1930-02-07 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 NUMBER 36
Auburn Basketeers Lose 2 7 4 4;
LS.U. Tightens in Second Period
Announce Rat
Nominees For
Executive Cab.
LES GARAHAN LEADS
SLASHING ATTACK OF
L.S.U. TIGER QUINTET
Louisianians Use Many Substi­tutes
to Comparatively Few
By Auburn in Final Period
TIGERS STRONG IN FIRST
Superior Pass Work and Goal
Shooting Bring Downfall
To Plainsmen
Phi Delta Gamma
Making Plans For
Debating Tourney
Will Be First All-College De­bating
Tournament f i e ld
In Auburn
Though displaying great form in
the first period to show 17 points to
19 for L. S. U., the Tiger cagesters
lost steam in the second half to lose
to the Louisiana State quintet by the
score of 44-27. Captain Les Garahan
led the L. S. U. lads to their decisive
victory over the Plainsmen, opening
a withering scoring attack in the final
period to give him high point honors
with a total of 17 points.
The second half of the game was
marked for L. S. U. by repeated sub­stitutions,
while the Auburn substi­tutions
were comparatively few.
During the first half the two teams
battled on nearly equal terms, but
in the second half the Auburnites
wilted under Louisiana's superior
pass work and goal shooting to
crumple before the slashing South­erners.
Garaham seemed to be the "decid­ing
factor" in the game. Confining
his efforts mainly to passing work
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Lions Club Installs
F. M. Orr, Jr., Pres.
Many Prominent Visitors Are Guest
Of Club At Luncheon
Frank M. Orr, Jr. was installed as
president of the Lion's Club for the
coming year at the luncheon-of the
civic club on Tuesday. Lieutenant
Townsley, retiring president admini
stered the oath of office to the re­cently
elected officers. The other
officers installed were R. D. Doner,
1st vice-president; F. E. Guyton, 2nd
vice-president; J. L. Seal, 3rd vice-president;
W. T. Ingram, secretary;
Chas. W. Edwards, treasurer; Jas A.
Bain, Lion Tamer; John D. King, tail
twister; and Lieutenant Townsley, H.
C. Dillon, and C. E. Pease, directors.
President Orr made a short speech
following the installation, promising
to loyally support the ideals and pro­jects
of the club.
Dr. Ferguson of Iowa, Dr. Wright
of Ohio, Dr. Eastman of Iowa, and
Mr. Meadows, Mr. Scott, and Mr.
Sterke, native Alabamians, were the
guests of the club, and on being in­troduced,
commended members of the
club on their selection of officers,
and further wished them success in
their work.
Plans for the mammoth debating
tournament sponsored by Phi Delta
Gamma, Professional H o n o r a ry
forensic fraternity, were carried a
step farther toward completion last
night when the schedule for the de-^
bates, the organizations to whom in
vitations would be sent to compete,
the subjects selected, the manner of
judging arranged, and the award to
the team winning in the final debate
were all tentatively attended to
The committee in charge of the
tourney proposes to personally see
the organizations under consid"'-'*-'""
and put the idea before them. It was
voiced that cooperation rather than
the slightest opposition would be the
ultimate outcome of most of the in
vitations.
The schedule is about finished. In
the first round the subject and op
ponents for each contest will be se
lected, but after that the debaters
may choose anyone of a dozen or so
subjects. The organized bodies that
are to be competing are mostly those
of the campus organizations. The
committee decided that the student
body was better represented by or­ganized
groups than by private teams.
Every subject selected will be of
direct interest to the student body,
college, and town of Auburn. No ef­fort
was made to pick topics foreign
to the direct interest of the local
students. Any doubtful subjects were
shunned by the committee as far as
was possible.
The team winning the final debate
will receive a suitable award in be­half
of the club which it represents.
This is the first time in Auburn
anything such as this has been at­tempted.
In the past individual con­tests
have been arranged, but a tour-iney
in something new. The opinion
was expressed, though, that a new
meaning in college activities will be
had when this full schedule has been
carried out. The English department
and many college officials, including
Dr. Knapp, are in favor of this pro
ject.
The detail plan will be worked out
this week. And within two weeks the
entire program will be ready to an­nounce.
Auburn Graduate
Attends Convention
Attended Large Convention Of Ex­plosives
Department In
Delaware
R. C. Brown, an Auburn graduate
and technical field man of E. I. du
Pont de Nemours and Company, at­tended
the Fourteenth Technical Sec­tion
Convention of the Explosives De­partment
of that company which was
held in Wilmington, Delaware, on
February 4, 5, and 6. This is the
largest convention of its kind held an-ually
in the United States. Subjects
concerning all phases of the uses of
explosives were discussed.
NOTICE
Tryouts for the Varsity Pistol
Team will be held Monday and Tues­day
afternoons, February 10 and 11,
from 2:30 to 4:00 o'clock. This is
open to all upperclassmen taking R.
O. T. C. training. Engineers are
eligible this year.
Auburn Students Will
Make Inspection Tour
Twenty-Eight Seniors In Engineering
Will Go On Trip
Twenty-eight Auburn students will
get a glimpse Monday of how such
engineering knowledge as they have
gained at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute during the last four years
is used by practicing engineeers
Travelling in a large buss, they will
leave Auburn Sunday to visit the
plant of the Gulf State Steel Com­pany
at Alabama City, near Gadsden.
They will observe the manufacture
of steel and other products at this
plant. Special attention will be given
to the extensive wire, nail, reinforced
rod, and ormco iron manufacturing,
They will see the now $5,000,000 sheet
and plate mill being constructed and
a modern power plant, burning blast
furnace gases, which has just been
completed.
Prof. C. R. Hixon of the department
of mechanical engineering, and Prof.
C. A. Basore of the chemistry 'depart­ment
will be in charge of the party,
Students from the mechanical en­gineering
department who will make
the trip are: C. C. Bush, Geo. Craw­ford,
E. L. Dean, L. S. Fennell, M. A.
Franklin, H. L. Green, S. R. Hood, H.
J. Jones, Karl Nickerson, E. Palm,
G. F. Pomeroy, O. G. Quenelle, L. L.
Sledge, G. W. Smith, W. H. Smith,
S. C. Subers, W. M. Thomas, and J.
L. Underwood.
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Only Eight Representatives
Named For Position By
Under-Classmen
TWO TO BE CHOSEN
Teague Urges Cooperation Of
Entire Freshman Class In
Coming Election
Only eight nominations for-fresh­man
representatives j to the Execu­tive
Cabinet were turned in, Carmon
E. Teague, president of the Cabinet,
announced yesterday.
Two men are to be elected from
the following eight nominees: Lee
Johnson, Ike Parker, Howard King,
Charles W. Stickle, J. B. Brooks, Jack
Williams, William Jackson and W.
D. Reaves.
Thursday, February 20, -has been
appointed as the date on which the
freshmen will be chosen. The exact
hours and the location of the polls
have not yet been announced.
Teague urged that the members of
the Freshman Class support the Cabi
net and vote for the men they thought
best fitted for the positions. Only
freshmen are allowed to vote in this
election.
The two successful candidates will
serve in office for the remainder of
the semester.
VETERINARIANS OF
MANY STATES HERE
FOR SHORT COURSE
Dean Says Veterinary Field
Broadened Since Opening
Of Automotive Age
Special replacement of horses and
mules with automobiles and tractors
has broadened instead of curtailed
the field of the veterinarian, and the
demand for gradaute veterinarians
is now greater in the nation and in
the South than ever before.
This statement was made by Dean
C. A. Cary of the School of Veterin­ary
Medicine here and State veterin­arian
at a banquet here during the
annual short course for graduate
veterinarians. It opened Monday and
ended Saturday after a week of uni­que
clinics and lectures. Fifty grad­uate
veterinarians from 12 states at­tended.
"Power traction machines have
forced the veterinarian to consider
more intensely and carefully the di­seases
of other domestic animals,"
explained the dean. "There was a
time when veterinarians paid little
attention to diseases of dogs, poultry,
sheep and swine, but the automobile
and tractor forced them to study and
treat these diseases, and a new field
was opened. In fact, practice at
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Phi Delta Gamma
Elects Officers
Murff Hawkins Is Elected President
Of Fraternity
Phi Delta Gamma, hororary foren­sic
fraternity, has announced the
election of officers of the organiza­tion
for the year 1930. Murff
Hawkins was the choice of the frat
for president. For vice-president the
society selected R. L. Lovvorn, and
for secretary and treasurer, G. L.
Williamson.
The new officers succeed: A. V.
Blankenship, ex-president; H. O.
Davis, ex-vice-president; J. J.
O'Rouke, ex-secretary and treasurer.
" All of the new officers are among
the "eminents" in campus forensic
activities.
NOTICE!
CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS
Letters to the campus organizations
for nominations for the Blue Key
Trophy have been unavoidably de­layed
and will be mailed Monday. The
nominations will be returned to Dr.
Knapp at a later date than Monday
noon, as previously announced.
GovernorGraves
Wifl Speak Here
On February 22
Review Of R. O. T. C. Unit and
Address Features Washing­ton
Birthday Celebration
TRUSTEES TO MEET
Visitors Expected to Be Here
to Witness Review and Hear
Governor's Address
Governor Bibb Graves will be the
principal speaker at the annual
Washington's Birthday celebration by
the institution this year. The
tentative program for the day as
announced by Major Kennedy will in
elude the address by the governor
and a review of the R. O. T. C. unit
at ten o'clock.
On this occasion, the board of trus­tees
of the college will be in Auburn
for their annual meeting, and it is
planned to show them Auburn at its
best.
The review will be followed by the
address to the student body in Land-gon
Hall.
The unit will be reviewed by Gov
ernor Graves and the board of trus
tees, and this being the first day that
they have seen the cadets in the new
uniforms, Major Kennedy stated that
he hoped to make this review the best
ever held in Auburn. The governor
himself was once a soldier, and the
business of reviews is not new to him
The annual observance is always
with fitting exercises by the military
department. It is always held on
February 22, the anniversary of the
birth of George Washington.
A large number of visitors from
this vicinity are expected to visit Au­burn
in order to witness the review
and hear the governor speak.
Dr. Knapp Chosen
Head Of Ag. Ass'n.
Is Elected to Office At Convention
In Jackson, Mississippi
President Bradford Knapp is now
president of the Association of South­ern
Agricultural Workers. He was
elected to this high office Feb. 7, at
the close of the thirty-first annual
convention of the association at
Jackson, Miss.
Dr. Knapp succeeds Dr. Wilmon
Newell, dean of the college of agri­culture
at the University of Florida.
Other new officers are: Dr. E. C.
Brooks, president of North Carolina
State College, Raleigh, first vice-president;
J. Phil Campbell, director
of extension, Georgia State College
of Agriculture, Athens, secretary-treasurer.
Auburn's president was the retir­ing
vice-president of the body, and,
due to the absence of Dr. Newell, pre­sided
at opening sessions of the three-day
Jackson meeting. In addition to
participating in the discussions, espe­cially
those on cotton acreage reduc­tion
and achievement of a staple
price basis for cotton, Dr. Knapp ad­dresses
the convention on research
in agriculture and industry.
In electing Dr. Knapp, the associ­ation
named as its leader, a man who
has been at the forefront of agricul­tural
progress in the South for the
past two decades.
Prof. Roe Entertains
Pharmacy Society
Gives Several Vocal Selections In
German and French
The members of the Pharmaceuti­cal
Society were entertained at their
meeting Monday evening by Profes­sor
J. W. Roe, better known as
"Baldy." He gave several vocal se­lections
in French and German and
a number of banjo selections. One
of the freshmen who is able to speak
French fluently joined the professor
in some of the French songs. The
program was completed by the pro­fessor
telling some jokes in his custo­mary
witty fashion.
Brilliant Editor
Here In Interest
Poetry In South
Hartsock Urges Young Writers
to Aid In Development Of
Southern Poetry
GREAT FUTURE IN DIXIE
Is Strong Advocate Of Pub­lication
of Student's Literary
Magazine
Brilliant, enthusiastic, and sincere,
such were the impressions received
by those who had the opportunity to
see and hear Ernest Hartsock the
young Atlantan editor, this past week.
Medium in stature, with blue-grey
eyes, and wavy brown hair, Mr. Hart­sock
quickly quelled the imagination
many have in regard to the queer
looks of poets. His voice, rich in
tonal quality, and his unaffected
poise dominated his appearance and
lent him an air of reserved energy.
His "restless energy" was put to
severe task during the few days he
spent at Auburn. Lunch at the Ro-tarian
Club, lectures to the student
bodies, a dinner at the home of Mrs.
Zebulon Judd, a reading over WAPI,
and a reception at Smith Hall formed
the strenuous program which this
young genius fulfilled.
In his lectures Mr. Hartsock ad­vised
writers "in the bud" to stay
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10 HONOR STUDENTS
CHOSEN MEMBERS OF
AG HONOR SOCIETY
Men Chosen F r o m Upper
Fourth of Senior Class In
Agriculture
Membership in Gamma Sigma Del­ta,
one of the highest of agricultural
honor societies, has been bestowed to
the following men: J. R. Carreker,
W. B. Story, H. C. Sexton, H. D. Sex­ton,
D. M. Turney, A. F. Bass, B. H.
Grigsby, J. M. Henderson, F. N. Far-rington
and H. Granade.
Every year men are chosen from
the upper one-fourth of the senior
and graduate classes in agriculture.
These men are chosen according to
their scholastic records as well as
their participation in campus activi­ties
during their undergraduate
years. Faculty members of outstand­ing
ability are also eligible.
The initiation of these men will
be held in the early part of March.
Professor Fick, president of the so­ciety,
announced that later, in May,
the annual banquet of the association
would be held. At that time, a sil­ver
cup, won last year by John Car­reker,
will be given to the junior who
has shown the most progress in the
department.
Y. M. C. A. Discussion
Group Meetings Start
Will Begin Monday Night At 6:30 In
"Y" Lecture Room
The second series of Y. M. C. A.
discussion group meetings will be
started Monday night at 6:30 in the
Y. M. C. A. lecture room. All cap­tains
and lieutenants are urged to be
there as some changes in the contest
rules will be announced. Any other
person who desires to do Y. M. C. A.
work should attend this meeting and
get in touch with some member of the
cabinet who will be glad to assist
students in getting started in the
work.
Some very good work was displayed
in the contest held last semester and
much more is expected this semester.
Vester Taylor was the lieutenant of
the winning group last semester. He
and his group were treated to a
picture show as a reward for their
work.
NOTICE
A box for the depositing of bids to
the Military Ball has been placed at
the Student Supply Shop. All bids
must be turned in by next Wednes­day,
February 12, as they will be
taken up at that time.
Omicron Delta Kappa To Sponsor
Broadcast Of Auburn College life
Glee Club To Play
Here Following A
Tour of Ala* Cities
Professor Brigham Well Pleas­e
d With Showing of Strong
Organization
On Friday, February 21, the men's
Glee Club will present a concert here
in Langdon Hall; the same program
which is to be given on the coming
tour will be presented at this time
to Auburn.
Monday will witness the departing
of the club on its "first tour of the
1930 season; it will be the first trip
under the new director, Professor
John W. Brigham. Two large busses
will be used to make the trip.
Concerts will be presented at Alex
•nder City, Talladega, Anniston,
Montevallo, Birmingham, and Mont­gomery.
The club is the largest ever assemb­led
at Auburn. Prof. Brigham says
that the objectice of his plans for the
club has been to produce a strong
singing organization. Judging from
early appearances of the club at Au­burn,
he says, this objective has been
satisfactorily reached.
The program for the concert in­cludes
a wide variety of attractions.
A male quartet, a comic opera bur
lesque of college life, college pep
songs, and other features will be pre
sented. Among the soloists will be
Earl Hazel, accompanist of the Glee
Club, whose appearance recently in
a recital at the Tutwiler Hotel, Bir­mingham,
established him as an out
standing musician.
The name of the opera burlesque
is "Cleopatra," and it was written by
Professor Brigham. Both the male
and female characters in the play will
be depicted by members of the club.
Van D. Durett will play the leading
role of Cleopatra. Other characters
in the play are William, a student,
lover of Cleopatra, alias the Ghost of
King Tutankhamen, J. M. Jones,
Antony, a college football hero, Tull
C. Allen; Pompey, a campus shiek, in
love with Cleopatra, I. K. Roth; Cae­sar,
an ex-athlete, in love with Cleo­patra,
Samuel Wade; and Students,
members o fthe club.
A resume of the play is as follows:
"William, a student, is lamenting over
the fact that Cleopatra, his sweet­heart,
is receiving attentions from so
many other men. He decides to dis­guise
himself as a Ghost in order to
frighten her lovers away. When
"Cleo" is making merry with a large
group of students, including Antony,
the football hero, the Ghost appears
and all take flight. One by one, Pem-pey,
Antony, and Caesar are inter­rupted
while having a tete-a-tete with
"Cleo," by the sudden appearance of
the Ghost. In despair, because of
"Cleo's" being haunted, the trio die of
grief and "Cleo", almost in despair,
decides that "naught is left for me
but suiside," and upon being threaten­ed
by the students, attempts suicide.
The Ghost again intervenes, reveals
himself as William and claims "Cleo"
for his own. The trio of dead suitors,
put out at "Cleo's" failure to die with
them, come to life with many sighs
and all join in the happy outcome
with the final chorus."
Business Fraternity
Elects New Officers
Beta Alpha Sigma Chooses A. M.
Pearson President
Election of officers of Beta Alpha
Sigma, honorary professional frater­nity
resulted in the selection of the
following: A. M. Pearson, president;
Sable Shanks, vice-president; H. P.
Henderson, secretary; Jack Capell,
treasurer; and Dan Garrett, guard.
All of the new officers are members
of the junior class; they were install­ed
at a meeting Tuesday night.
Beta Alpha Sigma was founded on
the Auburn campus by students and
faculty of the business department
last year, and is now petitioning Del­ta
Sigma Pi, international commer­cial
honorary fraternity.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF
PROGRAMS IS BOOKED
FOR FRIDAY, FEB. 21
Auburn Band and Members Of
Glee Club Will Take Part In
Collegiate Program
DEAN TO GO ON AIR
To Disclose to Public the Value
And Place Of the College
In Training Citizens
Taking the lid off of college and
and introducing the youth of America
to the various departments of a
great college will be the purpose of
a radio program to be broadcast
from the campus of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute Friday, Febru­ary
21 at seven o'clock. The pro­gram
is being sponsored by Omega
Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa.
The details of the program are be­ing
worked out by representatives of
the honor society in collaboration
P. O. Davis, Manager of WAPI.
Definite approval of the broadcast
feature of the Auburn hour was
given late yesterday by representa­tive
men in the several departments
of the college.
The program is the first of a series
which will go on the air in the early
spring and planned to further reveal
the realities of college life to radio
fans.
A number of the deans and pro­fessors
will take part, Rosser Alston,
chairman of the committee stated to­day.
The Auburn Band and members
of the Glee Club will participate in
the collegiate medley reflecting the
true college atmosphere as it exists
in the "loveliest village of the
plains."
College authorities were enthusias­tic
today about the radio feature and
will cooperate with the sponsors to
the extent that high schools and
listeners in general throughout the
state will be notified.
An interesting variation will be
heard in the contributions of Mr.
Harry Lowe, Jr. of Opelika, famous
imitator of wild and domestic life
and commonplace things. It is said
that Mr. Lowe uses no artificial
means to create in the minds of his
hearers anything from the call of
the lark to the approach of the limit­ed.
The program will not only be of
interest to the young men and women
who are particularly anxious in ob­taining
a college degree but also to
those older persons who have inter­ests
in the higher institutions of
learning. The purpose of the pro­gram
is not necessarily to popularize
higher education but to disclose to
the public the value and place of the
college in the making of citizens of
depth id leadership, it was said.
Student Pastor Will
Hold Services Here
Reverend R. W. Hahn, of University
of Alabama, Will Conduct Services
At "Y" Hut
Reverend R. W. Hahn, Lutheran
student pastor of the University of
Alabama, will be here Sunday morn­ing
to conduct services at the Y. W.
C. A. hut at ten .a m. He has been
holding services here monthly in the
interest of the Lutheran students
here. It is his aim to organize a con­gregation
of students of that faith
on the campus.
An educational and social program
will be held Saturday night, at seven
thirty at the residence of Mr. W.
Wiedenbach. The educational topic
to be discussed at this meeting is "St.
Paul, the Apostle." Reverend Hahn
hopes to organize a student chapter
of the Walther League at this meet­ing;
student chapters of this inter­national
young people's organization
are found on almost ever ycampus
throughout the country.
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THE PLAINSMAN
—urges every organization on the campus
to select the outstanding men in Auburn
as its candidate for the Blue Key Trophy..
Trophy Committee Urged
To Look Under Surface
A large number of students and campus
organizations are interested in naming the
man to receive the Blue Key Trophy.
Nevertheless it is to be hoped that the
committee, of which Dr. Knapp is chair­man,
will not consider the nominations by
various clubs and fraternities very serious­ly.
It is understood that the minds of
faculty and students run in varied channels.
The committee is thinking seriously of
naming the right man for the trophy but
the students are displaying idle curiosity.
This idle curiosity is to be deplored. It
is idle because there are few who are
delving deep enough into the heart of the
matter. In the nominations of these or­ganizations
it is clearly evident that little
consideration is being given the six points
as outlined by Blue Key in awarding this
trophy. S
Too much emphasis is being placed on
the honors which certain among us have
allowed to be heaped upon us. We have
catered to popularity and have surrounded
our beings with a host of followers who are
ignorant of our own lack of true value to
the student body and alma mater.
We are "whitened sepulchres" beautiful­ly
inscribed but stagnant within. Such is
the deplorable condition of nine out of
every ten members of three high honor or­ganizations
on the campus. The writer has
learned on good authority that the work
of these organizations is often largely the
work of single individuals who carry the
idea on to completion but the organization
receives the credit.
Unfortunately there are evidences of
politics regarding certain among the "high
and mighty" resulting in a duplication of
nominations of several influential organi­zations.
It is to be hoped that such un­due
influence exerted by certain individ­uals
or their colleagues will not cause the
committee to consider too strongly those
who have become involved in campus po­litical
tangles to the extent that they have
remained inert mummies in a progressive
student corps.
Church Attendance
Campaign Needs Support
The "go to church month", which is be­ing
sponsored by the Y. M. C. A., has for
its purpose the getting of more fraternity
men to attend church services regularly.
This movement was inaugurated last year
by the Y. M. C. A. and resulted in a very
gratifying increase in church-attendance
among the modern Greeks.
Paradoxical as it may seem, statistics
taken here show that a very small per­centage
of those students who attend
church are fraternity men. The leaders
in nearly all the activities on the campus
are fraternity men and yet in this one
activity which should mean so much to us
all, these same fraternity men are sadly
out of the running. Auburn in no theolog­ical
seminary, yet religious education thru
the medium of the church should play a
leading part in our activities in college.
Any movement which has for its ultimate
design the improvement of the moral wel­fare
and increase the church attendance
should receive the cooperation of all the
organizations concerned. This "go to
church month" cannot help but create a
great deal of interest among fraternity
men during the month of the contest and
much of this enthusiasm will be carried
over into the months that follow, as was
shown by the contest last year. The Plains­man
is behind the Y. M. C. A. in this
worthy movement it is sponsoring and be­lieves
it will do much good towards raising
the church attendance not only of the fra­ternity
men, but of the entire student
body.
Glee Club Trip To
Reward Work of Members
The Auburn Glee Club will soon be on
its concert tour for the present season. The
Glee Club, after many weeks of strenuous
effort by its many members, is to be taken
<on a tour through several large cities and
towns in north Alabama. We know their
program is especially good, and that the
presentation will be in good fashion, and
we believe that every member will do his
utmost to help create a widespread interest
in the Glee Club, as well as the school, of
Auburn. Interest, abroad from Auburn, is
necessary to have a real successful Glee
Club.
Because the trip is an admitted unusual
occurrance, we hope to see the Glee Club
stage such successful concerts that a larger
and more extended tour will be justified
for suceeding years.
Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Plainsman.
Dear Sir:
Auburn has been, since my stay here, as
neat and near perfect a little town as I
believe could exist under the most fav­orable
conditions. Now, however, a condi­tion
is arising that may seriously interrupt
the unruffled sereneness that we have so
long enjoyed. In that it is not only a
disrespect for the law, but also a lack of
gratitude towards the students, I think
that steps should be taken to eliminate
this steadily alarming predicament. By
this I mean the prevalence of gambling
that is going on in Auburn, to such an ex­tent
that it has been noticeable for months.
The beginning of this small "crime wave"
lay in the fact that several merchants of
Auburn permitted gambling machines to
be placed in their houses of business.
Knowing that the machines returned an
investment of from forty to sixty-five per
cent upon the-money placed in them, I can
only characterize such persons, who have
dealings in the matter, as being the most
imprudent, and with a lack of gratitude
for the students who are supporting them
and their families. It is nothing less than
stealing, and as such I think that they
should be called within the jurisdiction of
the law. Where has the law, such as is,
been all this while? Punch boards and
gambling paraphanalia have been flourish­ing
here for months and nothing has been
done. Other honest merchants and store-owners;
with a sympathetic bend for the
students, have been suffering from the ef­fects
of money gambled into the laps of
others when it should have been diversi­fied
among the merchants of the town
through the purchasing of the regular stu­dent's
necessities.
Many students here in Auburn, thinking
of the sure returns in profit, are even car-_
rying around punch-boards in their pockets
trying to dispose of them, but it is only in
imitation of the methods allowed to go on
in certain places here in Auburn. Of
course, these "certain store-keepers" can
raise the cry that nobody is forced to "give
away their money," but the fact remains
that they are doing nothing to keep tempta­tion
from the eyes of the students. They
certainly would not have put these ma­chines
in their stores and pool rooms if
they did not expect them to be played.
They cannot argue over this particular
view point—and therein lies their guilt;
exposing by such a covetous nature and
one with little regard for honesty and the
well being of a fellow citizen at heart.
The mothers of the young students in
the high school of Auburn should also re­bel
against their sons being allowed to
come into contact with such objectionable
conditions. It is certainly no help to them
in character building, and can possibly
lead to other difficulties not so easily
avoided.
If those who have been sanctioning such
methods of promoting gambling will look
at the situation in a new light I feel that
they will see the wrong in their operation.
But, regardless of their action, I would
like for them to know how one student
feels about them and their worth to Au­burn.
Yours truly,
—A Sophomore.
The Geckette
I'm the goodlooking little Geckette who
knows everything; in fact I am the campus
cutie. I can answer any question about
anything except books, and I could do that
if I wanted to. I tell all my girl friends
whom they should and should not go with,
but they don't seem to pay much attention
to me. They should though, for I haven't
been out with those boys for nothing. I
get a kick when someone calls a friend over
the phone; I like to come out an assist her
in deciding whether she should have a date
o- not.
"Little Things"
By Tom Bigbee
At last the Rats of Auburn are being
given an opportunity to try to hit some­thing,
without being the target themselves.
We hope they will be successful in locating
the bull's eye on the canvas.
In view of the fact that the Auburn
pistol team has been making such splendid
records without .this preliminary training
in the freshman ranks, surely this added ad­vantage
will add materially to the chances
for a better showing still. The Military
department is to be commended for this
added feature.
So the future Auburn seniors are to
"have it over" the former graduates, in
the matter of newly designed rings. Oh
well, why not—if it helps matters. Changes
are now so common that it probably won't
cause any serious panic; and possibly some­body
will feel better over the rearrange­ment.
And anyway, the fellow who is
sharp enough to put over something new
deserves the use of it.
We keep noticing news dashes concern­ing
the latest organization on the campus
—the Education Club. There must be
something worthy of note behind that
pedagogue-ly inclined group, after all. Our
hat is .off to them, as we wish their or­ganization
a worthy success and advance­ment.
Auburn will be deprived of a bit of ef­fective
advertising among southern high
schools this winter, due to the discontinu­ing
of the Cotton States basketball tour­nament.
We believe this has been a very
desirable event here, and have hopes of
its re-appearance next season.
The famous Auburn Glee Club will start
"doing its stuff" next week. We frog-voiced
croakers entertain a bit of envy for
the swallow-tailed songsters, as we notice
that their schedule will carry them to such
towns as Montevallo, Montgomery, etc.
There may be a possibility of the organi­zation's
membership increasing before its
return to the Plains!
How are you planning to react to the
Communists plan for Red education? You
may not even notice it now; but suppose
the next generation becomes polluted with
the detestible stuff—what then? This
movement needs a slap .in the jaw now,
that will remove all possible future evils
from this source.
A prominent) man has recently said,
"College men are clean, manly and honor­able—
Neither red, yellow, nor even pink
—Have much to learn, but are learning
it faster than any generation on record."
Maybe we aren't such a rotten bunch, after
all. Some dissenters will draw their con­clusions,
however.
A co-ed was kidnapped recently from a
northern university. And our sister-stu­dents
go about constantly unharmed, even
though unguarded. Who said Auburn isn't
a peace-loving institution?
On to a victory in the next cage tilt!
We think these master-lawmakers should
attain a higher plane on which to display
their example. But on second thought, it
is entirely possible that they are suffici­ently
"up in the air" already.
Looks as if Tom Lieb and Auburn will
never have the pleasure of meeting each
other officially. This man from the "gal-lopin'
horses" school has turned his eye to
a more distant corner of the continent.
And now—but Auburn will eventually
secure a pigskin mentor. But what of the
spring training? We hear 'em sigh. It
might be more appropriate for campus
walkers to concern themselves more with
spring quizzes!
If this parrot disease scare keeps raging
through the country, indications are that
we will soon be rid of another nuisance.
But anyway, maybe we don't need the
winged talkers any longer, now that we
have talking pictures.
Yet there is a possibility of one serious
disorder arising from the absence of these
feathered chatterers: What will the fairer
sex of the human species do for successful
rivals? They tell us that women like to
be conquered, and of a truth there are very
few men in existence who can out-talk 'em.
We know a man—a recent gradaute of
this institution—who was, and is, as thor­ough
in everything undertaken as a man
can be, generally speaking. If he ever
undertakes a task, it is not discarded until
he has it thoroughly mastered.
The writer has attempted "stalling" him
on mathematical problems; the effort was
a failure. His success in solving difficult
sums is due to thoroughness during prep
school years.
We have seen him solve difficult prob­lems
that gave noted professors much
concern. Once he failed to get the cor­rect
solution to a very complex problem.
But he didn't give up. For three months
he sought for light on the subject, and
finally received it from an Auburn mathe­matician.
He then went through the prob­lem
until he thoroughly understood every
step; and never again will he stick on one
of that type.
This young man is only human—there's
none of us who cannot be as thorough. And
if we haven't already, this is the best time
to start that we can find. Why not?
% AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *8
The cake winner is the freshman who went up to the bookstore last week and
wanted to get an outline for current events for next semestejr.
* * * * * * * *
Yes, we have come to the conclusion that he is slightly behind time.
* * * * * * * *
The "delinquents" in paying their dues in the many societies in Auburn remind
us of the'Scotchman, who was listening in over the radio to a/ church service, and
who received a good laugh when the minister announced the collection. Same old
boy apparently.
* * * * * * * *
If any of the Sophomores are asked why Shakespeare turned out so much work,
they might reply that he had no telephone to answer.
* * * * * * * *
See where several of the zoo-ites were carrying their arm in a sling. They
must have had a date with Gene.
* * * * * * * *
With three-fourths of the dressmakers in America on strike in New York City,
it would seem that a few more might become more interested in the course offered
at the many universities. An appropriate time for a strike was chosen anyway.
* * * * * * * *
The trouble with most diaries are that they are too long. No one need buy one
with lines for any month other than January.
* * * * * * * *
The civils engaged in taking one of the veterinary courses are having to charter
boats to go over in on rainy days. They cannot have their fun without) a price tag
attached to it.
* * * * * * * *
It is generally understood that Doug Baird is a high powered young man among
these interviewers that have been coming to Auburn recently.
* * * * * * * *
Someone suggested that to make the Auburn Glee Club, one should go in soup
eating contests very heavily. The result is a sure job with this club.
He was known by his feet at a dance—they never touched the floor.
* * * * * * * *
Here lies the body of Dan McKay;
He died maintaining his right of way.
He was right—dead right—as he sped along,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been dead wrong.
* * * * * * * *
The moral in that is not to go over fifty miles an hour toward Opelika. That
is impossible for a student car to do, but sometimes a car that is bought for use
during the dances will make nearly that speed. "
* * * * * * * *
He never travelled up the main street—he had a one-way mind.
* * * * * * * *
Her father was a railroad man, but she was someone's chicken just the same.
* * * * * * * *
The student body is becoming used to anything that spells disaster. We thought
everything was going along fine, when the basketball season ends.
The cemetery was filled with the spirits of the present rather than the present
when one of the sororities was putting its prospective members through.
* * * * * * * * *
Last week Dr. Johns was talking about a boy in one of the Eastern schools who
had remained in the primer class for twelve years. He had memorized it, and could
naturally read anything in it, but was unable to read anything else. When he had
finished telling the class about this, Stumpy Granger spoke up and said, "Professor
there must have been something wrong with that boy." Probably Professor realized
that he had found a running mate for this boy, but he didn't have the heart to dis­close
this discovery.
-:- WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:-
NO LUCK
"I don't have much hope for my nephew
at college," says J. Fuller Gloom. "He
failed to make the team, he failed to make
the dramatic club, he failed to make his
grades, he failed to make the glee club, he
failed to make the right fraternity, and
now he's failed in an attempt at suicide."
* * * * *
WORK AND LEARN
While some colleges are trying to elim­inate
the working of students when get­ting
an education, here is a report from
the University of Washington. The regis­trar
of the University reports that 83 per
cent of the men attending the institution
i re working their way through college or at
least paying part of their expenses.
Thirty-three per cent of the co-eds are
wholly or partly self-supporting, also.
* * * * *
TOUGH ON THE CO-EDS
A Detroit psychologist has stated that the
average college professor is 15 per cent
more brainy than the co-ed.
. WE MUST BE GRANDPA'S
i
Statistics recently released from the
College of the City of New York reveal the
fact that nine members of the freshman
class are but fourteen years of age and
112 are in their fifteenth year. There are
932 men in the class and the average age
is sixteen years and nine months.
* * * * *
NO?
Found at last! The Valhalla of colleges
for the college man. One in which grades
and examinations are indulged in—if there
is time after the necessary functions of
eating, sleeping, and drinking are taken
care of. And all of this is plain, cold facts,
according to a learned professor of Colgate
University who just returned from a study
of the University of Vienna—situated in
the heart of the best beer-drinking coun-ing
ever seen.
The typical student at this University
never studies—better than that, he spends
his time loafing in the various bars and
drinking places—philosophizing over foamy
steins and large hunks of something re­sembling
a cross between a loaf of bread
and a haystack. When he does attend
classes there he always takes along a snack
to hold him through class and rather than
fill his brief case with heavy books he drops
in a sandwich or two—perhaps a snort of
beer for giue.&cncies.
THOUGHTS IN SILHOUETTE
<3y
c3terr IDiogenese c?5eufelsdrockh
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
TWO WEEKS have practically passed
in the second semester and I sup­pose
that everyone is well started in
the semester's work. Before it becomes too
late a little consideration might well be
given to electives. Electives are allowed
for a number of reasons. The paramount
one is to allow a man to become broad.
Competition in the modern world is so keen
that a man must be well rounded in order
to hope to cope with the competition. The
engineer must have a liberal education
along with his technical training in order
to fit into his profession as practiced in
this era. Many things, such as self ex­pression,
the ability to ' speak well, and
' others, have a commercial value as well as
an educational one. A little forethought
in this line will no doubt make the figures
on the pay check more pleasing in the
years to come.
B
Compulsory attendance at class is un­heard
of. If a class for which 200 had
registered was to be put in a room seat­ing
100 there wouldn't be the slightest bit
of consternation. Just drop around and
see if the room is full, and if so go down
to the nearest "pub" and think about mak­ing
it perhaps tomorrow.
And another thing—deuling is an es­sential
qualification of a fraternity man
there. The fraternity with the best col­lection
of scars is the social leader. Whooie
—what a Hell Week they must have. Bet­ter
that all freshmen refrain from going
there until they have become proficient in
the art of sword-swishing or else—well,
even a Gillette is dangerous if handled
wrongly.
Oh well, every ideal situation has its
drawbacks—this one has it forward thrusts
—with a sword. Oh my, what price beer,
Gus?
* * * * $
HOW MANY PLEASE?
The staff of the Gopher, undergraduate
yearbook of the students of the University
of Minnesota, are original when it comes
to schemes to boost the circulation of their
publication. Recently twelve chorus girls
were hired to be on the campus for one
hour and fifteen minutes to kiss each stu­dent
who subscribed to the annual. Dean
Nickolson of the University refused to let
the students osculate. And they didn't
even run him out of town. It was best
though, because too many year books in
the possession of one boy might be peeving
to the old boy back home who furnished us
money to buy rock candy, etc.
* * * * *
20 YEAR OLD RAT RIDES FIRST
TRAIN
It seems that at least one of the 1929-30
crop of the "sophisticated freshmen" is
not such a man of the world after all, for
it has been brought to light during the
last week that William H. Byars, 20-year-old
freshman from Smithville, Tennessee,
until his entrance at Emory had never rid-*
den a train. We seem to have quite a
number of students here, from Smithville.
Furthermore, it seems that Byars had
never ridden an elevator nor street car
nor had he been in a hospital. No longer
can this freshman boast of these facts now,
for the evil influence of college has had
its effects; innocence is no longer inno­cence;
and he has experienced all these
new sensations.
Y OBSERVING the great number of
men that wear a mixed uniform on
this campus I am prompted to wond­er
if those men ever think of just how
much that practice takes prestige away
from our R. O. T. C. Unit here. The War
Department here went to a great deal of
trouble to secure the new blue grey uni­form
for the Unit. Their efforts should
be appreciated in a more concrete form.
Nothing gives a military school a black eye
quicker than a bunch of men continuously
wearing a mixed uniform. It is just as
easy to wear the whole of the uniform as
a part of it, and it is not an uncomfort­able
outfit. I think any one will agree
with me in that the uniform looks well,
and if kept in the proper condition, is a
very decent attire; however, mixing it with
civilian clothes ruins the whole effect and
makes for an unsightly apparition.
* * * * *
THE MOVING picture world has given
us a great advancement in the realms
of entertainment by the introduction
of the Talkies. Here at Auburn one of
the paramount attributes of the talking
movie is forfeited by a number of people
who just have to crack wise, or in some
noisy manner attract attention to them­selves.
The fact that the attention is ex­ceedingly
unfavorable seems to have no
weight. Most of the attendants pay out
their good money to hear what the actors
have to say, and when you down-town
wits force yourselves on the occasion you
make your company plenty obnoxious. Also,
a great many have a most queer sense of
humor; getting a complete humorous re­action
out of the climax of a plot that has
no humor. By so doing those few only
brand themselves as morons and as being
unable to take in a very simple situation.
Another thought in this respect is that
boisterous conduct in the movie is fairly
accurately indicative of a lack of culture
and refinement, and reflects an unfavor­able
light back on the parents. Well, boors
will be boors no matter where you put
them, but it always strikes me as rather
peculiar that even New York's lowest class
is able to deeply appreciate the opera.
* * * * *
THE Blue Key Trophy represents an
award which any man might well be
proud of. What a fine thing it would
be if the execution of the award could be
brought about without having to go through
the medium of even slight politics. Popu­larity,
favoritism, and other things of this
nature as a rule play too big a part in a
situation of this kind. A man can be ex­tremely
likable, pleasing, and desirable as
a friend and yet not fit the requirements
in a situation of this kind. Here is hoping
that the Trophy finds its way to the deserv­ing
man.
SULLEN MOODS
Love, do not count your labour lost
Though I turn sullen, grim, retired
Even at your side; my thought is crossed
With fancies by old longings fired.'
And when I answer you, some days
Vaguely and wildly, do not fear
That my love walks forbidden ways,
Breaking the ties that hold it here.
If I speak gruffly, this mood is
Mere indignation at my own
Shortcomings, plagues, uncertainties;
I forget the gentler tone.
'You,' now that you have come to be
My one beginning, prime and end,
I count at last as wholly .'me,'
Lover no longer nor yet friend.
Friendship is flattery, though close hid;
Must I then flatter my own mind?
And must (which laws of shame forbid)
Blind love of you make self-love blind?
—Robert Graves.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
LANE GRAVES
AUDREY FULLER
Smith Hall S O C I E T Y AND F E A T U R ES This Department Open
From 11 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Daily
Phone 9115
GIFT
When I am gone
And fast asleep,
I give the dawn
To you to keep,
My dear; the too
Exquisite pain
Of Spring; and you
Shall see again.
The stars that burn
At candle-light;
The golden urn,
The moon, at night;
The silver streams,
The thundering deep—
And I—the dreams
In my deep sleep.
—Wilford J. Funk.
Mrs. Thomas Speaks At
Music Department Meet
The program for the Music De­partment's
meeting on Wednesday
featured a talk by Mrs. A. L. Thomas
on "The Orchestra," with illustra­tions
on on the orthophonic vitrola.
Mrs. Creel and Mrs. Bohler were
hostesses at the grammar school.
On Thursday Mrs. Toomer enter­tained
the Art Department. Dean
Biggin gave a most interesting talk
on the present location of famous
masterpieces, showing postcards that
he collected abroad last year. He
also gave a history of the beginning
of Art. Mrs. Johns discussed Dutch
painters.
The Home .Economics department
also met on Thursday with Mrs. Car-lovitz
and Mrs. Davis. Miss Lula
Palmer led the discussion of Achieve­ment
Tests.
Mesdames Medlock and
Sturkie Joint Hostesses
Mrs. O. C. Medlock and Mrs. D.
G. Sturkie were joint hostesses at a
bridge party for Mrs. Isbell of Gads­den,
Alabama.
A valentine motif was carried out
in decorations and the refreshments.
Mrs. W. A. Ruffin won high score,
a flower container with sachet. Low
prize, a bridge set, was given to
Mrs. W. E. Sewell. A very attrac­tive
leather score pad, as guest prize,
was presented to Mrs. Isbell.
Ice cream, heart-shaped cookie,
coffee, and nuts, were presented to
the guests.
Baptist Missionary Society
To Attend Meeting /
The Baptist Woman's Missionary
Society will attend an all-day meet­ing
with luncheon at the home of
Mrs. L. A. Ward on next Wednesday.
At this time the members will com­plete
and take an examination on
"World's Friendship."
Mrs. Lowery Hostess
At Lovely Bridge Party
On last Wednesday afternoon Mrs.
J. C. Lowery entertained at her home
with a three table bridge party in
honor of Mrs. Isbell who is the guest
of Mrs. C. L. Isbell.
Pink carnations, ferns, and other
decorations suggestive of St. Valen­tine's
Day were used effectively in
the living room.
The high score prize, a very pretty
little salad calendar, was captured
by Mrs. H. S. Gentry. The consola­tion
prize, a lovely box of correspond­ence
cards, went to Mrs. H. D. Reed.
A beautiful dance handkerchief was
presented as guest prize to Mrs.
Isbell.
A delicious salad course of pink
and white together with heart-shaped
sandwiches and cakes were served to
the following: Mesdames Isbell,
Charles Isbell, Homer Gentry, Homer
Carlovitz, W. H. Eaton, Rodger W.
Allen, C. W. Edwards, T. W. Pate,
H. D. Reed, D. T. Sturkie, J. T.
Williamson, Baver, and H. F. Gibson.
Bridge Party Enjoyed
At Opelika County Club
Miss Miriam and Mildred Moore
were joint hostesses at the Country
Club in Opelika, at a bridge party
Saturday morning in honor of several
of her friends, who attend Agnes
Scott College in Decatur, Ga.
The Auburn students who attended
were Misses Elizabeth Brownfield,
Ruth Hollingsworth, Betty Carolyn
Buchanan, Catherine Shaefer, Caro­lyn
Jenkins, May George Lamar, Al­berta
Renfro, Sarah Wilbur, Kath-erine
Porter, Jane Yarbrough, Sarah
Hall Crenshaw , Elizabeth Madre,
Maryline Cauthen, Francis Moore and
Dabney Hare.
Mrs. Ward Honors Miss
Eddy With Breakfast
Mrs. L. A. Ward entertained with
a breakfast at her home on last Sun­day
morning for Miss Eddy and her
mother who were visitors in Auburn.
Those attending were Mrs. W. W.
Hill, Miss Neva Winston, Miss Mild­red
McElhany, Mrs. C. D. Killibrew
and Miss Mary Martin.
Two garages for rent on East Mag­nolia
Ave., two doors below Kappa
Sigma house. See A. C. Cohen at
Plainsman office or phone 156.
HEY!
We Are Always
Ready to Give
You the Best
Of Meat
MOORE'S MARKET
Phone 37
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Malone
Announce Daughter's Arrival
In a few years Auburn will have
another co-ed to add to her list of
students. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Malone
proudly announce' that a fine, seven
pound girl, Monakatherine Mar
garette, was born this past' Sunday
at the Opelika Hospital. The mother
and child are doing fine and soon
will be back in Auburn.
PERSONAL
MENTION
Mrs.L. A. Ward and Miss
Neva Winston Joint Hostesses
Mrs. L. A. Ward and Miss Neva
Winston were joint hostesses to the
D. A. R.'s on last Tuesday afternoon.
After a prolonged business meet­ing
Miss Mary Martin, president of
the club, gave an interesting paper
on the life of George Washington.
Coffee and a salad plate were served
to about twenty-four guests.
Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service
TOOMER'S HARDWARE
CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager
t~»«
150 rooms, every
room with bath
and showers
Circulating ice water
and oscillating
f a n s
STRICTLY FIREPROOF
The Gteystone
Montgomery, Ala.
Wolff Hotel Company Charles A. Johnson
Operators Manager
Mrs. G. H. Wright had as her guest
last week, Miss Aurelia Richardson,
of Montgomery.
* * * * *
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ruffin spent
last week-end in Wetumpka, Ala.
* * * * *
Mrs. Wilbur HuUell has gone to
New Orleans, Louisiana, to be with
her father who is very ill.
* * * * *
Miss Hallie Mae Ingram spent last
week-end in Tallassee with her sis­ter,
Mrs. A. H. Floyd.
* * * * *
Mrs. W. A. Ruffin and Mrs. G. H.
Wright spent last Friday in Mont­gomery.
* * * * *
James Parrish was carried to Ope­lika
this week for an, operation for
appendicitis.
* * * * *
Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. Campton, and
Mrs. Snider have returned from Flor­ida
after a most delightful trip.
* * * * *
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Stodghill of
Fraternity Row had as their guests
the past week-end, Mr. and Mrs. J.
F. Gilliard and two children and Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Cammick of Mont­gomery.
* * * * *
Mrs. C. L. Hare continues very ill
at her home on Gay street.
* * * * *
Mrs. C. L. Isbell has as her guest
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Isbell of Gads­den,
Ala.
* * * * *
Mrs. S. L. Garrett with little son
Sam have returned from Macon, Ga.,
after a pleasant week with Mrs.
Whiteside.
* * * * * *
Mrs. W. G. Haralson and nephew,
D. Haralson, of Birmingham, are
visiting Mrs. C. L. Hare and family
thfs week.
* * * * *
Mrs. Frederic Biggin returned
from Atlanta last Saturday after a
visit of several days.
* * * * *
Mrs. S. L. Toomer attended a
luncheon given by the Board of Ala­bama
federation of Woman's Clubs
while she was in Birmingham.
* * * * *
Professor C. A. Basore spent last
week-end in Anniston. on business.
* * * * *
Mr. Clifford Pugh is visiting
friends in Birmingham this week-end.
* * * * *
Miss Hoyt Enloe spent last week­end
with her mother in Wiowee, Ala.
* * * * *
Mrs. S. L. Toomer returned Satur­day
night from Birmingham where
she was the guest of Mrs. W. G.
Harrison.
* * * * *
Mrs. J. W. Bright and Mrs. Annie
Jones went to Atlanta on Monday.
* * * * *
Mr. and Mrs. Ketley Baker and
son were the guests of Mrs. P. P.
Powell this week.
* * * * *
Coach and Mrs. John E. Pitts and
John, Jr., spent last week-end at
Seale, Ala.
* * * * *
Mrs. C. A. Cary sopke on Christian
Science at the Parrish House of the
Episcopal church on last Monday af­ternoon.
A benefit bridge party sponsored
by the Business and Professional
Women's Club is to be given at the
Thomas Hotel on Saturday evening.
* * * * *
Mrs. Roger Allen entertained her
club on Tuesday evening.
Baptis.t Student's Union
Has General Meeting
Al^ officers of the B. S. U. which
included; those of S. S. classes, B.
Y. P. XL's, and Y. W. A.'s had a
general meeting at the Baptist
church Thursday night at eight
o'clock. A large percentage of the
officers were present to engage in
the future plans of the B. S. Us A.
general business meeting of the offi­cers
and also sectional meetings of
the classes were held;
After the regular business meeting
a social was enjoyed and refresh­ments,
consisting of cake and punch,
were served.
Shower Given In Honor
of Mrs. O. D. Langston
A beautiful miscellaneous shower
was given by Mrs. Paul king at her
home in honor of Mrs. Langston, a
recent bride of Auburn. Valentine
decorations of red and white lights
with ferns and potted plants were
used throughout ihe home.
The refreshments which carried
the valentine suggestions consisted of
heart-shaped salads and cakes. About
thirty-five guests were invited.
Mr. Earnest Hartsock
Gives Readings Here
Mr. Earnest Hartsock, winner of
the Poetry Society of American
Award for 1929, and editor of
"Bozart and Contemporary Verse,"
the second largest poetry magazine
in America, .gave several readings
and lectures during Thursday and
Friday at the Administration Build­ing.
PRESIDENTIAL YACHT,
MAYFLOWER, FOR SALE
Washington—(IP)—The former
Presidential yacht, Mayflower,. ap­parently
is not a bargain at the price
of $100,000 put upon it by the Navy.
Not a bid has been received after
the third attempt to sell the craft.
The high bid the first time it was
up for sale was $17,000. The second
time the bids went up to $51,000. An­other
attempt to sell the yacht is to
be made in the Spring, it is under­stood.
Whoever buys it will have to agree
not to sell liquor or carry liquor
aboard it.
About Child Prodigies
Many Prove Unsuccessful When They Start on Hard
Road of Practical Life
Elyria, O.— (IP)—At the age when
most youngsters are entering high
school, Harold Finley, thirteen, years
old, of McConnellsville, O., has en­tered
Northwestern University, at
Evanston, 111.
This boy has been a prodigy since
babyhood. He knew the alphabet
when he was eighteen months old.
During his four years in high school
he was an honor student, never fall­ing
below "E" in any subject.
Now that he has entered a uni­versity
as a full fledged freshman
he has taken his first step on a path­way
in which the odds will be against
him, juding by the history of other
child prodigies. For such children,
says "Capper's Weekly," make re­markable
scholastic records, amazing
their elders with their brilliancy,
usually find life hard sleding when
they get out into a practical world.
Educators who have studied the
careers of many child prodigies have
found that when a child shows unus­ual
aptitude in some one art, science
or profession he is likely to win dis­tinction
in that field in later years,
after his student days are over. But
the prodigy whose unusual abilities
cover a, broad range, excelling in
everything, is likely to find himself
a misfit in the world in later years.
Perhaps the most famous child pro­digy
America ever produced was Wil­liam
Sidis, son of the late Dr. Boris
Sidis, professor psychology at Har­vard.
Young Sidis showed amazing
intellectual capabilities as a baby. He
entered Harvard at eleven and was
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then able to speak several languages.
At sixteen he had taken his master's
degree and two years later his Ph. D.
When at eighteen William James
Sidis left Harvard a brilliant career
was predicted for him. Instead he
became a clerk in a Wall street of­fice
at $25 a week, putting in most
of his time operating an adding ma­chine.
Joseph Hofmann, one of the world's
greatest pianists, is an example of a
prodigy whose brilliance found ex­pression
in one field, music. He be­gan
studying music at two and one
half years old and completed the
elementary course before he was out
of his rompers. At eleven he was
touring the country as a concert pia­nist.
Daniel Berman entered Columbia
University at twelve and finished the
four-year course in three years. At
fifteen he went to Stanford Univer­sity
to study engineering and now is
a recognized engineering specialist.
Somewhat similar is the case of
Winifred Sackville Stoner, 2d. She
could talk at six months and was
keeping a diary in her own handwrit­ing
at two years old. Now she is a
distinguished novelist and poet,
though still in her twenties.
Edward Roche Hardy could speak
four languages at five years old. At
twelve he entered Columbia Univer­sity.
At fourteen he had won the
Phi Beta Kappa key. Always inter-
Co-education Aids *
In Choosing Spouse
If co-education has no other special
value, it is of use in aiding girls to
choose the proper husbands, accord­ing
to Dr. Anne Y. Reed, professor
of Personal Administration at the
School of Education at New York Un­iversity.
"If a girl wants to get married,"
she said, "and of course, she should,
then she ought to go to a co-ed school
where she will be able to meet many
men. In such an institution she will
meet all types of men, and should
learn just which type she can best
get along with. Then, whether or
not she marries a college mate, she
will have gained the experience neces­sary
to her future enjoyment of life."
Outside of college, the University
professor said, a girl meets man only
at social functions, and sees him at
his best. At college the two find out
more about each other than they
could in any other surroundings.
"By being a man's classmate," she
said, "a girl can observe him when
he doesn't know he is being obser­ved.
She can learn his bad qualities
as well as his good ones."
The Edgar Allen Poe Society has
made public a letter written by Poe
eighty-five years ago in which he
predicted a crossing of the Atlantic
in three days by air.
ested in public speaking and church
work, he decided to become a clergy­man,
and is now in the theological
seminary. He may finish his theo­logical
studies by the time he is
eighteen or nineteen.
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CHAUNCEY DEPEW LEADS
IN PUBLIC SPEECHES MADE
Washington—(IP)—Professor Wil-lard
H. Yeager, speaking at George
Washington University here on the
occasion of the dedication of a chair
in the university in honor of Chaun-cey
M. Depew, declared that he be­lieved
the former distinguished states­man
and business man had made
more public speeches than any other
man throughout histofy.
He declared that Depew attended
some 8,000 banquets, and said, "I
believe I am making a conservative
estimate when I say that he made
at least 15,000 speeches during his
long and distinguished career."
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930
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ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor RHODES WASSON, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor; Harry Barnes, Freeman Barnes, W. C. Free, Charles Trice, Assistants. •
35 CANDIDATES
REPORT®FIRST] WZSSmL
DIAMOND CALL
Elmer G. Salter
With the advent of fair and warm­er
weather, Coach Fred Sheridan is­sued
a call for all baseball candidates
to report. His first official ultima­tum
was answered by 35 hopefuls
with about five more expected to
turn in their thinly-clad basket ball
uniforms and don baseball togs as
soon as the hardwood season is over.
The pitchers and catchers have
been out over a week as they worked
indoors while Jupe Pluvius was reign­ing
- on Drake Field. The opening
game probably will be with Fort Ben-ning
on March 14 so Coach Sheridan
is anxious to have his moundsmen and
receivers in good shape for the initi­al
tilt.
Coach Sheridan started issuing
strenuous workouts at the very start
as he is mindful that inclement
weather might pay another visit to
the Cornerstone and halt baseball
activities.
Several jaunts around the field; a
long pepper practice; several times
around the infield pulling the huge
roller, and a fifteen minute drill in
throwing the medicine ball completes
the menu for the Plainsmen tossers
at present. Batting practice will be­gin
as soon as Coach Sheridan thinks
, the candidates have unlimbered their
muscles enough to swing their heavy
bludgeons at the horsehide.
Roy (Frock) Pate, shortstop on
Coach Moulton's 1929 team, is the
only regular back from last season
who is missing. Pate is a regular on
Coach Hal Lee's hardwood five so
will be absent from the diamond until
after the Southern Conference basket
ball tournament in Atlanta, Feb. 28,
March 1, 3 and 4.
The following players led by Capt.
Jim Crawford are now out: Agee, F.
K.; Brown, T. T.; Burt, Joe.; Big-gerstaff,
Wm.; Carter, Buck; David­son,
J. N.; Edmonson, A. Q.; Ghol-ston,
Louis; Holstun, W. R.; Hall,
J. T. Ingram, Rupert; Harkins, Dun­ham;
Harris, Pete; Irwin, J. L.; Jones,
W. B.; Phil; Johnson, W. H.; Lloyd,
Harry; Lewis, Ike; Lewis, Aubrey;
*V Long, Howell; Manley, Chas.; Morton,
Former Auburn Stars
Bill; Newton, Ben; Potter, Guice;
Smith, G. C ; Trammell, R. E.; Tuck­er,
W. H.; Ward, Ray; Ward, Luke;
West, Clarence; Prim, Ray and Ma-lone,
W. H.
his sophomore year. In addition to
being an outstanding athlete, Sankey
was also very popular with his class­mates,
being voted the presidency of
his class his senior year.
Stewart graduated from Auburn in
1926. He was captain of the team
that season and performed at the
keystone. He also cavorted in bril­l
i a n t style at the hot corner before
being shifted to the position where
he has made records on the diamond.
He signed with the Birmingham
Barons after concluding his career
at Auburn, was farmed out to High
Point, N. C , in the Piedmont League,
recalled by the Barons and later sold
to High Point. He was the best all-around
second baseman in the league
and was sold to Shreveport. Last
season while at Shreveport, Stewart
took part in 133 of the 169 double
plays made by his team. He started
44 and was the pivot man in 61.
Both of the above players have
bright futures on the diamond and
are expected to blossom into big
league players within the next few
years if not sooner. Experience
might be needed so they probably will
be farmed out during 1930.
Frosh Shortstop To
Strengthen Tiger '9'
Coach Fred Sheridan's baseball
worries were considerably lessened
with the reporting of Page Riley,
freshman shortstop last season, in uni­form.
Riley entered college for the
second semester and will be a leading
candidate for an infield berth.
Since Riley did not register for the
second semester until late, it was at
first thought that he was not going
to return to college this year. With
his arrival, only one member of last
year's frosh team who could aid the
varsity this season is missing. Charles
Kaley, catcher on the yearling team
under Red Brown, is still battling the
hard knocks of the world but it is
rumored that he might enter the Corn­erstone
in a few days.
Riley cavorted at shortstop on the
1929 rodent nine, but probably will
be shifted to the keystone by Coach
Sheridan. He has the advantage over
the other candidates for second base
because he played in the Birmingham
City League last Summer on the same
team with Frock Pate, Auburn's regu­lar
shortstop.
Europe has advanced for beyond
the United States in putting the radio
to use as an educational factor, ac­cording
to Dr. A. Caswell Ellis, di­rector
of Cleveland College.
Elmer G. Salter
Two of the most promising rookies
who will be in the training camps of
the Pittsburg Pirates at Paso Robles,
Cal. and the Cleveland Indians at
New Orleans are former star per­formers
in the Orange and Blue co­lors
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute.
Ben Sankey, who was bought from
the Selma Cloverleafs in the South­eastern
League by Pittsburg, and
Cecil Stewart, who was purchased by
Cleveland from Shreveport in the
Texas League are the new additions
to the big show who were all-South­ern
baseball players at the Corner­stone.
Sankey spent the latter part of last
season with the Pirates and showed
up well in the few games in which
he participated. He was the lead­ing
shortstop in the Southea^tetrn
League and was purchased by Pitts­burg
at a record price. He graduated
from Auburn in 1928, being selected
on the mythical all-Southern nine
Receipts From Baron
Game Will Go to 'A'
Club Scholarship Fund
JZAl-PH JORDAN
F'ORtV/IR.D
The Auburn cage team will take an extensive road trip this week, as they will journey to Baton
Rouge and New Orleans. While on this trip they will meet L. S. U. and Tulane in a series of games, and
will endeavor to raise their standing in the Southern Conference race. The above pictured men are
likely to start the games, and consists of the following: Jack Stewart, center; Louie James, captain and
guard; Red Lawson, guard; Frock Pate and Lefty Jordan, forwards. Sheriff Lee, a brilliant cageman
while at Mississippi College, is coaching the Tigers, and is making good headway.
BASKETBALL QUINTESSENCE
= = = = = By ADRIAN TAYLOR ==========
Pinch Hitter Needed To
Fill Hole Left by Taylor
Elmer G. Salter
A capable pinch-hitter will have to
be developed by Coach Fred Sheridan
among his large number of 1930
baseball candidates. John R. (Dugan)
Taylor, who was kept out of the reg­ular
line-up last season because his
arm bothered him, is the member of
the 1929 team who broke up several
ball games for Coach Moulton's nine
by producing in the pinches.
Taylor probably would have held
down a regular outfield berth if his
wing had not troubled him. His hit­ting,
especially when hits meant runs,
was as good as any of the other play­ers
but balls hit into the outer gar­dens
when he was stationed there had
to be relayed in by the infielders.
Several promising sophomores prob­ably
will be nominated to deliver in
the pinches as it does not look like
they will be able to break into the
number of veterans back.
Phil Hodges, Ray Ward, Ike Lewis,
Louis Gholston, Ralph Jordan and
Aubrey Lewis looked promising with
the 1929 yearlings and will give the
veterans tough fights for regular
posts. A slump by any of the 1929
regulars will find a sophomore anx­ious
to fill his place. These sopho­mores
are just like rookies in the
major leagues because they are
equally as hard to displace if ever
given the chance to fill a veteran's
shoes.
The sharpshooting Crimson Tide
cage team continues to set a fast
pace in the conference race, as they
recently added two more victories to
their string to make a total of seven
victories with no defeats. The last
two triumphs were at the expense of
Louisiana State University, Alabama
winning the first game 37-20, but
had a much harder time in the second
fray, barely winning 28-22. The ex­cellent
work of Laney, guard for the
Tide, providing the extra margin for
Bama. Alabama seems headed for
championship honors this,year at the
tournament, and if she can withstand
the assaults of the various cage teams
from North Carolina, the Crimson
Tide should be the champions of the
conference.
Although the Bama basketeers
have run rough shod over previous
competition, the Tide will get a good
test of their ability when they meet
the strong University of Tennessee
team Fridam night. The Vols have
won four games and have lost only
one, and have an excellent team with
Dodd, the versatile athlete, assuming
the leading role.
* * * *
The University of Georgia Bulldogs
who made such a promising start at
the beginning of the year, seem to
be slipping, and the team is not play-with
its usual style. After losing to
Kentucky, the Georgia cagers lost to
North Carolina State, last year's
champions of the conference. Geor­gia
jumped into an early lead but
could not maintain the pace, and the
Wolfpacks won 28-24. However, the
Bulldogs retaliated by defeating
Clemson 38-26,, and this week they
journey to Nashville in quest of vic­tories
over the Commodores.
* * * *
Another undefeated team failed to
maintain its position this week when
Sewanee lost to Tennessee Vols. The
Tigers gave Tennessee a hard tussle,
but the Vols managed to break thru
the opponents defense at critical
moments with disastrous results.
Georgia Tech managed to raise her
conference standing by defeating the
Commodores of Vanderbilt 46-25.
This is "the worse defeat that the
Commodores have yet experienced,
and evidently shows that the Yellow
Jackets are rapidly improving and
should have a fast organization be­fore
the season closes.
* * * *
North Carolina "seems to be setting
the pace in that /part of the confer­ence,
as they have a number of vic­tories
to their credit, and recently
added to that number by a series of
games played with the Vh'ginia Poly­technic
Institute.
* * * *
The Auburn dribblers leave the
Village of the Plains this week on an
extensive road trip. While away
from home the Tigers will attempt to
add to their number of games won.
Their team is rapidly improving and
is expected to return home with sev­eral
victories to their credit.
* * * *
Several important games will be
played this week end, and the confer­ence
rating will likely change as com­petition
is getting keener throughout
the South.
The team standing:
Alabama 5 0 1.000
Team — W L Pet.
W. & L. 4 0 1.000
Sewanee 2 0 1.000
Kentucky 5 1 .833
Georgia 4 1 .800
Duke 4 1 .800
Tennessee 4 1 .800
N. C. State 4 3 .572
Clemson 4 3 .572
Tulane 3 3 .500
Maryland 2 2 .500
L. S. U. 2 3 .400
V. P. I. 2 3 .400
Mississippi 3 5 .375
Georgia Tech — 2 4 .333
North Carolina 1 2 .333
V. M. I. 1 4 .200
Auburn 1 4 .200
Mississippi A. & M. — 1 4 .200
Vanderbilt 1 5 .167
Kaley's Appearance To
Strengthen Auburn Five
If In Playing Condition
Elmer G. Salter
If Chas. Kaley is a minute man
when it comes to getting in condition
and if he is the came capable guard
who held down a regular position on
Coach Geo. Bohler's championship
frosh hardwood team last season, the
Auburn basket ball teams stock will
jump several points.
Kaley has just entered college for
the second semester and will be a
leading contender for a guard berth
on the cage five. Only two more
games remain on the 1930 schedule,
after the team returns from Louisi­ana,
both with Georgia Tech. Coach
Lee will use Kaley in the two tilts if
he lives up to expectations in the
workouts next week..
The former Warrior high school
star athlete looks to be in good con­dition.
He will have to be as he is
slated for a week of strenuous work.
He is working out daily in the gym­nasium
while the varsity dribblers
are invading Louisiana.
He might be the long looked for
"spark plug" as Capt. Louie James
& Co. are expected to take a new
lease on their basket ball playing and
enter the annual Southern Confer­ence
tournament in Atlanta, Feb. 28,
March 1, 3 and 4 the dark horses.
Coach Fred Sheridan's baseball
worries are also lessened with the ar­rival
of Kaley. He was a second Ebb
James behind the plate with the 1929
frosh nine, and is expected to be a
leading contender for catcher this
season.
Elmer G. Salter
The Auburn-Birmingham Baron
baseball game scheduled for the
Magic City for March 20, is one of
the two games to be played during
the 1930 season by Coach Fred Sheri­dan's
tossers in which the entire gate
receipts will go toward the "A" club
scholarship fund. The other tilt in
which the "A" club will gather the
receipts for their scholarship fund is
April 2 when the Montgomery Lions
journey to the Cornerstone and meet
the Tigers as a feature of the Au­burn
"A" Day celebration.
Coach Sheridan first tried to con­tract
with the Barons for games in
Auburn and Birmingham. This ar­rangement
fell through and the plan
was suggested to the Birmingham
moguls that the Plainsmen come to
the Magic City, pay their own ex­penses
and get all the receipts from
the game. This money would be used
for the "A" club scholarship fund
for worthy students. This immedi­ately
met with the" approval of Secre­tary
Billy West, so the Auburn "A"
club is very much in praise of the
Birmingham officials for consenting
to let them play at Rickwood and for
letting them have the receipts.
March 20 will be the first invasion
of Birmingham by the Orange and
Blue hickory wielders in sevjeral
years. They have copped the South­ern
Conference championship twice
during the past three years and only
lost two series last year. With a
large number of veterans returning
and several promising candidates
from the yearling team, Coach Sheri­dan
expects to give the Southern
League champions a hard game.
1930 BASEBALL
PROSPECTS ARE
FOR GOOD NINE
Tigers Take Road
Trip to Louisiana
The International Association of
Tramps has asked Vienna police to
allow the organization to hold its
1930 annual congress in that city.
The Methodist Church is planning
to appeal to men to put a stop to
women smoking.
Virginia 1 6 .143
South Carolina 0 2 .000
Florida -- 0 1 .000
Confident that they will make a
showing on their final lengthy road
jaunt of the season which will war­rant
them receiving an invitation to
the annual Southern Conference bas­ketball
turnament which will be held
in Atlanta, Feb. 28, March 1, 3 and
4, eight Tiger dribblers departed
from the Cornerstone Thursday night
for a five-day invasion of Louisiana.
On this five-day through the land
made famous by the Spaniards and
Frenchmen, Coach Hal" Lee's improv­ing
cagesters will play two-game se­ries
with L. S. U. and Tulane. The
Louisiana Tigers will be met Friday
and Saturday at Baton Rouge, while
the Tulane Greenies will be played in
New Orleans Monday and Tuesday.
The team will return to the Loveliest
Village next Wednesday.
In addition to the long scrimmages
that have been given the Plainsmen
hoopsters this week much drill has al­so
been given them in shooting fouls
and floor work. Many free throws
have been missed this season which
has cost the team at least one im­portant
game so Coach Lee does not
want this to happen again.
(Frock) Pate is gradually regain­ing
his crack eye for the basket's.
Ralph Jordan, Jack Stewart and Tom
Lumpkin have been "the sharpshooters
in the past but' will be hard pressed
by Pate from now on. Pate is one of
the best floor men on the team as he
follows the ball like a bulldog. He
was an offensive star in high school
and on the yearling qufntet so should
be "just right" when the tournament
starts.
Harry Barnes
With the return of ten letter men
and several numeral men from last
years frosh squad, prospects are ex­ceedingly
bright for Auburn's 1930
baseball machine.
Warm weather has greatly favor­ed
Coach Sheridan's men in their first
practice which started last Monday.
Practice thus far has consisted of
fungo hitting, shagging flies, pep­per
games, and passing the medicine
ball. A batting cage is being con­structed
on Drake field and slugging
practice will begin in a few days
provided the warm weather continues.
Among last year's letter men re­porting
for practice are Crawford,
Carter, Ward, Newton, Harris, Burt,
Harkins, and Ingram.
Promising men from last year's
frosh squad are Lewis, Prim, Lloyd,
Smith, and others. Several other can­didates
who are out for basketball
will not report until the seasons ends
for that sport.
The 1930 schedule calls for fifteen
conference games, two with the cham­pion
Montgomery Lions of the South­eastern
League, one with the Birming­ham
Barons last year's pennant win­ners
of the Southern Association, and
eight other games with well known
clubs. The season's opening game
will probably be played here with the
soldiers aggregation from Ft. Ben-ning,
Ga.
The schedule is as follows:
March 14—Ft. Benning at Auburn,
(tentative).
March 15—Ft. Benning, (place un­decided).
March 20—Birmingham Barons at
Birmingham.
March 28-29—Tulane at Auburn.
April 2—Montgomery Lions at
Montgomery.
April 7—Montgomery Lions at
Montgomery.
April 11-12—Georgia at Auburn.
April 16-17—Georgia Tech at At­lanta.
. .
April 19—Lindale at Auburn.
April 24-25-26—Florida at Pana­ma
City.
May 2-3—Georgia at Athens.
May 5-6—Clemson at Clemson.
May 9-10—Mercer at Auburn.
May 12-13—Howard at Auburn.
May 15—Howard at Birmingham.
May 16-17—Vanderbilt at Nashville.
GREEN GLASSES BRING
APPETITE BACK TO COWS
Al Gotlieb, owner of the J-R cattle
ranch three miles from Wann, Okla.,
declares that when his pastures be­came
so dry the cattle would not eat
the grass, he put green spectacles
on them, and they ate readily and
prospered.
Promising Track Men
Report to Coach Hutsell
About thirty enthusiastic Fresh­men
erported to Coach Hutsell Fri­day
afternoon for track duty. These
candidates have received various
amounts of coaching while in high
school, but the majority of them have
had not previous experience. How­ever,
the future Sniders, Baskins and
Beards are anxious to work, and some
brilliant track artists may be de­veloped
by the excellent coaching of
the experienced Wilbur Hutsell. These
candidates are only doing various
limbering exercises for the present,
but a regular routine will soon fol­low
for the rodents, and a chance
will be given all to display their
wares.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN TO
LEAVE HALLS OF CONGRESS
Washington—(IP)—The last Civ­il
War veteran in Congress soon is
td leave the legislative halls of the
United States, it has been learned.
Representative Charles Manly
Stedman, ex-Confederate soldier, rep­resentative
from North Carolina since
the 62nd Congress, has celebrated
his 89t hbirthday, and has announced
that he will not seek re-election.
His announcement was received by
a round of applause for the aged
veteran of two kinds of wars.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN
\ PAGE FIVE
Sea Gale Off Coast of Asia Minor
Sent Cafe Proprietors to Auburn
By C. E. Mathews
In 1906 fate dealt misfortune to the
family of sea-farers who lived on the
little Isle of Patmos, just off the
cost of Asia Minor. Emmanuel Gazes,
the father of the local Greeks, lost
both of his ships in storms. As a re­sult
he left the traditional sea life of
his ancestors and came to America to
live in Auburn and operate a cafe.
In 1912 "Big John" Yannis came to
Auburn and worked with his father
several years before Vasos, better
known as "Little John," arrived.
Soon after Vasos came, the elder
member of the family returned to
Greece where he now lives.
The Greeks are three in number.
C. S. Alexkis the oldest of the trio, is
a low chunky fellow with thin grey
hair and blue eyes. He carries him­self
erectly and with some dignity.
His manner is easy, displaying little
emotion. It is said he does the buying
for the concern.
John, the next oldest is also of low
stature, has black hair, blue eyes, and
is a man of marked personality. One
is impressed with his "hail-fellow-well-
met manner." P r o f e s s o r s,
students and townspeople delight in
talking with him. Nor is he the
solemn, business-like Greek to whom
we are so accustomed, but a man with
a keen sense of humor and a cheerful
word for everyone.
Vasos, does not resemble his
brother. He is slim, of medium
height, has light hair, blue eyes, and
nearly always wears his shirt un­buttoned
at the collar. He rushes
about making noise, joking with first
one then another, and all the while
waiting on innumerable customers.
The'Isle of Patmos is a small island
with area of eighteen miles. Its in-
COOLIDGE WRITES HISTORY
UNITED STATES IN 500 WORDS
Keystone, S. D.—(IP)—A history
of the United States, 500 words in
length, and written by the terse
former president Calvin Coolidge, is
to be inscribed for future generations
to read upon the granite face of the
Black Hills mountain, Mt. Rushmore,
near here. The letters will be cut five
inches deep, and will be large enough
to be read miles away.
Geologists estimate the rate of
erosion on the granite escarpment of
Mount Rushmore is an inch in 100,000
years, so that unless radical earth
changes take place, or future progress
decrees the removal of Mount Rush-more,
the memorial should endu»e for
more than 500,000 years.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY STRESSES
THE USE OF SIMPLE ENGLISH
-= Boston University has certainly
"hit the nail on the head" we must
admit. In an article in a recent is­sue
of the News it was stated that
simple English was the collegian's
most obvious "buga-boo." It's not so
much what the collegian says, but
how he says it. Simple English, it
declared, is always safe to use. It is
only when collegians start to show
the world what they know, that they
express themselves at their worst.
habitants are mainly Greek and are
seafaring people. John says his
great-grandfather, grandfather, and
father each owned their own com­mercial
sailing vessels. It was the
chief vocation of all the people living
on the island.
The little island is rich in historic
lore. John says it was the exile of
St. John. There is a cave which, ac­cording
to the myth, was the home of
this bible character. In this cave is
a marble slab, with a groove in its
center, which served as St. John's
pillar. As t° the whereabouts of the
saint's body no one has been able to
determine. Following the lone in­habitation
of the isle by St. John
came the Greeks. The foremost
character of this time was Christo-thoulos,
who established a monastery
which still stands. In this monastery
of 101 cells, is a library which con­tains
over 2,000 volumes, half of
which are original manuscript's.
Numbered among these books was the
original manuscript of Plato, which
according to John was stolen by an
Englishman and placed under a glass
cover in the museum of London. An­other
prized volume is that of
Matthew in which every capital G in
the name of God is lettered in silver
and gold. The island was once the
seat of one of Greece's foremost uni­versities.
At present its state of civi­lization
is low. Due to the fact that
it has changed into the hands of four
nations, the island has been at a dis­advantage.
It has been under the
rule of Romans, Russians, Greeks,
and finally Italians. Under Italy's
oppression the Greeks are steadily be­ing
driven from the island which they
love so much.
"Boy," said John: "We have blue
skies and blue waters on that Island.
It is vonderful to get a boat, a girl
and with the moon, one thinks he's in
heaven."
Brackeen Takes Job
With Dept. Of Agri.
After completing work for and re­ceiving
the degree of bachelor of
science and master of science at Au­burn,
Leonard G. Brackeen, has ac­cepted
a position with the State De­partment
of Agriculture and will be
engaged in soil survey work.
Brackeen spent four years at Au­burn
as an undergraduate student.
He received his B. S. Degree in 1927.
Before graduation he accepted a
fellowship in order to do graduate
work. He recently completed the
requirements for the degree of master
of science, having had special train­ing
in chemistry, soils, mathematics,
and related subjects. The work in
which he is now engaged is said to be
especially promising, it being a com­bination
of State and Federal Service.
OLD AT AGE OF 30
Port of Spain, Trinidad—(IP) —
Professor Seagar, of the Rockefeller
Institute has found that West Indies
negroes are old men and women at the
age of 30 because of the hardships
they have to undergo to eke out a
living.
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R. B. Marsh, Former
Student Here, Dies
Robert Baker Marsh, 24, former in­structor
in architectural engineering
at Auburn during 1927-28, died Jan.
7 at the home of his parents in
Florence, Alabama, following a pro­tracted
illness of about three months.
Interment was made in Florence.
"After graduating from with honor
in 1927 in the four-year architectual
engineering course, Mr. Marsh be­came
an instructor in the School of
Architecture and Allied arts. At the
time of his death he held a position
with the State Engineering Depart­ment,
which position he accepted on
leaving Auburn.
Dean Biggin, under whom Mr.
Marsh worked as an instructor at
Auburn, pays the following tribute:
"Mr. Marsh was one of the finest and
manliest young man we have ever had
in the department. The only reason
he was not teaching at Auburn at the
time of his death was that he pre­ferred
the practical type of work with
the State Engineering Department
and voluntarily resigned to take it
up. News of his death is a great
shock, to both faculty members and
students who knew him."
Student Initiative Is
Fostered At Princeton
Princeton, N. J.—(IP)—Student
initiative was fostered in a course in
international relations at Princeton
University last semester under the
leadership of H. Alexander Smith, of
the political science department.
Professor Smith placed the burden
of the work on the students who
had to rely on their own examination
of authoritative material to cover the
work. No textbooks were used.
In working out the course, Profes­sor
Smith formed eight commitees
and appointed a member of each
committee as chairman of his group.
The chairman acted as points of
contacts between the class and Pro­fessor
Smith.
The work was done cooperatively,
each of the eight committees having
special problems to report on. All
the committees met each week, to dis­cuss
the reports of the members.
At the conclusion of all individual
reports each committee-then met and
drafted resolutions concerning the
committee problem which represent­ed
the opinions of the students as ar­rived
at from three and a half
month's study. The resolutions
adopted by the committees were then
read to the members of the course
as a whole, and commented upon.
Professor Smith judged the merits
of the work submitted.
Cornell Professor
Suggests Campaign
Bethlehem, Pa.— (IP)—An inter­collegiate
alumni fund roll call or
a nation-wide college drive which
might be similar to the National Red
Cross week, was advocated by L. C.
Boochever, of Cornell University in
an address here recently.
The plan proposed by the Cornell
professor would involve the starting
of a drive for funds at the same time
by colleges and universities through­out
the country at a specific period
each year. General conduct of the
drive would be under the supervision
of a large intercollegiate bureau.
Every college alumnus in the coun­try
would be solicited to contribute
funds to his or her university. Alum­ni
workers of every university would
band together in the drive.
The Cornell professor believed that
the expense of such a drive could
be divided between the various insti­tutions
so that the drive would not
only have much more influence, but
would be less expensive than the
spasmotic drives engaged in by va­rious
universities and colleges at
present.
WORLD TRAVELERS SAYS
INDIA CIVILIZATION LAGS
Cleveland, O.—(IP)—Lowell Thom­as,
world traveler and author, speak­ing
here recently, said that "India is
so far behind in its civilization and
progress that it cannot for many
years subsist on its own feet without
the aid of an outside nation so steady
and rule it."
"England has given India peace and
prosperity," Thomas said. "She has
given India the third largest railroad
system in the world and an unparal­leled
system of irrigation, both of
which have done away with the old
famines which used to sweep down
on the country and kill of multitudes
of the population."
AUBURN TRAINED
TEACHERS IN LEE*
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Women's Protective
Association Scoffed
In the field of education teachers
trained at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, Auburn, are occupying
positions of leadership, as revealed
by the teaching personnel of Lee
County, Alabama.
At the head of the Lee County
public school system is W. Y.
Fleming, county superintendent of
education, who received his bachelor
of science degree in Auburn in 1924
and his master of science degree in
1928. Associated with him as
elementary ^supervisor is S a ra
Meadors McDonald who received her
bachelor of science degree in 1925
and master of science in 1929.
Other Auburn trained teachers in
the Lee County service are James M.
Browne, principal of Beulah Con­solidated
High School, B. S. and M.
S.; J. B. Page, principal of Smith'
Station Consolidated High School,
B. S. and M. S.; Beth Seibold, teacher
of English, B. S.; M. F. Whatley,
Vocational-Agriculture, B. S.; Geo.
A. Dozier, principal of Salem Junior
High, B. S.; W. H. McGregor,
principal of Beauregard Consolidated
High, graduate work at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute; F r a n c es
Zachry, mathmatics, B. S.; Velma
Ward, history and English, B. S.;
J. A. Vines, Vocational Agriculture,
B. S.; J. A. Parrish, principal of Lee
County High School, B. S.; H. F.
Gibson, Vocational Agriculture, B. S.;
Mrs. J. C. Cannon, history, M. S.;
Miss Annie Heard, principal of Au­burn
Grammar School, B. S.; Frances
Duggar, third grade, B. S., and M. S.
POSSIBILITY OF PEOPLE
BEING RADIO RECEIVERS
London— (IP) —T h e possibility
that there are people who, owing to
some special formation of the brain,
are natural radio receivers, is the
interesting theory propounded by
Major Leonard Avery, a well-konwn
physician of this city.
Maj. Avery recently suggested that
it is posible that such persons may be
found among those who are confined
in insane asylums meyely because
they have this power and coninually
"hear noises."
"It may be that something in the
thickness of the cranium, or the space
between the cranium and the brain,
or brain convolutions, is responsible
for the condition," the major declar­ed.
"I don't know."
"I herely suggest that a thorough
investigation of this theory be made
by doctors who are experts in the
study of mental diseases and phen-nomena."
Cambridge, Mass.— (IP)—Officials
of Harvard University consider the
newly formed Women's Protective
Association a joke and will not accept
contributions for the purpose of re­employing
twenty discharged scrub
women and paying them 2 cents an
hour more as ordered by the state
minimum wage commission.
The association was formed by Har­vard
Student's with the announced idea
of making up the amount in contri­butions.
The Harvard attitude was made
clear in an official statement by the
publicity department of the universi­ty.
It reads:
"The University will' refuse money
collected in behalf of the scrub women
because it is the purpose of the col­lection,
as stated in the protest, to pay
2 cents an hour more to scrub women.
If the efforts are serious they will
be futile, because scrub jobs are no
longer open to women at Harvard."
Several placards placed in Harvard
dormitories, signed "Harvard Scrub
Women's Protective Aid Society,"
bore such wording as:
"Two cents would keep one scrub
woman scrubbing for an hour," Would
you give two cents for cleanliness?"
and "Give till you're cleaned."
PROHIBITION DOMINANT
ISSUE IN 1928 CAMPAIGN
Chicago—(IP)—According to Pro­fessor
William F. Ogburn, of the Uni­versity
of Chicago, director of the
social survey group recently appointed
by President Hoover, prohibition was
by far the dominant issue in the 1928
Presidential campaign.
The University Press Bureau, Pro­fessor
Ogburn declares, has made
what is believed to be the first
scientific analysis of the vote.
Neither political faith nor religion
had any real bearing in the election,
Dr. Ogburn believes following a sur­vey
made in 73 counties throughout
the North.
Spirited Counter Attack Launched
on Report of Carnegie Foundation
ACTING PRESIDENT OF
GOUCHER COLLEGE DEAD
Baltimore, Md.—(IP)—Dr. Hans
Froelicher, acting president of Gouch-er
College since the death of Dr.
William W. Guth in April, dropped
dead in Alumnae Lodge here recently
just after he had finished dinner with
his wife and Homer Saint Gaudens,
director of the Fine Arts college at
Carnegie Institute.
Dr. Froelicher had been on the
faculty of Goucher college since 1888.
He was born in Switzerland sixty-ty-
three years ago. Death was due to
heart disease.
Ann Arbor, Mich. — (AP) —
Probably the most spirited counter
attack yet launched on the Carnegie
Foundation report on football condi­tions
in American colleges and uni­versities,
is reported by the Associ­ated
Press in a dispatch from this
college town.
Prof. Ralph W. Aigler, of the Uni­versity
of Michigan Law School, the
AP report declares, told the Univer­sity
senate that the Carnegie
Foundation Bulletin 23 was "wild,
disappointing and disheartening," and
"almost vicious."
The statements were contained in
Professor Aigler's annual report to
the university faculty as chairman of
the athletics board of control. He
also is a member of the faculty com­mittee
of the Western Conference.
He charged the foundation investi­gator
employed "the methods of a
prosecutor" and that certain letters
were removed from university files
and not returned.
Direct charges against the Uni­versity
of Michigan were answered
by Professor Aigler.
"The charge that athletics are sub­sidized
at Michigan in the guise of
'writers' indicates that possibly
there were a great many such cases,"
he said, "at least a plurality of them.
Yet word from Dr. Savage (Dr.
Howard Savage, author of Bulletin
23) is that this charge is based upon
the fact that Mr. Friedman (Bennie
Friedman, football star) wrote an
article or articles for Youth's Com­panion
and for some newspaper
syndicate.
"Thus we find that the sweeping
charge of subsidizing 'writers' is
based upon what was done by one
senior boy."
Professor Aigler said there was no
charge that any alumnae or anyone
connected with the university had
any part in procuring Friedman's
contract to write the articles.
Writing under present conference
rules would make Friedman ineligible.
"One of the most vicious things
about the bulletin," Professor Aigler
said, "is that in its indiscriminate
use of 'recruiting' and 'subsidizing'
and its wild charges, all the weight
of supposedly impartial scientific
study has been put behind what here­tofore
has been merely the sensa­tionalism
of space writers. . . .
"Apparently it was not the in­tention
of the investigator to do any­thing
other than make out a case
. . . It seems to have been his
intention to try to find something, as
if he were a prosecutor or one en­gaged
in writing a series of muck­raking
articles, upon which to hang
a series of charges."
Professor Aigler said, "Anything
ranging from the earnings of an
athlete-student, however honest the
job might be, to outright athletic
scholarships and barefaced financial
payments are classed-as subsidies."
"Recruiting," he said, "covers any­thing
from a coach making a speech
to high school athletes to practices
ordinarily associated with fraternity
or sorority rushing or simple kid­naping."
Discussing the serving of athletic
relations with the University of Iowa
by other members of the Western
Conference, Professor Aigler,said the
faculty committee found conditions at
Iowa "almost shocking," whereas Dr.
Savage "found very little to complain
about."
Professor Aigler told of asking Dr.
Savage for evidence upon which was
made the charge that Michigan main­tained
an "organized and subtel
system for the proselyting of high
school athletes."
Dr. Savage's, reply he said, re­ferred
to certain letters which investi­gation
showed had disappeared from
the university files.
The investigator had been given
access to university files, Professor
Aigler said, and had taken the letters
with him. The professor continued:
"In response to a request for the re­turn
of these we were astonished to
receive, not the letters themselves,
but photostatic copies thereof."
"The truth apparently is," the
Michigan professor said, "that the
bulletin was written from the point of
view of the eastern athletic man, who
has it pretty firmly fixed in his mind
that, athletically, things are pretty
raw in the territory west of the Al­legheny
Mountains.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
RECEIVE FATAL BURNS
Hastings, Minrt.— (IP)—H e 1 e n
Swanson, 21, a senior at Hamline uni­versity,
St. Paul, died while at home
on a short vacation, in a vain at­tempt
to save her. mother's life.
Both the mother and daughter
died at a local hospital of burns re­ceived
in a fire.
Mrs. F. A. Swanson had been clean­ing
clothes on her back porch with
gasoline, when the fumes overcame
her, and she fainted. The daughter
picked her up and carried her into
the house. The mother's clothes had
become saturated with gasoline when
she fell, and the fire in the kitchen
stove ignited these, fatally burning
both women.
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1930
Dr. Knapp Addresses
Southern Ag. Leaders
Makes Address At Agricultural
Convention In Mississippi
Addressing agricultural leaders of
the South at the annual convention
here of the Southern Association of
Agricultural Workers, Dr. Bradford
Knapp declared that American civili­zation
has passed the day of unor­ganized
and individual effort which
have been replaced by group action
and cooperation. He said that this
applies to the research worker as well
as to those engaged in other occupa­tions.
Picturing the early research man
as a "sort of cloistered individual
prospecting like the gold hunter of old
seeking here and there among the
rocks until he finds a precious metal".
He contrasted him with the modern
research worker who is the most im­portant
among the more systematic in
industry and in agriculture. _
"Agricultural research," he said,
"has made great strides since the day
of the organization of the experiment
station in 1887. The colleges strug­gled
in their first few years because
of the lack of an organized body of
knowledge known as an agricultural
science. We have made great prog­ress
in developing the applied science
of agriculture. If you will look back
twenty-five or thirty years, you will
find practically no departments of
agricultural engineering, only a few
struggling departments of plant path-ology,
and agricultural economics al- Let them droop and the world's droop
most undeveloped. We have a vast with you.
and an intricate field running from
meteorology all the way to human seekers who are different. They
psychology or, putting it in common droop not, neither do they garter,
language, from the weather to the These men are afraid to wear garters,
styles of human dress, tastes and ap- and fear to let their socks droop
Garters Lose Prestige
Among College Boys
Droop, droop—droop. The song of
the sock. At least the song of the
collegiate socks and then some.
Investigation of the styles followed
at Tulane.University in the wearing
of socks reveals, first of all, that near­ly
all Tulanians wear socks.
Just how the sock must be adjust­ed
upon the foot in order to conform
to the best style is another matter.
Indeed, it is several other matters.
For there are several ways of wear­ing
socks, and each backed to the
limit by its proponents as being the
correct way.
Strange as it may seem, there are
still a few college men who wear
garters. Of course they don't go
around bragging about it, but still
they wear them. However, the num­ber
of garter-wearers is so small that
it is nearly negligible, and anyway,
'that's no new way to wear socks.
If your half-hose (Stylese for
socks) droop you are in the height
of fashion. It matters not how far
they droop, or which way they droop,
but droop they must. The old days
when the boys and girls used to roll
their socks are gone forever. The
young ladies may still do it, after a
fashion, but the young gentlemen—
never!
To be caught with your socks rolled
is worse, far worse, than to be caught
without your shirt or your left shoe.
Social ostricization will surely follow.
However, there is another class of
petites. It is a baffling field full of
more uncertainties and possibly less
of mathematical certainty than any
other great field of human endeavor.
At the same time, it is a challenge
because it is the fundamental (if you
will permit the trite quotation) of
which the human race secures its
food, clothing, and a large propor­tion
of its shelter."
The speaker said also that indus­trial
research has gone forward in
correlating its effort so that indus­try's
success today traces direct to
the research worker of yesterday.
"Industry," he continued, "is at­tacking
its problems not because of
the great mass of highly trained scien­tific
endeavor which it is putting into
the solution of these problems, but be­cause
industry has come to regard
science as fundamental, absolutely
necessary, and of supreme importance.
On the other hand agriculture has
gi-^yn greatly in this direction but in
my judgment has not reached the
point of view of industry. Whether
this is because agricultural people
have not yet seen the lack or wheth­er
it is because agriculture being more
conservative has moved more slowly is
not for me to say. All I can say is
that there is a distinct tendency in
the direction of applying to agricul-
What do they do? Why they wear
rubber bands to hold up the erring
clothing. No, a rubber band is not
a garter. Emphatically NI! This
class of social peanuts is never spoken
of in public. They are the unmention­able
of sockdom.
BRILLIANT EDITOR HERE IN
INTEREST POETRY IN SOUTH
(Continued from page 1)
South. Great stress was put upon
his pleading. He deplored the lack
of metropolitan centers, but quickly
added that in the South so much ma­terial
is at hand that one does not
need the help of sophistication and
the so-called ultra-cosmopolitan air.
A great deal is being done to quicken
ture the system, the organization, and
the coordinated effort of industrial
research. The agricultural scientists
need the point of view of the indus­trial
scientist. The problem is the
main thing—not the scientist who
solves it. We need more projects in
experiment stations which break
down the barriers between subject
matter divisions and recognizes the
technical value of training in defin­ite
lines as related to the same sub­ject."
Rainbow Theatre
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MONDAY—TUESDAY, Feb. 10-11
World's Greatest Musical Comedy!
All Singing - Dancing - Talking Revue
William Fox Movietone
"FOLLIES OF 1929"
Also Selected Short Subjects
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 12
She May Not Have Come to Steal, But
She got a w a y with his heart! So she w a s a
"Lady Burglar" after a l l !
All-Talking Fox Movietone
"MASQUERADE"
with Leila Hyams, Alan Birmingham, Clyde
Arnold Lucy and Farrell MacDonald
Also Talking Comedy
Cook,
THURSDAY, Feb. 13
3 Moore Brothers
TOM—MATT—OWEN
In Novelty All-Talking Dramatic Smash
"SIDE STREET"
Also Talking Comedy
FRIDAY, Feb. 14
The "DELIGHTFUL ROGUE" with
Rod LaRocque—100 percent Dialog
The soft, warm lull of tropic seas—sweeping, swaying
through smashing sequences of the most magnificent
spectacle ever brought to t h e talking screen!
Also Talking Comedy
SATURDAY, Feb. 15
Hoot Gibson "COURTIN' WILDCATS"
Also Talking Comedy
Books of Interest
Inside Workings of The Great Daily Papers Revealed
In Recent Book
THE REPORTER
By Howard Crawford
Scoop, by James S. Hart and Har-ret
D. Byrnes. Little Brown and
Company, $2. An Atlantic Month­ly
Press Publication.
If you want to know what is be­hind
the stories you read in your
daily papers; if you want to read a
good semi-detective story, and if you
don't care very much whether the
characters in that story are convinc­ing
or not, you should procure a copy
of Scoop, just of the press of Little,
Brown and Company, and enjoy a
pleasant evening.
Since this reviewer's regular job is
that of attempting—and usually suc­ceeding—
to fill a column of newspa­per
space from a half dozen scrawl­ed
notes hurriedly jotted down in the
court house, we recommend that
Scoop is an accurate and convincing
story of the city room of a modern
daily paper. As a lover of good liter­ature,
we are forced to admit that
Scoop could have been written better.
We have nothing but commenda­tion
for the two reporters who wrote
this story, however, inasmuch as most
of us newspaper men are planning
to write a story and never do. Hart
and Byrnes have done it, and per­haps
more experience in the litera­ry
line will enable them in the future
to do something really good.
Snakes Shiel is an Irish World War
veteran, working on a New England
newspaper. As all newspaper report­ers
are supposed to, and as many do,
he gets drunk often and totally, and
is unfortunate enough once to drive
his automobile into a safety zone post
while in that condition. Because he
knows only the day force in the police
department, and the crash accurred at
night, Snakes gets himself in jail, and
a crooked judge, disliking the effort
being made by Snakes' paper to have
the laws enforced, gives him ten days
in the county jail.
The ten days in jail give the re­porter
an idea concerning the num­ber
of pardons which are being hand­ed
out to criminals, and back on the
desk again, he takes the matter up
with the managing editor.
Together they plan to expose the
judge, and those back of him, and
Shiel is given a leave of absence dur­ing
which he is to work up his "scoop."
Unfortunately for Snakes, his per-sual
of the big story leads him to fall
deeply in love with the sister of a
Jewish criminal who has bought his
pardon, and there you have the one
and only serious complication of the
plot.
The story breaks, the whole rotten
gang is shown up, but Snakes loses
his lady love as a result, which is
tragic, but not so tragic as it should
be, for the purpose of real literature.
Rebekah Cohen—how we wish the
authors could have found some other
name—is probably the character best
done in this book. She is the only
character, in fact, who is a personali­ty
rather than a type, and the man-the
pulse of poetry and writing in
the South, but more could be accom­plished
if a greater number of col­leges
published student literary mag­azines.
By means of these people
would come in closer contact with the
genius and endowment of the young­er
generation. Poetry is not neces­sarily
restricted to artificial devices.
The best poetry has been written in
simple language and expression.
At the present time poetry is re­covering
from the post war effects of
satire. It is gradually swinging into
a modern classicism of its own. The
radical views which were so popular
are now losing caste and in their
place comes a new mode, which is
parallel to the important changes
made in music and art. This new de­velopment
appears at a most strategic
time for the South. It will draw out
the hidden genius and display it to
the eyes of the world, which has been
looking for so loing a time upon
Dixie. Mr. Hartsock is confident
that in the development of this new
mode, most of the best examples will
originate in this section of the coun­try.
AUBURN STUDENTS WIN
MAKE INSPECTION TOUR
(Continued from page 1)
Chemical engineering students to
go are O. W. Allen, J. D. Atkins, E.
N. Eiland, H. L. Hubbard, E. E.
Marks, J. T. Mitchell, O. C. Moore, H.
Reeves, J. C. Stewart, and A. S.
Wright.
ner in which the authors have handled
her show that they have the ability
to do better things.
Inasmuch as this reviewer made
the mistake of predicting that "Young
Man From Manhattan," was one news­paper
story which would never gain
very wide circulation, and it is now a
best seller, we refrain from making
any predictions about "Scoop." Every
newspaper reporter, we know, will
read it, and get plenty of kick out of
it because he will recall so many
similar experiences.
ALRAUNE
By Hans Heinz Ewers, The John Day
Company, N. Y., 1929. Trans­lated
by S. Guy Endore.
Alraune is a weaving of ideas so
different as to be novel in the sense
of both noun and adjective. Some
idea of the quality of the book may
be obtained from two facts about the
author: he was a German with a
brilliant imagination; he was a man
with a varied and stormy literary
career.
This book deals with the dream of
Frank Braun as related in the ten
volumes found in the library of the
ten Brinken family in Germany, a
dream in which the little wooden
alraune of the Gontham family be­came
a living woman. By working
upon the breedy mind of Professor
ten Brinken, he makes his dream be­come
an actuality, and Alraune ten
Bricken is born of exogenetic con­ception—
a child whose mother was
a common woman of the street and
whose father was a murderer.
The books is entertainingly written,
particularly for those interested in
the psychology of such cases. How­ever
the most interesting things we
find in the book are the clever pen-and-
ink illustrations.
VETERINARIANS OF
MANY STATES HERE
FOR SHORT COURSE
one time with dairy and beef cattle
was limited. Now we have special­ists
in cattle practice, dog practice,
swine practice, and to some extent in
poultry and small animal practice."
The call for veterinarians in fed­eral,
state, and municipal work is
now greater than at any time in the
history of the profession, Dr. Cary
explained further. The demand for
practitioners in the South is likewise
greater, as there are a number of
counties in every state calling for the
services of an educated veterinarian,
he added.
Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana and
Iowa were among the states repre­sented
at the short course. Veterin­arians
from nearby states were pres­ent.
Dr. Thos. F. Ferguson of Wiscon­sin,
president of the American Vet­erinary
Medical Association, operated
and lectured on surgery of horses,
mules, and cattle, especially dairy
cattle. He has attended nearly all
the short courses in America, and
stated that the course given at Au­burn
was the best in the nation in
practical instruction. Similar courses
are held in nearly all states. He also
praised in high terms Auburn's un-degraduate
veterinary course.
Dr. D. A. Eastman, practitioner
of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lectured and
operated on dogs and other small an­imals.
He was delighted to find that
Southern people are great lovers of
dogs. "In my observations of people
in many states, I find that those who
love dogs are a fine class of peo­ple,"
he asserted.
"A good dog is a fine companion
for the growing child," he continued.
"As a pet for children it is far supe­rior
to any other animal."
Speakers at the banquet discussed
fully the many lines of work now
almost entirely done by gradaute
veterinarians. One of his chief func­tions,
they declared, is to prevent
diseases of animals that are communi­cable
to humans, and thus protect
public health. Another is to inspect
milk so as to prevent contamination
and infection of the product con­sumed
by babies, children and men
and women.
The primary function of veterin­arians,
they all agreed, is to prevent
and treat the diseases of horses,
mules, cattle, swine, sheep, dogs, and
poultry. A fourth function is that
of eradicating and controlling ani­mal
diseases for the fedejrbl and
state governments and for livestock
men in general, they said.
Dean Is Puzzled Over
Entrance Of Freshmen
What causes freshmen to come to
universities in an ever-increasing
number?
Dr. John D. Hicks, dean of the arts
college at the University of Nebras­ka,
is puzzled by this question.
"I am inclined to think it is be­cause
we have acquired a university
complex," he declared. "Someone has
called it the 'the university conven­tion',"
he continued. "People send
their-children to universities because
it is the thing to do, just as I send
my own to public school. Everybody
believes his children should complete
their education, but few of them
know why.
"The result," Dr. Hicks asserted,
"is that a multitude of bewildered
young men and women is loosed on
American campuses every year Oc­casionally
there is one who comes
with a fixed purpose, who is eager to
learn. But he is so far outnumbered
that he constitutes a problem.
"Sometimes the serious chap, who
comes to a university to learn lations.
Maybe he objects to military training
or thinks freshman English or science
or social science requirements are
silly. If he refuses to take them, of
course he can't graduate.
Dean Hicks went on to say that
most of what we know comes from
the library, and that the youlh who
desires to learn can study by himself
and so can get along without a uni­versity.
"How about those others, the ones
who go to a university as a soi". of
finishing school?" he was aksed.
"Oh, we do not hurt them any,"
Dr. Hicks replied. "We show them
a pretty good time for four years.
Probably they do not acquire any
interest in learning, but they do get
some training in the social graces in
their four years at school. They meet
lots of people, and it all helps them
when they get to selling bonds or
what not.
Dean Hicks, however, does not re­gard
the four years in college as a
waste-of time, even for the average
student who just gets by. He thinks
that this average student would prob­ably
be so young that he would not
get any place in those four years
even if he went to work.
AUBURN BASKETEERS LOSE
TO L. S. U. CAGERS 44-27
Personality may be valuable, but
the fellows who hold down the best
jobs don't seem to have much of an
excess of it.
(Continued from page 1)
and guarding in the initial period,
neither team was able to gain a de­cisive
advantage, but when he opened
up his coring onslaught the Auburn
hardwooders began to fall behind.
At no time in the fatal second half
did the Plainsmen threaten.
The lineups:
ABURN (27) F G FL
Pate, forward —.3 1 0
Jordan, forward ',;, ^ 3 2 2
Stewart, center 1 1 3
James, guard -1 0 0
Lawson, guard 2 1 2
Lumpkin, forward — —-1 0 0
Aldridge, forward 0 0 2
Hatfield, guard 0 0 0
Totals 11 5 9
L. S. U. (44) F G FL
Bardwell, forward 1 3 1
Tannehill, forward 4 0 0
Garahan, center 8 1 3
Larkin, guard 3 2 2
Luker, guard ..0 0 1
Poe, forward ..._ .., 2 0 0
Bauman, forward 0 0 1
Brown, forward ;..l 0 0
Sanborn, guard 0 0 0
Blevins, guard 0 0 1
McGehee, guard 0 0 0
Totals 19 6 9
Referee: Frazier (Ark.)
R. H. Boyd Progresses
In Engineering Field
Is Now With Pennsylvania Railroad
Co. in Philadelphia
Among the Auburn graduates of
recent ypars who are making progress
in the field of electrical engineering
is Richard H. Boyd, of the class of
1928.
Mr. Boyd went with the General
Electric Company, where he worked
in the Radio Department. He was
transferred to the Erie plant and be­came
interested in the electric rail­way
work and spent most of his time
testing electric railway equipment.
Later he accepted a position with
the Pennsylvania railroad and went
to Philadelphia to work on what is
called "Philadelphia Improvements of
the Pennsylvania Railroad." This
Company is spending about two hund­red
million dollars on improvements
in the Philadelphia vicinity, includ­ing
two new stations and track elec­trification
from New York to Phila­delphia.
Mr. Boyd received the degree of
bachelor of science in electrical en­gineering
from Auburn.
Twice in as many months a burglar
entered the Omega Sigma Phi house
at Marquette Uni. in Milwaukee, tak­ing
$60 the first time, $125 next.
Our Window
displays a revelation of toothsome and delicious
bakery goods.
From the most delicate of French Pastry to t he
most filling Rye Bread, your Electrik-Maid Bake
Shop produces a full variety of tasty bakery prod­ucts.
It's your Bake Shop—operated for your benefit.
Have your merchant send you Electrik-Maid
Bread.
Regular patrons will tell you that
"You Can Taste the Difference."
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Owned and Operated by
Citizens.
Home of Everything Good That's Baked.
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Over the Horizon
HERE they come—the nucleus of an all-electric
merchant marine. Yesterday, they were a dream.
To-day, they are well over the horizon, linking the ports
of the east and west coasts with fortnightly service. The
goal of the Panama Pacific Line is to build three more
turbine-electric ships, thus enabling weekly New York-
Frisco sailings.
Even now, the three liners, California, Virginia, and
Pennsylvania, constitute the largest fleet of turbine-electric
commercial ships in the world.
Besides propelling these ships, electricity hoists freight,
raises anchors, mans pumps, turns rudders, drives winches,
and warps the vessels into their berths. It lights lamps,
spins fens, operates elevators, cools and cooks food. Its
magic touch is apparent on every deck.
All electric equipment, above and below deck, is a prod­uct
of General Electric.
The planning, production, and distribution of such
equipment has been largely the responsibility of college-trained
men who are working with General Electric and
who have aided in bringing these ships over the horizon.
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