1929-01-10 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929. NUMBER 24
Blue Key Elects
Prominent Men
Of Two Classes
Three Seniors, Two Juniors,
Selected For Activities
MCMILLAN, CRAWFORD,
BOOTH, MULLINS, DAVIS
All Prominent Some Phase
Campus Life And
Activities
Blue Key, national honor frater­nity,
whose object is to study, discuss,
and strive to further the best interest
of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
elected three seniors and two juniors.
These men were elected on the basis
of intercollegiate leadership and per­sonality.
The seniors recognized were J. B.
McMillan, business manager of the
Plainsman; C. H. Booth, prominent
athlete; Howard Mullins, basketball
star.
Charles Davis, junior in Architec­tural
Engineering, was chosen as
recognition of his work on the Glom-erata
staff. Jim Crawford, the other
junior to receive this honor, was
elected as an outstanding athlete.
Present members are: Pres., J. R.
Taylor; Sec'y., Joe Ford; Cor.-Sec,
Rosser Alston; Lud Smith; Howard
Smith; Red Carter; M. McGhee; Rix
Home; R. DeArman; J. B. Merrill;
F. Tuxworth; Pop Paterson; J. R.
Vincent; P. M. Beard.
The object of the national Blue
Key honor fraternity as set forth in
the constitution is:
To study, discuss, and strive to fur­ther
the best interest of the Alabama
Polytechnic Intsitute; to promote the
spirit of fraternalism among students
of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute;
to foster intercollegiate relationship
and develop a national collegiate
spirit by placing the stamp of ap­proval
on all college leaders, which
will make it possible to recognize
them wherever they may be found.
JARDINE PRAISES
HOME ECONOMICS
In a letter addressed to Prof. L.
N. Duncan, director, extension work
in agriculture and home economics
in Alabama is given high praise by
W. M. Jardine, secretary of the
United States Department of Agri­culture.
The letter came as a com­pliment
to Alabama and also as an
expression of thanks from the secre­tary.
It said: "At the beginning of
another year let me tell you how
much I value the good judgment,
energy, and enthusiasm you and all
the workers in extension have put
into your efforts to spread better
farm practices. The continued suc­cess
of this work is proof of public
appreciation. You need no assur­ance
that the Department of Agri­culture
appreciates these good results
and will do all that is possible to
help increase them during the year
to come."
Fuller Represents
Square And Compass
As the official delegate from the
Auburn Square and Compass, John
E. Fuller attended the annual con­vention
at the Virginia Medical Col­lege
in Richmond, December 31-Jan-uary
1. Upon his return he reported
that Bruce Williams, who graduated
at Auburn in 1926, wa selected vice-president
of the National.
Changes in the rules by which the
Farro Loving cup is awarded will be
made prior to the national award.
The Auburn "Square" has held this
cup two years and if held another
two years it will become permanent
property at Auburn.
Mr. Fuller said that plans were
made at the national convention for
better work in all the "Squares."
Scholarships, .student activities, and
general welfare of the colleges, as
well as the fraternity, will be pro­moted
in the future as has been
done in the past.
Phenomenal Rise RAILROAD MAGNATE
BEGAN LONG CAREER
AS BRUSH CHOPPER
Mobile Mardi Gras
And Carnival Will
Draw Auburn Band
EDWARD NORPHLET BROWN
FORENSIC COUNCIL
COMPLETES PLANS
DEBATING SEASON
Number Matches Scheduled
With Other C o l l e g e s—
Promising M a t e r i a l In
S o p h o m o r e C 1 a s
Freshmen A l so
Report
The Auburn Forensic Council has
completed its plans for the present
debating season and announces that
varsity debates have been scheduled
with Howard, Mercer and L. S. U.
In addition, two all-freshman debates,
continuing the policy inaugurated
last year, have been arranged, one
with Southern and one with Howard.
The council will continue its policy
of giving training to as many men as
possible, thus laying the foundation
for an organization which can, when
it is developed, adopt an ambitious
program carrying the debaters and
the name of Auburn far afield. Last
year's season ended with two vic­tories
and three losses, but more than
a half dozen men were given the op­portunity
to mount the platform with­out
any previous training. Out of
last year's freshmen, Overton, Coach-ran,
and Hawkins should do well this
season. A promising crop of fresh­men
are on hand this year. A few
who have already reported for work
are Baskerville, Max Jones, Kirk-patrick,
and Dollar. Professor Daugh-rity,
faculty adviser to the council,
and at the present time acting as
coach for the debaters, is anxious to
meet any transfers from other col­leges
who have had experience in de­bating.
Dr. Weaver and Professor
Herren will lend their support to this
activity.
COURSE OFFERED
IN APPLIED ART
For the first time the school of ar­chitecture
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute is offering this year a de­gree
course in applied art. A report
to President Bradford Knapp by
Dean Frederic Child Biggin shows
that this new course is proving popu­lar
among students and that more are
expected to enroll in it at the begin­ning
of the second semester, Janu­ary
25.
Dean Biggin pointed out that Au­burn
is the only educational institu­tion
in the South now offering a de­gree
course in applied art to both
men and women. Heretofore south­ern
students wishing thorough train­ing
in the many branches of applied
art have been forced to leave their
home states at extra expense. The
majority of them have not returned,
the net result being a loss to the
southern states.
Dean Biggin called attention to
the fact that "applied art" underlies
all forms of industry because the
modei-n world requires in products
beauty of line and mass as well as
utility. He declared that everything
must be designed in a drafting room
before it can be constructed in
workshop or in field.
The new course is being presented
in conjunction, with other degree
courses offered by the school of ar­chitecture
with emphasis on Alabama
conditions and needs.
Makes Phenomenal Rise From
Section Hand to President
EDWARD NORPLET BROWN
ILLUSTRIOUS A L U M N U S
Saved Half Of Five Dollars Per
Week Salary
A man to whom Auburn is justly
proud to lay claim is Edward Norph-let
Brown, a graduate of '92, at
present directing head of several im­portant
railroads—chairman of the
board of the St. Louis and San Fran­cisco
and of the Pere Marquette
roads, and head of the executive com­mittee
of the Rock Island Lines.
Altogether, Mr. Brown presides over
the activities of railways serving a
combined mileage of 16,300 miles,
carrying passengers and hauling
feight through 23 states of this
country, and extending well into
Canadian borders.
Born in Alabama, Mr. Brown re­ceived
his early education in Hurts-boro,
trudging over fifteen miles of
red clay foothills to reach the one
room schoolhouse there. This ele­mentary
schooling was supplemented
by much reading and studying at
home, in which he was ably assisted
by his mother and father. Later he
attended Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
where in two years he was
graduated with enviable honors.
He began his career with the rail­roads
when he was eighteen, chop­ping
brush for preliminary surveys
through the Blue Ridge Mountains.
He earned five dollars a week, and
half of this was put away in savings.
With the money he himself had
saved, he was able to pay his way
through college. After his college
course was ended, he became build­ing
engineer for the company that
first engaged him; from that he ad­vanced
to superintendent of construc­tion,
from that to roadmaster, and
finally to district superintendent.
Several years later he became con­nected
with the National Railway, in
Mexico, of which he finally became
president. Then he returned to this
country, where he began his phen­omenal
rise to become one of the
most powerful railroad--magnates in
the nation at the present day.
REGISTRATION TO
CLOSE JANUARY 26
According to an announcement is­sued
late yesterday by B. L. Shi, reg­istrar,
official second semester regis­tration
is scheduled to begin on Fri­day,
January 25, and continue until
noon Saturday, January 26. The late
fee of five dollars will be collected on
Monday, January 28, and an addition­al
fee of one dollar will be charged
each day for five days thereafter.
Class work, second semester, will
be resumed at eight a. m.-Monday,
January 28. The students are re­minded
that they are not officially
registered until their cards are ap­proved
by the Deans of their respec­tive
departments. Absences from
class on and after the opening day of
the second semester, due to late reg-istration
of first semester students
will count the same as other absences.
LEE COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL RE-OPENS
After being closed for more than
three weeks the Lee County high
school located here and the Auburn
Grammar school opened Monday.
Both were closed a week earlier than
scheduled before Christmas on ac­count
of an Influenza epidemic.
Prof. J. A. Parrish, principal of
high school, and Miss Annie Herd,
principal of grammar school, report
good attendance for the opening fol­lowing
the Christmas holidays.
NOTICE
All students, both freshmen and
upperclassmen, who are interested in
debating are asked to come to Room
301, Administration Building, Friday
night at 7:30.
Makes Fourth Year In Succes­sion
Band Has Attended—
Members Guests of City—
Festival Begins Early
This Season
An announcement that the Auburn
Band would play for the 1929 Mardi
Gras and Carnival celebration in Mo­bile
was made last week by P. R.
Bidez, bandmaster. This year the
festivities will begin on the night of
Friday, February 8, and terminate
on Mardi Gras Day, Tuesday, Feb­ruary
12. This will make the fifth
straight year that the band has jour­neyed
to Mobile for Mardi Gras,
and each, year the members have
helped the Mobilians celebrate in fit­ting
ways; the band has become very
popular with the Mobile people.
In order to be on time for the
parade Friday night, the band will
leave Auburn Friday morning, ar­riving
in Mobile late in the after­noon.
While' in Mobile, the members
will be guests of the Carnival Asso­ciation,
and will participate in par­ades
and concerts. They will also at­tend
the numerous carnival balls if
they wish to. There will be two af­ternoon
and three night parades and
about five concerts in which the band
will participate. The return trip will
be made so that the men will arrive
in Auburn on. the morning of Wed­nesday,
February 13.
THENDARA NAMES
FIFTEEN PLEDGES
Thendara, local interfraternity or­ganization,
has recently announced
its pledges for 1929. Its members
consist of representatives of the fra­ternities
on the campus that are mem­bers
of the Interfraternity Council.
The new men are as follows:
Marion Darby, Kappa Sigma; A. A.
Strauss, Theta Chi; Rufus Shephard,
Pi Kappa Alpha; Haskin Williams,
Kappa Alpha; Sleepy Noble, Phi
Delta Theta; Haley Milligan, Theta
Chi; Carson Whitson, Lambda Chi
Alpha; O. E. Ward, Sigma Phi Ep-silon;
Campbell Blake, Pi Kappa
Alpha; Jimmie Ware, Alpha Tau
Omega; Streeter Wyatt, Kappa
Alpha; Henry Reeves, Sigma Nu;
Archie Grubb, Phi Delta Theta; Dick
Adams, Kappa Sigma; and Norman
Illges, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
GLANTON ATTENDS
SCIENTIFIC MEET
Miss Louise Glanton, Director of
Home Economics, spent her vacation
in New York' attending the meeting
of the Association for the Advance­ment
of Science. There were very
interesting discussions on the chem­istry
of the endocrine glandular se­cretions,
on the heliotherapy of rick­ets,
and a host of others directly
connected with some phase of home
making. Miss Glanton also spent one
day at New Haven, Connecticut, in
consultation with Dr. Martha Elliott
of Yale University, an authority on
the physical development of young
children. It is an interesting fact
that Yale University sends its Rocke­feller
Foundation fellowship students
of Public Health, from the Near
East, to Alabama for six weeks of
study of the public health work as
being the most valuable in the U.S.A.
INTRA MURAL TYPE
ATHLETICS USED TO
SELECT FROSH SQUAD
Four Teams Be Formed Rep­resent
Military Battalions
CANDIDATES FURNISH
PERSONAL EQUIPMENT
No Conflict With Varsity Base­ball
Practice
Coach Moulton has decided to
start Intramural baseball in connec­tion
with the selection of the Rat
baseball squad. The league will be
formed at the beginning of the second
semester and will consist of four
teams representing the three batta­lions
of Field Artillery and the Engi­neer
battalion.
Only Freshmen will be eligible to
play. The coaches will in all prob
ability be drawn from the members
of the Varsity squad, since the bat­talion
league will complete its sche­dule
before the call for Varsity prac­tise
is issued.
Due to the shtortage of baseball
equipment, no attempt will be made
to equip the players with the excep­tion
of the catchers. Any man who
desires to play should send home for
any baseball equipment he has before
the end of the semester.
All men interested in playing in
this league should read the notice
concerning spring baseball which is
now posted on the Military Dept.
bulletin board on the porch of the
main building.
Lieut. Barth will be in charge of
the organization and operation of the
league and will be glad to confer
with anyone desiring additional in­formation
on the project.
Plans Completed For
Annual Stunt Night
All-College Stunt Night, an
outstanding annual event here
on the campus, and sponsored by
the YMCA, will be staged Feb­ruary
8. Plans for making this
the greatest of its kind here are
now being perfected, according
to a statement by John Cottier,
chairman of the "Y" social com­mittee.
All technical and literary so­cieties,
and all local student or­ganizations
are urged to take
part. Fraternities and dormi­tories
are requested to partici­pate,
beginning their plans and
work at once toward an original
performance.
Graves Releases
Large Sum For
Educational Use
Over $600,000 Made Available
By Governor Recently
AUBURN A N D ALABAMA
EACH RECEIVE $125,000
Other Institutions Get Amount
In Proportion
FIRST SERVICES
BAPTIST CHURCH
For the first time members of the
Auburn Baptist church held services
in their new building Sunday. The
auditorium of the building was filled
when Dr. J. R. Edwards, arose to
start the service. Dedication exercises
are planned for a later date.
The new building is one of the lar­gest
and most modern church build­ing
structures in Alabama. The main
auditorium in which church services
are held has a seating capacity of
750. In addition, there are numbers
of Sunday school school rooms each
especially equipped for the classes
which will use them.
The building and furnishings have
cost approximately $90,000 and mem­bers
of the building committee re­port
that most of it has been paid.
The local congregation has been
vrorking sometime with this in view.
In addition the State Association
gave assistance.
NOTICE
At a meeting of the Friendship
Council last Sunday evening, ar­rangement
was made and agreed upon
to postpone the Discussion group ban­quet
until some dat» early in the
secdnd semester. Since pilans are
not yet perfected in this regard, the
exact date of the event is not yet
available; this will be announced in
opportune time.
The banquet was scheduled for
December 14, but early supension of
college duties prevented it then.
First Semester Examinations To
Begin On January Eighteenth
First semester examinations will
extend from January 18 to January
24, morning examinations beginning
at 8:30 A. M. and afternoon examina­tions
beginning at 1:00 P. M. If
there are any subjects for which
periods have not been arranged be­low,
students will know that pro­fessors
of the same will select the
time for the examinations. Examina­tions
in subjects which meet only
once a week will be held at the last
period scheduled prior to January 18,
unless the examinations are offici­ally
scheduled below.
Following is the official schedule,
issued by B. L. Shi, Registrar:
Friday, January 18
(First hour subjects 8-9)
A. M. First Hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednes­day,
Friday.
P. M. First hour subjects not sche­duled
Friday morning.
Saturday, January 19
(Second hour subjects 9-10)
A. M. Second hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednes­day,
Friday.
P. M. Second hour subjects not
scheduled Saturday morning.
Monday, January 21
(Third hour subjects 10-11)
(Continued on page 6)
REPRESENTATIVES
BELL TELEPHONE TO
INTERVIEW SENIORS
Arrive Here Friday to Meet
Graduates In Electrical En­gineering—
Also O f f er
Juniors Summer Em­ployment
Mr. C. N. Thibault, Auburn, '12,
Mr. Kendall Weisiger, of Atlanta, and
Mr. T. O. Brewer, of Birmingham, all
representing the Bell Telephone Sys­tem,
will visit Auburn on Friday,
January 11th for the purpose of lay­ing
before senior engineering men the
opportunities for permanent employ­ment
in the telephone business.
These gentlemen will be at Dean
Wilmore's office at 9 A. M. and will
remain there throughout the day in
conference with Auburn men who
wish to interview them regarding em­ployment.
Mr. Weisiger, who is well known
at Auburn, has been visiting the cam­pus
for the past seventeen years in
the interest of offering opportunities
in the telephone business to Auburn
men, as a result of which there are
95 Auburn graduates now in the ser­vice
of the various branches of the
Bell System throughout the United
States.
The positions that will be offered
to Auburn men on January 11th are
situations in the nine southeastern
states in which the Southern Bell
Company and the Long Lines De­partment
of the A. T .& T. Company
operate; both of these have head­quarters
in Atlanta.
The openings in the Bell Tele­phone
Laboratories and the various
Western Electric Company manufac­tories
are also included in the pre­sentation
that our visitors will make.
Auburn men from the class of 1928
who went with the Bell System are
now located as follows:
With the Southern Bell Company:
W. D. Alston, in Birmigham; A. L.
Cameron, New Orleans; R. O. Lile,
Atlanta; F. M. Malone, Atlanta; G.
M. Moore, Jr., Mobile; Carroll Worth-ington,
Birmingham.
With the American Tel. & Tel.
Co.: W. M. Brownlee, Birmingham;
R. C. Malmborg, Nashville; P. E.
Sandlin, Atlanta; T. W. Bryan, Phil­adelphia;
F. E. Carlton, Nashville;
M. R. Wilkins, Jacksonville.
COLLEGIANS TOUR
NORTH PART STATE
The Auburn Collegians] made a
tour of the northwestern part of the
state during the Christmas holidays,
playing for dances and other social
functions. Leaving Auburn on Dec­ember
20, they visited Sheffield, De­catur,
Athens, and other towns in
that section. The last dances played
for were an afternoon tea dance, and
an all night breakfast dance on New
Year's Eve at the Elk's home in Shef­field.
They were very favorably her­alded
and received in all the towns,
being spoken of as the "peppiest or­chestra
in the South." In every town,
they boosted Auburn to the highest,
and at all the dances the Auburn mel­odies
were their feature numbers.
The trip was reported as being a
great success, and by their exhibition
of the Auburn Spirit, the Collegians
won many supporters for the college.
Gov. Bibb Graves on Tuesday made
available between $600,000 and
$650,000 for building purposes at
Auburn, the University, Alabama Col­lege
and the State Normal Schools,
thereby releasing the first of the
funds provided for under the new law
appropriating approximately $1,300,-
000 annually for these institutions
and for the Alabama School of Trades
and Industries at Gadsden, for build­ing,
expansion, and equipment.
Later in the day, Dr. R. E. Tid-well,
state superintendent of educa-tino,
announced that the greater por­tion
of the money has been appor­tioned
as follows: University of Ala­bama
and the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, $125,000 each; Alabama
College $100,000; Florence and Troy
Normal Schools, $50,000 each; Ala­bama
School of Trades and. Indus­tries
at Gadsden, $37,500 and $25,-
000 each to the normal schools at
Livingston and Montgomery. The
balance of approximately $100,000
will be apportioned to the other in­stitutions
concerned as soon as they
have started building operations, it
was stated.
The funds made available by the
governor's action yesterday, repres­ent
amounts due for the quarters
beginning Oct. 1, 1928 and Jan. 1,
1929. Under the new law, an appro­priation
of approximately $1,300,000
annually is provided for, payable in
quarterly installments, subject to the
condition of the state treasury.
This appropriation is allocated as
follows: Auburn $250,000; Univer­sity
$250,000; Alabama College
$200,000; white normal schools,
$100,000 each; Alabama School of
Trades and Industries $75,000; negro
normal schools $50,000 each.
Auburn has plans all ready for the
construction of a chemical engineer­ing
building. A new heating system
has been installed at the Florence
State Normal School. With funds
now provided this school and the
other state normal schools will add
a dormitory each, also a classroom
and administration building.
The University and Alabama Col­lege
have already gone ahead with
their building extension programs.
At Alabama College a dormitory has
been completed and plans are ready
for an administrattion and audi­torium
building. At the University
a building to house the school of com­merce
and business administration is
completed and a woman's building is
nearing completion. Another build­ing
to house the college of education
is also in immediate prospect there.
In the matter of building exten­sions,
it is pointed out that the state
has recently expended $150,000 in
new structures at the Alabama Home
for the Feeble Minded, at Tuscaloosa;
$300,000 in new buildings at the
state school for the deaf and blind
at Talladega, and is spending $60,000
in providing new buildings at the
Alabama Training School for Girls in
Birmingham.
Architectural Courses •
Require Special Work
High school students expecting to
study architecture at th€ Alabama
Polytechnic Institute have been ad­vised
by Dean Frederic Child Big­gin,
head of that department,, that
certain subjects must be included in
the usual 15 units required for college
entrance. In addition to the required
three units in English and one unit
each in algebra and plane geometry
architects are expected to present
the following high school subjects:
two units of foreign language, one
(Continued on page 6)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929.
¥ AUBURN FOOTPRINTS $
THE HURDLER'S SONG (ASK BASKIN)
"I Can't Get Over A Girl Like You."
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NOT ON THE MENU
The applicant for the position of cook was insolent-looking.
He: "I don't like her looks."
She: "But remember the reputation for cooking she bears."
He: "We don't want any she bears cooked, we don't like 'em."
* * * * • * * *
"I've got you covered", smiled the carpenter as he surveyed the newly
shingled house.
* * * * * * * *
"Where yuh from?"
"Ireland."
"Ireland?"
"Yeah. Rhode Ireland."
* * * * * * * *
"I know a man who got a letter from Roosevelt while he was president."
"What did it say?"
"He couldn't read it, don't you know he was a 'Rough Writer'?"
* * * * * * * *
PATE??
Once upon a time two brothers lived in Germany. One saved his money. The
other spent his for strong drink. The war came on and the thrifty brother lost
his money through the war. The other collected his empty bottles and sold them
and became rich. That's a fairy tale for college boys.
* * * * * * * *
When I returned as the progidal son, pa thought I was the fatted calf and
tried to kill me.
* * * * * * * *
YES!!
Hubby: I found fifty cents in bed this morning.
Wifie: That was your sleeping quarters.
* * * * * * * *
SOMETHING LIKE THE FRESHMAN'S
"Dear me," said the caller, "what is the terrible noise upstairs?"
"Oh, that's nothing but ma dragging pa's pants across the floor", said Willie.
"But why the racket"?
"You see, pa's in them".
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MAX AGAIN
Max Jones and his college nit-wits will play, "I loved a street cleaners daughter
and she threw me down, I think I'll sewer."
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BRIDGE PLAYERS SONG
"Take Back the Hand Thou Gavest Me."
* * * * * * * *
The "No Skating Allowed", sign in the postoffice was probably meant for
Professor (Flaming Youth) Bob Smith.
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TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK
From a Co-ed's essay on the subject, "My Family."
"In my family, there are three of us. My father, my mother, and me. I am
the youngest."
* * * * * * * *
HOW PECULIAR
First He: "I know a man who swallowed a block of wood and a splinter grew
out of his elbow."
Other He: "That's nothing, when I was a baby I swallowed a tack and nails
grew out the end of my toes."
WHEN WILL THESE CEASE?
A venerable old Scot purchased a little radio set. A few days later his
friends asked him how he liked the set.
"Well, it's aw richt to list to," he replied, "but those bulbs are no guid to
read by."
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SURE REMEDY—TRY IT
(Scratching) "How do you get rid of these cooties?" - '
"That's easy. Take a bath in sand and rub down in alcohol. The cooties get
drunk and kill each other throwing rocks."
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White, '32; D. Reynolds, '32; Don May,
'29; Virgil Nunn, '31; Gabie Drey, '31;
Charles Matthews, '32; James David­son,
'32; W. M. Taylor, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
H. H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
Walter Smith, '31 Circulation Mgr.
J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Mgr.
W. A. Files '31 Asst. Circulation Mgr.
John Dilworth, '31 _ Asst. Circulation Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
. Benjamin Kinkaid, '32; Jack Bauneister,
'32; Roy Gamer, '32; Donald Simmons,
'32; Warren H. Gard, '31; C. F. Strip-lin,
'31.
Merchants Should Refuse
To Accept Checks
There is a small minority of students who
are indulging in a practice which is in­tolerable.
We have reference to the care­less
abandon "with which some men write
worthless checks and expect the merchants
of the town to accept them as payment for
articles, or in many instances receive cash
for them. This latter is certainly a favor
on the part of the merchant.
There is no reason whatever for a student
to write a check when he has not the neces­sary
funds to his credit in the bank. We
grant the possibility of an error, but that
is a poor excuse, .it shows negligence in
keeping his account. Then again he may
think that he will have enough money to
cover by the time it gets to the bank, but
something usually happens to prevent that.
And then he is in bad again. When any­one
writes a bad check, it is a reflection
not only upon his individual honor, but it
also reflects discredit upon the student
body. It causes the payee to lose faith in
the- writer, and casts the same stigma of
doubt upon the entire gfoup.
To make matters even worse, such men
are abusing the courtesies of the people
who believe in and help Auburn. Either a
great many students are doing this, or a
few are writing a great number of checks,
for as one merchant said, "If I were to
paste them on the window, the whole window
would be covered." Regardless of the
number indulging in this, it is time to call
a halt.
Something should be done. A student
should be made to realize that he is hurting
himself in an irreparable way, and also
causing others much trouble. And about
the only way we can think of is for those
in the town receiving bad checks from the
students place the names of the writers in
a very conspicuous place where all may see
them. This would cut down the number
considerably, although there is likely to
remain some who do not care.
L e t ' s Come Clean
With Our Politics
Conditions are always existing here that
require the attention of certain groups of
students if they are to be corrected. Some­times
a few students can adjust things in
an admirable manner, and sometimes the
cooperation of all the students is needed
if the change is to be a success. At the
present time there is a condition, border­ing
on an evil, that needs the attention of
all the students, for if it is changed success­fully,
public opinion will have to be altered
somewhat.
The issue in question is the method of
carrying out elections. It may have been
good when it was first introduced and used,
but abuse and corruption have done their
part in making it highly disagreeable and
unsatisfactory now. The ease with which
one can shift an election makes the present
plan undesirable.
After the nominating committee has been
appointed, those men whom the nominating
members want and not those really eligible
for office are often found on the ballots.
This is so because the members of the com­mittee
do not know who is eligible and be­cause
they have friends whom they would
like to see in office. At present it amounts
to political suicide for anyone wanting an
office to openly seek it. He has to go about
his task in a secretive and furtive manner
as a fugitive from justice. Should one
who is to lead and influence others resort
to such tactics to be elected to a position
of trust? Must one secretly attempt to
wheedle votes out of students or will he be
allowed to openly declare his position? On
the other hand, must a voter blindly cast
his vote for someone he doesn't even know
or will be able to vote intelligently because
the positions and plans of the nominees
have been disclosed? Such questions as
these inevitably arise when one gives the
matter any serious thought.
This is no way for the student body of
as great an institution as this to be govern­ed.
And when the students continue to al­low
such a condition to remain with them,
something is wrong. But it can be correct­ed,
and the only way is to have open politics.
By this we mean that each aspirant for an
office should be allowed to turn his name
in to the nominating committee with the
reasons why he wants the office and the
qualifications that make him eligible for it.
If there were too many aspirants for an
office, then the committee could consider
each carefully and eliminate to within a
limit. If this were resorted to, the real
leaders in the student body would be in of­fice.
Auburn Firefighting
Equipment Inadequate
Those who witnessed the burning of the
home on North Gay Street slightly more
than a week ago were forcibly impressed
with Auburn's extreme need of a more ef­ficient
and effective fire fighting system.
This was an unnecessary and prevent­able
event; we are of the opinion that,
with the proper fire equipment—which
Auburn could and should maintain—this
drastic burning could have been stopped
at a very slight loss. All of which brings
before us the bare fact that this city can
ill afford to longer neglect this all-import­ant
phase of her development and protec­tion.
We hasten to add that this is no intended
blow against the present fire department
here. It is fairly efficient, in its small
way; the crying need is for expansion. If
we only recall that this is the same outfit
that has been inadequately fighting fires
here for years, it is readily conceivable
that a growing town such as Auburn, cer­tainly
needs to keep pace with her needs.
We do not know the cause for neglecting
this all-important protective issue; how­ever,
it is readily evident that the city gov­ernment
holds within its power the neces­sary
momentum for this much needed re­form.
Auburn possesses a City Council
composed of intelligenlt and far-sighted
men; isn't this an excellent time for them
to maintain this worthy reputation, and
even advance it materially?
The protection of the holdings of the
entire citizenship of Auburn, which in­volves
thousands of dollars in real estate
and. other property perishable through
fire, rests to a degree upon fire preventa­tive
measures. This is no new realization;
the time for needed change is at hand.
Letters to the Editor
Editor The Plainsman:
Professor Champion is known by practi­cally
every student on the campus, and
likewise he is intimately acquainted with a
large number of the students, including
many who were never in any of his classes.
All members of his classes and those who
were formerly under him have a very high
admiration and appreciation for him. He
takes a profound interest in each student's
classroom work as well as his moral life
while a resident of Auburn. On a number
of occasions at the beginning of class he
•devotes a few minutes to give sincere ad­vice
to the class that is very helpful, es­pecially
those who are spending their first
year away from home.
Professor Champion is a graduate of our
great institution, and for a number of
years he has been connected with the Math.
Department. He teaches a class in each
branch of freshman mathematics. In this
way he exerts his Christian influence
among many students in the different
courses. All students easily realize that
he is interested in their success and the
development of a well-rounded character;
consequently, they like him as a man and
as instructor. His explanations are ex­plicit
and well understood, and the students
progress nicely in the subject of mathe­matics.
He has always been a true supporter of
our football team and other athletics on
the campus. Although the football team
has suffered defeat during the last three
seasons, he proves his loyalty to the team
by attending the games regularly.
A FORMER STUDENT.
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
Seems nice to be getting back into the
Tiger, doesn't it? Now we know just how
essential a theater is !
Just before holidays Dean Judd mailed
his Education students congratulatory let­ters
on passing their work. A little thing
well done, it must have been a great in­spiration
to those who received his letter.
Tex Rickard—brilliant fistic promoter
who has raised the sport of boxing to won­derfully
high levels is dead. A big man
gone home.
We noted a car speeding along during
the holidays bearing inscription: "See
Yourself as Others See You." A nice motto
maybe, but wouldn't that necessitate an
ever-present mirror before us? We are
quite prone to forget our own petty little
idiosyncrasies.
The Dormitory boys have already enter­ed
upon the dollar (washer)-pitching past
time. Rushing the season, huh? For that
is naturally a spring time sport, you know.
Still it is impossible to ever determine just
where these Dormitory boys may blossom •
forth. There really is no cause for sur­prise,
we must admit, as we consider the
source!
"Every man is said to have his peculiar
ambition. Whether it be true or not, I
can say, for one, that I have no other so
great as that of being truly esteemed by
my fellow-men by rendering myself worthy
of esteem."—Lincoln.
"Conference for Pastors Ends" reads a
headline. What do you guess the other
parts of them were doing at that time?
Final miniature voice: Many are called,
but few get up.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
During the Christmas Holidays I had the
very great pleasure of receiving many
Christmas cards. Among them the Christ­mas
cards from freshmen in this institution
were very greatly appreciated. I did not
get a chance to reply to them, they were
so many, but I take this opportunity to
thank those who remembered us so kindly.
The next two weeks is a very important
period. In these two weeks the students of
this institution ought to put in full time
at work. How greatly that is needed is
shown by the deficiency list just laid on
my desk. You can turn these deficiencies
into passing grades by putting in enough
honest-to-goodness study on the subjects.
There is a great difference in the attitude
of various groups toward this matter of
studying. I have a list showing that some
groups have as small as five to ten per
cent of their members who have defici­encies
while in other groups as high as
fifty per cent have some study in which
they are deficient. This is a pretty sure
•indication that the work has not been as
consistent as it should be. Outline your
subjects, put in full time and clean up the
work for the semester in good shape.
* * * * *
Our new radio station is attracting a
great deal of attention. Letters are com­ing
from everywhere. I am anxious about
WAPI. It will be known as the voice of
Alabama because it will be the most pow­erful
station in Alabama. But it will be
the voice of Auburn as well. Our good
name and reputation for doing things and
doing them well is bound up in WAPI.
I hope all of us will concentrate on making
it a real source of service to the Slate and
service to Auburn.
* * * * *
I am thankful that the "flu" epidemic
is past, apparently. I am glad to have the
report that attendance is in good shape.
* * * * *
Many students are "letting things go."
I know of a number who have been drop-pf'd
under the twenty per cent rule who,
I am sure, could have been reinstated had
they been • willing to .make their petition
to the Council and state their case fully.
Do not let things go. Keep track of your
situation. Go to your Instructors, to your
Dean, to the Registrar, or even to the
President and see that your record is kept
straight and that the college authorities
know all the circumstances. Often what
you think is an injustice is done because a
rule is applied rigidly when if your side
could be known fully the rule might be
relaxed.
THEGEDUNK
I am the Gedunkette who has so much
comment to make after the dances. My!
the conduct of boys; and why the way some
of the girls dress! It is utterly disgrace­ful.
I am convinced that every boy attend­ing
the dances is a drunkard. I may not'
be correct, but it gives me such a splendid
opportunity for gossip. I snort and tear
my hair about the behaviour in fraternity
houses. Oh! it goes over big. I am amazed
that people employ such endearing terms
as old cat, fool or two-faced when speak­ing
of me. But why should I worry be­cause
of what so few think? Most people
do so dearly love me.
By Gene Walsh
COMMEMORATING O. HENRY
Noted critic sees this year's "O. Henry
I rize Stories" as a pretensious failure.
According to the critic the stories are not
only a failure but are harmful. They
r.re harmful in that they appear' to be
critical and attempt to be impressive. They
could exist through a perfectly harmless
medium if they offered pleasant reading
matter to those who want it and attempted
nothing more. The stories as now existing
fortify, with a critical viewpoint of selec­tion
and interpretation, what to a large
degree is mediocrity. The book of stories
continually ignores that which is important
for the less important; it not only com­memorates
O'Henry's name, but also ac­claims
his method; it refuses to look into
magazines for what it might find there
and why? There are only two explana­tions.
Either its critical values "are defec­tive
or its commercial instinct outweighs
its critical instinct; so for all its preten­sions
it prefers many undiscriminating
readers to fewer discriminating ones. On
the other hand, "The World's Best Short
Stories" (of Mr. O'Brien) are harmless,
as they attempt only to offer pleasant
reading matter to those who want it.
* * * * *
QUITE A LONG LIVELIHOOD
The literary world suffers a deviation
from the usual conventions observed in
writing in Mrs. Virginia Woolf's new novel,
"Orlando". The book involves a character
that had the unusual fortune of living
from the Elizabethan age through our own
present day. To add to this unique dis­play
of imagination the author has the
character to undergo a change in sex. Or­lando,
the character involved, is made a
Duke by Charles II; then after undergoing
sexual transformation is made a Duchess.
Escaping from the Turkish court, where
she has been sent by Charles II, Orlando
returns to England in the latter part of
the eighteenth century. While being torn
between her new femininity and recrud­escences
of manhood Orlando finds herself
in the middle of the nineteenth century,
fronted with the problem of getting a hus­band.
The latter part of the book is taken
up with how she succeeds in getting one
and how, in the third decade of the twen­tieth
century, she becomes a mother. This
unusual work offered Mrs. Woolf a pleas­ant
opportunity to satirize the traditional
male attitude toward women, which she
does vith great malice and a dash of
novelty.
* * * * *
THE DUCE SHOULD HAVE PLENTY
TO SAY
One of the world's most forceful char­acters
has written his own autobiography.
"My Autobiography," by Benito Mussolini,
can now be secured in print. Probably no
man other than Napoleon could have so
forecfully created a piece of work of this
nature. The Autobiography constitutes a
correct record of Mussolini's life with noth­ing
timid, vacillating, or evasive. The story
of a he-man as depicted by himself may
be found in this unusual work.
Upton Sinclair's "Boston" is now off
the press and has excited a great deal of
favorable comment. The book is a written
picturization of the whole panorama of
our civilization, with all its glory and all
its greed, all its bravery and shameful
cowardice. It constitutes a conglomera­tion
of fact, fiction, sarcasm, and ridicule
that probably far surpasses Mencken or
Lewis.
Other interesting books that have just
recently come from the press are John
Erskine's "Penelope's Man" and the "Set-
Up" by Joseph Moncure March. The latter
is in verse and involves characters of the
so-called rough and tough element.
The page and stage world seems to
have a tendency to recede somewhat in
the background during the period man has
set aside to shout, "Peace on earth and
good will to man". And so at this time
we find the page, and certainly the stage,
lacking in energetic endeavor.
MEDITATIONS
O N THIS A N D T H AT
IBy ^Benjamin Trovost—
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions ex­pressed
in this column are not necessarily
the editorial opinions of this paper. It is
a column of personal comment, and is not
to be read as an expression of our edi­torial
policy.
* * * * *
COLLEGE literary magazines are
often discoverers of writers of
talent. The latest one to come to
my desk is the Prelude, published by the
students of the Woman's College of Ala­bama.
I am sorry that the Prelude felt it
necessary to use some amateur art in its
December number. The cover design, with
its rococo curves in an otherwise Gothic
window silhouette and its lack of balance
gives one a bad initial impression. The
pen and ink sketch on the title page almost
discourages further perusal. The utter
lack of any knowledge of perspective and
the slipshod method of shading combine to
result in a very inartistic drawing.
However, the reader who goes on into
the magazine will find something better.
There is some good writing in the Decem­ber
Prelude. The opening poem, Echoes, is
the work of a writer who has some feeling
for poetry. Her creative ability cannot
be judged because the idea, form and meth­od
are orthodox. The unfortunate use of
the word moat where mote is meant is prob­ably
an accident. I hope so. I simply can­not
imagine a "ditch full of water" float­ing
around in the still solemness of a chapel
nave. Otherwise,.the poem is rather good.
The thing which impresses me most favor­ably
is the word imagery in some of the
poems, especially Thrills in the Sky, Son­net
of Discontent, and Reawakening.
The plot of the short story, Feeling the
Part, is better than the style in which it is
written. The reader is jerked thru the
rather interesting story by stacato periods
which leave him nerve-racked and ex­hausted
at the end. The sense doesn't flow
smoothly from idea to idea as it should in
good prose. Of course" much of the verse
in the magazine is a school-girlish expres­sion
of ephemeral longings and repressions,
but some of it is good. The editor, in an
editorial note, voices the need of Alabama
for a poet to express the still-adolescent
spirit of the state. That is a hopeful sign;
perhaps some contributor to the Prelude
will become the prophet of our state. The
editor speaks for Alabama's youth.
* * * * *
HE WAS haltingly shambling across
the street in front of the house when
I first noticed him; the ancient rel­ic
of our sometime Southern life. He wore
a rain-stained hat which had been shapeless
for years. His whitish crinkley hair stuck
out at the edges of his weather-beaten cov­ering.
His clothing was indescribable; a
motley collection of cast-off vests, shirts,
sweaters, tuxedos, army coats and overalls.
Separate pieces had ceased to exist; it all
covered him and stuck together. His face
had lost its once-bright ebony life—it re­minded
one of a walnut stained leaf. The
color had faded from his eyes. The lashes
and brows were worn away, and the pupils
rolled, curiously alive, in deep sockets. A
dribble of tobacco or snuff drolled from
the corners of his mouth and stained his
thin gray moustaches. His knotty hands,
tortured into shapelessness by years of
gripping ax handles, plow lines, hoes and
rakes, hung from cadavorous sleeves which
accentuated the thinness of his wrists. He
slouched along slowly, never lifting his
broad feet entirely clear of the ground.
Ragged pieces of leather cut into fantastic
shapes and worn rough partially covered
his feet. Bits of baling wire and thong
held his makeshift shoes on his feet. He
stooped to pick up a bit of rag or a piece
or iron. He muttered unintelligibly to him­self
occasionally. His type is fast going.
The old Southern negro, son of the slave
generation, is becoming a rarity. With him
the romantic but unprogressive old South
seems to be going.
* * * * *
The old negro shambled on down the
street—hesitated at the corner, then sud­denly
disappeared up a side street. Symbol­ic?
The voice of Youth speaking from a
Southern college, seeking a prophet for the
New South. Symbolic?
MY JEWELS
I have seen the swelling sun,
Like a blood-filled bubble, fall
To the sharpened world, and burst on the
tip
Of a pine tree that is tall.
I have seen a clear, glass cloud,
Painted with pink and with gray,
Float to the top of the tilted gold cup
Of the dawn, and spill away.
I have heard a woodpecker
Beating the heart of a tree,
And I have kissed naked young leaves that
stretched
Cold washed faces up to me.
—Mary Dixon Thayer.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
RADIO IS RAPIDLY GAINING
RECOGNITION IN COLLEGES
Radio is rapidly gaining recogni­tion
in the colleges, both as a medium
for broadcasting college activities
and as a course of study for those
who wish to make it their life work.
Many of the larger stations are em­ploying
only college men in the capa­city
of announcer or director—men
who have had microphone experience.
There are now sixty-three college
radio stations in the United States.
This is particularly remarkable, since
it must be remembered that radio as
a college institution is comparatively
new. The colleges broadcast lectures,
educational talks, talent recruited
from the student body, etc. Some of
the schools have large and beautiful
studios with a staff of artists equal
to any commercial station.
College Humor Magazine has ar­ranged
with the cooperation of one
thousand or more colleges throughout
the United States and Canada, a ser­vice
called COLLEGIATE NEWS
FLASHES, being a digest of all the
college news of national import. This
service is now being broadcast by the
majority of these stations and it is
enthusiastically received by radio
fans.
The news flashes feature oddities
in the news, such as the heaviest man
in the United States playing football,
or a student who has never received
less than an A in any college study,
or important medical discoveries by
some professor, or unusual housing
conditions, fraternity and sorority
news, legislative moves that bear on
scholastic matters, news about en­rollments,
athletics, etc. In brief,
news of national interest that is not
carried in the daily papers.
COLLEGIATE NEWS FLASHES
are released to the college radio sta­tions
Saturday of each week and
are broadcast not later than Wednes­day
of the next week. A list of sta­tions
scheduling this broadcast fol­lows:
Station, College, Address, respect­ively.
WCSO, Wittenberg College, Spring­field,
Ohio; WNAD, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, Qkla.; WHAZ
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York; WTFI, Toccoa Falls
Institute, Toccoa, Georgia; WOI,
Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa;
WSUI, Iowa State University, Iowa
City, Iowa; WTAW, Agri. & Mech.
College of Texas, College Station,
Texas; WWL, Loyola University, New
Orleans, Louisiana; KFWA, Colorado
State Teachers College, Greeley, Col­orado;
KFRU, Stephens College, Co­lumbia,
Missouri; KGY, St. Martin's
College, Lacey, Washington; KOAC,
Oregon State Agricultural College,
Corvallis, Oregon; KOB, New Mexico
College of Agriculture, State College,
New Mexico; KOCW, Oklahoma Col­lege
for Women, Chickasha, Okla­homa;
KUOA, University of Arkan­sas,
Fayetteville, Arkansas; KUOM,
State University of Montana, Mis­soula,
Montana; KUSD, University
of South Dakota, Vermilion, South
Dakota: KWLC, Luther College,
Decorah, Iowa; KWSC, State College
of Washington, Pullman, Washing­ton
; WCAD, St. Lawrence University,
Canton, New York; WCAJ, Nebraska
Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Ne­braska;
KFJM, University of North
Dakota, Grand F<frks, N. Dakota;
WCAT, South Dakota School of
Mines, Rapid City, S. Dakota; KFHA,
Western State College of Colorado,
Gunnison, Colorado; KFKZ, N. E. St.
Louis, Teachers College, Kirksville,
Missouri; WCAL, St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minnesota; WCAZ, Carth­age
College, Carthage, Illinois;
WDBO, Rollins College, Orlando,
Florida; WFBJ, St. John's University,
Collegeville, Minnesota; W G S T,
Georgia School of Technology, At­lanta,
Georgia; WHAD, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
WHA, University of Wisconsin, Madi-
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Boredom Assumed By
Younger Generation
"It is in variably the tendency of
twenty-five to view with alarm the
antics of twenty," says Nancy, Hoyt,
prominent in Washington diplomatic
and social circles, in the February
College Humor. "And it is as invari­able
with twenty to snicker at the
sour words and sour grapes of twenty-five.
"It is not the antics that I lament
but their lack; above all you have a
right to gusto, a gusto which is ut­terly
yours and belongs to no other
age. Afi gusto which is not necessarily
only present when a pair of silver
spike heels chatter along the pave­ment
next lazy patent leather dance
Oxfords, or champagne cocktails
twinkle in crystal goblets, but is as
much peculiarly yours when three or
L. S. U. MAKES
NEW RAT RULES
L. S. U. is busy making a new set
of freshman rules to replace the old
ones, which are not in favor among
the students of that institution. Bru­tal
hazing is to be done away with
with entirely, having as a substitute,
"humorous" methods which are in­tended
to inflict mental punishment
upon the wayward frosh instead of a
physical one.
Meanwhile an organization known
as the Kappa Daggers which denounc-son,
Wisconsin; WHBY, St. Norbert's
College, West DePere, Wisconsin;
WLB, University of Minnesota, Min­neapolis,
Minnesota; WMAZ, Mercer
University, Macon, Georgia; WRUF,
University of Florida, Gainesville,
Florida; WCAC, Connecticut Agricul­tural
College, Storrs, Connecticut;
KUT Unlverigty of Texas, Austin,
Texas,
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four of you sink into delicious melan­choly
and deplore the dullness of pro­fessors,
the brutal stinginess of pa­rents
and the lousiness of life in gen­eral.
Vitality glazes a film of gold
varnish over the world for you. Why
pour boiling water on it? I reproach
you all, the new younger generation,
with deliberately trying to destroy
your necessary and delightful wildness
by a sheath of awful boredom, a pall
of gloom which is only lifted when
contemporaries and friends of exact­ly
the same age are the only persons
present. In America the colleges are
packed with crowds of cheerful and
vivid men and girls, but let them
separate for a week and fly to for­eign
parts and the great heebie-jeebie
appears to set in. The girls, prepos­terously
pretty and well dressed, with
slim American legs which should pro­vide
a harmless delight to eyes surfeit­ed
with the heavy European product,
fluttering in printed chiffons, look
out ^from under their floppy straw
hats with countenances as grim as a
safe deposit door. The stranger pass­ing
with a softened expression for
so much youth and beauty is almost
knocked backward by the chilling
glare and pulled down mouth.
"The continued practice of appear­ing
bored leads to real boredom final­ly.
If the boredom is put on to snub
Europe, it is unfair. Paris loves a
gay face. Why not indulge her to the
extent to allowing a little life to enter
into your eyes?
"At twenty the cup runneth over.
Let it spill. Splash it around. Share
your gusto a little bit. Yell "bonjour"
to the workman who passes you leav­ing
Montmarte at six A. M., kid the
taxi driver along, enjoy the street
dancing on the fourteenth of July
and don't get too dignified if a waiter
on holiday winks at you. You won't
be any poorer for it. Europe will
adore you instead of being bewildered
and puzzled, and as for us poor souls
of twenty-five, we'll be a bright poi­son
green with jealousy. What
wouldn't I give to do those things
and see those things with the gusto of
twenty! Ah! the grapes are sweet,
so sweet. And don't let anyone tell
you they are sour either!"
es the sophomores and their motives
has sprung up presumably from the
freshman ranks. The object of this
organization, aside from low-rating
the sophs, is to defend the rights of
the freshman. Its code which was
mysteriously posted with anonymous
warnings over the bulletin boards of
the school states: "We, the freshman
class, have organized ourselves into
a Greek letter fraternity, Kappa. Dag­gers.
This fraternity consists of a
selected few of the freshmen who are
able to outwit any of you dumb-bell
sophomores."
The ways of American College stu­dents
surprise Kimiko Yamanishi in
more ways than one. This young la­dy
from Tokyo, Japan, who is this
year getting her first taste of Ameri­can
co-education at Duke Universi­ty
finds many of our customs and
habits quite strange and even amus­ing.
For instance, she expresses
great astonishment over the fact that
American girls have so many admir­ers
and are seen with so many dif­ferent
young gentlemen. Safety in
numbers evidently does not appeal to
Japanese maidens, for according to
their standards it appears to be the
height of fickleness in their "one
man" philosophy of life.
Kimiko can not exactly accustom
herself to the constant raving of the
co-eds, who are always excited or
thrilled over a new "S. P." Accord­ing
to the Japanese viewpoint that is
much too expensive and unnecessary.
But despite her queer ways and little
peculiarities, Kimiko says she is
"crazy about American college life."
She likes our sports, our food, our
clothes, and especially our movies.
Kimiko never misses a Quadrangle
picture show, for they are so differ­ent
from the Japenese moving pic­tures
which are always very sad and
tragic. The "Dope Shop does not
particularly appeal to Miss Yamanis­hi.
Perhaps our "dopes" are not as
good as the Japanese drinks.
Kimiko has only been in America
for three years, but she speaks Eng­lish
very well, and has even acquir­ed
some of our slang expressions as
"gosh" and "hot dog" which she
makes use of quite frequently along
with the rest of the co-eds. Miss
Yamanishi entered the Junior class
at Drake this fall, after having re­ceived
her diploma from Louisburg
College. She is working for an A.
B. degree with Religious Education
as her major, but she does not find
her work especially difficult even
though she is handicapped by her lack
of background in English.
Kimiko first became interested in
studying in America through Rev. W.
A. Wilson of Durham who has been a
missionary in Japan for thirty-seven
years. After attending elementary
and high school, Kimiko went to Oka-yama
to boarding school, and while
there she attended the missionary
school in order to learn English. She
became so interested in America and
American colleges, that she was de­termined
to come over here to school.
Having secured the permission of her
father who is a banker in Tokyo,
Kimiko came over to America by her­self
in order to pursue her studies.
She landed in San Francisco in the
summer of 1926, and made the excit­ing
trip across the continent to North
Carolina alone. Kimiko tells an
amusing anecdote of this long trip.
She said that since shS knew only
two English words for food, coffee
and toast, she was forced to eat toast
with coffee for every meal all the
way from San Francisco to Durham.
FANTASY
The pale moon sent Its glimmer­ing
beams across the ripples of the
placid lake. She, a beautiful maid­en,
lay prone in the prow of the
drifting canoe. Peace, happiness,
perfection. Then in a nasal, flat
voice she said, "Ain't it nice?"
Silently I knocked the ashes out
of my pipe and drowned her.
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Tiger Cagers To
Play Fewer Tilts
On Court in 1929
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By Dick Jones
Coach George M. Bohler and his
Auburn Tiger basket ball five have
decided to take on no more foes this
year other than the games scheduled
at the first of the season. Bohler's
idea being to play as many games
as is possible without overworking the
team. It has been doped out that the
Plainesmen will have a much better
chance of winning the S. C. cham-pnioship
with fewer games.
Fort Benning, Southern College,
Florida, L. S. U., Clemson, Georgia,
Georgia Tech, Tulane and Mercer
are the out-of-state fives which will
be taken on by., the Tiger quintet.
The season will be wound up by play­ing
two games with the Birmingham-
Southern cagemen on the Auburn
campus five days before the begin­ning
of the S. C. tournament, in
Atlanta March 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
The cagesters from the "Village
of the Plains" jumped right into their
tough schedule Wednesday night and
won their initial game on their card
from Fort Benning, 40-38. The game
ended in a tie, 34-34, and an extra
five minute session had to be added.
The Tigers then pushed ahead by add­ing
six points more to their score
while the Benning Musketeers only
made four. This was the second bat­tle
for the Tiger quintet, having de­feated
the Levy-Morton team in a
mock tilt two days before the Christ­mas
holidays began.
The schedule does not open with
a college game until Jan. 18, when
the Plainsmen meet Southern College
from Florida on the Auburn campus.
The season closes on Feb. 26, when
they battle the Panther five from
Birmingham in the local Auburn
alumni gym.
Coach Bohler faces a hard, but not
•impossible task in turning out a rep­resentative
quintet this season. The
heavy losses by graduation and lack
of well -developed material is handi­capping
him severely. He has a good
deal of material on hand and has
hopes of doing more with it that he
expected to do at first. Capt. Du-
Bose is the only regular to return for
service this year and seems to be the
man the Tiger mentor will have to
build his team around. He was all-
Southern center last year and looks
like a sure-bet for a place on the all-
Southern team this year. He has led
his team in offensive and defensive
work in both the past two games.
The gymnasium has been improved
and is able to seat a larger number
of fans than last year. The court
has been newly lined off and moved
a few feet from the east wall, which
had been heretofore marked off by
the wall .
The complete schedule for the
1929 Auburn Tiger basket ball team
will be found on this page.
Plays in Auburn-'Bama Alumni Game Thousands to Pay
Silent Tribute To
Master Promoter
Old Auburn Stars Play in Grads Struggle
"Flivver" Ford, Auburn's former hard plunging fullback, who was
one of the outstanding players in the Auburn-Alabama alumni grid
battle New Year's day, at Montgomery. He was one of the players who
ran true to form of the days of "Old". He held down the fullback posi­tion
along the side of John "Barleycorn" Shirey, who's "toteing" of
the pigskin in the "Village of the Plains" against grid teams will never
be forgotten. *
S P O R T S S T U FF
By "Dusty" Porter
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Large Number Contend
For Place on Frosh Five
The Freshman basket ball squaa
has shown considerable progress in
their first week of training under
Coaches Bohler, Lee, and Brown.
They started practicing the first day
that the students returned to school
from the Christmas holidays and
haven't missed a day in working out
at least two hours every evening
since. No real fundamentals have
been stressed as yet. They have
spent most of their time getting into
the best of condition before the more
complicated parts of the game, are
put into effect in these practices.
The squad numbers 42 men at
present, but will more than likely
have to be cut down a bit before the
week is over.
The 42 Freshmen cagesters who
(Continued on page 6)
Once again the south takes football
dictation from nobody. Georgia Tech
takes up where the University of
Alabama left off two years and sends
the western aggregation back to hib­ernate
for one more year and wait for
her chance at revenge, and with the
outstanding bunch of footballers that
still have one or more years to pre­pare
for Tech, it may be Ga. Tech to
get the call again in 1929, and would
Mr. Riegal welcome this opportunity?
The Tech machine going on the
field a decided loser and with their
backs to the wall throughout the
first quarter came back strong with
conservative football to win the
greatest game of the year and bring
back a clean slate to the south, the
only section to have a clean record
in the Tournament of Roses game.
No doubt this game will be disputed
for years to come and will go down
on record with a large question mark
following. Never in the history of
football has such an occurance come
about in a game as important. A
break is a break regardless of how it
happens or when, and Tech was there
to take advantage of Mr. Riegals run
that has caused as much discussion as
Paul Revere's midnight ride. This
unusual run to the wrong goal did not
beat California, however it was a
break in Tech's favor and such an
opportunity could not be passed up,
and it was nothing but football that
enabled Tech to block the punt that
eventually meant victory.
It is heart breaking for a football
player the calibre of Riegal to be
connected with a sixty-five yard run
to the wrong goal. This young man
must suffer for one mistake when
I'm sure he has made plays just as
outstanding that probably meant vic­tory
to California. Now in the fu­ture
sport writers will no doubt take
advantage of this break and say all
that they can about Riegal and his
dumb play, and cnc of the best men
in the game can do nothing but swal­low
the unpleasant remarks that are
sure to come his way, but there is one
that has the opportunity that will
never.
Another step toward bringing the
two major schools of the state back
to resume athletic relations was
brought about through the Chamber
of Commerce in Montgomery in car­rying
through the Auburn-Alabama
Alumni game, New Year's day. A
wonderful spirit was displayed by
both the students and players and
such action will go a long way in
bringing the two schools back to­gether.
The game was one of the best
games the Capital City has witnessed
this year. Many of the more promin­ent
gridiron heroes of the past from
both schools were there to make the
game more spectacular. Practically
every man in the Alabama line up
has seen service in the Tournament
of Roses when Alabama was turn­ing
out National Champions at the
Capstone. Probably the greatest
player of the south (Pooley Hubert)
was there to battle for the supporters
of the Crimson Tide.
Auburn was well represented with
the immortals of the past and the
spirit of the plains was there giving
their all for the "Tigers" cause and
they almost brought the victory back
to its rightful home.
"MOON" MULLINS
who is performing his second and last
year on the hard-wood for the Plains­men,
has been a main cog in the big
wheel the Bohler five are turning
around with their basket ball victories
this year. He has scored 12 points
in the past two games they have play­ed
and would have scored more had
he not been fouled so much.
On the spot where the ring
placed when boxing contests are held
at Madison Square Garden the body
of Tex Rickard rested Tuesday,
awaiting funeral services Wednesday
afternoon and burial.
Before the final words were said
in praise of the genius of the sports
promoter who built the great arena
thousands of men and women from
every walk of life payed their silent
tribute. . ^
For three hours Tuesday night the
doors of the Garden were swung
open to admit the public to pass the
ma/ive bronze casket holding the
body of Tex.
In his rise to the front rank of pro­moters,
Rickard was continually striv­ing
to bring" the "best people" to
the ringside for his shows and if not
to replace the fight fans of other
days, whose uniform was a cap and
a sweater, at least to push them back
in the picture.
In death the "best people" in their
high hats came with the boys nervous­ly
twitching their caps in their hands
to pay tribute to a man who succeed­ed
in making boxing respectable.
Boxing champions and title holders
of other days were in the throng,
several white haired men who held
belts before Rickard ever saw a
gloved hand lead or counter, coming
to pay a respectful tribute to a man
whose like was not seen in their day.
Hocked too was represented, for
not only does the body rest near the
ring posts for a boxing bounts but on
a surface that hears the clang of
skates on speeding feet. Boxing was
the promoter's first and fondest love,
but hockey was second in his affec­tions.
At the funeral, boxers and hockey
players and officials joined with en­thusiasts
for both sports in saying
a final "well done."
At 1:30 Wednesday afternoon the
many doors of Madison Square Gar­den
were closed and only holders of
cards were admitted after that hour.
Card holders included friends of the
family, men prominent in sport, es­pecially
boxing and hockey, and of­ficials
of the Madison Square Garden
Corporation, of which Tex Rickard
was president and general manager.
With the appointment of Colonel
John S. Hammond as acting general
manager of the Garden corporation,
there was a lull in speculation as to
who Rickard's permanent successor
will be. There was still some guessing
as to who Rickard's permanent suc­cessor
will be. There was still some
at*
guessing as to this question, with
the names of Hammond, John M.
Chapman, czar of the six-day bicycle
game; Jess McMahon, matchmaker
at the garden; Jack Dempsey and
Gene Tunney figuring most promi­nently.
Colonel Hammond's first an­nouncement
as general manager was
to the effect that plans would go
forward for the Stribling-Sharkey
fight at Miami Beach, February 27.
As a matter of fact, Rickard had left
the situation in regard to this match
in such shape that little remains to
be done.
Some of the former Auburn stars
on the gridiron who took part in the
New Year Day scrap, and who are
still pulling for the success of the
Tigers with all their hearts. Reading
left to right are: top, "Pop" Paterson;
bottom row, "Bull" McFadden,
"Buck" Ellis, and Feny Crane.
Georgia Snatches Lead
5. C. Basketball Race
The University of Georgia jumped
out in front in the first week of bas­ketball
season to take a commanding
lead over the field, marking up four
wins in as many starts as nine other
teams launched their campaigns.
The Bulldogs showed marked
strength in the manner in which they
disposed of South Carolina, and Flor­ida
and exhibited a pair of high scor­ing
forwards, in Palmer and Harris.
North Carolina's Tar Heels swing­ing
back into conference territory
Auburn Tigers Meet
LaGrange Cage Team
The Auburn Tiger quintet will
meet the LaGrange Y. M. C. A. five
in the local alumni gym Friday night
before journeying to the Magic City
to meet the B. A. C. blues Saturday
night. This was not one of the regu­lar
scheduled games but was arranged
after the schedule had been made out.
All students are urged to come to
help get the Tiger cagers started off
in the right way so that they can do
as good this year as they did last
year on the indoor courts.
PERCY BEARD
the long and lanky track captain of
the 1929 harriers, who has had his
track aspirants out since Christmas
getting them in shape for the season
meets that will begin in some six
weeks.
after unsuccessful forays into Indi­ana
and Ohio topped their road trip
with two conference wins, to show
some of the form that carried them
to • the peak of Southern basketball
for several seasons.
Tulane and Alabama broke even
in their series at New Orleans, each
winning a game, and Tennesee after
winning from Clemson fell before the
Tar Heels.
The University of Mississippi, con­ference
champions of last year, has
not as yet ventured into internecine
warfare. Virginia, outside the con­ference,
met reversal before the
scrappy Randolph-Macon crew, 37 to
21, and Clemson swinging out on a
road jaunt, lost the conference
clashes and met defeat outside the
ranks as well, falling before the At­lanta
Athletic Club, and the Univer­sity
of Chattanooga, by decisive mar­gins.
Auburn Basketers
Take Game From
Birmingham Five
By Dick Jones
The Bohler five working steadily
defeated the Birmingham Athletic
Club Saturday night 37-34 in the
local alumni gym to win their third
game of the 1929 season.
Ben Chapman and his hustling
cagesters stepped out in the lead at
the first of the game, but were soon
overcome by the Tiger five with
their consistent playing that lasted
throughout J;he battle. After the
Plainsmen had once passed ahead of
the B. A. C. blues with their scoring
they were almost unconquerable.
Anderson, who substituted for Du-
Bose in the last half, led the scorers
for the wearers of the Orange and
Blue with 12 points. He is a sopho­more
this year and should prove to
be a very valuable man to Bohler
with a little more hard work put in
and a bit more experience.
"Skebbie" Caldwell, who scored all
but 12 of the Blue's points scored,
was the leading scored for the night.
He scored 22 points. Eight of them
he scored in the first half and the
other 14 he scored in the last half.
Bill McKinney, a former Auburn
star on the indoor courts at Auburn
for 3 years and captain of this fast
game his last year, scored four points
for the Chapman five. Bill was guard­ed
closely and wasn't given a chance
to open up with his shooting in the
baskets that he received his early
training under.
Lineup and summary:
AUBURN (37): Mullins (5), and
Vines (2), forwards; Captain Du-
Bose (6), center; James, and De-
Vaughan (2), guards. Substitutions:
Chamblee (2), Yarbrough (4),
Smith, Anderson (12), Kennedy (4),
James, DuBose, Mullins and Frazier.
B. A. C. (34): Hilton (4), and Mc­Kinney
(4), forwards; Chapman (4),
center; Caldwell (22), and Holt,
guards. Subs.: Bigham, Cawthon.
Umpire: Lee (Miss. College);
Timer: Hutsell.
Conference Standing
Of Basketball Teams
The standing of conference games
follows:
Won Lost
Georgia 4 0
North Carolina 2 0
Georgia Tech 1 0
Tennessee 1 1
Tulane 1 1
Alabama 1 1
Kentucky 0 1
South Carolina 0 2
Clemson 0 2
Florida 0 2
Auburn 0 0
Date
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1929 Basketball Schedule
Opponent and Their Score
2—Ft. Benning (38)
5—Birmingham A. C. (34)
9—Ft. Benning
11—La Grange YMCA
12—B'ham. A. C.
18—Southern
25—U. of Florida
26—U. of Florida
28—L. S. U.
29—L. S. U.
1—Clemson
2—Georgia
6—Georgia Tech
8—Tulane
9—Tulane
11—Mercer
12—Mercer
16—Georgia Tech
18—U. of Florida
19—U. of Florida
Auburn Score and Place Played
(40)
(37)
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21, 22, 23—Cotton States Tournament.
25—B'ham.-Southern
26—B'ham.-Southern
March 1, 2, 4, & 5th—Conference
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Columbus
At Auburn
At Birmingham
At Auburn
At Gainesville
At Gainesville
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Clemson
At Athens
At Atlanta
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Macon
At Macon
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Auburn
Tournament At Atlanta
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
AVIATION CATCHES ATTENTION
OF OUR AMERICAN COLLEGES
As the greatest development of the
day, aviation has caught the atten­tion
of the great American college
student hody, to judge from the heavy
early response by the Alexander Air­craft
company concerning its 1929
aeronautical scholarship contest
among college undergraduates.
In the first few days following
announcement of the contest, inquiries
were received from students of 62
colleges. Indications are that several
thousand students will bid for the
new Eaglerqck airplane lor the 4-year
university scholarships in aeronauti­cal
engineering and business aeronau­tics
which will be awarded the win­ner.
Lesser prizes will include free
solo flying courses and flight instruc­tion
manuals.
Co-eds, as eligible as the men, are
showing themselves equally air-mind­ed.
Students with no flying expe­rience,
but with ready ideas on things
aeronautic, are competing on an equal
basis with those who have worked in
the new industry.
Such universities as Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, University of
Michigan, and Stanford University,
have endorsed the contest. Felix W.
Pawlowski, Professor of Aeronauti­cal
Engineering at Michigan, writes,
"I indeed appreciate the generosity as
well as the wise policy of the Alexand­er
Aircraft company which prompt's
it to assist the numerous young and
able students who are anxious to enter
the field of aeronautics, but who are
handicapped from doing so because of
lack of sufficient funds for obtaining
proper training in the fundamentals of
this new and fascinating profession."
The fact that 29 airplanes carried
two score college students to a recent
Big Ten Football game illustrates the
growing tendency among undergrad­uates
to use aircraft for rapid trans­it.
This year, for the first time, air­plane
manufacturers are recognizing
the campus as an important market.
A pioneer in this movement, the
Alexander Aircraft company of Colo­rado
Springs, is preparing to enter
the field with college sales agents.
Its decision is the result of en­couraging
advance response to an
aeronautical scholarship contest which
the company will conduct among
American colleges in 1929. A new
Eaglerock airplane or a 4-year uni­versity
course in engineering and bus­iness
aeronautics will be awarded.
Numerous purchases by college stu­dents
brought out that this class can,
and does, buy airplanes. Flying is
reaching proportions of a general
campus craze. Consequently the
Alexander factory is trying to increase
the number of Eaglerock dealers now
scattered throughout several schools.
Eaglerock planes appeal to the novice
chiefly because of their ease in hand­ling.
They are used as training
ships in 143 American air schools.
Their distinguishing feature, an un­usually
large wing area, allows a
slow landing speed, so important to
the student pilot, without sacrifice
of top speed. Behind a low priced
motor the ship will cruise twice as
far on the same amount' of fuel, and
three times as fast, as the average
automobile.
A large number of college pilots
are paying for planes by ferrying
passengers to out-of-town games, by
instructing fellow students, or by hir­ing
out" for special stunts at foot­ball
matches.
It is estimated at least 100 Ameri­can
college students occasionally
commute by air between their col­lege
and homes over week-ends. Fly­ing
appeals to students who cannot
get good rail or motor accomodations.
Truly, the airplane is expected to
move the college closer home.
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Probably, the most important single
move made by the Western Union in
1928 was the laying of a new trans-
Atlantic cable between Bay Roberts,
Newfoundland, and Horta, Azores.
This newest trans-Atlantic link, which
is capable of handling four messages
in each direction at one time was
laid at a cost of $2,000,000 and will
provide increased cable facilities be­tween
this country and Germany,
Italy, Spain, Portugal and Africa.
In the last quarter of the year, the
Executive Committee of the Board of
Directors authorized the expenditure
of $4,500,000 for the further instal­lation
of Simplex automatic printing
equipment, bringing the total sum ex­pended
or authorized on this project
to date to $10,000,000. Plans were
completed in 1928 for the installation
of the new fast ticker, which will
print 500 characters a minute as
against the 300 characters a minute
printed by the present ticker. The
full effectiveness of the new ticker,
however, will not be felt until early in
1930 inasmuch as all of the old
tickers must be replaced with new
tickers before the service can be
speeded up.
In the summer of 1928, the Wes­tern
Union broke ground for ite new
building in New York City. This
structure which will be completed in
1930 and which will house various
operating departments of the Com­pany
will cost about $13,000,000. It
will be the world's largest Telegraph
Building and will contain the most
modern telegraphic equipment.
The Company completed an ar­rangement
in 1928 by which telegrams
may be sent from any telephone, pub­lic
or private, in the States of Arizona,
Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Ida­ho,
Utah, Montana and El Paso, Tex­as.
This extension of these facilities
made it possible for -anyone anywhere
in the United States to telephone
telegrams from either public or pri­vate
telephones to Western Union of­fices.
In 1928, Western Union sign­ed
contracts with the American Tele­phone
and Telegraph Company by
which it was enabled to employ cer-
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Spirit Of Democracy
Prevails On Campus
Of Texas University
"There is a real spirit of democracy
at Texas IL," says Ruth Cross in the
February College Humor. "Not only
the poor but honest come to Austin.
The rich come too. And they don't
live on five hundred dollars per year
either. These scions of newly mil-lionaired
ranchmen and oil magnates
probably get away with as much per
capita and consume as much gray
matter writing home for money as
the gilded ones at Yale or Princeton.
"To undertsand why well-to-do
Texas sends its white hopes to Austin,
one need only glance at any map of
the U. S. Texas is something like
two thousand miles from the Eastern
college belt. And everybody realizes
the cash as well as carry value of
university associations to a man or
woman whose future is to be invested
in the state. Texas believes in pa­tronizing
home industry in education.
"There's a wideness in the Texas
viewpoint, a grim determination to
'get there,' that is hard to down.
Climate, instead of being tamely ac­cepted
as a handicap, has been gamely
met as"v a challenge. That's wfliat
makes the Southwest one of the com­ing
sections of these United States.
Financial independence! More than
that, wealth fabulous, beyond the
wildest dreams of the university's
founders and friends. Oil was dis­covered
on the lands in Crane and
Reagan Counties. Acres valued at
ten cents when they were so gener­ously
bestowed turned in and began
to produce millions. Boundless oppor­tunities
for growth and expansion to
meet the demands of clamorous
armies of would-be A. B.'s. The
Cinderella university of yesterday
arose, shook the ashes from her
skirfct. An ambitious program of
building and development was launch­ed
upon. To date, there has been
more than ten million dollars in roy­alties
from oil, a monthly gross in­come
of two hundred thousand. All
this reads like an Arabian Nights'
tale to those who knew Texas in her
poverty-stricken days.
"Meanwhile the student body has
doubled and quadrupled. What will
be the effect of this constantly aug­mented
army of students marching
Austin-ward? Of this great outward
expansion for the benefit of the rank
and file? Of this suddenly acquired
wealth and had won freedom from
political bondage?"
MOVIE CLUBS
IN COLLEGES
College men and women have come
to the point where taking moving
pictures at big games and winter
sports festivals is the mode. In the
East, where football originated, the
students are going in for picture pho­tography
with the same amount of
interest and enthusiasm that they
show for archery, hockey and soccer.
Movie clubs are next, for in this day
and age of simple movie cameras,
which now even take color pictures
and which are being shown in all at­tractive
colors, it is possible to get a
permanent record of your college days.
And now one can even secure an f.
4.5 lens to give telefoto effects and
objects will be larger and nearer when
shown on the screen.
U. OF GA. SECURES
PIECE OF OLD SHIP
A piece of the original timber of
the United States frigate, Constitu­tion,
more commonly known as Old
Ironsides, is a valuable addition to
the relics owned by the University
of Georgia library. This is the most
famous vessel in the United States
navy. It was named Old Ironsides
because of the hardness of its plank­ing
and timber.
Old Ironsides first put to sea in
October, 1997, for service against the
French. She was Preble's flagship
in the war with Tripoli. In the War
of 1912, under the command of Cap­tain
Isaac Hull, she engaged in the
famous conflict against the Guer-riere.
In 1814, she took 34 guns
from the Cyane and 18 from the
Levant.
In 1828-30 she was reported un-seaworthy
and ordered dismantled.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, then just a
boy at Harvard, came out with his
stirring poem, "Old Iron Sides," pub­lic
sentiment was aroused, and the
ship was saver. This was the first
and only time that any literary pro­duction
of a school boy has had the
powers to change the sentiment of a
nation.
Did Ironsides is now under her
fourth reconstruction. In 1906 she
was saved from destruction -by the
school children of the United States,
who subscribed money for building.
At present, she is in dry dock in the
Boston navy yards. The old hull is
being torn away, to make way for
new timber. This old hull is being
cut into squares and sold to help bear
the expens.es of rebuilding. It is
thus that the piece in the library was
secured. The expenses of building
the boat is estimated at $650,000.
The piece in the Georgia library is
a tablet, about six inches square, dec­orated
with a bronze medallion, on
which is a picture of the Constitution,
and the name and date of its three
most famous engagements.
Anyone whow ishes to secure one
of these souvenirs may write to Rear
Admiral Phillip Andrews, Boston
Navy Yards, Boston, Mass.
AVIATION IN
THE COLLEGES
tain circuits of the latter Company for
the transmission of telegrams. In­cluded
in this contract, were the so-called
"Phantom" circuits by which
it is possible to transmit pictures
and photographs over the wires.
Since the signing of these contract's
early in the summer, the Company's
volume of telephotographs and photo-grams
has shown a steady increase.
It is now possible to transmit either
pictures, drawings or anything that
can be photographed over the wire
and also to send facsimile messages.
Both of these services have proven
popular and in time to come, will,
undoubtedly, be decided revenue pro­ducers.
"Aviation in the colleges has been
progressing with leaps and bounds,"
says Joe Godfrey, Jr., in the Febru­ary
College Humor. "The Harvard
Flying Club at Cambridge has its own
plane and is used daily by its student
members. Each year a new plane is
purchased by the club members and
so successful has been the operation
of the club itself that its members
now offer to help the students at
other universities to form a similar
organization. At Yale the Flying
Club will undoubtedly buy a plane
this year, and other schools soon to
to follow are New York University,
Massachussetts Tech, Georgia Tech,
Stanford, California, Michigan, Illi­nois
and Minnesota. Wherever there
are courses in aeronautics—and there
are about seventy large institutions
now offering such courses—aero and
flying clubs are being formed. The
great interest now shown in aviation
in the colleges is resulting in the tak­ing
of special courses in flying by
students who wish to become pilots.
Students will soon fly their own
planes.
ATTENDS MEETING
Mrs. S. L. Toomer attended the,
Board meeting of the Woman's Clubs,
held in Montgomery Thursday morn­ing.
Mrs. Malone, President of the
Federation of Woman's Clubs, enter­tained
the board at a luncheon.
Mrs. Clara Yarbrough and Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Moulton spent the holi­days
as the guest of Mr. Moulton's
parents, in Mobile. Mrs. Yarbrough
returned to Auburn Monday, leaving
Mr. and Mrs. Moulton in Montgomery,
Mr. Moulton having developed a se­vere
case of influenza.
"THAT LITTLE GAME"- -MAKES 'EM ALL HAPPY
Isn't a'IZoodle"a nozsvj thing,- brother ??Z>
"If I Were A Girl"
Written By A Male
I'd treat men, if I liked them, as
though they were men and not little
boys who I thought might ask me to
go to the movies if I let them kiss
me," says Eric Hatch in the Febru­ary
issue of College Humor. "I'd be
pretty careful whom I kissed, but I'd
let every man I liked get an idea he
could kiss me if he were clever. I'd
let him keep the idea till he tried and
then if he tried hard enough in a
nice way I'd probably let him—in a
nice way. I think I'd be just low
enough to try and make them think
there wouldn't be anything on earth
quite as snappy as having me around
the house when they came in tired.
I'd make them comfortable, act glad
to see them and feed them and give
them cocktails and things.
I think I'd read a lot, if I were a
girl. I wouldn't go out every time
somebody asked me to; my complexi­on
couldn't stand it. I'd never make
the mistake of staying at three parties
in a row so late that I came out on the
fourth day looking like a paste flow­er
with black-rimmed eyes. Not on
your life I wouldn't. I wouldn't
come out on the fourth day.
"I'd wear clothes that came from
smart shops and if they didn't and
looked as if they might have, I'd hook
some labels and sew them in. In sum­mer
I'd wear frocks that men would
call lovely and women would call
catenish. They would be polka dot
and starchy about the neck and quite,
quite low. I would try to avoid the
fetish of thinking I couldn't wear
certain colors, particularly if some
man said he like me in them.
"If I were a girl, I suppose, being
a sentimentalist at heart, I'd fall in
love some time and when I did I'd
fall so hard you could hear me
bounce! I wouldn't let The Man
know it, though, I'd make him suffer
and go through agony and treat him
like dirt and then, when I finally let
him suspect that there was something
about him that appealed to something
in me he'd feel so surprisedly grate­ful
that I could soak him on the spot
for practically anything I wanted.
"I wouldn't always tell the truth,
if I were a girl, because that would
be disloyal to my sex, and after all,
a girl's got to be polite, but I would
not lie either. I'd make up fairy
stories and maybe fib a little when
it was necessessary. Then when I got
to be somebdoy's sweetheart I would
not tell a lie for anything, because
men don't like girls to lie to them
unless if they tell the truth it will
hurt.
"I'd be pretty nice to the man I
loved. I'd kiss him good night always
and remember to squeeze his arm
after he'd squeezed mine for the last
time, unless I was afraid this would
end up in a sort of retaliation thing
that would keep me up all night."
Honor System Dropped
By University Of Texas
The student honor system that has
been followed at the University of
Texas since the school was founded
in 1883, has been abandoned because
the plan "as it has been enforced
during the last few years, has proved
ineffective."
A students' assembly discarded the
rule which placed students upon their
honor not to cheat at examinations,
by a vote of nine to two.
Bryon Skelton, president of the
Students' Association, said the as­sembly
"after great deliberation has
decided that the honor system as it
has been enforced for the last few
years has proved ineffective and due
to the fact that the student body has
failed to express themselves in insuf­ficient
numbers, the Students' Asso­ciation
felt authorized to take the
initiative remedying the situation."
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929.
HONOR SYSTEM OF AMERICAN
COLLEGES BEING QUESTIONED
Showing how the honor system and
student government in general is a
topic for general discussion among
all college gatherings, the Richmond
Times-Dispatch carries an article by
Virginia Dabney, under the caption:
"The College Honor System Under
Fire, But Not in .Virginia."
Calling attention to the fact that:
"Yale, Amherst, and Other Student
Bodies Have Already Dropped It,"
the New York Times has a lengthy
discourse on "Honor System in Col­leges."
According to the Richmond paper:
"The honor sytem as applied to
college examinations, which was
founded in Virginia, and which sub­sequently
spread to every section of
the Union, has recently been aban­doned
by several large northern insti­tutions,
because it did not work.
Persistent cheating on the part of un­dergraduates
appears to have been
the principal reason why these col­leges
and universities decided to re­turn
to the old system of faculty
supervision.
vYale College and Amherst College
are the two principal institutions of
higher "learning which dropped the
honor system during 1928. The Yale
College student council convinced the
faculty that enforcement of the sys­tem
was 'impossible under present
social and educational conditions at
Yale College,' and it was accordingly
abandoned.
"There is no question that the Hon­or
System originated |in Virginia,
but arguments sometimes arise as to
whether its birthplace was the College
of William and Mary or the Univer­sity
of Virginia. For the benefit of
those who are unfamiliar with the
factSj it may be of interest to set
them forth briefly at this time.
"Dr. Lyon G. Tyler, president
emeritus of the College of William
and Mary, says in his~book, 'The Col­lege
of William and Mary':
"To this time (1779) is to be re­ferred
also the beginnings of what
has been called the 'Honor System,'
which from its influence upon educa­tional
discipline, mUjSt be deemed
worthy of especial note . . . . The
principle grew up outside the rules
and did not receive printed recogni­tion
until 1817, when the statutes of
the visitors contain a provision re­quiring
students 'to give evidence on
their honor' respecting offenses. But
that the Honor System had been prac­ticed
some years before is evident
from the words of Judge Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, a student at the col­lege
in 1801, and who, as law profes­sor,
referred in 1834 to the system
as one of 'long experience.' . . . .
"When Mr. Jefferson, founded the
University of Cirginia, this feature
of William and Mary, together with
its kindred principles, the lecture
and elective systems, was transplant­ed
to Charlottesville and successfully
tried there upon a wider and more
extensive field of operations. The
example of that institution has, I
believe, been potent in bringing
about the adoption of the same prin­ciples,
to some extent at least, by all
the colleges and universities of the
Union."
The Honor System was not adopt
ed at the University of Virginia un
til 1842, but it appears to have been
more comprehensive than the system
in effect at the time at William and
Mary. Dr. Phillip Alexander Bruce,
in his "History of the University of
Virginia," says in this connection:
"When we examine the honor
regulation of the old college, it seems
to have occupied a position that lay
somewhere between the regulation at
the University of Virginia which re
quired every matriculate at entrance
to sign a pledge that he would ob­serve
the ordinances, and that other
regulation, introduced by Henry St.
George Tucker, which, at a later date
(1842), required the same student to
sign a pledge that he had neither giv­en
nor received assistance in the
course of his examination.
"The pledge enforced at the Col­lege
of William and Mary was really
nearer, in its general character, to
the pledge of the university matricu
late than to the one which the uni
versity student attached to his ex­amination
papers—the only sub
stantial difference was that the
pledge at the ancient college was
taken in public in order to increase
its solemnity, while at the universi­ty,
the matriculate's was taken in
the privacy of the proctor's office.
"Apparently there was no evidence
in operation at the College of Wil­liam
and Mary which exactly resemb­led
in tenor the resolution introduc­ed
by Henry St. George Tucker.
This resolution did not profess to
set up a universal code of good con­duct,
such as was expected of the
matriculate at the College of Willam
and Mary—its single aim was to in
sure upright action in the examina
tion room alone by reliance on the
student's sense of honor."
Reopening of colleges this month
gives the honor system in examina­tions
its final opportunity, in some
instances, to prove itself worthy of
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unit of chemistry, one-half unit of
solid geometry, and one unit of anci­ent
or medieval history.
These same requirements must be
met by all Students entering the
School of Architecture even though
they take the Architectural Engi­neering
or the Applied Art Courses.
Dean Biggin states that much con­fusion
has been occasioned in the past
because of students coming to Au­burn
without a knowledge of these
requirements. To avoid this in the
future, all high school principals in
the State will be informed about
these special requirements of the
School of Architecture.
'Campus Crushers"
Appear; No Alarm
Just Another Fad
continuance. Yale College and Am­herst
are notable among the higher
institutions of learning that have de­cided
to do away with the system first
inaugurated in. the United States by
William and Mary College.
In the last collegiate year, and par­ticularly
in the period leading to final
examinations, the honor system was
continually under fire. Idealists who
abhorred the thought that students
could not be trusted without super­vision
of proctors fought bitterly for
retention of the system. But in some
colleges the students themselves, dis­mayed
by persistent instances of
cheating, voted for abolition of the
code.
It will be recalled that at Colum­bia
considerable discussion revolved
around a suggestion that mid-year
and final examinations be done away
with because numerous instances of
deceit had been reported.
Amherst dropped the honor system
after having fostered it for twenty-three
years. The students themselves
favored a return to protorship. Fac­ulty
and students confessed a mark­ed
attitude of indifference on- the
part of undergraduates toward the
system.
Western Reserve College at Cleve­land
abolished the method in 1926,
after having conducted honor system
examinations since 1908, because, as
the Faculty statement phrased it, "in­tellectual
bootleggers" had caused
the system to "go to pot."
Students of Rutgers eagerly adopt­ed
the self-government method of ex­aminations
in 1920. But they were
so annoyed by the so-called "squeal
clause," which compels undergraduat­es
to report deflections, that in 1925
they voted a return to the monitors.
Yet it is this very "squeal clause"
which proponents hold up as one of
the most valuable factors in promot­ing
character development. While
that may seen paradoxical, they point
out that, in entering into the honor
system, undergraduates pledge to re­place
discipline by the Faculty with
discipline by themselves. The writ­ten
pledge that no aid has been re­ceived
or given in an examination has
its force in the assumption that the
student who sees another cheating
must for the good of the body in
general, report the incident to the
student organization empowered to
investigate and inflict penalties.
On the other hand, President' Ray
Lyman Wilbur of Stanford Univer­sity
found occasion to warn against
increasing violations of the regula­tions
against drinking and of the
honor system.
Taking umbrage at stories of wide­spread
cheating, the girls of Hunter
College last winter overwhelmingly
voted for coninuance of the honor
system which had been in effect since
1923. The faculty enthusiastically
supported this decision.
At Yale, however, the honor sys­tem
has fallen out of favor. The
Yale College Student Council con­vinced
the faculty that enforcement
of the honor system was "impossible
under present social and educational
conditions at Yale College." The
Sheffield Scientific School Student
Council has abolished the written
pledge at the end of the examination
as "an unnecessary detail." At Shef­field,
however, there will be no re­turn
to the proctor system. Elimina­tion
of the written pledge is an unus­ual
instance of still further placing
students on their honor.
Students at Harvard College in
1925 rejected a proposed adoption of
the honor system-, the Student Coun­cil
having found no dissatisfaction
with the proctor system, and there­fore
no demand for the proposed
method.
Other institutions in the past few
years have given considerable thought
to the subject, and in more than one
instance the honor system has clung
so precariously that the coming col­legiate
year may see its elimination
in still more institutions.
Why is a college man?
You can pick them out any place.
Always something distinctive, some­thing
"cullitch" about you real
American undergrad.
The fads shift from time to time
and place to place, but there never
was either rhyme or reason to them.
It used to be teamster's gloves, then
flowing ties, and again baggy trous­ers.
Now it's crusher hats.
You see them everywhere, jammed
haphazardly atop the college man's
head. It doesn't matter if they hang
down over an educated eye or rest
precariously on an educated bump
of knowledge. The more nonchalant
and careless they appear th^e more
"college" a man is. You roll them
up and stick them in your pocket;
the more disreputable they look, the
classier they are.
A. rah-rah raccoon coat, twenty
inch trousers, and a crusher hat and
you're all set for the Drake, the
Greasy Spoon, or the fraternity
brawl.
Health Situation
Is Much Improved
Steady improvement in the health
situation at Auburn since the in­fluenza
epidemic is reported by Dr.
B. F. Thomas, college surgeon. The
present situation here is pronounced
by Dr. Thomas to be rapidly ap­proaching
normal so far as illness
among the students is concerned.
In reporting this Dr . Thomas
thanked the students for their splen­did
cooperation not only in prevent­ing
a spread of flu but in other
health matters. He said that coopera­tion
has been splendid.
In order that he may be able to
visit all who are ill as quickly as pos­sible
after it is reported to him Dr.
Thomas offers the following sugges­tions
:
1. Each illness should be reported
at his office in Broun Hall the first
hour each morning. His office tele­phone
is 155. If all reports are re
ceived during this hour he can ar­range
his visits so as to reach all who
are ill without delay or implication of
effort.
2. Mrs. Ledra Cotter, a registered
nurse, is in Dr. Thomas' office from
eight to five daily, with the excep­tion
of the noon hour. Mrs. Cotter
was employed by the college as an
addition to the medical staff at Au­burn.
3. Dr. Thomas is in his office each
afternoon from 1:30 to 4:00. All stu­dents
needing medical attention but
whose condition is not such as to re­quire
a visit by Dr. Thomas are asked
to come to his office during these
hours. Absences from class by those
who are ill and come to his office for
medical attention will be attended to
by Dr. Thomas.
4. Emergency calls will be answer­ed
at any time.
Observance of these suggestions
will be appreciated by Dr. Thomas
and will enable him to render his
best service to them.
Interesting Talks
Heard At Ag Club
Featured by interesting talks from
members of the Club who were in
Chicago during the International
Livestock Exposition early in Decem­ber
in various capacities, the Ag Club
held its first meeting after the holi­days
Wednesday evenjpg, January 9.
A. L. Morrison, Junior representa­tive
of the Ag Club at the National
Club meet in Chicago, opened the
program with a brief review of Ag
Clubs today, and their betterment.
J. P. Givhan gave a short report of
the Stock Show.
Harry Wise, Editor-in-chief of the
Alabama Farmer and prominent Club
member, represented this publication
which is put out entirely by the Club,
in the annual meet of the College
Magazines, Associated. He gave a
lengthy report of proceedings there,
and of plans for the Farmer during
coming years.
M. V. Hallman, commented on big
things of the Ag Club, and stressed
the coming Ag Banquet. He urged
that the Club start to work on this
at once, and make it the crowning
event of the year.
President J. R. Taylor, Jr., an­nounced
that the election of officers
for the second semester will be held
at the regular meeting of the Club
Aext week.
HOW TO RUN A PAPER
Getting out a paper is a picnic.
If we print jokes, people say we are
silly or vulgar.
If we don't, they say we are ado­lescent
and too serious.
If we publish original matter, they
say we lack variety.
If we print things from other col­leges
we are lazy.
If we are rustling news, we are
wasting time.
If we are not -rustling news, we
are not attending to business.
If we print local stuff, they say
we hurt people's feelings.
If we don't print contributions, we
lack appreciation.
If we do print them, the paper is
full of junk.
Like as not some one will say we
stole this from some other paper—
so we did.
EVANS LITERARY
SOCIETY MEETS
Hockey Stated To Be
Most Dangerous Sport
Hockey, as played by the colleges,
is more dangerous than football or
any other sport is a fact that is
brought out by Joseph Stubbs, Har­vard
Hockey Coach, whose article,
"Intercollegiate Hockey in the East,"
appears in the February issue of Col­lege
Humor.
"A doctor is in attendance at all
practices and games," says Coach
Stubbs, "and he has a most complete
equipment of medical supplies. It
might be noted that we had two very
severe injuries from skate cuts last
season, both of which required prompt
• • • i
needlework. One of the visiting play­ers
dislocated his shoulder in a game,
as etherized, his shoulder reset, and
strapped without leaving building."
S. A. M. E. MEET
TUESDAY NIGHT
The regular meting of the local
chapter of the Society of American
Military Engineers was called to or-d|
er by acting chairman Lanstreet
Tuesday night, 7:00 P. M.
Mr. Moore the first speaker on the
program gave a very interesting talk
on the construction of lock fifty-three
on the Ohio river. The other speak­ers
on the program being absent, the
requiremnets for quality points were
discussed for next meeting, Jan 15,
1928.
LARGE NUMBER CONTEND
FOR PLACE ON FROSH FIVE
(Continued from page 4)
are practicing daily are:
Argo, A. K.; Jordan, J. R.; Jacobs,
H.; Boswell, L.; Solomon, D. A.;
Biggerstaff, C. W.; Rogers, D. T.;
Turner, J. T.; Riley, E. W.; McClure,
C.; Thronton, J. E.; Hamilton, H. B.;
Lanlasser, J. T.; Lumpkin, T. W.;
Roueche, W. T.; Wood, A. A.; Mc-
Callum, L. C; Lutz, R. E.; Martin,
J. D.; Aldridge, O. G.; Philips, H. L.;
Wood, J. E.; Mann, R. A.; Miller, R.
J.; Love, C. F.; Stewart, E. L.;
Johns, F. B.; Larsen, H. B.; Dyer,
H. A.; Slaughter, G. R.; Kaley, C.
P.; Hatfield, L. L.; Philips, J. F.;
Curvin, W. L.; Wible, R. A.; McGriff,
W. E.; Cumbee, J. A.; Sterart, J.;
Collins, L. L.; Washington, P.. I.;
Tucker, S.; Foutz, D. E.
J. C. Grimes To
Represent Kiwanis
The Auburn Kiwanis Club will be
represented at the meeting of of­ficials
of Kiwanis Clubs of Alabama
at Clanton, Jan. 11, by Prof. J. C.
Grimes, president, and P. O. Davis,
lieutenant-governor for this district.
Each of the 32 Kiwanis Clubs of
Alabama is expected to send both
president and trustee to this meeting.
Emmett Sizemore, trustee of the Au­burn
club, is spending most of his
time away from Auburn and may not
get to the Clanton meeting.
The big clock in the old tower
knolled the hour for starting work in
the Evans Literary Society's first
meeting of the new year. The usual
formalities gone thi-ough, the society
enjoyed a very instructive talk by Mrs.
F. S. Arant on, "How to use your
library." At the conclusion of Mrs.
Arant's talk the society entered into
the business of electing new officers.
The election was hot.and in a num­ber
of cases as many as four ballots
was cast. The presidency, its seems,
is an inherited position, as Mr. G. J.
Cottier succeeded his brother, H. M.
Cottier, as president. Mr. Carreker
carried off the vice-presidency with a
slight margin; Miss Ingram was
chosen for the position of secretary-treasurer;
Hugh Bennett was select­ed
as Plainsman reporter. " The only
position without close voting was that
of critic, and for that position Mrs.
Good was elected unanimously. The
sargent-at arms was questioned by
Mr. Hallman as being a figure-head,
but he was quickly rebuked by Mr.
Carreker and Prof. Butler. The fig­ure-
head theory was exploded by the
election of W. B. Story for that posi­tion.
As chairman of the social com­mittee
Mr. G. V. Nunn won over Mr.
Goodman, but Mr. Goodman was not
to be bettered as it was voted that
he should co-operate with Mr. Kelly
in arranging some well planned pro­grams.
HUDSON and THOMPSON
Solicit Business of F r a t e r n i t y Houses
*CUSH" WOOD and M. J. SLAUGHTER
Student Representatives
A. MEADOWS GARAGE
AUTO REPAIRS • TIRES
CARS FOR HIRE U-DRIVE-'EM
ACCESSORIES
GAS OIL GREASES
PHONE 29-27
TUBES
FIRST SEMESTER EXAM­INATIONS
TO BEGIN ON
JANUARY EIGHTEENTH
(Continued from page 1)
A. M. Third hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednes­day,
Friday.
P. M. Third hour subjects which
are not scheduled Monday morning.
Tuesday, January 22
(Fourth hour subjects 11-12)
A. M. Fourth hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednes­day,
Friday,
1-3 P. M. Freshman Chemistry Lab­oratory
103.
1-5 P. M. English 401.
Wednesday, January 23
(Fifth hour subjects 1-2)
A. M. Fifth hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednes­day,
Friday. Also Freshman Draw­ing.
P, M. Fifth hour subjects not
scheduled Wednesday morning.
Thursday, January 24
(Sixth hour subjects 2-3)
A. M. Sixth hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednes­day,
Friday.
P. M. Sixth hour subjects not sche­duled
Thursday morning.
SODAS
CONFECTIONS
TOBACCO
STATIONERY
MEET ME
—AT—
Red's Place
TOGGERY SHOP TOGGERY SHOP
LOST: A green backed binder
notebook with my name inside. Find­er
please notify Bob Blakey at Kappa
Sigma House.
We are not serving all the
SANDWICHES
that are being served in Auburn
but we are serving the
Best Ones
Tiger Sandwich Shop
What Shakespeare
says about Coca-Cola Drink
Delicious and Refreshing
MEASURE FOR
MEASURE
Act I I I . Sceno 1
" T h e hand t h a t h a th
made you fair h a th
made you good" —
Obviously, the Duke meant the
- lady—not Coca-Cola. But why
bring that up? Translate it into
plain United States, and you get:
IT HAD TO BE GOOD
TO GET WHERE IT IS
8 million a day
The Coca-Cola Company. Atlanta, Ga.
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