1928-10-11 The Plainsman

              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.
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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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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-
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The Internation 4-H Training
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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
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Exposition might be quoted:
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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
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CREDIT AGAIN GIVEN
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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