1928-05-11 The Plainsman

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NUMBER 31
STUDENTS IMPATIENTLY AWAITING GREATEST SENIOR DANCE
SCABBARD & BLADE HOLD
ANNUAL INITIATION HERE
CANDIDATES
SPEND NIGHT
OUT IN WOODS
Engineers Find Much Trouble
Riding Horses
TWENTY MEN INITIATED
Look Weary and Foot-Sore
Returning Sunday Morning
Roy N. Sellers
The steady tramp, tramp of guards
feet in front of the most important
sections of Auburn including the post
office and main gate greeted all the
early students last Saturday morning
at eight o'clock.
What was wrong? Was the town
military control and so early in the
morning- Why were the soldiers
dressed in regulation uniform coats,
pajama pants, and wearing swords?
They must have been a brave bunch
to receive all the beautiful badges,
medals, and stripes which adorned
their breasts. They had to be brave
for only the brave could withstand
the severe initiation through which
they were travelling, the initiation of
the Scabbard and Blade.
The initiation began at 8 o'clock
Saturday morning when the initiates
were placed as guards. Just before
the time for each train they were
made to form lines and march to
meet the trains at the depot. Theirs
was a perfect squad of marching sol­diers
and their lines, facial included,
could not be equalled. This lasted
for the remainder of the day.
At 8 o'clock Saturday night the
initiates with brick tied to their
backs rode horses to the 'woods. The
engineers seemed to have much
trouble staying on the horses but
they finally reached their destination
in safety. What happened between
then and Sunday morning is secret
but the men all felt the effects of the
initiation. Sunday morning when
the group started back it began rain­ing
and the whole crowd received a
good wetting.
Out of the twenty men who were
supposed to have been initiated only
sixteen were able to go thro.ugh. The
others were held up by baseball trips,
track, and an injury or two. The ar­tillerymen
initiated were T. B. Shotts,
J. L. Salter, W. W. Paterson, F. H.
DuBose, J. R. Taylor Jr., M. D.
Helms, N. W. Geist, T. R. Home,
and R. G. Brownfield. The engi­neers
were J. B. Merrill, C. R. De-
Arman, W. R. Kirkwood, C. E. Smith,
L. B. Hallman, J. L. Burton, and K.
Nickerson. The ones not initiated
weer L. Tamplin, C. H. Booth, A. P.
McGhee Jr., and R. E. Spann.
TAG DAY ASSURES
"Y" TENNIS COURTS
PHI DELTA GAMMA
ELECTS OFFICERS
New Pledges Initiated into Forensic
Society
After the initiation of the new
pledges to Phi Delta Gamma on last
Tuesday night, Mr. George Stafford
was elected president for next year.
Mr. Stafford has distinguished him­self
by his oratorical and debating
ability on numerous occasions, and
he is a worthy president of the local
chapter of a national organization
which sponsors oratory, debating, de­clamation,
and general forensic work.
He is a pledge to Beta Kappa social
fraternity.
Mr. Rosser Alston, editor of the
Plainsman for the past year, and an
honorary student in many activities,
was elected to the office of vice-president.
The tfffice of secretary-treasurer
was given to Mr. Tom Le-
Croy. Mr. H. O. Davis. was made
sergeant-at-arms, and Roy Sellers
was elected to fill the position of
chaplain.
Due to the presistent efforts of
several "Y" boosters, "Tag Days,"
which were held on the campus on
Friday and Saturday, May 4-5, came
out with flying colors, and netted
profitable returns towards the com­pletion
of the "Y" tennis courts on
the lots just below the Lamba Chi
house.
Although the response from the
students was not what was expected,
the response from the townspeople*
and the business men of Auburn was
quite gratifying. Among those con­tributing
substantial amounts, the
following are worthy of mention:
Ideal Laundry, C. Felton Little, Tiger
Drug Store, Tiger Theatre, Bank of
Auburn, Burtons Book Store, Au­burn
Furniture Co., City Billiard Par­lor,
Moore's Market, Cash & Carry
Store, J. W. Wright, Gibson's, Homer
Wright, Jones Grocery, Orange &
Blue, Jones Hardware, Auburn
Studio, Dr. McDonald, Jolly's, Stu­dent
Supply Shop, Moreman & Son,
Upchurch Store, and Miss Godwin.
The Y. M. C. A. in behalf of the
students' recreational welfare, wish
to thank especially those mentioned
above, and also to thank all others
who contributed. The contributions
were somewhat larger than they were
from the "Tag" day program staged
last year for the same purpose, and
with the proceeds, it is hoped that
the tennis courts construction can go
forward at a rapid pace in the near
future.
TENNIS TOURNEY
OPENS THIS WEEK
Entrance Fee of Fifty
Required
Cents Is
The Auburn tennis tournament will
be played off during this week if
weather conditions are good. This
is a single tournament for students
and the only tournament held this
year in the school.
Entries may be made any time be­fore
Saturday night to Wake Glover
or Don May. The entrance fee is 50
cents and must be paid before Sat­urday
night. The tournament will be
played hurriedly, since the end of
school is near. All matches may be
played on any court in town, except
the semi-finals and finals, which are
to be played on the Y. M. C. A .court.
The winner of the tournament will
be presented with a small silver cup.
Will Play For Senior Dance Next Week WEIDEMEYER'S ORCHESTRA
ENGAGED TO FURNISH MUSIC
UNDERCLASSMEN
EXAMINATIONS
WEIDEMEYER ORCHESTRA
PRESIDENT'S
HOME IS SCENE
OF MERRIMENT
Dr. Dowell Receives Gift At
Close of Social
Methodist Students
To Banquet Sunday
Feast Closes Recent Membership
Contest
The Methodist Students of Auburn
will hold a banquet at the Auburn
Inn on next Saturday night, May 12
at 7:30 p. m.
The purpose of this banquet is to
promote Christian fellowship among
our 500 Methodist students and in­spire
them to continue the splendid
work which they have started. War­ren
Moore, major of the winning
group in a recent membership contest,
will be the toastmaster, while the
losing group will have charge of the
decorations.
Eta Kappa Nu Holds
Election Of Officers
Ingersoll Named
of Body
President
Charles T. Ingersoll of Anniston
was recently elected president of Eta
Kappa Nu, honorary fraternity for
Electrical Engineers. Other men
elected to office are as follows: N.
W. Geist, Vice-President; C. R. De-
Arman, Recording Secretary; W. P.
Smith, Corresponding Secretary; C.
W. Meyer, Treasurer; L. B. Hallman,
Bridge Reporter. The Bridge is the
periodical of the fraternity.
One of the gayest affairs on the
campus this season was the annual
Baraca Class Social, given at the
President's Home Friday evening,
May 4. More than eighty students
gathered to spend an enjoyable even­ing
with Dr. and Mrs. Spright Dowell,
along with other Baraca enthusiasts,
including Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Ed­wards
and others.
This was a "smile" social, the price
of admission being one smile. The
group was divided into four towns:
namely, Grindale, Giddletown, Smile-ville
and Ha Ha Hollow Each town
took part in the various contests of
the evening, the main contest being
an automobile race. This included
cranking up," "changing tires,"
"blowouts," and other troubles com­mon
to motorists. At the close of
the contest the judges—Dr. and Mrs.
Edwards and Miss Minnie Sharp—
rendered their decision in favor of
Smileville.
The towns then went to the "Fill­ing
Station" where they were filled
with ice cream and other goodies. At
the close of the event, J. B. Beard,
President of the Baraca Class, pre­sented
in behalf of the class a beau­tiful
desk set to Dr. Dowell, in ap­preciation
of his eight years of faith­ful
services as teacher of the class.
Misses Leland Cooper, Clara Nale
and Lillian Dunn conducted the acti­vities
of the evening.
BURYING ALIVE
GRAVE BUSINESS
Fond of outdoor life, Lieuten­ant
C. E. Pease, instructor in
military science and tactics at
the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
accompanied by a number
of military men took a ten mile
hike Saturday. The young lieu­tenant,
being more weary than
his companions, sat down to rest
and refresh himself. It being
late he soon fell into the arms
of Morpheus. While the popu­lar
officer was in an unconscious
state his fellows dug a grave be­side
his prostrate body and
moved it carefully into the fresh
excavation. A small cross was
erected at the head of the grave
and the earth replaced. The
young man finally "came to him­self"
and slowly extricated him­self
from the partially filled
grave and moved to a more re­mote
location where he would
not be disturbed.
SENIOR CUSS
ADOPTS PLANS
FOR REUNIONS
Important Action Taken At
This Meeting
SCARABS SOCIETY
SPONSORS DANCE
The Scarabs Honor Society, as has
been the custom, will sponsor the
morning dance of Friday, May 18, at
which ten new members will be ini­tiated.
The names of these pledges
have not as yet been announced.
Scarabs is a local honor society,
the purpose of which is: "To honor
with membership ten of the most out­standing
men of the Junior class,
who will work for the betterment of
Auburn."
GREAT ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM
BE HELD COMMENCEMENT WEEK
With President-elect Bradford
Knapp on the program to deliver the
main address of the day, preparations
have been made for the greatest ga­thering
in years of old Auburn men
on Alumni Day, Monday, May 21.
Head coach George M. Bohler will
also address the Alumni in Langdon
Hall and in addition Judge William
H. Samford, president of the asso­ciation
will speak on this occasion.
Various committees have been ap­pointed
by Dr. B. B. Ross, president
of the local Alumni chapter. These
committees will, provide for the de­tails
necessary to make the return of
the old Auburn men the most pleas­ant
they have ever received hereto­fore
in Auburn.
The transportation committee, un­der
the direction of W. A. Young,
has provided a sufficient number of
automobiles to furnish free trans­portation
for the returning Alumni.
The barbecue committee under the
direction of Dr. I. S. McAdory, Em-mett
Sizemore, S. L. Toomer and
Dan Jones, have made provisions
whereby the Alumni will be fed a
delicious barbecue dinner at one
o'clock.
Prof. B. L. Shi is in charge of the
housing committee, while P. R. Bidez
has charge of the music committee.
Mr. Homer Wright will operate an
information bureau for the purpose
of supplying the Alumni with any in­formation
they desire.
In addition to the various meetings
Monday morning there will be ela­borate
military maneuvers, on the
drill field, behind the Main Building.
The feature of the exercise will be
the competitive drill of the various
Company's and Batteries of the unit
here for the title Best Drilled Com­pany
and Best Drilled Battery. In
(Continued on Page 6.)
On Thursday, May 3, the Class of
'28 passed a resolution to establish
and maintain the custom of having
class reunions. This action is not­able
in that the question of perman­ent
class organization has been raised
many times in former years, but this
is the first time that definite action
has been taken.
The Senior class plans to have its
first reunion on Homecoming Day of
the year 1931, and to have succeeding
reunions on the same day every fifth
year thereafter. At each meeting
a president, and secretary-treasurer
will be elected. The class dues will
be three dollars annually, $2.50 of
which will be put in a revolving fund
to bring athletes to Auburn, and 50c
of which will be used by the secre­tary-
treasurer to perform his vari­ous
duties.
The officers elected at last Thurs­day's
meeting were: Mutt Gregory,
Alpha Gamma Rho, President; Bill
Hurt, Pi Kappa Phi, Vice-President;
Hobson Pearce, Beta Kappa, Secre­tary-
Treasurer.
Home Ec. Department
To Stage Fashion Show
Purpose to Show Accomplishments of
Design Classes
The department of clothing and
textiles plan to present a fashion
show entitled "A Fashion Walk," on
May 21, in Langdon Hall. Ths pur­pose
of this performance will be to
show the splendid work accomplished
by the students in clothing and cos­tume
design classes.
The show is to be in three scenes
laid in a costume designer's display
room. The characters are: a cos­tume
designer, Prof. Warren Bower;
a rich merchant, Tom Brown; the
Spirit of Art, Miss Lois Bostick; and
the models, portrayed by nineteen
students in clothing classes.
The play was written by Miss
Rachael Crook.
NOTICE!
Copies of the 1928 Glomerata
will be distributed on May 20.
Students are asked to kindly
wait until that date to make any
inquiries at the office. Any stu­dent
who will leave before that
time may have someone else get
his copy provided said person
presents a written permission to
the Business Manager.
A. M. Examinations begin 8:30
a. m.
P. M. Examinations begin at 1:30
p. m.
Special attention is called to the
following regulations:
1. Class work of undercassmen will
continue as scheduled until Saturday
noon, May 19.
2. A final semester examination
will be given in every subject.
3. Official examination schedule
will be strictly adhered to by all in­structors.
In the interest of uniform­ity
changes from the official schedule
will be by consent of the Executive
Council only.
The cooperation of the entire facul­ty
is earnestly requested in the en­forcement
of these regulations.
Instructors will please hand in
grades for a subject as soon as pos­sible
after the examination in the
subject. Hand in on class cards giv­ing
dates of absences and also alpha­betical
lists withjjrades.
Schedule
Professors concerned will select per­iod
for subjects not arranged for be­low.
Note: Examinations in subjects
which meet only once a week will be
held at the last period scheduled for
the section prior to Commencement
Sunday.
Tuesday, May 22
2 P. M. Sixth Hour subjects which
meet from 2-3 p. m.
2 P. M. Freshman Descriptive Ge­ometry.
Wednesday, May 23
(First hour subjects 8-9)
A. M. First Hour subjects which
neet daily, or on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
P. M. First Hour subjects not
scheduled Wednesday morning.
Thursday, May 24
(Second hour subjects 9-10)
A. M. Second Hour subjects which
meet daily or on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
P. M. Second Hour subjects not
scheduled Thursday morning.
Friday, May 25
(Third hour subjects 10-11)
A. M. Third Hour subjects which
meet daily or on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
P. M. Third Hour subjects not
scheduled Friday morning.
Saturday, May 26
(Fourth hour subjects 11-12
A. M. Fourth Hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
P. M. Seventh Hour subjects which
meet from 3-4. Chemistry Laboratory
106 and 206.
Monday, May 28
(Fifth hour subjects 1-2)
A. M. Fifth Hour subjects which
meet daily, or on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday.
P. M. Fifth Hour subjects not
scheduled Monday morning.
B. L. SHI, Registrar.
M0STG0RGE0US
SOCIAL EVENT
TO OCCUR HERE
Miss Rhona Meriweather and
Earle Meadows to Lead
Grand March
HOUSE PARTIES PLANNED
Ultra-Unique Decorating De­signed
by Wyatt, Snook
DUBOSE ELECTED
PRESIDENT M. S. S.
Will Serve for First Semester
Next Year
of
Frank H. DuBose was elected Presi­dent
of the Methodist Sunday School
last Sunday morning. He will suc­ceed
Sam Mosley who has just com­pleted
a successful semester as Pres­ident
of the Sunday School. The oth­er
students elected were:
Vice-President, David Mosley.
Secretary, Grace Pinnell.
Treasurer, J. W. Stanson.
The officers of the Sunday- School
are selected from the active Methodist
students each semester. This sys­tem
has been in effect for the past
year and has met with favor among
the students and church people.
By Harry Wise
Weidemeyer's well known orchestra
will be here to begin "tooting" on
Thursday night, May 17, to uphold
the reputation they now have on our
campus as being the very best Orches­tra
that has played for the Auburn
Dances. Weidemeyer brings together
some of the best musicians in the
country.
This year the orchestra that is to
play for the Senior Prom at Auburn
has already played foir dances at
Washington and Lee, Princeton and
Cornell Universities. The ten mem­bers
of this orchestra are very ver­satile
in their talent with musical in­struments
and vocal activities.
Miss Rhona Meriweather, Birming­ham,
Alabama, and Mr. Earle Mead­ows
were selected by the Social Com­mittee
to lead the Grand March, Fri­day
Night, May 18.
Invitations have been extended to
about one thousand young ladies from
over the South to attend the Com­mencement
Dances, the climax for all
social activities on the campus. Not
only are these to be the most elabor­ate
and colorful activities of this year
but the best that has ever been put
over on the Auburn Campus. The
number of invitations being sent out
is more than was sent on either of
the other occasions this year and indi­cations
are that a large number of
these ladies will find it possible to
attend.
The decorations for the dances in
the Gym will be designed and carried
out by Professors Wyatt and Snook
of the department of Architecture.
The extraordinary effect of the under­sea
scenery with nile green as the
prevailing color will be fitting for
these the most elaborately decorated
dances to have been held on our cam­pus.
The crepe paper used in obtain­ing
this effect will hide the balcony
from the view of those on the floor.
(Continued on page 6}
CHURCHES INVITE
STUDENTS SUNDAY
Go-to-Church
Y.
Day Sponsored
M. C. A.
by
The second Go-to-Church Sunday
of this year to be sponsored by the
Religious Committee of the Y. M. C.
A. under the direction of Hugh Kin-zer
will be a feature of next Sunday,
Mothers Day, May 13. Mothers' Day
is a fitting occasion to have a go-to-church
day, because where could a
student be on Sunday that would
please his mother more than to at­tend
church services?
In ony a few days the summer va­cation
will begin, and students! where
ever you will be, a better habit could
not be had than to attend church reg­ularly.
There you have associations
not obtained elsewhere in the same
spirit. There you get inspiration for
the daily grind of a week's work.
So Sunday morning, arise a bit earl­ier
than usual. Awaken your room­mate
and others in your house, and
bring them along to the Sunday School
of your choice. Be on time with a
smile for the "spirit of mothers".
Many mothers will be with us. Give
them an impression of the student
that will make them proud of the col­lege
to which they have entrusted
their sons.
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STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
H. W. Glover Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
J. B. McMillan, '29 Associate Editor
Raymond DeArman, '29 --Associate Editor
Harry Wise, '29 Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
L. B. Haley, '30 News Editor
Tom Brown, '31 ._ Associate News Editor
J. E. Taylor, '30 Proofreader
G. D. Waits, '30 Ass't. Proofreader
Chas. Ingersoll, '29 Sports Editor
Watts Howie Ass't. Sports Editor
J. E. McLeskey Ass't. Sports Editor
Annie Ross Fuller, '29 Co-ed Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 -_ Exchange Editor
Posey Morton, '31 Humor Editor
Bob Handley, '29 Humor Editor
REPORTERS
E. T. England, '30; Roy N. Sellers, '31;
Robert L. Hume, '31; Bob McConnell,
'31; White Matthews, '31; George Dun­can,
'31; Richard A. Jones, '31; John
Lewis, '31; L. W. Strauss, '31; J. D.
Foy, '31; Murff Hawkins, '31, Alvin
.McConnell, '31.
BUSINESS STAFF
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr.
Carlos Moon, '31 Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
A. C. Taylor, '30 Circulation Mgr.
G. W. Smith, '30 Ass't. Cir. Mgr.
J. M. Johnson, '31 Ass't. Cir. Mgr.
M. Hawkins, '31 Circulation Dept.
J. L. Sellers, '31 Circulation Dept.
Geo. W. Postelle, '31 __ Circulation Dept.
THE COMPARATIVE MERIT OF
SCHOLARSHIP IN BUSINESS
Much has been said concerning the ad­vancement
of high-mark college men in
business; and still more has ben thought
of it. The question has been asked, "Does
business want scholars?" Arguments are
afloat as to the progress and success of
distinguished scholars in the business
world. What is the real answer?
Will the scholastic record made while
in college influence the graduate's rating
when he enters business? Will his record
in active work after graduation parallel
that which he has made during his college
training? We as college students, are di­rectly
concerned with these questions. And
it should be extremely interesting to note
their possible answers, since the majority
of the students completing their training
here will enter a business.
Customarily, business has not been se­lecting
men on the basis of their marks in
college. This has influenced the undergrad­uate
to accept his college course as some­thing
entirely separate and part form his
life after graduation. Or when there is a
correlation, it is usually linked through
campus activities, with the idea that these
may benefit him more in after-life than
the subject matter gleaned from books.
Business has believed that a college does
not teach a boy business.
Today, however, a different slant on the
situation is being taken. According to a
very prominent figure in the business
world, "Each year at least half of the 40,-
000 young men graduating from our col­leges
are entering the ranks of business.
One of the most readily available objective
measures of their past achievement is their
college scholastic record. It measures the
results in what, after all, has been their
major task for four years. Its value for
indicating future achievement is surely
worth determining."
Accurate and fairly thorough tests have
shown that, on the average, the best stu­dents
in colelge have gone highest in busi­ness.
These tests have proven that, "in
general, men in the first third of their col­lege
classes are most likely to be found in
the highest third of their group in salary,
those in the middle third in scholarship to
be in the middle third in salary, and those
in the lowest third in scholarship to be in
the lowest third in salary." To be sure
there are scant, striking exceptions, but
these few diversions cannot be accepted
as a guide or rule. No doubt you are
ready to single out some man well known
to you who ranks high in scholarship, but
is totally blank in business ability. In
granting this isolated instance as true, it
must not be taken as general.
Turn to "Who's Who" if you will, there
to find that a very high percentage of Phi
Beta Kappa Society men are listed. Phi
Beta Kappa also claims 40 per cent of the
Justices of the Supreme Court between
1800 and 1922, and 40 per cent of the
Secretaries of State. A remarkable show­ing,
when you consider the small numbers
of the Society.
Educators believe that education is a
continuous process beginning early and
ending late. They can cite you to figures
and prove that boys who do well in school
generally do well in college, and later in
their life work. Hence a high grade man
in school stands favorable for the same
position in college, in practice, and all
through life. The habit of successful men­tal
accomplisment—the habit and ability
to use one's brains will prove valuable and
successful in later attempts.
"The mind well trained in youth has the
best chance to succeed in any business it
may choose; and scholarship as a measure
of mental equipment is of importance both
to business and to business men. Business
will have a surer guide to the selection of
able young men than it has used in the
past, and the young men who train the
muscle of their brains can feel reasonably
certain that such training will add to their
success in business and, in all probability,
to the fruitful and happy use of the leisure
which success in business will give them."
ATHLETICS;
THE NEED OF REORGANIZATION
Auburn suffers a great loss in the resig­nation
of Mike Papke, basket ball coach.
The basket ball team has constantly im­proved
since he assumed charge three years
ago, missing the Southern Conference
Championship this year by only one point.
Mike Papke combines the qualities of a
gentleman with the abilities of a great
coach, and his influence with the student
body at the time of Morey's resignation is
especially to be commended. He was a
great factor in keeping up the morale of the
students during this interval of tensity. It
is with much regret that we see him leave
Auburn, and it appears a bit unfortunate
that Papke and the Atheletic Council could
not come to an agreement over his salary.
Papke's abilities are not confined to the
basket ball floor, as he has done much with
the freshman baseball team this Spring.
However much of the credit for the success­ful
season of the freshman team is re­served
for Coach "Red" Brown. Had it not
been for his influence in securing for Au­burn
outstanding high school athletes and
placing them in position for which their re­spective
merits adapt them, it is doubtful
that such results could have been achieved.
Papke's decision recalls to us the resigna­tion
of Mike Donahue in 1922 and also that
of Dave Morey last fall. The apparant
inability of the Athletic Council to retain
the services of competent coaches seems in­dicative
of a lack of harmony among those
who direct our athletics. An analyzation
of the situation indicates that the fault
lies in the determination of the Council to
assume authority which properly should be
given to the Coach. Either the Council
should have full authority, or the Head
Coach should be given full rein. It is im­material
to the students or to the alumni
who directs the athletic politics; however,
the athletic standing of Auburn has been
on the decline since the inauguration of
the Athletic Council, and those interested
can only gauge the efficiency of the organ­ization
by the outward results.
It is not our object to criticize the per­sonnel
of the Council; rather we are of­fering
constructive criticism of the organi­zation
as it now exists. It appears to us
that the main purpose of the Council should
be that of aiding the coach in completing,
and fulfilling his policies, and not at­tempting
to subordinate the authority of
the Head Coach to that of the Director of
Athletics. If we are going to look to the
coach for success in athletics, then we
should give him the aid and the power
necessary for the attainment of this end.
If such undisputed authority were placed
in the hands of the coach, it would be im­possible
to shift responsibility or to claim
unmerited praise.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
PURPOSE OF THE Y. M. C. A. TO
FOSTER HIGH INTEGRITY
One of the most notable achievements
of the local Y. M. C. A. is the recent "Tag
Day" program, which assures the comple­tion
of two very much needed tennis
courts. Hopson Pearce and Roy Sellers
have merited for themselves the sincere
thanks of every student, for the courts
are a decided asset to the recreational life
or the college.
The work accomplished by the Y. M. C.
A. through the medium of the reading and
recreation room, the employment bureau,
the all-college hike, and the friendship
council, truly offers "to the student body
and to Auburn a means of developing those
qualities so essential to the uplifting of hu­manity."
The greatest work of the "Y" is the tre­mendous
influence created fotr the de­velopment
of manly character. However,
the association is dependent upon each in­dividual
for the results which may be
achieved. Let us help by assuming an
active part in the organization, and in fur­thering
its ideals.
Columbia: Displacing the present curri­culum
of twenty years standing, a revised
plan of undergraduate study, designed to
open new and larger intellectual vistas to
the student, will go into effect next Sep­tember
at Columbia College. The first
two years will be devoted to "Orientation
and Discovery." The Junior and Senior
years will be given to genuine work in
preparation for graduate or professional
study.
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State College, N. C: Beginning next
year a four year course in Chemistry will
be offered for the first time here.
» * * » *
Seed for thought: "Are you getting out
of College things that will be of value to
you one year—or ten years from now?"
18 BOOK REVIEW m
A MILESTONE IN THE MODERN
NOVEL
By Warren E. Bower
The Counterfeiters: by Andre Gide, N. Y.
Alfred A. Knopf: 1927
In the field of the novel this seems to be
an age of experimentation. The changes
have come about gradually, so that it is
difficult to fix upon the beginning or any
writer who is in any sense responsible. In
America at least we are likely to feel that
the modern spirit in the neovel came in
with Stephen Crane when he published
Maggie and The Red Badge of Courage.
Henry James, in both England and Ameri­ca,
had a great deal to do with shaping the
novel into new forms. But within the last
decade and a half there have been supris-ingly
great changes in style, content, and
chiefly in form and structure. In England
one thinks of James Joyce, who with his
Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist as
Young Man, and later with the monumen­tal
Ulysess, has had probably the greatest
influence of all on the modern novel. Doro­thy
Richardson comes to mind also, as does
Virginia Woolf, as experimenters who have
made the course of the serious novel a flux
rather than a decided tendency. But after
Joyce, and perhaps sometime to surpass
him, is Marcel Proust of France, who in
his even more monumental work of a life­time,
Remembrance of Things Past, has
profoundly affected the minds and theories
of novelists. It is from Proust that Audre
Gide chiefly stems, altho he has qualities
that are decidedly his own, and he is car­rying
on the problem in a way that Proust
would not have done. The Counterfeiters
is a novel in the modern manner; that is, it
is an experiment, but one with a remark­able
degree of finish. There are no rough
edges in it; if one disapproves Of the book,
one has to do so on very fundamental is­sues
indeed. It is not possible to say, "I
do not like the plot," for there is, properly
speaking, no plot whatsoever. There is
only a pattern, one not formed by the mind
of the author, but the pattern the flow of
life imposes. It will be seen that this is a
novel for serious reading, perhaps even for
serious students of the novel; it can be said
to serve a distinctly literary purpose. The
reader who wishes to read as he runs ought
to be warned away from this.
Yet I do not mean to imply that the ordi­nary
intelligent reader will find nothing of
interest in The Counterfeiters. On the con­trary,
he will find a gallery of portraits of
individuals as real as he is likely to come
across between the covers of a book. This
is no doubt the greatest value of Gide's
novel, apart from the fact that it has had,
and will continue to have, a great influence
upon other novelists. Gide employs every
device that older novelists have used, and
invents many for himself, in an effort to
make his characters as round and living
as he can. We see them from all sides, from
many different points of view, and in the
end we know them as well as it is given
to a reader to know a fictitious character
in a book; and very often that is to know
them far better than we know some of our
so-called intimate friends.
To attempt a summary of The Counter­feiters
is a thankless task, because the can­vas
is too large. The events concern them­selves
with a group of people of the literary
set in Paris, the center of which is Edouard,
the novelist, a man with high purposes and
an exceeding interest in people. The Count
Robert de Passavant is another novelist,
a force for evil in the lives of everyone he
touches intimately. Between these two and
played upon by both at varying times are
Bernard, a boy of talent and determination,
Olivier, intelligent, sensitive, but weak in
will, who is almost ruined by the Count de
Passavant, and Vincent, Olivier's older
brother, a man of ability, but also weak
and vacillating and who comes to a bad end.
Surrounding this group are a great num­ber'
of other characters who touch these
principals in some way or other.
This novel has more of the breath of re­ality
about it than any that has recently
appeared; but to say that it is realistic in
method would be wholly wrong. No label
that can easily be affixed will apply here.
None is needed. One is grateful to the
novelist for having provided such a gener­ous
list of characters and for having shown
them to us in a manner completer than al­most
any other novelist would have used.
THIS GAME OF GOLF
At this time of the year many insects begin their war on the human race.
There was a time when these pests were not thought of until hot weather en­veloped
us. The cold weather failed, however, this time and one of the most well
known bugs, the golf bug, failed to go into winter quarters at all. The little
white pills have infested the hillsides like dandruff. The golf season now lasts for
twelve months during the year and the younger generation has practically ousted
the older gentlemen from their own game.
The Golf Widows Association has elected new officers for the coming year
with hopes of really accomplishing something toward stamping out this Sunday
afternoon pest. Mrs. Grouch, newly elected president, has appealed to the young
chemists of America to carry on an extensive research in regard to finding some
insect powder which will diminish if not kill the golf enthusiasm, which works its
way into the bones of human beings. It is hoped that some real good will be
accomplished but if the chemists fail it is suggested that a good stout club be ap­plied
to the head of the infected person with much vigor. This is not only good
exercise but if the club is applied after Sunday dinner it will be found that the
stricken person will probably spend the afternoon in an enjoyable rest.
At a meeting of Grandfathers Golf Association the subject of the college and
high school golfer was much cussed and discussed. It seems that the average
young golfer who plays with the old heads and keep both scores is always flush
in good weather. Some were of the opinion that if the younger generation is
to continually keep score, then the Grandfathers Golf Association should adopt
croquet as the National game.
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You can't tell how fast a flapper travels by the length of her legs.
* * * * * * * *
WHY A MAN ALWAYS BACKS UP TO A FIRE
When Noah was sailing around the world in his1 Ark, just off the coast of
Iceland, the old tub sprung a small leak. To keep the water out of the craft, the
first skipper took a dog and stuck his nose; in the small hole. This explains why
a dogs nose is always cold. The leak increased in size, however, and so a woman
stuck her shoulder into it and this was the first incident recorded in history of a
woman's cold shoulder. Later the hole grew in size.
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PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
MONDAY
Purity Pete and Lady Lou in THE EVILS OF GIN
This is a thrilling melodrama of the great open spaces where a man's a man and
the women are proud of it. It is throbbing with heartfelt emotions drawn from
the intermost part of the soul. DON'T MISS this wonderful picturization.
ADMISSION—Three ax handles or one bucket of high grade syrup (sorghum
preferred).
TUESDAY (the day. following)
Sheik Jones and Hearta Flutter in COLLEGE LIFE AROUND THE STUDIO.
This is a great story of college life written and directed and produced by a
man who never finished grammar school. The school was burned down to get
him out of the fourth grade. The story is laid around a small town ministerial
school and this wonderful couple is very pure and simple. She is pure and he is
simple.
ADMISSION—one cross tie or two skunk hides. ^~
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY (also in this week)
One Lung Louie and Dopey Joe in THE NIGHT LIFE OF LOSHAPOKA.
Hair raising, neck breaking, feet twisting, tobacco spitting, chin wagging tale
of a bustling metropolis gone wild. This great feature film was taken from actual
life as lived around the proverbs (beg pardon we mean suburbs) of this hyper-thropied
and bulky city. Actual cameras were used in the filming of this wonder­ful
portrayal of ultra modern night life. Thirty nine men and one college student
lost their lives in the hore shoe throwing scene. This picture required 300 chains
of film (civily speaking) and was one semester in the making (collegiately speak­ing).
ADMISSION will be slightly raised as the roof needs repairing.
(r-'KIDAY (immediately following)
Bowery Bawl and Dandruff Dora in THE DISAPPEARANCE OF POCK
MARKED PAUL. Co-starring the two great detectives Keyhole Willie and Tran-some
Ike who once ran the heels of their shoes down. The supernatural, hyper-physical,
increditable, heterogeneous tale of a man who enigmatically disappeared
about day break or near bout. This breath taking tale will make you sit on the
-edge of your seat until you wear your breeches thin. ADMISSION—one empty
keg as the proprietor has started into the poultry business on the side and needs a
hen nest (all excellisor will be greatly appreciated).
SATURDAY (annual boy scouts day)
Rodeo Ramsey in COWPUNCHERS LUCK with Creepy Joe his supernatural
horse. This is not like the usual western thriller but is a real genuine Sears Roe­buck
special story. In this picture catcus plants of the rubber variety were used
to keep from scratching the horses. All cows over twenty one years of age that
were killed in the filming were graciously donated the college town markets.
Rodeo Ramsey was a chore boy on a ranch in his boyhood and helped run the
Indains off the ranch.
ADMISSION—actual money and not cigar coupons will be needed. Nine
fourth of the proceeds will be turned over to the boy scouts (honest). Tickets
can be purchased from Paul Brake. As this concludes the program for the week
there will be no more, shows until Monday.
* * * * * * * *
Our guess is that vulcanizing was discovered by studying a movie kiss.
* * * * * * * *
Ten years ago the women said to the men: "We'll show you some things in a
few years." Well they have.
* * * * * * * *
THE MODERN AGE
Please call by and get your pants.—The Ideal Lady.
This note was received the past week by a student from the Ideal Laundry.
* * * * * * * *
The use of the American colloquialism "some" is more prevalent than it need
be in England; and it led a scion of one of the newest rich families to a well earned
snub the other night at a dance. He was sitting with his partner in the conserva­tory
and the conversation was languishing very much. At last the young man
roused himself and in his best accent proposed a stroll in the garden as the con­servatory
was uncomfortably hot. The girl willingly assented and for a while the
couple sauntered amid the shrubs and trees in almost unbroken silence.
Presently he bent down and felt the grass.
"By Jove," he exclaimed. "Some dew."
"Yes" snapped the young girl, her eyes flashing, "and some don't. I'm going
in again. Good-night."
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BAD BATH ACCIDENTS
The number of bath tub accidents seem to be increasing around Auburn.
We have noticed another disabled veteran of the shower division of volunteers
hobbling about the campus. If the school declares any more holidays or increases
the number of days in a week end it will in all probability have to close on account
of bath accidents. We suggest that if our country ever enters into another war
it would be advisable to place American bath tubs and showers in the enemy ter­ritory
to destroy their.morale. Congress should take steps to preserve the youth
of the country by requiring all Plumbing Manufacturers to equip tubs with non-skid
bottoms.
* * * * * * * *
The ministers of Birmingham have by far the greatest political organization
in the city and this was proved without a doubt at the recent "movie" primary. If
these same ministers would spend as much time trying to show people the right
way to the church as they do in keeping the movies closed on the Sabbath they
would have larger congregations. The knitting society of Auburn and the Ministers
union of Birmingham should give each other a rising vote of congratulations on
their respective abilities at keeping both villages asleep on Sundays.
MEDITATIONS
ON THIS AND THAT
T>y lupiter <]. Tluvius
IN LAST WEEK'S issue this paper edi­torially
declared itself opposed to the
practice of awarding quality points for
participation in extra-curricula activities.
This is a most commendable stand, and is
a starting point toward an attack on Honor
Societies, the goals of the outside-activity
sharks. Besides the gathering of keys,
there is another motive for superfluous
baggage to hang onto the various socie­ties.
This is the garnering of quality
points. It is much easier to attend a lit­erary
society for a semester than to add
the required points to one's grade to get
five of the necessary little points.
In former years the practice was begun
to stimulate interest in extra-curricula ac­tivities.
Now we need something to stifle
about ninety per cent of the superficial
interest which we see exhibited. For the
quality-point hound, a literary society or
professional society is simply a short cut
toward his diploma. Original work in these
organizations is made well-nigh impossible
by the inert bulk of inactive membership.
If quality points are not given, the so­cieties
will lost many members, is the cry.
Very good; the loss will be the best for
all concerned. The few serious members
left will be able to do something, the ones
who drop out will necessarily have to ab­sorb
a little more knowledge in order to
graduate, the college will profit by having
a higher standard. The classroom and the
library are the areanas wherein knowledge
must be mastered, and and psuedo-learning
gathered from a passive attendance on
some society or other is a poor substitute.
Not that the man who is interested enough
in his chosen profession to attend a soci­ety
on its own account won't profit; he
will, because he is putting something in
it, not being a parasite. However, the
condition which makes quality points the
main attraction in the society is detri­mental
to good education at Auburn.
* * * * *
WE WERE discussing an article en­titled
"Are you a 100% Ameri­can?"
which recently appeared in
a poular magazine. One hundred questions
were asked, such as, do you think that
American gentlemen are truer gentlemen
than European gentlemen? Affirmative
replys counted for America. The number
of affirmatives was supposed to represent
one's percentage of Americanism. No
matter what may have been the attitude of
the author, the deplorable number of af­firmatives
which some of us make is of
import. We are too nationalized and too
little internationalized. We are too
stateized, too townized, and too streetized.
Patriotism is all right as long as it doesn't
obscure facts.
I think that it was Schopenhauer who
said that most patriotism was an attempt
on the part of the person of mediocre
talents to hide his mediocrity under the
glories of his neighbors. Transportation,
communication, common problems and
many other agents are working toward the
time when the well rounded man must be
a citizen of the world. Narrow education
is being forced down our throats today.
However it is not exclusively an American
fault. Europeon boys and girls are taught
that all Americans chew tobacco, read Sun­day
comics, worship money, and drive
Fords. They don't laud our systems of
mass education any more than we laud
their school systems. They think of go-getting
and high-speed production just as
we think of tea drinking and leisure. How­ever,
the man who knowingly limits his
views to any field which hasn't world
scope is going to find himself out of the
running in the future.
THE NEVERMORE
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late,
Farewell;
Unto thine ear I hold the dead sea shell
Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet be­tween
;
Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen
Which had Life's form and Love's but
my spell
Is now a shaken shadow intolerable,
Of ultimate things unuttered the faint
screen.
Mock me, how still I am! but should there
burst
One moment through my soul the
soft surprise
Of that winged peace which lulls the
breath of sighs—
Then shalt thou see me smile
Thy image to mine ambush at thy heart
Sleepless with cold commemorative
eyes.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Dartmouth: To promote third party in­terests
through the support of Norman
Thomas, socialist candidate for President,
a local socialist group has been founded at
Dartmouth College.
*—
THE PLAINSMAN Page 3
MEMBERS OF THE ALABAMA PRESS
ASSOCIATION BACK FROM CUBA
By Harry Wi»e
Julian Hall, Editor of the Dothan
Eagle, gives us some good "dope"
on the Cuban situation and the atti­tude
of the Alabama Press Associa­tion
upon their recent visit to the
island when they made their "an-uual
outing" trip to Havana. Au­burn
was well represented in the per­son
of W. A. "Bill" Young, radio an­nouncer
at the station here on the
campus, WAPI. Mr. Hall's article
was titled "Havana" and read like
this:
"The best known person in Amer­ica
is Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, but
the best known person in Cuba is
Sloppy Joe."
These words were uttered by Bill
Young, radio announcer for Station
WAPI, Auburn. But they were not
uttered into the microphone; they
were uttered last week on the third
deck of the steamship Cuba, and were
addressed to the writer. We were on
our way to Havana with the Alabama
Press Association.
"Who," we inquired, "is Sloppy
Joe?"
"Sloppy Joe," replied Bill with a
gesture, runs a barroom," and he
added with a larger gesture: "He
runs the biggest barroom in Havana."
Bill had never been to Cuba and
neither had we yet he knew all about
Sloppy Joe. We reflected that it is
part of a radio announcer's job, the
same as it is a newspaper editor's to
be posted on history, literature, the
arts, world events and places of in-trest,
and not wishing to seem dumb,
we replied: "Well, there's a mighty
pretty place in India. It's called the
Taj Mahal."
"Yeah?" said Bill. "Seems like
I've heard of it. Sort of built on the
idea of Sloppy Joe's, aint's it?"
"Well, no. Not exactly. But
there's a resemblance between 'em.
The Taj Mahal was built by Emperor
Shan Jehan in memory of his lost
Queen, while Sloppy Joe's was built
by a private individual in memory of
a lost liberty of the Americans.
"Yep," said Bill, "in 1898 the
United States came nobly to the res­cue
of Cuba and gave her freedom
and liberty, and then 20 years later
amputated a large hunk of liberty
from her own citizens."
After reaching Havana Mr. Hall
and Mr. Young, along with others of
the 108 members of the association,
paid "Sloppy Joe" a visit and found
him a very interesting man; operating
a very interesting place of business.
The saloon business is not near the
largest industry of the Island nor
is that the only thing that attracts
Americans to Havana, the cleanest
city in the world and upon the "Pearl
of the Antiles." Mr. Hall tells of a
few of the sights to be seen while in
Havana.
The streets are spotlessly clean,
and it is seldom that one sees even
a cigaret stub on the sidewalk. Many
cities boast of their cleanliness, but
Havana is actually as clean as a city
can be kept.
One of the sights that will eat into
the mind of every American who
sees it and wil scar his memory until
the last day of his life, is the Bone-yard.
When a Cuban is buried his rela­tives
for all generations to come must
pay rent on his grave unless the
grave lot is owned by the family. If
a family does not own a lot, and a
member dies, his relatives for all
generations to come must pay an­nual
rent on the dead member's
grave. If this rent goes unpaid for
three years the deceased's body is dug
up and carried to the Boneyard, and
flung upon the ground. The Bone-yard
is located in a corner of the
cemetery. A high stone wall sur­rounds
it. The gate made of thick
wood, remains locked, but one is
permitted to look through a hole and
receive a repulsive shock. The
ground is covered with the bones of
human beings—who once lived, lov­ed,,
walked, talked, laughed and wept,
struggled and died. Because their
families were too poor to buy a plot
Robert E. Lee Hall, the main building at Blue Ridge. From its porch,
one can see Mt. Mitchell, the highest point east of the Rockies.
HOME EC. CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS
A call meeting of the Home Eco­nomics
Club was held in the "Y. W".
Hut, Wednesday, May 2, at five o'clock
for the purpose of electing officers
for the coming year.
Next year should be a banner year
for the Home Economics Club, due to
the ability and interest of Miss Rebec­ca
Pate, the newly elected President.
The officers elected are:
Vice-President, Martha Haupt.
Secretary, Earline Hutchison.
Treasurer, Pauline Watkins.
Plainsman Reporter, Emma Joe At­kins.
Klein's Sporting Goods Store
EXPERT AND PROMPT SERVICE
ON TENNIS RACQUETS
WE RESTRING ALL MAKES
—A g e n t s F o r—
SPAULDING AND HARRY C. LEE RACQUETS
ALL ATHLETIC SUPPLIES
North Court Square
KLEIN & SON
JEWELERS
GIFTS FOR EVERY OCCASION
SILVERWARE AND FINE CHINA
WATCHES AND DIAMONDS
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
J. S. Hathcock Visits
On Auburn Campus
Dr. J. S. Hathcock, member of the
United States Department of Agri­culture,
is spending this week in Au­burn
and Montgomery in conference
with Prof. J. D. Pope and others of
A. P. I. Agricultural faculty and of­ficers
of the State Farm Bureau, in
an intensive campaign for the further­ing
of cooperative marketing of cot­ton.
BLUE RIDGE AND
WHAT IT MEANS
REGULATION
U.S. Navy Breeches
$2.00 Any Size $2.00
PHILLIPS DRY GOODS STORE
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
JOHN MOSLEY, Student Rep.
PHI KAPPA DELTA HOUSE
USE KRATZER'S ICE CREAM
Your Local Dealer Has It
For your parties and feeds ask your local
dealer to order from us. Our products are
pasteurized, using best ingredients, there­fore
necessarily PURE.
KRATZER'S
Montgomery, Alabama
Local Dealers
HOMER WRIGHT
S. L T00MER
of ground to bury their bodies, they
could not rest in peace, even in
death. There they lay, piled waist
high, scattered about like so many
bones of animals, bleached, glaring
under the hot rays of a tropical sun.
It was sickening.
Mr. Hall closed his article by quot­ing
Mr. Young again:
Bill Young told Cuba the senti­ments
of every member of the party
towards Havana and Cuba when he
said over the radio station of the Cu­ban
Telephone Company:
"I know that I voice the sentiments
of every member of the Alabama
Press Association when I say that this
visit to Cuba marks a high moment
in their lives. We have been re­ceived
with an honest cordiality that
touches us and make us warm to this
gracious people. We are grateful
beyond expression for numerous
courtesies extended to us on every
hand and I have been delegated the
pleasant task of bespeaking here to­night
the gratitude of the members
of our party.
"All members of our association
have confessed that the Cuban
people fascinated them and they are
resolved to return to this island of
delight when ever possible. Havana,
we are sure, is easily the most beau­tiful
city in the western world even
as it is possibly the cleanest city on
earth. Everywhere that one goes
one's eye is filled with views of lovely
objects. We are constantly amazed
at your faculty for capturing the
beautiful fcnd putting it to every day
uses. We think that the cuban peo­ple
have mastered the art of living
grandly and pleasantly without con­scious
effort. We think that you
have wrought out here on this little
island, known to the four corners of
the world as the pearl of the Antiles,
one of the great civilizations of his­tory,
and because we admire you
without any mental reservations we
thought we should tell you so."
What is Blue Ridge? The curious
minded desire a single expression to
form a concrete image of just what
Blue Ridge is and what is done there.
But one cannot do Blue Ridge justice
by making it a concrete thing, just
as one has not described a college
when he says it is a place to get
professional training.
The main reason why we, as stu­dents
at Auburn, are interested in
Blue Ridge is, it is the mecca for stu­dents
from all Southern college Y. M.
C. A.'s each summer. Each June, the
Southern Student Conference meets
there for a ten day session. This con­ference
is attended by delegates from
all. of the important colleges of the
South with a few fraternal delegates
from Northern schools. The main
purpose of this conference is to af­ford
a great get-together of students
from all southern colleges who de­sire
to know each other and their
common problems.
The most adequate description of
Blue Ridge is to say that in the
heart of the Blue Ridge mountains
nears such famous scenery as Chim­ney
Rock and Mr. Mitchell is the
place to find one's heart and souj.
Auburn is to have a delegation there
this year of students who will be a
credit to the institution and who will
be able to bring back a vital mes­sage
to the campus. The Y. M. C. A.
is helping all worthly delegates to
the meeting. If you are interested in
going, call by the Y. M. C. office or
see J. R. Jarrish, chairman of the Au­burn
Blue Ridge committee, some­time
in the near future. There are
still a few vacancies in Auburn's
quota and these should be filled with­in
the next week. To satisfy your­self
that Blue Ridge is an inspiration
for nobler deeds and higher aspira­tions,
talk the matter over with some­one
who has been. Once a delegate
at this conference, will make you a
Blue Ridge man for life.
Dr. Knapp Invited
Preside Over Meet
Dr. Bradford Knapp, president­elect
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
has been invited to preside
at a round-table discussion on the
"Economic and Industrial Develop­ment
of the South" on the occasion of
the meeting of the Institute of Public
Affairs at the University of Virginia,
August 18-29, inclusive. He has ac­cepted
the invitation which came as
recognition of his rare knowledge and
outstanding leadership as an educa­tor
in the development of the South.
Information about this high honor
being conferred upon the new presi­dent
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
has been received in Auburn.
The occasion will be a new and very
interesting development among south­ern
educators and leaders in agricul­tural
and industrial development. At
a similar meeting last year problems
vital to the South and her people were
discussed by leading authorities and
the meeting attracted national at­tention.
Before he accepted work with the
University of Arkansas, Dr. Knapp
traveled throughout the South as chief
of Extension work for the southern
states. Since going to Arkansas—
and also during his presidency of Ok­lahoma
A. & M. College—he has kept
in close touch with every development
within the South, with which he is
familiar from one end to the other.
B. C. Anderson Is To
Represent Kiwanis
Captain B. C. Anderson, president,
has been elected to represent the Au­burn
Kiwanis Club at Seattle, Wash­ington,
June 17-21. Homer Wright
druggist was elected alternate dele­gate.
It is probable that Mr. Wright
will attend since the duties of Captain
Anderson are such as to make it im
probable that he can get away from
Auburn at that time.
At the meeting of the club, Mon­day,
Dr. R. S. Sugg reported on civic
improvement work, saying that for
this year the main project will be to
extend the sewerage lines out from
Auburn, the growth of the town
making this necessary,, and in vari­ous
ways the financing the extension
is being considered.
Dr. W. H. Pierre, a member of the
public affairs committee, asked each
member of the club to hae a ladder
at his home to reach the top of the
house for use in exterminating fires.
He says that a special price is being
sought with a view to supplying
homes in Auburn with ladders as a
protection against fire.
Special music for the day was fur­nished
by Miss Eloise Floyd and Miss
Elizabeth Mardre. The program was
arranged by Byron Jones.
W. G. Simpson was presented as
a new member. Mr. Simpson recent­ly
moved to Auburn to engage in in­surance
business.
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On Wednesday night, May 9, at
the regular weekly meeting of the
Students Agricultural Club, officers
for the first semester of the next
scholastic year were elected. The
following were chosen: President, J.
R. Taylor, Jr.; Vice-president, T. R.
Home; Secretary, K. V. Reagan;
Treasurer, A. L. Smith; Reporter,
Victor Savage, Jr.; Sergeant-at-arms,
V. C. Kitchens; Cheer leader, Rat
Perry; Assistant Cheer leader, For­rest
Word; Critic, R. E. Martin; Li­brarian,
P. H. Alsobrook. A com­mittee
composed of K. V. Reagan,
Earl Gissendanner and E. P. Blocker
was appointed by the President to of­ficially
check the records of club
members.
The retiring officers were: Presi­dent,
M. T. Gowder; Vice-president,
C. Savage; Secretary, J. E. Carter;
Treasurer, C. T. Thompson; Reporter,
Victor Savage, Jr.; Critic, L. G. Brac-keen;
Cheer leader, J. E
Sergeant-at-arms, H. J. Carter; Li­brarian,
M. V. Hallman.
According to a move which passed
the house at this meeting, no more
meetings of the Ag CVlub will be
held this semester.
Wilsonian Literary
Society Election
Bruce F. Harkins, Jr. Ag. Ed., was
elected president of the Wilsonian
Literary Society Tuesday night.
The other officers elected are:
Vice-president, J. J. O'Roucke,
Sophomore—Electrical Engineering.
Secretary, Mary Bradford, Sopho­more-—
Home Economics.
Treasurer, H. W. Overton, Fresh­man—
Electrical Engineering.
Critic, George Stafford, Junior—
Electrical Engineering.
Sergeant at Arms, J. E. Walsh,
Sophomore—Civil Engineering.
Plainsman Reporter, L. B. Haley.
This was the last meeting of the
year.
TIDMORE RETURNS
TO DUTIES HERE
EIGHT PROFESSORS
ADDED AT AyBURN
Eight additional professors will be
added to the education faculty at Au­burn
for the 1928-'29 session, it was
announced Saturday by Dean Zebu-
Ion Judd, head of the department.
Seven of this number will do resident
teaching while one of the new pro­fessors
will carry out some phase of
extension teaching.
This addition to the staff in edu­cation
will enable the college to carry
out the desire of the board of trus­tees
recently voiced in their resolu­tion
adopted by them at a meeting
in Montgomery, March 16. At this
time the board made known its pur­pose
to continue its service to the
state by the training of professors
and superintendents for places of edu­cational
leadership in the state.
David Roe, 70, of Long Beach, Cali­fornia,
father of Prof. John W. Roe,
Auburn professor, died suddenly
last Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock as a result of heart attack,
while playing golf. The funeral will
take place Monday at Long Beach,
according to a telegram received by
Professor Roe.
The elder Mr. Roe, though 70
years of age, was quite vigorous un­til
his death, being a tennis player,
golfer and swimmer, of considerable
skill. Mr. Roe had retired from busi­ness
but he continued his active con­nections
with many of his civic or­ganizations
including Rotary, Cham­ber
of Commere and the Optimist
Club, of Long Beach. He went to
California in 1919. Professor John
W. Roe is assistant professor of mod­ern
languages at Auburn.
Demonstration Farms
To Be In Alabama
The first three of the demonstra­tion
farms to be located at the secon­dary
agricultural schools of Alabama
will be started at Hamilton, Lineville,
and Jackson, the location committee
has announced. This committee is
composed of Prof. L. N. Duncan, Prof.
M. J. Funchess, S. M. Dunwoody,
commissioner of agriculture, Dr. J.
B. Hobdy, director of vocational ed­ucation
in Alabama, and S. A. Burns,
a farmer of Talladega.
These three will be started during
the fiscal year which will end June
30, 1928. Farms will be located at
Blountsville, Wetumpka, and Abbe­ville
during the fiscal year beginning
July 1, 1928.
These farms are being started and
will be operated according to an act
passed by the last Legislature of Ala­bama.
The Extension Service of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute will
be in charge and the district demon­stration
agents will supervise them
in their respective districts. They
will not be experimental farms but
farms for demonstrating better prac­tices
and better methods in agricul­ture
and farm life. They will be op­erated
in conjunction with the second­ary
agricultural schools at which they
are located. There are 11 of these
schools.
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Prof. J. W. Tidmore of the faculty
of the Agronomy department of the
college of agriculture, Auburn, has
returned after spending two years on
leave in graduate work at the Uni­versity
of Clafornia.
While in California Prof."Tidmore
completed his resident work for the
degree of doctor of philosophy which
will be conferred upon him when he
completes his thesis, which he expects
to do in connection with his work at
Auburn.
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RESEARCH WORK
Someone has been doing some
Hydrick; round-about figuring lately, and it is
now found that our Rat baseball
team has a world's record. It comes
about in the following way: the Rats
beat Fort Benning last week, Fort
Benning beat Georgia Tech, Tech
beat Atlanta, Atlanta beat Cleveland,
and Cleveland beat the Yanks, who
are the Champions of the world.
Therefore our Freshmen have a team
that can beat the best of them.
Dean M. J. Funchess of the col­lege
of agriculture of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, has been asked
to direct a study of research work and
graduate studies in the Land-Grant
colleges of Louisiana, Texas, Arkan­sas,
and Mississippi. He has accepted
the invitation, and wil complete the
work October 1.
The research study is being made
by the Federal Bureau of Education
as a result of a special act by Con­gress.
All phases of land-grant col­lege
work are being studied with lead­ers
in different lines in charge.
S. J. T. Price Called
At Death of Father
S. J. T. Price, Accountant, was
called to Boyd, West Virginia on
April 28, at the death of his father,
J. H. Price, age 86. Death occurred
quite suddenly; he was living on the
old homestead.
Mr. Price is of a family of four
girls and three boys, one boy having
died exactly a year ago. He will re­turn
to Auburn May 13, to resume
duties here.
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S P O R T S ~. Tigers Win Track Meet From Tulane SPORTS
Hutsellmen Overwhelm
Greenies On Campus
Auburn Takes 12 Firsts Out of 14
Drake field was the scene of a large
group of delegates from Tulane Un­iversity
and A. P. I., who met here in
a dual track meet. The meet ended
with the Hutsell lads winning 69 to
43.
"Snitz" Snider, Auburn captain,
stretched out in his usual manner,
and copped three first places. In the
hundred his time was 10 flat, which
was not as good as his record, but
gave him plenty of lead on the finish.
He was not rushed on the 220 or the
440, and came out some distance ahead
of the others. "Snitz" took the cred­it
of being high scorer of the day
with 15 points.
Percy Beard took two first places,
which were low hurdles and broad
jump. He had hard luck on the high
hurdles, for he fell at the first hurd­le,
and never was able to regain his
position. Then with a bruised knee
he took in the low hurdles at the rate
of 25.6 seconds. This lowered Bas-kin's
record of 26 and one-fifth sec­onds.
This is a new Drake Field re­cord
and is only one-fifth of a second
under Pea Green's time. ,
Upshaw was another Auburnite
who was on the go, and gave Tulane
plenty to think about. He scored 12
points, tieing for one first, winning
one first and getting a second. He
had little competition in throwing the
javeline, and won it with some inches
over 160 feet. He tied Virgin for
first place in the high jump, at a
height of five feet and ten inches.
In the low hurdles he came in second.
Virgin was also stepping out in the
meet, and made one first and tied for
another. On the high hurdles he left
his competitors several yards behind,
and tied for the high jump.
Duncan Shines on 2 Mile
The most thrilling event of the af­ternoon
was that of the two mile race,
in which Duncan brought home the
blue ribbon. During the entire run,
"Buster" stayed only a few yards be­hind
the two Tulane runners, and.it
seemed that Auburn would not even
place in the event. They ran along
like this for nine laps, and just as
they reached the straightway, Duncan
gathered up all his strength and
sprinted in ahead of the two Green
Wave distance men. This is one of
the prettiest runs that has been stag­ed
on Drake Field this year.
Oelkers in Meet
The outstanding man on the Louis­iana
team was a Sophomore by the
name of Oelkers, from New Orleans.
His ability to heave the shot is most
marked, as was seen last week when
he byoke the Southern Conference
record by putting it 46 feet, four and
three-eights inches. He reached a
distance of 44 feet and six inches on
Drake Field. He took second in the
discus.
Creel of Auburn did some nice al­titude
work in taking the pole vault.
His height was 11 feet and 4 inches.
Other outstanding Tulane men were
Montgomery and Allen.
Robinson, star Auburn javelin toss-er,
was not able to perform, but will
be on hand for the Conference meet
Plainsmen Whip
Gamecocks, 6*3
Coach Moulton took his baseball
nine to Columbia, S. C, last Friday
and gave the South Carolina Game­cocks
a thrashing at the rate of six
to three. The game was close up un­til
the eighth inning when the old
Tiger sluggers got on to the Carolina
pitcher, and drove in four runs.
The Orange and Blue were held
scoreless until the sixth frame, when
two counters were accounted for.
These two and the four accounted for
in the eighth were the only scores
that Auburn made in the fracas.
Stoddard, Gamecock hurler, held
the Plainsmen down in great style,
except for the sixth and eighth in­ning
when they did the damage that
won the game. Stoddard fanned two
men and walked one.
"Maggie" McGhee took over the
mound for the Alabama boys, and
with good backing turned in a good
game. The three runs made by the
University of South Carolina were
brought in during the first part of
the game. "Maggie retired six would-be
hitters and gave two a free trip
to first. Auburn made four errors
while the South Carolina team only
made two. A. P. I. got twelve hits.
Score: R H E
Auburn . 000 002 040 — 6 12 4
S. C. 110 001 000 — 3 7 2
McGhee and Booth, Stoddard and
Swink.
The day following this game the
team went back to Clemson, and met
the Tigers the third time last week.
in Birmingham this week.
Summary:
100 Yard Dash—Snider (Auburn),
Whatley (Tulane) Time, 10 flat.
220 Yard Dash—Snider (Auburn),
Whatley (Tulane) Time, 22 2-5 sec.
440 Yard Dash—Snider (Auburn),
Allen (Tulane) Time 50 4-5 sec.
880 Yard Dash—Tamplin (Au­burn),
LeBlanc (Tulane) Time 2:03
3-5 sec.
Mile Run—Woolf (Tulane), Mont­gomery
(Tulane) Time 4 min. 40 3-5
sec.
Two Mile Run—Duncan (Auburn),
Spencer (Tulane) Time 10 min. 41
sec.
120 Yard High Hurdles—Virgin
(Auburn), Ford (Tulane) Time 15
2-3 sec.
220 Yard Low Hurdles—Beard
(Auburn), Upshaw (Auburn) Time
25 3-5 sec.
Pole Vault—Creel (Auburn), Dav­idson
(Tulane) Height 11 feet 4 in.
High Jump—Virgin and Upshaw
(Auburn) tied for first and second
places. Height 5 feet 10 inches.
Broad Jump—Beard (Auburn)
Ryan (Tulane) Distances 21 feet 4.5
inches.
Shot Put—Oelkers (Tulane) Carter
(Auburn) Distance 44 feet 6 inches.
Discus—Carter (Auburn) Oelkers
(Tulane) Distance 124 feet.
Javelin—Upshaw (Auburn) Trunz-ler
(Tulane) Distance 160 feet 10.5
inches.
Tiger Baseball Schedule For 1928
Date Opponent and Their Score
March 23—Fort Benning ( 0)
24—Fort Benning ( 0)
26—Montgom'ry Lions ( 6)
28—Selma Cloverleafs ( 4)
30—Tulane ( 1)
31—Tulane ( 3)
April 2—Clemson ( 2)
3—Clemson ( 6)
9—Georgia (3)
10—Georgia (Rain)
11—Florida ( 1)
12—Florida ( 5)
13—Fort Benning (12)
14—Fort Benning (Rain)
16—Georgia Tech ( 4)
17—Georgia Tech (11)
20—Georgia Tech (Rain)
21—Georgia Tech ( 7)
26—Florida ( 6)
27—Florida ( 0)
28—Florida ( 1)
May 2—Clemson ( 3)
3—Clemson ( 6)
4—South Carolina ( 3)
5—Clemson ( 6)
8—Georgia ( 1)
11—South Carolina
12—South Carolina
18—Vanderbilt
19—Vanderbilt
Auburn Score and Place Played
( 7) at Fort Benning, Ga.
(11) at Fort Benning, Ga.
( 2) "A" Day, at Auburn
( 3) at Selma
( 6) at Auburn
( 9) at Montgomery
( 6) at Auburn
( 6) at Auburn
( 3) at Auburn
at Auburn
( 4) at Auburn
(10) at Auburn
(11) at Auburn
at Auburn
(15) at Auburn
( 2) at Auburn
at Atlanta
( 5) at Atlanta
( 5) at Panama City, Fla.
( 2) at Panama City, Fla.
( 2) at Panama City, Fla.
(11) at Clemson
( 9) at Clemson
( 6) at Columbia, S. C.
( 5) at Clemson
( 5) at Athens
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Nashville
at Nashville
Auburn Harriers
Enter S. C. Meet
With Fine Record
COACH A. P. '
By Max E. Kahn
Probably the greatest loss Auburn
has registered during the past decade
occurred Wednesday when Coach
Mike Papke officially resigned as
coach at A. P. I. This loss may easily
be construed as a result of the
"All mighty dollar" question. For
the sake of a few dollars Auburn gave
up her best loved coach since the
days of Mike Donahue.
Mike appeared on the campus
after his graduation from Middlebury
College where he had starred in the
four major sports. His entire career
at Auburn has been nothing but a
success. His teams have been an in­spiration
towards a bigger and great­er
Auburn. Basketball, his name has
been cared into the very hearts of
every Auburn student by the type of
team he has constructed. In this
field he has coached for three years
and has been repeatedly ranked by
scribes over the South as the best
MIKE"PAPKE
tutor in Dixie. His famous one point
team of the past season is known as
the best Auburn ever had. Baseball,
Mike proved the question that Au­burn
could have winning rat squads
by tutoring the Frosh baseball out­fit
this past season. Nine games,
nine victories and never a defeat
nor tie. That Frosh team won more
games than all the other Freshman
teams have done in three years. Foot­ball,
Mike has never had a chance as
head tutor in this direction, but it is
a cinch that he would be above the
average. He has been assistant back-field
coach for the past three years.
That, gentlemen, is the type of
man that Auburn has had to receive
a resignation from. The most popu­lar,
cosmopolitan, true Auburn man
on the campus.
In behalf of the Student body, it
is my sincere wish that Coach Mike
have the best of success in the fu­ture
and that the South may continue
to be honored as his home.
Tigers Cop Series From Clemson
Winning Two And Losing One
Last week the baseball squad took
another extensive tour but this time
it was in South Carolina. At this
time we met the strong aggregation
of Clemson Agricultural College,
and handed them two defeats, while
they turned the tables on the Ala-bamaians
in the last game and won
after staging a ninth inning rally
with the help of a couple of errors.
The first game was just a slugging
match for the boys in the Orange and
Blue. Everyone on the team was
hitting, and when the game was over
we had scored eleven runs while
Clemson had only gotten in three.
Wood did the twirling for Auburn,
and turned in one of the best games
of the season. Behind the bat was
Pete Booth who handled the mitt with
great efficiency. He seemed to know
just how to work the pitcher, and
when it came his time to get to bat,
made use of every strike, and did
some prettty hitting.
"Jelly" Akin was hitting his stride,
and poled out two triples, and was
closely followed by Jim Crawford,
who also got a triple.
Both "Ebb" and "Fob" James were
kept out of the line-up, due to sick­ness.
Booth, as stated above, took
the formers place while "Dooley" Gil­christ
took over the initial sack for
the Plainsmen. "Docfley" got his
share of hits and played an errorless
game.
On third base we had Frank Cur-rie
who was also on the batting end
of some of the plays.
Wood held Clemson to six hits;
while his teammates piled up thir­teen.
Second Game
The second game in South Caro­lina
was a very exciting one, for the
Plainsmen did not win until the ninth
inning, when they pulled ahead to
win by three runs. They just had the
look of "never say quit" on their
faces, and swung the timber to good
advantage.
Clemson put up a good fight, but
the pitching of Potter proved to be
more than they could stand. Potter
knew how to put the ball in their
weak places, and turned many Clem­son
batters away with a disappointed
look. He was not given as good back­ing
as he should have gotten, which
accounted for the runs that the
South Carolinaians scored. Booth
again took over the catchers job.
At the beginning of the ninth the
score stood six to five with Auburn
on the lesser end. But the Tigers
were not to be licked, for before they
could get three men out we had
scored four runs, and Potter held
them scoreless in the last of this
frame, winning nine to six.
"Jelly" Akin's hitting was again
the feature of the game, for he drove
out a triple when it was most need­ed.
B. Pearman and F. Pearman were
the batteries for Clemson. Pearman
pitched an exceptionally good game
up until the last inning when the
Moultonmen went on a rampage.
Third Game
The team went to Columbia, last
Friday and played the University of
South Carolina, and on Saturday,
they went back to Clemson for the
thrid game of the series. However,
this game proved to be our "Water­loo"
for it was dropped to the Clem­son
boys.
This game was also lost in the
ninth inning, for the Plainsmen had
it on ice at the beginning of the
ninth, when the score was 5 to 3.
Both Stoutenborough and Martin
pitched air-tight ball for their teams
until the fifth, when Clemson brought
in one. But Auburn was not to be
out done, for in the next inning, we
scored three.
We both made two more, which
brought the count to five and three.
Then up came the ninth inning, and
Auburn failed to score, so it was
Clemson's time at bat. It all hap­pened
in the twinkling of an eye, and
Clemson had beaten the mighty
Tigers. It was due to two hits, two
errors, and a wild pitch.
Stoutenborough was in the mound
for A. P. I., and had plenty of stuff.
He had a little hard luck in the
ninth.
The James twins were in the start­ing
line-up, but were relieved in the
sixth.
Clemson's batteries, Martin and F.
Pearman showed up well in the game.
Ben Sankey improved his hitting
while on the trip, and hit at times
when we most needed runs. He is the
kind of player that hits when we are
in need of it, as you will remember
from the way he knocked out the
pill against Florida two weeks ago.
Another one of the Tigers that
brought his batting average up on
this trip was Howard Smith. He
soaked the pill several times.
This week-end when all of the star
track men in the South meet in the
Municipal Stadium in Birmingham,
there will be a certain group present
who will be representing the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute of Auburn, Ala­bama.
It will pay you to keep an
eye on that bunch too, for when the
meet is over and the laurels are dis­tributed,
these boys will have their
share of them.
Several records should be broken
before the day is over, but it is very
likely that the high and low hurdles
record and the javelin record will
stand. However Beard, Mirgin, and
Upshaw will have to be accounted for.
Beard is doped to take the high hurd­les
and will give Avery of V. P. I.
a run for first in the low ones. Vir­gin
will place in the high hurdles,
and Upshaw will be in the low urdles.
Robinson will probably be handling
the javelin, and if he is in good shape
will get some good distance. But
Welchel of Georgia Tech will be hard
to beat, for he holds the present
Southern Conference record of 192
feet 7 in.
The record of the hundred should
be equalled, due to the fact that there
are three speed demons entering who
have made it in the same time that
Foster of V. M. I. ran it in for the
record. This time is 9.8 seconds.
Cummings of Virginia, Snider of.Au­burn,
and Brown of L. S. U. are the
three men who have made it in 9.8
seconds. Hamm of Tech, McCrary of
Georgia, and Chesney of Vandy will
help make the competition keener.
We are hoping that Captain Snider
will take first on this and break the
record.
Then we find that there is much
keen competition on the 220 with Snid­er,
Foster, and Cummings as the out­standing.
Foster is the present hold­er
of the record, having made it in
21.6 seconds. Snider has been run­ning
the 220 in good time this year,
and stepped it off in 21.8 seconds in
Florida, which is just two seconds shy
of the record. If he is pushed he will
probably give somebody a hard race.
In the 440 yard dash we will prob­ably
find "Snitz" Snider again. He
had not run the 440 u^> until "this
year, but now he makes it at a rapid
rate. Thomas and Mathews of Mary­land,
and Kontz of Tech have been
making the 440 in good time, and
will be hard to beat.
The broad jump will probably go
to Hamm of Georgia Tech, who holds
the record of 24 feet 11% inches.
Beard will also be in this event. He
jumped 21 feet 4.5 inches last week in
the Tulane meet.
Auburn does not stand such a good
chance of taking any of the distance
runs, but Duncan and Tamplin will
be on hand with plenty of goods.
With Lund of V .P. I. throwing the
discus, and O'Dell of Clemson pole
vaulting, some records should go
down. They are most likely winners
of these events. "Nick" *Carter will
take his position with the discus,
which will assure us of a.place in this.
He will also put the shot, but Oelkers
of Tulane and LeBauer of Virginia
will fight it out for first place. Oel­kers
heaved it 46 feet 4% inches a-gainst
L. S. U. this spring, but it is
Tigers Triumph Over
Bulldogs In Lone Jilt
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JAMES (JELLY) AKIN
This is "Jelly" Akin, cage and dia­mond
star, who rings baskets, swings
the willow and catches flies for Au­burn.
"Jelly" was awarded the Por­ter
Cup at a recent "A" Club Meet­ing.
He is outstanding in both bas­ketball
and baseball, and this year
he made All Southern Forward in
the. winter sport. Akin's average
portion of scores in each cage tilt
this year was around the twenty
mark. In several duals he rung up
a larger total than that of the five
opponents. He was all over the floor
among basketeers and made impos­sible
shots through the hoop in every
game.
"Jelly" is playing a great game of
baseball at present and he is doing
sentry duty in the left garden for
Coach Moulton. He gets the low
ones and the high ones and robs
many batters of all sorts of base
hits. "Jelly" is a right hand hitter
and when he takes a cut at the agate
he usually sends it for a long dist­ance
ride. He is also fleety at run­ning
bases and makes the best of
catchers put accurate shots down to
the keystone sack. He seldom leaves
a mate stranded on the cushions be­cause
when he hits the ball it is usu­ally
one that will advance any run­ner
for a station or more.
"Akin" is a member of the Alpha
Gamma Rho social fraternity, Scarabs
and of the Blue Keys. He comes to
Auburn from the neighboring village
of Notasulga. This is his last year
in the Village of the Plains and we
hate to see him leave, but we know
that he leaves with the Spirit of Au­burn
within him and that he has
given all toward making Auburn
shine.
rumored that LeBauer can throw it
47 feet.
So taking it all the around, it seems
that this will be a great track meet.
Over in A-thens last Tuesday those
Auburn Tigers from the Plains
"marched through Georgia" and came
through with a 5 to 1 victory. It
was one of those muddy affairs with
a drizzling rain present during the
entire nine innings. A double bill
was on the menu, but as wet grounds
prevailed, a single contest was the
best that could be offered.
Hurling "Cush" Wood was on the
mound for the Villagers and opposing
him was Lefty Murdock of Cracker-town.
Both sharpshooters were right
but Auburn bats were busy when hits
meant runs and the Tigers took ad­vantage
of three miscues and man­aged
to bag the large end of the
count. The hitting honors were
evenly divided, each team getting
six. Each hurler made five batters
hit the air and Wood yielded to four
bases on balls to Murdock's two. The
defeat chalked up Georgia's second
loss of the season.
The features of the game was the
hitting and fielding of none othet
than Howard Smith. The Tiger key-stoner
rapped out a single, double
and a triple out of four trips to the
platter, and he handled five chances
around the two base territory with­out
a bobble.
The fray completed the long road
trip for the Plainsmen and they re­turned
home Wednesday for a two
day's rest before meeting South
Carolina in a two game series.
Bulldogs Score First
The Georgians managed to put
one across in the opening frame when
Freeman stretched from first to home
on a long double to deep right field
by Nash. This ended the scoring for
the Bulldogs for the failed to put
another runner across in the remain­ing
eight innings. They threatened
in the ninth when Herndon, pinch
hitting for Jacobson, singled to the
left garden after one was out. Keat­ing
next up, was given life on San-key's
bobble, the only Tiger error
of the game. Murdock lifted one
toward the sky and was out, but
Chafin went to first when Wood ser­ved
him four bad ones. The ended
when Freeman hit a pop foul to Cur-rie.
Tigers Even Count in Fifth
The Auburnites knotted the count
in their half of the fifth stanza.
Howard Smith, first up, singled and
was sent to second on Fob James'
sacrifice tap. Smith went to third
on a fielder's choice. He crossed the
plate with the tying run when E.
James singled through Murdock.
Fireworks in Sixth
The Plainsmen managed to hold
the Georgians in check during the
last half of the fifth, and the
homlings stacked up thre markers in
the first part of the sixth. Akin
drew a pass from Murdock and he
and Currie were both safe on a mis-cue.
Crawford advanced both run­ners
on a perfect bunt. "Jelly" rode
home on Sankey's long sacrifice fly
to deep center field. Smith doubled,
scoring Currie. F. James was safe
when Murdock failed to touch first.
a wild heave to second trying to nip
Smith came home when Keating made
James at the keystone station.
The Tiger's last tally came in the
(Continued on Page 6.)
What Shakespeare
says about Coca-Cola
Delicious and Refreshing
'W*•'M i*i~^h>*^-^^rM»M^mw^ :
MEASURE FOR
MEASURE
Act III, Scene 1
"The hand that hath
made you fair hath
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
6* million a day
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga.
THE PLAINSMAN Pag* S.
WINN GIVES UP ONE HIT AS RATS
WIN FROM HOWARD FRESHMEN
The Howard freshmen were un­able
to find the offerings of Winn,
elongated Tiger hurler and dropped
the second game of a two game series
here Tuesday afternoon by a score
of 15 to 3. Winn was master of the
situation all the way except for an
eighth inning rally which netted 3
runs for the visitors. •
With the promise of what turned
out to be a real pitchers duel for the
first inning ended up in driving Shel-ton
the Howard hurler from the
mound in the second stanza. With
two away Harris got a fileders choice
and stole second, Pate hit a single
drove, Harris to third and Brown hit
a double scoring Haris and Pate in
the first inning. The Rats scored two
runs in the second and two in the
third. McLendon was knocked out
of the box for Howard, and Bruce re­lieved
McLendon.
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The Rats failed to score in the
fourth but came back with five runs
in the sixth inning. They scored
three more in the seventh and one in
the eighth. With one away a How­ard
batter got a fielders choice and
stole second, the batter hit to Pate
who threw to Chappie for a double
but the runner got hit and was safe
on third. Batter sacrificed and
scored two runs and the next man up
got the only hit of the day for How­ard
and scored a man on third.
With the bases empty Brown hit
a homer and then Chappie followed
with another homer in the third in­ning.
Chappie was the star at the
bat for the rats, he hit four out of
five times up and one of these was a
home run. He was also a star on
the Rat football team and one of
the best guards in the conference on
the basket ball team. With a little
more experience he should develop
into varsity baseball material and do
equally as well on the varsity as he
did on the freshman teams.
Auburn opened up Monday with
Howard Frosh in Auburn. Carter
for Auburn pitched for the Rats and
Coleman pitched for the Howard
Frosh. In a misty rain and a wind
blowing at a forty mile gale these
boys entertained what few spectators
that had ventured out to see the
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BASEBALL GAMES
FEATURE OF WAPI
A total of sixteen programs includ­ing
detail reports of the Auburn-
South Carolina baseball games and
six dance programs by Wieldmeyer's
orchestra of Huntington, W. Va., will
be broadcast from station WAPI dur­ing
the week beginning Monday, May
14.
Monday noon, May 14, music by the
studio trio. C. K. Brown on Auburn
news notes, and W. A. Ruffin, insect
enemies.
Monday afternoon, beginning at 4,
a detailed report of the Auburn-South
Carolina baseball game.
Tuesday noon, May 15, a request
program by the Auburn stringers.
Prof. W. H. Eaton on summer dairy
dishes.
Tuesday afternoon, beginning at 4,
Auburn-South Carolina b a s e b a ll
game.
Tuesday night, beginning at 9, jazz
program by the Collegians.
Wednesday noon, May 16, vocal se­lections
by Rev. 0. D. Langston and
the student quartet. J. V. Brown will
talk to Auburn Alumni and W. B.
England will revive business condi­tions.
Wednesday night, beginning at 9,
the studio orchestra.
Thursday noon, May 17, the studio
orchestra. Coaching hints will be
given by a member of the Auburn
coaching staff.
Thursday night, beginning at 9,
classical program by studio orchestra.
Dr. George Petrie will discuss a cur­rent
topic. Beginning at 10 o'clock
and lasting until 1, a dance program
by Weidemeyer's orchestra.
Friday noon, May 18, new Victor
releases will be played during the
Jesse French-Victor program. Aunt
Sammy on a home economics topic.
Friday afternoon, from 5 to 6,
Weidemeyer's orchestra.
Friday night, from 10 to 2, dance
program by Weidemeyer's orchestra.
Saturday noon, May 19, Weide­meyer's
orchestra. Prof. J. R. Rut­land
will discuss the Sunday School
lesson and Miss Helen Kennedy will
talk on nutrition problems in Alaba­ma.
Saturday afternoon, from 5 to 6, a
dance program by Weidemeyer's or­chestra.
Saturday night, beginning at 9:30,
the senior ball will be broadcast.
EVANS HAVE LAST
MEETING OF YEAR
FUNCHESS VISITS
IN WASHINGTON
Prof, M. J. Funchess, dean of Ag­riculture,
is spending this week in
Washington, D. C, in conference with
representative of the committee on
Agriculture and the Federal Bureau
of Education in Relation to Agricul­ture.
Dean Funchess plans to make a sur­vey
in several states of the work the
various land grant colleges are doing.
Grimes Vice-President
Of Auburn Kiwanians
Ice Cream
IS
A REAL HEALTH FOOD
Have You Had
Yours Today?
AT
Prof. J. C. Grimes, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department of
the college of agriculture, is the new
vice-president of the Auburn Ki-wanis
club. He succeeds G. A. Trol-
Iope, extension poultryman, who re­signed
from the club because his
work keeps him away from most of
the meetings.
I
THE TIGER DRUG STORE AND
STUDENT SUPPLY SHOP
game in a fashion that was nothing
less that spectacular. Carter only
gave up two hits and Coleman gave
up three hits. Seven innings went
by without a man crossing home
plate.
The Rats lost their only chance to
score when they had a man on first
and second and one away in the
third inning. Coleman came out of
the hole by striking out the next two
batters. Howard lost their chance
to score when the game was called on
account of rain in the seventh inning
and left their man on third base.
In an errorless no run five hit
game on a cold rainy day, both teams
were playing air tight ball. Both
teams would have been wise to have
postponed this game on such a day.
The Rats wound up a successful
season with seven games won and no
losses. Such teams as Birmingham-
Southern, Tech Frosh, Ft. Benning,
and Howard tasted defeat at the
hands of the Rats.
1st game
R H E SO
AUBURN 0 3 0 4
HOWARD 0 2 0 4
2nd game
AUBURN 15 16 3 14
HOWARD 3 1 6 3
At this period in the life of a lit­erary
society, "swan songs" and poli­tics
share honors almost equally. Thus
it was at the meeting of the Evans
literary society Tuesday night.
The retiring president, B. H. Walk-ley,
who is a senior, made his fare­well
address. Mr. Walkley expressed,
in his speech, a deep and sincere ap­preciation
of the friends whom he had
met through the medium of the
Evans. He also said that the Evans
had his best wishes for prosperity in
the years to come. After this, the
society gave all senior members a ris­ing
vote of appreciation for the work
they have done in and for the Evans.
The retiring president then left the
chair in favor of the newly elected
president, H. M. Cottier.
After taking the chair, President
Cottier conducted the election of other
officers. The results of the election
are as follows: M. V. Hallman, vice-president;
W. C. Kelley, secretary-treasurer;
G. V. Nunn, Plainsman re­porter;
J. P. Bethune, sergeant-at-arms;
E. P. Blocker and Lottie Story,
program committee; J. R. Taylor,
Jr., chairman social committee. The
society selected as its best all-round
member, Moffet DuBose. Mr. Du-
Bose's name will be engraved on the
Evans loving cup.
Following the election it was de­cided
to have one other meeting to
finish some very important business.
All members are urged to be present
when the list of those who are to re­ceive
quality points is read. A crack­er-
jack program is also in store for
all who come.
MADISON SPEAKS
BEFORE SOCIETY
The regular meeting of S. A. M. E.
was called to order by President Mer-ril
Tuesday night, May 8, 1928 at
7.00.
Mr. Madison was the first speaker
on the program, and he made an in­teresting
talk on his personal obser­vation
of the Panama Canal.
As other speakers on the program
were absent Mr. Madison consented
to make us another talk. This was an
interesting one on theJSuez Canal.
KNAPP TO SPEAK
BEFORE BANKERS
Dr. Bradford Knapp, future presi­dent
of Auburn will speak before the
Alabama Bankers Association, May
18. His subject will be "A Sound
Economic Policy for Alabama". He
will present economic facts about con­ditions
in Alabama and will suggest
means to better Alabama industrial­ly
and agriculturally.
Dr. Knapp has spoken to several
state bankers associations and has
even appeared before the American
Bankers Association.
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RATS WIN SERIES
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Uncle Sam's soldier boys boughed
before the mighty Rat team from Au­burn
in a two game series—winning
the first game by what appeared to
be more of a track meet 19 to 4 and
the second game 6 to 4.
The opening victory of the Rats
over the strong Army team, with
"Breezy" Winn out pitching one of
the Army's best probably did the
morale of the team more good than
anything else so far this season. The
team spirit under coach "Mike" has
been high, but it went higher. The
reader will recall that just a few
weeks ago this same team that the
Rats turned back defeated our var­sity
one game out of a series of four
games in Auburn.
The way some of these youngsters
have come through this season, such
as Capt. Pate at short stop, Chappie
at third, and Potter at second looks
to be ready material for the varsity
next year. In Winn, Carter and Har-kins
no better pitching staff could be
found for any freshman team. Theyi
would look good on most any dia­mond.
Winn led the attack on the soldier
boys by striking out 13 and only
giving up seven hits that were well
scattered. The Rat team was on a
hitting rampage. Every man seemed
to have his eye on the ball and placed
their hits where they should be. The
Rats fielding was perfect. When the
Army would have their best chances
to score the Rats would pull a double-play
and blast any chances for the
soldier boys to take the lead.
The second game was just another
thriller for the Rats were not what
you would call over-confident but
were determined to carry back the
bacon to Auburn. With a clean re­cord
for the year they were backing
up a certain Mr. Harkins that has
proved his ability as a good reliable
toser in a number of games more
than once this year. Harkins only al-1
lowed 5 hits and struck out 6 men.
Auburn took the lead in the first in­ning
and held it throughout the
game.
All of the boys boosted their bat­ting
average considerably at the ex­pense
of the Army boys. Sensational
fielding was the feature of the game.
A number of times the Rats would
run out and rob a hitter then catch a
man trying to steal a base.
1st game
R H E SO
AUBURN 19 13 0 13
FT. BENNING 4 7 1 7
2nd game
AUBURN 6 9 2 5
FT. BENNING 4 5 0 4
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Good. That's what it is • •
No USE trying to put a definition around
Camel. It is as diverse and fugitive as the
delicate tastes and fragrances that Nature
puts in her choicest tobaccos, of which
Camel is rolled. Science aids Nature to he
sure by blending the tobaccos for subtle
smoothness and mildness. One way to
describe Camels is just to say, "They are
good!"
Somehow, news of Camel has got around.
r
R. J. R E Y N O L D S T O B A C C O C O M P A N Y , WIN S T O N . S A L E M , N. C.
Each smoker telling the other, we suppose.
At any rate, it's first—in popularity as well
as quality. It has beaten every record ever
made by a smoke. Modern smokers have
lifted it to a new world leadership.
Camels request a place in your apprecia­tion.
Try them upon every test known.
You'll find them always loyal to your high-est
standard.
"Have a CameW* - ew
Page 6. THE PLAINSMAN
Evans Society Wins
Convocation Debate
Winners Say Fifty Per Cent of
Seniors Should Not Get Dips
"Resolved that only fifty per cent
of the Seniors should receive de­grees"
was the subject of an inter­esting
and instructive debate between
the Evans and Wilsonian Literary
Societies at convocation Thursday.
The affirmative side of the ques­tion
was ably defended by B. H.
Walkley and M. V. Hallman of the
Evans. The negative side was at­tractively
presented by B. Q. Scruggs
and H. W. Overton of the Wilsonian.
The judges were Professors Bower,
Chesnut, and Herren.
The affirmative contended that the
proposed plan is neither radical nor
absurd, that the present system of
awarding degrees is too wide in
scope. They sugested that degrees
be awarded fifty per cent and certi­ficates
of graduation given,to the
fifty per cent not receiving degrees.
They would select the fifty per cent
by having intelligence, vocabulary,
moral standard tests. A man's out­side
activities would also be consid­ered
under their plan.
The negative speakers heartily
disagreed with everything that the
affirmative speakers had said. They
called attention to the fact that
eight five per cent of Auburn gradu­ates
become successful, asking the
question "Why select only 50 per
cent when 85 per cent succeed?"
They also wanted to know what
should be done for the 50 per cent
who have met college requirements
for a degree and yet have not re­ceived
it.
The affirmative took the stand
that the plan would raise the re­quirements
for degrees, the negative
constantly asking the question just
mentioned.
The Evans speakers were awarded
the decision by a two to one vote.
The winning speakers are granted
the privilege of having their names
engraved on the cup offered by Phi
Delta Gamma, national honorary
forensic society.
FIRE APPARATUS
DECLARED GOOD
Alumni Hall Boys Make Annual Test
Of Equipment
The boys of Alumni Hall, anxious
to elevate the standards of safety in
Auburn, exercised some rigorous
tests last Friday night. The fire
hose stood up splendidly under the or­deal,
and it was found that rooms
can be filled to the window level
without detrimental leaking. To
make conditions more realistic, all
lights were extinguished. Three val­orous
firemen rushed to the roof
with water in an attempt to drown
the fires of romance burning in the
breasts of a merry group of singers
on the sidewalk. Their mission com­pleted,
they attempted to return to
the interior of the building, but found
themselves thwarted by a fireproof
metal door. A bed rail was found
an ineffective battering ram, and a
rescue party had to be sent to their
assistance. Two Co-eds, terrified at
the confusion, fled for their lives just
quickly enough to evade the flash of
a photographic record of the manu-evers.
In the rush that followed, E.
V. Smith lost his new knickers. They
were recovered, undamaged. The
boys are convinced that Alumni Hall
is fireproof and waterproof.
STUDENTS IMPATIENTLY
AWAITING GREATEST
S E N I O R DANCE
SPELLING METHOD
ORIGINATED HERE
Johnson and Webster Are Urged to
Take Notice
Samuel Johnson is apt to be laugh­ing
aloud. Webster is probably turn­ing
over in his grave. Auburn stu­dents
have originated a new method
of spelling several words. Excellent!
Bravo! But wait!
The trouble is that the several stu­dents
each have their own original
spelling. We suggest that they get
together and compromise on a stan­dard
orthography for the sake of
convenience, at least.
This new spelling was first noticed
in a recent group of BOTC exam
papers. Originality will out! But
as the man in the brown puttees
says, nothing is improbable in • love
and war, especially war.
Johnson would retire and live the
life of a solitary hermit if he were
only alive and could see the change
of the word ENFILADE to ENFAL-LADE.
The moving finger writes, stumbles
and having stumbled, stumbles again.
(Continued from Page 1.)
This will make it impossible for the
balcony to be used by spectators. The
Social Committee kindly asks the co­operation
of all students in observing
the request that the balcony be aband­oned
for this time. No direct light
will enter the dance hall but will all
be reflected thru the paper decora­tions,
giving the effect of under-sea
environment.
The visiting ladies will be enter­tained
by house parties at the homes
of the following fraternities: Sigma
Phi Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Lambda
Chi Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa
Phi, and Alpha Tau Omega.
PROGRAM
May 17, 18, 19, 1928
Thursday Night (May 17) 9 'til 1
Opening Ball
Senior Leadout
First No-break
Intermission
Second No-break
Senior Leadout
Friday Morning (May 18) 11 'til 1
Scarabs Dance
Scarabs Leadout
No-break
Scarabs Leadout
Friday Afternoon (May 18) 4 'til 6
Scabbard and Blade Dance
Scabbard and Blade Leadout
No-break
Scabbard and Blade Leadout
Friday Night (May 18) 10 'til 2
Senior Prom
First No-break
Senior Leadout
Grand March
Intermission
Second No-break
Senior Leadout
Saturday Morning (May 19) 11 'til 1
n
Inter-Frat Council Dance
Inter-Frat Council Leadout
No-break
Inter-Frat Council Leadout
Saturday Afternoon (May 19) 4'til 6
"A" Club Dance
"A" Club Leadout
No-break
"A" Club Leadout
Saturday Night (May 19) 9f 'til 12
FaugML Ball
ion
No-bre;
Second Senior Leadout
The dances will be under the direct
management of the Social Committee,
with the aid of the Faculty j Social
Committee, and Miss 'Dobbs, social
director, and dean of women. ^
Members of the Student Social
Committee are as follows: B. E.
Meadows, chairman; H. C. Hopson,
M. S. Kestler, Merritt Burns, E. A.
Conwell, Tom Boone, Otis DeVaughn,
Noble Crump, Dick Adams, and Luke
Brown.
Members of the Faculty Social
Committee are as follows: Mr. J. V.
Brown, Chairman; Miss Zoe Dobbs,
social director, Prof. M. T. Fullan,
Prof. C. L. Hare, Coach W. H. Hut-sell,
Coach J. E. Pitts, Coach R. C.
Brown, Prof. C. W. Edwards, Major
J. T. Kennedy, Capt. J. M. Garrett,
Capt. B. C. Anderson, Lt. W. B. Hig-gins,
Dr. B. R. Showalter, Prof. N. L.
Nickils, Miss Louis P. Glanton, Miss
Dana Gatchell and Miss Lula Palmer.
The official Chaperones are as fol­lows:
Pres. and Mrs. Spright Dowell,
Major and Mrs. J. T. Kennedy, Cap­tain
and Mrs. B. C. Anderson, Cap­tain
and Mrs. J. M. Garrett, Lieut,
and Mrs. W. B. Higgins, Prof, and
Mrs. C. L. Hare, Prof, and Mrs. M.
T. Fullan, Dr. and Mrs. Showalter,
Coach and Mrs. J. E. Pitts, Coach and
Mrs. W. H. Hutsell, Coach and Mrs.
George Bohler, Coach and Mrs. Slick
Moulton, and Miss Dobbs, social di­rector
and dean of women.
The members of the diciplinary
committee who are serving in the
same capacity as the former student
council are as follows: Major J. T.
Kennedy, chairman; Prof. C. R. Hix-on,
Prof. J. M. Robinson, Dr. R. S.
Suggs, Prof. C. W. Edwards.
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Dance Regulations
Section 1. The opening dances shall
be called the Sophomore Hop, at mid­year,
the Junior Prom, and at com­mencement,
the Senior Dance.
Section 2. Time and permission for
these dances are to be obtained from
the Executive Council.
Section 3. The period of the dances
is limited to Thursday night, Friday,
and Friday night, Saturday and Sat­urday
night.
Section 4. Arrangement for the
dances and management of the floor
will be under control of the Student
Social Committee, in co-operation with
the Faculty Social Committee.
Section 5. To insure the full co-op­eration
of the students in eliminating
liquor from the dances, members of
faculty will take the place of the co­operative
committee.
Section 6. All invitations to the
young ladies to be present and to
participate in the dances shall be ap­proved
by the Social Director of the
faculty, and the list of those whom
it is proposed to inviteS|]shall be placed
in her hands not less than ten days
before the invitations are issued. No
other visiting young lady shall be ad­mitted
except by special permission of
the Faculty Social Committee.
Section 7. All visiting ladies are
expected to arrive not earlier than the
opening day of the dances and to leave
on Sunday following the class of the
dance on Saturday night.
Section 8. All visiting young ladies
shall be housed in the designated
chapter houses or private homes, and
directed by the Social Director, and
shall report to the Social Director
immediately after arrival in Auburn.
Section 9. All visiting young ladies
will be under the supervision of the
Social Director or her representative
during the period of their stay in
Auburn. Official chaperones will be
appointed from the residents of Au­burn,
so as to relieve the mothers of
the young ladies who care to attend
of as much responsibility as possible.
Section 10. The Social Director
shall submit to the Social Committee
her list of chaperones and upon their
approval the Social Committee shall
notify them.
Section 11. The mothers of the vis­iting
ladies will be welcomed to Au­burn
for the period of the dances;
however, they will be expected to con­form
to the fixed rules of the institu­tion
with reference to dances.
Section 12. All visiting ladies will
check in at their respective houses
with the Social Director or her re­presentative,
immediately after the
close of the dance.
Section 13. Any visitor who is a
member of a fraternity represented
at AubuEu shall not be admitted to
the dance,fR|>r until he has been
vouched *>r by the local chapter of
that fraternity.. Any visitor who is
rjoj ^ ftienilJHr qiPa fraternity repre­sented
aHw3*>urn will not be admitted
ujitil he jpfcouched for by the Faculty
Social Committee.
Section 14. The Student Social
Committee shall consist of ten mem­bers.
Section 15. The college agrees to
have the territory in the vicinity of
the gymnasium, including the base­ment
and toilets, policed by duly com­missioned
officers.
Section 16. The rules regarding the
possesion of and being under the in­fluence
of liquor will be strictly en­forced
during these dances, by the
Social Committee. Any outsider who
violates these rules will be referred
to the Executive Council by the So­cial
Committee.
Section 17. All girls will be check­ed
each time they enter the dance
floor.
Section 18. Students will be barred
from the dances in case of miscon­duct
of the girls attending the dance
on their list .
AUBURN PLAYERS
PRESENT PROGRAM
Entertain Faculty With Interesting
Play and Social
The Auburn Players entertained
the faculty last evening with a de­lightful
program and social.
"The Man of the Kerb" was pre­sented,
ably directed by Dr. Leo Gos-ser.
The cast consisted of Catherine
Hare and Red McMurray. The sec­ond
play was "Romancers", directed
by Dr. Gosser assisted by the student
director, Robert Hobdy. The members
of the cast were: Grace Pinnell, Has-kin
Williams, Prof. Harold Hutchins,
Dopey McFarlen, and John Young-blood.
Music was furnished between
plays by Rains and Suffich.
BACK AGAIN
. "Sunny
Gene Austin"
HAS MADE TWO
GORGEOUS NEW
VICTOR RECORDS
Four Dreamy, Haunting Melo­dies
Sung With That Winsome
"Something" That Makes Aus­tin
Records Such Sensational
Hits.
Knowledge Journalism
Is Aid in Any Business
Regardless of the occupation you
are engaged in after leaving college,
a knowledge of journalism will be a
tremendous aid to your work, said
Prof. J. D. Pope, agricultural econom­ist,
in speaking before the class in
agricultural journalism recently.
Mr. Pope pointed out that if one
was conversant with the require­ments
of journalistic writing that it
would be a tremendous aid in de­veloping
one's work and prsenting
it to the public.
If you are engaged in any type
of public work, the people have a
right to know what you are doing
and the knowledge of journalism will
aid in presenting the information,
stated Mr. Pope.
From his long exeprience as edi­tor
of the Birmingham News farm
page, which appears each week in
the Sunday edition, Mr. Pope gave
some very practical hints on how con­tact
with a newspaper editor might
be made. He also pointed out the
requirements as to form and style in
presenting copy to the editors. First
of all, says Mr. Pope, one must de­velop
an ability to sense the news
value in an incident or situation. This
he terms as developing "a nose for
news".
Summer Coaching
Course Is Offered
Entire Staff ta be Used in Two
Weeks Course
An intensive course for High School
coaches will be given by the entire
Auburn coaching staff at the A. P. I.
summer school, from June 4 to 16 in­clusive.
The purpose of this intensive
course is to conserve the time and
funds of those attending by giving an
entire summer length course in two
weeks and to serve this purpose the
coaching staff, consisting of Bohler,
Pitts, Hutsell, Moulton and Papke will
work from seven to eight hours a day
in lectures and demonstrations.
Practical instructions as well as
lectures in all sports will be given
and coaches are urged to bring their
players that they, too, may benefit
by the instruction. Complete equip­ment
will be furnished for football
field work. The swimming pool and
gymnasium will be open to the stu­dents
and a fee of two dollars will
be charged for lockers and towels.
The course to be given and the in­structors
are as follows: Football
Theory and Practice, Bohler, Pitts,
Moulton; First Aid for Atheletic In­juries,
Bohler, Hutsell; Track Coach­ing,
Hutsell; Basketball Theory and
Practice, course No. S401—2C, Papke
and Bohler; Baseball Theory and
Practice, course No. 401—2E, Moul­ton
and Bohler.
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Girl of My Dreams
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COMMENCEMENT WEEK
(Continued from page four)
ninth frame when Smith tripled for
his third hit of the game. Fob James
sent him in on a single off the first
ball pitched.
The Tiger aggregation worked like
a machine throughout the whole game
with the exception of one error. The
outfield also worked perfectly during
the entire game. Ellis and Akin
made several difficult catches, while
Crawford fell to his knees once and
nabbed a line drive.
Nash of Georgia hit a long double
that came nearly being a homer. The
ball went to extreme right field. His
tap advanced the runner for three
bases, driving in the Georgian's lone
counter.
The Box Score:
AUBURN AB R H E
Akin, If 4 1 0 0
Currie, 3b 4 1 1 0
Crawford, rf • 3 0 0 0
Sankey, ss 3 0 0 1
Smith, 2b . 4 3 3 0
F. James, lb 3 0 1 0
Ellis, cf 3 0 0 0
E. James, c 4 0 1 0
Wood, p 4 0 0 0
Total
GEORGIA
Chaffin, ss
Freeman, 2b
Nash, rf
Johnson, 3b
Shiver, cf
Rothstein, lb
Jacobson, If
Keating, c
Murdock, p
xHerndon
Totals 34 1 6 3
xBatted for Jacobson innith.
Score by innings:
Auburn 000 013 001—5
Georgia 100 000 000—1
Summary: Two base hits, Nash,
Smith; three base hits, Smith; Stolen
base, Chafin, Freeman; sacrifice hits,
F. James, Crawford; sacrifice fly,
Sankey; base on balls, off Wood 4,
off Murdock 2; struck out, by Wood
5, by Murdock 5; passed ball, Keat­ing.
Time of game, 1:45; Umpire,
Philpot.
Theta Kappa Nu Has
Annual Mother's Day
Mothers of Members Enjoy Day
With Sons
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Fillowing a custom established
three years ago, the Theta Kappa Nu
Fraternity held its annual Mother's
Day, Sunday, May 6. The day was
moved up one week as some of the
mothers wished to be at home on the
regular day.
The Day was begun by the chapter,
with the mothers, fathers, sisters and
sweethearts attending the Auburn
High School Commencement Address,
given at the Methodist Church by Rev.
Burnworth.
A dinner of four courses was served
at 1:15 in Smith Hall. The tables
were arranged in a T, the first letter
in the Fraternity initials. Dinner
was served to 56. President Sim
Thomas opened, voiced a word of wel­come,
and introduced the tosatmast-er,
Max Jones. After a word of wel­come,
and a mention of the occasion,
Toastmaster Jones asked Rev. Hay
to lead in prayer. Dr. Ross made a
short talk, followed by Miss Dobbs.
Prof. Robinson made a short talk on
fraternities. Miss Martha Power
then sang a solo accompanied by Miss
Charline Baughman. All the mothers
then made talks expressing their ap­preciation
of the day. The dinner
ended at 3:30.
Most of the parents arrived Satur­day
afternoon. Among them were:
Mrs. A. A. Bond, Mr. and Mrs. W. N.
Bradley of Anniston; Mrs. W. L.
Costen and daughter, Mrs. O. Costen,
from Bessemer; Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Charlton of Birmingham; Miss Jose­phine
Hunnicut of Birmingham; Miss
Eugenia Williams of Kinston, and
Miss Elizabeth Smith of Birmingham;
Mrs. McFerrin of Greenville; Mrs.
McCurdy of Lineville;. Mrs. Sim
Thomas of Nixburg; Mrs. G. E- Doz-ier
of Mh. Meigs; Mrs. S. E. Johnston
of Mt. Meigs; Mr. and Mrs. Jones of
Dothan.
Saturday night Dr. and Mrs. Dow­ell,
Mrs. Ross and Prof, and Mrs. H.
E. Jones visited the mothers at the
Chapter.
TIGERS TRIUMPH OVER
BULLDOGS IN LONE TILT
CO-EDS RESCUED
FROM SEWER PIPE
The deep ditch in front of Smith
Hall that is being dug by workmen
of the construction company en­gaged
in paving the streets of Au­burn
was the scene of a near tragedy
Tuesday evening when Anne Brown
and Mary Ward fell bodily into the
slime. The young women students
were making their way in the dark
and losing their bearings one slipped
and disappeared in the depths. The
other was drawn down by the first
as she grasped wildly and blindly for
some stable object.
Massey Clayton and Perry Ed^-
wards hearing cries of help answer­ed
their summons and rushed to the
scene of the accident. The young
women were rushed to their apart­ments
and received firts aid. They
suffered no serious injuries.
(Continued from Page 1.)
addition to the competitive drill more
than 200 commissions, in the Re­serve
Corps will be awarded Cadets
by Gov. Bibb Graves.
Following the barbecue to be held
at one o'clock there will be a base
ball game between the Tigers and
Mercer University.
FIFTH-SIXTH COMMENCEMENT
cf the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
PROGRAM
Sunday, May 20
10:30 A.M. Langdon Hall. Com­mencement
Sermon, Rev. Carter
Helm Jones, D. D., Pastor Second
Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga.
8:00 P. M. Langdon Hall. Vesper
Service.
Monday, May 21
8:00 to 10:00 A. M. Drill Field.
Competitive Military Drill.
10:00 A. M. Drill Field. Review
of Cadet Corps R. O. T. C. Award­ing
Commisisons, Reserve Corps, by
Governor Graves.
11:00 A. M. Langdon Hall. Alumni
Exercises.
1:00 P. M. Campus. Alumni
Barbecue.
2:30 P. M. Baseball, Mercer vs.
Auburn. /
2:00 P. M. to 4:30 P. M. Practice
House. Exhibit of work of classes
of Decorative Design and Interior
Decoration.
2:00 P. M. Architecture Depart­ment,
Main Building, Second Floor.
Exhibit of Architectural and Water
Color Drawings.
4:00 P. M. Langdon Hall. Fashion
Walk Presented by Department of
Home Economics.
7:00 P. M. Campus. Festival of
Lights.
8:00 P. M. Langdon Hall. Senior
Class Exercises.
9:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M. Presi­dent's
Residence. Reception in honor
of Senior Class.
Tuesday, May 22
10:30 A. M. Langdon Hall. Com­mencement
Address, John James Ti-gert,
M. A., LL.D., Ed.D., U. S. Com­missioner
of Education, Washington,
D. C.
Awarding of Prizes.
Conferring of Degrees.
'She looks familiar."
'I hear that she is."
Boys—Stop at
City Drug Store
When in Columbus
YOU ARE WELCOME
W. L. MEADOWS
PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
MONDAY, MAY 14
Laura La Plante in
"THE CAT & THE CANARY"
with Gertrude Aster, Forrest
Stanley and Tully Marshall
TUESDAY, MAY IS
"ROSE OF THE
TENEMENTS"
with Shirley Mason and John
Harron
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
MAY 16TH & 17TH
Jesse L. Lasky and Adolphe
Zuker presents
Harold Lloyd in
" S P E E D Y "
FRIDAY, MAY 18
Billie Dove in
"THE HEART OF A FOLLIES
GIRL"
with Larry Kent
SATURDAY, MAY 19
"DRESSED TO KILL"
with Mary Astor and Edmund
Lowe
DR. THOS. B. MCDONALD
Dentist and Oral Surgeon
Office Over Toomer'i Drug
Store
Phone 49
DR. C. L. BOYD, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Tiger Drug Store Building
Upstairs
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