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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930 NUMBER 41
Many Southern
Belles Expected
For R.0.T.C Ball
Governor Graves Is Among
Celebrities Who Receive
Invitations
ELABORATE PLANS ARE
COMPLETED
Dunk Rendleman's Alabamians
Will Furnish Music
Lieut Pease to Leave
Here at End of Term
Will Report To National Guard
Unit At Houlton,
Maine
ENTIRE BAND TO LEAVE
FRIDAY FOR GULF CITY'S
MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL
One of the most colorful and "bril­liant
social events of the season, that
of the Military Ball, will be held this
Friday evening. Over one hundred
and twenty girls led by Miss Rose
Gunter, who will be the guest of Ca­det
Colonel H. H. Hillman, have been
invited to attend this social event
which marks the beginning of Spring.
Governor and Mrs Bibb Graves, the
commanding general and staff of Fort
Benning, commanding general and
staff of Atlanta, officers of the Na­tional
Guard and Reserve Corps in
Auburn and Opelika, Cadet Colonel
A. S. Rankin of the U. of Alabama,
and officeres of the cadet corps at the
U. of Tennessee and Geeorgia Tech
have been invited to attend.
Sponsored by the senior cadet of­ficers
of the R.O.T.C. regiment, the
dance, the tenth of its kind in Auburn,
will be under the supervision of Miss
Zoe Dobbs, social director. President
and Mrs. Knapp, and Major and Mrs.
John Kennedy will act as chaperones.
The military officers will act with
Major Kennedy and the cadet officers
as hosts.
Music for the ball will be furnished
by Dunk Rendleman's Alabamians.
The band, ten pieces in all, plays at
the Bankhead Hotel in Birmingham.
In addition to their Bankhead Hotel
hour over the radio, they play in the
Junior Chamber program and also in
a sketch where they are known as the
"Mother Hubbard Serenaders."
The decorations, militaristic in ar­rangement
and effect, will feature sil­houettes
of soldiers and dancing cou­ples.
Red, white, and blue streamers
flung from the ceiling will cover the
walls. Behind the orchestra will be
a large panel depicting some military
event. Vari-colored flags and bunt­ings
of the United States, of the State,
college and the corps will be placed in
prominence about the hall.
All Reserve Officers in Auburn x>r
vicinity are expected to be present
without special invitations. This will
be a formal dance and those not
wearing uniform will appear in tux­edos.
This year marks the last year of
Lieutenant C. E. Pease's term as in­structor
in the R.O.T.C. of Auburn.
Orders from the War Department in
Washington detail him to report the
first of September at Houlton, Maine,
where he will serve as instructor to
the 152nd regiment of Field Artillery
of the National Guards.
Coming here in 1925, Lieutenant
Pease has served an instructor of
Field Artillery, and also in the capa­city
of supply officer of the entire
R.O.ff.C. unit For the past four
and a half years he has issued all
the military goods to the students
of Auburn.
Unless countermanded, Lieutenant
Pease will serve his duties until June,
and go with the detachment' to sum­mer
camp. Upon completing his work
at camp he will go on leave for a short
time and then report to his native
state for further work.
At the annual meeting of the Port­land,
Maine, society of the Sons of
the American Revolution, Lieutenant
Pease was one of the nine members
awarded medals for distinction in the
World War.
Sec. Makes Visit To
Local Phi Delta Thetas
New Travelling Secretary Stays Over
Sunday through Tuesday
Mark Waldo Bradford, new tra­veling
secretary of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity, arrived in Auburn
Sunday evening. He visited the local
chapter, staying until yesterday af­ternoon.
The new secretary is a graduate of
Whitman College, finishing in 1928.
He taught in Spokane, Washington,
before taking his new position.
Mr. Bradford came here from Tus-cafloosa,
after a toulr through the
South. He left Auburn for the Uni­versity
of North Carolina, at Chapel
Hill.
*Y' Team Loses to the
Birmingham Red Birds
Auburn Boys Defeated in Piedmont
Tournament
Having lost a closely contested
game, 39-27, to the "Red Birds" of
Birmingham, in a Y. M. C. A. tourna­ment
being held in Piedmont, Ala­bama,
the Auburn "Y" team returned
to the plains Saturday night. They
were in the lead until the last quart­er.
"The Red Birds," representing
the central Y. M. C. A., won over
other opponents by high margins to
win the title.
Dairy Work Be Discussed
Over Radio on Thursdays
Phases Of Dairy Production
And Manufacturing Will
Be Given
A weekly radio feature on some
phase of dairy production or dairy
manufacturing will be given over
WAPI each Thursday by the Dairy
Department under the supervision of
A. D. Burke, head professor of dairy­ing.
The radio characters will be
known as E. * Earnest and Frank—
The Boys With the Dairy Tempera­ment.
The first feature which is to be on
the air Thursday noon from Auburn
bears the title "It" and carries im­portant
information for Alabama
dairymen.
It is planned by Prof. Burke to
present a "Radio Ice Cream" feature
from Auburn during one of the eve­ning
programs in the near future.
Prof. Burke has had wide radio ex­perience
in presenting dairy features
before the microphone previous to
coming to Auburn.
Col. Nelson May Attend
1930 Commencement
Graduate of 1897 Expressed Desire
to Visit Alma Mater
Among those present for the 1930
commencement at Auburn will be
Col. Chas. J. Nelson, of the U. S.
Army, now stationed at College Sta­tion,
Texas, if his present plans ma­terialize.
In a letter to President Knapp, Col.
Nelson said:
"It is my present intention to ob­tain
a leave of absence this spring
and visit my old home in Selma, Ala­bama,
Fort Benning, Georgia, and my
sister in Asheville, North Carolina. I
very much desire to try and arrange
my trip so that I can be in Auburn
during your commencement exercises.
It will therefore be greatly appreci­ated
if you can inform me of the
date of your exercises.
"The undersigned graduated from
Auburn in June, 1897. My career
has been such that I have never had
an opportunity to visit Auburn since
I entered the army in 1899. I have
a wife and two grown daughters who
are most curious to see, with their
own eyes, where I received my edu­cation
(it is a question in my mind
whether they think Auburn did a
good job or not.) To me this will be
a great event and I will be something
like Rip Van Winkle, only, I will
have thirteen years on Rip. The hap­piest
days of my life were spent on
your campus. I still love Auburn,
never fail to boost my old college.
We have a wonderful spirit there in
my time and I know it still must be
the same."
More Than Fifty Bandmen Are
Expected To Make
Trip
TO GIVE DAILY CONCERTS
As For Past Several Years Will
Be King of Joy's
Own Band
Approximately fifty members of the
Auburn Band will leave Friday
morning on the train headed for the
Gulf City where they will play in
concert and parade throughout the
five days of revelry of the Mobile
Mardi Gras. Plans for taking the
entire band on the trip are being
formulated, and it is hoped that the
band may appear 100 per cent strong
for the festivities. The members of
the band have been assured that a
very large number, if not the en­tire
band, will make the trip this
year.
The band will arrive in time to
play in the Krewe of Columbus pa­rade,
the opening of the season of
frivolity, and will play in every pa­rade
during the season. Concerts
will be rendered by the Auburn band
in the old Bienville Square through­out
the period. The traditional posi­tion
of the band will be maintained
this year, being chosen as the king's
band as it has for the past several
years. It has been given a promi­nent
position in all the parades, and
is hailed an outstanding feature in
the Carnival celebration each year
by the merry-makers.
The band, through daily practices
which have been conducted for the
last month, has developed a degree
of proficiency which, the members,
hope, will bring much praise to the
already famous organisation..
Dramatics Society
Presents' The Rock ?
For the Third Time
Enthusiastically Received By
Large Audiences At All
Performances
Camp Fire Girls Give
Program For Kiwanis
Delegates To Convention Will Be
Selected At Next Meeting
With Miss Elizabeth Duncan, lead­er,
in charge, the Camp Fire girls of
Auburn presented a special program
before the Kiwanis Club at their
luncheon Monday. The program was
thoroughly enjoyed. Girls participat­ing
in the program with Miss Duncan
were Frances, Smyer, Kay Kennedy,
Eleanor Scott, Frances Shi, Virginia
Knapp, Amy Drake, Hulda Rutland,
Elizabeth Allison, Miriam Earnest,
Mizelle Hare, Marjorie King, Betty
Showalter, Mary Lydia Williamson,
and Louise Shubert.
The program was in the form of a
ceremonial meeting.
Dr. Roger Allen, president of the
club, presided at the meeting. W. B.
Lee, chairman of the committee on
education, reported and told the plans
for conducting Kiwanis education
work during the year.
At the next meeting the club will
elect delegates- to the international
convention in Atlantic City late in
June. Several were nominated at the
meeting Monday.
Concluding a three-night run, the
Auburn Players gave the final pre­sentation
of "The Rock" on Tuesday
night in the Little Theater. The pro­duction
was enthusiastically received
at each of the three performances
by a large and appreciative audience.
The characters in "The Rock," a
religious drama in three acts, by
ary Hamlin, were ably portrayed by
the eight student members of the
cast, which follow in order of appear­ance:
Simon, a fisherman of Galilee,
Murff Hawkins; Adina, his wife, Mild­red
Wood; Deborah, his wife's moth­er,
Margaret Lawrenz; a servant of
rjcal, Leondus Brown; Ucal, brother
of Deborah, Dryden Baughman; a
servant of Magdala, Leondus Brown;
Mary of Magdala, Wyolene Hester;
Titus, a Roman officer, George San-ford;
Pandira, a Greek poet, Wendell
Shaup; Augur,.,* noted physician,
Leondus Brown.
The presentation of this first major
play of the year by the dramatists
marks the first time in many years
that through popular demand of stu­dents
second runs have been given
by the Auburn Players. The wide
popular acclaim accorded the Players
is evidence of the strength of the
1930 organization. Under the direc­tion
of Professor Shaver, instructor
in English in charge of dramatics, the
Thalians are rapidly developing into
one of the strongest and most active
groups on the campus.
Chemical's Contest to
Increase Membership
PROFESSOR DUNSTAN TO
OPEN SCHOOL HERE FOR
ELECTRICAL METERMEN
Fourteen Courses Offered Cov­ering
Many Branches Of
Electrical Engineering
OPENS MARCH 3
Electrical Equipment and Fa­culty
of A.P.I. Available
For Work Of School
Student Getting Most New Members
To Receive Prize
The annual school for electrical
metermen at Auburn will be conduct­ed
by Professor A. St. C. Dunstan
from March 3-6 inclusive. This
course has been given annually for
a number of years in cooperation
with several of the electrical manu­facturing
companies and the Alabama
Power Company. In the past a large
number of students from the various
electrical appliance companies of the
state have attended, and about one
hundred men are expected to take
the course this year.
Fourteen courses are being offered
covering practical mathematics for
metermen, studies of single and poly­phase
currents, vector diagrams, cali­bration
of electric meters, and ad­vanced
lessons in load measurements
of single and polyphase lines. Each
student will be allowed to schedule
only six courses.
The entire electrical equipment of
the college will be placed at the dis­posal
of the school and in addition
special exhibits are being prepared
by several of the larger electrical
manufacturing companies.
The men reporting for the course
will register Monday morning before
10 o'clock, and work will begin im­mediately.
The final session will end
Thursdey at noon.
Assisting Professor Dunstan are
Professor Carlovitz, Professor Hill,
Mr. King, Mr. Gearhart, Mr. Hilley,
Mr. Snider, Mr. Fletcher, and Mr.
Hamilton.
Mock Trial Features
Lions Club Meeting
Yesterday at noon the Lion's Club
held its weekly luncheon. During the
meeting a mock trial was held. Lieu
tenant Townsley, Mr. Doner, and Mr.
Fick were accused by Mr. McDonald
of trying to feed him rubber dough
nuts. The prosecuting attorney was
M. S. Guyton. The counsel for
the defendants was Mr. Dillon. Pres­ident
Orr, acting as judge, found the
defendants guilty and fined them ac
cordingly-
The guests of the day, Weems Bas-kin,
made a short speech and express­ed
his pleasure at attending the meet­ing.
Lieut Townsley, speaking in be­half
of the extension committee, told
of the installation of Lion's Club in
Lafayette. He also spoke of an in­stallation
which, in all probability,
will be made in Clayton on Thursday.
The installations are all a part of the
extension program which the Lions
have adopted. The Auburn Chapter
has a quota of six clubs to install.
A contest, to encourage chemical
and pharmaceutical students to at­tend
meetings, has been staged by
the Auburn Chemical Society. The
plans for this contest were made at
its regular weekly meeting Monday
night. A ticket to- the Engineer's
Dance is to be the prize given to the
one who secures the most new mem­bers
for the next two meetings.
Several interesting talks were giv­en
by members of the society. Pro­fessor
Basofe of the chemical and
metallurgical department is to de­liver
a talk to the society at its
next beeting.
Freshmer ' *»* * In
Goodwater Triumphs
In Tournament Final
Wins Last Game Over Tallassee
Quintet By Score
Of 22-13
The fourth district tournament end­ed
very successfully Monday night in
the Alumni Gymnasium with the
strong Goodwater team winning the
final game over Tallassee. These two
teams, favorites from the beginning
of the tournament, will represent this
district in the State High School tour­nament
to be played in Tuscaloosa.
The final game of the tourney was
the most thrilling and interesting of
all the elimination contests, and both
teams showed excellent coaching and
played a wonderful game. Tallassee
opened the game by jumping into a
two point lead; however, Goodwater
quickly retaliated with a field goal,
and Tallassee again jumped into the
lead as a result of a foul shot. But,
before the first quarter ended, Good-water
was again leading by one point.
However, as a result of Tallassee's
inaccurate passing as well as the ina­bility
of her forwards to make their
free throws good, Goodwater continu­ed
to increase her lead, and Tallassee
never seriously threatened again.
The game ended with Goodwater
leading by a score of 22-13.
Dr. Brown Returns After
Making Alumni Meetings
Alumni Executive Secretary
Visits Groups In Nine South
Alabama Towns
Jackson, Pope, Jones, Greer, Moore,
and Patterson Seek Places
Auburn is First in South to Realize
Need Five-Year Architectural Course
Dr. J. V. Brown, executive secre­tary
of the Alumni association of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, .has
returned 'to Auburn after attending
meetings of alumni in nine counties
in south Alabama. At each of these
meetings Dr. Brown found an active
group, each one interested in pro­moting
the work of his alma mater.
Lashfi meetings were held at Brewton,
1 e n n i s E l i m i n a t i o n rEvergreen, Bay Minette, Mobile,
Jackson, Linden, York, Greensboro,
and Marion.
Officers were elected for the en­suing
year by a few of these chap­ters,
Mr. Brown said. The Mobile
chapter elected as their president
Horace Turner, a well-known Auburn
alumnus. He said also that several
of the meetings were attended by
alumni from all parts of the counties
in which the meetings were held.
Leaving Auburn on Wednesday,
February 20, Mr. Brown will attend
alumni gatherings at Camden, Tallas­see,
Prattville, Wetumpka, Tuskegee,
and Haynesville before returning to
Auburn next week.
A tennis tournament for the de­termination
of the membership of the
freshman tennis is now well under
way. Out of sixteen to enter the con­test,
only six remain undefeated. Of
this six, four will be chosen for mem­bers.
The six who are yet undefeated
are J. K. Jackson, B. C. Pope, L. M.
Jones, R. P. Greer, W. T. Moore, and
J. W. Patterson.
Dean Biggin, head of the school of
Architecture and Allied Arts, ever
prone to the betterment of architec­tural
studies and works, is largely
responsible for the action taken by
the Association of Collegiate" Schools
of Architecture in adopting the meas­ure
requiring their members to have
five year course^' instead of four
year ones.
The slow, but gradual scheme of
changing the ordinary four year
course in college to a five year one is
appearing all over the country, not
only in architectural courses, but in
many other technical branches.
The extension of college courses in
architecture from four to five years
in length began in Cornell University
about fifteen years ago. Previous to
the action taken by Cornell, the Amer­ican
Institute of Architects had urged
all schools of architecture to do so,
for it was evident that the pressure
of necessary technical subjects had
crowded almost all the general educa­tion
studies so that graduates of the
four year courses lacked the broad
education that professional practice
required. The Association of Colle­giate
Schools of Architecture indorsed
this action of the institute and strong­ly
recommended that all of its mem­ber
schools should extend their
courses from four to five years.
Following these suggestions several
of the foremost great schools prompt­ly
acted and made the extensions.
Auburn was the first school in the
South to do so. The final full five
year course for a degree in Architec­ture
ajd Architectural Engineering
has been required here for the past
five years. At the time that this
drastic step was made, it was thought
that its results would bring a de­crease
in registration. However, such
proved not to be the case. This year,
for example, the registration is more
than twenty per cent heavier than last
year.
At the annual meeting of the Asso­ciation
of Collegiate Schools of Archi-taecture
in Washington last April, a
communication received from Dean
Biggin, who at the time was in Eu­rope,
suggested that the time had ar­rived
for the association to take
stronger action up to the extension of
the architectural courses in schools
enrolled in the association. The sug­gestion
met with great favor and was
discussed at great length. The Asso­ciation
responded to Dean Biggin's
plan by passing the following resolu­tion:
"It is the sense of this meeting that
beginning five years from this date
requirements for membership in the
association should include a minimum
of five years, or its equivalent for the
completion of courses leading to the
Bachelor's degree in Architecture, and
that no further admissions should be
made without this requirement being
satisfied."
Civil Society Says That
Profession Is Unsound
Question Is Debated At Meeting Of
A. S. C. E. Held Monday
At a meeting of the A. S. C. E. last
Monday evening, a debate upon the
question, "Resolved, That the field of
civil engineering is too economically
unsound to allow one to pursue suc­cessfully
the profession as a life
work." The affirmative, upheld by
A. V. Blankenship and F. J. Bryant,
convinced the members that civil en­gineering
is too unsound. G. N. Spar­row
and Adrian Taylor championed
the negative.
Sparrow and Bryant were selected
the represent the society in a debate
to be held soon in the Engineers' Club.
Taylor was elected vice-president of
the Engineers' Club as civil represen­tative.
Tentative plans for Engineers'
Day were discussed by Virginius Tay­lor.
Publicity Is Subject Of
Discussion by Randolph
"Publicity" was the topic of a talk
given by Walter Randolph to mem­bers
of the journalism classes last
night. He explained the methods in
which publicity is gained, and told of
the work of the Auburn Publicity De­partment
in getting news of the col­lege
out over the state.
Eta Kappa Nu
Honor Society
Gives Bids to 11
Electrical Engineering Honor
Fraternity Selects Only
From Junior Class
HONORS FOREMOST MEN
Date of Initiation Has Not Been
Announced By Officers
Of Society
Eleven juniors in the electrical en­gineering
course were extended bids
by Eta Kappa Nu, honorary profes­sional
electrical engineering frater­nity,
it was announced yesterday by
officials of the society.
W. L. Cochrane, Union Springs;
George A. Beavers, Cuba; Charles A.
Brock, Vernon; Richard F. Ham, Cot-tonton;
Frank T. Hanby, Birming­ham;
Robert L. Hume, Birmingham;
White Matthews, Jr., Birmingham; J.
R. Quinlivan, Jr., Mobile; L. E.
Mullins, Newton; J. L. Stone, Syla-cauga;
and J. A. Willman, Talladega,
were the men selected by the society.
The object of Eta Kappa Nu is "to
bring together into closer union for
mutual benefit those men who, by
their attainments in college or in
practice, have manifested a deep in­terest
and marked ability in their
chosen work."
The fraternity was founded at the
University of Illinois in 1904 and
now has chapters in the leading tech­nical
schools of the country. Xi
chapter was established at Auburn in
1920. __
Two elections are held each year,
members of the senior class being
chosen during the first semester,
while juniors are taken in during the
second semester.
Eta Kappa Nu is well known on
the campus for its novel initiations.
The date of initiation of the new
pledges has not yet been.announced,
but it will be held in the near future.
The officers of the fraternity are
Thorne Winter, president; J. D.
Neeley, vice-president; William Keis-ter,
secretary; and Arturo Nieto,
treasurer.
Dean Petrie Visits
Dad On 90th Birthday
Father of Dean Is Pastor Emeritus
Of Church in Charlottesville
To be with his father, Dr. George
L. Petrie, on his ninetieth birthday,
Dr. George Petrie, left Auburn Fri­day
night for Charlottesville, Vir­ginia.
On the 25th of February the se­nior
Dr. Petrie will observe his birth­day
with his family and friends. The
professor is his only child.
For fifty-one years Dr. George L.
Petrie has been pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Charlottes­ville.
One year ago he was made pas­tor
emeret'us. He entered the minis­try
at Montgomery seventy years ago
while he was conducting a private
school. His first regular charge w?.s
at Greenville, Alabama. During the
Civil War he was a chaplain in the
Confederate Army. He is said to be
the only living chaplain in the Con­federate
Army, although there may
be another in Virginia.
Dr. George L. Petrie was born in
South Carolina. Later he moved with
his parents to Montgomery where he
began his career.
He is the author of two well known
books, one being Jacob's Sons and the
other Israel's Prophets.. He attend­ed
Davidson College and is the oldest
living alumnus of Oglethorpe Univer­sity,
of which his father was one of
the founders.
The parents of the grandfather of
the Auburn professor emigrated from.
Scotland to Charleston, S. C, where
he was born. Later he moved to
Montgomery. During the Confederate
Congress in Montgomery he was al­ternated
with other Montgomery
ministers in leading devotional ser­vices
at the opening of daily sessions.
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THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930
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THE PLAINSMAN
—congratulates those selected by Tau Beta
Pi as the outstanding engineers of the
junior class.
—hopes that the rats elected to the Exe­cutive
Cabinet will take their task to heart
early so that the Association which they
serve can be of more value to the student
body.
Artillery Students
Pull A Childish Prank
On last Saturday morning during Wash­ington
Birthday exercises, the foolishness
that nestles so closely within the heart of
many Auburn students seems to have reach­ed
a climax, for it was at this time that
a great many of the boys in the Artillery
Unit decided to play their little joke on
the Governor and the Board of Trustees.
It seems a rather ironical twist of fate
that Auburn should be pleading for a new
auditorium and have the very men on hand
who can give that to her, and at the same
time fill less than half of historic old Lang-don
Hall for the State Executive on one
of his few visits here. Attendance at the
address Saturday was one of the elements
making up the regular exercises for the
day, while the speech delivered was appro­priate
for the occasion.
We are emphatic in saying that the ac­tion
of the students was well night intoler­able
as it placed the entire school in a
somewhat peculiar and embarrassing situa­tion.
Probably the worst part of the whole
affair was the fact that the students march­ed
in the front door and out the back with­out
even stopping; some bright wag re­marked
that they were giving the visitors
a private review; that, however, is the shal­low
reasoning of a comic.
. The question of placing the blame, can
easily be settled when it is remembered
that the cadet officers in charge of the
unit failed in their duty to march them
into the hall for the deliverance of the
speech. This was due to the fact that
the officers were afraid of entering the
building for fear of having to remain for
the address, and in that way lost control
of their commands.
We consider the student officers in com­mand
entirely at fault, and if another af­fair
of such an intolerable, childish nature
takes place, some of them should be relieved
of their present duty. When they fail to
carry out their commands, then it is time
for someone else to do the task.
Fraternity Dances
Can Fill Important Place •
There has been a marked increase, this
past school year, in activities among fra­ternities,
particularly along the social side
of "Greek" life ,on the campus. Heretofore,
there has been very little social activity,
except that afforded by "the townspeople,
and it seemed as if that particular part of
our college education, was to pass out of
existence.
However, this year has brought forth a
greater number of pledge smokers than
ever before, a number of house warmings,
and of late a few fraternity dances have
been given, with more being planned. The
fraternities have, in short, taken the bull
by the horns, and since there was no social
activity to speak of, have made a commend­able
start towards an enlargement of the
social program. This is well since a fra­ternity
is basicly nothing more than a group
of men bounded together by eittier a local
or national organization, whose main ob­ject
is to promote good fellowship and it
is these fraternities who should be the
leaders in the promotion of social func­tions.
The name of "social fraternity"
implies this.
There has also been much said this year
about the lack of activities or attractions
which would tend to keep the student on
the campus during the week-end. The type
of boy who attends Auburn is not content
to stay here during the week-end with noth­ing
to do. It is far too easy to go where
there is something to do, and this problem
has been a source of much discussion among
the college authorities. An enlarged so­cial
program, as is in evidence this year
by the increased number of fraternity
dances is one solution to this question. The
fraternities who are making this enlarge­ment
a reality are to be most heartily com­mended
for their efforts along these lines.
It is for the betterment of Auburn and the
consequent betterment of the type of men
turned out here, besides being a source of
wholesome pleasure.
The Band's Mardi Gras
Appearance "Sells" Auburn
The Auburn Band will leave at the end
of this week for Mobile, to play on twelve
different occasions in the carnival festivi­ties
of that city. There they will be ac­corded
a warm welcome, for the crowds
that are assembled in Mobile have, for
many years past, proclaimed the Auburn
Band as being the finest of its kind in the
South. The Plainsman feels that such a
compliment and reward is well due the
band and its leader, for they have under­gone
much work in preparation for their
appearance. The reward, however, is bene­fitted
not only by the band members, but
by the college as well. The number of Mo­bile
boys attending Auburn is proof of the
fact. The band has had no mean part in
affecting this popularity of Auburn in
Mobile, and we hope that during the band's
stay in the Gulf City they will, as in the
past, continue to impress the populace with
the opportunities and advancements that
Auburn is making.
They must remember that critical as
well as admiring eyes will be focused upon
them. Many fathers and mothers will judge
the Institution by the appearance and man­ners
of the band members. Their deci­sions
will govern, perhaps, the college that
their sons or daughters will attend. With
this in hiind, the band must be upon its
best behavior and be ready to "sell" Au­burn
to every prospect. When the band re­turns
to Auburn, we are sure that only
praise will follow them, and next year will
tell of the publicity afforded, and the faith
that is placed in this institution by the
incoming Mobile students.
Fire Department Has
Many Difficulties
The Fire Department of Auburn has
lately been made the butt-end of many
humorous and lucrid jokes. Of course a
certain amount of witty humor can not
help but be attached to the rather pathetic
condition of the department as it exists
now, but we do not believe that the situ­ation
calls for the continuous jests that
are being hurled at it. We should take in­to
consideration the reasons for our inef­fectual
fire department, as well as the
other departments of the town. The town
is not large enough to afford an expensive
truck and other apparatus. The town is
more or less dependent upon the school
and the students, and the students do not
help in any way to replenish the town's
treasury except through the merchants and
residents of Auburn. The source of income
is, therefore, limited to a few hundred res­idents
of the town—not enough to warrant
an expenditure of several thousand dol­lars
for something that is not entirely
necessary. The truck that is in use now
was donated to the department by one of
Auburn's citizens. Certainly the best is
being done in a most trying situation, and
we believe the students should lend their
aid and help the fire department by keep­ing
it from the spotlight of ridicule.
The Gecko
I am the literary Gecko. My favorite
pastime is to learn little passages from
great works and repeat them at the most
opportune time. I do this so that people
will think I am very smart and that I am
well educated. Of couse, I am only fool­ing,
for in many cases I can't even remem­ber
where the passage comes from, but
they serve a purpose anyway.
I get an extra kick out of it when I can
come close to making a fool out of some­one
who is really much better informed
than I am. I am not able to do this often,
but when I can, I certainly do a swell job.
In fact, I have lost several speaking ac­quaintances
by this such thing. I just
wait until I am in a group where I can get
a chance to render my little number. Right
then is where I shine in my own eyes, and
some of the others think I am awfully
smart too. A few have learned more about
me than I want out, but I don't care much
as long as they keep their mouth out of
what doesn't concern them. I have driven
them out of several gatherings in which I
have grabbed the limelight, but I should
worry as long as I can shine.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
If two projects can
be put over, I shall
feel that we have
made very great ad­vancement.
I do not
want to attempt to
set one of these pro­jects
as having any
precedence over the
other or as of any
greater importance
because they are both vital." One is the
task of financing and erecting the build­ings
for which we opened bids the other
day and the other is the task of finding
and securing the acceptance of an excel­lent
man as coach and head of our Ath­letic
work here. If I can succeed in clos­ing
these two things, I feel almost as
though I would be willing to apply for a
short vaction in order to rest. Until they
are completed I can take no rest. I have
enough faith, and I think enough courage,
to believe that we shall put them over yet.
* * * * *
I was out at the football field last week
and was very, very glad indeed to find
such fine spirit among all the men on the
field. It is encouraging when we begin to
think together in a fine, friendly, keen rival­ry
to see you can do the best for Old Au­burn.
That counts more than anything
else. It was fine to see so large a group
of students out watching the practice.
* * * » *
Spring days, spring weather and flowers
have come. Forty and fifty years ago this
kind of weather meant a spring tonic or
a dose of sulphur and molasses. Modern
science has taught us to be ahead of that
day but we still need to think about some
things and one is the task of holding our­selves
to the daily routine. I am not going
to quote the poetry about the "young man's
fancy" and all that kind of thing but it is
well worth remembering that "spring fever"
is exceedingly bad for grades and for pro­gress
in college. May I suggest earnestly
to ever student who is alive and wide awake
that he plan to be out doors and engaged
in outdoor exercise, either tennis, or base­ball,
or golf, or something else, from four
o'clock in the afternoon—or as soon as he
is through with his work—until supper
time? Get -up early in the morning and do
some studying. Don't forget your classes.
You will get over the "spring fever" before
long. Hold fast to your duties and do not
let the lassitude of this season spoil your
record for the year.
* * * * *
My attention was called to a very rare
act of vandalism on the part of some one
just recently. The library of this institu­tion
subscribes for a large number of stan­dard
magazines. These are bound and pre­served
for future records. The card index
in the library shows reference material to
some important articles in these standard
magazines. In the modern library these
are just as important as books themselves.
When a student is looking for material in
support of a very recent inquiry he may
and often does find it in the current liter­ature
published in the leading magazines.
One of our magazines was discovered the
other day from which an important article
had been cut out with a knife a*nd taken
away from the library, leaving the institu­tion
with a mutilated book of little or no
value to us and an important reference
gone from the institution. Of course that
is a crime under the statute of the state but
it is equally a crime against common sense
decency and good breeding. I hope we will
have no repetition of such conduct.
"Little Things"
* By Tom Bigbee
The numerous favorable comments on the
splendid performance of the Auburn Glee
Club here last week is quite indicative of
the interest of local admirers in their con­cert.
Never before has the writer seen
such a splendid group in attendance at a
similar performance. 'Twas a successful
season ably terminated.
Indications point to the fact that our
Governor was well pleased with the appear­ance
of the Auburn R.O.T.C. Cadets when
they appeared before him in gray for the
first time last Saturday. His was a splen­did
address immediately following the re­view.
Real training and art in the cage game
were displayed by the high school lads in
the recent district tournament here. It was
certainly a treat to see the human machines
of Messrs. DuBose and James operate.
A selected group of fifteen engineers
have reason to feel "up in the air" at this
time; and they are to be congratulated for
the fine showing that has brought them
bids to Tau Beta Pi.
Who says the Auburn Players can't play?
Their excellent performance last week,
which brought on two repeated presenta­tions
of the same offering this week, cer­tainly
speaks well for these play artists.
Our derby is off to them!
« AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
The London parley may have figured out by this time how a navy never causes
war, but it has yet to determine just how a nation would get along without a navy
during a war. Maybe some superhuman mind will come along with the needed so­lution.
* * ' * * * * * * *
Now that a method for making cigarettes fireproof has been perfected, all that
is needed to make the world a most miserable place in which to live is to make them
all smokeproof.
* * * * * * * 1 * *
Sir Harry Lauder said that the best book for one to read is his bank book, but
we can't become reconciled to sad endings.
* * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
Out in Missouri a man was accused of punishing his children by applying severe
electric shocks to them, which, it seems to us, is only the latest method of applying
the switch.
* * * * * * * *
More people got a kick out of the Atlanta editor's name than they did from his
visit and lectures.
* * * * * * * *
She was just a haystacker's daughter, but we'll say she knew her oats.
* * * * * * * *
Who is that cute little professor who goes to class with his cheeks all painted
up? We nominate him for May Queen.
* * * * * . * * *
Besides being a kidnapper, Fred Chambers is Mickey's Woods "Stage Door
Johnny." At the end of the performance of "The Rock," the public was informed
of this little affair, or rather actions speak louder than words. Probably these two
could be induced to play opposite each other in some production in the future. A
large house on the opening night would be assured.
* * * * * * * * *
Hal Hubbard is making himself the center of attraction in every group he is
found in. The only trouble this flash is not the weakness of all Auburn's co-eds is
that he has waited so long -to begin. Apparently they must suffer because of his
thoughtlessness.
* * * * * * * * *
From what we understand some of the local girls are already making efforts to
get some of the more handsome visiting high school boys interested in Auburn.
There they go—always looking out for themselves.
* * * * * * * * *
Then there was the Scotchman who was so stingy he would not even entertain
doubts.
* * * * * * * * *
Plug Ugly didn't even register when he put his tongue to the electrical device
in Physics Lab several days ago. When questioned what! he had been making in
physics, his only answer was a question as to which time reference was made to.
Taking this course is getting to be a habit with him.
* * * * * * * * *
The Artillery may laugh at the Engineers for having the demerit system, 9ut
it has at least produced enough discipline to prevent them from breaking ranks at
inopportune times.
* * . * * * * * * *
Who was the fellow in the old red car seen trailing another car that had a five-gallon
can and a rubber hose draining the gas tank on it?
* * * * * * * * *
Seems to us we have seen him someplace before, and it wasn't two other men,
either.
* * * * * * * * *
About the only thing a clock is good for around here is to see that one gets to
class on time; it doesn't help get out at all—the professors must have cotton in their
ears.
* * * * * * * * *
The annual Springtime efforts to find a hiding place for dating by the love in­clined
students seem to be bringing results. From the latest reports of the snipers,
at least four new places are all agog with the spirit of youth.
4 WITH OTHER COLLEGES <-
WHICH IS, OF COURSE, A SUBJECT
OF DEBASE
McGill University students at Montreal,
Canada, are to debate on the subject, "Re­solved,
That It Is Better to Suffer the
Effects of the Morning after than to Have
Missed the Pleasures of the Night Before."
A commerce debating society is sponsoring
weekly debates among the students of the
university.
WE'RE NOT SO BAD
Dr. Edward A. Steiner, of Grinnell col­lege,
believes that the greatest menance
to America is "the tired business man who
wants to get a kick out of life."
Dr. Steiner says that the young people
ought to bring about a "revolt against the
morals -of their fathers and mothers." This
procedure, he says, may bring about the
only salvation for America.
"It is not our young people who are go­ing
to excess," he declares. "They do not
go away to be prodigals. The horrible
thing is that now they do not have to run
away from home to be prodigals. They
have some company at home. The middle-aged
people are doing it.
"The young people I deal with in college
are wholesome, fine class. I take my hat
off to every girl on the campus from the
newest freshman to the seniors."
The same ol3 be—; we're all going to the
bad place by way of dog-town. Quite a
new angle on just as to who is going tho.
* * * * *
TOUGH
A move is being made by the National
Automobile Association (I think that's the
name) to rid the highways and byways of
old "ramblin' 'recks." Although we don't
think they will succeed, it would certainly
be a calamity to deprive the present day
students of the "college bus," for without
these relics, the various "mills of educa­tion"
would no longer look like colleges.
* * * * *
MISFITS CAUSE FAILURES
Because they pick the job for which they
are unsuited, 95 per cent of the people who
enter business fail, is the opinion of Dr.
J. B. Short, head of the welfare department
of the J. C. Penney company, who recent­ly
addressed the Commerce students of the
University of Georgia on "Personality in
Business."
Dr. Short cited four characteristics of a
successful person: 1—The person who is
careful of his looks; 2—The person who
knows his job; 3—The person who knows
how to act; 4—The person who feels good
and shows it.
* * * * *
STUDENT MIGRATIONS AND
SWITZERLAND
Since the winter term of 1927-1928 more
than 25 per cent of the students in the
Swiss universities have come from abroad.
This percentage is higher than for any
other country in the w,orld, yet it is much
lower than the percentage of students from
abroad in Swiss universities just before
the war. Thus in 1913-1914, out of a total
of 9,475 enrolled in Swiss universities 4,-
538 (of whom 993 were wpmen) were from
abroad, or roughly 48 per cent of the total
student enrollment. Students from Slav
countries, notably from Russia, predomi­nated,
which is in marked contrast to the
present situation; the countries most large­ly
represented during the summer term
1929 were: Germany 398, Poland 264, Hol­land
162, Hungary 143, France 129 and
Italy 104.,
* * * * *
BOYS FOR WAR
The war department is planning to spend
$4,008,900 this year on the reserve offi­cers'
training corps, $828,556 more than last
year.
It is planning to train 127,141 boys: 13,-
870 advanced students (seniors and juniors
in colleges); 71,250 basic students (fresh­men
and sophomores in college); and 42,021
in high schools and military academies.
The difference between the early class­men
and the upper classmen is important:
it shows that boys discontinue military
training as soon as it is not compulsory,
as it is in the freshman and sophomore
years.
These figures are partially designed for
the perusal of those who think and those
who pretend that military training of boys
in schools and colleges is only part of their
education, and not a part of our military
establishment.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
"2ty cAaron ^Billolvheel
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed 13
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.
HAVE BEEN sitting here blowing
smoke rings for a half-hour trying
to get the first line to come out—
that first line is always the hardest.
These past few weeks of such beautiful
weather are certainly enough to cheer the
lowest in mind among us: Golf and tennis
enthusiasts are getting away to an early
start this season. And myself, being one
of those persons that slice, hook and top
golf balls, am unusually thankful.
Everyone knows of Dr. George Petrie as
a recognized historian and brilliant lec­turer,
but not everyone knows that he can
step jauntily up to a golf tee and with a
well timed and smooth swing, send a golf
ball singing high and handsome right down
the middle of the fairway for two-hundred
and twenty-five yards with a regularity
that is astounding.
There was, in a recently edition of Col­lege
Humor, an article by Frank Condon,
a well-known fiction writer, concerning
golf and the college student. And he says:
"Golf is something you never forget. It
becomes a permanent part of you, as in­separable
as your Adam's apple. How
long does it take the ordinary college grad­uate
to forget forever seven tenths—yes,
I'll say nine tenths—of everything soaked
up by him in *his four years? Once you
acquire a good golf swing, it stays with
you until old age lays you a stymie. When
in your youth you finally settle upon the
proper stance, it remains yours forever-more."
* * * * *
AMEMBER of the Senior class men­tioned
something to me this morning
which at once seemed interesting.
The idea does not seem to be thoroughly
worked out as yet and even if it were, it
might prove impracticable or too limited
in its appeal to the members of the Senior
class. Yet to me it contained interest and
would be well worth the looking into.
As I understand it, instead of using the
surplus funds of the Senior class or the
funds that could be collected for the erec­tion
of some monument or other form of
memorial, the proposal is to set aside this
amunt of money for the entertainment of
the class of 1930 at a specified commence­ment
some years in the future.
Whether or not the idea would justify its
being tried out, I do not know, but I should
like to hear more of it, its advantages and
exactly the way it should work, etc. I
hope that the students interested and ac­quainted
with the proposal will let us have
the advantage of it. I like it.
* * * * *
If we had more law in Aubu,rn I don't
know where we would put it. It seems to
me that Auburn is suffering with an over
amount of moral, mental and physical poli­cing
as it is.
It is my belief that a person should be
allowed to spend his money as he wishes,
think as he wishes and act as he wishes; of
course, as long as he does not tread on oth­er
people's toes. If a person wished to take
his chances on a pair of cherries, a lemon
or a row of bars it is okey by me. Like­wise,
I believe, every person, especially stu­dents,
should be given all the liberty in the
world where mental and moral questions
are involved—and A Sophomore would
make a moral question of slot machines
and punch boards.
The laws of a college should be the laws
of the class room and not blue laws. A
student's brain should be developed and not
his tendency to become steeped in the con­ventional
ideas about morals. A person
does not develop character by avoiding
every obstacle or having them removed for
him.
If a student's indulgences in his liberties,
are to the detriment of the classroom work
or cause him to fall below the college stand­ard,
he should be pitched out like a dirty
sock. There are too many people in col­leges
already.
And the reason that I don't leave Auburn
is that it fascinates me—like a zoo fascin­ates
me.
The style of Ivan Roscoevitch looks fa­miliar.
I wonder if he isn't the one that
read a column in the Fall while standing
on his head.
TAKEN FROM
THE KELSO ROAD
Morning and evening are mine,
And the bright noon-day;
But night to no man doth belong
When the sad ghosts play.
From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With devouring greed.
—Frank Prewett.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
AUDREY FULLER
La VERNE WATTS
Phone 9115
Smith Hall SOCIETY AND FEATURES This Department Open
From 11 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Daily
A FEBRUARY IDYLL
Golden sunshine, skies clear blue
Elm's silvery lace to view them thru,
Magnolia, spruce, and elders green
O'er blue grass carpet may be seen
Today in Auburn.
Bridal wreath and plum tree's white,
Flowering thorns serene delight,
Rosy peachblooms on the hill
Add a soft, ecstatic thrill
Today in Auburn.
Daffodils and violets sweet
With kiss-me's incense come to greet
Us drinking in the fragrance rare
Of softly stirring, balmy air
Today in Auburn.
Birdies waking, chirping, chirping, i
Flitting, busy, yet so merry;
At even tones of deeper note
Are wafted from the saxy's throat
Today in Auburn.
Wealth of joy to every sense;
Night also brings star-domed, immense
From sirens, clear-blue night
To faintest star that trims the night
This even in. Auburn.
—Harriet Ellis.
Mesdames Guerrant and
Bennett Joint Hostesses
On Friday morning Mesdames N.
B. Guerrant and H. W. Bennett were
joint hostesses at a seven table
bridge party at the home of Mrs.
Guerrant.
' George Washington decorations
were used artistically in the living
and dining rooms.
The high score prize for ladies was
won by Mrs. G. A. Trollope, while
Mr. J. B. Wilson made high scorj
for the men. Mrs. Thomas won con­solation
for the ladies, and Mr. L. S.
Blake received it for the men.
A delicious salad course was served
late in the evening.
Mrs. Alpha Cullars
Hostess at Lovely Affair
One of the lovely affairs of last
week was the bridge party at which
Mrs. Alpha Cullar entertained last
Saturday afternoon. There were six
tables of participants. In observance
of Washington's birthday, the patri­otic
note was effectively carried out
in the decorations.
The prize for high score, a beauti­ful
linen bridge set, was awarded
Mrs. J. T. Williamson, and Mrs. Col­lins
received the prize for the low
score, a box of correspondence cards.
At the conclusion of the games de­licious
ice cream and cake were ser­ved.
Sewing Club Entertained
On Tuesday Afternoon
Mrs. JC T. Williamson and Mrs. S.
W. Garrett entertained the Sewing
Club Tuesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Williamson. A delicious sal­ad
course was served to the members
and a few guests of the club. The
guests were: Mrs. Campton, Mrs.
Stockholm, Mrs. Herndon, Mrs. Do-gette,
and Mrs. Baughman.
Frat Dance is Given by
Lambda Chi Alpha
The members of the Lambda Chi
Fraternity gave a dance at their home
on last Friday evening. Music was
rendered by Abie Hardin and his Au­burn
Collegians. Dancing continued
through the evening, while punch
was served.
Representatives from all the other
fraternities on the campus, active
members of their chapter, and the
following girls were present: Misses
Mickey Wood, La Verne Watts, Cath­erine
Russell, Vivian Hester, Betty
Anderson, Susan Spangler, Elizabeth
Smith, Catherine Shaeffer, Roberta
Hayden, Elizabeth Gregory, Alberta
RenfroT Sarah Hall Crenshaw, and
Mrs. Glenn Smith. Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas and Miss Zoe Dobbs.
PERSONAL
/MENTION
Messrs. Trollope and Burke
Give Stag Bridge Party
' "When the cat's away the mice will
play," so goes the old saying. Pro­fessor
G. A. Trollope and Professor
A. D. Burke decided to be joint hosts
at a stag bridge party on Monday
evening in honor of the" absence of
their respective wives.
Fun and bridge were .enjoyed
throughout the evening. W. H. Weid-enbach
.captured the high score for
men, which was a beautiful white
leghorn rooster. High score for the
supposedly ladies was a pound of
cheese. Consolation prize for the
men was won by Professor W. H. Ea­ton;
it was three white eggs. Re­freshments
consisted of cream and
cake prepared by professors Trollope
and Burke.
This hospitality was entended for
the members of the Animal Industry
groups. Those attending were: Mes­srs.
Guerrant, Salmon, Grimes,. Se-well,
King, Eaton, Robinsoh, Bailey,
Davis, and Weidenbach.
Prof, and Mrs. Camp Give .
Beautiful Informal Tea
A beautiful informal tea was given
on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock
by Professor and Mrs. E. W. Camp
at their lovely home on Glenn Avenue
honoring the members of the Textile
Engi*eering class and Mrs. Camp's
Sunday School class..
The spacious living and dining
rooms, thrown open for the occasion,
were beautifully decorated with a
profusion of Spring flowers.
The tea table, one of much beauty
and loveliness with its lace^ cover,
center piece of sweetpeas and ferns
and green tea service, was presided
over by Mrs. Alice Whitcher Sandlin.
A delicious assortment of cakes,
sandwiches, and candies were served
by Mrs. F. S. Arant, Ruth Lewis,
Carolyn Jenkins, and Audrey Fuller.
About thirty-five called during the
afternoon.
After all, those jolly, fat girls
were pretty good company, and they
knew how to cook, and they never
got sullen.
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Miss Hoyt Enloe spent last week­end
in Birmingham.
' * * *
Miss Frances Trammel of Mont­gomery
visited with her mother this
week-end. .
I * * *
Miss Berta Wood was called home
because of the death of her grand­father.
* * *
Miss Helen Glover was called to
her home in Troy, because of the
sudden illness of her mother.
* * *
Miss Celeste Vance of Iron City,
is expected Wednesday to coach the
play, "Miss Bluebonnet," which the
local chapter of Chi Omega expects to
present on March 7.
* * "*
Miss Ruth Murray is leaving Thurs­day
for Mobile to visit her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Murray.
* * •
Miss Mary Claude Fletcher has re--
turned to school after a brief illness
at her home in Opelika.
* * *
Miss Evie Lee Fonnby of Eclectric,
spent Friday with Miss Carrie Lou
McQueen.
* * *
Miss Helen Shackleford spent a
pleasant week-end with her mother,
Mrs. Claude A. Shackleford in At­lanta.
* * *
Miss Bessie Raby spent the week­end
with relatives in Camp Hill.
V • * * *
Misses Purtice Tucker and Mary
Garlington returned to Camp Hill af-ter
a visit in Auburn.
* * *
Miss Zoe Dobbs is attending a Con­ference
of N. E. A. this week in At­lantic
City.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Riddle spent
Sunday with her daughter, Miss Lila
Mae Riddle.
* * *
Mrs. H. C. Armstrong and Mrs. W.
H. Gregory spent Thursday with rel­atives
in Notasulga.
* * *
Miss Mary Louise Hakanson motor­ed
to Mobile on Sunday to visit with
her parents.
* * *
Misses Abigail Brasseale, Jean
Funchess, Lois Brown, Mrs, Jones,
and Jane Yarbrough were represen­tatives
of the Physical Education
class of A. P, I. on Field Day at Ala­bama
College,
* * #
Miss Anne Lichty stopped over in
Auburn a few hours on her way to
Citronelle,
* * *
Miss Sallie Smith of Langdaie,
jpent the week-end with her sister,
Miss Eugenia Smith.
* * *
Mrs. C. L. Haro continuer, to im­prove
at i-er home or. Gay street.
Mrs. J. K. Seale is expecting her
parents from Cuba for a visit on
Wednesday,
* * *
Mrs. Sterns and Misses Horn • and
Kyle Caldwell spent 'ast week-end in
Montgomery. ••
* * *
Mrs. J. T. Kennedy is expecting
her mother of New York next week.
* * *
Mr/,. A. D. Burke will have as her
guest her mother from Biloxi, Miss.,
for a two weeks visit.
* * *
Mrs. W. W. Hill and her son, Billie,
Mrs. Winters, and Misses Jean Fun-chess,
Jane Yarbrough, went to Mon-tevallo
for College night. On Satur­day
morning Mrs. Hill with several
Auburn girls who attend Alabama
College, motored to Birmingham for
the day. »
* * *
Mrs. Jessie M. Jones, Miss Jennie
D. Sims, and Messrs. Elmer Jones
and Robert Curtlebaum of Roanoke,
were out of town guests for the Glee
Club concert.
* * *
The D. A. R. meeting has been
postponed from Tuesday until Friday
night. It will be held at the lovely
home of Mrs. C. A. Basore with Mrs.
C. R. Hixon and Mrs. W. W. Hill as
joint hostesses.
Tacky Party and Square
Dance be Given
Much old fashioned fun is expected
to be had at an old fashioned dance
and tacky party to be given tonight,
Wednesday, February 26, at eight-thirty,
in the gym.
This entertainment is sponsored by
the American Legion Auxiliary for
the benefit of raising funds for re­habilitation
work among the ex-sol­diers
and their families.
The tickets are fifty cents and may
be purchased from* any auxiliary
member of at the gym tonight.
Two prizes are offered; one for
the tackiest dressed and one for the
couple chosen as the best waltzers.
The public is invited.
Washington Bridge Party
Is Enjoyable Affair
Mrs. P. O. Davis and Miss Marie
Sewell were charming hostesses at a
six table party on Saturday after­noon
at three o'clock.
Flags, hatchets, and cherries were
used as decorations.
The high score was won by Mrs.
T. B. 'McDonald which was a lovely
compact, and Mrs. R. L. Johns ^won
second, a pretty little silhouette pic­ture.
A delicious ice cream course
was served to about twenty-four
guests later in the afternoon.
Sigma Phi Beta
Holds Initiation
The Delta Chapter of the Sigma
Phi Beta Sorority held its initiation
at the home of Mrs. Henry Good last
Saturday afternoon.
Those being initiated were Miss
Mignon Mallette of Troy, Alabama,
and Miss Fannie Holston of Auburn,
both of whom are finishing in Home
Economics. After the ceremony de­lightful
refreshments were served to
the initiates and the old active mem­bers.
Theta Epsilon Society
Elects New Members
The following girls of the junior
class were elected to Theta Epsilon.
the local honorary fraternity for
Home Economics: Misses Vivian and
Helen Hester, Jessie Mae Carol, Izola
Williams, and Dopothy Reynolds. Init­iation
will take place on Friday eve­ning
with a banquet afterwards in
the Eastern Star Hall.
LENGTH OF WOMEN'S DRESSES 1$ £*? t £ S f S3.*
BEING DISCUSSED
Bride's Circle Woman's
Missionary Society Meets
The Bride's Circle of the Woman's
Missionary Society met on Monday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Col­lins.
Mrs. R. W. Allen discussed "The
Bible as Literature" after which a
social half hour was enjoyed.
On Wednesday at six-thirty all the
officers and teachers of the Baptist
church together with their families
will have a supper.
* * *
Circle number two met Monday af­ternoon
with Mrs. Dick Bailey.
The first week in March will be
observed by the Baptist Woman's
Missionary Union as prayer week for
the home missionaries.
* * *
John Funchess is up after a brief
illness.
* * *
The Home Economics Department
of the Woman's Club will hold its
monthly meeting Thursday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. John T. Kennedy
with" Mrs. Martin Beck as joint host­ess.
* * * »
The Children's Story Hour will hold
its regular meeting at the home of
Mrs. L. M. Sahag this afternoon at
three o'clock. /
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Gaillard of
Montgomery were the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. L. D. Stodghill last week­end.
* * *
W. A. Ruffin left Tuesday morn­ing
for Baton Rouge, La., to attend
a meeting of the American Associa­tion
of Entomologists.
* * *
Mrs. Monk Wright is visiting her
mother in Five Points, Alabama.
* * *
Mrs. W. A. Steele and Miss Helen
McCary of Mobile, spent last week­end
in Auburn.
* * *
Dr. C. A. Basore is in Jacksonville,
Florida, this week.
By Harry Barnes
According to many of the leading
Auburn co-eds, Dorothy Dix, and
fashion experts everywhere, the re
cent fad of lengthening women's
dresses which has hit the country by
storm is a godsend to the fashion
world. -For some time the style of
dress similar in length to the ones
worn in colonial times has been seen
in the larger cities all over the coun­try,
and is fast becoming popular in
smaller towns and villages.
No longer will the bald-headed, be-whiskered
old gentlemen have to make
up a story to his wife as to where
he received the bruised head, or the
black -eye, which he really received
from walking straight into a lamp
post while watching the parade of
several feminine beauties walking
down main street on a windy day.
One co-ed even goes so far as to
wish for hoop skirts to return. \
The following is the copy of a let­ter
to Miss Dorothy Dix noted colum­nist
of one of the largest newspap­er
syndicates in the country:
Dear Miss Dix:
"Can nothing be done to stop the
fool way of women in following silly
fashions like so many silly sheep?
One day their skirt's are above their
knees. Paris' says change and the
next day their skirts are down to
the ground. Yet women talk about
freedom. Huh!"
X.
Miss Dix's reply:
"Fashion is one god which women
worship blindly without asking why
it commands them to do one thing
and then just the opposite. As for
the lengthening of skirts, let us thank
heaven that no longer do we have
to look at knobby knees and bandy
shanks and millpost underpinning.
If you ask me, I think that the clothes
that swathe our deficiencies are
mighty good to us."
Dorothy Dix.
Opinions of Auburn co-eds seem to
agress heartily with Miss Dix. A
few of them follow.
"I "Son't mind the long skirts* es­pecially
the drapy ones; they hide
some of these bowed legs and also
the skinny and poorly formed ones.
They really are very feminine and
graceful—they give a little more
mystery."
A.
"I am very much in favor of long
dresses. They add grace, slimfiess,
and height to those'who are small in
stature; to those who are tall and
awkward they hide it. To those who
love legs that are not shapely the
longer dresses are a godsend.
J.
"Long skirts, in my opinion, are a
big improvement on the short, knee-length
ones. The longer they are
the better I like 'em—they are so
feminine!"
R.
"Why not add to the width as well
as to the length of these skirts? The
short ones are fine when they are
in style just as, the longer ones are
when they are in style. I wouldn't
mind if the hoop-skirts came back
in \style and what could be more
feminine.?"
Miss R.
On Chinese Brides
The status of a Chinese bride is
not an enviable one. But she bears it
stocally, knowing that eventually she
will be a mother-in-law and entitled
to avenge herself in turn upon some
luckless bride for indignities she now
suffers. Princess Der Ling, writing
in the Mentor Magazine, gives.an in­timate
picture of home life in old-fashioned
China.
The young bride must arise in the
morning at the same time the horde
of servants rise. This is because she
must make herself ready to supervie
breakfast for mother-in-law, father-in-
law and brothers and sisters-in-law.
The bride prepares herself, dresses
carefully, then goes to the kitchen to
make sure that the food is ready
and properly cooked. Well she knows
that if things are wrong she, as the
bride, must account to the mother-in-law
for derelictions.
When all is ready the Number One
"Master! Mistress! It is time to
arise!"
Mother-in-law and father-in-law
take their time about it but do manV
age to get out of bed as servants^
bring in the washbowls for them. The
washbowls are placed on separate
stools for Master and Mistress, who
seat themselve on yet other stools
to wash their faces—while such ser­vants
as are admitted to the bedcham­ber
stand by and watch or hold steam­ing
towels ready against their needs.
The house is overrun with servants.
Master and Mistress must never exert
themselves. There are servants in my '
household, most of whom were not
only useless but in the way—but I had
to have them because it was the cus­tom.
The family repairs to breakfast,
which is served on a huge circular
table bare of tablecloth but polished
until it reflects the faces of those
seated about it. Breakfast consists of
porridge, ham, noodles, soup and tea
—always and forever tea! It is the
duty of the bride to see that the
plates of mother-in-law and father-in-
law are kept heaping full, after
which she must see that all the other
in-laws are properly served. The
bride may not eat with the in-laws.
She may serve them and be eter- /"
nally and perpetually criticized by
them, but must wait until they have
finished eating before she herself may
partake of food.
The whole family uses chopsticks.
They have napkins, huge silken cloths
with clasps at one corner. This clasp
fastens in the neck of the gown and ~~
flows over the chest—so you see that
your grandfather, of whom possibly
you- have occasionally been ashamed,
has borrowed the habit of tucking his
napkin into his collar from a people
that is very old indeed!
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PAGE FOUR
THE PLAINSMAN
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930
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ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor RHODES WASSON, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor; Harry Barne., Freeman Barne., W. C. Free, Charles Trice, Assistant. D
Goodwater Cagers Defeats Tallassee
In Final Game To Win Tournament
Adrian Taylor
Goodwater 61—Auburn 4
Goodwater continued to set a fast they defeated the Fairfax team
pace in the tournament by their easy thereby carrying their undefeated co
victory over Auburn. This makes a
total of 111 points for Coach James'
team scored in two games.
Goodwater
Busby 14,
Watwood 10,
M. Jacobs 4,
J. Jacobs 7,
Gillion 15,
Pos.
F.
F.
C.
G.
G.
Auburn
1, Powell
2, Rutland
Firel
1, Moore
Cameron
Camp Hill 31—Tuskegee 12
Coach Alverson's team failed to
withstand the assualt of the Camp
Hill team, and were eliminated from
the tourney.
Camp Hill Pos. Tuskegee
Langley 2, F. 4, Reynolds
Chester 2, F. 2, Bishop
Land 8, G. 2, Ware
Trussell 13, G. 4, Steinberg
McDonald 3, G. Jenkins
Waverly 31—Notasulga 21
By defeating the entrant from No­tasulga,
the Waverly basketeers re­ceived
an opportunity to enter the
quarter finals.
Pos.
F.
Waverly
James 7,
Mayberry 6,
Newell 9,
Minter 5,1
Moreman 2,
F.
C.
G.
G.
Notasulga
2, Boles
4, Langford
2, Hardwick
Copeland
13, Waller
Dadeville 51—Seale 21
The Tallapoosa County High con
tinued to set a fast pace in the tour­ney
by easily defeating Seale. A fea­ture
of the game was the excellent
work of Lester, Dadeville's center.
Lester not only played the floor well,
but also scored 29 points which was
a record up to that time. Martin
played an excellent game for the
losers.
Pos.
F.
Dadeville
B. Harris 7,
Coker 6,
Lester 29,
Harris 6,
Craddock 3,
F.
C.
G.
G.
Seale
4, Perry
5, Parkman
11, Martin
1, Davis
Smith
The Quarter Finals
Phenix City upset the dope when
lors into the semi-finals. The final
score was 33 to 19.
Dadeville defeated the Waverly
team in a close and interesting game,
by a score of 23-17.
Goodwater continued to set a fast
pace in the tourney by turning back
Camp Hill by a score of 44 to 4. This
gave Goodwater a total of 155 points
scored in three games against the
opposition's 18 points.
By her decisive victory over Union,
Tallassee earned the right to play, in
the semi-finals. The score was 35 to
14.
Goodwater 26—Phenix City 19
Phenix City, the dark horse of the
tournament, was finally eliminated
by the Goodwater team in the semi­finals.
Busby and Jacobs played
well for their team, while Appleby
and Wheelis did excellent work for
Phenix City.
Tallassee 45—Dadeville 15
With Tallassee in her best form,
Coach DuBose's basketeers had little
trouble in defeating, the strong Dade­ville
team. After this decisive vic­tory,
Tallassee as well as Goodwater,
will represent the fourth district in
the State tourney to be held in Tus­caloosa.
Goodwater 22—Tallassee 13
In the final game of the tourna­ment,
Coach Ebb James' team proved
to be superior to the Tallassee team
-in nearly every department of the
game, and consequently trounced
them 22-13. The game was very
close and exciting at the beginning,
but due mostly to the inaccuracy of
Tallassee's passes, the Goodwater
team gradually pulled away, and Tal­lassee
never seriously threatened af­ter
the first quarter.
Phenix City 22—Opelika 18
The strong Phenix City cagesters
upset the Opelika basketeers in a
fast and close game. The Opelika
team fought hard but were never able
to stay in the lead.
Phenix City Pos. Opelika
Wheelis 5, F. 8, Preshdm R.
Appleby 7, "7. 3, Ingram
Williamson 6, C. • 5, Gresham C.
Thomas 4, G. Farley
Layfield G. 2, Lowe
Union 31—Inverness 13
Inverness was eliminated from the
tournament in the first game in which
they participated by the fast team
representing Union High. A feature
of the game was the excellent shoot­ing
of Ponder, who shot 25 points for
his team.
Union Pos. Inverness
Scroggins 6, F. 6, Houston
Joiner F. 6, Water
Ponder 25, C. 1, Thompson S.
Turner G. Windred
Moore G. Thompson, C.
Tallassee 21—Wetumpka 14
The Wetumpka Cats were eliminat­ed
by the fast Tallassee team in one
of the most interesting games played
in the tournament.
Goodwater
Busby 4,
Wattwood 5,
M. Jacobs 5,
J. Jacobs 4,
Gillian 4,
Pos.
F.
F.
C.
G.
G.
Tallassee
8, K. Mclnnis,
5, Britt
J. Mclnnis
Waldrop
Dunn
Sidelights on the Tourney
Busby, of Goodwater, was high
scorer with 51 points; Ponder, of
Union, was second with 47 points
and his team was eliminated in the.
quarter finals; Lester, of Dadeville,
third with 41 points, he was also
high scorer for one game, shooting
29 points against Seale; Britt, of Tal­lassee,
failed to play a complete
game; Waldrop, of Tallassee, did
some of the best dribbling; Appleby,
of Phenix City, did some excellent
guarding.
All-Tournament Team
FIRST TEAM POS.
K. Mclnnis, Tallassee F.
Busby, Goodwater 1__F.
Ponder, Union C.
Waldrop, Tallassee - - 7 - - G.
Appleby, PheriTx City -G.
SECOND TEAM Pos.
Wattwood, Goodwater . F.
Minter, Waverly -F.
Lester, Dadeville C.
Hicks, Fairfax G.
Scroggins, Union G.
JORDAN SHOOTS 112
POINTS TO LEAD IN
CONFERENCE SCORE
By scoring 11 points in the second
game with Georgia Tech in Auburn's
final game of the 1930 season, Ralph
Jordan, sharpshooting forward on the
Tiger cage five, shot into the lead
among conference scorers with 112
points. Jordan who is playing his
first season with the Plainsmen, over­took
Cox, Washington and Lee for­ward,
in gaining the lead for the
first time this season.
Through Tuesday's game, Cox was
leading Jordan by three points, hav­ing
annexed 104 counters, while Jor­dan
had just passed the century mark
with 101. Cox found the hoops for
seven points in Washington & Lee's
conflict with Duke which ran his to­tal
for the season up to ,111, one short
of the number obtained by Jordan.
The Orange and Blue quintet only
won one of their 11 conference games
which makes the record set by Jor­dan
a little more outstanding than
the other leaders, who have perform­ed
with the conference pace setters.
Jordan is only a sophomore. His
work this season on the hardwood
stamps him as one of the leading
cage performers ever to matriculate
at the Cornerstone. ' He has been ef­fective
throughout the season as his
great work in hitting the cords has
been the main reason why the Lee-men
have been able to overage over
32 points per game against Clemson,
Tulane, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South
Carolina, L. S. U., Georgia Tech and
Georgia.
In addition to being a veteran court
star already, Jordan is also noted for
his athletic achievements on the grid­iron
and diamond. He was used as
reserve center to the brilliant Run-ham
Harkins on the 1929 football
eleven and is a leading candidate for
a berth on Coach Fred Sheridan's
1930 baseball nine. He has just for­sake^
his thinly uniform for the base­ball
attire and looks like he will stage
a merry fight for a regular position,
either in the outfield or infield, as
he has had experience playing posi­tions
and is noted for his hitting wth
the rodents last season.
The record hung up by Jordan
this season is another fact that prov­es
that the Bengals had one of the
leading scoring combinations in Dix­ie,
but their defense would not cope
with the offense which caused their
Howard Series Is
Added to Schedule
For Auburn Squad
Coach Fred Sheridan has announc­ed
that the three-game baseball se­ries
pending with the Howard Col­lege
Bulldogs had been closed. The
Bulldogs will invade the Cornerstone
for two games on- May 12 and 13,
while the Tigers will make a short
stop in the Magic City on May 15
on their way to Nashville.
The lone tilt with Howard in Bir­mingham
will be the second appear­ance
of the Orange and Blue nine
in the "Pittsburg of the South" dur­ing
the 1930 season. Their other
game in Birmingham will be against
the Birmingham Barons on March 20.
This game will be played for the bene­fit
of the Auburn ''A" Club.
Auburn's complete schedule is as
follows:
March 14—Fort Benning at Au­burn.
March 15—Fort Benning at Fort
Benning.
March 20—Birmingham Barons at
Birmingham.
March 28 and 29—Tulane at Au­burn.
April 2—Montgomery Lions at Au­burn
("A" Day).
April 7—Montgomery Lions at
Montgomery.
April 11 and 12—Georgia at Au­burn.
April 16 and 17—Georgia Tech at
Auburn,
April 19—Lindale at Auburn.
April 24, 25 and 26—Florida at
Panama City.
May 2 and 3—Georgia at Athens.
May 5 and 6—Clemson at Clem­son.
.
May 9 and 10—Mercer at Auburn.
May 12 and 13—Howard at Au­burn.
May 15—Howard at Birmingham.
May 16 and 17—Vanderbilt at
Nashville.
downfall 11 times during the 1929-30
season.
The lad with the best eye in the
Southern conference lives at Selma,
where he averaged over 20 points per
game while performing with Y. M. C.
A. teams, and also with the high
school five. This record was equaled
last year when he wore the Orange
and Blue colors of the Auburn frosh,
who only lost one tilt during the sea­son.
GENERALS AND VOLS
IN SAME BRACKET
WITH CRIMSON TIDE
Alabama, Duke, Washington and
Kentucky today were rated by the
Southern conference basketball com­mittee
as the four strongest contend­ers
for the basketball championship
in the annual tournament here this
week.
Duke by virtue of the victory scor­ed
over previously undefeated Gener­als
last week, was given strong rat­ing,
next to Alabama. The Crimson
Tide has a perfect record for the sea­son
with 10 wins and not defeats.
Tennessee, and North Carolina were
the other two teams given a prefer­ence
rating by the committee.
The committee's rating is made to
prevent the stronger teams clashing
in the opening games of the tourna­ment,
therefore by preventing their
elimination before the competition
gets well underway!
Following the drawings, the com­mittee
set the time of play for con­testing
teams. The schedule follows:
Friday—1 p. m., Sewanee vs.
North Carolina.
2 p. m., University of Mississippi
vs. W. and L.
3 p. m., Alabama vs. Clemson.
4 p. m., Tennessee vs V. M. I.
5 p. m.', L. S. U. vs. Duke.
7 p. m., Kentucky vs. Maryland.
8 p. m., North Carolina vs. Geor­gia.
9 p. m., Georgia Tech vs. Tulane.
It was announced after the meet­ing
that 18 teams had sought to en­ter
the tournament but conference
rules limit the number to 16. On the
basis of their season's records, Flori­da
and the Mississippi Aggies were
eliminated from participation.
The tournament, starting Friday,
continues through Tuesday with no
contests Sunday.
It was also announced by the com­mittee
that expenses for the tourna­ment
would be higher than in past
seasons because of the large num­ber
of teams entered from the ex­treme
northern and southern ends
of the conference who were to play.
The officials will be Stanley Sut­ton,
George School, Pennsylvania,
who has officiated for 10 years; Ber­nard
Eberts, of Washington, and
George Wood of Jacksonville, Fla.
Introducing Candidates for Track Team
Tallassee
K. Mclnnis 12,
Britt 1,
J. Mclnnis 6,
Waldrop 1,
Dunn 1,
Pos.
F.
F.
C.
G.
G.
Wetumpka
9, K. Wood
4, Thornton
1, J. Wood
Thrash
Warner
Fairfax 25—Ridge Grove 12
Fairfax displayed plenty of team
work- when they turned back the
Ridge Grove team 25-12. Captain
Hicks again featured the game by
his excellent guarding.
Fairfax
C. Still 7,
Gresham 7,
Yarbrough 6,
Benton 4,
Hicks 1,
Pos.
F.
F.
C.
G.
G.
Ridge Grove
8, Yancey
2, Woody
2, Stewart
Bennet
Sanders
i -5
REFUSES TO CHANGE NAME
New York City—(IP)—When
Louis Goldstein, of Brooklyn, filed a
petition in City Court in Brooklyn
recently, asking to change his name
to Golding, on the grounds that
"Goldstein" is not euphonious and is
un-American, he probably thought
he'd made a big hit with the Anglo-
Saxon judge.
Unfortunately for the Brooklyn
man, however, his petition came be­fore
City Court Justice Louis Gold­stein.
"You're trying to hide the fact that
you're a Jew," Judge Goldstein told
petitioner Goldstein in effect, "and
you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Get out."
By W. E. Free
McCaskell—McCaskell is a mem­ber
of the Junior class, and the Sig­ma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He is
one of the leading aspirants for the
hurdles, and Coach Hutsell is count­ing
on this lanky harrier.
Sam Robinson—Due to a fractured
neck, Sam was not able to participate
in track last year. However, in his
Sophomore year, he broke the Auburn
record in the javelin throw, and this
record still stands. He is a Senior,
and a member of the Kappa Alpha
fraternity.
Herman Jones—Although this
flashy athlete from Eufaula failed
to make a letter in track, by a mar­gin
of a few points, he is expected
to place in the javelin event in many
of the team's meets. Herman is a
Senior in the course of mechanical
engineering.
Creel—Creel or Choctaw, as he is
better known, is a letter man from
last year's team, and he should ac­count
for many points with his "Spear
Hurling." He is a member of the
Junior class.
Samson Coleman—Coleman is the
best candidate on the squad for the
weights. He was good last year, and
has already shown improvement in
the earlier trials. He is a member of
the Junior class.
Melford Snider—Although he did
not participate in track last year,
Snider is proving to be a very val­uable
man at throwing the weights.
He is a member of the Junior class.
Joe Hughes—Joe is a member of
the Junior class and Sigma Phi Epsi­lon
fraternity. He is a letter man
from last year and specializes in the
pole vault.
Tom Gaillard—"The little Giant"
is also a pole vaulter, and is a good
man. He is a Senior Civil, and a
member of the Delia Sigma Phi fra­ternity.
Louis Boswell—Boswell is a mem­ber
of the sophomore class and Lam­bda
Chi Alpha fraternity. He was the
best vaulter on the yearling team
last year.
Burnett—This man won his letter
last year and'is one of the best high
jumpers on the team. He is a Senior
and member of the Alpha Lambda
Tau fraternity. Burnett is also good
in the broad jump.
Matthews—This member of the
Junior class and Sigma Nu fraternity
participates in the high jump.
Stacey—Stacey is a candidate for
the varsity squad for the first time.
He was on the freshman team last
year and is out for the high jump.
He is a member of the Sigma Pi fra­ternity.
Duke Second to 'Bama
Team in League Rating
Standings in the Southern Con­ference,
including Saturday's games,
Team W.
Alabama ..10
Duke 9
Kentucky — ----- 9
Washington and Lee 9
Tennessee ' -»---'
Georgia -•- — 7
Tulane - 7
Clemson 8
Sewanee - »
Maryland _ - 8
N. C. State — - 7
Ole Miss 6
L. Si U. - 6
Florida ., - - 2
Georgia Tech 5
North Carolina* — — 4
V. M. I. — - 2
Mississippi A. & M. 2
Virginia 2
V. P. I. - 2
Vanderbilt • — - 1
Auburn ...:— ; 1
South Carolina - 0
L. Pet.
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5 .533
.500
.462
.400
.385
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9 .100
10 .091
10 .000
Stewart—Jack Stewart hails from
the sophomore ranks; he is a mem­ber
of Sigma Nu, and is out for the
high jump.
DeBardeJeben—This man particil-pates
in the broad jump and is one
of the ranking prospects this year.
He is a Junior and also a member of
Sigma Nu.
(Continued on page 6)
Practice Game Between Oranges and
Blues Is Feature of Spring Training
The Blues, composed of the prob­able
starters in Auburn's 10. games
next season, defeated the strong
Orange eleven in the first practice
tilt staged on Drake Field during the
Spring football drills being conducted
under Coach Earl McFaden by the
score of 12 to 0.
The Winners pushed over touch­downs
in the opening and second quar­ters.
Both tries for the extra-point
went wild. The first six points came
via a pass from Bassett to Grant
which netted 33 yards, and two line
plunges by Davidson and Brown,
which found the former Cloverdale
star sitting on the ground in the
promised land after carrying two
would-be tacklers with him.
Bassett, another promising frosh
graduate, intercepted a pass from
Shackleford to Creighton and ran 23
yards unmolested over the goal line
after outdistancing three Orange jer­seys.
The first practice tilt was witness­ed
by several hundred spectators who
sat bewildered at the showing made
by the 30 or more moleskin wearers
who saw service in the contest. The
average onlooker would think two of
the leading teams in the conference
were meeting in November because
good blocking and tackling, and other
fundamentals necessary to win foot­ball
games, were quite evident on both
teams.
What has been needed to make some
of the players hustle to win coveted
berths on the Plainsmen eleven will be
present at the Cornerstone next sea­son.
Competition is very keen for
regular positions this year, and this
has not been the case during the past
several years.
Two or three promising candidates
are out for every post in the front
line, while 10 ball carriers are bat-
Clingo Elected Captain
of Auburn Golf Team
At a recent meeting of the candi­dates
for this year's golf team, W.
H. Clingo was selected to captain
the team for 1930, and Mr. W. H.
Nixon secretary-treasurer of the Au­burn
Country Club has volunteered
to act as coach.
Working along with Capt. Clingo
are: Marvin Jones, Sam Robinson,
Sleepy Noble and others.
Four sweaters are to be awarded
wfth six inch burnt orange "A" with
a four inch G T to the men making
the best showing. However, Dr.
Knapp stated that in any event an
Auburn man won the Southern Con­ference
meet he would be awarded
the major "A".
The athletic department . states
that meets are being arranged at the
present time to be played immediate­ly
i after the Inter-Fraternity Goflf
Tournament.
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tling for positions. The 1929 regu-alrs
fully realize that they will have
to ward off several sophomores next
season if they are in the starting
lineup so some of them are working
hard during the Spring drills in an
effort to learn as much as the 1929
yearlings arid let their experience win
for them over the promising crop
graduating from the 1929 plebe team.
The outstanding ball carriers in the
first practice game were Tom Brown,
Chattie Davidson, Tom Shackleford,
Bill Bassett, Horace Jacobs, Lindley
Hatfield and Kenneth Phipps. Hat­field
has only been out for Spring
training one afternoon as he has been
busy with the hardwood performers
,but showed a readiness to jump in­to
moleskins, and should have a great
season next Fall. He was the Tigers'
leading scorer last' season, and should
be much better next season with a
year of varsity experience.
Chattie Davidson showed that he
possesses a mighty stiff arm as he
brought his right limb into action on
several occasions; once when he sent
four would-be tacklers to the ground
before he was downed. Davidson is
another player who should have a
good season when Birmingham-South­ern,
Spring Hill, South Carolina,
Georgia Tech, Georgia, Wofford, Tu­lane,
Mississippi A. & M. and Van­derbilt
are encountered.
Tom Shackleford, former Lanier
star, is a frosh who is going to be
hard to keep off of the team next
year. He is light, but makes up for
this handicap by picking his holes
when running with the ball; sizing
up his opponent's' weak places when
calling signals; and being one of the
best blockers out for the team.
Capt. Harkins, Taylor, Johnson,
Bush, Wagnon, Creel, Miller, Simp-kins,
Schlich, Childers, Curlee, Prim
and Molpus stood out as hole open­ers
in the practice fracas. Johnson,
Wagnon, Miller, Childers, Prim and
Molpus will be sophomores next sea­son.
Capt. Harkins, J. D. Bush>, Schlich
and Taylor probably will form the
nucleus of the 1930 front wall. They
were the mainstays last season, and
are showing considerable improve­ment
in blocking and tackling under
Coach McFaden.
With Capt. Harkins stationed at
the pivot post and three capable un­derstudies
in Johnson, Jordan and
Curlee, no time will hardly be lost
over the center position. Harkins
failed to meet his superior on the
gridiron last season as he was one
of the best below the Mason-Dixon
line. Jordan subbed for the brilliant
Harkins last season and did a good
job of it, while Johnson and Curlee
showed lots of promise and ability
with the rats.
Coach McFaden has not announced
how long the Spring practices will
continue but they probably will last
several weeks longer.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
Deepest Electrical
Probe Into the Earth
Tells Surprising Story
Man's deepest electrical probe into
earth—30 miles—and the surprising
story it told was reported to the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers here yester­day.
The surprise was failure to find the
high temperature and hot rocks ex­pected.
Except for reading the mes­sages
of earthquake waves this elec­trical
probe was said to be the deep­est
man yet has explored by any
method.
Two Frenchmen, Conrad and Mar­cel
Schlumberger, originators of the
electrical probe, made the 30-mile
soundings. Support for the credi­bility
of their daring report was furn­ished
by another speaker, Theodor
Zuschlag, who gave their device cred­it
for discovery of underground salt
domes in Rumania and Alsace.
The Frenchmen apply an electrical
current to the ground at two points,
with bare electrodes. The ground
completes the circuit. Furthermore
the ground shows resistance to pas­sage
of the current and the French­men
claim that they can measure this
resistance.
POULTNEY BIGELOW SAYS
KAISER DID NOT CAUSE WAR
New York—(IP)—Convinced aft­er
12 years of study that the former
Kaiser was not responsible for the
World War, Poultney Bigelow, an au­thor,
and former close friend of the
German emperor, will sail for Hol­land
March 7, to apologize to William
II.
Bigelow, now 75 years old, will be
accompanied by his wife on the pil­grimage
to Doom, he said. He ad­ded:
"The Kaiser has been subjected to
many unjust laccusations since his
troops crossed the Belgium border.
Like many others during the War, I
accepted as true these accusations
framed for war purposes. I am con­vinced
by recently released documents
that Kaiser Wilhelm II did his best
to keep peace and that European pow­ers
were eagerly awaiting any war
"I will- apologize to the Kaiser for
having accepted these tales about him
that then sounded so plausable."
YOUNGER STUDENTS MAKE
BEST GRADES, IS FOUND
New York City—(IP)—A story in
the New York Times for Feb. 9, said
"The theory recently advanced by
Measuring it gives a broad picture D r A Lawrence Lowell, president of
of the shape, nature and temperature
of the rocks beneath, they say, be­cause
the amount of resistance de­pends
upon the character of crust.
The depth of measurement is about
one quarter the distance between the
two electrodes on the surface.
In Brittany, France, in the neigh­borhood
of Vitre, they set two elec­trodes
125 miles apart. This gave
• hem about 30 miles of depth.
"The authors," their report says,
"had expected to find lowering of
resistivity at very great depths, due
to the rise in temperature of the
rocks, but this was not the case. Per­haps
it will be necessary to reach
much greater depths in order to dis­cover
such a dimution.
"The experiments at Vitre should
be considered only a first attempt by
this method. Although the figures
obtained give only an order of magni­tude,
they demonstrate the possibili­ty
of solving the problem."
Only a few hundred watts of elec­trical
energy was employed for the
deep sounding.
Zuschlag, a research engineer of
New York, described a different kind
Harvard University, that the younger
undergraduates at colleges generally
excell in scholarship than those of
more mature years was upneld in a
statement issued today by Dr. Fred­erick
B. Robinson, president of the
College of the City of New York, in
discussing the findings of the per­sonnel
bureau under the direction of
Dr. Arthur M. Payne
"During the past three semesters
the personnel bureau has given more
than 30,000 psychological tests to en­tering
freshmen and sophomores. The
tabulated results, it was reported, re­veal
a distinct superiority of the
younger men. It was also announced
that a steady decrease in the average
age of entering students has been
noted.'r
of electrical feeler, which does not
go so deep, about 1,500 feet, but
which gives considerable detail down
to that level. This process is electro­magnetic
and is in fairly wide use in
oil prospecting. It was developed by
Karl Sundberg of Sweden.
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Books of Interest
Setting for Recent Book, "Cotton", is Laid in Cotton
Fields Surrounding Selma, Alabama
COTTQN
By
Jack Bethea
Houghten, Mifflin Co.,
Reviewed by K. M McMillan
To glorify the growing of cotton
and to show the farmer a better
way of marketing this commodity,
seems to be the purpose and achieve­ment
of Jack Bethea in his novel,
Cotton.
The scene is laid in the ^cotton
fields near Selma, Alabama. The
hero is a well-read and far-treveled
young man who endeavors to save
money for the farmers of a county,
and who comes very near to losing his
life, due to the efforts of the arch-conspirator,
Evan Shelby.
Although the characterization is
weak, the plot is well laid, and the
background is splendidly drawn.
Since the writer strives almost whol­ly
to immortalize cotton, there is but
little of the romance usually found
in the modern novel. Despite its dry
and businesslike aspect, Cotton is in­tensely
fascinating, and presents to
the reader a solid, unified piece of
literature.
BUSINESS MEN GIVEN
BLAME FOR IMMORALITY
-v
Grinnell, Iowa—(IP)—Dr. Edward
A. Steiner, of Grinnell College, be­lieves
that the greates menace to
America is "the tired business man
who wants to get a kick out of life."
Dr. Steiner says that the young
people ought to bring about a "re­volt
against the morals of their fath­ers
and mothers." This proceedure,
he says may bring about the only
salvation for America.
"It is not our young people who
are going to excess," he declares.
"They do not go away to be prodigals.
The horrible thing is that now they
do not have to run away from home
to be prodigals. They have some com­pany
at home. The middle-aged peo­ple
are doing it.
"The young people I deal with in
college are a wholesome, fine class.
I take my hat off to every girl on
the campus from the newest fresh­man
to the seniors."
FRATERNITIES ARE
TOO EASY ON PLEDGES
"Carolina fraternities are much too
easy on their pledges this year. The
old, hard days of a few years ago
were better," according to D. S. Long,
hardware merchant, cabinet maker,
and Chapel Hill Paddle King.
<'In spite of the fact that we have
reduced the price of our paddles
from 25 cents to 20 cents, and in­creased
their weight and quality, the
demand is falling off alarmingly."
"Something should be done," said
Xong in a recent interview, "or the
paddle business will be a thing of the
past. During the season of 1927-28
we made and sold 700 paddleS. Dur­ing
the year of 1928-29 the total
was 400, and this year so far orders
have not exceeded 150."
COOLIDGE FINISHES
500-WORD HISTORY
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED
By
Edith Wharton
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
Reviewed by K. M. McMillan
Vance Weston, the delicate, sensi­tive
young writer is the hero of Edith
Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed.
In this book we see the inner feelings
and reactions in the literary soul of
the young writer, who, struggling in
a heartless metropolis, fights his way
to happiness against the very hands
of Pate.
The name of the book, unique in
its orginality, applys to an old style
of architecture formerly employed in
housebuilding along the Palisades.
The story centers around an old
house on the banks of the Hudson,
where the young genius does most
of his literary work, surrounded by
antiquity and decay.
Although the plot seems to waver
uncertainly at the last, the book is
well-written and should rank high in
the sales of contemporary fiction.
February Edition Of
Farmer Is Year's Best
Poultry Industry It Featured in Cur­rent
Issue
A history of the United States,
500 words in length, and written by
the terse former president Calvin
Coolidge, is to be inscribed for fu­ture
generations to read upon the
granite face of the Black Hills moun­tain,
Mt. Rushmore. The letters will
be cut five inches deep, and will be
large enough to be read miles away.
Geologists estimate the rate of
erosion on granite escarpment of
Mount Rushmore is an inch in 100,-
000 years, so that unless radical
earth changes take place, or future
progress decrees the removal of Mr.
Rushmore, the memorial should en­dure
for more than 500,000 years.
REGAL LIONS PRESENTED
NEW JERSEY GIRL'S SCHOOL
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—The
New Jersey College for Women has
been given the seven regal lions
which for years have graced the front
of the old Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
New York, which is now being torn
down to make way for a modern sky
scraper office building.
The lions were purchased at auc^
tion by Leonore F. Loree, president
of the Delaware & Hudson railroad,
and a member of the board of man­agers
of the college, and given to the
college by him.
The February issue of the Ala­bama
Farmer, just recently off the
press, is one of the best this season,
according to comments from staff
members of that publication. Al­though
a rather general array of
reading matter is carried, its entire
contents is something of interest, and
very readable.
This issue tends to feature the
poultry industry; in so doing, the
Farmer is attempting to keep abreast
of the rapid progress being made in
this field at the present. The front
cover picture is an aerial view of the
college poultry plant, designing it as
a major means of putting poultry to
the front in this state. "The Ten
Commandment's of Chick Raising," by
J. P. Bedingfield, and "Saving the
Flock With Concrete Floors" my, W.
G. Kaiser, along with a rather lengthy
editorial pertaining to poultry rais­ing
in Alabama, constitute the bulk
of the material presented in this con­nection.
The opening article, entitled "Ala­bama's
Agricultural Leadership Un­excelled,"
by L. O. Brackeen, gives a
splendid summarization of leaders
workers in this State who are car­rying
Agriculture along so swiftly
and definitely. ^'Successful Farming
Means Keeping Busy," by the editor,
gives some rather commendable ideas
on full-time employment in the mat­ter
of making the farm a paying
proposition.
"The Federal Farm Bureau [and
Its Powers," by Dr. Bradford Knapp,
is a splendid discussion of this phase
ctf agricultural activity throughout
the country. "Reducing Fertilizer
Bills by Terracing" is a very timely
and informative article, written by
W. W. Cotney.
Roy L. Lovvorn, in a treatise call­ed
"Trailing Our Feathered Friends",
gives a brief but interesting account
of the manner in which the U. S.
Biological Survey force keeps tab on
the migration of birds.
OLDEST YALE ALUMNUS
NEARS HUNDRED YEARS
E. P. Bradstreet, oldest living grad­uate
of Yale University and "the
grand old man" of the Ohio bar, has
several reasons for wanting to live
until, June 5, the day he will celebrate
his 100th birthday.
"I was 60 years old when my young­est
daughter was born," Bradstreet
explained.
"If the Lord is kind enough I shall
be a grandfather for the first time
in March. It is something for an old
man to live for a century without
grandchildren and nearly half a cen­tury
without children.
"This daughter of mine is a girl
after my own heart.
"For my part I owe my long life
to faithful participation in gymnas­ium
work. When my daughter was
graduated from Oberlin College she
began teaching girls how to have
healthy and strong bodies."
But that isn't the only reason
Bradstreet wishes to round out 100
years.
"Another reason I want to live to
Negro Killed by Freight
Train on Tracks Near
Auburn Friday Morning
Speeding swiftly down the track,
the second section of freight No. 212
hit and instantly killed Elvin Slaugh­ter,
negro resident of Auburn about
one quarter mile west of the station
at 7:20 Friday morning.
The negro was lying on the track
when the train approached, and due
to the heavy load and high speed at
which it was traveling the engineer
w«as unable to stop, so state witnesses
of the accident.
Slaughter it was said, was subject
to epileptic fits, and was walking
down the railroad track when he re­ceived
an attack. Under "the effects
of the malady, he lay prostrate
across the rails to suffer death under
the wheels of the locomotive.
The body, which was badly man­gled
was taken in charge by an Ope-lika
undertaking establishment. The
funeral was held Sunday after­noon
from the Slaughter home in
Auburn.
Slaughter was 24 years old, about
five feet eight inches in height, and
weighed close to one hundred fifty
pounds, according to associates. He
was employed at Carter's Pressing
Shop, and was on his way to work at
the time the accident occurred.
PRIMITIVE SCHOOL TO BE
OPENED IN VIRGINIA SOON
A Kentucky- mountaineer who
comes from a county that can't boast
an inch of railroad and few passable
highways, in a few days will open
a school in the primeval forests along
the Rapidan river in Virginia at the
request of President and Mrs. Hoov­er.
This mountaineer is Miss Christine
Vest, a graduate of Berea College,
Berea, Ky. She was chosen by the
Hoovers from a host of applicants.
The Hoovers and friends built the
one-room school and community cen­ter
when they discovered it while on
their fishing trips to President Hoo­ver's
camp, that their neighbors, the
mountaineers, could neither read nor
write and that there never had been
a school in the community. And
these were pure blooded Americans
living within 100 miles of the na­tion's
capital.
Miss Vest will not feel out of place
in the one-room school, for it was in
a much poorer one that she received
all her grade education. And then,
by sheer grit and determination, she
went through Berea Normal, a high
school.
By working a year and studying
a year, she was able to make her way
through Berea college, graduating
there in 1929.
"Safe Farming for 1930" was the
topic of a talk last night by Presi­dent
Knapp over station WAPI, dur­ing
the weekly Auburn hour broad­cast.
He stressed the important fac­tors
that go to make farming pios-perous.
Dr. Knapp contends that farming,
like every other Business, must fol­low
sound economic laws, and must
be -made safe by a safe plan; he
stated that agriculture must endeavor
in some measure to adjust its pro­duction
to the needs of the market,
and adjustment of cotton acreage is
necessary for 1930.
"Maintain soil fertility by terrac­ing
hill lands, rotation of crops, and
the use of vetch, Austrian peas, cow
peas, and soy beans. Put an insur­ance
policy on your farm business
in 1930 by producing the food for
the family and ample supplies of feed
for your livestock before you risk
too much money on an uncertain
cotton price. A garden, fruit, and
potatoes for home use will always
help whether the price of cotton is
eighteen cents or twelve cents."
"As a means of safety, plan to
have something else to sell besides
cotton. Remember that another large
acreage and another large cotton
crop cannot sell in the markets of
the world even at the present prices
and the chances are, will sell for
much less. Take care of these other
needs and the cotton will take care
of itself," stated Dr. Knapp in sum­marizing
the important things to be
considered by the farmers in prepa­ration
for crops next year.
Dr. Knapp in promoting a more di-vesified
crop program for the fam-ers
of the South brought out the fact
that a too abundant cotton crop will
cause a chaotic financial condition
be 100 years old," he said, "is be­cause
John Heydler, president of the
National League, and I have a little
appointment to attend a ball game
on my 100th birthday if the Cincin­nati
Reds are playing in town that
day.
"Another reason I want to live to
be 100," he said with a twinkle in
his- eye, "is because I do not wish to
disappoint my friends."
Bradstreet was born in Vermilion,
Ohio, on June 5, 1830. He was grad­uated
from Yale in 1853, and receiv­ed
his master's degree in 1857.
That same year he was admitted
to the bar.
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Prof. Nichols Plans
System of Terraces
System Perfected After Four Years
Of Experimental Work
After four years of experimental
work, Professor M. L. Nichols of the
extension department has devised a
revolutionary system of terraces.
The two main advantages of the
new arrangement are, first it is more
economical to build, and second farm
machinery may be used over it with
ease.
The majority of the work in the
construction of the terrace is to push
the dirt'down-hill. By this construc­tion
the terrace water channel is be­low
the normal surface and there­fore
has less tendency to break where
the water is held by a dam above the
surface. ^,
Almost any terracing tool can be
used to construct the new terrace.
Recently the agricultural engineer­ing
department has worked out meth­ods
of building this terrace with a
wheatland plow, two types of terrace
drags and other common types of
plows.
Many farmers in many different
the testing and developing of the
parts of the state have cooperated in
terrace. Some of these men are Au­burn
graduates.
Next to the spot where the old ra­dio
towers stood, ten plot sof ground
have been constructed for a project
to determine the fundamental fac­tors
which enter into soil erosion.
A soccer game played last week be-tweentween
Worcester, Mass., and
Worcester, Eng., for the purpose of
developing friendship between the
two communities, ended in a tie of
six goals each. Both teams were
made up of amateurs. *-
to prevail in the South due to the
amount of cotton sold and the price
gotten for that .sold.
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PAGE SIX
THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1930
MARRIAGE IS MORE VITAL
FOR WOMEN THAN FOR MEN
"Marriage is still more necessary to
women than to men," writes Thyra
Samter Winslow in the February
College Humor, answering her ques­tion,
"Why Marry?" We have shift­ed
from the old-fashioned double stan­dard,
where -girls had to be pure
white, unkissed lilies and men visit­ing
on a Saturday night the tawdy dis­tricts.
But we have not shifted to
a regulation fair and square single
standard. And biology being what it
is, I don't see how we ever can. And
most of us, even while we are no long­er
shocked at things that shocked our
grandmothers, realize that marriage is
better than any of the more modern
makeshifts, and marriage, even while
it doesn't exactly solve things, is so
much more comfortable and under­standing.
"Trial marriages are never really
samples of marriage. They lead no­where
except, usually, to unhappi-ness
for the girl. When followed by
marriage, they often take away the
possibility of happiness that might
have existed. I don't know why this
is so, but I've seen it happen lots of
times. And promiscuous affairs that
are not even trials—well, even in this
day of 'freedom,' girls know heart­aches
and unhappiness. Biology,
again! As for companionate mar­riage,
no one ever knew quite what
that mean, except publicity for one
foolish little couple.
"Today a girl can stay unmarried
most comfortably, but unless she's
sure her popularity will continue, I
don't think she'll be awfully happy.
As long as a woman alone in a res­taurant
in the evening is looked at
askance, as long as it's still a bit of
a triumph when a woman catches a
husband, and as long as the average
man supports his wife and family,
there are a lot of reasons for women
to marry.
"Women marry for love most of the
time, but many of them marry, too,
because under present conditions they
are still quite likely to be supported.
A woman with a career is all very
well, but a woman who can persuade
a man to provide for her for life, or
at least a period of years, that's clev­er.
"If a girl can't exhibit a man she
has captured, she is usually marked
as a failure, .go one big reason wom­en
marry is because marriage is part
of their success in life.
"Men marry, too, because of love or
loneliness, because of biological urge,
because of social aspirations, because
they want homes; and many men mar­ry
because they are too gallant, too
polite, after being hedged in by mil­lion
conventions and encouragements
and signs of possession, to refuse.
"An evening alone with my books
doesn't sound nearly as ideal to me as
having the man I like best so near
that I can interrupt my reading and
his reading by asking foolish ques­tions.
Then, too, it's nice after a
party to have some one with whom
you can talk things over. That's real­ly
an awfully good reason for mar­riage.
CHURCHES SHOULD DO MORE
FOR STUDENTS, STONE SAYS
That the churches of the country
should take a more active part in the
spiritual development of the great
mass of students in state universi­ties
was the view stressed by Dr. J.
Timothy Stone, noted divine, in an
address before the University of
North Carolina students recently.
Dr. Stone is president of the Pres­byterian
Theological seminary in
Chicago and is a former moderator
of the geneal assembly of the North­ern
Presbyterian church, the highest
office in the church. He is a frequent
contributor to the religious press and
is the author of several well known
books.
"The- churches of today must
share with the state universities the
responsible of the spiritual training
of their student bodies because a
man's character is worth more than
what he knows or what his physical
abilities are," Dr. Stone declared.
Dr. Stone said he recognized the
importance of the denominational
colleges and smaller institutions in
the spiritual development of the
younger generation, but pointed out
that the state universities are to stay,
and, reaching as they do, the great
mass of young men and women
should be in a position to emphasize
the importance' of the spiritual as
well as the physical and mental de­velopment.
Dr. Stone pointed out that many
of the larger northern institutions
had attempted to solve the problem
of the spiritual development of their
students by co-operating with the
various churches.
Messrs. Howard Duryea, assistant
to the general manager, Alabama
Power Company, Birmingham; P. H.
Nabors, assistant to the general man­ager,
of the Georgia Power Company,
and Mr. C. B. McManus, assistant
operating manager, Georgia Power
Company, were in Auburn on Thurs­day,
the 2'0th, interviewing prospec­tive
engineering graduates with a
view to interesting them in entering
the employe of their respective com­panies.
Mr. McManus graduated in the
electric engineering course at Au­burn
in 1916, and went with the
Westinghouse Company immediately
after graduation. Prom this position
he went with the Alabama Power
Company and was rapidly promoted,
rising to the position ol division man­ager
of the Northern division. After
holding this position for several years
he went with the Georgia Power com­pany
and is now the assistant opera".
ing manager of this company with
headquarters at Atlanta.
An account of the very excellent
records made by Auburn electrical
and mechanical graduates of former
years with these two companies these
gentlemen have offered positions to
a number of this year's graduates.
Large Attendance
At S.A.M.E. Program
The meeting of the S. A. M. E. of
February 24th, was featured by an
unusually lajrge attendance and a
very interesting program.
J. W. Smith told about the con­struction
of the Cooper River Bridge
at Charleston, S. C. This bridge is
the longest of its kind in the world
and its cost slightly exceeds six mil­lion
dollars.
Captain Grower gave a very inter­esting
talk on the difference between
the old and the new reserve office/.
He also told how he happened to get
into the army and related some very
amusing stories of the pre-war train­ing
camp days.
The Engineer Hike was discuss? d
and the president of the society ap­pointed
a committee to work out
some definite plan which will be pre­sented
at the next meeting.
FLIES BACKWARD
AND UPSIDE DOWN
Martin Jensen, holder of the
world's record for solo endurance
flying, yesterday created "a new stunt
by flying backward, upside down, for
about a mile.
The aviator was using the first
plane turned out by his factory at
Lehighton, Pa., a biplane of 100
horsepower, which he said was con­structed
on a principle which would
keep the center of gravity stationary
in the wings regardless of the posi­tion
of the ship.
After putting his plane through a
series of loops and rolls, Jensen flip­ped
it upside down and flew in this
position for about a mile with a 40-
mile wind at his tail. Righting the
plane he headed it into the wind,
turned it upside down again and then
throttled his engine down to stalling
speed—30 miles an hour.
The 40-mile wind carried him back­ward
at the rate of about 10 miles
an hour.
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Ward's Place
Representatives Of
Power Co. Visit Auburn
Interview Seniors In Engineering
With View to Employment
Hudson & Thompson
Wholesale Grocers
Montgomery, Ala.
We Solicit Business Of All College and
Student Organizations
Clothes Are Cause Of
Worry to Some People
Clothes are causing a lot of people
in Europe worry these days, people
who never thought much about clothes
before, or who thought the clothes
they always had worn, which were
exactly like those their fathers had
worn, were correct and satisfactory.
And the clothes, indeed, were fine;
handspun, hand-woven; good, durable,
artistic clothes.
These worried folks are scattered
all over Europe. They are away up
in the interior of Sweden and in
Spain, in Rumania and Serbia, and Al­bania
and in Northern Greece; every­where
that the age-old handicrafts
persist and now are meeting the age
of machinery. The trouble is bigger
than the worry over clothes; it is the
death struggle of an old system with
an irresistible, world-sweeping new
system. But to many the shift from
the old clothes to the new typifies the
whole tragic process.
The beautiful sheepskin coats and
the embroidered, velvet jackets and
the baggy trousers and hob-nailed
boots all were products of cottage or
small shop industries. The cottages
and little shops were in small villages
and nearly self-sufficient communities
having few contacts with the outside
world. There were masters and jour­neymen
and apprentices and school
teachers and clergymen, a little school
and church and a pretty strict code
of ethical conduct and a whole body
of age-old customs and traditions that
influenced and regulated the most in­timate
affairs of the people's lives.
But now comes the snappy sales­man
from the big cities and from far-off
lands across the sea. He has new
clothes. His goods are not so durable,
and probably not so artistic as those
produced by the village artisans, but
they are modish; they are foreign;
they are cheap; they appeal.
There is the fascination of up-to-dateness
about the insinuating revo­lution.
The machine-made stuff
is snappy and it makes its wearer
look like the rest of the big, busy,
progressive world. And nowadays
this new world-consciousness, the
sense of kinship of all mankind, goes
everywhere and will not be denied.
And so, even in the most remote
places the very air is filled with world
talk, and all the world's most isolated
places catch the inspiration. The lit­tle
manufacturing plant in the vil­lage
imports some automatic machin­ery
and hires a helper or two. The
business grows. Independent artisans
lose courage and take factory jobs.
The simple little village becomes a
manufacturing town. The old order
is broken up and something is lost
along with, the gain, and many people
are worried. That is the meaning of
some of the news that is coming
out of parts of Europe.
Elaborate Lighting
Effects Furnished
By Westinghouse
Elaborate, spectacular, gorgeous
are the immense lighting effects of
the International Exposition at Bar­celona,
Spain, a distinctive achieve­ment
of the engineering organization
of the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company. The ex­ceptional
natural position of this ex­position
allows for illumination that
surpasses all that has been done be­fore.
Comments of Spanish officials
and patrons, regarding the effects
achieved, evidence the success at­tained.
Direct lighting in the decorative
area is absolutely surpressed. Illumi­nation
is obtained in all cases by eith­er
concealing the lamps or reflectors
in cornices or decorative motifs of
the building, or by mounting them in­side
luminous crystals of aesthetic
design, imitating at times fantastic
flowers and plants. Barcelona has
retained its loveliness and antiquity.
The magnificent examples of archi­tecture
and the beautiful parks are
reminiscent of the talents and the
abounding energies of the ancient
dwellers of this section, the Catalans.
The site of the Exposition lies on the
verdant slopes of the Mountain Mont-juich.
All the elegance and luxur­iance,
with touches of ancient Moor­ish
loveliness, is utilized to serve as
a background for the magnificent ex­position
buildings. More than half
a square mile is occupied and in ex­cess
of twenty-two million dollars
have been spent to make it a World's
Fair that will always be remembered.
Judging from the painted lights
that play on the fountains and cas­cades
and spread gorgeous colors
over the buildings, the dream has
been realized. Beginning at the Na­tional
Palace, a flow of white light
goes down slowly through the four
cascades, descending to Reina Maria
Christina Avenue at a rate of 1xk
feet per second. As it reaches the
avenue, a yellow band commences
'er the same path at the same rate.
The yellow is followed by red and
blue.
About ten minutes is consumed in
this display after which the whole
area is lighted in blue. The area then
may be lighted in white, yellow, red
or blue at will. The colors may then
be mixed, varied, and synchronized
with the color lighting of the foun­tain
and cascades along with the spec­ially
lighted building facades. Twen­ty
different scenes may be set in ad­vance
and controlled by one master
switch.
Through the dual control resulting
from the mobile automatic lighting
control and the manual lighting con-
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Many Schools Enter
Oratorical Contest
Although March 25 is the closing
date for entries in the Sixth Nation­al
Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest
on the Constitution, already 81 col­leges
and universities from 29 states
have written to P. Casper Harvey,
national director, Liberty, Mo. North­western
University, Evanston, 111., na­tional
winner in 1925, was the first
school to enter the 1930 contest.
Although April 15 is the closing
date for each school to select its repre­sentatives,
the distinction of being the
first orator to win his local contest
goes to F. B. Farr, A. and M. Col­lege
of South Carolina, Clemson.
The competition for the greatest
forensic honor open to college stu­dents
in America foreshadows bring-together
this year the largest group
of college and universities in any pro­ject
of the kind in the history of
American higher education, according
to the announcement made this week
at the national headquarters. A to­tal
of $5,000 in prizes will be awarded,
and the winner, who will become the
national intercollegiate champion ora­tor
for 1930, will be awarded a prize
of $1,500. Second place, will give a
prize of $1,000, scaling down to $400
for seventh place.
The national director is sending this
week to 902 colleges and universities
an urgent request to make their en­tries
early even if the school*- may
trol, the brilliantly lighted fountains
and buildings resemble the ever chang­ing
splendor of an autumn sunset.
The control for the mobile lighting
unit consists of a flasher and a mo­tor
operated dimmer bank. The
flasher contacts provide for waves of
color 1300 feet long from dim to
bright and back to dim again. The
National Palace alone is floodlighted
by 400 kw. in blue, red, green and
white, the water is illuminated be­neath
the surface by 360 specially
designed Westinghouse Aqualux un-der-
water 1500 Watt Floodlight pro­jectors
imparting an unusual splen­dor
as they glimmer through the
streams and cascades. Then on the
surface of the water are reflected
moving colored light beams from addi­tional
floodlights with swivel bases.
All of this lighting, 5000 kw., is con­trolled
by equipment in the top of one
of the towers at the entrance to the
grounds.
This is the first attempt of illu­minating
engineers to apply illumina­tion
upon such a vast moving scale.
The artists who visioned the plan and
the engineers who developed the ar­tist's
conception into a reality have
evolved a masterpiece at which count­less
numbers marvel.
Cigarette House
To Stop Advising
Women To Reduce
No more advertisements telling
women how to stay slender by smok­ing
a cigarette instead of eating can­dy
will be seen in the press or on
billboards.
The manufacturing company that
created a furore in the Methodist
board of temperance, has promised
the federal trade commission to stop
such methods of competition.
The commission announced today
that "a corporation engaged in the
manufacture of cigarettes and other
tobacco products and in the sale and
distribution of the same in interstate
commerce," had been entered into a
stipulation to cease and desist for­ever
from the alleged unfair methods
of competition. -It had been pointed
that the respondent had been adver­tising
that its products kept the hu­man
form lithe and fit. The name
of the concern was not given, but it
is known that the commission took
up the matter at the instance of Sen­ator
Reed Smoot, who objected to the
advertisements.
Morris-Lumpkin
Bout Cancelled
CORRECTION
In the list of fraternity initiates
and pledges appearing in the last is­sue
of the Plainsman, the new men in
two fraternities, Alpha Psl and Chi
Epsilon Chi, were omitted, They
are as follows:
\ _ Alpha P»i
H. W. Sawyer, Pittsburg, Pa.; A.
L. Thome, Bakerhill, Ala.; N. T.
Thome, Bakerhill, Ala.; L. C. Durr,
Jackson, Miss.; H. W. Hayes, Calera,
Ala.; Brooks McCreary, Brooklyn,
Ala.; Clyde Deal, Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
Kermit-O. Smith, Bear Creek.
Chi Epsilon Chi
C. L. Camp, Center, Ala.; D. E.
Foutz, Irvington, Ala.; M. J. Rickles,
Ensley, Ala.;' R. L. Rhodes, Linden,
Ala.; W. M. Varnum, Birmingham,
Ala.; E. R. Taylor, Roanoke, H. Col­lins,
Bessemer, Ala.
Because of objections by the Uni­versity
of Georgia and Georgia Tech,
the proposed boxing match between
Hollis Morris, former Georgia stu­dent,
and "Father" Lumpkin, former
Tech student, has been called off.
This was to be Morris' first ap­pearance
as a professional fighter.
While at Georgia he was a member
of the Bulldog football team and
heavyweight on the boxing team. He
has appeared several times this year
as a boxer for the Atlanta Athletic
club.
Lumpkin, fullback on the Golden
Tornado of 1928, has made one ap­pearance
as a professional battler.
SOVIETS SILENCE CHIMES
TO LET LABORERS SLEEP
Criticism has been often and some­times
justly made of our American
English, if it may be so called. To
"murder" the King's English is joke
to us; with the English it is a crime.
That we take no pride in our ever-changing
slang, is evident on every
hand. Little wonder that the English­man,
who prides himself on his mas­tery
of the language, speaks slighting­ly
of our English as "American,"
when many an English steward can
with his polished diction put to shame
the American college graduate whom
he serves.
wait until April 15 to choose their
contestants.
Church bells will ring no more in
or near Moscow, capital of Red Rus­sia.'
The voices of the city's "forty
times forty" churches, which for a
thousand years have pealed out their
call to worship and the tidings of
births, deaths and marriages have
been forever silenced by the Moscow
Soviet.
The ban extends to all churches
throughout the Moscow region, which
includes several dozen smaller cities
nearby in which there are hundreds
if churches. Similar ordinances are
already in effect in other Soviet cit­ies
and may be adopted throughout
Soviet Russia.
In announcing its decision today
the Moscow Soviet explained that it
was adopted upon the "energetic urge
of numerous social and labor orga­nizations"
whose members com­plained
that the church bells disturb­ed
their sleep and otherwise irked
them.
In many cities the church bells will
be removed from their belfries and
re-melted to supply commercial metal
so badly needed by the government
for carrying out its industrialization
plans.
INTRODUCING CANDIDATES
FOR TRACK TEAM
(Continued from page 4)
Striplin—Manager "Strip" ha'
been of great help to Coach Hutsell
in caring for the men and in many
other ways. Strip is a hard worker
and is a member of the Junior class.
A well educated Vienna man has
offered to sell the film rights to his
suicide, which he is planning for the
near future. He plans to blow him­self
up with a home-made infernal
machine.
COLLEGE HONORS THOMAS
EDISON
Thomas Alva Edison, 83-year-old
electrical wizard, whose inventive
genius has made him one of the
world's greatest scientists, has been
given an honorary degree of doctor
of science by Rollins college.
STUDENTS-Trade
With Those
Who Support
Your College Paper
They are interested in our Progress!
We should stand behind those who
Patronize Us!
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