1927-12-09 The Plainsman

              ALL-COLLEGE
HIKE
SATURDAY THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
<i A" CLUB DANCE
SATURDAY
VOLUME LI AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927 NUMBER 13
'A' CLUB DANCE
HELD SATURDAY
IN ALUMNI GYM
Max Jones' Orchestra
To Play for Dance
SECOND "A" CLUB DANCE
Officers and Wives Are To
Chaperone Event Is Plan
The second "A" club dance of the
year will be given at the Gymnasium
Saturday evening from nine until
twelve. Music will be furnished by
Max Jone's Auburn Collegians," who
are very popular on the campus.
Coming at this time of the year, the
dance is expected to be the best yet
sponsored by the "A" club. The of­ficers
of the R. O. T. C. unit and their
wives have been asked to chaperone
the occasion.
CHAPTER OF BETA
KAPPA INSTALLED
Senior Engineers
Are Interviewed
Senior students in Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering courses at
Auburn were interviewed Friday by
F. G. Kottman of the educational de­partment
of the Westinghouse Elec
trie and Manfg. Co. of East Pitts­burgh,
Pa.,'Who is seeking to interest
these students in his company. Inter­views
with more than 100 students
taking these two courses required the
entire day.
According to Prof. A. S. Dunstan,
head professor of electrical engineer­ing,
all students in this department
who make a desirable record in their
studies receive at least four or five
offers of position with large electrical
manufacturing companies before they
receive their degrees in June. Each
year these companies have their rep­resentatives
interview members of the
graduating class with a view to mak­ing
.them offers of positions upon
graduation. Mr. Kottman is the first
of these representatives to visit Au­burn
campus this year.
Birmingham Southern Gets Chapter;
Auburn Men at Installation
First of installation ceremonies for
the induction of Kappa Alpha Chi,
local fraternity at Birmingham
Southern College, into Beta Kappa
fraternity were being held Monday
by a special installation team headed
by Dr. H. W. Church, of Allegheny
College, grand arkon, and Dr. Horace
Gunthorpe, grand scribe. The cere­monies
will be concluded Tuesday
with a social at Highland Park Coun­t
ry Club.
Andy Wissinger is president of
Kappa Alpha Chi, which ranks among
the most widely known locals on the
campus with 124 members and five
pledges. Other members of the in­stallation
team, which inducted chap­ters
at the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville and at Boston College
before coming to Birmingham South­ern
are Walter Paul, grand arkon,
Pi Chapter, Monmouth, Illinois;
Chancey Woodward, Moren Gra­ham,
scribe; Donald Winbigler,
chancellor; Robert McLosky, guard;
M. Hayes, grand treasurer, all of
Monmouth College. The team also
inspected a local fraternity at the
University of Pennsylvania en route
to Birmingham.
The Beta Kappa fraternity, with
the induction of Kappa Alpha Chi,
will have 23 chapters at colleges over
the country, including the University
of Washington, University of Illi-
•nois, University of Maine, University
of California, University of Cali­fornia,
Allegheny College and Au­burn.
Aubrey Allen, B. Wylie, R. A.
Sansing, S. L. Neville, James Brown
and E. H. Clements, are attending
the installation ceremonies at Bir­mingham
Southern.
Morphet Returns
From Montgomery
Has Been Studying School Building
Conditions
Dr. Edgar L. Morphet of the De­partment
of Education and Exten­sion
Teaching at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute has resumed his work on
the campus after spending the past
two months doing special research
work with the State Department of
Education in Montgomery.
Dr. Morphet in cooperation with
Dr. Napier . of Montevallo, Dr.
Young of the State Department of
Education and Dr. McCIure of the
University of Alabama, has been en­gaged
in making a detailed study of
school -building conditions and needs
of the city, of Montgomery. This is
the initial step in a proposed state
wide survey in light of the increased
appropriation for school buildings by
the state legislature.
Dr. George D. Strayer and Dr. N.
L. Englehardt of Columbia University
who are acting as advisers for the
survey, spent part of last week in
Montgomery aiding^the local group in
interpreting the data and preparing
recommendations concerning an ade­quate
school building for the city and
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POINTS IN FAVOR
BOND ISSUE GIVEN
Nappy Hodges Has
Autographed Leg
Quarterback Has Team-mates Signa­tures
On Cast
COLLEGE HIKE
HELD SATURDAY
IS CUSTOM HERE
Bergthold Planned First Hike
In 1920 to Encourage
Sport
OTHER EVENTS HIS WORK
Fall in for the All-College Hike!
This is a cry-that arose from the Vil­lage
of the Plains for the first time
in the fall of 1920. To create a spirit
of play and sport, and to relieve the
students from the monotony of col­lege
activities, Mr. J. W. Bergthold,
Y. M. C. A. secretary at that time,
devised plans for, and secured the
consent of college authorities, to lead
the student body on a grand retreat
to a secluded nook in a valley about
one and a half miles north of the col­lege.
The student body must have made
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COLLEGE ASS'N
MEETS NOV. 29 IN
JACKSONVILLE
Dr. Dowell, Dr. Scott and Mr.
Shi Represent Auburn
A T H L E T I C S DISCUSSED
Kiwanians of Leeds Hear Arguments
In Favor of Expenditure
Arguments in favor of the proposed
$20,000,000 bond issue for schools
were presented to the Kiwanis Club
of Leeds Wednesday by Sydney J.
Bowie. Announcement that the other
side of the question would be pre­sented
to the club next week was made
by President C. R. Rew.
No increase in taxes would follow
the passage of the amendment pro­viding
for the bond issue, and no de­crease
in taxes would come as a re­sult
of the defeat of the amendment,
declared Mr. Bowie. The speaker
contended that to meet the building
and maintenance expenses of schools
with ready money" derived from taxes
would defeat any possibility of reduc­ing
taxes.
Mr. Bowie spoke at length of the
need of more and better schools. He
stated that approximately 401,000
children of school age in Alabama
are not provided with school build­ings
fit for occupancy, as compared
to approximately 400,000 children
being cared for in this respect.
The speaker was introduced by
Principal W. L. Davis, of the Leeds
High School.
Nappy Hodges, Auburn first string
quarter-back who broke his leg in
the Miss. A. and M. game allowed
members of the football team and
others to write their names on his leg.
While Nappy was in Atlanta seeing
the Auburn-Tech game he attracted
the photographer who snapped the
unique decoration on his leg. This
picture showing the cast on his leg
and the names which are hoped to in­sure
a speedy cure, appeared in the
gravure section of the Atlanta Jour­nal
of last week.
The Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools of the Southern
States met at Jacksonville, Florida,
from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 inclusive. Au­burn
was represented by President
Spright Dowell, Dean J. N. Scott and
Registrar B. L. Shi.
The emphasis placed on athletics
by a number of Southern colleges and
universities was classed "as an un­desirable
feature" and the associa­tion
voted that Association repres­entatives
in the Southern conference
and the Southern Inter-collegiate Ath­letic
association "should do their best
to limit the athletic rampage." The
following is an extract from a report
submitted by Prof. W. D. Hooper of
the University of Georgia. In some
institutions the situation has become
acute as to whether academic influ­ences
or athletics will rule the situa­tion,
and in the case of one of our
members, conditions were so aggra­vated
that the president resigned
rather than prolong a bitter contest."
Fort Worth was chosen as the meet­ing
place of 1928 convention when it
was pointed out that at no time in
the 32 years of the existance of the
association has it met west of the
Mississippi.
Council Meets to
Select New Coach
The Atheltic Council met Friday
considering the field of prospective
athletic directors.
J3ome 50 or 60 possible head-coaches
were discussed and the coaches were
discussed and the field was eliminated
to six or seven who will be further
investigated.
The anouncement of the athletic
head, who succeeds David Morey, who
resigne dearly in the season will be
made following another meeting.
Morey resigned, claiming lack of
co-operation, after Auburn had lost
two games.
NEW EQUIPMENT IS
GIVEN TO AUBURN
Automatic Telephone and Auto-
Generator Added
One of the large manufacturers of
automatic telephone equipment has
placed with the Electrical Engineering
Department of the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute a laboratory set for
showing the principles and the con­struction
of automatic telephone
systems. The set consists of line
switches, selectors, and connection
switches with all auxiliary equipment
for use with it. It has been placed in
the telephone laboratory and students
taking the telephone course have
ample opportunity to become fami­liar
with the principles of operation
and the details of construction of this
apparatus. It has proved to be of
great use and of great interest to
those students taking the telephone
laboratory work.
There has also been placed in the
Electrical Laboratories of the Elec­trical
Engineering Department here
an auto generator together with aux­iliary
apparatus. _ This equipment
was donated by two former students
•Of Auburn who have formed a part­nership
under the name of Alphonzo-
Wright and conduct an auto business
at Tampa, Florida.
This equipment is now being in­stalled
and will soon be available for
student work.
BANQUET ENDS
Y.M.C.A. WORK
FOR SEMESTER
Friendship Council to Hold
Banquet on December 16
NO EXPENSE IS SPARED
The work of the Friendship Coun­cil
discussion groups for this semes­ter
is to culminate in a Y. M. C. A.
banquet on December 16 at 7 o'clock.
Mr. C. R. Maghill, regional Y. M. C.
A. secretary for the South; has defi­nitely
agreed to be present then, and
no expense is being spared to make
this banquet the best yet.
That discussion group having the
highest percentage in the contest; will
be given complimentary tickets to the
banquet. Splendid work has been
done in the contest, and the Y. M. C.
A. is proud of the group enthusiasm
that has existed.
GORMAN BRINGS
AN ORCHESTRA
OF MUCH MERIT
America's Most Versatile Musi­cian
Has Outstanding Men
DANCES BEGIN JAN. 26TH
Pi Kappa Phi Have
Convention B'ham.
Miss Martha Power To Sponsor
Auburn Chapter
Alabama Members
At 4-H Convention
Congress of 4-H Clubs Held
Chicago
Alabama was represented at the
sixth national boys and girls 4-H club
congress in Chicago by five boys and
one girl. They were: Clois Barrett
of Elmore, William Lester of Perry,
Gaston Cook of St. Clair, Floyd Gibbs
of Etowah, Denver Ozbirn of Frank-
' (Continued on page 6)
& Qhroniques Scanduleuse^ &
QUESTIONS AS GIVEN IN CONVOCATION
If you can count up to ten without using your fingers, name the
fifteen principal bones in a Clam, but if this is too much for you,
forget the Clam and give the correct answer to "How strong is a
Mussel?"
If you had rather write than study, write the words to "Ja-Da"
five thousand times on the back of a postage stamp, but if you had
rather study, then guess the answer to this and mail to DeanPetrie.
If ice cream is strawberry, prove what color ink is if sand adds
to a sandwich, but if you think corn liquor is whisky, page Bull Rut­land.
If necking is restricted at Auburn, why has a toadstool more legs
than a centipede, but if you think that the writer is "lacking" pro­nounce
the Greek alphabet like Q in candy, if this doesn't solve your
problem get another ticket.
If Cleopatra discovered Alabama when Nero burned Salome, what
year did Columbus cross the Mississippi with a baby in his arms? If
this stumps you see Stumpy Granger.
If Auburn is a school for the intelligent show whether a piece of
string is longer than a piece of ice is cold. Ji(you don't believe this
tell whether an island is a body surrounded by water or arms.
If cigarettes dropped ten cents on 'a package explain briefly why
is a comb if the bristles are rounded so that they form a point.
If you don't believe such stuff as this is pulled in convocation then
keep your head up and your eyes open, otherwise remain in your
seat until the next episode—to be shown here next week.
The Pi Kappa Phi National Fra­ternity
holds its biennial national
convention in Birmingham, Dec. 28,
29, and 30. This Fraternity has seen
a remarkable growth and develop­ment
in the past few years. The Fra­ternity
now has fourteen chapters.
The convention is to be accompanied
by many social events. The Howard,
B'ham-Southern and Auburn chap­ters
to be the hostesses to the events.
Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 28, there
is to be a tea dance at the Club Flor­entine.
The Grand Convention Ball
to be given at the Highland Park
Club, Thursday evening, Dec. 29.
The Social Committee consists of
Clyde Pearson, Audrey Miree, Festus
Bridges, Allison Ament, Rudy Hen-son,
Bob Bradford, F r e d Streit, Mach
Hardy, and Hoyt Prater.
Each chapter is to have its own
sponser. The Sponsers are mostly
Birmingham girls. They are Misses:
Clara Donald, Dorothy Kettig, Retie
Perry, Isabel Heflin, Peggy O'Neal,
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HILLTOPS PROPOSE
A SWIMMING TEAM
Birmingham Southern College co­eds
will turn mermaids with organiza­tion
soon of the girls' intercollegiate
swimming team, under direction of
Miss Barbara Ransome, director of
physical education for women.
Miss Ransome, a former . student
of the Sargent School in Boston, is
said to be in conference with girls'
physicals directors of other colleges
in the state with the purpose of train-ing
swimming teams and having con­tests.
Future aviators of Birmingham
Southern are called to meet Wednes­day
for organization of the college
aero club,.which will be the first such
group in the So'uth, it is announced.
Ross Gorman, America's most ver­satile
instrumentalist, has in. his or­chestra
a combination of the best
musicians in the country. The or­chestra
consists of ten men all of
whom are members of the American
Federation of Musicians.
Mr. Gorman started his career at
an early age, playing vaudeville for
fourteen years. Later he started with
Paul Whitemans Orchestra in which
he participated for five years, and
then he formed his own orchestra,
"The Virginians," so famous on the
Victor, Columia and other records,
His orchestra was one of the main­stays
of the Earl Carroll Vanities, at
present he makes his headquarters
in New York City.
This orchestra carries with them
41 instruments including tympanis.
Mr. Gorman personally carries and
plays eighteen different instruments
himself. His versatility, plus the
artistry of his men, makes his or­chestra
an outstanding attraction.
From all indications the Mid-Term
Dances will be the best that have oc-'
curred at Auburn in many moons. The
dances will begin on Thursday Night
Jan. 26th following the examinations'
which will enable everyone to enjoy
the entertainment.
NOTICE
STUDENTS! Let's not let
the fact that the All-College Hike
was postponed a week interfere
with the spirit put into this big
annual event next Saturday, Dec­ember
the 10th.
One-hundred per cent of the
student body is expected in front
of Langdon Hall to start at 2
o'clock. "BIGGER and BET­TER"!—
that's the motto.
Prohibition Leader
Is Visitor To City
"Laws are indispensable to present-day
living, but in the solution of so­cial
problem laws are but an aid to
education." This is the conviction of
Mr. P. N. Guthrie, a field secretary
of the Intercollegiate Prohibition As­sociation.
Mr. Guthrie spent the day
of December 4 in Auburn, and from
here he went to the University of
Georgia. Since September he has
visited seventy-two colleges, and,
through the medium of four other
field secretaries besides Mr. Guthrie,
the Intercollegiate Prohibition Asso­ciation
will have come in contact with
over five hundred colleges before the
present session closes.
Mr. Guthrie stated that his organ­ization
is not of the nature of an
anti-saloon league. Rather, its pur­pose
is to familiarize college students
with the good points of prohibition;
to cause them to reason the question
out in their own minds. Its purpose
is not to prevent drinking, but to
cause students to realize that drink­ing
is not right, and, hence, to stop
drinking of their own accord. Mr.
Guthrie approaches the prohibition
question, not from the moral or sta­tistical
point of view, but from the
educational standpoint. It is his idea
that only by making the students see
and acknowledge the evil effects of
the use of alcoholic liquors can drink­ing
on college campuses be entirely
stopped.
"But", he said, "the organization
does not wish to confine its influence
merely to the college campus. It is
a recognized fact that the most in­fluential
and important citizens are
usually college graduates. Through
these men, with whom it comes in con­tact
on the campus while they are in
college, the organization influences
the country as a whole. By causing
the younger generation to abhor
drinking, the Intercollegiate Prohibi­tion
Association is helping to pave
the way for a really dry country of
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'LET'S GO' BEST
SHOW EVER SEEN
HERE, ISHEARD
Number Organizations
Have Part in Show
BAYNE & NUCKOLLS STAR
Miss Gist and Mr. Pruitt Give
Dance Numbers
GRAND ARCHON OF
FRATERNITY HERE
Is Making Southern Inspection
His Fraternity
of
Lost Thursday and Friday the
Grand Archon of Theta Kappa Nu
Winslow S. Anderson, visited the
local chapter. This was Archon An­dersons
first visit since the chapter's
installation.
Grand Archon Anderson although
living in Cleveland, Ohio is a south­erner
in spirit, having graduated from
Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.
He came to Auburn from a Province
meeting in Birmingham the preceding
week end. This province convention
was held at Birmingham Southern
college. Delegates were present from
Birmingham Southern, Howard, Miss­issippi
A. & M., Lousiana State Uni­versity,
Centenary College, Louisiana
Polytechnic Institute, Birmingham
Alumni Club, Shreveport Alumni
Club, and Auburn. After leaving
Auburn Grand Archon Anderson con­tinued
his Southern Inspection trip,
going to New Orleans from here.
Auburn Students Cause Near Riot
When some Auburn boys recently pushed their "car" through
Calera it was a "big time in ole town," in fact it caused so much com­ment
that the Montgomery Advertiser ran a two column box story of
the affair. It was published as follows:
"Calera's reputation as the "speed-trap center" of Alabama was
graphically and laughably interpreted a few days ago by the manner
in which a group of college students negotiated that portion of the
state highway traversing the town which has beepme known as the
"motorist's nightmare." _ •:-. •
According to a prominent state officer who happened to witness the
way in which the students managed the perilous journey through
Calera, so as to steer clear of speed and traffic cops whose attitude
towards^ automobiles from other sections is so well known—was some­thing
like this. ,
"Arriving at the corporate limits, the six or eighth students who
rode in and on a spindling, decrepit "flivver", brought the machine to
an abrupt stop, and all stepped to the ground, except one boy who re­mained
at the steering wheel. Another stepped out ahead. The
others proceeded to push the ramshackle car along.
"They proceeded in this manner and at a snail's pace through the
town, the man in front treading softly and making a beckoning motion
behind him with one hand, much in the manner of railroad brake-men's
signal to the engineer when a delicate bit of car-coupling is
in prospect.
"As the strange procession passed, people on the sidewalks paused
to look, noted the apprehensixe expressioi on the faces of the young
men, and that the motor in the car had (Continued on page six)
Last Monday night, Dec. 5th, the
Band Show "Lets Go" opened with a
bang, and acording to everyone who
saw it, the show was the best that has
ever been given. Those who missed it
will certainly have good cause for re­gret,
because there will not be any­thing
else this year half as good.
The program Monday night was
necessarily a little different from
that on Tuesday night, but both were
essentially the same, and equally as
good. Nearly every organization on
the campus had a part, and put on
entertainments that would rival the
best vaudeville headliners. Emmet
Knuckols and Louie Bayne, as black
face comedians started things off,
and anyone who thinks that those
boys don't "know their stuff" should
be sent back to the country. This
pair made several appearances, keep­ing
the audience in an uproar the
whole time; especially with their act
in which "Shorty" Culpepper was
blacked up to represent a high brown
flapper. This act was a "wow" and
certainly deserved every bit of the ap­plause
they received. "Slick" Moulton
with his banjo sang, "Sugar Babe I'm
Leaving", "Blue Heaven", and other
songs. He also gave his interpreta­tion
of several blackface comedians,
ft is hard to say which was the best,
his singing or his playing, but the
combination would be mighty hard to
beato.
The band came next. Under the
direction of P. R. Bidez, they played
two selections which were a big suc­cess.
With the new uniforms, and
music like that, Auburn will have the
best band in the country.
Max Jones and his orchestra are
not trying to put Paul Whiteman out
of business, but if they continue to
put out music like they did in the
show, Whiteman will have to watch
his step. "Snake" Vaughan also ap­peared
with the orchestra and gave
some mighty good dances.
The Mandolin Club followed the or­chestra
and put on a particular good
program of music and singing.
Lillian Gist gave several interpre­tative
dances that would do credit to
any vaudeville show in the country.
She was joined by her partner, "Diz"
Pruitt, in two of these dances,
and he proved himself to be a very
good dancer. The two received their
share of the applause.
Altogether it was a show which will
be long remembered in Auburn.
Order Billy-Goats
Established Here
During the past week Auburn be­came
the toi>ic of the critical press­men
in the country by her untiring
work in building up one of the most
efficient and active chapters of the
Royal Order of Billy Goats that has
been formed so far. The Grand
Ruler of the National headquarters
is none other than Barney Google of
race horse fame. But due to the
prominence of the local chapter, it
is rumored that Milligan Earnest may
obtain the leadership.
The leaders and rulers of the local
chapter are prominent seniors and
professors of the engineering course
in Lightning and Thunder. The of­ficers
are listed as follows:
Exalted Ram, Doc Heinz; Sister
Angora, John Condon; Royal Nanny,
Tubby Hill; Brother Billy, Sally
Snuggs; Daddy Longhorn, Max Kahn;
Billy Whiskers, "Gun Boat" Smith.
During the election, Exalter Ram
Heinz boosted his prominence con­siderably
by making the Illiterate
members of the society think he
knows the Four Horsemen and an­nouncing
his platform as "57 ways
to baa." Snuggs and Kahn were
great favorites due to their high
positions held in the Secret Order
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-Some football yells sound like shouting
in an unknown tongue.
#
Ownership of cars is prohibited in many
colleges. To most of us this privilege of
having a car has never come.
The Auburn Players seem to. be exceed­ingly
quiet, this year but silence often means
work you know.
The most impractical thing about our
American colleges is the large number of
practical courses now on the curriculum.
The roots of trees exert a pressure of
from two hundred to over three hundred
pounds per square inch.
We cannot help but wonder whether the
seniors have any privileges left since the
student body was relieved of the respon­sibility
of self-government.
A large number have recently been
tapped by the campus honor societies. Some
have had their purses tapped a little hard
and some will be tapped when initiation
time rolls around.
The Nashville Banner says, "In some
colleges this fall there is general dissatis­faction
with the presiding officers and in
others the football teams haven't been
winning.
It is a poor individual who cannot profit
by the improved methods of others and
likewise a poor college administration or
student body who cannot heed its own er­rors.
We see that Uncle Billy has an aggrivat-ing
popper. He says that he is now pre­pared
to improve the outside appearance,
decorate the inside and save our soles. All
we need is a grind organ, we have every­thing
that goes with it.
We wonder what Mayor Thompson will
do about the English language. The Chi­cago
Tribune says that he is reaching for
the presidential nomination on the grounds
that he is for America first, farm relief,
waterways and flood control. Nobody can
beat that unless he adds the tne command­ments
and the multiplication table.
OUR GREAT NEED
We need not mention the various and
sundry things which an institution of this
type needs for our readers are all too fa­miliar
with the financial situation as it
exists here. It is with no little degree of
satisfaction that we feel that we are on the
road to recovery. It is only to be expected
that Auburn will launch an extended build­ing
program next year which will be in
keeping with her scholastic standing. Aside
from all these things, important as they
may be, we wish to point out yet another
needs of equal consequence.
The student body is without a real leader,
a man who knows the way and teaches
' others to follow. We do not condemn any
action by the student body but the fact is
only too evident that this has been our
main stumbling block. *
The crisis which we have just faced has
been pushed into oblivion yet the demand
for a leader is still a problem. Just now
Auburn is emerging from a storm. The
future demands something better than the
past. If we are to continue this endless
overcoming we cannot misdirect our ener­gies.
The situation here is one that deserves
more than a passing thought. It does not
call for the expression of an educated man
to disclose that fact. The question may be
propounded pro and con; editors may beat
the entrails out of typewriters and sling
phrases in ever growing numbers to an
enthusiastic and loyal student body but a
deaf ear hears not the call. We do not
want a Phaeton, a sensationalist but a
man who knows the reins and who will
drive toward a greater Auburn.
LITERARY SOCIETIES
What is the true value of literary society
work to the individual? Does the literary
society fill the niche which was intended
for it?
The real rating of literary society work
as manifested by the accomplishments of
the past several months would at its best
be given a grade below the passing mark.
The situation as it is at present is not a
condition to be considered lightly. The in-sufficience
of the literary work has pre­sented
one of the most perplexing problems
to the English faculty. We do not believe
that literary endeavor is on the decline
but we are aware of the fact that it is
decidedly lagging.
It seems that in spite of the concerted
efforts of forensic leader, faculty members
and the honor societies the maximum of
efficiency has never been reached by res­pective
organizations. In only rare in­stances
have individuals come into the lime­light
in forensics. We feel that this field
of college activity is of major importance
to each student. It is true that the liter­ary
societies are congested but many of
those who are in them are there for other
purposes than the benefits that they might
derive from them.
We are not trying to have the emphasis
placed on literary societies which they en­joyed
in past years but we do feel that some
phase of the work should be stressed.
There are too many activities that dis­tract
the attention of students now. We
lose ourselves by our failure to concen­trate
on a few activities in which we are
especially interested and which will prove
most beneficial to us in our professional
careers.
Students join literary societies either be­cause
they want to be in line for election
to the literary honor fraternities. It is
the attitude of this group who have lower­ed
the standards of efficiency • of our lit­erary
organizations.
It is deemed imperative to encourage a
renaissance in literary and forensic activi­ties
on our campus. One of the fields of
letters that have been overlooked is that of
original writing. There are a number of
students who possess unusual ability in
writing who have never affiliated them­selves
with any of the publications or
forensic organizations. It is with the hope
of awakening this potential talent that we
set forth our views at this time.
CARELESS DRESS
Not long ago our attention was called to
the fact that Auburn students were never
neatly dressed. This remark was made by
an outsider who has made a number of
visits to the village and thus deserves more
than a passing thought.
Everyone knows that Auburn is not a
college full of jelly beans, harem keepers
nor chronic cads although some chaff is
to be found among the student body. This
business of wearing ones clothes neatly and
being well groomed does not mean that
one need be classed with the social elect or
with any high-brow group. It means thai
that person is careful although not neces­sarily
in the heighth of style.
The average Auburn man wears a fairly
dull suit of clothes of rather a cheap grade.
Very seldom does one see a pair of well
shifted shoes or a neatly tied, unsoiled
cravat. This may be termed conservatism
but it is not keeping in pace with style.
Many have the mistaken idea that to be
collegiate in dress is to be extreme and
radical. One need not be overly prominent
or outstanding in mode and tailoring to
have a good appearance. The type of stu­dent
who smears enough grease on his
coiffure to run a garage for a week is not
to be considered. Well kept hair, an occa­sional
shave, a shine and above all clean
clothes are the marks of the well bred man
who cares.
The type of dress which most students
resort to is to be .discouraged. One d cs
not attend church dressed for a cockfight
nor should one go about looking like a des­perado.
Too often the man who wears a
coat to be comfortable in cool weather is
asked if he is going to the city. We feel
that there are no bigger returns to the
young man than from investments in good
appearance.
Blind Tiger
Did you get to see the baron?
No dearie, and was he from Birmingham?
Making love to a clod woman is like
trying to play a ukelele with an axe.
Lost: A fountain pen by a boy half full
of ink.
Wanted: A piano by a girl with mahog­any
legs. »
She: "Why didn't you answer me?"
He: "I did shake my head."
She: "Well, I couldn't hear it rattle over
here."
"The devil finds work for the idle. . . .
those wishing employment please see the
dean."
A new inscription on a collegiate Ford:
"Bored of Education."
"Let's sleep in the gutter."
"How come?"
"Lots of room, and running water."
First Roommate: "Hey, turn off that
light."
Second Ditto: "What for?"
First Ditto: "I want to write a night
letter."
There was an old maid from Verona,
Who bought her a thin silk kimona;
One time in a fright
She ran out in the night!
And now she has a man of her own—ah!
Sign in an Oklahoma cemetery: "Per­sons
are prohibited from picking flowers
from any but their own graves."
Sap: "Why didn't you help that girl
when she fell down?"
Head: "My father told me not to pick
up women."
Host (appearing on darkened veranda):
"Are you young folks all enjoying your­selves?"
(Absolute silence).
Host (returning indoors): "That's fine!"
Some small boys were swimming in the
lake, attired only in their birthday suits.
An elderly lady chanced to pass, and was
shocked beyond reason at the unusual
spectacle.
"Boys, boys," she remonstrated, "isn't
it against the law to bathe without suits?"
"Yes, lady," chirped one of the lads, "but
come on in. We won't tell on you."
An arm protruding from the side of the
car ahead apparently can signify any one
of the following things: The motorist is (1)
knocking ashes off his cigarette, (2) going
to turn to the left, (3) warning a small
boy to shut up, (4) going to turn to the
right, (5) going to back up, (6) pointing
to the scenery, (7) feeling for rain, "(8)
telling the wife he is sure the front door
is locked, (9) hailing a friend in a passing
car, (10) going to stop.
Auburn Footprints
We have been wondering who Miss Glom-erata's
friend was, and have just found
that Sunshine is the unsung hero. Bir­mingham
and the Miss. A. & M. game were
the scene of action.
Karl- Nickerson has located Paradise. Ac­cording
to the lovesick Nick, it is the town
of Slocum. As Slocum is so far away and
Nick can't very well leave Auburn, he in­tends
to buy Slocum and move it to Au­burn.
Of course, it's a girl. Women seem
to be at the bottom of. everything. We
would advise Nick to see the Auburn City
Council and see whether or not they would
care to add Slocum to the present metro­polis.
Jazz Baby has instantaneous appeal. Pos­sibly,
that is the 'secret of his success. His
successor and Ludlow Hallman have that
instantaneous personal magnetism sewed
up in a bag.
Paul Sandlin has written a new song.
It appears that he tried it out ovef the tele­phone
the other night. We haven't heard
with what success it was received.
Rudder, erstwhile leader of the Fresh­man
Chem Lab class, was one of the mem­bers
of an expedition who invaded Ten­nessee
a few days ago on a so-called hunt­ing
trip. We hardly care to say what he
was hunting for, although the result wasn't
quite as disastrous as the hunting trip of
a New Yorker, who went to Canada to
hunt game and died of heart failure when
he saw a moose.
It seems that Powell and Miami are
getting to be fast friends. Unless appear­ances
are terriby deceiving, another ex­ample
of sincere friendship is shown.
Miami drifted to Atlanta to spend the week­end,
and we know that Mr. Powell was in
the big city presumably to see the football
game, but it happens that when he return­ed,
he didn't know much about the game. .
With Other Colleges
Tradition was broken down at Brown
University when William Cashman, non-fraternity
man, was elected president of
the Senior class".
* * * * *
The psychology department of the Uni­versity
of Indiana, shows by recent re­search
that student's attitude toward
examinations favor the true and false, com­pletion
and best answers type.
* * * * *
Oxford and Cambridge universities are
said to be planning a new form of inter­collegiate
competition. The two universi­ties
are making plans to have annual fly­ing
contests take place between them. Both
schools have their own air squadrons.
* * * * *
Amherst College is to receive a portrait
of her most distinguished alumnus, Calvin
Coolidge. The President has consented to
sit for a new portrait which is to take the
place of an old and faded one which now
hangs in the hall at Amherst.
* * * * *
Almost ten percent of the student body
of the Massachusetts Institute of Techno­logy
come from foreign countries. Of the
234 foreign students registered at the In­stitute
this term, representing 51 nation­alities,
42 are of Chinese extraction, and
28 come from Canada. Eighteen students
live in Russia, while there are 14 from
Mexico and 10 from England.
* * * * *
Recently the University of Wisconsin
was the scene of unusual activities due to
the arrival of two hundred Chinese stu­dent
delegates to the eighteenth annual
conference of the Chinese Student Associa­tion.
The students meet to discuss problems of
importance to their home country. They
came from universities as far east as the
Ohio Valley, and as far west as Colorado.
* * * * *
Foreign languages have been dropped
from the curriculum of the Case School of
Applied Science, of Cleveland Ohio, and in
their places have been instituted courses
in Economics, History, and related sub­jects.
.
The action was taken, according to Presi­dent
C. S. Howe, after several years of con­sideration
as to the value of language
courses in a scientific institution.
* * * * *
Professor Sydney Dalton and Joseph E.
McCury together with President Turck
will direct a "Centre College in Europe"
tour during the summer of 1928. Courses
taught on the tour will be fully accredited.
The nations visited will probably be those
whose languages are taught in Centre.
Classes in language and history will be
held on the boat going and coming.
France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Ger­many,
Belgium, and Holland and the Bri­tish
Isles are the countries that will prob­ably
be visited.
* * * * *
Crooked work and the selection of a cow
for the beauty queen of the campus will
not take place this year at Ohio State Uni­versity,
if authorities can help it.
Each year for the home-coming celebra­tion,
the campus has selected a co-ed as
beauty queen'. Last year election returns
were thrown out because of crooked politics,
and a cow, Maudin Ormsby, of the College
of Agriculture, accorded the honor and
crowned in the stadium. This year a com­mittee
of judges instead of the entire cam­pus
wil select the beauty queen, and she
wil be a human, co-ed student they say.
* * * * *
Notre Dame's football coach, Knute
Rockne, requires all men on varsity foot­ball
squads to take dancing lessons. He
believes that dancing will teach co-ordina­tion
of mind and body. One who has mas­tered
the art of the ballroom should in­crease
in speed and accuracy on the foot­ball
field.
Dancing is becoming recognized as an
aid to various forms of athletics, and espe­cially
to the backfielders on the football
team.
Rockne says that as team-work is har­mony,"
or rhythmic control of the body, a
good dancer should furnish good teamwork.
Therefore, he says, dancing is of especial
value to football, where speed, accuracy,
coordination, and teamwork are essential.
* * * * *
Co-eds place love before careers, accord­ing
to Dean Louise Hardin of the Univer­sity
of Wisconsin. They do not allow their
dreams of fame to interfere with marri­age.
Mrs. E. G. R7 Taylor, lecturer at the
University College, London, says that edu­cated
women do not marry, because they
are too good for the average man. An
educated woman expects more of life than
marriage, home and children. It seems also
that men are afraid of women with univer­sity
training.
Dean Hardin, however, thinks that Eng­lish
women are very different from the
Wisconsin co-ed. Women at Oxford are
there for a definite purpose; women stu­dents
at Wisconsin do not commit them­selves
to professional careers.
ROBINSON'S TRISTRAM
MASEFIELD'S TRISTRAM AND ISOLT
(Both published by The Macmillan Co.)
J. R. Rutland
The story of Tristram is one of the most
popular Medievel stories associated with
the Arthurian legends. Robinson's inter­est
in this material has already been shown
in two stories, Merlin and Lancelot. Tris­tram
is the story of a man torn between
two loves, the love of the gray-eyed Isolt
(of Brittany) of the while hands and the
dark Isolt of Ireland, the queen of Mark
of Cornwall. The text seems to be,
"Love is the only thing that in its being
Is what it seems to be".
Robinson gives us a picture of a love that
is so far beyond comprehension that mere
intelligence balks before the mystery, a
love that like a storming sea overwhelms
all obstacles. The immortal lovers find in
their love the only living worth while, a
sort of eternity where time ceases to be.
Tristram says:
"Time is not life. For many, and many
more,
Living is mostly for the time not dying—
But not for me. For me, a .few more
years
Of shows and slaughters, or tinsel seat
Of a small throne, would not be life.
Whatever It is that fills life high and
full, till fate
Itself may not do more, it is not time.
Robinson greatly simplifies the old
story. Tristram visits Brittany and is
loved by the fair Isolt with the white hands,
before he goes to Ireland to bring the dark
Isolt to be King Mark's queen. The fair
Isolt treasures an agate, a gift of Tris­tram
when she was a mere child. As she
turns toward Cornwall longing for the re­turn
of her beloved, Tristram is pacing the
battlements of Tintagel, beneath which
Isolt of Ireland is being married to Mark.
. During an interlude of despair, he falls
into the hands of Morgan le Fay, but he
escapes to Brittany where he marries the
fair Isolt. Thinking that he has lost for­ever
his Irish Isolt, he busies himself build­ing
docks, in fighting, and in other occupa­tions
and pleasures. After two years, he
is sent for and goes to Joyous Gard, the
castle of Lancelot, where he finds the Irish
Isolt waiting for him. A summer of
ecstacy, of happiness that shuts the world
out, banishes time, follows. Then Isolt is
kidnapped by Mark's men and carried to
Tintagel, Mark's castle. There she ran-giiishes,
realizing that she has used up all
that makes life worth while. Life has
already been lived. Before she dies, Tris­tram,
though formerly banished from Corn­wall,
comes with Mark's permission. As the
lovers linger in a fond embrace, Andred
sneaks into the room and stabs Tristram to
death. Both-lovers die. When this is told,
the poet turns to the fair Isolt in Brittany,
the wife, whose compassion and understand­ing
are almost perfect. She savs,
I would have been the world
And heaven to Tristram, and was nothing
to him;
And that was why the night came down
so dark
On me when Tristram died. But there
was always
Attending him an almost visible doom,
That I see now; and while he moved and
looked
As one too mighty and too secure to die,
He was not mingled and equipped to live
Very long. It was not earth in him that
burned
Itself to death; and she that dies for him
Must have been more than earth. If he
had lived
He would have pitied me and smiled at
me,
And he would always have been kind to
me—
If he had lived; and I would not have
known,
Not even when in his arms, how far away
He was from me. Now when I cannot
sleep, ,_
Thinking of him, I shall know where
he is.
Not only does Robinson simplify Mal-lory's
tale; he ennobles it. Bringing over
from chivalry the idealization of live, he
purifies the atmosphere. The old Tristram
cheated, lied and lived unchastely, was true
to neither of the Isolts. In Robinson's
story, he is true to both and is remarkably
upright. Likewise, the Isolts have been
transfigured, being no longer treacherous,
jealous, deceitful women. Similarly, the
poet has scorned to use love portions, witch­craft,
sorcery and other medieval triumph-ery.
We might say that he has modern­ized
the story and the people. In a mea­sure,
this is true, but of course Robinson's
Tristram, Mark and Isolts are also too good
for modern times, elevated just as their
counterparts were, above the real. They
are not like the men and women we see
about us, but are presentations of excep­tional
men and women of a humanity we
should like to be proud of. Unlike the
medieval characters, Robinson's invoke our
faith, clutch at the hearts of modern read­ers.
Yet critics have said that Robinson is
deficient in emotion, that he is a cerebral
poet. Most certainly he is a thinker, but
no one can read this poem of love, of a
love that in white heat blots out all else,
even life itself, and say again that he is
the poet of the head and not the heart.
Along with his acute thinking, his pene­trating
insight, and his philosophical
poise, here is the anguish of suffering,
despair, and the passionate love that burns
life up in a brief summer and the poignant
pathos of the void whence the flame has
fled.
He does not, however, indulge in per­sonal
emotion which mars much recent
poetry, nor thrill or scorn at the expense
of truth. In fact, our best faculties are
kept alert, never rapt or disabled by pas­sion.
The world of nature with its cold
starlight, its icy waves dashing on the rock
of Mark's castle, its mistly gray union of
sky and sea across which Isolt yearned
for Tristram are pictured, without hyper-nole,
as a warm, self-possessed soul records
them. The passion, all absorbing and
almost excluding his characteristi humor,
does not dim the philosophic eye or cloud
the clear perception of truth. The poet
sees universal truth. So do Tristram and
the Isolts when the crest of passion has
passed.
It is interesting that - Masefield should
have been attracted at the same time by
the same story. His Tristram and Isolt is
a poetic play.
Great stories, like the lives of great men,
have to be retold from time to time. Great
stories, which when well told make great
art, will forever and ever find great tellers,
great voices in all generations. The vitality
of the Tristram story is shown by the
fact that Masefield was drawn from vital,
realistic modern material of sea life, fox­hunting,
racing, the life of the desires and
the senses in contemporary environment to
retell the old story of a great love.
Unlike Robinson, he points a moral.
Destiny, one of the characters, concludes as
follows:
"Not as men plan, nor as women
pray, do things happen. Unthought
of, unseen, from the past, comes the ill
without cure. By the spirit of man
and the judgment of God it is shapen:
And its end is our pride in the dust: it
is just: it is sure."
Unlike Robinson's Isolt, Masefield's re­pents
:
"This love, that I thought was great, is
blindness and greed
And I am unclean, unclean, till I drive
some nail
Right through this passionate heart.
If he mark scourge me, well.
If he kill me, well; he shall have his
chance and choice."
Now, as a matter of fact, if we did not
know our two men well, we should expect
this point of view to come from Robinson,
the bachelor son of puritan ancestry. But
it does not.
Masefield carries over more medievalism
also. There is the love portion ,the ordeal
of poison, and spae-wives. But Masefield's
. more rugged realism shows itself in the
more passionate animalism of the lovers,
the painful insanity of Tristram, the sui­cide
of Isolt, a scene in the pig-sty, etc.
Likewise, he is more conscious of the out­side
world, beyond the lives of Tristram
and his love. There is Arthur, not far
away the fight with the heathen in which
Mark finally loses his lifer an exhibition of
Isolt's ability as a wise ruler, and demon­stration
of Tristram's matching of wits
with his enemies. One could wish that
Masefield had put the story into straight-forward
narative verse in which he excells
most recent poets so that we could have an
easier comparison with Robinson, but is
futile to say one is greater than the other.
The two men have written in different
forms and made their Tristrams and
Isolts different individuals living in dif­ferent
worlds.
I, for one, am particularly pleased with
the way both succeed in presenting King
Mark as a noble, manly character. It is
none too easy to present a noble husband
of an unfaithful wife. Both poets succeed.
Mark sees the great love, partly under­stands
and accepts his fate as in accord
with his deserts.
Perhaps Masefield's play is easier to
read. It will improve on second reading.
But Robinson's poem is a better sustained
in mood and lyric intensity. Masefield is
more realistic, more passionately concerned
with the tragedy; Robinson is hard to sur­pass
in his presentation of the yearning
of the dispossessed soul, in the pathos of
lost lives, lost though they are through
fiery joy.
I commend them both to readers who
find poetry in life, who love real human
beings and enjoy the truth when wise men
tell it.
He: "What do you do when you are
kiw^r"
She: "I yell."
He: "Would you yell if I kissed you?"
She! "No, I'm still hoarse from last
night*
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SOUTHERN IN NIGHT GAME 1928
Birmingham-Southern College and
Alabama Polytechnic Institute will
hoist the 1928 football curtain with a'
night game in Cramton Bowl at Mont­gomery,
it was definitely announced
Tuesday night by ofifcials. Date for
the Panther-Tiger combat is Friday,
Sept. 28. It will be the first meet
ing of the elevens since the Fall fo
1924. Powerful arc lights will be
scattered around the Montgomery
stadium.
Yielding spent Monday in Auburn
in conference with officials and he
was back Tuesday in Birmingham
with word that the Tigers would be
the first opponent for the Drewmen
in '28. Contracts are expected to be
officially signed within a few days.
Next season's opener will be the
first night grid game ever played by
college elevens in Dixie, although pre­vious
attempts have been made by
Alabama's major teams to book such
a contest. Cloverdale and Pike Road
prep machines played a night game
in Crampton Bown early this year
for the first in the Southland and it
proved to be a big hit.
Playing the opener at night will af­ford
both teams and colleges an ad­vantage
over the other early season
combats. The night battle will nat­urally
draw a curious crowd and at
the same time it will offer the work­ing
fans a better opportunity to see
the fray. The other advantage will
be the night temperature after old
Sol has passed over in his early sea­son
rampage on Dixie's gridirons.
Auburn will be playing the Pan­thers
next year after a lapse of four
years, during which the Tigers play­ed
Howard as the only Magic City
team on their schedule. The final
meeting between the Tigers and Pan­thers
was a bare 7-0 victory for Au­burn.
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PLAN IS DISCUSSED
Producing pork at 7 cents per
pound in Alabama works out well in
practice. F. W. Burns, extension ani­mal
husbandman at Auburn, says that
for all litters fed by the ton-litter
method in Alabama the average feed
cost was slightly below $7.00 per 100
pounds gain. Where forage crops
were used in addition to the grain
mixture the cost was nearer $6.00
per 100, or 6 cents per pound.
These litters were fed throughout
the state, each section being repres­ented.
Ton-litter work in Alabama
started two years ago and 90 per
cent of the litters fed this way were
fed the Auburn ratio, consisting of 60
pounds corn, 32 pounds wheat shorts,
and 8 pounds tankage, together with
a mineral mixture of equal parts of
charcoal, lime, salt kept before them
continuously.
All the litters that have made the
required ton of pork in 180 days
were sired by a purebred boar, Mr.
Burns said. And those produced at
the lowest cost had forage crops or
green feed, such as oats and vetch,
clover or sorghum. Good pastures
also entered into the cost, making it
lower.
As a result of this ton-litter work,
Mr. Burns said that farmers in every
section of Alabama can raise hogs
at a profit. At present prices there
is a small profit on good hogs. He
recommends that hogs be kept as
part of a system of general farming;
and that they be kept when prices
are low as well as when they are
high, although some adjustments may
be necessary to meet price changes.
Sunshine and pure water seem so
much more beneficial when you've
traveled somewhere and paid real
money to enjoy them.
GREEN'S
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VETCH FOUND TO
BE VALUABLE IN
SOIL BETTERMENT
Three-Year Experiment Prove* Vetch
To Be Cheapest Way Of Addling
Nitrogen To The Soil
That vetch is the cheapest way to
add nitrogen to the soil for cotton
and other crops is revealed by an ex­periment
conducted by the Experi­ment
Station. It has been running
three years, and each year, vetch
has made a better showing than
either nitrate of soda or manure.
The yields of the three plots dur­ing
the three years have been aver­aged
by Prof. M. J. Funchess, di­rector.
The average yield following
vetch was 1,340 pounds of seed cot­ton
per acre; following nitrate of
•soda, 1,092 pounds; and manure, 1,
284 pounds.
One of the three plots produced
hairy vetch which was plowed un­der.
Another received nitrate of soda
at the rate of 325 pounds per acre;
and the third received manure at the
rate of five tons per acre. The phos­phate
and potash fertilizers for the
three plots were the same. The base
was 600 pounds of acid phosphate
and 100 pounds of potash per acre.
In the case of manure this was re­duced
slightly, due to the phosphate
and potash in manure.
In addition to producing more cot­ton,
P.rof. Funchess said that vetch
was 'much cheaper than either nitrate
of soda or manure. He figured the
veteh cost at $3.50 per acre; soda,
$10; and manure, $10 ($2.00 per
ton) plus the cost of hauling it out
and distributing. '
When both the increase in yield
and the decrease in the cost are add­ed
it is found that there is a big dif­ference
in favor of vetch as a produ­cer
of nitrogen for cotton.
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Enters Furman Univ.
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Kappa Alpha National fraternity
was the first to enter, Furman since
the rainstatement of the privilege of
entrance was granted last May by the
faculty and trustees.
Initiation ceremonies were held
September 30 in Greenville. Thir­teen
men were taken into the or­ganization
at this time. Six of them
are graduates in the class of last
year. Following is a list of the men
who are to be initiated: George Free­man,
Raymond Bivens, Harold P.
Midgely, Murray C. Hambleton,
James C. Brice, Charles A. Duncan,
A. Troy Thomas, C. C. Crawford,
James C. Hurt, George Wrigley, Jr.,
G. R. Easley, Ben C. Pressley, and
John M. Geer.
From the present indications this
is the only fraternity that is to in
stall a chapter at the present. Some
of the petitioning groups state that
their applications are being consid­ered,
but that they are not certain
when they will be accepted.
After "five years of active work, the
Biology Club of Birmingham-South­ern
has obtained national recogni­tion.
It has recently been granted a
chapter of Beta Beta Beta, national
honorary biological fraternity.
This chapter is to be known as the
Nu Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta.
The charter- members are Seale Har­ris,
M. D.; William A. Whiting,
Ph.D.; Walter C. Jones, A.M., M.D.;
Prof. J. O. Pinkston. Students, Ger-,
aid Williams, J. W. Hollingsworth,
Elizabeth Murray, Doris Haigler,
Virginia Webb, Seph Hall, Richard
A. Fennell, Joseph Bell, Paul Nick-erson,
Mary Ramsey, Edmund Rice,
and Claud Johnson.
To be eligible for election by the
chapter, the candidate must have a
scholarship record superior to the
average grade of the whole student
body; he must have completed at
least sixteen semester hours of bio­logy;
should be either a junior or
senior*-or graduate student, and be
nominated by members of the faculty
of the biology department of the in­stitution
where the chapter is located.
The Nu Chapter of Beta Beta Beta
is the first that has ever been grant­ed
in the South, and Southern is
proud to be the possessor of this
honor.
This chapter being the thirteenth
to be granted and with Mr. Hunt
Cleveland as its head, ought to make
great strides in the advancement of
the study and investigation of biology
at Birmingham-Southern.
ALLISON WRITES
IN ENGLISH PAPER
Notes of the Societies
Weselyan To Have
New Point System
In order to cope intelligently with
the problems arising from varied ex­tra-
curricular activities on the campus
of Kentucky Wesleyan College, a com­mittee
has been appointed to con­sider
these problems and attempt a
solution. The several activities ap­pear
to have grown up spontaneously
without any attempt at correlation
with existing activities. As a result
the system seems somewhat hap­hazard,
and a remedy is desired. An
extra-curricular point system is in
use at the present time, but it seems
to be far from a complete success.
The committee, consisting of three
faculty members and three students,
will try to effect a solution whereby
no student shall be overburdened with
duties, on the one hand, nor on the
other hand, have nothing to do with
extra-curricular activities at all.
Hazing Banned At
Rensselaer Institute
A recent, dispute over hazing at
Rensselaer Institute has resulted in
the suspension of the editor of "The
Polytechnic/' the R. P. I. weekly. The
director of the Institute put a ban on
all forms of hazing for the purpose
of quelling dormitory disturbances.
The editor, feeling that the old tradi­tions
of the college were threatened,
appealed to the alumni by writing an
article defending hazing. For this
act the director suspended the un­fortunate
editor and also cancelled
his credits for three year's work. Fu­ture
editors will be required to per­mit
censorship of "The Polytechnic"
A. S. C. E.
The A. S. C. E. met Monday even­ing
Dec. 5, 1927. Mr. Bates called
the meeting to order and introduced
the first speaker, Mr. Weatherby of
the Senior Class, His subject was
the State Docks at Mobile. Mr.
Weatherby gave some interesting
points in the construction of the
Docks, and Warehouses, the ware­houses
being built with all means of
fire protection considered, and strict­ly
according to insurance require­ments.
These docks make it possible
for paper to be shipped from Canada
to Mobile much cheaper by water than
by rail, and stored in the warehouses.
Mr. Kinzer, the next speaker, gave
a good discussion the problem of the
Railroad Grade Crossing. He told of
the many methods that are being
tried to prevent accidents at cross­ings.
One of these, used by some
states, is to make drivers come to a
complete stop before driving on the
crossing, and heavily fined if caught
violating. All methods seem to be
effective to some extent but no one
has been perfect. Since the high cost
would prevent the doing away with
the twenty-five thousand unprotected
grade crossing in the United States
that take a toll of about' two thousand
lives annually, some way must be
found to make drivers more careful
at crossings.
The last speaker, Mr. Packard, talk­ed
on the use of concrete slabs in the
construction of trussels -and bridges
on the A. C. L. Railroad, for which he
has worked several summers. He
brought out the advantages obtained
by the use of concrete slabs, which
made a trussel that carried heavy
trains with practically no vibration,
and the small expense of maintenance.
This concluded the program and a mo­tion
was made and seconded for ad­journment.
AG. CLUB
There are a set of rules that must
be complied with says the Coach of
football at Notre Dame, according to
"Mutt' Gregory at the Ag. Club.
"These rules that are attributed
with bringing success to the team are
as follows: AH students play some
type football before having a chance
for the varsity; no co-eds to detract
the attention of the boys; and no dis­crimination
against a player due to
his nationality," said Mr.-Gregory.
M. Croft said that conditions in the
South are favorable for manufactur­ing
due to the ease of eradicating
diseases, cheap living expenses and
peace and happiness.
W. H. Longshore gave a discus­sion
of a hunting and fishing trip
that probably brought reminiscences
of by gone days—natures own.
"The duty of a dean of a college is
to make an institution of higher learn­ing,"
according to a report given by
Mr. Wright on an article of Mr.
Johnson's. Mr. Johnson said in the
article, "An education is a process of
making men noble, strong and happy.
An education does not stop with a
mere book knowledge but extends far
beyond into outside activities as well."
That English scientists recognize
the eminence bf Profesors Fred Alli­son,
Ph. D., head professor of physics
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute is
shown by the acceptance of an ac­count
of one of his recent researches
for publication appearing in the Phil­osophical
Magazine and Journal of
Science of London, Ediburgh, and
Dublin. This exclusive technical
magazine carries only the most prom­inent
experiments performed by
American scientists.
This experiment, performed in col­laboration
with Dr. J. W. Beams of
Yale University, had for its object
to determine whether or not there
was any time lag in the disappearance
of electric double refraction behind
that of the electric field. In other
words, since "it is known that certain
liquids deflect a beam of light ab­normally
when an electric current is
passed through themrdoes this liquid
assume this unusual deflective pro­perty
instantaneously with the appli­cation
of the electric current or is
there a small interval of time re­quired?
Likewise does the liquid
retain this abnormal property of de­flection
for a short time after the
current is withdrawn from the liquid?
Dr. Allison found that a small
interval of time was required in both
instances, though' all previous belief
held that the two effects were in­stantaneous.
It was discovered by Dr. Kerr of
Scotland many years ago that an
electric field applied across certain
liquids imparts to them the well
known property of optical double re­fraction.
That is, the liquid is able
under the influence of such an elec­tric
field of force to resolve a beam
of light into two parts, one being
known as the ordinary and the other
as the extraordinary ray, these two
rays being polarized in planes at
right angles. It has been a question
with scientists for a long time wheth­er
this electric double refraction
takes place instantly under the elec­tric
field of force, or when the for­mer
lags behind the Itater by a very
small interval of time. Dr. Allison
also had the results of other, experi­ments
on certain magnetic effects
published in an American scientific
journal.
It hurts the head to think—try it
and see.—Dan Beard.
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SPORTS - BAXXRoad Race in Birmingham Dec 17 2 SPORTS
C/JOSS COUNTRY TEAM PREPS
FOR B.A.C. ROAD RACE 17TH
Captain Duncan Takes His Team To
Birmingham To Take Part In
Annual Affair
The cross country team goes to
Birmingham Saturday to compete in
the 17th annual Birmingham Ath­letic
Club road race. This race was
decisively won last year by Auburn,
being the first time an Auburn cross
country team has ever been success
ful in carrying off the championship
of this event. The honors this year
however will probably be between
Georgia and Georgia Tech whereas
they have stronger teams, while Au­burn
has suffered the loss of such
stars as Morrow, Collum, and Whig-ham.
Those who were selected to rep
resent Auburn are Capt. Duncan,
Mills, Helms, Aldrich, Hicks, and
Teague. These were selected in a
tryout last Saturday over the three
mile pavement course, the first five in
being chosen. In addition to those
Teague, who did not run in the try-out,
was chosen. The order of plac­ing
in the tryout was as follows:
1 Capt. Duncan 16:09
2 Mills
3 Helms
4 Aldrich
5 Hicks
6 Walters
7 Shanks
8 Turner
9 McLendon f;
10 Yancey
The practice in fall track is just
about over now. The men who pre­viously
have been out for football and
have baen unable to obtain any previ­ous
training and practice.
Frosh Basketball
Practice Starts;
Fifty Come Out
The first call for basketball prac­tice
for the Rat squad was answered
by about fifty promising young ath­letes
and they are daily going about
their task with the same earnestness
that was so characteristic of the Rat
football aspirants this fall. That old
fight will surely reward them on the
basketball court during the ensuing
months.
As yet it is of course impossible to
predict any probable lineups, but
there is surely material on hand to
form a formidable crew of basketeers.
With a half a hundred to pick from
and only a small fraction of that
number to be picked, it is quite the
right thing to expect that a select
crew will be forthcoming. Picking the
final squad will be a hard job and
the coaches will be real busy for some
time yet trying to get these men in
shape to make their decisions.
The schedule has not as yet been
completed, but it is know that the
first game will not be until after the
Christmas holidays. This will give
plenty of time to whip a team into
"BUCK" ELLIS
The above picture is. of "Buck"
Ellis, but this time he is not in a foot­ball
uniform, but has donned a bas­ketball
uniform in its place. He looks
quite natural too, don't you think, for
we have seen him perform on the bas­ketball
court for two years now. He
has the speed and dependability of
a high caliber player. - He has played
in the capaciay of forward on the
Plainsmen's team, and has filled this
position to perfection. He is a good
shot at ringing goals and rarely ever
misses, when he has a clear field.
This year "Buck" should be in his
prime, and will give plenty of opposi­tion
to our opponent's teams. "Buck"
ds always wide awake during the
game, and never lets a chance go by
where he can make a score for the
Orange and Blue.
Ellis came to Auburn from Simpson
High of Birmingham, where he made
a brilliant record in athletics. He is
perfectly at home on the grid-iron,
basketball court, and baseball dia­mond.
So if you want to see some
real basketball playing, just wait
until the season opens, and come to
the gym and see Ellis and the other
Tigers in action.
NOTICE!
Many fraternities and organiza­tions
already have organized football
teams', and a few games have already
been played. It is suggested that, if
any others want to organize a foot­ball
team, they arrange between them­selves
for games. If details of any
games are handed to any member of
the sports staff they will be glad to
publish them in the Plainsman. Some
exciting games should develop this
winter.
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
and the Theta Kappa Nu fraternity
played a hard fought contest last
Saturday, ending in a 6 to 6 tie. This
proved to be a mighty interesting
game, and it is hoped that others will
follow. So let's every fellow get be­hind
his organization and put out a
team. -
IN MEMORIAM
In memoriam to Andrew J.
Collum, who recently met his
death in an automobile accident
in Pensacola, this article is af­fectionately
dedicated. He show­ed
promise of being the best
distance man Auburn ever had.
In the annual B. A. C. road
race last year he finished
second, being the highest an
Auburn man has ever placed in
this event. He ran the one and
two mile events on the track
team as well as representing the
college on the cross country
team. He was planning to re­turn
to Auburn in February,
as he had twa more years of eli­gibility
on the team. His loss
has hit the varsity track pros­pects
a severe blow.
shape that will be a credit to Au­burn.
It would be impossible to tell of all
the candidates out for a place on the
team, but among this large array of
ijalent are some mighty promising
Reproduced by courtesy of THE NEW YORKEB
The Smith Brothers start out for vengeance
Co-Ed Basketeers
Are Preparing For
1928 Cage Season
For several weeks now, the co-ed
basketball aspirantst have been hard
at work every afternoon, getting
prac-tice for the hard schedule which
will start shortly. Although there
are not many girls at Auburn, there
a"re always enough here to put out a
strong basketball . team each year.
Much enthusiasm and spirit are dis­played
in these games, and this year
it appears that we will have a win­ning
team, for we are very fortunate
in having a new coach who has had
much experience in this line.
Miss Irene Brown is the new coach,
and under her 'efficient tutorship,
the Tigeresses will be on the map
one hundred per cent this year. Miss
Brown first went to Baylor College
in Belton, Texas, and after finishing
there, went to Baylor University, at
Waco, Texas. ^3he had an active ca­reer
at both of these institutions. For
several summers in addition to this,
she has been athletic director at sum­mer
camps. Auburn should feel very
lucky, indeed, in being able to get a
coach who is as well trained and has
had as much experience as Miss
Brown. " •
The captain of the Auburn co-ed
basketball team for the 1927-28 sea­son,
is Miss Tucker, who for the past
two years has played well, and plays
a brand of ball that is hard to beat.
Miss Creel is manager of the team this
year.
The best prospects for the team, in
addition to Tucker and Creel, are
Johnson, Price, Hutchinson, Haupt,
Thom, and Williams. Some of these
players have had considerable train­ing
and practice before in the art of
this game.
The season opens with Athens Col­lege
on December 16, here on the
campus. This is the only game of
which the exact date is known. How­ever,
other games are being arranged,
and the dates of these will be given
at a later time. The schedule in­cludes
Howard College, Birmingham-
Southern, Jacksonville State Normal,
and Montevallo.
BUNK .*»• BUNK
AROUND THE CAMPUS
BUNK ¥ BUNK
ATHLETIC COUNCILS SOLVING
COACHING PROBLEM
For the past few weeks the Au­burn
Faculty Athletic Council has
been thrashing out the various appli­cants
for positions as coaches at A.
P. I. Several joint meetings have
taken place with the Auburn Alumni
Athletic Council present. At these
meetings the various applications
were discussed and the abilities of the
applicants investigated. Several prom­inent
coaches have been looked into
and have been recommended by other
prominent coaches. The man that
lands the job is expected to be one
that will fill all possible require­ments
for the situation at Auburn and
the Councilmen are not making any
rash promises. If they decide on a
coach, he will be the best man for the
job and will be well recommended. It
is expected that a decision will be
reached in the very near future but
no definite date can be set. A number
of the prospects are being interviewed
personally, and several have appeared
before the Council at their meetings.
No names are given for publication
as this is too serious a. matter to be
spoken of lightly and the entire fu­ture
of Auburn will depend on the
final appointment.
NO STAR, BUT ALL STARS-ILLINOIS—
ZUPPKE
For the first time in fifteen years,
Coach Zuppke of Illinois has come
forth without a team boasting of one
individual star. And, incidentally, this
is the first time that Illinois has won
the undisputed championship in that
many years. Zuppke, himself, ex­plains
that he has not a single star in
his squad, they're all-stars. The days
of Red Grange and Carney are
matters-of the past. Zuppke has
always put out strong teams and in­variably
is among the leaders of the
"Big Ten".
GA. TECH LINE VERSUS ALL-AMERICANS
Saturday brought forth a mighty
big bone for the would be Ail-Ameri­can
Football Experts to fight over.
Ga. Tech proved to over 38,000 people
and quite a number of Nationally
known sports writers that she had
one of the best, if not the best, lines
in the country. Georgia linesmen
were purely out of their class when
they tackled the strong Tech line.
F»and displayed a remarkable ability
at holding down the pivot position.
Tech's tackles fairly tore up the
Georgia offense and the Tech guards
held like a brick wall. Yet, none of
the Techsters received any mention as
possible All-American material. Such
is the lay of the land, another of
those All-Star Elevens without a
single Star.
minor points, the question of sending
and picking an All-Southern Senior
Team out to the Coast to engage the
All-Western Eleven will be decided
on. If they decide that it is not for
the best, then the game will have to be
called off and there is a great possi­bility
that such will be the outcome
Another important point will be the
division of the S. I. C. into two parts
in order that the best team may be
easily decided on. Every year there
are several teams that claim the title
and no post-season games are allowed
to settle the dispute. It would be a
great solution to this fault if the Con­ference
were divided into two parts
and let the two winners play for the
title of Dixie. The dividing 'ine could
easily be. drawn with the States of
Georgia and Tennessee as borders
for the lower division and tV.is would
give an even break in the number of
Colleges in each division.
COACH MIKE PAPKE ORDERS
FULL STEAM AHEAD IN WORK
Opening; Game Lest Than Month Off
With Two Weeks Vacation
- In Between
FOOTBALL MEN COMING OUT
looking material. Among these are
Bearden, Newton, Dreaden, Harkins,
and Frazer jjf football fame. Some
of the others are Lee, Chappen,
Mullis, Brown, Anderson, Baker, Har­mon
and another Brown. Many others
besides these are also showing up
well.
The freshmen practice every after­noon
from four to five. With the ma­terial
on hand it is only reasonable
to expect the rats, to turn in a credit­able
performance for the season. Let's
go Rats.
S. I. C. COACHES TO MEET IN
KENTUCKY
At the S. I. C. coaches meeting this
week-end, many important points are
due to be brought up. Besides the
INTERFRAT FOOTBALL
PROVES FATAL
As a result of interfrat foot­ball
Tom Bethel and Jack Nag-ley
both Pi K. A.'s received in­juries.
Bethel broke his shoul­der
in two places while Nagley
suffers from a broken nose.
The fraternities represented in
this year's "Barn yard football"
are: A. T. O, Pi K. A., Kappa
Sigma and Theta Kappa Nu.
1928 Auburn Basketball Schedule
DATE OPPONENT
Jan. 7—Ga. Tech
9—Southern College
13—U. of Florida \
14—U. of Florida
18—Clemson
20—U. of Tennessee
27—Tulane r
28—Tulane
Feb. 1—Vanderbilt
3—U. of Georgia -
9—Georgetown U.
10—Ole Miss
11—Ole Miss
18—Ga. Tech
22—U. of Florida
23—U. of Florida
Feb. 27—S. I. C. TOURNEY
PLACE
Auburn
Auburn
Gainesville
Gainesville
Auburn
Auburn
New Orleans
. New Orleans
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Atlanta
Auburn
Auburn •
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TARHEELS ARE TO PRESENT
ANOTHER CHAMP BASKET­BALL
FIVE
Coach Jim Ashmore of the Univer­sity
of North Carolina has issued a
proclamation that he expects one qf
the best basketball teams this year
that he has ever put out and that
means • quite, a bit. In the past few
years, his teams have won the major­ity
of Championship Tournaments
that have been held. This season, he
has five of his last years Varsity re­turning
and also Captain. Dodern of
the Championship Five of 1926.
Dodern will add quite a bit to the
strength of the squad as he is an All-
Southern player and knows the game
to a perfection.
TECH DRIBBLERS WITHOUT THE
AID OF TINY HEARN
This year, Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets
will find themselves without the aid
of their main point-maker. This will
be a great loss in a way but will be a
great aid in another. Basketball is
one of those games that is founded on
skill and teamwork and the Jackets
of '27 were far from either of those
"JELLY" AKIN
"Jelly" Akin is ranked as one of
the greatest basketball players that
has ever attended Auburn. He is
about to start upon his last season
with the Tiger aggregation, and if he
still has the same old accuracy of
shooting goals, as he had last season,
he will help Auburn beat all comers.
Auburn had some hard games last
year, and came through the season
with a very clean record, and Akin
did his share of the scoring, which
helped to make this possible. "Jelly"
plays a clean game, and plays it fair
and square. He is the type of man
that never quits fighting until the
final whistle is blown, for he knows
that all of his efforts are for the good
of our dear old Alma Mater.
Not only is Akin one of our most
Substantial basketball players, but he
is also a star on the baseball diamond.
He is one of the Tiger's best fielders
and hitters. Akin first became known
in athletics in Notasulga, which is
his home town.
traits. Their entire attack was cen­tered
on the height of Tiny Hearns
and if there was a man on the oppo­sition
that could cover Mr. Hearn,
then Tech was without a chance.
Such was the case when the Auburn
Plainsmen, trounced the Jackets 42-
24 on the Campus. The James twins
seemed to reside in the arms of Hearn
and beat down every attempt of his
to shoot the ball towards the loop.
Monday night Coach Mike Papke
called his famous basketeers together
for their first real practice. The
former practices were to get the men
into condition for the strenuous work
ahead and as the aspirants that go
out for Football had not been re­leased,
he could " not settle down to
the principles and fundamentals he
intended to use. From now on, a regu­lar
period will be held each night in
order that the players may get back
their ability to pass, dribble and
shoot goals. It is expected that they
will be well rounded into form by
their initial tilt which is scheduled
for January 7 with the Tech "Yellow
Jackets" on the Campus.
Teamwork will be the main point
stressed and the regular five man de­fense
will very likely be used. All
of the players will be called on that
take much pain in developing their
point making ability. Of the candi­dates
out for the team at present,
nearly all could be developed into
forwards if their goal ringing ability
was the only thing to govern them by.
This makes a strong offense possible
and it is often said by experts that
a strong offense is the best defense.
Among the football men to report
for basketball are: Dubose, Snider,
Ellis, Ward, Paterson and Mosley.
These men are in fine condition and
will go right in with the other candi­dates.
In all, there are around four
teams now reporting for practice.
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When Xerxes wept
This mammoth steam tur­bine
with a total capacity
of 208,000 kilowatts (280,-
000 horse power) will be
installed in the new station
of the State Line Generat­ing
Company near Chicago.
What a striking contrast
between this huge generat­ing
unit and the group of
home devices it operates
—MAZDA lamps, fans,
vacuum cleaners, and many
others. Yet General Electric
makes both.
THE great Persian ruler gazed from a hill­top
upon his vast army of a million men.
It was the largest army that had ever existed.
And he turned away with tears in his eyes
because in a hundred years all trace of it
would be gone. That army was a symbol of
power, destructive and transient.
Today in one machine, now being built in the
General Electric shops, there is combined
the muscular energy of two million men. This
great machine, a steam turbine, is also a
symbol of power—a new power that is con­structive
and permanent.
Its unprecedented size, a record in construc-tion'of
such machines, is a pledge to the people
that the electrical industry is on the march,
ever on the alert to supply plenty of electricity
at a low cost to all.
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PROGRAM FOR COMING WEEK
Station WAPI, now operating on a
frequency of 880 kilocycles or 340.7
meters, will broadcast nine musical
and educational programs during the
week beginning Monday, December
12. The market news and weather
forecast will be included as usual.
Monday noon, December 12, solo
numbers by Miss Evelyn Smith and
quartet selections by the student
quartet. Otto Brown, extension for­ester,
will discuss "Proper utilization
of farm woods;" and C. K. Brown on
Auburn news.
Tuesday noon, December 13, the
studio trio with Charles Moore,
solist. Miss Dana Gatchell will dis­cuss
modes of travel in antebellum
days, using as her subject "How
Grandpa went to see Grandma."
Tuesday night, beginning at 9, the
Collegians in a program of dance
music. Prof. W. G. Gosser will re­view
"Atherton's Immortal Marri­age."
Wednesday noon, December 14,
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classical program by the studio or­chestra.
Pfof. D. G. Sturkie will lead
a discussion on "Losses from soil
erosion."
Thursday noon, December 15, solos
by Rev. O. D. Langston. The Auburn
Stringers will present a novelty pro­gram.
J. B. Wilson, specialist in
farm machinery, will report on re­sults
of using improved far mmachin-ery
on Alabama farms.
Thursday night, beginning at 9,
the Opelika Chamber of Commerce
will present a musical program. Dr.
George Petrie in a current topic dis­cussion.
Friday noon, December 16, Victor
releases will be featured during the
Jesse French Victor program. "Aunt
Sammy" will give suggestions fok
Christmas dishes.
Friday night, beginning at 9, the
studio orchestra with R. J. Kirk-patrick
in vibraphone solos.
Saturday noon, December 17, a
scout program by an Opelika troop
under the direction of L. R. Simp­son,
Prof. J. R! Rtuland will discuss
the Sunday School lesson.
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Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn
Dr. William S. Cox, one of Au­burn's
most distinguished alumni,
recently paid his Alma mater a visit,
as representative of the Alumni As­sociation
of Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Cox received his Batchelor's
degree in Civil Engineering from Au­burn
in the class of 1892, graduating
with the highest of honors in both
scholarship and campus activities. He
was a member ' of the Websterian
Literary Society, class representative
at three commencements in scholar­ship,
and was adjutant of the cadet
corps under General James H. Lane,
Commandant.
When Dr. Cox was in college here,
Dr. I. T. Tichenor was president and
later Dr.-William LeRoy Broun. Dr.
Thatch, who later became president,
was then an instructor in the English
department. Dr. Cox has seen Au­burn
grow-from a small school of
five hundred students to the present
complicated institution of learning,
with an enrollment of fifteen hundred.
Upon leaving Auburn, Dr. Cox en­tered
Cornell University, and received
his degree of Bachelor of Architecture
from there two years later. He has
been connected with Cox College, Col­lege
Park, Georgia, since 1897, first
as business manager and then as
president. For a period of about
twenty years, during his stay at Cox
College, Dr. Cox presented a medal to
the one of the four Alabama colleges
which excelled in oratory. Auburn
succeeded in winning this prize more
times than any other school.
Dr. Cox was listed in Who's Who in
America for more than twenty years
as he was noted even then for his out­standing
efforts in both education
and architecture. Cox College is now
regarded as the best equipped educa­tional
plant in the South, which is
due largely to the untiring efforts of
Dr. Cox, and Auburn is proud to num­ber
him among her alumni.
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AUBURN MEN
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The new plan of home demonstra­tion
work in Alabama as announced
by Prof. L. N. Duncan, director, was
given heartly approval here today by
Mrs. Ola Powell Malcolm of the
United States department of agricul­ture,
Washington, who is supervisor
of extension work in home economics
in the southern states.
Mrs. Malcolm was in Auburn on
a tour of inspection and to confer
with the leaders. She was told by
Mr. Duncan and Miss Helen John­ston,
new state-leader, of the recent
changes in which the number of dis
trict demonstration agents was de­creased
from four to three, and also
of the plans to add new county home
demonstration agents as fast as
funds become available, county appro
priations are made, and trained
workers can be employed.
The co-operative arrangement of
the county and state councils of home
demonstration clubs with the farm
bureau was endorsed with the state­ment
that "it makes for efficiency
due to co-operation."
Through their home demonstration
clubs Alabama farm women are co­operating
with the federated club
women of the towns and cities which
Mrs. Malcolm approved. Already
many of the communities and coun­ty
clubs have federated and others
will do so from time to time.
AUBURN SPIRIT
There have been arguments pro
and con as to the value of hazing in
its relation to college spirit, yet even
those who adhere most consistently to
the injurior qualities of hazing frank­ly
admit that the freshman receiving
the most punishment "to his "Posterior
end" develops the greater degree of
spirit.
*** *** ***
Conglomeration does not believe
that the Auburn Spirit has passed
into that condition of dissolution as
is lamented by many of the older
alumni. However we do not care to
delude ourselves into believing that
conditions are better than the truth
warrants.
*** *** ***
We were recently shown a letter
written from Sewanee which made
such a decided insinuation against
Auburn Spirit that we immediately
asked permission to publish it in this
column.
* * *
Sewanee,
Nov. 22, 1927.
Dear , '
By the time you receive this you
will have returned from a gloriously
good time and I Will still be full of
pep ets. for the coming holidays. I
have been invited to ride down to
Nashville with General , a
general in the world war and I think
I will go. I am certainly sorry bud­dy;
we will get together Xmas
though and what a combination it
will be.
We are having a rally tonight to
help beat Vandy and we are really
going to give them h—1. I was taken
through last night. Must go to the
rally will write more when I get
back.
The pep meeting is over and boy
they have PEP?:::, Vanderbilt hasn't
a chance to beat us if they keep that
spirit up. There is one thing I want
you to see before you get too old to
appreciate it—the Sewanee Spirit. It
is beautiful and you will never be
able to see it any place but at
Sewanee. It is better than winning
a game it is something that has
always been at Sewanee and always
will be whether they lose or win. I
am almost willing to give a dollar
for every alibi you can rake up made
bj a Sewanee man if we lose the
game—Buddy they don't make them.
Don't think that I am affected by
the pep meeting because I will feel
the same way tomorrow. I certainly
wish you were taking something be­sides
engineering so you could come
up here anrf I believe you vould like
it.
YOU WILL ADMIT THAT AU­BURN
WON'T SUPPORT A LOS­ING
TEAM WON'T YOU?
Exams start in two weeks and \
have a thousand and one outlines to
get up. I really don't feel justified
in going to Nashville because I am
going to do more harm than good.
We, have the honor of giving the tea
dance this year which will be given
Monday afternoon and the big dances
come on Monday and Tuesday nights.
I would feel honored if you would
come up on my bid. I will show you
a real good time. In fact I have a
quart of gin waiting for you if you
will come.
I received a letter from —.
Lot of noise going on down stairs
and from all indications the freshmen
are having the Sewanee Purple put on
their heither extremities. I hope you
haven't hit a freshman yet. The
poor, dumb creatures are too dense to
be hit. They don't know what you are
hitting them for.
Please don't think the telegram is
going to suffice for the letter you
owe me. I know that is a good way
out but writing will do you good be­sides
the benefit you will derive from
it.
I have two Spanish, I mean three,
lessons to get up tonight and I am not
as smart as I thought I was in eco.
You know that darn professor didn't
give me but 92 on my last quiz and
I know darn well I deserved 98. He
was sitting in his study the other
night and somebody threw a brick
through the window and caught him a
nice one on the head; needless to say
he did not meet class the nevt day.
I believe he thinks I did it but you
know I wouldn't do such a thing. No.
Steve is being taken into
tonight so I had better close and go
down to the room to congratulate him.
Again I express my regrets at not
being able to meet you and I hope
you will believe me when I say it is
impossible to get there. I hope you
have had as big a time as I would have
had.
You don't have your mid term
exams before Xmas do you? Luck
to you when you do have them.
Your Bud,
today and she still thinks you are
full of "it"! Why I don't know but
on her recommendation you could
easily make •—, a
fraternity exclusive and hard to make,
a fraternity of good fellows, with
nothing against you by any member
or any man on the campus, a frater­nity
of good, healthy drinkers, every
man must be able to drink a pint with­out
"shining". So you see young fel­low
she thinks you hung the moon.
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Mr. Paul M. Guthrie, a representa­tive
of Intercollegiate Prohibition As
sociation, was a visitor to Auburn
last Sunday. In a speech to the Y.
M. C. A. cabinet Sunday afternoon,
Mr. Guthrie told of his work and the
improvements that have been made
in the social conditions of America
since the adoption of the eighteenth
amendment. The results of the pro­hibition
laws show a rapid stride in
American civilization.
Through Sam Mosley, general sec­retary
of the local Y. M. C. A., and
Miss Cooper, office associate, who
will attend this week-end at Atlanta
a meeting of Y. M. C. A. secretaries
of Southern colleges, Auburn will be
further enlightened along the line of
mutual problems that confront col
leges and college students.
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SPEAKERS AT THE DETROIT
CONVENTION TELL OF CHINA
Among the speakers at the Detroit
Student Convention, December 28 to
January 1, are several from China,
the hot spot of the Orient today.
Henry Hodgkin is a British mission­ary,
a well known Quaker who served
in China with the Y. M. C. A., later
under his own Friends Foreign Mis­sion
Association, and more recently as
secretary of the National Christian
Council.
Francis Wei, a Cantonese by birth,
the son of a family of culture, is the
president of the Central China Chris­tian
University. Few men in educa­tional
work stand higher in China
than he. He entered Boone School at
Wuchang for its educational advan­tages,
determined not to be influenced
by the foreign missionaries. Before
he finished there, however, he found
beauty in the teachings of Jesus, and
an answer to question which his keen
mind had been asking. He came to
Harvard for post-graduate study.
Returning to China as a member of
the Boone School faculty, he became
President of the Central China Chris­tian
Educational Association. This
organization had oversight of all
Christian primary schools in Central
China. When Bishop Gilman left
China in October, 1926, Mr. Wei be­came
acting president of Boone Uni­versity.
It was his influence that
kept the students loyal when the
school opened and during the trying
days that followed.
Later a teacher endeavored to make i
Boone a center of communist propa­ganda.
Mr. Wei was approached in
an effort to win him over to the
scheme. His loyalty was unwavering,
and he became the victim of deep laid
plots. Fleeing for his life, he went
to Hankow. Even there enemies were
waiting for an opportunity to kill him
at sight.
When he left for Shanghai, a false
telegram to the local police authori­ties
following him, announcing that
he was a dangerous Communist. One
of his fellow passengers on the boat
to Shanghai was Dr. Sherman, who
was astonished to see Mr. Wei hand­cuffed
and led off by the police.
Through the efforts of Dr. Sherman,
investigation was begun at once. Mr.
Wei was kept in a dark cell over the
night, expecting to be called out and
executed at any moment. On the next
morning he was given a hearing, and
although there was nothing against
him except the unverified telegram,
the best that could be done for him
was to get his release on bond. On
June 22nd, he was released. Mr. Wei
is now in London, in preparation for
future work in China.
Other speakers there are from
many of the countries of the world,
with stories «qually interesting. From
the Philippines comes Dr. Frank G.
Lauback, a keen minded sociologist
and psychologist, who for the past
twelve years has been in educational
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been cut off, probably for fear it
might exceed the legal number of
revolutions per minute provided for
in Calera's traffic regulations. They
looked for only a moment, when the
full significance of the scene dawned
on them, and they began to laugh.
"On the outskirts of the town,
when the other end of the city limits
had been reached, the rattling 'flivver'
was shoved carefully over the line,
those who had been furnishing the
'man-power" got aboard, the man in
front who had been acting as pilot,
cranked the motor. It sputtered,
coughed, caught on one cylinder, then
on two. The man at the steering
wheel let in the cluth, and the party
of students, none of whom looked
either to the right or left, preserving
the deep gravity of expression they
had assumed throughout the "ordeal"
disappeared with a great clattering
of metal on metal, in a cloud of
dust."
work in Manila.
Akintunde B. Dipeolu, a graduate
of Talladega College and Seminary,
and now studying in the University
of Chicago, is from Nigeria, British
West Africa. He and Roy Akagi,
who is a secretary of the Friendly Re­lations
Committee of the Y. M. C. A.
with special reference to Japanese
students, are but two of a large num­ber
of national Christian leaders, who
will be present for the Convention.
Mr. Akagi is returning from a visit
in Japan, just in time for the Con­vention.
An outstanding speaker on race re­lations
from the Negro point of view
will be Mordecai Johnson, president
of Howard University in Washington,
D. C.
Richard Roberts, a pastor of the
United Church in Canda, who has
been much in demand at student con­ference,
will be present at Detroit.
Other speakers include John R. Mott,
of the World's Student Christian Fed­eration;
Reinhold Niebuhr, of Detroit,
well known for his writings; Robert
E. Speer, recently returned from
travel in the Orient; Sherwood Eddy,
who has given much of his time to
Student work in the Y. M. C. A.;
Stanley High, now in America after
a tour of the mission fields of Africa
and Asia; Albert W. Beaven, of Ro­chester,
and others.
Keep smiling—it pays!
PRINCE ALBERT is the kind of a
smoke you get clubby with, right
off the bat. You'll be calling each
other by your first names after the
very first pipe-load. It is so gen­uinely
friendly, in spirit and in
fact.
P. A. treats your tongue and
throat as gently as a mother
handles a new-born baby. Never
a bite. Never a parch. These are
details, of course. The thing you'll
remember longest is that wonder­ful
taste! So cool, so sweet, so
soothing.
No matter how hard you hit
it up, this long-burning tobacco
never hits back. You can go to it
before classes, and right through
to Lights Out. Get yourself a tidy
red tin of Prince Albert today.
The School of Experience has
never produced a greater smoke
than good old P. A.
P. A. it told every­where
in tidy red tint,
pound and half-pound
tin humidors, and
pound crystal-glass
humidort with sponge-moittener
top. And
always with every bit
of bite and parch re­moved
by the Prince
Albert process.
FRINGE ALBERT
—no other tobacco is like it!
© 1927, R. J. Reynoldi Tob«ceo
Company, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Gives Away Bouquets
to Greenville Invalids
A resolution to spend the remain­der
of his life in making as' many
people as possible happy, adopted
twenty years ago by Arthur G.
Gower, a quiet bookkeeper of Green­ville,
South Carolina, has just be­came
known to the outside world.
The American Magazine for Decem­ber
tells for the first time how he
has grown and given away 100,000
bouquets of flowers to invalids since
he took that vow.
In his simple occupation, the reso­lution
taken by Gower has meant
more of a personal sacrifice than is
required of the greatest philanthro­pists.
It has meant getting up at
four o'clock Sunday mornings to carry
heavy loads of flowers to homes and
hospitals and long hours of work in
his garden after his day's toil is over.
But he has never wavered. Men,
women and children, ill anywhere in
Greenville are the recipients of his
voluntary gifts, which he regards as
the smallest manifestation of a Chris­tian
spirit that he can evince.
Twenty years ago a northern man
came to Greenville with an invalid
wife and because she could see noth
ing but the tops of the trees from her
bed, Gower decided to provide her
with flowers from his little garden
They seemed to brighten the days of
the invalid so much that the book­keeper
decided to give some of his
flowers to others.
He began to make mental notes of
his friends who were sick, and from
time to time he gathered bouquets
from his own garden and took the
flowers to these friends. They ap­preciated
his thoughtf ulness; the
the sight of the flowers seemed to
make it easier for them to be patient
while awaiting recovery. Then he
extended his visits to include many
strangers, and also he extended his
flower garden. As he enlarged it,
he. also enlarged the circle of his
visits.
Fight Against High
Text Books Resumed
Bill of complaint which will be filed
in the Montgomery Circuit Court by
Assistant Attorney General Thomas
E. Knight, Jr., seeking issuances, on
behalf of the state, a restraining
order against the American. Book
Company is now nearing completion.
It will probably be submitted to the
Circuit Court, before the end of the
present week, it is understood.
The complaint will ask a writ of
injunction to prohibit the sale of text­books
by the book company in the
state at a higher price than is charged
in Tennessee for the same texts. This
complaint is based on the Alabama
school code which provides that all
contracts for text books must specify
that the publisher shall not charge
more for books furnished to Alabama
than is charged for the same books in
adjoining states "where like condi­tions
prevail."
A similar proceeding was brought
in Circuit Court in Montgomery, by
Assistant Attorney General Knight,
earlier in the year and decision was
in favor of the state. The book com
pany, which insists that "like condi
tions" do not "prevail" in Tennessee
as compared with Alabama, appealed.
The Supreme Court of Alabama sub­sequently
reversed the lower court's
judgment, holding that the evidence
of the state contained in the record
did not justify a permanent injunc
tion against the publishing house.
Use Timber and Grow
Trees Becomes Slogan
Use timber and grow forests is a
slogan that is becoming widely used
in various parts of the country. To
many, this seems somewhat contra­dictory,
points out the Alabama Com-mission
of Forestry, but nevertheless
it is held that the two proposals are
actually in harmony.
In order to justify people in pro­ducing
any commodity it must have
a value. In most cases this is derived
from the kind and extent of uses to
which the thing or material is put.
Extensive use must be made of wood
or timber, therefore, in 'order to en­courage
landowners to grow forests.
The fact that timber is being used up
approximately four or five times
faster than it is being grown shows
that it possesses sufficient value to
warrant making plans 'for its future
production.
The cutting of mature trees from
the forest is one of the measures that
aids the development of the younger
growth. Thus, anomalous as it may
at first appear, cutting timber is one
of the ways of growing timber. How­ever,
care must be taken that timber
is not cut prematurely. In fact, the
latter is one of the principal evils
affecting the practice of forestry.
ORDER BILLYGOATS
ESTABLISHED HERE
(Continued from Page 1.)
of Fleas, a Local Society.
The pass word has been adopted
as "O K M N X" whjch can easily
be interpreted to mean, "O. K. Ham
and Eggs." The hand shake is very
easy as it is a copy of that used by
the ordinary American with the re­verse
English on the thumb.
, One of the first members of the
local branch has been ostracized due
to his bullying a fellow member. The
assailant te none other than Bill
Hurt, who obtained the nerve from
his summer camp to hit Daddy Long-horns
in the presence of the Exalted
Ram. His expulsion was forthcoming
within the next hour at a special
meeting.
Regular meetings are kept secret
and only officers know of their mean­ings.
All secrets are in the care of
Hon. Barney Google.
Some of the last goats to be taken
into the order are: "Goat" Smith,
Lieut. Higgins (temporary) and Ste­phen
Croom, who is making a place
for himself among the ofifcers as
none of the other members will help
him.
The member sof the Society are
known for their great integrity and
silence on all matters of state. They
may be known oly by their accept­ance
of the handshake or password.
ALABAMA MEMBERS
AT 4-H CONVENTION
PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
MORPHET RETURNS
FROM MONTGOMERY
(Continued from Page 1.)
county.
Dr. Morphet is particularly well
qualified for this type of work having
participated in other surveys in vari­ous
sections of the country. During
the past year he brought out a book
dealing with the use of school build
ings and he now has in press a pamph­let
dealing with other phases of the
problem which was prepared in coop­eration
with Drs. Strayer and Engle-hardt.
PI KAPPA PHI HAS
CONVENTION IN B'HAM.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Elizabeth Hill, Midge Bradley, Cam-tnilla
Herring of Georgia, Margaret
Mayfield, May Belle Prowell, Millie
Phillips, Louise Hinton, Colleen Ire­land,
Frances Bondurant, Anne- Pet-tus,
of Selma, Madge Hardy, Alice
Oden, Bebe Wharton, Marie Smith,
Rebecca Frazier, Marie Denegre and
Catherine Sibley.
The Auburn Chapter's sponser will
be Miss Martha Power of Opelika.
MONDAY, DEC. 12
BILLIE DOVE
—IN—
"THE TENDER HOUR"
with BEN LYONS
PARAMOUNT NEWS and
KOKO CHOPS SUEY
TUESDAY, DEC. 13
CLAIRE WINDSOR
—IN—
"THE OPENING NIGHT"
with JOHN BOWERS
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
DECEMBER 14 and 15
WALLACE BEERY & RAY­MOND
HATTON
,—IN—
"NOW WE'RE IN THE AIR"
with LOUISE BROOKS
Paramount News and Comedy
FRIDAY, DEC. 16
. FLORENCE VIDOR
—IN—
"HONEYMOON HATE"
Metro Comedy
SATURDAY, DEC. 1?
MONTE BLUE
—IN—
"THE BRUTE"
with LEILA HYAMS AND
CLYDE COOK
(Continued from Page 1.)
lin and Margaret Harmon of Jeffer­son.
They were the winners at the
two state fairs in Alabama excepting
Denver Ozbirn who was given a trip
awarded by the Illinois Central Rail­road
to the 4-H boy making the best
record along these lines. Clois Bar­ret
and William Lester won theirs at
the Alabama State Fair in Montgom­ery—
Clois making the highest score
in the corn club exhibit and William
the highest score in the cotton exhibit.
Gaston Cook won highest score on
corn in Birmingham and Floyd Gibbs
won highest on cotton at this fair.
Margaret Harmon of McAdory
club, Jefferson county has been an
outstanding club girl in her county
since 1923. She has had four years
poultry work; and has done home im­provement
work, clothing, gardening,
canning and in addition has been an
officer in her club several times. She
won a trip to Auburn in 1926 and
came again in 1927. She was select­ed
on her exhibit and the general
standing of her club work.
The meeting in Chicago is an an­nual
affair held in connection with
the International Livestock Show.
Some 1200 boys and girls from more
than 40 states of the union with the"ir
state and local leaders attended this
meeting.
The boys and girls are carried
through the livestock show, Montgom­ery
Wara, Swift, Wilson Packing
Company, Armour Packing Com­pany,
Marshal Field, Corn Products
Refining Company, International Har­vester
Company, Lincold Park, Field
Museum and the Art Museum. Every
minute is filled with sight seeing, in­teresting
meetings, games, etc. The
Alabama Party chaperoned by Mrs.
J. D. Harmon, local leader of Mc­Adory
club, Jefferson county and J.
C. Lowery, District Club Agent. The
party returned by St. Louis where
they spent one day visiting the Zoo
and in sight seeing about the city.
PROHIBITION LEADER
IS VISITOR TO CITY
Trees, like other crops, should be cut
only when they are ripe, or when
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the future."
When questioned as to whether he
believed student drinking was on the
increase or decrease, he replied most
emphatically that it was on the de­crease.
He said that discipline com­mittees
of nearly all the colleges he
had visited had given that view almost
unanimously. He added that possibly
there was more drinking in Northern
and Eastern colleges than in South­ern
ones, but that he did not think
that any sharp line of distinction
could be drawn.
In conclusion Mr. Guthrie advanced
the view that a student's four years
of college are not merely in prepara­tion
for life, but are four years of
that life. In these years he forms
impressions and habits that* will re­main
with him, and it is necessary
for his future well-being that he live
a clean life during his college years.
COLLEGE HIKE HELD
SATURDAY IS CUSTOM
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a grand spectacle as they marched
out of Auburn, for they were divided
into companies, each company follow­ing
its banner, and led by their
Friendship Council captain. And
what a relief it was for approximately
one thousand students 'when they
again brought into play their natural
selves, and brought into being many
sports and customs that are now tra­ditions
in our student annals. It was
on the first hike that the Fresh-Soph
tug-of-war and many of the now an­nual
events were instituted.
Besides the All-College Hike, Au­burn
also owes to Mr. Bergthold the
credit of planning and establishing
College Night, College Stunt Night,
and for the perfecting of the military
plan of organization of the Friend­ship
Council.
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Store
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