1929-11-15 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1929. NUMBER 20.
GEORGIA DEFEATS VARSITY 24 TO 0
DRAMATIC CLUB PRESENTS
FIRST MAJOR PERFORMANCE
Offers Five Act play, "A Little
Child Shall Lead Them"
GIVEN WEDNESDAY NITE
Izola Williams and Glen Manor
Play Leading Roles
In its first program to be present
The Auburn Players presented "A ed this year, the Auburn Glee Club
Little Child Shall Lead them," a play wi n broadcast several selections to
in five acts by Stephen Blackhurst, night over Station WAPI from seven
to a small audience last Wednesday t'0 eight o'clock, according to an an-evening
in the Little Theatre. This nouncement by Professor John Brig-was
the first large play given this ham, head professor of music and di-year.
The acting was not up to the rector of the Glee Club
The three numbers to be broadcast
much better than in the presentation are as follows: "Redman's Death
to the club members the preceding Chant," Bliss; "Finnish Lullaby,"
This play was well received by Palmgreen; and "Tell me not of a
the small but appreciative audience. Lovely Lass," Forsythe
The scene of the story is laid in The Club, composed of 52 voices will
the backyard of a farmhouse, the make an extended tour of the State
farmer being very much opposed to j n February and March
the movement of consolidating coun- The Club has held two meetings
try schools. The movement, which is weekly since the opening of school;
in full sway is sponsored by a young these rehearsals have been conducted
but leading farmer, and opposed by by Professor Brigham, accompanied
a city slicker who is in accord with the by Professor Earl Hazel
old farmer. The townsman hopes by
siding with the old man to win his Friday evening from Auburn will be
daughter, but his efforts are to no the first of a Parent's and their Chil
avail as the young man foils his at
tempts and wins both the daughter
and the consolidation of schools
The old farmer's views are changed
by the sickness of his little grand
daughter that is caused by conditions
at the old school building. He changes
his view when the doctor who is at­tending
the sick child puts the propo­sition
to him in a logical manner.
The story ends with the recovery
of the little girl and the approaching
marriage of two couples, with happi­ness
invading the domestic life of the
old farmer.
Comedy is furnished by the hired
man who stutters terribly and by the
hired girl who lisps. These two kept
the audience laughing by their ec­centricities.
The cast included Betsy, the hired
girl, played by Izola Williams; Sam,
the hired man, played by Glen Manor;
Cyrus Oliver, a conservative farmer
of the old school, played by H. P.
Meigs; Hugh Valvert, a progressive
young farmer and the winner of the
girl, played by Clyde Kimbrough; Lo-reta
Oliver, the pretty daughter of
Cyrus, played by Evelyn Bryant; Pe­ter
Sompson, polished and crooked,
played by S. D. Rains; Mrs. Myra
Oliver, Cyrus' wife, played by Claribel
Parsons, Angela, Cyrus' granddaugh­ter,
played by Kathleen Russell; Dr.
Sylvester, the family physician, play­ed
by Leondus Brown.
After working on the defects and
polishing up the awkward moments of
the play as well as reworking the few
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> dren discussions by Dr. B. R. Showalt-
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Representing the Auburn Business
and Professional Women's Club Miss
Zoe Dobbs, dean of women and social
director at Auburn, spoke at special
chapel exercises at the Lee County
High School at 11 a. m. Thursday.
Miss Dobbs recalled her experiences
at the International Conference on
Education which met in Switzerland
in July and August. She went to
Geneva as a member of the Commit­tee
on International Relations and as
a representative of the National Edu­cation
Association.
Education Week is being observed
at the Auburn High School. Each
day assembly is held and speakers
bring a special message to the stu­dents
Miss Dobbs' address at the high
school is a part of several things the
Auburn Business and Professional
Women's Club is sponsoring in con­nection
with Education Week. Mrs
B. C. Van Wagenen, a member of the
club, will also speak at the high school
and Mrs. Sara McDonald, another
member of the club and Lee County
supervisor of elementary schools, is
talking at several places in the coun­ty
during the week.
The Auburn Business and Profes­sional
Women's Club is an especially
active organization. The officers are
as follows: Berta Dunn, president,
Mrs. Alma Whatley, vice-president,
Mrs. H. B. Peacock, recording secre­tary,
Mrs. A. F. Nickel, corresponding
The School of Science and Litera- secretary, and Miss Nettie Dennis,
ture is purchasing more equipment treasurer
to be used in the Department of Busi­ness
Administration and other de­partments
of the school. Adding ma­chines
are being purchased for the
accounting and statistics classes.
Maps are also being ordered for the
classes in Economic Geography.
All of the typewriters that belong
to the School of Science and Litera
Academic Division
Adds More Equipment
New Equipment Will Be Used in
Department of Business
Administration
By Dick Jones
The Auburn Tiger Frosh team will
ture are in use at present but it is meet the Tulane freshmen in its fifth
hoped that additional typewriters will and final game of the 1929 season
be purchased to meet the increased here tomorrow afternoon; the Au-demand
for them in the various de- burn rats have suffered only one de­partments.
Professor Scott, Dean of the School
of Science and Literature, will meet week for the Baby Tigers; they de-with
the Southern Economics Con- feated the strong Georgia Tech year
ference in Atlanta next week to dis- lings Monday 7-0, the first time an
cuss labor conditions of the South. Auburn first year team has beaten
The session will be a two day confer- a
ence of those interested in discussing rats easily
Southern labor conditions. Jackets.
Glee Club to Present
Program Over WAPI
Will Be Heard Over Radio at
7 O'clock Tonight
NOTED A.P.I. ALUMNUS
DIES AS RESULT OF
POISON INSECT BITE
Joseph Williams, '90, Was
Nationally Famous
Inventor
MILLIONS IN ESTATE
Dies In Cleveland, Ohio, At
Age of Sixty-One
Other features of the radio program
MISS DOBBS SPEAKS
AT HI SCHOOL CHAPE
Recalls Experiences at Con­ference
in Switzerland
Tiger Frosh To End
Season With Tulane
Auburn Freshmen Have Been
feated Only Once
De­feat
so far this year.
This will be the second game this
Tech freshman team. The Auburn
outplayed the Baby
Older Auburn alumni and many oth­er
Alabamians will learn with re-srret
of the death of Joseph A. Wil-
Hams, multimillionaire Auburn alum­nus
and inventor, 61, who died in
Cleveland, Ohio, November 2.
An insect bite received almost a
year ago in Brazil resulted in a con­dition
physicians did not diagnose un­til
shortly before his death. Infec­tion
had progressed to a point where
it was impossible to save his life.
Coming to the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institution from Jefferson Coun­ty,
Mr. Williams began his college
work in 1887-88. Among his class­mates
were Dr. Frank A. Lupton of
Birmingham, Lee Ashcraft of At­lanta,
Ga., Dr. W. H. Oates and
Horace Turner, of Mobile, W. A.
Marshall of Rome Ga., and John Al­len
Jones and R. G. Smith of Ope-lika.
Auburn alumni remember the gen­erous
gift of Mr. Williams during
the Greater Auburn Campaign several
years ago while attending a meeting
of alumni in Birmingham.
Of the large estate left by Mr. Wil­liams
it is understoood that a million
dollars went to his sister in Bir­mingham,
Mrs. S. W. Carrard, 1430
N. 12 Court. According to press dis­patches
a similar amount was left to
another sister in Macon, Ga., Mrs
Leonard McManus, Sr., and Mrs. Let-tie
C. Williams, his widow receives
$2,345,000. A brother, Andrew Wil­liams
of Columbus, Ga., is also a bene­ficiary.
The estate consisted of
stocks, bonds, cash, and real estate in
Birmingham and Cleveland.
The invention of the ignition sys­tem
used in the old Model T. Fords
was one of Mr. William's outstanding
achievements.
After leaving the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, his father, a south­ern
plantation owner, gave him $1,000
and told him he was "on his own."
His first job was that of telegraph
lineman and it 'was in that capacity
he became interested in telephone ap­pliances,
inventing a number of in­struments
widely used by the small
independent companies.
Later he went to work in the
Charles F. Brush laboratories where
his skill and technical knowledge was
soon recognized. After a few years
he started his own business.
The K-WIgnition Co., of which he
was president, was organized by him
about twenty years ago on the Charles
W. Bingham property at E. 30th
Street and Chester Avenue N. E.,
Cleveland, the first factory to move
into that district.
Mr. Williams bought one of the
first Cadillac one-cylinder automo­biles,
and his interest in autos dated
from the purchase.
He had been working on an igni­tion
system when Henry Ford came
out with his automobile. Everything
on the old Ford seemed perfect ex­cept
the ignition. Mr. Williams
heard of the difficulty, went to De­troit
and convinced Ford that the K-W
ignition would solve the problem. It
did, and the "K-W" went on every
one of the old Model T Fords.
The first sets were manufactured
in Cleveland but the one factory
couldn't supply the demand and oth­ers
'were organized.
Mr. Williams' favorite recreation
was yachting and on the Oswicki he
took friends on inland water cruises
as far as Florida.
He was a member of the Cleveland
Yachting Club, the Mid-Day, Cleve­land
Athlete, Willowick Country, and
Westwood Golf Clubs.
Publications At
A.P.I. Join State
College Society
Association Formed For Pro­tection
of Advertisers
FIVE COLLEGES MEMBERS
An organization of the Associated
College Publications of Alabama was
effected November 3rd at a meet­ing
of the officers of student publi­cations
from Auburn, Howard Col­lege,
University of Alabama, Ala­bama
College, and Birmingham-
Southern College. Official endorse­ment
of this association was given
on November 7th by the presidents of
the institutions represented.
Only members of the Associated
College Publications of Alabama are
authorized to solicit advertisements
in the name of the college represent­ed.
Journals represented in this or­ganization
are. Howard College—
The Eenre Nous, The Howard Crim­son
and The Rat Bible; University of
Alabama—The Corolla, The Crimson-
White and The Rammer Jammer;
Alabaiva College—The Alabamian
and The Technala; Auburn—The
Plainsman, The Glomerata and the
Cajoler; Birmingham-Southern Col­lege—
The Gold and Black LaRevue,
and the Student's Hand book.
The organization of this associa­tion
is a concerted co-operative move
on the part of publications of the
University and leading colleges of
Alabama to protect advertisers from
the innumerable solicitations of ad-vertisments
by the more or less pri­vate
enterprises. This includes such
endeavors as play programs, foot­ball
programs and the other lesser
journals. Many of the leading busi­ness
houses have refused to adver­tise
in the major college publications
because it was impossible to show
favor to these, the advertisements
in which would be remunerative, and
flatly refuse others. By authorization
of the presidents, solicitations by the
"more, or less private" enterprises
are eliminated.
Further purposes of the association
are to state a definite date for the
editors and business managers of
college publications to "get together"
to discuss subjects pertaining to the
betterment of their respective publi­cations.
Truman MoGonigal, business man­ager
of The Howard Crimson, was
elected chairman of the Associated
College Publications of Alabama. A
committee composed of David Hall,
of Birmingham-Southern, Mary Hay-ley,
of Alabama College and Walter
Jones, of Auburn, were elected to
work out, in detail, the constitution
of the association, only the outline of
which is now in effect.
BLUE KEY TO PRESENT
AN OFFICIAL AUBURN
FUG TO INSTITUTION
Presentation Will Be Made
Early in December
HATFIELD MAKES BRILLIANT
35 YARD RUN AS GAME ENDS
TO BE GIVEN AT REVIEW
Is Third Flag To Be Given Col­l
e g e by Blue Key
Weekly Meetings Plan
Of Episcopal Students
Will Serve Lunch at Each Meeting
Of League
Beginning Sunday, the Episcopal
students league will serve lunch at
each weekly meeting; this league,
which meets on Sundays at seven p.
m., is to be a social organization.
Membership is open to all stu­dents;
each member is expected to
bring a student with him to the next
meeting; in this manner, the mem­bership
in the league is expected to
grow.
Featuring the next meeting, Lieu­tenant
Barth will talk on "Prepared­ness";
at the same time, a name for
the league will be chosen. This name
will be a motto for the league, some­thing
different, and something to
attract members.
Officers were chosen at the last
meeting. They are Charles Davis,
president; Edward Cobb, vice-presi­dent;
Tom Sparrow, secretary; Caro­line
Jenkins, treasurer; Miss Ligne
and Mr. Barny, counsellors.
That the Blue Key Honor Society
will present the college a flag at a
special review to be held early in De­cember
was made known recently.
The flag which is now in the pos­session
of officers of Blue Key is of
navy blue bunting and is five by
nine feet. The college seal in orange
is in the center.
The flag will be used only on spec­ial
occasions and will be flown from
the flagstaff near the main building
on holidays. In concordance with
regulations the college flag will be
flown immediately below the United
States flag.
The presentation of the college flag
to Auburn marks the third presen­tation
of flags by Blue Key. Officers
of the honor society said that the
presentation of a flag to the college
administration will be an annual af­fair.
The official college flag will be pre­sented
by a special committee from
Blue Key. President Knapp will re­ceive
the flag on behalf of the col­lege.
The Blue Key Honor Society was
founded at the University of Flori-ida.
The Auburn chapter was es­tablished
in February 1926. Since its
establishment the honor society has
been very active in carrying on stu­dent
affairs. Election to membership
is one of the coveted honors on the
campus. Selection is made from rep­resentative
student leaders. Two elec­tions
are held annually in the fall
and spring.
Cornerstone Laying
Exercises on Nov. 20
Conerstone of Animal Husban­dry
and Dairy Building to
Be Laid
Exercises for the cornerstone lay­ing
of the Animal Husbandry and
Dairy building will be held next
Wednesday afternoon at 3 p. m.
James M. Pearson, Grand Master,
Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Ala­bama
will have supervision of the
ceremonies. Invitations to the exer­cises
were sent out this week.
The erection of this building is in
accordance with the expansion pro­gram
now being fostered by the in­stitute.
The new building is being erected
on "Ag. Hill" centrally located with
respect to the other Agricultural
buildings. Members of the faculty
and the board of trustees will be
present at the ceremony next Wed­nesday
afternoon. Many prominent
speakers are to be included on the
program.
Contract for this building was let
on July 15; it is to be completed by
February 1930.
The main entrance will be flanked
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Georgia Makes First Tally in
Beginning of 2nd Quarter
CHANDLER RUNS 35 YARDS
Dickens and Rothstein Stars of
Game for Georgia
PLANS COMPLETE FOR
EDUCATION SOCIETY
First Meeting Will Be Held
Next Monday
Auburn Alumnus Is
Given Appointment
L. L. Williams Appointed Asistant
Entomologist at Delaware
University
L. L. Williams, Auburn graduate,
has recently been appointed Assist­ant
Entomologist at the Agricultural
Experiment Station, University of
Deleware. Mr. Williams received the
degree of Bachelor of Science in
Agricultural Education from Auburn
in 1923 and his master's degree from
Cornell University in 1928. He taught
Vocational Agriculture in this state
for three years and is now located
at his new post in Newark, Deleware.
Mr. Williams, in a recent letter to
Dean Judd in response to a request
for his education service record,
made the following statement regard­ing
Auburn:
"The educational program broad­casted
over Station WAPI last Sat­urday
night was excellent and came
through just fine. I enjoyed it very
much, especially Dr. Knapp's address.
It seems that Auburn has about
doubled with buildings and equip­ment
since I was graduated there.
I am glad to see" her growing."
Phi Delta Theta Rats
Entertain Wednesday
Smoker Is First To Be Attended By
Co-Eds
The first smoker to be attended by
both fraternity and sorority pledges
was held at the Phi Delta Theta
house Wednesday night; it is note­worthy
that this is the first affair
of this kind where both men and co­eds
were present.
Approximately fifty boys and
thirty sorority pledges were present
at the smoker; dancing and bridge
formed the program for the evening.
Sandwiches and tea were served as
refreshments.
Plans are practically complete for
the initial meeting of the proposed
Education Club, which will be held
in Room 314-A o fthe Administration
Building Monday evening, November
18, at 7:30 o'clock. At this time of­ficers
will be elected for the remain­der
of the present semester; snappy
musical numbers rendered; inspira­tional
talks made; and refreshments
served at the close. All indications
are that this will be a recordbreak-ing
initial meeting; enthusiasm
among Education students is at a
high mark over the issue.
This will be the first attempt to
organize an Education Club at Au­burn.
As is stated by the petition to
the President and Undergraduate
Student Association, signed by more
than forty Education students, this
proposed departmental club move­ment
has arisen within students of
this department who have seen the
need for just such an organization,
and have visualized the ultimate
value of such banding together of
this group for advantages and bene­fits
not to be obtained under class­room
administration.
A special urge and invitation is
made to all students engaged in Edu­cation
courses to be present at this
meeting, which should especially in­terest
every student in the depart­ment.
The Auburn varsity football team
lost to the Georgia Bulldogs this aft­ernoon
by the score 24-0. The game,
played at the new Georgia stadium in
Athens, did not sparkle with any
outstanding plays, although Georgia
had three nice runs to her credit in
the second half and an intercepted
pass and two good runs in the first
half. The play of the Georgians was
more consistent than that of the
Tigers, and because of this they were
able to score four touchdowns over
the tottering Plainsmen.
Hatfield for Auburn and Chandl­er
for Georgia made the longest runs
of the afternoon, 35 yards each,
Chandler's aiding materially in the
second Georgia touchdown and Hat­field's
coming just at the final whis­tle.
Waugh, Dickens, and Roberts
battered Tiger wall consistently. Au­burn
held Georgia on the one foot
line shortly before the game ended
only to have this show of strength
prove of no avail when Georgia
scored a few minutes later.
There was no scoring in the first
quarter; both teams tried line plays
almost exclusively, without much suc­cess.
Shortly after the beginning of
the second quarter, however, a Georgia
man recovered an Auburn fumble on
the Tiger twenty-five yard line. Aft­er
several line plays, a pass from
Chandler to Maffet was good for 18
yards and a touchdown. The extra
point was not made, making the score
Georgia 6, Auburn 0.
Young received the kickoff, but
Auburn failed to get anywhere, and
Young punted to Rothstein, who re­turned
to Georgia's 30 yard line.
Dickens, Georgia half back, made a
run of 22 yards shortly after, plac­ing
the ball on Auburn's 48 yard
line. Chandler then clipped off 35
yards, bringing the ball to Auburn's
15 yard line. Several line bucks and
a 7 yard run by Dickens gave Geor­gia
her second touchdown. The place
kick was no good. Score Georgia 12,
Auburn 0.
Yarborough received the next
kickoff for Auburn, bringing the ball
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Auburn May Stage Two
Battles On Turkey Day
Rumors Indicate That Auburn Golf
Team May Meet Emory Team
Rumors state that Auburn will
stage two battles Thanksgiving, one
upon the gridiron and the other upon
the links. Several comments have
been made concerning the golf match
as a team has not been selected. Walt­er
Clingo, Manager of the golf team,
telegraphed asking for Emory's plans,
immediately. No answer has been re­ceived,
but serious and prompt at­tention
will be given the matter when
the plans arrive. Clingo hopes to have
some definite news by Monday, or in
the next publication of the Plains­man.
Maj. Kennedy Thanks
R. O. T. C. For Work
Praises Appearance of Unit on
Armistice Day
Appreciation of the efforts made
by the members of the R. O. T. C.
unit on the occasion of the Armistice
Day Review and exercises was made
by Major J. T. Kennedy, professor of
Military Science and Tactics and Com­mandant,
in a statement made recent­ly.
The statement in full is as follows:
"The Professor of Military Science
and Tactics desires to express to the
members of the Cadet Corps of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute his appre­ciation
of the effort's made by the
members of the unit on the occasion of
the Armistice Day Review and exer­cises.
The neatness and soldierly con­duct
shown by them upon this occa­sion
is a source of pride to the regu­lar
Army Officers of the military de­partment,
and to the college authori­ties.
Many favorable comments were
made on the appearance of the Cadet
Corps by General McCoy, Command­ing
Fourth Corps Area, Mr. George
Grant, State Commander of The
American Legion and other visitors
to Auburn on Armistice Day.
J. T. Kennedy,
Major, P. A. (DOL),
P. M. S. & T.
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THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.
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Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
A. V. Blankenship ...Editor-in-chief
Walter B. Jones Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Thomas P. Brown Managing Editor
Robert Hume Associate Editor
Rosser Alston Associate Editor
Chesley McCaskill Associate Editor
Gabie Drey News Editor
Victor White News Editor
Dick Jones .-- Sports Editor
A. C. Taylor Associate Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
A. C. Cohen, '32; K. B. McMillan, '33; K.
G. Taylor, '33; J. C. Johnson, '33; R. P.
Greer, '33; A. B. Hanson, '33; J. R.
Chadwick, '33; C. H. Currey, '33; R. K.
Sparrow, '33; S. A. Lacy, '33 R. T.
Wasson, '33; J. R. Wilder, '32; R. P.
Boyd, '32; H. G. Twomey, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
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THE PLAINSMAN
—thinks that the school of education
has set an enviable record in the num­ber
of graduates that are following
their professional course studied while
here. It is a mark that other schools in
the institution can shoot at for awhile.
—has reached the conclusion that the
Tiger Cubs are about the classiest rat
team we have seen in some time. It
will be rough sledding for Tulane
Saturday.
Students Must Help
In Beautifying Campus
The two honorary engineering fraterni­ties,
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, have
recently sponsored a movement to improve
and beautify the grounds of Ramsay Hall.
The old unsightly path which formerly ex­tended
across the terrace in front of this
building has been spaded up, grass sown,
and signs have been placed at each end of
the spaded area requesting everyone to keep
off the grass. This is a worthy movement
and we commend Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu on their project.
However, the students should take it up­on
themselves to extend this action even
further than the grounds of Ramsay Hall.
The college is spending a considerable
amount of money in effort's to make the
campus a bit more presentable during the
winter, and chief among these is the plant­ing
of winter grass all over the campus.
Unless the cooperation of the student body
can be obtained in this matter, all the grass
seed in the world might be planted here
without adding materially to the beauty and
looks of our campus. Paths have been laid
out and built in all parts of the school
grounds and there is no reason why they,
instead of the grass should not be used to
walk upon. Only a second or so of time
can be saved by deviating from these paths,
as they have been laid out with an idea
of saving time.
One of the main places where the grass
has been destroyed in this manner is on
the boulevard plots in front of the Boy's
Dormitory. These plots have been reduced
to unsightly pieces of bare ground by the
constant trampling of feet. It would be a
fine thing indeed for the Boy's Dormitory
as a body to follow the lead set by these
two honorary fraternities and sponsor a
movement to rid the campus of this particu­lar
eyesore.
Real Victory Is
Hard To Perceive
The following is an editorial taken from
another college paper, and seems to
present an unusually clear picture of what
a victorious football season really is.
"As the football season wears on, many
students are apt to be deluded by the belief
that a victorious season is possible only
through the defeat of a majority of rival
teams. Victory over opponents is one cri­terion
of success, but it is not the only
one.
"The coaches can render service to the
College in numerous ways which may pos­sibly
be greater than the mere outscoring
of other teams. One of these ways is that
qf making athletic teams thoroughly rep­resentative
of the spirit of the University.
This involves the instilling of a magnani­mous
attitude among players. It means a
positive reaction towards problems that de­mand
decisions. It means a recognition
of the obligation of membership in the Uni­versity
group. These may seem like ele­ments
outside the realm of coaching. Yet
they are fundamental in the matter of hon­orably
portraying the spirit' of the Univer­sity.
Students, rather than coaches or officials,
are most to blame in perpetrating this fal­lacious
theory of victory. The coach and
the team almost always give their best in
the game. When this has been done, vic­tory
has in reality been achieved, so far as
they are concerned. The average student,
however, associates victory with the out-scoring
of the rival team. Before college
athletics can take their proper place in
college life, this delusion on the part of the
students must be displaced. Winning—at
any price—cannot creditably remain the
the ambition of the student body."
This article seems to be particularly ap­plicable
in the case of Auburn and her
present football situation. It is true that
we have lost instead of won a majority of
our games this year. In fact, for the past
few years Auburn has made, numerically,
a record to which no one can point with
pride. Yet many have failed to grasp this
illusive illusion of victory which has been
expressed innumerable times during the past
years. To attempt to point it out would
be futile. The upholding of the famous
Auburn Spirit, through all adversity, is
one form of concrete evidence of this vic­tory.
To say that we have completely
failed is to err and to show a wrong con­ception
of victory. It is a dilusion assidu­ously
to be avoided.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir:
With much grieving and horror I sub­mit
to the awful punishment for negligence
that the college is now exacting. They are
going to TELL MY MAMMA! Oh isn't
it awful? What shall I do? A report of
absences from classes is going to be sent»to
my parents each week. Santa Claus will
not come to see me now.
The idea is singularly amusing. There
have been many good laughs gotten over it,
and they were not all by the students, not
by any means. Its quality as good humor
is one redeeming feature of the plan.
That my parents should have to know
every time I cut a class is as ridiculous as
the idea that they should know every time
I fail to brush my teeth. It might be said
that they are paying for my education, but
they are also paying my dentist bill. Or,
it might be said that they are interested
in my being well prepared to go out and
fight the cruel world, but are they not also
interested in my being able to go out and
fight the tough steak without false teeth?
There is no doubt about it; they are interest­ed
in all these things, but they have long
ago told me to put away childish things
and act my age, and from then on I have
brushed my teeth and attended classes to
the best advantage of my immature know­ledge.
There are undoubtedly too many students
in college today. To try to discuss that
point would involve time and space; neither
of which I have. Let it suffice to say the
excess is composed of those so-called stu­dents
who must have their parent's compel
them to get an education. Why not weed
out those and make room for those who are
after something valuable in college and
college life? It is a sure sign, flaunted be­fore
the State, that there is a painful excess
of students who are compelled by their
misguided parents to waste four or five
years of their life in unwilling servitude at
Auburn, when the college deems it necessary
to report each class absence to the home
of the student.
Let us hope that the idea is only an ex­periment,
and will die from lack of results.
If it does not, then let us don our knee
breeches and play hookey. It would be so
much fun to play Huckleberry Finn or the
Rover Boys. The only catch is that some­body
will tell on us.
Sincerely, but with a snicker,
Little Rollo.
Editor, the Plainsman,
Dear Sir,
It is with deepest and sincerest apprecia­tion
that I accept the honor bestowed on
me by your columnist in Tuesday's issue.
He dedicated a space that covered exactly
one and a quarter inches at the bottom of
a column to me. The space was one-half
inch high and two and one-half inches wide.
Tears overwhelm me at the thought of the
sentiment behind this dedication. And he
is a poor receiver who will not give. So I,
in turn, will spend the better part of next
week attempting to set up a memorial, fitt­ing
and sincere, to Mr. Billowheel. I am
going to cut out every thing of worth he
has written this year and have it set in five-inch
headlines and print it in the space
dedicated to me. The only thing that is
worrying me is what to do to fill up the
rest of the space. Probably I could tell
Mr. Billowheel what to do with it, but that
wouldn't look well in print.
Yours for longer and more meaningless
names,
Haskins Williams.
Accomplishment must be preceded by
preparation. How you use today deter­mines
how tomorrow will use you.
" L i t t l e T h i n g s"
By Tom Bigbee
Individualism, rightly directed, is a great
thing. It is gratifying to note there are
brilliant supporters of this'idea at Auburn,
within the student body. We refer you to
the "Letter to the Editor" in last Tues­day's
Plainsman. Maybe not everything
the writer has said is feasible; however, his
trend of thinking merits notice.
When a man offers comment on matters
which he doesn't understand, you can look
for some radical statements. In bewailing
our recent Armistice Day celebration, Mr.
Billowheel seems to have lost his sense of
reasoning. If our nation is to be a cham­pion
of peace and good will, how can her
principles have any force and influence if
not backed by power through preparedness?
How long would a "bully listen to the boast­ings
of a frail weakling? Aaron, how much
comfort and safety could you feel under a
disarmed government, in this age of lust
and greed? Unless humanity changes as-toundingly,
America will be forced to arms
again, sooner or later; can we expect Eng­land
or France to do our fighting for us?
Talk this over with someone who knows—
one who looks through future years before
drawing conclusions, friend Aaron.
"Auburn Footprints" is planting some
heavy hoofs nowadays. Better be careful,
else you will get stepped on in this "red
hot" column. We are prepared; doubtless
our time is coming next.
We wish to commend the idea of estab­lishing
an Education Club here on the cam­pus.
Too many organizations already, did
you say? Probably so, but are they of the
right kind? And what are they doing in
the field of accomplishments, real and bene­ficial?
Auburn's School of Education is a
large and prominent one; it needs an or­ganization
that will supplement class room
activities and subject matter. Sit down and
list the things that a lively Club in this
department might accomplish, that would be
of real benefit to its students. We are vital­ly
interested in seeing this Club become a
real power for good on the Auburn cam­pus.
Not a great amount of attention or com­ment
is being paid the Auburn Players at
present. Though certainly not because they
do not merit such. They are a hard working
group, receiving very little encouragement
and remuneration; why not lend them a
glad hand, and attend their performances
occasionally?
The Auburn freshman football team
wasn't found "sleeping in the rain" last
Monday, eh? A number of students have
made the statement that this was the best
game they have observed this season. Our
Rats, at least, are making football fame.
Ever see a sparrow ride the hands of the
college clock? Right now there's one catch­ing
a ride this (12:40, Thursday). And
he doesn't seem to worry about arriving
on time, missing a class, or anything of the
kind.
Have you been up to look over the Art
exhibition? It merits your attention—-and
you won't have this opportunity after No­vember
15.
"Pardon me, I did not say she was dead—
I only said I would like to go to her funer­al,"
explained the office boy to his boss.
Maybe he would like to have the "head
man" believe that witchcraft has come back
to life.
"You can't build skyscrapers with your
head in the sky," says Albert Kahn, fa­mous
designer of buildings, in the Decem­ber
American magazine. The Editor makes
this remark concerning the designer gen­ius:
"All his life he has made it a point to
keep his ears open and to extract every last
ounce of goodness from the ideas he has
heard."
We believe this dope is quite applicable
to college students, also. In other words,
train to be an absorbent of worth-while
ideas, and not a "squirt gun" for meaning­less
nothings.
Did you say you'd name the man who has
caused more dirty dishes to be left in the
sink after supper than all the leading men
in the movies?
The Gecko
I'm the Gecko who holds the campus rec­ord
for wisecracks. The reason that other
members of my class don't participate in
the contest is that they are beaten before
they start. In fact, they are not as smart
as I am. I know more cute things that
Will Rogers himself; I am so good I im­prove
on his column every time I read it.
I just know that some big company is
going to give me a job, for they always
want youngsters who can give as good and
better than they receive. I think they
will soon be ready to give me my lifetime
job.
Some of my classmates laugh, but I
don't care as I can't even condescend to as­sociate
with them in a very social manner.
Of course, they laugh because they have
never seen another exactly like me. One
even had the audacity to tell me that I
didn't know any better and that I'd learn
before I left here. But he can't tell me
anything; I know about all there is to be
known.
^ AUBURN FOOTPRINTS ^
They tell a story about a tiny ant who gazed longingly but helplessly at the body
of a dead horse. Just then a bootlegger's truck rattled by and a case of the stuff
fell over the tail gate, crashing to the ground.
A puddle formed and the ant took one sip. Then he seized the dead horse by
the tail and shouted, "Come on, big boy, we're going honTe."
* * . * * • • • •
Possibly we should feed the football boys a bit of the brutal stuff.
* * * * * * * *
It seems to us that a Peace Conference is in order down at the Cafeteria. Pos­sibly
the would be singers have good intentions in their efforts to produce consoling
sounds, but there should be a law against the brand that they are polluting the at­mosphere
with.
* * * * • • • •
Who was the freshman whose parents asked him if he made 101 on the Course
Number 101 that they received a letter from the college about?
* * * * * * * *
We understand that Professor Callan entered a door slaming contest with a cer­tain
little senior last week. From all reports and results too, Professor Callan came
out second best. In fact, he hardly got started. Maybe next time they will put
in a stronger glass.
* * * * * * * *
No, we wouldn't say he was drinking, but he did get the wrong roll at the war
lab. period.
* * * * * * * *
The zoo is becoming barer each succeeding day. No telling what can be seen
before many more days.
* * * * * * * *
Professor Fullan has qualified in every kind of acrobatic stunt except toe dancing.
He is an expert. *
* * * * * * * *
It is generally understood by the Senior elec students that Mr. J. K. Smith is
no "ordinary" student.
* * * * * * * *
IT DOESN'T PAY
You may think bluff is "quite the stuff,"
And serves in place of worth—
You may think sham will place a man
Ahead in this old world.
Your craving soul may yearn for gold,
Acquired the gambler's way,
And greedy hearts may grasp the cards,
And seem to make them pay.
Your neighbor's wife may brighten your life;
May meet you on the sly,
And hours with her you may prefer,
And think you're getting by.
Wine, women, and song; a reckless throng
Of pleasure—seeking fools,
That revel and drink, but never think,
May be your steadfast rule. >
If thus you fill your sensuous will,
For a while you may be gay,
But in the end, be sure, my friend,
You'll find it doesn't pay.
—Ex-969.
* * * . * • • • •
We hear that there is a student up at the dormitory, Ivey by name, who goes
under the nickname of "Poison". His room-mate is his brother who happens to be
a freshman. The same wit who struck the poison on Ivey appropriately named his
brother "Rat Poison".
*:- WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
WOTTA LIFE
We see where Commander Richard E.
Byrd has been made an honorary member
of the senior class at Wellesley College.
We wonder what privileges this honorary
membership carries with and mourn with
the Commander the fact that he is at the
South Pole and cannot immediately take a
trip to Wellesley to see the girls.
Too bad Commander Byrd is already
married. Or does it matter? Personally,
would we mind receiving such an honor?
* * * * *
OHIO'S BAND
A University that is really proud of its
band is Ohio State. The following is taken
from an article in the Lantern, newspaper
of the Columbus University:
"Most impressive of the opening of rela­tion
between Ohio State and Pittsburg was
the brilliant exhibition of the Ohio State
Band. In spite of the constant downpour
of rain, never was there a more spectacular
demonstration of an Ohio State band on a
football field than at the Pittsburg event.
"Ohio State's band is of ail-American
calibre and when it goes visiting with the
team it wins the admiration of the entire
crowd of spectators. It's advertising value
to Ohio State University cannot be given
too high an estimate.
"To the directors and leaders of the band,
which we believe to be the best in the his­tory
of the University, we offer our sincere
congratulations."
All of this may truly be said of our own
Auburn Band, and our hats are off to its
members and director. When our band
starts playing on the football field, some­thing
akin to hell breaks loose within, in
its fury of love for the team and "Ole"
Alma Mater.
* * * * *
YO-YOING
Attempts have been made at some of
the schools of the country to outlaw the
"yo-yo". One school went so far as to try
to make it a shipping offense to be caught
yo-yoing, but the plan was vetoed. Many
schools have objected to its practice on the
grounds that it was an undignified practice
for students to e.igage in. Here the pro­fessors
sponsor yo-yoing contests. In some
colleges honor fraternities have been or­ganized
for those excelling in the art of
yo-yoing.
STUNT FLYING BANNED
At the Ohio State-Iowa game recently, a
flyer "grounded as a result of his antics.
State, Federal, and University officials, it
was announced at Ohio State, will co-oper­ate
to prevent a repetition of stunt flying
over the stadium during the football games.
The airplane might fall on the ball and
burst it you know. And airplanes are real­ly
too heavy to be falling on the ball.
TUMBLE TO TUMBLE
Southwestern co-eds are not willing to
admit the supremacy of men in any branch
of college activity. In fact co-eds of all
institutions seem to have that same weak­ness.
At the Southwestern-Henderson College
game the boy's tumbling team will receive
quite a stiff bit of competition between
halves of the game. At that time, a group
of girls will give an exhibition of pyramid
building and stunts.
* * * • * *
LIQUOR LOSES PLACE
Drinking ranks ninth in the list of vices
of students at the University of Texas,
whereas in 1923 it ranked fifth. Figures
show that drinking is on the decline. Other
vices have become more prevalent. The
"corn" just costs too much, doesn't it.
* * * * *
ADDITIONAL EXPENSES
At Ohio State, the students have a per­fectly
functioning traffic court where of­fenders
are fined and penalized imposed
as in any regular court. Business seems
to be coming along fine. This is the per­fect
part, of course. This is a new move­ment
in which Ohio is a pioneer.
* * * * *
VAMPING THE GOATS
Even the goats love a co-ed. A fair young
Idaho maiden, wandering thru an orchard
in the small hours of the dawn, was forced
to receive the attention of an idmiring herd
of goats, until gallantly rescued by a ro­mantic
though senile farmer. How she
happened to be in the orchard, was not ex­plained.
We advance the theory that she
was picking fruit.
* * * * *
DOESN'T CHEW
A sophomore at the University of South
Carolina has never chewed gum in his life.
However, he is expected to live.
THOUGHTS IN SILHOUETTE
c3ierr Tfiogenese c?3eufelsdrockh
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.
* * * * *
IN THE last issue of The Plainsman I
was interested to note that our friend
Ladyfingers crashed through with an­other
of his epistles to the Editor. I rath­er
agree with him in some of his thoughts.
For instance, this sending of cuts home to
the parents. Often college insists that we
conduct ourselves as men; or even better
than that if you will allow me to stretch
my adolescence a bit, as grown men. In
many ways they treat us as such, and cer­tainly
expect our conduct to be that of
men. Yet does not this sending of weekly
cuts home to parents remind one of gram­mar
school days and such; of having Moth­er
talk to the teacher when your feelings
have been hurt, or when you have "mis­behaved"?
It rather smacks of the treat­ment
meted out to naughty little boys.
A great many of the students are of age
and responsible to their parents, and hence
responsible only to themselves. If this
practice should assume a more amplified
or serious form, these men might get their
manly instincts insulted. Also, in this case,
I seriously doubt whether these little "notes"
are given much consideration; perhaps, not
even read after the first one. However,
I suppose that there are a number of our
freshmen that must be kept in close har­mony
with their parents and not allowed
to get so far away from their mother's
apron strings that they at least cannot
touch them. But I cannot help but wonder
if this will do much in the development
of manly characteristics, which is a very im­portant
phase of our education and train­ing.
Well, I hope all of you little boys have
been put in your-place, and don't forget to
put a handkerchief in your pocket. You
might also ask if there is not a note to take
home to mother when you go home for the
holidays. I do not mean that mothers
should not receive every consideration from
their sons, but I do think that the considera­tion
should be in accordance with the time
the sons have been pestering this old earth
and the manly proportions they have as­sumed.
I think that anyone will agree with
me in that one who grows up with little or
no responsibility has very little chance to
"grow", or to prepare for the prosecution
of a livelihood. After finishing here most
of us will be absolutely "on our own" and
have to assume the responsibility of earn­ing
the necessary subsidence to live. It
might be well if we had the opportunity
while here to assume some individual re­sponsibility
and learn to depend on our­selves
as a separate entity.
* * * * * THE other day I was innocently look­ing
around in the new engineering
building (Ramsay Hall) and noticed
a great many things that do not seem to
be in accordance with the prosecution of
our up-to-date methods and campaigns. Af­ter
glancing at the windows one would have
a hard time in convincing me that they
have been washed since the building was
constructed. In that part of many of the
benches are not occupied by manly seats I
could write my name in the dust. Most of
the desks used by the professors were a
mess, dusty, dirty, and what have you. I
walked down in one of the draughting
rooms and noticing the very light color of
the desks, rather mildly blew some cigar­ette
smoke in the general direction of one.
For a moment I thought a movie flash
powder photograph was being taken, but
after looking around and failing to dis­cover
a photographer I, again, looked at
the desk. Imagine my chagrin when I dis­covered
the desk was no longer of the light
color. Turning the facts over in my mind
I was forced to admit to myself that ac­tually
that much dust had accumulated
there. This general condition prevailed.
I contend that an atmosphere and back­ground
of that nature does not facilitate
cleanliness, or neatness; that it suggests
sloughing off into a rut; that the building
has just been put there to withstand the
abuse of Father Time and certainly that the
activities of a modern college are not car­ried
on there.
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu did a
good piece of work in eliminating the very
ugly path in front of this, building and are
to be commended for their action. I won­der
if they would assume the colossal re­sponsibility
of a clean up in the building.
Also, a great number of needed repairs are
in evidence, many of which would prolong
the life of the building as well as do away
with a great deal of ugliness. In the
modern business world it is considered good
business to diligently keep all buildings
free from structural and sightly defects.
Since this business world is primarily in­terested
in returns and efficiency, it is us­ually
right. We might take a lesson from
this practice.
X
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.
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
'SUCH A STARVED BANK OF
MOSS
Such a starved bank of moss
Till, that Maymorn,
Blue ran the flash across:
Violets were born!
Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!
World—how it walled about
Life with disgrace
Til God's own smile came out:
That was thy face!
—Robert Browning.
Pledgee of Phi Delta
Theta Entertain
The pledges of the Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity delightfully enter­tained
all freshmen girls and two
pledges from each fraternity on the
campus, at their new home on Wed­nesday
night.
Delicious punch was served to the
guests as they arrived. Dancing,
bridge and other games were enjoyed
throughout the evening.
At nine thirty the pledges allow­ed
the upperclass men of the Phi Del­ta
Theta to join in their fun.
Sandwiches and tea were served
to about forty-five guests.
PERSONALS
Circle Number T h r e e of
B a p t i s t C h u r c h Meets
' Circle number three of the Auburn
Baptist Church met with Mrs. C. M.
Floyd on Tuesday afternoon. Miss
Kate Williams presided over the
meeting.
A short talk on "Sacrifice" was
given by Mrs. J. T. Williamson dur­ing
the devotional service.
Later a short business session was
held during which the treasurer re­ported
that one hundred and twenty
dollars was raised by this circle dur­ing
last year.
Lovely Bridge P a r t y Enjoyed
At Home of Mrs. J . P. Creel
Mrs. G. M. Tate, Mrs. Douglas
Copeland and Mrs. Leon Creel were
co-hostesses at a lovely nine table
bridge party on Tuesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. J. P. Creel.
Lovely chrysanthemums were used
as decorations. High score was award­ed
to Mrs. Lan Lipscomb, second
high to Mrs. W. H. Eaton and low
score to Mrs. Irvine.
After the games a salad course,
fruit cake and tea were served.
Mrs. Conn A n d e r s o n Hostess
At B r i d g e P a r t y T u e s d ay
Mrs. Conn Anderson was a most
charming hostess when she entertained
with a four table bridge party on
Tuesday afternoon.
The house was very appropriately
decorated with varied colored flow­ers
of the season.
High score was held by Mrs. J. T.
Hudson, who received a danity lem­on
set and a brass comport went to
Mrs. John E. Pitts as second prize.
Delicious refreshments were serv­ed
later in the afternoon to eighteen
guests.
Mrs. Trollope Hostess
At Bridge W a f f l e Supper
Mrs. G. A. Trollope gave a Bridge
Waffle supper on last Friday evening
at her home.
Top score was held by Mr. M. L.
Nichols and was presented with a
double deck of cards.
Those enjoying this delightful oc­casion
were: Mr. and Mfs. Homer
Gentry, Mr. and Mrs. Blake and Mr.
and Mrs. Nichols.
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Formerly $2.00 and $1.25
REDUCED TO 75c
See our new "Auburn Towers" Pound Paper
Student Supply Shop
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Miss Nellie Hester of Ramer was
the guest of her sister, Miss Helen
Hester, on last Monday.
* * *
Miss Evelyn Henry, a graduate of
the class of '29 and now with the
State Department of Education in
Montgomery, visited in Auburn last
week-end.
* * *
Miss Thelma Graves of Ramer, Al­abama,
visited in Auburn last Mon­day.
* * *
Miss Floy Moses, home demonstra­tion
agent of Geneva County, visited
here with her mother, Mrs. N. A.
Moses, during last week.
* * »
Max Kahn, a graduate of '28 and
former Sports Editor of the Plains­man
greeted the team in New Orleans
last Friday.
* * *
Leonard Collins, a student at Au­burn
last year and now attending
school at Tulane, attended the game
last Saturday.
» * *
W. T. Spivey, who was seriously
injured in an automobile wreck Oc­tober
18, has returend to school.
* * *
Fred Chambers spent the past
week-end in Greensboro, N. C.
* * *
Al Summerlin attended the Tu-lane-
Auburn game in New Orleans
last week-end.
* * *
Dick Jones, George W. Smith,
Rhodes Wasson, and Joe Pate at­tended
the game in New Orleans
last Saturday.
* * *
Mary Garlington and Catherine
Porter are in Athens today, attend­ing
the Auburn-Georgia game.
* * *
Mr. Davis Thorpe of Townsend,
Georgia, visited his grandmother,
Mrs. C. H. Davis, last week-end.
* * *
Mrs. V. R. White of Hamilton,
Alabama, spent the week-end with
Miss Kate Hollifield and also visited
her son, Victor White, at the Sigma
Nu House.
* * * -
The many friends of Mrs. Alice
Witcher Sandlin are glad to know
that she is able to be out again aft­er
a brief illness.
» * *
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Camack of
Montgomery, were the guests of Mrs.
L. A. Stodghill last week-end.
* * *
Mrs. C. L. Hare is leaving Wed­nesday
for Brooklyn, New York, to
visit her daughter, Mrs, Phillip A.
Hardy. Mrs. Hardy will be remem­bered
here as Miss Emily Hare, who
graduated from A. P. I. in 1925.
* * *
Mrs. C. R. Hixon will speak at the
Parent Teachers Association at La­fayette,
Ala.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. Showalter are going
to montgomery on Monday to hear
Burtrim Russell.
* * *
The Discussion Group which con­sists
of twelve ladies of Auburn met
with Mrs. W. W. Hill on Wednesday
morning. The leader was Miss Zoe
Dobbs who spoke of her travels in
Europe during this last summer.
* * *
Dean Wilmore, Dr. Knapp and
Miss Louise Glanton have gone to
Chicago for a meeting of the lead­ers
of Land Grant Colleges.
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Mrs. W. W. Hill and Mrs. C. A.
Basore went to Luverne on Thursday
to the fifth district Federation meet­ing.
Mrs. Basore gave the response to
the address of welcome.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tidmore spent
the past week-end in Atlatna, Ga.
* * *
Mrs. S. B. Madre is visiting her
daughter in Decoy, Georgia. Before
returning to Auburn, she will visit
her son, Bert Mardre, and family in
Fountain Head, S. C.
* * *
The East Alabama Association of
the Baptist W. M. U. was held in
Opelika on Wednesday and Thurs­day.
Eleven counties were represent
ed at this meeting. Mrs. J. C. Grimes,
Mrs. C. L. Boyd and Mrs. W. F. Dow-dell
and Mrs. L. A. Ward were the
attendants from Auburn.
Trip Around the World
Unusual Affair
The Methodist Workers are hav­ing
a trip around the world in the
form of a progressive five course sup­per
on Monday evening, November
18, at seven o'clock.
The countries to be represented
are United States, Ireland, Japan,
Persia and Brazil which are to be
staged at the homes of Mrs. E. D.
Burnsworth, Mrs. L. A. Stodghill,
Mrs. H. B. Tisdale, Miss Mary Cox
and Mrs. E. W. Camp, respectively.
Each of these homes will have food,
decorations and a program represen­tative
of its country.
The public is invited to this affair
and the tickets are now on sale for
fifty cents each.
Mr. a n d Mrs. Hudson
E n t e r t a i n With Bridge P a r ty
Mr. and Mrs. John Turner Hudson
delightfully entertained with a
bridge-dinner Wednesday night in
honor of Miss Ruth Southard of Fort
Smith, Arkansas, who is visiting her
sister, Mrs. W. H. Hutsell.
The house was most artistically
decorated with giant honey dew
chrysanthemums and small ones
adorned each card table.
High score for men was held by
Major Kennedy and was presented
with a lovely bridge set while Mrs.
C. P. Townsley was given an inlaid
footstool as high score for the
ladies. Miss Southard received a
beautiful box of lace handkerchiefs
as a gift to the honoree.
Those enjoying this hospitality
were: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hutsell,
Lieut, and Mrs. Bowman, Capt. and
Mrs. Ott, Mrs. Brigham, Lieut G.
B. Barth, Mr. W. D. Martin, Major
and Mrs. J. T. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Chambers, Dr. and Mrs. B. F.
Thomas, Capt. and Mrs. Conn Ander­son
and Mr. and Mrs. Hargreaves.
NEWS OF THE WOMAN'S CLUB
By Mrs. C. P. Townsley, Publicity Chairman
At the regular business meeting of
T h o m a s Hotel Scene
Of Lovely Bridge P a r ty
Mrs. Clara Yarbrough and Mrs.
Mary Askew and Miss Minnie Whit-aker
entertained at a bridge party
on Saturday afternoon at the Thomas
hotel.
Top score prize was awarded to
Mrs. . T. D. McDonald which was a
beautiful vase. Mrs. Frank Wilmore
won second prize while Mrs. H. B.
Tisdale received the consolation
prize.
A delicious salad course was serv­ed
to about sixty-five guests and cof­fee
was poured and served by Mrs.
Bradford Knapp and Mrs. George
Petrie.
A r c h i t e c t u r a l Department
Gives Lovely Studio T ea
The Architectural Department of
the college gave a lovely Studio Tea
last Friday evening. The object of
this tea was to give the people of Au­burn
an opportunity to see the ex­hibit
of the "Southern Art League."
Autumn leaves and fall flowers
were used throughout the studio for
decorations.
All members of the Art Depart­ment
were hostesses and the girls
taking the architectural course serv­ed
tea and sandwiches to about sev­enty-
five guests.
the Auburn Woman's club on Thurs­day,
November 14, Mrs. J. J. Wil­more,
first vice-president, presided.
Besides the regular reports there
was a talk by Mrs. Corprew, Lee Coun­ty
Chairman of Welfare Work, tell­ing
of school books, medicine, milk
and the many other necessities that
the welfare workers help the poor of
Lee County to obtain.
Following the suggestion of the
State Federation the Auburn Wo­man's
Club is broadcasting over
WAPI every Friday night for ten or
twelve weeks. Each program will last
for ten minutes and will come be­tween
7:00 and 8:00 p. m. Every de­partment
of the Club will be allotted
one period in which to put on a pro­gram
representative of its year's
work and some of the club members
who are also state officers will also
be asked to speak.
Miss Martin reported a meeting of
representatives from the civic clubs
and prominent citizens in which the
subject of town planning was dis­cussed.
Mrs. Bradford Knapp gave reports
of District meetings that she attend­ed
recently in Birmingham and Mont­gomery.
Mrs. Carlovitz talked on the growth
in pre-school education in Alabama
within the last five years.
James Washburn spent the past
week-end in Marion, Alabama.
* * *
John Lewis spent last week-end in
Columbia, Tenn.
* * *
Norman Illges and Kelly Sullivan
spent last week-end in Columbus, Ga.
* * *
Lewis Gholston-spent the past
week-end in Union Springs, Ala.
* * - *
Miss Helen Shackleford attended
the game in New Orleans, La., last
week-end.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. William Gregory
have as their guest Miss Martha Till­man
Armstrong from Atlanta.
* * *
The U. D. C. meeting will be held
at Mrs. P. P. Powell's home on Gay
street on Tuesday afternoon at three
o'clock with Mrs. Hare, Mrs. Ruffin,
Mrs. Rush and Mrs. Stodghill as co-hostesses.
* * *
Mr. Paul Martin Smith, who has
been visiting in Atlanta will join his
parents, Rev. and Mrs. Franklin
Smith here in Auburn, to return to
their home in Champlain, N. C.
Hollywood Review to
Be Featured at The
Tiger Theatre
New songs, new dances by stars of
screen and stage, lots of "gags" and
abundant laughs, tuneful melodies and
sparkling dialogue—and don't forget
the girls.
"The Hollywood Revue," a huge mu­sical
spectacle staged and screened by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has first
showing in Auburn Monday and Tues­day
at the Tiger Theatre, has them
all. It has everything.
It is a radical departure from the
motion pictures to which we have be­come
accustomed, even in this talkie
epoch.
It is a revue, a huge vaudeville
show for young and old alike, staged
with gorgeous settings, twenty musi­cal
numbers, a huge dancing chorus
and a galaxy of stars in the greatest
cast ever assembled for one picture.
Marion Davies appears as a singer
and dancer in a highly amusing sketch
called "Tommy Atkins on Parade."
Who knew before that she was an ex­pert
tap dancer? But she is, rival­ing
the best that the musical comedy
stage has to offer. She is supported
by a male chorus of six-footers.
John Gilbert and Norma Shearer
are also on the bill. They do a ro­mantic
bit from Shakespeare and then
jazz it up to modern tempo.
Bessie Love appears in her own
singing and dancing act—as Bessie
Love. One of the hit songs of the
show is hers. It couldn't be any­thing
but a hit when Bessie sings it.
Conrad Nagel makes his screen sing­ing
debut and is the interlocutor of
a ministrel number.
William Haines makes you laugh
with one of those "gags" for which
he is famous.
Bust'er Keaton, frozen faced come
dian, appears before the sound cam­era
and microphone for the first time,
and does an Egyptian snake dance.
It's immense.
Karl Dane and George K. Arthur
are there with one of their "gags
Joan Crawford croons a song in
a heart-tugging manner and dances
as only Joan Crawford can.
Marie Dressier and Polly Moran,
famous comediennes of screen and
stage are teamed as funny women
for the first time. Charles King,
Broadway baritone, who made his
screen debut in "The Broadway Mel­ody";
"Ukele Ike" (Cliff Edwards),
famous revue star and recording ar
tist; the Brox Sisters, singing har­monists,
glorified by Ziegfield in his
New York productions; Natacha Nat-tova,
startling adagio dancer in her
exceptional act; Jack Benny, humor­ous
as master of ceremonies; the Al-bertina
Rash ballet, the Rounders, and
many others all add their talent to
this huge spectacle, making it the
greatest collection of stage and screen
artists ever assembled for one produc­tion.
Gus Edwards, famous for his song
Mrs. Corprew,' Lee County Chair­man
of Welfare Work, talked at the
Woman's Club meeting Thursday of
the splendid work done among the
poor of Lee County made possible
last year by money raised in Auburn
by contributions solicited by Wo­men's
Club members. The club is re­peating
the drive this year under a
committee composed of Mrs. B. L.
Shi, Mrs. J. T. Kennedy and Mrs.
Homer Wright, chairman. Members
of the Woman's Club appointed by
this committee will visit all residence
in Auburn. There will be no other re­quest
for money for this work for a
year and everyone is urged to con­tribute.
Old Present To Lee
Is Found In Library
Mrs. Wilmore E n t e r t a i ns
W i t h Bridge P a r ty
Mrs. John Wilmore entertained
with a lovely bridge party at her
home on Thursday night.
Top score for the men was held
by Mr. Hargreaves, while Mrs. Har­greaves
held top score for the
ladies.
After the games a salad course
and hot coffee was served.
Those enjoying this delightful hos­pitality
were: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rob­inson,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards,
Mrs. A. D. Burke, Mr. and Mrs. Har­greaves,
Miss Minnie Whitaker and
Mrs. Frank Wilmore.
A complete field "kitchenette,"
sent from England during the Civil
War to General Robert E. Lee by a
British admirer, seized at New York
by the federal government as contra­band
and after Appomattox turned
over to the Lee family, came to light
this week in a little-used storage
revues in vaudeville, and his short
talking picture musical subjects, not
only appears in person but is the au­thor
of four melodies you'll want to
hear again.
Directed by Charles F. Reisner, M-G-
M's "Hollywood Revue" is a sound
picture triumph and marks a new
era in the development of the talkie.
It ushers in the "musical movie."
Children, now grown, who flocked
years ago to see Montgomery and
Stone in "The Red Mill" Jack O'Lan-tern,"
"The Wizard of Oz," will love
it. The children of today will beg
tb be taken again and again.
It is the first great full length
"musical movie."
room of the Carnegie library here.
After being opened by a locksmith
in the presence of Paul M. Penick,
treasurer of the University, the libra­rian
and Col. Walter S. Forrester, re­tired
Kentucky editor and alumnus,
it was placed in the Lee museum in
the chapel.
Mystery surrounds the particular
Englishman who so admired General
Lee. Marked on the silver knives in
the large case is this mark, "J. W.
and T. Allen, Millitary Outfitters,
London." The chest was unloaded at
New York harbor, center of federal
ports. As the addressee was at that
time in arms against the Union gov­ernment,
the gift was held in a cus­tom
house in the northern city.
Styles may change but we never ex­pect
women to go back to cotton hose.
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DICK JONES, Editor A. C. TAYLOR, Associate Editor
Elmer G. Salter, Contributor; Rhodes Wasson, Harry Barnes, Charles Trice, Tad McCallum, Assistants •
TIGERS LEAVE THURSDAY FOR
BATTLE WITH GA. BULLDOGS
By Dick Jones
The Tiger gridders from Auburn,
with the shortest week of gruelling
practice sessions they have seen this
year, left here Thursday eveningvand
were scheduled to arive in Athens
Georgia, Thursday night for their
battle with the University of Georgia
Bulldogs at Athens Friday. The
Plainsmen were in a determined mood
and were given a big send-off by the
Auburn students.
This will be the thirty-fourth game
played between these two teams since
1892. The initial one was the first
inter-collegiate gridiron game staged
in the South. Auburn won by a score
of 10 to 0.
This will probably be the first
week Coach Johnny Floyd will not
make any major changes, since al­most
all of the Plainsmen seem to be
in tip-top condition. Captain "Shorty"
Long and Dunnam Harkins, the
Tigers two chief linesmen will prob­ably
open the fry at their usual posts,
guard and center respectively, and
are expected to deal out plenty of
trouble to the Bulldogs. They are the
ony two Tigers on the Floyd machine
that have opened every game so far
this season and have been the Plains­men's
most consistent performers.
Tulane soon found out that they
couldn't gain much ground over these
two hustling Tigers, so the Greenies
resorted to end runs and passes. The
Greenies scored their first touch­down
as the results of a 27-yard pass
by Billie Banker, Tulane's Blond
Blizzard, to Hugh Whatley, who
caught it on the Tigers 20-yard line
without a single wearer of the orange
and blue colors between him and
Auburn's goal. Banker also caught
another 25-yard pass himself behind
Auburn's goal.
Porter Gallahan, Alternate Cap­tain
of the Auburn Tiger eleven this
year, played a great defensive game
against the Greenies but couldn't
seem to ge free when he was carrying
the pigskin. Callahan was making al­most
every other tackle when the
Green Wave was held twice within
the Tigers 20-yard marker during the
first quarter of the game before Tu­lane
scored on the Auburn eleven.
R. Prim, who returned to the grid
squad with Callahan, when "Red"
Floyd took over the reins, was car­ried
on the trip to New Orleans but
did not see service in the game.
"Frock" Pate was the only Tiger
that failed to put in his appearance
on Drake Filed when Coach Floyd
undertook the duties of Geo. M.
Bohler as head Coach. There has
been a rumor going about as to why
Pate did not return to the grid field
with Callahan and Prim, and the
main cause is, because he didn't want
to ruin his chances for baseball this
year. "Frock," in a recent conversa-'
tion, said this himself. He also said,
"I love the football game and expect
to play it next year." Pate has two
weak ankles at present and he would
be taking a big chance of ruining his
athletic future if he did not give
them a chance to strengthen up. He
played four years on Woodlawns foot­ball,
basketball, and baseball teams,
and one yeor on their track team.
Pate was captain of football and
baseball teams in 1929, and alter­nate
captain of the basketball team
one year. He was a member of the
all-state basketball team in '26 and
'27, and the all-state football team
in '27. And also received a mention
for all-dixie quarterback in '27. Last
summer, Pate was a member of the
Acipco Collegians baseball team,
who won the city championship crown
of Birmingham. This year Pate will
be performing his second year on the
Auburn Tiger baseball club, perform­ing
at his usual post, short-stop.
In past years Auburn has licked
the University of Georgia 15 times
while the Bulldogs have beaten the
Tigers 15 times. Past records also
show that these two teams have tied
three times, the scores being 0 to 0
all three times. Auburn has scored
305 points to Georgia's 240.
Past records show the following
scores of the two teams by years:
Year
1892
1894
1895
1896
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1929
1929
TOTAL
Auburn
10
88
16
6
18
11
44
0
2
13
17
29
0
0
23
17
26
0
6
21
0
12
3
7
0
0
7
0
0
0
6
3
0
1
305
Georgia '
0
10
6
12
17
6
0
0
12
22
6
0
4
6
0
5
0
•0
12
7
0
0
0
0
7
7
3
7
6
33
16
33
15
1
250
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on the market, which may be substi­tuted
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AUBURN FRESHMAN FOOTBALL
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Univ. of Florida
Univ. of Ga.
Morning Game
(Mbn.) Ga. Tech
Tulane University
AUBURN FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Bham.-Southern
(Friday Night Game)
Clemson College
Univ. of Florida
(Friday Night Game)
Vanderbilt Univ.
Howard College
U. of Tennessee
Tulane University
Univ. of Georgia
Georgia Tech
SCHEDULE
at Auburn
at Gainesville, Fla.
at Columbus, Ga.
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at Auburn
FOR 1929
in Montgomery
in Clemson, S. C.
in Montgomery
in Birmingham
in Auburn
in Knoxville, Tenn.
in New Orleans, La.
in Athens, Ga.
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On several occasions this year, Leo
Young has thrilled gridiron fans with
his dashing runs. He is very elusive
and fast, and is fast developing into
one of the best half backs on the Au­burn
squad.
Leo is only a Sophomore this year,
and Auburn is expecting big things
of him before he finishes his college
career. Young is registered in the
course of Education, and has the hon­or
of being president of the Sopho­more
class.
Auburn Frosh to
Meet Tulane Rats
On Drake Field
By Rhodes Wasson
The Auburn Rats have a strong
team to meet this week in the Tulane
Cubs. From present indications the
Auburn Tugers have a slight edge
in the forthcoming tilt but the old
"dope bucket" has been upset so
regularly in the past few weeks that
nothing can be definitely concluded
from this source.
At present the Auburn Rats are in
"A" number'one condition but no
one can tell just what injury might
happen before the game. Before the
last game with the Tech Rats the Au­burn
Cubs lost two of their men, but
despite this they emerged from the
mud on Drake field victorious.
Tulane has not had the same re­sults
from their Rat team that they
have with their Varsity but despite
this fact the game will be one filled
with hard knocks and scientific foot­ball.
They have a quantity of out­standing
players as well as a bunch
that play hard consistent football at
all times.
Among the strongest contenders
for glory in the Tulane Rat lineup
are West, Hodgins, Felts and Reed.
AH of these men are backs and have
made it hot for all opponents this
season. The passing combination from
Holly to Taylor is a dangerous one
and they were the means of the Tu­lane
Rats carrying the Alabama jun­iors
to a good thrashing last week.
West is especially strong in the art
of broken field running and has gain­ed
consistently against any and all
rivals. Felts is a runner of no mean
caliber and has made many long runs
that have caused disaster to the past
High School stars he has met.
The Tulane boys have a line that
holds on all occasions and the men
that have figured in this type of play
exceptionally well have come thorugh
the season so far uninjured and are
still in the game fighting. Mack is a
man that does not stop at anything
or at least has not so far but it may
be a different tale in the approaching
tilt. Hill is another man that has
been playing a good consistent game
and will give the Plainsmen Cubs a
great deal of trouble. Others that
have to be mentioned are, Schroeder,
Brasburg and Scafide.
West who does the drop kicking
for the Junior Wave seldom misses
them and puts them between the bars
from any and all angles of the field.
Tulane carried the Freshmen of the
Crimson Tide to a decisive defeat
and this is the first time in quite
GRIDIRON QUINTESSENCE
= = = By PERCY VAL '
Discarding their crutches, forgetting their bodily ailments, Alabama's
Crimson Tide rose to supreme heights Saturday, when they upset the Ken­tucky
Wildcats in their march for conference honors. Tony Holm, the hu­man
battering ram, started the upheavel by returning the kick off 86 yards,
thereby placing the ball on Kentucky's 14 yard line. However, Kentucky's
big blue line held the Tide for downs, and it looked as though Alabama was
doomed. And before the first quarter ended, Bama had twice lost the lead,
and Kentucky was leading by a mere point. Kentucky had accomplished an
astonishing feat of scoring two touchdowns while operating only four plays
from her own formations and carrying the ball precisely 7% yards. But in
the final period, the Crimson Tide opened an attack that resembled a slaugh­ter.
With Suther and Holm alternating at carrying the ball, intermixing a
few short passes, Bama scored two more touchdowns, winning the game
24-13. A feature of the game was the performance of Fred Sington, who
did everything expected of a guard, and then demonstrated how the tackle
position should be played. Sington was by far the outstanding performer in
Bama's line, and he and Holm played the best game of the afternoon.
* * * * *
Vanderbilt displayed a much su­perior
team Saturday, when they
trounced the Tech Engineers 23-7.
On the fifth play of the afternoon,
Parker passed 38 yeards to Scheffer,
who caught it on the 6 yeard line and
dashed across the goal line. This was
exactly the same pass that scored on
Alabama the preceding Saturday, and
had the effect of taking the spirit out
of the Tech players. Shortly there­after,
Scheffer blocked one of Mi-zell's
punts behind the goal line, and
the ball rolled beyond the end zone
resulting in a safety. In the second
period Johnny Askew, behind perfect
interference, circled Tech's left and
for twenty yards and a touchdown.
The final touchdown by Vanderbilt
was made in the fourth period, when
Red Leonard, displaying an unusual
ability to stiff arm, ran 53 years
through the entire Tech team. Tech
made her touchdown prior to Leon­ard's
thrilling run. This touchdown
resulted from a herioc drive for 75
yards, and a usual Stumpy Thomason
and Mizell were the main cogs in the
drive. Vandy showed a team that is
improving as the result of excellent
coaching, and they are making a de­termined
drive for championship
honors.
* * * * *
The Georgia Sophomores played
rather a unique game Saturday
a while that they have beaten this
ancient foe. They showed a good
brand of football that was strong in
every way and showed an offensive
game that connot be sneered at.
The Auburn Rats showed the best
form against the Tech boys that they
have showed up to the present. They
have overcome their weakness in
passes which caused them the loss of
their only defeat this season. They
have showed a brand of football that
has been unknown to the Freshmen
teams of the past, and but, for their
defeat at the hands of the Georgia
Rats they would have a clean slate.
At the present they have three vic­tories
to their credit and but one
loss. They have had several close
games but nevertheless they always
managed to come out on the big end
of the score.
Bassett in the backfield showed up
well in all of the games that have
been played so far and is one of the
best men on the team. Shackleford
and Phipps have filled the vacancies
left by Parker and Hitchcock in a
manner that cannot be surpassed.
They ran with the ball, passed and
ran interference on every play that
they were in and did so without a
bobble during their first try on the
opening line up.
The Auburn line is one of their
greatest assets. Primm, Johnson,
Money and Jones open holes that can
be walked through without a change
of pace or a side step. They are
"bad medicine" to anyone that at­tempts
to buck for their yardage and
it is seldom that anyone gains any
ground throug this quartette. The
Auburn team has a machine that
works tokether like a "top" and
Coach Ted Banks team will face
a stiff opponent Saturday on Drake
Field.
against N. Y. U. In the first half, the
Violets of the University, completely
overwhelmed the Bulldogs, but Geor­gia
came back in the second half and
were just as successful as New York
had been in the preceding half. Most
of New York's scoring resulted from
their ability to almost demolish the
left side of Georgia's line. Soon after
the opening gun, Follett, the Vio­let
star, broke through tackle for 67
yards. Swift as he was, Catfish Smith
brought him to earth 5 yards short of
the goal line, but a touchdown quick­ly
followed. A few minutes later, Full­back
Lamark copied Follett's tactics
by galloping 55 yards for a touch­down.
Early in the second period,
New York again scored by recover­ing
a Georgia fumble on Georgia's
12 yard line, and converted this
break into a touchdown. New York
opened the second half as though
they were going to increase their
already large score. Gaudet intercept­ed
a forward pass from the hands
of Chandler and dashed 62 yards for
a touchdown. Already, this year the
Georgia redshirts have established a
reputation of not giving up until the
final whistle, and they lived up to
that reputation Saturday, for they
scored three touchdowns in the last
half, and the Violets were glad to
hear the final whistle blow Maffet
made the first touchdown being on
the receiving end of a pass from
Chandler. Futhermore, the fury of
Georgia's attack never relented, and
Paris made a very deceptful play
which resulted in a touchdown. The
last touchdown was the climax of a
terrific drive made by the Bulldogs,
featuring the plunging of Rothstein.
The game ended with the Violets
on the long end of a 27-19 score.
* * * * *
Albie Booth failed to stay in the
game long enough Saturday, and
Maryland tied the strong Yale team
13-13. The fifteen minutes that
Booth was in the game, Yale scored
two touchdowns, and her star player
withdrew and a victory assured. How­ever,
Maryland tied the score in the
latter part of the game, and display­ed
a thrilling brand of football.
* * * * *
The most interesting game played
in the Southern Conference this week
will be between Vanderbilt and Ten­nessee.
These two conference con­tenders
will meet in Knoxville and a
very interesting and decisive game is
promised. The Vol stars will be ready
to display their goods; Parker, Leon­ard
and Abernathy are expected to
be the lumineries for the Commo­dores.
We believe that Dan McGugins
coaching will give Vanderbilt the de­cisive
factor, and that the Commo­dores
will be victorious.
* * * * *
In Atlanta, Ga., a fued will be re­newed
when the Crimson Tide will
attempt to override the Jackets of
Tech. Physically, Alabama is in bad
shape as a result of the hard fought
Kentucky game, but they are in a
mental state that makes a football
team, and Tech is in for a rough bat­tle.
* * * * *
After resting a week, the Florida
Gators will tackle the now slipping
BEN NEWTON
Here is another giant who holds
down a tackle position on Red Floyd's
line. Newton was one of Nurmi Nel­son's
stars on the Malone, Florida
High school team before entering
Auburn. He also weighs around 200
pounds and although he has been
hampered by a bad shoulder all this
year, he has never failed to give a
good account of himself. Besides
being a good football player, Ben is
indeed an excellent baseball player,
being a good fielder as well as an
extraordinary hitter. Newton has an­other
year of football, as he is a
Junior in the class of Education.
Baby Tigers Ready
As Tilt With Rats
From Tulane Nears
By Dick Jones
Coach Bull McFaden has his Plains­men
working together in a highly
satisfactory manner and believes he
could almost lick the Georgia rats if
he had a second shot at them. The
Bulldogs licked the Auburn fresh­men
25 to 0 to capture the only game
these Tigers have lost this year. In
their first game the McFaden wear­ers
of the orange and blue colors
licked the Birmingham-Southern rats
7 to 0. Then they captured a victory
over the Florida gridders 20 to 0 in
the second game.
The rear works of McFadden's ma­chine,
Bassett, Hitchcock, Parker,
Shackleford, Phipps, and Brown, are
five hustling backs. On account of
injuries, Ike Parker and Jimmie
Hitchcock, first string in the back-fieldmen
did not take part in the
Georgia Tech game. However, they
were on the sideline in uniforms,
ready to go into action, if they were
needed. "Sleepy" Brown, handled the
fullback post in a fine manner, plung­ing
through Tech's line at different
times for needed yardage. Bassett
was the outstanding ground gainer
for the Baby Tigers against Tech. He
made several long runs and plunged
over Tech's goal in the third quarter
to score Auburn's touchdown. Phipps
and Shackleford also made some nice
runs during the game.
(Continued on page 6)
Clemson Tigers, and a hard fought
battle will take place in 'Gainesville,
Fla. The Gators shouldn't have much
trouble in defeating Clemson.
* * * * *
After a very unsuccessful effort
last week, we are again going to at­tempt
to be the wise guy and make a
few predictions. Again, here goes.
Alabama 19—Tech 12.
Vanderbilt 19—Tenn. 7.
Clemson 12—Fla. 26.
Georgia 26—Auburn 7.
Duke 13—N. C. State 0.
Tulane 46—Sewanee 0.
Kentucky 13—V» M. I. 6.
Auburn Rats 15—Tulane 13.
AuburnHarriersto
Face Georgia Tech
Nov. 16 in Atlanta
By Dick Jones
The Auburn Tiger cross-country
team, after suffering one defeat so
far this season, are rearing and ready
to take on their second foes of their
schedule, the Gaorgia Tech track-sters
Saturday, November 16.
This second meet for Coach Wil­bur
Hutsell's and Coach "Weemie"
Baskins wearers of the Orange and
blue colors will be staged at the
Tech flats in Atlanta Georgia.
The final meet the 1929 Auburn
herriors will take part in will be the
Southern Conference meet which will
be held at the University of North-
Carolina on November 23.
These Auburn cinder path artists
are well aware of the fact that Geor­gia
Tech will be prepared with extra
strength to face the Tigers, as Au­burn
licked them 22 to 33 last year,
and they have been putting in con-sistant
hours of work running on the
Auburn 5-mile course.
Coach "Weemie" Baskin will be
put in charge of the Tigers on their
trip to Atlanta as Coach Hutsell is
trainer for the Tiger football team
and had to journey to Athens with
Coach Floyd and the hustling grid­ders
Thursday where they face the
strong Georgia eleven.
The six men to run for Auburn
Saturday against Coach Hal Barron's
track men are as follows: Captain
Teague, Plant, Pitts, Roberts, Mc-
Lendon, Shanks. Manager Stripling
will also make the trip.
In the Tigers first meet they were
defeated 24 to 31 by the first Uni­versity
of Georgia runners. Bob
Young of Georgia led the Bulldogs
by winning first place. However,
this score would have probably been
different if two Auburn men and one
Georgia man had not suffered faint­ing
spells from weather conditions.
Laval Players Carry
Football All Day To
Prevent Fumbling
Coach William L. (Billy) Laval de­mands
that fifteen of his University
of South Carolina backfield men cease
fumbling. He has sentenced them to
carry a football with them for 24
hours a day in preparation for the
Citadel game Thursday at Orange­burg.
A fumble cost Carolina the game
when the football team of the state
university met Clemson and Coach
Laval is insisting that it shan't hap­pen
again.
The ultimatum of "football totin, "
was issued Monday by the mentor of
Carolina football-dom and students re­port
that his orders are being carried
out to the letter.
So, if "Crip" Rhame or "Bru" Boin-eau,
or any other of the backs on
whose necks the sentence of "football
totin'" has fallen, fumbles the spher-od
in the Florida game, it won't be
(Continued on page 6)
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Cultural Study Urged
To Offset Cheap And
Shallow Type Thought
"Anyone can get technical training,
but you want to be educated," Prof.
Robert E. Rogers of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, whose forth­right
addresses in Boston recently
have attracted considerable attention,
told 500 women student's of Boston
university at their weekly assembly.
"The type of college student who is
combining with a kind of study that
will earn her bread and butter that
vague thing called culture, is the hope
of our country today," Professor Ro­gers
said.
"People have said that it is useless
to clutter up the average mind with
cultural material that is of no tech­nical
use and is soon forgotten. I
do not agree. Whether or not you
keep in your mind what you grasp of
cultural subjects for immediate use
is of no importance. The fact is that
nothing youe ver study is absolutely
forgotten. Your contact with other
than technical study will form a vast
reservoir of material that will color
your whole personality, whether you
will it or not.
"If you habitually read the cheap
Students Sought on
Prohibition Charge
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(IP) — Ann
Arbor police are seeking two Uni­versity
of Michigan students believed
to be directors of a college bootleg­ging
business, following a raid in
Fletcher Hall, university dormitory,
where the officers confiscated a case
of wine and whiskey.
The bootlegging operations are
said to have financed the student's
education, the two having sold liquor
to five fraternities which were re­cently
placed on probation for stag­ing
drinking parties.
The dormitory, on the third floor
of which the student bootleggers
took their orders by telephone for
"The Best Canadian stuff," is owned
and managed by alumni of the uni­versity.
Judge William (Willie)
Heston, of Detroit, famous football
player, is one of the stockholders. It
accomodates 200 students and is con­ducted
under university regulations.
When police officers gained ad­mittance
to the dormitory room the
occupants had vanished, but their
names were obtained.
Several thirsty students telephon­ed
the college bootleggers while po-magazines
that clutter our newsstands, j j c e w e r e Jn t h e r o o m > and their
your whole being will be influenced.
If you habitully look to the radio and
the movie for your emotional outlet,
all that material is going to fertilize
your personality until you really be­come
the shallow product of these shal­low
things.
"You college women are going to
be more important and differenti­ated
persons as a result of your college
training, or you are going to be just
one of that vast mob of people in the
world who are still intellectually ado­lescent."
names were taken as evidence.
U. of Florida To Offer
Radio Program Courses
Going to college by radio!
That's a new idea to be put into
practice by the state and University
of Flroida station, WRUF, beginning
Monday, November 18:-
Bulletin No. 8 of the General Ex­tension
Division issued this morning,
announces twelve college credit courses
for group and individual study to be
supplemented by radio lectures.
The plan is hailed as one of the
most significant undertakings in the
educational field ever attempted in the
state of Florida, and marks an initial
and forwai'd step in the use of radio
for instruction that should reverber­ate
around the United States.
Washington And Lee
Try To Throw Off Jinx
In desperate effort to break Wash­ington
and Lee's losing streak on the
gridiron, Coach Eugene Oberst in­troduced
a novel experiment to the
Generals Monday evening at an in­formal
gathering of the team in the
University dining hall.
Oberst called the meeting with
the idea of hearing the players them­selves.
Training rules were ignored—
ice cream and cake was served, cigar­ettes
were smoked, and an air of con­geniality
and informality seemed to
pervade. The reason for this was that
Oberst is of the opinion that the
team, as a whole, is over trained.
Short talks were made by some of
the plstyers in which they tried to
fathom the reason for the continual
defeats. Oberst, and assistant coaches,
Palmer, Hoffman, and Malone also
gave their reasons for such a bad
season.
Books of Interest
'Pigskin" Expected to Cause Even More Comment
On the Campus Than "The Plastic Age"
THE COLLEGE BABBITT
By Howard Crawford
"Pigskin," by Charles W. Ferguson,
published this month by Doubleday,
Doran will cause more talk on the
campus than Percey Marks' "Plastic
Age," albeit the two books have dif­ferent
subjects. There are a number
of college librarians, we feel safe in
predicting, who will send special de­livery
orders for this expose of "The
Prima Donnas of Higher Learning."
It would be futile to attempt in this
short column to take up a thorough
discussion of the merits of the charges
against North American colleges
which are implied in "Pigskin." Suf­fice
it to say that Ferguson has
sketched for us the truth insofar as
any caricature portrays Truth. Just
as the cartoonist wishing to instruct
as well as amuse accentuates the pe­culiarities
of his subject, so has the
author of "Pigskin" axaggerat'ed to
gain his point. This is not only legit­imate
but necessary if the end in
view is to be accomplished, and those
college enthusiasts who undertake to
argue the exaggerations (and we know
there will be many who will attempt
this) will accomplish nothing but a
display of their ignorance—and their
lack of a sense of humor.
Briefly, as the publisher tells us,
Ferguson "leads one to wonder if pig­skin
has replaced sheepskin as the
symbol of higher learning."
As an ironic dramatist, Ferguson is
among the best. We feel that he has
accomplished at least one thing which
Sinclair Lewis has attempted and fail­ed
in the attempt—that of keeping the
reader's intense interest from begin­ning
to finish. And Ferguson has a
keener sense of humor. When the en­tire
college migrates, for instance, to
Volcanic eruptions in the Hawaiian
Islands are hailed with rejoicing by
the natives, who belive them the sign
of the return of the Pele fire god­dess,
favorite diety of the islanders.
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Resenting college life as typified
in motion pictures, the Leazan Liter­ary
Society of North Carolina State
College of Agriculture" and Engineer­ing
recently sent a letter to Will Hays,
motion picture commissioner.
The following is the text of the
letter:
Since motion pictures have an enor­mous
influence on American thinking,
their producers should make every
effort to be fair and accurate. The
members of Leazar Literary Society
of North Carolina State College be­lieve
that the majority of college films
are false pictures of college life and
injure the prestige of the college man
or woman. We hope that you will
call to the attention of the motion
picture producers of America the fol­lowing
specific defects. These are
only a few of the objectionable fea­tures
found in many pictures of col­lege
life:
1. That athletics are usually false­ly
made to occupy about 80 per cent
of the students' time.
2. That most of the athletic con­tests
shown are ridiculously inaccu­rate,
since the football captain is rare­ly
ever kidnapped the night before
the game; since most touchdowns are
not made in the last minute to play,
and since most universities have an
elaborate coaching staff in addition
to the sole coach shown in most mo­tion
pictures.
3. That almost invariably students
are falsely shown to have an excessive
interest in members of the opposite
sex, and that their conduct as pictured
would normally lead to expulsion from
school..
4. That the wide-awake and men­tally
vigorous college leader, whether
man or woman, is rerely the type por­trayed
by our leading motion picture
stars.
5. That the many brilliant thinkers
and teachers found on the faculties of
American colleges are often grossly
misrepresented by the comic "college
professor."
6. That most pictures of college
life are trite and obvious. The home
team sometimes loses the big game of
the season.
7. The many vital and dramatic
situations in college life have been al­most
completely neglected as picture-making
material. We recommend that
college pictures be written and di­rected
by college men.
8. We recommend that, since the
youth of the nation imitate the speech
of the college talking picture, the va­rious
producers cooperate with the
National Association of Teachers of
Speech in achieving admirable speech
standards.
the scene of the season's big game,
Ferguson disembarks his gang of col­legians,
and remarks joyously: "To
the courthouse square the army of
higher learning marched." Find any­thing
quite so good in Lewis, if you
can.
The book, we should tell you, is
about Dr. Horace Ethelmore Dickey,
new president of Martha Sumner Uni­versity,
a weakling in the Southern
Conference. Dr. Dickey's wife calls
him something which resembles more
than anything else, "Horse." Since
the Doctor's profession heretofore has
been that of the Baptist ministry, his
first hope is that he can create a great
revival on the campus. He soon finds
that before he can accomplish this, he
must play up the football team. Let
us journey to the stadium with the
Doctor.
"He had never §een such a daring
and superb spectacle as the plunging,
lunging, speeding figure of the Sphinx.
Thousands of eyes had been centered
upon him. Every young man and
woman in the institution would have
him for an idol. He was, the doctor
had to admit, the most important man
in the university. And he realized
that if his resolve to clean up the
moral life of the campus were to be­come
a reality, Sphinx must be the
bellwether who led the way."
The revival turns out gruesomely,
and the doctor soon turns toward
greater things. Martha Sumner must
be the largest university in the South.
The story has to deal mostly with
the means of obtaining this end, and
the results. Perhaps the highpoint
of the book is reached when the doctor
and scholarly Professor Eastman meet
in argument.
Says Professor Eastman: "I stand
for a college where something besides
skull practice shall be taught, where
the reading of books shall have chief
part. I stand, and here Dr. Dickey,
we are pillls apart—for a college
which shall not be forever playing
to a stupid constituency with devices
and courses calculated to arouse the
interest of a populace drunk on prac­ticality
. . . ."
Whereupon the president agrees
that that two are polls apart, that
Professor Eastman is against the best
interests of the school, and "I have no
time for failure, Professor. I am
commissioned to build here and for
eternity a school which shall stand
as a beacon light in the storms of
cheap intellectualism, a school which
shall have its solid foundation on the
rock of Christian principle and its
bulwark in the affections of the peo­ple."
But Dr. Horace Ethelmore Dickey
soon sells his soul for thirty pieces
of silver.
Intelligence Not
Essential to Ideal
Girl at Princeton
"Intelligence is just about the last
thing a Princeton freshman likes to
find in a girl, if any generalization
can be drawn from a vote recently
taken among the 490 freshmen here.
The vote also indicated that, of the
mass mind, constancy was a rather
trival consideration, and that if a
girl was beautiful or if she was a
good dancer or a ready conversation­alist
she could be a nitwit for all it
mattered to the majority of the first
year men.
"The freshmen were asked to name
'the most essential quality in the
ideal girl.' Seventy-four, the largest
number to agree on any single qual­ity,
decided that the one most essen­tial
was 'physical beauty.' Sixty-five,
less esthetically inclined, voted for
'personality.' The third highest vote,
45, went to 'ability to dance well.'
'Good sense and humor appealed to
34 of the youthful Princetonians as
most essential.
"Thirty-one favored an 'interest­ing
conversationalist.' 'Constancy'
came in fifth with 29 votes. Twenty-four
of the freshmen looked upon
'brains' as most essential. Only 18 of
the freshmen admitted that their
taste was influenced by money; they
voted for 'wealth.'
"Sixteen came to the conclusion
that the most essential quality in the
ideal girl was 'abstinence form drink­ing.'
Nine arrived at the conclusion
ideal girl was 'abstinence from drink-smoke.
Sixty-five gave up determi­nation
of the 'ideal girl' as a bad job
and didn't vote."—The State.
Strawberries Grown By
Electricity By Scientist
On one of the coldest afternoons of
last Winter in Paris, the savants of
the French Academy of Sciences as­sembled
for a strawberry party. Care­fully
packed in boxes, full, aromatic
and luscious, two dozed strawberres
were brought to the meeting by Mr.
Mangin, president of the Academy.
The scientists found the berries had
all the flavor of a fruit warmed by
the sun and nurtured by rain. Yet
not one of the berries ever had felt
sunlight or had been exposed, to the
touch of Nature. They were grown in
a Paris basement. Light and heat
came to them only from two great
revolving lamps of 1,200 watts each.
Beneath the artificial light it had
taken the plants only 40 days, about
one-half the normal time, to mature
and bear fruit. Members of the Acad­emy
declared the berries fit to rank
with the best in flavor and quality.
Their president, however, said it was
improbable his artificially grown ber-riey
would compete with the garden
variety. His reason was explicit. The
cost of growing by electricity had been
about $5 for each strawberry.
The Word'Collegiate'
Becomes Distasteful
With College Students
f
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
"Schools," says George Bernard
Shaw, "act as prisons in which the
immature are kept from worrying
the mature." A contribution to the
Daily Californian takes exception to
this ism. "Schools act as prisons in
which selected members of the ma­ture
are kept to worry the imma­ture,"
he declares.
Washington And Lee
Adds New Motor Bus
"Florida Log" To Be
Kept At University
The log on the University of Flor­ida
which was started this year con­tains
a day-by-day record of the im­portant
and interesting events con­cerning
the student body and faculty
The University council realized the
need of such a record and authorized
its secretary to keep it. The main por­tion
of the Log takes the form of a
diary of the daily items of interest.
The log-keeper is also privileged to
enter personal opinions about these
events, in order to provide a source
of information that otherwise might
not appear. Another feature of the
Log is its file of all University publi­cations
such as the Alligator, the
Seminole, the Orange and Blue Bulle­tin,
and the yearly catalogues of the
University.
Clippings from various newspa­pers
are kept in a large scrapbook.
These clippings are catalogued ac­cording
to subject matter.
The material of the Log will be
indexed. Publications of previous
years are already included so that the
record may be of historic value now
as well as later.
"Any copies of old publications,
present items of interest, especially
those not generally known, or any
suggestions and ideas that anyone
cares to offer will be gladly receiv­ed
and appreciated by the registrar's
office," said Mr. McQuitty, who is
acting as the official log-keeper.
"UNADULTERATED THUGS"
Dr. Fred Eastman, professor of
literature and drama at Chicago
Theological Seminary, has escaped
being robbed several times in Chica­go,
but on his first visit to London,
the bald-headed educator had to pay
21 shillings for a haircut. "Unadult­erated
thugs," he said, on his return.
One of the most recent additions to
the equipment of athletics at Wash­ington
and Lee is the new motor bus
coach purchased a short time ago by
the University athletic association.
The new coach was purchased at a
price of $5,000 and is a product of
the General Motors corporation. It
has all of the modern conveniences
of the long route commercial buses
and will seat comfortably twenty-three
persons. Most modern of the
conveniences is a convertible card
table which is provided for the en­joyment
of passengers on long dis­tance
rides.
The new bus has. only been in use
for a short time but it is expected
that all athletic teams traveling will
go by motor in the future. The bus is
the only motor vehicle owned by the
athletic association. Many trips taken
by teams before the purchase of the
new coach were taken in hired buses.
Probably these is no adjective more
distasteful to the average college stu­dent
than the term "collegiate." It
has come to represent, to those out­side
of the colleges, the typical cinema
college student, the rah-rah boy, the
collegian who never goes to classes,
spends his nights dancing and his days
sleeping, and goes to school as one
would go to' the circus—for a good
time. Collegiate has come to stand
for everything that the average college
student is not.
Statistics show that the average
college student works part of his way
through school. He makes a scholastic
average of about seventy-five and cuts
two or three classes a term. He has
a few social activities, but they are
only a minor part of his college life.
He studies some, but he is not a grind.
He may read College Humor and the
Saturday Evening Post, but he pro­bably
is also a reader of Scribner's,
or the Atlantic Monthly. He very
probably takes no part in athletics,
unless he enters intramural competi­tion.
He is not from Mayflower stock,
but is more likely to be the son of
the butcher, the baker, or the clerk.
He is likely to be a smoker, but very
unlikely to drink. He is not likely to
set the world on fire, but he is more
likely to succeed than his brother, the
average non-college man. There is
nothing glamorous about him—he is
just the average college student. He
distinctly is not "collegiate."
The term "collegiate" is disappear­ing
from our vocabulary. It is a good
word and should i-emain with us, but
it must be separated from its present
company. It should mean someone
who is willing to work for an educa­tion;
someone who gets a broader vis­ion
and a wider knowledge from four
years spent in an education institu­tion;
someone who is training himself
for citizenship and life. "Collegiate"
should be a term of praise for the
young women who today are making
themselves fit to face the trials and
opportunities of tomorrow.—S.M.U.
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All in a day's work for telephone men
George and Leonard Tews, of
Milwaukee, are freshmen at Mar­quette
University, after having trav­eled
27,000 miles around the world
in three months.
A specimen of construction work in the
Bell System is the new catenary span
carrying telephone wires across the Gila
River, Arizona. The "natural" obstacle is
no longer an obstacle while there are tele­phone
men to find a way through it or
over it.
This is but one example in a general ex­pansion
program. Others are such widely
varied projects as linking New York to
Atlanta by cable, erecting 200 telephone
buildingsin 1929,developing a $15,000,000
factory at Baltimore.
The telephone* habit is growing apace,
and the Bell System will continue to keep
a step ahead of the needs of the nation.
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.
Prof. Baughman Gives
Precautions for Safe
Driving on Highways
One must exercise common-sense
caution and, in emergencies, be able
to think clearly and act quickly if
he is to avoid automobile accidents
while driving on Alabama highways,
says Prof. C. A. Baughman, head
professor of highway engineering
here. Professor Baughman was tell­ing
the public Thursday about a num­ber
of precautionary . measures in
driving automobiles, as one of his
series of radio talks on "Safety on
the Highways."
Professor Baughman will speak
again over radio along the same line
next Thursday between 12 and 12:30.
"One person is killed every day
in Alabama in automobile accidents,"
said Professor Baughman. "On a
single day last week in Alabama 15
persons were injured on one stretch
of road about 50 miles long. Over
5,000 grade crossing accidents occur­red
in the United States last year
and the most astounding thing about
them is that in less than three-fourths
of the cases did the trains run into
the automobiles. In 1275 instances or
slightly more than one-fourth of the
total, the automobile ran into the
trains, showing that very little pre­caution
was exercised on the part of
the drivers."
In one very unusual case, said
Professor Baughman, a train was de­railed
after being hit by a heavy
passenger car. This, however, does
not happen often because an auto­mobile
has no chance in an argument
with a train. The average locomotive,
weighing 150 tons, is from 75 to 150
times as heavy as a passenger auto­mobile.
In addition, the locomotive
pulls cars weighing thousands of tons
which constitutes a great mass travel­ling
at as high or higher rate of speed
than the automobile.
It is Professor Baughman's belief
that the only intelligent way to in­still
caution in motorists is a cam­paign
of education rather than
preaching to them a number of "thou
shalt not" practices. Though grade
crossings are being eliminated, Pro­fessor
Baughman says that the only
sensible thing to do in approaching
such a crossing is to be sure that the
train is not already across the high­way
and that it is not approaching.
For safety in such cases, he urges
that one does not only depend on his
ears to warn him of the approaching
train but that one also use his eyes.
It is easily possible for the noise
of an approaching train to be carried
in the opposite direction from the
driver because of a strong wind.
In crossing railway tracks it is a
simple bit of insurance to put the car
in intermediate gear to prevent the
possibility of the motor being stall­ed
on the tracks.
Never pass a car on the crest of a
hill, said Professor Baughman, be­cause
one driver cannot see the cars
that may be approaching from the
other side. Engineers today try to
bay out the highway so that drivers
may see approaching cars for at least
350 feet ahead. This is necessary in
order that one driver may be duly
warned of the approach of another
car.
"If two cars are approaching the
crest of a hill in opposite directions,
each driver, if alert, will see the oth­er
car 350 feet away. That means
that each car will have to travel 175
feet before they meet. Assuming that
the speed of each is 40 miles per
hour they will meet in just three sec­onds.
This is the length of time the
driver has to prepare for the meet­ing.
If one of the drivers happens to
be in the act of passing a car ahead
at a point 175 feet from the top if
the hill, this puts one car on the left
side of the road in the direct path of
the approaching car with only three
seconds to get ahead or back of the
other car and to cross the road to
get out of the path of the approach­ing
automobile. This situation illus­trates
the necessity for our laws pro-1
hibiting the overtaking and passing
of cars when near the crest of a
hill."
In overtaking and passing a car
going at a slower rate of speed, a
much longer distance is required to
complete the maneuver than is imag­ined
by many motorists. For an auto­mobile
going 30 miles an hour to
overtake and pass a truck traveling
at 15 miles an hour, 220 feet of open
highway are necessary to complete
the operation.
In conclusion, Professor Baughman
said that passing a car at any posi­tion
where a long sight distance is
not available is very dangerous.
BABY TIGERS READY
AS TILT WITH RATS
FROM TULANE NEARS
(Continued from page 4)
Among the teams thajt the Tulane
freshmen have defeated is the Uni­versity
of Alabama freshman team.
The Tigers' line that will open
against Tulane Saturday will prob­ably
be the same that started against
Tech Monday. Mason and Money at
ends, Miller and Prim at tackles,
Wood and Jones at guards, and John­son
at center. Rat Arthur, from
Woodlawn High, may start at left
tackle.
A couple of changes will probably
take place in the backfield. Hitch­cock
will more than likely st'art at
right half in Phipps' place, and Park­er
is likely to start at quarter instead
of Shackleford.
Auburn Rats 7—Birmingham-
Southern Rats 0.
Auburn Rats 20—Florida Rats 0
Auburn Rats 0—Georgia Rats 25
Auburn Rats 7—Tech Rats 0.
Auburn Rats ?—Tulane Rats ?
TOTAL Auburn Rats 34—Oppon­ents
25.
Dress of Co-Eds
Is Discussed
DR. KNAPP TO RETURN
FROM CHICAGO TONIGHT
President Knapp is expected to re­turn
to Auburn tonight from Chica­go,
where he has been for the past
several days attending a convention of
Land Grant Colleges.
Other college officials who went to
this and other meetings in Chicago
this week are expected to return to­night
and tomorrow.
News from the University of Michi­gan
indicates that quite a number of
students are working their way thru
college by bootlegging. Do the au­thorities
intend to stop this, and let
bootlegging profits go to less worthy
objects?
CORNERSTONE LAYING
EXERCISES ON NOV 20
(Continued from page 1)
by limestone Doric columns with a
cornice and carved stone balustrade
above. Over this entrance will be a
great circular shaded window light­ing
the stair hall and landing which
will be over the front door. The fea­ture
of the entrance will be a carved
stone panel above the transom with
the head of Jersey Cow in bar relief
in the center.
The main second floor will contain
offices, four large class rooms, and
a library. The first floor will con­tain
a large elementary laboratory
37 feet by 57 feet and also four oth­er
medium sized laboratories for but­ter
and cream, domestic science,
farm butter and cheese, also re­search
rooms, offices, refrigeration
rooms, toilets, and showers.
The third floor will contain ani­mal
rooms, preparation rooms, nutri­tion
laboratories, tissue and organ­ism
laboratories, combustion cham­ber,
office and store rooms.
The following is the invitation:
"The Board of Trustees, President
and Faculty of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute extend to you a
cordial invitation to be present at
the laying of the cornerstone of the
Animal Husbandry and Dairy Build­ing
by James M. Pearson, Grand
Master, Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M.
of Alabama, at three p. m. on Wed­nesday,
the twentieth of November
one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-nine at Auburn, Alabama."
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Do co-eds dress more than, well, say
the (species which attends a girl's
school? This doesn't necessarily mean
that they wear more clothes. That
is not the question up for discussion.
Do they dress more with the idea of at­tracting
attention? The answer
seems to be undeniably in the affirma­tive.
Statistics to sustantiate this
theory have not been obtained from
Roger W. Babson nor from mama's
best cook book, but they sound rea­sonable.
According to one who recently
changed from a girl's school to a co-ed
institution, she was astounded at the
marked difference in dress. For ex­ample,
at the previous schools the
students for the most part had been
content to slop around in any old
thing as long as it was whole and
yet not wholly disreputable. At the
co-ed institution any number of the
girls would have posed with credit for
fashion plates. Quite a number would
have been in keeping at formal affairs
with their outfits.
It would appear then, that there is
no urge to dress with care at a girl's
school. It also seems that girls do
not dress to attract the - attention of
other girls.
Another question, too, is the one of
make-up. This same witness avors
that there is very little make-up used
in girls' schools. The implication is
not that co-eds as a whole use make-up
until they resemble Minnehaha on
dress parade, because that would be
stretching the truth just a little bit
too far.
Perhaps co-eds are unwilling for the
masculine eye to see them in a bad
light, consequently they use this as
an excuse for dressing with care.
Vain? Oh, it's hard to say. People
are funny.
GEORGIA DEFEATS
VARSITY 24 TO O
Florida Manager
Refuses Damages
Claude F. Lee, manager of the
Florida Theatre, has refused t'o ac­cept
payment from the students of
the University for damages to his
theatre when a crowd of boys broke
two display glasses while waiting for
the midnight show after the Auburn
game several weeks ago.
Hitherto it has been the policy of
the executive council to make pay­ment
for damages to property as a
result of students' carelessness. The
damage was the result of crowding
in the threatre lobby, and not as a
rush on the show.
DRAMATIC CLUB PRESENTS
FIRST MAJOR PERFORMANCE
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(Continued from page 1)
misfits, Professor Shaver, who is di­recting
the affairs of the Auburn
Players this year, plans to present it
at some future date. The time will
be announced later.
On next Monday night a short one-act
play, "Sweet and Twenty," is to be
presented at the Little Theatre Build­ing.
It is a rollicking comedy, con­cerning
a young couple who fall in
love for the sake of love and for the
glamour to be gained from it. When
they begin to think of marrying, the
climax of the play is reached, causing
the audience to be comically entertain­ed
by the swift and funny change of
events.
According to the leader of this or­ganization,
the members are putting
forth much effort this year to make
the plays presented worthwhile and
well-acted. He states that the field of
drama in Auburn will be materially
broadened by the large number of
those who are participating in the
plays.
(Continued from page 1)
to_ her own 35 yard line. Rothstein,
of Georgia intercepted an Auburn
pass on Auburn's 47 yard line. After
several plays, Captain Long recovered
a fumble on Auburn's 25 yard line,
after the ball had rolled that far. Au­burn
punted to Georgia's 35 yard
line, and Rothstein made first down
on the next play. Here the Auburn
line held, and after a 15 yard penal­ty,
Georgia was forced to punt, this
time to Auburn's 24 yard line.
Leo Young made a first down for
Auburn, running the ball to Auburn's
34 yard line. A Georgia man inter­cepted
an Auburn pass as the half
ended. Georgia 12, Auburn 0.
Shortly after the third quarter had
opened, Georgia returned an Auburn
to Auburn's 40 yard line; Dicken, of
Georgia, they took the ball to the 20
yard line. A pass, Chandler to V.
Smith, was good for Georgia's touch­down.
Score Georgia 18, Auburn 0.
Rothstein kicked off to Jones who
returned to Auburn's 38 yard line;
Rothstein intercepted a pass on Au­burn's
45 yard line. Georgia was
stopped here, and Chandler punted
over the goal line.
Auburn made another first down,
a Georgia penalty and several line
plays bringing the ball to Auburn's
31 yard line. The Georgia line held,
and Auburn punted to Georgia's 28
yard line.
Rothstein ran 25 yards to Auburn's
42 yard line; Roberts clipped off 16
more yards to place the ball on Au­burn's
22 yard line. A center buck
and an end run gave Georgia first
down on Auburn's 10 yard line. Here
the quarter ended.
A line buck and a 7 yard run by
Waugh, of Georgia, placed the ball
on Auburn's one foot line, on the last
down. The Auburn line took the
form of a stone wall here, and Geor­gia
failed to make the touchdown.
Jacobs, of Auburn, punted out of
bounds to Auburn's 25 yard line.
From this point, Waugh, Georgia
back, made nine yards through cen­ter,
and Roberts made a touchdown
on four successive line bucks, making
the score Georgia 24, Auburn 0. The
try for extra point again failed.
Chappelle took the kick off for Au­burn
on the 15 yard line, and return­ed
it to Auburn's 35 yard line. David­son
made a first down, bringing the
ball to Auburn's 46 yard line. A pass
was knocked down. Jacobs fumbled,
and Waugh recovered for Georgia.
With the ball on Auburn's 48 yard
line, Georgia made a first down, to
Auburn's 35 yard line. Two first
downs for Georgia brought the ball
to Auburn's 40 yard line; Hamilton,
of Georgia, punted over the goal line,
giving the ball to Auburn on her 20
yard line.
Hatfield made a 35 yard run, Au­burn's
longest gain, as the game
ended.
Score by quarters:
Auburn 0 0 0 0— 0
Georgia 0 12 6 6—24
LAVAL PLAYERS CARRY
FOOTBALL ALL DAY TO
PREVENT FUMBLING
(Continued from page 4)
from unfamiliarity with the feel of
pigskin.
Players whom the decree affects
are Rhamo, Boineau, Zobel, Edens,
Culp, Correll, Brunson, Vanghn, Wy-lie,
Miles Blount, Girard Blount, and
Stoddard.
While head coach at Furman uni­versity,
Coach Laval made his men
carry footballs from time to time,
just as his Carolina men are now
doing and found the system to be a
remarkable success toward halting
fumbling.
Georgia made twelve first downs
to seven for Auburn; out of eight
attempted passes, Auburn completed
two. Georgia completed four passes
out of five attempts.
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MONDAY & TUESDAY
November 18 & 19
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(Continued from page 1)
er. He will talk on "Good Homes
and Bad." Mrs. W. A. Ruffin, rep­resenting
the civics department of the
local Woman's Club, will talk on "Fall
Planting for Spring Blooming." A
review of Lizette Woodworth Reese's
"A Victorian Village" will be given
by Prof. Henry W. Adams. Prof. J.
W. Brigham, tenor, head of the Au­burn
music department, and Prof.
Earl Hazel, instructor in piano, will
present several musical selections.
The Girl's Glee Club will appear on
the air two weeks from today; a spec­ial
program is being prepared.
The Auburn Choral Club, compos­ed
of faculty members and towns­people,
was recently organized, and is
preparing a program to be broadcast
in the near future.
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