1929-04-11 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929. NUMBER 47
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H» Milligan Wins Presidency; Teague and Illges Tie For Vice Presidency
CF. DAVIS EDTKGLOMERATA;
H. 0. DAVIS IS BUS. MANAGER
STATE HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA
MEET HELD HERE SATURDAY
S i x t e e n H i g h Schools Will Par-t
i c i p a t e in T o u r n a m e nt
FINALS BEGIN A T 7 : 3 0 P. M.
F i r s t T o u r p a m e n t of its Kind
Held in A l a b a ma
With 16 high schools entered and
scheduled, the 1929 state high school
dramatic tournament will be held here
Saturday, April 13. Dr. Leo Gosser,
of the English department, will be
in charge. It will be the first tour­nament
of its kind to be held in Ala­bama
independent of a convention
of the Alabama Education Associa­tion.
One hundred high school students
are expected to come to Auburn and
participate in the tournament, Dr.
Gosser said. The cast for each school
will vary from three to a dozen and a
director will accompany each team.
The preliminaries of the tourna­ment
will open at eight o'clock on the
morning of April 13. Both Langdon
Hall and the Y Hut will be used.
With a set of judges in charge, four
teams will be seen in action in each
hall in the forenoon and two in each
hall in the afternoon. Each team will
have one hour for its presentation.
This will leave four teams for the
finals, which will begin at 7:30 Sat­urday
night.
The preHnmwry -performances -will
be free of charge, but there will be
a small admission charge for the fin­als,
to be held in Langdon Hall.
The schools which will take part
are Lee County High School, Auburn;
Cliff High School, Opelika; Pike
County High School, Brundidge; Mur­phy
High School, Mobile; Camp Hill
High School, Camp Hill; Tuscaloosa
Senior High School, Tuscaloosa; State
Secondary Agricultural School, Al-bertville;
Union Springs High School,
Union Springs; LaFayette High
School, LaFayette; Alexander City
High School, Alexander City; Consoli­dated
Schools, Ramer; Lanier High
School, Montgomery; Wetumpka State
Secondary, Wetumpka; Bessemer
High School, Birmingham; Talladega
County High School, Lincoln; and
Woodlawn High School, Birmingham.
ALPHA MU RHO
ELECTS JUNIORS
Six Members of the
Class Honored
J u n i o r
Alpha Mu Rho, National Honorary
Philosophic Fraternity, last week
elected six students to membership.
The members of this fraternity are
elected each year from the members
of the junior and senior classes. Mem­bership
is open to those having high
scholastic standing, coupled with gen­eral
prominences in campus activities
and an interest in philosophy. The
object of this fraternity is to en­courage
and promote the search for
truth in the colleges and universities
throughout the United States. The
Auburn chapter of Alpha Mu Rho
was established in the spring of 1926.
Coke Matthews, of Birmingham, is
president this year, and Miss Sara
Hall Crenshaw is secretary.
The six students elected all accepted
membership and will be initiated some­time
before school is out. They are:
Charles Davis, Montgomery; J. D.
Neely, Montgomery; C. E. Teague,
Falkville; Frances Moore, Birming­ham;
Mary Carlington, Camp Hill;
and B. C. Blake, Tampa, Fla.
SENIORS ATTEND
INSPECTION TRIP
Criminal Rat Tried and
Executed by Theta Chi's
Converting their front terrace
into a "Throne Room," the Theta
Chi's, after due process of law,
electrocuted a rat a few days
ago.
The prosecuting attorney, Mr.
Jack Awtry, presented a well-planned
case for the state, and
Mr. "Light-horse" Harry Orme
pled well for the defendant.
The rat was convicted of being
in a closet not his own for the
purpose of destroying the per­sonal
property of the rightful
owner of said closet.
After the trial, which was one
of unusual sensationalism, the
rat was led to the front terrace,
where he was tied to an electric
light extension cord and the
juice administered to him.
The "Rat", of course, was not
one of the more common species,
not being one of the variety
scientifically known as "slimes".
Event M a r k s End of P r e s i d e n t 's
F i r s t Year
NOTABLES T O BE HERE
INDUSTRIAL ART
COURSES BEING
OFFERED HERE
Courses A r e Designed To T r a in
High School T e a c h e rs
EIGHT NOW ENROLLED
I n s t r u c t i o n Embraces Sixteen
High School Subjects
Large Number of Plant* Visited On
Annual Tour
Approximately one hundred and
twenty-five men left Auburn, Sunday,
March 31, for the annual senior in­spection
trip, which continued for jone
week, and which embraces an inspec­tion
of the methods and systems used
by practically all of the major indus­tries
in Alabama. This trip was
sponsored by the college in order to
give the graduating students a more
comprehensive idea as to the line of
work which they comtemplate follow­ing.
The group met in Birmingham,
on Monday morning, April 1, and pro­ceeded
in one body out to the Ensley
Steel Works. They were conducted
through the plant by guides, who
pointed out the things of interest,
and explained fully, all of the things
that were worthy of recognition.
The number of seniors in the dif*
The Auburn Ag Club debating team j fe rent departments who made this trip
AUBURN AG TEAM
LOSES D E C I S I ON
lost a decision to the debating team
of the University of Georgia Ag Club
in Athens, Ga., last week. The sub­ject
was: Resolved: That lands de­voted
to reforestation should be ex­empt
from taxes for & period of twen­ty
years. The Auburn team, composed
of B. Q. Scruggs, junior in Ag Ed,
and Becker Drane, sophomore in Ag
Ed.
Lieutenant Townsley took the team
to Athens in his car. Others making
the trip with the team were Roy Sel­lers,
as chairman of the debating com­mittee,
and W. C. Welden, as alter­nate.
The Auburn representatives were
highly entertained by the Georgia Ag
Club while in Athens.
were: 65 electrical engineers, 15 me­chanical
engineers, 20 civil engineers,
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Plane Forced Down
In Auburn Vicinity
Pilot Makes Spectacular Take-off
Near Chicken Farm
Robert Duncan Goes
Grove City Creamery
Robert Duncan, son of Prof. L. N.
Duncan, will be associated with a big
creamery with headquarters at Grove
City, Pa., after April 8. He gradu­ated
at Auburn in 1928, and since
graduation he has been in charge of
the Central Alabama cowtesting as­sociation
with headquarters at Selma.
J. E. Hydrick, Auburn '28, is suc­ceeding
him.
While a student in college Duncan
studied dairying. His plan is to spe­cialize
in the manufacture and sale
of dairy products.
Two student flyers from Savannah,
Georgia, flying a "Waco" plane to
New Orleans, were forced down near
here Saturday morning on account of
the dense fog. After circling over the
town several times they finally landed
on a field near the chicken farm. The
limited space and uneven ground made
a take-off very difficult. After let­ting
the air out of the tires and re­moving
all excess weight, the pilot
made a spectacular yet almost fatal
take-off; for the plane, which had
hardly attained flying speed, almost
stalled as it left the ground. How­ever,
he circled about and landed on
a more suitable spot, took on his co-flyer
and once more headed for New
Orleans.
NOTICE
All preliminary performance* of
the High School Dramatic Tourna­ment
will be free of charge. The ad-mission
charge of the finals will be:
students and adults, thirty-five cents;
children, twenty-five cent*.
The Industrial Arts Department at
Auburn is offering two comprehensive
four year training courses for teach­ers
in junior and senior high schools.
With the placing of occupational
studies in the high schools through­out
the South the demand for teach­ers
of industrial arts has increased
far beyond the supply, and these new
courses are designed to train teach­ers
to fill the many existing va­cancies.
The one course will provide spe­cialization
in one branch of the in­dustrial
arts with adqeuate supple­mentary
knowledge of the others.
This course is designed to train teach­ers
for junior high, schools. The
other course is arranged similarly,
but will train teachers to instruct in
the professional preparation of teach­ers
in high schools. It is expected and
recommended that students in both
courses will perform vacational work
in practical application of their col­lege
studies. Both courses are so ar­ranged
as to equip the student
eventually to supervisory instruction
in all branches of the industrial arts.
The courses offered are very com­prehensive
and comprise the follow­ing
subjects: printing, weaving, pat-
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INAUGURATION Iftbit Attracts Crowd;
OF PRES. KNAPP Comes 0nli" Lmtd Hat
WIT F RF MAY ?ft Everybody's at it! Even the
TT IL.L D L 1T1A I L\3 faculty approves of it! They,re
wearing them themselves! Cloth­ing
stores are doing a rushing
business! Auburn, as seen from
an aviator's point of view, re­sembles
a flower garden with
blooms of varied, shrieking,
hues—only these flower-like ob­jects
aren't stationary. Auburn
citizens have been looking like
a collection of map markers for
the last few days,—all white be­low
and red, green, purple—or
what have you?—on top.
Even Dean Petrie came up
town wearing one of the new­fangled
crimson-hued felt hats.
A man is as old as he thinks,
therefore Dean must have been
a grammar school lad when he
bought the new hat.
Alumni and Friends Will Be
Served B a r b e c u e Dinner
An unusual -event in connection with
the 1929 commencement exercises at
Auburn will be the formal inaugura­tion
of Dr. Knapp as president. The
inauguration will take place Monday, j
May 20, ,at the end of Dr. Knapp's
first year at the head of the "corner­stone
of education, industry, and agri­culture
in Aiabama."
Plans for the inauguration have
been arranged by a committee con­sisting
of Dr. Petrie,-Dr. Scott, Dr.j
J. V. Brown, Dr. Ross, Director Dun-1
i
can, Professor Shi, S. W. Garrett, |
and P. O. Davis. The exercises will
begin at ten o'clock on the morning of
May 20 with Governor Bibb Graves
presiding. The program provides; for
an address by a distinguished educa­tor,
greetings from the alumni by
Gen. Noble, president of the Alumni
Association, and the inaugural ad­dress
by Dr. Knapp.
This will also be Alumni Day but
the inauguration will precede the
alumni exercises, which will not be­gin
until the afternoon. A barbecue
dinner will be served to the alumni
and friends at noon. The business
meeting of the alumni will be held in
the afternoon. A reception given atjby the honorary engineering frater-the
president's home by Dr. and Mrsjnities on the campus, will be featured
Knapp will follow the business meet-!by numerous interesting events, in-ing
of the alumni. The inaugural | d"ding a technical picture show in
banquet will be held in the evening'the morning at 11:00, an intra-mural
HALF - HOLIDAY
MARKS SECOND
ENGINEERS'DAY
All Engineers Excused From
Classes After 11:00 A. M.
ENGINEERS CLUB
IS FORMED HERE
M e e t i n g s Will Be Held Once
E a c h Month
T O BE HELD FRIDAY
Banquet and Dance Will
Main Events .
Be
Engineers' Day, Friday, April 12,
inaugurated last year and sponsored
The Engineers Club, composed of
the electrical, mechanical, and chemi­cal
engineering students at Auburn,
i and formed with the view of drawing
these men together into a well organ­ized
group, held its first meeting Mon­day
night in Ramsay Hall for the
purpose of electing officers.
It was decided to elect a president,
secretary, treasurer, and reporter
from the club at large and let each
respective branch of engineering stu­dents
elect its own vice-president, who
will be responsible for the program
of the club every third month. Those
elected to office are as follows: presi­dent,
M. A. Bynum; secretary, M. A.
Franklin; treasurer, E. C. Marks; re­porter,
R. L. Hume. The mechanical
engineers elected Theo Kummer as
their vice-president, the other groups
waiting until a later date to elect.
Meetings will be held on the first
Monday of each month.
with Colonel T. D. Samford of Ope­lika,
local trustee of the college, as
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C. Howard Walker
Will Speak Here
Will Speak Under Auspices of
American Institute of Architects
track meet at 1:30 P. M., a freshman
baseball game with Georgia Tech at
3:30, and a banquet and dance later
on in the evening. All engineers are
to be excused from all classes after
11:00 A. M. Friday
White ribbons are to be distributed
to those students taking electrical en
gineering by L. C. Yancey, mechani­cal
engineering by G. T. Stafford,
ical engineering by C. J. Rehling, and
DR. VAN WAGENEN
MAKES ADDRESSES
To Attend Convention* in Mobile and
New Orlean*
To address students, faculty, and
townspeople on the "Significance of
Fine Arts," C. Howard Walker, of civil engineering by C. E. Smith, chem-
Boston, Mass., will arrive in Auburn
Sunday, April 14, and deliver his ad­dress
at 9:00 o'clock on the following
morning, according to Prof. Milton S.
Osborne, acting dean of the school of these ribbons, as they will serv^ as a
architecture.
architectural engineering by W. M.
Morgan. It will be necessary for all
students desiring admittance to the
various activities of the day to wear
Prof. Hixon Elected
Honorary Chairman
All Officer* Are Elected For the
Coming Year
Mr. Walker is a fellow of the Amer­ican
Institute of Architects and the
senior member of the firm of Walker
and Walker, of Boston. He will de­liver
his lecture under the auspices
of the education department of the
American Institute of Architects.
He is an able speaker as well as a
renowned architect, Prof. Osborne
said.. He will speak in one of the
classrooms of the school of architec­ture.
means of identification to the engin
eering student. Any oue entitled to
[and not receiving on may get it by
dropping by Dean Wilmore's office in
Ramsay Hall.
Tickets for the banquet, at one dol­lar
a plate, may be procured up until
Thursday noon from the following
men: D. O. Baird, M. A. Franklin,
H. Milligan, J. J. O'Rouke, V. Taylor,
and W. P. Smith, chairman of the
committee. The banquet is to held at
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To celebrate the recovery of Prof.
C. R. Hixon, the Mechanicals reelect­ed
unanimously their "Uncle Charley"
as Honorary Chairman of the A. S.
M. E.
Last Monday the society met for
the last time under the regime of the
old leaders to elect the officers for
the coming year. Those elected and
their respective offices are: Geo.
Crawford, chairman; Theo H. Kum­mer,
vice-chairman; M. A. Franklin,
secretary and treasurer; L. L. Sledge,
reporter and member of the board of
the "Auburn Engineer."
After the ex-chairman, Mr. Tinsley,
had instructed the new office-holders,
the meeting adjourned to participate
in the election of officers of the new
"Engineers Club." The mechanical
engineers elected Mr. Kummer as
their representative in the club.
SCHEDULE FOR DRAMATIC MEET
8:00 A. M.
Lee County High School—"Thank You Doctor"—Langdon Hall
Clift High School—"No Men Wanted"—"Y" Hut
9:00 A. M.
Pike County High School—"Three Pies In a Bottle"—Langdon Hall
Murphy High School—"The Sweetmeat Game"—"Y" Hut
10:00 A.M.
Camp Hill High School—"Thursday Evening"—Langdon Hall
Tuscaloosa Senior High School—"Overtones"—"Y" Hut
11:00 A. M.
Albertville State Secondary Ag. School—"Three Pills In a Bottle"—
Langdon Hall
Union Springs High School—"Spreading The News"—"Y" Hut
1:00 P. M.
Lafayette High School—"When Did They Meet Again"—Langdon
Hall
Alexander City High School—"The Maker of Dreams"—"Y" Hut
2:00 P. M.
Ramer Consolidated Schools—"Modesty"—Langdon Hall
Lanier High School—"The Valiant"—"Y" Hut
3:00 P. M.
Wetumpka State Secondary Agricultural School—"The Ghost Story"
Langdon Hall
Bessemer High School—"The Violin Makes of Cremona"—"Y" Hut
4:00 P. M.
Talladega County High School—Unannounced—Langdon Hall
. Woodlawn High School—"Lijah"—"Y" Hut
Dr. Beulah Clark Van Wagenen, of
the department of education, left on
April fifth to attend conventions in
Mobile and New Orleans. She was
scheduled to make two addresses at
the High School Y. W. C. A. Tri-State
Conference in Mobile, speaking on
"Character Building for the High
School Girl" and on "The Modem
High School Girl."
- While in that vicinity she expects
to, visit The Organic School at Fair-hope,
Alabama, an experimental school
which has for some years been of par­ticular
interest to educators.
During the present week Dr. Van
Wagenen is in New Orleans as dele­gate
from the Auburn branch to the
national convention of the American
Association of University Women.
She will speak and lead a discussion
group on the topic, "Who should go
to college?", and will be a speaker at
the Education Dinner. She has also
been asked, while there, to take part
in a special conference on admission
requirements at Sophie Newcomb Col­lege.
Norman I l l g e s a n d C a r m o n T e a g u e t i e for v i c e - p r e s i d e n c y of
t h e Class of ' 3 0 a s o t h e r s win by n a r r o w m a r g i n s . Complica­t
i o n s seen in s e l e c t i o n for senior c l a s s second post as t i e r e s u l t s.
R e t u r n s s h ow e l e c t i o n s t o be closest since 1927. J. D. Neeley
e l e c t e d E d i t o r of P l a i n s m a n by t w o votes, r e s i g n s in favor of A.
V. B l a n k e n s h i p . Pressing d u t i e s next year given a s r e a s o n for
a c t i o n . Only i n s t a n c e in h i s t o r y of A u b u r n w h e r e highest hon­o
r e d s t u d e n t office declines in favor of opposition.
Hayley Milligan was reelected
president of the class of 1930 again
this year by defeating Jim Crawford
for the executive position. He is a
Theta Chi, and is enrolled in the
Electrical Enginering course. Milli-gan's
home is in Newton, Alabama;
he has been president of his class for
the past two years. He is a member
of the Interfraternity Council and
Thendara.
Vote for vice-president resulted in
a tie between C. E. Teague and
Normal Illges. Teague is enrolled in
Ag. Ed., is a member of Alpha Gam­ma
Rho, and is a member of the track
team. Illges, a member of S.A.E.
fraternity, is a student in mechanical
engineering.
John Joseph O'Rourke, of Selma,
Alabama, was elected as secretary;
he is taking Electrical Engineering,
and has made highest distinction in
his studies since he has been at Au­burn.
He is a member tf the Theta
Chi fraternity, and also a member of
Phi Delta Gamma honorary frater­nity.
O'Rourke is pledged to Tau
Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu, honor­ary
engineering fraternities, and
Alpha Phi Epsilon. He will be award­ed
the White Cup on Friday night,
for being the most outstanding
junior in the Engineering department
during this year.
Jimmie Ware, of Columbus, Geor­gia,
member of the "Social Committee,
and a student of Civil Engineering
was elected treasurer. He is a mem­ber
of the A. T. O. fraternity.
John Carreker, of Cook Springs,
Alabama, carried the votes for class
orator. Carreker is a student in Ag­riculture,
and is secretary of the Y.
M. C. A. He will be editor of the
"Rat Bible" next year.
Clayton Welden, of Wetumpka,
elected historian, is one of the most
ppoular juniors enrolled in the
School of Agriculture. He is a mem­ber
of Sigma Phi Sigma, Alpha Phi
Omega, and pledged to Kappa Delta
Pi.
Marion Darby was chosen poet for
next year; he is a member of the
Kappa Sigma fraternity, student in
Civil Engineering, and hails from
Florence, Alabama.
J. D. Neeley, of Montgomery, a stu­dent
in Electrical Engineering, mem­ber
of Kappa Kappa Psi, vice-presi­dent
of the Band, and pledged to
Alpha Mu Rho and Eta Kappa Nu,
Managing Editor of the Plainsman
this year, was eelcted Editor-in-Chief
of the Plainsman for the coming
year.
"Jabbo" Jones was elected Busi­ness-
Manager of the Plainsman. He
is a student in the General Business
department, pledged to Scabbard and
Blade, and Advertising-Manager of
the Plainsman. His home is in Ope­lika;
he is a mmeber of Kappa Sigma
fraternity.
Charlie Davis, member of Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity, and Blue Key
honorary fraternity was elected Edi­tor
of the Glomerata over Streeter
Wyatt, member of the Kappa Alpha
fraternity, by a large majority.
H. O. Davfs, of Glenwood, Ala­bama,
a member of Sigma Phi Sigma
fraternity, also received a decisive
majority over his opposition. He was
elected Business Manager of the
Glomerata.
J. M. Collins and Sam Pope ran a
close race for Art-Editor of the
Glomerata. Pope was elected by a
very small majority.
NOTICE
Those students who are taking the
scoutmasters' training course, and de-sire
to make up any of the lessons
which they missed can do so by mak­ing
the bird study trip with Prof.
Good, on Saturday, April 13. The
group will meet in front of the Ag
Building at 5:30 A. M.
NOTICE
The Auburn Social Committee ha*
issued a call for sealed bid* on deco­rations
of the gymnasium for the
Commencement Dance*, May 16th,
17th, and 18th. All bid* must be in
the hands of the Social Committee
one week from today, by 12 o'clock.
Bids are to include all expenses for
decorations. For further information
see any member of the Social Com­mittee.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929.
Sty? f laittgmatt
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
A. V. Blankenship, '30 __ Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
Hugh W. Overton _ Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Alex. Smith, Jr., '31 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 __ Ass't. News Editor'
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
Carol Porter, '29 Sports Editor
Dick Jones, '31 Ass't. Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins -- Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
T. S. Coleman, '32; Clarence Dykes, .'32;
George Harrison, '32; Robert Sansing,
'30; S. H. Morrow, '32; J. E. Jenkins,
'32; H. G. Twomey, '32; Victor White,
'32; D. Reynolds, '32; Virgil Nunn, '31;
Gabie Drey, '31; James Davidson, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
George Carden, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
W. B. Jones, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Office on ground floor of Alumni Hall.
Circulation Managers: Walter Smith '31,
J. M. Johnson '31, W. A. Files '31, J.
E. Dilworth '31.
Assistants: B. W. Kincaid '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams,
'32, J. M. Barton '32.
A Combination
To Be Desired
The three engineering societies at Au­burn
who have combined their efforts and
formed a joint Engineers' Club are to be
congratulated on their progressiveness.
The formation of the Engineers' Club is
the greatest forward step taken recently
by any of the student organizations at Au­burn.
The A. I. E. E., A. S. M. E., and
Chemical Society will continue in their
present status, but their members will meet
once a month as members of the more
comprehensive new society. Thus these
three societies have prepared' the way to
friendlier feeling and better understanding
among their several members. The desire
for these things, together with the desire
for the consequent greater opportunity for
cooperation between the societies, led to
the formation of the Engineers' Club. That
these desires exist is a credit to the parent
societies.
Workers in the various branches of en­gineering
labor side by side in industry.
Students preparing for work in these vari­ous
engineering branches should learn at
Auburn to work together. The students at
Auburn have the desire to do this, and as
a tangible result have formed the Engi­neers'
Club to enable them to attain their
very worthy ends. That is a' very creditable
thing.
It is to be hoped that the eligible so­cieties
which have not as yet become mem­bers
will realize the farsightedness and
wisdom of their fellow students and will
sagaciously effect affiliation with the very
worthwhile Engineers' Club.
Intramural Athletics
For Greater Auburn
For some time Auburn has been in need
of a department whereby those men of
mediocre athletic ability might be able to
display their prowess. There was previous­ly
an inadequate method, consisting chief­ly
of class football and various kinds of
tournaments, but this proved so unsatis­factory
that the Department of Intramural
Athletics was organized this past year. The
Military Department directs the activities
of this organization, with Liuetenant Barth
having actual charge.
The benefits of intramural sports are
many, men who have not the ability to
make Varsity teams may receive physical
benefits, competition is strong, and the
germ of sportsmanship is planted in the
hearts of those participating in this friend­ly
yet spirited rivalry. Perhaps, the great­est
benefit comes from the large number
who are able to receive such fine physical
education. A third or more of the students
have supported the call so well that the
continuance of the department is assured.
The untiring efforts of Lt. Barth have
been largely responsible for the great suc­cess
of the sports. The enthusiasm which
he has been able to work up among the stu­dents
will not die out, but will grow with
the years. We commend him for his work
and hope that it will continue to expand
and even greater results will be had from
that which he has so successfully started
and carried on.
Assurance Of An Efficient
Educational Plant
Having for its sole purpose the advance­ment
of Auburn, both in ability and effici­ency,
and with a zeal and untiring effort
which seems to know no faltering or defeat,
the present adminisrtation is steadily and
hastily pushing to the front an expansion
program which symbolizes the realization
of long coveted dreams of Auburn backers.
A plan of development which has welled
high in the hearts of Auburn men, but
which has heretofore seemingly lingered
in the background, is about to be realized,
it is enough to stir deeply the spirit of
the most indolent Auburnite.
To have an efficient educational plant,
fully equipped in a modern manner, and
ranking along with other famous colleges
of America is the aim of Dr. Knapp and
his co-workers. We believe that end will
be attained, without any further serious
delay.
Perhaps it is somewhat difficult just yet
for us to realize the full significance of
what this development holds in store for
Auburn; nevertheles we can recognize
quite readily that this is highly commend­able
action on the part of the administra­tion.
The Plainsman feels that it expresses
the general sentiment of the entire student
body in commending and praising those
who are so faithfully supporting this ad­vancement
which means so much to Au­burn,
and to the future sons of Alabama.
FUDGING IS COSTLY
Students at a medical college at Mem­phis,
Tennessee, tried to pilfer papers that
would help them to pass without study,
got caught and are now in serious trouble.
Whether in college, or elsewhere, fudging
never pays. The student who cheats his way
through school cheats himself; he does
not know what he pretends to know; he is
a faker and the world will find it. out.
For one thing the student who cheats
undermines his own confidence in himself,
his own courage, and without courage,
courage which i s ' the outgrowth of un­swerving
personal honestly, no student can
hope to travel very far, because, soon or
late, some fellow who has not sapped his
own courage will face him in the contests
of life, and the fudger who has lost his
courage will crumple up. It is an old story,
but many young men, and old men, too,
are too often inclined to overlook it in their
eagerness to get by in the little and large
struggles of life. —Alabama Journal.
Prexy's Paiagraphs
By Bradford Knapp
He who laughs last may be the dumbest.
Letters to the Editor
Shawmut, Ala.,
April 3, 1929.
Dear. Editor,
Permit me to take this opportunity to
congratulate you and your associates for
the very splendid paper being put out this
year. Your semi-weekly issue is one of the
most ambitious tasks ever undertaken by
Auburn journalistic students.
I thoroughly enjoy your editorial page
although not always whole heartedly en­dorsing
every thing contained therein. This
condition is not to be expected thanks to
the all wise Creator as people can't be ex­pected
to see all things alike.
It befell my privilege to be a member of
the Plainsman staff back in my college
days. Having had this experience I am in
a position to sympathize with you fellows
who are doing the work today. We had
about fifteen on our staff but only about
six who did any real work.,_ I often think
of the midnight oil I burned- in the office
typing articles trying to kill space. I trust
you do not experience any such condition
with your staff.
Again let me thank you for giving the
alumni all the news that's fit to print about
our alma mater. Best wishes for your
continued health and happiness.
Sincerely yours,
GERALD D. SALTER.
April 1, 1929.
Editor, The Plainsman,
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Sir,
Your squelching retort to my last letter
has almost succeeded in making me hang
my head in lowly shame. On the count of
mis-spelling I admit burning defeat, and
tender my unconditional surrender.
As to your inquiry whether I had ap­plied
for a position' with the Auburn Fire
Department, it had nothing to do with
the question at issue, and was typical of
your cheap sarcasm. It went a long way
toward proving my point.
You have a right to doubt that I will
laugh in the chorus of the intelligent. You
will find, however, that when the chorus
gets tired and goes home I will carry the
good work forward. And make as merry
a sound as the foremost, too.
Any "bright cracks" that you care to em­bellish
this note with will be duly appre­ciated,
and credited on your already ample
account.
Yours truly,
GEORGE F. POMEROY.
I apologize for missing the paragraphs
last issue. There was simply too much
work to do.
* * * * *
If on Commence­ment
Day I had to
chdose between pre­senting
the seniors
with a degree and a
diploma or a certifi­cate
o f character
based upon experience
and personal obser­vation
of their work,
I would rather throw
away the diploma and give them the cer­tificate
of character. In the long run
it would be worth more. It is a glorious
thing, however, to be able to present both
when both have been honestly earned.
* * * * *
I saw a beautiful letter the other day
from a fine farmer-friend of Auburn who
sat writing in the upper story of his house
where the flood flowed through the upper
story. He said WAPI had paid for itself
many times over during the flood. After
a trip over the flooded area, Governor
Graves told me the other day that he felt
under a very great sense of obligation to
the Extension Service and the other ser­vices
of Auburn for the fine work they are
doing in South Alabama and particularly
our great faculty of hard workers out in
the field—the county agents and the
county home demonstration agents.
* * * * *
I regret very much indeed that I had
to be away on "A" Day. The honest truth
is I regret being away every day I have to
be away from Auburn. I hope you will un­derstand
that there is a lot of hard work
which has to be done and it seems to be
my lot to have to do much of it. There
are so many plans now being perfected
that we scarcely know how to get through
with the various lines of work.
I returned on the 6th from a trip to
Washington, D. C, which was not on my
regular schedule. When it comes to flood
relief and emergencies of that kind I felt
that it was necessary to go at once without
raising the slightest question. I went with
Governor Graves and others to help to
straighten out certain matters in Washing­ton
and secure some concessions on the
part of the Federal Government. It was
a very satisfactory trip. Through the cour­tesy
of the senators and representatives in
Congress from Alabama, we saw President
Hoover, Secretary Good of the War Depart­ment,
Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De­partment,
Secretary Hyde of the Depart­ment
of Agriculture, the head of the
American Red Cross and the Farm Loan
Board which has charge of the intermedi­ate
credit banks. The government of the
United States is the greatest business there
is in the world.. It is always an inspiration
to me to come into intimate contact with it.
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
Today is the day—Now is the time, un­less
you have scratched already, to drop
by the poll and mark a ballot, Juniors.
It will be interesting to note just how
many have voted, under this new manner
of casting ballots here.
What will claim the attention of the fili­busters"
when election results are over?
Perhaps the bull parties will drag for a
while. But still there should be something
interesting left.
Perhaps the talking movie the Tiger
plans to open right away means a slight
decrease in the bull sessions that will be
held to the credit of several of our prom­ising
inmates at graduation.
The recent moonlit nights offered glor­ious,
silvery, romatic moments for those so
inclined; but those darker ones seem to
offer their advantages too!
It's a comfort to believe in evolution and
assume that man isn't finished yet.
Baseball is coming to the forefront at
Auburn. The past two seasons of this
sport presented some distinguished willow
weilders, but they held no sway over our
present home-run swatters.
'Twas a remarkable feat the visiting
pitcher pulled last week, when he pounded
a Tiger on the noodle and severed his
shoe.
THE GEDUNK
I am the Gedunk, who at the ball games,
causes the the downfall of the opposing
team. I yell long and loud at the other
team. I do not simply cheer my own team,
but I squall out little personal quirks at
the other players. I yell so loud that
everyone in the stands must notice me and
laugh at me also, because I say some very
witty things to the visiting players. I
criticize them, make fun of them even
though I know that it is very poor sports­manship
and that I am even disgusting to
the- rest of the student body, but. I must be
noticed and I do so like to rattle the op­ponents.
%' AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *
CHECK ROOM ON THE RIGHT
A young Montgomery school teacher had. been greatly annoyed by some of her
pupils ascending the stairs puffing and panting as though completely tired out
after their dates. She determined to put a stop to this, and one day met them as
they came into the room, and thus admonished them:
"See here, girls, you are making altogether too much noise, and hereafter when
you come into the room I want you to leave your puffs and pants downstairs."
—Adonis.
* * * * * * * *
A HEATED SESSION
Turning into the dimly-lit lane off the main highway he glanced hack to make
sure his was the only car on that lonely spot.
His craving desire could be put off no longer. Pulling into the side of the lane,
he brought the automobile to a stop.
"At last!" he cried, and then—he struck her!
She appeared broken at his sudden wrath, but she said never a word. He raised
his hand and struck her again.
Again and again he .struck her on the head, but she remained as silent and as
unyielding as ever. _
His anger now fully aroused, he gave vent to a string of curses and let blow
after blow fall upon her head, even adding scratches in his wrath, but she uttered
not a word.
He struck he once more, and it was this blow that told; being unable to with­stand
all this brute force longer, she lit up into a sudden flare.
"These damp matches get my goat," he muttered, lighting his cigarette at last.
—Smot.
* * * * * * * * * *
THE PASSING OF RAMSAY HALL
The engineer has met his peer—
A bouncing baby boy,
And Ramsay Hall now knows the bawl
That shatters our one-time joy.
Babies here and babies there; •
Infants everywhere;
The chunks and gobs of mournful sobs
Pervade the springtime air.
The hallowed walls of Ramsay Hall
Are slipping from our grasp,
And countless infants tumble in
To stifle our frantic grasp.
So fare thee well, in grandeur still;
We're sorry, one and all;
We mourn with aching hearts today
The passing of Ramsay Hall.
—Convict number 969.
* * * * * * * * * *
A MASSACRE
Brutually he pressed on, heedless of the despairing cries around him, as tortured
feet writhed to give him room. Cramped bodies moved to escape his relentless
onslaught. Suddenly he sank down and laughed lustfully. He had gained his seat
in the History class. C. W. J.
* * * * * * * * * *
CALLED FOR SOMETHING STRONGER
The Methodist Sunday school class had decided to give a play in order to create
more enthusiasm and attendance. The play they were to put on called for the
villain getting shot by the hero. Due to the nature of the sponsoring group, they
decided it would be better to change the villain's words "My Lord! I'm shot!" to
"My goodness, I'm shot."
The night of the play came along and the actors were doing very nicely. The
crowd was appreciative.
A couple of the rowdier boys thought it would be a good joke to put some red
ink pellets in the blank cartridges that the villain was due to get shot with.
The tense moment came. A scuffle—and the hero confronted the sneak with
a revolver .and shot him. The villain staggered, clasped his hand to his breast and
cried, "My goodness, I'm shot!"
Taking his hand away he saw the red stain and shrieked, "My Gawd, I AM shot!"
—Pewt.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
AND POLICE!
Now comes the announcement that a
student has been jailed for having onions
on his breath. Why not? It seems that a
University of Oklahoma student, at a re­cent
dance came too close to a member of
the discipline committee, whose sensitive
nostrils told him something was wrong.
"You've been drinking" sez the professor.
"Probation for you".
"That's not *cker on my breath," ans­wered
the students, shooting a fast one.
"Them's onions."
"Onion smells worse'n whiskey any day",
comes back the prof. "Call the police."
And so the little story ends.
* * * * *
THE DEADLY FEMALES
Let's get right appears to be the attitude
of the University of Detroit, and here's
how they start. The president, Rev. Mr.
John P. McNichols, announced that the
university's fifty co-eds would be expelled
if they were detected conversing with any
of the 2,000 male students on the univer­sity
grounds.
The ban on conversation was defended
vigorously by the associate'editor of The
Varsity News, student paper, who said,
"The co-eds waylay and harrass the male
students." Can you beat it? "They destroy
the studious and scholarly atmosphere of
the college with their blandishments."
Mother should be there to look after her
little son, maybe.
* * * * *
FOR NO REASON
"Why did you come to Princeton?" was
the question asked the students entering
Princeton University this fall. The fol­lowing
are some of the answers from the
erudite freshmen:
Father and brother Princeton men.
Princeton spirit, tradition and reputa­tion.
Thought more college life could be found
here. . .
Because my father wanted me to go to
Yale.
I didn't know the place then.
To graduate.
Advantages of country life can never
be over-stressed.
Because I like the atmosphere of beau­tiful
buildings and gentlemen.
Good looking campus, faculty and presi­dent.
(Co-ed probably).
For social reasons. (Good enough; some
don't have a reason).
* * * * *
DO STUDENTS SUPPORT?
It has been necessary for members of
the Junior and Senior classes at Rice In­stitute,
Houston, Texas, to call a mass
meeting to find out why students are not
supporting the Saturday night dances
sponsored by the student governing group.
At the last dance, eight couples and
three stags reported for the struggle which
was formerly attended by more than 100
couples and an equal number of stags. It
was pointed out that the students were at­tending
organization dances where they do
not have to plank down the cash for ad­mittance,
in preference to supporting the
school endowment fund.
* * * * *
SECRET SORROWS
A new fad among co-eds of the. Univer­sity
of Georgia is attracting considerable
comment on the campus. It is the nick­naming
of their various dates or "secret
sorrows" some absurd, though often ap­propriate,
animal title. Now girls.
For instance, there is a young professor
who is secretly adored by a dark-haired
co-ed, who is known among the elect as the
"Rose Owl."
A prominent campus actor is strangely
enough called the "Lily-white Lamb."
A very collegiate young man who drives a
car to distraction rejoices, unbeknown to
himself, in the choice appelation of the
"Purple Baboon." Uh! •
Others have been called "The White Rat,"
"The Pink Gander," and "The Green Cat."
Those who have so far escaped the calling
need not despair. Many are-called, but few
are chosen. Get your lamps trimmed.
MEDITATIONS
ON THIS AND 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.
* * * * •
ARTHUR Schopenhauer once wrote
a diatribe on the cracking of whips
in the streets. He says that the
noise .was a great nuisance. In opening
this efsay-, he discusses noise in general,
saying that there are many people who
do not object to noise " . . . because they
are not sensitive to noise; but they are
just the very people who are not sensitive
to argument or thought, or poetry, or art,
in a word, to any kind of intellectual in­fluence.
The reason of it is that the
tissue of. their brain is of a very rough
and coarse quality. On the other hand,
noise is a torture to intellectual people.
In the biographies of almost all great
writers, or wherever else their personal ut­terances
are recorded, I find complains
about it; in the case of Kant, for instance,
Goethe, Lichtenberg, Jean Paul; and if it
should happen that any writer has omitted
to express himself on the matter it is only
for want of an opportunity.
* * * * *
THIS aversion to noise I should ex­plain
as follows: If you cut up a
large diamond into little bits, it will
entirely lose the value it had as a whole;
and an army divided up into small bodies
of soldiers loses all its strength. So a
great intellect sinks to the level of an or­dinary
one as soon as it is interrupted and
disturbed, its attention distracted and
drawn off from the matter in hand; for its
superiority depends upon its power of con­centration—
of bringing all its strength to
bear upon one theme, in the same way as a
concave mirror collects into one point all
the rays of light that strike upon it. Noisy
interruption is a hinderance to this concen­tration.
That is why distinguished minds
have always shown such an extreme dis­like
to disturbance in any form, as some­thing
that breaks in upon and distracts
their thoughts. Ordinary people are not
much put out by anything of the sort. . .
It does not disturb them in reading or
thinking, simply because they do not think;
they only smoke, which is their substitute
for thought. The general toleration of un­necessary
noise—the slamming of doors,
for instance, a very unmannerly and ill-bred
thing—is direct evidence that the pre­vailing
habit of mind is dulness and lack
of thought.
* * * * *
DURING the next few days the state
High School Dramatic Tournament
will be held in Auburn in which a
score of secondary schools will present one-act
plays in competition. This will give
the students of Auburn a chance to enjoy
a week-end of good drama. Only good plays
will be used by the contestants, and only
good casts have been selected to come to
the tournament. Every man in the student
body should see at least one of these
dramas, and should enjoy it. The enjoy­ment
of good drama is one of those things
that help to make life a little more than
three meals and a weekly pay envelope.
* * * * *
IT WILL probably not raise anyone's
grade in any course, to see these
dramas, it will probably not be as easy
as sleeping in the "den", but it will add a
bit, even tho small, to that knowledge of
things cultural that someday is going to
be found necessary—found too late by
some. Every student should see at least
one of the plays—and like it; or at least
profess to like it, in public. The legitimate
drama is more than the movie; it is not so
obvious—it requires more intellect to en­joy
it. Here is a chance to acquire a know­ledge
of some of the best of one-act plays
—ignorance of which is unpardonable—it
is opportunity knocking.
THE DAYTIME MOON
The passing of a cloud, it seems;
A fragment of the stuff of dreams,
That spectre of the morning sky—
An immateriality;
A ghost of gossamer silveriness,
A flouilce flown from a fairy's dress,
A casual shadow lifted there
To point the radiance of the air.
A spectral vagrant of the sky,
The prisoner of immensity,
And lonely!—Ah! there nowhere is
A greater loneliness than this.
In this vast azure dome to be
The only actuality;
And yet so trivial, transient, slight,
As barely to reflect the light—
That touch, that hint, of featheriness
Would nothing be if it were less—
The glimmering show of next-to-nought,
The visual echo of a thought—
Frail challenger of the blaze of noon,
Wandering, wonderful morning moon!
—C. E. Lawrence.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
YALE REACHES OUT FOR A CIG
AND GRABS SWEET VICTORY
As the red sun sank behind the dim
horizon, casting gaunt shadows over
Soldier Field, the cigarette smokers
of John Harvard went down in glori­ous
defeat in the big cigarette decath­lon,
coming out no better than second,
while the blue banner of Eli Yale
rode high in victory—for Yale was
first!
Harvard lost, but Harvard men are
still Harvard men, and if their heads
are bloody they are still unbowed. De­feat
to Harvard is but a sting, a spur,
a flick of the whip that brings out the
best. Next year is another year, and
the grim tocsin over Cambridge to­day
is, "Watch Harvard next year!"
It was a green team that Harvard
threw on the field yesterday, to en­gage
in the grueling blindfold test.
"Butch" Nickerson, the giant right
wing, who is expected to be a tower
of strength next year, was a gum
chewer until this year, when school
spirit impelled him to give up pepsin
and come out for the big blindfold
cigarette team. He hadn't hit his
stride it was said, despite a natui'al
aptitude for smoking cigarettes blind-
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folded, he still lacked experience.
"Next year," he said, "I will smoke
all of the cigarettes all of the time,
and a cigar, too, because it's for
the old school!"
Even at that, "Butch" put up a
smoke that had the galleries in a fren­zy.
Again and again, as the over­confident
team of Yale cigarette ad­dicts
relaxed a second, he puffed and
puffed and puffed, like an iron man;
but time demands its toll, murder will
out, youth will tell, and if you want
a transfer you'll have to ask the con­ductor
when you pay your fare.
At his right elbow every second of
the time was Tizzard—"Biff" Tizzard,
'32—a cool and calculating cigarette
smoker. "Tiz," as he is known to his
frat brothers, is not a spectacular
smoker; he has even been accused of
colorlessness; but the stands noted
yesterday that when the pinch came,
when a man was needed who could
keep his head, good old "Tizn't," as
he is called, was always there.
These two bore the brunt of the
battle, and if it was a losing battle,
still Harvard asks no pity, no sym­pathy.
Its colors may have been low­ered,
but its honor, the very name of
Harvard, floats like a white silken
guidon, whipping in the breeze, un­touched,
unharmed, immaculate.
Yale won because she had the
weight, the experience, and the gen­eralship.
Furthermore, the team was
"pointed," as they say, for Harvard.
As everybody knowsr the early sea­son
smokes with Rutgers, Maine, Stev­ens
and the Red Star Billiard Acad-
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at West Point Academy
is quite the opposite of modern
pedagogical theory. It is largely
the blacboard recitation, a mechanic­al,
authoritative classroom procedure,
and not really teaching in the true
sense. It is more the practice of the
schoolmasters of the past who de­manded
that their pupils absorb the
daily dose or take the consequences.
But although it is far from the ideal­ized
Socratic method, the daily reci­tation-
required of each cadet is mark­edly
effective in preventing that dis­astrous
gap between good intentions
and their execution, which is so apt
to appear under the popular lecture
system. The evils of postponed men­tal
effort are not a problem at West
Point.
However, as long as the "bulk of in­struction
is performed by young grad­uates
temporarily assigned to the
duty and whose sole qualifications is
that they stand reasonably well in the
subject which they are expected to
teach, the quality of that instruction
must leave much to be desired. As
Admiral Sims said in referring to the
same condition at Annapolis, it is an
"amateur instition." Having been a
member of this amiable sodality of
"amateurs" as an instructor of mathe­matics,
I can only say, in the language
of the cadets: "The charge is correct;
the offense was unintentional." I re­member
one of my colleagues who had
three morning classes in the same sub­ject
confiding to me that he learned
the day's lesson from the first class,
recited along with the second, and
tried to put over a modicum of in­struction
in the third. In reality the
cadet has to dig it all out by himself
or go without, and that is largely the
West Point theory. The instructor is
hardly more than a monitor to tabu­late
the grades.
I do not mean to imply by the above
ruminations that the West Point in­structor
is less competent than the
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emy are little more than incidental to
Yale, whose slogan is, "Smoke Har­vard
Out!"
It was a grizzled collection of vet­erans
that Yale trotted out with their
eye bandages yesterday. Under the
tutelage of Head Grizzle Coach Mc-
Nutt, the boys went through a seige
of grizzling that left them hard and
dry and "set." Off cigarettes for two
days prior to the contest, so as not to
get stale, they plunged into the tilt in
the very pink. The exhibition of the
first few minutes was a spectacle rare­ly
equaled in cigarette smoking since
Miss Millicent Rogers, society belle;
Herbert Bayard Swope, international
journalist, and Mrs. Jerome Napol-ean
Bonaparte reached for a ciggy
instead of a Borzoi book.
The tale of the contest was told in
those few minutes. Cigarettes flashed
like tiny streaks of lightning. Matches
fluttered. Smoke rings rose. While the
bewildered John Harvards fumbled
amateurishly for their coffin-tacks,
the New Haven boys took a nice lead,
wmoking, choosing, discarding with ai
speed and brilliance that brought the
stands to their feet time and again.
Later it was a little more even.
Getting their second wind, the Cam­bridge
boys began to smoke nearer
their normal speed, and from then on
it was more of a contest.
Immediately after the contest, a
"pep" rally was held in the City Hall.
Head Coach McNutt spoke at length,
and the four class presidents followed.
The gist of their remarks may be sum­med
up in a paragraph from an old
grad's address:
"Smoke, fellows, smoke! Get the
old ciggy habit! You big fellows who
are too lazy to come out for the team
—get a line on yourselves! Every
man who smokes is needed! Fellows,
it's the old school who calls, the old
varsity that needs you. Is Harvard to
call in vain? Are you Harvard men
at heart? No, I need no answer; Har­vard
men are still Harvard men—
and watch Harvard in the big ciga­rette
pentathlon next year! Look out,
Yale!"
According to Coach McNutt, the
prospects for next year are great.
Two big cigarette smokers from Gro-ton
are entering, and the present
freshman team contains no fewer than
five men who are rated as four-goal
handicap cigarette addicts.
"All we ask is co-operation," the
grizzled old coach said. "We've got
the men, we've got the cigarettes—if
the old school will stand behind us,
we've got Yale beaten to a frazzle,
though I am against boaBting." (
No One Unaffected
By Evil Books Or
Play, Says Phelps
There is nobody in the world who
is unaffected by contact with an evil
or sensuous play, book or picture,
and therefore it is as important that
they be censored for adults as for
young persons, according to Profes­sor
William Lyon Phelps of Yale Uni­versity.
"The deeds, thoughts and experi­ences
of today," he said, "are the
memories of tomorrow. A bad book
or picture puts a veil over the mem­ory
and when we want to recall some­thing
lovely we too often find that
the evil memory appears in its place.
It is sometimes difficult to remem­ber,
but it is much more difficult to
forget. So we should look to the cul­tivation
of our own memories—the
weeding out of nefarious experiences
from our own lives, as well as from
those of persons too young to judge
for themselves."
Dr. Phelps likened memory to a
bank wherein all things we see and
experience are deposited and upon
which we can draw from time to time,
but he said that if we are careful of
what we deposit the dividents are
much richer than they could be from
any bank.
"I regard it important," he said,
"for people to travel while they are
young if it is possible. The earlier
a store of rich and beautiful mem­ories
are put away in the mind, the
longer the period over which we may
draw on them."
Manufacturer Gives
History Chewing Gum
Another popular American belief
has been all gummed up and stuck
in the discard. For lo, these many
years the public has assumed that
gum chewing originated in this
country but now none other than a
leading gum manufacturer declares
it's all wrong.
Christopher Columbus himself
brought the gum-chewing habit to
America in 1492, according to Otto
Schnering, president of the Baby Ruth
Gum Co.
"Columbus, in an appeal for funds
to finance his expedition," said Mr.
Schnering, "requested 'as much gold
as can be supplied, spices, cotton and
chewing gum, also as much of aloes-wood
and as many slaves for the navy
as their majesties will wish to de­mand.'
"Gum chewing was a common form
of mastication in the fifteenth cen­tury,
betal leaves and nuts being used.
America, however, doubtless can take
credit for the successful exploitation
of chicle gum in the world's markets.
More than $100,000,000 was spent for
chewing gum in this country last
year, or ninety cents per capita."
COLLEGE DEGREE NEED NOT
CRAMP THEATRICAL STYLE
No Slickers For
S t u d e n t At Georgia
Four years at the University of
Georgia without a "slicker!"
This is the record held by one uni­versity
student at least, and, in view
of the rain that the weather man
says has fallen in Athens during the
past four years, it has been recom­mended
that he be presented with a
medal for having the most weather­proof
complexion and constitution
in that part of the State.
This student denies ever having
borrowed his roommate's "sliker,"
or ever carrying one of the big black
umbrellas that university professors
sometimes use.
"I just never did buy one of the
things," he stated. "I had rather
have the money for something else,
and I'm sure that I am weather-beaten
enough to stand a little rain,"
he continued. /
And, in his fellow students' opin­ion,
if he isn't weather-beaten by now,
he never will be.
great majority of classroom instruc­tors
in other colleges. God forbid.
Ordinarily his shortcomings are not
due to lack of sufficient intelligence.
And if qualified graduates who so de­sired
were directed into the work and
kept there, the standard would un­doubtedly
be raised. It should be a
permanent detail for all academic in­structors
as it is for the professors.
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Success Or F a i l u re
Depends On Saving
No less an authority than the late
James J. Hill, builder of railroads
and one of the great financiers of our
time, regarded the attainment of suc­cess
as dependent upon the ability to
accumulate money:
"If you want to know whether you
are destined to be a success or not,"
he said, "you can easilly find out.
Are you able to save money? If not,
drop out. You will fail; you may
think not, but you will fail as sure
as fate, for the seed of success is not
in you."
A mother and her daughter will
both graduate from the Univ. of Wyo­ming
this spring as honor students.
"Ex-collegians," Claude Binyon dis­covers
in the May College Humor,
"are sprinkled throughout show busi­ness
so indiscriminately as to cause
someone with time on his hands to
wonder how and why they got there.
A. study of their academic ti-aining
reveals that most of them intended
to enter some other profession, if
they intended to enter any.
"Tim McCoy went to West Point
and then turned into a cowboy actor
for pictures. Ed Gorman sudied for
the ministry and awoke to find himself
a monologist in vaudeville. Paul
Whiteman, no less, once studied min­ing
at Boulder. Richard Ringling,
whose dad, John, collected consider­able
birdseed in the circus game,
landed in opera after several years of
intensive preparation as a student of
electrical engineering at Montana Uni­versity.
"Jules C. Stein, whose Music Cor­poration
controls more than forty
jazz bands, studied at the University
of Chicago, Rush Medical College and
the University of Vienna. He became
an outstanding eye, ear, nose and
throat specialist, only to return to the
fiddle that helped pay his expenses
through school.
"Richard Dix rested for some time
at the University of Minnesota, not
thinking of much in particular, and
eventually slid into pictures where
Ms contract calls for salary even
while resting.
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"Considerable choice money and
fame is being garnered in Hollywood
by college graduates weilding the di­rectorial
megaphone, or—in the case
of talking pictures—waving a silent
finger. On the Warner Brothers lot
five of seven directors who once said
'yes' to profs now have enough yes-men
surrounding them to start an an­vil
chorus. Included are Howard
Bretherton of Stanford, Lloyd Bacon
of Santa Clara, Archie Mayo of Col­umbia,
Bryan Foy of De La Salle,
and Michael Curtiz all the way from
Budapest U.
"One of these mean persons that
would grab your hat through a sub­way
window has started a rumor that
most of the big picture stars will be
ruined by talking pictures, because
the microphone picks up head rattles.
At first it was believed that this
would be a great break for college
students with ambitions to enter the
lithping lithograph game, as colleg­ians
(believe it or not) are supposed
to know a thing or two about adverbs
and how to say them. iThen it was
found that the ranks of picture play­ers
already were full of college grad­uates
who couldn't talk despite their
degrees."
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OLD GOLD CIGARETTES WIN
FIRST IN TESTS AT YALE
A group of Yale upper-classmen comparing the
four leading cigarette brands.
In the recent cigarette test made at
the University, OLD GOLDS were
chosen by the students as the best.
The cigarettes were masked by
black labels so that the names of
the brands were concealed. Each
label was numbered. This was
judged to be the most sporting way
of testing the merits of the four
leading brands. Some 208 Yale
students were asked to smoke the
four disguised brands without
knowing their identity.
They were merely to choose, by
number, the one that was most
appealing to the taste.
The NEWS supervised the test
on January 18 at various fraternity
houses and in the NEWS office.
When the votes were recorded
it was discovered that OLD GOLD
(Cigarette No. 3) had won. Old
Gold was given 63 first chpices,
which was 11 per cent ahead of
Cigarette No. 2,34 per cent ahead
of Cigarette No. 1, and 53 per cent
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The four leading cigarettes . . . "Masked" with
paper sleeves to conceal their brand names.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929.
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CAROL PORTER, Editor DICK JONES, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor; Tad McCallum, Palmer P. Daugette, Jack S. Riley, Assistants.
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TIGERS WALLOP
TECH MEN 23-3
IN WILD FRACAS
By Jack S. Riley
The Auburn Tigers, led by "Buck"
Carter on the mound, successfully
routed the proud Georgia Tech
tossers by the overwhelming score of
23 to 3, on Drake Field. Carter, the
brilliant sojmomore moundsman for
the Plainsman, not only starred as a
pitcher, but as a slugger; getting
three hits out of four attempts, ane
of which was a home run. Captain
"Jack Frost" Smith got five out of six
hits at the plate.
The Tigers were not threatened for
once during the whole game by the
"Jackets". In the first inning, the
Moultonmen managed their lead,
which they held throughout the game.
The Tech pitchers were unable to
keep down the heavy and steady hit­ting
of. the Tigers, while Carter
slackened up after the Auburnites
held a safe lead.
Box ,Score:
GA. TECH
Hutcheson, rf
Terrell, 2b
Frink, 3b
Parham, cf
Shulman, cf
Stevens, c
Herren, c
Issac, ss
Smith, ss
Dunlap, If
Jones, l b,
Mizell, lb
Quinn, p
Brosman, p
Little, p
AB
4
3
4
2
3
2
2
2
2
4
2
1
0
1
2
H PO
2 2
2
3
3
1
3
1
0
1
3
5
1
0
0
1
Total
AUBURN
Pate, ss
Currie, 3b
Crawford, cf
Harris, cf
Newton, If
Smith, lb
Burt, rf
Potter, 2b
Booth, C
Ingram, c
Carter, p
34
AB
6
7
6
0
4
6
6
4
3
0
4
3
R
3
3
5
0
3
4
0
1
1
o.
3
10
H
3
4
4
0
2
5
0
2
0
0
3
24
PO
4
0
1
0
1
11
1
3
3
3
0
7
A
2
3
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
1
The gentleman above was Coach
Moulton's selection to grace the
mound in Auburn's first game of the
year, and we all know how he sent
the Montgomery "Lions" back in de­feat.
Buck is promenading for his first
time in a varsity uniform, having re­ceived
his diploma from the freshman
ranks of last year, but to watch Car­ter
in action you would think he was
pitching his third year on the varsity.
Buck is cool under fire, never get­ting
rattled and no man on the staff
can display a faster ball, or a better
breaking curve, and no doubt Buck
will be the big boy to watch on the
pitching staff.
Carter, is a sophomore in General
Business, and is a member of Theta
Kappa Nu fraternity.
CHANGES MADE
IN TIGER FROSH
DIAMOND MENU
Home Runs Feature
First Game of Series
With Wham-Southern
Total 46 23 23 27 10
Summary: Errors: Terrel (2), Ste­vens
(2), Isaac. Home runs: Carter
and Little. Two base hits: Currie,
Newton (2), and H. Smith. Double
plays: Terrel to Jones; Smith to Pot­ter
to Pate. Stolen bases: Potter (2)
and Little. Hit by pitcher: Quinn
(Newton); Carter (Brosman); and
Little (Carter). Left on bases: Au­burn
6; Ga. Tech 4. Wild pitches:
Carter (3). Struck out by Carter, 6;
by Brosman, 1; by Little, 1. Bases
on balls: off Carter, 1; off Quinn, 2;
off Brosman, 1; off Little, 6. Hits
^ff Quinn: 6 in 1 and 2-3 innings
with 4 runs; off Brosman, 8 in 2 in­nings
with 9 runs; off Little, 9 in 5
and 2-3 "innings with 10 runs. Losing
pitcher: Quinn. Umpires: Hovater
(plate), Seay (bases). Time of
Game: 2.28.
Auburn Cops Second
Game From Jackets
By Jack S. Riley
The Moultonmen of the diamond
licked the Georgia Tech Yellow Jack­ets
16 to 11 in their second game to
score a total of 39 points against 14
in the two game series.
The Tigers hit the apple hard and
frequently to lick one of their closest
rivals in athletics. Currie, Crawford,
Burt, and Ingram leading the role.
Ingram and Crawford were the only
members of the Auburn aggregation
to bat with a perfect percentage.
They went to the plate three times
and accounted for a hit each time.
Herren, catcher for Tech also batted
(Continued on page 6)
By Dick Jones
Home runs by Crawford and Cur­rie
accounted for the Auburn Tigers
victory over the Birmingham-South­ern
base ball team Friday, 8 to 6 in
the first battle of the two game series
played between these two teams in
the "Plains.'
A gallant rally in the ninth gave
the Moultonmen their victory, but
three homers in the previous innings
by Crawford kept Auburn's score up
with the Panthers. With the score
tied by the Robinsonmen in the first
half of the ninth, the S. C. cham­pions
put on a sensational two run
affair. Ingram singled to open the
works but was forced by Lee. Pate
knocked a fly in "Chink" Lotts "tar
bucket" and Frank Currie steps up
and "taps" one out of the park to
score Ingram and himself.
Birmingham-Southern's attempted
rally in their half of the. ninth was cut
short when the Plainsmen coach rush­ed
Peter Lee into the box with one
man on an'd no outs. However, the
Magic City tossers scored- one run
in this inning that tied up the score.
Jim Crawford, Auburn's center
fielder, was the hero of the game.
He got three home runs out of four
trips to the plate and brought a man
in on the first one. He also starred
in the outfield, pulling down many
"would-be" long hits.
Shorty Ogle pitched throughout
the whole contest for the Panthers,
and only once did he let up three
hits in one single inning. One of
these was a home run that was well
placed by Crawford. "Chink" Lott
was the star for Southern. He made
some beautiful catches in the out­field
and smashed out a triple and
a single in five trips to the plate.
Bill Battle got one triple and two
singles out of five trips to the plate.
Score by innings:
Auburn athletic officials an­nounced
a change in the Tiger frosh
diamond schedule, effective this
week. According to the baseball
menu the Plainsmen yearlings were
to meet the Georgia Tech rats in a
two game series on the Auburn dia­mond
Friday and Saturday. Owing to
complications, however, the Howard
College freshmen will journey here
for a series.
The Plainsmen were scheduled to
meet the Howard baseballers the
following week end but conflicting
dates made it necessary—io schedule
the Jacket frosh a week later, April
19 and 20. It is said that Coach Billy
Bancroft will bring a strong nine to
the plains to meet the Baby Tigers.
The Plainsmen first year baseball­ers
have been working hard in prep­aration
for the first series this week
end. Several new" candidates have
joined the ranks of the yearlings. C.
P. Kaley, catcher, is leading the list
of candidates for that position. Other
new men are: Hodges, Primm, Tamp-lin
and Chappell.
Four candidates are competing for
the honor of holding down the first
stack. H. Loyd seems to be among
the best of the first station men and
will probably land the job permanent­ly
. Jordan, who did well on the hard­wood
will give someone keen compe­tition
for the first bag post. Burgess
and Golston are not out of the run­ning
and will go pretty strong if given
a chance.
Ike Lewis, formerly the peppy
shortstop has been holding the second
bag with much success. His brother,
Aubrey Lewis is among the candi­dates
for catcher. Biggerstaff appar­ently
has a bright future on the dia­mond.
As second baseman he is
among the best on the frosh nine.
For the third sack position there
are a quartet of candidates that are
working hard to land the position
when the final selection is made.
Harding is about the most consistent
candidate for this station and will be
expected to show some stuff against
the Techmen.
To date no definite selection has
been made for a permanent freshman
nine. Riley will probably be in the
lineup for the first- game for the
short stop post.
A large number are competing for
outfield positions. Champion, Ed­monson
and B. C. Jones are perhaps
the most prominent and will see ser­vice
in the first game.
Scholastic deficiencies and injuries
have faded the Tiger hopes in the
mound corps. Anderson, stellar
twirler will not be able to claim his
post in the box for the Howard con­tests
because of injuries. Fleming,
Kennemer, Matthews, Tew, West and
H. P. Smith will try for the box.
The Plainsmen frosh present a fair­ly
strong aggregation this season. De­velopment
of the yearling material
in evidence this year is expected to
materially strengthen the Tiger nine
next year.
SPORTS STUFF
By "Dusty" Porter
AUBURN STARTS WITH VICTORY
With the official opening of the college baseball season at horn?
against Ga. Tech the "Tigers" were quick to assure the student body
that a "Fence busting" aggregation would be doing duty for the Au­burn
Club in 1929. Long years ago Auburn was able to humiliate the
"Gabion Tornado" almost at will, but this was many years ago. How­ever
the Tech crew looked just as humble last week before the
bombardment of Smith and Company as ever before. Carter the "Red
head" sophomore facing his first college team in a varsity uniform was
the Dictator of the day, and he was never very lenient although he was
facing the mighty crew. We beat Tech with ease in baseball but in
the "griping" game we can't compete. Parh/un, playing centerfield
for the visitors, was continuously complaining of the unjust decisions
coming his way. And of course we extend sympathy to his case, but
we can't sympathize with a coach that will tolerate such a man on the
team knowing that no good can come to Tech with this over grown boy
continuously taking the spot light. The opposing team has great diffi­culty
in figuring up which of the Auburn "wrecking crew" will be next
in the four base column, because they all hit them far and wide.
* * * * * * * *
ON THE GRIDIRON
Each afternoon with the hot sun.beaming down the future foot­ballers
can be seen on Drake field learning the fundamentals of the
greatest sport—Football, and when the curtain rises next year the
"Tigers" will be ready to trot. Many new faces are to be seen among
the varsity material of next year and still more will be seen when base­ball
season is over. From the freshman team some men have advanced
that will no- doubt help to put the Auburn aggregation back in the
running next fall. Hatfield, Prince, Young, and Pate would make a
good backfield for anybody, and they need no crutches to move along
on/ Each of these boys have weight, speed, and drive a plenty, and in
an open field a live tackier would have done a days work to stop either
of them. Simpkins, Bush, Egg, and Andrews are a few of the linemen
from the freshmen ranks that will no doubt deal misery to the op­posing
teams next year.
* * * * * * * *
TENNIS TEAM
The first tennis team representing Auburn in several years, was
defeated in their first two matches of the year last Friday and Sat­urday,
losing one match each to Howard and Birmingham-Southern.
Although Tennis has just recently been reorganized as a minor sport
in Auburn, we bid fair to offer competition keen enough to keep any
opponent worried. Since Coach Bohler took charge of the athletical
department at Auburn quite an improvement has been noticed in the
old tennis court, and several new ones have been added with all of
the modern conveniences which makes tennis playing a pleasure, and
hundreds of students can be seen each day taking exercise, which
otherwise could not be had. Why not add golf to the athletics in
Auburn?
PLAINSMEN COP
SECOND B'HAM-S0UTHERN
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Dunham "Red" Harkins, like Car­ter
is spending his first days in a
varsity uniform.
Hai-kins, well known on the grid­iron,
is one of the big cogs in the
Tiger pitching staff this year, and
has been throwing them up with the
ease of a veteran, in the early games
of the year.
Red has seen varsity service mostly
as a relief hurler, and has disappoint­ed
nobody in the manner he has
handled each job. With Harkins in
good form Coach Moulton should not
have very much trouble with his
pitching, staff.
Harkins is a sophomore nin Sec­ondary
Education, and is a mmeber
of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
Frosh Harriers Take Easy Victory
From Fort Benning Tank Battalion
Auburn Tennis Team
Loses to Howard in
First Tilt of Season
AUBURN
B-SOUTHERN
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B'HAM-SOUTHERN
Batteries:
Roper, Lee, and Ingram.
Ogle and Waller.
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Spring Training Comes
To Close on Wednesday
By Dick Jones
The 1929 Spring Training program
in the "Village of the Plains" came
to a close Wednesday afternoon when
the two teams, chosen by Coach
Bohler, played each other in a mock
battle. One team was led by Cap­tain
Howell Long and the other was
led by Alternate Captain Porter Cal­lahan.
The plays being used mostly
were the new ones that Bohler plans
to use next year in his system he
plans to change a bit.
Coach Bohler's spring preparation
(Continued on page 6)
By Tad McCallum
Auburn's Freshman track team
walked away to an easy victory over
the "Tank Battalion" harriers from
Fort Benning in a dual meet staged
on Drake Field Saturday afternoon.
The meet was the first of the year
for the Frosh tracksters and the first
year men showed up exceedingly well
against actual competition. O'Hara
was the leading point-getter for the
Auburnites, the versatile sprinter
placing first in the 100 and 220
dashes and then returning later to
cop first-place honors in the broad
jump.
Auburn won ten first places out
of the thirteen events staged and
placed in every event with the ex­ception
of the discus throw in which
the Soldiers made a clean sweep.
Plant, Frosh distance runner, stepped
off the mile in excellent time and
Boswell looked good in the pole vault.
Following is a summary of the
meet.
100 yd. dash: O'Hara, Auburn,
first; Oliver, Auburn, 2nd; Joris,
Benning, 3rd. Time: 10.6 seconds.
220 yd. dash: O'Hara, Auburn, 1st;
Oliver, Auburn, 2nd; Blount, Ben­ning,
3rd. Time: 23.5 seconds.
440 yd. dash: Cameron, Auburn,
1st; Collins, Auburn, 2nd; Grantham,
Benning, 3rd. Time: 56.4 seconds.
880 yd. run: Huff, Auburn, 1st;
Dollins, Auburn, 2nd; Burt, Auburn,
3rd. Time: 2:09.
Mile run: Plant, Auburn, 1st; Rob­erts,
Auburn, 2nd; Smith, Benning,
3rd. Time: 4:53.5.
120 yd. high hurdles: Beard, Au­burn,
1st; Stewart, Auburn, 2nd;
Woodman, Benning, 3rd. Time: 17.8
seconds.
110 yd. low hurdles: Curlyou, Ben­ning,
1st; Stewart, Auburn, 2nd;
Beard, Auburn, 3rd. Time: 13.8
seconds.
Pole vault: Boswell, Auburn, 1st;
Williams, Benning, 2nd; Terrell, Au­burn,
3rd. JHeighth: 10 f£. 6 inches.
High jump: Stacey, Auburn, 1st;
Cameron, Auburn, 2nd. Height: 5
ft. 6 inches.
Broad jump: O'Hara, Auburn, 1st;
Beard, Auburn, 2nd; Stewart, Au­burn,
3rd. Distance: 19 ft. 1 inch.
- Shot Put: Wade, Auburn, 1st;
Stone, Auburn, 2nd; Thomas, Ben­ning,
3rd. Distance: 34 ft. 9 inches.
Discus Throw: Smith, Benning, 1st;
Howard, Benning, 2nd, Thomas, Ben­ning,
3rd. Distance: 98 ft. 1 inch.
Javelin Throw: Thomas, Benning,
1st; Tharp, Benning, 2nd; Lawsonr
Auburn, 3rd. Distance: 155 ft. 7
inches.
The Auburn tennis team lost their
first match of the season in Birming­ham
last Friday, being defeated by
the Howard College netmen. Having Total
only one court, the matches started AUBURN
at 10 o'clock and lasted until after 6. Pate, ss
Nicholson, playingu number 4 for Currie, 3b
Auburn won the first match of the Crawford, cf
day, beating Woodward. In the sec- Newton, If
ond match Jackson playing number 2 Smith, lb
for the Tigers lost to Pease. Halse | Burt, rf
number 1 player for Auburn was de- Harrison, 2b
f eated by Miller of Howard while i Ingram, c
May, number ) man for Auburn lost' Tuxworth, c
to Gay. iMcGhee, p
In the doubles Miller-Pease defeat-1 Harkins, p
ed Halse-Jackson.
Gay and Woodward took their
match with May-Nicholson.
The match with Howard was
By Dick Jones
Auburn defeated the Birmingham-
Southern Panthers of the S. I. A. A.
organization by 16 to 6 here Satur­day
through bunching hits in the
third, fourth, sixth and seventh in-nigs.
McGhee and Harkins joined in
pitching a seven-hit game for the
Tigers to win the second of the two-game
series played between these two
teams in the "Plains" this week.
McCollough, Panther hurler, help­ed
to account for the Magic City
tossers' two runs in the first inning
by socking the ball out of the park
with Beagle on base.
Crawford, of the Tigers, and
"Chink" Lott, of the Panthers, star­red
in the outfield.
Harrison, who made his debut at
second base on the Tiger team in
this game, made a beautiful unas­sisted
double play. "Frock" Pate,
the Tigers' fast shortstop was pain­fully
injured when he was hit on the
head while standing at the plate.
However, he took his base and kept
playing.
SOUTHERN
Lott, cf
Smith, B., If
Beagle, ss
McCollough, p
Battle, lb
Waller, c
O'Brien, 3b
Colland, 2b
Ellisor, rf
Ogle, rf
Carter, p
AB
5
4
3
3
4
4
4
4
0
3
0
34
AB
5
4
5
2
5
5
4
2
3
2
3
R
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
6
R
3
3
3
1
3
0
2
0
1
0
0
H
1
1
1
2
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
7
H
1
1
3
1
3
2
0
2
2
0
1
Totals 40 16
Score by innings:
SOUTHERN 211 000 200-
16
unique in that the six matches went AUBURN
- 6
104 404 30x—-16
the limit of three sets each. Auburn j Summary: Errors, Lott, Beagle, 3;
taking the first set in five of the six. I Waller, O'Brien, Ellison, Burt. Two
Howard comes to Auburn April 27 base hits, Crawford, Harkins, New-for
a return engagement. (Continued on page 6)
B'ham-Southern Wins
From Tennis Team
In a match that ended in darkness,
the Auburn tennis team met defeat
at the hands of the Panthers Satur­day,
6-0. Southern made a clean
sweep of the matches taking four
singles and two doubles matches. In
spite of the fact that our team lost
all matches, every one was hotly con­tested.
In the singles, Green of Southern
defeated Halse of Auburn 6-4 and
6-3 after Halse had taken the lead
3-0 in the first set. Barclift won
from Jackson, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Beiman
beat May 6-4, 6-3 and Miller won
from Nicholson 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Beiman
and Miller of Southern won from
Halse and Jackson. 8-10, 6-4, 6-3 in
the doubles while Greene and Bar­clift
defeated Nicholson and May 6-1,
(Continued on page 6)
Date
March
April
Tiger Baseba
Opponent and Their
28—Mtgy. Lions
29—Tulane
30—Tulane
1—Mtgy. Lions
3—Ga. Tech
4—Ga. Tech
5—B'ham.-Southern
6—B'ham.-Southern
8—Georgia
9—Georgia
12—Howard Rats
13—Howard Rats
15—Clemson
16—Clemson
11 Schedul
Score
( 2)
(10)
( 1)
(10)
( 3)
( 8)
( 6)
( 5)
( 5)
( 8)
Auburn
( 4)
( 4)
(17)
( 1)
(23)
(16)
( 8)
(16)
( 3)
( 7)
i for 1929
Score and Place Played
at Montgomery
at New Orleans, La.
at New Orleans, La.
"A" Day, at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Athens, Ga.
at Athens, Ga.
at Auburn (Rats)
at Auburn (Rats)
at Auburn
at Auburn
May
19—Ga. Tech
20—Ga. Tech
19—Ga. Tech Rats
20—Ga. Tech Rats
25—Florida
26—Florida
27—Florida
26—Marion
27—Marion
3—Vanderbilt
4—Vanderbilt
3—Ga. Tech Rats
4—Ga. Tech Rats
10—Georgia
11—Georgia
20—Howard
21—Howard
at Atlanta
at Atlanta
at Auburn (Rats)
at Auburn (Rats)
at Panama City, Fla.
at Panama City, Fla.
at Panama City, Fla.
at Marion (Rats)
at Marion (Rats)
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Atlanta (Rats)
at Atlanta (Rats)
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn Alumni Day
at Auburn
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
HISTORY GIVEN OF RADIO AT
ALA. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
When the Armistice was signed the
government restored all equipment,
which had been confiscated when war
was declared with Germany, to ama­teur
radio operators all over the Unit­ed
States. This marked the begin­ning
of amateur radio in Auburn
when members of the student body,
interested in the art of radio com­munication,
installed a small quarter
kilowatt spark transmitter. They
were issued an amateur license by
the department of commerce under
the call letters 5XA. This station was
soon increased to a half kilowatt
transmitter and other pioneer ama­teur
radio stations in the • United
States were in constant communica­tion
with the Auburn station. In 1921
Mr. Miller Reese Hutchinson, an
Auburn alumnus who was at that
time assistant to Thomas A. Edison,
saw the future possibilities of radio
communication and presented the Ala-
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bama Polytechnic Institute with com­plete
equipment to install a kilowatt
spark transmitter and also a fifty
watt radiophone transmitter. At that
time the present system of radiophone
broadcasting for entertainment was
in it's infancy and a great amount of
original research was carried on by
the student operators of 5XA. This
station became famous throughout
the entire country and was known
for its consistency. At this time
the American Radio Relay League, a
body of amateur operators in the
United States interested in the broad­er
field of radio engineering, was
formed whereby radiograms were ac­cepted
and relayed to all points of
the country. Auburn became one of
the foremost stations in this system
and each month many radiograms
were relayed to all parts of the coun­try
for the student body.
In 1925 the call letters of the sta­tion
were changed to 5YB by the De­partment
of Commerce. At this point
amateur radio began to take on a
more international aspect, and with
the development of the present day
high frequency transmitters commun­ication
became possible with other
amateur stations in Europe and South
America. Again the student opera­tors
at Auburn became pioneers in the
development of radio communication
and transmitters were installed at
BYB, first on eighty meters and later
on a wave length of forty meters. All
this work was carried on by use of the
International Telegraph Code and
soon the signals of BYB became known
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
FLORISTS
Student Tour Be
Made South Africa
The National Student Federation of
America, through the International
Confederation of Students, is offering
a unique travel opportunity this sum­mer
to American students. This is a
tour of three and a half months to
South Africa.
The route will be via Europe and
the American party will sail on the
S. S. Homeric July 2, and reurn on
the same boat, arriving in New York
on October 16. They will travel tour­ist
third on the Atlantic passage and
second class on the boat to and from
South Africa. The price of the whole
trip will be approximately $800.
The itinerary in South Africa will
include a stay of one week at Cape
Town and visits to Stellenbosh and
Wellington, Port Elizabeth, Grahams-town,
Bloemfontein, Ladysmith, Drak-ensburg,
Mountains, Durban, Pieter-maritzburg,
Pretoria and Johannes­burg.
A free period of two weeks is
also included. Further particulars may
be obtained from the N. S. F. A. office
at 218 Madison Avenue, New York
City.
The party going to South Africa
will be composed of both men and
women. It will also be an internation­al
one since the American group will
be joined in England by a party from
the International Confederation of
Students. It is hoped that all the prin­cipal
European countries will send
representatives to join the tour.
The members of the tour will be
entertained by members of the four
universities of South Africa, namely:
the University of South Africa, the
University of Stellenbosch, the Uni­versity
of Witwatersrand and the
University of Capetown. Represen­tatives
from these universities have
recently completed a very successful
tour in this country under the aus­pices
of the National Student Federa­tion
of America and the South Afri­can
students are, therefore, very anx­ious
to return some of the hospitality
extended to them by the Americans.
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For your parties and feeds ask your local
deafer to order from us. Our products are
pasteurized, using best ingredients, there­fore
necessarily PURE.
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Local Dealers
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S. L. T00MER
German Liner Is
Destroyed By Fire
The new 46,000 tonnage North Ger­man
Lloyd liner "Europe," one of the
two sister ships by which German
merchants hoped to win the blue rib­bon
of the Atlantic, was partly des­troyed
by Are in the harbor of Ham­burg,
the loss amounting to $3,000,000.
The insurance on this vessel is covered
by English and American companies
as well as German.
all over the world.
Alabama was assigned to the fourth
inspection district in 1927 by a fur­ther
order of the Department of Com­merce
and the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute was then assigned the call
letters W4AQ, the present call letters
under which the station is operating.
The present transmitter uses a 250
watt transmitting tube in a self ex­cited
Hartley circuit. A two thous­and
volt motor generator is used to
supply the voltages for the tube.
During the last two years communi­cation
has been carried on with other
amateur stations in Canada, Mexico,
Porto Rico, Honduras, Cost Rica,
Panama, Canal Zone, Salvador, Nica-rauga,
Cuba, Dominican Republic,
Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil,
Chile, Argentina, South Georgia Is­land,
Sweden, England, Irish Free
State, Egypt, Liberia, Rhodesia, Un­ion
of South Africa, Japan, Honolulu,
New Zealand, Australia and Tasman­ia.
A few of the high points of com­munication
during these two years
were the handling of radiograms with
various Florida amateurs during the
storm of 1926, two way contact with
the Marines in Managua Nicarauga,
direct communication with all six con­tinents
in one week, and very recent­ly
a conversation with the base sta­tion
of the Byrd Expedition in the
Antarctic. On March 10th the City of
New York, one of the Byrd Expedi­tion
ships, was worked while two days
off the coast of New Zealand.
To insure better operation of the
station, the present operators have
formed a club for this purpose. The
membership of the club is composed
of the operators and those desirous of
becoming operators. The operating
staff is composed of the following
students: Woodrow Darling, chief en­gineer,
Natchez, Miss., H. C. McPher-son,
Oneonta, Ala., G. V. Waldo,
Washington, D. C, G. W. Fahrubel
Birmingham, E. F. Herzog, Jr., Bir­mingham,
W. M. Garrard, Birming­ham,
B. S. Burton, Gainesville, Fla.,
E. W. Bewig, Sehna, Ala., and L. B.
Hallman, Jr., Dothan, Ala., who is
president of the club.
Polo Goes Democratic
Says Albion Sawyer In
M a y College Humor
For the first time since Oriental
potentates pursued a wooden ball
about the plains of the East centuries
ago, polo has been brought within the
range, of the man of moderate means,
writes Albion Topcliffe Sawyer in
the May College Humor. It is no
longer a pastime for the rich alone,
but has gone democratic. For this
happy state of affairs, thanks are
due to the colleges and to the United
States Government.
Polo has been played at a few
American colleges and universities for
ten years or more, but the game owes
its recent rapid growth to the estab­lishment
of the 'Reserve Officers
Training Corps units which are
maintained at schools all over the
country. The War Department fur­nishes
to each unit an average of
twenty or thirty riding horses, in­cluding
horse equipment, and be'cause
of this fact it was possible for the
regular army officers sent as instruc­tors
to these units after the war to
start polo as a means of interesting
undergraduates in military work and
especially in riding.
Any sport that is worth while in the
long run will live and find mean's to
perpetuate itself and grow. Francis
S. O'Reilly, assistant secretary and
treasurer of the Intercollegiate Polo
Association, says, "I have always felt
that with the increasing wealth of
the country and with a lapse of time
polo in the colleges would come to be
a very prominent sport. My imagin­ation
leads me to think that it might
easily run football a close race. Cer­tainly
there is far more for eighty
thousand people to see in a polo game
than there is in many games of foot­ball."
Whether Mr. O'Reilly is correct in
his surmise remains for the future
to prove. Football is a game of mass
and people attend in huge nuhbers,
hoping to see a great run, a brilliant
touchdown made against overwhel­ming
odds—the same spark that at-tracks
huge numbers to a prize fight
with the hope to witness a clean
knockout. Out of the mass in which
football teams are organized there
occasionally emerges the high light of
an individual play when one man gets
the ball and runs like mad. Polo is a
game of high lights, of flashing runs
to this point to "take out" an oppos­ing
player, to that point to beat an
opponent to the ball. It makes no use
of mass. It is more like hockey than
any other game, but even hockey has
at times recourse to mass when two
or more players on a side close in to
stop or turn a man. Polo is a game
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Sponsors Tour
Combining the advantages of a
summer's travel abroad with a period
of practical study, the summer labor
management tour to leading Euro­pean
industrial centers which the
University of North Carolina announ­ced
several weeks ago has been at­tracting
considerable interest.
Numerous inquiries and enthusias­tic
comments, both in the North and
in the South, would seem to indicate
that a large group will be enrolled
in the two courses offered. A number
of registrations have already come
in.
The tour will be a cooperative en­terprise
of the Extension divisions of
the University of North Carolina and
Rutgers University.
Two college credit courses will be
offered. Prof. G. T. Schwenning, of
the U. of N. C. will give the course in
Labor Management and Prof. G. W.
Kelsey, of Rutgers, will teach Indus­trial
Administration.
An attractive itinerary has been
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of intuition in which each individual
must outguess his opponent, must pre­vent
him from doing what he was
going to do even before he knew he
was going to do it, and then must
change like lightning from being a
defense player into a slashing aggres­sive
forward, or vice versa.
planned, beginning July 3 and 'end­ing
August 23. Students will visit
industrial centers in England, Hol­land,
Germany, Switzerland and
France, with a visit to the Inter­national
Labor Organization and the
League of Nations at Geneva as a
special feature.
Tiade with the advertisers.
Whither away,
Sir Knight 9
There's a knightly warrior, immortalized by
Mr. Stephen Leacock, who under the stress of
intense excitement "mounted his horse and rode
away in all directions." Whether he ever ar­rived
is not recorded.
To us, this giddy hero is a perfect example
of how not to make cigarettes. We hold that a
cigarette is a smoke, and a good smoke is a bless­ing,
so to that end alone have Chesterfields
been ripened, blended and manufactured.
Mild as they are, not a jot of the true, rich
tobacco flavor has been lost. When the best
tobaccos on the market are bought you can
be certain they'll deliver the taste. Chesterfields
are as natural as a field of sweet clover;
and they satisfy the taste superlatively well,
always!
Once a man has checked up on the above
pleasant news, there'll be no "riding away in
all directions" for him!
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1829.
A.L.T. CONVENTION
A H U G E SUCCESS
Delegates of Ten Chapters Repres­ented
In Convention
Several members of the Alpha
Lambda Tau fraternity, Beta Chap­ter,
which was established in Auburn
in 1922, besides four special delegates
attended the eighth annual conven­tion
of the Alpha Lambda Tau fra­ternity,
held in Birmingham, April
4, 5, and 6. The delegates from here
were: W. B. Jackson, president of
the Auburn chapter, J. K. Smith,
treasurer, J. B. Kincaid and Max Wil­liams.
The Eta chapter of the A.L.T. at
Howard College and the Birmingham
Alumni Chapter were hosts to the
delegates of the ten- chapters rep­resented
in the convention. The hosts
furnished entertainment for the dele­gates
Thursday night and gave a
formal dance at the Hollywood Club
Friday afternoon. Saturday morn­ing
the delegates were conducted on
a sightseeing tour over the city. The
steel mills of the T.C.I, were one of
the places shown the students, besides
other spots of interest about the city.
Saturday evening a banquet was held,
followed by a dance. All events were
said to be huge successes.
Three Alumni of the Auburn
chapter of the A.L.T. were elected
officers of the Grand Council, they
were: H. B. Brownell, Grand Master
of Exchequer, W. L. Aandolph,
Grand Warden, and W. B. Jackson,
Grand Sentinel.
F. M. Sparks Invents
New Transformer
A transformer, involving a new
idea of construction and principal
for giving closer ratios of the winding
of the primary and secondary coils,
has been invented by Frank M.
Sparks who graduated from here in
'26 and is now at the University of
Illinois doing graduate work. Sparks
is from Cullman, Alabama, #nd after
graduating from Auburn received a
fellowship in the physics department
of the University of California. He
later changed to the University of Il­linois
where he is now doing work
leading up to a Ph. D. in Physics
next year.
Kiwanians Addressed
By President Knapp
Addressing the Kiwanis club of Au­burn
at their meeting Monday, Dr.
Bradford Knapp, declared that the
biggest need of the town of Auburn is
a modern school building for children
of public school and high school ages.
He said that a $100,000" building is
needed and he pledged his hearty co­operation
in erecting it.
A building of this type is being "con­sidered
by the town council and by
the Lee County Board of Education
in cooperation with Dr. Knapp. The
tentative plan is to combine, the pub­lic
school and high school into one
building and erect it at a central
point.
The proposal that a new hotel be
erected in Auburn received his hearty
endorsement. He said that it should
be erected with a view to accommo­dating
a much larger town than the
Auburn of the present.
Dr. Knapp said that an airport for
Auburn is still being considered and
expressed himself as being in favor
of locating it between Auburn and
Opelika.
Prof. J. A. Parish, principal of the
Lee County high school, gave a few
historical facts about Auburn. He
said the town was founded in 1836,
but that its bigest growth has been
made in recent years.
W. D. Copeland, mayor of Auburn,
announced that the town council is
considering ways and means for reg­ulating
automobile traffic in Auburn.
He, too, emphasized the great need
for a modern school building for stu­dents
below college grades.
Professor J. C. Grimes, president
of the club, presided. Announcement
was made that the club will have a
chicken barbecue for the meeting
next week. It will take place in the
evening and ladies will be invited.
SENIORS ATTEND
INSPECTION TRIP
Ag Club To Broadcast
Program On April 18
To make known what they are do­ing,
members of the Ag Club at Au­burn
will take to the air on April 18.
From 12 to 12:30 that day a program
will be given by this club under the
direction of T. H. LeCroy, president.
Preserve your snap shots in a kodak album
so that you can enjoy them through the
years. We have some attractively bound
albums at bargain prices.
Burton's Bookstore
Fifty-one years old and still growing.
(Continued from page 1)
10 chemical engineers, and 8 business
administration students. The profes­sors
accompanying the party were:
Professor John Callan, civil; Profes­sor
A. L. Thomas, mechanical; Pro­fessor
C. A. Basore, chemical; Dean
J. W. Scott, business administration;
and Professor W. W. Hill, electrical,
and chairman of the inspection trip.
Part of the program consisted in
visiting and inspecting the following
places: Monday: Inspection of the
Ensley Steel works by the whole stu­dent
body.
Tuesday: Inspection of the Ameri­can
Steel and Wire Co., at Fairfield.
Guides were furnished for the walk
through the sheet mills and. the steam
plant. A delightful dinner was given
in the evening at the Axis Club, by
some of the alumni in Birmingham.
Wednesday: The By-Products Plant
was visited, which supplies coke from
9,000 tons of coal per day. There are
500 ovens, 300 of which are very mod­ern.
They are working at reclaiming
benzols, ammonium sulphate, and tar.
Inspection of the Alpha Cement Co.
at Phoenixville.
Inspection of the Virginia-Bridge
Iron Works, which manufactures
5500 tons of fabricated steel a month.
Thursday: The American Cast Iron
Pipe plant was visited, and luncheon
was served after inspection. The
Dickey Clay Pipe Co. was inspected
during the afternoon. .
Friday: The DeBardeleben Coal Co.
was visited, Mr. H. T. DeBardeleben
supplied cars for 55 men to go to the
Empire Coal Co. mines, 45 miles dis­tant.
The party was in direct charge
of Milton H. Fies, Vice-President and
Supt. of Operations. The men were
supplied with new overall suits, caps
and miners lanterns and were con­ducted
into the mines for about three
and one-half miles, to inspect the elec­tric
undercutting machinery; 1600
tons of coal are turned out every day.
During the luncheon that was served,
talks were made by Mr. Fies, and Mr.
Bill Lacey, of Auburn, class of 1904.
In the afternoon, the Birmingham
Water Works were visited, and the fil­ter
plant, and the pumping station
inspected.
The Alabama Power Co., Tennessee
Coal and Iron Co., Birmingham Elec­tric
Co., Matthews Electric Supply
Co., Moore-Handley Hardware Co.,
American Cast Iron and Pipe Co.,
Bell Telephone Co., Stockham Pipe
Co., Birmingham Cold Storage Co.,
and the Ingalls Iron Co. were all vis­ited
and inspected by parties who
were divided into the various branches
of engineering in which they are in­terested.
The weather was ideal throughout
the inspection trip.
AUBURN COPS SECOND
GAME FROM JACKETS
If you're determined to be good-natured
you must expect to be im­posed
upon.
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(Continued from page 4)
1000 per cent. He went to the bat
once, and registered a hit that time.
Joe Burt's home run was probably
the longest hit that has been regis­tered
in the "Village of the Plains"
in a year or so.
Box score:
GA. TECH. AB R H PO A
Smith, ss 5 2 1 3 2
Terrell, 2b 5 1 1 1 3
Mizell, lb 5 2 3 12 1
Parham, cf 3 2 2 2 0
Frink, 3b 5 0 1 1 3
Huchinson, rf 5 2 2 0 0
Dunlap, If 4 2 1 2 0
Herron, C 1 1 1 11
Stevens, c 4 0 0 2 0
Quinn, p 4 0 0 0 0
HALF-HOLIDAY MARKS
SECOND ENGINEERS' DAY
Total
AUBURN
Pate", ss
Cui'rie, 3b
Crawford, cf
Newton, If
Smith, lb
Burt, rf
Potter, 2b
Booth, c
Inram, c
Lee, p
Harkins, p
41
AB
5
5
3
5
5
4
4
1
3
1
2
11
R
3
2
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
0
13
H
1
3
3
1
3
1
1
0
3
0
0
23
PO
3
1
0
5
9
0
4
2
3
0
0
10
A
6
2
0
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
1
Total 41 16 16 27 13
Score by innings:
GA. TECH 022 020 023—11
AUBURN 171 033 lOx—16
Summary: Errors: Smith, Mizell,
Frink, Herron, Quinn, Pate, Craw­ford,
Burt, Potter (2); Two base hits:
Currie (2), Smith, Crawford, Mizell;
Home Runs: Parham, Burt, Hutchin­son;
Sacrifice hits: Pate, Potter, Lee,
Harkins, Dunlap; Stolen bases: Pate,
Currie; left on bases: Auburn 8, Ga.
Tech 7; Struck out: by Lee 2, by
Quinn 3, by Harkins 3; Base on balls:
off Lee 1, off Harkins 1, off Quinn
2. Hit by pitcher: by Quinn (Pot­ter)
; Wild pitch, Quinn; Passed balls:
Herron, Stevens, Ingram. Eight hits
and 6 runs of Lee in 4 and 2-3 in­nings.
Winning pitcher, Lee. Um­pires:
Hovater (plate) and Seay
(bases). Time of game: 2:13.
SPRING TRAINING COMES
TO CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY
ONE SOUL WITH BUT
A SINGLE THOUGHT-TO
PAUSE AND
REFRESH HIMSELF
AND NOT EVEN A
GLANCE FROM
THE JTAG LINE
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M I L L I ON
A DAY J
Enough's enough and toe
~* much is not necessary. Work
hard enough at anything and
you've got to stop. That's where
Coca-Cola comes in. Happily,
there's always a cool and cheerful
place around the corner from any­where.
And an ice-cold Coca-
Cola, with that delicious taste
and cool aiter-sense of refresh­ment,
leaves no argument about
when, where — and how —to
pause and refresh yourself.
The Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta. Ga.
YOU CAN'T BEAT THE
PAUSE THAT REFRESHES
I T H A D T O B E G O O D T O G E T W H E R E I T I S
(Continued from page 4)
has been checked considerably by the
bad weather that prevailed in the
"Plains", as well as in other parts of
Alabama, and he has been unable to
get as much work done as he had
planned to do. However, he has made
a great deal of progress in getting the
first year lads use to their varsity
unforms sp as they will be "ready and
rarin" to go when the first call for
grid aspirants is made next fall. Two
of the best "Rat" bets for a backfield
berth next year who have been hust­ling
in Spring Training this year are
Liney Hatfield and Lou Young. Both
these Tigers were stars on the Rat
team this year and are expected to
do a bit of shining on the big team
next year. "Frock" Pate is another
back who starred on the rat team this
year, but was unable to attend the
Spring Training on account of base­ball.
"Frock" entered Auburn at
mid-term last year and played on the
Rat championship team. Then this
year he was eligible tor the big team.
Re has been performing regularly at
the short stop position all season.
Many other rats have starred in
this early season preparation and
are going to add a great deal of
strength to the varsity eleven next
year.
(Continued from page 1J
Smith Hall at 7:30 P. M. Tickets for
the dance, which is to be held at the
Alumni Gym from nine to one, are to
be sold at the dance for one dollar.
Max Jones' Orchestra is to furnish the
music for the occasion, and over one-hundred
girls are expected to be pres­ent.
The pledges of the honoroary
engineering fraternities are in charge
of the decorations. There are to be
two leadouts for the members of Eta
Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.
The speakers for the banquet, who
were invited to attend by Dr. Knapp,
are the Hon. C. A. Moffet and Charles
S. DeBardeleben. Mr. Moffett is pres­ident
of the state board of adminis­tration
in Montgomery and resigned
the presidency of the Gulf States Steel
Company to accept his present posi­tion.
He has been a mining and me­chanical
engineer. Mr. DeBardeleben
is an alumnus of Auburn, and head
of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Com­pany
of Birmingham. Since gradu­ating
from A. P. I. he has been an
enthusiastic worker for the college,
being state chairman of the Auburn
drive in 1921-21, which resulted in
the building of Ramsay Hall, Alumni
Hall, and the shops and laboratories.
Another event of the program of
the banquet will be the awarding of
the Wm. L. White Cup for excellency
in engineering by its donor, Mr. White
of Birmingham.
INAUGURATION OF PRES.
KNAPP WILL BE MAY 20
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master of ceremonies. The banquet
will be held in the gymnasium. Gen­eral
Noble will preside at the alumni
meeting.
The formal inauguration for Dr.
Knapp was considered for an earlier
date but it was decided to schedule
it during the commencement period,
thereby making the 1929 commence­ment
a unique affair. The commence
ment exercises are to begin May 19.
Thus Dr. Knapp will be inaugurated
in the midst of the exercises. The
day following his inauguration, Dr.
Knapp will confer degrees upon the
members of the graduating class.
bringing the exercises to a close.
PLAINSMEN COP SECOND
B'HAM.-SOUTHERN GAME 16-8
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ton. Three base hits, Ingram, Tux-worth
and Crawford. Home runs,
McCollough, Howard, Smith and Lott.
Stolen bases, Pate, 2; ."Crawford,
Smith, Burt, Harrison. Sacrifice hits,
Currie and Ingram; ' Newton; H.
Smith, Tuxworth. . Double plays.
Harrison to Smith; Pate to Harrison,
to Smith. Hit by pitcher, (Pate).
Earned runs, Auburn 11; Birming­ham-
Southern 5. Left on bases, Au­burn
3; Birmingham-Southern 4. In­nings
pitched by McGhee 4 with 3
hits and 1 unearned run. Strike outs,
McGhee 2; McCollough 2, and Car­ter,
2.
Umpires: Hovater and Bridges.
Time of game: 2:15.
BHAM.-SOUTHERN WINS
FROM TENNIS TEAM
SWIMMING POOL OPENS
The swimming pool in the gym is
open from four to four-thirty o'clock
in the evenings, except on Monday
evening when it is open from three
to four-thirty o'clock. The swimming
pool is used by the P. T. classes from
two to four every afternoon. Frank
DuBose is in charge of the pool.
The swimming pool in the boy's
dormitory- is open only to the students
who room in the dormitory.
For Cats and Wonaii
Prevent infection! Treat
every cut, wound or
scratch with this power­ful
non-poisonous anti­septic.
Zonite actually
kills germs. Helps to
heal, too.
(Continued from page 4)
6-4. The doubles match between
Beiman-Miller and Halse-Jackson was
the most hotly contested of the after­noon.
This match lasted more than
two hours. The first set went to
Halse and Jackson when they broke
through Beiman's service in the
eighteenth game. The second set
was also a deuce set, Southern win­ning
6-4. In the third set Southern
tok the lead 3-0 then after losing
three games won 6-3.
Southern uncovered a fine man in
Beiman. Although he is number three
on the team his form is such that his
development is certain. He is only
a sophomore and has shown signs of
becoming a first class player.
The match with Southern was play­ed
on the Highland Park courts.
Southern comes to Auburn Saturday
for a return match.
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INDUSTRIAL ART COURSES
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(Continued from page 1)
tern making, home mechanics, gen­eral
shop, shop management, cement
practice, auto mechanics, methods of
teaching industrial arts, millwork,
carpentry, wood working, sheet metal
working, cabinet making, foundry
and' heat treatment of metals.
Some of these subjects are already
available and eight students are at
present enrolled • in the various
branches.
NOTICE
Dr. Boyd wishes to express his ap­preciation
to the many people who
showered him with sympathy and
kindness his recent suffering.
/* is my wish to speak through
your column my sincere appreciation
and thanks to all.
Yours very truly,
CLARY L. BOYD.
Conquering the Cascades
SNOW falls every month in the
year where the Great Northern
crosses the Cascades. Steep, tortuous
grades increase the difficulty of the
railroading problem. Nature has stub­bornly
resisted man's effort to conquer
the range.
In January, 1929, the new Cascade
tunnel was opened. Man, with elec­tricity
as an ally, had con­quered
the Cascades.
The eight-mile bore was
driven in three years—a
record impossible without electric
power. And electrification has been
extended to the entire 75-mile route
through the mountains.
The conquests of electricity on the
land and on the sea, in the air, and
underground, are making practicable
the impossibilities of yesterday. As
our vision encompasses wider hori­zons,
electricity appears as
a vital contribution to future
industrial progress and human
welfare.
9MSZDH GENERAL ELECTRIC G E N E R A L E L E C T R I C C O M P A NY C H E N E C T A DY N E W YORK