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BEAT FLORIDA! TIGER! THE PLAINSMAN MAKE THE DANCES TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928, NUMBER 7 OPENING DANCES BEGIN AT NINE O'CLOCK TONIGHT ALUMNI GYM Auburn Coaches To Install New System Football Intramural Athletics Will Added To Present Methods Be FIRST SERVICES IN NEWLY-COMPLETED EPISCOPAL CHURCH ALABAMA FARMER PUTS ON SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE Formal Opening To Take Place In November TEAMS ARE FORMED TO REPRESENT BATTALIONS Will Develop Latest Ability For Varsity Squad This week will bring with it a novel innovation to the Auburn athletic machine, namely the introduction of intra mural football for those members of the" Rat and Varsity squads who are on the regular line up or on the first string substitutes. Four teams are being formed, one to represent each battalion or Artillery and one the Engineer Battalion, thus conforming to the organization of the R. 0. T. C. regiment. The use of the military organization in connection with intramural athletics is designed to give a working organization which will divide the student body into four groups of tlje same size, thus equalizing competition. Lieutenant G. B. Barth has been designated as Athletic Officer of the R. O. T. C. regiment and will cooperate with the coaching staff in organizing and maintaining the four teams and in scheduling their games. Each team will be provided with a coach drawn either from the coaching staff or the faculty. Coach Bohler has not fully decided on the coaches as yet, but among those being considered are "Pop" Paterson, "Ebb" and "Fob" James, "Cush" Wood. The team captains and alternate captains will be upperclassmen from the Varsity scrub squad. Each team will play one scheduled game weekly, one game to be played on Tuesday and one on Thursday afternoon. In addition an attempt will be made to schedule a game on Armistice Day. The idea of intramural athletics is not a new one. At present such schools as West Point, Notre Deme, and Georgia Tech use such a system in developing material for their varsity teams. A league of this kind allows many more men to demonstrate their ability and develop in actual play, thus keeping up the interest of men who otherwise would become discouraged on account of lack of opportunity to "show their stuff." The coaches will watch these contests with interest and will promote to the "Rat" or Varsity squad such men as show promise. All Freshmen who have turned in their suits and all others who would like to play are urged to report to the gymnasium at once and draw equipment. There is a limited amount of equipment for issue, so do not delay reporting. Omicron Delta Kappa Holds First Meeting Progressive Course of Activities Formulated For Year's Work .Omega Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa held its first meeting of the year in the lodge room last Tuesday evening. Plans for the year were formulated and a course of activities was 'mapped out in line with the progressive administration of the college. Election to Omicron Delta Kappa is regarded as the highest honor on the Auburn campus. Membership is based on scholarship, personality, leadership, and popularity. The present members of Omicron Circles are: (Faculty) Dr. Knapp, Coach Hutsell, Professor Daughrity, and Professor Baugham; Rosser Alston, P. M. Beard, P. Crenshaw, F. DuBbse, Joe Ford, "Pop" Paterson, J. R. Taylor, A. H. McGhee, L. A. Smith, and J. B. Merrill. C O N T A I N S MEMORIALS Made Possible Through Efforts Of Bishop McDowell The first services to be held in the newly completed main auditorium of the Episcopal church of Auburn were inaugurated by Rev. Lee last Sunday at eleven A. M. The parish house has been completed for about three years and has been used to hold the services in, the first one being held on Jan. 4, 1925, by the Rev. Geo. Ossman. The formal opening of the church will take place some time in Nov., when Bishop McDowell, who did so much to make this beautiful building possible, returns from the general convention. The church is of the Gothic style of architecture and contains many memorials: Among some of these are: the Veredoe and Altar given by Mr. and Mrs. Jemison as a memorial to the late Robert Jemison, Sr., of Birmingham; the Baptismal Fount given by W. B. Lazarus in memory of Fannie Toomer, of Auburn; the Creed-ence Table presented by Mrs. Clark of Montgomery in memory of her three sons who attended school here and the processional cross given by the wife of Harry Hebblewhite, of Birmingham, as a memorial to him. The erection of the church was largely made possible by a contribution of Mrs. M. Sloan, daughter of General and Mrs. Lane, and a suitable tablet is soon to be erected to her. The corner stone of the former Church of the Holy Innocents is to be placed in the wall of the new church, linking it with the little Chappel established here in 1887. Bishop W. G. McDowell who started proceedings for the new church, came here after the World War, and stayed until his election as Bishop, On August 24, 1925, the old frame church was torn down and ground was broken for the present building. The Alabama Farmer, agricultural publication issued monthly by the students of the Agricultural Club at this institution, is advancing a special drive to secure additional subscribers for this lively magazine. A special urge is being pressed upon the Ag students particularly to subscribe. to a man. This publication, having reached the distinction of admission to membership of Agricultural Magazines, Associated, is recognized as one of the leading magazines of its kind in the entire country. It carries each month, splendid timely discussions on the latest and entirely modern farm practices of the day, these articles being prepared by students here at Auburn. In addition, a section known as the "Campus Farmer" endeavors to present the outstanding news events of the month. The first issue for this session will be off the press within the coming week. It will be mailed to every student registered here as an Agricultural or Home economics student. Later issues will be withheld unless a subscription fee is paid promptly. With Harry Wise and J. R. Taylor, Jr., at the helm of the Farmer this year, and advance upon the already high standard of the publication is expected. Circulation being the main issue with any publication, this factor is receiving much attention at present. To Lead Grand March Friday Night AUBURN PLAYERS SEEK "IT" GIRL ON CAMPUS Airship Los Angeles Passes Over Auburn Huge Dirigible Seen Here On Way To Lone Star State NEW AG BUILDING WELL UNDER WAY Modern Structure To Be Completed In January Work is well under way on a two-story building which will when .completed be occupied by the Extension Service Department. It is expected that the structure will be completed by February if work is not halted at any time between now and then. This building, to cost eighty thousand dollars, has been'designed by the college architects, Warren, Knight, and Davis, of Birmingham. The building is to be of brick, trimmed with limestone. It should be said here that this edifice will be the concrete result of the far sightedness of L. N. Duncan, Director of the Extension Service, for it is due mainly to his efforts that such has been made possible. DEAN FUNCHESS CONVALESCING Has Made Rapid Recovery Recent Operation Since News has reached Auburn that Dean M. J. Funchess of the college of agriculture has recovered sufficiently to return either Thursday or Friday of this week. His recovery has been more rapid than his physician thought possible after the operation. Prof. Funchess had not been feeling well for sometime and went to Montgomery more than two weeks ago. A major operation was performed. His many friends hope the operation will result in complete restoration of his health. One of America's greatest and most beautiful dirigibles, the Los Angeles, passed over Auburn about 11 A. M. Sunday. The great ship was en-route from Lakehurst, N. J. to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. It carried 46 American Legion delegates to their national convention at San Antonio. An interesting comparison might be made between the great German dirigible, the "Graf Zeppelin," now on a voyage to this country, and the Los Angeles. The "Graf Zeppelin" is 771 feet long and 100 feet in diameter. Incidentally, the Graf Zeppelin is only 25 feet shorter than the Woolworth Building. Miss Rose Gunter, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. W. A. Gunter, of Montgomery, who, with Luke Brown, will lead the Grand March Friday Night. ' CREDIT AGAIN GIVEN IN CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AT AUBURN Credit Toward Degree Allowed For Work Completed DR. KNAPP'S SON HERE ON VISIT President and Mrs. Knapp now have as their guest Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Knapp, Jr. of Washington, who are here for a vacation of two weeks. It is their first visit to Auburn and they are enjoying it thoroughly . Mr. Knapp is the oldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Knapp. He is a geneticist in the United States Department of Agriculture. He went there after graduating in animal husbandry at the Oklahoma A. & M. College where he received his B. S. degree; and from there he went to Iowa State College at Ames where he received his M. S. in genetics. Mrs. Knapp is an Oklahoma girl. PREXY QUALIFIES AS CHEERLEADER Leads "Dummy Yell" During Recent Clemson Game Dr. Knapp has qualified as head cheerleader! He appeared upon the field during the second quarter of the game against Clemson Saturday to lead his "dummy yell." The response to this yell originated by him undeniably gives him the honor of first cheerleader. Dr. Knapp has already been elected champion cowboy, with his ten-gallon hat, and now he takes this honor. Motion passed that he be disqualified from further campus honors. For the third consecutive year the school of education of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is offering correspondence courses, according to announcement made today by Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of extension teaching and professor of elementary education. The official bulletin offers eight courses in economics; seven in English; eight in foreign languages; eight in history; seven in mathematics; two in physics; eight in home economics; and thirteen in education. Enrollments to take these courses are now being received daily and the work will start immediately to continue throughout the year, Dr. Showalter said. Two-semester hour courses are organized in sixteen units and three-semester hour courses in twenty-four units. These correspondence courses are open to all wishing to take them, the announcement explained. By an official act of the college authorities, one-fourth of the required work for graduation may be taken by correspondence. College credit will be given for all correspondence courses satisfactorily completed. Through these correspondence courses Dr. Showalter pointed out that the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is extending its service not only to non-1 resident students who are working toward a degree but also to business (Continued on page 6) DR. KNAPP SPEAKS TO COUNCIL GROUP ON FIELD OF WORK Considers Y. M. C. A. Leading Organization On Campus Elections! the very air is full of politics! Aside from the big political battles being waged throughout the nation Auburn is staging a little political drama of her own, the purpose of which" is to determine the "Personality Plus Co-ed" of the campus. This "It"-girl is desired by the Auburn Players to take the leading role in the college play, which will be presented soon. She must be personally attractive in appearance, though not necessarily beautiful; vivacious but not flippant; temperamental but not tempestuous; popular but well poised. Who is she, this beautiful little Clara Bow of Auburn? Rumors are abroad, and such names as Eloise Floyd, Evelyn Henry, Kathrine Porter, and Jackie Hutchinson are being mentioned in various discussions. Various opinions prevail over the campus. Some ask if such a girl really exists, others say that such a girl is not obvious, and still others contend that Auburn is full of this very type. The Polls are now open, and the ballot box may be found at the Tiger Drug Store. Everyone is asked to cast his ballot so that the winner will be the choice of the whole school. BALLOT Personality-Plus Co-ed— Ultimate Degree In Preparations Has Been Made Decorations For Event Depicted By Fred Ledbetter, Roy Staples, of Faculty MISS ROSE GUNTER IS TO LEAD GRAND MARCH Rudy Brown's Orchestra To Furnish Music For Dances Voter's name "A" CLUB DANCE BEST IN HISTORY Was Best Home Coming Day During Recent Years Neal Johnson Leads Cheers Homecoming Former All-Southern Back In Old Position Saturday Neal Johnson, Auburn's All-Southern cheer leader, was back on Drake field Saturday in his old position. The student body responded to his efforts. Cheers are always good when Neal Johnson is present! The student body seems to pep up when he steps upon the field and picks up a megaphone. He has led cheers at many games after his graduation, and is to be highly commended for the great amount of loyalty shown by him. Dr. Bradford Knapp spoke to the Y.M.C.A. Council group meeting in the assembly room of the "Y" building Sunday afternoon, October 7. A large number of the Cabinet members listened to the intensely interesting talk made by Dr. Knapp expressing his conception of the status and field of the "Y" work on the Auburn campus. Dr. Knapp proclaimed his profound interest in the work of the Y.M.C.A. organization here, stating that he would lend it his every support. He stated that he considered it one of the leading organizations on the campus, and advised the Cabinet members to uphold its splendid moral principles and wholesome endeavors constantly to the student body. "You are leaders," he cautioned, "and are in a position to render the most wholesome and uplifting service posisble to your fellow-students. There rests in your hands the noble task of guiding those about you to a life of real, Christian service. After all," he continued, "that is our ultimate purpose here; and if that end can be accomplished, then the other common duties of everyday life will follow without serious difficulty." Dr. Knapp stated that he has been deeply interested in Y.M.C.A. work for a long time; his extensive plans for the advancement of "Y" work here bear this out. REV. FRED TURNER HOLDS R E V I V AL Services Are Conducted Daily At Methodist Church Starting Monday night October 8, a special revival service is now in progress at the Auburn Methodist Church. It is being conducted by Rev. Fred Turner, pastor of the Riverside Park Methodist Church of Jacksonville, Florida. The services were announced by Rev. E. D. Burnworth, pastor of the Auburn Methodist Church, who said that services will begin daily at 7:30 p. m. They will continue throughout the week. The "A" Club dance last Saturday night closed the festivities for one of the best Home Coming Days Auburn has had in many years. In addition to the many local girls, a large number of attractive visitors from others towns weer present, making a total of some forty or fifty of the "Fairer Sex." Plenty of stags were in evidence— the girls certainly didn't have any worries on that account—for in addition to the students, there were many of the alumni, representing practically every town in the State. Max Jones' Orchetsra, with several new jazz artists present, made its initial appearance of the season before the student body on this occasion. Their excellent music did much to make the affair one of the most successful "A" Club dances since their inauguration here. Rumors are abroad that there will be an unusually large number of very fair visitors attending the Opening Dances, starting tonight and continuing throughout the week. Miss Rose Gunter of Montgomery, who was chosen to lead the Grand March Friday night with Luke Brown, will be among the most outstanding visitors. Besides Miss Gunter there will be hordes of beautiful celebrities numbering hundreds and coming from some two or three of the southern states. There will be quite a few visitors from Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery and other near by districts. The decorations under the direction of Prof. Fred Ledbetter, of the architectural department, and Prof. Roy Staples, of the applied arts division, are rounding into shape. The construction of the stalactites, stalagmites and other natural effects are already completed and ready for assembly. The program for the dances will be as follows: Opening Dance, Thursday night; Interfraternity Council Dance, Friday morning; Keys Dance, Friday afternoon; Grand Ball, Friday night; Scabbard and Blade Dance, Saturday morning; "A" Club Dance, Saturday afternoon; and the farewell Dance Saturday night. The management of the affair is under the direction of the student social committee. This committee which has worked so hard to make the dances the best Auburn has ever known" is as follows: Pete Crenshaw, Chairman; Porter Anderson, Duggan Taylor, Tom Walthall, Charlie Davis, Noble Crump, T. P. Brown, H. O. Davis, Luke Brown and Render Gross. LAMBDA CHI ALPHA HOSTS AT SMOKER A very enjoyable smoker was held at the Lambda Chi Alpha house last Tuesday night for the pledges of the fraternities on the campus. Two freshmen were invited from each fraternity. The smoker began at eight o'clock when refreshments were served. After the refreshments the pledges gathered in a large circle, and each introduced himself by telling his name, the name of his home town, and the fraternity from which he came. Many interesting bridge games followed the short introductions, and the smoker broke up as the freshmen gradually drifted away. One of the most interesting events on the program was a welcome speech by Rat Robert Argo, one of the Lambda Chi Alpha pledges. NOTICE Students w£o live in nearby towns and who did not put their addresses on their registration cards must give their addresses to our circulation manager if they desire to receive the Plainsman. —The Plainsman Plainsman Reporter Accompanies Team This week when the varsity journeys down to Gainesville, Florida to battle the Gators in the Florida Homecoming grid classic the Plainsmen will send a special sports writer with the team. The reporter who will accompany the Bohlermen to the Florida city will wire the Tiger-Gator game back home play by play. Residents and. students who will not make the game will read the details in the Sunday morning edition of the Plainsman. This is the first time in the history of the college newspaper that sports writers will accompany the team to out of town games. The inauguration of this service to Plainsman readers is in keeping with the progressive-policy of the newspaper. Dick Jones, Birmingham News sports writer and member of the Plainsman Staff will report the game. Dr. J. H. Edmonson In Town Saturday- Noted Specialist Was Room-mate of Matthew Sloan Dr. J. H. Edmonson, one of the leading x-ray specialists of Birmingham, formerly of Eufaula, was in Auburn on Home Coming Day, to see the football game and to talk about entering his boy in college. Dr. Edmonson was in the class of 1901. He was a room mate of Matt Sloan and the late Carl Nesbit. Dr. Edmonson studied medicine at the University of Virginia. PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. STAFF Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief James B. McMillan - - - Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor Raymond DeArman, '29 .-Associate Editor A. V. Blankenship, '30 — Associate Editor Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor K. R. Giddens, '30_-Ass't. Managing Editor Tom Brown, '31 News Editor Campbell Blake, '30 News Editor Robert L. Hume, 31 _- Ass't. News Editor Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor J. E. McLeskey, '31 Sports Editor Bob Handley, '29 Humor Editor Howards Sparks, '31—Ass't. Humor Editor REPORTERS Marcus Alspaugh, '32; Robert Baxter, '32; T. S. Coleman, '32; Kenneth Cooper, '32; Clarence Dykes, '32; Thomas Dykes, 31; Edmund England, '32; J. D. Foy, '31; George Harrison, '32; Murff Hawkins, '31; Clinton Jones, '32; John Lewis, ' 3 1 ; Richard Lightfoot, '32; White Matthews; '31; S. H. Morrow, '32; Frank Parker, '32; Will T. Sheehan, '32; Alex Smith, Jr., ' 3 1 ; K. G. Taylor, '32; W. M. Taylor, '32; Gerald Thompson, '32; J. E. Jenkins,*' 32; H. G. Tooney, '32; Victor White, '32; Thome Winter, '30; D. Reynards, '32. BUSINESS STAFF Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr. H. H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr. Walter Smith, '31 Circulation Mgr. J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Mgr. Selling S t u d e n t T i c k e t s; D e t r i m e n t a l To A u b u rn "Well, I guess there's got to be a balance in Nature: if it wasn't for the ugly and bad, I guess we wouldn't know the beautiful and good." So goes a quotation in a quite popular novel of recent composition. To the ultimate sorrow of all concerned, quite frequently there arises amongst us a detrimental, evil issue to be dealt with. This time it happens that your publication, The Plainsman, is called upon to oppose a movement not entirely agreeable or pleasant, which is becoming a frequent practice on the campus, according to reports. We hasten to say that we are ready and willing to indulge in any endeavor which is for the best interest of the institution. It is the aim of the Plainsman to aid wherever possible, when it will result in a bigger, better Auburn. But we are also anxious to proceed in such a manner that will not create a feeling of enmity among the student or other readers. When this publication comes out for or against an issue, it does not signify that we are to become bitter enemies. It merely signifies that we are of the opinion that we are more or less right in the matter, and are endeavoring to show you the right side of the question. We desire to remain friends with you, in spite of difference. The opening paragraph above is not intended as an excuse or alibi for any practice that is wrong. It is presented merely with the intention of emphasizing the course of human nature, and the things we are called upon to battle against in the course of events. The issue now in question is the practice of selling student athletic tickets. This indulgence is quite common to a great number of Auburn students. The writer had the misfortune of noting first hand a sale of two student tickets recently, at one dollar each; when only one dollar was paid for the two by the prospective salesman. The student was a freshman. More than once the writer's attention has been called to this matter of students selling tickets. In one particular instance a student—a man who had registered here, though surely not a true Auburn man at heart—was said to have collected books to the extent of thirteen from his fellows, secured student tickets with them, then in turn sold them at the gate at regular ticket prices. At this he cleared two dollars on each ticket sold, buying them at fifty cents each and selling them for two^and one-half dollars each. This is probably an extreme example, but it serves as an example of what is going on. Scores of other similar acts are known to have been put into effect. These fellows argue that they have paid for their ticket books, but will not use them all; and if they can "square up" some other way, they will do it. Fellows, that is an abominable way of squaring-up—in fact, it is anything but squaring up. Fifteen tickets are secured at registration for the nominal sum of seven and one-half dollars, making the price of each only fifty cents; while those other than students pay this amount to see only three games. This practice, in truth, is merely a form of graft; it is robbing the Athletic Association of two dollars for every tciket sold at regular price. An enormous debt has accumulated upon the athletic department here, and every possible cent is needed to remove this debt. Now you who sell your tickets will say that you are riot responsible for this debt. But you are, to a certain extent. If you had those tickets, necessitating their purchase from the officials in charge, that yould have meant two dollars more to the Association for every ticket you sold. We dare say not a single man has committed this abominable act without feeling at the time that it was wrong, and a hin-derance to the cause of the institution. Students have been shipped from Auburn for lesser crimes than this; but we want to avoid such drastic measures henceforth. We are making this earnest appeal to your higher sense of honor and duty, hoping that the regulation may be effected this side of the Executive Council. You are recognized as a one hundred per cent Auburn man—are you living up to the honor? Had you realized that every ticket you sell means an additional debt of two dollars upon the college? Do you claim to be possessed of the Auburn Spirit? You can't be, so long as you indulge in this illicit practice. It behooves every student here to keep close check on his or her ticket book, being careful to note that it is not being used to such ends. The matter of wiping out this serious misdemeanor lies chiefly within the hands of the student body, and it falls your lot as a member of the Auburn family to do your just part. Will you do this much for Auburn? We take this stand because we know it is right, and because we are for Auburn and her welfare one hundred per cent plus. We are presenting this appeal in the light of the Institutions' best interest, and with the hope that you as individuals will see the better side of the matter, then act according to the honest dictates of your own conscience. Have you the love of Auburn at heart— are you a real Auburn man? Then get busy and wipe out this degrading practice of selling student tickets. An Outgrown Custom; An Impossible Practice Last week over at the University a freshman refused to take hazing and a riot was the consequence. Several students were wounded in the battle which raged for over two hours, participated in by several hundred men. The cause of the scrap was the refusal of the new student to do some menial task for his lordship the upperclassman. Freshmen are becoming emboldened to assert their rights on many campuses. Inevitably, hazing must go. It simply isn't compatible with conditions on a modern progressive campus. Men come to college now bringing the thesis that they are as good as the predecessors. Usually are right. The college must learn that personal ob-noxiousriess on the part of a few freshmen cannot be cured by punishment indifferently applied to the whole group. That is not the way of the world. Why should the school be different? Such an incident has not happened at Auburn, and we hope that it will not be necessary. We have no hazing committee, no freshman rules, and things seem to get along very well. Let's take warning from the University and let the ancient and distasteful custom fall by the wayside. Letters to the Editor Dear Mr. Editor, I have read both the letters of Mr. Ivan-hoe Silva and Mr. W. S. along with the editorial comment. The thing that amuses me is the fact that our good editor states that he cannot take issue with any of the editorial contributers presenting articles for publication but does not fail to say that he heartily agrees with the so called "gentleman of the romantic non de plume." Mr. Editor I think that your opinion of your ability to abide by your policies as stated in your paper should also be lowered, along with your opinion of your ability to state your opinions clearly. As a matter of fact Mr. Silva's letter appeared as a letter to the editor and not as "Meditations on this and that" then why not publish Mr. W. S.'s letter under the same column? Then the editor would have no reasonable excuse to take issue with either party. By the way who is the "gentleman of the romantic non de plume"?; who is the so called Mr. W. S.? Who are these honorable gentlemen? If they are ashamed to sign their names to their articles then why should we the readers of the Plainsman have our paper filled with their worthless contributions? I say worthless because if a writer can «not afford to affix his name to a personal contribution then it is not worthy of publication in our democratic paper. I have never heard of Mr. W. S. but have read a lot about the popular Mr. Ivanhoe Silva. Only yesterday I read in the Birmingham Post as follows: Birmingham police and detectives joined today with officers throughout the nation in search of Alabama's most famous crook —Roy Dickerson—who with Ivanhoe "Slick" Silva and Frankie Cook, alias Jimmie Cooley, escaped from Kilby prison last night. Silva and Dickerson both well known in gang circles in Chicago, Johnson says. At least we can say that some of our writers are nationally known. As to the content of Silva's letter the civilized world must agree, it was a literary masterpiece. Such phrases as "Is the public conception of the Auburn Spirit good? Yee Gods No! It is damnable, idiotic and heathernish. I tell you Hell no." and our self stated loyal student of Auburn continues in contributing his nickles-worth by calling our honorable first year students "a bunch of' yokels" and states that what happens to be this "About five hundred adolescent Alabama peasants are released from the farms each fall and they congregate at Auburn. They are matriculated and given freshman caps and told that they are Auburn students. In a few days, realizing that there are no cows to milk, that they are no longer serfs, that they are not required to plow a mule or use a dung fork, they must do something so they readily believe what seyeral hundred second year idiots tell them. These yearling rurals tell Les Enfants Ordinair-ment that they have the Auburn Spirit, and the louder and courser they express it the more Auburn Spirit "they have. Hence, five hundred rurals, daily give birth to several million War Eagles and to hell with somebody. I am for birth control." No doubt Mr. Silva the brilliant man that he is thought that the whole world was a farm up until the time that he entered Auburn as a student. Auburn is proud of Mr. Silva along with the numberless other big men that she has turned out from this raw yokel material. When we see that we are training these boys and turning them out as a better product at the end of four years would our system of higher education be practical?. We do not expect all of our new; students to come here to show us how it is done out in the world but rather expect on. the other hand that they come here to learn- from books and associations how to serve Alabama and Auburn as better and bigger men. Auburn is on a new level Auburn needs all the help she can get along with the right kind of constructive criticism. We will never accomplish anything as long as we tell the freshmen to go and do this or that, if we expect them to do well we must set a good example for them and say come do as we do. I hope that Mr. Silva and our good editor will join with the student body, the true Auburn men throughout the world and especially the leader in the office and we will all get together and keep Auburn on the top. J. F. SHACKLEFORD, '29. Box No. 3, Auburn, Alabama. Prexy's Paragraphs By Bradford Knapp Homecoming was a wonderfully encouraging day even if the team did meet a technical defeat. First I want to thank the entire student body for fine conduct almost without a single exception, for good spirits at the game and bravely facing a defeat which was no disgrace. The game itself was a hard fought game. Clemson was supposed to have one of the best teams they have had in several years. It was a good team" and played a good game. What filled me with pride was the splendid way in which our own team played. I believe we out-fought them in the line. It was a hard game to lose for it should have been a tie game. Almost the only break in the game was against us. Now I don't care what any old alumnus may say, I don't care how poor their spirits may be, I believe in this team and in the ability of this student body to produce a team which will win. Hard work, hard training, personal sacrifice for the good of old Auburn, clear heads, quick thinking, steady nerves, and everybody united in thought and spirit, with these we will win yet. Yes, homecoming was a good day, a day of hopefulness. Lastly I am glad so many of the old graduates and former students were here and I hope they got the same lesson we are getting from that day. We lost a game but were not defeated. Heads up! Let's go! * * * * * Now we are facing one of the greatest social events of the college year. I sincerely trust that we will make it the best it has ever been, a period of fine social enjoyment and a credit to the student body and to the college. The way for us to do this is to follow the fine lead of the social committee. They are trying to make such arrangements that all may go away with fine recollections of clean, fine, social enjoyment unmarred by any untoward event. Let us play the game here also and set a standard which will be a credit to parents, homes, student body, Auburn and a credit in all Alabama to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. % AUBURN FOOTPRINTS « AT THE ZOO! Are you a student?" No, I am a co-ed. * * * * * * * * First student: Anything to do. Second Stude: Naw, I can't think of a thing to do. First stude: Oh well, we might as well go to class. * * * * * * * * WOMEN! WOMEN! WOMEN! There's a woman at the bottom of every thing said the man as he pulled his wife out of the well. * * * * * * * * Drunk: Shay, do you know Humpher? Drunker: Humpher who? Drunk: Humpher ever blowing bubbles. * * * * * * * * Don't raise a racket said the hold up man as he relieved the tennis players of their money. * * * * * * * * AND THE FARMER HAULED ANOTHER LOAD AWAY That's the guy I am laying for said the hen as the farmer crossed the yard. * * * * * * * * Student: I want a round trip ticket mister. Agent: Where to please? Student: Hell, back here you dumb bell. * * * * * * * * MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN MONTGOMERY Him: Did you hear about the terrible accident in Scotland. It: No, what was it? Him: Two taxi cabs collided and eighteen Scotchmen were injured. * * * * * * * * Suspicious husband: Who called this afternoon? Wife: Only Aunt Mary. Husband: Well she left her pipe. * * * * * * * * ASK FOREMAN - Some one at the show Monday night wanted to know if the Mating Call, wasn't an animal show. * * * * * * * * Some people are passionately fond of poetry. Others are fond of passionate poetry. And still others are poetically fond of passion. * * * * * * * * Teacher: Now Sarah, how many bones have you in your body? Sarah: Nine hundred. Teacher: That's a great many more than I have. Sarah: But teacher, I had sardines for dinner. * * * * * * * * SUCH PATIENCE DESERVES REWARD He: May I kiss you? She: What do you think I am waiting for, a street car? * * * * * * * * Cop (to motorist): How do you like London? Motorist: Who me? Why I've never been there. Cop: Well that's where I thought you learned to drive. * * * * * * * * AN ANNOYING ITEM Him: And what do you think of marriage? Do you like it? She: Of course I think it's great. But it's the husband that annoys me. * * * * * * * * IGNORANCE IS BLISS Co-ed: My sweetie thinks I am the nicest girl in town. I wonder if I should ask him to call. College Arab: No, let him keep on thinking so. * * * * * * * * AND THE PUPS LIVED Poor Man: What should I do? I was married a year ago and the wolf is at our door? Very Poor Man: You should worry. The wolf has been at our door and had pups. O03 PAGE AND STAGE °£ This department will attempt now and then to keep Plainsman readers advised on what's what and new in the world of the printed pages with occasional comments and notices on the drama, silent and otherwise. The legitimate theatre, always more or less intimately connected with motion pictures, is now doubly related with the advent of the Talkers (not "talkies"). Our New York corespondent writes us the following bits of interest: Sam H. Harris is "regretfully" announcing the final performance of Jack Dempsey and Estelle Taylor in their joint appearance in "The Big Fight." . . . .Richard Bennett, who toured the South last season in "The Barker" and waxed resentful over Atlanta's indifference to his presence, is appearing in a stage version of Jim Tully's novel, "Jar-negan." . . . .Walter Hampden whom everybody goes to see do Hamlet or Cyrano or Caponsacchi will present "on Tuesday evening at 8:15 sharp an elaborate production of "The Light of Asia," a new drama based upon the life of Buddha. . . . .The Theatre Guild turns to Goethe for the first bill of its eleventh important season. The play is "Faust". In the cast are George Gaul, who played the South, appearing both in Montgomery and Atlanta, in the Guild's repertory season of last year, Dudley Digges and the ever-present Helen Westley. . . .Will Rogers, who gallantly offered to sub for Fred Stone when that comedian fell down with his aeroplane, is about ready to open with Dorothy Stone in the play named, so far, "Three Cheers." . . . .There are eighty-eight theatres in New York City playing only legitimate attractions. So far as we know no one has ever counted the motion picture houses. The motion pictures receiving the most big-time attention are these: William Fox's "Four Devils" with Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, and Barry Norton (the sweet-faced boy of "The Legion of the Condemned"). . . ."White Shadows," which seems to be another south seas picture. . . .Carl Laemmle's "Lonesome" with Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent. . . .Al Jol-son, who walked out on his first picture and made a hit in his second, "The Jazz Singer," has made another, "The Terror". . . . "Wings" seems to be in its sixty-first week on Broadway. . . .D. W. Griffith's next production is soon to have a New York premiere. The title is "The Battle of the Sexes." * * * * * Edna St. Vincent Millay, that most important and most talented poet, has published "The Buck in the Snow." It is extensively reviewed in this weeks New York Times' book review section. The Times announces the following forthcoming biographies: "Martin Van Buren" by Denis Lynch, "Cotton Mather" by Ralph and Louise Boas, "Francis Joseph of Austria" by Joseph Redlich, and "My Autobiograph" by Benito Mussolini. Although the book has been off the press some months, we want to call attention to "Hilltop in the Rain" by the Birmingham, Alabama writer, James Saxon Childers. Mr. Childers has a good story, interestingly told, and of especial interest to Plainsman readers because the setting for the tale is a southern college evidently not so far away. Whoever heard of an english teacher telling a student he would "bash his nose in for him" and getting away with it? Childer's hero does. There is an interesting "look-in" behind the scenes of this so-called mythical college. Read this book. The library has one copy and that is not enough to go around. If you have the money, buy the book. And that calls to mind a movement this department wants to sponsor, and hammer at, and squawk about until we get results. No one can afford to buy all the books he wans to read. Furthermore many books he wants to read, he does not want to keep. What we need is a circulating library- where books may be rented for a few days at a nominal sum. Womrath has a chain of such book-shops in New York where a book may be rented for a week for a quarter. There is a shop of this kind in Opelika, so we have been told. What we want is one in Auburn? Who will start it? MEDITATIONS ON THIS AND THAT 'By benjamin Trovost-~ EDITORIAL 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. OVER AMONG the back pages of the Forus there is a page devoted to definitions. A different subject is definied each month, and prizes are awarded for the three best definitions. The subject for October was "Education." I have heard four men define education in long speeches. The first prize winner wrote a better definition in less than a hundred words than any of the speakers whom I have heard did in an hour. Read it. How about this one? "Education—a subject taught in normal colleges by abnormal professors to subnormal students." * * * * * THERE is no question about who won the last five minutes of the first half last Saturday. Old Jupe Pluv-ius emerged victorious without even being extended. The old boy played whaley with yards of feminine apparel, quarts of feminine complexions, and quite a lot of tempers, both masculine and feminine. Before the game the weather was beautiful— not even an absent-minded professor carried an umbrella to the field. The clouds slipped up on us while we were engrossed in the game, and without any warning the rain started and the complexions began to melt. I learned things in that rain. One young lady had streaks in five distinct colors on her cheeks. I guess that the process of blending them is the reason back of the long time which the fair ones require to get dressed. I'll remember that and be more patient during the dances when I have to wait an hour on some girl-of- my-dreams while she dresses. The most embarassed girl on the field was the one in a perfectly white dress whose stockings displayed a veritable rainbow of colors. This was a revealing rain! The girls who went to the game wearing dresses that were as short as possible shouldn't have made them of shrinkable stuff—heights of impossibility were reached. The men fared little better. Several Beau Brummels of the campus discovered their trousers cuffs rapidly slipping up on their knees under cover of the excitement. From the press box the crowd reminded one of a covey of ostriches—one moment everyone was sitting right-side-up, the next their heads had disappeared under the seats and the rest of them waved around in the rain. The persons who really lost their tempers were the ones who were oblivious to the rain in their interest in the game and who coudn't see the players because of the frantic efforts of the majority to get under cover. The Plainsman sports writers had one on the city paper men. All of them had to "fold their papers and steal away," while we were dictating our story over a phone to a nice dry office up town. * * * * * PERHAPS the freshmen and some of the upperclassmen don't know that anyone is welcome to contribute to the Cajoler. The next issue goes to press soon, and local wisecrackers should see to it that our humor magazine is well supported on the campus by contributions. Write something, freshmen, either something extremely funny, or something so serious that it is funny. THE GREAT SEDUCER Who looks too long from his window At the grey, wide, cold sea, Where breakers scour the beaches With fingers of sharp foam; Who looks too long through the grey pane At the mad wild bold sea, Shall sell his hearth to a stranger And turn his back on home. Who looks too long from his window— Though his wife waits by the fireside— At a ship's wings in the offing, At a gull's on air, Shall latch his gate behind him, Though his cattle call from the brye-side, And kiss his wife—and leave her— And wander everywhere. Who looks too long in the twilight, Or the dawn-light, or the noon-light, Who sees an anchor lifted And hungers past content, Shall pack his chest for the world's end, For alien sun or moonlight, And follow the wind, sateless— To Disillusionment. —Cale Young Rice. Dr. Knapp's Convocation speech has given us something .to think about—and a slant of thinking about it that perhaps many of us had not taken before. * . THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE STUDY BEING MADE OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN LEE With Mrs. J. M. Herren, of the home economics faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, in charge, a study of the physical development of children of pre-school age in Lee County is now being made. Special attention is given to the skeletal development in relation to diet. The survey will continue throughout the year during which BOO of these children will be studied in cooperation with the State and County Departments of Health and other agencies. To make the study Mrs. Herrin is going to the homes of these children and obtain complete information. An eight-page questioriaire is being used. The main object of the study is to determine the methods whereby skeletal abnormalities of children may be avoided. Feeding and sunshine, for both mother and child, are considered major factors. Authorities disagree on which is more important. In announcing this study Miss Glan-ton, head of the home economics department of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, said that Miss Lydia J. Roberts, of the University of Chicago, will assist in giving direction to it. Mss Roberts is a nationally known child nutritionist who has visited Auburn several years ago. Miss Grace Abbott, of the United States Children's Bureau of Washington, will furnish a physician for expert counsel and Dr. B. F. Thomas, surgeon of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, will assist with advice and making X-ray pictures. After visiting the homes and obtaining the desired information a physical examination will be given all the children by the physician from the Children's Bureau working in cooperation with Dr. Thomas. The information obtained in this way will be given to the parents of the children studied. It will become a part of the valuable literature on the subject. Miss Glanton said that while studies of this kind have been made in other sections of the world, very few have been made in the South; and that no such study has been made of the physical condition of children in Alabama ,where there are so many days of the very finest health-giving sunlight . She said also that records of studies in other states have shown that absolutely perfect skeletal development is rare, because of a general lack of accurate information concerning the reasons for malformation of the bones during the prenatal life and the first years of childhood. WIRT SOCIETY ENJOYS MEET Boys! If You Eat M E A T Buy it from your Friends MOORE'S MARKET —Phone 37— The Wirt Literary Society met on Tuesday night and had a successful, and interesting meeting. After the regular business was attended to, Mr. Cottier explained the purposes and the aims of the Phi Delta Gamma, the Honorary Literary Fraternity. After this W. C. Weldon brought out several interesting points on "Why Join a Literary Society?" He said that social contact and learning to be a good speaker are the main reasons for one joining and taking part in some literary society on the campus. Feature of the program was a debate, the question being. "Resolved that Freshman Hair-cutting Should be Abolished." The judges of the debate were Grace Pinnell, 0. S. Adams, A. F. Baas. On the affirmative were Rat Harris, and Annie Ross Fuller. The negative was represented by Bill Oakley, and Bernice McMillan. Rat Harris said that cutting freshmen's hair made them feel inferior to the upper-classmen, and prevented the fullest harmony and understanding between the two groups. Bill Oakley suggested the fact that freshmen have an opportunity to use Glover's Mange Cure when their hair is cut to cure dandruff. Miss Fuller gave as one point of her argument that freshmen would look better with hair on their heads. Miss McMillan said that Freshmen, although bald-headed, were quite as popular as upper-classmen. The affirmative won the debate. Just at this juncture, Prof. Daugh-rity made his appearance and gave an interesting talk on the ability of students to do well the things in which they are engaged, due to the large number of activities they take part in. Prof. Daughrity asked a new member of the faculty what he thought of Auburn students. This new professor stated, "The students are exceedingly ambitious, always working, but do not accomplish all their aims—they try to do too many things at once." Ag Club Favors Doing Away With Hazing Freshmen Upholding the stand taken by Dr. Knapp in maltreating freshmen of this institution, as expressed in a recent Convocation meeting of upper-classmen, M. V. Hallman, popular senior in Agriculture spoke at length on this subject before a regular meeting of the Ag Club. Mr. Hallman confined the suggestions of Dr. Knapp to a letter, stating that, even though the practices being denounced were aged customs here, the students would exercise wise judgment in accepting Prexy's suggestions at face value, and take up the practice of them at once. Mr. Hallman was fired with an enthusiasm that proved his sympathy with the suggestions as presented by Dr. Knapp. This speech was given as a regular number of the weekly meetings of the Ag Club, which is recognized as probably the livliest club on the campus. Other interesting numbers were rendered at the same meeting, including: "Our march to progress," by J. R. Parrish; Agriculture since the Civil War," by C. T. Bailey; and a "Buck-dancing" act by Pat Alsobrook and Bill Andrews. Mrs. H. D. Jones Writes Letter F r o m Mexico Plans Are Made For Go-To-Church Month NOTICE Lost: One black loose-leaf notebook; one "U. S. History; one "Introductory College Chemistry." Finder please return to George Sanford, Brewer Hotel. You will find a Braddock lettering angle or an Olson lettering instrument handy for your drafting Burton's • T i l l •kstore Something New Every Day Plans for a Fraternity Go-To- Church month have been drawn up by an interested group of "Y" Council members. These plans were brought before a meeting of the Cabinet and voted to be put into effect. The following committee was appointed to perfect and execute these plans: A. L. Smith, T. H. LeCroy, J. R. Car-reker and T. J. Cottier. The month chosen for this contest is December. The purpose is to spread a feeling of church interest among the Fraternities, conveying to their members the extended interest and invitation of the various churches. A handsome trophy will be warded the Fraternity obtaining the highest score, which will be based on percentage attendance of regular church services. BE SURE TO GET YOUR RAT BIBLE According to a statement from the "Y" Secretary, a number of students here have acquired the idea that "Rat Bibles" are for Rats only. He would have this misconsception corrected by announcing that every efficiently registered student at Auburn is entitled to one of these "Y" Handbooks. The "Y" is anxious for each student to receive of these informative books, and urges that those who have not received one call at the "Y" Office at once, presenting their registration receipt card, and receive one. The following is from a letter from Mrs. Herman D. Jones, of Auburn, now in Mexico City: "Our trip had no unusual features until the morning of the third day when we reached Laredo. On a trestle over the Rio Frande the train stood while, all hand luggage was inspected and no one could escape. Then we crossed to a guard house station. Passengers and' trunks then got off for the rest of the festivities. The heat in that first room crowded with passengers — trunks being hauled about by melting Mexicans, sunshine blazing down over everything—made an unforgettable interlude. The inspection was courteously done and even my twelve pairs of shoes passed muster. "That day we traveled through desert like country, flat, covered with mesquite bushes and enough cacti to get the whole world stuck up. By the next night we had climbed 7,550 feet, approximately, winding up the mountains. Sometimes we could see the engine and the rear car filled with soldiers at the same time from our window. The scenery along this road is beautiful beyond words, at times the view extending for many miles to blue distant ranges, again the train passing through a gorge between two peaks. At the villages and towns where our train stopped, Mexican food was offered for sale, with blankets, drawn work, curios, opals, etc. We almost fell for two beautiful opals but manfully resisted and escaped to the car with our Mexican money intact. There is no paper money in the country nor. drawing of checques except in big business transactions. It is not an uncommon sight to see a man on the streets carrying a sack of money on his shoulder. Enough money to pay our hotel bill for a week would nearly fill a bass drum. "The city is built of stone and stucco and though there are handsome modern structures, the first stone of the great cathedral was laid in 1573 and hundreds of other buildings look about as old, though not so beautiful. Everything, however, is not steeped in antiquity. "We have already found a Y. M. C. A., A Union Protestant Church, an American Legion Post, a Rotary club, which has its Ladies' night ball this week, and Harold Lloyd is playing "Speedy" at the Olympia. "We had expected to tune in on WAPI to hear football games, current events every week, and John Ivey on Poultry feeding and were greatly disappointed to learn that the "altura" makes a radio quite unsatisfactory. So our news from home must come by letters and the "Opeli-ka Daily." Please don't let us miss anything vital." Wilkes Sees South Prosperous In Talk To Local Kiwanians Beat Florida! A STUDENT INTERNATIONAL Evidence that the South is destined to be the most prosperous section of the United States, agriculturally, was presented by Sam W. Wilkes of the Atlanta and West Point Railway Company in an address to the Kiwanis club of Auburn at their weekly meeting Monday. The speaker declared that evidence of the soundness of business in the South and of its future prospects is revealed by the desire upon the part of investors to get southern securities. Whenever a sound southern security is placed upon the market it is bought immediately, he declared. The speaker said also that 38 per cent of America's recent increase in manufacturers has been in the South. He quoted figures from the Manufacturers Record showing that in the year 1925, as compared with 1923, the country's manufacturing output showed a gain of $2,447,000,000 which less than two-fifths of this vast sum is accredited to that section known as the land of cotton which is no less than in the time of our fathers, he was a record unparalleled. Slightly declared. In addition, industrial power is immense and the industrial advancement of the South has just begun. Mr. Wilkes referred briefly to competition given railroads by automobiles and trucks. He was not pessimistic about it but declared that "in this great country of advancement there is opportunity for all." Capt. B. C. Anderson, president of the club, presided and introduced Mr. Wilkes. EVANS LITERARY SOCIETY HAS A SURPRISE MEETING ON TUESDAY W. T. Edwards Made President Of Y.M.C.A. ADVERTISING Helps to Make THE PLAINSMAN ucSh^ South's *Best College 'Taper" Trade with Those Who Patronize Your Paper The Following article appeared in a recent issue of "The New Student." "With all the stir about international accord through the peace pacts and arms limitation few people have heard about international good-will through cooperation between students of the United States and of Europe, which became closer than ever this summer. The National Student Federation, organized at Princeton in 1925 and now representing more than two hundred colleges and universities in the Nation, sent its delegates this summer to the tenth annual conference of the Confederation Internationale des Etu-diantes. "This Confederation was founded at Strasbourg in 1919 and it has grown in the intervening years to embrace the student bodies of forty-eight nations. South Africans, New Zealand-ers, Filipino and Chinese students were among the 1,400 who gathered at the Sorobonne on August 10 for the annual oiling of their machinery of international nitercourse. "It needs only a recital of the agenda of this conference to indicate what busy men and women these students are: determination of international norms of measurement for scholastic degrees; the creation of university archives to house an international exchange of books, publications and of scientific and technical films; to arrange for the securing of special student rates on steamships and railroads; the exchange of information concerning the launching of investigations into the feasibility of building student -dormitories and restaurants, the management of an international sanitarium for students, and( finally the organization of international athletic meets to be held concurrently with the annual conferences. "Student travel, for pleasure and for study, receives major emphasis. The National Student Federation of America has already issued over one thousand student idenity cards. These highly useful cards are granted to students—graduate or undergraduate —of accredited American universities and they entitle the holder to visa reductions, and in some cases free visas in Europe. They also serve as introductions to European students and often secure for the bearer reduced transportation rates. The practice of exchange scholarships is very common in Europe. It is common practice for an Englishman desiring to study in Germany to exchange homes with a German who wishes to study in England. "In America the students have just begun to provide for their common welfare. To the average student on the average campus the initials N. S. F. A. are as yet meaningless. The Federation officials have come back from Paris, however, with plans for strengthening the body through added responsibilities. This year the N. S. F. A. has undertaken to supervise international debate, which has become a permanent and growing institution here. A team from Oxford will tour the country, and another representing the British Union Students. This latter team has the distinction of being the first international women's debate team to come from these isles which have so stubbonly resisted the encroachments of women upon the universities. W. T. Edwards was officially installed as YMCA president at Auburn by Dr. Knapp at the regular Friendship Council Meeting Sunday afternoon, October 7." Mr. Edwards, formerly vice-president of the "Y" organization here, succeeds Roy Sellers, who resigned the chair to take up the duties of General Secretary. Shortly after taking over his official position here last summer, Dr. Knapp deemed it an advantage to appoint Mr. Sellers general secretary of the local YMCA. Sellers accepted the appointment, and his resignation as President was accepted by the Cabinet at its meeting Sunday. Mr. Edwards was elected to vice-presidency in the Junior class election here last spring. Being next in order, he was chosen to succeed the retiring president. T .H. Lecroy was unanimously chosen for vice-president, to fill the vacancy left by the advance of Edwards. At this same meeting Leslie Williamson was unanimously elected as Deputations Chairman, to succeed W. W. Bryant, who resigned the position recently. As members of the society entered the room, their eyes began to twinkle, for a bright, silvery loving cup, which had been won by the society, attracted our attention. Another attraction of the evening was a society pennant, which the group thought best to place in a public place where it could be seen. Due to the absence of Harry Cottier, Prof. Butler took charge of the meeting. After the regular business the surprise program began. Each person was given a slip of paper as he entered the door, and on this slip of paper was a topic, which was to be talked upon for two minutes. The first one of these series of talks was given by Mr. Meigs . His topic was, "My responsibility as an Auburn Student to Advertise Auburn." He stressed that students should say good things about Auburn and leave the bad qualities out. "Rat" Evans then gave some interesting reasons why every student should be required to play some organized game. He stated in his talk that these exercises build up the body and makes the mind alert in reacting. Mr. Kuykendall told us that the time had come when all the Evanites should wake up and make this year the best that the Evans has ever had. Mr. Goodwin stated that too many students were taking electrical engineering, and that they should take more interest in the academic courses . Mr. Croft discussed the disloyalty of a player on a football team. "Rat" Little argued that there are too many extra curricular activities on the A. P. I. campus for the best interest of the students. Mr. Martin then told who a person should vote for if he doesn't vote for Al Smith. He emphasized in plain lan-l guage that he should vote for Hoover, and that a true Democrat would nat- • urally vote for Hoover. Mr. Harris then told the society that the use of profanity indicated the lack of self-control. Mr. Henderson then gave some important dope on the dances. He said everyone should strive to get nice girls and less liquor. "Rat" Timbes said the Agricultural Building was the prettiest one on the campus. Following this was a selection -from "Rat" Elledge, entitled, "Barefoot Boy." This program could not have been complete without a word or two from Mr. Bennett. He gave some very important information regarding the use of slang. After this talk, John Cottier gave the critical remarks of the society, which were few in number. The meeting was closed with an urgent call for all the loose fifty cent's. Navy Unit Adds Sixty Men At Tech Due to limited facilities, from approximately two hundred applicants only eighty freshmen were allowed to enroll in the Naval R. 0. T. C. at Georgia Tech this year. A bugle, fife, and drums corps of twenty pieces has been organized as a unit of the Navy and will soon play for the drills. Their firs't public appearance will be made at the Notre Dame game. The yearly exhibit at the Fair contains some new features this year. Among them is a mine similar to those used by the Allies in the North Sea against Germany, and the after-body of a submarine showing modern electrical steering and propelling apara-tus. There are also some minor exhibits such as knots and splices used on board ship, a steering wheel and compass and a sounding machine. 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S. Winter, Assistants • Tigers Tackle 'Gators in Gainesville; Rats Take on Florida Frosh Saturday TWO FULL TEAMS BE CARRIED TO FACE FLORIDA GRIDDERS By Dick Jones Coach George M. Bohler with his corps of assistants will take their Tigers on the first long trip of this season when they journey to Gainesville to battle the Florida Gators this coming Saturday. Bohler will more than likely take over 2 teams and also the hustling manager, "Bubber" Hatcher. On account of it being such- a long trip they will leave Thursday night or Friday morning and will probably see a slight workout a few hours before time for the game in order to get used to the change of atmosphere. He has been drilling his Tigers on the correct way to block and tackle, and get under punts, more than anything else since this seems to be the main weakness. He divided the ends and backs from the linemen and have had them busting the dummy for over an hour every afternoon while oCach Pitts has been charging the line under a low rope and bucking a bucking board. While Coach "Slick" Moulton has been spending most of his time teaching one set of scrubs Florida plays and then giving the varsity a fit with them, Coach "Sheriff" Lee and Coach John "Barelycorn" Shirey have had another set of scrubs scrimmaging the Freshmen. Bohler's plays have been proven that they will work just like he planned for them to. They were proven by the Freshman team last Friday afternoon when the "Rat" team worked them to a perfection on the Birmingham- Southern "Rats" and beat them 25-2. With this assurance and a hard working team the Tigers are bound to come to the front. Although the whole student body will not be able to make the trip to Florida with the football team they will be with them in soul, for this was proved last Saturday when they kept on cheering, even more, for the Tigers when they went down in defeat for the 14th consecutive time. Hutsell's Harriers Open Workouts Prospects Bright for Good Team By Clinton E. Jones Coach Hutsell's "harriers" open track fall workout with bright pros- "pects for another championship Tiger team. The team this year will be strengthened by "Weems" Baskin, National Intercollegiate high hurdle champion of 1927 and holder of the same indoor event of 1928, is back in school this year and will help in coaching the Freshman and Varsity squad of this season. It is also to be remembered that Coach Hutsell was assistant coach of the United States Olympic track team this year. The cross country team will have their first trial Wednesday after- Physical Training Classes are Under "Weemie" Baskin By J. Mack Jones With "Weems" Baskin, former Auburn track star as instructor, the Freshman physica 1 training classes are progressing thoroughly and rapidly. The reputation of Baskin as an athlete is world-wide, and his ability and experience should prove invaluable to the "rats." These physical training classes constitute a two-hour course which is required of all freshmen. Classes meet either in the Gym or on the athletic field and instruction is given in the sport of the season. The last few days have been spent in familiarizing the freshmen with the art of passing and punting the pigskin. Many humorous sights may be seen as the ball goes the round of men, green and unaccustomed to its use . However, mingled with this awkwardness, can be spotted what may prove football or track ability. Formerly, Wilbur Hutsell, one of America's outstanding coaches, has been in charge of this work, but varsity football and track now consume all of his time. Baskin now has the situation well in hand . Besides his fame on the track, he earned a letter in football, and had he not been eliminated by the "four year rule, he would be a strong contendant this year for end. Baskin urges all freshmen interested in track to report to him at once, and if rumors prove true, he will have plenty of material from which to select the Freshman Track Team. noon when they will be sent over the 3 mile highway. After 3 weeks of practice there are quite a few showing up well. Among those are: Helms, Teague, Pitts, McClendon, Hicks, Callen, Gray, Yancy, Bottoms, Wilcox, Oakley, Goldsmith, Hughes, and Flemming. The new men showing up good are Shanks and Kummer. The largest number of Freshman ever to report for track at the Plains are out this year. The number being 85 in all. They have been working hard on the drill field for ten days and will have a trial in the near future. Varsity tracksters are moulding into perfect shape led by Capt. Beard and Alt. Capt. Virgin who are showing wonderful form in the hurdles and jumps. Galliard, Hodges and Tinsley look good in the pole vault, as does Bell in the sprints, and Nunn and Davis in the quarter mile. The Fall track meet is planned for- November and all Freshmen and others are urged to come out whether they have had any experience or not. For they are assured to be looked after in every way by these coaches and Manager Alex Marshall. One-Sided Scores And Long Runs in Saturday's Games By T. S. Winter The 1928 season is now well under way. Last Saturday's games, featured by long runs and one-sided scores, left many of the favorites still in the running and others, underated, showing unexpected power. One of the big surprises of the week-end was Tulane's 51 to 6 victory over the IVfiss Aggies. The well-known and respected Billy Banker literally ran through the Aggies to score four touchdowns for the Green-ies. As a result of the Green Waves smashing victory, they have become a dangerous contender for the title and will be closely watched during the next few weeks. Alabama's Crimson Tide, which has kept everyone guessing as to its strength, urileased an exceptionally strong attack and had little trouble in subduing Ole Miss. Capt. Earle Smith, scooping up a fumble, raced fifty yards for the first touchdown and after that Ole Miss was kept busy chasing the Tide's fleet backs. In one of upsets of the day, Vandy upheld the honor of the South by conquering the heavier Colgate eleven. On the first play of the game, Armistead ran seventy-six yards for a touchdown. Then Colgate started a drive that would not be denied and scored their only marker, but Vandy refused to yield and finally won out 12 to 7. Georgia's representatives remained in the running when Tech beat V. M. I. 13 to 0 and the Bulldogs, the team with a thousand backs, easily trounced Mercer 52 to 0. In a desperate effort to score by any means, Auburn threw a pass that Justus of Clemson gathered in and sprinted twenty-five yards for a marker to defeat the Plainsmen 6 to 0. Auburn displayed a hundred per,the famous Georgia Tech team to a Tigers Show GreatlFROSH IN FINE SHAPE TO MEET Advancement In Tilt With Clemson COACH "BOOZER" PITTS Coach "Boozer" Pitts has done more for Auburn in an athletic way than any other man that has ever been in Auburn. He came to Auburn in 1908 and scrubbed on the varsity football team for three years. . In 1911 he showed the coaches what he could do. He played on the varsity in 1911, '12, '13, and '14. He received several mentions for Ail- American in 1913 and received a berth on the team in 1914. He was All Time All-Southern. When he graduated he received the position as head coach at Tech High in Atalnta. He turned out some of the best teams there ever turned out in the history of the school. His teams received honorable mention everywheer they played. In the spring of 1918 he left Tech High to go into the service of his country. When the war was over he returned to Auburn as line coach. He coached the ilne from 1919 until 1922 inclusive. In 1922 his line held the famous Centre team, then considered the best bets in the southeast. One of his well coached linemen made it possible for Auburn to win this game. His line also held cent better team Saturday than that which repreesnted them against Birmingham- Southern the week before. With the same improvement in the next month, Coach Bohler's eleven should prove dangerous. Florida, as was expected, easily beat Southern 26 to 0. Kentucky swamped Carson-Newman, Tennessee had little trouble conquering Centre, but Se-wanee, having a supposedly stronger team than usual, was snowed under (Continued on page 6) very low score in the same year. He became head coach in 1923 upon the retirement of Donahue and held this post until the arival of Morey and when Morey resigned he again received the post and held it this time until Bohler was made head coach in 1928. Coach Pitts has always had a team that could well represent the school anywhere. He has had to make some of his teams from just what he had left over from the year before. By T. S. Winter It was a different Auburn team that faced Clemson last week compared to the one that played Birmingham- Southern in Montgomery . The opening game was more or less an experiment to determine the playing ability of the Tiger Gridders with the rsult that the defense was ragged and the offense failed to click. This was hardly more than could be expected for Coach Bohler hadn't had enough time to mold as good a team as one would want, but he found the weak spots and in the following week set about to iron out the rough places. As a result, the Plainsmen gave a rather good account of themselves last Saturday . Instead of the tagging that was noticeable in Montgomery, there was sure enough tackling. This was especially true of the line and the fact that Clemson only made six first downs showed how well the line was functioning. The opening lineup was also changed; instead of Cunningham and Sellers, Ben Newton and "Stumpy" Granger were in there giving all they had. Time and again Clemon tried to come through the line only to be stopped in their tracks by the Tiger forward wall. Chap-pelle, who started at left end, was one of the stars of the game until he sprained his shoulder' in the second half. On the whole the defense was very good and the players deserve credit for the manner in which they held Josh Cody's eleven, for he had the best Clemson team seen here in many a day. On the other hand the offense has not improved as much comparatively speaking. Of course there was coordination and team play but the backs seemed unable to penetrate the Clemson line. Undoubtedly the driving of Clyde Sellers was sorely missed. Sellers, however, has shown the proper Auburn Spirit; and instead of quitting the squad or giving alibies for not training, both he and Cunningham have come out daily and have worked harder than ever on the scrub team. Sellers was reinstated Monday afternoon and will be in there fighting when the Tigers meet Florida next Saturday. The coaches are not at all disappointed with the showing of the team (Continued on page 6) BABY 'GATORS IN COLUMBUS By Kenneth Taylor The Auburn "Rat" football team will journey to Columbus Georgia Saturday when they will encounter the Baby Gators of the University of Florida. This promises to be one of of the toughest games on the "Rat's" schedule. This hefty football squad is out for revenge after the defeat that the Florida "Rats" handed the Tiger "Rat" team last year. Last year Florida had one of the best "Rat" teams in the Southern Conference and walloped the Auburn "Rats" to the tune of 25 to 0. We have every reason to believe that this score will be reversed this year. After seeing the "rats" put up such a splendid brand of football last Friday when they walloped the Birmingham- Southern Baby Panthers to the score of 25 to 2 we are sure that our team will be a strong contender for the Freshman conference title. In the game last Friday there was nothing lacking which goes to make up a winning football team. There was plenty of material as was seen in the three teams which Coach Brown used Saturday. Each one of these teams were full of fight and followed the ball on every play. These teams also showed that they had been coached well by the smoothness in which they ran their plays. The large powerful line help make possible the brilliant of the backfield by opening up great holes in the Southern "rats" line. This husky forward wall showed up exceptionally well on the defense, they easily smothered every play that their opponents pulled . The interference of the backfield was the best that has been seen on the campus this year. The brilliant runs of Hatsfield and Young was very encouraging. With these men in the backfield and such men as Simp-kins and Bush on the line the Baby Gators should have plenty to worry about. Freshmen Show Up Well in First Game of Season and in Practices By Carol Porter Saturday afternoon, in Columbus, Ga., the freshmen will encounter their second foe of the year in the form of the baby alligators from the University of Florida. need of for several years and the result is easily seen. In the backfield, Hatfield, the Montgomery flash gave the fans one of the prettiest exhibitions of broken-field running seen on Drake Field in Everyone that was fortunate enough! a number of years, making several to see the freshman team in its initial game of the year with Birmingham- Southern ,where they were victorious by the score of 25-0 ,the largest score made by a baby tiger aggregation for the past five years, will realize that we have a football team on the road and the unusually large score cannot be credited to Birmingham-Southern having a weak machine at all. The freshmen flashed an offense that if continued through the season will set them high up in the freshman football rating when the curtain falls. Throughout the game beautiful blocking and tackling was evident, and it seemed that so early in the season team work is getting the majority of attention on the lower Drake Field. Coach Brown, has this year, two able assistants in Patterson and Shirey, something he has been in dire Largest Squads in History of Auburn Out for Football WILLIE MAE COWDEN IN CHARGE CO-ED CAGERS By Dick Jones Above is the largest football squad that has ever answered the initial call in the "Village of the Plains." They are the varsity and Freshmen together and number above 200 candidates. While the Varsity had 65 out the Freshmen had 136. And figures didn't lie when the figurer said "that the larger the squad the better the team." This has certainly turned out to be true, for the "Rat" team walked away with their first game which was with Birmingham-Southern, and it is no telling what they are going to do with the Baby Gators in Columbus this Saturday. The "Rat" team still numbers above 100. A few had to drop out on account sligth injuries and other reasons. No one has been seriously injured this year on either team, but have had two or three bones broken. The only Rat to suffer injury was Blanton who while scrimmaging against the Varsity.-broke "Tiis arm. The two teams pile"d" up and he was on the bottom in an awkward position. Blanton hails from Opelika where he played on the Opelika Hi football team. This is also said to be the most powerful Freshman team ever to play under the Orange and Blue colors. They have five back-field men of which any four could be called the "four horsemen." These gridders are, Pate (who is unable to play in- this Saturdays game on account of a bad lick he received on his hip in last Fridays game), Davidson, Young, Smith, and Hatfield the triple threat man. The Varsity gridders have numbered around 65 all the season with only a few to drop out with injuries, but those who have dropped out with injuries have come back as soon as they possibly could. The first man to have to drop out with an injury was Chas. Densimore who reecived a fractured collar bone in the early season of practice. But Chas. is a scrapper to the last whistle and is back out for practice already. However he is unable to take part in the scrimmages he is getting the new signals down and limbering up to be ready to start back in the game as soon as possible. John Mosley has also received a slight injury from the results of the scrimmages, but will be back out as soon as he can get off his crutches. The Varsity teams has improved a great deal this week over last week and from the looks of the scrimmages on Drake Field this week she is still going on the up-grade. The Varsity team will journey down to Gainesville this Saturday to take on the Florida Gators, and though every student is not going to be able to be with them in body, they are certainly going to be with them in soul, for they showed it at the game la3t Saturday afternoon on Drake Field when the Plainsmen were playing Clemson. Coach Willie Mae Cowden is now working with some 20 girl basketrhall aspirants in the Auburn gymnasium every afternoon from 4:30 to 6:00 o'clock. Although only 4 of last years squad are back in uniforms the new prospects are showing up well! and should be able to fill the positions of those who failed to return. No definite team has been picked and no schedule arranged as yet. However from all appearances, and from the material on hand, Coach Cowden should be able to organize a very successful team. Those back from last year are: Dorothy Haupt, forward; Ruth Lewis, guard; Pertice Tucker, Captain and forward. long runs which were usually turned into touchdowns, and with a year in faster company should be able to make someone step next year. Young, at quarterback (thanks to Ed. Shirling for the man) is one of the prettiest football players to enter Auburn for some time and is already showing us just what to expect from a quarterback. Young, is one of the prettiest passers on the Tiger campus today and displays a variety of hip-shaking and feet movements that is good for enyones eyes, and Young will be heard from several times before the year is over. Davidson, the ram-rod from Sidney Lanier who is showing all kinds of drive when called on, and the opposing backs usually find this young gentleman waiting for them to break through the line with high ambitions of a spectacular run. Davidson is doing quite a bit of the punting and is getting off fine averages on his spirals . With a little more coaching from Shirey, he should develop into a wonderful punter before the year is over. Frock Pate, the other member of the first string backfield, was injured before he could get going against Southern, but as a broken-field runner he is par excellent. He also is pretty proficient at punting, and throws no slouchy pass. Pate, has sufficiently recovered from his injury and should be hard to get along with Saturday, over in Columbus. With the prospects of the best freshman team since freshman football was established in the south, we should take advantage of every opportunity to see this whirl-wind in action. 1928 Football Schedule Sept. 28—Birmingham Southern Oct. 6—Clemson (Home coming) 13—Florida 20—U. of Mississippi 27—Howard 3—U. of Georgia 10—Tulane 17—Mississippi A. & M. 29—Georgia Tech. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. —Montgomery (Night game) —Auburn —Gainesville —Birmingham —Auburn —Columbus —New Orleans —Birmingham —Atlanta THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE N. C. UNIVERSITY PRESENTS COSMOPOLITAN STUDENT BODY There once was a time—and not so many years back either—when a Northerner strolling the University of North Carolina's campus and rolling his "r's" in his native style was considered a strange and unusual character, a "Yankee," almost an alien. And a real honest to goodness foreigner— well, he constituted a cur-iousity to engross and draw the curious gazes of University students day in and day out. Today the situation is quite different. Perhaps 20 per cent of the University's students are from out of the State, a goodly portion of them from the North. Sectionalism apparently is dead I nd Southerners and Northerners a e apt to become fast friends after a Jay or so of association and fellows? ip in this cosmopolitan University / Foreign-born students are no longer so iJnusual, and there are now and then boys from strange and distant lands. Every year brings its number of unusual individuals. Last year the list included a former Russian naval officer and an ex-county superintendent of schools returning for graduate work after serving ten years as head of a county school system. A few years back there was a real Hindu went around with a turban on his head, and a few summers back three winsome Chinese misses attended the University. This year the list is more interesting than usual. There is a native Filipino, a brilliant scholar, judging from his past record, imbued with all the desire for freedom which is so characteristic of his people, studying to take his American learning .back to his people; a Lebanese, not a new world Lebanese, but a genuine Lebanese from the Lebanon of the old country in Syria; an Italian graduate of the University of Padu taking mechanical engineering; a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, first of his race ever to graduate from a North Carolina college taking graduate work in history; a 40-year old graduate student taking work in Education; a full blooded Syrian born in Beirut but moved to this country at the age of about three; several Cubans; a native Greek born in Turkey but a resident of this country since the age of seven who is entering as a freshman; a Russian with a long string of experiences in the Bolshevik wars behind him, beginning his second year here; three blind students, now juniors; and a large number of sons of prominent men. "An Engineer's Ideal" In The "New Student" Last winter The New Student rais- NIGHT FOOTBALL IS INTERESTING Night football is attractive—in its ed the question of what becomes of way—to fans, but the game is losing 'Tis Fine to Dine at the PICKWICK 4-H Training School Meets In Springfield The Internation 4-H Training School held each year for two weeks in Springfield, Mass., is one of the greatest forces at work for complete understanding between each section of the United States and Canada. It is a time when north, south, east and west meet and find that their ideals and dreams blend into one. Just in case there be a few who wonder what the 4-H symbolizes the following mottoes appearing-on ban ners in one of the most attractive exhibit halls at the Eastern States Exposition might be quoted: "Hand-H Club work trains the hand t o be useful, helpful, skillful. "Head-H Club work trains the head to think, to plan, to reason. "Health-H Club work trains the health to enjoy life, resist disease, make for efficiency. "Heart-H Club work trains the heart to be kind, true, sympathetic and to do for others." Yale has abandoned the honor system as a university policy. The fall sessions in all classes except academic freshmen and the Sheffield School iwill have supervised .examinations. There will be no more examinations given at which at least one instructor is not present in the capacity of proctor. Beat Florida! BANK OF AUBURN We Highly Appreciate Your Banking Business TOOMER'S HARDWARE The Best in Hardware and Supplies CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager The First National Bank of Auburn ADVICE AND ACCOMMODATION FOR EVERY COLLEGE MAN ANY FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS ASSISTANCE C. Felton Little, '06, President W. W. Hill, '98, Vice-President G. H. Wright, '17, Cashier TOOMER'S DRUG STORE Drug Sundries Drinks, Smokes THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY ON THE CORNER ^^^^^Mss^^^^^m college ideals: Is it possible to have ideals in a workaday world? The following article was written as a response to this request. "An engineer is a practical man. He is interested in making material things, dams or mines or electrical machines or telephone and telegraph systems. If he has any ideal, he certainly has the one of doing things efficiently. The word, engineer, in fact, conveys this to most people; when charges of materialism are being made, the engineer comes in for the major part because he follows this ideal too well. The engineer is not too much of a materialist, but too little. He doesn't let his opinions know what his actions are. Even though there is something quite admirable about his efficiency, he won't claim it because he is more interested in claiming what I feel are illusions, ideals that have no actual significance at all. He claims publicly to be what no one is, and about what he actaully is he says no word. "The ideal of d'oing things efficiently can be followed regardless of the value of the work being done. The man who takes to engineering natively, writes memoranda, uses office equipment, and works on the car or the radio, with as much efficiency as he uses professionally. I've seen engineers patch an unsatisfactory memo> randum into a satisfactory one by the use of paste and shears, saving themselves the trouble of rewriting the parts which were good. It seems to be a gift; there is a type engineer as certainly as there is a type artist or newspaper man, or poet, or financier. Working efficiently satisfies an engineer, and he is dissatisfied with the temperament and work of an artist, for instance, who doesn't go about it efficiently. Plenty of the wives of engineers know how much of a curse in the kitchen is the ideal of efficiency. The native engineer who works this way doesn't acquire his efficiency, and so is probably not justified in saying it is his ideal, since he can do nothing different in any event, But efficiency can be said to be the ideal which the engineer represents, and, as I think, the only ideal which has been claimed for him or by him, which he satisfies." its color and glamour when the night tilts are resorted to, according to Will Paterson, former Auburn football wizard and enthusiast of the game. "The night games," he stated, "makes it possible for a greater number of people to attend the games. There is a novelty to the night games which appeals to all of us. But football is largely a game to which a majority go to see the magnitude of the affair and this is impossible at night." Cramton Bowl, where the night tilts are staged, is lighted so that the playing area is brightly lighted while the stands are in the shadows. The lights are arranged at an elevation of 100 feet, so as to prevent glare from the field and stands. A white ball is used. Four Tech Fraternities Acquire New H o me Two Tech fraternities have recentl y moved into houses purchased or built during the summer months. Chi Phi and Delta Sigma Phi chapters are the two fraternities concerned. Phi Kappa Sigma and Chi Beta Sigma moved their locations. The Chi Phi's moved into their new home which was built during the summer months, located on Fowler Street. Delta Sigma Phi chapter house at Georgia Tech is now located in their home on Williams street. Phi Kappa Sigma moved to quarters on Spring street, having formerly been located on the corner of Spring and Fourth streets and Cr\ Beta Sigma moved to North av.iue. Plans are now un'Ier way by many of the fraternities to build in the future and many changes will be made before the next fall term of school opens. Tully Interviews Tom Mix and Will Rogers "Both Tom Mix and Will Rogers are wealthy and unspoiled," says Jim Tully in a recent article. "Both have a genius for common sense, and eyes that see far into life. Neither man has the least shred of pretense. And in a nation that worships money, they each earn a half million dollars a year. " 'What about your old pal, Tom Mix, Will?' I asked. " 'Oh, they hain't none better than him. He's a great fellow. I've know-ed him thirty years. You hear about new Western stars supplantin' Tom, as they say, but they hain't done it yet. Tom's like Hnry Ford—he's smart.' Tom Mix says of Will Rogers, 'In all the time I've know Bill, I hain't never known him to do an unkind thing to nobody; he's four square an' a yard wide, is Bill. He reminds me o' men like Mark Twain an' Walter Whitman; they didn't have a lot of education, but they both had a lot o' sense, an' some day people are goin' to remember Will jist like they remember them.' "A great, genuine affection exists between these two men who have gone so far on the road to fame." DR. BLEGEN UNEARTHS MANY RELICS DURING VISIT TO GREECE "Blacks" and Fight Between "Blues" Halves Social Science Club Has Straw Vote Tulane Enrolls 2153 Students in 7 Days With registration still going on in many departments, the courses for teachers not yet started, and the School of Dentistry discontinued, the total enrollment at Tulane on October 2 was 2,153. This does not include summer school enrollment. Most departments show a gain over the figures on this same4 date last year. Newcomb being the only one to show a considerable loss. Pharmacy also shows a loss, but Arts and Sciences and Law report considerable gain. The registration figures for the Graduate School were not complete on Wednesday, as the Hullabaloo went to press. Like the teachers' courses, the Graduate School of Medicine had not started: Dr. A. B. 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Mm, Brewster Appointed Extension Specialist Effective immediately, Samuel Pin-lay Brewster of Texas has been appointed extension specialist in landscape gardening, according to announcement by Prof. L. N. Duncan, director of the extension service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He will work throughout Alabama in co-operation with the county farm and home demonstration agents on landscape gardening. Mr. Brewster was trained at Baylor College, John Tarlton Agricultural College, Texas A. & M. College and at the Massachusetts Agricultural College where he has finished the course for the degree of master of science in landscape gardening. At Massachusetts he was trained by foremost educators in this field. The appointment came as a result of numerous requests for service of this kind. It was delayed until a man with proper training and other qualifications could be found. One of the most interesting meetings of the Social Science Club was held last Monday night in the Power Building. The subject of who should be made president, Hoover or Smith, was under discussion and a straw vote was taken. Four members of the Club gave short talks about these two candidates, and in them summed up the good and bad qualities of each. The straw vote took place after the final discussion and the results were 12 for Hoover and 11 for Smith. The results go to the Literary Digest. ~ The crowd at the Rat game Friday were rewarded with a brilliant exhibition of football between halves. It was truly a "battle of the giants," each team averaging about forty-five lbs. per player. The Auburn "Blacks" and "Blues", which two names might well have characterized both teams after the final whistle. Although the "Blacks" fought with grim determination, the "Blues," led by Captain Homer Wright, Jr., seemed to have a slight edge. The thriller of the game came when the "Blues'" halfback skirted right end for a ninety yard run and a touchdown. The game ended in a tie, 6-6. Dr. Carl W. Blegen, professor in the department of Classics at the University of Cincinatti has returned to the country after an extended visit in Greece where he continued the excavation of the Argive Heraeum, in which the American School of Classical Studies has been interested for many years. The discovery of two chambers believed to have been constructed during the Mycenean period and of twenty tombs containing valuable treasurers shed light upon the many mysteries of Mycenaean civilization and revealed much that was hitherto unknown concerning ancient burial customs. Mr. Blegen supervised the corps of fifty workmen who forced their way into entrance passages, leading to the two chambers of rock. Tombs unearthed on the site of the Hereaaum were found to contain a quantity of pottery, including five hundred vases of various kinds," Mr. Blegen stated, "besides a signet ring and many fine pieces of jewelry made of glass, cornelian, amthyst, gold and silver. Swords, daggers, knives, weapons of | bronze, and numerous articles of iovry such as a small statuette of a standing Goddess were found with the remains of bodies during the Mycenaean period between 1600 and 1200 B. C." Among those who visited the site of Mr. Blegen's excavation and who assisted with the work were Dr. and Mrs. Semple, Mrs. Hack, wife of Dr. Roy Hack, professor of classics, Mrs. Blegen and Miss Rasson of the School of Applied Arts at the University. In early June, Mr. Blegen performed a second excavation in Arcadia for the University of Cincinati, and discovered a small village which is thought to have been inhabited during Neolithic times. "The houses here had been constructed on stone foundations," Mr. Blegen said, "And were equipped with circular and in some cases, square hearths. A grave of the Neolithic period, containing bones preserved in a peculiar arrangement was unearthed with the houses. 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Est. 1760 J SMOOTHER AND BETTER-"TStOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD" PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 BACKFIELD MATERIAL IN SOUTH SHOW UP GOOD FIRST OF SEASON By "Duity" Porter Has there ever in the history of Southern football or in any other section of this land of the free been such a collection of unusually good backs as this year's crop shows so early in the season . Our sister institution, Alabama is well blessed with versatile backs. They have the well known, Mr. Bras-field ,who was prominent in the sensation run and touch-down columns, and was also one of the leading punters and passers of the south. This year with such men to assist him as in Deal, Hicks and Holm, and each pushing him for the spotlight. Suther the sensational sophomore back coming in for his part of the glory, does Alabama have any reason to feel gloomy? Over at Georgia, they have the same wrecking crew from last year known throughout the South as the "Four Horsemen." They have started their galloping early this season, and although they do not have the All- American ends to assist them, it will take eleven men all the afternoon to stop this quartet if the track meet tactics of last week-end are to be employed throughout the year. There in the same Georgia camp a substitute name of Hill who was able to punt only seventy-two yards in the game against Mercer last week-end. Georgia plays Yale this coming weekend up in New Haven. This game should test Georgia's actual strength, but regardless of the outcome of this game and barring injuries, Georgia is going to have another wonder team. Georgia Tech has broken out with another epidemic of fine half-backs, and I would think they have had a relapse in this line. Mizell, Stumpy Thompson, Randolph, Lumpkin, Dun-lop, Faisst and Durant, will make any coach stay up a night and. grieve over the fact that only four of these men can be used in the backfield at one time. Atlanta sports writers are pointing to Mizell as the geratest back to ever wear Tech colors, even greater than "Buck" Flowers. "Stumpy" Thompson last year was a good back-field by himself and with him improving and with such men as Dun-lop and Lumpkin coming up from the freshman outfit to assist he and Mizell it will just be terrible for opposing teams. In the face of all this I am afraid some of the opposing teams will be attempted to cancel future games with Tech. Down at Tulane, we have the Blond Cyclone, Mr. Billy Banker, and if one man can be rated above the rest of the brilliant backs of the south, Mr. Banker, is without a doubt the gentleman to receive the honor. In the first two games of the year, Banker has gone completely crazy and done everything except eat the football and I will not be surprised if that comes to pass. Against Mississippi A. & M. this "Puff of Wind" ran from five to eighty yards for four touchdowns, and to contribute more to the game he averaged fifty-four yards in his punting duties. With a line averaging one hundred ninety pounds in. front of him this year, what will this young man do before Thanksgiving? South Carolina has a new comer by the name of Zobel, who almost single handed beat Virginia, and is hailed by the critics as the best halfback in the south. Tennessee has McEver a sophomore who is running wild. Dan McGugin says this gentleman is by far greater than his two sensational backs of the past, Bill Spears and Gil Reese ever were. Vanderbilt has Armstead who dashed eighty yards to defeat Colgate lats Saturday. Florida has Mr. Crabtree, a small stick of dynamite who will make many loud noises before the year is over. Now gentlemen, who wants the job of picking an all-Southern back field when this unusual squadron of versatile backs are through popping off this year. OFFICIAL Auburn vs. Ole Miss FOOTBALL DANCE Highland Park Country Club Birmingham Friday, Oct. 19th 9-till-? JACK LINX ORCHESTRA Script $1.50 First Tulane Cruise Given This Summer The close of the twentieth summer session was celebrated by an innovation in Tulane University activities, something attempted there for the first time—the initial Tulane University cruise through the Caribean sea Through the co-operation of the United Fruit Company, Albert E. Holle-man, director of student activities, arranged a ten-day trip to Havana, Cuba, and Tela, Spanish Honduras, which left at the beginning of August. Labelled "the climax to the summer session," the cruise drew thirty eight passengers including winter and summer students and interested alumni. Those who made the trip were especially impressed, Mr. Holloman says, by the low rate offered—one hundred dollars* which covered all transportation expenses and entertainments. No passports were needed and those who recounted their experiences in the Carribean region spoke highly of the conveniences arranged for them. VETERINARY MEDS M E E T THURSDAY The regular meeting of the Vetin-ary Medical Association was held in the Vetinary Building the night of October the third. Interesting talks were made on Azoturia, by Kitchen, and Hypo Gly-cemia byMilligan. Dr. E. C. McGul-lock also said a few words on the value of such a meeting as this to the students in the Vetinary Department. Beat Florida! We Wish to Announce OUR O P E N I NG THURSDAY NIGHT The Tiger Sandwich Shop TIGER BUILDING Drop in for a sandwich after the dance —Curb Service— MODERN SANITARY Furman Students Earn $2,900 Monthly Approximately $2,900 is being made by Furman students each month, stated Shield's Hardin, manager of the Student Employment bureau. At this rate the total income for the year would be $26,100, which no doubt will be greatly increased as the session goes on. There is usually a rush for extra work after the football season is over. With 164 students holding various jobs, slightly less than two-fifths of the entire student body are working, or partially working their way through school, it was pointed out. Many students hold campus jobs, such as dining room waiters, laundrymen, and library workers, while others are located in the city. As in previous years, the business men of Greenville have been exceedingly generous in cooperating with. Mr. Hardin in securing positions for all students desiring work. Quite a number of boys are delivering the daily newspapers, some are clerking iii dry-goods, grocery, men's ready-to- wear, and shoe stores, while others are collecting pressing and shoes for repair. For several years the Student Employment Bureau, under the direction of a Furman student, has been exceeding fortunate in aiding boys to secure work for the year. Last year the work was successfully carried on by George A. Jeffers, now of Columbia. Professors Organize Extension Classes SCABBARD & BLADE TO INITIATE SOON The initiation of the new Scabbard and Blade members will take place, October 11th, 12th, and 13th. The officials are keeping the fine points of the initiation a deep secret, but Lieutenant Leith stated that the campus and dances would be under heavy guard, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, by the new members and that a midnight ride would take place later on. The costumes are to be very light and unique < Seven Classes To Be Formed At -Point* Throughout State CREDIT AGAIN GIVEN IN CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AT AUBURN (Continued from page 1) men, shop workers, housewives, school administrators, and all others who are interested in study for the sake either of culture or of practical results. All correspondence courses are conducted by regular members of the faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Assignments are prepared by them and all the student work is given their personal supervision. The plan of teaching provides that students' papers are not merely graded and returned but each student receives direction "and comment such as would be given in a personal conference. Each student does all the work of each assignment, and proceeds as rapidly as time and ability will permit. The history course is being offered the first time. Correspondence work in economics has been increased and new courses have been added in education. In the home economics course Auburn is a pioneer so far as southern institutions are concerned, Dr. Sho-walter explained. Some of the courses cannot be had from any other institution. With students throughout the state enrolling to take work by correspondence and others making inquiry regarding it, Dr. Showalter is confident that this year will establish a new record for correspondence teaching by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. ONE-SIDED SCORES AND LONG RUNS IN SATURDAY'S GAMES (Continued from page 4) by Texas A. & M. Up in the eastern end of the Conference, Coach Billy Laval's Gamecocks continued their sensational playing by trouncing Virginia in a hard fought game; while Washington and Lee upset the dope and beat North Carolina State 84 to 6 . North Carolina lived up to pre game dope and won from Maryland in a close game 26 to 19. Of the other games played, V. P. I. won easily from Hampden-Sydney and L. S. U. had little trouble defeating Southwest Louisiana Institute. QUIT ACADEMY What is life in an institution of learning if one can't play football? Ted Sloane and Jim Kiernan, having played three years for Navy, all that the eligibility rules permit, have resigned from the academy. At seven points in Alabama seven professors of the Alabama Polytechnic Instiute will organize and start extension teaching classes on October 20, announcement of which is made by Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of extension teaching of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Each of these classes will continue until ten meetings of three hours each are held at intervals of three weeks. Those who complete the courses will be given college credit which will count towa*rd a degree if requested. Dr. George Petrie, dean of graduate work and professor of history, will be in Lafayette to organize a class in current history. , Dr. Petrie began this work at LaFayette last year. This year he is conducting extension classes at Montgomery and Birming ham in addition to LaFayette. The classes at Montgomery and Birmingham have been organized. Prof. James R. Rutland, professor or English, will be at Elba and Enterprise to organize a class to study the "modern novel." On the same day, Prof. Marvin L. Beck, professor of social science education, will begin a class at Troy Normal to study "Social problems of the American family." At Louisville and Eufaula, on October 20, Dr. A. W. Reynolds, professor of history, will begin a class in "The history of America in Foreign Relations." Dr. R. L. Johns, professor of educational administration, will organize a class in "Child Accounting" at Headland; and Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of extension teaching, and elementary education, will organize a class at Tuskegee to study " Problems in Reading." In making the announcement Dr. Showalter said that these are only a small part of extension classes to be conducted by members of the faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute this year. LOCAL GOLFERS DEFEAT OPELIKA Armor Of Old Japan In Museum at Emory Iwao Kunimoto, of Kobe, Japan, millionaire Japanese student a t Emory University, has found in the Emory Museum a collection of old Japanese armor which was donated by the father of an old classmate of his in Japan. The Rev. W. P. Turner, now deceased, who for many years was a ^missionary in Japan, brought the collection to Emory. His son, William, was a close friend of Kuni-moto's while they were at college in Kobe, Japan. Kuminmoto in examining the armor remarked in his hesitant English, "No much good," tapping the armor, which is of a peculiar composition material. The armor was used by the Samuria, the lesser noble caste of Japan, who proceeded the higher nobles in battle. This piece of armor is over 500 years old." Kunimoto has a number of Oriental robes and curious in his possession but they have been sent to New York, enroute to England, where the Japanese student through an English university merely because they are friends. His generosity is extended also to two other Japanese students, whom he is financing in Japanese colleges. In the Auburn-Opelika Golf Tournament'matches played at Auburn, the College City Country Club team won over Opelika with fifteen points to Opelika eight points—and as a result tied Opelika on the city winner of the tournament as the week previous Opelika won over Auburn sixten points to Auburn nine points. It is not decided whether the tie will be played off. The matches at Auburn resulted as follows: Wm. Samford and Singleton Cook 0 points; vs. Hollingsworth and Collier three points. R. L. Wilson and Edward Jones one point; vs. Travis Ingram and H. W. Nixon, two points. Fred Williams and Spooks Shealy 0 points; vs. Spann and Jones three points. Julian Palmer and Cliff Wear, Jr., two points; vs. Grice and Lyle one point. Jack Meadows and Louis Dickson two points; vs. Major Kennedy and H. M. Martin, 0 points. John Fuller and John Ingram, 0 points vs. Biggins and Suggs, three points. Chal Greene and Millard Samford, one point; vs. Myrick and Hendricks, two points. E. R. Simmons and Willie What-ley, two points; vs. Wood and Hig-gins, one point. Total at Auburn: Opelika, eight points; Auburn fifteen points. Total at Opelika: Opelika sixteen points: Auburn nine points. Total (matches) at Opelika and Auburn: Opelika 24 points; Auburn 24 points—and tie matches for city winner. Program Armistice Day Being Planned Many Ex-Service Men Expected From Alabama and Georgia JUNIOR CIVILS ON INSPECTION TRIP A mammoth Armistice Day celebration has been planned for Auburn by the Military Department. Since November the eleventh falls on a Sunday the celebration will be held on November the twelfth. As this will be the tenth anniversary of that great day on which peace was declared for the world, the American Legion and other ex-service men from points in eastern Alabama and western Georgia are expected to participate in the exercises. Although arrangements are being made for distinguished speakers to be here on this occasion, as yet there have been no definite announcements as to the names of these. The Auburn R. O. T., C. Unit will hold review at ten A. M., to be followed by the main program. Arrangements are also being made for a Freshman football game at two o'clock that afternoon on Drake Field. The committee in charge of the celebration consists of Major Kennedy, Dr. Petrie, and Dr. Ross. Wilsonians Have An Interesting Program Bradford Knapp, Jr. Speaks To Ag Class Bradford Knapp, Jr. spoke to a class of fifty students in Animal Nutrition Wednesday morning, speaking somewhat at random, but touching heaviest on the relation of animal nutrition and genetics. Mr. Knapp, the elder son of President Knapp of this institution, is a graduate of Oklahoma A. & M. University and holds an M. A. degree from Iowa State College. At present he is with the United States Department of Agriculture, engaged in work with the Bureau of Animal Industries, employing genetics research. Young Knapp spoke interestingly of his experiences and his present work. He was given a laudable ovation by the listening class, after which each member had the honor of meeting him personally. Prof. W. E. Sewell, who is conducting this class, brought Mr. Knapp before the class at this hour. A debate, Resolved: "Hazing Should be Abolished in Auburn," was the interesting feature of the program given by the Wilsonian Literary Society Tuesday night. The affirmative was upheld by two Rats, Hall and Mahan. The Rats made a fair bid for the decision, as personal element played a big part in their talks, which no doubt made their talks more forceful. The negative was represented by two upper classmen, Pirkle and Overton. The old men were able, by their well planned speeches to convince the audience that hazing should not be abolished. Definite plans were made for the club social. It will be held at Yar-brough spring, Friday night, October 12, at 7 P. M. The society will meet at the main building and go to the spring in a groyp. Yesterday, thirty juniors in Civil Engineering and Seniors in Architectural Engineering took an inspection trip to Lime Creek, about twenty miles east of Montgomery on the Auburn- Montgomery highway. This group left Auburn at 9 A. M. and returned at 2 P. M. The purpose of the trip was to make observations of the new bridge that is nearing completion there, and to investigate the condition of the old bridge. The students gained valuable knowledge by watching the active operations. They also gained much information from an explanation of the bridge blue prints given by the construction foreman. This inspection trip was made possible largely through the cooperation of the Western of Alabama Railway, which made a special stop at the aforementioned creek. Professors Callahan, Barrow, and Ingram were in charge of the students. Students making the trip were: Rush, Downing, P e a r s o n, Thompson, Windsor, Beck, Beard, Yates, Coleman, Slaughter, Smith, McMillan, Barnett, Kipp, Shelton, Ellis, Willis, Nelson, Mask, Riley, Tate, Mc- Rae, Jackson, Johnson, Caldwell, Hass-ler, Vincent and Merrill . CURB MARKET SALES $866.61 PREXY'S PICTURE IS IN OCT. ROTARIAN Miss Cowden, New Faculty Member Here Miss Willie Mae Cowden, of An-niston, has arrived at Auburn and assumed her duties as assistant director of physical education for women students at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Announcement of her appointment is made by Miss Zoe Dobbs, dean of women. She will be assistant to Miss Lulu Palmer, director of physical education. Miss Cowden has had experience in the high school of Anniston and has had two years' work at Peabody College at Nashville. She will receive her degree at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at the 1929 commencement. TIGERS SHOW GREAT ADVANCEMENT IN TILT WITH CLEMSON (Continued from page 4) and are working hard every afternoon to give Auburn a winning team; and if the players show as much improvement in the next few weeks as they did in the past, Auburn will have a team to be proud of, one that will be a dangerous foe to all Southern Conference teams. Under the caption of Rotarian Personalities THE ROTARIAN for October carries the picture of Dr. Bradford Knapp, along with five other celebrities. The magazine mentions the fact that Dr. Knapp had left Oklahoma to come to Auburn. Others whose likenesses appear on the page with him are: Dr. Karl A. Bickel, Cambridge, Ohio; Reitaro Ichinomiya, Tokyo, Japan; Erwin Funk, Rogers, Arg., Alfredo Esquerre, Mantanzas, Cuba; and L. D. Crosby, Picayune, Miss. As long as they can manage to eat, some people refuse to face realities. Prexy Takes Band To Opelika Fair Dr. Bradford Knapp and the famous fifty piece Auburn band will be the main features on the program at the Opelika Fair this afternoon. Dr. Knapp will address visitors, while the band boys will furnish music for the occasion. Band men will leave Lang-don Hall today at 12:45 for the Opelika Fair Grounds. During the month of September the Auburn Curb market made sales totaling $866.61, according to a report by Miss Mary Bailey, home demonstration agent. In view of the fact that September is during the season when vegetables are short ordinarily this is considered especially good. On the other hand, the increase in sales is attributed in part to the fact that another session of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute has opened, bringing to Auburn a large - student body and additional faculty members to be fed. Miss Bailey and others who are connected with the market are delighted with the results. The Auburn market is now in its first year. It is open every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning, beginning early and continuing until most of the products are sold. There are several regular sellers who bring to the market a variety of fresh products direct from the farms and farm houses surrounding Auburn. Two fraternities at the University of Florida have agreed to stage an annual gridiron battle for the next 99 years. This is the longest football contract in existence. WE EXTEND-a cordial invitation to the people of Lee County and the students of Auburn to inspect our plant this week. It will be a revelation to see our modern plant and to watch the care with which our experts handle your work. THE IDEAL LAUNDRY CLEANERS A N D DYERS We call for a n d deliver R. D. Bowling, City Solicitor " A SERVICE T H A T SATISFIES' P h o n e 193 What Shakespeare says about Coca-Cola Delicious and Refreshing TWELFTH NIGHT Act I. Scene 5 8 million a day — IT HAD TO "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, and make the^ babbling gossip of the air cry out" The Bard of Avon gave much good advice. And this piece certainly has been f o l l o w e d by Coca-Cola: The drink you read about. And the little red sign brightens the streets and corners of cities and towns everywhere, its name more familiar than the names of the streets themselves. The Coca-Cola Company. Atlanta. Ga. B E G O O D TO G E T W H E R E IT IS
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Title | 1928-10-11 The Plainsman |
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Date Issued | 1928-10-11 |
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OCR Transcript | BEAT FLORIDA! TIGER! THE PLAINSMAN MAKE THE DANCES TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928, NUMBER 7 OPENING DANCES BEGIN AT NINE O'CLOCK TONIGHT ALUMNI GYM Auburn Coaches To Install New System Football Intramural Athletics Will Added To Present Methods Be FIRST SERVICES IN NEWLY-COMPLETED EPISCOPAL CHURCH ALABAMA FARMER PUTS ON SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE Formal Opening To Take Place In November TEAMS ARE FORMED TO REPRESENT BATTALIONS Will Develop Latest Ability For Varsity Squad This week will bring with it a novel innovation to the Auburn athletic machine, namely the introduction of intra mural football for those members of the" Rat and Varsity squads who are on the regular line up or on the first string substitutes. Four teams are being formed, one to represent each battalion or Artillery and one the Engineer Battalion, thus conforming to the organization of the R. 0. T. C. regiment. The use of the military organization in connection with intramural athletics is designed to give a working organization which will divide the student body into four groups of tlje same size, thus equalizing competition. Lieutenant G. B. Barth has been designated as Athletic Officer of the R. O. T. C. regiment and will cooperate with the coaching staff in organizing and maintaining the four teams and in scheduling their games. Each team will be provided with a coach drawn either from the coaching staff or the faculty. Coach Bohler has not fully decided on the coaches as yet, but among those being considered are "Pop" Paterson, "Ebb" and "Fob" James, "Cush" Wood. The team captains and alternate captains will be upperclassmen from the Varsity scrub squad. Each team will play one scheduled game weekly, one game to be played on Tuesday and one on Thursday afternoon. In addition an attempt will be made to schedule a game on Armistice Day. The idea of intramural athletics is not a new one. At present such schools as West Point, Notre Deme, and Georgia Tech use such a system in developing material for their varsity teams. A league of this kind allows many more men to demonstrate their ability and develop in actual play, thus keeping up the interest of men who otherwise would become discouraged on account of lack of opportunity to "show their stuff." The coaches will watch these contests with interest and will promote to the "Rat" or Varsity squad such men as show promise. All Freshmen who have turned in their suits and all others who would like to play are urged to report to the gymnasium at once and draw equipment. There is a limited amount of equipment for issue, so do not delay reporting. Omicron Delta Kappa Holds First Meeting Progressive Course of Activities Formulated For Year's Work .Omega Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa held its first meeting of the year in the lodge room last Tuesday evening. Plans for the year were formulated and a course of activities was 'mapped out in line with the progressive administration of the college. Election to Omicron Delta Kappa is regarded as the highest honor on the Auburn campus. Membership is based on scholarship, personality, leadership, and popularity. The present members of Omicron Circles are: (Faculty) Dr. Knapp, Coach Hutsell, Professor Daughrity, and Professor Baugham; Rosser Alston, P. M. Beard, P. Crenshaw, F. DuBbse, Joe Ford, "Pop" Paterson, J. R. Taylor, A. H. McGhee, L. A. Smith, and J. B. Merrill. C O N T A I N S MEMORIALS Made Possible Through Efforts Of Bishop McDowell The first services to be held in the newly completed main auditorium of the Episcopal church of Auburn were inaugurated by Rev. Lee last Sunday at eleven A. M. The parish house has been completed for about three years and has been used to hold the services in, the first one being held on Jan. 4, 1925, by the Rev. Geo. Ossman. The formal opening of the church will take place some time in Nov., when Bishop McDowell, who did so much to make this beautiful building possible, returns from the general convention. The church is of the Gothic style of architecture and contains many memorials: Among some of these are: the Veredoe and Altar given by Mr. and Mrs. Jemison as a memorial to the late Robert Jemison, Sr., of Birmingham; the Baptismal Fount given by W. B. Lazarus in memory of Fannie Toomer, of Auburn; the Creed-ence Table presented by Mrs. Clark of Montgomery in memory of her three sons who attended school here and the processional cross given by the wife of Harry Hebblewhite, of Birmingham, as a memorial to him. The erection of the church was largely made possible by a contribution of Mrs. M. Sloan, daughter of General and Mrs. Lane, and a suitable tablet is soon to be erected to her. The corner stone of the former Church of the Holy Innocents is to be placed in the wall of the new church, linking it with the little Chappel established here in 1887. Bishop W. G. McDowell who started proceedings for the new church, came here after the World War, and stayed until his election as Bishop, On August 24, 1925, the old frame church was torn down and ground was broken for the present building. The Alabama Farmer, agricultural publication issued monthly by the students of the Agricultural Club at this institution, is advancing a special drive to secure additional subscribers for this lively magazine. A special urge is being pressed upon the Ag students particularly to subscribe. to a man. This publication, having reached the distinction of admission to membership of Agricultural Magazines, Associated, is recognized as one of the leading magazines of its kind in the entire country. It carries each month, splendid timely discussions on the latest and entirely modern farm practices of the day, these articles being prepared by students here at Auburn. In addition, a section known as the "Campus Farmer" endeavors to present the outstanding news events of the month. The first issue for this session will be off the press within the coming week. It will be mailed to every student registered here as an Agricultural or Home economics student. Later issues will be withheld unless a subscription fee is paid promptly. With Harry Wise and J. R. Taylor, Jr., at the helm of the Farmer this year, and advance upon the already high standard of the publication is expected. Circulation being the main issue with any publication, this factor is receiving much attention at present. To Lead Grand March Friday Night AUBURN PLAYERS SEEK "IT" GIRL ON CAMPUS Airship Los Angeles Passes Over Auburn Huge Dirigible Seen Here On Way To Lone Star State NEW AG BUILDING WELL UNDER WAY Modern Structure To Be Completed In January Work is well under way on a two-story building which will when .completed be occupied by the Extension Service Department. It is expected that the structure will be completed by February if work is not halted at any time between now and then. This building, to cost eighty thousand dollars, has been'designed by the college architects, Warren, Knight, and Davis, of Birmingham. The building is to be of brick, trimmed with limestone. It should be said here that this edifice will be the concrete result of the far sightedness of L. N. Duncan, Director of the Extension Service, for it is due mainly to his efforts that such has been made possible. DEAN FUNCHESS CONVALESCING Has Made Rapid Recovery Recent Operation Since News has reached Auburn that Dean M. J. Funchess of the college of agriculture has recovered sufficiently to return either Thursday or Friday of this week. His recovery has been more rapid than his physician thought possible after the operation. Prof. Funchess had not been feeling well for sometime and went to Montgomery more than two weeks ago. A major operation was performed. His many friends hope the operation will result in complete restoration of his health. One of America's greatest and most beautiful dirigibles, the Los Angeles, passed over Auburn about 11 A. M. Sunday. The great ship was en-route from Lakehurst, N. J. to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. It carried 46 American Legion delegates to their national convention at San Antonio. An interesting comparison might be made between the great German dirigible, the "Graf Zeppelin," now on a voyage to this country, and the Los Angeles. The "Graf Zeppelin" is 771 feet long and 100 feet in diameter. Incidentally, the Graf Zeppelin is only 25 feet shorter than the Woolworth Building. Miss Rose Gunter, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. W. A. Gunter, of Montgomery, who, with Luke Brown, will lead the Grand March Friday Night. ' CREDIT AGAIN GIVEN IN CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AT AUBURN Credit Toward Degree Allowed For Work Completed DR. KNAPP'S SON HERE ON VISIT President and Mrs. Knapp now have as their guest Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Knapp, Jr. of Washington, who are here for a vacation of two weeks. It is their first visit to Auburn and they are enjoying it thoroughly . Mr. Knapp is the oldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Knapp. He is a geneticist in the United States Department of Agriculture. He went there after graduating in animal husbandry at the Oklahoma A. & M. College where he received his B. S. degree; and from there he went to Iowa State College at Ames where he received his M. S. in genetics. Mrs. Knapp is an Oklahoma girl. PREXY QUALIFIES AS CHEERLEADER Leads "Dummy Yell" During Recent Clemson Game Dr. Knapp has qualified as head cheerleader! He appeared upon the field during the second quarter of the game against Clemson Saturday to lead his "dummy yell." The response to this yell originated by him undeniably gives him the honor of first cheerleader. Dr. Knapp has already been elected champion cowboy, with his ten-gallon hat, and now he takes this honor. Motion passed that he be disqualified from further campus honors. For the third consecutive year the school of education of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is offering correspondence courses, according to announcement made today by Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of extension teaching and professor of elementary education. The official bulletin offers eight courses in economics; seven in English; eight in foreign languages; eight in history; seven in mathematics; two in physics; eight in home economics; and thirteen in education. Enrollments to take these courses are now being received daily and the work will start immediately to continue throughout the year, Dr. Showalter said. Two-semester hour courses are organized in sixteen units and three-semester hour courses in twenty-four units. These correspondence courses are open to all wishing to take them, the announcement explained. By an official act of the college authorities, one-fourth of the required work for graduation may be taken by correspondence. College credit will be given for all correspondence courses satisfactorily completed. Through these correspondence courses Dr. Showalter pointed out that the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is extending its service not only to non-1 resident students who are working toward a degree but also to business (Continued on page 6) DR. KNAPP SPEAKS TO COUNCIL GROUP ON FIELD OF WORK Considers Y. M. C. A. Leading Organization On Campus Elections! the very air is full of politics! Aside from the big political battles being waged throughout the nation Auburn is staging a little political drama of her own, the purpose of which" is to determine the "Personality Plus Co-ed" of the campus. This "It"-girl is desired by the Auburn Players to take the leading role in the college play, which will be presented soon. She must be personally attractive in appearance, though not necessarily beautiful; vivacious but not flippant; temperamental but not tempestuous; popular but well poised. Who is she, this beautiful little Clara Bow of Auburn? Rumors are abroad, and such names as Eloise Floyd, Evelyn Henry, Kathrine Porter, and Jackie Hutchinson are being mentioned in various discussions. Various opinions prevail over the campus. Some ask if such a girl really exists, others say that such a girl is not obvious, and still others contend that Auburn is full of this very type. The Polls are now open, and the ballot box may be found at the Tiger Drug Store. Everyone is asked to cast his ballot so that the winner will be the choice of the whole school. BALLOT Personality-Plus Co-ed— Ultimate Degree In Preparations Has Been Made Decorations For Event Depicted By Fred Ledbetter, Roy Staples, of Faculty MISS ROSE GUNTER IS TO LEAD GRAND MARCH Rudy Brown's Orchestra To Furnish Music For Dances Voter's name "A" CLUB DANCE BEST IN HISTORY Was Best Home Coming Day During Recent Years Neal Johnson Leads Cheers Homecoming Former All-Southern Back In Old Position Saturday Neal Johnson, Auburn's All-Southern cheer leader, was back on Drake field Saturday in his old position. The student body responded to his efforts. Cheers are always good when Neal Johnson is present! The student body seems to pep up when he steps upon the field and picks up a megaphone. He has led cheers at many games after his graduation, and is to be highly commended for the great amount of loyalty shown by him. Dr. Bradford Knapp spoke to the Y.M.C.A. Council group meeting in the assembly room of the "Y" building Sunday afternoon, October 7. A large number of the Cabinet members listened to the intensely interesting talk made by Dr. Knapp expressing his conception of the status and field of the "Y" work on the Auburn campus. Dr. Knapp proclaimed his profound interest in the work of the Y.M.C.A. organization here, stating that he would lend it his every support. He stated that he considered it one of the leading organizations on the campus, and advised the Cabinet members to uphold its splendid moral principles and wholesome endeavors constantly to the student body. "You are leaders," he cautioned, "and are in a position to render the most wholesome and uplifting service posisble to your fellow-students. There rests in your hands the noble task of guiding those about you to a life of real, Christian service. After all," he continued, "that is our ultimate purpose here; and if that end can be accomplished, then the other common duties of everyday life will follow without serious difficulty." Dr. Knapp stated that he has been deeply interested in Y.M.C.A. work for a long time; his extensive plans for the advancement of "Y" work here bear this out. REV. FRED TURNER HOLDS R E V I V AL Services Are Conducted Daily At Methodist Church Starting Monday night October 8, a special revival service is now in progress at the Auburn Methodist Church. It is being conducted by Rev. Fred Turner, pastor of the Riverside Park Methodist Church of Jacksonville, Florida. The services were announced by Rev. E. D. Burnworth, pastor of the Auburn Methodist Church, who said that services will begin daily at 7:30 p. m. They will continue throughout the week. The "A" Club dance last Saturday night closed the festivities for one of the best Home Coming Days Auburn has had in many years. In addition to the many local girls, a large number of attractive visitors from others towns weer present, making a total of some forty or fifty of the "Fairer Sex." Plenty of stags were in evidence— the girls certainly didn't have any worries on that account—for in addition to the students, there were many of the alumni, representing practically every town in the State. Max Jones' Orchetsra, with several new jazz artists present, made its initial appearance of the season before the student body on this occasion. Their excellent music did much to make the affair one of the most successful "A" Club dances since their inauguration here. Rumors are abroad that there will be an unusually large number of very fair visitors attending the Opening Dances, starting tonight and continuing throughout the week. Miss Rose Gunter of Montgomery, who was chosen to lead the Grand March Friday night with Luke Brown, will be among the most outstanding visitors. Besides Miss Gunter there will be hordes of beautiful celebrities numbering hundreds and coming from some two or three of the southern states. There will be quite a few visitors from Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery and other near by districts. The decorations under the direction of Prof. Fred Ledbetter, of the architectural department, and Prof. Roy Staples, of the applied arts division, are rounding into shape. The construction of the stalactites, stalagmites and other natural effects are already completed and ready for assembly. The program for the dances will be as follows: Opening Dance, Thursday night; Interfraternity Council Dance, Friday morning; Keys Dance, Friday afternoon; Grand Ball, Friday night; Scabbard and Blade Dance, Saturday morning; "A" Club Dance, Saturday afternoon; and the farewell Dance Saturday night. The management of the affair is under the direction of the student social committee. This committee which has worked so hard to make the dances the best Auburn has ever known" is as follows: Pete Crenshaw, Chairman; Porter Anderson, Duggan Taylor, Tom Walthall, Charlie Davis, Noble Crump, T. P. Brown, H. O. Davis, Luke Brown and Render Gross. LAMBDA CHI ALPHA HOSTS AT SMOKER A very enjoyable smoker was held at the Lambda Chi Alpha house last Tuesday night for the pledges of the fraternities on the campus. Two freshmen were invited from each fraternity. The smoker began at eight o'clock when refreshments were served. After the refreshments the pledges gathered in a large circle, and each introduced himself by telling his name, the name of his home town, and the fraternity from which he came. Many interesting bridge games followed the short introductions, and the smoker broke up as the freshmen gradually drifted away. One of the most interesting events on the program was a welcome speech by Rat Robert Argo, one of the Lambda Chi Alpha pledges. NOTICE Students w£o live in nearby towns and who did not put their addresses on their registration cards must give their addresses to our circulation manager if they desire to receive the Plainsman. —The Plainsman Plainsman Reporter Accompanies Team This week when the varsity journeys down to Gainesville, Florida to battle the Gators in the Florida Homecoming grid classic the Plainsmen will send a special sports writer with the team. The reporter who will accompany the Bohlermen to the Florida city will wire the Tiger-Gator game back home play by play. Residents and. students who will not make the game will read the details in the Sunday morning edition of the Plainsman. This is the first time in the history of the college newspaper that sports writers will accompany the team to out of town games. The inauguration of this service to Plainsman readers is in keeping with the progressive-policy of the newspaper. Dick Jones, Birmingham News sports writer and member of the Plainsman Staff will report the game. Dr. J. H. Edmonson In Town Saturday- Noted Specialist Was Room-mate of Matthew Sloan Dr. J. H. Edmonson, one of the leading x-ray specialists of Birmingham, formerly of Eufaula, was in Auburn on Home Coming Day, to see the football game and to talk about entering his boy in college. Dr. Edmonson was in the class of 1901. He was a room mate of Matt Sloan and the late Carl Nesbit. Dr. Edmonson studied medicine at the University of Virginia. PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. STAFF Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief James B. McMillan - - - Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor Raymond DeArman, '29 .-Associate Editor A. V. Blankenship, '30 — Associate Editor Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor K. R. Giddens, '30_-Ass't. Managing Editor Tom Brown, '31 News Editor Campbell Blake, '30 News Editor Robert L. Hume, 31 _- Ass't. News Editor Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor J. E. McLeskey, '31 Sports Editor Bob Handley, '29 Humor Editor Howards Sparks, '31—Ass't. Humor Editor REPORTERS Marcus Alspaugh, '32; Robert Baxter, '32; T. S. Coleman, '32; Kenneth Cooper, '32; Clarence Dykes, '32; Thomas Dykes, 31; Edmund England, '32; J. D. Foy, '31; George Harrison, '32; Murff Hawkins, '31; Clinton Jones, '32; John Lewis, ' 3 1 ; Richard Lightfoot, '32; White Matthews; '31; S. H. Morrow, '32; Frank Parker, '32; Will T. Sheehan, '32; Alex Smith, Jr., ' 3 1 ; K. G. Taylor, '32; W. M. Taylor, '32; Gerald Thompson, '32; J. E. Jenkins,*' 32; H. G. Tooney, '32; Victor White, '32; Thome Winter, '30; D. Reynards, '32. BUSINESS STAFF Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr. H. H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr. Walter Smith, '31 Circulation Mgr. J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Mgr. Selling S t u d e n t T i c k e t s; D e t r i m e n t a l To A u b u rn "Well, I guess there's got to be a balance in Nature: if it wasn't for the ugly and bad, I guess we wouldn't know the beautiful and good." So goes a quotation in a quite popular novel of recent composition. To the ultimate sorrow of all concerned, quite frequently there arises amongst us a detrimental, evil issue to be dealt with. This time it happens that your publication, The Plainsman, is called upon to oppose a movement not entirely agreeable or pleasant, which is becoming a frequent practice on the campus, according to reports. We hasten to say that we are ready and willing to indulge in any endeavor which is for the best interest of the institution. It is the aim of the Plainsman to aid wherever possible, when it will result in a bigger, better Auburn. But we are also anxious to proceed in such a manner that will not create a feeling of enmity among the student or other readers. When this publication comes out for or against an issue, it does not signify that we are to become bitter enemies. It merely signifies that we are of the opinion that we are more or less right in the matter, and are endeavoring to show you the right side of the question. We desire to remain friends with you, in spite of difference. The opening paragraph above is not intended as an excuse or alibi for any practice that is wrong. It is presented merely with the intention of emphasizing the course of human nature, and the things we are called upon to battle against in the course of events. The issue now in question is the practice of selling student athletic tickets. This indulgence is quite common to a great number of Auburn students. The writer had the misfortune of noting first hand a sale of two student tickets recently, at one dollar each; when only one dollar was paid for the two by the prospective salesman. The student was a freshman. More than once the writer's attention has been called to this matter of students selling tickets. In one particular instance a student—a man who had registered here, though surely not a true Auburn man at heart—was said to have collected books to the extent of thirteen from his fellows, secured student tickets with them, then in turn sold them at the gate at regular ticket prices. At this he cleared two dollars on each ticket sold, buying them at fifty cents each and selling them for two^and one-half dollars each. This is probably an extreme example, but it serves as an example of what is going on. Scores of other similar acts are known to have been put into effect. These fellows argue that they have paid for their ticket books, but will not use them all; and if they can "square up" some other way, they will do it. Fellows, that is an abominable way of squaring-up—in fact, it is anything but squaring up. Fifteen tickets are secured at registration for the nominal sum of seven and one-half dollars, making the price of each only fifty cents; while those other than students pay this amount to see only three games. This practice, in truth, is merely a form of graft; it is robbing the Athletic Association of two dollars for every tciket sold at regular price. An enormous debt has accumulated upon the athletic department here, and every possible cent is needed to remove this debt. Now you who sell your tickets will say that you are riot responsible for this debt. But you are, to a certain extent. If you had those tickets, necessitating their purchase from the officials in charge, that yould have meant two dollars more to the Association for every ticket you sold. We dare say not a single man has committed this abominable act without feeling at the time that it was wrong, and a hin-derance to the cause of the institution. Students have been shipped from Auburn for lesser crimes than this; but we want to avoid such drastic measures henceforth. We are making this earnest appeal to your higher sense of honor and duty, hoping that the regulation may be effected this side of the Executive Council. You are recognized as a one hundred per cent Auburn man—are you living up to the honor? Had you realized that every ticket you sell means an additional debt of two dollars upon the college? Do you claim to be possessed of the Auburn Spirit? You can't be, so long as you indulge in this illicit practice. It behooves every student here to keep close check on his or her ticket book, being careful to note that it is not being used to such ends. The matter of wiping out this serious misdemeanor lies chiefly within the hands of the student body, and it falls your lot as a member of the Auburn family to do your just part. Will you do this much for Auburn? We take this stand because we know it is right, and because we are for Auburn and her welfare one hundred per cent plus. We are presenting this appeal in the light of the Institutions' best interest, and with the hope that you as individuals will see the better side of the matter, then act according to the honest dictates of your own conscience. Have you the love of Auburn at heart— are you a real Auburn man? Then get busy and wipe out this degrading practice of selling student tickets. An Outgrown Custom; An Impossible Practice Last week over at the University a freshman refused to take hazing and a riot was the consequence. Several students were wounded in the battle which raged for over two hours, participated in by several hundred men. The cause of the scrap was the refusal of the new student to do some menial task for his lordship the upperclassman. Freshmen are becoming emboldened to assert their rights on many campuses. Inevitably, hazing must go. It simply isn't compatible with conditions on a modern progressive campus. Men come to college now bringing the thesis that they are as good as the predecessors. Usually are right. The college must learn that personal ob-noxiousriess on the part of a few freshmen cannot be cured by punishment indifferently applied to the whole group. That is not the way of the world. Why should the school be different? Such an incident has not happened at Auburn, and we hope that it will not be necessary. We have no hazing committee, no freshman rules, and things seem to get along very well. Let's take warning from the University and let the ancient and distasteful custom fall by the wayside. Letters to the Editor Dear Mr. Editor, I have read both the letters of Mr. Ivan-hoe Silva and Mr. W. S. along with the editorial comment. The thing that amuses me is the fact that our good editor states that he cannot take issue with any of the editorial contributers presenting articles for publication but does not fail to say that he heartily agrees with the so called "gentleman of the romantic non de plume." Mr. Editor I think that your opinion of your ability to abide by your policies as stated in your paper should also be lowered, along with your opinion of your ability to state your opinions clearly. As a matter of fact Mr. Silva's letter appeared as a letter to the editor and not as "Meditations on this and that" then why not publish Mr. W. S.'s letter under the same column? Then the editor would have no reasonable excuse to take issue with either party. By the way who is the "gentleman of the romantic non de plume"?; who is the so called Mr. W. S.? Who are these honorable gentlemen? If they are ashamed to sign their names to their articles then why should we the readers of the Plainsman have our paper filled with their worthless contributions? I say worthless because if a writer can «not afford to affix his name to a personal contribution then it is not worthy of publication in our democratic paper. I have never heard of Mr. W. S. but have read a lot about the popular Mr. Ivanhoe Silva. Only yesterday I read in the Birmingham Post as follows: Birmingham police and detectives joined today with officers throughout the nation in search of Alabama's most famous crook —Roy Dickerson—who with Ivanhoe "Slick" Silva and Frankie Cook, alias Jimmie Cooley, escaped from Kilby prison last night. Silva and Dickerson both well known in gang circles in Chicago, Johnson says. At least we can say that some of our writers are nationally known. As to the content of Silva's letter the civilized world must agree, it was a literary masterpiece. Such phrases as "Is the public conception of the Auburn Spirit good? Yee Gods No! It is damnable, idiotic and heathernish. I tell you Hell no." and our self stated loyal student of Auburn continues in contributing his nickles-worth by calling our honorable first year students "a bunch of' yokels" and states that what happens to be this "About five hundred adolescent Alabama peasants are released from the farms each fall and they congregate at Auburn. They are matriculated and given freshman caps and told that they are Auburn students. In a few days, realizing that there are no cows to milk, that they are no longer serfs, that they are not required to plow a mule or use a dung fork, they must do something so they readily believe what seyeral hundred second year idiots tell them. These yearling rurals tell Les Enfants Ordinair-ment that they have the Auburn Spirit, and the louder and courser they express it the more Auburn Spirit "they have. Hence, five hundred rurals, daily give birth to several million War Eagles and to hell with somebody. I am for birth control." No doubt Mr. Silva the brilliant man that he is thought that the whole world was a farm up until the time that he entered Auburn as a student. Auburn is proud of Mr. Silva along with the numberless other big men that she has turned out from this raw yokel material. When we see that we are training these boys and turning them out as a better product at the end of four years would our system of higher education be practical?. We do not expect all of our new; students to come here to show us how it is done out in the world but rather expect on. the other hand that they come here to learn- from books and associations how to serve Alabama and Auburn as better and bigger men. Auburn is on a new level Auburn needs all the help she can get along with the right kind of constructive criticism. We will never accomplish anything as long as we tell the freshmen to go and do this or that, if we expect them to do well we must set a good example for them and say come do as we do. I hope that Mr. Silva and our good editor will join with the student body, the true Auburn men throughout the world and especially the leader in the office and we will all get together and keep Auburn on the top. J. F. SHACKLEFORD, '29. Box No. 3, Auburn, Alabama. Prexy's Paragraphs By Bradford Knapp Homecoming was a wonderfully encouraging day even if the team did meet a technical defeat. First I want to thank the entire student body for fine conduct almost without a single exception, for good spirits at the game and bravely facing a defeat which was no disgrace. The game itself was a hard fought game. Clemson was supposed to have one of the best teams they have had in several years. It was a good team" and played a good game. What filled me with pride was the splendid way in which our own team played. I believe we out-fought them in the line. It was a hard game to lose for it should have been a tie game. Almost the only break in the game was against us. Now I don't care what any old alumnus may say, I don't care how poor their spirits may be, I believe in this team and in the ability of this student body to produce a team which will win. Hard work, hard training, personal sacrifice for the good of old Auburn, clear heads, quick thinking, steady nerves, and everybody united in thought and spirit, with these we will win yet. Yes, homecoming was a good day, a day of hopefulness. Lastly I am glad so many of the old graduates and former students were here and I hope they got the same lesson we are getting from that day. We lost a game but were not defeated. Heads up! Let's go! * * * * * Now we are facing one of the greatest social events of the college year. I sincerely trust that we will make it the best it has ever been, a period of fine social enjoyment and a credit to the student body and to the college. The way for us to do this is to follow the fine lead of the social committee. They are trying to make such arrangements that all may go away with fine recollections of clean, fine, social enjoyment unmarred by any untoward event. Let us play the game here also and set a standard which will be a credit to parents, homes, student body, Auburn and a credit in all Alabama to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. % AUBURN FOOTPRINTS « AT THE ZOO! Are you a student?" No, I am a co-ed. * * * * * * * * First student: Anything to do. Second Stude: Naw, I can't think of a thing to do. First stude: Oh well, we might as well go to class. * * * * * * * * WOMEN! WOMEN! WOMEN! There's a woman at the bottom of every thing said the man as he pulled his wife out of the well. * * * * * * * * Drunk: Shay, do you know Humpher? Drunker: Humpher who? Drunk: Humpher ever blowing bubbles. * * * * * * * * Don't raise a racket said the hold up man as he relieved the tennis players of their money. * * * * * * * * AND THE FARMER HAULED ANOTHER LOAD AWAY That's the guy I am laying for said the hen as the farmer crossed the yard. * * * * * * * * Student: I want a round trip ticket mister. Agent: Where to please? Student: Hell, back here you dumb bell. * * * * * * * * MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN MONTGOMERY Him: Did you hear about the terrible accident in Scotland. It: No, what was it? Him: Two taxi cabs collided and eighteen Scotchmen were injured. * * * * * * * * Suspicious husband: Who called this afternoon? Wife: Only Aunt Mary. Husband: Well she left her pipe. * * * * * * * * ASK FOREMAN - Some one at the show Monday night wanted to know if the Mating Call, wasn't an animal show. * * * * * * * * Some people are passionately fond of poetry. Others are fond of passionate poetry. And still others are poetically fond of passion. * * * * * * * * Teacher: Now Sarah, how many bones have you in your body? Sarah: Nine hundred. Teacher: That's a great many more than I have. Sarah: But teacher, I had sardines for dinner. * * * * * * * * SUCH PATIENCE DESERVES REWARD He: May I kiss you? She: What do you think I am waiting for, a street car? * * * * * * * * Cop (to motorist): How do you like London? Motorist: Who me? Why I've never been there. Cop: Well that's where I thought you learned to drive. * * * * * * * * AN ANNOYING ITEM Him: And what do you think of marriage? Do you like it? She: Of course I think it's great. But it's the husband that annoys me. * * * * * * * * IGNORANCE IS BLISS Co-ed: My sweetie thinks I am the nicest girl in town. I wonder if I should ask him to call. College Arab: No, let him keep on thinking so. * * * * * * * * AND THE PUPS LIVED Poor Man: What should I do? I was married a year ago and the wolf is at our door? Very Poor Man: You should worry. The wolf has been at our door and had pups. O03 PAGE AND STAGE °£ This department will attempt now and then to keep Plainsman readers advised on what's what and new in the world of the printed pages with occasional comments and notices on the drama, silent and otherwise. The legitimate theatre, always more or less intimately connected with motion pictures, is now doubly related with the advent of the Talkers (not "talkies"). Our New York corespondent writes us the following bits of interest: Sam H. Harris is "regretfully" announcing the final performance of Jack Dempsey and Estelle Taylor in their joint appearance in "The Big Fight." . . . .Richard Bennett, who toured the South last season in "The Barker" and waxed resentful over Atlanta's indifference to his presence, is appearing in a stage version of Jim Tully's novel, "Jar-negan." . . . .Walter Hampden whom everybody goes to see do Hamlet or Cyrano or Caponsacchi will present "on Tuesday evening at 8:15 sharp an elaborate production of "The Light of Asia," a new drama based upon the life of Buddha. . . . .The Theatre Guild turns to Goethe for the first bill of its eleventh important season. The play is "Faust". In the cast are George Gaul, who played the South, appearing both in Montgomery and Atlanta, in the Guild's repertory season of last year, Dudley Digges and the ever-present Helen Westley. . . .Will Rogers, who gallantly offered to sub for Fred Stone when that comedian fell down with his aeroplane, is about ready to open with Dorothy Stone in the play named, so far, "Three Cheers." . . . .There are eighty-eight theatres in New York City playing only legitimate attractions. So far as we know no one has ever counted the motion picture houses. The motion pictures receiving the most big-time attention are these: William Fox's "Four Devils" with Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton, and Barry Norton (the sweet-faced boy of "The Legion of the Condemned"). . . ."White Shadows," which seems to be another south seas picture. . . .Carl Laemmle's "Lonesome" with Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent. . . .Al Jol-son, who walked out on his first picture and made a hit in his second, "The Jazz Singer," has made another, "The Terror". . . . "Wings" seems to be in its sixty-first week on Broadway. . . .D. W. Griffith's next production is soon to have a New York premiere. The title is "The Battle of the Sexes." * * * * * Edna St. Vincent Millay, that most important and most talented poet, has published "The Buck in the Snow." It is extensively reviewed in this weeks New York Times' book review section. The Times announces the following forthcoming biographies: "Martin Van Buren" by Denis Lynch, "Cotton Mather" by Ralph and Louise Boas, "Francis Joseph of Austria" by Joseph Redlich, and "My Autobiograph" by Benito Mussolini. Although the book has been off the press some months, we want to call attention to "Hilltop in the Rain" by the Birmingham, Alabama writer, James Saxon Childers. Mr. Childers has a good story, interestingly told, and of especial interest to Plainsman readers because the setting for the tale is a southern college evidently not so far away. Whoever heard of an english teacher telling a student he would "bash his nose in for him" and getting away with it? Childer's hero does. There is an interesting "look-in" behind the scenes of this so-called mythical college. Read this book. The library has one copy and that is not enough to go around. If you have the money, buy the book. And that calls to mind a movement this department wants to sponsor, and hammer at, and squawk about until we get results. No one can afford to buy all the books he wans to read. Furthermore many books he wants to read, he does not want to keep. What we need is a circulating library- where books may be rented for a few days at a nominal sum. Womrath has a chain of such book-shops in New York where a book may be rented for a week for a quarter. There is a shop of this kind in Opelika, so we have been told. What we want is one in Auburn? Who will start it? MEDITATIONS ON THIS AND THAT 'By benjamin Trovost-~ EDITORIAL 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. OVER AMONG the back pages of the Forus there is a page devoted to definitions. A different subject is definied each month, and prizes are awarded for the three best definitions. The subject for October was "Education." I have heard four men define education in long speeches. The first prize winner wrote a better definition in less than a hundred words than any of the speakers whom I have heard did in an hour. Read it. How about this one? "Education—a subject taught in normal colleges by abnormal professors to subnormal students." * * * * * THERE is no question about who won the last five minutes of the first half last Saturday. Old Jupe Pluv-ius emerged victorious without even being extended. The old boy played whaley with yards of feminine apparel, quarts of feminine complexions, and quite a lot of tempers, both masculine and feminine. Before the game the weather was beautiful— not even an absent-minded professor carried an umbrella to the field. The clouds slipped up on us while we were engrossed in the game, and without any warning the rain started and the complexions began to melt. I learned things in that rain. One young lady had streaks in five distinct colors on her cheeks. I guess that the process of blending them is the reason back of the long time which the fair ones require to get dressed. I'll remember that and be more patient during the dances when I have to wait an hour on some girl-of- my-dreams while she dresses. The most embarassed girl on the field was the one in a perfectly white dress whose stockings displayed a veritable rainbow of colors. This was a revealing rain! The girls who went to the game wearing dresses that were as short as possible shouldn't have made them of shrinkable stuff—heights of impossibility were reached. The men fared little better. Several Beau Brummels of the campus discovered their trousers cuffs rapidly slipping up on their knees under cover of the excitement. From the press box the crowd reminded one of a covey of ostriches—one moment everyone was sitting right-side-up, the next their heads had disappeared under the seats and the rest of them waved around in the rain. The persons who really lost their tempers were the ones who were oblivious to the rain in their interest in the game and who coudn't see the players because of the frantic efforts of the majority to get under cover. The Plainsman sports writers had one on the city paper men. All of them had to "fold their papers and steal away," while we were dictating our story over a phone to a nice dry office up town. * * * * * PERHAPS the freshmen and some of the upperclassmen don't know that anyone is welcome to contribute to the Cajoler. The next issue goes to press soon, and local wisecrackers should see to it that our humor magazine is well supported on the campus by contributions. Write something, freshmen, either something extremely funny, or something so serious that it is funny. THE GREAT SEDUCER Who looks too long from his window At the grey, wide, cold sea, Where breakers scour the beaches With fingers of sharp foam; Who looks too long through the grey pane At the mad wild bold sea, Shall sell his hearth to a stranger And turn his back on home. Who looks too long from his window— Though his wife waits by the fireside— At a ship's wings in the offing, At a gull's on air, Shall latch his gate behind him, Though his cattle call from the brye-side, And kiss his wife—and leave her— And wander everywhere. Who looks too long in the twilight, Or the dawn-light, or the noon-light, Who sees an anchor lifted And hungers past content, Shall pack his chest for the world's end, For alien sun or moonlight, And follow the wind, sateless— To Disillusionment. —Cale Young Rice. Dr. Knapp's Convocation speech has given us something .to think about—and a slant of thinking about it that perhaps many of us had not taken before. * . THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE STUDY BEING MADE OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN IN LEE With Mrs. J. M. Herren, of the home economics faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, in charge, a study of the physical development of children of pre-school age in Lee County is now being made. Special attention is given to the skeletal development in relation to diet. The survey will continue throughout the year during which BOO of these children will be studied in cooperation with the State and County Departments of Health and other agencies. To make the study Mrs. Herrin is going to the homes of these children and obtain complete information. An eight-page questioriaire is being used. The main object of the study is to determine the methods whereby skeletal abnormalities of children may be avoided. Feeding and sunshine, for both mother and child, are considered major factors. Authorities disagree on which is more important. In announcing this study Miss Glan-ton, head of the home economics department of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, said that Miss Lydia J. Roberts, of the University of Chicago, will assist in giving direction to it. Mss Roberts is a nationally known child nutritionist who has visited Auburn several years ago. Miss Grace Abbott, of the United States Children's Bureau of Washington, will furnish a physician for expert counsel and Dr. B. F. Thomas, surgeon of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, will assist with advice and making X-ray pictures. After visiting the homes and obtaining the desired information a physical examination will be given all the children by the physician from the Children's Bureau working in cooperation with Dr. Thomas. The information obtained in this way will be given to the parents of the children studied. It will become a part of the valuable literature on the subject. Miss Glanton said that while studies of this kind have been made in other sections of the world, very few have been made in the South; and that no such study has been made of the physical condition of children in Alabama ,where there are so many days of the very finest health-giving sunlight . She said also that records of studies in other states have shown that absolutely perfect skeletal development is rare, because of a general lack of accurate information concerning the reasons for malformation of the bones during the prenatal life and the first years of childhood. WIRT SOCIETY ENJOYS MEET Boys! If You Eat M E A T Buy it from your Friends MOORE'S MARKET —Phone 37— The Wirt Literary Society met on Tuesday night and had a successful, and interesting meeting. After the regular business was attended to, Mr. Cottier explained the purposes and the aims of the Phi Delta Gamma, the Honorary Literary Fraternity. After this W. C. Weldon brought out several interesting points on "Why Join a Literary Society?" He said that social contact and learning to be a good speaker are the main reasons for one joining and taking part in some literary society on the campus. Feature of the program was a debate, the question being. "Resolved that Freshman Hair-cutting Should be Abolished." The judges of the debate were Grace Pinnell, 0. S. Adams, A. F. Baas. On the affirmative were Rat Harris, and Annie Ross Fuller. The negative was represented by Bill Oakley, and Bernice McMillan. Rat Harris said that cutting freshmen's hair made them feel inferior to the upper-classmen, and prevented the fullest harmony and understanding between the two groups. Bill Oakley suggested the fact that freshmen have an opportunity to use Glover's Mange Cure when their hair is cut to cure dandruff. Miss Fuller gave as one point of her argument that freshmen would look better with hair on their heads. Miss McMillan said that Freshmen, although bald-headed, were quite as popular as upper-classmen. The affirmative won the debate. Just at this juncture, Prof. Daugh-rity made his appearance and gave an interesting talk on the ability of students to do well the things in which they are engaged, due to the large number of activities they take part in. Prof. Daughrity asked a new member of the faculty what he thought of Auburn students. This new professor stated, "The students are exceedingly ambitious, always working, but do not accomplish all their aims—they try to do too many things at once." Ag Club Favors Doing Away With Hazing Freshmen Upholding the stand taken by Dr. Knapp in maltreating freshmen of this institution, as expressed in a recent Convocation meeting of upper-classmen, M. V. Hallman, popular senior in Agriculture spoke at length on this subject before a regular meeting of the Ag Club. Mr. Hallman confined the suggestions of Dr. Knapp to a letter, stating that, even though the practices being denounced were aged customs here, the students would exercise wise judgment in accepting Prexy's suggestions at face value, and take up the practice of them at once. Mr. Hallman was fired with an enthusiasm that proved his sympathy with the suggestions as presented by Dr. Knapp. This speech was given as a regular number of the weekly meetings of the Ag Club, which is recognized as probably the livliest club on the campus. Other interesting numbers were rendered at the same meeting, including: "Our march to progress," by J. R. Parrish; Agriculture since the Civil War," by C. T. Bailey; and a "Buck-dancing" act by Pat Alsobrook and Bill Andrews. Mrs. H. D. Jones Writes Letter F r o m Mexico Plans Are Made For Go-To-Church Month NOTICE Lost: One black loose-leaf notebook; one "U. S. History; one "Introductory College Chemistry." Finder please return to George Sanford, Brewer Hotel. You will find a Braddock lettering angle or an Olson lettering instrument handy for your drafting Burton's • T i l l •kstore Something New Every Day Plans for a Fraternity Go-To- Church month have been drawn up by an interested group of "Y" Council members. These plans were brought before a meeting of the Cabinet and voted to be put into effect. The following committee was appointed to perfect and execute these plans: A. L. Smith, T. H. LeCroy, J. R. Car-reker and T. J. Cottier. The month chosen for this contest is December. The purpose is to spread a feeling of church interest among the Fraternities, conveying to their members the extended interest and invitation of the various churches. A handsome trophy will be warded the Fraternity obtaining the highest score, which will be based on percentage attendance of regular church services. BE SURE TO GET YOUR RAT BIBLE According to a statement from the "Y" Secretary, a number of students here have acquired the idea that "Rat Bibles" are for Rats only. He would have this misconsception corrected by announcing that every efficiently registered student at Auburn is entitled to one of these "Y" Handbooks. The "Y" is anxious for each student to receive of these informative books, and urges that those who have not received one call at the "Y" Office at once, presenting their registration receipt card, and receive one. The following is from a letter from Mrs. Herman D. Jones, of Auburn, now in Mexico City: "Our trip had no unusual features until the morning of the third day when we reached Laredo. On a trestle over the Rio Frande the train stood while, all hand luggage was inspected and no one could escape. Then we crossed to a guard house station. Passengers and' trunks then got off for the rest of the festivities. The heat in that first room crowded with passengers — trunks being hauled about by melting Mexicans, sunshine blazing down over everything—made an unforgettable interlude. The inspection was courteously done and even my twelve pairs of shoes passed muster. "That day we traveled through desert like country, flat, covered with mesquite bushes and enough cacti to get the whole world stuck up. By the next night we had climbed 7,550 feet, approximately, winding up the mountains. Sometimes we could see the engine and the rear car filled with soldiers at the same time from our window. The scenery along this road is beautiful beyond words, at times the view extending for many miles to blue distant ranges, again the train passing through a gorge between two peaks. At the villages and towns where our train stopped, Mexican food was offered for sale, with blankets, drawn work, curios, opals, etc. We almost fell for two beautiful opals but manfully resisted and escaped to the car with our Mexican money intact. There is no paper money in the country nor. drawing of checques except in big business transactions. It is not an uncommon sight to see a man on the streets carrying a sack of money on his shoulder. Enough money to pay our hotel bill for a week would nearly fill a bass drum. "The city is built of stone and stucco and though there are handsome modern structures, the first stone of the great cathedral was laid in 1573 and hundreds of other buildings look about as old, though not so beautiful. Everything, however, is not steeped in antiquity. "We have already found a Y. M. C. A., A Union Protestant Church, an American Legion Post, a Rotary club, which has its Ladies' night ball this week, and Harold Lloyd is playing "Speedy" at the Olympia. "We had expected to tune in on WAPI to hear football games, current events every week, and John Ivey on Poultry feeding and were greatly disappointed to learn that the "altura" makes a radio quite unsatisfactory. So our news from home must come by letters and the "Opeli-ka Daily." Please don't let us miss anything vital." Wilkes Sees South Prosperous In Talk To Local Kiwanians Beat Florida! A STUDENT INTERNATIONAL Evidence that the South is destined to be the most prosperous section of the United States, agriculturally, was presented by Sam W. Wilkes of the Atlanta and West Point Railway Company in an address to the Kiwanis club of Auburn at their weekly meeting Monday. The speaker declared that evidence of the soundness of business in the South and of its future prospects is revealed by the desire upon the part of investors to get southern securities. Whenever a sound southern security is placed upon the market it is bought immediately, he declared. The speaker said also that 38 per cent of America's recent increase in manufacturers has been in the South. He quoted figures from the Manufacturers Record showing that in the year 1925, as compared with 1923, the country's manufacturing output showed a gain of $2,447,000,000 which less than two-fifths of this vast sum is accredited to that section known as the land of cotton which is no less than in the time of our fathers, he was a record unparalleled. Slightly declared. In addition, industrial power is immense and the industrial advancement of the South has just begun. Mr. Wilkes referred briefly to competition given railroads by automobiles and trucks. He was not pessimistic about it but declared that "in this great country of advancement there is opportunity for all." Capt. B. C. Anderson, president of the club, presided and introduced Mr. Wilkes. EVANS LITERARY SOCIETY HAS A SURPRISE MEETING ON TUESDAY W. T. Edwards Made President Of Y.M.C.A. ADVERTISING Helps to Make THE PLAINSMAN ucSh^ South's *Best College 'Taper" Trade with Those Who Patronize Your Paper The Following article appeared in a recent issue of "The New Student." "With all the stir about international accord through the peace pacts and arms limitation few people have heard about international good-will through cooperation between students of the United States and of Europe, which became closer than ever this summer. The National Student Federation, organized at Princeton in 1925 and now representing more than two hundred colleges and universities in the Nation, sent its delegates this summer to the tenth annual conference of the Confederation Internationale des Etu-diantes. "This Confederation was founded at Strasbourg in 1919 and it has grown in the intervening years to embrace the student bodies of forty-eight nations. South Africans, New Zealand-ers, Filipino and Chinese students were among the 1,400 who gathered at the Sorobonne on August 10 for the annual oiling of their machinery of international nitercourse. "It needs only a recital of the agenda of this conference to indicate what busy men and women these students are: determination of international norms of measurement for scholastic degrees; the creation of university archives to house an international exchange of books, publications and of scientific and technical films; to arrange for the securing of special student rates on steamships and railroads; the exchange of information concerning the launching of investigations into the feasibility of building student -dormitories and restaurants, the management of an international sanitarium for students, and( finally the organization of international athletic meets to be held concurrently with the annual conferences. "Student travel, for pleasure and for study, receives major emphasis. The National Student Federation of America has already issued over one thousand student idenity cards. These highly useful cards are granted to students—graduate or undergraduate —of accredited American universities and they entitle the holder to visa reductions, and in some cases free visas in Europe. They also serve as introductions to European students and often secure for the bearer reduced transportation rates. The practice of exchange scholarships is very common in Europe. It is common practice for an Englishman desiring to study in Germany to exchange homes with a German who wishes to study in England. "In America the students have just begun to provide for their common welfare. To the average student on the average campus the initials N. S. F. A. are as yet meaningless. The Federation officials have come back from Paris, however, with plans for strengthening the body through added responsibilities. This year the N. S. F. A. has undertaken to supervise international debate, which has become a permanent and growing institution here. A team from Oxford will tour the country, and another representing the British Union Students. This latter team has the distinction of being the first international women's debate team to come from these isles which have so stubbonly resisted the encroachments of women upon the universities. W. T. Edwards was officially installed as YMCA president at Auburn by Dr. Knapp at the regular Friendship Council Meeting Sunday afternoon, October 7." Mr. Edwards, formerly vice-president of the "Y" organization here, succeeds Roy Sellers, who resigned the chair to take up the duties of General Secretary. Shortly after taking over his official position here last summer, Dr. Knapp deemed it an advantage to appoint Mr. Sellers general secretary of the local YMCA. Sellers accepted the appointment, and his resignation as President was accepted by the Cabinet at its meeting Sunday. Mr. Edwards was elected to vice-presidency in the Junior class election here last spring. Being next in order, he was chosen to succeed the retiring president. T .H. Lecroy was unanimously chosen for vice-president, to fill the vacancy left by the advance of Edwards. At this same meeting Leslie Williamson was unanimously elected as Deputations Chairman, to succeed W. W. Bryant, who resigned the position recently. As members of the society entered the room, their eyes began to twinkle, for a bright, silvery loving cup, which had been won by the society, attracted our attention. Another attraction of the evening was a society pennant, which the group thought best to place in a public place where it could be seen. Due to the absence of Harry Cottier, Prof. Butler took charge of the meeting. After the regular business the surprise program began. Each person was given a slip of paper as he entered the door, and on this slip of paper was a topic, which was to be talked upon for two minutes. The first one of these series of talks was given by Mr. Meigs . His topic was, "My responsibility as an Auburn Student to Advertise Auburn." He stressed that students should say good things about Auburn and leave the bad qualities out. "Rat" Evans then gave some interesting reasons why every student should be required to play some organized game. He stated in his talk that these exercises build up the body and makes the mind alert in reacting. Mr. Kuykendall told us that the time had come when all the Evanites should wake up and make this year the best that the Evans has ever had. Mr. Goodwin stated that too many students were taking electrical engineering, and that they should take more interest in the academic courses . Mr. Croft discussed the disloyalty of a player on a football team. "Rat" Little argued that there are too many extra curricular activities on the A. P. I. campus for the best interest of the students. Mr. Martin then told who a person should vote for if he doesn't vote for Al Smith. He emphasized in plain lan-l guage that he should vote for Hoover, and that a true Democrat would nat- • urally vote for Hoover. Mr. Harris then told the society that the use of profanity indicated the lack of self-control. Mr. Henderson then gave some important dope on the dances. He said everyone should strive to get nice girls and less liquor. "Rat" Timbes said the Agricultural Building was the prettiest one on the campus. Following this was a selection -from "Rat" Elledge, entitled, "Barefoot Boy." This program could not have been complete without a word or two from Mr. Bennett. He gave some very important information regarding the use of slang. After this talk, John Cottier gave the critical remarks of the society, which were few in number. The meeting was closed with an urgent call for all the loose fifty cent's. Navy Unit Adds Sixty Men At Tech Due to limited facilities, from approximately two hundred applicants only eighty freshmen were allowed to enroll in the Naval R. 0. T. C. at Georgia Tech this year. A bugle, fife, and drums corps of twenty pieces has been organized as a unit of the Navy and will soon play for the drills. Their firs't public appearance will be made at the Notre Dame game. The yearly exhibit at the Fair contains some new features this year. Among them is a mine similar to those used by the Allies in the North Sea against Germany, and the after-body of a submarine showing modern electrical steering and propelling apara-tus. There are also some minor exhibits such as knots and splices used on board ship, a steering wheel and compass and a sounding machine. 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S. Winter, Assistants • Tigers Tackle 'Gators in Gainesville; Rats Take on Florida Frosh Saturday TWO FULL TEAMS BE CARRIED TO FACE FLORIDA GRIDDERS By Dick Jones Coach George M. Bohler with his corps of assistants will take their Tigers on the first long trip of this season when they journey to Gainesville to battle the Florida Gators this coming Saturday. Bohler will more than likely take over 2 teams and also the hustling manager, "Bubber" Hatcher. On account of it being such- a long trip they will leave Thursday night or Friday morning and will probably see a slight workout a few hours before time for the game in order to get used to the change of atmosphere. He has been drilling his Tigers on the correct way to block and tackle, and get under punts, more than anything else since this seems to be the main weakness. He divided the ends and backs from the linemen and have had them busting the dummy for over an hour every afternoon while oCach Pitts has been charging the line under a low rope and bucking a bucking board. While Coach "Slick" Moulton has been spending most of his time teaching one set of scrubs Florida plays and then giving the varsity a fit with them, Coach "Sheriff" Lee and Coach John "Barelycorn" Shirey have had another set of scrubs scrimmaging the Freshmen. Bohler's plays have been proven that they will work just like he planned for them to. They were proven by the Freshman team last Friday afternoon when the "Rat" team worked them to a perfection on the Birmingham- Southern "Rats" and beat them 25-2. With this assurance and a hard working team the Tigers are bound to come to the front. Although the whole student body will not be able to make the trip to Florida with the football team they will be with them in soul, for this was proved last Saturday when they kept on cheering, even more, for the Tigers when they went down in defeat for the 14th consecutive time. Hutsell's Harriers Open Workouts Prospects Bright for Good Team By Clinton E. Jones Coach Hutsell's "harriers" open track fall workout with bright pros- "pects for another championship Tiger team. The team this year will be strengthened by "Weems" Baskin, National Intercollegiate high hurdle champion of 1927 and holder of the same indoor event of 1928, is back in school this year and will help in coaching the Freshman and Varsity squad of this season. It is also to be remembered that Coach Hutsell was assistant coach of the United States Olympic track team this year. The cross country team will have their first trial Wednesday after- Physical Training Classes are Under "Weemie" Baskin By J. Mack Jones With "Weems" Baskin, former Auburn track star as instructor, the Freshman physica 1 training classes are progressing thoroughly and rapidly. The reputation of Baskin as an athlete is world-wide, and his ability and experience should prove invaluable to the "rats." These physical training classes constitute a two-hour course which is required of all freshmen. Classes meet either in the Gym or on the athletic field and instruction is given in the sport of the season. The last few days have been spent in familiarizing the freshmen with the art of passing and punting the pigskin. Many humorous sights may be seen as the ball goes the round of men, green and unaccustomed to its use . However, mingled with this awkwardness, can be spotted what may prove football or track ability. Formerly, Wilbur Hutsell, one of America's outstanding coaches, has been in charge of this work, but varsity football and track now consume all of his time. Baskin now has the situation well in hand . Besides his fame on the track, he earned a letter in football, and had he not been eliminated by the "four year rule, he would be a strong contendant this year for end. Baskin urges all freshmen interested in track to report to him at once, and if rumors prove true, he will have plenty of material from which to select the Freshman Track Team. noon when they will be sent over the 3 mile highway. After 3 weeks of practice there are quite a few showing up well. Among those are: Helms, Teague, Pitts, McClendon, Hicks, Callen, Gray, Yancy, Bottoms, Wilcox, Oakley, Goldsmith, Hughes, and Flemming. The new men showing up good are Shanks and Kummer. The largest number of Freshman ever to report for track at the Plains are out this year. The number being 85 in all. They have been working hard on the drill field for ten days and will have a trial in the near future. Varsity tracksters are moulding into perfect shape led by Capt. Beard and Alt. Capt. Virgin who are showing wonderful form in the hurdles and jumps. Galliard, Hodges and Tinsley look good in the pole vault, as does Bell in the sprints, and Nunn and Davis in the quarter mile. The Fall track meet is planned for- November and all Freshmen and others are urged to come out whether they have had any experience or not. For they are assured to be looked after in every way by these coaches and Manager Alex Marshall. One-Sided Scores And Long Runs in Saturday's Games By T. S. Winter The 1928 season is now well under way. Last Saturday's games, featured by long runs and one-sided scores, left many of the favorites still in the running and others, underated, showing unexpected power. One of the big surprises of the week-end was Tulane's 51 to 6 victory over the IVfiss Aggies. The well-known and respected Billy Banker literally ran through the Aggies to score four touchdowns for the Green-ies. As a result of the Green Waves smashing victory, they have become a dangerous contender for the title and will be closely watched during the next few weeks. Alabama's Crimson Tide, which has kept everyone guessing as to its strength, urileased an exceptionally strong attack and had little trouble in subduing Ole Miss. Capt. Earle Smith, scooping up a fumble, raced fifty yards for the first touchdown and after that Ole Miss was kept busy chasing the Tide's fleet backs. In one of upsets of the day, Vandy upheld the honor of the South by conquering the heavier Colgate eleven. On the first play of the game, Armistead ran seventy-six yards for a touchdown. Then Colgate started a drive that would not be denied and scored their only marker, but Vandy refused to yield and finally won out 12 to 7. Georgia's representatives remained in the running when Tech beat V. M. I. 13 to 0 and the Bulldogs, the team with a thousand backs, easily trounced Mercer 52 to 0. In a desperate effort to score by any means, Auburn threw a pass that Justus of Clemson gathered in and sprinted twenty-five yards for a marker to defeat the Plainsmen 6 to 0. Auburn displayed a hundred per,the famous Georgia Tech team to a Tigers Show GreatlFROSH IN FINE SHAPE TO MEET Advancement In Tilt With Clemson COACH "BOOZER" PITTS Coach "Boozer" Pitts has done more for Auburn in an athletic way than any other man that has ever been in Auburn. He came to Auburn in 1908 and scrubbed on the varsity football team for three years. . In 1911 he showed the coaches what he could do. He played on the varsity in 1911, '12, '13, and '14. He received several mentions for Ail- American in 1913 and received a berth on the team in 1914. He was All Time All-Southern. When he graduated he received the position as head coach at Tech High in Atalnta. He turned out some of the best teams there ever turned out in the history of the school. His teams received honorable mention everywheer they played. In the spring of 1918 he left Tech High to go into the service of his country. When the war was over he returned to Auburn as line coach. He coached the ilne from 1919 until 1922 inclusive. In 1922 his line held the famous Centre team, then considered the best bets in the southeast. One of his well coached linemen made it possible for Auburn to win this game. His line also held cent better team Saturday than that which repreesnted them against Birmingham- Southern the week before. With the same improvement in the next month, Coach Bohler's eleven should prove dangerous. Florida, as was expected, easily beat Southern 26 to 0. Kentucky swamped Carson-Newman, Tennessee had little trouble conquering Centre, but Se-wanee, having a supposedly stronger team than usual, was snowed under (Continued on page 6) very low score in the same year. He became head coach in 1923 upon the retirement of Donahue and held this post until the arival of Morey and when Morey resigned he again received the post and held it this time until Bohler was made head coach in 1928. Coach Pitts has always had a team that could well represent the school anywhere. He has had to make some of his teams from just what he had left over from the year before. By T. S. Winter It was a different Auburn team that faced Clemson last week compared to the one that played Birmingham- Southern in Montgomery . The opening game was more or less an experiment to determine the playing ability of the Tiger Gridders with the rsult that the defense was ragged and the offense failed to click. This was hardly more than could be expected for Coach Bohler hadn't had enough time to mold as good a team as one would want, but he found the weak spots and in the following week set about to iron out the rough places. As a result, the Plainsmen gave a rather good account of themselves last Saturday . Instead of the tagging that was noticeable in Montgomery, there was sure enough tackling. This was especially true of the line and the fact that Clemson only made six first downs showed how well the line was functioning. The opening lineup was also changed; instead of Cunningham and Sellers, Ben Newton and "Stumpy" Granger were in there giving all they had. Time and again Clemon tried to come through the line only to be stopped in their tracks by the Tiger forward wall. Chap-pelle, who started at left end, was one of the stars of the game until he sprained his shoulder' in the second half. On the whole the defense was very good and the players deserve credit for the manner in which they held Josh Cody's eleven, for he had the best Clemson team seen here in many a day. On the other hand the offense has not improved as much comparatively speaking. Of course there was coordination and team play but the backs seemed unable to penetrate the Clemson line. Undoubtedly the driving of Clyde Sellers was sorely missed. Sellers, however, has shown the proper Auburn Spirit; and instead of quitting the squad or giving alibies for not training, both he and Cunningham have come out daily and have worked harder than ever on the scrub team. Sellers was reinstated Monday afternoon and will be in there fighting when the Tigers meet Florida next Saturday. The coaches are not at all disappointed with the showing of the team (Continued on page 6) BABY 'GATORS IN COLUMBUS By Kenneth Taylor The Auburn "Rat" football team will journey to Columbus Georgia Saturday when they will encounter the Baby Gators of the University of Florida. This promises to be one of of the toughest games on the "Rat's" schedule. This hefty football squad is out for revenge after the defeat that the Florida "Rats" handed the Tiger "Rat" team last year. Last year Florida had one of the best "Rat" teams in the Southern Conference and walloped the Auburn "Rats" to the tune of 25 to 0. We have every reason to believe that this score will be reversed this year. After seeing the "rats" put up such a splendid brand of football last Friday when they walloped the Birmingham- Southern Baby Panthers to the score of 25 to 2 we are sure that our team will be a strong contender for the Freshman conference title. In the game last Friday there was nothing lacking which goes to make up a winning football team. There was plenty of material as was seen in the three teams which Coach Brown used Saturday. Each one of these teams were full of fight and followed the ball on every play. These teams also showed that they had been coached well by the smoothness in which they ran their plays. The large powerful line help make possible the brilliant of the backfield by opening up great holes in the Southern "rats" line. This husky forward wall showed up exceptionally well on the defense, they easily smothered every play that their opponents pulled . The interference of the backfield was the best that has been seen on the campus this year. The brilliant runs of Hatsfield and Young was very encouraging. With these men in the backfield and such men as Simp-kins and Bush on the line the Baby Gators should have plenty to worry about. Freshmen Show Up Well in First Game of Season and in Practices By Carol Porter Saturday afternoon, in Columbus, Ga., the freshmen will encounter their second foe of the year in the form of the baby alligators from the University of Florida. need of for several years and the result is easily seen. In the backfield, Hatfield, the Montgomery flash gave the fans one of the prettiest exhibitions of broken-field running seen on Drake Field in Everyone that was fortunate enough! a number of years, making several to see the freshman team in its initial game of the year with Birmingham- Southern ,where they were victorious by the score of 25-0 ,the largest score made by a baby tiger aggregation for the past five years, will realize that we have a football team on the road and the unusually large score cannot be credited to Birmingham-Southern having a weak machine at all. The freshmen flashed an offense that if continued through the season will set them high up in the freshman football rating when the curtain falls. Throughout the game beautiful blocking and tackling was evident, and it seemed that so early in the season team work is getting the majority of attention on the lower Drake Field. Coach Brown, has this year, two able assistants in Patterson and Shirey, something he has been in dire Largest Squads in History of Auburn Out for Football WILLIE MAE COWDEN IN CHARGE CO-ED CAGERS By Dick Jones Above is the largest football squad that has ever answered the initial call in the "Village of the Plains." They are the varsity and Freshmen together and number above 200 candidates. While the Varsity had 65 out the Freshmen had 136. And figures didn't lie when the figurer said "that the larger the squad the better the team." This has certainly turned out to be true, for the "Rat" team walked away with their first game which was with Birmingham-Southern, and it is no telling what they are going to do with the Baby Gators in Columbus this Saturday. The "Rat" team still numbers above 100. A few had to drop out on account sligth injuries and other reasons. No one has been seriously injured this year on either team, but have had two or three bones broken. The only Rat to suffer injury was Blanton who while scrimmaging against the Varsity.-broke "Tiis arm. The two teams pile"d" up and he was on the bottom in an awkward position. Blanton hails from Opelika where he played on the Opelika Hi football team. This is also said to be the most powerful Freshman team ever to play under the Orange and Blue colors. They have five back-field men of which any four could be called the "four horsemen." These gridders are, Pate (who is unable to play in- this Saturdays game on account of a bad lick he received on his hip in last Fridays game), Davidson, Young, Smith, and Hatfield the triple threat man. The Varsity gridders have numbered around 65 all the season with only a few to drop out with injuries, but those who have dropped out with injuries have come back as soon as they possibly could. The first man to have to drop out with an injury was Chas. Densimore who reecived a fractured collar bone in the early season of practice. But Chas. is a scrapper to the last whistle and is back out for practice already. However he is unable to take part in the scrimmages he is getting the new signals down and limbering up to be ready to start back in the game as soon as possible. John Mosley has also received a slight injury from the results of the scrimmages, but will be back out as soon as he can get off his crutches. The Varsity teams has improved a great deal this week over last week and from the looks of the scrimmages on Drake Field this week she is still going on the up-grade. The Varsity team will journey down to Gainesville this Saturday to take on the Florida Gators, and though every student is not going to be able to be with them in body, they are certainly going to be with them in soul, for they showed it at the game la3t Saturday afternoon on Drake Field when the Plainsmen were playing Clemson. Coach Willie Mae Cowden is now working with some 20 girl basketrhall aspirants in the Auburn gymnasium every afternoon from 4:30 to 6:00 o'clock. Although only 4 of last years squad are back in uniforms the new prospects are showing up well! and should be able to fill the positions of those who failed to return. No definite team has been picked and no schedule arranged as yet. However from all appearances, and from the material on hand, Coach Cowden should be able to organize a very successful team. Those back from last year are: Dorothy Haupt, forward; Ruth Lewis, guard; Pertice Tucker, Captain and forward. long runs which were usually turned into touchdowns, and with a year in faster company should be able to make someone step next year. Young, at quarterback (thanks to Ed. Shirling for the man) is one of the prettiest football players to enter Auburn for some time and is already showing us just what to expect from a quarterback. Young, is one of the prettiest passers on the Tiger campus today and displays a variety of hip-shaking and feet movements that is good for enyones eyes, and Young will be heard from several times before the year is over. Davidson, the ram-rod from Sidney Lanier who is showing all kinds of drive when called on, and the opposing backs usually find this young gentleman waiting for them to break through the line with high ambitions of a spectacular run. Davidson is doing quite a bit of the punting and is getting off fine averages on his spirals . With a little more coaching from Shirey, he should develop into a wonderful punter before the year is over. Frock Pate, the other member of the first string backfield, was injured before he could get going against Southern, but as a broken-field runner he is par excellent. He also is pretty proficient at punting, and throws no slouchy pass. Pate, has sufficiently recovered from his injury and should be hard to get along with Saturday, over in Columbus. With the prospects of the best freshman team since freshman football was established in the south, we should take advantage of every opportunity to see this whirl-wind in action. 1928 Football Schedule Sept. 28—Birmingham Southern Oct. 6—Clemson (Home coming) 13—Florida 20—U. of Mississippi 27—Howard 3—U. of Georgia 10—Tulane 17—Mississippi A. & M. 29—Georgia Tech. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. —Montgomery (Night game) —Auburn —Gainesville —Birmingham —Auburn —Columbus —New Orleans —Birmingham —Atlanta THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE N. C. UNIVERSITY PRESENTS COSMOPOLITAN STUDENT BODY There once was a time—and not so many years back either—when a Northerner strolling the University of North Carolina's campus and rolling his "r's" in his native style was considered a strange and unusual character, a "Yankee," almost an alien. And a real honest to goodness foreigner— well, he constituted a cur-iousity to engross and draw the curious gazes of University students day in and day out. Today the situation is quite different. Perhaps 20 per cent of the University's students are from out of the State, a goodly portion of them from the North. Sectionalism apparently is dead I nd Southerners and Northerners a e apt to become fast friends after a Jay or so of association and fellows? ip in this cosmopolitan University / Foreign-born students are no longer so iJnusual, and there are now and then boys from strange and distant lands. Every year brings its number of unusual individuals. Last year the list included a former Russian naval officer and an ex-county superintendent of schools returning for graduate work after serving ten years as head of a county school system. A few years back there was a real Hindu went around with a turban on his head, and a few summers back three winsome Chinese misses attended the University. This year the list is more interesting than usual. There is a native Filipino, a brilliant scholar, judging from his past record, imbued with all the desire for freedom which is so characteristic of his people, studying to take his American learning .back to his people; a Lebanese, not a new world Lebanese, but a genuine Lebanese from the Lebanon of the old country in Syria; an Italian graduate of the University of Padu taking mechanical engineering; a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, first of his race ever to graduate from a North Carolina college taking graduate work in history; a 40-year old graduate student taking work in Education; a full blooded Syrian born in Beirut but moved to this country at the age of about three; several Cubans; a native Greek born in Turkey but a resident of this country since the age of seven who is entering as a freshman; a Russian with a long string of experiences in the Bolshevik wars behind him, beginning his second year here; three blind students, now juniors; and a large number of sons of prominent men. "An Engineer's Ideal" In The "New Student" Last winter The New Student rais- NIGHT FOOTBALL IS INTERESTING Night football is attractive—in its ed the question of what becomes of way—to fans, but the game is losing 'Tis Fine to Dine at the PICKWICK 4-H Training School Meets In Springfield The Internation 4-H Training School held each year for two weeks in Springfield, Mass., is one of the greatest forces at work for complete understanding between each section of the United States and Canada. It is a time when north, south, east and west meet and find that their ideals and dreams blend into one. Just in case there be a few who wonder what the 4-H symbolizes the following mottoes appearing-on ban ners in one of the most attractive exhibit halls at the Eastern States Exposition might be quoted: "Hand-H Club work trains the hand t o be useful, helpful, skillful. "Head-H Club work trains the head to think, to plan, to reason. "Health-H Club work trains the health to enjoy life, resist disease, make for efficiency. "Heart-H Club work trains the heart to be kind, true, sympathetic and to do for others." Yale has abandoned the honor system as a university policy. The fall sessions in all classes except academic freshmen and the Sheffield School iwill have supervised .examinations. There will be no more examinations given at which at least one instructor is not present in the capacity of proctor. Beat Florida! BANK OF AUBURN We Highly Appreciate Your Banking Business TOOMER'S HARDWARE The Best in Hardware and Supplies CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager The First National Bank of Auburn ADVICE AND ACCOMMODATION FOR EVERY COLLEGE MAN ANY FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS ASSISTANCE C. Felton Little, '06, President W. W. Hill, '98, Vice-President G. H. Wright, '17, Cashier TOOMER'S DRUG STORE Drug Sundries Drinks, Smokes THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY ON THE CORNER ^^^^^Mss^^^^^m college ideals: Is it possible to have ideals in a workaday world? The following article was written as a response to this request. "An engineer is a practical man. He is interested in making material things, dams or mines or electrical machines or telephone and telegraph systems. If he has any ideal, he certainly has the one of doing things efficiently. The word, engineer, in fact, conveys this to most people; when charges of materialism are being made, the engineer comes in for the major part because he follows this ideal too well. The engineer is not too much of a materialist, but too little. He doesn't let his opinions know what his actions are. Even though there is something quite admirable about his efficiency, he won't claim it because he is more interested in claiming what I feel are illusions, ideals that have no actual significance at all. He claims publicly to be what no one is, and about what he actaully is he says no word. "The ideal of d'oing things efficiently can be followed regardless of the value of the work being done. The man who takes to engineering natively, writes memoranda, uses office equipment, and works on the car or the radio, with as much efficiency as he uses professionally. I've seen engineers patch an unsatisfactory memo> randum into a satisfactory one by the use of paste and shears, saving themselves the trouble of rewriting the parts which were good. It seems to be a gift; there is a type engineer as certainly as there is a type artist or newspaper man, or poet, or financier. Working efficiently satisfies an engineer, and he is dissatisfied with the temperament and work of an artist, for instance, who doesn't go about it efficiently. Plenty of the wives of engineers know how much of a curse in the kitchen is the ideal of efficiency. The native engineer who works this way doesn't acquire his efficiency, and so is probably not justified in saying it is his ideal, since he can do nothing different in any event, But efficiency can be said to be the ideal which the engineer represents, and, as I think, the only ideal which has been claimed for him or by him, which he satisfies." its color and glamour when the night tilts are resorted to, according to Will Paterson, former Auburn football wizard and enthusiast of the game. "The night games," he stated, "makes it possible for a greater number of people to attend the games. There is a novelty to the night games which appeals to all of us. But football is largely a game to which a majority go to see the magnitude of the affair and this is impossible at night." Cramton Bowl, where the night tilts are staged, is lighted so that the playing area is brightly lighted while the stands are in the shadows. The lights are arranged at an elevation of 100 feet, so as to prevent glare from the field and stands. A white ball is used. Four Tech Fraternities Acquire New H o me Two Tech fraternities have recentl y moved into houses purchased or built during the summer months. Chi Phi and Delta Sigma Phi chapters are the two fraternities concerned. Phi Kappa Sigma and Chi Beta Sigma moved their locations. The Chi Phi's moved into their new home which was built during the summer months, located on Fowler Street. Delta Sigma Phi chapter house at Georgia Tech is now located in their home on Williams street. Phi Kappa Sigma moved to quarters on Spring street, having formerly been located on the corner of Spring and Fourth streets and Cr\ Beta Sigma moved to North av.iue. Plans are now un'Ier way by many of the fraternities to build in the future and many changes will be made before the next fall term of school opens. Tully Interviews Tom Mix and Will Rogers "Both Tom Mix and Will Rogers are wealthy and unspoiled," says Jim Tully in a recent article. "Both have a genius for common sense, and eyes that see far into life. Neither man has the least shred of pretense. And in a nation that worships money, they each earn a half million dollars a year. " 'What about your old pal, Tom Mix, Will?' I asked. " 'Oh, they hain't none better than him. He's a great fellow. I've know-ed him thirty years. You hear about new Western stars supplantin' Tom, as they say, but they hain't done it yet. Tom's like Hnry Ford—he's smart.' Tom Mix says of Will Rogers, 'In all the time I've know Bill, I hain't never known him to do an unkind thing to nobody; he's four square an' a yard wide, is Bill. He reminds me o' men like Mark Twain an' Walter Whitman; they didn't have a lot of education, but they both had a lot o' sense, an' some day people are goin' to remember Will jist like they remember them.' "A great, genuine affection exists between these two men who have gone so far on the road to fame." DR. BLEGEN UNEARTHS MANY RELICS DURING VISIT TO GREECE "Blacks" and Fight Between "Blues" Halves Social Science Club Has Straw Vote Tulane Enrolls 2153 Students in 7 Days With registration still going on in many departments, the courses for teachers not yet started, and the School of Dentistry discontinued, the total enrollment at Tulane on October 2 was 2,153. This does not include summer school enrollment. Most departments show a gain over the figures on this same4 date last year. Newcomb being the only one to show a considerable loss. Pharmacy also shows a loss, but Arts and Sciences and Law report considerable gain. The registration figures for the Graduate School were not complete on Wednesday, as the Hullabaloo went to press. Like the teachers' courses, the Graduate School of Medicine had not started: Dr. A. B. Dinwiddie, president of the University, issued a statement in which he said that the figure for the registration of the college listed indicates that the total attendance of the University during the regular session will be from 3,300 to 3,500 students. A Time Saver In Study Hours Those questions about words, people, places, that arise so frequently in your reading, writing, study, and speech, are answered instantly in the store of ready information in WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE The Best Abridged Dictionary—Based upon WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL Hundreds of new words like dactylogram, clectrobus, flechette; names such as Cabell, Hoover, Smuts; new Gazetteer entries such as Latvia, Vimy, Monte Adamello. Over 106,000 words; 1,700 illustrations; 1,256 pages; printed on Bible Paper. See It at Your College Bookstore or Write fat Information to the Publisher*. G. & C. MERRIAM CO, Springfield. Mm, Brewster Appointed Extension Specialist Effective immediately, Samuel Pin-lay Brewster of Texas has been appointed extension specialist in landscape gardening, according to announcement by Prof. L. N. Duncan, director of the extension service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He will work throughout Alabama in co-operation with the county farm and home demonstration agents on landscape gardening. Mr. Brewster was trained at Baylor College, John Tarlton Agricultural College, Texas A. & M. College and at the Massachusetts Agricultural College where he has finished the course for the degree of master of science in landscape gardening. At Massachusetts he was trained by foremost educators in this field. The appointment came as a result of numerous requests for service of this kind. It was delayed until a man with proper training and other qualifications could be found. One of the most interesting meetings of the Social Science Club was held last Monday night in the Power Building. The subject of who should be made president, Hoover or Smith, was under discussion and a straw vote was taken. Four members of the Club gave short talks about these two candidates, and in them summed up the good and bad qualities of each. The straw vote took place after the final discussion and the results were 12 for Hoover and 11 for Smith. The results go to the Literary Digest. ~ The crowd at the Rat game Friday were rewarded with a brilliant exhibition of football between halves. It was truly a "battle of the giants," each team averaging about forty-five lbs. per player. The Auburn "Blacks" and "Blues", which two names might well have characterized both teams after the final whistle. Although the "Blacks" fought with grim determination, the "Blues," led by Captain Homer Wright, Jr., seemed to have a slight edge. The thriller of the game came when the "Blues'" halfback skirted right end for a ninety yard run and a touchdown. The game ended in a tie, 6-6. Dr. Carl W. Blegen, professor in the department of Classics at the University of Cincinatti has returned to the country after an extended visit in Greece where he continued the excavation of the Argive Heraeum, in which the American School of Classical Studies has been interested for many years. The discovery of two chambers believed to have been constructed during the Mycenean period and of twenty tombs containing valuable treasurers shed light upon the many mysteries of Mycenaean civilization and revealed much that was hitherto unknown concerning ancient burial customs. Mr. Blegen supervised the corps of fifty workmen who forced their way into entrance passages, leading to the two chambers of rock. Tombs unearthed on the site of the Hereaaum were found to contain a quantity of pottery, including five hundred vases of various kinds," Mr. Blegen stated, "besides a signet ring and many fine pieces of jewelry made of glass, cornelian, amthyst, gold and silver. Swords, daggers, knives, weapons of | bronze, and numerous articles of iovry such as a small statuette of a standing Goddess were found with the remains of bodies during the Mycenaean period between 1600 and 1200 B. C." Among those who visited the site of Mr. Blegen's excavation and who assisted with the work were Dr. and Mrs. Semple, Mrs. Hack, wife of Dr. Roy Hack, professor of classics, Mrs. Blegen and Miss Rasson of the School of Applied Arts at the University. In early June, Mr. Blegen performed a second excavation in Arcadia for the University of Cincinati, and discovered a small village which is thought to have been inhabited during Neolithic times. "The houses here had been constructed on stone foundations," Mr. Blegen said, "And were equipped with circular and in some cases, square hearths. A grave of the Neolithic period, containing bones preserved in a peculiar arrangement was unearthed with the houses. Broken pottery, evidently produced at two different periods, stone axes, and similar implements, bone pins, and needles, instruments of various sorts, and two figurines carved of terra cot-ta gave us a complete understanding of civilization during the Neolithic period in the Peloponnesus." Beat Florida! GREENE'S OPELIKA, ALA. Clothing, Shoes —and— Furnishing Goods AUBURN BARBER SHOP Razor Honing a Specialty Oldest Barber in Auburn WK MAKE n T T / n r s p NEWSPAPER i , I \ MAGAZINE ^ X/^CATALOG S e r v i c e K n g r a v i n g Co . M o n t g o m e r y , A l a b a ma Put a Touch of MODERNISM . in Your Home Just Arrived INDIAN HANDCRAFT in Twelve Native Woods Student Supply Shop No/a cough in a rilm-ful says Norma Talmadge after the Blindfold Test "When you see my new United Artists' picture, 'The Woman Disputed,' you will notice that I smoke cigarettes in several scenes. 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Est. 1760 J SMOOTHER AND BETTER-"TStOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD" PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 BACKFIELD MATERIAL IN SOUTH SHOW UP GOOD FIRST OF SEASON By "Duity" Porter Has there ever in the history of Southern football or in any other section of this land of the free been such a collection of unusually good backs as this year's crop shows so early in the season . Our sister institution, Alabama is well blessed with versatile backs. They have the well known, Mr. Bras-field ,who was prominent in the sensation run and touch-down columns, and was also one of the leading punters and passers of the south. This year with such men to assist him as in Deal, Hicks and Holm, and each pushing him for the spotlight. Suther the sensational sophomore back coming in for his part of the glory, does Alabama have any reason to feel gloomy? Over at Georgia, they have the same wrecking crew from last year known throughout the South as the "Four Horsemen." They have started their galloping early this season, and although they do not have the All- American ends to assist them, it will take eleven men all the afternoon to stop this quartet if the track meet tactics of last week-end are to be employed throughout the year. There in the same Georgia camp a substitute name of Hill who was able to punt only seventy-two yards in the game against Mercer last week-end. Georgia plays Yale this coming weekend up in New Haven. This game should test Georgia's actual strength, but regardless of the outcome of this game and barring injuries, Georgia is going to have another wonder team. Georgia Tech has broken out with another epidemic of fine half-backs, and I would think they have had a relapse in this line. Mizell, Stumpy Thompson, Randolph, Lumpkin, Dun-lop, Faisst and Durant, will make any coach stay up a night and. grieve over the fact that only four of these men can be used in the backfield at one time. Atlanta sports writers are pointing to Mizell as the geratest back to ever wear Tech colors, even greater than "Buck" Flowers. "Stumpy" Thompson last year was a good back-field by himself and with him improving and with such men as Dun-lop and Lumpkin coming up from the freshman outfit to assist he and Mizell it will just be terrible for opposing teams. In the face of all this I am afraid some of the opposing teams will be attempted to cancel future games with Tech. Down at Tulane, we have the Blond Cyclone, Mr. Billy Banker, and if one man can be rated above the rest of the brilliant backs of the south, Mr. Banker, is without a doubt the gentleman to receive the honor. In the first two games of the year, Banker has gone completely crazy and done everything except eat the football and I will not be surprised if that comes to pass. Against Mississippi A. & M. this "Puff of Wind" ran from five to eighty yards for four touchdowns, and to contribute more to the game he averaged fifty-four yards in his punting duties. With a line averaging one hundred ninety pounds in. front of him this year, what will this young man do before Thanksgiving? South Carolina has a new comer by the name of Zobel, who almost single handed beat Virginia, and is hailed by the critics as the best halfback in the south. Tennessee has McEver a sophomore who is running wild. Dan McGugin says this gentleman is by far greater than his two sensational backs of the past, Bill Spears and Gil Reese ever were. Vanderbilt has Armstead who dashed eighty yards to defeat Colgate lats Saturday. Florida has Mr. Crabtree, a small stick of dynamite who will make many loud noises before the year is over. Now gentlemen, who wants the job of picking an all-Southern back field when this unusual squadron of versatile backs are through popping off this year. OFFICIAL Auburn vs. Ole Miss FOOTBALL DANCE Highland Park Country Club Birmingham Friday, Oct. 19th 9-till-? JACK LINX ORCHESTRA Script $1.50 First Tulane Cruise Given This Summer The close of the twentieth summer session was celebrated by an innovation in Tulane University activities, something attempted there for the first time—the initial Tulane University cruise through the Caribean sea Through the co-operation of the United Fruit Company, Albert E. Holle-man, director of student activities, arranged a ten-day trip to Havana, Cuba, and Tela, Spanish Honduras, which left at the beginning of August. Labelled "the climax to the summer session," the cruise drew thirty eight passengers including winter and summer students and interested alumni. Those who made the trip were especially impressed, Mr. Holloman says, by the low rate offered—one hundred dollars* which covered all transportation expenses and entertainments. No passports were needed and those who recounted their experiences in the Carribean region spoke highly of the conveniences arranged for them. VETERINARY MEDS M E E T THURSDAY The regular meeting of the Vetin-ary Medical Association was held in the Vetinary Building the night of October the third. Interesting talks were made on Azoturia, by Kitchen, and Hypo Gly-cemia byMilligan. Dr. E. C. McGul-lock also said a few words on the value of such a meeting as this to the students in the Vetinary Department. Beat Florida! We Wish to Announce OUR O P E N I NG THURSDAY NIGHT The Tiger Sandwich Shop TIGER BUILDING Drop in for a sandwich after the dance —Curb Service— MODERN SANITARY Furman Students Earn $2,900 Monthly Approximately $2,900 is being made by Furman students each month, stated Shield's Hardin, manager of the Student Employment bureau. At this rate the total income for the year would be $26,100, which no doubt will be greatly increased as the session goes on. There is usually a rush for extra work after the football season is over. With 164 students holding various jobs, slightly less than two-fifths of the entire student body are working, or partially working their way through school, it was pointed out. Many students hold campus jobs, such as dining room waiters, laundrymen, and library workers, while others are located in the city. As in previous years, the business men of Greenville have been exceedingly generous in cooperating with. Mr. Hardin in securing positions for all students desiring work. Quite a number of boys are delivering the daily newspapers, some are clerking iii dry-goods, grocery, men's ready-to- wear, and shoe stores, while others are collecting pressing and shoes for repair. For several years the Student Employment Bureau, under the direction of a Furman student, has been exceeding fortunate in aiding boys to secure work for the year. Last year the work was successfully carried on by George A. Jeffers, now of Columbia. Professors Organize Extension Classes SCABBARD & BLADE TO INITIATE SOON The initiation of the new Scabbard and Blade members will take place, October 11th, 12th, and 13th. The officials are keeping the fine points of the initiation a deep secret, but Lieutenant Leith stated that the campus and dances would be under heavy guard, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, by the new members and that a midnight ride would take place later on. The costumes are to be very light and unique < Seven Classes To Be Formed At -Point* Throughout State CREDIT AGAIN GIVEN IN CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AT AUBURN (Continued from page 1) men, shop workers, housewives, school administrators, and all others who are interested in study for the sake either of culture or of practical results. All correspondence courses are conducted by regular members of the faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Assignments are prepared by them and all the student work is given their personal supervision. The plan of teaching provides that students' papers are not merely graded and returned but each student receives direction "and comment such as would be given in a personal conference. Each student does all the work of each assignment, and proceeds as rapidly as time and ability will permit. The history course is being offered the first time. Correspondence work in economics has been increased and new courses have been added in education. In the home economics course Auburn is a pioneer so far as southern institutions are concerned, Dr. Sho-walter explained. Some of the courses cannot be had from any other institution. With students throughout the state enrolling to take work by correspondence and others making inquiry regarding it, Dr. Showalter is confident that this year will establish a new record for correspondence teaching by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. ONE-SIDED SCORES AND LONG RUNS IN SATURDAY'S GAMES (Continued from page 4) by Texas A. & M. Up in the eastern end of the Conference, Coach Billy Laval's Gamecocks continued their sensational playing by trouncing Virginia in a hard fought game; while Washington and Lee upset the dope and beat North Carolina State 84 to 6 . North Carolina lived up to pre game dope and won from Maryland in a close game 26 to 19. Of the other games played, V. P. I. won easily from Hampden-Sydney and L. S. U. had little trouble defeating Southwest Louisiana Institute. QUIT ACADEMY What is life in an institution of learning if one can't play football? Ted Sloane and Jim Kiernan, having played three years for Navy, all that the eligibility rules permit, have resigned from the academy. At seven points in Alabama seven professors of the Alabama Polytechnic Instiute will organize and start extension teaching classes on October 20, announcement of which is made by Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of extension teaching of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Each of these classes will continue until ten meetings of three hours each are held at intervals of three weeks. Those who complete the courses will be given college credit which will count towa*rd a degree if requested. Dr. George Petrie, dean of graduate work and professor of history, will be in Lafayette to organize a class in current history. , Dr. Petrie began this work at LaFayette last year. This year he is conducting extension classes at Montgomery and Birming ham in addition to LaFayette. The classes at Montgomery and Birmingham have been organized. Prof. James R. Rutland, professor or English, will be at Elba and Enterprise to organize a class to study the "modern novel." On the same day, Prof. Marvin L. Beck, professor of social science education, will begin a class at Troy Normal to study "Social problems of the American family." At Louisville and Eufaula, on October 20, Dr. A. W. Reynolds, professor of history, will begin a class in "The history of America in Foreign Relations." Dr. R. L. Johns, professor of educational administration, will organize a class in "Child Accounting" at Headland; and Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of extension teaching, and elementary education, will organize a class at Tuskegee to study " Problems in Reading." In making the announcement Dr. Showalter said that these are only a small part of extension classes to be conducted by members of the faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute this year. LOCAL GOLFERS DEFEAT OPELIKA Armor Of Old Japan In Museum at Emory Iwao Kunimoto, of Kobe, Japan, millionaire Japanese student a t Emory University, has found in the Emory Museum a collection of old Japanese armor which was donated by the father of an old classmate of his in Japan. The Rev. W. P. Turner, now deceased, who for many years was a ^missionary in Japan, brought the collection to Emory. His son, William, was a close friend of Kuni-moto's while they were at college in Kobe, Japan. Kuminmoto in examining the armor remarked in his hesitant English, "No much good," tapping the armor, which is of a peculiar composition material. The armor was used by the Samuria, the lesser noble caste of Japan, who proceeded the higher nobles in battle. This piece of armor is over 500 years old." Kunimoto has a number of Oriental robes and curious in his possession but they have been sent to New York, enroute to England, where the Japanese student through an English university merely because they are friends. His generosity is extended also to two other Japanese students, whom he is financing in Japanese colleges. In the Auburn-Opelika Golf Tournament'matches played at Auburn, the College City Country Club team won over Opelika with fifteen points to Opelika eight points—and as a result tied Opelika on the city winner of the tournament as the week previous Opelika won over Auburn sixten points to Auburn nine points. It is not decided whether the tie will be played off. The matches at Auburn resulted as follows: Wm. Samford and Singleton Cook 0 points; vs. Hollingsworth and Collier three points. R. L. Wilson and Edward Jones one point; vs. Travis Ingram and H. W. Nixon, two points. Fred Williams and Spooks Shealy 0 points; vs. Spann and Jones three points. Julian Palmer and Cliff Wear, Jr., two points; vs. Grice and Lyle one point. Jack Meadows and Louis Dickson two points; vs. Major Kennedy and H. M. Martin, 0 points. John Fuller and John Ingram, 0 points vs. Biggins and Suggs, three points. Chal Greene and Millard Samford, one point; vs. Myrick and Hendricks, two points. E. R. Simmons and Willie What-ley, two points; vs. Wood and Hig-gins, one point. Total at Auburn: Opelika, eight points; Auburn fifteen points. Total at Opelika: Opelika sixteen points: Auburn nine points. Total (matches) at Opelika and Auburn: Opelika 24 points; Auburn 24 points—and tie matches for city winner. Program Armistice Day Being Planned Many Ex-Service Men Expected From Alabama and Georgia JUNIOR CIVILS ON INSPECTION TRIP A mammoth Armistice Day celebration has been planned for Auburn by the Military Department. Since November the eleventh falls on a Sunday the celebration will be held on November the twelfth. As this will be the tenth anniversary of that great day on which peace was declared for the world, the American Legion and other ex-service men from points in eastern Alabama and western Georgia are expected to participate in the exercises. Although arrangements are being made for distinguished speakers to be here on this occasion, as yet there have been no definite announcements as to the names of these. The Auburn R. O. T., C. Unit will hold review at ten A. M., to be followed by the main program. Arrangements are also being made for a Freshman football game at two o'clock that afternoon on Drake Field. The committee in charge of the celebration consists of Major Kennedy, Dr. Petrie, and Dr. Ross. Wilsonians Have An Interesting Program Bradford Knapp, Jr. Speaks To Ag Class Bradford Knapp, Jr. spoke to a class of fifty students in Animal Nutrition Wednesday morning, speaking somewhat at random, but touching heaviest on the relation of animal nutrition and genetics. Mr. Knapp, the elder son of President Knapp of this institution, is a graduate of Oklahoma A. & M. University and holds an M. A. degree from Iowa State College. At present he is with the United States Department of Agriculture, engaged in work with the Bureau of Animal Industries, employing genetics research. Young Knapp spoke interestingly of his experiences and his present work. He was given a laudable ovation by the listening class, after which each member had the honor of meeting him personally. Prof. W. E. Sewell, who is conducting this class, brought Mr. Knapp before the class at this hour. A debate, Resolved: "Hazing Should be Abolished in Auburn," was the interesting feature of the program given by the Wilsonian Literary Society Tuesday night. The affirmative was upheld by two Rats, Hall and Mahan. The Rats made a fair bid for the decision, as personal element played a big part in their talks, which no doubt made their talks more forceful. The negative was represented by two upper classmen, Pirkle and Overton. The old men were able, by their well planned speeches to convince the audience that hazing should not be abolished. Definite plans were made for the club social. It will be held at Yar-brough spring, Friday night, October 12, at 7 P. M. The society will meet at the main building and go to the spring in a groyp. Yesterday, thirty juniors in Civil Engineering and Seniors in Architectural Engineering took an inspection trip to Lime Creek, about twenty miles east of Montgomery on the Auburn- Montgomery highway. This group left Auburn at 9 A. M. and returned at 2 P. M. The purpose of the trip was to make observations of the new bridge that is nearing completion there, and to investigate the condition of the old bridge. The students gained valuable knowledge by watching the active operations. They also gained much information from an explanation of the bridge blue prints given by the construction foreman. This inspection trip was made possible largely through the cooperation of the Western of Alabama Railway, which made a special stop at the aforementioned creek. Professors Callahan, Barrow, and Ingram were in charge of the students. Students making the trip were: Rush, Downing, P e a r s o n, Thompson, Windsor, Beck, Beard, Yates, Coleman, Slaughter, Smith, McMillan, Barnett, Kipp, Shelton, Ellis, Willis, Nelson, Mask, Riley, Tate, Mc- Rae, Jackson, Johnson, Caldwell, Hass-ler, Vincent and Merrill . CURB MARKET SALES $866.61 PREXY'S PICTURE IS IN OCT. ROTARIAN Miss Cowden, New Faculty Member Here Miss Willie Mae Cowden, of An-niston, has arrived at Auburn and assumed her duties as assistant director of physical education for women students at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Announcement of her appointment is made by Miss Zoe Dobbs, dean of women. She will be assistant to Miss Lulu Palmer, director of physical education. Miss Cowden has had experience in the high school of Anniston and has had two years' work at Peabody College at Nashville. She will receive her degree at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at the 1929 commencement. TIGERS SHOW GREAT ADVANCEMENT IN TILT WITH CLEMSON (Continued from page 4) and are working hard every afternoon to give Auburn a winning team; and if the players show as much improvement in the next few weeks as they did in the past, Auburn will have a team to be proud of, one that will be a dangerous foe to all Southern Conference teams. Under the caption of Rotarian Personalities THE ROTARIAN for October carries the picture of Dr. Bradford Knapp, along with five other celebrities. The magazine mentions the fact that Dr. Knapp had left Oklahoma to come to Auburn. Others whose likenesses appear on the page with him are: Dr. Karl A. Bickel, Cambridge, Ohio; Reitaro Ichinomiya, Tokyo, Japan; Erwin Funk, Rogers, Arg., Alfredo Esquerre, Mantanzas, Cuba; and L. D. Crosby, Picayune, Miss. As long as they can manage to eat, some people refuse to face realities. Prexy Takes Band To Opelika Fair Dr. Bradford Knapp and the famous fifty piece Auburn band will be the main features on the program at the Opelika Fair this afternoon. Dr. Knapp will address visitors, while the band boys will furnish music for the occasion. Band men will leave Lang-don Hall today at 12:45 for the Opelika Fair Grounds. During the month of September the Auburn Curb market made sales totaling $866.61, according to a report by Miss Mary Bailey, home demonstration agent. In view of the fact that September is during the season when vegetables are short ordinarily this is considered especially good. On the other hand, the increase in sales is attributed in part to the fact that another session of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute has opened, bringing to Auburn a large - student body and additional faculty members to be fed. Miss Bailey and others who are connected with the market are delighted with the results. The Auburn market is now in its first year. It is open every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning, beginning early and continuing until most of the products are sold. There are several regular sellers who bring to the market a variety of fresh products direct from the farms and farm houses surrounding Auburn. Two fraternities at the University of Florida have agreed to stage an annual gridiron battle for the next 99 years. This is the longest football contract in existence. WE EXTEND-a cordial invitation to the people of Lee County and the students of Auburn to inspect our plant this week. It will be a revelation to see our modern plant and to watch the care with which our experts handle your work. THE IDEAL LAUNDRY CLEANERS A N D DYERS We call for a n d deliver R. D. Bowling, City Solicitor " A SERVICE T H A T SATISFIES' P h o n e 193 What Shakespeare says about Coca-Cola Delicious and Refreshing TWELFTH NIGHT Act I. Scene 5 8 million a day — IT HAD TO "Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, and make the^ babbling gossip of the air cry out" The Bard of Avon gave much good advice. And this piece certainly has been f o l l o w e d by Coca-Cola: The drink you read about. And the little red sign brightens the streets and corners of cities and towns everywhere, its name more familiar than the names of the streets themselves. The Coca-Cola Company. Atlanta. Ga. B E G O O D TO G E T W H E R E IT IS |
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