the meeting.
A reception to be given to the pledges
will conclude the program. The
ladies of the faculty are also being
invited to the reception.
Election to the Lamps is recognized
as one of the highest honors a girl
can receive in her college career at
Auburn. \
MONTEVALLO GLEE CLUB
TO GIVE CONCERT HERE
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2
Will Be Given Under Auspices
Of Auburn Glee Club
TWENTY-EIGHT IN GROUP
Program To Consist of Choruses,
Quartettes, Solos,
and Short Skit
Science-Lit. School to
Stimulate Scholarship
Students Placed On Probation Given
Special Attention
A new method used by the School
of Science and Literature to stimulate
higher scholarship among the
students in it was described today by
Dean Scott. The ten highest ranking
students received special recognition
for their work and letters acknowledging
their progress were sent
to their respective homes. The ten
students who received the highest
scholastic records in the course at
mid-semester are: B. A. Bentley,
Atlanta; Jack Capell, Montgomery;
Joe Embrey, Ashville, Dan McCarn,
Warrior; W. F. Jacob, Selma; W. M.
Keller, Birmingham; A. M. Pearson,
Camden; A. M. Sewell, Sayreton,
Sabel Shanks, Selma, and Thomas
Roberts, Sylacauga.
The students placed upon probation
receive special attention and are
called into conference so that their
difficulties may be straightened out.
Study schedules are made out and
their parents are are notified and advised
to cooperate with the school.
Special reports are made and from
time to time the students are called
in so that examination in their progress
may be held. Since this new
plan has been enacted over 1-2 of
the students placed upon probation
have succeeded in raising their grades
to satisfactory standards.
Florida Editor Studies
Auburn Publicity Dept.
J. Frances Cooper, editor for the
College of Agriculture of the University
of Florida, is spending the week
in Auburn studying the methods of
the department of public information
of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
which includes work with the press,
publications, bulletins, radio, visual instruction,
and other lines of service.
Mr. Cooper is an alumnus of Auburn.
He graduated in 1921. Immediately
after graduation he was
with the Columbus Enquirer Sun for
six months, then nine months on the
news staff of the Montgomery Advertiser
from where he went with the
Progressive Farmer in Birmingham.
His excellent work with the Progressive
Farmer brought him an offer
from the Flortfi institution, where
he has been since 1925.
The many friends of Mr. Cooper in
Auburn were glad to see him on the
campus and to greet an Auburn man
who has made an outstanding success
of his work.
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Seniors W a s t i n g Class
F u n d s On Useless Banquet
With the college year drawing to a close,
the various classes and organizations on
the campus are preparing to give banquets,
or similar social functions, to bring to an
end the year's meetings. The banquets are
no doubt designed to bring an end to the
balance in the treasury, too. This has been
the custom of nearly every class and organization
in Auburn for many years, but,
in our opinion, some thought should now be
given the idea before proceeding to give a
banquet—the main source of enjoyment being
derived from a small plate dinner. This
idea will always be favored by a few who
will desire only to-get back, and in the best
way, the dues that they have contributed
during the year to their organization. Even
with these to contend with, there should
be a majority of students who would prefer
to have their enjoyment in the fact
that they had left something reallytworth
while to their alma mater. There are many
worth while things that can be done, and
almost as many that should be done. A
scholarship could be created, either as a
whole, or in part, with some other class
or organization giving aid to the fund.
There is a total lack of drinking fountains
in Auburn's crowded halls, and we are sure
that a fountain would be greatly appreciated
by all students here in the college—
more so than the appetites of individuals
would be appeased who sit down for one
meal and pretend it to be a banquet.
We are not urging that banquets be discontinued,
or that they are a futile attempt,
for everyone knows better; but we do urge
that less banquets be given at the end of
the year, and especially by the classes here
in Auburn. Organization banquets accomplish
many practical purposes, but on a
whole we believe little good can be derived
from class banquets where the attendance
is so large as to prohibit any real good being
accomplished.
The senior class of this year, with a surplus
of over three hundred dollars in its
treasury, is contemplating a banquet for
the near future. We can see no results to
be realized this late in the year from the
banquet. The seniors will attend many
banquets, and we venture to say that one
banquet will hardly be missed by so large
a body. We hope the graduating class can
see their way clear to do something that
will benefit some worth individual or their
alma mater. As a memorial to them, it
would live longer, and each individual of
the class could leave with the knowledge
that his last action had been for the good
of another—something that should bring
real satisfaction and enjoyment.
The funds are available in the class treasury
to help a half dozen students substantially
when they need help; a scholarship
could be created; fountains could be installed,
or benches bought. There are many
ways this money could be more profitably
employed than to leave a marble slab to
crack with time or to appease a momentary
gluttonous appetite.
Blue R i d g e Offers Many
Summer O p p o r t u n i t i es
The time approaches when the student's
of this institution will be closing definite
plans in regard to activities during the summer
vacation months. A number of worthy
fields may well be considered; the final decision
may appear difficult, since there is
such a variety of worthwhile fields, The
situation should be measured from all possible
; gles.
To r mind, the final settlement should
not be arrived at before considering the advantages
of attending the Blue Ridge summer
conference for college students. These
may be reviewed in the news articles appearing
in this issue of the Plainsman. To be
sure, all the worthwhile things to be gleaned
from such a gathering cannot be listed in
black and white, still a comparative estimate
can be ascertained.
Auburn undergraduates owe much to
their institution and fellow-students; this
service cannot be rendered to the best possible
advantage without trained guidance.
This is the paramount offering of Blue
Ridge to its attendants—and it comes in a
definitely planned manner, presented with
"punch" and inspiration. Many spend their
best efforts and ideas in service to fellow-students.
If one is looking for a spot in which to
spend a splendid summer outing, and in
addition receive unexcelled training and inspiration
pertaining to campus service, then
he cannot go wrong in choosing Blue Ridge
as the port for this recreation. Expenses
are nominal; the natural setting is unexcelled;
guidance is picked from the best in
the land—it is certainly not a matter to
be taken lightly.
Annually Auburn sends delegates to this
retreat, who enjoy the association and intimate
contact with other Alabama students,
along with student representatives
from over the enire South. Problems encountered
on various college campuses are
discussed, relative ideas are exchanged, and
possible solutions are arrived at. Recreational
activities are engaged in, which contribute
ho small amount of aid and worth-whileness
to the occasion.
Students owe it to themselves and the
college to obtain these advantages which
are offered at this splendid summer retreat.
One can get in touch with those in charge
of Auburn's delegation, and arrange to attend
as an Auburn delegate this summer.
Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Plainsman,
Dear Sir:
Please allow me this privilege-of thanking
you openly, in behelf of the Auburn
Y. M. C. A., for your splendid cooperation
along with that of your staff in getting
out this special Blue Ridge Edition
of your paper. Since it is all in the interest
of a bigger and better Auburn,
we trust you will have no cause to regret
the move.
The local "Y" organization is vitally
interested in getting as large a delegation
of Auburn students to attend the Blue'
Ridge summer conference as possible, since
we feel that it will mean much to those
who attened as well as to the future welfare
of the Auburn student body as a
whole.
As a matter of personal opinion, I very
heartily endorse the idea of Auburn students
attending the conference, as does
every member of the Friendship Council.
Any student who is at all interested in
the matter should see one of the "Y" officials-
immediately, and get definitely lined
up; all possible information will be
cheerfully given.
Again thanking you for this splendid
cooperation, and trusting that many prospective
attendants may be reached in this
manner.
Yours for a bigger and better student
body,
Victor Savage, Jr.
Y. M. C. A.—General Sec't'y.
Dear Editor:
I thought that this might be of interest
to your columns:
Under Fielding H. Yost, as director of
athletics, the University of Michigan has
successfully launched a building program
for athletics that has placed the school
on a par with any institution of this country
in this respect. The program has been
financed for the most part by inter-collegiate
interests.
One of their latest projects is a stadium
that seated a crowd of 87,000 people at
the opening game. In financing the. stadium
alumni were not called upon for
help, but were offered the opportunity to
make sound investments in tax exempt,
interest bearing bonds. From the returns
of these bonds the necessary funds for
building the stadium were obtained.
Practically the same plan was used by
the University of Washington in building
their $565,000 stadium. The stadium is
a very up-to-date structure, and carries a
field house along with its many conveniences
for the athletic department there.
It has at present a seating capacity of 35,-
000 which may be increased if necessary
to 70,000. The building was financed by
the sale of bonds issued by the Associated
Students of the University. These were
sold mostly to alumni, and as they were
a sound investment bearing interest yearly,
were easily disposed of. It was estimated
that fifjteen years would be required
to retire the bonds, but with the
returns from games, concessions, and rentals,
the indebtedness was cleared in seven
years.
Thanks
"AUBURNITE."
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Memorial Exercises
will be held at 4 p.
m. on Friday, April
25. A distinguished
speaker, Honorable
Claude E. Hamilton,
will be present to deliver
the address. The
band and a company
o f Engineers have
tendered their services
for the march to the cemetery and
firing of the salute. I sincerely urge that
all members of the faculty and student
body, who can, attend these exercises.
There will be no classes or laboratory periods
after 4 p. m.
* * * *
The program for Commencement has
been arranged and is published at this
time. Reverend Dunbar Hunt Ogden,
Pastor of the Government Street Presbyterian
Church, Mobile, will deliver the
Commencement sermon at' Langdon Hall,
at 10:30 a. m., on Sunday, May 18. On
Commencement Day Dr. Edwin Mims, of
Vanderbilt University, will deliver the
Commencement address. Dr. Mims is a
speaker and author of distinction. He is
recognized as one of the finest English
scholars in the South. I commend to any
student in this institution, reading of his
two relatively recent books: first, the one
on "The Advancing South;" second, "Adventurous
America;" either of which you
will find very stimulating reading. On
Alumni Day, Monday, May 19, we will
have a pretty full program with a review
and awarding of Commissions in the R. O.
T. C, by Governor Graves; meeting of
the Board of Trustees; Alumni meeting;
Dedication of Ross Chemical Laboratory,
and Memorial Exercises for Dr. B. B. Ross,
at 5 p. m., and the Festival of Lights and
a general reception in the evening.
* * * *
I was going over the fraternity averages
in a report placed on my desk which gives
each fraternity showing the average of
every member and pledge and the average
of the whole chapter and chapter and
pledges. I notice this remarkable circumstance:
Those fraternities which stand relatively
high in average either have no members
or pledges who are making less than
a passing average or they make up for
their few deficiencies by having a few
very outstanding students. I notice one
fraternity where there were two men in
the fraternity with a grade average distinctly
above 90. I believe that fraternity
would have stood No. 1, had it not been
for one member, who fell below a passing
average and one member who barely
scraped over the edge. As you get down
below the middle of the groups you will
find an increasing number whose grade
averages are from 60 to 70 and also an
increasing number whose grade averages
are below 60 and you find a distinct lessening
of the higher grades. Taken all in all
these grades are very stimulating and I
have found a lot of pleasure in looking
them over.
"Little Things"
By Tom Bigbee
A new airplane is equipped with a card
table, probably to accustom passengers to
the grand slam.
Our position is that of a baby born in a
tornado—he finds out entirely too early
what life is like.
Altogether too much of the uplift in
this modern country of ours is confined
to noses!
The old-time girl was usually a clinging-
vine; the modern girl, to be different,
is usually a rambler.
Another thing that goes in like a lion
and comes out like a lamb is a man asking
for a raise.
The only people nowadays who wake up
and find themselves rich are the professional
boxers.
A man in court recently said that he
never knew what happiness was until he
got married. Then, of course, it was too
late.
Heathens are slow to accept the white
man's religion, but they see the need of
it after they adopt his vices.
There is no canker more undermining
than -ignorance. There is no balm more
soothing than knowledge.
The greatest paradox of them all is still
"Civilized Warfare."
Efforts are being made to abolish the
eagle as the American standard. How
about substituting the bull?
And then there is the poor Scotch student
whd got a shoe shine and then remembered
he had on his roommate's shoes; he
committeed suicide.
Lives of great men all remind us
of this homely little text:
"If you- do the job before you,
You'll be ready for the next."
A tool chest was the old hen's nest.
The point? (I hope you catch it.)
She cackled when she tried to set
Upon a nail and hatchet.
IS AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
It is rumored that "Stood-up" Swint was very fortunate down in Tallassee last
week-end. He was table to impress the citizens that he was only a poor college student
and was, accordingly, able to secure cheaper rates than usual.
* * * * * * * * *
AUBURN FORTUNATE IN LANDING LOVELACE
"A. J. "Big Business' Lovelace is having one terrible time these days looking after
his large business holdings. These along with his regular school work have him
all down and out. Besides being a big movie operator, a cafe owner, a drug store
specialist, he is interested in one of the local hotels. In fact, he has assumed a controlling
interest in it and is planning to put it on a paying basis.
Some of his friends are fearing that he will invest in the Post Office before long,
and are anxious of his health as this added work will probably prove the breaking
point"" However, he seems to be a glutton rfor work, and at the present time he continues
to be a "high velocity" man, although he is looking fagged out.
The settling of "Big Business" in Auburn will add materially to the social and
economic status of Auburn. He will undoubtedly take an active part in all the leading
social functions, and his known ability as a financier will greatly increase the
stability of business in Auburn as well as make her credit enormously greater than
it is at present.
* * * * * * * * *
No wonder classes aren't any good this week—all the boys exploited on some
poor visiting girls here for the Easter holidays. It is reported that they may have
been young, but were crammed full of experience. So it left everything in a terrible
condition when they departed.
* * * * * * * * *
Lawrence Camp is signing his letter "J. S. Camp" now. Even though he has
the new name, he didn't go befoTB the legislature to get permission to change it; it
seems that "Peanuts" has more power than the law. Well, women have been ruling
the world for a long time as it is, so we aren't surprised any.
* * * * * * * * *
Now the women can get out their furs for the hot weather season is here.
* * * * * * * * * -
A TALE OF WOE
My head is cracked; my eyes are black,
My nose is out of shape—
My teeth are loose; my hip is bruised,
My shins are badly scraped.
A swollen ear looks bad, I fear,
But what's the use to moan?
I may as well the story tell:
Her husband came home too soon!
—Ex 969.
* * * * * * * * *
We understand that Professor Callan's option B class is having a wet old time
these days. Even Lovelace finds the page again, for he and Willingham did a bit
of cotfvassing in town Sunday night. It seems that they were busy inquiring the
way home. .
* * * • * * * * * *
"Si, them 'pears to be right smart boys of yourn," remarked a fellow farmer.
"Ya-a-s sir, them be right peart boys of mine, if I do say it myself. And they
hain't only spankin' good farmers, but they've got good heads on 'em for business.
Why sir, on rainy days when they eain't go out to work on the farm them thar boys
make five and six dollars apiece jest tradin' aroun' among theirselves."
— * * * * * * * * **
Old Uncle Sam is an expensive old boy, but at that he is no picker. He didn't
spend but twenty-three million dollars in the Haitian occupation. But at that rate
we don't blame him for withdrawing. The first thing he knows people will be referring
to American occupation down there as that "expensive Haitian War."
* * * * * * * *
Since the announcement that scientists have made a golf ball from onion tops,
several manufacturing companies may have to go out of business. No golf ball
will ever be lost now unless the player has a cold.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
^y cAaron *BilloXvheel
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES
WHAT NEXT?
At the University of Iowa fifteen men—
dairymen, engineers, and forestry students
—are delving into the intricacies of cooking.
They wanted to learn to cook, so they
enrolled in nutrition course at college. The
only drawback to the course is that the
men are required to eat the results of their
culinary efforts.
, * * * * *
A HARD JOB
A' study of the relations between the
United States and the Latin American
nations, has led a group of Princeton
University students to recommend that
the Monroe Doctrine be amended, to make
it clearer to both Americans and South
Americans, what is exactly meant by the
terms of the document.
* * * * *
HOW LIBERAL
At the University of Cincinnati men expect
their dates to meet the following requirements:
She may go out with other
boys, she should take an interest in things
they're interested in, she should be willing
to take in a cheap movie, she should not
object when they go out with other girls,
she should be able to discuss good books,
music and arts, she should be able to play
tennis, golf, and hike or swim, she should
be a good listener, she is not expected to
share the expense, she needn't reserve all
her petting for one man.
* * * * *
MORE SCANDAL
Northwestern seems to have the radical
bunch, or may we class them as just futuristic?
Anyway, the co-eds there are overwhelmingly
in favor of having smoking
rooms opened on the campus. In a two-day
straw vote conducted by the Daily
Northwestern the opposition to the rooms
snowed under by a 282 to 51 vote. The
freshmen were the only class to oppose
the issue. So that's what college does to
a young thing?
* * * *
UNLUCKY
One out of every thirteen, that is 466 out
of 7,600, flunked out at the university of
Washington last quarter. Although this
is rather high, it is an improvement over
the same quarter last year at that university.
They will probably have a large summer
session. What?
"DRYDENIZING""
U. J. (Sport) Herrmann, theater owner,
yachtsman and president of the Chicago
Library Board, who made the threat during
Mayor Thompson's anti-King George
campaign, that he would have burned
every pro-British book in the Chicago Public
Library, has now come to the support
of the library financially, in Chicago's
bankrupt melee.
* * * *
CALL OF THE WILD
At Northwestern University recently,
the fraternity and sorority people got together
and decided that a change in the
current social code would harm no one
and benefit all. Consequently, they prepared
a list of amendments to social rules
of conduct now in force. Among other
things, the group is demanding two formats
a year, price of each not to exceed
$7.50; an unlimited number of informals,
to be held anywhere that the Dean of
Women approves; dancing and card playing
sorority houses on Sundays; men to
be allowed to stay In sorority houses until
one o'clock on Friday and Saturday nights,
etc. How brazen. Why not this one? Just
make the sororities and fraternities one
large dormitory? That's true too.
* * * *
HOT FOR PARIS
The University of Paris has fallen heir
to the splendid chateau and grounds in the
town of Richelieu, belonging to the Duke de
Richelieu, descendant of Frances, famous
cardinal, and well known in America.
In making the gift, the Duke expressed
the wish that the University use the home
for retired professors and scientists, and
also use the place to entertain foreign
guests of the University.
The chateau was built by Cardinal Richelieu
on the site of his birthplace, and was
only partially destroyed during the French
Revolution.
It is surrounded by a beautiful park of
more than a thousand acres, which is included
in the gift.
* * * *
LAWDY
Oberlin college was the first college to
introduce coeducation, later she started
something else by letting negros attend
there also. A case of from worse to wor-ser,
we calls it.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * *
CONTINUING in the vein of the last
column by Diogenese Teufelstrockh,
we should like to rant a bit regarding
democracy and individuality at Auburn.
The only forms of democracy that we
have noticed are: that every one chirps at
every one else on passing with about as
much sincerity as one has when one blows
his horn-at a passing auto; that extreme
liberty is observed in such matters as dress,
to such a degree in fact, that a neck tie
is almost the oddity that a monocle would
be; that there is freedom of speech as long
as one doesn't say anything or something
with which everyone could agree without
performing the very novel act of exercising
one's brain!—and particularly is
there freedom of very poor speech, speech
that hath never lain down with grammar;
and lastly, that there is utmost democracy
in the observance of those most elementary
rules of etiquette and social behavior that
are usually conceded to be a part of the
college man.
Democracy on Auburn's campus is not
a positive element; it is vigorously negative.
That is, our democracy is not exemplified
in our college life, our activities
nor our mental processes; but instead, our
so-called democracy works the other way,
we go backward and down to be free—free
to do nothing, free to dress as one pleases
as long as it is slovenly, free to say anything
as long as it is nothing, free to deport
ourselves as we wish so long as our
deportment is burgeois enough not to be -
conspicuous.
Individuality upon our campus enjoys
about the same minus status that does the
traditional democracy—approximately the
same distinctiveness that a perfectly white
billard ball would enjoy when placed along
with eighteen-hundred other perfectly white
billiard balls. It simply doesn't exist, except
that some people wear their heels
down on a certain side and that some are
slower about getting their hair cut than
others or that some are more adept at hitching
rides.
Auburn is not greatly concerned with the
individual. Auburn functions by groups,
thinks by the hundred and lives as one.
The entire college could be transplanted,
lock stock and barrel, to Moscow without
being confused with the problem of altering
its policy, its manner of living and
thinking. We would serve the Soviet as
a fairly conventional and groping "collective
man" without needing a lot of silly
individualistic ideas banged out of our
heads. When General Electric perfects its
Robot, it will send it to our own school
for an education.
To divide the student body into more
than one group is a rather doubtful procedure.
But it must be attempted.
The co-eds can lay claim to no distinctive
characteristics other than those physical
sex-differences. As a group, they run
true to type through all four classes, from
Architecture to Nursing—a trifle pheg-matic,
somewhat in earnest, well-meaning,
full of statistics and with muscles in their
legs.
Lines of demarcation between the groups
within the male progeny are not so clearly
defined and, perhaps, may be disputed.
Those students taking Agriculture and
its related offspring are strung on the
same string, typical to the last furrow,
true blue to the last cow—rather mellow;
extremely earthy; idealistic; moral and all
clamoring for a job in the extension service.
The Architects may be roped off together.
They are slightly more imaginative,
but even their imaginations are stereotyped—
all cherish seven-legged skyscrapers
and are Christopher Wrens in their beds
at night—their technical patois is their flag
of sophistication. But within the guild all
is convention. The individual is iron-bound
in his unorginality, he" dare not make himself
too conspicuous by the following of his
own ideas.
Then comes the great middle classes, the
Engineers of all kinds, the Business students,
General and Chemists and Education.
A single group. With a single thought, if
any. Plodding, happy, spending week-ends
away, in love or trying to convey that impression
to their objective^ hard drinking
and future good citizens.
And with a flambouyant sweep, I cast all
the village ministers, Tom Bigbee and myself
into the last group—no one takes us
seriously, thank God.
Taken from "THISTLEDOWN"
This might have been a place for sleep,
But, as from that small hollow there
Hosts of bright thistledown begin
Their dazzling journey through the air,
An idle man can only stare.
—Harold Monro.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Some Interesting Facts in Connection With a Great Southern Institution
MANY CONFERENCES
ARE HELD FOR MEN
AND WOMEN THERE
ORIGIN AND GROWTH
Blue Ridge arose out of the needs
of the Young Women's Christian As
sociation, the Young Men's Christian
Association and the Missionary Education
Movement for a Summer Training
Conference center.
The Blue Ridge grounds were opened
for Conferences during the summer
of 1912, and during that summer more
than 1400 people were served and
trained in its buildings. In the eighteen
summers of its operation, Blue
Ridge has furnished Christian inspiration
and educational uplift to more
than fifty thousand persons. No one
can estimate its far reaching in
fluence.
INCORPORATION
The Blue Ridge Association was in
corporated March 6, 1907, under the
laws of the State of North Carolina,
with a broad and liberal charter for
s
religious and educational purposes. It
is non-commercial, non-dividend paying
and hence is not a taxable institution.
Its property is held in trust by
an executive committee composed of
twenty-one men and women representing
the three organizations named
above. All members must be, such as
would be qualified for membership in
the Y. M. C. A. or Y. W. C. A.
OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT
The present officers of the Association
are Mr. P. S. Gilchrist, Charlotte,
President, who is the second president
of the Association in a period of twenty-
four years; Mr. F. C. Abbott, Charlotte,
is Secretary-Treasurer, and has
been from the founding of the Association;
Mr. C. H. Hobbs, Cocoanut
Grove, Florida, is Chairman of the
Business Committee and has been from
the beginning; and W. D. Weather-ford
is Executive Secretary which position
he has held from the conception
of the plan. These four men
have carried the major load of financing,
developing and administering
these grounds for twenty-four years.
PROPERTY
This consists of some 1619 acres of
land. There are about two miles of
roads. There are fifty-six buildings.
These provide among other things,
comfortable housing for at least six
(600) hundred guests at one time;
Delegates Go Horseback Riding Daily
Beautiful Mountain Scene at Blue Ridge
ample class and conference rooms, an
auditorium, dining hall, gymnasium,
swimming pool, lake, cottages for
family groups, .etc.
Since the erection of Lee Hall (part
ly^paid for through the sale of timber
cut from the property) there has been
no general campaign for building
funds. Special gifts from time to
time had to be supplemneted by three
bond issues which now total $180,000.
These bonds must now be paid.
A CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL
ENTERPRISE
Until Blue Ridge opened in 1912
there were only three interdenominational
training Conferences in the
South—one for the representatives of
the Young Men's Christian Association,
and one for the Missionary Education
Movement.
THIRTEEN REGULAR SCHOOLS
NOW HELD
After eighteen years of work, there
are now held at Blue Ridge the following
schools and conferences: (1)
The College Conference of the Young
Women's Christian Association; (2)
The Student Conference of the Young
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OPELIKA AUBURN
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TOOMER'S
WILL GIVE YOU SERVICE
DRUG SUNDRIES
DRINKS, SMOKES
THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY
ON THE CORNER
German War Prisoners
Have Not Come Home
Berlin—(IP)—Germany is still profoundly
stirred by the' mystery of
what has become of the 100,000 World
War soldiers who were last reported
prisoners of war.
Thousands of German mothers and
wives still cling to the faint hope that
somewhere their sons and husbands
are still alive.
For years it was thought that somewhere
in the frozen wastes of Siberia
there must be a lost prisoner's camp,
and wild speculations were made as
to the possible whereabouts of the
43,251 German prisoners in France
who apparently have utterly disappeared.
A decade has brought no solution
The probability is that most of these
men died during epidemics that swept
the world during the last stages of
the war, and that failure to record
their deaths was due to some fault
fairly natural at the time.
A number of former German pris^
oners of war in France joined the
Foreign Legion. Quite a number of
the 51,213 "lost" prisoners in Russia
are believed to have settled in some
part of the Soviet Union.
Many Able Leaders
Will Dived Work
And Give Lectures
Scientist May Predict
Natural Calamities
Honolulu—(IP)—Dr. Thomas A.
Jagger, Jr., director of Kilauea Volcano
Observatory on the Island of
Hawaii, proposes the establishment of
a headquarters in this territory for
the purpose of compiling information
which would make it possible to foretell
great natural calamities, and thus
save perhaps thousands of lives from
earthquake and fire.
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Men's Christian Association; (3) The
Conference of the Missionary Education
Movement; (4) The Summer
School of Secretaries of all departments
of the Young Men's Christian
Associations; (5) The City Conference
of Young Women's Christian Associations;
(6) S. C. Y. Camp for Boys;
(7) The Conference on Human Relations
in Industry; (8) The Southern
Summer School of Social Service and
Christian Workers; (9) Annual .Conference
of Travelers Aid Workers for
the South; (10) Institute of Social
Work executives; and (11) parallel
with all these Y. M. C. A. Graduate
School, training secretaries for the
whole South. In these schools or conferences
there is an annual total of
3,000 present with more than two hundred
and fifty very capable leaders,
speakers and lecturers. During the
winter the (12) Lee School for Boys
operates in our buildings as a part of
the work of the Blue Ridge Association.
In addition each year there are
special conferences; (13) Conference
for Boards of Directors.
ATTENDANCE
The first summer at Blue Ridge,
1912, there were four conferences with
1,452 people present; in 1913 there
were 1,771 present and in 1914 there
were 2,000 present. In 1917 there
were ten schools with an attendance
of 2,730. In 1920 there were 5,061
present. Through 1928 nearly 50,000
persons have been trained.
Among the thirty or forty able leaders
for the 1930 Blue Ridge Student
Conference, four men should be introduced
as the principal platform
speakers. The conference 'has been
exceedingly fortunate in securing personalities
who are attracting student
attention for the vitality and power
of their messages.
Reverend E. McNeil Poteat of Pul-len
Memorial Church, Raleigh, N. C,
will open the conference with three
addresses on "Coming to Terms with
Our Universe". He was an outstanding
athlete while an undergraduate,
is an accomplished musician, but best
of all has a prophetic message powerfully
presented for the students of this
generation.
Dr. Frank S. Hickman of Duke University
is well known for his book
"Introduction to the Psychology of Religion".
His years of experience in
dealing with students individually
and as a Professor of Psychology at
Hamline University eminently fit him
to present the topic, "Coming to Terms
with Ourselves", in three addresses.
Dr. Hickman measures up to his giant
stature in largeness of heart, mind
and soul and in the power of his
message.
Dr. Fletcher S. Brockman belongs
peculiarly to the South as a native of
Virginia and graduate of Vanderbilt
University. He has reached now a
place of eminence as an international
figure, and is a Christian Statesman
in the largest sense of the word.
Nojnan is better qualified in spirit,
experience, insight and outlook to interpret
to Southern Students their relationship
to others, whether it is a
fellow student on his own campus or in
one of the great universities of China,
Japan or India.
Kirby Page will be the closing speaker
of the conference. As editor, author
and lecturer, he has won a unique
place in the choice of the Religious
Book A Month Club. His message in
three addresses will bring the conference
the heart of that book. Mr. Page
will come direct to Blue Ridge after
landing in San Francisco from his
present trip around the world. This
will lend that color and warmth to
his message which comes through intimate
contact with the great spirits
of the field and first hand study of
the world's greatest human problems.
It would take volumes to give the
story of the accomplishments and qualifications
of the total list of eminent
leaders who will be contributors to
the rich program of the 930 Conference.
We need only mention the well-known
names of a few of the others—
Dr. Harry W. Chase, University of
North Carolina; Dr. F. W. Sikes,
Clemson College, S.XC; Dr. W. D.
Weatherford, YMCA Graduate School,
Nashville, Tennessee; Dean F. F.
Bradshaw, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill; Dr. English Bagby,
University of North Carolina; Coach
Alexander, Georgia Tech; Dr. W. W.
Alexander, Atlanta; Dr. Clifford Bar-four,
Knoxville, Tennessee; Dr. A. K.
Rule, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary;
Dean W. H. Nes, Christ Church
Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Dr. Marvin Culbreth, Nashville, Tennessee;
Dr. R. B. Eleazer, Atlanta;
Dr. J. G. Geiger, William and Mary
and others.
Open Air Lecture Before Lee Hall
Delegations Group at Blue Ridge
« Stein Song" Of Univ.
Of Maine to Be "Saved"
Orono, Me.—(IP)—The University
of Maine "Stein Song", for years just
the official song of a small freshwater
college, now spre"ad all over the
known world by the University of
Maine's distinguished alumnus, Rudy
Vallee, is to be "saved."
A committee of students, with
George Ankles, senior of Peabody,
Mass., as chairman, has been appointed
to look up the original manuscript
and take the measures to have the
song preserved.
It was written by Professor Adel-bert
W. Spragy, then a student at
Maine, adapted from the Military
March "Poie" 26 years ago, permission
having been obtained from the
publishers of the march, written by
the army bandmaster, Fenstad.
The words written in about an hour
by Lincoln Ross Colcord, now well-known
author of sea stories—then a
roommate of Sprague—have not been
changed. The song itself, however,
has been widely transposed and jazzed
by hundreds of orchestras^ and
bands.
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OFFERS DIVERSIFIED
ACTMTIESFOR1930
The daily program at Blue Ridge
provides diversified occupation for
delegates. Time for meditation, reading,
sight seeing, and ahletics is allowed,
outside of the hours assigned
for worship, addresses, . discussion
groups, and Bible study.
The first period is the worship
hour, which comes as a morning
watch before breakfast. This part
of the program is habitually led by
a speaker of inspirational and entertaining
ability and is one of the
best parts of the Blue Ridge program.
Following the worship hour, breakfast
is served in the dining hall. All
the delegates eat at the same time,
special tables being prepared for individual
delegations or the combination
of several delegations.
Bible study groups under capable
ministers or other Christian leaders
are held during the second' period
just after breakfast. The groups
scatter out to any spot near the main
auditorium, many of the leaders holding
their discussions in shady places
near the mountain streams.
The third period is taken up for
personal adjustment. The whole
conference assembles for discussion
of the major problems of their adjustment
during college 'life. Each
leader is a trained specialist in his
subject. This is the time which provides
you practical, skilled help in
coming to terms with life.
Next comes the resource hour and
you are free to use your time in the
(Continued on page 4)
Supreme Court Insists
On Right Of Jury Trial
Washington—(IP)—Defendants in
prohibition and other criminal cases
may waive their constitutional right
of trial by jury, but this right must
be "jealously preserved" the Supreme
Court has ruled.
The high court's vigorous defense of
the jury system came in the midst of
efforts by the Wickersham law enforcement
commission to have Congress
provide for juryless trials in petty
prohibition cases.
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Princeton, N. J.—(IP)—Dr. Theodore
Whitefield Hunt, professor emeritus
of English at Princeton University,
is dead here in his eighty-seventh
year. He had served on the Princeton
faculty longer than any man now
alive, and was one of the last six survivors
of the class of 1885.
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Mrs. Houdini Fails
To Communicate With
Deceased Husband
Miami, Fla.—(IP)—Mrs. Harry
Houdini, widow of the internationally
known magician, recently revealed
that she-had abandoned all hope of
communicating with her deceased husband
in the spirit world.
She said that for three years she
sought to penetrate beyond the grave
and communicate with her husband,
but has now renounced faith in such
a possibility.
"I hoped and prayed and worked to
get a message from Houdini," she said,
and several of the great'spiritualistic
advocates declare I have succeeded.
But it is not true. The silence is impenetrable.
There is. only a void.
, "If I had succeeded in communicating
with Houdini I would shout it
from the house tops and I would carry
a message of hope to all burneded
souls, but I have none. There is nothing
there."
When Houdini died, Mrs. Houdini
announced that she and her husband
had formed a pact by which he was
to communicate with her if possible
from the spirit world.
Scientist Believes New
Jersey Was Once Warm
New Brunswick.—(IP)—That the
climate of New Jersey eighty-five million
years ago closely resembled that
of Florida now, is the belief of Dr.
Minton A. Chrysler, paleo-botanist of
Rutgers University here. His belief
is supported by the recent discovery
in the Hampton Clay pits of Wood-bridge,
»a fossilized plant, which is a
member of the palm family and could
not have lived in a clime more rigorous
than the American penninsular.
Camp Is President Of
Gamma Sigma Epsilon
L. F. Camp was chosen Grand Alchemist,
or president, of Gamma Sigma
Epsilon, honorary chemical fraternity,
to serve next year, at 'a
meeting of the society held ^Tuesday.
Other officers are as follows: Recorder,
J. L. Christian; Visor, Sam
Robinson; Sergeant-at-Arms, J. D.
Smith.
Prominent Surgeon
Dies At Ball Game
\ New Haven, Conn.—(IP)—Dr. William
W. Hawkes, formerly one of the
most prominent surgeons in Connecticut,
died suddenly at a Yale-Darts-mouth
baseball game here.
He was stricken with heart disease
in the sixth inning, and died before
an ambulance could be called. He
was 75 years old, and had retired several
years before. He was a graduate
of Yale.
Relic Of Civilization
4000 Years Old Found
Carlsbad, N. M.—(IP)—Jim White,
explorer and discoverer of the famous
Carlsbad Cave, has just found a cave
burial tomb of the Basket Maker race,
4,000 years old, in the Guadalupe
Mountains along the New Mexico-
Texas boundary. Several human skeletons
and numerous artifacts were
discovered in the cave.
GHANDI SCORNS USE OF CLOTH
SENT TO~~lNDIA BY ENGLISH
Bombay—(IP)—Mahatma Ghandi,
leader in India's Independence movement,
has advised the women of the
country to go naked rather than wear
garments of English cloth.
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LARGE AUBURN DELEGATION
EXPECTED TO A T T E ND
CONFERENCE AT BLUE RIDGE
(Continued from page 1)
taining to different phases of the average
college boy's life. Athletics,
fraternities, social activities, vocational
guidance, and other topics will
be taken up at these meetings. The
discussions will be led by men who
have qualified as leaders in the field
of their subjects, and any questions
which the students may care to bring
up will be answered.
A series of nine personal adjustment
periods will be included on the
program. At these periods such questions
as "What shall be my part in
the world's work" and "How can I
grow into it?" will be discussed. In
addition to the general orientation as
to a life-work there will be opportunity
for a limited number of students to
secure individual counselling from one
of the faculty members participating
in the conference. During 1928 and
1929 over a hundred students receiv-ed
such assistance.
Part of the time will be devoted to
trip to places of interest nearby.
Within a short radius of Blue Ridge
are Lake Junaluska, Lake Lure, Chimney
Rock, Mount Mitchel, Ridge Crest,
Montreat, and other tourist's shrines.
All students interested in making
the trip to Blue Ridge summer
camp see Cleveland Adams, chairman
of the Blue Ridge Committee,
or other officers of the Y. M. C. A.
as soon as possible.
Body Of Ohio Student
Recovered From River
Plans For Auburn's
Big Flower Show
Are Now Complete
The annual Flower show will be
i
held under the auspices of the womans
club at the Episcopal Parish House
from 1 p. m. Friday, May 2, until 2
p. m. Saturday, May 3. Mrs. B. F.
Thomas, chairman of the civics department
of the club, has announced
the following rules:
Residents of Auburn may enter exhibits
free of charge to compete for
the prizes. Non-residents are also invited
to enter exhibits without charge.
Although such entries will not be eligible
for prizes, they will be very welcome.
Exhibits must be in by 11 a. m.
Friday, May 2.
Exhibitors are required to furnish
containers for their flowers and will
be responsible for them. The containers
will not affect the judging of
any exhibits except the artistic centerpiece
group (group 13).
The classes to be judged are as follows
: Group 1: Finest rose (one blossom;
class (1) red, (2) pink, (3)
yellow, (4) white. Group 2: Finest
climbing rose (one spray; classes. (1)
red, (2) pink, (3) yellow, (4) white).
Group 3: Finest collection of roses
one color; classes (1) red, (2) pink,
(3) yellow, (4) white. Group 4:
Finest collection of roses (any color).
Group 5: Finest collection of climbing
roses (any color). v Group 6: Any variety
of iris except Spanish, classes
will include the finest collection of one
color, white, blue, yellow or bronze, the
Athens, O, - ( I P ) - T h e Hocking f i n e s t Election of mixed colors (one
River last week'gave up the body of ^ l k e a c h color>- GrouP 7 : ^"f1
George Kovalchick, 20, of Campbell, M* «*•»« t h e s a m e a s «£• f or
Ohio, student of Ohio University here, «™P 6> ™t h t h e omission of bronze;
who has been the object of a nation- Group 8: Flowering shrubs or•trees
wide search sirice Feb. 11
(any variety). Group 9: Honeysuckle
7 e disappeared frTm Athens on that (any variety), Group 10: Collections
day after reading a notice of dismissal ° f Perennials: classes (1) coreopses,
(2) poppies, (3) mixed Sweet Williams,
(4) Sweet Williams of one va-the
"san7bar"in"~the EasTEnd of «ety, (5) ^nks, (6) any flower not
Athens, where it was discovered by ™™**> <7> m i x e d v a r i e t i e s ' <8> m i x -
Glenn Robinson and his son who were ed Snapdragons, (9) snapdragons of
in a boat fishing. °n e c o l o r ^ <10) ^ Gr0Up U :
The body was not recognisable, but Collections of annuals; classes (1)
Mitchell O'Mellan, of Campbell, room- cornflowers, .(2) larkspur, (3) pan-mate
of Kovalchick at the Palmer sies, (4) phlox, (5) candy tuft, (6)
Hotel, identified the broadtoed black gaillardia, (7) sweet peas, (8) any
shoes, the university monogram on &™*™ not named, (9) finest collec-the
belt and other marks on the cloth
ing.
Kovalchick, a sophomore in the Col
lege of Education, was of Czecho-Slo
vakian parentage. *
Although a hard worker, he en
,. tion of annuals. Group 12: Children's
exhibits: classes (1) wild flowers, and
(2) garden flowers, Group 13: Most
artistic centerpiece; classes (1) for
banquet table, (2) for luncheon table
,. and (3) for dinner table. Group 14:
countered difficulty in understanding Largest individual collection.
class room lectures and in expressingi, Anybody desiring any additional in-himself,
college officials said.
It is believed that his dismissal at
the mid-term was a mental shock and
that he went to the river that night
and jumped in to end his life.
Following his disappearance the river
was dragged for several days but
no trace was found of "his body.
Search had been continued throughout
the country and recently army
and navy stations had been checked.
English Teacher Wins
In Radio Spelling Bee
Philadelphia, Pa.—(IP)—An instructor
in English from Temple University,
who bears the poetic name of
Annie Laurie Rogers, was adjudged
the winner of the first annual spelling
bee conducted by Radio Station
WFAN at the Lorraine Hotel here.
Six Temple University professors
were matched with six Philadelphia,
newspaper men in the contest.
Miss Rogers won when Lawrence
Davies, of the New York Times, spelled
"deciduous" with an "I" in the first
syllable.
The contest between Miss Rogers
and Davies lasted fully an hour and
it appeared for a while that Mayor
Harry A. Mackey, the "schoolmaster"
would have to call it a draw, and toss
up for the huge silver cup presented
to decide the winner.
formation may obtain it from Mrs.
B. F. Thomas?
Expedition Goes Into
Unexplored Territory
Syracuse, N. Y.—(IP)—An expedition
of scientists, is to be sent into
the Andes Mountains by Syracuse
University, for a four months exploration
in territory into which no scientist
ever has been known to penetrate
and return aliye.
The modern city of San Cristobal
will be used as a base and from there
the expedition will explore the unknown
country for 200 miles about
the city.
The party will include professors of
georgraphy, geology, botany, and zoo
logy. They hops to bring back specimens
for the Museum of Natural
Science at the University here and for
the Syracuse Municipal Zoo.
Each member of the university will
sign papers releasing the University
from liability in case of death from
contagious diseases or injury at the
hands of the primitive Chibcohas, the
war-like Indians which inhabit the
country.
Several years ago these Indians
drove out the only other English
speaking expedition which has attempted
to explore the territory. This was
the Millican Expedition, and several
COMPLETE PROGRAM
OFFERS DIVERSIFIED
ACTIVITIES FOR 1930
(Continued from page 3)
most profitable way you know to secure
help for your problems, whether
from books, friends, leaders or in
quiet meditation.
The last assembly of the morning
is for interest groups, and includes
discussions on practically every timely
question of the day. Vocational
guidance, international relations,
church problems, men and women relations,
and association tasks are the
subjects of some of the largely attended
groups.
Following dinner, the afternoon is
left open, with the majority of the
delegates participating in the .various
inter-delegation athletic contests. Nature
study, sight seeing, hiking, and
reading are also optional to the individual
delegate.
Immediately after supper a good
many of the delegates assemble
around the piano in the lobby of
Robert E. Lee Hall, for singing, while
others stroll arTTTind the grounds getting
acquainted. This is one of the
free periods.
As a climax to the day's program,
the leading address of the day is given
at 8 o'clock. The featured-leaders
of the conference are heard by
an assembly of the entire conference
during this hour.
Following the address comes a
forum in the lobby, then the rest of
the evening is free, with delegation
meetings, strolls in the moonlight,
motor trips, and inter-delegation
parties taking place. This hour between
9:30 and 11:00 o'clock is one
of the most enjoyable periods of the
program. •
Wisconsin Will Close
Experimental College
Madison, Wis.—(IP)—The University
of Wisconsin's Experimental college,
an innovation among educational
institutions in the nation, will be
definitely abandoned at the end of the
present semester, President Glenn
Frank has announced.
The experimental college was started
three years ago with Alexander
Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst
college, as its head.
Honor students, among them some
sons of professors, and picked students
from other colleges were enrolled
in the college.
President Frank said the college
would be abandoned, but indicated its
principles would be applied to freshmen
and sophomores at the University
as a whole.
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the winner by Dr. A. A. Mitten of the
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bows of the natives.
The expedition is to be financed by
a gift from an alumnus of the university,
who is keeping his name a secret.
A specially adapted gas gun is to
Scientists Of Europe
Doubt Existence Of
N e w l y - F o u n ^ l P l a n e t be used to capture birds and animals
alive,
Flaggstaff, Ariz.—(IP)—Officials The expedition also will investigate
of the Lowell Observatory, who re- rumors of lost cities and traditions of
cently announced the discovery of the an Eldorado. And they will examine
trans-Neptunian planet, said that the folk-ways of the native Indians
doubts of the planet's existence as
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Boy Scouts Troop to Be
Formed for Older Boys
A Boy Scout troop for older boys
will be organized at Auburn and sponsored
by the College. This was decided
at a committee meeting here
Tuesday.
The troop will include boys from 15
to 18 years of age. The sponsoring
committee is headed by Professor A.
L. Thomas who has had many years
of experience in scout work. The
scout master will be George L. Morton.
Mr. Morton is a student at Auburn
and has had much experience in
scouting. y
Other members of the committee
associated with Professor Thomas are
Rev. Bruce McGhee, pastor of the Auburn
Methodist- Church, Capt. E. S.
Ott, Dr. Roger Allen, and Professor
A. D. Burke.
Organization of this troop completes
the objectives for the district this
year, according to John J. Sigwald,
boy scout executive for the Central
Alabama Area Council.
Already Auburn has a troop of
younger boys, of which Professor
George L. Fick is scout master. Rev.
S. B. Hay, Presbyterian pastor of Auburn,
is chairman of the sponsoring
committee. The troop is sponsored
jointly by the Rotary, Kiwanis, and
Lions Clubs of Auburn.
Ancient Calendar May
Be Better Than One In
Use At Present Time
Le Paz, Bolivia— (IP) —Professor
Posnansky, German scientist declared
here recently in an interview that
he had found among the relics of the
Tiahuanacans, mysterious race that
flourished thousands of years ago, a
calendar which he considers to be
much more practical than the one now
in general use.
Communists Ask For
Protection of Police
New York—(IP)—While Communists
at a mass- meeting in Bronx
Coliseum here denounced Police Commissioner
Grover A. Whalen and his
"ruffian" policemen, a police squad
stood guard at the box office protecting
$15,000 in receipt's for admissions.
The Communists appealed to the police
to protect the money.
OWNER OF ISLAND TRIES TO
COIN HIS OWN MONEY THERE
Bideford, England—(IP)—Martin
Coles Harman, owner of Lundy Island,
in the Bristol Channel, near here,
has been fined for coining money on
his island, which he claims is not under
British jurisdiction.
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