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VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1926 NUMBER 10
AUBURN CELEBRATES NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMISTICE
AUBURN AND MARQUETTE
TO MEET AT RICKWOOD
Tigers Entrain Friday
Morning For Scene
Of Big Game
IS FIRST INTERSECTIONAL
SINCE AUBURN MET ARMY
Enthusiastic Mass Meeting
Gives Moreymen Good
Send-off
Smarting under their decisive de­feat
last Saturady at the hands of
Georgia's Bulldogs, the Plainsman
entrained for Birmingham Friday
morning ful of determination to an­nex
their first inter-sectional affair
since the memorable Auburn-Army
games. Accompanying the team were
Coaches Morey and Papke, erstwhile
chieftens of the Tiger crew, Bunk
Vaughan, who looks after the busi­ness
side of things.and "Goat" Smith,
loyal trainer.
It is rather significant that Mar­quette
University is located in Mike
Papke's home town and that its team
was responsible for Coach Morey's
most painful injury. "King David,"
as the Tiger menter is affectionately
known to Auburn men throughout
the state was the big gun of the Pow­erful
Dartmouth team and All-Ameri-can
Half-back when the Green team
tied up with the Golden Avalanche.
A touch of personality will thus be
added to the play of the two elevens
as both leaders wojild like to see an
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MUSICAL SHOW
IS PRESENTED
BY CHI OMEGAS
*Cupid-Up-To-Date" Is Enjoy­e
d By Large
Audience
TOM BRAGG IS
VICE-PRESIDENT
ALA. POWER CO.
Former Auburn Professor Is
Promoted to Important
Position
Friends of Thomas Bragg, for
many years professor of chemistry
and Graduate Manager of Athletic at
Auburn, will rejoice to hear of his
promotion to the office of vice-presi­dent
of the Alabama Power Company
at a meeting of the company's di­rectors
held in Birmingham this week.
Mr. Bragg left Auburn in June,
1920, to join the staff of the newly
organized Investment Department of
the Alabama Power Company. In
October of the same year he was
made manager of the department.
The success with which Mr. Bragg
has administered the Alabama Power
Company's Investment service is re­flected
in a recent publication of the
company which shows that there is
not a county in the state where one
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PROGRAM
Tiger Theatre
Monday, Nov. 15
"WEST OF BROADWAY"
With Priscilla Dean, Arnold
Gray, Wajter Long and
Mabel Coleman
Tuesday, Nov. 16
"THERE YOU ARE"
Conrad Nagel, Edith Roberts,
and George Fawcette
Wednesday, Nov. 17
"THE GREAT GATSBY"
Starring Lois Wilson, Warner
Baxter, Neil Hamilton and
Georgia Hale
Thursday, Nov. 18
"TUMBLEWEEDS"
With William S. Hart
, Friday, Nov. 19
"EVERYBODY'S ACTING"
Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling,
Louise Dresser, Lawrence
Gray, Henry B. Walthall
Saturday, Nov. 20
"PRIVATE IZZIE MURPHY"
The Musical Comedy, "Cupid-Up-
To Date," as presented by the Chi
Omega Sorority, under the personal
direction of Miss D. Clarke, of At­lanta,
was indeed a treat for Auburn.
That all Auburn turned out to witness
the play was very clearly shown by
the crowd which packed Langdon Hall
Tuesday evening.
This play was the first of its kind
that had been shown in Auburn for
quite a while, and better success could
not possibly have been wished for by
its promoters. Filled" entirely as it
was with local talent, it gave the
Students a chance to see many of
their fellow Students before the foot­lights
in some very humorous and ex­citing
scenes. The plot was extreme­ly
interesting, dealing with the eternal
conflict between Love and Material­ism.
Love finally manages to con­quer
amid much display and many
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SUCCESSFUL ARMISTICE DAY
PROGRAM IS PRESENTED
LOCAL PLAYERS
TO OPEN SEASON
HERE TUESDAY
Variety of Plays to Feature
Initial Appearance of
Auburn Players
A s s a i l e d Opponent
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MARTIN GIVES
MUSIC RECITAL
Woman's College Pianist Gives
Concert in Langdon
Hall
Josef Martin, noted pianist of Wo­man's
college, Montgomery, appeared
in a recital in Langdon hall, the col­lege
chapel, Thursday evening, No­vember
11 at 8 o'clock. The recital
was given under the auspices of the
music department of the Woman's
club, Auburn. This program was the
second of the year, Miss Nell Esslin-ger
of Huntsville, soprano, having
appeared three weeks ago.
Josef Martin received his early
training in Boston, his native city,
making his first public appearance
in concert at the age of 13. After
studying a number of years with H.
S. Wilder, the renowned piano peda­gogue
he went to Europe where he
continued his studies with Pugno in
Paris, and Emil Sauer in Berlin and
Vienna. Mr. Martin made his New
York debut at Aeolian hall, April 27,
1916, which was acclaimed by critics
as one of the most brilliant and suc­cessful
of that season.
STUDENTS HEAR
ABERCROMBIE
ON EDUCATION
State Superintendent of Edu­cation
Condemns Status
in Alabama
THREE PLEDGES
ADDED GAMMA
SIGMA DELTA
Chemical Fraternity Selects
New Members
Gamma Sigma Epsilon held it's
fall election Thursday night and as
a result has added to its roster three
new members. The new members for
this year are:—J. A. McDaniel, Bes­semer,
H. M. Jones, Lineville, E. K.
Tucker, Auburn, H. S. Peckingpaugh,
Mobile.
Gamma Sigma Epsilon was found­ed
at Davidson College in the year
1919. The Delta Alpha chapter was
established at Auburn in 1923. The
purpose of this organization is to fos­ter
high scholarship and fellowship
among the students of chemistry.
The members are selected from the
upper classes of those students who
are taking the chemical courses. In
choosing its members the fraternity
takes into consideration the scholas­tic
standing of the student and also
his personality.
In an address to the upperclass-men
at Convocation last Thursday on
Public Education, Dr. John W. Aber-crombie,
State Superintendent of Edu­cation,
declared that the State of Ala­bama
is only spending one-third of
the average National Expenditures
for Education in Alabama. The
appealing address was given in ac­cordance
with plans for Educational
Week, to be observed throughout the
state.
Dr. Abercrombie was heartily wel­comed
and introduced by President
Dowell. The speaker is well known
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ATTENTION!
AUBURN BAND
HAS HONORARY
SOCIETY NOW
Alpha Beta Chapter Fills Long
Felt Need
A long felt need has been satisfied
by the band this year, in the form of
an honorary^ society. This society,
known as the Alpha Beta Chi, was or­ganized
during the latter part of the
last scholastic year, but school ended
before much could be acomplished.
This year the fraternity has started^
off with much enthusiasm and is cre­ating
much interest among the band
members.
The purpose of the Alpha Chi Beta
Chi is to encourage bandsmen to great-continued
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If this is not done by Sun­day,
Nov. 14th. we will have to make
the selection ourselves.
If any upper-classmen wishes to use
last years picture and hasn't ordered
it, please see me by Sunday, Nov.
14th.
F. B. LEDBETTER.
Editor.
Students who wish to enter the
theme contest put on by the Honor
Committee had better get busy and
turn ; ;^f'r r>f" -TS ** *n e f • M. C.
A. office, for the closing date is but
a week off and interest has grown
so rapidly of late that promptness
will possibly be a deciding factor in
selecting the winner. The theme may
be of any length, preferably around
300 words and the student may re­ceive
help from any source (except­ing
members of the Honor Com­mittee)
the subject to be "Advan­tages
of an Honor System to a
College."
The papers will be judged by Miss
Dobbs, Dr. Allison, and Prof. Thomas.
For the best paper a prize of twenty-five
dollars will be awarded. This
contest is run mainly for the purpose
of stimplating interest among the
students in their honor system and
also in order to bring out hidden
talent in Auburn. All contestants
must have their themes in by Novem­ber
20 at the Y office. Remember
Fellows, TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
MANY SPEECHES
HEARD BY LIONS
AT LUNCHEON
The theatrical season of the Au­burn
Players will begin on Tuesday
November 16th, at eight fifteen,
sharp, with the presentation of three
one-act plays, two comedies and a
drama. For many weeks the Players
have been rehearsing, painting, saw­ing,
hammering and doing sundry
menial labor in an attempt to make
the opening performance an effective
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Col. Major and Govern-
Brandon Address
Enthusiastic
Assembly
SPEAKERS INTRODUCED
BY DR. SPRIGHT DOWELL
Legionaires Are Guests
Honor at Program
of Day
of
SPECIAL TRAIN
WILL BE RUN TO
BIRMJNGHAM
Leaves Auburn at 6 : 4 5 Satur­day
Morning
Six Distinguished Visitors De­liver
Talks at Club's
Weekly Meeting
ADAMS ELECTED
HONOR BOARD
BY FRESHMEN
Montgomery Boy Chosen As
Representative
Speeches by one half dozen dis­tinguished
visitors featured the Week­ly
luncheon of the Auburn Lion's
Club. Lion' President W. D. Salmon,
opened the meeting and turned over
qgraval to Lion R. S. Sugg, chair­man
of the program.
Among the visitors and speakers
were Dr. T. A. Sighler president of
the American Veterinary Medical As­sociation
of Greencastle, Indiana, Dr.
John H. Morse, president of the South
Eastern State Vererinary Medical As­sociation;
Will Paterson, of Auburn
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DR. GARDNER
IS AUTHOR OF
NEW SOIL BOOK
During upperclass convocation on
Thursday the Rats held a meeting
in the Gymnasium. The meeting was
called for the purpose of nominating
Freshmen representative to the Hon­or
Board. Nominations were in or­der.
Those put up for nomination
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Local' Botanist Discussed Sub-ject
in Bulletin
"The. Decomposition of Toxins by
Soil Organisms," is the title of a new
technical bulletin published by the
agricultural experiment -station of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
It is written by Dr. W. A. Gardner,
botanist and plant physiologist, and
is a report of research work conduc­ted
by him on this subject.
As an introduction to this bulletin,
which is regarded as a permanent
contribution to this subject of decom-
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The Auburn Tigers will encounter
the Golden Avalanche of Marquette
n Birmingham Saturday. This is the
mly intersectional game to be played
"n Southern Territory, this year, and
should be a drawing card. Prepara­tions-
are now underway for the game.
A SPECIAL TRAIN will be run to
Birmingham, via Montgomery. Leav­ing
Auburn Saturday at 6:45 A. M.
and arriving Birmingham at 11:00
A. M. The Special will return Sat­urday
night leaving at 8:00 o'clock
and arriving Auburn at 12:00 mid­night.
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A special round trip rate of one
way fare plus €Wenty five cents, which
special tickets will be on sale for all
will be $4.86, will be made. These
special tickets will be. on sale for all
regular trains from Auburn on Friday
November 12, and for the special
train on Saturday the 13. Return
limit of these tickets wil be mid­night
on Sunday the 14.
A PARADE will be staged in Birm­ingham
leaving the L &N station at
eleven o'clock.
CHI DELTA PHI
HAS PROGRAM
IN SMITH HALL
Importance of Courts is
Stressed by Dean Petrie
Safety of Country Rests With
Higher Tribunals Delcares
State Educator
Pointing to the courts of the land
as the bulwarks against bolshevism,
Dr. George A. Petrie, dean of gradu­ate
students, delivered a very impres­sive
address to students at convoca­tion
last week. Dr. Petrie stressed
the importance of respect for courts
and court decisions.
Congress may pass laws; the presi­dent
may make appointments, but it
is the United States supreme court
which finally says just how far the
congress or president can go and re­main
within the limits of the constitu­tion,
Dr. Petrie pointed out. He
cited an instance in which President
Johnson came within one vote of being
impeached for the performance of
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Open Meeting Is H e l d By Mem­bers
of Honorary
Fraternity
In commemoration of the signing
of the armistice between the powers
of the great world war, and in res­pect
to those who gave their lives
fighting for the preservation and
maintenance of Democracy, a very
fitting and appropriate program was
caried out in Auburn Thursday.
The first event of the day was the
inspection of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps by Colonel Duncan
E. Major, Jr., and staff. Colonel
Major is chief of staff of the Fourth
Corps Area with headquarters at At­lanta,
Ga., is a West Pointer, and has
seen serivce in the Phillipines, China,
and France. He has been decorated
with the distinguished service medal.
Following the inspection came the
regimental parade of the cadets of
the R. O. T. C. Infantry, Artillery,
and Engineers passed in review be­fore
the Board of Trustees of The
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and
and friends of the institution.
Invocation was rendered by Rev.
S. B. Haye of Auburn. Dr. Spright
Dowell set forth the purpose of Arm­istice
day by showing that it was a
day on which the chief forces of the
collosal war in Europe laid down
their arms and turned their attention
toward the securing of universal
peace. Dr. Dowell also introduced
the speakers of the morning, the first
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NUMERAL IS NOW
ON WATER TANK
Seniors Place Large
Famous Old
Tank
•27" On
Enthusiastic open meeting of the
Chi Delta Phi was held Thursday af-
' ternoon at Smith Hall. 'The follow­ing
program was rendered:
Welcome, by the President, Lillian
Dunn.
History of Xi Epsilon—Eula Hes­ter,
Piona solo—Dot Taylor.
History of Chi Delta Phi—Mattie
Mae Allen.
"The importance of literary work
for women" Professor Rutland.
Chi Delta Phi was founded at the
University of Tennessee in 1919. The
Omega chapter was established at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1925.
The purpose is to form bodies of re­presentative
women who shall by their
influence and their literary interest
uphold the highest ideals of a liberal
education; to raise the standards of
productive literary work mong the
women students.
The president then told the require­ments
for the Chi Delta Phi. The
papers must be handed to the presi­dent
not later than November 19. De­licious
refreshments were served to
the guests.
During the last few days a large
'27 has been placed on the water tank
up town by the Senior class. It has
been the custom for a number of years
for the senior's to do this, and this
year they engaged the services of John
Thomas, senior architect, to paint the
numeral.
The numeral is orange colored and
painted on a background of blue. It
is about 10 feet square, facing the
west, and can be seen for miles.
PROGRAM
College Show
Monday, Nov. 15
"THE ROAD TO MANDALAY"
Starring Lon Chaney with Lois
Moran, Owen Moore and
Henry B. Walthall
Tuesday, Nov. 16
No Show
Wednesday, Nov. 17
"THE LILLY"
With Belle Bennett, Ian Keith,
Reata Hoyt, Richard Tucker,
and Thomas Ricketts
Thursday, Nov. 18
No Show
Friday, Nov. 19
"SUBWAY SADIE"
First National Picture
Starring Dorothy MacKaill,
Jack Mulhall and Charles
Murray
Saturday, Nov. 20
"THE TRUTHFUL SEX"
Liberty Picture
Huntley Gordon, Mae Busch
TIGERS AND GOLDEN AVALANCH TO CLASH IN THE MAGIC CITY
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THAT AUBURN-ALABAMA GAME
Just at the time when interest in the re­newal
of athletic relations by Auburn and
Alabama seemed to be on the wane, The
Montgomery Advertiser comes out in a very
strong and logical proposition for such an
act. We have done all that it is within
our power to do. We are waiting on the
action of Alabama's student body. The
Advertiser's plea for resumption of ath­letic
competition between the two great
state schools follows:
"The proposal to resume athletic rela­tions
between the University of Alabama
and the Alabama Polytechnic Institute has
undoubtedly met with popular favor, par­ticularly
among the alumni of the two in­stitutions.
But the project does not seem
to be getting anywhere.
"In the matter of football, it is not pro­posed
that the teams should play this sea­son.
The schedule for 1927 has been ar­ranged,
but this game is not provided for.
Apparently it will be at least 1928 before
the two Alabama teams will play each oth­er.
"That is a long time to wait for some­thing
that is so much to be desired as
this is. It seems to The Advertiser that
this wait would be unnecessarily long. In
view of the fairly widespread demand for
resumption of athletic relations- between
the University and Auburn, and in view
of the long number of years since they
met, why cannot arrangements be made
for the football teams to meet next year?
Even a post-season game would be better
than no game at all.
"It has been suggested that the athletic
committees of the two institutions should
meet and thresh the matter out at an early
moment. For itself, The Advertiser trusts
that this suggestion will be accepted and
acted upon.
"It was only this year that it seemed to
dawn upon everybody interested in these
matters that Auburn and Alabama stood al­most
alone among rival State colleges in
their policy of playing everybody but them­selves.
Alabama is fairly surounded by
States in which the two leading educational
institutions meet on the athletic field." Real­ization
of this circustance put it into the
minds of alumni of both the University
and Auburn that the time had come when
the two leading football teams of Alabama
should again meet each other.
"This matter should not be allowed to
drop until an arrangement is reached."
ARMISTICE DAY
Eight years ago Thursday the mightiest
conflict ever to be inflicted on the people
of the earth was brought to a close by an
agreement entered into by the warring na­tions
to suspend all operations until perm­anent
peace could be discussed. The oc­casion
was one of the wildest enthusiasm
and rejoicing, in which all the nations of
the world eagerly joined. War was sudden­ly
transformed into chaos. The inhabit­ants
of the European countries, where the
blast of the conflict was most intense,
breathed a sigh of relief. Sighs of relief
in other countries were expressed in dis­graceful
orgies of debauchery.
The flight of years has restored the
world to its normal equilibrium, more or
less, and with this return to normalcy has
come the inevitable reaction to the horrors
of war. Men gasp now at the appaling
number of those brave young soldiers who
laid down lives in order that the insatiate
greed of nations might be practiced.
Couched in the very soul of hypocracy
were the pleas from governments that the
youth of the land give their all in protect­ing
a principle. They persuaded them that
they were fighting for the supreme ideal,
that of freedom. They told them that they
were to make the world a better and a safer
place to live in. Thexwar lords sat by in
humorous contemplation as Hie life blood
of the universe was running red on the
battle fronts in France.
We celebrated Thursday, the eighth an­niversary
of the end of this terrible carn­age.
We assembled to honor, not the forces
which compelled the sacrifices, but the he­roes
of all antions who heard the call of in­jured
right and who so nobly responded.
They did not hesitate to question the mo­tive
of the conflict. They were told that
to them was designated the task of making
the world safe for Democracy. How well
they carried on is a story that will never
grow old.
November 11, 1918 is a date that will go
sounding down throughout the ages. The
entrance of America had averted an awful
catastrophe and the war-worn countries
were ready for peace. A kahki-clad line
of humanity recrossed the Atlantic. Many
were left behind, under the sod of Flander's
field. Many returned, maimed, crippled,
diseased, tortured in mind and body. For
a short time Wilson, the peerless leader,
was idolized by a world and America was
proclaimed as the savior of humanity.
Then, as consciousness of growing power
dawned on.the former beligerants, the
stupendous crisis was forgotten and the
race for power begun anew.
We have undeniably participated in this
struggle for supremacy. Have we kept
faith with those we sent to uphold our na­tional
honor? Has the spirit of the armis­tice
left a lasting impression upon us?
Our debt to them cannot be reckoned in
paltry dollars, francs, marks or pounds.
Did the armistice simply grant the peoples
of the earth a respite in which to gird
themselv"3S~for a more horrible and more
disastrous war? These questions of trem­endous
import will be eventually left up to
us to decide.
Has the millenium been reached? Has
the time come when there will be no more
wars? The cessation of the World's War
brought these two questions before the peo­ple.
We are not so optimistic as to believe
that the greed and enmity inherent in all
the nations has been forever suppressed.
We do believe that the time will come, how­ever,
when the civilized governments of the
earth will be educated to the point where
they may see the ghastly folly of a war to
secure territorial gains or the balance of
power.
AN HONORARY FRATERNITY FOR THE
BAND
Does the Auburn band deserve an honor­ary
fraternity? If the purpose of an honor­ary
fraternity is to reward for past per­formances
and encourage future interest,
the local> band is most assuredly entitled
to such consideration.
Last Saturday in Columbus when the
football team was'trailing the Georgians
at the conclusion of the first half and" the
students were feeling pretty blue, the fam­ous
Auburn band, than which there is none
better in the south, marched out on the field
in splendid array, bringing tears of pride
to the eyes of the students. The parade of
the band, which occurs between halves at
every football game, has always been a
source of admiration from the spectators.
The Auburn band is said to be the only
college band that functions the year around.
Down in Mobile at Mardi Gras last March
this organzation covered itself and its insti­tution
with glory and was instrumental
in bringing a great many freshmen to the
school from the port city. New Orleans
paid it a glowing tribute when it accom­panied
the team to help dedicate the new
stadium. *
From this it can be seen that the musi­cians*
composing the band hate not only
brought honor upon themselves by virtue
of their effort, but, what is more important,
they have been instrumental in securing
praise for the college.
Alpha Beta Chi was organized here last
spring for the purpose of petitioning a na­tional
honorary band fraternity. Very few
colleges large enough to support a first
class band are without this means of hon­oring
the students who work for the inter­ests
of the institution in this manner. We
think that it is but fair and just that there
be such an honorary fraternity here.
SPORTSMANSHIP
We all like to see good sportsmanship,
not only on the field but in every friendly
contest. We students feel that we have a
wonderful school spirit, and we have. Have
we reached the point where we are satisfied
with our school spirit? No! We must keep
fighting for which we are so well known
over the South.
The development of higher sporstmanship
ideals is one of the best and surest means
of keeping our spirit up to standard. Of
course most of you think that we already
have good sportsmanship ideals. Maybe
we have, but is it good sportsmanship to
cheer when the other team suffers a loss
or is penalized? No! Emphatically no!
*
Someone made the remark, "Listen at
Ga. cheering while we have a man on the
ground." Of course this is not good sports-"
manship, but we have done things just as
bad. Time and time again, the Auburn
Student Body cheers when the opposing
team is penalized.
We are not saying anything against the
noble cheer leaders, but they could do some­thing
to help the Student Body display bet­ter
Sportsmanship.
Of course it is hard for us not to cheer
when the other team is penalized, because
it means a great deal to our own team, be­cause
it places the ball closer to the goal.
But at the same time, we must not forget
the Gplden Rule, "Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you."
All right now fellows, let's see the old
spirit! Place yourself in the other man's
shoes and see how you feel then. Let's
get together and put over a good Sports­manship
Campaign and then Auburn will
be "As we like it." "The Loviest Villiage
of the Plains" will stand out before the
public as possessing one of the South's
finest colleges, thoroughly schooled in the
ideals of "Good Sportsmanship."
LET'S ATTENT THE MASS MEETINGS
Should a stranger make an appearance on
the campus of the Alabama Polytechnic
Insitute and converse with the students,
he would be led to believe that the football
team has the best support from the student
body of any team in the Southland. That
is an entirely misrepresentation of the fact
as indicated by the small number of students
found at the mass meeting which is held
on Thursday night of each week. Of the
1600 students found in the institution, not
more than one-fourth this number has been
seen at the mass meetings during the last
several weeks.
Call it "Auburn Spirit" if you want to,
but it is an injustice to the true "Auburn
Spirit" which once existed. Most of the stu­dents
attend the games played in nearby
towns, and in so doing, pay a respect to the
team which indicates loyality. Outside of at;
tending the games, there is little or no loy­alty
to the team displayed by any class of
the college except the Freshmen class and
little more than 50' per cent of its members.
it is represented at the mass meetings with
Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores having
failed to pay the mass meetings any atten­tion
thus far in the year and there are only
two more games of the season. Upper-classmen,
do not blame the "Rats" for they
have proven mc>re loyal to the team than
any other group in college.
It is true that many of the students have
become disgusted with such expressions as,
"Hell No; To Hell with Georgia; Going to
give Tech Hell, etc" and have not cared to
attend the mass meetings. There is no crit-ism
to be offered of such students but there
is a notion that all the students should take
tye same stand and make the mass meet­ings
a desirable place for any and all stu­dents.
Some students have gone to a mass
meeting and left before it was over just be­cause
they did not care to listen to the lan­guage
used. Others have gone and stayed
through the meeting but declared they were
not going back until some of the rough lan­guage
was abandoned.
Has secret practice robbed the student
body of any of its enthusaism? Something
has helped the above in destroying the
students' interest in the mass meetings dur­ing
the last two years. A large per cent
of the students do not See the football team
in action except when in a game, therefore
they do not know what to say or how to feel
toward their own team when they are en­tering
a hard game.
Before the Georgia game, one of the in­structors
of the college made the assertion
that we would beat Georgia if the student
body would work as hard as the football
team has. The team, the professors, many
students and town people, and some of the
alumni have noticed that the team is not
getting the encouragement from the stu­dent
body as it did some years ago. Are
the students going to let this continue? No
one but the students can solve the prob­lem.
ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY IN
EDUCATION
The American Association of University
Professors has applied itself to the prob­lem
now perplexing every higher institu­tion
of learning—the selection, retention
and promotion of undergraduates. Not long
ago many college presidents had the labor
not only of gathering funds but often of
recruiting students. Success was to some
extent measured by increasing numbers.
But now the teachers, finding themselves
all but overwhelmed, have decided that they
must take a hand in keeping the numbers
down to teachable units, of teaching minds.
The report of a committee appointed to
make the study contains a summary of
present practice, a discussion of the pur­pose
of higher education, with specific re­commendations
concerning selections, re­tention
and promotion. The latter are such
as might be made for any kind of business.
But the selection? That cannot be ra­tionally
made the college until it has de­cided
what it wishes to produce. Here the
conflict in theory begins between the "aris­tocratic
school" which believes that advanc­ed
education is only for the few and the
"demoncratic school," which maintains that
the chief end of education is to give as many
men and women as possible power to lead
useful lives, contribute to the welfare of
the community and enrich their own inner
experience. This school tends toward vo­cational
types of education and stresses
utility. Those who hold to the former view
expose themselves to the charge of snob­bishness,
whereas those of the latter view
invite the criticism that if everybody except
the sheer idiot is to go to college and pur­sue
chiefly sociology, nature study,, child
study and community service, "we shall
have a society of unique only in its medio­crity,
ignorance and vulgarity."
As a matter of fact, the only real dan­ger
to democracy lies, as the report well
states it, not in the higher education of the
few, but in the possibility that equal oppor­tunity
may not be offered to those of lowly
origin. Deliberate selection is not snobbish
nor undemocratic if it uncovers and de­velops
potential leadership and refuses to
accept any qualification as a substitute for
mental capacity. Democracy asserts itself
in truest form and spirit by requiring of
its universities the highest standards, and
then by making them accessible to all able
to meet them. A "fair field and no favors,"
then the more searching selection the bet­ter.
The proposals looking to this sort of se­lection
urge, among others: determination
of the largest number of undergraduates
that can be efficiently taught; public an­nouncement
of such limitation; appointment
of a director of admissions who shall be
chairman of the faculty committee, with
power; graduation of candidates not on
"intangible qualities of leadership, person­ality,
initiative," but on intellectual achieve­ment
and promise; abolition of entrance
conditions; employment of intelligence tests
as supplementary to other tests, but not as
a substitute for scholastic preparation; uni­versal
adoption of comprehensive examina­tions
in four fundamental subjects, with
flexibility in others; and in every college
establishment of scholarships, revolving or
other loan funds sufficient to insure any
unusually gifted and diligent student
against interruption of his college career
by reason of inadequate private means. In
these ways this committee of institutions
of learning democratic through the aristo­cratic
process of selection.—New York
Times.
TOUCHSTONE
It is the charming habit of college men
to gather informally at any hour of the day
or night for a "session"—the quoted noun
being universally modified by the penulti­mate
word in the trade name of a popular
brand of pulverized tobacco.
The meeting in oruer, the intellectual
leader assumes his position, the question
is propounded, there is a still, breathless
pause before the gentle words of wisdom
fall, then the deluge and Youth has taken
up its endless debate! From the reason for
the most recent upset in football expectan­cies
to changes in cellular pigmentation as
a proof for the inheritance of acquired
characteristics is merely a step. No sub­ject
is too involved or too profound. , The
selfsame problems which have agitated hu­man
society from the primordial meeting
of thinkers and takers agitate as well these
undergraduate philosophers.
It is the essence of education, this discus­sion
and debate. "But," complain these
pafticipants in the congregation of the
night before, "we never get anywhere."
Now what is the right answer? And too
many of us who profess to be educators
have to shake our heads, if we are truth­ful,
and answer, "I don't know." We can
go a little further and carry on from,
"Men have attacked that problem along^
these lines," but soon we find ourselves
dealing vaguely in abstract terms or talk­ing
a langauge built up from our own
background wholly unintelligible to our list­ener.
Like Mitya in "The Brothers Kara-mazov,"
he wants his questions answered,
but he sometimes fails to see that the answ­ers
to his questions are education' itself,
and in its broadest sense. He sometimes
fails to see that for the answering of his
own questions, a knowledge of the attempt­ed
answers to the same questions essayed
by men from the earliest thinkers down to
the present day is of immeasurable value.
I once loaned a winking student my copy
of Plato's "Republic!" He soon returned
it with the criticism that it was pretty dry.
I agree with him that it is often difficult
to know just how to take Plato, and diffi­culty
often breeds distaste. I wish I had
known then of Will Durant's "The Story of
Philosophy" (Simon and Schuster). I
would have put a copy of it in that stu­dent's
hands. Dr. Durant in a sizable book
of 578 pages, has epitomized and human­ized
the philosophy of philosophers from
Plato and Aristotle down through Bacon,
Spinoza, Kant, Spencer and Nietzsche to
our own contemporary-European and Amer­ican
thinkers. He has cleared for me points
which I could never get quite straight from
the sources themselves, and has made thor­oughly
readable the information contained
in the works of philosophers which, in the
original, almost crushed me.
Two hundred years ago a poet told us
that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Today the truth of that statement rings
more warningly than ever. The educated
man, the one who sees his problems clearly
and who can either answer his own ques­tions
satisfactorily, or search patiently for
a solution, is a pretty decent sort of a chap
to live around. It's the half-baked fellow,
the unrational revolutionist who annoys us.
The information in "The Story of Philoso­phy"
is a good stepping stone towards clear
thinking. The book costs five dollars. The
information is priceless.
"WHO'S WHO" PROVES THE CASE FOR
EDUCATION BEYOND ALL
ARGUMENT
The new edition of "Who's Who in Ameri­ca"
contains in its introduction some vastly
interesting statistics proving the value of
a college education. There are 23,915 per­sons
recorded in the 1926 edition as being
of sufficient outstanding importance in the
United States to be given place in this
standard publication.
Of this number, only 388 who were self-educated,
or privately educated, "made"
the listing. Those who furnished no edu­cational
data at all numbered 1,814. Those
with only a common school education came
to a total of only 1,880. Those who finished
high school, but went no further, numbered
2,756. The number attending college but
not graduated is 3,022.
The number of college graduates is 14,-
055.
It cannot be coincidence, or chance, that
this overwhelming number of men and wo­men
of affairs were college graduates. It
is a complete demonstration of cause and
effect. By reason of the college training,
these individuals have been so completely
prepared, or developed, that they have been
able to utilize to the utmost the talents with
which they were endowed, and thus, they
have gone far and achieved eminence in al­most
every line of human endeavor
It is strong evidence that education
"pays." The 43.7 per cent are offered as
Exhibit A in the argument. And, it is fair
to assume that the balance, who, however,
managed to achieve success in spite of edu­cational
or developmental handicaps, had
they been given the same equipment as the
college graduates would not, perhaps, have
had so hard a time of it, and possibly would
have traveled further along the road to
fame, riches, eminence and usefulness.
With Other Colleges
The Haskell Indians have a new $250,000
stadium, which was built from donations
from Indians only. They refused to ac­cept
any help from the palefaces. In de­dicating
this stadium last Saturday, the
Indian team defeated the paleface team
from Bucknell College Pa., by a handsome
score.
Tulane suffered a loss of 32,000 dollars
in a fire which practically destroyed their
Physical and Chemical laboratories on Aug­ust
24, but they have the buildings almost
ready for use again.
She screamed for help when I kissed her
so I gave her another helping.—Stocking.
"I don't see why that co-ed is so popu­lar!"
.
"Oh, it's her clothes that make her an
outsanding figure!"—Hullabuloo.
Gumm: "Did you know that a teacher
is just like a Ford?"
Mastny: "A crank in front of a bunch
of nuts."
"Woman's clothes were not much of a
problem in the garden of Eden!"
"No—All you had to do was love 'em
and love 'em!"—Reflector.
A Frog: "This is a dirty trick" (as he
stood on his head in the mud.)
Marrying is a song, but keeping house
is a d—1 of a tune.
"Guess my girl changed her mind about
playing basketball. She is evidently going
in for something more useful".
"How so?" —
"Now she writes me she has made the
scrub team."
—McKendree Review.
The material for this column is rather
short for this week, as "we have not receiv­ed
any college papers from the other colleg­es
of the counlyy.' We will try to get in
touch with a large number of them within
the next two weeks..
"Harry learned to play the piano in no
time."
"Yeah, I heard him playing it that way
the other night."
—Exchange. I
I
BOOK REVIEW CONDUCTED BY
MEMBERS OF FACULTY
Edited by John B. Clark, A.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
POETS OF AMERICA
By Clement Wood
Good poets are never all dead. In fact,
more good poetry has been written in the
last twenty-five years than in any other
quarter of a century. In both England and
America, to say nothing about Ireland, there
have been vertiable poetic renaissances.
Moreover we are so self-conscious about
the fact that we are taking stock every
month or two in new anthologies and criti­cal
appreciations. One of the best of these
critical books is Clement Wood's "Poets of
America" (E. P. Dutton and Company,
1925). As Mr. Wood is a poet of talent
and an 'Alabamian, his book should be of
considerable interest to us.
Mr. Wood traces our poetic ancestry back
to Celtic zest, Norman gusto, and Anglo-
Saxon contemplativeness, and passing rap-
Idly through our early history gives little
attention to any poets of former genera­tions
except Poe, Lanier, Whitman, Emily
Dickinson, and Adah Isaacs Menken. Mrs.
Menken, who is called a "forgotten Debo­rah,"
gets more than her share of space
because she has been previously overlooked
and because she hit upon imagistic, poly-rhythmic
verse contemporaneously with
Whitman.
The major portion of the book, however,
is devoted to poets now living. Lindsay,
"the Jazz Poet, Frost, New England's Twi­light,"
Robinson, "singer of man's failure."
Millay, "our Clever Sappho," Masters,
Elinor Wylie, Sandburg, and Amy Lowell
are presented through numerous selections
and admirable analyses. Mr. Wood also
assesses the value of free verse, imagism,
our radical and naturalistic verse makers,
insisting wisely that poetry must both in­terest
and sing. With unique poetic insight,
the critic is remarbably fair and sane
whether pointing out faults or praising
technical skill, sustained passion, or keen
coment on life. Furthermore, Mr. Wood does
not forget the contributions of the non-
English elements of our population, includ­ing
the negro.
I strongly recommend "Poets of America"
for those who wish aid in criticising recent
poets and those who wish for an introduc­tion
to poets now writing in America. Be­sides
this, the intelligent reader will get a
poet's conception of the value and beauty
of poetry.
It may be interesting to know that Mr.
Wood recently published a critical study
of Amy Lowell, and has published four vol­umes
of verse and two novels. Most of
these may be found in our library.
J. R. RUTLAND.
The reason why some women can't make
a success in business is because they
can't prop their feet up on the desk.
Girls who wear cotton stockings are
either over-confident, or don't give a darn.
If at first you don't succeeed, remember
that all co-eds aren't the same.
Every man has his price and every wo­man
her figure.
BULLETIN BOARD
Saturday, November 13
Special train to Auburn-Marquette
game, Birmingham, leave Auburn, 6:-
45 a. m.
Matinee Auburn-Marquette game,
Langdon Hall, 2:00 p. m.
Sunday, November H
At the several churces: Sunday
School 9:30; morning services 11:00
a. m., Young Peoples organizations,
6:30, and evening services 7:30 p. m.
Y. W. C. A. meeting, Y. Hut, 1:30
p. m.
Monday, November 15
Auburn Players, Y. Hut, 7:00 p. m.
Y. Normal meeting, Y. M. C. A.,
6:30 p. m.
S. A. M. E. Engineers room base­ment
Main Building, 7:00 p. m.
Evans Literary Society, third floor
Main Building, 8:00 p. m.
Tuesday, November 15
Wirt, Websterian, and Wilsonian
Literary Societies, their respective
rooms third floor Main Building, 7:-
00 p. m.
Sophomore Current Events, 7:00
p. m. ,
Wednesday, November 17
A. I. E. E., room 200 Ramsey Hall;
A. S. C. E., room 201 Broun Hall;
A. S. M. E., room 109 Ramsey Hall;
Ag Club, Comer Hall; Architectual
Association, second floor Main Build- * '
ing; Chemical Society, Chemistry
Building; Parmaceutical Club, Pharm­acy
Building; and V. M. A. Vet.
Building.
Thursday, November 18
Junior-Senior Current Events, 7:-
00 p. m.
Mass meeting, Langdon Hall; 8:00
p. m.
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Were you at Christian Endeavor
Sunday Night? The topic "Peace;
War Against War" was discussed.
Students spoke on subjects as: "The
advantages of the World Court and
the League of Nations," "R. O. T. C.
in the Colleges," "How may world
peace be obtained," and "How soon
may we expect world peace?" These
questions are being discussed by the
people all over the world at the pres­ent
time, and the outcome holds an
important place in the future of our
nation and of others.
Next Sunday night the subject will
be "Interdenominational Loyalty."
You wil enjoy the program. Be at
the Presbyterian Church next Sun­day
Evening at 6:30 o'clock.
The eleventh annual meeting of
The Southeastern States Veterinary
Association was held in, Auburn on
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Dr. John H. Morse of Sumpter, S. C.
president of the association presided.
States represented included Ala­bama,
Virginia, Georgia, North and
South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississip­pi,
Louisiana, Kentucky, and Arkan­sas.
Dr. Spright Dowell of Auburn
gave the address of welcome and Dr.
P. P. Bahnsen of Georgia gave the
response. During the two days the
folowing program was carried uut:
Monday, 9:30 A:~M.—Address of
welcome, Dr. Spright Dowell; re­sponse,
Dr. Peter F. B. Bahnsen,
state veterinarian, of Atlanta,. Ga.:
president's address, Dr. John H.
Morse: report of secretary-treasur­er,
Dr. John I. Handley; address, Dr.
T. A. Sigler; "Poultry Diseases." Dr.
F. D. Patterson; "Infectious Yellow
Jaundice in Cattle," Dr. F. J. Doug­lass.
Afternoon Session, 1:30—"Rabies,"
Dr. G. C. Toliver, of Albany, Ga.:
"Leeches of Horses and Mules," Dr.
A. L. Shealey, veterinary department,
University of Florida, Gainsville,
Fla.; "White Diarrhoea in Poultry
and Its Control," Dr. J. H. Coffman,
assistant state veterinarian, of At­lanta,
Ga.; "The Control of Intesti­nal
Worms of Swine and the Control
of Stomach Worms of Sheep," Dr. E.
M. Highbert, associate veterinarian,
zoological division, B. A. I., of Moul­trie,
Ga.; "Brights Diseases in Dogs,"
Dr. L. F. Koonce, of Raleigh, N. C.
Banquet, 6:30 p. m. Monday.
Night Session, 8:00—"Municipal
Meat and Milk Inspection and How
to sell It"~to the public," Dr. E. D.
King, of Valdosta, Ga.
Tuesday Sessions
Tuesday, 9 A .M.—"Anthrax Con­trol,"
Dr. N. F. Williams, state vete­rinarian,
of Fort Worth, Tex.; "Prac­titioners,
Problems," Dr. T. A. Sigler,
president A. V. M. A. of Greencastle,
Ind.; "Some Anatomical Differences
of Dimestic Birds and Mammals,"
Dr. A. G. Richardson, dean of vet­erinary
college, University of Geor­gia,
of Athens, Ga.; Intestinal Para­sites
in the Dog," Dr. G. W. Brown­ing,
of Mobile.
Afternoon Sessions, 1:30—Clinic at
the Veterinary College Hospital, Dr.
C. A. Cary, dean of the veterinary di­vision
of Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
Auburn, Alabama.
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Army chronicles passes from the sol­dier's
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somaphore hand flags as a means of
visual signal communication in the
Army.
The "wig-wag" system has lost its
efficiency through the development
of radio and numerous improved in­struments,
it was announced. The
Army will continue to teach the wig­wag
code to soldiers, but its use
hereafter will be limited to electri­cal
apparatus and devices which
flash dots and dashes by means of the
sunlight.
DRAWINGS ARE
EXHIBITED IN
BIRMINGHAM
A luncheon here, at which they were
guests of the "Extension Service of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
and addresses by prominent educators
concluded a two-day session of the
Federated Women's Clubs of East
Alabama, Wednesday. The business
session' was held at Opelika, after
which fifty women came to Auburn
to enjoy the luncheon, which was
served in the hall of the Comer Agri­cultural
Building by the students in
home economics with Miss Dana Gat-chell
in charge.
They came from Union Springs,
Montgomery, Tallassee, Tuskegee,
Opelika, Camp Hill, LaFayette, Roan­oke,
Notasulga, and other points. In
addition to members of the East
Alabama Federation, Birmingham
officials of the State Federation were
present.
Miss Agnes Ellen Harris, dean of
woman and 'State Home Demonstra­tion
Agent, served as toastmaster for
a brief program after the luncheon.
She told of home economies work at
Auburn and extension work through­out
the State, after which she intro­duced
Prof. L. N. Duncan, director.
Prof. Duncan told the visiting women
that a big need of the State is a bet­ter
understanding between rural and
urban women. He explained himself
as being highly pleased that many
of the rural clubs are federating. As
an example of what is being done
in home demonstration work, he pres­ented
a jar of figs prepared by a
farm woman of Dallas County and
explained that in preparing these fig
products the women are turning into
a cash crop what would otherwise
be wasted.
Dr. Spright Dowell, president, Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, extended
words of welcome and gave figures
about higher education in Alabama
and in the United States. He said
that there are more students in col­leges
and in universities in the United
States than in all other countries com­bined.
He attributed much of this
to the work of th». Land Grant Col­leges.
-
On the outlook for higher educa­tion,
Dr. Dowell was pessimistic. He
said that he was in doubt about men
providing adequate funds for higher
sducation, and called upon the wo­men
to give it their support.
Mrs. E. S. Pugh of Union Springs,
president of the East Alabama Fed­eration,
expressed appreciation of the
women visitors for hospitalities ex­tended
at Auburn. The work of Miss
Gatchell and her students was highly
commended.
Mrs. C. C. Adams of Birmingham
read the following tribute, by Miss
Annie G. Massey, president of the
Arkansas Federation of Women's
Clubs, to the home demonstration
agent.
"I want to drink her health, and
wish her long life and happiness. Of
all the missionaries, of all the pio­neers,
of all the people who have
blazed out a trail for other feet to
travel, she leads. Of all the peole
who have prepared the soil for seeds
which other'people sow to reap- the
abundant harvest, she is greatest. I
want to nominate the County Home
Demonstration Agent for the highest
place in our Hall of Fame. Long
may she live and prosper!"
Dr. Estes H. Hargis, formerly of
Birmingham and at one time a pre-medicar
student at Alabama Poly­technic
institute, has been awarded
the J. William White scholarship for
the study of surgery in foreign coun­tries,
upon recommendation of the
medical graduate committee of the
board of governors of the Mayo clin­ic,
according to information received
here by Prof. B. L. Shi, college regist­rar.
The award is made for conspicu­ously
meritorious work during Dr.
Hargis' fellowship in the Mayo foun­dation.
Dr. Hargis is the first recipient of
the award. He is a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania of the
class of 1921, following pre-medical
course at Auburn and entered the
Mayo foundation as a fellow in sur­gery
in July, 1923. The thesis which
he presented in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for the degree of
master of science in surgery at the
University of Minnesota was: "Ple-thysmorgraphic
study of the changes
in the volume of the spleen in the in­tact
animal," and his degree was con-fered
in June, 1926. He will prob­ably
sail for Europe early in 1927.
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Discussions of Home Economics in
Hawaii, health in the 4-H Club, and
negro food habits in Yazoo, Mississip­pi
delta featured an interesting pro­gram
for the Home Economics girls
Friday afternoon.
Miss Barrett said in her talk that
usually one thinks of Hawaii as
dreams, dancing and moonlight, but
since Home Economics has made such
progress there, that one now thinks
of it as being a valuable island. All
of the girls wondered why Miss Bar­rett
spoke of dreams and moonlight,
but then they had an "idea."
Miss Rhodes stated that the chief
characteristics of the 4-H Club were
Habits, Food and .Posture, but to
these has been added Health. She
gave as results of this club that chil­dren
develop better color, better
health and normal weights and show
marked improvement in everything.
"Ordinary negro women are poor
cooks" said Mrs. Godsey in her report
on negro food habits. She said that
they did not know what food they
should have, and that they did not
know how to spend money for food.
Mrs. Godsey said that negroes do not
"eat for health," but they eat because
they like certain foods.
We are hoping that there will be
few negro cooks in the Economics
girls' homes when they go out as home
makers.
COME-BRING A FRIEND
9:30 a. m.
11:00 a.m.
6:30 p. m.
7:30 p. m.
Sunday School.
"The Heart of God"
Christian Endeavor.
"The Wise Builder"
AUBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
STEWART VISITS
HIS ALMA MATER
C. O. Stewart, of Mumford, captain
of the Tiger baseball team for 1926,
was a visitor here this week. Stewart
was with the Birmingham Baron ball
team following his graduation last
spring and was furmed to Highpoint
of the Piedmont League. He will
return to the Barons next spring.
ARCHITECTURAL
SOCIETY MEETS
The Bishop of London visited Se-wanee
last week. He says that he
could tell the young folks things bet­ter
if he could get on the athletic
field with them, and take part in
games with them. He is interested
in tennis, squashrackers, and golf,
and plays all three games well.
COL. R0WELL
SPEAKS TO RATS
Drawings which gained the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute at Auburn
admission to the National Collegiate
Schools of Architecture are being
exhibited this week and next at the
Board of Education Administration
Building in Birmingham.
The exhibition, brought to Birming­ham
under the auspices of the Allied
Arts Club, is said to be a fine exam­ple
of student, work. They were
executed by students in the Auburn
School of Architecture, and include
water color pictures and drawings
and architecturral designs. Birming­ham
architects who have viewed the
exhibit are lavish in their praise.
A husband is the legally appointed
audience of his wife.
At Freshmen convocation, the stu­dents
had the pleasure of hearing
Colonel F. W. Rowell of the Fourth
Corps Area of the R. O. T. C. Colonel
Rowell was the commandant at Au­burn
during the years of 1916-17. He
has seen distinguished service in
France, China, Phillipine Islands, and
Mexico. His headquarters at the
present time is Atlanta, Ga. He told
the students a few things that hap­pened
during his stay at Auburn.
These interested the students very
much, as they are always interested
in historical facts pertaining to Au­burn
life.
The speaker impressed the Fresh­men
with the necessity of making the
most of their college life. He told
the need of an education in the pre­paration
for work later on. He gave
numerous instances to prove his
statement. Colonel Rowell stated that
college offered the best opportunity
for the preparation for something
big. Putting our whole soul into the
work here instead of attempting to
hit the high spots would accomplish
more thoroughly our aim here.
WIRT SELECTS
SPEAKERS FOR
DECLAMATION
The Wirt Literary Society had its
declamation try-out Tuesday night in
Wirt Hall. A large crowd was pres­ent
and much interest was manifest­ed
in the orations.
Mr. Charles Moore was chosen to
represent the society at the declama­tion
contest to be held soon. Mr.
Moore had as his subject "Sparticus
to the Gladiators," and he gave it in
an eloquent manner. He showed that
he had spent much time in prepara
tion and the society believes he will
win the contest.
Other speakers were Mr. Roy Sel­lers
who spoke on "Eulogy on Henry
W. Grady," Mr. John Thomas who
spoke on "Sparticus to the Gladi­ators"
and Mr. Stroop who spoke on
"America as a World Power." These
gentlemen all gave excellent speeches
and deserve much credit for their part
in the Try-out.
Plans were made to initiate the new
members at the next meeting. A
large crowd will be iniated into the
Society this winter. The Society
hopes that everyone will be on hand
at this initiation. The Society is al­ways
glad to see both old and new
members,' and feels that their time
in the society will be well spent.
At the University of Kansas, the
football team was split on account
of college political differences, and
the team lost as a result. The foot­ball
men, after being rebuked by the
dean, resigned their candidacies, and
there will be no elections until the
football season is over.
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Committee Contest.
Rev. Langston led the students in
the usual devotional exercises.
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Charlie Snook, the president, called
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of the last meeting. He announced
that there were forty two present, or
an increase of ten over, the last meet­ing.
There being no new business, the
speakers were introduced.
Turner talked on, "The Reconstruc­tion
of Rheims Catheral." Morgan
followed with a talk on, "Structural
Steel Welding." Both were very in­teresting
and instructive talks.
Professor Biggin announced that
by a liberal donation from the Birm­ingham
Architects and Contractors
our department would be able to ob­tain
some much needed new material.
There being no new, business, the
meeting adjourned.
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PAGE FOUR THE. PLAINSMAN
SPORTS Auburn Plays Marquette Saturday SPORTS
Tigers Lose to Georgia
In A Hectic Battle
When the smoke had cleared away
from the battle grounds of Memorial
Stadium last Saturday, the Auburn
Tiger found itself on the short end
of a 16-6 score. The Tiger had
fought as only those of an indomin-able
spirit can fight. Auburn's six
points was one of the last plays of
the game. Many of the spectators
had already risen from their seats
with the thoughts that the Plainsmen
had lost hope and was only waiting
for the signal to cease hostilities when
"Nappie" Hodges tossed a spiral
right in the arms of Mike Fisher who
found little difficulty in scoring a
touchdown. Morey's Bengals did not
show up as well as they did in the
game the week before with Sewanee;
if they had there might have been
a different tale to tell. Individually
the Tiger linesmen looked good but
they failed to charge in unison as
they had done a week previous. Fish­er
stood out in the offense of the
Tigers and also played a jam-up
game on the denfense.
Snyder also played an excellent de­fensive
game. On several occasions
it looked as if a Georgia player would
get loose only the speedy Snyder
would appear apparently from the
air. and snag the would be hero.
Morton was the outstanding man in
the Bulldog offense although he was
thrown for heavy losses on various
plays. Hatcher made several neat
gains for the Georgians though it
must be said that the Black and
Gold amassed its sixteen points not
by any consistent gains o nthe part
of the backs but more by taking a
big'chance and getting her share of
the luck. Luckey was the big man
in the Georgia line making several
brilliant tackles. For Auburn, Pat-erson,
Burns, and Ingram played a
pretty defensive game. Salter was
a thorn to the Bulldogs' line plays
until he had to retire from the game
with a bad knee.
Georgia's first chance to score came
as a result of a fumble by Allen
which gave Georgia the ball on Au­burn's
fifteen yard line. After three
attempts at the line a Black and
Gold back suddenly, found himself
downed for a five yard loss and also
the loss of the ball. A few moments
later Moulton was thrown behind his
goal line for a safety. The first
touchdown came in the second quar­ter
as a result of a twenty yard pass.
The last Georgia touchdown was due
to a blocked punt in the third period.
The game play by play was as fol­lows:
Lineup
Georgia—Woodall, left end; Luck­ey,
left tackle; Jacobson, left guard;
B. Smith, center; Rogers, right guard;
Lautzenhiser, right tackle; Shiver,
right end; Johnson, quarterback;
Hooks, left halfback; Estes,. right
halfback; McCreary, fullback.
Auburn—Burns, left end; Salter,
left tackle; Carter, left guard; Pat­terson,
center; Cunningham, right
guard; Pruitt, right tackle; Baskin,
right end; Nelson, quarterback; El­lis,
left halfback; Allen, right half­back;
Turner, fullback.
Officials-^-Reid (Michigan), ref­eree;
Moriarty St. Mary's, umpire;
Boatwright (Virginia), field judge;
Bagley (W. and L.), head linesman.
Fir»t Quarter
Capt. Turner, of Auburn, won the
toss and elected to defend the north
goal. Ellis kicked off to Shiver, who
returned to Georgia's 33-yard line.
Hook lost 2 yards at right tackle
and then Estes, on a beautiful 27-
yard right end run, made first down
on Auburn's 42-yard line. He was
tackled in an open field by Ellis.
Georgia's ball on Auburn's 42-yard
line.
Hooks rammed center for two
yards. Turner broke through and nail­ed
him'for a 5-yard loss at right end.
Burns hit Estes for a 3-yard loss at
right end. Estes punted 38 yards,
the ball being grounded on Auburn's
10-yard line.
Auburn's ball on her 10-yard line.
Auburn lost 2 yards on a line play
but the play was called back and
Georgia penalized 5 yards. Turner
hit center for 5 yards. Turner failed
through the line and Georgia was
again penalized 5 yards for offside,
giving Auburn the ball with first
down on Auburn's 20-yard line. Allen
fumbled when tackled by Rogers and
Luckey recovered for Georgia on Au­burn's
25?yard line.
Georgia's ball on Auburn's 25-yard
line.
Hooks made 5 yards at center.
Hooks fumbled but recovered for a
5-yard gain and first down on Au­burn's
15 yard line.
Georgia's ball on Auburn's 15-yard
line.
Salter hit Estes for a five-yard loss
at right guard. McCrary rammed
center for 9 yards. McCrary made
1 yard at center.
Georgia's ball on Auburn's eight
yard line.
Attempting a pass, Estes was
thrown for a 10-yard loss by Burns
and the ball went over.
Auburn's ball on her own 18-yard
line. '*
Lautzenhiser hit Ellis for no gain
at center. Ellis was knocked out on
the play but resumed play. On a
bad pass Allen fumbled and was
tackled by Shiver for a 17-yard loss.
Subs for Auburn: .Fisher replaced
Allen and Moulton replaced Nelson.
Auburn's ball on her own 4-yard
line.
On a bad pass Luckey threw Moul­ton
behind the goal line for a safety
and two points for Georgia.
Score: Georgia 2, Auburn 0.
Auburn's ball on her own 30-yard
line. On a free kick which followed
the safety, Moulton kicked 50 yards
to Estes, who returned 14 yards.
Georgia's ball on her own 44-yard
lin.
Estes failed at rigtht tackle, tack­led
by Carter. McCary rammed cen­ter
for six yards but the play is call­ed
back and Georgia penalized 5 yds.,
ofside. Estes punted to Moulton,
who was tackled in his tracks by Shiv­er
on his own 26-yard line.
Auburn's ball on her 26-yard line.
Fisher hit left tackle for 10 yards
and first down on his own 36-yard
line.
Turner failed at center, tackled by
Luckey. A forward pass from Moul­ton
fell incomplete. A second pass
fell incomplete and Auburn drew a
5-yard penalty for excess passing.
Moulton punted 48 yards to Johnson,
who was forced out of bounds on his
own 26-yard line.
Subs: for Georgia. Hollis, Moulton
and Sherlock went in at quarter and
the halves respectively.
McCary rammed center for 4 yards,
tackled by Pruitt. McCary made 2
yards at center.
Morton punted 35 yards to Moulton,
who was tackled in his tracks by
Luckey and Shiver.
Auburn's ball on her own 3j>-yard
line.
Synder gained one yard at center.
Shotts replaced Turner, for Auburn.
Smith hit Moulton for no gain at
left guard. The play was called back
and Auburn penalized five yards for
offside. Moulton kicked 45 yards.
The ball was grounded on Georgia's
25-yard line. The play was called
back; both sides offside. Shiver hit
Fisher for no gain at left end. Sal­ter
,of Auburn, was knocked out, but
continued in the game. Fisher flank­ed
right end for four yards. Moulton
punted from 35-yard line to Morton,
who returned five yards.
Georgia's ball on own 25-yard line.
Morton made three yards at right
end. Morton failed to gain at left
tackle. Morton punted 49 yards.
Auburn's ball on her 26-yard line.
Fisher made two yards at left
tackle. The play was celled back
and Auburn penalized 15 yards for
holding in the line. Lautenhiser hit
Fisher for one-yard loss as the quar­ter
ended. *
For the first time since the regime
of King David Morey, Auburn is to
engage in an intersectional game:
Marquette University is to 'furnish the
opposition for the novel attraction.
Many fans think this game will lack
the color that goes with a game with
a conference foe. Probably this is
true but this offset by the opportu­nity
to see a first rate team from
another section of the country with
a different style of play to i exhibit
and incidentally this Marquette elev­en
boasts of one or two bets for an
AU-American player.
* * * *
The game seems to be attracting
quite' a bit of attention over the state
and it is expected that the stands
at Rickwood will be well filled with
lovers of the gridiron game. This
is Auburn's second appearance in the
Magic City this season; the other en­counter
was with the Howard Bull­dogs
Who fell before the attack of the
Tigers after a brave but desperate
fight.
* * * *
It was a hard dose for the Tigers
to submit to the Georgia Bulldogs in
Columbus last Saturday. They cer­tainly
lived up to the tradition of
fighting until the last minute as was
evidenced by the touchdown which
they put over when it was hardly
a minute until time for the whistle
to sound the end of the game.
"Nappy" Hodges threw the pass which
accounted for the Tigers only tally­ing.
It was thrown into the arms
of the scrapping Fisher who raced
the rest of the distance for a touch­down
before the Georgians realized
What was up.
GRIDIRON GAB
Georgia presented a team against
the Plainsmen that was willing to
take a long chance to win a game of
football. They were not especially
consistent in their offensive work but
Were-certainly playing a good defen­sive
game throughout. The ends
were especially adept at covering
punts.
The Baby Tigers take on quite a
tough foe this week in the form of
the Florida Frosh. This battle is of
no little importance to the Auburn
Rats, as the Florida boys have already
conquered the teams of the Tech first
year men as well as the Oglethorpe
rats. Coach Brown is depending on
such man as Callahan and Granger
to do the bulk of his offensive work
and from the way these lads have
been toting the pigskin thus far, they
should give the baby Gators plenty
to worry about.
• . . . ^ * * * *
This week is indeed an important
one for the Southern Conference with
such games as the Georgia-Georgia
Tech affair billed for Atlenta and the
Alabama-Florida game in Montgom­ery.
Tech is probably waiting the Bull­dogs
with blood in her eyes and is
ready to redeem the defeat she re­ceived
at the hands of Vandy last
week. The Bulldogs will, however,
prove a big dose for the Yellow
Jackets and may avenge their defeat
received from their ancient foe.
Dope points to another Alabama
victory but the Crimson Tide may
find the going rather hard as the
Alligators found themselves last week
and ran away with Clemson 33-0.
Score: Georgia 2, Auburn 0.
Second Quarter
Auburn's ball on own 7-yard line.
Moulton punted 43 yards to Mor­ton,
who was downed on Auburn's
41-yard line. CcCrary failed at left
guard. Moulton spun off right tackle
for a first down on Auburn's 31-yard
line. He went for 12-yards. Kain
replaced McCary for Georgia; Mor­ris
replaced Lautenhiser.
Morton gained 2 yards at right end.
Hollis, attempting a pass, was tack­led
for a loss of 7 yards by Baskin.
Morton fumbled but recovered for 1
yard loss. Morton punted 3 yards.
Auburn's ball on own 35-yard line.
Subs for Auburn: Ingram for Bas­kin.
A long pass from Moulton was
battered down by Morton. A sec­ond
pass was intercepted by Kain
for 14 yards, being forced out of
bounds on Auburn's 37-yard line.
Sherlock lost 5 yards at right
guard. A pass, Morton to Woodall,
gained 5 yards. Sherlock circled left
end for ]0 yards and first down on
Auburn's 27-yard line. Kain failed
at right Igaurd, tackled by Salter.
Morton mide 7 yards at right end.
KainWbe 1 yard at center. Mor­ton
went off right tackle for a first
down on Auburn's 15-yard line. In­gram
nailed Sherlock for a two-yard
loss at left end.
Pierce replaced Salter for Auburn.
Kain went off center for 6 yards.
Kain hit center for one more, but the
play was called back and Georgia
penalized 5 yards for offside. A long
pass by Hollis was batted down by
Fisher. A pass, Morton to Sherlock,
over the goal line netted 15 yards and
a touchdown. Hollis kicked goal.
Score: Auburn 0, Georgia9.
Woodall kicked off 50 yards to
Synder, who returned to his own 28-
yard line. Shotts made 2 at center.
A long pass by Moulton fell incom­plete.
Auburn drew a 15-yard pen­alty
for holding. Moulton kicked 45
yards to Morton, who was downed on
Auburn's 49-yard line. Morton hit
left guard for 5 yards, but the play
was called back and Georgia pen­alized
5 yards. Georgia was again
penalized 5 yards for excessive time
out:
McTigue replaced Sherlock for
Gerogia.
Morton crawled through center for
6 yards. McTigue made 1 yard at
left end. Shotts JLntercepted a pass
by Morton and was downed on his
own 43-yard line. Tuxworth replaced
Moulton. Synder lost 3 at left tackle.
Synder hit left end for 3 yards. A
pass by Tuxworth fell incomplete.
Tuxworth punted 30 yards to Morton,
who returned 9 yards.
Georgia's ball on her own 29-yard
line.
Hollis bucked out of bounds for no
gain. "Red" Smith went in for Geor­gia.
McTigue failed at left end. Mor­ton
punted 32 yards to Tuxworth and
he was downed on his own 41-yard
line. Sub, Auburn: Howard re­placed
Pruitt. Kain intercepted Fish­er's
pass and returned to Auburn's
42-yard line. Kain gained 5 yards at
right guard. Sub: Dowis and Lef-fler
went in at the guards for Geor­gia.
Morton failed at center. Mc­Tigue,
behind pretty interference,
broke around left end for 18 yards
and a first down on Auburn's 19-yard
line. Morton lost 3 yards at right
end. Kain made 2 at center. Kain
went off left tackle for 8 yards. It
was 3 yards to go on the fourth down
and Hollis attempted a dropkick from
Auburn's 20-yard line. His effort
went out to the left. Auburn's ball
on her own 20-yard line. A long
pass from Tuxworth was intercepted
by Hollis, who was downed on his
own 41-yard line as the half came to
a close.
Score: Georgia 9, AuburnO.
Third Quarter
Subs for Georgia: Shiver replaced
Red Smith at end, Boland replaced
Kain, Hatdher replaced Morton, Estes
replaced Sherlock.
Shotts kicked off 50 yards to Bo­land,
who returned to his 50-yard
line.- Sub: Moulton for Tuxworth.
Estes lost 3 yard at right end. Hatch­er
gained 3 yards at left end. Estes
lost 3 yards at right end. Hatcher
gained 3 yards at left end. Estes
punted 35 yards to Moulton, who re­turned
to his own 32-yard line. A
short pass from Fisher was inter­cepted
by B. Smith for Georgia, who
was downed on Auburn's 35-yard line.
Boland made 1 yard at right end,
but play was called back and Georgia
penalized 15 yards for holding. Estes
hit right end for 6 yards. Subs: Bas­kin
for Ingram, Johnson for Hollis.
Johnson bucked out of bounds for
1-yard gain. Sub: Curran for Wood-all.
Estes punted 50 yards over the
goal line. .
Auburn's ball on own 20 yard line.
Fisher circled right end for 5 yards.
News From The
Cross-Country
At a recent meeting of the "cross
country boys," Morrow was re-elect­ed
captain for the season now under
way. "Shorty" captained the team
last season, which made a very en­viable
record.
The first important tryout in pre­paration
for the Southern Conference
meet in Athens, Ga., on November
20 was held last Monday with the
following results: Morrow, first, time
28 min. 2 se.; Collum, second, time:
28 min. 17 s e c ; Duncan third, time:
28 min. 34 sec; Whigham, fourth,
time: 28 min. sec; Walters, fifth,
time: 29 min. 13 sec; Helms, isxth,
time 29 min. 48 sec
In this tryout Morrow showed him­self
worthy of the position of cap­tain
by setting a new Auburn record
for the five miles.
Coach Hutsell seemed more than
pleased with the time set by these
cinder artists and believes that with
the prospects Auburn bids fair to
land near the top in the approaching
Conference meet.
With Our Gridiron Foes
Synder made 1 yard at center. He
made 3 yards more at center. Moul-ton's
kick was blocked by Leffler,
Georgia guard, and the ball rolled
over the goal line and was recovered
by Shiver for a touchdown. John­son
kicked goal for Georgia.
Score Georgia 16, Auburn 0.
Sub: "Red" Smith for Shiver.
Johnson kicked off to Synder, who
was downed on his own 20-yard line.
Moulton punted 43 yards out of
bounds. Georgia's ball on her own 38-
yard line. Auburn's was penalized 15
yards for arguing.
Georgia's ball on Auburn's 48-yard
line.
Boland bucked out of bounds for
a one-yard gain. Estes lost seven
yards at right end, tackled by Burns
and Carter. A pass, Estes to Hatch­er,
was knocked down by Synder.
Estes punted 44 yards over the goal
line. Auburn's ball on her own 20-
yard line.
Moulton punted 40 yards to John­son,
who was downed by Patterson.
Hatcher spun off right tackle for 31
yards, tackled by Fisher on Auburn's
29-yard line. Boland failed to gain
at center. Hatcher hit left end for
nine yards. Georgia drew a 15-yard
penalty for holding. Subs: Georgia,
Dudley for Estes. Time out, Geor­gia.
A forward pass, Dudley to Cur­ran,
netted 24 yards. Ball on Au­burn's
12-yard line; Subs: . Auburn,
Andress f<|r Pierce. In two plays
Georgia k i t one yard. Subs: Tux­worth
for Moulton. A pass, Johnson
to Curran, gained two yards. Dud­ley,
attempting a pass was downed
by Burns, Carter and Patterson on
Auburn's 20-yard line and the ball
went over.
Shotts gained two yards at left
tackle. A long pass from Tuxworth
was incomplete.. Play called back
and Georgia penalized five yards off­side.
Shotts gained two yards at
center as the period ended.
Score: Georgia 16, Auburn 0.
Subs: Georgia, Hollis for Johnson.
Fisher failed at right tackle. Tux­worth
punted 47 yards, the ball fall­ing
dead on Georgia's 24-yard line.
Dudley made one yard at right end.
Subs: McCrary for Boland. Mc­Crary
failed to gain at right guard.
Ball on Georgia's 23-yard line. Dud­ley
kicked 33 yards to Tuxworth on
his own 45-yard line, where he was
downed. Bryant went in for Luckey.
Tuxworth fumbled when tackle'd,
but recovered for a three-yard loss.
A pass from Tuxworth was inter­cepted
by McCrary, who ran 17 yards,
being downed on Auburn's 28-yard
line.
Dudley failed at center. Dudley's
pass when rushed was downed for
four-yard loss by Carter. A pass,
Dudley to Curran, failed. Subs: For
Georgia, Forbes for B. Smith. Hollis'
place-kick was blocked by Carter, but
recovered by Dudley, of Georgia, but
the ball went over on downs.
Auburn's ball on her own 44-yard
line. Line play failed. Georgia pe­nalized
eight yards, offside. Geor­gia
penalized five yards again. Off-
Two field goals in the last period
beat the Yellow Jackets by a count
of 13 to 7 in the Vandy-Tech game
at Atlenta. Tech attempted only
five forward passes, all in the last
quarter—one was completed for 25
yards while the others fell incomplete.
A brilliant aerial attack, combined
with the plunging of Spears and
Hendricks, made up an offensive that
had the Jackets puzzledv "Red"
Barron got away early in the first
quarter for 47 yards and Tech's score.
If one may judge from previous
games, Auburn will find quite a bit
of difficulty in stopping this gentle­man.
The Golden Avalanche from Mar-bad
passes from center gave the
Greenies their fourth Conference de­feat.
Kirchmer, Talbot, and Men-ville
were the outstanding players of
the Green Wave.
Another game was won by 14 to
0 when Louisiana State defeated the
University of Arkansas, with Mason
as the bright star. Catching a punt
on his own 30-yard line in the first
period, he sprinted through the whole
Arkansas team for six points. The
other score came after a pass was
intercepted on the Arkansas 38-yard
line by Wilson, L. S. U. guard.
Dope was upset when Howard lost'
to Chattanooga by three touchdowns.
The first half was a pretty battle,
quette, the Tiger's next victim, show- the Bulldogs having a slight edge,
ed up well in winning by 14 to 0
from the Kansas Aggies, one of the
outstanding elevens in the Missouri
Valley. This makes Marquette's fourth
consecutive victory over some of the
strongest teams of that section.
Fumbles and a weak offense in
general cost Sewanee a ball game and
added another victory to the Univer­sity
of Tennessee's growing list. A
touchdown and two field goals ac­counted
for the 12 to 0 score. Se­wanee
drove the ball to the Vol's
3-yard line early in the second half,
but lacked the extra punch to put
it over. Helvey and Capt. Todd were
Sewanee's best.
Tulane played another ragged game
from start to finish to receive the
short end of a 14 to 0 score in an
encounter with the Maroons of Miss­issippi
A. and M. Many fumbles and
although the score at the end of the
half was 3-0, with Howard's score
being represented by the smaller num­ber;
then in the second half, the
Moccasins broke loose and succeeded
in piling up a 23-0 score. The Bull­dogs
had advanced the oval to 'Noo-ga's
one-yard stripe as the final whis­tle
blew. Lollar was the star of the
game from the Bulldogs' point of
view, while Cate and Lautzenheiser
tore up things in general for Chat­tanooga.
The University of Florida won eas­ily
from Clemson to the tune of 33-0.
A varied attack, with great interfer­ence
and wonderful passing bewilder­ed
the Tigers. Clemson's line was
unable to stop the onslaught of the
Gators' and several times linesmen
leaked through to block punts and,
recover them for substantianal gains.
side. First down. Fisher hit the line
for two yards. Synder lost four at
left end. Fisher hit Georgia's 48-yard
line. Fisher hit right end for seven
yards. Tuxworth punted 27-yards to
Hollis, who signalled for a fair catch
on his 15-yard line.
Georgia's ball on her own 15-yard
line. Dudley hit right tackle for nine
yards. Subs: Georgia, Woodall re­placed
Curran, Fleming replaced
Hatcher, Johnson replaced Leffler.
McCrary rammed center for first
down on his own 30-yard line. Dud­ley
lost two yards at right end.
Fleming failed to gain at left end.
Dudley punted to Tuxworth, who was
downed on his own 48-yard line. A
forward pass, Tuxworth to Snyder,
netted 20 yards and first down. Au­burn's
ball on Georgia's 28-yard line.
A second pass. Fisher to Burns,
placed the ball on Georgia's 20-yard
ilne. Subs: Auburn, Wattwood re­placed
Burns for the Tigers. Watt-wood
fumbled and Morris recovered
for Georgia on his own 26-yard line.
First down. Dudley hit center for
seven yards. McCrary made two
yards through center. Dudley gained
four yards at right tackle. Fleming
failed to gain at center. Dudley hit
right end for two yards, but play
was called back and Georgia penal­ized
15 yards for holding.
Subs: Ellis for Snyder for Auburn.
Dudley punted out of bounds on his
own 44-yard line.
A long pass by Wattwood fell in­complete.
A pass by Wattwood was
intercepted by Woodall, who was
downed on his 35-yard line. The play
was called back and Georgia penal­ized
5 yards offside. A long pass by
Wattwood fell incomplete. Auburn
penalized 5 yards here for incom­pleted
passes. Hodges subed for Tux­worth.
A pass and a touchdown.
Opetika Scouts
Hold Auburn
Scouts to 0*0
The game was played at the Ope-lika
fair grounds. It was one of the
best games of the year played be­tween
the two teams. Auburn play­ed
a fine offensive game, carrying
the ball within scoring distance sev­eral
times, but Opelika's line tight-ended
up and the Auburn scouts were
unable to score. The Opelika scouts
didn't ever get within scoring distance
due to the fine work of the part of
the Auburn line.
Both teams played well as a whole,
but there can be no stars picked from
either side.
Auburn's lineup consisted of: Flan-igan,
Howard, Blackman, Cameron,
Moon, Copeland, Friel, McNeal, Nunn,
Rutland, and Moses. The substitutes
were: Yarbrough, Rutland, Cottier
and Moore.
The University of Concinnati has
inaugurated a new sport for women.
They are to play Field Hockey, which
reminds us of the fact that our own
co-eds ought to have something to
take part in athletically, before bas­ketball
season.
"Well, didn't you want him to kiss
you?"
"No, the bold thing, I only wanted
him to want to kiss me."—Hornet.
Ingram failed to kick goal.
Ingram kicked off to Dudley, who
returned to his 30-yard line as the
game ended.
Score: Georgia 16, Auburn 6.
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September 25—Chattanooga 6 - Auburn 15
October 2—Clemson 0 Auburn 47
October 9—Howard 14 Auburn 33
October 16—L. S. U. 10 ___*- Auburn 0
October 23—Tulane 0 _ _ - Auburn 2
October 30—Sewanee 0 __ - Auburn 9
November 6—Georgia 16 : Auburn 6
November 13—Marquette ?? - — Auburn ??
November 25—Georgia Tech ?? _- - Auburn ??
FRESHMAN SCHEDULE
October 9—Marion 0 —'---- Auburn 34
October 16—Howard Freshmen 6 -2 Auburn 6
October 30—Oglethorpe Rats 0 Auburn 6
November 11—Florida Rats 18— Auburn 13
November 20—Georgia Rats ?? Auburn ??
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THREE HENS LAY
OVER 300 FGGS
IN YEAR'S TIME
iiree hens of the Second National
Egg. Laying contest ended a fifty-two
weeks record with more than 300
eggs to their record. The fourth
nigh bird of the contest laid her 299th
egg on Tuesday, November 2nd and
still has until the 6th to finish her
year's record.
Thp high individual, No. 638 owned
by Riley and Kintner of Ind. laid 27
dozen and 5 eggs during the contest
These eggs, if sold at 41 cents per
dozen, brought $11.24. This is
profit of $8.84 as the cost of the feed
was_only $2,40 during the year. The
bird weighed 3.2 pounds while the
eggs she produced weighed 41%
pounds, which means that she produc­ed
approximately 13 times her own
weight in eggs.
Eggline Farm's bird No. 381 of
Florence. Alabama, laid 303 eggs and
No. 382 of the same pen laid 299 eggs
and still has 4 day3 in which to lay her
300th egg before her 52 weeks rec­ord
ends. First alternate in the pen
owned by Lee Poultry Farm laid 303
eggs which was a tie with No. 381
of Eggline Farn:.
Pen No. 54 owned by Eiley and
Kintner led any other pen of the
1000 bird contest of the United States
by producing a record of 2631 eggs.
The highest record before this one
was made by a pen of Rhode Island
Red in 1925 in the state of Michigan.
Its output of eggs was 2622 which is
nine less than the record made by the
high pen of White Leghorns in the
contest at Auburn. y
What is to be done? Tulane Medi­cal
School has turned down over 400
applicants this fall. This is indeed an
POLITICS TOPIC
FOR DISCUSSION
AT wTLSONIAN
The regular meeting of the Wilaon-ian
Literary Society was enjoyed by
some sixty members, last Tuesday
night. J. M. Earnest presided, while
M. H. Simmons, our secretary, read
the minutes of the last meeting and
called the roll.
Eugene Walsh gave a short talk on
the Republican party, bringing out the
campaign issues of President Cool-idge
and the outline of the issue for
1928, titled "Coolidge Prosperity" a
campaign issue.
Miss Viola Thom brought to the
society the "Unfinished Jobs" of the
present day. "There are," Miss Thorn
said, "157,000 women who today are
at the head of the home." These
were startling figures.
"How One Man Made Everybody
Look Up To Him"—Freedie Wilson,
by Miss Ethel "Big Six" Price was
the comical end of the program. Lit­tle
Freedie you know is the champion
stilt walker of the world. Naturally
we must look up to him. She said
that Wilson has a guaranteed job for
the next few years, being billed to ap­pear
in practially every country on
the globe.
"The Solid South—Al Smith in
1928" was the talk by J. M. Herren
Herren explained the difference be­tween
religion and politics and show
ed that was the reason the Demo­crats
are not in office today. The
party must lay aside all ideas of re­ligion
and put on the full armour
of politics if they ever hope to cope
with the Republicans. "The conven­tional
Southern protestant must lay
aside his religious clothes and back
up his own standard," said Herren.
"The south must either vote for the
A.S.C.E. MEETING
IS INTERESTING
t negro party, or forget religion and
ppalling situation, for there should * , , . , . , . , - , _, , .,
be equal opportunity for all, and we stand behind the ole donkey—the
cannot deny these people the right to
prepare for their chosen profession.
Woman's College, Montgomery,
Ala., has installed a moving picture
machine, with the help of the Liter­ary
Societies on the campus.
Our idea of a model wife is one who
notices that a button is off her hus­band's
coat instead of one who is al­ways
hunting for a blond hair on it.
—Cargile.
Democratic doctrine."
Visitor: "I'm sorry I couldn't get
to your wedding!"
Film Star: "Never mind, I'll have
another one soon!"—Woco-Ala.
CAMPUS Fables
Rat: (to soph, hazing him) "Wait
until I bend over and give me a good
shot!"
Tulane still has nineteen members
on her faculty who were on it in
1896.
The A. S. C. E. had a very good
program at their regular meeting last
Friday night. A larger number were
present at this meeting than at any
previous one of the year. The so­ciety
had a very charming visitor,
Miss Lyra McLosster.
The first speaker was a member of
the senior class, M. T. Walker, who
gave a very interesting talk on the
operation of coal mines. He explain­ed
all the different phases, including
the laying of track, blasting, removal
of slate, ventilation, reinforcement of.
the roof of passages, cutting rock
out of the way, and the loading of
coal on the cars for shipping.
W. F. Wright, a junior spoke on
the septic tank method of sewage
disposal. He explained the process
the bacteria went through in the tank,
and then disposed of through the tile
laid in a large field. He also told
of the agricultural value of this to
the field.
The next speech was .on the Pan­ama
Canal by P. A. Stevens. He
told how it was constructed, how its
locks were operated, and how the
power for operation of the locks was
generated. He also impressed the
society with the amount of mileage
that was saved by this canal.
European Road Construction by E.
P. Martin was the last number on
the program. He explained how the
hard surface roads were constructed
in several of the old countries. Also
the disadvantages they had in using
some of the old stone roads for the
base of the new cement roads.
The meeting was dismissed by the
president, Forney Ingram, as there
was no further business to be trans­acted.
IHISTORY TOLD
OF LITERARY
SOCIETIES HERE
Auburn has been unique among
scientific or technical schools of the
South,- for its interest in the liberal
elements of the college curriculum.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Col­lege,
opened in 1872, was grafted
upon The East Alabama Male Col­lege
which was an academic institu­tion
characteristic of its type in the
old South. Greek was once taught
4iere; and until quite recently a four-year
course in Latin was available for
General Course students. A very
large percentage of Auburn gradu­ates,
from the beginning, have gone
into teaching as Superintendents of
schools, professors of English, pro­fessors
of history, and teachers of oth­er
subjects. This retention of the lib­eral
element in the course of study and
in student as well as faculty attitude
toward education has been due not
only to the well known conservatism
of the Southerner, but also to the con­viction
that graduate should be edu­cated
gentlemen as well as skilled
workmen.
Literary Societies have helped to
preserve this attitude. The Wirt Soc­iety
was organized in the fall of 1859
and the Webstertan in the following
spring. Both societies had long and
venerable histories until the competi­tion
of athletics, laboratory work and
Greek Letter Fraternities came in the
late eighties to restrict their influ­ence.
Froin time to time other socie­ties
were formed for instance, the
Broun Literary Society in 1902 or
1903, but none survived except the
Wilsonian, founded in 1917. Many
freshmen societies have been formed
at one time or another, but all ex­cept
the one now in existance have
succumbed after a year or two. Until
recently, Thanksgiving and February
Twenty-second were great college
events, the first being the annual lit­erary
debate and the latter, the an­nual
literary society oratorical con­test
One day at commencement, un­til
recently, was set aside for literary
society addresses and celebrations.
For the most part, these activities
have been taken over by other organ­izations;
and yet the two older socie­ties
and their younger sister are
flourishing^at the present time.
In 1918, the Wirt Society assisted
in the organization of the Alpha Phi
Epsilon Society, an intercollegiate
literary society for the promotion of
literary work and interest in forens-ics.
The local chapter now admits
members from all Auburn literary
societies and undertakes to encourage
wider acquaintance with literary and
forensic arts.
Through an organization known as
the Alabama High School Debating
League, Auburn has for several years
been encouraging debates among high
schools pupils. The plans have been
to require local high schools to enter
and win triangular contests before
coming to Auburn for the final con­tests.
Finals are held at Auburn
and after winning strenuous prelimi­naries,
two excellent debating teams
meet in the real final contest to de­cide
the state championship. Contests
in spelling, reading and declamation,
and athletic events are held at the
same time.
For a number of years, from about
1903 on, Auburn was a member of the
Alabama Oratorical Association, of
which Howard college, Southern Uni­versity,
Alabama Presbyterian Col­lege
and Birmingham-Southern Col­lege
were members. This organiza­tion
presisted for ten or twelve years.
Auburn won the first four or five
contests and some of the others.
Intercollegiate debating has also
been popular at Auburn.
CHEM SOCIETY
HAS PROGRAM
FEWER FIRES
REPORTED FOR
FALL OF 1926
During the past four months one-hundred
eleven forest fires have oc­curred
or the, ten million acres un­der
patrol by the State Forest Ran­gers,
according to compilations just
completed by the State Commission of
Forestry. This is an unusually small
number for this part of the year. The
fires averaged less than twenty-three
acres each and covered a total area
of about 2,480 acres.
Ordinarily July and August pass
without heavy burning. There are
usually a large number of fires in
September, however, and October is
generally one of the worst fire
months. ^This year, however, compar­atively
little burning occurred during
this period.
Much of the exemption from for­est
fire damage during the early fall
has been due to favorable weather con­ditions.
This year is the first in
the past three to witness approximate­ly
normal conditions as to amount and
distribution of rainfall. Even under
such conditions, however, burnings
would have been much more prevalent
had it not been for the increased care
being exercised by landowners over
their forest and cut-over holdings.
The attendance at the last meeting
of the Chemical Society, which was
held November 3, were allowed the
privilege of enjoying one of the most
interesting programs that has been
rendered this.year. To say the least
it covered one of the widest ranges
that any program ever has. It reach­ed
from Mare to Sulphuric Acid, with
Petroleum by products and Explosion
Hazards in between.
Otis Allen, a freshman in Chemical
engineering, told of the recent po­sition
of our neighboring planet,
Mars. He told of the conditions in
respect to vegitation and plant life
as it is estimated by the leading
astrqnomers of the day. Indications
are that the temperature is much low­er
than it is here, and consequently
there is very little existing in any
form of life.
C. LeCroy told quite a few inter­esting
facts about some of the pe­troleum
products that are being con­sumed
daily by the people of the
U. S. and other countries. O. F.
Smith then related some of the causes
and results of dust explosions that
have often happened where a great
quantities of dust have been allowed
to collect about a plant.
The last feature of the program
was given by Harry Peckinpaugh, a
junior of somewhat diminutive size.
He took up one of the most vital
problems facing' the chemical indus­try.
The production and concentra­tion
of sulphuric acid. This subs­tance
alone is probably the most
useful of all. the many chemicals
that are essential to modern civil­ization.
There is practically no food,
no clothing, or any other man-made
article put upon the market today
that has not sometime directly or
indirectly been effected by this use­ful
reagent.
Pechinpaugh's discussion was based
upon several of the most common
methods in use, but most of his
time was given to the discussion of
the Tower System. In this method
heat is supplied by heated gas passed
in at the bottom and allowed to come
in contact with the acid as it filters
through the contents of the tower.
This evaporates a great percent of
the water present in the dilute acid.
The fact that this acid is one of the
strong hydroscipic agents shows that
it has a great affinity for water and
that some practical method of sepa­ration
is necessary before a high per­cent
of concentration can be obtain­ed.
The next meeting will be Wednes­day,
November 17, at seven o'clock,
in room 212 main building. A very
cordial invitation is given to all and
especially to the chemcal students.
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AG. CLUB NEWS
Several impressive and interesting
the program of the Ag lub on last
Wednesday night. E. T. Bright, vice-president
of the club had charge of
the program in the absence of the
president, J. M. Herren.
J. W. Stanton gave an interesting
talk on "The Modern Cotton Mill!"
He used the cotton mills of F. B.
Comer which are located at Avondale,
Sylacauga, and Alexander City as
examples of modern cotton mills. He
not only emphasized the enormous
amount of raw cotton converted in­to
the manufactured, products but
enumerated the numerous things that
are being done to better the living
conditions of the factory people.
These mills not only have welfare
and social work but have modern pub­lic
schools, modern high school at
Mignon and gynasium, nursery school,
swimming pool, a band, a modern
dairy with 90 cows, a modern poul­try
farm, churches and other recre­ational
and playground features.
F. E. Bertram gave a humerous
reading on "Cranberry Sauce." He
created a uproar of laughter during
his entire discourse. Roy Sellers
made an interesting announcement to
the sophomores about-their standing
with the Alabama Farmer. He em­phasized
the necessity of everybody
suscribing for the Farmer. An im­promptu
speech, "A Trip Through the
Birmingham News," was given by
Rowe Johnson.
The regular weekly meeting of the
A. I. E. E. was held in Room 200
Ramsey Engineering Hall at seven
o'clock. The attendance was very
large and the program that was ren­dered
by the two speakers of the
evening was most interesting and edu­cational.
Mr. R. E. Brown, who was
the first speaker gave the society an
interesting account of the construc­tion
and size of Wilson Dam. He told
us that there are at present only six
of the units installed but that they
are making all the progress than can
be .expected on the remaining twelve
generators. To give some idea of the
size of the dam, it is five-sixth of a
mile in length and ninety-five feet
high. Add to this, Wilson Dam has
the record for the largest amount of
poured concrete in any one project.
It has something over one million two
hundred and thirty-four thousands of
cubic yards of concrete in the Dam
proper.
The next number on the program
was a unique talk by Prof. McKinnon.
He said that if his talk was going
to have any subject that it could
easily be "Your work after Gradu­ation."
His discussion was in the
form of questions that could be ask­ed
and he was trying to answer them.
The first question that he answered
was "What must you carry with you
on your first position?" The answer
that he gave for this was that you
would need all the knowledge that you
have obtained while in college. Also
that you must carry the determina­tion
to- work long and hard with
small pay. The second question that
he asked hisself and then answered
was "What knowledge have you?"
This was a bit more difficult to answ­er
as the knowledge that you had was
the direct result of the work that
you did while in college.
After Prof. McKinnon finished
these questions he gave us a brief
description of the type of work that
you are going to meet after $ou
leave college. He included in this
some of the work that he has been
doing since leaving college. Along
with this he gave us some very valu­able
advice as how to work to accom­plish
the most regular advancement.
This concluded the program for the
night.
The A. I. E. E. meets regularly in
Room 200 Ramsey Engineering Hall
on Wednesday evenings at seven
o'clock. All Elec's are cordially in­vited
to attend these meetings and
all that are. interested in the type
of program that we are putting on.
Watch the windows up town for the
announcements of the Engineering
Pictures that we are going to show
at some near date.
Only child: "Daddy, Daddy, he
kissed me!"
Father: (appearing in robe .de
nuit) "Well, what do you want me to
do with him!"
O. C : "Make him do it again."—
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SUCCESSFUL ARMISTICE DAY
. PROGRAM IS PRESENTED
(Continued from page 1)
one being Colonel Duncan K. Major,
Jr.
Colonel Major gave an account of
Armistice day from a military point
of view. He stated that in a cer­tain
village of France the Americans
were approached by an old French
Padre Who was very solicitatious to­ward
them. He kept the graves of
the dead French soldiers decorated
with flowers. When the Americans
began to fall he likewise put flowers
on their graves. Colonel Major
pointed out that during that time,
that was the attitude of the people of
France and that if an American could
be in that village at present that he
would not fail to note that the graves
of the American soldier had been new­ly
decorated in commemoration of
Armistice day.
The second speaker of the day was,
His Excellency, William W. Brandon,
Governor of Alabama. Governor
Brandon gave a very interesting
speech in which he declared that
although America was enjoying the
sunshine of peace, it never knew when
w*r was coming, and that the best
way to meet such an emergency,
should it come, was to be prepared.
Governor Brandon pointed out that it
was an Alabamian who led the Rain­bow
Division in France, and that it
was also Alabama who furnished the
leading warriers in the history of the
United States and would continue to
furnish them through all time to come.
Governor Brandon, speaking from a
civilian point of view, eulogized the
American soldier who died on f landers
fields, and pointed out that where
indominnble wil. and courage were
in the battle, victory was inevitable.
Following Governor Brandon's
speech all of the audience stood for a
minute with bowed heads while the
silent prayers were being made and
the band rendered the "Star Spangled
Banner."
The benediction was given by Rev.
S. B. Haye, and the morning exer­cises
came to a close.
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STUDENTS HEAR ABERCROM-BIE
ON EDUCATION
(Continued irom page 1)
ndt only for the active part he has
taken in education in Alabama but
is also a statesman, being an ex-con­gressman
and well-known politician.
Education, he declared, is the big­gest
business in which the govern­ment
is engaged. Approximately
two billion dollars are being spent
annually* throughout the United
States for the education of 24,000,-
000 boys and girls, of which number
600,000 reside in Alabama. Alabama
is spending $5.86 per capita, about
one-third the average of other states.
The speaker traced the education­al
achievements of the past in Ala­bama
and at the present, showing its
needs. He showed how effectively
Alabama has progressed and applied
herself since the chaotic days of the
Civil War, when the severe power
of reconstruction held the south in
bankruptcy. During this period of
graft and distress about 66% of the
people of Alabama were illiterate.
At the present this percentage has
been reduced to 33%. Such figures
show what faithful work has been
carried on, but compare- it with what
other states have been doing during
the last twenty-five years and we
find that each of the other states
has also progressed with the same
percentage of improvement. Ala­bama
still remains at the bottom, or
still ranks as she did a quarter of a
century ago.
"It is true," he states, "That we
started in Alabama 50 years late. It
is true that the south was bankrupt
individually and collectively as a re­sult
of the Civil War; that free pub­lic
school education was not popular;
that anybody could teach school with­out
qualications; that there was no
county high school systems, no ac­credited
high schools, such as we have
today in large numbers. And yet,
notwithstanding the amazing progress
within the last thirty years as com­pared
with other states, Alabama's
status is what it was twenty-five
years ago."
Equality of opportunity in the edu­cational
field is the greatest factor in
Alabama today. Equalization of edu­cational
opportunity is the greatest
problem before the state. To ac­complish
this end taxation will be re­sorted
to again. A four mill tax is
now being propsed to replace -the
former three mill tax. "It is a de­plorable
faGt," he says, "That a few
public spirited -citizens in Alabama
must go down in their pockets to build
school houses and employ teachers."
In concluding, Dr. Abercrombie
stated very effectively that Alabama's
future rests with the coming gene­ration.
His final words were an ap­peal
and a challenge for those being
educated now to prepare themselves
to adjust and improve affairs and
solve the question for this universal
issue "Education!"
AUBURN AND MARQUETTE
TO MEET AT RICKWOOD
(Continued from page 1)
We notice in the Tech News, of
Mass. Tech, that they advertise their
mass meetings. We wonder if that
wouldn't do a lot of good toward re­viving
attendance at our mass meet­ings.
Fifteen members of Ohio Universi­ty's
faculty have been honored recent­ly,
by being included in "Who's Who."
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Auburn victory.
After a week of strenous practices
during which much of the time was
devoted to strengthening the defense
against serial attacks, in which the
local team was sadly deficient in the
Georgia game, Coach Morey announc­ed
that his cohorts were in fair con­dition
for the Magic City affair. A
great deal of time and attention has
been directed to the center of the
line which will probably bear the
brunt of the attack Saturday.
Baskin anil Salter Out
"Weenie" Baskin, who has been
holding down one of the flank posi­tions
in fine style this season, will
be missing from the line-up when
the Orange and Blue eleven takes
the field. The captain of the 1927
track team and one of the foremost
hurdlers in the country today sustain­ed
an injury to the leg in last Satur­day's
contest and will probably be out
the remainder of the season. Another
familiar face will be missing when the
whistle sounds for the kick-off, that
of "Square Jaw" Salter, than whom
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no greater tackle ever donned a uni­form.
The former Bessmer High star
was forced from the game last week
with a badly hurt foot and it is feared
that he will not be back in condition
for the Tech game. Salter is consid­ered
Auburn's best bet for an All-
Southern berth this season as the total
yardage gained over his tackle since
September has been less than zero.
Marquette is an unknown quantity
to the local students, this being the
first meeting of the two elevens. The
Golden Avalanche has the reputation
of being a great defensive team with
a strong offensive, a combination al­ways
productive of a hard fight. In
three games with Notre Dame they
have tied the Rockne men every time,
a feat of by no means common oc­curence.
In Crane, captain and cen­ter,
the Murraymen are said to pos­sess
All-American timber and his cer­tain
to be closely folowed by the
spectators.
Determined to Win
The Auburn team left the loviest
village of the plains in a fighting
mood, determined to win the game if
clean hard playing can triumph. Over-confidence,
which has been rather
prevalent with the green eleven this
year, was certainly not in evidence
Thursday afternoon as they received
their final instructions. With ten
days elapsing before the big game
Thanksgiving the Plainsman are not
keyed up to their highest pitch for
this non-conference contest, however.
Birmingham will witness for the
first time, Auburn's cyclonic backfield
when Snider, Fisher and company
dig their cleats into the sod out at
the Wood Saturday. Both these boys
are speed demons of the rarest type,
the former being the fastest stepping
back in thel conference and the later,
one of the classiest broken field run­ners
in the game. It is believed that
it will be mighty hard to keep these
boys off of the All-Conference pick
next year if they continue at the pres­ent
rate.
Tuxworth, passer extraordinary,
Moulton, the peerless punter, and Paul
Turner, line plunger de-luxe will give
Magic City football fans of no mean
proportions also. In the line- every
man has starred in at least one game.
Patterson, Carter, Cunningham, Pru-itt,
Burns, Watwood, Howard, "Red"
Carter, Pearce, Andres and all the
rest have proved their worth on many
a hard fought.field.
Thursday night was the scene of
one of the most colorful mass meet­ings
of the year when R. M. Hobbieof
Montgomery, captain of one of Au­burn's
greatest grid machines, appeal­ed
to the students to back the team,
winning or lossing. A long parade
through the streets of the town wound
up the night's program.
IMPORTANCE OF COURTS IS
STRESSED BY DEAN PETRIE
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ADAMS ELECTED HONOR
BOARD BY FRESHMEN
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were voted upon, and the four re­ceiving
the highest number of votes
were to be held over until the Fresh­men
convocation period to be voted
upon again.
Appearing upon the ballot at convo­cation
Tuesday, Nov. 9, were the
names of the nominees. They were:
Walter Mills and Richard Adams,
an act which has just recently been
held constitutional. The address fol­lows:
"Woodrow Wilson once remarked in
his- striking way that he would des­pair
of the country if it were not for
our courts. We seldom stop to think
how important they are. They pro­tect
our lives and our property. They
interpret our laws. They tell our gov­ernment
what it can and what it can
not do.
"This is particularly true of the su­preme
court of the United States. No
oth** court in the world has so much
power. Congress may pass laws and
the president sign them; but the su­preme
court sets them aside if it
deems them unconstitutional. In do­ing
this it does not hesitate to tell
congress and the president what pow­er
the constitution gives them.
The Court Speaks Out
"There are a host of men who hold
their offices because the president
nominated them and the senate con­firmed
the nomination. Can the presi­dent
remove one of these from office
when he chooses, or. must he secure
the consent of the senate to do so?
"Is this a question that congress can
settle by passing a law covering the
case?
"There are deep questions and many
a great debate has. grown out of them.
Because he disregarded such a law
President Johnson was brought to
trial and came within one vote of be­ing
removed from office.
"Two weeks ago the supreme court
in its quiet, dignified way settled the
matter. In deciding a case brought
before it, it gave its verdict on these
momentous questions. The facts are
simple. A postmaster was removed
frony office by President Wilson.
He brought the matter before the
20urts on the ground that postmasters
of the group to which he belonged
were appointed with the approval of
LOCAL PLAYERS TO OPEN
SEASON HERE TUESDAY
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TOM BRAGG IS MADE VICE-PRESIDENT
POWER COMPANY
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the senate and were removable 0nlYJjC!<aca_. Matthews and George Jester.
with its consent. Congress has pass­ed
a law making this clear.
"Courts move slowly. The president
and the postmaster concerned are both
dead. The decision comes too late in
hundreds of other more impartant
cases. Indeed the general opinion
seems to be that it is one of the most
important decisions made in recent
years. The American people have not
waited in vain.
> "The court, through its official
spokesman, Chief Justice Taft, de­clares:
(1) Congress cannot by any
law limit the power given to the pres­ident
by the constitution; (2) the
president has the constitutional right
to remove without consulting the
senate those officials whose appoint­ment
by him required its confirma­tion.
"This gives rise to many reflections.
"How easily President Johnson
would have got rid of the irrespressi-ble
Secretary Standon if the decision
had been made before his day. It
would certainly have simplified what
became for him an unbearable situ­ation.
"From now on will our presidents
find it easier to discipline their sub­ordinates?
Will this make for great­er
efficiency, or merely for greater
subserviency?
"Will the assurance of this power
of removal impair our civil service?
Will those whose appointment has
been so carefully hedged about by law
now be less secure in their tenure of
office?
"Will the party machine work more
ruthlessly when the danger of removal
is more manifest?
"How does the decision actually af­fect
the power of congress? Here the
result is not yet clear. The indirect
power of such a body is often very
great. If the president should be in­clined
to push too far the newly de­clared
power, he might find it difficult
to get other nominations. confirmed.
He always has plans which he is
eager to see carried out. For this
laws are necessary. He dare not go
too far in the matter of removals
lest he antagonize men in congress
whose support is necessary in legisla-both
of Montgomery; Arley Baas,
from Jones Mill and Kent Spring­field,
from Gadsden. The ballot was
taken and counted. The vote showed
that Richard (Dick) Adams, of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity, was elected.
one. With football occupying the center
of the collegiate spotlight, it is an
amazing thing that the members of
the Auburn Players can be persuad­ed
to attend to matters of a thespain
nature.
The opening play is called "Cokey"
and tells the story of a conglomerate
collection of people who have been ar­rested.
They are in the night court,
awaiting the trial which will mean
freedom or a night in jail. The cha­racters
are drawn somewhat broadly,
but amusement has been the prime
motive for their creation. The slum
rat, Cokey, is played by Bertha Du-
Bose, Lila Van Home, swathed in
sables for the sake of contrast, is
brought to life by Jane Springer and
M. B. Clayton plays Orville Sparrow,
the awfully nice boy who is arrested
for speeding. Other characters are:
Hunch, a "moocher," by Mercer
Helms, Battle Axe Annie, Haidee
Nichols, Wing, her husband played by
Moreland Smith and Rose Nortan is
an extremely hard-boiled stenograph­er.
The only character who has not
been arrested is the policeman, the
contribution of Oscar Asbell.
The second play, "The Monkey's
Paw" is considered by many critic to
be one of the most stirring one-act
plays ever written. It is of the super­natural
type, a modern treatment of
the "three wishes" idea. It is enacted
by Bertha Aplin, Wm. S. Heron, Rob­ert
Hardy, Robert McKinnon and
George Jester.
The closing play, "Owin' to Mag­gie,"
was presented during summer
school with such great success that
it is being included in the opening
bill so that students who were not here
during the summer will be able to see
it. It is an admirable comedy, re­markably
well acted, having in its cast
such skillful comedians as Martha
Haupt, Ann Lichty, Maggie W. Bry­ant,
Frances Moore, Rosser Alston,
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or more shares of Alabama Power
Company Preferred Stock is not own­ed
by Alabama citizens. During the
war Mr. Bragg served as Executive
Secretary of the United States Food
Administration under R. M. Hobbie,
of Montgomery, and made a host of
warm friends throughout the state
who will be pleased to hear of the
honor which the Alabama Power Com­pany
has conferred upon him.
Mr. Bragg is now residing in Birm­ingham
with mother and sister, Mrs.
S. H. Bragg and Miss Emma Bragg,
who share the esteem and affection
with which Mr. Bragg is held in this
section.
These plays are the first results
of the new course in Play Production
which is being' given by Prof. Hamil­ton,
as they all were directed by stu­dents
of the course. The first play,
"Cokey," was assigned to Robert
Hardy, "The Monkey's Paw" was pro­duced
under the direction of Miss
Marie Sewell and *'Orwin' to Maggie"
is the work of James Price. The
stage managing for the entire group
of plays is capably handled by R. L.
Pfaff, the executive stage manager
of the Auburn Players. -
New ideas in lighting and scene
designing will be a feature of the
plays to be given in the Hut this year
and all who attend will-be asked to
give their opinions on the productions,
by means of criticism and suggestion.
The bill will be repeated on Thurs­day
November 18th for the people
who are unable to attend on Tuesday.
The admission price is twenty-five
cents and no seats are sold before the
evening of the performances.
DR. GARDNER IS AUTHOR
OF NEW SOIL BOOK
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position of toxins by soil organisms,
Dr. Gardner said:
"In most of the published litera­ture
scant consideration has been giv­en
to the possibilities of eliminating
the evil effects on plants of the or­ganic
toxins through the agency of
soil organisms. Tilth reaction, aera­tion
and fertilization have eacli re­ceived
abundant and detailed con­sideration
as means of correcting
these effects, while the micro-organ­isms
of the soil have been considered
as means of converting dead plants
and animals into humus, or else as
means of rendering organic matter
available for plant metabolism."
The trustees of Clemson college are
considering plans for erecting a new
Engineering hall to replace the old
one which was burned last lear.
Felows keeping still when the hero­ine
first appears on the screen at
the weekly movie show.—Diamond-back.
tion.
. "Whatever effect may follow, it is
good to have the obscurity of long
standing cleared up. Things are now
in the open. They can be worked out
on a solid basis."
MUSICAL SHOW IS PRE­SENTED
BY CHI OMEGA
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clever and original lines.
The costumes were most appropri­ate
and unique in their design and
included such imitations as Stars,
Cats, Cupids, Faries, Bed Time Stor­ies,
and also the most modern concep­tion
of styles.
The cast includes Little Miss Ruth
Smith as "Cupid" with Donald Mc-
Kenzie the "Father Time," and Crick­et
Lane as "Common Sense. "Shimmy"
Allison played the part of the modern
young husband as "Bully," with Nan
Callna, "Domestica," as his wife. Bob
Hardy and Peely Grant as the "Free-nesse"
twins,. "Eddy" and "Freddy,"
were the ardent young lovers of the
"Dumb" twins, "Cora" and "Dora,"
featuring Ruby Russell and Catherine
Hare. Emma Goleman, the aged in­ventor,
"John Scientist," had for his
better half Allye Hughes, who played
the part of "Senator Joshua Bing,"
also an inventor. Bill New, the hero
as denoted by his- name, "Will
Steady,' has opposite him "Dolly Ex­treme,"
better known as Dot Clarke.
There are .also . seventeen beautiful
chorus girls who sang and danced,
dressed as Pigeons, Clocks, and
Moons. Twenty six artistically cos­tumed
children as Fairies, Cupids,
and Bed Time Stories completed the
program for the evening.
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AUBURN BAND HAS HONOR
SOCIETY NOW
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er effort and to approximately reward
those members of the band who show
a marked degree of interest and abili­ty
.in regard to the band. Among
the qualifications for membership,
which is by election, the student's
character as well as his scholastic
standing and musical ability is taken
into consideration.
The Auburn band, better known as
"The Famous Auburn Band," is re­puted
to be the only college band that
functions the entire year round in the
South. The Auburn Band is rated as
being among the best college bands
of, not only the South, but the whole
United States. Very few colleges do
not have honorary band fraternities
and it is only natural and just that
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
should have an appropriate method
of rewarding its band members. The
Alpha Beta Chi fraternity is local
but plans are under consideration
for the establishment of a well known
national honorary band fraternity in
the near future.
Under the able leadership of J.
B. Leslie as president, the club is
MANY SPEECHES HEARD
BY LIONS AT LUNCHEON
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alumnus and prominent citizen of
Montgomery, Jack Langhorne, sports
editor of the Montgomery Advertizer,
Roy Dimmitt, director of student ac­tivities,
Auburn, Coach David Morey,
Auburn, Sergent Carraker, Superin­tendent
of Crampton Bowl, Montgom­ery.
Emmett Sizemore introduced
the visitors who are connected with
athletics.
Doctor Sigler, one of the leading'
veterinarians of the United States
declared that the American Veterin­arians
ought to erect a monument to
Henry Ford, because of the building
of Ford automobiles and the corres­ponding
disapearance of horses and
resulted in directing the attention of
veterinarians to work among other
animals including stock and dogs.
Will Paterson of Montgomery,
spoke cf the "Auburn Spirit" and loy­alty
to the teaii.. He also compli­mented
the city of Avburn on the
splendid appearance of its pavement.
He paid tribtfte to the Auburn Lions
Club. Professor Dimmitt announced
that the football schedule for next
year was progressing nicely and that
efforts were being made to have two
conference games in Auburn.
Jack Langhorne, sports editor of
the Montgomery Advertizer, popular
writer and alumnus of the University
of Alabama, predicted that Auburn
is coming to the front in football. He
said that Morey of Auburn and Wade
of Alabama are two of the best coach­es
in the south.
Sergent Carraker of Montgomery,
declared that Auburn and Alabama
ought to get together in football and
that Crampton Bowl was the place
for the clash.
Lion President Salmon announced
the dates of the annual district con­vention
of Lions of Auburn the first
week in June.
A general survey by The Tarheel,
students paper at the University of
N. C. recently, showed that the fresh­men
there are studying on an average
of three hours per day.
making elaborate plans to put the
band on a higher level than ever be­fore.
Assisting Leslie are F. M. Ma-lone,
as vice president and J. B. Jones
as secretary-treasurer.
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