1929-02-28 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929. NUMBER 37
EQUIPMENT BOUGHT
FOR USE IN PHYSICS
DEPARTMENT HERE
Be Used by Sophomores and
Advanced Students in
Research Work
WILL STANDARDIZE
FIRST YEAR COURSE
Elevate Department to Fore­most
Rank Technical
Schools
Dr. Fred Allison, head of the phy­sics
department, has made an an­nouncement
that a large amount of
equipment has been purchased for
use in the Sophomore physics labora­tory,
advanced physics courses, and
research work in physics.
The equipment purchased for the
Sophomore laboratory serves further
to standardize the first year labora­tory
course, offering the students
better experimental facilities, and at
the same time increasing the effi­ciency
of laboratory instruction. The
apparatus now is ample to provide a
complete experimental outfit to each
pair of students, and to allow the
laboratory courses to be divided into
two sections, each section perform­ing
the same line of experiments.
This equipment compares very fav­orably
with that found in the out­standing
colleges and universities of
the country in the first year college
physics course.
Among the equipment purchased
for the sophomore laboratory is the
following apparatus: a number of
measuring instruments, such as cali
pers of various kinds; instruments
for measuring mechanical and elastic
constants; electrical measuring in
struments, mainly portable meters,
student types of the Wheatstone
Bridges and Potentiometers; resist­ance
boxes; storage batteries; and a
five kilowatt motor generator for
supplying direct current to the phy­sics
department.
The following equipment is among
the apparatus secured for advanced
experimental and research work in
physics: a Compton Quadrant Elec­trometer
for the measurement of min­ute
charges and potentials; a Photo­electric
cell, sometimes known as the
artificial eye; a Kenetron High-Vol­tage
Rectifier tube; a Constant Devia­tion
Spectrometer, to be used in the
study of spectra, or as a Monochro-mator;
and a so-called Lab-Arc, or
Mercury Quartz arc, designed to sup­ply
intense radiation in various parts
of the visible and ultraviolet spectra.
A more precise form of Wheatstone
Bridge has also recently been pur­chased,
as well as a new transformer
or two, designed particularly for cer­tain
needs in research.
The high powered X-ray machine,
originally donated to the physics de­partment
by Dr. Boswell, of Mont­gomery,
has lately been moved into
a .room in Broun Hall, where some in­vestigations
of a research nature in
physics are being carried on.
The Kenetron High-Voltage Recti­fier
tube is a very expensive instru­ment,
and the physics department is
very fortunate in having one. There
are very few of them in this section
of the country.
With the acquisition of such valu­able
equipment, the physics depart-
"ment will rank among the foremost
in American technical institutions.
Electrical Juniors
And Seniors To Hike
Annual Event Will Be Staged To
Yarbrough Springs
On Friday, March 1st, at 4 P. M.
the juniors and seniors in Electrical
Engineering will meet at Ramsay Hall
for a hike to Yarbrough Spring,
where they will enjoy a real get-to­gether.
The entertainment committee
has planned some snappy stunts, and
I i the refreshmen committee reports no
1/ end of good things to eat.
This outing is for the purpose of
bringing the two classes into closer
acquaintance. It is sponsored an­nually
by Eta Kappa Nu, honorary
professional fraternity for electrical
engineers.
Fuller Deceives
River Cat Fish
On Friday afteroOn last, John
E. Fuller and a companion left
Auburn bound for the Talla­poosa
river near Horseshoe Bend.
Both of the would-be captors of
the finny denizens of the deep
were well armed with everything
necessary • to seduce the wily
creatures from their watery
home, except, as yet, the fish
hadn't consented to be led away
from their happy home.
When John and his buddy ar­rived
the fish objected stren­uously
to being taken away
from their abode, which, it seems,
was, to them, very comfortable
and satisfying to their every de­sire.
John, after having tried every­thing
else he could think of, re­sorted
to a very Satanic policy,
and by its use, succeeded in
coaxing three large cat-fish out
into the open. John advises all
his friends to use his policy; tell
the innocent fish that you'll car­ry
them to Auburn, where the
doors to higher knowledge are
wide open to all comers.
Plainsman Reporter
Receive Loving Cup
Offerer To Stimulate Interest In
Press Work
During the regular meeting of the
Press Club at the Square and Com­pass
house last Sunday night Ludwig
Smith, editor-in-chief of the Plains­man,
made a very important an
nouncement concerning a silver lov­ing
cup which is to be given to some
member of the Plainsman staff.
This distinctive cup is to be pre­sented
to the Plainsman reporter who
displays the best attitude toward the
work; who is the most consistent in
his work; and who has the best ability.
Many reporters work for The Plains­man
and never receive much recog­nition
for their labor. The cup will
stimulate interest and set a goal for
which the reporters will strive.
Mr. Smith is setting an example,
in presenting the silver loving cup
this year, for the editors who follow
him in future years. It is expected
that this award will be made annual­ly
hereafter. This year the cup will
be presented at the Plainsman ban­quet
which winds up the work for the
year. •
RADIO INSTALLED
RECREATION ROOM
Y. M. C. . A. -Gets 8-Tube Atwater
Kent Entertainer
The college has installed in the
recreation room of the Y. M. C. A.
an eight tube Atwater Kent Radio
set.
Professor Shi says that the set is
not a gift to the "Y" primarily, but
is placed in the "Y" so that it will be
more convenient for the students.
The set will only be operated at the
students' leisure hours. It will pro­bably
be in operation from seven to
ten P. M. every night and from twelve
to twelve-thirty A. M. every day ex­cept
Sunday.
The College has gone to a great
deal of trouble and expense to pro­vide
this radio, and the officials urge
that the students show their apprecia­tion
by taking good care of it.
DEBATING SEASON
WILL BE OPENED
Auburn Meets Howard Friday, 7:30
P. M. Langdon Hall
Auburn will open the debating sea­son
this week, meeting Howard Col­lege
on this campus, Friday, at 7:30
P. M., in Langdon Hall. The subject
will be: "Resolved: That expert jur­ists
should replace trial by jury."
Mac Jones and Clifton Klrkpatrick
will represent Auburn. Lieutenant
Leitch will be the chairman of the
debate, and the decision will be ren­dered
by three distinterested judges.
Students interested in forensics are
urged to attend the debate. There
will be no admission charge.
Dean Frederic Child Biggin Off On
Tour With Students' "Bon Voyage'
Amid a blare of Auburn songs ren-deerd
by the Auburn band, and the
profuse goodbyes 'of students and
friends, Dean Frederick Child Biggin
boai'ded the train Tuesday night, at
8 o'clock, for New York, whence he
will sail, tonight, for an extended Eu­ropean
tour. >
The trip comes as a gift of the
Architectural Association, Botegha,
and the alumni, as a reward for Dean
Biggin's un' '—'ng efforts in the at­tainment
of highest rating for the
School of Architecture of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. Funds to the
amount of eleven hundred dollars
were raised, five hundred of which
was advanced by students, and the
remainder by alumni.
Just before the train drew into
the station, when the band was play­ing,
and hundreds of students and
townspeople were shouting, "Bon
Voyage", Dean Biggin said: "Surely
this is not for me. Some team must
be leaving." Mr. Shell Toomer re­plied,
"Yes, and you are the quarter­back."
Before the train left, Dean
Biggin said good-bye personally to
all the architectural students who
were at the station, and expressed
his regrets that he would not be in
Auburn for Commencement, when
many seniors, with whom he had
worked for four years, would receive
their degrees.
Immediately upon his arrival in
New York the Dean attended a ban­quet
given in his honor by Auburn
alumni. He sails for Egypt tonight.
USES FOR RAW
PRODUCTS TO
BE DISCUSSED
WOULD DETERMINE
LINES OF RESEARCH
Dr. Knapp to Discuss Problem
With Government
Officials
Consideration of ways and means
for extending and expanding the utili­zation
of raw products produced in
Alabama took place at a conference
here Saturday afternoon in the office
of President Bradford Knapp of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
which Dr. Henry K. Knight, chief of
the bureau of chemistry and soils of
the United States Department of
Agriculture, and Dr. F. P. Veith, head
of the industrial farm products di­vision,
were present. Research
chemists and agricultural investiga­tors
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
also were present.
The goal of the conference—as ex­plained
by Dr. Knapp—was to deter­mine
lines of research and investiga­tion
which promise to lead to fruit­ful
results so tfhat the individual
farmer may 'produce more of differ­ent
products and sell them to ad­vantage.
Officials of the Depart­ment
of Agriculture concurred in his
views; and numerous suggestions
were made. m
Prior to.the conference Dr.-Knapp
and the visiting chemists had inspect­ed
experimental plots of forestry
which revealed distinct forestry ad­vantages
in the South due to the re­markable
rapidity of growth of trees.
Due to this the prediction was made
that the South will become the lead­ing
center of the United States in the
manufacture of paper. Recent de­velopments
in Alabama were cited as
additional evidence for this conclu­sion.
Dr. Veitch told of a foreign tree
of which the bark runs as high as
40 per cent in tannin; and which he
thinks may grow successfully in Ala­bama.
He said that it grows very
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CHANGE IS MADE
IN ENGINEER'S
DAY SCHEDULE
COMMITTEE NAMED
TO HANDLE DETAILS
March Twenty-Second to be
Biggest Day of Year for
Engineers
The date for the second annual En­gineer's
Day has been changed from
March 29 to Friday, March .22.
Due to the fact that the former
time scheduled was coincident with
Easter week-end, the officers in
charge of the yearly social event of
the engineering schools considered it
wise to make the change.
However, no waning of enthusiasm
among the engineers has resulted from
the time being moved up, but quite
the contrary. Evidence of this is
seen in the renewed energy applied
in mapping out a suitable program for
probably the greatest yearly campus
event. Every details is being con­sidered.
To insure the unequalled success of
this way, the following committees
have been formed to handle the va­rious
and sundry details:
Coordination: C. D. Bradley, Chair­man;
W. P. Smith, H. T. Drane, L.
B. Hallman, W. M. Morgan, R. F.
Tinsley, and C. F. Walters.
Publicity: George Stafford, chair­man;
J. D. Neeley, A. V. Blanken-ship,
and Tom Brown.
Finance: W. P. Smith, chairman;
J. R. Vincent, C. B. Williams, J. J.
O'Rourke, D. O. Baird, and V. L.
Taylor.
Entertainments: L. B. Hallman,
chairman, Ned Geist, W. Garrard, Pup
Jones and Ed Herzog.
Decorations: H. T. Drane, chair­man;
J. H. Shirley, C. T. Ingersoll,
W. M. Morgan, J. R. Alexander, S.
T. Turnipseed, and Rehling.
Reception: R. F. Tinsley, chair­man;
Pete Crenshaw, P. W. Ander­son,
H. H. Milligan, and Bill Nelson.
Banquet: Percy Beard, chairman;
C. E. Smith, C. W. Meyer, and H.
N. Coleman.
Catching Rides
Is Contagious
Catching rides, a practice
heretofore condemned by our
elders, it seems, is now. being
adopted by them. It seems that
they have arrived at the con­clusion
that catching rides is a
very convenient way of getting
about, if we take one Opelika
lady's actions as evidence.
A few days ago the lady to
whom we have reference had an
engagement in Montgomery,
and was to ride to Montgomery
with some Auburn friends. She
was standing on the "Auburn,
Mister" corner in Opelika wait­ing
for her daughter to carry her
to Auburn.
She waited until a very few
minutes before the appointed
time for her Auburn friends to
leave* for Montgomery, and
growing anxious lest her daugh­ter
fail to appear, she hailed a
pasing motorist and rode with
him to Auburn.
When it is considered that the
lady was about 60 years old, it
seems impossible to dodge the
conclusion that our elders have
agreed with us once.
WAPI BE OWNED JOINTLY BY
THREE STATE INSTITUTIONS
PAUL BRAKE BE
AWARDED PRIZE
Slide Rule Given By Eta Kappa Nu
Honorary Electrical Fraternity
W. D. Barton Much Impressed With
Auburn's New Extension Building
W. D. Barton, director of field ser­vice
of the Alabama Farm Bureau
Federation, and a graduate of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
recently made a visit to the vil­lage
of the plains and observed a num­ber
of changes that had taken place.
He was very much impressed with
the new extenseion building, which is
nearing completion at Auburn. Up­on
his return to Montgomery, he
commented as follows:
"A dream of Director L. N. Duncan
of Alabama Extension Service of Au­burn
is about to, be realized. The Ex­tension
Service will soon be located in
a new building, especially built and
equipped to meet the requirements of
this Department of the college.
"Ten years ago when Mr. Duncan
became director of Extension Depart­ment,
among other things he pointed
out to his associates and Co-workers
as necessary to the success of Exten­sion
Service was an extension build­ing.
"The Extension building.is located
just west of Comer Hall. It is. one
of the most beautiful and substan­tially
constructed buildings on the
Auburn Campus. It is of the Georg­ian
style of architecture, constructed
of brick, trimmed with stone. The
material used in the construction of
same, such as, the brick, stone and
limestone, are Alabama products.
The stone used in the building came
from the rockwood Quarries near
Russelville, Alabama from the ad­joining
farm where Director Dun­can
was borned and reared.
"The building is three stories high,
fire proof and modern in every de­tail,
embracing all the latest features
of adequate office and laboratory
space, including a modern kitchen for
the use of the women in the Home
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Paul Brake, Junior in Electrical En­gineering,
has been awarded a slide
rule for writing the best article for,
the Auburn Engineer during last year.
The award was given by Eta Kappa
Nu.
This fraternity offers, each year, a
slide rule for the best article, to stimu­late
interest in writing for the engi-^
neering publication. The rules for the
Contest require that only a sophomore
or freshman in engineering partici­pate
in the contest. A committee com­posed
of members of the English and
engineering faculties selected the win
ner.
Hixon Is Reported
Be Much Improved
Five Students Offer Blood For
Transfusion If Necessary
Professor C. R. Hixon, who under­went
a serious operation last Wed­nesday,
is reported to have improved
greatly since last Sunday. For sev­eral
days following his operation, it
was thought that a blood transfusion
would be necessary for his recovery,
but his present condition indicates
that this will not have to be made.
Five students in mechanical engi­neering—
namely, R. F. Tinsley, Paul
White, J. M. White, J. E. Turner,
and J. B. Turner—offered themselves
as subjects for the transfusion, and
blood tests have been made in case
an emergency should arise.
Graduate Notes
Changes Here
Irving Patrick, who graduated
from Auburn in 1924, was in Auburn
the earlier part of this week. He was
a prominent member of his class,
and was editor of the Plainsman dur­ing
his senior year. Mr. Patrick is
living in Birmingham, and is connect­ed
with a large insurance firm there.
During the course of his visit, he had
a conference with Dr. Knapp.
Mr. Patrick said, "I am very well
pleased with the Plainsman this year;
it is better than it ever has been.
It was a great step forward when
the Plainsman was made into a bi­weekly,
and I was very glad when I
heard of this. I receive the paper
regularly, and I am highly interested
in it.
"The Plainsman is the best booster
the student body has," he continued,
"and it will be better still when it
can be made into a daily paper. It
would be a great help to the school
if this were done."
Mr. Patrick praised all student ac­tivities
to the highest; he said that
by indulging in such activities, the
student's vision on certain subjects
was cleared, and also a great amount
of knowledge acquired. However,
stressing scholarship also, Mr. Pat­rick
said, "students who go through
college barely passin gall their sub
jects are not those who make the
greatest success in the outside
world."
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President A. P. I. University of
Ala., and Ala. College Sign
Agreement
PRESENT POLICIES BE
CONTINUED, EXPANDED
Ownership in Great Station
Divided Percentage
Basis
AG CLUB LEARNS
OF FRUIT GROWING
Speaking before a crowded meet­ing
of more than two hundred mem­bers
at the regular meeting of the
Student's Agricultural Club in Comer
Hall Wednesday evening, February
27, George D. Scarseth held his audi­ence
practically spell-bound for thir­ty
minutes with relating his recent
two years experience in the tropics,
in the employ of the United Fruit
Company. Displaying maps and an­tique
trophies of this neighboring
land to add weight to his utterances,
he gained the interest of the entire
audience with a splendid presentation,
which brought wide and continued ap­plause
at its close.
NOTICE
The Plainsman recently carried a
news-item stating that many contest­ants
entered for the "Auburn Spirit"
contest; this announcement was er­roneous.
Only a few essays have
been received and these were writ­ten
by members of the Plainsman
staff. Because of the lack of inter­est
shown, no award will be made.
However, the contest may be attempt­ed
again later in the year.
REPORTER FINED
LION'S BANQUET
For the first time in the history of
the Auburn Lions Club, an official
Plainsman reporter attended the week-luncheon
of the club at the Thomas
Hotel, Tuesday, February 26. Ac­cepting
this invitation, Roy N. Sel­lers,
representing the Plainsman, at­tended
the luncheon.
According to the old custom at the
Lions Club, members who were guilty
of some offense were to be fined.
Fines came from everywhere for sev­eral
different offenses. The Plains­man
reporter, much to his surprise,
was found guilty. Unable to offer
a suitable excuse, he willingly paid
it.
Lt. Townsley, Lion Chairman for
the occasion, appointed an impromp­tu
entertainment committee which im­mediately
began an amusing pro­gram.
One of the members of the
faculty volunteered to sing a beauti­ful
solo. His name need not be men­tioned
for fear of too many appli­cations
for his services.
The Auburn Lions Club is a wide
awake organization of Auburn citi­zens
whose purpose is to work for a
better Auburn. One of the projects
which this club is now sponsoring is
the creation of better health condi­tions
in this community. Several oth­er
projects are now being discussed
all of which will aid Auburn in the
near future.
NAME REPORTER'S
CLUB IS CHANGED
Press Club Includes All Editorial
Staff
Due to recent plans for the better­ment
of the Plainsman Reporter's
Club the name of the club has been
changed to the Press Club. Member­ship
in the club includes entire editor­ial
staff.
As an added step in the develop­ment
of the Press Club it was decided
at a recent meeting to adopt a stan­dard
pin which is to be worn by mem­bers
as a recognition button. Hereto­fore
reporters for the Plainsman have
only been known as reporters after
they introduced themselves as such.
The pins will mark the members of the
Press Club as Plainsmen workers and
will be great aids in securing news
articles which otherwise would never
be turned in to the Plainsman.
Effective immediately radio sta­tion
WAPI in Birmingham will be
owned jointly by the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute at Auburn, the Uni­versity
of Alabama, and Alabama
College at Montevallo. It will be
operated by the owners in coopera­tion
with the City of Birmingham.
Announcement of this new plan of
ownership was officially made Wed­nesday
by Governor Bibb Graves. A
joint agreement has been signed by
the presidents of each of these insti­tutions,
each acting for his board
of trustees. The agreement was
written at a conference, in the Gov­ernor's
mansion, attended by Gover­nor
Graves, Dr. Bradford Knapp,
president Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute;
Dr. George H. Denny, presi­dent,
University of Alabama; Dr. O.
C. Carmichael, president, Alabama
College; Prof. L. N. Duncan and P.
O. Davis of Auburn; and Prof. S. C.
Houser of the University. The presi­dent
of each institution attached his
signature after being authorized by
his board of trustees to do so.
The agreement provides for no
change of present policies but for
expansion and improvements from
time to time. The station will con­tinue
to be known as WAPI, "The
Voice of Alabama," and the Exten­sion
Service of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute will have active
charge. The name of the station is
"the Victor Hanson Radiophone
Broadcasting Station," which name
was given to the old station WAPI
at Auburn.
The City of Birmingham will co­operate
in operation as provided by
an agreement signed several months
ago by officials of the City of Bir­mingham
and Dr. Knapp, president
of Auburn. An agreement with the
Protective Life Insurance Company
for the use of studios and office
space in the Protective Life Building
is continued without change. The
arrangement for broadcasting from
Montgomery remains the same.
Ownership will be divided on a
percentage basis as provided in the
unified educational bill passed by the
last legislature of Alabama. These
figures are 39 per cent for the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, 39 per
cent for the University of Alabama,
and 22 per cent for Alabama College.
The same figures apply to that part
of operating expenses not paid by the
City of Birmingham.
This joint ownership on the part
of the three Alabama institutions of
higher learning was declared by Gov­ernor
Graves to be one of the most
momentous moves in the history of
public affairs in the state. "It
marks," said he, "the beginning of
clo'ser co-operation on the part of
these institutions in order that the
taxpayers may obtain maximum re­turns
from each institution or for
each dollar spent for higher educa­tion
in Alabama.
"The conference of the presidents
and others was one of the most de­lightful
that I have ever attended.
After all the facts were presented it
was found that each institution could
render the best radio service by all
using the same station; and that one
station can be much more economical
and much more effective than three
or more.
"During, the conference it was
made plain that one big station is far
better than several small stations and
that there is time enough on one sta­tion
for each institution to render
maximum service over radio.
"I am certain that the co-operative
agreement will enable each of the in­stitutions
concerned to render better
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PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.
Sty? f Umtgman
Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business, and editorial offices at Au­burn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
James B. McMillan ___ Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
Raymond DeArman, '29 _-Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 __ Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
K. R. Giddens, '30__Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Alex. Smith, Jr., '31 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 — Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
Carol Porter, '29 Sports Editor
Dick Jones, '31 Ass't. Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
Robert Baxter, '32; T. S. Coleman, '32;
Kenneth Cooper, '32; Clarence Dykes,
'32; Thomas Dykes, '31; Edmund Eng­land,
'32; George Harrison, '32; John
Lewis, '31; S. H. Morrow, '32; Alex
Smith, Jr., '31; K. G. Taylor, '32; J. E.
Jenkins, '32; H. G. Tooney, '32; Victor
White, '32; D. Reynolds, '32; Don May,
'29; Virgil Nunn, '31; Gabie Drey, '31;
Charles Matthews, '32; James David­son,
'32; W. M. Taylor, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
George Carden, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
W. B. Jones, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Office on ground floor of Alumni Hall.
Circulation Managers: Walter Smith '31,
J. M. Johnson '31, W. A. Files '31, J.
E. Dilworth '31.
Assistants: B. W. Kincaid '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams,
'32, J. M. Barton '32.
Engineer's Day
To Be Gala Event
The second annual Engineer's Day will
be observed March 22. This event, which
is being sponsored by Tau Beta Pi, en­gineers'
honor society, is a new thing at
Auburn, although it is held at many oth­er
polytechnic schools annually.
There will be no classes in the Col­lege
of Engineering afteir noon March
22, the afternoon and evening being giv-
_en over to the celebration. A free movie
in the afternoon, a banquet and after­wards
a dance make up the remainder of
the program. The entire event will be
put on by and for the engineers.
We take pleasure in commending this
innovation, and we hope that it will be
a great success. It is very fitting that
the engineering students have a day set
aside all their own, since Auburn is es­sentially
an engineering school.
The engineers have been complaining
about co-eds and ag students attending
classes in Ramsay Hall, and about other
bothersome intrusions of non-engineers.
Now they will have their own day, when
co-eds will retire to the Zoo, when ags
will have to remain across The Bottom,
when General students will have to re­treat
to the Main Building, and the town
will belong to the engineers.
Tau Beta Pi is proving its usefulness
by sponsoring this event, and is to be
commended. In doing this we are only
falling in line with many of the larger
engineering schools, which it is only fit­ting
that Auburn should do. The En­gineers'
Day deserves the support of every
engineering student; let's make it a suc­cess.
The Influence Of
Intimate Gatherings
The most pleasant reminiscenses of this
past winter are the congenial hours spent
at small intimate Sunday night gather­ings
in the homes of various professors.
We picture again in the imagination—
student dropping casually in, sometimes
alone, sometimes in groups. The Profes­sor
welcomed them in a manner entirely
foreign to the classro'om. A welcome
lacking in formality yet characterized by
warm friendship.
The topics of conversation—what mat­ter
that? It may range from a philosohi-cal
discussion of the beginning of relig­ions
to the conduct during the dances,
from deriviation of some puzzling word
to a simple tale of Boccoccio.
During the conversation the student
oraws closer to the professor. The teach-
:r becomes man; understanding impos­sible
to achieve in the classroom comes
perfectly natural when lights are turned
low and only pipes and cigarettes glow
in the semi-darkness. The professor finds
the student human; he enjoys the same
pastimes, he is bewildered by the same
problems as the professor himself.
We oftimes wonder why the effective in­fluence
of such gatherings are not more
generally recognized. A bit of advice
given man-to-man fashion from professor
to student as they sit in friendly discus­sions
will hit the spot when fatherly ad­monitions
from classrooms fall upon un-hearing
ears.
A Fine Example Of
Clean Sportsmanship
It will be many a day before an Au­burn,
or any other audience sees a finer
exhibition of sportsmanship and clean
play than that shown by Monticello and
Bradley High in the finals of the Cotton
States Tournament. All of the games
were exceptionally free of 'rough stuff
but the Bradley-Monticello game was out­standing.
It was real satisfaction to see those
two teams play. Both evenly matched;
never more than three points difference
in the score—close guarding with much
at stake and yet, during the whole game
with its two extra periods, there was no
hint of an intentional personal foul.
The schools that sent these two fine
teams to represent them can well be proud
of the men who carried their colors to
the finals here. If these men are typi­cal
of the type of young manhood at
Bradley and Monticello, we would like to
have them for our own. They would
certainly 'Foster the Auburn Spirit' and
be a credit to any college.
Debating's Most
Insufferable Obstacle . „
The debaters for Friday night's pro­gram
will be lucky if they deliver their
pleas to more than a score of listeners—
of course the judges will be present. But
aside from them, and a few idlers who
may happen to stroll in, the audience
will be meagre indeed. Auburn students
do not find divertisement in a well pre­pared
debate, or either they are not men­tally
endowed to appreciate such. The
most insufferable obstacle that confronts
debating at Auburn today is a disinter­ested
student body. A debater must de­liver
his speech, which has required hours
of research and study, to an. audience
composed mainly of empty seats.
It would be a real inspiration to the
participants for the students to support
the debate Friday night. The question
is not foreign to our interest, but con­cerns
the jury system, something that
should appeal to everyone that intends
becoming a citizen.
A Dean Twiddles
His Thumbs
While the representatives of various
Student Councils attending the Mid-West
Conference at the University of Cincin­nati
convene for the purpose of solving
important campus questions, one Dean
Henry Grattan Doyle, of George Wash­ington
University, is dreadfully worried
as to just how "collegiate" other institu­tions
are. We can visualize the worried
and harrassed expression this poor soul
must assume in the attempt to answer such
a perplexing problem. Whether or not such
a questionnaire was sent to Auburn, we
do not know, but if such is received, may
the administration see fit to endorse Har­vard's
policy and refuse to answer the
questions.
There is nothing romantic in the colle­giate
costume. Bell-bottom trousers and
like barg have never been accepted on the
Auburn campus. The fearful dean should
read "What Young Men Are Wearing"
column in any of the magazines that cater
to college youth. These dictators of cam­pus
fashions advise that a neat, conserva­tive
appearance is a "valuable asset", and
that anyone in the business world who
hopes to make good is lost without it. It
can be noted that even highly decorated
Fords have always been considered some­what
passe.
This lack of "collegiatism" is indicative
that Auburn has outgrown the' small col­lege
stage and is progressing as an engi­neering
school. We wish the good dean
success in his venture, and suggest that
in his leisure time he begin taking very
young children on all-day picnics.
The beauty of the shrubbery set out by
the city is not yet apparent but just wait
until Spring in all its glory is here and
then judge.
What will happen when a red-hot ir-restible
co-ed meets a cold, immovable
collegian—ask some of the newly addicted
Zoo-goers.
About the only difference between a
freshman and a senior is that the fresh­man
may admit there are a few things he
doesn't know.
Many of us are weakest where we think
we are strongest.
The trouble with an attractive woman is
that she attracts so many other men.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
I picked up a bulle­tin
of the Purdue
University the other
day and was interest­ed
immediately in its
subject, "Report of
the Auditor of Stu­dent
Organizations."
It contains the fi­nancial
report of SIX-
« TY organizations in­cluding
all publications, all class organiza­tions,
music clubs, honor societies, pro­fessional
fraternities and societies, liter­ary
societies, and miscellaneous brgani-zations.
In each case the receipts are
shown and the source, the price at which
things are sold and the number, the sal­aries
and other compensations paid of­ficers
of each organization and the balance
or deficit at the end of the year. I like
that plan of making a record of every­thing.
The very fact that such a report
is to be published annually cannot help
but have a beneficial effect upon the
management of these student organiza­tions.
I am wondering if such a step might
not help Auburn.
* * * * *
In one of the state papers I notice ref­erence
to some data collected by Dr. Sims
of the University of Alabama relative
to hazing. I am very anxious to see a
fuller statement and have written for it.
The editorial says that he found that 56
per cent of Southern colleges have serious
hazing of freshmen as against none in
the Northern States, only 20 per cent in
the Western States and 15 per cent in
the Eastern States. Such a statement is
a serious one. I am wondering if that
may have some bearing upon the number
of students from Southern States attend­ing
educational institutions outside their
own border and also upon the fact that
attendance has not grown in many insti­tutions
in the same proportion it has in
Northern and Eastern Schools. In any
great plan for effective higher education
this matter of hazing is a distressing com­mentary.
It is difficult for one who knows
how many boys are mentally and physi­cally
harmed by this practice to give haz­ing
much consideration. Hazing produces
neither morality, character, discipline,
scholarship or education and what is more
it does not produce even loyalty. It is a
somewhat new manifestation extending
from callow high school youths over into
college and is, in my judgment, a mat­ter
needing very serious consideration by
all who believe in education.
H AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
A necessary part of one's finer edu­cation
• is to learn to hecome tolerant of
the views, ideas and actions of those about
us, says a prominent Auburn professor.
Another has remarked that one usual­ly
does his best work while under the
greatest pressure. And we find this true,
to a great extent; a loose working pro­gram
results in a shoddy job, whereas
when one realizes he must keep busy in
order to complete his tasks, then his pro­duct
is decidedly improved.
"We must not resent critism. If it
seems unjust, we must point out the in­justice—
patiently and in good temper. If
it is deserved, we must readily, cheerful­ly
admit it—and do better.'
Last Sunday during the morning preach­ing
services an invalid was wheeled into
the auditorium. Now what excuse have
we who possess two good locomotor limbs
for not attending?
When have you heard a better speech on
Citizenship than the one delivered by
Judge Bowling here February 22?
At Auburn's present rate of growth, we
wonder if, upon returning three or four
years hence, we will be able to recognize
the place?
Man's weakness lies in his fancied wis­dom.
The gloomiest mountain doesn't cast a
shadow on both sides at once.
Many of our worst troubles are those
which we expect, but which never happen.
Artistic demonstration
Brings mingled fear and hope,
Part seems like "inspiration,"
And part seems like plain "dope."
Wanta hear a good fish story? Just drop
in at the Square and Compass for a few
remarks from Fisherman Fuller. And they
tell us it's all true, too. Think of that.
THEGEDUNK
"I am the Gedunk who is always call­ing
attention to myself. Of course, I
realize that my actions are just as ap­parent,
and painful, to others as well as
myself but I just can't resist pointing
them out, for it affords me such a com­fortable
feeling of superiority to do so.
Really, I don't understand that this predi­lection
is merely an indication of a medi­ocre
mentality and consequently I enjoy
it very much."
All Co-eds, mild and otherwise, should cast their optics in the general direc­tion
of that genial Scotchman, Professor McKinnon, who broke out in a new
"flaming youth" suit this week. Do you suppose he sold another radio? Pete
Hutcheson is firmly convinced that spring is here. The other night—well ask her
yourself. A social item of interest is: the Pi Kappa Alpha steward and common
laborers spent the week-end out of town as usual. You may believe it or not, how­ever
Dean J. J. Wilmore really gave a beat in his 9:00 to 10:00 Industrial Man­agement
class February 18. The Nu Mu society has voted to have President-elect
Hoover proclaim this an annual holiday, designating it as Wilmore Day. Another
idea: Asa Clark, whom we featured in the last issue, was in Atlanta last week-end.
We have retained the services of a nationally known detective to dig up the dirt
on this. We will pass it on to our readers next week. J. M. White, justly famous
senior member of the well known White Brothers, is not going in for red felt hats,
but you should see his adorable slave bracelet. H. L. "Moon" Mullin has seem­ingly
turned Reformer. Just what caused the reverse change in "Moon's" nature
has not yet been determined. Have a chat with him and form your own conclu­sions.
Strange as it may seem "Lefty" Landstreet now sings nothing but love
songs. This will be of interest to those who have heard him sing K. C. Jones and
other like selections. Just another pleasant result of the Gadsden trip.
* * * * * * * *
REVISED RHYME
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How we wonder who you are,
Writing all those funny things
Still you never print your name.
We have been told by so and so,
That your real name is not Big Toe
But how in the world are we to know
If your name is Jones or really Big Toe.
—E. Fish Ency.
* * * * *. * * *
SMOKE A MURAD
It might have happened to anyone, and yet, it took me by complete surprise.
It was the only time I was really embarrassed. Everyone was staring, and, so I
thought, why shouldn't they? Why, with hundreds of people there, many of whom
could have handled the situation with perfect equanamity, was I the cictim? Oh!
the pity of the thing! Everything had been perfect until then. But there I was, in
mental agony, trying to rally against insuperable forces that seemed to strangle
me—everyone had been so expectant—all the guests had waited for the climax
of the evening, my inimitable recitation. But—but—we had just finished the
soup—I had risen for my triumphal debut before the elite—and I realized I had
forgotten my handkerchief. CIntermezzo: Sniffle).
—Pewt.
* * * * * * * *
THIS WEEK'S FANTASY
The stern New England parent stood by the open door of the farm-house.
Behind him, her head bowed in shame, stood his daughter Nell, a tiny bundle
in her arms.
A terrible blizzard was raging.
It was twenty below zero.
The old man raised his arm, and pointed out into the storm.
"Go!" he cried.
She looked up with tear-damp eyes. "D-Daddy, I'm sorry, I—I—".
But to no avail. Those cold, unforgiving eyes pierced her to the very soul,
and that finger still pointed to the snow-covered horizon.
"Go!" he said again.
Pulling the shawl closer about her, and holding the tiny bundle closer, to her
heaving breast, she faced into the blinding snow.
The tiny bundle contained six ears of corn.
She had forgotten to feed the pigs. —Adonis.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
WHAT WILL IT BE
An atheistic society has been formed at
the University of Minnesota and has 15
charter members. The society is attempt­ing
to get the consent and sanction of
the dean of students. Next.
* * * * *
FREEDOM OF PRESS—?
College publications throughout America
today are viewing the situation at St. Mi­chaels
College, Toronto, Canada, with much
wonderment. In brief an editor and entire
newspaper staff have instructions from col­lege
authorities.
It is charged that the editorials writ­ten
were immoral. This conflict while so
distant, yet in college life today, presents
one of the most difficult problems before
the students and student editors.
Shall they express their views of campus
conflicts and lend their weight to the solv­ing
in favor of the students? Or, shall
they play it safe by sounding the thing
from all angles so as to give students and
powers that be a more adequate means of
overcoming the difficulty? An editor of
a college publication should feel free to
consider any situation as its affects the en­tire
student body, and blend his columns to
meet these demands.
* * * * *
AUSTRALIA
Co-eds in the universities and colleges
in Australia have no social standing with
the males, who "lord" it over them in the
institutions of higher learning. In class­es
the front of the room is separated from
the back by a bar or rail, and the co-eds
sit in the front, leaving the back of the
room for men. "IT" will always come
to the front.
* * * * *
HOW NASTY
Oxford University has bowed its head
to modernism and another tradition has
fallen. For years some of the colleges
within Oxford have been without bath
tubs, but now tubs have been installed,
despite protests of residents and faculty.
One of the chief objections, according
to a party of students, was that students
were there for only two years at a time.
Poor children.
* * * * *
WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?
The University of Louisville has found
a prize fan. They find that a certain in­dividual
in the University has the distinct
honor of being the first person to enter
the gym at every basketball game played
at home this season. This same individ­ual
sat in the same seat at each game and
yelled as loud as anyone. This person is
Robert Cohen. The News honors Robert,
with the title of "Prize Fan." We must
have quite a few prize fans; I have never
been able to find a seat at one of our
games.
.- * * * * *
HOW EMBARASSING
Montreal, Canada.—Freshman girls at
the Argyle house, one of the women resi­dences
at McGill University, rose in revolt
against the senior boarders recently pour­ing
streams of water and attacking with
bucketfuls from every available source.
At the end of the long struggle in which
neither side was victorious the freshmen
rang the fire alarm by way of climax, leav­ing
the seniors to explain as best as might
be.
* _ * . . * * 4<
ANOTHER IDEALIST
Furman editorial contained in content the
following idea. Class attendance should
be optional for seniors maintaining an
average of "B". Student of this calibre
are able to judge for themselves when to
meet class and when not, since they have
been in college three years and have done
satisfactory work. Also, if students abuse
the privilege of optional class attendance,
their averages will drop and the privilege
will be taken away the next term.
The advantages of optional attendance
would be a freedom for the student, at­tendance
would be a sign of interest rath­er
than commonplace routine, and educa­tion
itself would be voluntary rather than
compulsory. There would be a chance for
the brilliant student to meet an easy course
only once or twice a week, thus giving
him time to better prepare the studies
which he is most interested, or to enter
extra-curricular activities, literary or so­cial.
From the students' standpoint optional
class attendance would be a great joy, giv­ing
him authority over- his time and mak­ing
his time and making his daily schedule
more or less flexible. ^From the faculty
standpoint optional attendance would seem
desirable because it would be, in a sense,
a prize for superior work and would thus
inspire underclassmen to do better work.
True brother.
MEDITATIONS
O N THIS A N D THAT
"23} 'Benjamin Trovost~->
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions ex­pressed
in this column are not necessarily
the editorial opinions of this paper. It is
a column of personal comment, and is not
to be read as an expression of our edi­torial
policy.
* * * * *
IF I WERE Samuel Pepys: Up at a quar­ter
to eight and breakfasted on grape­fruit,
toast and coffee. Spent a half
hour looking at the Advertiser and News
and nothing of importance in either. Read
fifty lines of Beowulf which exhausted me
and so to the post office at ten, but re­ceived
no mail. Went over and listened
to Prof. Rutland on Poe which was an in­teresting
hour.
—Thence to the Plainsman office with a
mind to work, but was dragged off to the
drug store by a member of the staff
who was desirous of a "dope". Home
and lunched, with more arguing than eat­ing,
with Bruce Anderson in a particularly
argumentative mood. Slept half an hour
and so to Broun Hall to spend an hour
translating Pecheur D'Islande- with Prof.
Clarke looking as if he'd just gotten a
letter from the one-and-only. By the post
office to get three circulars, then to the
Main Building to hear Mr. Adams talk
about Ben Jonson for awhile. An inter­esting
discussion started, but was ruined
by a co-ed making a banal remark.
Thence to struggle through a couple of
pages of Beowulf with Dr. Gosser correct­ing
often, and so home to dinner. Another
after dinner argument and read a chapter
of Machiavelli. To town at eight-thirty to
get the mail with serious intentions to
return and work, but got in a bull-session
in John's cafe with Lud Smith, Tom Brown,
Mr. Saunders and Mr. Adams. John's cof­fee
was strong and so home to pound out
this column and to bed.
EMORY university is inaugurating a
new academic system. "To give a
man a broad general knowledge and
at the same time a specific training is the
object of the new system. Capacity for
achievement after graduation, and not a
mere set of majors, minors, and quality
points on the registrar's books is the ideal
we are seeking to attain in our students,"
according to Dr. Goodrich C. White, deari
of the college.
Under the new system a man will take
a general course for two years, during
which time he will be taught to write rea­sonably
correct English, to read at least
one foreign language, to learn something
about the modern scientific method by tak­ing
a laboratory science course, to take
a course in English literature which will
teach him how to read. Courses in mathe­matics,
economics, European history, Eng­lish
Bible, and two courses in social sci­ences
are also required. The first two
years will comprise a junior college. The
senior college work will be centered around
one field, but will not be an exclusive study
of one problem.
Emory has begun the step that must
eventually be taken by all of our schools.
We take a conglomeration of courses; we
do not correlate them; we try to specialize
from the beginning; we do not get a broad
education; we get a certain number of
credit hours and consider ourselves edu­cated.
To a layman, the new system at Emory
looks good.
The lack of helpful advice in selecting
courses is what disgusts many a student
taking a general course. He is allowed to
sign up for a motley collection of unre­lated
courses; he gets a disconnected and
incohesive outlook. If he could be guided
in getting his general education by intel­ligent
course-planning, he would benefit
far more.
Especially is this true where the student
specializes first, then takes his electives.
With a sharp break between the sophomore
and junior classes, and much required work
for the first two years, we should be better
educated men and women.
STRUGGLE
My soul is like the oar that momently
Dies in a desperate stress beneath the
wave,
Then glitters out again and sweeps the sea:
Each second I'm new-born from some
new grave.
—Sidney Lanier.
A SONG OF LOVE
"Hey, rose, just born
Twin to a thorn;
Wasn't so with you, O Love and Scorn?
"Sweet eyes that smiled,
Now wet and wild;
O Eye and Tear—mother and child.
"Well: Love and Pain
Be kinsfolk twain:
Yet would, Oh would I could love again."
—Sidney Lanier.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
D E A N OF WOMEN
OF TEXAS COLLEGE
ASKED TO RESIGN
Mary C. Brogden, dean of women
at Southwest State Teachers' college,
San Marcos Texas, against whom stu­dents,
asking for her dismissal, have
filed nineteen specific charges, is in
hot water.
At a recent mass meeting of the
students, at which two hundred were
present, it was asked that Dean Brog­den
be dismissed because of numer­ous
unreasonable laws which she was
alleged to have been enforcing.
Dean Brogden, the protesting stu­dents
charge, went so far as to pre­vent
eds and co-eds speaking to each
other on the campus. A girl could
not speak to her own brother outside
of dating hours, nor could she walk
through town on Sunday .
The dean went so far as to hold
girls responsible for the conduct of
their visitors, and to enforce rigid
demands for date slips for freshman
girls, complaints said. She prohibit­ed
among other things, the meeting
of clubs after six o'clock in the even­ing.
Members of the administration at
this southwestern school, in an effort
to prevent her being dismissed, have
suggested that the rigid laws be done
away with or altered.
SHAVER IS MOVED
TO LAMAR COUNTY
On March 1, R. O. Shaver, county
agent for Blount County with head­quarters
at Oneonta, will be trans­ferred
to Lamar County, according
to J. T. High, district agent of the
extension service of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. He will suc­ceed
J. W. Pate who was transfer­red
from Lamar to DeKalb County.
Mr. Shaver's successor has not been
named but Mr. High announced that
an appointment will be made at an
early date. He will be employed joint­ly
by the Blount County board of
revenue, the State Department of
Agriculture, the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, and the United States De­partment
of Agriculture. Shaver has
been in Blount for five years.
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Publication of the University of
Florida Blue Gator has been indef-inately
suspended, and its editorial
board dismissed from their positions
by the faculty committee on publica­tions.
During the three years in which
the Blue Gator has been published,
it has at one time or another been the
center for a storm of criticisms from
the entire state, and twice it has been
barred by post office authorities who
charge it with printing obsence mat­ter.
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TOGGERY SHOP TOGGERY SHOP
The discovery in New Orleans of
a hitherto unknown potrait of Wash­ington
by Gilbert Stuart, was an­nounced
recently. The history back
of the picture is romantic and full of
human interest, and its authenticity
has been vouched for by Robert
Harsche, director of the Chicago Art
Institute, and Mantle Fielding, of
Philadelphia, writer, student and in­vestigator
of early American atr. ,
Gilbert Stuart is perhaps the most
prominent member of the group of
which Thomas Sully, John Neagle and
others belong, due in part to his por­traits
of George Washington, Stuart
being one of the few artists for whom
the first president gave sittings. It
had been thought that these Stuart
Washingtons had been identified and
placed in art museums of this country
and Europe, or in the collections of
well-known private owners .
There lived in New Orleans, un­til
about three years ago, one who
was known about town as "Alligator"
Levi. This sobriquet arose from the
fact that he had in his backyard a
number of long wooden tanks in which
he kept live alligators .ranging from
ten to twelve feet long, which he sold
to zoos.
His real profession was collecting
paintings. And while he had a hazy
idea what these paintings were, wheth­er
Italian, Flemish or French schools,
foe nevertheless had an instinctive
eye for beauty and knew when a pic­ture
had intrinsic merit. He lived in
a one-story house in the shadow of
the city jail, and the rooms of his
house were so crowded with paintings
of all kinds and descriptions that
there was scarcely room to move
among them, besides the walls being
covered from floor to ceiling with
those he had hung.
PORTRAITS OF
PRESIDENTS IN
KNAPP'S OFFICE
Former Trustees Are Also Included
In Collection
WILSONIAN HOLDS
REGULAR MEETING
As a business item of the regular
program Tuesday night, Mr. H. Sher-ard,
who is captain of the society
basketball team, announced that the
society would play a game with the
Auburn High School team Wednesday
night of this week.
Vice-president Mathews then sug­gested
to the society of having an in­ter-
society meeting once a month.
After much discussion on the subject
both pro and con, the society endors­ed
the movement by a close vote.
Some misconceptions of college life
was discussed by Henry Shaefer. He.
pointed out certain facts which show
that college life is often not as bad as
some people think.
J. L. Underwood talked to the so­ciety
a few ' minutes, about certain
groups of college students who strive
for nothing but individual honor and
achievements. He stated that these
students who were quite successful in
college were sometimes selfish and un­satisfied
after leaving school, if ad­vancement
and promotion did not come
their way immediately.
"The Grand Central of the Air," the
last number on the program was dis­cussed
by J. E. Washington.
Believe It Or Not!
By Puzzled Person
Like styles among college students,
fads come and go. A few years ago
all America was hog-wild over cross­word
puzles; then came Mah-jong, a
Chinese game that my friends tell
was rejected because it allowed no
trickery and required no skill; and
more recently the craze of "Ask Me
Another!" had everybody knitting
meditative eye-brows. After these
came a lull, and checkers and bridge
came once more back into their own.
There is just now, however .anoth­er
entertainer on the boards. Rob­ert
L. Ripley, the conductor of "Be­lieve
It or Not," has collected some
of his best cartoons into a book. His
own title is self-explanatory: "A
Modern Book of Wonders, Miracles,
Freaks, Monstrosities, and almost-Im-possibilities,
Written, Illustrated, and
Proved by Robert L. Ripley." A quo­tation
from his own preface would not
be amiss: "I have travelled 64 coun­tries—
including Hell (Norway), and
the strangest thing I saw was man.
Man may be the noblest work of God
—but even the good Lord must have
his joke sometimes . . . . The Lord
placed a funny-looking little fellow on
the earth without telling him what
it was all about or where he came
from or where he was going. This
funny-looking little chap has been
running about trying to find out ever
since."
At the direction of President Brad­ford
Knapp, 12 large portraits of
former presidents and others' prom­inent
in the early development of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
have -been transferred from the li­brary
to the office of the president.
Four of these portraits have been
done in oil and all are beautifully
framed. In addition the president has
recently gathered in his office a num­ber
of loving cups and trophies won
by the college.
Former Auburn presidents whose
portraits are hung in Dr. Knapp's of­fice
are: Dr. I. T. Tichenor, the col­lege's
first president 1872-1882; Dr.
W. Leroy Broun, president and pro­fessor
of physics and astronomy
1882-1883 and 1884 until his death
in 1902; Dr. Otis Davis Smith, pro­fessor
of mathematics 1873 until his
death in 1905; acting president from
January to June 1902 at which time
Dr. Charles C. Thach became presi­dent.
Formejr trustees whose portraits
are hung in Dr. Knapp's office are:
Gov. Wm. J. Samford, president
board of trustees 1900-1902; Judge
Henry D. Clayton, member of board
of trustees 1881-1888; Col. C. C.
Langdon, president board of trus­tees
1872-1890, Langdon Hall named
for him; Rev. John Bowles Glenn,
president board of trustees East Ala­bama
College! (first president of
board) 1857.
Former professors whose portraits
are hung in Dr. Knapp's office are:
Dr. N. T. Lupton, professor of chem­istry
1885 until his death in 1893;
and Dr. Chas. H. Ross, professor of
modern languages from 1892 until
his death in 1900.
Others whose portarits are hung in
Dr. Knapp's office are: Col. Joel
Hamiter, doner of Julia A. Hamiter
Memorial, endowment of the chair
of Natural Science of the East Ala­bama
Male College, made in 1858;
Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. A.
retired, who was second in command
of the American army; and Hon.
Clarence N. Ousley, distinguished
alumnus and assistant to Secretary
of Agriculture, U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
In addition are two groups of pic­tures
furnished from the private li­brary
of President Knapp, one con­taining
three "old friends", his fa­ther,
Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, founder
of extension work; Hon. James Wil­son,
secretary of agriculture from
1897 to 1913; and Hon. Henry Wal­lace,
father of Henry C. Wallace, sec­retary
of agriculture in the admin­istration
of President Harding.
The other group contains four men
who gave their names" to important
acts of the Congress of the United
States relative to the land-grant col­leges.
Justin Morrill, United States
senator from Vermont and author of
Morrill Act of 1862 which originated
the system of land-grant colleges out
of which the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute grew; Representative Hatch
of Missouri, chairman of the agricul­tural
committee of the House of Rep­resentatives
when the Hatch Act was
passed, creating the experiment sta­tion.
The original draft of this act
was drawn by Dr. Seaman A. Knapp.;
Representative Adams of Wisconsin,
chairman of House committee of Ag­riculture,
after whom the Adams Act
was named increasing the endowment
of the experiment stations; Hon. A.
F. Lever of South Carolina, the au­thor
and chairman of the House com­mittee
on Agriculture when the
Smith-Lever Act was passed and
largely responsible for that act.
Dr. Knapp states that he lacks one
picture in this group and that is of
Fred S. Purnell of Indiana, who was
the author of the Purnell Act, passed
in recent years, which increased the
appropriation for the station.
CLEMENT HOTEL
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Our grill room and other facilities always open to our Auburn friends
See or Phone "W" Williams at 377-W about your next banquet
HUDSON and THOMPSON
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Auburn A l a b a m a
w HAT is t o be
one of the most
unique and far reach­ing
projects that has
yet taken place in the
history of the "Lovli-est
V i l l a g e of the
P l a i n s " h a s been
formed by a group of community builders. The scheme has been pro­posed
by leading citizens of Auburn, members of the student body and
sanctioned by the administrative officers of the college, in order to re­juvenate
the often sadly neglected part of individual insufficiencies
which receive little attention from college men. Often this neglience is
through conditions which are the fault of no particular individual but
rather the outgrowth
of those things which
consume t h e major
portion of the life of
collegiate America.
Realizing the need of
an annual personal re-view
and an occasion­al
transcending the re­ligious
leaders have
planned a series of re-ligious
services which
will take place in the
f o u r P r o t e s t a nt
churches in Auburn,
beginning March 10
and ending March 17.
Services will be held
during the day and
night. Students will
b e e x c u s e d f r om
c l a s s e s t o attend.
Readers of the Plains­man
are all cordially
i n v i t e d t o attend.
PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.
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CAROL PORTER, Editor DICK JONES, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor. Tad McCallum, Palmer P. Daugette, Jr. •
Bohler's Basketers
Making Plans For
5. C. Tournament
By Dick Jones
Coach Bohler is working his Tiger
quintet extra hard this week in order
to make as good a showing as possible
in the first Southern Conference
tournament for him to enter a team.
As the Auburn five are scheduled
to meet the strong Georgia Bulldogs
in their first game Friday night, the
two Birmingham-Southern tilts that
were to be played Monday and Tues­day
nights were called off. This
means the Tigers have only one more
game to play this season if they lose
to Georgia.
The Tiger cagesters have only met
the Bulldogs on the hardwood once
this season and the outcome was not
at all successful for Auburn, how­ever
the Tigers were only defeated
39 to 32 which is not a bad score
at all to be beat by any team. Geor­gia
Tech only beat Auburn with a
margin of five points this year and
Tech is considered to have one. of
the best teams in the Conference
and is slated to win the S. C. tourna­ment,
if they hustle like they did at
the first of this year.
Bohler has had his cagemen work­ing
against the Georgia plays this
week which were run against them
by the Auburn Rat quintet, claimers
of the 1929 Rat basketball champion­ship.
The Rats have been dealing
the vafirsity plenty of. trouble with
these plays and are giving them a
good idea of what to really expect
Friday night.
The winner of the Georgia-Auburn
game will play the winner of the
Tennessee-Kentucky game. These are
tw,p teams that Auburn has not met
in competition this year in basket­ball
or any other sports, and will have
to have their spirits raised extra high,
if they are the winner in their first
game ,and play heads-up basketball,
in order to do extra good against a
new team. As a rule the Tigers are
able to handle a team after they have
engaged in a contest with them once,
as they know what to expect, this
they have proven with the two game
series they played with Florida, and
Tulane. Florida licked Auburn pretty
bad the first night, then Auburn lick­ed
Florida terribly the next night
with same thing happening in the Tu­lane
glames.
Monticello Wins Final
Game of Cotton States
Tournament; Champs
Probably the most exciting game to
be played in Auburn for many years
was the final game of the Cotton
States Tournament with Monticello
and Bradley furnishing the excite­ment.
Bradley, entering the game a de­cided
favorite, was quick to realize
that a battle was in progress.
Throughout the game, no team was
able to accumulate more than a three
point lead, and this happened only
once.' Bradley would hit the basket
for two points, only to be followed
by Monticello with the same trick.
Monticello was flashing a defense
that kept Bradley continuously tak­ing
long shots, and only a few of
these shots were good; however. Sul­livan,
the cool working forward for
Bradley, was very adept at sinking
them from the middle of the court.
Tynes, for Monticello, was the big
show of the game. Time after time
this young man would dribble through
the entire Bradley defense, and drop
two points into the basket, and each
two points were dear.
Tynes, with fourteen points, led
the scoring attack for Monticello,
while McKenzie, with thirteen points,
led the scoring for Bradley.
CAPTAIN FRANK DuBOSE
Who will be performing his last
time for old Auburn when the Tigers
enter the S. C. tournament at At­lanta
Friday night. Frank will com­plete
his third year on the hardwood
under the orange and blue colors this
year and no Tiger has done a better
job at it than he has. Last year
when Auburn won second place in
the S. C. tournament and missed the
championship by the mere margin of
one point, DuBose was selected as
center on the mythical all-southern
team ,and he really deserved it. This
year he has been performing regu­larly
at the center berth and has fail­ed
to get the tip-off only a few
times. When Frank starts down the
floor with the ball the whole Auburn
crowd "cheers in silence" for they
know something is going to happen
for Frank is a "passing demon" on
the floor and a "natural" born "hoop
artist" under the basket.
Strong Pitching Staff
To Help Moulton in
1929 Diamond Race
By Palmer P. Daugette, Jr.
The strength of Coach "Slick"
Moulton's baseball team will be great­ly
aided this year by the mound staff
of which he has experienced men to
work with. From last years team he
has two good men, A. F. "Maggie"
McGhee and Peter Lee. In addition
to these two he has a sufficient
amount of new material to carry him
through the season in "high style.','
Dunnam Harkins and Buck Carter
are two very promising prospects
from the Freshmen squad of last
year. R. A. Strong and Bill Roper
are giving the other pitchers plenty
of competition although they were
not in school last year. E. E. Land-street,
a scrub on last year's squad,
has shown up pretty good in practice
this year and is going to be of great
aid to Coach "Slick's team when the
season starts.
The two "south-paws" on the
squad, Strong and Landstreet, are
showing a fine pre-season form and
if they continue as they have started
off they will undoubtedly be respon­sible
for a great many games on the
"win" side of the baseball column for
Auburn.
Dunnam Harkins is being used at
first-base and in the outfield but he
can' substitute as a pitcher, at any
time, if it is necessary.
With these eight men doing the
pitching Coach "Slick" should have
very little to worry about his mound
staff for the coming season.
First Battallion Cops
Game from Engineers
in Intra-Mural League
By Tad McCallum
The 1st Battalion baseball team
walloped the Engineers by a 9 to 3
score in the second half of the Intra­mural
baseball league.
The artillery boys started off the
fireworks in the third inning when
Line up and score:
Monticello 28: Tynes (14); Bass
(4); Conn (4); F. Wilson (1); W.
Wilson; sub. Cowart (5).
Bradley 26: Sullivan (9); Lacy;
McKenzie (13); Duncan (4); Gib­son;
sub. Jones (2).
Hutsell Announces
Schedule on Track
For Coming Season
By Elmer G. Salter
The 1929 Auburn track schedule
announced by Coach Wilbur Hutsell,
track mentor, is to be one of the
hardest undertaken by the Orange
and Blue tracksters in several sea­sons.
The Tigers will engage in four
dual meets, and will also enter the
Tech Relays in Atlanta; the confer­ence
meet in Birmingham; the S. A.
A. U. meet, which will probably he
held in Columbus or Atlanta; and on
June 2, Coach Hutsell will take his
leading stars to Chicago where he
will enter them in the National meet.
^oach Hutsell will "again have two
capable hurdlers in Capt. Percy Beard
and Alternate Captain Ira Virgin.
The Orange and Blue hurdlers cap­tured
the first three places in the
conference meet last season. Upshaw
finished third, and he is the only lad
missing from the 1928 trio of Plains­man
hudlers.
The largest problem facing Coach
Hutsell is developing runners as not
a wearer of an "A" in track at Au­burn
earned it in a running event
last season. Euil ("Snitz") Snider
is back in college but is ineligible for
participation on the cinders, because
he concluded three brilliant years in
an Orange and Blue track uniform
last season. He was good for fiften
points in every dual meet that he
entered and also was one of the lead­ing
scorers in the larger meets.
V. C. Helms, who won his first
letter in 1927 is back in school. He^ns
was awarded a letter in a running
event but failed to live up to his 1927
performance last season. He will
probably be the outstanding runner
on the 1929 team. »
The first major engagement that
the Plainsmen speed artists will enter
in the Tech Relays, Atlanta, April
13. The following Saturday, the
University of Florida track team will
come to the "Village of the Plains"
for Auburn's first dual meet.- On
April 27, the Hutsellmen will jour­ney
to Athens for their second dual
meet of the season. University of
Georgia will provide the opposition
for the Tigers in their third contest.
Coach Hutsell will take his team
to New Orleans May 4 for a dual
meet with the Tulane Greenies. The
Auburn lads will perform at home the
last time on May 11 when the Geor­gia
Tech Yellow Jackets come to town
for the final dual meet of the season
for the Villagers.
The Auburnites will journey to
the Magic City on May 18 to enter
the S. I. C. meet. The final meet for
most of the Auburn track team will
be the S. A. A. U. meet. The place
has not been definitely decided upon.
The outstanding men on the team
will be taken to the Windy City to
participate in the National meet on
June 8.
The complete schedule:
April 13—Tech Relays—Atlanta.
April 20—U. of Fla.—Auburn.
April 27—U. of Ga.—Athens.
May 4—Tulane—New. Orleans.
May 11—Georgia Tech—Auburn.
May 18—S. I. C. Meet—Birming­ham.
May 25—S. A. A. U.—Place un­decided.
June 8—National Collegiate Meet
—Chicago.
Hewett singled to right and after
Edmonson and Tucker had been re­tired,
Biggerstaff was given a free
trip to first, Harding's single scor­ing
both men. The 1st Battalion ad­ded
five more runs in the fifth and
two in the sixth by steady slugging.
The Engineers rallied in the sixth
inning but were cut short with only
three counters being scored.
Harding, Biggerstaff, and Hewett,
led the hitting of the winning aggre-
(Continued on page 6)
SPORTS STUFF
By "Dusty" Porter
The greatest of Cotton States tournaments came to a close Satur­day
night with the majority of us picking the wrong team to win out,
This was brought about through the apparent weak opposition that
Monticello had in her early games, but we now contend that only
Monticello could have made this opposition look weak. Midland City
probably had the best idea to the outcome of the tournament than
any of us, and now we agree that Midland City had a much better
team than most of us gave them credit for at the beginning, because
the aggregation from Monticello proved that their style of play did not
last only for a day. No tournament has ever come to a close with a
more exciting', nerve racking game than the boys from Bradley and
Monticello put on Saturday night. Straps to pull up by would have
been more in demand at this game than cushions or umbrellas at a
rainy football game. Throughout the game there was never more than
three points difference in the score, and this happened only once.
Many of the sport writers were seen trying to write with the wrong
end of the pencil due to the excitement that prevailed throughout the
game. We feel sure that both coaches will have to take a leave of
absence to recuperate from the strain. We overheard one of the coaches
say in the sixth quarter that "he could not stand the strain of another
extra period."
Bradley high presented one of the coolest teams in action that we
have ever seen perform, but we think their undoing was due to the
many long shots that were tried from near the middle of the court, while
Monticello was contented to work the ball closer to the basket before
shooting, however two more evenly matched teams have never been
seen on the floor, and we are sure that everyone is satisfied with the
outcome. We hope they will all come back next year and continue to
improve the Cotton States Tournament, but we can only stand one game
of the Bradley-Monticello type each year. Two such games would be
fatal to some of us.
* * * * * * * *
With the great success of the Cotton States Basketball Tourna­ment
why not inaugurate a Cotton States Track Meet. With the won­derful
co-operation that has been rendered by the Fraternities and vari­ous
organizations on the campus we feel that Auburn is the logical
place of such a meet. With the same man pushing the track meet we
are sure it would be just as great a success as the basket ball tourna­ment
and would mean as much to Auburn.
* * * * * * * *
The Freshman intramural baseball, although suffering setbacks
galore in the form of bad weather is coming along with great success.
Lt. Barth deserves much praise for the manner in which he has
-handled the intramural athletics throughout the year. The battalion
football was a great success and quite a few good football men were
uncovered through this system of baltalion football. Many men were
able to take part in these games and show whether or not they were of
varsity material, where otherwise they would not have had the chance.
The intramural baseball is being carried on in very much the same
manner, only this is being done for the sake of freshman, baseball.
Four teams have been formed whereby each team will be able to
get more personal attention from the coaches, and the prospects will
have more time and a better chance of displaying his baseball ability,
and through this system we are sure there will be no mistakes made in
selecting the twenty-five men to compose the freshman baseball squad,
and only men competing in these intramural games will be eligible for
the freshman team. Holdouts will have to return their contracts un­signed.
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* * * * * * * *
Gentlemen we think it is time for some one to send for Mr.
"Weemie" Baskin, and have him come back to the Sunny South and
hand up his spiked shoes so that the younger ambitious generation can
have a chance. The "Iron Man" of the south has done everything but
eat the shot in a track meet, and probably he has been just to busy for
that. Baskin has done more for Auburn and the south in track meets
than Alabama and Georgia Tech have done in football. After injuring
his ankle in the sixty-yard high hurdles he comes in clipping one-fifth
of a second from the world record, and not only that but he comes back
the next night and continues to startle the track fans and runs as
though nothing had happened. We will always have our track men,
but we can hardly expect another Baskin.
* * * * * * * *
Everyone is glad to see so many of the prominent Auburn Ath­letes
of the past returning to Auburn to spend a few days. In the past
week we have have had with us two of the best basket ball players to
ever do battle for anybody's school. "Buck" Ellis and "Jelly" Akin
were both members of the flying Auburn quintet of last year that
wrecked so many southern teams, and the whole universe can present
their agreement, but we still contend that no better team has ever
been produced than the one flying the Orange and Blue last year.
"MOON" MULLIN
Who is also performing for his
last time along with Captain DuBose
under the orange and blue ' colors
when the Tigers enter the S. C. tour­nament
in Atlanta Friday night.
"Moon" has been as consisent a play­er
as Bohler has had this year and a
hustler at all times. He has led the
team several times in several of their
games in the scoring department and
floor work. If Mullin has failed to
start a game this year at the forward
zerth it has only been once or twice.
Mullin at a forward, DuBose at cen­ter,
and L. James at a guard, are the
three cagesters that have been in the
opening lineup in most of Auburn's
games on the hardwood this year. All
three of these cagemen have proven
to be very valuable* to Bohler this
season and were the leading players
on the squad. Louie James, the
younger brother to the James twins,
and a living image of them when it
comes to playing basket ball, will
be the only one of these three to re­turn.
Before seeking a place on the Tiger
five "Moon" was an outstanding play­er
on the Auburn High quintet. After
completing his career there, he enter­ed
the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute
and was a regular player on the
Rat squad. The next year he was
promoted to the Varsity team but
was unable to break into the first
string team on account of the long
experienced forwards "Mike" Papke
was using at that time and it was
almost impossible for any man to
break into the team he had.
ORVILLE W. "BW" BAXTER ELECTED
AS CHEERLEADER AT "A" CLUB MEET
By Elmer G. Salter
Orrville W. ("Bud") Baxter of
Huntsville, Ala. was elected cheer­leader
for the remainder of the pres­ent
year and for the 1929 football
season by the "A" club at their
monthly meeting last night. Baxter
succeeds E. R. "Puss") Tyler, who
failed to return to school for the
second semester.
Tyler was assistant cheerleader
during the past gridiron season and
made such a wonderful record that
he was elected as the "yell boy" for
next year. Since the "A" club want­ed
to start building the Auburn
"spirit" for next season, Baxter was
immediately elected to start on his
task after the resignation of Tyler.
Baxter was assistant cheerleader in
1927 but failed to return to college
last year. He was a candidate for
the honor again this year but his
studies necessitated him withdrawing
his name from the list of candidates.
He will be placed under the personal
supervision of Dr. Bradford Knapp,
who knows quite a good deal about
cheering, and Auburn should again
rank high next year by having an A-l
cheerleader.
Homer Wright Picks
Winner of Tourney
Mr. Homer Wright, Auburn's long
faithful standby, took a great inter­est
in the Cotton States tournament
last week-end at Auburn and "tried
his hand" at picking the winner of
this eighth meet in the "Plains",
which was originally originated By
Coach Wilbur Hutsell in 1922, and
was most successful at his attempt.
He picked Monticello to win, which
they did by defeating Bradley High
in the finals last Saturday night. He
made this selection Thursday before
the first game wa splayed and posted
it on the front window of his store.
Rain Halts Opening
of Spring Training
in Village of Plains
By Dick Jones
A continued down-pour of rain
checked the opening of spring grid
training in the "Village of the
Plains" again Tuesday. Coach Boh­ler
had issued the call for 30 back-field
men to report to him tMonday
and be equipped in full for practice,
but practice was not held on account
of the weathr and only the uniforms
were issued. A dozen men reported
to him the first day for uniforms,
among them being Captain-elect
Howell Long. Long is not a regular
back but performed in the backfield
in part of the games last year and
Coach Bohler wants him in ready use
next year if he is needed.
Several backs will be unable to
take part in these spring practices
on account of baseball, track, and
other reasons. The "other reasons"
meaning, out of school. However
Bohler is going to have a plenty to
work with and start on his new plans
for next season in the way of new
plays and system.
The backfield men will continue to
practice without the line men for two
weeks. Then when the two weeks are
up they will practice all together.
Coach "Sheriff" Lee will not be
able to be with Bohler during this
spring training on account of having
to report to his baseball camp for
training.
Varsity Cagers Down
u Auburn Celtics" in
Game After Tourney
By Tad McCallum
Auburn's varsity cagesters defeat­ed
the "Auburn Celtics" 46 to 35 in
a game played Saturday night in the
Alumni Gym as an added feature of
the Cotton States Tournament. The
game was fast and well played with
the Varsity aggregation showing their
best form of the season in hitting the
netting with regularity.
The "Celtic" outfit was composed
of several former Auburn cage stars,
aided by Pop Paterson, "Sheriff" Lee,
and Taylor, a former member of the
famous New York Celtic aggregation.
The Varsity started off with a
rush and took a lead that was never
headed for Ijhe renjainder (of the
contest. Mullins and DuBose made
every shot count while the passing
was the best that the Tigers have ex­hibited
this season.
"Jelly" Akin lived up to his repu­tation
of being the greatest sharp­shooter
that ever performed on the
local hardwood by looping field goals
from every conceivable angle for the
Celtics and he was credited with 23
of the 35 points. Taylor and Lee
kept the spectators entertained by
(Continued on page 6)
1929 Basketball Schedule
Date Opponent and Their Score Auburn Score
Jan. 2—Ft. Benning (38) (40) At
Jan. 5—Birmingham A. C. (34) (37) At
Jan. 9—Ft. Benning (43) (37) At
Jan. 11—La Grage YMCA (32) (29) At
Jan. 12—Birmingham A. C. (38) (20) At
Jan. 18—Southern (28) (32) At
Jan. 25—U. of Florida (44) (34) At
Jan. 26—U. of Florida (32) (39) At
Jan. 28—L. S. U. (45) (28) At
Jan. 29—L. S. U. (65) (28) At
Feb. 1—Clemson (46) (20) At
Feb. 2—Georgia (39) (32) At
Feb. 6—Georgia Tech (42) (25) At
Feb. 8—Tulane (48) (35) At
Feb. 9—Tulane (25) (40) At
Feb. 11—Mercer (46) (41) At
Feb. 12—Mercer (31) (29) At
Feb. 16—Georgia Tech (46) (41) At
Feb. 18—U. of Florida (46) (29) At
Feb. 19—U. of Florida (26) (51) At
March 1, 2, 4, & 5th—Conference Tournament At
and Place Played
Auburn
Auburn
Columbus
Auburn
Birmingham
Auburn
Gainesville
Gainesville
Auburn
Auburn
Clemson
Athens
Atlanta
Auburn
Auburn
Macon
Macon
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Atlanta
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
POLITICS TAKING A
PLACE IN LIFE OF
COLLEGE STUDES
"Politics never used to be considered
a gentlemans' game," says Leo A.
Borah. College folk looked down on
the whole business with disdain. They
wouldn't give it a minute's considera­tion.
But the attitude of the college
student is changing today; he recog­nizes
politics as a real force in the
country. If the students who really
feel an active interest in government
will consider politics as a career and
enroll in the courses intended to pre­pare
them for it, the United States
will be able to mix in world politics
without fear. It will not longer be
the tenderfoot sitting in the other
fellow's game.
"The student who would go in poli­tics
needs to obtain first a thorough
cultural education. At the same time
he must learn how to put his know
ledge to work, how to get out of the
academic rut and talk in the language
of the electorate. A charlatan with
a full complement of campaign tricks
can beat the most brilliant theorists
in the world if the theorist does not
know how to put his stuff over.
"The trouble with most American
college students today is that they
know nothing about public affairs.
In an examination in current events
in a certain university, one student
identified George Washington English
as a famous negro educator. Another
thought Maxfield Parrish was the
headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan.
With that sort of knowledge how can
college students expect to do anything
in politics? Fortunately not all stu­dents
are like that. With the coming
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Working in cooperation with the
department of economics of the ex­periment
station of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, will make a thorough
study of the problems involved in co­operation
among farmers in Alabama.
Plans for the study have been com­pleted
by Dr. T. B. F/tnny, of the
bureau of agricultu; JLl economics,
and J. D. Pope, fariA economist at
Auburn, after a conference with Dr.
Bradford Knapp and Dean M. J. Fun-chess
of the college of agriculture.
The work will start immediately.
An intensive study will be made in
six counties. In each of these coun­ties
100 to 150 farmers will be inter­viewed.
A comprehensive question­naire
will be used. To do field work
Dr. Manny will be in the state 8
weeks and three other representatives
of the Washington bureau will spend
6 weeks in Alabama interviewing
farmers.
No attempt will be made to make
recommendations to farms about co­operation.
The aim is to make a
thorough study of the facts involved
—to learn why some farmers are co­operating
and why others are not:
The study will include marketing,
purchasing, and other forms of co­operation
practiced by farmers.
Studies of this kind have been con­ducted
in other states. The Alabama
study will be in line with these.
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of professors of practical politics has
come a growing interest of students
in the business of government.
"Politics is not a crowded profes­sion.
It gives you a change to use
personality and your education and
at the same time to be a regular hu
man being."
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LYTTON STRACHEY.
ANRE MAUROIS.
Julian Harris's remarks on Senators
Underwood (late) and Heflin are sub­jects
of comment in an editorial quot­ed
from the Neiv York Times. Some
one, presumably Dr. H. S. Canby, in
The Saturday Reciew of Literature
joins the viewpoint of editors of the
Columbus-Inquirer Sun and the New
York Times by saying in an article on
"Selling Ignorance": "Let us not
cheaply relieve our feelings by exe­crating
the agents. Senator Heflin,
who believes that the cross is propa­ganda
for Roman Catholicism, is pre­sumably
a representative of his con­stituency,
otherwise he would not have
been elected and re-elected."
As to the relative values of Sena­tors
Underwood and Heflin or of the
intelligence status of the South rela­tive
to the sections producing presi­dents,
not being an embryonic politi­cian,
I am not prepared to say and will
leave for your consideration. But the
central thesis of the son of. Joel
Chandler Harris, the education
through universities, the press,; and
literature of people as intelligent citi­zens
of the world, is fundamentally
sound. Napoleon once said, "Charla­tanism
as much as you please; but
where is there not charlatism?"
Sainte-Beuve later answered, "Yes, in
politics, in art of governing mankind,
that is perhaps true. But in the order
of thought, in art, the glory, the eter­nal
honor is that charatanism shall
find no entrance; herein lies the in-violableness
of that noble portion of
man's being." It is to be hoped that
with increasing intelligent citizenship
Saint Beuve's admission will become
less and less true, and that politics
and legal justice will approach even
poetic justice:—all of which reminds
one of the lives of past men, especial­ly
statesmen.
Damascius, Plutarch, Xenophon,
Suetonius, and the other ancient as
well as medieval biographers were
chiefly concerned with a "life because
they secured thereby an opportunity
of celebrating certain moral qualities
or their absence. The object was to
make -the man's career a splendid ex­ample
or a solemn warning. Chaucer's
Monk introduced his rendition of the
lives of Lucifer, Adam, Sampson, Her­cules,
Nero, Alexander, Julius Caesar,
Cresus, etc., with the medieval idea:
"I wol biwaille in manere of Trag-die
The harm of hem that stood in heigh
degree,
And fillen so, that there was no
remedie
To brynge hem out of hir adversi
tee."
Besides these moralistic lives there
were life-and-times treatises-less real­ly
biographic in that the individual
was lost in the current of events or
was so associated with the events as
to seem a supernatural hero.
The first period of English bio­graphy
(16th-17th centuries), repre­sented
by such works as Wm. Roper's
Thomas Moore, and Waltons's Lives,
was at first rather personally human,
but was perverted by the influence of
Wm. Sprat's Cowley into a baneful
striving for a moral effect of solemn
vagueness, which was not counter­acted
until the publication of Mason's
Gray and the great biography, Jimmy
Boswell's Dr. Samuel Johnson. Mason
first used correspondence in an Eng­lish
biography, and Jimmy Boswell
utilized every other aspect, private or
not. Jimmy Boswell, as well as Robert
Browning in a later period, had an
eye for significant contrasts, pictures­que
moments of dramatic action, and
instances of emotional excitement in
which the individual disclosed his in­ner
fundamental tendency or tenden­cies.
And Jimmy exerted his utmost
igenuity to challenge old Dr. Samuel
Johnson into ireful self-revelation of
his classically developed wisdom. Then
Jimmy would go home and put down
in his notebook every word of the en­counter
verbatim before he went to
bed.
Dr. Samuel Johnson is the greatest
model "life," a book containing a vast
range _of significant material trans­cribed
by Boswell from the doctor'c
actions, conversations, and correspon­dence.
Many similar lives followed:
Southey's Nelson, and John Wesley,
and especially the superb Lockhart's
Sir Walter Scott. With the exception
of many merely sentimental lives, bio­graphy
followed the path thus made
until the publication of Lytton Strach-ey's
Eminent Victorians (1918), and
Queen Victoria (1921).
Strachey's biographies, modeled on
the styles of Macaulay and Gibbon,
no not resemble in the least the poli­tical
biography, and also the easily
divers Boswell's Johnson; they are
concentrated literary expressions in
impeccably epigrammatic and colored
prose of accurate and fairly complete
psychologic studies. They remind
people that there is something possible
in biography between the review es­say
and the enormous, repository of
significant and insignificant fact.
Eminent Victorians and Queen Victor­ia
are tinged with irony, but Eliza­beth
and Essex abounds in enthusias­tic
exuberance—moods appropriate in
each case to the lives and times of the
subjects.
In Elizabeth and Essex Elizabeth
stands forth as a curiously feminine
creature, a passionate, lonely, hesitat­ing,
fickle woman who by her very
feminine policy of fickleness, of cow­ardice,
of niggardliness kept the na­tion
together, whereas any definite
certain masculine policy of decisive ac­tion
would have crushed the small
English ' islands between the iron
jaws of Spain and the continental
countries.
Andre Maurois has follewed the
lead of Strachey with a tendency less
to analysis than to an entertaining,
elegant, graceful fictional humaniza-tion
of his subject. Shelley and Dis­raeli
are described in terms of their
sentimental adventures rather than of
their more unusual aspects; Ariel is
the dreamer, Shelley, and not the
poet; Maurois's Disraeli is the states­man
in romance and the romancer in
statesmanship rather than the able
politician and gifted opportunist that
he was in reality. But despite the
emphasis which tends to dratify the
universal inferiority complex and the
choice of subjects which so gratifies
the English, Maurois's books are rich
in scholarship as well as in creative
imagination and they have become the
touchstones of literary appreciation
and good breeding in France, for the learning.—Justice is truth in action.
present.
'Incidentally, Disraeli is contrasted
very interestingly with Elizabeth, as
his epigrams show: "The secret of suc­cess
is constancy to purpose.—Prin­ciple
is ever my motto and not exped­iency.—
Patience is a necessary in­gredient
of genius.—Ignorance never
settles a question.—To be conscious
that you are ignorant is a great step
to knowledge.—A university should be
a place of light, of liberty, and of
—When I want to read a novel, I
write one.—A sophisticated rhetori­cian
is one inebriated with the exhu-berance
of his own verbosity and gift­ed
with an egotistical imagination that
can at all times command an inter­minable
series of arguments to malign
an opponent and to glorify himself . .
topoetic. Page Diogenes.
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for it.
-if other people will
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.
VARSITY CAGERS DOWN
"AUBURN CELTICS" IN
GAME AFTER TOURNEY
(Continued from page 4)
clever handling of the ball and both
played excellent floor games. Ebb
and Fob James, "Pop" Paterson, and
"Buck" Ellis also featured in the
play of the "Celtics."
Varsity (46): Mullins and Fulton,
fo/rwards; DuBose, center; Frazier
and Vines, guards.
"Celtics" (35): Ellis and Akin, for­wards;
Lee, center; E. James and F.
James, guards.
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any students who have had ex­perience
in foundry work with a view
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the Carpenter Shop.
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In the New York Times of Decem­ber
16 there appeared an article de­scribing
a huge stained-glass window
symbolizing engineering to be given
by the student body of Georgia Tech
to their alma mater. This window is
to be placed in the new dining room
of that institution.
This is one of the greatest exist­ing
achievements of the art of glass
designing and it tells graphically the
history of engineering in the past,
its position at the present, and its
possibilities in the future. Twenty
feet high and fourteen wide, it will
shed light throughout the greater part
of the room and be aconstant re-mind­er
of the ideals of the school.
In addition to the three figures
symbolizing the process of engineer­ing,
the winod will contain eleven
other figures denoting phases of mod­ern
industry associated with engineer-in
progress—textiles, commerce, ar­chitecture,
engineering chemistry, cer­amics,
and science. Besides these fig­ures,
the design bears the seal of the
institution, the seal of Georgia, the
school monogram .emblems of the
Greek-letter fraternities at Georgia
Tech ,and symbols of the Army, Navy,
literature, and athletics.
The process of the making of this
testimonial was very elaborate and in­volved
and it should stand as a last­ing
monument to the love that the
student body of Georgia Tech bears
for her.
A chapter of Order of the Coif has
been granted to the University of
Southern California. Out of 62 class
"A" law schools in the United States,
University of Southern California is
the 29th to be given this high scholas­tic
honor.
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(Continued from page 1)
radio service at a lower cost than can
possibly be done by each acting inde­pendently.
The very nature of radio
makes co-operation essential to best
results in Alabama."
Governor Graves explained that by
a combination of effort Alabama is
certain to get a full-time cleared
channel. He and representatives of
the institutions concerned are insist­ing
that the Federal Radio Commis­sion
assign to WAPI a full-time clear­ed
channel instead of one-half, as is
now being done. When this will be
granted is not known but the case will
be kept before the Radio Commis­sion
continuously until final action.
Governor Graves explained also
that no educational institution has
enough talent and enough material
to succeed with a big radio station.
This being true, each institution
working individually cannot obtain a
satisfactory wavelength. By pooling
their interests and cooperating with
others, Alabama educational institu­tions
have made it possible to give
to the people of the state the best in
radio broadcasting from a public
standpoint.
The forward of the agreement
signed by Dr. Knapp, Dr. Denny, and
Dr. Carmichael said:
"The Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
the University of Alabama, and
the Alabama College have been or­ganized
and are maintained at pub­lic
expense to render helpful service
to the boys and girls in training them
in knowledge and character for their
life work; in assisting them to have
a more adequate income, and in help­ing
them to become efficient citizens;
and in assisting in the discovery of
and the proper utilization of all of
the matchless natural resources of
Alabama from an industrial, economic
and agricultural standpoint.
"It is mutually agreed that these
high purposes may be accomplished
best by friendly, intimate and whole­hearted
cooperation in radio broad­casting.
The several institutions,
therefore, represented in this memo­randum
mutually agree to cooperate
to the fullest extent in carrying out
its aims and purposes to the end that
the people of Alabama may have "the
maximum use of radio broadcasting.
"All of the agencies to this plan of
co-operation agree that the educa­tional
program for station WAPI
shall be well balanced, of a broad,
Commandments
Made By Teacher
Hear ye, all ye professors for this
day there has been written ten com­mandment's
by which ye shall abide.
These tablets have been prepared by
Dr. J. E. Webster, of Oklahoma A.
& M. College. The commandments
are:
1. Thou shall love no college except
This Particular One.
2. Thou shalt have no worldly in­terests
outside the College; neither
shalt thou serve them, nor make -any
money these from. For the College
is a jealous College and does not ap­prove
any division of interest.
3. Thou shalt not know many of the
Trustees; for the College will not hold
him guiltless who cultivates the
Trustees—in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath Day, not
to play golf therein. Six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy work; but
on the seventh day shalt thou be with
thy family, and in it thou shalt beat
the rugs, wash the windows, clean the
car, and also grade student papers and
prepare lectures for the coming week.
5. Thou shalt approve of every­thing,
both in the faculty and student
body. This is the fifth and great
commandment.
6. Thou shalt not grumble or cuss
at anything whatsoever.
7. Thou shalt not dress too well,
nor drive an expensive car.
8. Thou nor thy wife nor thy chil­dren
shall not tell tales in any public
place against thy neighbor or any stu­dent.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neigh­bor's
salary, nor his house, nor his
dog, nor his clubs, nor any pull that
he has.
ID. Honor the College and all its
ways that thy days may be longer up­on
the campus which thy College hath
given thee to walk and work on, lov­ing
and serving the students with all
thy soul and will all they mind and
with all thy strength. And in the
end a few of them will remember
thee and richly deward thy service to
the College with their friendship and
esteem.
USES FOR RAW PRODUCTS
TO BE DISCUSSED
FIRST BATTALION COPS
GAME FOR ENGINEERS
IN INTRAMURAL LEAGUE
(Continued from page 4)
gation while Coleman and West fea­tured
for the losers.
Box score:
1st Bn. AB R H E
Edumunson, If 4 0 1 0
Tucker, c 5 0 0 1
Biggerstaff, 2b 3 3 2 0
Harding, 3b 4 2 3 1
Salter, cf 4 1 0 1
McGriff, ss 3 1 1 1
Burgess,- lb 2 0 0 0
Ward, rf 2 1 1 0
Harrison, rf 2 0 0 0
Hewett, p 4 V 2 0
One way to trap a beaver
Not everybody in the Hudson's Bay Com­pany
was a trapper, any more than everybody
in the Bell System is a telephone engineer.
The Hudson's Bay people trapped a good
many beavers in the company offices, where
the skilful financing and careful business man­agement
served to back up the men actually
on the -front lines. Organized activity sue-,
ceeded then just as it does today." The men
who put up telephone lines can work the better
because back of them are other men who pains­takingly
design and make their equipment, and
still other men who correlate all these activities
into a smoothly meshing plan.
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O U R P I O N E E R I N G W O R K HAS J U S T B E G U N"
Total
Engineers
Coleman, rf
Riley, ss
Cuinbee, cf
Tysinger, If
West, lb
Rickles, 3b
McCarns, 2b
Nelson, c
Casey, c
Garner, p
Aggee, p
Total
33
5
2
4
4
3
2
4
1
4
0
2
31
9
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
3
9
2
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
0
0
1
7
4
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
4
(Continued from page 1)
rapidly, and that it promises to be­come
a profitable tree crop. He said
also that scientists have found in
China a blight-resistant variety of
chestnuts which gives promise of re­storing
the chestnut industry which
has been destroyed by blight. Many
years will be required to produce suf­ficient
stock for chestnut reforesta­tion
with this new variety.
Dr. Veitch declared that the naval
stores industry in which Alabama
ranks third needs a vast amount of
research work to discover improved
process in production and additional
outlets for products. He pointed out
that naval stores research is almost
nil in comparison to that which has
been done by the coal industry. Dr.
Veitch expects expansion and im­provement
in the naval stores busi­ness.
Dr. Knight declared that the poli­cy
of the government bureau of
which he is at the head is to deter­mine
the best utilization of farm and
related products, as well as proper
use of the soil. He said that soil
surveys is one of the functions of
this bureau and that practically all
Alabama soils have been surveyed,
this being one of the first states to
be so near completion.
Additional outlets for surpluses of
farm products is attracting unusual
attention at this time. Along with
this study waste products are being
considered with a view ef determin­ing
profitable outlets.
Dr. Knight and Dr. Veitch came to
Auburn on invitation ot Dr. Knapp
to discuss a subject which he con­siders
paramount for both agricul­ture
and industry in Alabama. He
assured them of the full cooperation
on the part of the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute in anything that will
further these major industries and
occupations in Alabama.
Bradshaw Ousted
By Board Of Control
As the outgrowth of a period of
ill feeling and controversy between
the alumni-student bodies and the
football administration of the insti­tution,
the student government of the
University of Washington ousted
Head Coach Enoch W. Bradshow by
a vote of 12 to 3 in an early morning
executive session.
The action was taken by the Board
of Control, and of those voting for
the removal of the coach nine were
undergraduates.
The resolution passed read as fol­lows
:
"That Mr. Bradshaw be immediate­ly
relieved of his duties as head foot­ball
coach at the University of Wash­ington
and be assigned to such other
duties provided for in his contract as
the Board of Control may hereafter
determine."
The University of Washington Dai­ly
hailed the action as a great step
forward for student self-government
on the campus, and predicted that
the action would be extremely popu­lar
throughout the state, where there
had been much antagonism to the
head football coach. Said the Daily:
"The courageous action of the Board
of Control disproves the quite com­mon
belief that has hitherto existed
on this campus that student govern­ment
at the University of Washington
it little else than a travesty. That
belief has been in existence here for
years, until knocked into a cocked hat
here early this morning by the present
Board of Control."
W. D. BARTON MUCH IM­PRESSED
WITH AUBURN'S
NEW EXTENSION BUILDING
(Continued from page 1)
Demonstration Department.
"It is understood that this building
with the landscaping of the grounds,
etc., will cost about $100,000,000 None
of the funds used in erection of this
building comes from recent appropria­tions
of the Legislature or from the
regular building fund of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, but Mr. Dun­can
with this building in view, be­gan
in 1920 to put aside a reserve
each year to be used as a building
fund, out of which the building is be­ing
erected.
"The beauty, stability, sturdiness,
completeness of the Extension Service
building is a fitting monument to the
valuable years of excellent service Di­rector
Duncan has rendered to the
state of Alabama."
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liberal and comprehensive nature, and
entirely in accord with the spirit and
purposes of the several institutions
herein represented. Due to the fun­damental
importance of agriculture
and the rural home in our social and
economic life and to the necessity of
the farmers and rural home makers
having available the latest results of
research from the» Experiment Sta­tion
and the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, it is understood that the
policies, purposes and programs of
this station shall be of such a char­acter
and nature as to make the sta­tion
of the maximum service in the
fields of agriculture and rural home
making."
Until other arrangements can be
made the schedule of broadcasting
will remain as at present with new
features added from time to time.
The management of the station will
remain as at present.
It is understood that the Univer­sity
of Alabama and Alabama Col­lege
will begin broadcasting as soon
as arrangements can be made and
equipment installed. Each institution
is responsible for local studios and
equipment; and for telephone circuits
to the main studio in Birmingham.
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monogram on the
powerful motors of an
electric locomotive
and on the conven­ience
outlet where you
plug in a floor lamp—
always and every­where
it is a safe
guide to electrical
quality and dependa­bility.
BRAIN power, not horsepower, is the
chief operating requirement of the
electrical industry.
This requirement must be continuously
anticipated to provide leaders for the
future. Accordingly, each year, more
than 400 picked college graduates come
to the General Electric Company for
a post-graduate course in electrical
science.
With a faculty including inventors and
engineers of international distinction,
something more than electrical knowl­edge
is imparted to these young men.
Here they also find inspiration which
prepares them for leadership in this
electrical age.
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