1927-03-12 The Plainsman

              Y.M.C.A. TAG
DAY MARCH 23 THE PLAINSMAN "A"DAY
MARCH 29
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1927 NUMBER 23
NEW BALL FIELD TO BE DEDICATED SECOND ANNUAL T DAY
ETA KAPPA NU HOLDS ANNUAL
ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS
One Senior and Eleven
Juniors Selected By
Honorary Fraternity
One senior and eleven juniors were
elected to Eta Kappa Nu, electrical
engineering honor society here Mon­day
night according to announcement
of the officers of the society. They
were C. H. Feagin, Jr., Clayton; A
M. Dunstan, Auburn; R. F. Kirkpat-rick,
Montgomery; F. 0. Miller,
Clanton; B. A. Rives, Jr., Troy; C
N. Worthington, Mobile; Hoyt Wig­gins,
Decatur; S. L. Hancock, Jr.,
Rome, Ga.; T. L. Lynch, Mobile; F.
M. Malone, Florence; W. D. Alston,
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HONOR SOCIETY
TO ERECT F UG
POLE ON CAMPUS
Scabbard and Blade to
Long Felt Need
Fill
Definite steps toward the erection
and presentation of a flag pole to the
college were taken at a luncheon of
Scabbard and Blade, national honor
ary military fraternity, here Mon­day.
The proposed plan provides for
either the removal and rehabilitation
of the pole formerly used as support
for wireless antennae atop Borun Hall
or the purchase of a new staff.
In taking this action the. society
declared its conviction that the insti­tution
was in real need of such an
ornament on -the campus and that
this need had been emphasized by
the awarding of distinguished college
rating to the local unit of the R. O.
T. C. for the seventh consecutive year
last spring.
A committee composed of Lieuten­ant
Bolley, S. H. Lynne and J. E.
Barnes, was appointed to propose
some method for financing the pro­ject.
INITIAL 'A' CLUB
DANCE OFFERS
ENTERTAINMENT
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CLUB IS FORMED
BY DR. CLARK
Officers Elected at First Meet­ing
of Organization
Auburn has long felt the need of
some club or society fostering the
social sciences. With this in view,
the Social Science Club was first or­ganized
here two years ago. Inter­est
of the students lagged, however,
and the organization became inactive
and remained so until this year. Last
Monday night more than one hund­red
students met and reorganized
this club. Dr. J. B. Clark, of the
Economic Department, and the man
responsible for the foundation and re­organization
of this club, outlined the
purpose to those present, which was
to familiarize the members of the
club with the social sciences. This
will be accomplished through the
various programs presented at each
meeting. It is the intention of the
club from time to time, to have men
from out of town to come and speak
at the meetings. All students are
eligible for membership in this club
and all are • cordially invited to join
The Social Science Club meets every
Monday night at 6:30, room 100,
Main Building.
Officers elected were: G. L. Scott,
president; J. B. Hollingsworth, vice-president;
C. Hendrix, secretary; and
C. White, treasurer.
BAND AND CLUB
SPONSOR HUGE
MASS MEETING
Speeches by Prof. Fullan and
Coach Brown Followed by
Free Show
COACH WARREN
SUFFERS WOUND
IN VITAL ORGAN
Auburn All-Southern Guard of
1920 Married to Miss
Sallie Carlton
Event Is Proclaimed Success
By Participants
Last Saturrj^^Lgnt the first A
Club dance j^Brahe'ld since the Junior
Prom, -i/he college orchestra render-
JFS the music.
Those dancing included about fifty
girls and one hundred boys, all from
Auburn. The dance started at nine
o'clock and ended at twelve.
Those present reported a very en­joyable
evening.
PROGRAM
College Show
Monday, March 14th
"THE COLLEGIANS"
—and—
"RUNAWAY EXPRESS"
Tuesday, March 15th
Buck Jones in
"30° BELOW"
Wednesday, March 16th
Comedy: "Battling Kangaroo"
"GOING CROOKED"
With Bessie Love, Oscar Shaw,
Gustave Von Seyffertitz
Thursday, March 17th
"WILD OATS LANE"
With Viola Dana and Robert
Agnew
Friday, March 18th
Comedy: "Shell Shocked"
"SOMEWHERE IN SONORA"
With Ken Maynard
Saturday, March 19th
Comedy: "Flaming Romance"
"HOGAN'S ALLEY"
With Monte Blue and Patsy
Ruth Miller
Announcement of the marriage of
Miss Sallie Carlton to Mr. Chester
Clyde Warren last Saturday was re­ceived
here today. Auburn men all
over the country will be interested
that "Coach's" heart has at last
been pierced by Cupid's arrow.
Football fans of seven and eight
years ago will recall with much en-
Htusiasm Warren's performances on
the gridiron in the orange and blue
uniform of the Plainsmen. "Coach"
as the young giant was known in his
student days here, was picked on
the All-Southern team of 1920. He
played during the seasons of 1917,
1918, 1919 and 1920.
The bridegroom is a graduate and
post-graduate of the Civil Engineer­ing
Department and has a host of
friends and admirers among the alum,
ni of the institution.
Mrs. Warren is a prominent mem­ber
of the younger society set of
Thomaston and the couple were high­ly
entertained in that city where the
marriage was solemnized.
In order that the students might
realize the necessity of supporting
the College Picture Show, and also
to acquaint them with the advantages
to which the money derived is used,
the Band and "A" Club entertained
the College and town Tuesday night
at a mass meeting.
"Red' Roberts introduced as the
first speaker Professor Thomas Ful­lan,
founder and director of Auburn's
first Band. Professor Fullan spoke
of the early history of the Band, and
he also stressed that the Band de­served
the support not only of the
College but also of the town. Be­cause
the town and College are one
and inseparable, anything that is of
benefit to either reacts to the advan­tage
of the other. The Band also
deserves the best support of the Col­lege,
because it makes possible the
enjoyment of good music, aids in
keeping the College Spirit at its best
and tends to make the military af­fairs
more impressive.
Coach "Red" Brown spoke of the
relative- financial resources of the
Band and "A" Club, showing that
while the Club could get along with­out
the money derived from the oper­ation
of the show, the Band could not.
In order for the Band to continue
in the future as it has in the past,
it must have the support of the Stu­dent
Body. This support should be
given by patronizing the College Pic­ture
Show.
No mass meeting would be com­plete
without the presence of "Red"
Roberts, and he was certainly in
evidence Tuesday night, putting over
yells with all the Auburn Spirit.
After Coach Brown's speech those
present enjoyed the picture "Poker
Faces" through the courtesy of the
Band and the "A" Club. This com­pleted
the meeting.
S3
Congratulations!
The • "'"'"" 5" A crinultnral
Journal '«FWW *3 ^J«M
ed on the spienaia eaiuuu OJ.
last week. Their efforts reflect
much credit upon the instruc­tion
of Professor Hugh G.
Grant, head of the department
of Journalism at Auburn.
To James M. Herren and his
loyal assistants is due much
credit for the actual work on
the paper. Very little aid was
supplied them by members of
the regular staff and informa­tion
that they were to publish
the paper was furnished them
at a late date.
BISHOP MIKELL
TALKS AT RAT
CONVOCATION
Life Is Defined by Eminent
Episcopal Diocese
KNOX RECEIVES
UNIQUE HONORS
J TWO COURSES
Elected to Both Eta Kappa Nu
and Gamma Sigma
Delta
DRAMATIC CLUB
RENDERS HIGH
POWERED SHOW
NINE SENIORS
ARE ELECTED BY
HONOR SOCIETY
Gamma Sigma Detla Selects
Men of High Scholarship
Football Frolic Declared Best
Production of Auburn
Players
Freshman convocation on Tuesday,
March 8, was one of the series of
services held in Langdon Hall during
the past week. This hour of religious' different degrees,
service on Tuesday might be said to
have differed from the other very in­teresting
services in the fact that
there were a great many more of the
Freshmen present at it than there
were at any other service.
Convocation began by the orches­t
ra playing a hymn. Following this
everyone joined in the singing of two
hymns. The Reverend Langston then
read the Scripture for the day, and
followed it by a prayer. James Les
ter then rendered a trumpet solo.
This was followed by the singing of
a hymn.
Bishop Henry J. Mikell then arose
to deliver his message for the morn­ing.
The address which he gave was
a most interesting one and one which
should have stirred the hearts of all
those present. The attention given
to the Bishop while he was deliver-
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Election to membership in honor
societies in agriculture and electrical
engineering, is the unique distinction
claimed by I. L. Knox, of Chatta­nooga,
Tenn., a senior in electrical
engineering, today. He graduated
from Auburn in agriculture in May
1923, being a member of Gamma
Sigma Delta, agricultural honor so­ciety.
Since then he has been following
the electrical profession, and in the
fall of 1925 he returned to Auburn
to pursue the study of electrical en­gineering,
and will complete his
course this spring, with a degree
in engineering. He was recently
elected to Eta Kappa Nu, honorary
electrical engineering fraternity. Up­on
graduation, he plans to enter the
field of rural electrification, thus
combining the knowledge he has gath­ered
in the pursuit of two vastly
BIRMINGHAM BARONS WILL
MEET PLAINSMEN MARCH 2 9
AUBURN BAND IS
COMPLIMENTED
BYM0BILIANS
HONOR SYSTEM
WILL SUCCEED,
SAYS RANDOLPH
Emphasizes Importance
Honor in College
Life
of
YMCA TAG DAY'
IS DECLARED TO
PROCURE FUNDS
March 23 Designated to Raise
Money for Tennis
Courts
As a climax to a year of high
scholarship work among the seniors
in agriculture at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, nine of them were
initiated into Gamma Sigma Delta,
the honor society of agriculture, and
the goal of most agricultural stu­dents
from the time they enroll as
freshmen. The seniors making this
coveted honor are G. B. Phillips, Head­land;
Rowe Johnson, Alexander City;
J. F. Nixon, Banks; F. E. Bertram,
Vinegar Bend; J. M. Herren, Jr.,
(Continued on page 6)
"Football Frolic" presented by the
Dramtic Club here on March 3, went
over with a bang. It exceeded the
fondest expectations of those putting
it on. The sketches in the play were
written by Professor Hamilton and
his students. The authors of these
sketches have something to be proud
of, for their work surely made a hit.
Not the least attractive of the cast
was the mascot, Miss Bertha DuBose.
From the many favorable comments
that have been heard on the campus
since the presentation, it can be said
that Miss DuBose did her part ex­ceedingly
well. It is hard to tell
which sketch was received with the
most enthusiasm, for all of them had
a great many supporters. From the
opinions expressed concerning them,
special mention must be paid to "Black
Bottom," "Honeymoon on the Hud
son," "April Fool," and "Fatal Neck­lace."
The sketches were presented before
a packed house. Although it was
three hours long, every moment was
thoroughly enjoyed as the continu­ous.
applauding indicated. Owing to
the success last week, some of the
sketches are to be presented • again
at the College Picture Show on Sat­urday
night. As yet no definite
plans have been made, however there
is talk of the sketches being presented
in Opelika in the near future.
The Dramatic Club is doing a worth
while work and at the same time hav­ing
a great deal of fun doing it in
writing and presenting plays. Their
(Continued on page 6)
March 23rd has been determined
upon for "Tag Day" in Auburn, to
be sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. The
purpose of this student's contribution
is to raise a sum of money to build
four tennis courts on property belong­ing
to the Y.M.C.A., located between
the Lambda Chi house and Dr. Alli­son's
home. The cost, as estimated
by the Civil engineering department,
is about four hundred dollars.
These courts are to be modernly
equipped with galvanized pipe back­stops.
They are to be for the use
of the student body at all times. Im­mediate
plans will follow the day set
for "Tag Day."
Scoring its second triumph in its
second consecutive appearance in Mo­bile,
the famous Auburn band re­turned
last week from the port city
where they furnished music for Mar-di
Gras. Sunday night saw the re­turn
of the last of the stragglers
who had remained overto participate
in the waning revelry.
According to advices received here,
the conduct of the members of the
band was unimpeachable throughout
their sojourn in the city. An edito­rial
appearing the the Mobile News
Item applauds their conduct and ex­presses
the hope that they will return
for the festival next year. The edi­torial
follows:
"The city commission performed
a courteous act in adopting a reso­lution
commending the military band
of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
which took part in the recent
Mardi Gras parades. President Dow-ell
of the institute hastens to express
his appreciation of the commission's
resolution, in a letter received by
Commissioner Schwarz.
"The musicians from Auburn made
a fine appearance on the streets and
discoursed music that pleased thous­ands
of Mardi Gras spectators. Also,
the conduct of these young men while
they were in the city was all that
could be desired, creditable alike to
themselves and to the institution they
represented.
"Mobile hopes that the Auburn
band will play every year during the
Mardi Gras celebration here, assures
the members a cordial welcome in the
future and extends its thanks for
their past cooperation in helping to
make a success of Mardi Gras."
One of the most interesting speak­ers
to visit Auburn of late is the
Rev. Oscar de Wolfe Randolph, rec­tor
of St. Mary's Episcopal church
of Birmingham. For a number of
years he was student pastor at Wash­ington
and Lee University, and also
at the Virginia Military Institute.
Reverend Randolph in his talk to
the upperclassmen at convocation
stressed the fact that there can be
no honor system at Auburn until
the students take it upon themselves
to report violations of the honor code
and to sign pledges upon their own
papers. He further Bmphasized the
importance in life of jionor as applied
to other things than college quizzes.
During last wetk Reverend Ran­dolph
conuucted a Bishop's Crusade
in the local Episcopal church. Asso­ciated
with Mr. Randolph in this work
was the Rev. W. B. Lee, rector of the
local church.
Game To Be Tigers' In­itial
Appearance of
1927 Season
NEW FIELD RAPIDLY
BEING PUT IN SHAPE
Two Former Auburn Stars Will
Appear with Dobbsmen
FIVE PLANTS TO
BE INSPECTED
BY ENGINEERS
Plans For Annual Trip Are
Complete and Approved
Dedication of the new baseball
field, now under construction, will
take place on the second annual "A"
Day, March 29. One of the features
of the day will be the game in the
afternoon between Morey's Tigers
and the Birmingham Barons. Au­burn
students will have a special in­terest
in the outfit from the Magic
City this year as two former captains
of Plainsman nines, "Red" Grifffin
and "Geechie" Stewart, will be wear­ing
Barronial uniforms, while "Dog-eye"
Sheridan, star pitcher of last
year's combine, will also be with the
Dobbs outfit.
According to information received
today, the new playing field will be
named for one who is much beloved
of both the alumni and students of
Auburn. His name will be made
known later.
LIBRARY WITH
READING ROOM
OPENED TO MEN
Dr. Clark Provides Material for
Business Students
BISHOP MIKELL PRESENTS
VIEWS ON STUDENT SUICIDE
By S. S. Tatum
Modern psychology that teaches
students self-introspection and the
theory of behavior is responsible for
the increasing number of student sui­cides
in our American colleges accord­ing
to Bishop Henry Judah Mikel, of
the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, Ga.,
in an interview today. Bishop Mikel,
one of the most intellectual ministers
of the United States, conducted the
annual religious services at Auburn
this week.
"Young people of today," Bishop
Mikel said, "know too much about
life before they are prepared for life.
As a result of their study of psychol­ogy,
they indulge in a great deal of
introspection. This analysis of one's
self coupled with the restlessness of
modern youth, often results in tem­porary
mental depression. As a net
result, the student finally reaches the
conclusion, 'Oh! What's the use! I'll
end it a l l . '"
Bishop Mikel also expressed the
opinion that the extreme youthful
ness of modern college students may
have something to do with the suicide
wave. "Thousands of students en­ter
our Aremican colleges at the ages
of 16 and 17. They become more or
less important cogs in the great ma­chine,
so to speak, many of our col­leges
today having student popula­tions
from five to ten thosuand. I
am inclined to believe that we are
(Continued on page 8)
Plans for the annual inspection
trip of the Senior Class in the School
of Engineering have been completed
and approved by Dean Wilmore. The
program includes visits to all the
principal industries of Alabama. The
trip will begin April 3rd, extending
through April 9th, and will be un­der
the personal supervision of Prof­essor
Hill, assisted by Professors
Basore, Hixon and Callan.
Monday, April 4th, will be spent
in Montgomery inspecting the Tillis
Steam Plant, the Gas Plant and Ro­tary
Substation. The party will leave
for Birmingham the following morn­ing,
and, while enroute, will stop
over at Verbena at visit Mitchell
Dam.
The entire day of April 5th, will
be taken up with a trip to the gi­gantic
steel plant of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company
which is located in Ensley, Ala.
The West Field division of the Ten­nessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.,
will occupy the attention of the en­gineers
Wednesday, April 6th. While
in the Fairfield District, the Ameri­can
Steel and Wire Co. will be visit­ed.
Thursday will be spent in other
industries in Birmingham. Among
those to be visited are the Water
Works, the American Cast Iron Pipe
Co., Sloss Sheffield By-Products
Plant, and the Lehigh-Portland Ce­ment
Co.
The engineers will be the guests of
of Birmingham Electric Co. at lunch
on Thursday, after which they will
visit the plant.
After this the party will split, part
going to Sheffield, the others leav­ing
to visit the Gorgas Plant Satur­day.
The entire party will return
to Auburn Saturday.
This inspection trip is a prerequis­ite
to graduation and must be taken
by all Seniors. The purpose of these
trips is to afford the young engineer
a chance to observe how the theories
of engineering, which he has learned
while in college, are practiced in
the industries, and thus broaden him­self.
The Economics Department is un­der
obligation to the League For In­dustrial
Rights, New York City, for
its presentation, to the department
of volumes two to seven, inclusive, of
Law and Labor.
These six volumes comprise the
"Monthly Periodical on the Law of
the Labor Problem" from January,
1920, through December, 1925.
A feature of interest to business
students is the provision for a liabra-
TJL or reading room in Room 100 of
the Main Building. Students ate
welcome and are urged to go there at
almost any hour of the day to read
special texts and magazines in the
business field. •
Some of the material to be found
consists of current numbers of "Print­er's
Ink" (both weekly and monthly),
"Kelley's Magazine" (salesmanship),
"Babson's Barometer Letter," "Busi­ness
Supplement," "Sales and Credit
Map," "Blue Book of Southern Pro­gress,"
" Nation's Business," "Stock
Exchange Bulletin," "Commerce Mon­thly,"
" Monthly Review," "New
York," "The Balance Sheet," "So­cial
Science," and other periodicals of
like nature.
PROGRAM
Tiger Theatre
Monday, March 14th
"RUBBER TIRES"
With Harrison Ford, Bessie
Love and May Robson
Tuesday, March 15th
Thomas Meighan in
"BLIND ALLEYS"
With Gretta Nissen and
Evelyn Brent
Wed. and Thurs., March 16-17
Lon Chaney in
TELL IT TO THE MARINES
With Eleanor Boardman, Wil­liam
Haines, Carmel Myers
and Warner Oland
Friday, March 18th
"THE DANCER OF PARIS"
With Dorothy Mackaill and
Conway Tearle
Saturday, March 19th
"LET IT RAIN"
With Shirley Mason and
Lincoln Steadman
First Show after supper at 6:45
Music by Dick Yarbrough
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Honesty, though the best policy, is the
most costly.
Eternal negation deadens the intellect.
Most injustice is the direct result of
intolerance.
Stupidity is excusable, but ignorance has
no alibi.
The maidenly blush has disappeared with
the sophistication of the weaker six.
One's disposition is a complex of tenden­cies
resulting from his constitution and
moulded largely by the concepts furnished
by his environment.
This "sex appeal", which is being talked
of so much by that group of morbid mod­ernists
led by literary outcasts and nonen­tities,
seems to be present only in those
whose intellects have been dwarfed by
their emotions.
It is indeed unfortunate that the gen­eral
public is prone to accept dogmas as
absolute systems. This tendency has ser­iously
inhibited constructive thought in
America and probably accounts #>r the
preponderous of sentimentalism in our lit­erature.
It seems to be an opinion prevalent
among the authorities here that a man may
be a gentleman although a cheat and petty
thief, but just as soon as he is branded a
drunkard, he forfeits all claims to that dis­tinction.
We do not defend the drunkard;
he is to be pitied, but it seems to us that
drinking is a matter of personal discrimi­nation
while cheating and stealing have
never been compatible with the best inter­ests
of progressive society.
Senator Underwood, one of the greatest
statesmen the South has produced, declar­ed
that our government is leaning more to­ward
bureaucracy at the present than ever
before in the history of the country. He
;reviewed ample evidence to support his
assertion. This trend in politics is regret-able
if not alarming. The chief value of
our democratic government has always
been popular control of the balance of pow­er.
Shall we permit it to become now a
system of government by departments or
bureaus, each under a CHIEF?
It is quite interesting, from a local stand­point,
to observe that both the retiring
adjutant-general of the Alabama division
of the national guard,' General Moon and
the incoming appointee, Major Butler, are
Auburn men. It is gratifying as well as
encouraging to us to note the really bril­liant
progress made by alumni of this in­stitution.
It has been pointed out that
Auburn men have permeated all parts of
the civilized world with the old Auburn
spirit, and that in the center of political
controversies or international crisis, one
invariably finds an Auburn ma,n. We shall
flourish as an educational institution just
so long as we continue to provide for not­able
public service.
THE STADIUM—IN REBUTTAL TO
LAST WEEK'S LETTER
In the last edition of The Plainsman
there appeared a letter attacking the pro­posed
plan to erect a stadium on the local
campus, the funds to. be provided by the
addition of a previously ascertained sum
to the matriculation fee. We are perfectly
willing to grant the right of the individual
to his own opinion but when it conflicts
with that of the majority it must be set
aside.
The author of the article states that "it
would be a nice thing to have a real sta­dium
here, if there were any necessity
for it." We are in perfect agreement
on this point but we differ widely with
him when he declares that there is no ne­cessity
for one'in Auburn. Of course it
is not a necessity in the sense that second
rate games would be played here in the
future as in the past. It is a necessity
in the sense that it is essential to the pro­gress
of athletics at Auburn.
It is true that we have only two games
at home each year. If we analyze the
reasons for the lack of more games, we
must perforce recognize that the only log­ical
conclusion is that we have not the
seating capacity here that is found else­where.
In other words, the possibility of
more paid admissions in other cities out­weighs
the certainty of the number of spec­tators
here, due to our limited space and
number of seats.' But did they have larger
crowds at the Howard or Marquette games
in Birmingham or the L. S. U. game in
Montgomery than we did at our only con­ference
game on the campus? They did
not.
If we should build a stadium here, we
should be able to command a drawing pow­er
sufficient to bring large conference
teams here at a minimum-expense both to
therflselves and the local athletic asso­ciation.
It would be much cheaper to
bring the Georgia team from Athens to Au­burn
than to take both teams to Columbus.
There would hardly be a noticeable de­crease
in attendance for residents of Co­lumbus,
Opelika, Montgomery, and neigh­boring
towns would eagerly turn out to see
these two ancient rivals in action.
"Why build the stadium to stand for a
whole year just for the sake of two foot­ball
games, and those usually with some
second-raters?" the writer asks. The point
is, if we had the stadium here, we should
not be restricted to two games on the cam­pus.
It would be possible to play at least
four games and none of these need be
played with second-raters. Such an ar­rangement
would make possible an all-con­ference
schedule and poor games would not
be wished off on the students. In addi­tion
to football games, track contests might
be held on a vastly superior track to that
which surrounds Drake field at the present
time. And certainly this track would not
be constructed "only to strut a second rate
team as our track teams for the past seven
years have not been defeated in a dual
meet.
"Will the extra fans it would draw ever
pay for the stadium?" he continues. We
do not propose to build this stadium at the
expense of our guests. The students will
provide the finances necessary to its con­struction.
It will eliminate the present
unsatisfactory bleachers which provide ex­tremely
precarious seats to the spectators
at best.
If we built a magnificent stadium we
should not have to strut second rate teams
as the author of the article suggests. An
attractive stadium would draw athletes to
Auburn, and what is more important, it
would draw a high type of athlete, a stu­dent
and a gentleman.
The students are urged to consider the
need of additions to the gymnasium in
preference to the stadium project. It
might be well to remember that the pres­ent
gymnasium was constructed by means
of contributions from our alumni. It is
therefore in their province to undertake
any improvements on their property. We
do not deny this need. In fact we regret
it, but it seems to us that it should not
be allowed to interfere with plans for the
stadium. As a suggestion the necessary
showers and dressing rooms could be pro­vided
in the new stadium, just as they are
provided in other athletic parks.
One item should be considered when dis­cussing
this proposition, and that is the
tremendous amount of student money
which flows out of town at these football
games. There were fully two hundred
students in New Orleans to witness the
Tulane game. A conservative estimate
would place the average amount spent by
these boys at forty dollars apiece or eight
thousand dollars in all. And this expen­diture
of money is being constantly repeat­ed.
Football games on the campus would
eliminate much of this extrvagance and
save thousands of dollars for the parents
of these boys and thousands of dollars
to the city of Auburn.
We are all in favor of the plan. Let's
get behind it and let the board of trustees
know our sentiments.
RELIGION AMONG COLLEGE
STUDENTS
It might be well now, directly following
the conclusion of the union services held
in Langdon Hall under the direction and
sponsorship of the local Y. M. C. A., to
stop a moment and take an inventory of
our religion. In this time of the modernist
movement, problematic drama, student sui­cide,
and an accumulation of the age-old
questionings as to the Cause and Result
of Life, it is often refreshing to find a
solution to these problems.
The Christian religion, embracing as it
does all types of humanity from the pau­per
to the millionaire, the moron to the
genius and the sinner to the saint, seems
to be the only logical and inevitable cure
for the spiritual ills of the world. And
in speaking of this religion, we shall not
dwell on petty dogmas and doctrine, but
shall extoll its beauty in the light of catho­lic
service to mankind.
That religion is necessary to the progress
of civilization is repeatedly proven by his­tory.
The leading nations of this world
have from the time of ancient Babylon and
Assyria, retained their position of power
and respect among other nations just so
long as they have worshipped a common
God, and been united in a common religion.
Their ascendancy was cut short, however,
by their feeling of independence and con­sequent
renunciation of their God.
No better example of the power of re­ligion
to develop and prepare a country
for leadership is available than the inter­esting
parallel which may be drawn be­tween
the development of North and South
America on our own Western hemisphere.
The former has assumed the lead in world
affairs and has been favored with amazing
material progress chiefly because its found­ers
were God-fearing men and women to
whom the search for an ideal lent a de­termination
and zeal, a foundation which
has been tried and found strong enough
to support the glorious superstructure
which a religious people have reared
thereon.
If great chicks are now appearing in its
walls, it is not the fault of the builders.
Their workmanship was well nigh flawless.
It is for us to keep it in repair and it is we
who are failing in our task. A very short
time is required for the winds of atheism
and agnosticism to widen these breaches
and then the ultimate downfall is not far
distant.
The task of filling in these crevices
naturally evolves upon the youth of today.
It is true that our man power is much
greater than that of Europe. Many of
their splendid young leaders were sacrific­ed
upon the altar of Mars in the World
War and for that reason Europe must
needs totter dangerously near the pit of
oblivion when their grey headed pass on
the torch. But shall we have far sighted,
clean minded men to receive it and pass it
on in order that our Caucassian civiliza­tion
may be prolonged?
If we allow the'revival of the Epicurean
philosophy to penetrate too deeply into
our minds, we shall hasten the disaster.
Other races and other nations are waiting
their opportunity. Our religion must be
Christian. In other words we must be will­ing
to throw ourselves into the front rank
and serve.
It is to be expected that our colleges
will supply our demands for leaders. Can
they do it? Certainly one may find quite
a number of young men in the church
congregations on Sunday mornings. But
do they go there to seek the truth, to learn
how to discover the proper methods of
serving, or do. they go there because it is
a habit or their social position demands
their attendance? Unforturnately, the latter
is the cause in too many instances. We
are not thinking in the right direction, and
our thoughts are tinged with base material­ism.
Our real service to our country lies in
the creation of ideals to replace that of
nationalism which we have been rapidly
acquiring. The Christian religion has sup­plied
the force in the past to overcome the
inertia of proud inactivity. It can do it
now but it must have human weapons in
the form of human minds. America, the
world, God, Himself, needs men with keen
intellects and the will to work, may They
count on you?
Success is ever modest.
THE TEACHER—SERVANT OF
HIS DAY
At times we rate the teacher too low.
Sometimes we magnify his place with equal
injustice.
Functions of the home are bound to
remain functions of the home, whether we
attend to them, whether we neglect them,
or try to foist them off on the school.
And there can be no doubt that the
home has a responsibility in education
which homekeepers and homemakers find
it easy to forget.
Using teachers as neighborhood step­parents
while real parents take a respite
from parenthood is bad for the teacher.
It is worse for the parents. It ia worst of
all for the children.
In the old days it was not so. The teach­er
then had his limitations. But he had
also fathers and mothers as allies.
The teacher's business was to instruct
and inspire.
Who among us can recall from days gone
by a little old school teacher whose stature
seems to grow against the lengthening
perspective of the years?
Maybe Miss Annie wasn't old then. No­body
ever knew precisely. But by the
least calculation she must be quite old by
now.
Miss Annie was an -institution. School
boards in their turn waxed, waned and
were superseded. Miss Annie saw them
come, saw them go—and taught on.
The rickety old schoolhouse on the hill
fell to groaning and creaking in the March
winds until it threatened to tumble about
her ears. But a handsome new structure
took its place, with every modern contri­vance
made ready.
And when it was done, Miss Annie took
her pointer, made from the stock of an old
buggy whip, and moved in.
\ Youngsters who had learned their let­ters
literally at the end of that old pointer
grew up and departed, rising to high places,
some of them, and gathering their several
sheaves of fame and fortune.
But Miss Annie is remembered by her
thousands who have quite forgotten them.
To be sure, Miss Annie taught out of a
book. But the book was secondary, so
far as she was concerned.
Of pedagogy in its formal and psycho­logical
abstractions she knew less than she
ought, perhaps. But out of the book of
life she brought forth treasures new and
old.
Of science, and even of culture in its
avowed terms, she made no pretense at
all. But the secret of teaching she knew,
and the line of her influence reached
through the village and out into the coun­try
around about.
And then there was old Professor Sinks.
His frail body was clad in the shabbiness
of threadbare black that lacked but little
of turning green. The skirts of his Prince
Albert of a Sunday and those of his cut­away
on weekdays seemed forever to be
flapping dismally about his pendling legs.
But his mind was in the stars and his
heart was nugget gold.
No mathematical formula ever was
known to escape him, no problem, however
long, ever fatigued his eager, agile brain,
no figure, however intricate, ever brought
him to dismay.
With the fine enthusiasm of the scholar,
he set kindred fires going in the breasts
of his young charges. Inspiring them and
inspired by them, he labored unselfishly
in their behalf, rejoicing without stint to
see them clamber up to heights beyond his
reach. <
Ever he bore himself with an air of
poise and gentleness which nothing dared
disturb and none dared disdain. After the
manner of an elder civilization he looked
the world in the eye and received respect
without the asking.
Little of the world's goods he got, and
when at last the old man died, he left a
house full of books, a little garden of old-fashioned
flowers, and an honorable name.
Miss Annie is feeble now, and old Sinks
is gone. But others have closed up the
ranks. And these others, what of them?
New methods have they, new findings of
truth, a new sense of the dignity of their
profession, perhaps—at least a new stand­ard
of recognition of their work from their
fellows in the new day whereof they are
a part, and new levels, let us hope, of
remuneration.
But the spirit in which they serve? Ah,
that is as old as Miss Annie, old as old
Sinks—old as Socrates.
The seat of culture is the skull, and not
the school. Simple enough the saying is,
scarce calling for proof. Ye many there
be who ignore it.
School is an admirable convenience.
Yet'at best it is but a place where one may
educate himself, if he choose. Or rather,
it is where one may begin educating him­self.
For education is a continuing process
as long as the brain fiber holds out to burn.
The delusion lurks about that schooling
is scholarship and bookishness is brain­power.
Therejs little enough in it, but yet
enough to account for much that is wrong
and much that gets wrong with schools of
communities and with schooling of individ­uals.
We can't get on without schools. No­body
in his senses would have us try.
And books are even more indispensable.
Without them each age would have to start
fresh, unlettered and unled.
Books gather up the deeds and aspira­tions
of the past for our instruction and
admonition. So may we begin where phil­osophers
and statesmen left off and build
with a sureness born of their travail.
But slavery to books "begets slavishness
only. It binds one to the doorpost of
wisdom's house, yet denies him a place in
the household of the wise.
And whoso goes to school as to a ware­house
where be may be laden with learning
in so long a time goes on a fool's errand
and will receive a fool's burden for his
pains.
Bigger than the book—if we except the
Book of Books—is the man who reads it.
Bigger than the school is he who presides
over it.
Books are the tools and the school is the
shop. Except as the 'prentices learn there
the will to learn, both they and the master
of the shop labor in vain.
The teacher guides his pupil. But he
can not carry him. Hand-in-hand they set
out to come at the truth, the teacher, a
little way in front, to be sure, because
he has been that way before. But every
man must make his own footing and stand
in his own tracks.
Truth is wonderfully alluring and won­derfully
discouraging. It challenges and
flees away. It startles us with the sudden­ness
of its popping out of hiding. It ex­asperates
us with the obstinacy of its se-cretiveness.
The curiosity to seek it, the
constancy to pursue it, and the courage
to face it, when haply it is found.—herein
is the stuff to make learning of. And the
greatest of these is courage.
—Dallas Morning News.
Campus Characters
No. 4
WILLIAM DENNETT HORTON, B.S., '26
The subject for this week is William D.
Horton, dashing young Lothario of Mobile,
Ala., Pensacola, Fla., Baltimore, Md., Clay­more,
Del., Clarendon, Va., Montgomery,
Ala., Vincennes, Ind., and Richmond, Va.,
in the order named.
The subject of our discussion this week
is a graduate of this institution, of the
class of '26, of the C. E. course, and now
serves as Instructor in that department,
where he is affectionately known and re­ferred
to by his Freshman charges as Hor­ton,
The Debonair.
For the benefit of those who may not
know him by his christened name, we give
herewith, a list of some of his most fitting
aliases, nicknames, monikers, or what-nots.
Owing to the lack of space we can give
only a few of most widely used ones, which
include "Dimmett," "Bull, "Wop," "Sanko"
and others but the one which becomes
him best, and the one by which he is most
widely known is "Lochinvar"—which his
lodge brothers have cut down to the more
efficient, "Lock."
Our Subject, while an undergraduate
here, did his turn on his class teams and
was a candidate for varsity football also,
and while he never made the grade, he did
his bit toward helping to put out winning
teams—Alas, he did not go out for basket-"
ball,—and we miss our bet if this has not
cost Ala. Poly, a couple of basketball cham­pionships,
for his floor work is marvelous,
and his shooting is superb. Strange as it
may seem, Lock has an aversion for "tag",
football; and he has been seen to go into
tantrums upon the mere mention of tennis
in his presence.
All of Sanko's time, during his under­graduate
days, was not taken by athletics,
and he devoted a goodly portion of it to
campus activities, which included work on
the student publications, "The Plainsman",
and "The Auburn Engineer". He is also
a charter member of Rho Pi Gamma, and
at one time held the office of "Mauve
Bull", in this organization—which i«.no
small honor.
Journalism ,of that insidious type, "ath­letic",
has had its effect upon friend Hor­ton,
as is evidenced by his outbursts from
time to time in- his productions,—such as,
for instance, appeared in a recent one:
"DuBose runs wild, and piles up a' score of
two (2) points against Florida aggrega­tion."
His "write-ups" are usually of the
"frothy" type, as contrasted the "smooth"
variety put out by his contemporaries.
It is rumored that one of his very dear
male relatives was brutally murdered in
a barber shop, and while we cannot vouch
for the veracity of this statement we do
know that he has a particularly keen aver­sion
to razors as an institution.
Our study of this gay young blade would
not be complete without some insight into
his future aspirations, and to that end,
we have found that he expects to spend a
few weeks of the early summer in trying
to reduce the piscatorial population of
Florida, with an occasional "Veto" added,
as he naively put it, "for game". After
that, he begins an intensive search for
the future Mrs. Horton.
Editor's note: The search referred to
may become extensive also, if we are quali­fied
to judge.
Co-ed Northcutt says that she believes in
clubs for women if they aren't too heavy.
* * * * * *
Pup Jones says his idea of Heaven is
Solomon's wives and Mathuselah's age.
* * * * * *
Harkins: "Darling, I'd face death for
you."
Witty: "Why did you run from that
bulldog at Mr. Mim's while ago."?
Harkins: 'It wasn't dead".
Letters to the Editor
The Picture Show
The announcement that the A-Club and
the band has purchased the College picture
show is greeted with great enthusiasm by
the alumni and student body of Auburn.
It will be operated for the purpose of se­curing
the much-needed finance for the
band and adding to the A-Club scholarship
fund. This is a step forward for the two
organizations. In this way a better show
is going to be secured for Auburn. The
profits will certainly go to a good cause.
The band and the A-Club are not asking
the students to support them altogether.
They are no longer on a charity basis.
No other organizations on the campus
are doing more toward fostering the Au­burn
spirit than the band and the A-Club.
The students should now feel more than
ever before their responsibility for build­ing
a greater Auburn through these two
organizations.
Loachapoka
No other town in the state is receiving
more publicity than our neighboring city
if it can be called this, Loachapoka. It has
gotten in the same class as Calera and
Jemison. In a report given out by the
mayor one day last week in defense of the
speed laws he said that the town was a
mile and a half long. He failed to state
how wide it was. A conservative estimate
would be fifty feet. It is rather narrow
in more ways than one.
In the reasons the mayor gave for the
existing laws he failed to state that the
citizens of the town had to have something
to do. It seems that the entire population
is connected in some way with the town
government in the form of mayor, speed
cops, clerks, reporters, and treasurers.
The only remedy in sight is for the
State Highway Department to close up the
present road and build a new one surround­ing
the town.
BLIND TIGER
Blind Tiger would like to give you his
idea of the Universe. You know Milton
gives a very dreadful diagram of it, but
Blind Tiger thinks Milton left out the
worst part of it. We beg leave herewith
to submit our own version.
Highest—God and Heaven and the an­gels.
Next-Earth
Next—Chaos
• Then down—one million miles to—Hell
and Styx.
Then Forty million miles further down
we find Sociology, Psychology, and Physics
Laboratory.
* * * * * *
Co-ed: (at the baby zoo) "I'm awfully
sorry, but the matron says that we must
not see each other any more at night."
Billie Frank: "Oh, that's all right, if
they want to cut down on the light bills,
I'm willing to help. Darkness, with you,
dearest, is good enough for me."
* * * * * *
Soon after a hotel fire, one of the guests
joined the crowd and began to guy them in
their excitement. "There's nothing to be
excited about," he said. "I took my time
about dressing, lighted a cigarette, didn't
like the knot in my tie so I tied it again—
ttufe how cool I was." "
"Fine,-"-one of his friends remarked, "but-why
didn't ycr put orivvour- trousers?"
Cows may live on grass, DT£ intakes an
Auburn butcher to make both ends-«ieat.
* * * * * *
Teacher: (in grammar class) "Bill, tell
me what it is when I say ,!I love, You love,
he loves."
Bill: "That is one of those triangles
where somebody gets shot."
* * * * * *
Co-ed: "Remember, beauty is only skin
deep."
Frosh: "That's deep enough for me. I'm
no cannibal."
* * * * * *
Gooch: "My hair is falling out. Can you
give me something to keep it in?"
Barber: "Sure. Here's a nice paper
box."
* * * * * *
Co-ed: (at College picture show) "Is the
crowd moving in?"
Frosh: "No, dearest, Hann is in the door­way,
and he just took a deep breath."
* * * * * *
Stage Manager: "My dear, I wish you
would wear a different gown in the second
act."
Actress: "But this is the latest style,
and I paid $200 for it."
Stage Manager: "That's true, but when
your husband says, "Woman, you are hid­ing
something from me," the audience can't
figure out what he means."
* * * * * *
Chorus girl: "Do you like me in my
costume?"
Frosh: "What costume?"
.
THE PLAINSMAN
PAGE THREE
I
NEW METHODS
GET HIGHER
TIMBER YIELD
That the rate of timber growth
may be speeded up by scientific meth­ods
of handling woodlands, has been
shown by experiments conducted by
the Alabama Commission of Forestry.
The Commission has given much stu­dy
to the rates of growth of the more
valuable native trees, and systems
of improving logging and turpen­tining
are among the results. This
means that greater amounts of lum­ber
and naval stores can be produced
on the same tract of land and in the
same time than can be yielded under
old practices.
The underlying principle of modern
methods of utilization may be said
to consist in the using of trees in the
order of their maturity. In other
words, trees which have reached their
full growth, or a point at which their
increase in value is not more than
the same investment could be made to
to pay otherwise, should be logged or
turpentined first. Only enough of
the next lower age classes should be
included to reduce the unit overhead
and operating costs to a practicable
figure, or to thin out the stand so
that additional light and soil nutri­ment
may be made available for the
growth of the remaining trees.
By following modern systems the
timbered owner receives higher re­turns
on a lower investment. The
lumber material from larger trees is
•f higher priced grades. The cost of
logging large trees is much less per
thousand feet, and the higher yield
of resin makes fewer trees to manage
to make a crop. The advantage of
using trees only in the order of their
maturity does not end with the woods
work, however, but extends to the
building trades and other construc­tion
enterprises where'the handling
of a few large pieces instead of num­erous
small peices greatly reduces the
costs.
"Say it With Solvers"
FOR ALL OCCASIONS
ROSEMONT GARDENS
FLORISTS
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn
MONTEITH'S
—Where Friends Meet—
AUBURN GARAGE.
R. O. FLOYD, Jr., Prop.
Auto Repairing, Gas, Oils, Tires and Accessories
CARS FOR HIRE
B C I T / ^ / ^ I T M / ^ I I 1 0 i t a l i t y w e r e M i s s e s L o u i s e B u r k e> Le_
• 3 . U . ^ / U U N \ * I I - i l l J l l a n d Cooper, Lorene Parrish, and Al­berta
Proctor, and Messrs. J. R. Car-
ENTERTAINED IN reker, A. V. Culpepper, J. M. Ed-
PASTOR'S HOME
Dr. a n d Mrs. Edwards
Hosts a t Delightful
Dinner
A r e
On Thursday evening, March 3rd,
the members of the B. S. U. council
were the dinner guests of Dr. and
Mrs. J. R. Edwards at the parson­age
on North College street. A deli-wards,
S. L. Hancock, W. R. Hardin,
R. L. Hightower, Rowe Johnson, W.
W. Pate, C. C. Phillips, G. B. Phillips,
and R. E. Smith.
BISHOP MIKELL PRESENTS
VIEWS ON STUDENT SUICIDE
(Continued from page 1)
going to turn more and more to the
smaller college groups again."
Asked if he agreed with Professor
clous three course dinner was served Bohannon of Howard College, Bir
by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Ea­ton,
and followed by a short business
meeting with G. B. Phillips presid­ing.
Reports from the committee
chairmen were given, and followed
by a very helpful and inspiring talk
by Dr. Edwards.
Those enjoying this lovely hospi-mingham,
that science is not respon­sible'
for student suicides, or with
Doctor Wyman of Birmingham, who
holds that science is wholly respon­sible
as quoted by the Birmingham
News recently, Bishop Mikell replied
that both were right to a certain ex­tent.
He said that the student, per­haps,
does not learn enough science.
In other words, he gets an idea or
two of science and then lets his mind
jump to conclusions.
"I would advise students to leave
science alone," Bishop Mikell said,
"unless they are going into the sub­ject
thoroughly.
"As a possible remedy for student
suicide, he continued, "I believe that
youth should be kept busy at all times
and should be given a religious en­vironment
as far as possible."
In answer to the question as to
whether or not students of today are
less religious and less moral than
they were a generation ago, Bishop
Mikell answered "Yes and No." "Pub­lic
opinion," Bishop Mikell declared,
"does not drive people to church as
it did formerly and so those who go
to church do so voluntarily and in
good faith.
"I am inclined to think that all
things considered, people are no more
immoral today than they were fifty
years ago. Young people are just
more frank and open about their way
of living than before."
ETA KAPPA NU HOLDS ANNUAL
ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS
(Continued from page 1)
Magnolia; of the junior class, and
I. T. Knox, Chattanooga, Tenn.; of
the senior class.
Election to Eta Kappa Nu is based
on scholarship, outside activities, in­terest,
and personality. Elections
are held twice a year, one in the
spring, when juniors are elected, and
one in the fall when members of the
senior class are chosen.
Eta Kappa Nu has been active this
year among the electrical engineers,
being one the hosts of the juniors
and seniors at a hike and weiner
roast, and at present sponsoring a
contest for freshmen and sophomores
of the local branch of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers.
CONDITIONS NOW FAVORABLE
TO LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION ON
FARMS IN ALABAMA FOR 1927
@ML MT@¥S
For Sale by
Auburn Furniture Company
If present conditions continue the
business of producing livestock on
Alabama farms will grow and the
state will mount higher from year to
year in J;he production of livestock.
For the first time since post-war ad­justments
there is now a strong de­mand
among farmers for livestock
of all kinds for breeding purposes
and this demand is accepted by Prof.
J. C. Grimes, F. W. Burns, and other
members of the animal husbandry
staff of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
as evidence that farmers in­tend
to get into the livestock busi­ness
on the right basis and make it
a permanent part of safe farming.
A study of these requests shows
that dairying is on the increase
throughout the state. The same is
true of hogs and poultry, while the
biggest demands for sheep and beef
cattle are found in the Black Belt.
Poultry, too, is on the increase
throughout the state but Mobile and
Baldwin Counties now promise to be­come
the leading poultry center of
the state. Heretofore, DeKalb, Mar­shall,
and other counties in northeast
Alabama have been leading poultry
counties and the industry is still
growing here, but the biggest poul­try
developments in recent years have
taken place around Mobile where both
home flocks and large commercial
flocks of the best breeding can now
be found. There is also a marked in­crease
in poultry developments around
Birmingham and a few large develop­ments
have been made around Mont­gomery
and Selma, but the Mobile dis­trict
is now leading all other sections
in poultry developments.
Not in five to ten years has the
demand for dairy cows been as strong
as it is at present. Alabama farm­ers
are having to go out of the state
to buy dairy cows. John Blake,
county agent of Dallas County, which
is one of the leading dairy counties
in the state, says that it is impossible
to buy a dairy cow in that county
at a reasonable price; and recently
Marion County farmers went to an
other state and bought a carload of
nice Jerseys.
F. W. Burns, extension livestock
specialist, Auburn, reports more calls
for good dairy cows than he is able
to locate, although he is continuous­ly
searching for good cows for sale.
Dairying as a part of general farm­ing
has made a remarkable growth
in Marion County during the last
few years. The sales of cream in
that county {began in June, 1922,
with two farmers milking four cows
each. At the beginning of this year
90 farmers with an average of six
cows each werein the business, and
now another car of cows has been
brought into the county. It is es­timated
that dairying in Marion
County is either creating new wealth
or increasing values by $50,000 an­nually,
and this figure is expected
to be materially increased this year.
A. A. Lauderdale, county agent of
Shelby County, says that dairy pro­ducts
sold by farmers in Shelby
County in 1926 brought them $200,-
000, which was eight times as much
as the sales of 1924. He, too, is ex­pecting
an increase in dairying this
year.
Southeast Alabama continues to
hold first place in the production of
hogs, although farmers in other sec­tions
are in the business on a smaller
scale.
From November 24, 1926, to the
last of February, Dale County farm­ers
alone received more than $100,000
for hogs sold through their coopera­tives
sales at Ozark, Ariton, and Mid­land
City, according to G. W. Ray,
county agent. Cooperative sales
were made by farmers in Pike, Cren­shaw,
Henry, Houston, Coffee, Gene­va,
Covington, Conecuh, Clarke, and
Wilcox Counties, all of them being
in southeast Alabama except Clarke
and Wilcox. Dale, Pike, Houston,
and Geneva appear to be the four
leading counties of the state in hog
production.
All the information received at Au­burn
regarding the sheep business in
the Black Belt is very optomistic.
The lamb crop is good and grazing
is much better than is usual at this
season, due to exceptionally favora­ble
weather. Perhaps it has been
one of the most favorable winters
in a decade. It has enabled farmers
to get their livestock through the win­ter
with a minimum amount of feed;
and this has resulted in production at
a lower cost. This applies to all
kinds of livestock.
Last year several carloads of lambs
were sold cooperatively by the county
agents under the direction of the ex­tension
marketing specialist, the Ala­bama
Farm Bureau Federation, and
the Union Stock Yards at Montgom­ery.
The present plan is to repeat
these sales on a larger scale. It is
probable that they will be made earl­ier
in order to catch the early market.
Along with an increase in numbers
there is a steady improvement in qual­ity
of all kinds of livestock. This im­provement
is adding to the value per
animal while the number is increas­ing.
ELECTRIC BROODERS USED
LIONS CLUB PUTS
SIGNS ON ROADS
ENTERING CITY
Latest development of electric cur­rent
at Auburn is the use of three
electric brooders which seem to have
supplanted the coal and oil ones that
stepped in several years ago and de­prived
the old white, black and speck­led
hen of the privilege of hovering
her own,chicks.
This hew artificial chick brooding
device may be seen in operation at
the new college poultry farm. This
electric hen came as a result of some
experimental work that is being car­ried
on by the Alabama Power Com­pany
and the Agricultural Engineer­ing
Department cooperating with M.
L. Nichols and E. C. Easter in charge
of the field service work. *
In addition to supplementing the
various chick brooding devices, elec­tric
refrigerators have very success­fully
taken the place of the old ice
refrigerator. The electric cook stove
is in many instances easily crowding
out the old wood and kerosene stoves
and other things furnishing lights and
power to about thirty five hundred
rural customers in Alabama, accord­ing
to Mr. Easter who has compiled
statistics on the progress of the work.
This work in Alabama is yet young
but according to Mr. Easter it has
shown such proficiency as that it is
proving successful on all types of
farms in Alabama, except where the
farmer grows cotton alone. The dai­ryman
is especially enjoying and re­alizing
a large profit from it.
Following its policy of rendering
sei-vice to the community, the Auburn
Lions Club has recently posted signs
on the Montgomery-Auburn-Opelika-
Atlanta highway. Eight sign boards
were installed, pointing the way to
Montgomery on the one hand and to
Opelika and Atlanta on the other.
These boards were purchased for
approximately forty dollars and it is
the hope of the local organization
that they will be allowed to remain.
It is understood that one of these signs
has already been torn down. The
club expresses the hope that the stu­dent
who removed it would be consid­erate
enough to replace it or at least
return it to one of the drug stores
in town.
DR. THOS. B. MCDONALD
Dentist and Oral Surgeon
Office over Toomer Drug Store
Phone 49
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AUBURN MEN
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Introduction to the Members of the
1926Baseball Team Who Are Again
Ready for Activities on the Diamond Lee Co. Hi School
Joe Wallis—WallU, who for two
years has been one of the Tiger main­stays,
has been rewarded fo\r his
consistency and aggressiveness on the
diamond by being elected captain of
the baseball team for the coming sea
son. Joe hails from Talladega. He
is a member of Lambda Chi frater
nity.
Ed Allen—"Rough Ed" came to
Auburn from Marion Military Insti
tute, a finished baseball player. He
has improved steadily and is now one
of the strongest candidates for a
berth on Morey's infield. This is Ed's
last season in the Village and he
should have his most successful sea­son
on this linal lap. Allen is a mem­ber
of K»ppa Alpha fraternity and
hangs his hat in Selma, Ala., when
he is at home.
Pat Moulton—This husky lad is one
of the best bets for the pitching staff
this spring. He has plenty of speed
and lots of "stuff" on the ball and
a build that should throw a scare
into all opposing batters. This is
Pat's third year on the varsity and
Morey in counting on his carrying
a large portion of the hurling duties.
Moulton belongs to Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity and has come to
us from the town where the buzzards
fly high—Mobile, Ala.
Benjamin Sankey—The only thing
we ever heard of Navoo doing was
sending Ben Sankey to Auburn. This
town can claim its share of distinc­tion
for this alone because Ben is cer
tainly one of the most polished ball
tossers ever to try out for any team.
Coming to Auburn two years ago
Sankey was unheard of about the
Plains; today he is known as the
sweetest fielding shortstop in Dixie
colleges. He can hit too as was
shown last year when on more than
one occasion he smacked the horse-hide
out of the park for a homer when
the bases were choked. Ben made
his letter last spring playing jam-up
baseball all spring. For some reason
we never see Ben wearing his A
sweater. He is a member of Pi Kap­pa
Alpha and is registered in the
general course department.
Walter B. Hitchcock—Here is one
ball player who is not afraid to step
into the ball and take a clean cut at
it. By virtue of this ability, Hitch­cock
is one of the most dangerous
batters in Southern college baseball
He made his debut in an Auburn var­sity
uniform last spring and played
third base. He was truly a "hot
corner" artist and was selected by
Wallace Wade and other on the All-
Southern team last spring. Hitch­cock
hits and fields with a vigor that
is characteristic of him in anything
he attempts and we predict that he
will have a chance in the Big Show
'ere many summers have elapsed.
Ebb James—Auburn is well blessed
in the catching department with such
a man as James to handle the de­livery
of the pitchers. James has
everything that goes to make a good
catcher. -A good level head that
knows how to get the most out of
the pitcher and keen eyes that soon
detect a batters weakness and an ac­curate
arm that defies the fastest
base runner to attempt to steal. Not
only did Ebb kill many a would be
base stealer by quick and accurate
pegs to the keystone but he nipped
off quite a number of the more con­servative
type by strategic throws to
the initial sack. James is a local
product having received his early
training at Lee County High. Sigma
Alpha Epsilon claims him.
Fob James—The only time a stran­ger
can tell Fob James from Ebb is
while they are playing baseball. Fob
throws from the port side. This one
feature makes him well adapted to
the position of first base—a. job he
held for Morey last spring until he
answered the call of shadowland and
strolled off to act in a motion picture.
He made good but has returned to
Auburn to complete his college course
before taking on his life work. Ebb
and Fob are twins. They look alike
and are alike; so anything said about
Ebb holds good for Fob. He, too,
belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Earnest Potter—Potter is one of
the strongest candidates for a place
on the pitching staff this spring.
With plenty of stuff on the ball and
nerve to stay on the mound and re­main
steady in critical moments, Pot­ter
should have little trouble taking
his regular turn in the box when
activities get under way. Earnest
pays his dues to Alpha Tau Omega.
The big blond comes to us from a
town noted for its blonds, Anniston,
Alabama.
Norman "Cu.h" Wood—"Cush"
might be termed a late season find.
He was apparently an undiscovered
genius suddenly given his chance to
make good. He certainly made good.
With the season well spent Morey
found himself hard up for pitchers so
he shoved in Wood, a candidate late
in reporting for practice. Well to
make a short story shorter: Morey
shoved Wood in and Wood shoved the
ball across the plate in such a manner
that the would-be hitters wished there
had never been a Wood. "Cush" has
plenty of speed and marvelous con­trol.
If he could put some shrinking
liquid on the ball he could throw it
down a gnat's throat. Wood's home
is in Jasper, Ala. He is a member
of Pi Kappa Alpha.
"Buck" Ellis—This athlete certain­ly
needs no introduction to Auburn
sport followers. Not only was he
captain of the basketball team that
ceased activities only a week ago but
he was on the football team and
winner of the Porter Loving Cup last
spring. This is a trophy awarded
the best all round athlete in college.
"Buck" played outfield last season
and was lead off man in the batting
order. He is from Marvel, Ala., and
is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
"Jelly" Akin—This husky athlete
comes to Auburn from the neighbor­ing
town of Notasulga. He made his
debut in athletics here during his
freshman year when he was a star
on the Raj; basketball and baseball
team. Last spring he got-his first
tryout under Morey and made good
from the start. He had little diffi­culty
in landing a berth in the out­field
and he held to this place by
timely hitting and spectacular field­ing.
Auburn is counting on Akin to
Baskin Takes Over
Coaching Duties at
"Weemie" Baskin, track artist de
luxe, has been secured by Auburn
High to coach their prospects in
track for the coming spring compe­tition.
He has already sent a cross
country team to Montgomery and
come home with one of these big
Loving Cups. Quite a creditable
showing for one to make on their
first venture in a field of endeavor
where the competition is so hot. Bas­kin
should be able to give the boys
quite a bit on the high lights of
track work. He has met every kind
of competition in the south and still
not content he has journeyed to
Iowa and Chicago where he ran
Praise for him was nationwide when
he fell in the hurdle race in Chicago
and arose to his feet and passed over
twenty aspiring athletes. We hope
to see the boys at the high school step
out under such excellent coaching.
Lee County High
Closes Successful
Basketball Season
Under the direction of "Snitch"
Snyder, Lee County High closed out
a most successful season in the line
of cage competition. Their last stand
was made at the district tournament
some days ago where the High School
boys won a game by a close markin
of one point only to lose the follow­ing
game by the same margin. The
final conquerers of the local boys was
the fast team from Camp Hill, Ala.
In view of the fact that the can­didates
who reported to Snyder at
the beginning of the season were all
of the inexperienced type, the team
made an enviable record by winning
more than half their games. The
cagesters who usually started off for
the High School were Tamplin, Finch-er,
Ellis, Floyd, and Hatcher. Sny­der
was loud in praising words for
Tamplin. This young aspiring ath­lete
will in all probability make Au­burn
a good man in a few more years.
He is a three letter man at the high
school.
The victories credited to the Lee
County lads included games won from
such opposition as Opelika, Shawmutt,
and Tuskegee. With all the members
of the present team back for another
season there should be some high
stepping at_ the High School next
winter.
JOE WALLIS
This versatile player is the man
who will lead the Auburn Tigers to
the Southern Championship this year.
One of the team's most consistent
hitters, a fielder of merit, and an
against the best in the country, i fell-round star. Wallis is not the .easiest
in the world, there is no doubt that
Auburn with the aid of his capable
leadership will turn out a winning
team.
Wallis is not only prominent in the
athletic world, but he is also asso­ciated
with several campus activities.
He is a member of the Lambda Chi
Alpha fraternity and was elected to
Scarabs, local Senior honorary or­ganization.
Wallis, who is from Tal­ladega,
Alabama, will receive his di­ploma
this spring.
Auburn Girls Have
Disasterous Season
In Basketball 1927
come through again this season and
prove a more valuable man than he
was a year ago. Akin has a host
of friends on the campus who will
be yelling for him when the season
opens. He is a member of Alpha
Gamma Rho fraternity.
TIGER BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1927
March 29—Birmingham Barons _ - — at Auburn
March 30 and 31—Georgia _ at Auburn
April 1 and 2—Tulane . - at Auburn
April 4 and 5—Florida at Auburn
April 6—Montgomery Baseball Club _ at Auburn
April 8 and 9—Georgia Tech at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery
April 15 and 16—University of Illinois ... _ at Auburn
April 20 and 21—Clemson - at Clemson
April 22 and 23—University of S. C ...._ at Columbia
April 25, 26, and 27—Florida _,. at Tallahassee
April 29 and 30—Vandy — - at Auburn
May 4 and 5—Clemson 1 - - at Auburn
May 6 and 7—Vandy •.-. at Nashville
The Auburn Co-eds have recently
closed what might be termed a very
disasterous basketball season. Con­sidering
the enviable record estab­lished
by sisters of other years it is
a bad showing. We here that know
the situation as it really is though
are not criticising. Our girls have
worked hard and under almost im­passable
barriers to keep their team
going much less put out a winning
team. The spirit that they have
shown on the court is just what has
made Auburn the Auburn that it is.
They have worked hard with only a
few would be players to pick from
and part of the time without a coach.
They have to depend on some of the
varsity men or most anyone else that
knows anything about basketball to
coach them. If that isn't enough to
take the fight out of any team, what
will it take. Too, when they have a
game on the campus only the faith­ful
few will be on hand but if they
can't slip in they stay out. This is
the support they get from the stu­dent
body of Auburn and yet they
are a part of Auburn and are trying
hard to carry on in true Auburn
fashion.
During the past season there was
about ten girls out for the team and
most of them stuck it out the whole
season though some did not get in a
game. The team played eight games,
three of which were on the campus
and the others on the road. They
won three games and lost the others
mostly by rather close scores. There
was one exception though as Womans
College beat them just too bad (score
omitted). They were successful in
two games with Athens, winning
them 11-8 and 19-14, but failed in
an attempt to stop the Birmingham-
Southern girls in two games. The
Southern girls walked away at 32-16
and 31-23 in both games. Our Co­eds
gave them a scare on their home
court as the 31-23 game was played
there. At home they were to hold
Jacksonville to a 17-15 win and it
Track Candidates
Making Progress
Weemie Baskin, captain of the
track team for the season just get­ting
underway, makes a favorable re­port
of track prospects. With some­thing
over half a hundred candidates
out for the various positions and
many of these with past experience
and records that show them to have
the "stuff," Auburn is placing high
hopes on a most successful season.
Coach Hutsell is putting his men
through daily workouts in an effort
to get them in the best of condition
after which the weeding out process
will begin. Every aspirant for a
berth on the track team is being giv­en
a fair chance to show what is in
him and quite a number of new
faces are showing marked ability on
the cinder path. Baskin and Snyder
are the most outstanding stars from
last season's team and they are giv­ing
indications for a greater season
.than at any previous time. Baskin
can do about anything that is legit­imate
for a trackster to do. He is
running the high and low hurdles,
throwing the discus, making the shot
put, high jump and running with the
relay team. Snyder is running the
century-yard dash and the 220-yard
dash. He is also a broad jumper of
no mean ability. Other lumniaries
to display early season form are
"Speck" White, Tamplin, Broughton,
etc. Men to show ability that are
new on the cinder path are Lynne,
Aldridge, Pitts and Clayton. The
strength of the team will be some­what
bolstered by the addition of
such candidates as Tuxworth, Carter,
Turner, Pierce, and Howard. These
athletes have been keeping in physi­cal
trip by spring training.
TIGERS UNDERGOING STRENUOUS
TRAINING ON THE DIAMOND NOW
looked as if they were not going
to win at all. This was a real game
from start to finish. However in
the return game at Jacksonville, the
Normal girls were able to nearly
double the points of the Co-eds. This
game ended 23-12. Howard forfeit­ed
a game at Birmingham. (Guess
they are still thinking about those
big brutes that hit their little Billy.)
The members of last year's team
that were back this year were Ethel
Price, Edna Creel, Mabel Johnson,
Pertice Tucker and Ruby Powell. All
of these will be back next season
except Price and Powell. These mem­bers
made up the team this year, but
were backed by a team of reserves
that gives promise of being of real
value. The reserves were Mabel
Price, Hadie Nichols, Martra Haupt,
and Linnie Cline. All of these re­serves
should be back next year and
with them the girls should have a
better season. The squad as a whole
has worked hard, without support,
without help, and we might say al­most
without recognition, and though
they haven't won so many games,
they have done their best and should
be proud of their efforts though
the trophies are not forthcoming.
To them we bid adieu until the call
is sounded next year.
With one of the toughest schedules
ever undertaken by an Auburn base­ball
team facing them, the Tiger base­ball
artists are going through stren­uous
training daily in an effort to
round out a team that will make the
best teams in Dixie fear them. Under
the learedship of Captain Joe Wallis
and the supervision of King David
Morey and "Slick" Moulton, the
Plainsmen are expecting to make
a strong fight for the Southern Cham­pionship.
Last season the Tigers
landed third in the race which was
certainly a creditable showing in
view of the fact that the team was
composed of over half Sophomores.
With all these Sophomores back after
having played together all summer
and Wallis and Moulton of two sea­sons
experience on hand to help
mould together a nine that can stand
the gaff of a steady schedule, Auburn
supporters are becoming more and
more optimistic over the outcome of
the race.
The schedule is truly a tough one.
It begins with the entertainment of
the Birmingham Barons from the
Southern League. Of course this
game does not count materially to­ward
our final standing it is very de-israble
that we make a creditable
showing against the supposedly su­perior
players. The day following
this encounter with the Leaguers, the
first conference tilt will get under­way.
University of Georgia is furn­ishing
the opposition and from news­paper
reports the going should prove
rough for the home boys. Georgia
is out for revenge for the drubbing
Morey's crew administered to the
Bulldogs last spring. Florida and
Tulane come to the Plains the fol-
When Morey issued the first call
for candidates for his team he was
met by a response from the following
aspirants:
Catchers—Ebb James, Pee Wee
Wright, "Ingram, Stoves and Lowry.
First base—Fob James, Joe-Wallis.
Second base—Ed Allen, Curry,
Lee, Newsome, Smith and Worthing-ton.
Short Stop—Ben Sankey, Gilchrist,
and Clayton.
Third base—Hitchcock, Allen, and
Gilchrist.
Outfield—"Jelly" Akin, Buck Ellis,
Joe Wallis, Lefty Wattwood, Bob
Gantt, White, Taylor and Sims.
Pitchers—Pat Moulton, Earnest
Potter, Cush Wood, Pealy Grant, Mc-
Ghee, Maury, Strother, Hendrix, Wil­son,
and Fuller.
It is a big gamble to pick the ones
from this array of material who will
make the squad but a word might be
said as to who has shown up best
thus for. It looks as if James has
the catching job sewed up. His twin
brother has a pretty safe hold on
the appointment to cavort around the
initial sack. Wallis is certainly no
slouch in this territory but he can be
used to advantage in the outfield.
Hitchcock will in all probability be
assigned to the torrid corner with
Sankey and Allen leading the candi­dates
for the opportunity to play the
two sides of the keystone bag. How­ard
Smith has shown himself a worthy
candidate and will give one of these
lads a fight for a place. He should
make a good utility man in any case.
The outfield positions will be well
taken care of with such men as Ellis,
Akin, Wallis, and Wattwood fighting
for a berth. All of these men have
lowing week after which the Bengals j shown themselves timely hitters and
match their wits with the Baseball j as this is the most desirable quality
club from the neighboring city of j for an outfielder this is certainly
Montgomery, Ala. Conference acti- j pleasing to coaches and rooters. The
vities will be resumed in the Capitol pitching department is causing more
City with Georgia Tech on April 8 worry than anything else at present.
and 9. The Orange and Blue aggre­gation
return to the Village the next
week to take on the highly touted
team from the University of Illinois.
This will be followed by a two game
series with the Clemson Tigers. This
fray will in all probobility be rather
Pat Moulton, Potter, Wood, and Mc-
Ghee have shown more stuff up to
date but there is room for some more
pitching talent and at present Morey
is diverting much of his time to this
one phase of the game.
It would be very pleasing to see
easy sailing for the local boys. The i the bleachers filled with spectators
In a straw vote among about 2000
co-eds at the University of Southern
California, on the type of man they
thought was the most desirable for
a husband, the "Cave man" ran far
behind the "Home lovers." The
"Home lover" type got sixty per cent
of the total vote, the "Intellectual-professor"
type got 25 per cent, and
the "cave man" tied with the "club
man" with three per cent. Most of
the girls said that money was desir­able,
but not necessary to marital
happiness.
boys will follow this long home stay
with a trip to Carolina where the
University of South Carolina will try
to wrest victory from the Tigers. The
season will close with a two game
series with the Commodores from
Vanderbilt University.
during these practices with each on­looker
talking encouraging works to
his particular hero. Men you must
get behind this team and support
them throughout the coming spring.
Losing or winning we must get be­hind
them and yell for the Tigers.
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WHEN my father was in college, "Put that in
your pipe and smoke it!" was considered snappy
conversation. I'm ready to take this old line
literally when the talk centers around Prince
Albert. Because P. A. makes two of what I
like in a pipe.
All wise-cracking aside, P. A. is the money
when it comes to deep-down satisfaction in a
smoke. It's got everything! Cool as the trail
of the ice-man across the kitchen. Sweet as
vacation. Fragrant as a pine forest.
Think up your own similes. You'll write them
all in the column headed "Superlative Degree"
when you learn the joys of a jimmy-pipe and
Prince Albert. If you don't know this grand old
smoke, come around to my room and I'll give
you a load.
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tidy red tint, pound and half-pound
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STORY OF SUMMER WORKS
WINS PRIZE FROM "NATION"
The winner of the Student-Work­er
prize of $100 offered by The Na­tion
for the best account by an Amer­ican
college student of summer work
in industry or agriculture has been
awarded to Sol Auerbach of Phila­delphia,
a senior in the University
of Pennsylvania. The prize-winning
essay, "Taxi, Mister?", is printed in
the current issue of The Nation, (Da­ted
March 9th). Alfhild Johnson of
Oberlin was awarded the second prize
for his essay "Serfs of the Sea."
The judges in the contest were
Jerome Davis, Head of the Depart­ment
of Social Service at Yale, Pi-errepont
B. Noyes, president of the
Oneida Community, Leo Wolman,
head of the research department of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America, Florence Kelley, general
secretary of the National Consumers'
League, and Oswald Garrison Villard,
editor of The Nation.
Students from Yale, Harvard, Mich­igan,
Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, Bryn
Mawr, Oberlin, North Dakota, North­western,
Stanford and the University
of Pennsylvania took part in the con­test.
Railroading, mining, tanning,
dyeing and printing were some of
the industries in which the students
worked. Several were employed by
the Ford Motor Company.
Mr. Auerbach who drove a taxi for
the Yellow Cab Company of Phila­delphia,
says that during his three
months of work he has learned as
much as in his three years of college
and that he is "tickled to death when
a page of The History of Aesthetics
catches on a callous."
"Cement-Mixers" is Drivers Name
for Cab
They gave me what was officially
known as an 03 cab. The drivers
called them "boilers" or "cement
mixers." The cab is clumsy and dif­ficult
to steer. The gears are as hard
to shift as those of a five-ton truck.
The car cannot go*"up the slightest
grade on high. It has no self starter,
and since we were not allowed to
leave the motor running, our hands
from cranking became as calloused
as a pine cone.
Pay
We were paid on a purely commis­sion
basis of 33 1-3 percent. The cab
people had the Sesquicentennial hys­teria.
There were twice as many
Yellow Cabs on the street as in a
normal summer. The average pay
was about $20 a week to which 'can
be added $10 in tips.
Tips •
When I received my first few tips
I felt uncomfortable. It is an awk­ward
moment when you are counting
out the change with the question in
your mind, "What will he give me?
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Shall I give him a quarter, two dimes
and a nickel, or two quarters?" The
passenger at the same moment asks
himself, "What shall I give him. That
clever fellow is counting the change
with an idea." Sooner or later the
awkward moment becomes a part of
the "racket." Tips are figured in as
part of the earnings and the driver
looks upon them as his rightful wages.
A quarter is a satisfactory tip. More
often we got ten or fifteen cents,
and many times we were "left flat."
Biggest Tippers
Gangsters and gamblers are the
most liberal tippers. A workingman
with a family of six once a month
follows a close second. Jews, no
matter what class, are very liberal.
The usual run of people that we pick
out of the Bellevue Stratford and
the Ritz ride short and give you a
cheap cigar or ten cents. Once I
got a $5 tip from a man out of one
of the big hotels—and he wasn't
drunk. That is called a lucky break.
It is a cabman's dream and happens
once in a lifetime.
Things a Cab-driver Must Not See
People who have used cabs tell me
that a cab-driver looks so unapproach­able
and straight-faced that they are
afraid to speak to him. To look
that way is part of his business.
There are many things that a cab-driver
must not see. Strange hap­penings
in the back of his cab. Mys­terious
night journeys. All kinds of
people. But those very people should
hear their straight-laced, eyes-front
driver talk to his buddies in his mo­ments
of idle waiting. He has seen
everything. And there is hardly any­thing
new that happens. One runs
the whole gamut of such affairs in
a few weeks' time. I was on a night
shift. I saw the night life of the
city. I had worked at night before
as a newspaper carrier; but then I
saw the breadman, the milkman, the
people going out to work, lunch pail
in hand, wiping the sleep out of their
eyes, grim, hardened to work. This
summer I saw the pleasure-seeker,
hardened to runi, women, and gamb­ling.
I "played" regularly, after 1 a.m.,
the busiest street intersection of West
Philadelphia. On the second story
of one corner building was a large
gambling joint. A few doors along,
a saloon. A door or two on the
other side, a cafe where drink and
women were for sale. Two girls also
"played" that corner regularly. Ev­ery
night they were there and every
night they were "picked up," some­times
by cops, sometimes by smart
men in automobiles. Many a girl
was transferred from a private car
on that corner to a cab to be taken
home. Men have stepped into my
cab to go home and picked up a com­panion
out of the street. I have had
to lift drunks out of my cab who were
so powerless that they could not
open a door. During the day this
corner is the business and trading
center for the respectable families
of West Philadelphia. These things
do not happen once a week, or ever
once a night, but all night long in
all parts of the city.
Why Cab-drivers Are Hard to
Organise
I had my qualms about applying
to the Yellow Cab Company of Phil­adelphia.
When I had applied to
them two years before they had asked
me to sign L n-union agreement and
I had refused. Now they were under
Mitten management. There would
be no non-union agreement to sign,
but still there was no union.
Organization of transportation
workers meets with a great difficulty
in the fact that the nature of the job
is such that the men work by them­selves
or in groups of two. In the
case of the cab-drivers there is the
additional factor of a two-fold com­petition,
on the one hand among the
men of one company, on the other
hand between men of competing com­panies.
This very condition is ag­gravated
by the policy of the com­panies.
In case of strike, where the sym­pathy
of the public is of such im­portance,
the regular riders are not
such as would give thought to the
drivers. The workingman, from whom
sympathy is to be expected is not a
cab rider. Peaceful picketing is al­most
impossible since drivers are easy
to obtain, and scattered.
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at Burbank, California, and Col­lege
Humor o'f Chicago, Illinois, are
joint sponsors of the idea which is
destined to bring to the studios a
number of collegians, who will be giv­en
every opportunity to develop their
histrionic talents and to cash in on
their photographic personalities.
Details of the contest are announc­ed
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Just a few more months and the
class of '27 will graduate from A. P.
I. Not that it is anything unusual
for a class to graduate, but as I sat
one afternoon watching the beautiful
sunset, the flaming ball of fire sank
slowly out of sight behind a clump
of stately trees leaving a golden glow
of tinted color over the western sky.
I wondered and tried to picture the
future of my classmates as we sep­arate
for our individual routes of
life.
I tried to fancy and live the feel­ing
of a graduate. Would it not be
a mixture of gladness , regret, and
great anticipation or would we feel
as lost sheep, away from the beloved
and protecting walls of Alma Mater.
I did not know, but was soon to know
from experience.
We were sent to school for the
purpose of cultivating and develop­ing
our intellectual powers, to be
trained for life's journey, to be able
to accomplish the larger hope of the
world's citizenship, and to recognize
the good things of life when we see
them. Have we properly availed our­selves
and minds of this wonderful
opportunity?
It is left entirely, to us, as to what
we carry away from Auburn. Each
of us will carry away something, but
as to its largeness again it is up to
us alone, for the ruling powers of the
school did their part in helping to
lessen the responsibilities which are
sure to come later in life. A few
gave their best and in return they
have received more than they put in.
But whether we walked or not, I am
sure there are some good impressions
made on the mind which will stay
forever.
When we leave here I hope this will
not be the summit of our knowledge
or the forgotten lights of the other
days, but we will keep climbing and
realize our most perfect dreams and
highest ambitions. Let us hope that
there will not be one of us to find
the way of life distasteful and to re­member,
"All things are ready if our
minds are so." If we play the game
of life fairly and squarely the real
fruit of our labor will be the founda­tion
for other work. As to the depth
and strength of it this will be seen
later. Now the real stories are yet
to be written, which Father Time can
reveal.
Miss Lema Easley, general secre­tary
for Montgomery Y. W. C. A.,
visited Auburn this week to inter­view
girls for the summer work at
Camp Grantview.
Miss Easley stated that she had
traveled extensively in the United
States and that never a more delight­ful
camp has she found than Camp
Grantview.
The Montgomery Y. W. C. A., of
which Miss Easley is general secre­tary,
is composed of several depart­ments;
namely, Department of Home,
which takes care of 35 girls; Depart­ment
of Girls Reserve; Department of
Food Reserve, at who's head is an
Auburn girl; Department of Physi­cal
Education and Recreational De­partment
in which Camp Grantview
is made possible.
Camp Grantview is located 13 miles
from Montgomery. There you will
search for new faces and new talent,
First National Pictures will send com­petent
directors, camera men, and
make-up men to the leading colleges
and universities in the country with­in
the next few weeks to study pres­ent
day college men and to make
screen tests of those whose qualifi­cations
merit most consideration.
Directly responsible for the plan to
bring college men into the ranks of
future screen stars are John MeCor-mick,
General Manager of West Coast
Productions of First National Pic­tures,
and H. N. Swanson, Editor of
College Humor. They are now map­ping
out the routes to be taken by
the units to get the tests and the man­ner
in which they will be made will
be announced in the May issue of Col­lege
Humor.
Motion pictures provide a splendid
opportunity for the college man who
embodies all progressive ideas and
ideals of present day young Ameri­cans,
and First National Pictures is
desirous of developing the talents of
those who have personality and who
are willing to work industriously for
success.
Mr. McCormick states: "We cannot
expect all prospective screen players
to visit our studios, so we have ar­ranged
to go to the universities and
select those who we feel justify con­sideration."
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find a place of pleasure and happi­ness.
The camp consists of modern
camp houses, swimming pools, hik­ing,
horse back riding and tennis.
All girls wishing to go to the camp
for the summer may do so at a very
minimum rate, a registration fee of
two dollars and a dollar a day for
board and room. A total of 878 girls
attended the camp last summer.
Several Auburn girls wil be at
Camp Grantview this summer to help
conduct the work of the camp, all the
girls are to hold responsible positions.
Miss Easley is an Alabamaian by
birth, born in Pikinsville, Pikens
county. During the war she rendered
her services to the Y. W. C. A. at an
aviation camp in Mississippi. At
the close of the war she was made
National Finance Secretary of the
Y. W. C. A. Her territory included
eastern United States, headquarters
being in New York. For the past
two years she has been general sec­retary
for Montgomery Y. W. C. A.
where she is doing splendid work.
S.A.M.E. HOLDS
SHORT MEETING
The S. A. M. E. had a short bus­iness
meeting Tuesday night starting
at 6:30.
Mr. Folks was the only speaker on
the program and gave an interesting
talk on "State Docks." He told how
the L. & N. Railroad was moved and
the problems that were faced in do­ing
it.
The rest of the meeting was set
aside for the election of officers for
the remainder of the year and next
year. Mr. W. D. Alston was elected
president, W. F. Wright, vice-pres­ident,
H. B. Simms, secreatry, and
treasurer, H. M. Hanbury and S. L.
Hancock were elected as publicity
agents.
The meeting adjourned at 7:10 in
time for the meeting in Langdon
Hall.
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WEATHER FOR
FEBRUARY WAS
ABOUT NORMAL
Prof. J. M. Robinson Proves
Assertion With Statistics
Although the temperature during
fifteen days of February was 70 de­grees
or higher, Prof. J. M. Robinson,
who is in charge of the local weather
station, says that Feburary weather
was as a whole normal. The mean
normal temperature for the month
was 52 and that for the month just
closed was 51. Normal rainfall for
Feburary at Auburn is 5.59 inches
and that for February, 1927, was
6.06.
At a meeting of the Auburn Lions
Club held at the Auburn Inn Tues­day
morning the furtherance of plans
were discussed for the inspection of
all colored people engaged in such
occupations as cooking, and caring
for young children. The plans as"
-fostered by The Lions, The Villag­ers,
and The Woman's Club, provide
for the sanitary inspection of these
servants with the object of checking
the spread of contageous diseases and
creating a more healthful atmosphere
in the city. Each person inspected,
it is understood, will be given a health
certificate. Those to be inspected, ac­cording
to latest information, are
willing to cooperate with the clubs,
and it is expected that something more
definite will result in the near fu­ture.
.
The Lions are also discussing plans
for a more efficient fire department,
ate strong supporters of the Au­burn
team, and stand behind the boy
scout movement. Since their organi­zation
in Auburn they have done
much toward the upbuilding of the
town and aiding the college.
As guests of the club on Tuesday
were Reverend Lee, of the Auburn
Episcopal church, and Bishop Henry
Judah Mikell of the Episcopal dio­cese
of Atlanta.
WAPI PROGRAM
FOR NEXT WEEK
IS MADE KNOWN
NINE SENIORS ARE ELECTED
BY HONOR SOCIETY
BISHOP MIKELL TALKS
AT RAT CONVOCATION
(Continued from page 1)
Tallahassee; S. L. Worley, New Hope;
W. G. Wooten, Siluria; W. D. Lucas,
Abbeville; and M. E. Stephens, At-talla.
To make Gamma Sigma Delta, ag­ricultural
students must be among
the upper fourth in the class in schol­arship,
and in addition have taken
an active part in student affairs and
other college life. Gamma Sigma Del.
ta is a national honor society of agri­culture,
of which chapters are main­tained
at nearly all of the leading
colleges of agriculture in the United
States, but only a few of the south­ern
colleges have chapters.
Following the initiation a dinner
was served at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. F. W, Parker at which members
of the faculty as well as students
were present.
At the same time officers were elect­ed
for the ensuing year. They are
Prof. W. E. Sewell, president; Otto
Brown, vice-president; and F. E. Guy-ton,
secretary. ,
(Continued from page 1)
ing his talk showed that every person
present realized the import of the
theme.
Bishop Mikell began by asking the
question: "What is Life?" He said
that life was something to be enjoy­ed.
We should, by being closer to
God, be happier in our lives. God
gave us our life to be enjoyed. To
derive the greatest joy from it we
must have a faith in God. Along
with our life God gave us good physi­cal
bodies with which to combat both
the physical and mental hardships of
the world. With the mind and body
with which God blessed us all, we
should lift ourselves above the petty
and sinful things of life, and by so
doing we should be happy in our ac­complishments.
The next factor of life is love, ac­cording
to Bishop Mikell. Love is a
great thing. Without it our life is
incomplete and very likely unhappy.
"Love thy neighbor as thyself." But
in order to make our love of our fel-lowman
a true love we must learn to
serve. We must learn to serve God
and to help our fellowman in the
That Comfortable Feeling—
Of being Ivell dressed is assured when
you have your clothes pressed at
AVERY'S PRESSING CLUB
Phone 180
One of the outstanding features
to be broadcast from Station WAPI
during the week beginning March
14 will be a concert by the Auburn
band Tuesday night under the direc­tion
of P. R. Bidez. The noon pro­grams
begin at 12:00 and the even­ing
programs at 8: CO.
Monday noon, Mrs. A. D. Mayo in
solo numbers. J. D. Pope on the ag­ricultural
outlook, and John Ivey on
the Alabama egg-laying contest re­port.
Monday night, silent.
Tuesday noon, special music by the
"College Two." W. H. Daughrity will
give a book review.
Wednesday noon, the studio or­chestra.
"Aunt Sammy" is to talk
to housewives; Dr. C. A. Cary on a
livestock topic; and Prof. J. M. Rob­inson
on controlling garden insects.
Thursday noon, solos by Mr. O. D.
Langston. Summer lawns by Prof.
L. M. Ware, and Auburn news notes
by Prof. Hugh G. Grant.
Thursday night, the studio orches­tra
with Mrs. Caroline Samford Giles,
contralto. Dr. George Petrie will dis­cuss
a current topic, and Mr. W. B.
McKinstry, comptroller of the C. of
Ga. R. R. will discuss railroad ac­counts.
Friday noon, Jesse French Victor
program. "Aunt Sammy" will give
her regular weekly talk, and a class
in the radio livestock school will be
conducted by Prof. W. H. Eaton and
Prof. W. E. Sewell.
Friday night, musical program by
artists from Columbus, Ga., under the
direction of Edgar White.
Saturday noon, studio trio in mus­ical
selections. Coach John E. Pitts
will discuss football preparation and
training for next season.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
We noticed that "Seedy" Lynne
made the concert given by the Wo­man's
College Glee, Club. He sat on
the front row too. So far, so good,
but that is not all. He absent-mind­edly
thought that he was in church
and went to sleep. We have heard
several comment on the "deep bass"
displayed by this talented group of
feminine musicians, but we believe
that this will clear up the mystery.
* * * * *
Goofey Williams—"Is Squatty Mc­Donald
tight?"
Tom Mosley—"Is he? Why, if you
give him a nickle and put a hickory
nut between his toes and try to take
the nickle away from him, he will
crack the hickory nut."
* * * * *
To beat or not to beat. That is the
question! Or at least it seemed to
be thus in Dr. Showalter's 8 o'clock
Psychology class when he failed to
appear last Wednesday morning. The
class beat about twenty minutes af­ter
the hour, but even then some of
our dear students loved the course
so well that they remained the rest
of the hour. These are Prof. Terry,
Lucy Parker, Herchel Hatchet, W.
C. Friday, and Mary Foster. But
that is not all. Harvey Pate went out
with the rest of the class, but when
the hour was about half gone Har­vey
was seen sneaking back into the
room. He stayed there with the five
.that are named above until the end
of the hour.
* * * * *
We understand that the A Club
had a dance last Friday night. But
we think it was the co-eds night. All
of them had a good time, despite the
fact that there was one visiting girl.
PHI DELTA RH0
ENTERTAINED
"There's a time and place for all
things" so last week was the time
for the Phi Delta Rho sorority initia­tion
at their room. The girls were
carried through the regular form of
initiation, which furnished plenty of
amusement for the old girls.
After several hours of fun, tea
and sandwiches were served to the
following initiates:
Vera Isbell, Linnie Cline, Rebecca
Pate, Mrs. Lowery, Viola Thorn, Mar­tha
Haupt, Jane Springer, Gertrude
Gerber, Hadie Nichols, Cindy Lester.
* * * * *
Snitz Snider enjoyed the dance
tremendously. He spent the entire
evening in the stag line.
* * * * *
The Tulane Dental Clinic was visit­ed
by more than 13,000 patients last
year, setting a new record there.
The attendance so far this year is
over one thousand better than the
same period last year.—Tulane Hul­labaloo.
AUBURN FOR CHRIST
9:30 A. M.
11:00 A. M.
6:30 P. M.
7:00 P. M.
Sunday School
The Miracle of Money
Christian Endeavor
What is Salvation
AUBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
time of his need. Above all these
things in life is prayer. Prayer, along
with the reading of God's Word, de­velops
the muscles of the soul and
gives it the power to withstand the
temptations that come in one's life.
But doubts enter everyone's life.
It is not wrong to doubt if behind
it is a faith which might have just
received a jar and which can be re­juvenated.
Indifference also enters
in life. A lack of performance of du­ties
is another entry in our lives
which must be watched.
The Bishop ended his talk by say­ing
that we must keep our efforts
up continually. We must live one
day at a time and not leave any­thing
until tomorrow if it falls into
the duties of today. The summary
of the address was to think, to love,
to serve, and to pray in order to live
a worthwhile and happy life.
Bishop Mikell delivered a benedic­tion
after he had given to his hear­ers
his message.
This was a "semi-formal" dance.
Half of the men that attended wore
Tuxes and the other half wore clothes.
* * * * *
The Sigma Nu's order of tuxes
from Sears and Roebuck had just
arrived.
* * * * *
Brother John Garret was there too.
Brother John brought one of our most
popular candidates for May Queen.
But that did not mean anything. He
could not compete against Rat Hoff­man.
But even this rodent could
not make any headway, when Harry
Fulwiler entered the competition.
Harry broke the non-Auburn record
for dancing continuously with one
girl. He danced eight dances and sat
out two, with the said candidate. We
wonder if there is. any politics in­volved.
* * * * *
Ah! The plot deepens. We must
shift our scene of action from the
Gym to the Lambda Chi house. The
Hon. R. Jaggard Leary heard of the
above-mentioned incident, and • he
now says that unless there is a sat­isfactory
explanation, or something
similar, he must break his engage­ment.
* * * * *
Vera Isbell says that as a shiek
Cannonball Purser will make a good
oil can.
* * * * *
Given: (Scene: In her front porch
swing about 10:45 P. M.)
She—"I am cold."
Royce Crawford—"Would you like
to have something around you?"
She—"Yes, dear."
Royce—"What would you prefer?"
She—"Oh, anything."
(And Royce brought her a shawl).
To Find: Who is she?
* * * * *
We hear that Teddy Thorn thinks
he is a shiek too. Or at least he has
gotten the habit of hanging around
the Zoo. But we seriously doubt
that he can take the place of Brother
John Garret, Royce Crawford, and
Cannonball Purser.
* * * * *
We hear that Red Edwards is so
dumb he thinks tha the only way
they neck in France is with a guillo­tine.
* * * * *
UNIQUE PLAN OF
COOPERATION IS
AGREED UPON
Unique plan of cooperation be­tween
the white and colored races
in Auburn was worked out here last
night by both a committee of Auburn
white citizens and a committee of
negroes. The plan provided for free
physical examination of all negro
nurses, cooks, and those who wash
clothes, the idea being to eradicate
disease in the Auburn community.
The first clinic for the examina­tions
is scheduled for April 11, 12,
and 13 at the negro schoolhouse in
Auburn.
The plan was promulgated by the
Villagers and Lions Clubs, the Cham­ber
of Commerce, and the Woman's
Club, as well as the negro Masonic
club and the Knights of Pythias or­ganization.
The two comittees in charge of the
work include the following: Prof. C.
L. Hare, Dr. I. S. McAdory, Homer
Wright, Dr. R. S. Sugg, and Prof.
Zebulon Judd, representing the white
organizations, while the negro com­mittee
consists of Wilbur Martin,
John Kolb and E. Renfro.
Matinee 10 and 20c
Comedy: "Shell Shocked"
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SATURDAY
M a t i n e e 10 and 20c
Mermaid Comedy
" A F l a m i n g R o m a n c e"
W a r n e r F e a t u re
" H O G A N ' S ALLEY"
S t a r r i ng
PATSY RUTH MILLER
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(Continued from page 1)
latest success proves that their work
finds favor here, and owing to this
success, plans have been made to pre­sent
another play within the next
month. The next, known as the
Graustark type of play, is to be
"Cabbages and Queens" and will be
presented in both Auburn and Ope-lika.
THE
TOGGERY SHOP
A New Shipment of
EXTRA PANTS, TIES,
AND SHIRTS
Sporting Goods
College Jewelry
Tennis Rackets Restrung
We a r e t a k i n g ' o r d e r s for
ENGRAVED CARDS
Now
Don't forget yours.
Burton s Bookstore
Forty-nine years old and
still growing
We did not know that a Shakes­pearian
play had come to Auburn,
but nevertheless, the opening of the
"great white way" might well be
named "Much ado about nothing."
But the mystery is: Why won't the
white way stay white? We head that
Sam Mosley ran into a post in front
of Toomer's Drug Store the other
night, while returning from one of
his dates. We would suggest that,
since we have the white way, we use
it occasionally.
* * * * *
We would suggest a traffic tower
as the next improvement for our
thriving metropolis. (Exit).
Safe-guarding tobacco's
priceless asset
MOORE'S MARKET
IS
AUBURN'S
MARKET
Thirty-eight students at the Uni­versity
of Minnesota were expelled
from that institution because they
refused to take Military Drill. Some
of these men have been reinstated
for various reasons, but part of them
are still in the state of expulsion.
There has been quite a furious attack
made on the tactics of this Univer­sity
since this event took place. The
The Midwest Student, a midwest in­tercollegiate
monthly, has asked these
questions:
Has the University the right to
expell its students when they are
delinquent in Military Drill?
Is the State under the rule of Mar­tial
Law?
It seems that there has been a lot
of wrangling over the problem of
enforced Military Training in some of
the Northern institutions this year.
It seems to us like they might as well
go on and take it, for it was ordered
by Uncle Sam, and it can do no harm,
to say the least.—New Student.
TOBACCO
A new system of teaching has been
instituted at Antioch College (Ohio)
At the center of the plan is the idea
of abolishing all mass methods and
permitting every student to do inde­pendent
work in his own way, at his
own speed, to his own capacity, with
his own resources—-the teacher acting
as helper and adviser in the pinches.
The semester's work in each sub­ject
will be carefully outlined and
every student allowed to master it
in his own way. The only require­ments
will be that he pass the periodic
examinations and cover the work.
Lecture rooms will be turned into
study rooms.—New Student
TOBACCO that's a veritable treasure, a
wealth of rich mellowness, worth its
weight in gold... deserves every possible
protection to assure its safe-keeping. So,
the utmost precaution is taken to safe'
guard Granger's priceless properties.
To prevent the loss of one bit of its
freshness, Granger is first packed in a
heavy-foil pouch... Then to be ioo% on
the safe-side, this is sealed 'AIR-TIGHT' in
an extra outside-wrapper of glassine—
keeping the tobacco 'factory-fresh' till you
break the seal to load your pipe!
Our chemists say it is 'an almost perfect
seal for tobacco condition1—protecting
tobacco better than any container except
the VACUUM tin. Then, because it is much
less expensive than a costly pocket-tin,
Granger's pocket-packet sells at just ten
cents. It's the greatest value ever offered
to pipe-smokers!
GRANGER
ROUGH CUT
The half-pound vac­uum
tin is forty-6ve
cents, the foil-pouch
package, sealed in
glassine, is ten cents. ^GRANGER fe
Made
for pipes only !
Jranger Rough Cut is made by the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company