1929-03-31 The Plainsman

              Make Egg Hunt
A Success THE PLAINSMAN Make Egg Hunt
A Success
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1929. NUMBER 46
NEWS REEL MAN
TO FILM EASTER
EGG HUNT HERE
Scuffle For Golden Egg; Battle
Royal Will Feature
Event
ONLY RATS PARTICIPATE
The Hunt Will Be Staged, As
Usual, In Ag Hollow
Sunday afternoon will mark the
time for the annual Easter Egg Hunt
given by the members of the Inter-fratea-
nity Council. As usupl, the
scene of the contest will be Ag Hol­low.
Approximately two hundred rats
will represent the 18 fraternities
composing the Council.
The main feature of the event this
year will be the "shooting" of the
celebration by a Paramount News
cameraman. It has been entirely due
to the efforts of Foreman Rogers,
manager of the Tiger Theater, that
the Paramount Exchange, of Atlanta,
will send a special cameraman for the
affair. Mr. Rogers has announced
that he will run a special Paramount
feature picture on Monday, and that
he expects to show the Easter Egg
hunt pictures along with his regular
news reel. By special arrangement,
the Paramount Exchange will rush
this reel to Auburn, whence it will
be returned to be shown in theatres
throughout the South.
From the Lambda Chi Alpha
house, the contestants will report to
Ag Hollow where the eggs will be
hidden. Preceding the hunt, the rat
best impersonating a girl, and the
rat that wears the most original cos­tume
will be selected. Then the rats
will be lined up and at a given signal,
the huiit will start. The rat finding
the most eggs will be awarded a
prize, along with those selected as
the best girl and the best dressed.
The prizes are to be a card table, a
smoking stand, and a pair of book
ends.
One of the main events will be the
scuffle for the golden egg. This is
the grand prize of the whole event.
As usual, a Battle Royal will be
staged after the other events are over
as the grand conclusion of the day.
The eggs will serve as pellets for the
occasion.
Dr. Knapp Addresses
Selma Kiwanis Club
Dr. Bradford Knapp addressed the
Selma, Alabama, Kiwanians, Calf
Club Boys, farmers, and club guests
Wednesday at a luncheon meeting of
the Kiwanis Club, devoted to the sub­ject
of "Dairying."
"In starting the Calf Club, a found­ation
for a greater county is laid,
richly endowed in people and soil, with
a greater future, with perseverance
and ingenuity," declared Dr. Knapp.
He stressed the importance of develop­ment
of the dairy industry, "a safe,
dependable type of agriculture,"
which yields as great a revenue as
cotton.
If every person in Alabama con­sumed
a- pint of milk a day, the pro­duction
of 120,000,000 gallons of milk
annually would be doubled, with no
worry about a slump in the market,
said Dr. Knapp. Five cows are equiv­alent
to five bales of cotton if well fed
and cared for.
Dr. Knapp outlined improvements
under way at Auburn, including a new
dairy barn and a laboratory for ani­mal
husbandry.
Grammar Schools Wins
Prizes For Poster Books
Five pupils in the third grade of
the Auburn Grammar School .won
prizes of one dollar each for excel­lent
work on poster books recently.
The Saadfield Publishing Company
offers periodically five hundred dol­lars
in one dollar prizes to the child­ren
making the best books. The
teacher of the class in which there
are so many prize-winning students
is Miss Duggar.
The students who submitted the
winning poster books are as follows:
Herbert Martin, Emmanelle Parrish,
Mary Olive Thomas, Nina Fay Hoobs,
and'Marjorie Bowling.
Sigma Nu's Menaced
By Total Annihilation
One can hardly blame them
for being jumpy, seein' as how
they live almost out of the sound
of human voice and dangerously
near the territory of the vicious
Ags, but it is rather amusing to
note how peculiarly the Sigma
Nu's acted on one occasion. It
seems that they adopted the
ostrich's method of protection; -
that of hiding their heads in far
and scattered places.
One balmy afternoon a short
while ago, a group of these boys
were basking in the sunshine on
the lawn, and in the meantime
speculating on just what they
would do if somebody chanced
to take a "pot-shot" at them.
Just at that psychological mo­ment
the sound of shots mingled .
with piercing cries of "Oh! Don't
shoot again! I'm dying!" was
heard.
Accordingly these would-be
dreamers dashed off like mad to
hide their heads far and wide.
They did this little thing at a
muchly accelerated pace, as one
might imagine. They were, after
much persuasion, coaxed out
from under cover at different
places, ranging in location from
the library to the artillery
stables.
STRAUSS AND BAIRD
TO HAVE CONTROL OF
ENGINEER NEXT YEAR
Auburn Engineer Ranks Among
the Most Excellent College
Magazines
Alpha Phi Epsilon
Initiates Pledges
Professor Daughrity Gives Inspiring
Address To Chapter
The Auburn chapter of Alpha Phi
Epsilon, national honorary literary
fraternity, held its spring initiation
on Friday night. The ceremony was
performed in the Eastern Star Chap­ter
Hall.
J. E. Walsh, president of the local
chapter,' presided over the initiation,
and was ably assisted by the other
active members.
Immediately following the initia­tion,
the old mmebers and the newly
initiated retired to Eastern Star din­ing
room, where a delightful dinner
had been prepared.
Professor K. L. Daughrity made a
very inspiring address to the chapter,
bringing out several strong points to
show the members the possibilies of
the fraternity. Grace Pinell and Ros-ser
Alston also made most interesting
talks at the banquet.
The following student were ini­tiated:
S. D. Rains, Roy N. Sellers,
R. A. Sansing, Blanche Tancredi, R.
B. Kelso, J. R. Carreker, Evelyn
Henry, Annie Ross Fuller, B. Q.
Scruggs, H. O. Davis, J. W. Mat­thews
and H. Y. Shaeffer.
Weems Baskin Seeks
New World's Record
Exhibition To Take Place on Annual
"A" Day
Weems Baskin will try for a new
world's record in the 80-yard high
hurdles in the exhibition meet on
Monday. Baskin, who recently com­peted
in the Meadowbrook games in
Philadelphia and in the Milrose games
in New York under the colors of the
New York A. C. will be one of the
main features on the program.
Baskin, former track captain was
the Southern conference champion in
1925, '26 and '27. He won the na­tional
collegiate title in 1928 and the
national A. A. U. championship the
following year. The veteran Plains­man
holds the Southern record for
the 120-yard high hurdles with a time
of 14.6 seconds. He is holder of the
world's record in the 50-yard high
hurdles distance in 6.5 and co-sharer
of the 60-yark mark in 7.4.
According to an announcement by
the spiked shoe fraternity, "Snitz"
Snider will be featured in the 100-
yard dash with the sprinters. Snider
will run in one of the eight track and
field events on the "A" day program.
Snider was on the all-American
honor roll in the 100-yard and quar­ter
mile distances in 1928. He is
present holder of the Southern record
for the quarter mile in 48.8 seconds.
The Tiger runner is also the holder
of the Southern 400-meter record in
48.3 seconds.
At a special meeting Thursday
night, the staff of the Auburn Engi­neer
elected A. A. Strauss, Editor-in-
chief; and D. O. Baird, Business
Manager of that publication for
the year 1929-1930.
A. A. Strauss, of Birmingham, is a
junior in electrical engineering and a
member of Theta Chi fraternity. He
is also a member of Stags and Then-dara,
both interfraternity organiza­tions.
Doug Baird, of Phoenix City, is
also a junior in the electrical engi­neering
course. He is a member of
the Alpha Lambda Tau social fra­ternity
and is a recent pledge of Eta
Kappa Nu, honorary electrical fra­ternity.
The new officers are to take charge
of the publication in May.
The retiring officers, Raymond
DeArman and Reynolds Vincent, Edi­tor-
in-chief and Business Manager,
respectively, have made great for­ward
strides with the Auburn Engi­neer
during the present year. It now
ranks among the most excellent col­lege
engineering magazines, not only
in the South, but throughout the en­tire
country.
EASTER SUNRISE
PROGRAM MADE
The Christian Endeavor is spon­soring
an Easter Sunrise Inspirational
Service for all the young people's re­ligious
organizations, to be held Sun­day
morning at 5:00 o'clock. About
ten minutes past five, the crowd will
leave the Prsbyterian Church to take
a short hike to a lovely little hilltop
where a good view of the rising sun
will be had.
A very interesting program has
been planned for this, the first
Easter Sunrise meeting that has been
held in Auburn.
YMCA OFFICIALS FOR
1929-30 SESSION ARE
CHOSEN BY STUDENTS
A Wonderful Menu of
Medium Cooked Bull
VICTOR SAVAGE
ELECTED EDITOR
AG PUBLICATION
A. L. Morrison Elected Business
'Manager
NEW UNIFORMS
ARE DISPLAYED
Five Cadet Officers Exhibit New
Uniform At Drill
The War Department, Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, has received
five bids on the tailoring of the new
uniform to be issued to students next
year. The samples submitted were
seen on the drill field today when
five cadet officers, dressed in the
uniforms submitted, performed a spe­cial
drill before the R. O. T. C. Unit.
All five of the uniforms are of the
same general type, being cadet gray
in color and having long trousers and
rolled-collar blouses. The cap is of
the same type that is now issued, ex
cept for the fact that the new ones
are, of course, of cadet gray ma­terial.
The shirts will also be of cadet
gray. Full particulars as to the
exact details of the uniform that will
be accepted have not as yet been as­certained.
The firm receiving the bid will fur­nish
uniforms during the summer
months sufficient to supply the in­coming
freshmen and the sophomores
of next year. Measurements for the
junior advanced students will be
made shortly after the opening of the
1929 session. These new, distinctive
uniforms will be isued to students in
the same manner as the present olive
drab clothing.
The seniors of next year will not
be required to buy the new uniform
but will continue to wear the olive
drab.
One prjoblem that looms before
the Military Department is' that of
making some distinction between the
dress of the basic and the advanced
students. There is a possibility of
having a wider black stripe on the
trousers of the advanced than on
those of the basic uniforms. Another
possibility is that of having a gold
band on the visors of the cadet offi­cers'
caps, the basic caps retaining the
black band.
Prominent Architects
To Judge Display
The Architectural Department has
arranged to display an exhibit of
junior and senior drawings of ar­chitectural
design. These drawings
will be shown all next week on the
second floor of the Main Building.
The subject required of the fourth
and fifth year student was a design
of a Masonic Temple. The third year
men were asked to submit a design
of a Public Library.
A committee composed of promi­nent
practicing architects from Bir­mingham
will judge the drawings.
The Alabama Farmer has an­nounced
the election of Victor Savage
as Editor-in Chief and A. L. Morris­on
as Business Manager of the month­ly
agricultural magazine for next
year. The newly elected officers will
take over the reins of the publication
toward the latter part of April.
Other officers elected at the same
time are as follows: R. E. Martin,
circulation manager; J. R. Carreker,
managing editor; R. A. Stevens, asso­ciate
editor; Earl Gissendanner, Cam­pus
Farmer editor; Howard Gray,
assistant business manager; R. L.
Lovvorn, local circulation manager;
C. P. Granade, advertising manager.
Victor Savage is a junior enrolled
in Agricultural Education. He has
been very active, during the two and
one-half years he has been here, on
the Alabama' Farmer staff, being
Campus Farmer editor this year. Al­so,
he is a prominent member of the
Plainsman staff, being an associate
editor of the college paper this year,
and has taken part in Y. M. C. A.
work.
A. L. Morrison is also a member of
the junior class, and is a student in
Ag Education. Last year he was as­sistant
business manager of the Farm­er.
The present Editor and Business
Manager of the Alabama Farmer are
Harry Wise and "Duggan" Taylor.
These officers, along with the recent­ly
elected officers, in a statement to
the press, announced that they have
great plans in store for an even more
decided improvement in the maga­zine
next year. Next month twelve
hundred extra copies of the Farmer
will be mailed to prospective agri­cultural
and economics students
throughout the state. This custom of
sending a special issue of the maga­zine
to high school students all over
Alabama was inaugurated last year,
and will be continued in future years,
according to the staff. An innovation
in the circulation department next
year will be the soliciting of subscrip­tions
from alumni. It is expected that
this alumni campaign will increase the
circulation by three or four hundred
per month.
Men Selected Are Prominent
In Many Student
Activities
"A" DAY OBSERVED
BY HALF-HOLIDAY
At the request of the "A" Club
that students be given a half holiday
on "A" day, the faculty has declared
that there will be no classes after 12
o'clock that day, Monday, April 1.
There are to be two main features
Monday afternoon; at 1 P. M. there
will be a track meet, in which Weems
Baskin and Euil "Snitz" Snider will
participate, and at 2 P. M. there will
be a baseball game between the Au­burn
Tigers and the Montgomery
Lions. Tickets for the baseball game
are being sold by all "A" Club men.
Ticket books will not be good at the
game.
NOTICE
There will be no issues of The
Plainsman during the coming week.
Therefore, there will be no meeting
of the Reporter's Club Sunday night,
but on the following Sunday, at the
regular time of 7 P. M., meetings
will be resumed at the Square and
Compass house.
R. A. Sansing of Margeret, Ala.
has been elected president of the
Auburn Y. M. C. A- for the 1929-30
session of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. He will succeed W. T. Ed­wards
of Birmingham.
Sansing is a junior in electrical
engineering and has been very active
in Y. M. C. A. work. He has been
chairman of the discussion group
committee this past year. He was
Auburn's delegate to the State Stu­dent
Council, also a delegate to Blue
Ridge last summer, and captain of
the "Y" basket ball team. He is also
very active in forensics, being vice-president
of Phi Delta Gamma, hon­orary
forensic fraternity, and a mem­ber
of Alpha Phi Epsilon, honorary
literary fraternity. He also finds
some time to put on publications, as
he is a reporter on the Plainsman.
At the same time C. R. LeCroy of
Mapelsville, Ala., was elected vice-president.
LeCroy is a junior in chem­ical
engineering. He was assistant of
the "Y" this year, and was also the
winning captain in the discussion
group contest this past semester. He
takes an important part in forensics
as a member of Phi Delta Gamma,
and has been president of the Web-sterian
literary society.
J." R. Carreker, prominent junior in
agriculture, was elected secretary.
Carreker was chairman of the relig­ious
activities committee and has been
elected editor of the "Rat Bible," this
being the Y. M. C. A. publication
for Auburn students. He has also
been very active in forensics, as he
is a member of Phi Delta Gamma
and Alpha Phi Eplison. At a recent
election by the Alabama Farmer Staff
he was elected managing editor for
next year. During the past year he
has served as first vice-president on
the Baptist Student Union Council.
G. L. Williamson, sophomore in me­chanical
engineering, . was elected
treasurer. During the past semester
he has been chairman of the deputa­tion
and Blue Ridge committees. He
was a delegate to the Blue Ridge Con­ference
this past summer. He has al­so
taken an active interest in speech
arts, and is a member of Phi Delta
Gamma.
Beethoven's "Farewell to Mu­sic"
and Washington's "Fare­well
Address" have been embla­zoned
in the pages of music and
history thru the years and now
another great Farewell has been
spoken and will surely be remem­bered
and repeated by coming
generations. It is a red-headed
Auburn boy's "Farewell to
Ball". It might be titled "The
Grand Finale of a Night of
Bull-shooting".
The story as he told it, goes
like this In Atlanta last
week-end knocking around, and
going into a "Temple of the
Stage", he spied an actress whom
he had met previously in New
York. He met her at the stage
door after the presentation and
she most graciously invited him
to her apartment. He accepted
her invitation. After many cock­tails
and risque stories he grew
sleepy; in fact so sleepy that
he awoke in her apartment
the next morning with no actress,
no money—no, nothing.
And so the session ended, as
both the story-teller and his au­dience
dropped off into the arms
of Morpheus.
TIGERS TROUNCE
LIONS IN FIRST;
LOSE T0TULANE
Buck Carter Displays Fine
Form Against Montgom­ery
Aggregation
PATE STARS AT BAT
Poor Fielding And Wild Pitch-ing
Loses To Tulane
Association Honors
Dean John W. Scott
Y.M.C.A. Will Sponsor
Fifth Sunday Meeting
Services To Be Conducted At the
Baptist Church
Each year on the fifth Sunday of
the months that have this number of
Sundays, the Y. M. C. A. sponsors a
meeting of all the different organiza­tions
of the different churches of Au­burn
to which the students belong,
such as the Epworth Leage, the Chris­tian
Endeavor, and the B. Y. P. U.,
in one of the different churches.
Since the month of March has five
Sundays, there will be one of these
such meetings this month.
The meeting will be held in the
Baptist church Sunday evening at
seven o'clock. Although the regular
members of the different organiza­tions
are regular attenders of this
meeting, this does not mean that
everyone is not invited. Every stu­dent
is welcome to these meeting if
they wish to come, W. T. Edwards an­nounced.
Presbyterian Easter
Services Held Today
Reverend S. B. Hay returned to
Auburn yesterday, after a short trip
to Covington, Georgia, due to the
death of Mrs. Hay's mother and the
illness of her aunt. Mrs. Hay will
remain in Covington for several more
days.
Reverend Hay announced that the
usual services will be conducted at
the Presbyterian church Sunday, with
special Easter music and also a spe­cial
Easter sermon.
Recognition Given For Work
Teacher of Banking
As
At a meeting of the Chattahoochee
Valley Bankers' Association, held in
Opelika at the Clement Hotel Thurs­day
night, Dean John W. Scott was
elected to honorary membership in
the association in ecognition of his
outstanding work as teacher of the
American Institute of Banking class.
The class meets every alternate
Thursday, at seven P. M., at the Cle­ment
Hotel, Opelika. Its membership
consists of thirty men, recruited from
bankers and their employees through­out
eastern Alabama and Georgia,
the banks in which section comprising
the Chattahoochee Valley Association.
The present course is merely intro­ductory
to a series of courses, which
are standardized nationally by the
American Institute of Banking, which
in turn is a department of the Ameri­can
Bankers Association. This course
is rapidly becoming recognized by
banks the nation over, many bank­ing
systems requiring their employees
to take the course as a condition of
remaining in the employment of these
systems.
The official opening of the Tiger
baseball season was inaugurated in
the Capital City Thursday afternoon
when the Auburn nine administered
defeat to the Montgomery Lions by
the score of 4 to 2.
Buck Carter, traveling in varsity
style for the first time, was Coach
Moulton's selection for mound duty
against the professional aggregation
and for eight long innings the red­headed
sophomore was successsful in
turning the professional crew back
with naught, but in the fatal ninth
with an array of pinch hitters doing
duty for the Lions, they were able
to push across two counters but still
falling short of victory.
This marked the first official
game of the year for Auburn, and the
manner in which Carter was serving
them up was no doubt pleasing to
Coach Moulton. Pate and Newton,
newcomers to the varsity ranks, were
probably the outstanding men for
Auburn, with Pate getting two
singles and Newton connecting with
one for three sacks at the timely
moment.
Carter was most effective when
the Lions were in a scoring position.
Disabled Man Gives
Unusual Performance
Startles Audience With Wonderous
Feats and Strength
A seemingly hopelessly disabled
man, one limb severed at the thigh
and one foot amputated at the ankle,
gave the most startling one-man per­formance
ever seen in Auburn, in
front of the Tiger Theater yesterday.
Stretching a wire from his auto­mobile,
which, incidentally, had a
North Dakota license plate, to speci­ally
constructed bars, he walked its
entire length .balancing himself with
one of his crutches. Incredulous as it
may sound, he rode a one-wheeled
bicycle for several minutes. Another
phenomenal feat was. a balancing
stunt on two blocks of wood, with a
large nail driven in each; he sup­ported
himself on his thumbs. A per­fectly
executed buck dance on high
stilts brought roars of applause.
A. P. I. Representatives
Confer With Chemists
Dr. Knapp, Dr. B. B. Ross, Dean of
Chemistry, Mr. W. D. Salmon, in ani­mal
industry research work at Au­burn,
Dr. Allen and Professor Basore,
both of the school of chemistry, left
Auburn Friday for Anniston, where
they conferred with the staff of re­search
chemists carrying on an experi­ment
in production of "xylose," a new
sugar to be manufactured from cot­ton
seed hulls, peanut hulls, and other
waste and semi-waste products. As
(Continued on page 4)
With a remarkable exhibition of
baseball behind them, the Auburn Ti­gers
journeyed to New Orleans and
lost the first Southern Conference
game of the year to the Tulane
Greenies by the topheavy score of
10 to 4.
The many miscues mixed with Mc-
Ghee's wildness put Tulane out in
the lead early in the game, and never
were the Plainsmen able to overcome
the lead gained in the first three in­nings.
In the second inning Roper was
sent in for McGhee, with the bases
loaded and only one man out. Roper
walked Hatcher, forcing in a score,
and the next Greenie, O'Bry, follow­ed
with a time triple to deep center,
that sent Tulane marching to vic­tory
over the Southern Champions
of last year.
Throughout, the entire game the
Auburn defense was weak, and many
errors at the critical moments made
victory for the Tulanians seem easy.
McGhee, Roper, and Harkins were
rushed into the game to halt the Tu­lane
rush, but with their defense
cracking their efforts were futile.
Ward and Pate were able to col­lect
two each of the six bingles given
up by the Tulane mound artist, Mr.
George.
Exchange Number
Cajoler Appears
Features Selected Humor From Many
Colleges Throughout U. S.
The Exchange Number of the Ca­joler,
featuring humor of contempo­rary
college humorous magazines, ap­peared
today. It is something new
in the Cajoler's line, and gives the
readers of Auburn an insight into
the types of humor of other schools.
A feature of the issue is the cover
design furnished by the University
of Alabama Rammer Jammer. The
cover in ultra-modernistic, in fact,
quite "loud". The inside material is
picked from the best of the college
publications of the country, and of­fers
a variety of reading for every
type of reader. The art work is also
picked from the best, and offers as
many laughs as there are pictures—
if not more.
In offering an Exchange Number
the Cajoler is following the plan of
nearly, all such publications. One
Exchange Number per year is usually
offered, and in this way the maga­zine
gives its readers a touch of en­tirely
new humor and art.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1929.
Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
er support should be given the student or­ganizations
which help to raise this stand­ing
to, and maintain it at, a high level.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Au­burn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
James B. McMillan Business Manager.
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
Hugh W. Overton _ Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Alex. Smith, Jr., '31 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
Carol Porter, '29 Sports Editor
Dick Jones, '31 Ass't. Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
T. S. Coleman, '32; Clarence Dykes, '32;
George Harrison, '32; Robert Sansing,
'30; S. H. Morrow, '32; J. E. Jenkins,
'32; H. G. Twomey, '32; Victor White,
'32; D. Reynolds, '32; Virgil Nunn, '31;
Gabie Drey, '31; James Davidson, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
George Carden, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
W. B. Jones, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Office on ground floor of Alumni Hall.
Circulation Managers: Walter Smith '31,
J. M. Johnson '31, W. A. Files '31, J.
E. Dilworth '31.
Assistants: B. W. Kincaid '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams,
'32, J. M. Barton '32.
Give Your Aid To
Beautifying Auburn
The ladies of Auburn should be supported
in their clean-up campaign. We have a
town that can be made very attractive, if
it is first made clean. Students should
fall right in with the civic clubs in beauti­fying
the streets and lawns.
One of our worst eyesores is the scat­tered
paper on the streets in the business
section. Let's be more careful in the future;
throw. waste papers in trash cans. Stop
and pick up any scattered paper that you
see; it won't take long to make the business
section spick and span.
The fraternities can help greatly also;
their homes are among the most pretentious
in Auburn, and should be models of clean­liness.
Students can not afford -to fail to
join in the movement being carried on by
the Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, and Women's
clubs. Let's help make Auburn a beauti­ful
town! Clean up! Paint up!
The Kiwanis Club's
Civic Betterment Program
Recognizing worthwhile activities, and
backing these to the very limit is one of the
greatest services any organization can per­form.
We are very appreciative and highly
grateful indeed to the Auburn Kiwanis Club
for their support to this, the college publi­cation—
especially in the matter of award­ing
annually a loving cup to the best Plains­man
reporter. We believe this will serve as
a great incentive to a worthy cause.
Having as its paramount aim service to
the local community, the Plainsman has
always held this ideal uppermost; and now
we feel very much encouraged at having
a prominent organization recognize our ef­forts
in this complimentary and impelling
manner.
Not only with the efforts of the Plains­man,
but behind every worthwhile program
will be found the influence and support of
Auburn's Kiwanis Club. Working definite­ly
toward a "Better Auburn," since its or­ganization
here much improvement and
general advancement about the town has
been in evidence.
We, the Plainsman, very highly appre­ciate
the splendid support being given by
the Kiwanis Club here; and they are to be
congratulated upon their splendid work in
making this a better community for all its
frequenters.
Auburn Again
Serves the State
Again comes news of a forward step by
Auburn. Dr. Knapp's announcement of the
selection of Prof. E. W. Camp as head of
the school of textile engineering means that
we will be assured of a textile department
next year. It is understood that plans for
a building are well under way.
It is one more response of Auburn to
the needs of the state of Alabama. We
are in the beginning of an era of great tex­tile
progress. Northern mills have discov­ered
the advantages of manufacturing near
the source of the raw material, and have
begun the trek to the South. Alabama is
getting much of this new industry. Ala­bama
needs a school to train Alabama men
to step in and take charge of this indus­try.
There is no reason to force the mills
to import northern engineers. The estab­lishment
of the textile school here will pro­vide
a trained corps of men for these mills.
Alabama men can come to their own state
school and prepare to go into the industry
fully equipt.
Professor Camp, who will" report here in
the summer, is at present at the Texas
Technological Institute. He is a graduate
of Georgia Tech, and an outstanding man.
He was attracted to Auburn by the oppor­tunity
of building a great school here.
Letters to the Editor
A Triumph For
The Forensic Council
The winning of the Auburn-Birmingham
Southern debate is a triumph for the Au-burnians
in more ways than one. The Au­burn
debaters have labored unsung, and
virtually unsupported, but have succeeded
in winning a debate so heavily weighted
against them as to preclude victory. This
victory is the culmination of efforts of the
Forensic Council to put into effect its poli­cy
of training freshmen as good debaters.
That the plan has been effective is evi­denced
by the fact, so . we are informed,
that all but one of the debaters this year
have been freshmen,—and freshmen scored
the only victory.
When the Forensic Council was formed
last year most of its members were seniors;
this year nearly half the membership con­sists
of freshmen. The latter fact is a dis­tinct
triumph for the Council in that it
proves the worth of its efforts to interest
and train freshmen, who must have taken
part in an intercollegiate debate before they
can become members of the Council.
The Council is a member of the Dixie
Debating League, an organization having
as its members the leading schools of the
South. Membership in the League is an
achievement for the Council in line with
the fundamental purpose which is to help
raise the scholastic standing of Auburn.
The Forensic Council is carrying on a
worthy work and deserves the thus far un-felt
support of the whole school because
this work is distinctly an aid in raising the
scholastic standing of the school. After all
has been said the scholastic standing of
Auburn is the important thing, and great-
March 28, 1929.
Editor of the Plainsman,
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Sir:
Since your publication is supposed to
represent Auburn, it seems only fair that
a student of Auburn should have a medium
of expression on your editorial sheet with­out
the danger that his lack of proficiency
in grammer and spelling be flaunted be­fore
the faces of fifteen hundred of his
school mates. The manner in which you
saw fit to present H. R. Hood's letter in
your issue of last Thursday was abomi­nable.
Consider the unfair advantage you took
over a man simply because his opinions did
not coincide with yours, and he was man
enough to say so. In all probability he did
did not check over his letter before sending
it, knowing that it is the policy of all repu­table
publications to correct manuscripts
before publishing them. That was careless.
But would anyone with a fair mind use
it to make him the laughing stock of the
school? I think that you will find that you,
not he, will become the laughing stock of
the intelligent element. It was a cute little
trick for turning a man's minor errors
into a cheap and blaring defense of your
priceless opinions, but it is likely to work
the wrong way for you.
The editorial note before Benjamin Pro­vost's
column disclaims editorial responsi­bility
for the opinions expressed in that
column. That is good, for it would be a
pity for the college paper to endorse a
chronic distinctive critic and perpetual
pest. But if the editorial opinions of your
paper are such that they must be defended
in a cheap way at the expense of a man's
pride, they are not worth the ink used in
defending them.
• Yours truly,
GEORGE L. POMEROY.
P. S. If you care to print this, or rather
if you have the nerve to print this, you
need not bother correcting the spelling and
grammer. Just read the proofs, and let us
see how much you know about spelling.
EDITORIAL NOTE : We wonder if Mr. Pomeroy
has applied for a position with the Au-bui-
n Fire Department. We doubt that
Mr. Pomeroy will be in the chorus when
the- "intelligent element" begins to laugh
at us. We offered Mr. Hood the privilege
of correcting the letter, which he declined to
take. Also, our dictionary uses an "a" in
the last syllable'of "grammar" and an-"e"
in the first one of "destructive." Acting on
your instructions, we did not bother to
make corrections.
" L i t t l e T h i n g s"
By Tom Bigbee
"It's about the time of the year that the
college stude begins rumaging about his
room in a frantic search for the list of
studies he is taking."—Kay Features.
A college president says that the young
man's most difficult problem in choosing
the right girl to marry. Which proves that
the prexy has funny ideas as to who does
the choosing.
The physicians report that women are not
so nervous as they used to be; more un­ruffled,
for one thing.
The left hind leg of a graveyard rabbit
may be lucky, but what of its original
owner?
Prof. Sheaffer, Kansas University, says
that blindfolded people invariably travel
in circles. This appliance isn't required
in most cases.
A song of the times—"The spring is ring­ing;
what do I care what it's bringing if—
I'm all by myself in the moonlight!"
Only mental work is the education theme
of the progress of man. Which, if accom­plished,
means that we are to become deep­er
implicated in unemployment problems.
How ya gonna distinguish between beads
and uncovered spines with modern modes
of dressing.?
How do you regard Prexy's daylight sav­ing
idea? We believe it bears enough vital
advantages to be seriously considered. Don't
neglect taking the matter up in your next
club meeting, and report immediately to
Prexy. We would like to see the practice
in vogue here for the remainder of this
' session.
May the evil Jinx be far from Weemie
in his endeavor to establish a new world
record tomorrow.
Is it true that dramatic arts are vanish­ing?
Why does the local theatre get un­broken
attendance when a splendid ama­teur
theatrical production is being present­ed
by the college players?
Found in the title of a mag story, the
word, "ruction"—what does it mean? We
don't know either.
What you eat for breakfast determines
what you do before lunch, some advertising
general remarked. Believing this, we won­der
how many really partake of the morn­ing
meal at all.
1? AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
Standardization
In grammar school they teach you how
to write every little "r" so that it will be
identical with every other little "r" that
you or someone else might have written.
You must use the Zaner method or the
Palmer method—you must standardize.
In education everywhere, if you are not
careful, they teach you how to think so
that you will think exactly as the rest of
the world thinks—standardization again.
While it might be true that a certain
amount of standardization is necessary un­less
we want to be anarchists, it is just
as true that, one the whole, standardiza­tion
does not make for any great amount
of general friendship and amity: men quar­rel
because they are alike.
Let no one say that standardization is
not with us. It is, and it falls short of
doing for us the things that it advocates
credit to it. "Gentlemen may cry, 'peace!
peace'!" and think to gain peace by teach­ing
everyone the same thing. But there
is no peace, and, for that matter, very lit­tle
satisfaction of any kind, when, in pub­lic
. schools and everywhere., men wave the
flags of nationalism, nationalism every­where
alike in being jealous and controvert
sal.
Standardization seems the god of mod­ernity,
perhaps, what is called prosperity,
but it brings also persecution for those who
would dare to disgrace under the new—
disregarded bill of rights.
Small wonder it is that Sinclair Lewis
wrote Babbitt. Small wonder, too, that ex­tremists
as H. L. Menken should have the
following that they do. When people pro­test
against'custom, they are often inclined
to go to extremes.
By all means, let the schools strive to
obtain, not masses thinking as a unit, but
units thinking in terms of mass. It bene­fits
not, in fact it better not, that each
"r" be like every other "r". It is better
to realize that human beings will remain
human beings, as will their children after
them: they will not be alike.—Daily Tro­jan.
THEGEDUNK
I am the Gedunk who studies Architec­ture.
" Every other course on the campus
is bunk. I have no respect for any other
course and do not understand how anyone
would study anything but Architecture.
I have learned all the little "arty" expres­sions
and phrases connected with my course
and continually inject them in all my con­versation,
because it makes me seem artis­tic.
Also, I am always very busy. We
architects just have more work than we
can possibly do. "I must go to the draft­ing
room," is my favorite expression, and
it does make me seem to be overworked.
I very often "go to the drafting room" by
the way of the picture show, but I love
to talk about the hard life of an Architect.
HASHED SCRAPS
As we live, we learn—and Miss Helen Shackleford may learn too. However,
perhaps we should give the details. It seems Miss Shackleford was asked by a pro­fessor
in one of her classes, "What is an idea?" She, very meek, mild and sweetly,
replied, "I don't know. I was not here yesterday." We give up. Sid Stewart, just
to make us appear in error—really took his last date to Mr. Roger's movie palace.
Wonders will never cease!! Walking up the street last night I overheard a senior
asking the W. K.* and J. F.* T. S. Christopher if Joe Ford had not helped Friend
Hood compose his letter. Mr. Christopher, president of the O. P. club, replied in
the negative with a quizzical look on his face. The senior answered, "Well, it
contained enough errors to have been written by him." By the ash can, Joe is now
getting as many mush letters as the most popular matinee idol. The mails are
overloaded with letters from love-stricken girls who recently saw his picture in
the various state papers. If he had only worn those pale purple suspenders of
Christopher's, think of the proposals he would have received.
*W. K.—Well-known; *J. F.—Justly famous.
* * * * • • • * * * * *
MY CREED
To do my best in Life's great test;
That much, and nothing more.
To cherish honors fairly won;
Just those, and nothing more.
To live a decent life and be
Always at least a man;
To have no secret place to be
Alone in Satan's hand.
Regret no step that I have made,
And revel not in sham—
To be, within my inner self,
Just what men think I am.
—Convict number 969.
* * * * * * * * * *
ON THE CAMPUS
Count Von Heidelbergs: "Ach so you haf de student duels, on the Auburn
campus too, nicht wahr? How beautifully that young man's face was cut up!"
Pro Smythe: "Oh, that's young P. Daugette: he's just learning to shave."
* * * * * * * * * *
NOT EVEN A CO-ED
A Jewish father, wishing to teach his little son a lesson, placed him on the
porch and told him to jump in his daddy's arms. The following conversation took
place:
"Now, Abie, jump in Papa's arms."
"But Papa, it's so far; I'm afraid."
"Abie! Do you want Papa to lick you? Jump in Papa's arms; come on, jump
to Papa."
Abie still hesitates but finally jumps. His father quickly steps aside and lets
little Abie crash to the ground.
Then the father says to his son: "Now Abie, that'll teach you never to trust
nobody!"
* * * * * * * * * *
A SAD TALE
The saddest story is about the young fellow who gave his girl a pair of silk
pajamas with a card attached, saying: "Let this be a symbol of my love," and
received a letter from the girl saying: "Thanks so much for the gift, but if your
love is that transparent, I'm through with you."
* * * * * * * * * *
THIS WEEK'S FANTASY
She shut the door behind her and hesitated a moment in the semidarkness. The -
firelight gleamed on the silk of her pajamas as she slipped across the room to his
side. Softly she stroked his hair, put her arms around his neck and pressed her­self
against his body..
"May I?" she whispered in his ear.
"Oh, I guess so," he said, "but I wantyou to behave yourself when you go to
the Senior Dances and remember that you are my daughter."—Adonis.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
Oklahoma A. and M. College appears to
be having trouble keeping her engineering
students and Ag students from open com­bat.
The Engineering Queen, of the En­gineer's
Day held recently, was kidnapped
by two Ag. students, which vwas against the
college rules, as well as against the will of
the Engineering Students. A light penalty,
by the college's governing body, has been
given the two gallant knights, as it was
not deemed great enough offense to the
college to warrant a more serious penalty.
We, at present, have peace in the family,
but election time is drawing nigh.
SOUNDS REASONABLE
The College Honor committee, of Cornell
University, is active, judging from a recent
report. A student of the school of arts and
Sciences was recently placed on parole un­til
next fall. It seems that the boy handed
in a theme which he had used in a pre­paratory
school. Now, if the student had
more brain power in high school and in the
preparatory school than he has after enter­ing
college, why should he not rest on the
work of yesterday?
* * * * *
WHY WORRY?
The Editor of the Student publication
of the Central Missouri State Teacher's
College, recently compared students with
water pipes, giving water pipes the odds.
He stated that workmen replacing pipes
in a building stated that they had been
there for forty years without repair. He
wondered how many students of today would
be working and going strong* forty years
after college. Why worry?
SUCH A LIFE
Presbyterian College, Clinton, S. C.—
The Presbyterians are getting hot—that is,
the students of the Presbyterian College of
South Carolina. And who wouldn't? Their
new catalogue recently came out and there
has been all sorts of murmuring and
sounds, and "bull-sessions" galo- Why?
Well here's why and how. It seems that the
authors of the catalogue have decided that
the students.do not to take any cuts, and
have so eliminated the right to take any
cuts what-so-ever. Their reason was, that
the students had been abusing their former
privilege concerning cutting. Shocking. So
next year every cut must be excused or
else two demerits will be given, or awarded,
to the- absentee. First round.
* * * * *
TIME TO GET SOMETHING NEW
Fellow student's, things are getting se­rious.
The collegiate mode is passing out.
The drug clerk and the farm hand have
caught up to it. The next job is to create
a new fashion. Otherwise the four years
you spend at college will be wasted and
there will be no way to distinguish be­tween
those who have had the privileges of
a college education and those who have
not. "Whoopee" is old fashioned, baggy
trousers are old fashioned, colored sheiks
are driving our fancy caps from our cam­pus,
the co-eds continue to write to the
friend back down on the plantation (farm),
and what not. Let's start something even
if it is right.
* * * * *
B. Y. O. L.
The College men of Louisville have band­ed
together with the intention of forming
a University Club. They have taken over
rooms in a hotel and are now ready for
action. Men who have had two year's col­lege
work are eligible for membership.
They plan to have dancing every night in
their rooms, with one formal every week.
The club has made quite a successful be­ginning,
and looks as if it will be a very
interesting and lasting project. Dancing
every night without refreshments? Well,
they didn't mention that part of the story.
WHAT? ANOTHER ONE!
A new university has been formed and
named: being called "University of the
Air," and is located at the University of
California. It is cooperating with the state
departments of education and Radio Cor­poration
of America to teach radio. We
have the "University of the Air", now and
I wonder about the underworld university;
probably all space is filled or reserved
though, and room can't be found for one
there. It is safe to say that university
and college men will be there also.
MEDITATIONS
ON THIS AND THAT
'Uiy 'Benjamin Trovosp—
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.
* * * * »
LIEUTENANT Barth's work in pro­moting
intramural baseball is a fine
thing. He is doing something of real
value both to the college and to the stu­dents.
That is my idea of college athletics.
When a college spends ninety-five thousand
dollars a year on athletics, yet gives benefit
to but a negligible number of students,
(aside from the athletic employees) then
that money is not going where it will do
most good.
Athletics are primarily for the students.
Concentration of money and equipment on
a few varsity teams necessarily limits the
value of the department to the big mass of
students who are not expert athletes. Stu­dents
are charged a certain athletic fee
when they enter most colleges. At some of
these colleges that is nothing more or less
than an admission fee, buying tickets to
several athletic spectacles; providing the
students with no means to build himself
physically.
However, the intramural baseball under
Lieutenant Barth is giving benefit to a
large number of freshmen. Money paid to
the athletic department by the student is
used to give the student direct benefit. He
is participating in, not looking at, athletics.
The column's hat is off to Lieutenant
Barth!
$ & $ $ 3fl
WHILE I'm on athletics—it appears
that we are going to fare better
in baseball than we did in football
and basketball. Those who judge a school
by the ability of the various teams should
rate Auburn a little higher soon, if pre­season
dope means much. Our pitching
staff looks good, which is not a minor de­tail
by any means.
We will greet the opening of the season
this week with a good deal of anticipation—
and pleasure. It never seems that spring
is really here until "A" day; after to-mor­row
the last of the red flannels will be
packed away.
ALOCAL wit broke out recently
with the statement that Spring is
here and young men's thoughts are
lightly turning to what Montevallo girls
have been thinking about all the year. Any­how,
he is right. It is common these days
to see several of the brothers monopolize
the victrola every evening at dusk, and
play these sweet sentimental records, the
while sitting around gazing off at some­body
who is probably a hundred miles away.
I can look out my window on Ag Bottom
in the late afternoon and see occasional
couples wandering around moon-eyed and
full of giggles. But the season is not in
full swing yet. The arc light in front of
the Home Ec practice house hasn't been
broken since last fall.
* * * * *
NOW IS THE time when all good men
men should come to the aid of the
green grass and keep to the walks.
The trodden paths are not so noticeable
until the grass begins to get green; they
are showing up now. Several places on
the campus in front of the Main Building
are already marred, but could be fixed up
this Spring if people would stay off them.
All are short paths, cutting across corners
to save only^a few steps. Why not use the
walks and give the campus at least an even
chance to become attractive? New shrub­bery
has been planted around Ramsay Hall,
but the beauty of the front terrace is
marred by an unsightly path.
LOVERS REPLY TO GOOD ADVICE
Could you bid and scorn
When in earth is heaves
On Time's backward wing be borne
To forgotten leaves:
Could you quiet Noah's Flood
To an essence rare
Or bid the roaring wind
Confine in his lair:
Could round iron shell
When the spark was in it
Hold powder so well
That it never split:
Had you reins for the sun,
And curb, and spur,
Held you God in a net
So He might not stir:
Then might you take this thing,
Then strangle it, kill!
By weighing, considering,
Conform it to will!
Like Christ's self contemn it,
Revile, mock, betray:
But being seed—wind—God—
It bears all away!
—Richard Hughes.
/
SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
EVELYN HENRY
Smith Hall
Phone 9115 SOCIETY AND FEATURES This Department Open
From 11 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Daily
MOONLIGHT
A night like this makes me your fool
again,
A fool who breaks his heart to be
alone.
Its poignancy is much too kin to pain,
And that old passion that my wits
disown.
Strange that a shaft of silly silver
light
Should set at naught the harsh en­lightened
years,
Should make me hunger for the old
delight
And know again a boy's hot hope­less
tears!
Why should I ache for you because
a moon
Has turned the world to silver
phantasy?
Oh, I am beauty's fool! You know,
at noon
You may be damned, my dear, for
all of me.
—Cecil John.
Engineer's Ball To Be
Gala Social Event
Mesdames Bohler and
McColloch Joint Hostesses
Mesdames G. M. Bohler and E. C.
McColloch were joint hostesses at a
series of bridge parties last week, on
Friday and Saturday afternoons. The
Easter idea was carried out with the
use of spring flowers in the decora­tions
and also in the tallies. Four
tables of players enjoyed this hospi­tality
on each occasion. On Friday,
high score was won by Mrs. Homer
Wright, and second high by Mrs. John
Kennedy. Mrs. George Scarseth won
high score on Saturday afternoon, and
Mrs. Sam Robinson, low. Charming
prizes were presented these ladies.
An attractive plate of frozen salad,
sandwiches and coffee was served the
guests at the conclusion of the games.
A most decided innovation in the
social life of Auburn will be the En­gineer's
Ball given on April 12. Ar­rangements
for decorations have been
completed and will include banners
of each engineering society and hon­orary
fraternity. This promises to be
a gala occasion with many out-of-town
visitors. Invitations have been
extended to the following young la­dies:
Misses Virginia Flowers, Jule
Gunter, Louise Bickerstaff, Irene Mc-
Pherson, Viola Chappell, Ruth Brown,
Miriam Black, Mignon Brunsen, Mer-dith
Owens, Ben Lou Hodges, Louise
Bachtel, Lucy Reid, and Louise Har­mon,
of Montgomery; Misses Kath-erine
Shaefer, lone Summers, Louise
Rowe, Mildred Moore, Miriam Moore,
Grace Smith, Frances Waller, Ein-nan
Hooper, of Opelika; Evelyn Mc-
Griff, Jean Murray, Frances Dexter,
Edna Rice, Mary Mann, Mary Booth,
Clara Allen, Jewel Greene, Louise
Cozart, Nell Henry, Maggie Wright,
Margaret Scarbrough, Margaret Cald­well,
of Columbus, Georgia; Misses
Odelle Stewart, Anne Higgins, Mary
Tippin, Anne Summers, Katherine
Porter, Jackie Hutcheson, Nola Heath,
Helen Shackelford, Frances Shackel­ford,
of Auburn; Miss Frances Smith
of Girard; Miss Ruth Freeman of
Alexander City; Miss Elizabeth Moon
of Wetumpka, Misses Mary Jo How­ard,
Claire Griffin, Anne Claire Wal­ters,
and Myrtle Welch of Tallahas­see;
and Miss Frances Crawford of
Highland Home.
PERSONALS
Methodist Students
Enjoy Egg Hunt
Two Departments of the Methodist
Sunday Sunday School enjoyed Easter
Egg Hunts on Friday afternoon. The
Primary Department held their's at
Mi's. H. C. Armstrong's, and the
Junior Department used the beautiful
Ag campus.
MAY & GREEN
Men's Clothing
Sporting Goods
Montgomery, Alabama
Cantata Be Given In
Langdon Hall Sunday
"The Dawn of Easter," a cantata
by Ira Wilson, will be given on Sun­day
evening at 7:30 at Langdon Hall
by the joint choirs of the churches of
Auburn. Mr. P. R. Bidez is the di­rector
and Mr. Walter Kincaid is the
accompanist. The cantata is being
sponsored by the Department of Mu­sic
of the Woman's Club. Everyone
is invited to this musical program.
Mrs. Gross Harrison
Honored At Party
Mrs. J. T. Anderson entertained
a few friends in honor of Mrs. Gross
Harrison on Wednesday, March 20,
with a party at the Tiger Theatre.
Those enjoying this delightful affair
were: Mesdames Harrison, Dunstan,
Ross, and Petrie, and Misses Minnie
Whitaker, Fannie Bondurant, Kate
Lane, Allie Glenn, and Edith Slight.
Delicious refreshments were served
after the show.
The First National Bank of Auburn
ADVICE AND ACCOMMODATION
FOR EVERY COLLEGE MAN
ANY FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
C. Felton Little, '06, President
W. W. Hill, '98, Vice-President G. H. Wright, '17, Cashier
Optical Department
KLEIN & SON
MONTGOMERY
Dr. Thos. D. Hopkins, Optometrist
New and Most Modern Equipment for Examination and
Fitting Eyes with Scientific Lenses
TOOMER'S DRUG STORE
Drug Sundries
Drinks, Smokes
#
THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY
ON THE CORNER
Have You Tried Our
CLUB BREAKFAST
Hot Cakes and Syrup
Eggs Ham Coffee Toast
From 7 to 11—All for 35c
Tiger Sandwich Shop
T. C. Dykes was in Birmingham
last week-end.
* * *
Mr. William Frank, class of '27 in
Electrical Engineering, visited friends
in Auburn this week. Mr. Frank has
been following his profession in North
Carolina since leaving A. P. I.
* ~ # •
Murray Hoffman spent last week­end
in Montgomery.
* * *
Mrs. I. S. McAdory, Associate
Grand Matron of the Order of the
Eastern Star, left Monday for South
i Alabama where she will be for over a
week in connection with state East­ern
Star work.
* # •*
Ben Lindley spent last week-end in
Birmingham.
Richard Payne was the guest of his
parents in Columbus during last week­end.
* * *
Miss Lucile Burson has as her guest
this week Miss Olive Ivey of Beatrice,
Alabama. Miss Ivey is a junior in
Home Economics at Judson College,
where they are having their spring
holidays. Miss Ivey has two brothers
in college here, 0. T. and O. W. Ivey.'
* * *
E. W. Woodruf visited relatives in
Greenville last week.
Fred Brazelle of Auburn, who has
been studying illustrating in the Art
Institute in Chicago is home for a
few days.
* * *
Arthur Parker was in Columbus
last Friday and Saturday.
* * *
Miss Mary Dowell, popular daugh­ter
of Dr. Spright Dowell, President
of Mercer University, visited friends
here last week.
* * *
Miss Thelma Graves spent last
week with her family at Alexander
City.
* * *
Ben Sankey spent a few days in
Selma, and was prevented from re­turning
on schedule because of floods.
* * *
Curtiss Roberts, Ed. Graves and
Boothe Ingram motored to Atlanta
and Cedartown last week-end.
* * *
Sam Moseley, student in the Medi­cal
School at Emory University, was
in Auburn last Sunday. Mr. Moseley
was a member of the class of '28 of
this institution, and Student Secre­tary
of the Y. M. C. A. during his
senior year.
* * *
Professor Orr is doing some work
for the Gulf States Steel Company
this week.
* * *
Miss Lucile Lloyd, a state worker
with Baptist young people's organi­zations
in the colleges, was in Auburn
last week-end. , '
* * *
Mrs. R. E. Cammack of Montgomr
ery was the guest of her mother,
Mrs. L. D. Stodghill, last week.
* * *
Miss Odelle Stewart had as her
guests over last week-end, her sister,
Miss Agnes Stewart and Miss Jean
Kirby. Both Miss Stewart and Miss
Kirby are teaching at Cuba, Alabama.
* # *
Dr. C. B. Glenn, Superintendent of
City Schools of Birmingham was in
Auburn on Thursday. Dr. Glenn is an
old Auburn alumnus.
* * *
J. D. Neeley was called to Montgom­ery
on Thursday to play for the show
at the Grand Theatre. From there he
went on to Mobile, where he will spend
the Easter week-end with Clarence
and Cletus Myer.
Mr. Gabin, Miss Caroline Gabin of
Fort Gaines, Georgia and Col. Green,
were the guests of Ed Gabin on last
Saturday and Sunday.
* * *
Mrs. Milton Thomas of Birming­ham
is expected in Auburn next week
as the guest of Mrs. Jude Robinson.
* * * »
Mrs. Matt Sloane will arrive on
Monday to be the guest of her sis-tre,
Mrs. George Petrie. Many charm­ing
parties are being planned for
Mrs. Sloane during her short stay in
Auburn.
Women's Club Holds
Second Meeting
The Business and Professional
Women's Club held the second meet­ing
Thursday evening, at the home
of Mrs. H. G. Peacock.
The Constitution and By-Laws of
the Club were adopted after they had
been read and thoroughly discussed.
The following officers were elected:
President, Berta Dunn; Vice-Presi­dent,
Mrs. Alma Whatley; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. H. G. Peacock;
Treasurer, Elizabeth Duncan.
Committees: Membership Chairman,
Annie Belle Stearns; Publicity Chair­man,
Alma Newton; Program Chair­man,
Forley Lee; Finance Chairman,
Elizabeth Duncan; Education Chair­man,
Louise Glanton.
The club already has a membership
of thirty-five and it is expected that
this number will be greatly enlarged,
as there are approximately one hun­dred
business and professional women
in Auburn.
The President outlined the purpose
of the Business and Professional
Women's Club of Auburn, which will
be affiliated with the National Busi­ness
and Professional Women's Clubs.
Meetings will be held twice each
month, a luncheon the first Tues­day,
and a night meeting the third
Tuesday of the month.
At the end of the business meet­ing,
delightful refreshments were
served.
A Correction
By error it was announced in last
Sunday's issue of the Plainsman that
Raymond Kitchen was engaged. We
apologize to those concerned. _
Mrs. Harkins Hostess
At Series Bridge Parties
Mrs. C. D. Harkins was hostess
at a series of bridge parties during
last week. On Tuesday afternoon five
tables of players participated in the
games. Mrs. J. T. Hudson receiving
prize for high score, and Mrs. J. J.
Wilmore, for second. Guests for six
tables were present on both Wednes­day
and Friday night. Professor and
Mrs. C. D. Killebrew made high score
for couples on Wednesday and were
presented an attractive joint prize.
On Friday evening, Mrs. Ruffin and
Professor Herren were found to have
high scores and each was given a
prize. A dainty ice course was served
the guests on these delightful oc­casions.
Spring flowers were used
throughout the attractive home.
Mesdames Thomas And
Burley Joint Hostesses
Mrs A. L. Thomas and Mrs. O. E.
Burley were joint hostesses at a love­ly
party given at the attractive home
of Mrs. A. L. Thomas on Wednesday
night. The party consisted of eight
tables. The home was attractively
decorted with wild flowers giving a
profusion of color to the party. Top
scores were won by Misses Bertha
L. Ferguson and Dr. Ralph Doner.
The evening was brought to a close
with a delightful salad course follow­ed
by cakes and coffee.
Auburn Chapter O. E. S.
Holds Regular Meeting
Auburn Chapter No. 57 0. E. S.
held their regular meeting Thursday
night, March 21. Mrs. Grimes,
Worthy Matron in the chair.
Communication form Grand Ma­tron,
Mrs. Birdie Winston, was read
requesting that we make a donation
to the flood sufferers in Elba. It was
voted by the chapter to send check
for $25, also a box of clothing. She
also requested that we remember the
Masonic Home with an Easter offer
ing. The quilting party, that has prev
iously been mentioned, will be held
Monday night, April first, for this
purpose. Everybody is invited. Ad­mission
25 cents. A program is being
arranged in connection with the quilt­ing.
Mesdames Maude Conn, Frances
King and Bessie Yarbrough were ap­pointed
as committee to act in con­junction
with "The Past Matrons"
club to make necessary arrangements
for the party.
Departments Woman's
Club Meet
Mrs. Shi Honors Mrs.
Harrison With Party
Mrs. Gross Harrison was again the
inspiration for a delightful affair
when Mrs. B. L. Shi entertained in
her honor with a three table bridge
supper on Friday night, March 22
After the tempting supper, cards
were enjoyed and prizes awarded Mrs.
C. R. Hixon and Miss Dorothea Big­gin.
Mrs. Harrison was presented
an attractive honoree's gift. Spring
flowers were used artistically through­out
the house. The guests were Mes­dames
Harrison, Hare, Wilmore,
Cary, Scott, Knapp, Biggin, Askew,
Allison, Basore, and Hixon, and Miss
Dorothea Biggin.
Grammar School Students
Win Prizes In Contest
Five members of the third grade of
Auburn Grammar School, taught by
Miss Frances Duggar, won prizes in
a nation wide contest. The Salfield
Publishing Company offered five hun­dred
dollers in prizes of one dollar
each to children for making the most
attractive poster books, using the Sal-field
cutouts, and the members of the
third grade entered the contest. The
five successful members are: Herbert
Martin, Mary Alice Thomas, Marjorie
Bowley, "Nina Fay Hobbs ,and Em-manell
Parrish.
Miss Frances Young of Auburn,
Ala., was elected social editor of the
Alchemist, the Brenau College stu­dents'
newspaper, at the recent stu­dent
government election.
* * *
Cletus and Clarence Myer are
spending the Easter week-end with
their parents in'Mobile.
* * *
Miss Frances Crawford of High­land
Home is visiting Miss Natalie
Creel.
* * sis
Mr. Martin Nunnally, of Birming­ham,
is a guest of Pi K. A. fraternity
over the week-end.
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The Woman's Club of Auburn will
sponsor a benefit bridge party at the
Thomas Hotel on April 9, at three
o'clock. Reservations should be made
as early as possible.
The Educational Department of the
Woman's Club held its regular meet­ing
on March 21, at the home of
Mrs. W. W. Hill. The subject for
the afternoon was "Citizenship,"
with Mrs. Zebulon Judd as leader.
The keynote of the program was
training for citizenship with the use
of stories in the home and school.
Types of stories that should be given
together with the age, were read.
Those assisting Mrs. Judd were: Mes­dames
Hill, Salmon, Kennedy, Brown,
Ivey, and Miss Ernestine Hill. Mrs.
Ivey closed the program by reading
the Athenean Oath.
The Department of Civics of the
Woman's Club had a most enjoyable
meeting at the home of Mrs. Biggin
on Thursday afternoon, March 21.
Mrs. Cauthen was the speaker and
she made a most interesting talk on
"Bulbs.". Through the courtesy of
Hastings of Atlanta, the different va­rieties
of narcissi were shown, these
lovely flowers adding much to the
pleasure of the meeting. Refresh­ments
of tea, sandwiches and salted
nuts were later served in the dining
room, by the hostess.
Miss Styles Honored
With Farewell Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Duncan enter­tained
with a farewell dinner on Wed­nesday,
March 20, in honor of Miss
Dorothy Styles who became the bride
of Mr. Jack Norman Nelms on Satur­day,
March 23. A delicious three-course
dinner was served the follow­ing
guests at 6:30: Mesdames Davis
and Cannon; and Misses Dorothy
Styles, Natalie Creel, Marie Sewell,
Margaret Mast, Mary Tippin, Rosa
Walker, and Elizabeth Duncan. A
color scheme of green and white was
used throughout in the decorations
and menu. The cutting of a beauti­ful
cake, embossed with tiny white
bride's roses and containing all the
traditional symbols, was one of the
most interesting features of the even­ing.
Miss Styles was lovely in a
trousseau gown of orchid chiffon.
Mrs. Simpson Entertains
With Lovely Bridge Party
Mrs. W. G. Simpson's home was
beautifully decorated with yellow jas­mines
last Tuesday when she enter­tained
at five tables of bridge. Top
score prizes were won by Mrs. R. Bed-dingfield
and Mrs. H. W. Hixon.
Concluding the play, a delicious salad
course and iced tea was served.
Tiade with the advertisers.
Mrs. Salmon Entertains
At Tea on Wednesday
Mrs. W. D. Salmon entertained at
a lovely tea on Wednesday afternoon
honoring Mrs. W. H. Pierre, Mrs. S.
J. Schilling, Mrs. J. L. Seale and
Mrs. Bradford Knapp. The color
scheme was orchid and white carried
out by beautiful wisteria. The guests
were received at the door by Mrs.
M. J. Funchess, and bunches of violets
were pinned on the guests by Mrs.
W. C. Taylor. They were then con­ducted
to the receiving line and in­troduced
to the honored guests by
Mrs. J. E. Ivey. Being escorted to
the dining room by Mrs. J. C. Grimes,
they were served coffee by Mrs. W.
H. Eaton and cakes and mints by
Mesdames Osborne, Cannon and
Sewell.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1929.
ALABAMA HISTORY IS BROADCAST
SECOND HALF HOUR FROM WAPI
The second of a .series of weekly
half hours of Alabama-history broad­cast
Thursday afternoon from WAPI,
under the auspices of the Alabama
"State Department of Archives and
History, was devoted to the story in
detail of the invasion of DeSoto and
his Spanish followere in 1540 and of
the permanent colonization of the
State by the French in 1699.
Mrs. Marie Bankhea'd Owen, Direc­tor
of the Department, made the talk
and told the story of how Hernan­do
DeSoto was authorized by the Em­peror,
Charles V, of Spain, to con­quer
that portion of our country that
lies upon the Gulf coast, known to
the world at that time as Florida.
The speaker described the ruthless
manner in which DeSoto's party dealt
with the Indians, requiring them to
carry the heavy burdens of the ex­pedition
and pursuing them with blood
hounds when they made their escape,
together with the general disregard
of the dignity of the Chiefs and the
property rights of the natives, all of
which led to the Battle of Mauvilla,
which modern historians declare took
place near Demopolis in the kingdom
of the Chief Tuskaloosa. In that bat­tle
a number of Spaniards and 6,000
Indians lost their lives.
Mrs. Owen explained that DeSoto
was followed by another Spanish party
under the leadership of DeLuna which
came for the purpose of colonization
instead of conquest and search for
gold, as had been the motive of De­Soto.
But this colony also failed and
withdrew from the State.
The French colony at Mobile under
the leadership of the two brothers,
Iberville and Bienville of the French
Canadian Le Moyne family, proved to
be a more secure venture and might
be said to form the very beginning
osf Alabama's permanent and con­structive
history, Mrs. Owen stated.
The half hour history talk to be
broadcast April 4th will describe In­dian
life in Alabama before State­hood,
and on April 11th an address
will be broadcast by Hon John Hollis
Bankhead, on the life and influence
of Thomas Jefferson. Alabama is the
only State in the Union that cele­brates
Jefferson's birthday, April
13th, with a legal holiday. Mr. Bank-head
is one of ten Trustees of the
Alabama State Department' of Ar­chives
and History, which Depart­ment
is sponsoring these once-a-week
history talks.
One nice room to rent, next to
bath.—Mrs. J. T. Watt, 261 Thatch
Avenue.
One of the largest observatories in
the United States is to be built at the
University of Texas through a bequest
to the school of $1,000,000 by W. J.
McDonald, a Paris banker.
The Tiger Theater
Selected Pictures
MONDAY, APRIL 1
Clara Bow in
"THE WILD PARTY"
With A Party Of Wild Young People
CLARA BOW MAKES "WHOOPEE" A T WILD PAR­TY.
AUBURN, ALA.—You're all invited! Screen's
most popular girl will make "Whoopee" with an Army
of Admirers at The Tiger Theatre in "THE WILD
PARTY."
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College Training
Helps in Pictures
Three of the six members of the
Paramount studio art department are
university graduates and Van Nest
Polglaze, head of department, says
that when any new men are needed
he wants college trained individuals.
Polglaze, himself not a college man,
says he finds the need of a univer­sity
training every day. When he
makes a report to the studio heads,
to an art guild, or talks with a direc­tor
he feels he works under a handi­cap
since it was not his good fortune
to have much schooling.
The work of the art or architec­tural
department in a motion picture
plant is varied and calls for a com­bination
of artistic and business abili­ties
above the ordinary.
Each set is designed by the art de­partment.
When a picture, or story for one is
selected, a member of the art depart­ment
is assigned to the production and
he is in charge of all the sets and the
art work you see in the final picture.
Fred Ford, a graduate of Yale, was
in charge of the art work for Clara
Bow's "Ladies of the Mob," which
was directed by William Wellman. To
be sure he had the right effect for
the prison scenes, Ford spent two
days and one night at the California
state prison at Folsom.
Van Nest Polglaze says that the
cubist style is being used today in the
motion picture industry art depart­ments.
Simplicity is the theme of this
modernistic principle. So simple is
the common style today, that a single
splash of red in the wrong place will
ruin the effect of the entire work.
Books most common in a studio art
department are, "The Outline of Art,"
by Sir William Orpen; Ellie Faure's
"History of Art", and "Harmonies Irr-terieur
de Ruhlmann". .
Present day problems in the pro­duction
of a motion picture demand
that most of the men and women must
be college graduates. That is the
opinion of Ethel Doherty, one of the
five women writers now turning out
six or seven scenarios a year for
Paramount.
Almost the first words spoken to
the writer by Miss Doherty were:
"Because I have written a bit, you
will no doubt expect me to give you
a long, colorful story of how a college
woman is better prepared to write
for the cinema world than the woman
who is not a graduate, but on the con­trary
I'm going to be brief in giving
my view points. I suppose your pa­per,
as all other college publications,
carries numerous features. I think
they are very fine, since feature yarns
carry original ideas, and that is
what we want in scenarios.
"It's funny how I got my present
position." A smile came over her
face. "I'm thinking of the scripts I
used to send to the studios, only to
get them back with a pink rejection
slip attached. I thought my stories
were good enough, but during the
past seven years I've found out how
lacking, and useless they were.
"I was graduated from the Arizon-al
Normal and then came to Los
Angeles to teach. My major was his­tory,
but I always liked the romantic,
story type of legend. I taught three
years in the schools of Los Angeles
and my spare time was spent in tak­ing
graduate work at the Universiy
of Southern California and writing
scenarios—which were never accepted
"Two summers I went to school at
the Trojan institution and spent a
third at the University of California.
During the years I was teaching, I
tried to get into the motion picture
industry. There was something about
it which held me, and I knew I never
would be happy until I worked in a
studio. Mr. De Mille gave me my
chance here, and I started as a script
girl. On that June day in 1920 I was
the happiest I have ever been, unless
it was two years ago when they pro­moted
me to the position of a scenario
writer and I- started to write the
script for 'The Vanishing American.'
"Starting as a script holder is the
finest and only real training for a
writer of scenarios. You learn cam­era
angles, the thing is wanted, and
how to write emotions which can be
portrayed by acting with little word
explanation."
"My five years of holding script
prove of value every day, and I
strongly advise every girl starting
from the bottom. Forget frills and
personal fancies. It pays ultimately.
Practically every member of this de­partment
has been a film cutter, or
a script clerk."
FORMER AUBURN
STUDENT GUEST
IN ROYAL PALACE
John Kilpatrick, former student of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute lived
while in Bangkok with his fellow stu­dents
in Phya Thai Palace guests of
King Rama VII of Siam, according
to a cable just received at the home
office of the Floating University at
11 Broadway, New York City.
The Floating University students
left New York City on November 8,
aboard the S. S. President Wilson and
since sailing they have visited 29
ports and have made trips to many
inland cities with historical and edu­cational
interest.
Upon their arrival in Bangkok the
Floating University students were re­ceived
by King Rama in the Throne
Room. After the reception, the King
and his student guests attended a
performance at the Royal Siamese
Theatre. Later during their stay,
the students returned the King's cour­tesy
by presenting their musical come­dy
"Floating Around" for his pleas­ure.
The music and lyrics of this
show are entirely the work of the
men and women students. The King,
who speaks English, seemed much
pleased.
The students were allowed complete
freedom during their stay and visited
all points of interest in Bangkok and
the surrounding area. In parts of
Bangkok canals serve as streets and
the students made a complete tour of
these.
The Royal Palace is situated near
the Temple grounds wherein the fa­mous
Emerald Budha stands. It is
guarded by the sacred gates of Wat
Phra Keo, which are almost never
thrown open to foreigners.
A feature of the students' visit at
the Palace was the fact that the mid­year
examinations were held there.
The grandeur and strangeness of the
surroundings did not distract the stud­ents
in their efforts to make good
grades, according to Dr. Edward A.
Ross, Director of Education.
At the conclusion of their nine day
visit, King Rama again addressed the
students in the Throne Room. He
complimented them on their industry
and studious behavior and called them
splendid ambassadors in the cause of
international Good Will.
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A. P. 1. REPRESENTATIVES
CONFER WITH CHEMISTS
C.M.T.C. Show Young
Men How To S p e nd
T h e i r S p a r e Time
(Continued from page 1)
was announced several months ago,
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute has
entered into cooperative agreement
with the U. S. Bureau of Standards,
the Federal Phosphorus Company,
the State Industrial- Development
Board, and the University of Ala­bama
for an experiment in the devel­opment
of this new product.
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute
employs two men on the staff of chem­ists
working on the project. These are
M. A. Bradshaw, formerly assistant
and chemist of the U. S. Treasury
Bureau and the Bureau of Standards,
and Fred Acree, Jr., who came to An-niston
after serving as an assistant
industrial chemistry work with the
Bureau of Standards, at Washing­ton.
PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
1'iade with the advertisers.
MONDAY, APR. 1
Clara Bow in
"THE WILD PARTY"
with a party of wild young
people
Admission 15c & 35c
TUESDAY, APR. 2
"THE SUNSET DERBY"
with Mary Astor & William
Collier, Jr.
Admission 10c & 25c
WEDNESDAY, APR. 3
United Artists Pictures presents
Vilma Banky in
"THE AWAKENING"
with Louis Wolheim & Walter
Byron
Admission 15c & 35c
THURSDAY, APR. 4
Syd Chaplin in
"THE FORTUNE HUNTER"
with Helene Costello
Admission 10c & 25c
FRIDAY, APR. 5
"RESTLESS YOUTH"
with Marceline Day and Ralph
Forbes
Admission 10c & 25c
SATURDAY, APR. 6
William Boyd in
"THE COP"
Alan Hale, Robert Armstrong
& Jacqueline Logan
Admission 10c & 25c
An analysis of how the majority
of boys spend their time has been
made public by a committee of our
leading "Boyologists," This commit­tee
was composed of representatives
from national church and school
groups, Boy Scouts and Y. M. C. A.
ailso expert's from playground and
'other constructive boys' work and
play organizations.
Their survey was based on the daily
averages from the weekly totals for
one year, in order to arrive at a fair
basis of computation, and to give
credit to all of the influences present.
The greatest time is spent in sleep,
averaging nine hours per day.
Counting 365 days to the year, about
2-% hours, or one-ninth of a boy's
time is spent in school. The churches
claimed fifteen minutes, one-quarter
hour daily, and 4 hours were spent
indoors, in study, reading, eating,
games or work.
The second largest amount of time
is spent outdoors in play or work,
an average, the year round, of 8
hours daily or three thousand hours.
The entire analysis shows that five-ninth
of the average boy's time is
unorganized and undirected. It is a
part of this five-ninths of the average
boy's time that C. M. T. Camps reach.
C. M. T. C. programs are composed
of things boys like to do, tied together
with things they ought to do. The
students do things for themselves dur­ing
the thirty day periods, inspired
and led through wholesome influences
of good companionship by the expert
men of character who are their lead­ers
and instructors. They accept the
entire program as their own and are
good, not only because they have to
be, but because they want to be.
Their days being- organized and
systematized for them while in camp,
definite periods being allotted to work,
play, meals and sleep, crystallizing
the good habits already initiated in
home and school, lead them to use
organization and system of their own
volition after returning home.
The C. M. T. Camps, organized and
directed by experts in efficiency and
system thus assist in raising the stan­dards
of efficiency of thousands of
American Citizens, and are efficient
aids to their parents and- educators
in trying to gain that objective.
THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN
By GENE BYRNES
TOUR BE MADE
TO WEST INDIES
Curb Markets Have
Good Sales February
During the month of February,
sales on curb markets in Alabama
amounted to $16,565.62, according to
reports received by Miss Helen Johns­ton,
state chairman on home demon­stration
work, from the county home
demonstration agents.
Montgomery market was leader for
the month with sales amounting to
$4,650.00; Gadsden was second with
3,045.00; and Tuscaloosa third with
$2,090.00.
Prom the time the first curb mar­ket
was started in Alabama in 1923,
until the end of February curb mar­ket,
%ales in the state had totalled
$860,129.03.
Although recent heavy rains and
floods have interfered with March
sales, Miss Johnston anticiptes bigger
business on the curb markets during
the spring and summer months.
Newton, Mass.—Inauguration of the
First Carribean Institute, initial uni­versity
tour to the West Indies and
Central America, is announced by the
Bureau of University Travels of New­ton,
Mass. The party will sail July
6 on the United Fruit Line. It will
be under the personal direction of
Whiting Williams, well-known author
and journalist.
The Institute is being organized by
the Bureau of University Travel as
a direct result of the awakened in­terest
of the American people in the
countries south of the Rio Grande
brought about by the attendance of
former President Coolidge and Char­les
Evans Huges at the Pan-Ameri­can
conference in Havana last year
and President Hoover's recent good­will
tour. The Institute will enable
teachers and students of Latin Ameri­can
history, government, economics,
life and manners to learn the cus­toms
of the countries at first hand.
Mr. Williams is well versed in Pan
American affairs, having recently re­turned
from Columbia where he made
an intensive survey of business con­ditions.
He attended the Pan-Ameri­can
conference in Havana and has
traveled extensively in the countries
bordering on the Carribean.
University professors, specialists in
the Latin American field, will be as­sociated
with the director in the con­duct
of the tour. A regular schedule
of lectures will be maintained both
afloat and ashore and plans include
addresses by Jeading statesmen, ad­ministrators
and business men of the
various countries visited.
While arrangements have been made
for automobile and trips to various
points of interest, special luncheons,
dinners and other engagement's, ample
time will be allowed for individual
sight-seeing and research.
The Carribean Institute itinerary
includes stops at Havana and Santia­go,
Cuba; Cristobal, Panama City and
Colon, C. Z.; Cartakena, Santa Maria
and Puerto Castilla nad Tela, Hondu­ras;
Puerto Barrios, Guatemala City
and Antigna, Guatemala.
t EASTER SERVICES
11:00 o'clock A. M.
PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Special Easter dMusic and S^^on
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Rev. S. B. Hay, Pastor
Everyone Cordially Invited.