1929-09-24 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929. NUMBER 6
SCABBARD-BLADE ELECTION HELD
MISS ANITA MITCHELL LEADS
GRAND MARCH OF OPENINGS
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J im Boswell to Lead Dances
With Huntsville Girl
FOUR FRATS KEEP GIRLS
T e a Dance Reserves Are An­nounced
by Social Com­mittee
Anita Mitchell, of Huntsville, and
Jim Boswell, sophomore member of
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will
lead the Grand March at the Open­ing
dance of the Sophomore Hop Fri­day
night, October 4. These dances
will mark the beginning of the social
season for this year.
House parties are being given by
the Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Theta Kappa Nu, Alpha
Gamma Rho, according to a state-mentby
H. N. Reeves, chairman of
the Social Committee.
The program for the dances are
as follows: Friday afternoon Tea
Dance, to be reserved by the Inter-fraternity
Council; Opening Dance,
Friday night; Saturady morning
dance, to be reserved by Scabbard and
Blade; Saturday afternoon Tea
Dance, to be reserved by the "A"
Club; Farewell Dance, Saturday
night.
Charlie Davis and Streeter Wiatt
will have charge of the decorations
which will be very simple in design.
DR. KNAPP REPRESENTS
AUBURN AT RADIO MEET
Committee of Seven to Inter­v
i ew Radio Commission
Federation Women's
Clubs To Meet Here
Thirty Women Are Expected
Attend Meet
To
To become better acquainted and
work out plans for helping each other
leaders of rural and urban club
women in Alabama will meet in Dun­can
Hall at Auburn, September 26.
The Alabama Federation of Women's
Clubs, the Alabama Council of Home
Demonstration clubs, and the State
Home Demonstration Staff of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute will
be represented at the meeting. Thirty
women are expected to attend.
Announcement of the meeting is
made by Dr. Bradford Knapp, Au­burn's
president, and Miss Helen
Johnston, chairman of the committee
on home demonstration work, Au­burn.
The purpose of the meeting is to
enable each group to study the pro­gram
of work of the other, and to
formulate definite plans for strength­ening
services rendered by Alabama
clubs. The federation of women's
clubs and the council of home demon­stration
clubs are both working to­ward
placing a home demonstration
agent in every county of the State.
They will discuss means of aiding in
this movement. They will also study
the program of home demonstration
work in Alabama for 1930 with a
view of helping carry it out.
Representing the federation of
women's clubs at the conference will
be Mrs. C. C. Adams, Birmingham,
president; Mrs. Wilbur Hull, Cullman,
manager first district; Mrs. J. T.
Foreman, America, manager second
district; Mrs. Hal S. Dumas, Birming­ham,
manager third district; Mrs. J.
D. Norwood, Thomasville, manager
(Continued on page 4)
Dr. Bradford Knapp, and Mr. P. O
Davis, director of the department of
public information, will leave Au­burn
Thursday for Washington, where
they will attend an informal confer­ence
with the Federal Radio Commis­sion
with a view to obtaining a full-time
cleared channel, on a lower fre­quency
than is now being used, for
radio station WAPI, Birmingham
Others who will attend the confer­ence
are: Professor L. N. Duncan, di
rector of the extension service at Att
burn; Dr. George Denny, president
of the University of Alabama; Dr. C.
O. Carmichael, president of Alabama
College, Montevallo; S. P. Storrs,
Commissioner of Agriculture; and T.
T. Harmon, State Superintendent of
Education.
At present station WAPI is op­erating
under great handicaps, be­cause
of the high frequency wave
length allowed it by the Federal Radio
Commission and because it may oper­ate
only half-time. To give the ut­most
service to the people of Alabama
it is necessary that the Federal Com­mission
allot to WAPI a full-time
cleared channel and lower frequency.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
SELECTS OFFICERS
L. F. Camp Elected President
Methodist Group
Officers of the Auburn Epworth
League were elected Sunday night as
follows: L. F. Camp, President; Earl
Morgan, Vice-President; John Day
Canterbury, Secretary; D. M. Turner,
treasurer; and B. E. Winn, "Epworth
Era" agent.
Last year the League was divided
into two separate units, the Wesley
and the Davidson Leagues, but this
year it was decided that it would be
for the best interests of all concerned
to unite the two, and they will ont
be known as the Auburn Epworth
League. The League takes this means
of inviting all who will to meet with
them next Sunday at 6:30 P. M.
NOTICE
A special convocation for all
students has been called for
Wednesday. Every student is ex­pected
to attend as Dr. Knapp
has some very important matters
to discuss with the student body.
The following schedule will be
in effect:
1. Sophomores, Juniors and
Seniors meet at Langdon Hall
at 11:00 A. M. Wednesday,
September 25.
2. Freshmen meet at Langdon
Hall at 11:30 A. M. Wednesday,
September 25.
Experiment Station
Conducts Research
Hope To Reduce Alabama Farm Ex­penses
$28,000,000
With a view to reducing expendi­tures
of Alabama farmers totaling
approximately $28,000,000 annually,
the department of agricultural engi­neering
of the experiment station of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is
now conducting systematic research
work in making crops on Alabama
farms. This figure of $28,000,000,
as explained by Professor M. L.
Nichols, head of the department, is
from an estimate by the United
States Department of Agriculture
that it costs the farmers of the na­tion
each year $1,386,000,000 to pre­pare
their land and cultivate their
crops, and it is assumed by Mr.
Nichols that Alabama is about an
average state.
The goal of the research work
being done by the Auburn depart­ment
is to reduce this bill, thereby in­creasing
net returns from farming.
In addition, research workers of the
department are attempting to reduce
harvesting expenses by the applica­tion
of improved machinery and more
power, to improve storage facilities
for farm and home products, to re­move
drudgery from the housewife
by installing labor-saving devices, and
to be instrumental in a general im­provement
of the operation of Ala­bama
farms.
At the bottom of this research
work being done by Prof. Nichols
(Continued on page 4)
RADIO AUDITION TO
BE BROADCAST OVER
RADIO STATION WAPI
Ruth Frisbie and Cecil Stowe
Represent Lee County
$12,500 IN PRIZE AWARDS
Contest Sponsored Annually by
Atwater Kent
The Alabama Atwater Kent audi­tion
for 1929 will be broadcast from
Station WAPI in Birmingham, Octo­ber
6 and 7. The first day will be for
young ladies; the second for young
men.
Announcement of this was made
here today by P. O. Davis, State man­ager
of the audition, after conferring
with Mrs. O. C. Carmichael of Mon­tevallo,
who is chairman of the State
committee. Originally the dates were
October 15 and 16. The changes were
(Continued on page 4)
CONSTITUTION
WEEK OBSERVED
BY KIWANIANS
John K. Watkins Addresses
Club on Constitution
WEEK OBSERVED YEARLY
Miss Lois Walker Offers Vocal
Selections
Announcement
The special train for the Au­burn
students which will trans­port
them to Montgomery for
the Auburn—Birmingham-South­ern
game will leave Auburn Fri­day
at 4:45 P. M. The Special
will return that night leaving
Montgomery at 11:00 P. M.
The special rate of $2.39 for
the round trip will also be in ef­fect
on trans No. 31, 35 and 39.
The return trip to Auburn will
have to be made Saturday for the
special rate to be good.
KAPPA KAPPA PSI TO
PRESENT PRIZES FOR
BEST AUBURN YELLS
T h r e e Prizes Totalling $10 to
Be Given Winners
Rat Borrows Auto To
Make Trip to Columbus
CONTEST CLOSES OCT. 17
Yells Must be Distinctive, Pep­py,
Snappy
Constitution Week was observed at
the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis
Club yesterday at noon; each/ year
programs are presented by the. Ki­wanis
Clubs throughout the country
at a special time, observing the sign­ing
of the Constitution of the United
States.
John T. Watkins, an Opelika law­yer
and a Kiwanian, was the speaker;
he spoke on the Constitution, telling
the club members how the forming of
the United States was a "result of
sacrifices on the part of our fore­fathers."
Mr. Watkins said that by
their foresight and knowledge they
were able to unite the original colo­nies.
He defined the Constitution as
an agreement between the govern­ment
and the people, saying that it
was the greatest agreement ever
made.
Miss Lois Walker, of Hurtsboro, en­tertained
the club with several vocal
selections; the entire group sang a
verse of the "Star Spangler Banner"
in observance of the occasion. Cap­tain
B. C. Anderson was program
(Continued on page 4)
There was great excitement in
the down town distinct Monday
night when Lan Lipscomb's auto
suddenly disappeared. The ex­citement
was short lived how­ever,
for the car reappeared
Tuesday mornilig as suddenly as
it had disappeared.
One of the illustrious freshmen
was the cause of all the trouble.
He embarked in what he thought
was his rented buggy, and hailed
himself forth to Columbus. He
was very greatly chagrined on
Tuesday morning, when he went
to return the car to the local
garage, to find that it was not
the car that he had departed
with. It was found that he had
taken Mr. Lipscomb's car by
mistake for the one he had
rented. This freshman has be­come
absent-minded at an unbe­coming
age, due probably to first
contact with college professors.
Kappa Kappa Psi, national honor­ary
musical fraternity, announced
Monday that it would award prizes
totaling ten dollars to students sub­mitting
the most original, peppy, and
distinctive Auburn yells. A first
prize of five dollars will be awarded
the winning yell, and second and
third prizes of three dollars and two
dollars, respectively, will be given for
those adjudged next best. Two yells
placing next will be accorded honor­able
mention.
(Continued on page 4)
HONORARY MILITARY FRAT.
GIVES BIDS TO TWENTY MEN
H. D. HARMON CHOSEN
AS BAND DRUM MAJOR
Four Others Compete for Posi­tion
Saturday
Dr. Knapp Attends
Birthday Celebration
Sixty-fifth Birthday of Erskine Ram­say
Celebrated Tonight
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of the
Radio Club in the operating room on
the fourth floor of Broun Hall at
6:30 Wednesday evening. All mem­bers
are urged to be there as some
important business will be discussed.
Dr. Bradford Knapp left for Bir­mingham
this afternoon to attend a
celebration marking the anniversary
of the sixty-fifth birthday of Erskine
Ramsay; the celebration will be held
tonight, September 24. Dr. Knapp
carries with him a personal and in­stitutional
greeting to one of Au­burn's
staunchest supporters. A dona­tion
from Mr. Ramsay made possible
the building of the engineering hall
which bears his name.
Thursday, Dr. Knapp, Governor
Graves, Dr. Denny, president of the
University of Alabama, and Dr. Car­michael,
president of Alabama Col­lege,
will go to Washington, to ap­pear
before the Federal Radio Com­mission
and ask permission to make
improvements on Station WAPI. It is
hoped that a better wave length and
more time on the air will be secured;
a clear channel is also desired.
The conference will take place on
Friday, making it impossible for Dr.
Knapp to attend the Auburn—Bir­mingham-
Southern football game in
Montgomery.
DR. KUDERNA IS
NEW MEMBER OF
A. P. I. FACULTY
New Professor Has High Repu­tation
in Education
RECEIVED Ph.D. IN AUGUST
Will Serve in C a p a c i t y of Asso­c
i a t e Professor of Education
Distinguished List,
Announced by
1928-29 Session,
Registrar's Office
Following is a list of those students
attaining highest distinction and dis­tinction
during the 1928-1929 ses­sion
as compiled by the assistant reg­istrar.
Students are requested to re­port
all mistakes or omissions to the
registrar immediately.
Highest Distinction: Baird, Douglas
Otis, Jr., E. E., Phenix; Bell, Ernest
Augustus, So., C. E., Anderson, S. C.;
Christensen, Harris James, Jr., E. E.,
Athens; Horsley, Charles Henry, So.,
M. E., Birmingham; McCulloch, Elli­son
Romary, Sr., Ed., Auburn;
O'Rourke, John Joseph, Jr., E. E.,
Selma.
Distinction: Alford, Riley Doyle,
Fr., Ch. E., Wadley; Appleby, Philip,
Fr., M. E., Tarrant; Atkins, James
David, Jr., Ch. E., Mobile; flasker-vill,
William Hurt, Fr., Ch. E., Bir­mingham;
Beavers, George Alvis, Sd.,
E. E., Cuba; Beck, Henry Lucien, Jr.,
Fr., E. E., Charleston, S. C ; Breed-love,
Elbert, Fr., M. E., Gantts Quar­ry;
Brock, Charles Andrew, So., E.
E,. Vernon; Bryant, Fair Jones, Jr.,
C. E., Gadsden; Burton, Benjamin
Screven, Fr., E. E., Leesburg, Fla.;
Camp, Lawrence Frederick, So.,
Ch.E., Moreland, Ga.; Carreker, John
Russell, Jr., Jr., Ag., Cooks Springs;
Christian, John Lanier, So., Ch. E.,
Oxford; Cohen, Alonzo Clifford, Jr.,
Fr., E. E., Brookhaven, Miss.; Collins,
Lottie, So., H. E c , Fayette; Copeland,
Fred Euell, Jr., E. E., Auburn; Davis,
Charles Francis, Jr., 4th Yr., Arch.,
Hartford; Dougherty, Anne Louise,
Fr., H. Ec, Fairhope; Ellenburg,
George Warren, Jr., E. E., Birming­ham;
Franklin, Malcolm Argyle, Jr.,
M. E., Birmingham; Free, William El­liot,
Fr., E. E., Bamberg, S. C ; Gil­bert,
Kermit Cecil, So., M. E., Fair-
(Continued on page 4)
Announcement comes from Dr
Zebulon Judd, dean of the school of
education, of a-recent addition to his
staff in the person of Dr. Jerome G.
Kuderna, of Chicago, Illinois. Dr.
Kuderna, coming to Auburn with un­usually
high recommendations, will
doubtlessly be a valued asset to the
staff of the school of education.
Dr. Kuderna obtained his A. B. de­gree
from the University of Michigan
in 1912 and two years later received
the degree of M. S. at Michigan.
Thereafter he took graduate work at
the University of Chicago and the
University of Berlin. In 1917 he was
appointed assistant professor of edu­cation
at the Illinois State Normal
University, and five years later be­came
a member of the science staff
of the Lincoln Experimental School,
a branch of Teachei-s' College, Co­lumbia
University. In the 1922 sum­mer
session of the Hyannis State
Normal School, Massachusetts, Dr.
Kuderna served in the capacity of
professor of education.
From 1922 to 1929 Dr. Kuderna
remained on the science staff of the
Lincoln Experimental School, being
awarded his Ph.D. degree there in
August, 1929.
Dr. Kuderna will serve at the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute as assist­ant
professor of education, to have
charge of professional training for
students who are preparing to teach
the sciences in the high school. In
this field of education Dr. Kuderna
has attained a most enviable reputa­tion,
being deemed by many under
whom he has served in this capacity
as the most well-prepared and profici­ent
man in this branch in the entire
country.
H. D. Harmon was chosen to be­come
the new drum major of the band
at the drum major tryout held on
DraHe field Saturday morning at 11
o'clock. The other candidates that
participated in the tryout were A. T.
Burton, S. A. Hardin, H. C. Lowe,
and P. H. Goldsmith. Each candidate
was given the opportunity to exhibit
his skill by drilling the band for a
short period of time. All showed
marked ability but Harmon was se­lected
because of his greater skill and
superior grace in marching. Har­mon's
experience as drum major in
high school did much toward helping
him develop his grace and ease.
Mr. Bidez announced that an as­sistant
drum major tryout will be
held at.a date which will be an­nounced
later. Those interested in
competing may see Mr. Bidez.
The band will present a unique ap­pearance
this year in the new uniform
and with such an able drum major.
Prospects look very bright for a very
successful year. Many trips are plan­ned
which will increase the notoriety
of the already famous band.
Captains E. S. Ott and R. C.
Grower are Given Bids for
Associate Membership
18 SENIORS ARE ELECTED
Pledges When Initiated Will
Make 36 Active Members
Prof. Rutland Speaks
At Lions Luncheon
Outline Main Points In
School System
Public
Asst. Cheer Leaders
Chosen At Tryouts
"Bull" Steer, sophomore, and W.
D. Wilson and Sam Davis, both fresh­men,
were chosen as assistant cheer
leaders to "Buddy" Baxter at the
tryout held on Drake Field this af­ternoon.
A large crowd attended the
cheer leader tryout, at which time a
snappy scrimmage between the var­sity
and the freshmen was held. The
Auburn band also was on the scene to
add punch to the cheers.
The new assistants will lead the
cheering sections with "Buddy" Bax­ter
when Auburn meets Birmingham-
Southern in Montgomery this Friday
night.
At the regular weekly luncheon of
the Lions Club at the Thomas Hotel
Tuesday Professor J. R. Rutland ad­dressed
the members on the public
school system, bringing out forcibly
the main points in the operation of
public school at present. During the
luncheon Professor W. Kinkaid ren­dered
several beautiful piano selec­tions.
Professor Rutland called the atten­tion
of the civic club to the increased
enrollment of the Auburn grammar
school, thus necessitating more ade­quate
facilities. He said that one
teacher had been added to the facul­ty
of the school, in order to give bet­ter
instruction and to meet the de­mands
of the increased number of
students. In obtaining this teacher,
he said, the townspeople evidenced
great interest, which fact augments
well for the development of the plans
for the proposed new grammar school
building.
The Lions Club is very active at
present in putting over a landscaping
project at Auburn. It has promoted
much interest in the beautifying of
Auburn's residential and business dis­trict
to keep in step with the growth
of the school. The college plans to
undertake an extensive landscaping
project immediately upon completion
of the building program now under
way.
Walter Clingo Chosen
Manager Golf Team
Team Will Enter S. I. C. Tournament
This Spring
L Company, Fifth Regiment, Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, of Scab­bard
and Blade, national honorary
military fraternity, announced today
the election of eighteen student
pledges and two candidates for asso­ciate
membership to the organiza­tion.
Scabbard and Blade elects semi­annually,
only seniors being elected
in the fall, and juniors being extend­ed
bids in the spring election.
The purpose of Scabbard and
Blade, as set forth in the preamble of
the consitution of the fraternity, is
"to preserve and develop the essen­tial
qualities of good and efficient of­ficers;
to prepare ourselves as edu­cated
men, to take a more active .part
and to have a greater influence in ~
the military affairs of the communi­ties
in which we may reside; and
above all to spread intelligent in­formation
concerning the military re­quirements
of our country."
Following are the pledges as an­nounced
by V. L. Taylor, captain of
Scabbard and Blade: Engineer Batal-liori:
O. D. Asbell, of Thompson, Ala­bama,
student in architecture; F. W.
Fulton, Birmingham, student in elec­trical
engineering; M. H. Darby, of
Florence, civil engineering; H. J.
Jones, Eufaula, mechanical engineer­ing;
H. E. Lewis, Bartow, Florida, ar­chitectural
engineering; Max Wil­liams,
Birmingham, architectural en­gineering.
Field Artillery: H. H.
Hillman, Selma, architecture; H. G.
Long, Falkville, education; S. C. Su-bers,
Bainbridge, Ga., mechanical en­gineering;
J. D. Atkins, Mobile, chem­ical
engineering; R. G. Hightower,
Moulton, pharmacy; E. H. Miller, Au­burn,
general; W. D. Cummings,
Felix, general; C. A. Brogden, Sea-right,
agricultural education; H. H.
Milligan, Newton, electrical engineer­ing;
W. J. Sibert, Gadsden, mechanic­al
engineering; L. M. Dyal, Jackson­ville,
Florida, civil engineering; W.
H. Cumbee, Stroud, pharmacy.
Elected as candidates for associate
membership are Captain E. S. Ott,
member of the field artillery staff of
the military department, and Captain
R. C. Grower, of the engineer staff.
There are at present eighteen ac-dteraola
bOBdmed merifbnsSaebvac
tive members of Scabbard and Blade.
Officers of L Company are as fol­lows:
Captain, V. L. Taylor; 1st Lieu­tenant,
Lee Sledge; 2nd Lieutenant,
J. K. Smith; 1st Sergeant, W. W.
Bryant.
Many In Attendance
First "A" Club Dance
At a meeting held in the "A" Club
rooms in the gymnasium, Monday
night, Walter Clingo was elected man­ager
of this year's golf team. Coach
Bohler presided over the meeting,
and pledged faculty cooperation and
financial support from the college.
Due to rainy weather hardly a score
attended the meeting.
The team is newly organized, but
already plans several dual meets with
Southern Conference golf teams, and
will enter the Annual Conference
Tournament in Birmingham this
spring.
Clingo is a member of Scabbard and
Blade, is a Senior, and a member of
th» Kappa Alpha fraternity.
The "A" Club gave its first dance
of the season in the Gymnasium Sat­urday
night; the newly organized
"Auburn Collegians" furnished the
music. The affair was pronounced a
success by those who attended, and it
is hoped that the "A" Club will spon­sor
dances more frequently during
the year.
The manager of the collegians
stated that they would play for a
dance at the Jefferson Davis Hotel
in Montgomery following the football
game Friday night.
NOTICE
The registrar's office, 104 Admin­istration
Building, requests that all
students file at once correct Auburn
addresses, telephone numbers, and
fraternity affiliations. This informa­tion
will be used to compile a printed
directory of officers of administra­tion,
secretarial staff, and students
of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
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PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929.
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REPORTERS
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BUSINESS STAFF
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Sunday Shows
Are Beneficial
For some time the Sunday movie ques­tion
has been under discussion in Auburn.
Having been put to a test recently, it has
almost reached a climax. The issue is of
prime importance to the townspeople and
to the students as its settlement will guide
the actions of many in remaining in Au­burn
during the weekend, and thereby
causing them to spend more money with
the citizens of the town.
Those against Sunday movies • have not
come out in the open but have left every­one
in doubt as to the reason of their posi­tion,
while those in favor of the shows
have given reasons for thinking thusly.
Sunday shows will not hurt Auburn. The
only reason that the opponents of the
shows can give is that it is the Lord's Day,
and that students should think of heavenly
things rather than of material. However,
it is not what should be done, but what is
done that amounts to anything. We know
that it is better for students to go to a
good, clean show than to lie around Sunday
evening and tell dirty stories, to play
cards, and to act in a rowdy manner in
general. The show does not conflict with
any church service in town; it is clean,
wholesome entertainment, and will be much
better than anything that a student does.
The show will not interfere with the study­ing
Sunday night as the management does
not want to operate at that time.
The show will help Auburn by keeping
the boys out of devilment which they would
invariably be in, by keeping many of them
in Auburn over the weekend, by causing
more money to be left in the hands of the
townspeople, by creating a scholarship fund
that will aid materially in the future in
helping worthy men to attend the institu­tion,
and in providing entertainment that is
of the highest type.
Some of those against the movement may
want to deny the students, and many resi­dents
as well, this Sabbath Day pleasure,
but they forget that they buy gasoline to
go motoring, newspapers to read, and ob­tain
other things that will add to their
comfort and pleasure on Sunday.
We believe that it is perfectly right for
shows to be presented in Auburn on Sunday
as long as they do not interfere with church
services and prove harmful to the town,
and which they certainly will not at this
time.
We feel that when those who are pre­judiced
at present have time to thoroughly
analyze the situation, they will see the
logic in permitting such a course to be fol­lowed
by the local theatre. We do not be­lieve
that Sunday shows will prove harm­ful,
but will be beneficial from the begin­ning.
mer, the grasses on the campus lawn were
permitted to suffer for lack of proper ir­rigation.
As a result, instead of a lively
and brilliant green hue, this coating has
assumed a dull, drab appearance, not unlike
that of an approaching funeral.
When modern invention has placed at
our fingertips sprinkling systems that allow
no growth to suffer seriously from drougth,
why should our college campus suffer this
way? We, as an institution of higher learn­ing,
are expected to overcome and make
use of such emergencies; are we doing it?
Having an established reputation in exten­sion
instruction, are we to sit idle and al­low
such examples to mar the practicability
of our teachings? The entire State is look­ing
to us for examples of our practical in­struction
; what if it should view the pres­ent
condition of our supposed green and
beautiful campus.
The town of Auburn, in cooperation with
the college, has installed an adequate water
supply system which can easily take care
of the needs of' the place. What we need
now is for someone to "turn the water on".
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Letters to the Editor
Editor of The Plainsman,
There has been a great deal of discussion
of late concerning the question of Sunday
movies, and Mr. Rogers' actions last Sun­day
is having a perfectly clean and decent
moving picture projected on the screen has
brought matters to a head. One would
think he had projected another world war
instead of a harmless bit of light.
In so far as I can see there are no argu­ments
against Sunday movies other than it
breaks into the day which our Lord set
aside as a day of rest.
The opponents of this plan have ap­parently
failed to grasp the meaning of
the word "rest" as it is used here. Any
change from the usual routine of things is
rest and if going to a movie on Sunday is
not a change from the usual habits of most
of the students here of catching rides to
any point on the map, then black is white.
Dr. Knapp and other presidents of this
institution have been urging the students
to stay in Auburn over the week end. No
one can blame them for that, it is the prop­er
thing to do. In order to achieve this,
some amusement must be provided. We
students are only human after all. No one
likes to stay anywhere for two or three
days, where there is absolutely nothing to
do.
The opponents of this plan may point to
the golf course or the tennis courts or to
the other few chances of amusement which
are available. What, pray tell, is the dif­ference
between these things and Sunday
movies? The answer is no difference
whatsoever. So far, I have failed to hear
any logical reason for not having picture
shows on Sunday. I'd like to hear some.
If the FEW townspeople who are forever
sticking their noses into the students busi­ness,
and it was proven last year without
a shadow of a doubt that the opposition
was composed of a very small percentage
of the regular residents here, would attend
to their own business, Auburn would be a
far more attractive place to stay the
around.
Who is it that supports these few people?
The students. What would Auburn be with­out
the college here? Only another small
dot on the map of Alabama. And yet those
very people who depend for their bread and
butter on this school are unwittingly trying
to ruin it.
I for one am for Sunday movies and
about sixteen hundred other fellows feel
the same way.
BORED.
Sprinkling System
Needed On Campus
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever,"
someone has truthfully said. And although
this phrase was coined years ago, it carries
its truth through the present age; for men
are still human, and human nature is said
to remain always the same.
Ugliness soon becomes sore spots to our
beauty-loving eyes. We regret to acknow­ledge
that our own surroundings are not
entirely free from these repulsive spots.
College students generally are a critical
group, and unsightly objects are far from
attractive to them. They are a select
group, living in an era of advancement,
and having an eye for those things which
help to make life bright and thrilling.
Only a short time ago efforts were
launched to improve the general appear­ance
of the Auburn campus. This timely
objective has been partially accomplished.
But due to a shortage somewhere last sum-
Editor, The Plainsman
Amusement is an essential factor to the
welfare of any human being. Where can
one find more wholesome and cleaner
amusement than in the modern theater of
today? Auburn's Tiger Theater is such a
corporation. It offers to help us spend
these otherwise boring Sunday evenings in
a pleasant harmless manner. It will even
give a large amount of the gate receipts
toward a scholarship fund. Auburn needs
more Scholarship Funds as badly as we
need a way to spend these endless evenings.
Our Freshmen and old men catch rides
out of town to keep from spending Sunday
evening at home. With a good show from
two to six huch harmful practice would be
greatly reduced.
Sunday evening pictures will not inter­fere
with any religious services. They are
so arranged between services that they not
even conflict with the young peoples' reli­gious
organizations. The pictures that are
shown are clean and educational, furnish­ing
us with amusement and teaching us
good moral lessons.
The precentage of students who study on
Sunday afternoon is almost negligible. A
good picture relieves the mind of those
mental strains and worries which accumu­late
during the week? They will lessen
the tendency to become blue or homesick,
and will give the students a place to meet,
thereby making new friends and contacts.
So why not have Sunday shows.
•A SENIOR.
OUR YELLS
Ever since I have been in Auburn I have
been wondering just what to do about the
yells that seem to have been handed down
for years past at this institution. I would
give a great deal if we had a great, digni­fied
powerful yell like the famous old
"Rock-Chalk, Jay-Hawk, K—U" of the Uni­versity
of Kansas, or a dozen other great
yells. Every great in­stitution
has at least
one yell of great pow­er
which they use as
t h e i r big patriotic
yell. We ought to
have eight or ten oth­er
yells of that "pep­py"
character which
add zest and encour­agement
to the team.
I have insisted always and I still insist
that too many of the'yells of this institu­tion
are repulsive. They are not up to the
dignity of the institution itself. They of­fend
the public. In proof of that I want
to quote a letter-dated September 21 and
received by me on Sunday:
"Referring to the program which was
broadcast last evening over WAPI at 7:30
P. M., will say that I was greatly surprised
that an institution should allow such lan­guage
as used and I am sure that you were
not prevously aware of the details of the
program. I tuned in especially to allow my
family to listen at the program and I have
never heard a program of any kind with
so many "dams" and "hells" in it as this.
The program was good with this exception
but this was so disgusting and repulsive
that I did not care for my family and
guests to continue to listen to it and tuned
in on another station. I think that all your
programs should be clean in language as
well as in thought.
"My first thought was to bring this up
before one of our civic clubs of which I
am a member for resolutions protesting
this but I felt that all that was necessary
was to call your attention to it.
"Please accept this as a friendly criticism
as I have always felt very friendly toward
Auburn and have a boy who will probably
attend there but believe you will agree
with me that language of this kind is very
repulsive to a larger portion of the public."
I have endeavored to explain to this man
that it is difficult to change a thing which
has gone on here for twenty-five years and
even though the thing itself is wrong. I
have gone so far as to forget presidential
dignity entirely and invent a yell and teach
it to the fellows last year and this year
and I submit it for what it is worth. What
I want to know is, why is it necessary for
us to give fifteen Rahs for the whole
(blank) team. I do not think of the team
that way; I think they are a pretty good
bunch of fellows. I don't like to cuss them,
and so far as the "nether regions" being
loose is concerned, it doesn't inspire me
very much. It doesn't sound very good to
outside folks and the truth of the matter is
generally it is not loose. I do like to see
Auburn spirit break loose. I wish we had
some yells which would convince the world
that spirit was loose. We have a few very
excellent yells. The one which spells Au­burn
is good. The No. 1 yell generally
given as "Auburn fight" is entirely splen­did
but for its last line. The rest of that
yell, I think, is worth preserving. The yell
generally given as No. 3 beginning "A-Rah!
U-Rah!" etc., is a good yell. The yell gen­erally
given as No. 9 which spells Auburn
and which begins slowly and increases the
speed is a good yell. The "Y-e-aaa Team!"
given three times and ending up with
"Fight 'em, fight 'em, fight 'em" is a good
yell but what we need is some strengthen­ing
of yells through use of better words,
better rhythm and the workng for greater
volume and swing in the giving of the yell.
I hope the students will think this over.
The leadership needs to realize the letter I
have quoted above is a helpful letter; it
speaks the truth. I like to face construc­tive
criticism of that kind and work to­ward
a betterment of the conditions. How
does this student body feel on this subect?
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
"Easy" Marks, Auburn's Lon Chaney, of railroad fame, states* that his ambi­tion
is to stand on the back end of his private car attached to the rear of the
Pan-American and yo-yo while the train is in motion.. His ambition is high for
such a low calling.
* * * * * * * *
1935: Yo-yo, the International sport.
* * * * * * * *
It is rumored that Charlie Davis is having an extra picture of each co-ed made
for his personal collection. It must be a habit Charlie.
* * * * * * * *
She was just a social butterfly, but she knew her corn.
* * * * * * * *
She knew her signals—her dad was a switchman.
* * * * * * * *
Surgeon: "I feel duty bound to tell you that four out of five patients die
under this operation. Now, is there anything that you would like me to do before
I begin?"
Colored Gent: "Yessuh, kindly hand me my hat."
* * * * * * * *
IN MEMORIAM
As we start another year,
We have lost one that was dear
To the Plainsman and the Plains,
But I dare not mention names.
In the hall of fame you'll find
All his poems—firm and fine;
To him they were a past time pleasure;
To us they are a priceless treasure.
An Auburn co-ed to his mind
Was very fickle—not refined.
He courted young—he courted old,
Never caring, he was bold.
His hair was red and curly too,
And big bright eyes of clear sky blue.
He was cussed a lot but didn't mind;
That was the way of 969.
Number 13.
* * * . * * * * *
Drake Feld speaks of power—only strong men prevail.
* * * * * * * *
'Tis said that travel is broadening to the mind. We trust that it helped some
Auburnites in satisfying their lust for adventure during the summer. Wish we
could read French; some of those souvenir books must be rather interesting read­ing
matter.
* * * * * * * *
About the most popular classes in school are those where a beat is gotten.
* * * * * * * *
The most unhappy guy in town is he who made a class the day the roll wasn't
called.
* * * * * * * *
If linotypers must make errors, it was appropriate that one of them, setting
a story about a man seeking a divorce, made it -read that the plaintiff asked the
court for a change of Venus.
* * * * * * * *
The only thing that Auburn lacks is a DON'T WALK ON GRASS sign. Every­thing
would be consistent then, for we haven't any to get on.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
CLEMSON HAS NEW SCHEME
Clemson is always trying to do something
differently. The latest charged to her is
the new method used in sizing up her foot­ball
prospects. This year the student pub­lication
came out with the fact that over
six tons of men were trying to make the
team. We were thinking that the old order
of choosing men by their ability must be
out from this article. But whatever it is
we can readily see that with that much beef
scrambling for a position on a one ton team
there will be plenty of stiff competition
among'the candidates, and incidentally, op­posing
teams are going to hear another
story from these men this year if Satur­day's
game means anything.
* * * * *
ANOTHER MIXUP
If those Texans can't fight about one
thing, they look for something else to agi­tate
the peace. The thing has come to our
attention is the trouble between Southern
Methodist and Texas Christian Colleges. It
seems that some students were caught try­ing
to entice several freshmen away from
Christian. This is deplorable as it will
create some hard feelings between the two
institutions, especially the two student
bodies. But a football player is not to
THE GAME
We are approaching the day when as an
institution; coaching staff and team we are
going to meet the test. Friday night we
are going up against a hard team to defeat.
They are going to put forth every effort.
The exceedingly great misfortune of my
administrative position is that my obliga­tions
are such that I am afraid I shall miss
the game. I am called to Washington, D.
C, to appear before the Radio Commission
regarding work for WAPI.' I am to go with
Dr. Denny of the University, Dr. Car-michael
and the Governor. It is a duty I
cannot shirk. I do not know that I am so
important to that game but my heart is
with the team and with the student body
and I am making an earnest appeal now to
this student body as well as to the team to
make a good showing. Let us have no
rowdyism from Auburn. We get ourselves
discredited when we permit that kind of
things. Let every Auburn man be a gen­tleman.
Let your conduct be the kind of
conduct, which adds credit to this institu­tion.
By this request I am not deterring
you in the least from every fine enthusiasm
and loyal support of that team. Let me
urge you to go to one place in the grand­stand,
congregate there, do not let out­siders
push into the section reserved for
students, be together, sober and in earnest.
Help that team to win the game. And to
the team, I think we have as brave and
fine a bunch of fellows out here as there
is anywhere. You must have the will to
win and every single solitary second of
that game you must have your mind on the
task you have ahead of you. Use your head,
follow instructions, but put every ounce of
your own ability and strength into team
play that we may come off victorious.
I shall wait with the utmost anxiety the
telegram which I shall order sent to me at
the end of the game and I shall do my best
to communicate with the team just before
they go on to the field. Never say die; stay
by that team until the very end. Never
count the game won or lost until the last
whistle blows and rest assured that we are
going to stay by this v/hole season as loy­ally
and as splendidly as any group there
is in our southern /ntercollegiate football
conference.
be given up easily; possibly that is the rea­son
for the trouble.
VANDY IN FOR TROUBLE
Last year was the first time in twelve
years that the University of Tennessee had
administered a defeat to Vandy. This year
it seems almost certain that the same thing
will occur, much to the dismay of the
Vandy followers. However, there shouldn't
be much wailing, for this has not been ac­complished
enough to hurt Vandy's record.
Her past performances have led her to
many Southern championship—so many, in
fact, that she just about leads the field at
the present time. With this fine record a
few setbacks at the hands of one whom
she has licked consistently should not cause
the followers of this school to worry any.
NO WORRY NOW
The fellow who wrote this must have
been a collegian, for it fits one exactly.
If this can only come about, possibly the
institution can afford to close its doors;
it may as well as a door would never be
seen."
"Looky heah," says Amzi to Uncle Ezr.,
"what's did heah new lickah law what I
heahs de boss discussin' wid a travelin'
salesman drummer?" "Dey call it de new
5 and 10 law." "Niggah boy," says Uncle
Ezra, "you is arrived at de right station
fo' information; and what you craves is a
knowledge on dis new 5 and 10 cents law
rega'din lickah—well I has it as I alius keep
right up, wid de new laws. Now what dat
law means is dis: De-bootleggahs and de
druggist done went too high wid de price
and de Guv'ment done put it in de hands
of de chain stoahs, cou'se you gwine to get
it in small amounts, not nuff to git drunk
on and it don't cost much—dat's all dey is
to it and it's a pow'ful good law. In fact
it passed boff houses unanimus and de
President mighty quick put his veto to it
which made it a law right den—immegiately
y'unnastan. Now go long wid yo' fool ques­tions
and study up somethm' ha'd fo' me
fo' nex time."
* * * * *
A WISE OLD MAN
Knute Rockne, who has won the repu­tation
of being one of the great football
coaches of America, is up to his old tricks
of giving out very little information re­garding
his team's possible successes this
coming year. He promises a "little varia­tion".
But one does not know how to take
such a statement from this man, but it
won't be long before the entire country
will be able to see just how good his team
is going to be.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
IBy cAaron <Billowheel
EDITORS NOTE: The opinions express­ed
in this column are not necessarily the
editorial opinions of this paper. It is a
column of personal comment, and is not to
be read as an expression of our editorial
policy.
* * * * *
AQUESTION which has greatly dis­tressed
the wondering world for
thousands of years has recently been
settled. A literary discovery of interest
to every intelligent person has lately been
made—the diary of Jonah, which covers
the period of his three days residence in
the working space of a whale has been dis­covered.
It is carried here in our own
translation from the original, with very
slight alterations and corrections which we
thought necessary. We might add that this
is the first printing of this epic.
FRIDAY: Well, things got too hot for
'me this morning on the boat in which I
had, at the last minute, decided to make a
clean get-a-way from the lord. Everything
went well until about noon, when up came
the doggonest storm I ever experienced.
Such a storm I have never before witness­ed.
And such a tub of a boat it was! She
groaned and gasped with every pounding
wave. They lashed her so that often her
jib boom was jabbed at the stern—She
fairly writhed. By mid-afternoon things
were becoming serious. A group of sales­men
from Jerusalem were aboard (and you
know what a scummy lot salesmen are)
and they began to whimper to the captain
about their wives and children, their sick
grandmothers, or some such rot as that,
which I could not hear distinctly because I
was hidden down behind a crate of Sicilian
goats (you know about goats). I was too
busy holding my own with the sea and the
goats. The captain, being an American col­lege
boy, became quite excited and sud­denly
decided that someone on the boat
had been shooting craps with loaded dice.
Pretty soon one of the salesmen spied me
crouching there—a sock salesman from
Philadelphia, I think it was—and they haul­ed
me out with little ceremony. I was never
so embarrassed in my life. It was all a
great mistake, I assured them. And I
laughingly explained to them their big
error, because I had never played football
with Georgia Tech. I told them several
more funny stories, but did they listen?
I should say not! They all went into a
huddle in the bow of the tub, leaving me
aft to play with my toes which they decided
my fate. The storm was growing fiercer
and there evil glances my way told me
that my chances were about as good as
Auburn's against Florida. Every minute
I expected them to charge clown on me and
gleefully tear me to pieces. This is where
I fooled them. About this time along came
a chap who constantly whistled through his
teeth. He parked himself by my side and
began his nerve-racking wheezing. I stood
it as long as my rather frayed nerves
could hold out and overboard I went. Any­thing
would be better than listening to
that bird." (This thoroughly disproves the
legend about -Jonah's being cast into the
sea). To be continued, perhaps.
SUNDAY motion pictures have begun
in Auburn. They will not continue,
we believe. A majority of the city
council will probably vote against it in the
first place and in the second, there are too
many women in town. Also, the present
mayor was elected last year on a platform
of great reforms. We admit that until now
the reforms have been kept very secret,
but if he has any influence, it will prob­ably
in favor of the Quakers. The coun­cil,
it is understood, is evenly divided so
far with the decision depending on one
man. He will, doubtless, unstraddle the
fence and stride over into the Promised
Land. If the outcome were solely in the
hands of the students, there would be no
doubt as to the results. But the judgment
is in the hands of our city fathers and they
shall probably prove quite paternal.
On grounds entirely other than religious,
we believe that Sunday pictures are un­necessary.
Not harmful, or ungodly, but
entirely unnecessary. If there is any town
in the world that should be just as happy
without Sunday pictures, it seems to us
that Auburn would be that place. In Au­burn,
life goes along at a very leisurely-pace
during the week and it is doubtful
that shows on Sunday are needed to give
the poor slaves to scholarship a chance to
relax. It is rather pitiful that intelligent
college students cannot amuse themselves
wholesomely one day in the week without
huddling themselves together for costly
amusement in a theatre. This is no go-to-church
campaign.
Then I asked: 'Does a firm persuasion
that a thing is so make it so?'
He replied: 'All Poets believe that it
does, and in ages of imagination this firm
persuasion removed mountains; but many
are not capable of a firm persuasion of
anything.'
Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
WAPI GAINS IN POPULARITY
THROUGHOUT WHOLE NATION
It has been nearly nine months
since Station WAPI first came on the
air with the new five kilowat trans­mitter,
and during that time it has
been a great success. It has been ex­ceedingly
popular with people all over
the country, and has rendered a great
service to the people of the state of
Alabama.
Already 'plans are under way for
the enlargement of the various branch­es
of service during the coming year.
The entertainment features will be
greatly improved; the market and
news reports will be expanded; the
educational programs will be enlarg­ed,
and in doing this the station is
requesting the cooperation of the
State Department of Education with
the owners and management of WAPI.
Plans are now under way to secure
a better wave length, so that the
transmission will be more effective.
in the future this feature will receive
considerably more attention than prev­iously.
Student music is offered
quite frequently. In a short time it
is hoped that programs will be pre­sented
by both the Band and Glee
Club. The whole aim of the programs
coming from Auburn is to give the
people of Alabam aas much useful in­formation
as possible in an entertain­ing
manner. It is also desired to
keep Auburn before the people of the
state.
During the summer a few changes
in the personnel of the operating staff
were made. "Bill" Young resigned
as assistant manger in order to be­come
manager of WBRC, a smaller
commercial station in Bh-mingham.
J. M. Wilder resigned a station en­gineer,
and has been replaced by A.
A. Durand, an old Auburn graduate.
Young's vacancy is being temporari­ly
filled, but as yet no permanent ap-
Scene Inside Operating Room of Radio Station WAPI
Also, more time on the air is desired.! pointment has been made.
In this behalf, a committee will ap­pear
before the Federal Radio Com­mission
in Washington, D. C. on Fri­day,
Sept. 27.
At present WAPI is operating on a
frequency of 1140 kilo-cycles, or 263
meters wavelength. This channel is
rather crowded, and sometimes recep­tion
is prevented by other stations
operating near the same frequency
getting off wave. It is desired that
a clear channel be given the station
so that this trouble will be removed.
Programs are being broadcast from
the Auburn studio in Comer Hall,
daily, (except Sunday) from 12:00 to
12:30. After October the evening
programs are broadcast from 7:00
to 8:00 P. M. The noon programs
are mainly given over to educational
features, while the evening programs
are more of an entertaining nature.
From time to time the various pro­fessors
talk on educational subjects.
Market and news reports are given
daily. The market reports have prov­en
especially valuable to the farmers
and people at large over the state, and
WAPI was built by the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, but since then
part interest has been sold to the Uni­versity
of Alabama and Alabama Col­lege,
however, Auburn still retains
more time on the air than the other
two joint-owners. The Wniversity
broadcasts three thirty minute even­ing
programs a week, and the Ala­bama
College gives two thirty minute
evening programs a week. . Auburn's
time on the air totals four hours per
week.
A recent survey by a trained man
revealed that in sixty out of sixty-seven
counties in Alabama day time
reception from WAPI was good. A
few counties on the coast are too dis­tant
for good day reception, and sev­eral
were found to have bad local in­terference,
thus preventing reception.
This seems to indicate that WAPI is
unusually effective, and if the com­mittee
appearing before the Federal
Radio Commission is successful in se­curing
the new wavelength, the effi­ciency
of the station will be greatly
increased.
UNIVERSITY AUTHORITIES DENY
FROSH JUMPED FROM WINDOW
Denial was made in Tuscaloosa
Monday that Teddie Jackson, promin­ent
Mobile freshman at the Univer­sity
of Ala., dived through a second-floor
window in. the Chi-Phi fratern-timate
included 200 persons, most of
them university students,
James S. Bealle, Jr., former student
at the university, and now a reporter
on The Tuscaloosa News, said tonight
Warner Wins Prize
In National Essay
Contest On Aviation
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YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED
Phone 72 Opelika, Ala.
Winner of an Eaglerock Airplane
in a national aviation essay contest
Percy DeF. Warner, law student of
New York university, and an or­ganizer
of the school flying club,
hopes to popularize flying among
college students by the formation of
non-profit collegian aero groups.
Drawing from his business experi­ence
in organizing the New York club,
Warner prepared a series of four ar­ticles
giving detailed data on the
costs of planes and instruction. He
outlines methods of financing college
clubs, and gives valuable information
on conduction an undergraduate club
so as to minimize risks and ease fac­ulty
apprehension.
Warner, a student aviator in the
Naval Air Reserve, is 22 years of
age. He recently flew his plane from
the Alexander Aircraft factory at
Colorado Springs, Colo., sponsor of
the national contest, to his home at
Nantucket, Mass.
Following is the first of four pa­pers
submitted by Mr. Warner in the
competition for the Eaglerock air­plane.
The others treat with oper­ating
and financing college flying
clubs:
Nowhere today is more interest
manifested in all phases of aviation
than in, the colleges. Aviation ap-
Hog Raisers Given
Prizes By Kiwanis
Si* Farmers Compete In Hog Show-
Held Here
For $1,419.18 six farmers sold 70
hogs at the first Lee County hog show
and sale held here Thursday. The
hogs were bought by the Birmingham
Packing Company, the best grade
bringing $10.50 per hundredweight.
The show was sponsored by the Ki­wanis
club of Auburn in cooperation
with County Agent L. M. Hollings-worth
and the animal husbandry
faculty at Auburn.
The hogs were fed as directed by
Mr. Hollingsworth. Farmers who
took part in the sale demonstrated
that pork can be produced at low
cost in this section.
Cash prizes of $25.00 wer awarded
by the Kiwanis Club. First prize for
the best gilt and barrow went to J.
D. Webster, second to A. T. Whatley,
and third to T. A. Whatley, Jr. These
farmers also won first, second, and
third prize for the best lot.
Farmers who participated in the
sale in addition to the prize winners
were R. L. Moore, J. K. Kirkwood, R.
S. Page, and the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute.
Before the sale Dr. Bradford
Kriapp, Auburn's president, Prof. J.
C. Grimes, head of the animal in­dustry
group at Auburn and presi-
CAPACITY CLASSES
FEATURE OPENING
OF YEAR AT TECH.
ity house Saturday night or that he that two members of the fraternity
was taken to the Druid City hospital I t o ld him Monday morning that Jack-for
injuries. I son did jump, but that he was not
It previously had been reported,
and today is common gossip on the
campus of the university, that Jack­son
jumped when he saw a group of
upperclassmen approaching him in
the Chi Phi fraternity house, and that
he thought they were intending to
"haze" him.
Thomas M. McKnight, director of
the University News Bureau, stated
Monday night that he had learned,
after thorough investigation, that the
report of the entire affair was er
"injured seriously at all."
was
He did at­tend
classes Monday at the university.
i
Mr. Bealle also said that he was
told this morning by George B. Stig-ener,
of the firm of Jones and Stig­ener
Undertaking Company, that the
Jones and Stigener Company received
a call for an ambulance to the Chi
Phi house shortly after 8:30. o'clock
Saturday night. Mr. Bealle said that
Mr. Stigener said that when the am­bulance
arrived at the Chi Phi house,
there was a large crowd of students
roneous, and that Jackson did not gathered in front of the house, and
peals to the enterprising and adven-jdent of the Kiwanis Club, Dr. C. A.
turous and the most adventurous and| Cary, and Dr. R. S. Sugg spoke to
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• this valuable collegiate enthusiasm to
the industry is to get the colleges
flying. The college man's age, dis-
The Georgia School of Technology
opened its fortieth annual session
Monday with a capacity enrollment,
and some departments were compell­ed
to turn away boys seeking admis­sion.
There were more than 2,000
students on the campus and approxi­mately
1,000 more will enroll in the
two evening schools operated by
Tech, the School of Applied Sciences
and the Evening School of Com­merce.
As a tribute to Former Governor
Nat. E. Harris, author of the bill cre­ating
Georgia Tech and chairman of
the board of trustees of the institu­tion
up to the time of his death, all
activities were ordered suspended at
Tech at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon,
the hour of Governor Harris's funer­al
in Macon. Dr. M. L. Brittain, presi­dent
of Georgia Tech, also instructed
each professor to talk to his classes
Monday about the life and works of
Governor Harris, who was a pioneer
in the causes of education and prohi­bition.
' Georgia Tech observed freshman
week last week, and the upper class­men
did not have to report until Mon­day,
when classes began. There are
1,150 in the freshman class and the
total campus enrollment is approxi­mately
2,300, which is the capacity
of the institution. The highest enroll­ment
last year was 2,222.
. Forty new instructors took up their
jump from the window, was not in­jured
arid was not tnken to the Druid
City Hospital.
Hospital authorities tonight claimed
that Jackson was not brought there
Saturday night.
However, it was common gossip on
the campus today that Jackson did
jump from the building, that he was
taken to the Druid City Hospital, and
that he was treated for injuries to his
back. It is said that he is wearing
bandages for back-sprains today.
Shortly after Jackson is said to
have jumped from the window about
9:30 Saturday night, a large crowd
of students gathered outside the Chi
Phi house. No denial that he had
jumped was made by fraternity mem­bers
then, according to persons who
were in the crowd, which some es-that
the driver was told that the stu­dent
for whom the ambulance was
called had been taken to the Druid
City Hospital ki a private automobile.
In the meantime, university au-thorties
are denying the incident oc­curred,
the undertaking firm is in­sisting
they received an ambulance
call to the fraternity house, mem­bers
of the Chi Phi house are keeping
silent, Jackson is attending classes,
and students are relating how Jack­son
jumped from the house, was
taken to the hospital and later re­leased,
and that a large crowd had
gathered in front of the house
"shortly after 8:30 Saturday night."
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the farmers and other assembled.
Prof. Grimes said that it was the j work at Tech, coincident with the in-purpose
of the Kiwanis Club to hold j auguration of a rayon school in the
a similar sale each year, and stressed
the value of swine as a sideline to cot-
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ideal for flight instruction. The cost
alone holds him back. The co-opera­tive
college flying club can overcome
this difficulty and fill several need
in aeronautics. It can build up air-mindedness
among the executives of
the next business generation. In
aeronautical engineering schools it
can give the student laboratory ex­perience
valuable to designers of air­craft.
If taken up generally by the
scores of colleges thruout the coun­try,
the flying club movement can
spread airmindedness in localities re­moved
from the stimuli of great traf­fic
centers. For example, in one
large Eastern city a university flying
club stirred the city officials to the
selection of an airport and helped
them pick the best site. In towns
where college men help local boys or
find employment, they can use these
contacts to promote glider and model
contests, make the town air-marked,
boost air mail and passenger traffic,
and invite prominent figures in avia­tion
to address themselves and the
townspeople. At its best, the college
flying club is fortunate in being the
outstanding extra-curricular activity
whereby the undergraduate can make
significant contributions to a great
industry and gain valuable experience
himself.
Obstacles confronting a college fly­ing
club are, in probable order of ap­pearance;
sustaining student interest,
faculty opposition, the financing of
the purchase and operation of an air­plane,
and the continuity of respon­sible
control.
Sustaining student interest should
not be difficult. A short constitution
should set the mark for the club to
aim at during its struggle for estab­lishment,
a struggle which may be
short but which may last after the
first moving spirits have departed.
Prospective members should clearly
understand the physical requirements
and responsibilities involved in flying.
The club can well employ itself be­fore
the airplane arrives in getting
a thorough ground summer training.
One club includes a subscription to a
popular aeronautical engineering
magazine in its membership fee. Fort-
The vocational agriculture teachers
of Beauregard, Smith Station, and
Auburn brought their students to the
sale to study stock judging. After
the sale the students made a tour of
the Experiment Station of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
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textile department and a ground
school of aviation by the departments
of naval science and tactics.
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Co-eds at Grinnell college, Grin­nell,
Iowa, are incensed over what
they characterize as an attempt to
coerce them to remain in their dormi­tories
after hours. The college has
erected iron picket fences 15 feet
high around each fire escape at the
„,, i n tr D u • u i n,r I dormitories, and a storm has broken
1 he new 40 H. P. Fairbanks Morse'
Diessel engine purchased by the col­lege
last year is now in operation in
the Senior Mechanical Laboratory on
the ground floor of Ramsay Hall.
Professor McKinnon stated that the
engine was performing exceptionally
well. It is very smooth in operation,
and is easily started. This engine was
especially designed for making tests,
but as yet the pressure indicator and
the prony brake have not been in-
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nightly discussions are held which
have successfully maintained the in­terest
of the rank and file until the
club recently was able to buy its ship.
Faculty opposition is apt to be
slight in a college with an aeronautic­al
engineering school. If plans are
carefully thought out, the engineer­ing
faculty will be valuable allies. A
college with an enlightened R. O. T.
C. officer will have a potential ally
in him. In other colleges with more
conservative faculties, the club should
prove its sincerity to the doubting
professors by ground work about the
town (air-marking, boosting airport,
inviting prominent speakers, etc.);
it should educate the faculty with
statistics and examples such as the
Harvard Flying Club has afforded;
it should show a thoro comprehension
of the problems involved and of their
solutions; and it should encourage a
vigorous barrage of letters and tes­timonials
from air-minded alumni and
parents.
In this air-minded age, a faculty
will not be able to indefinitely with­stand
a carefully-planned, tactful
siege. With the campus squarely be­hind
it, the club will be well prepared
for the major task of enlisting out­side
financial support.
because of it. Now the " girls are
threatening to bring the matter to the
attention of the city authorities on
the ground that the fire escapes cre­ate
a hazard and would endanger
their lives if there should be a fire.
A wag at the college, writing in
the college weekly, suggests there are
step ladders and wire clippers on sale
at hardware stores. The girls say the
dormitories have been turned into
zoos and prisons by hte fences and
some have suggested to male stu­dents
the use of acetylene torches.
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made to accommodate several
will take part in the audition.
The young ladies and young men
who will enter the State audition have
won in either county contests or in
contests conducted by institutions of
higher learning. The State committee
authorized each county to select its
two best voices—one young man and
one young lady. At the same time
each educational institution was au­thorized
to select two.
The State audition will be a con­test
in which Alabama's best undis­covered
voices will cdmpete'for fame
and fortune. The best female and
the best male voices in the State audi­tion,
as determined by the public and
a committee of judges, will go to
Station WSM in Nashville in Nov­ember
for the audition of winners in
the southern states. TEe Nashville
winners will enter the national con­test
for highest honors which will be
broadcast from New York in Decemr|Committee of which Mrs. Carmichael
ber. Large cash prizes" and scholar­ships
wilLbe-awarded to national win-
Under the direction of the State
committee an effort has been made
to discover potentially great voices
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anywhere in Alabama between the
ages of 18 and 25, as provided by the
rules of the audition. County com­mittees
throughout the State have
been active and a large number of
county winners have been selected.
When they come before the micro­phone
of Station WAPI in Birming­ham,
Alabamians will hear splendid
voices unknown to them in the past
but capable of development.
This will be the third audition of
this kind conducted by the Atwater
Kent Foundation. Prizes to national
winners will be awarded as follows:
First place (a young man and a
young woman), a gold decoration,
$5,000 in cash, and two years' tuition
with an American institute of music
or a recognized teacher.
Second place, $3,000 each, and one
year's tuition.
Third place, $2,000 each, and one
year's tuition.
Fourth place, $1,500 each, and one
year's tuition.
Fifth place, $1,000 each, and one
year's tuition.
Other members of "the Alabama
is chairman are Mrs. Wade Carlisle,
Roanoke; Mrs. W. S. Wilson, Dothan;
Mrs. B. L. Noojin, Gadsden; Prof.
William Naylor, Marion; Mrs. Mary
Drake Askew, Auburn; Mrs. Sara
Hunt Vann, Birmingham; Miss Lily
Byron Gill, Montgomery; Mrs. J. H.
McCoy, Athens; Mrs. Harry N. Ed-dins,
Tuscaloosa; Mrs. John L. Moul-ton,
Mobile; Mrs. Alonzo Meek,
Selma.
The Lee County winners are Miss
Ruth Fresbie of Auburn and Cecil
Stowe of Opelika. Miss Fresbie is a
student and is taking voice at the new
department of music. Her expenses
to Birmingham for the state audition
will be paid by the Auburn Kiwanis
Club.
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DISTINGUISHED LIST, 1928-29
SESSION IS ANNOUNCED
BY REGISTRAR'S OFFICE
(Continued from page 1)
field; Glover, Martin Horatio, 3rd
Yr., A. E., Dothan; Graves, Lottie
Lane, So., Ed., Mobile; Hanvil, John
Phil, 1st Yr., A., Fairhope; Hayes,
Howard, Fr., V. M., Calera; Howard,
Ezra Gleeson, Fr., E. E., Verbena;
Jackson, Naomi Ruth, So., Ed., Ope­lika;
Keister, William, Jr., E. E.,
Montgomery; Lawrenz, Margaret, So.,
Ch. E., Elberta; Lovvorn, Roy Lee,
So., Ag., Wedowee; Lumpkin, Louie
Irwin, Fr., Ag. Ed., Millerville;
Lumpkin, Tom Watson, Fr., Ag. Ed.,
Millerville; Marsh, William Jackson,
Jr., Jr., Ch. E., Sheffield; Meyer,
Cletus Ernest, Jr., E. E., Mobile;
Mitchell, John Floyd Jr., Jr., Ch. E.,
Jacksonville; Moore, Frances, Fr.,
Ed., Auburn; Nieto, Arturo P., Jr.,
E. E., Celaya, Mexico; Owen, Lucien
Elmore, Jr., E. E., Wylam; Pearson,
Allen Mobley, So., Ed., Leroy; Quin-livan,
James Raphael, Jr., So., E. E.,
Mobile; Sledge, Levin Lee, Jr., M. E.,
Greensboro; Smith, John Alexander,
Jr., So., G., Fayette; Smith, Joseph
Daniel, Jr., So., Ch. E., Birmingham;
Smith, James Kimbrough, Jr., Jr., E.
E., Eutaw; Stone, Jesse Leon, So., E.
E., Sylacauga; Summerford, DeAlva
Clinto J.r, C. E., Hamilton; Tancredi,
Blanche Marie, Jr., Ed., Birmingham;
Turner, Jack Felming, So., Ag. Ed.,
St. Stephens; Wailes, Henry Leonard,
2nd Yr., A., Birmingham; Whitcher,
Alice Taggard, Jr., H. Ec, Bridge­port;
White, Olive Fleming, Jr., E.
E., Ashland; Williams, Frank Norton,
Jr., Fr., E. E., Mobile; Williams,
Powell, Jr., So., C. E., Mobile; Wil­liams,
Robert Eubanks, Jr., Fr., M.
E., Little Rock, Ark.; Williamson,
George Leslie, So., M. E., Birming­ham;
Willman, Joseph Augustus, So.,
E. E., Talladega; Winter, Thome
Sherwood, Jr., Jr., E. E., Mobile.
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and his associates, who are Prof. J.
W. Randolph, Ellis Diseker, and T.
M. Jones, is the soil itself which pre­sents
countless problems from the
standpoint of the farmer. Surveys
have revealed that there are soils in
Alabama which have been discarded
because of the baffling problems
concerning plowing and cultivating
them. Alabama soils include some of
the most difficult as well as some of
the easiest to cultivate; and this wide
variation of soil types adds to the
problems to be solved by the agricul­tural
engineers.
The research work of the depart­ment
is planned with a view to the
practical application of economy in
proluction. Everything now in the
way of making crops arid raising live­stock
is being tried with a view to
finding a way to use it to advantage
on Alabama farms. Plows, planters,
weeders, tractors, and various sorts
of harvesting machinery are included
in the research studies.
Professor Nichols says that the check
planter is the most promising labor
saving instrument tested to date by
his department. With a check planter
crops are planted in check rows, al­lowing
cultivation in both directions,
thereby doing with a cultivator what
would otherwise have to be done by
hoe. The two-row cultivator is ac­cepted
as standard equipment.
These production studies will be
continued with a view to modernizing
and making more efficient the pro­duction
of agricultural products in
Alabama.
Fortunately, results are obtained
more quickly than in some of the
other divisions of agricultural re­search.
During the last few years
Alabama farmers have made rapid
strides in applying machinery and
power to their work. Tractors, cul­tivators,
planters and other equip
ment have been bought on a very
large scale. Cultivator an<r~tract.or
sales in recent years have established
new high records; and Prof. Nichols is
of the opinion that this will continue
because such equipment is necessary
to economic production which is an
essential part of profitable farming.
As cotton farmers increase their
machinery equipment, Prof. Nichols
has observed an improved system as
well as a reduction in the cost of
making cotton. An example of this
improvement is the addition of cows
and other livestock or other cash
crops to cotton. With adequate ma­chinery
cotton farmers found it feas­ible
to add dairying to cotton because
they can make feed at a low cost. This
is only one of. several examples of
improvement in the system itself due
to adequate power and machinery.
The veterinary society, at its first
meeting had an enrollment of twenty
eight, out of thirty one registered in
the veterinary department of the col­lege.
Dr. C. A. Cary, dean of the vet­erinary
department of the college,
gave an interesting talk about the
American Veterinary Medical Asso­ciation,
which he attended this sum­mer
in Detroit. He gave a short re­view
of the history and growth of the
A. V. M. A., stating that in 1890
the total membership was probably
not more than three or four hundred
with an attendance of about fifty,
whereas the membership of today is
one thousand to twelve hundred with
an attendance at the last meeting of
seven or eight hundred. He said that
some of the outstanding work in the'
veterinary field of today is being
done by alumni of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute. Dr. Sims of Oregon
is doing a wonder piece of work in
parasitology, and Dr. Halman of
Michigan college is doing an outstand­ing
piece of work in the bacteriolo­gical
field.
Dr. Cary closed his talk by saying
that if students expected to be of the
most service to their country and
themselves they had to apply them­selves
and stay on the job.
Giant Plane Makes
Trial Filght In N. J.
The biggest land plane ever built
was launched the other day at Has-brouck
Heights, N. J., and made a suc­cessful
flight. The plane is the first
of the Fokker F-32s equipped to car­ry
thirty-two passengers in daylight
flights and sixteen at night. It is to
be used on the trans-continental
plane-train system of the New York
Central Railroad and Universal Air­planes.
Five more planes of this type
are under construction for Universal,
and as soon as they are completed six
more are to be built for Western Air
Express.
The huge plane has a wind spread
of 99 feet and is nearly 70 feet long.
It is powered by four motors and
flies at a speed of 150 miles an
hour. On its first official flight it
took off after a run of less than 20
seconds and climbed steeply. Bank­ing
and swinging in wide circles, it
demonstrated its stability in all posi­tions,
after which it made a gentle
landing.
The cabin of the big plane is de­scribed
as being so high that even tall
passengers cannot touch the ceiling
when standing up. It contains a kit­chen
and two washrooms. The pas­sengers
sit four abreast with a wide
aisle running down the middle.
Doubtless within a few years planes
as large as this and larger will be
in common use on commercial s
lines.
(Continued from page 1)
The committee of judges will con­sist
of President Bradford Knapp, all
athletic coaches, and members of the
football squad. The yells will be rated
according to their distinctiveness,
snappiness, and peppiness. All contri­butions
should be short and "explo­sive
in character." Judges reserve
the right to decide if yells submitted
are worthy of prizes, and to withdraw
prizes should not enough yells be sub­mitted.
The final date for contribu­tions
to be made will be October 17.
An announcement of the prize-win­ners
will be made on October 24 in
the Plainsman, and the yells will be
given at a mass meeting on October
26. Contributions should be placed
in a special box at the Plainsman of­fice,
Auburn Printing Co.
J. D. Neeley, president of Kappa
Kappa Psi and also president of the
Auburn Band, declared that Auburn
is in dire need of a football yell that
is exclusively Auburn in spirit. "Au­burn
needs a yell", he said, "that will I
be recognized throughout the South
as being typically Auburn—and that
should be the most distinctive yell in
the South, I believe. We want one
that the huge audiences that attend
our games will. eagerly await—one
that all will acknowledge as being the
best college yell that ever existed.
We expect many contributions. Most
probably many that are not prizewin-.
ners will be incorporated into the list
of. immortal Auburn yells."
PSYCHOLOGIST DEVISES
"PRACTICAL BEHAVIORISM"
While some of the most famous
psychologists in the world were busy
at the International Psychological
Congress held at Yale last week prob­ing
the minds of man and ape, meas­uring
personality and weighing "It",
an American psychologist came forth
with a volume of sound and scientific
psychology, which he calls "practical
behaviorism", intended to show the
average man that his personality and
his destiny are largely matters within
his own control.
Dr. Herschel T. Manuel of the Uni­versity
of Texas is the author of the
book, "Master of My Fate", which
has just been issued by The Century
Co.
Dr. Manuel has based his unusual
book on the assumption that human
beings who reach the teens and early
adult life wish to have some part in
determining what they are to be and
do. He attempts to set up reasonable
goals and then shows how these goals
may be reached. His books treats
personality and conduct purely from
the standpoint of intelligent personal
control.
One of the unique features of
"Master of My Fate" is a self-im­provement
rating scale by which
a person* may keep an accurate
check upon his personality develop­ment.
Dr. Manuel has listed here 500
activities that are presumably char­acteristic
of desirable personalities.
tends to serve Auburn even though
he is leaving.
The guests of the club were: Mr.
Watkins, Miss Walker, Bill Young,
formerly of Auburn, Dean Scott, and
a Plainsman representative.
CONSTITUTION WEEK IS
OBSERVED BY KIWANIANS
(Continued from page 1)
chairman.
Members expressed their regrets
that Prof. J. E. Ivey, a past presi­dent
of the club, was preparing to
leave Auburn; he stated that his rela­tions
with members had been enjoy­able
in every way, and that he in-
FEDERATION WOMEN'S
CLUBS TO MEET HERE
(Continued from page 1)
fourth district; Mrs. J. M. Burt, Ope­lika,
manager fifth district; Mrs. Hu­bert
Martin, Ozark, manager sixth
district; Miss Clara Hall, Bay Min-ette,
manager seventh district; Mrs.
Bradford Knapp, Auburn, chairman
committee on American home; Mrs.
T. H. Napier, Montevallo, member
committee on American home; and
Mrs. Sheldon Toomer, Auburn, chair­man,
division of home"extension.
Representatives of the council of
home demonstration clubs will be
Mrs. L. W. Spratling, Waverly, presi­dent;
Mrs. W. F. Jeffers, Glencoe,
first vice-president;. Mrs. J. S. Mor-riss,
Alpine, second vices-president;
Mrs. Sears Lee, Marion, secretary;
Mrs. J. D. Giles, Selma, treasurer;
Mrs. Richard Pruitt, Leighton, direc­tor
first district; Mrs. Hugh Tomp-
In Montgomery County an experi­ment
is now being started in curing
hay regardless of weather. This is an
attempt to cure it artificially at a
cost that will permit increased pro­duction
and establish a large and
profitable hay industry in the Black
Belt where farmers are looking for
a cash crop of this kind.
Some years ago the department
worked out a farm refrigerator which
is now on the market. It is a refri­gerator
applied to farm needs.
After seven years of research work
in Alabama Professor Nichols is con­vinced
that farming in Alabama is a
promising occupation if those who en­gage
in it will increase production per
man to large quantities and apply
sound business principles in financing
and in selling their products.
kins, Fitzpatrick, director second dis­trict;
Mrs. H. T. Morton, Marion, di­rector
third district.
The representatives of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute will be
Dr. Bradford Knapp, president; Mr.
L. N. Duncan, director Extension
Service; Miss Johnston, Miss Eliza­beth
Forney, district agent, Miss May
I. Cureton, district agent; Miss Helen
Kennedy, extension nutritionist; Miss
Nell Pickens, extension economist;
Miss Dorothy D. Dean, specialist in
clothing and handicraft; Miss Bess
Fleming, specialist in 4-H club work;
Miss Zoe Dobbs, dean of women; and
Miss Louise P. Glanton, head of the
school of home economics.
PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25
Evelyn Brent, Jack Oakie, "Skeets"
Gallagher and Gwen Lee in
"FAST COMPANY"
All-talking, All-comedy, All-romance.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 26
Jean Eagels in
"JEALOUSY"
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27
Charles Rogers & Nancy Carroll in
"CLOSE HARMONY"
A Big Jazz Revue, All-Talking, Sing­ing,
Music.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28
Walter Huston in
"GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS"
Broadway's Drama Sensation
All-Talking
RADIO PEP
MEETINGS
- a Wow! And How!
W e ' r e having 'em
too. Every new ship­ment
of Fall clothes
we unpack sets off
the cheers. Listen in
—or look in f i r st
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AUBURN—BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN
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