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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930 NUMBER 33
Blue Key Society
Is To Recognize
Outstanding Man
Committee Appointed to Select
Winner of Award
Six R.O.T.C. Graduates To Receive
Special Training in Sound Ranging
LEADERSHIP STRESSED
Each Student Organization to
Nominate Two Men
The Blue Key Honor £pciety has
decided to award a Blue Key trophy
to the student who has given the
most conspicuous service to Auburn
during the present year. A commit­tee
of the faculty, of whom President
Knapp has been designated as chair­man,
has been selected by the Blue
Key Honor Society to undertake to
make this selection.
The basis of selection will be
oh the following points:
1. Moral and Spiritual life. He
must be of high moral character
and unimpeachable honor exem­plified
in everyday action.
2. Scholarship. He should be
among the upper two-fifths of
his class in grades.
3. Leadership. The student
must be a recognized leader in
student life and his leadership
must have been of such high
character as to exemplify the
qualifications set forth in these
rules.
4. Democracy. He mutt be
democratic in spirit—compan­ionable,
approachable, a good
mixer in the best sense of that
expression.
5. Loyalty. He must be loyal
and patriotic to the school, the
state and the government.
6. Cooperation. He must be a
good cooperator with the faculty
and student .body in all things
which are for the betterment of
Auburn and its student life.
Under no conditions will any
student be considered for this
honor who has practiced undue
influence to obtain nomination
or who shall exercise personally
or have others to politic for him
in accomplishing these ends.
The Blue Key organization is es­pecially
anxious to recognize a man
of leadership.
As the first step in attempting to
select such student the committee de­sires
that each organization in the
student body nominate two students
—one a member of the organization
and the other a non-member, each of
whom they believe comes most near­ly
up to the standard set. A special
circular letter will be sent to all or­ganizations
covering this matter and
a form will be contained thereon on
which nominations are to be returned.
These nominations are not to be re­garded
as final but as indicative of
student opinion. The faculty com­mittee
will call many students into
consultation and endeavor to finally
reach a determination. The nomina­tions
are to be returned by Monday,
February 10, noon, to the president's
office. These nominations should
not be published or given out by any
organization nor will they be given
to the Plainsman or other publication
until after the determination has been
made. The committee is endeavoring
to treat these nominations as strictly
confidential for the present.
'Auburn' Is New Name
Given Prexy By Voters
Dr. Bradford Knapp, president of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
has a new name. It is "Auburn"
Knapp. He was addressed this way
in a letter sent to him from New York
by the National League of Women
Voters. And Dr. Knapp admits that
he likes the name.
NOTICE
All campus organizations must pay
their dues to the treasurer of the
Executive Cabinet by February 1,
according to Article II of the Regu­lations
of Permanent Committees of
the Executive Cabinet.
Major Kennedy has received in­structions
from the Chief of Field
Artillery to submit the names of six
prospective R. 0. T. C. graduates
from Auburn with a view to their re­ceiving
special training in Sound
ranging during the coming semester.
From the names submitted by the
Professor of Military Science and
Tactics of the various chemical edu­cational
institutions maintai n i n g
Field Artillery R. 0. T. C. units, a
number of specially qualified reserve
officers will be selected and ordered
to Fort Bragg, N. C, where they will
pursue a course of study and train­ing
in a well-equipped sound-ranging
section of the regular army.
The men selected will be placed on
an active duty statue with full pay of
their grade for the duration of the
training. This work is very inter­esting
for a man with the necessary
fundamental training. Candidates
must have had considerable mathe­matics
and electi'icity and some train­ing
in sound.
The names of the Auburn men sub­mitted
by Major Kennedy for this
duty are: C. F. Morris, J. E. Taylor,
C. F. Brittain, J. R. Reed, O. F.
Smith, and T. C. Barrineau.
Sheridan Is Made
Baseball Mentor
Was All-Southern P i t c h er
While At Auburn
By Elmer G. Salter
Fred Leslie "Dogface" Sheridan,
former star Auburn baseball player,
has been appointed by President
Bradford Knapp as coach for the
1930 Orange and Blue baseball team.
Sheridan will begin immediately mak­ing
plans for his first team at the
Cornerstone. Practice will begin as
soon as the weather permits.
Sheridan was selected on the my­thical
all-Southern team as pitcher
while performing on the mound for
the Plainsmen. He has played under
practically every baseball coach that
Auburn has had, serving under such
well-known tutors as Mike Donahue,
Ned Cole, Dave Morey and perform­ed
with Slick Mouluton, pilot of the
1928 championship team.
Upon graduating from Auburn,
Sheridan signed with the Birming­ham
Barons in the Southern League.
He was farmed out to the Southeast­ern
League, later being recalled and
sold to the Washington Senators. The
Senators sent him to Newark, where
he served under Walter Johnson until
his health forced him to retire from
baseball.
The new Tiger baseball coach was
one of the four to receive the degree
of Master of Science at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute's first mid-term
commencement, Thursday, January
23.
Winner Poetry Award
Broadcast From Here
Ernest Hartsock is a Headline At­traction;
Profs. Shuford and Cole
to Broadcast Friday
DUNSTAN DESIGNS
SHOCK ABSORBERS
Patent Issued to Elec Professor
For Hydraulic Absorbers
Ernest Hartsock of Atlanta, 1929
winner of the Poetry Society of
American award, will be a headline
attraction in the Auburn Hour broad­cast
over station WAPI Friday, Feb.
7, from 7 until 8 o'clock p. m. Mr.
Hartsock will lecture and read "The
Strange Splendor," which the Poetry
Society in November announced as
its winning poem for 1929.
On Friday, Jan. 31, at the same
hour, Cone Shuford, instructor in
journalism, will devote his periods
for reading of modern poetry to Mr.
Hartsock's work. On that date a
resume of Ernest Hartsock's devel­opment
will be given by Prof. P. B.
Cole, department of English.
Mr. Hartsock's broadcast has been
arranged in conjunction with his lec­tures
on poetry to students and facul
ty of the Alabama Polytechnic In
stitute Feb. 6-7. His university lee
ture Friday evening, Feb. 7, is being
sponsored by the Auburn Woman's
club and by the Auburn branch of
the Society of University Women.
The lecture will be followed by an
informal reception in Smith Hall in
honor of the speaker. Mr. Hartsock
lectures at the Columbus, Ga., Wom­an's
club Feb. 3.
Ernest Hartsock is the editor of
Bozart ^ n d Contemporary Verse
which published its first issue Jan.
1, 1930. This magazine is the suc­cessor
of Contemporary Verse, Japm,
the Poetry Weekly, and Bozart, the
last of which was founded by Mr.
Hartsock and edited by him for the
past two years. Bozart and Contemp­orary
Verse is the second largest
poetry magazine in America.
A patent, covering two designs of
hydraulic shock absorbers for auto­mobiles,
has been issued to Prof. A.
St. C. Dunstan, head of the depart­ment
of electrical engineering, by the
United States Patent Office, Wash­ington.
The new absorbers act on
the same basic principle, but are dif­ferent
in detail of design, as one of
them is horizontal and the other ver­tical.
Bringing into play several new
ideas, the designs promise consider­able
advantages to motorists. Dis­tinctive
features of the new absorbers
are unfolded by Professor Dunstan.
For small deflections of the auto­mobile
springs such as are produced
by the ripples and small irregulari­ties
of concrete paved city streets,
he explained, the absorbers have no
action whatever on the spring of the
auto but allow them freely to take up
all vibrations. If, however, the irreg­ularities
of the road surface are
great, thus causing greater bending
of the springs, the shock absorbers
come into play to restrain the spring
motion.
One disadvantage of most types of
hydraulic shock absorbers is due to
the foaming of the oil. This new de­sign
is intended to minimize this
trouble. In it the down stroke of
one plunger pumps oil into, the other
plunger so that when the second
plunger makes its down stroke, it has
already been filled with solid oil by
the action of the first plunger and
this supply of solid oil is taken from
so far beneath the foaming surface
that there is no chance of the plung­ers
being filled with a mixture of
foam and oil. This pumping of oil
from one plunger through the other
is one of the distinctive features of
this new design and is one of the
claims allowed in the patent.
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ilitary Ball To
Take Place Here
On February 28
Committees to Formulate Plans
For Ball Are Appointed
Civil Department To Be Featured In
Next Issue Of The Auburn Engineer
AN ANNUAL AFFAIR
Only Seniors In R. O. T. C. Unit
And Invited Guest to Attend
That the annual Military Ball of
the R. O. T. C. department will oc­cur
on February 28 this year was
announced today by the military de­partment.
The affair usually takes
place on a date nearer to February
22, George Washington's birthday,
the later date was decided upon, and
was approved by President Knapp
yesterday.
The committees to work out plans
for the ball have been appointed;
the following are the chairmen: Exe­cutive,
V. L. Taylor and W. W. Bry­ant;
Invitation and Reception, Henry
Reeves; Finance, L. L. Sledge; Pub­licity,
W. B. Jones; Music, Hayley
Milligan; and refreshments, F. E.
Copeland.
The invitation committee is to ar­range
a system for mailing bids to
young ladies; information relative to
turning in of bids will be published
at an early date.
The civil issue of the "Auburn En­gineer,"
published under the editor­ship
of D. C. Summerford and F. J.
Bryant, will be off the press Wednes­day
with several articles written by
the faculty and students of the de­partment
of civil engineering. The
"Engineer" is following a plan this
year of allowing each engineering de­partment
to have one issue devoted
entirely to that school, and this issue
was turned entirely over to the
"civils."
"Speedy Transportation Demands
Good Roads" by C. A. Baughman,
head of the department of highway
engineering, and H. N. Coleman, re­search
fellow in highway engineering
is an article discussing the progress
and necessity of good roads. "New
Culverts Are A Boon to Road Con­tractors"
is an article by V. L. Tay­lor,
c.e. '30. "Stone Mountain to Be
A Gigantic Memorial" by J. L. Filson
c.e. '30, and "Triangulating For the
Claiborne Bridge Across The Ala­bama
River" by A. H. Johnson c.e.
'30 also appear.
John A. C. Callan, head of the de­partment
of civil engineering de­scribes
the work now under way in
(Continued on page 4)
CHAIN STORES ARE
DISCUSSED BY LIONS
Different Opinion Expressed By
Members At Meeting
Tuesday
Contract Is Awarded
For Senior Invitations
Bid Of Chas. H. Elliot Com­pany
Accepted by Cabinet
The awarding of the contract for
the senior invitations to the Charles
H. Elliot Company, of Philadelphia,
was announced yesterday by the Exe­cutive
Cabinet. The contract was
awarded on a competitive basis, and
the Elliot Company was the lowest
of three bidders. For nine years the
contract has been awarded to this
company.
The prices will be twenty-five
cents for paper invitations and forty
cents for invitations made of leather.
Bids were also submitted by the
E. A. Wright Company, of Philadel;
phia, and the L. G. Balfour Company,
of Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Senior Engineers Are
Interviewed Monday
Representatives of Bell System Inter­view
Prospective Graduates
Over sixty seniors in engineering
were interviewed by representatives
of the Bell Telephone System on Mon­day;
it is understood that positions
will be offered to about twenty sen­iors
by the telephone interests.
In the morning, talks were made by
the visitors, who described the va­rious
fields of activity occupied by
their companies. The remainder of
the day was spent in interviewing
students.
The following representatives in­terviewed
the prospective engineer­ing
graduates: CoL Kendall Weisig-er
and G. N. Worthington, of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company,
of Atlanta; C. N. Thibeaut, trans­mission
engineer of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
of Atlanta; and Mr. Johnson, re­search
engineer of the Telephone Lab­oratories,
of New York. Thibeaut
and Worthington are Auburn grad­uates.
These gentlemen expressed them­selves
as being well pleased by the
students they met, and were favor­ably
impressed in every way. They
attended the Kiwanis club meeting
Monday at noon.
Auburn Grads Are
Bank Executives
All Lee County Banks Are Presided
Over by Alumni
That men who were trained at Au­burn
make good as bankers as well as
in other lines of business is revealed
by the fact that an Auburn alumnus
is now at the head of each of the six
banks of Lee county.
There are three banks in the city
of Opelika. Forney Renfro, '05, is
president of the First National; John
V. Denson, '04, is president of Farm­ers
National; and Cliff Stewart, '98,
is president of the Opelika National.
In Auburn there are two banks. S. L.
Toomer, '92;, is president of the
Bank of Auburn, and Felton Little,
'06, is president of the First National
Bank. C. L. Mullin, '05, is president
of the Bank of Phoenix City, which is
the only other bank in Lee county.
Chain store merchandising was the
principal topic of discussion at the
regular weekly meeting of the- local
Lions Club held Tuesday at noon in
the Thomas Hotel.
Opinions of some of the Lions as
expressed at the meeting were that
the Lions International does not ad­vocate
a policy of discrimination
against chain stores, but merely en­deavors
to bring the facts about pres­ent
conditions in retailing before the
members so that a better understand­ing
of how the proposition should be
faced may be ascertained. The opin­ion
that the only object in encourag­ing
purchasing from local stores is
to keep the profits of local merchan­dising
in the local communities was
given by some of the Lions. Other
members believed that a great deal of
good resulted from chain store mer­chandising.
The discussion was .concluded by
statements from some of the Lions
that both local merchants and chain
stores should buy produce for local
retailing from local farmers and
manufacturers.
The local club attendance was
shown to be high as compared with
attendances of other Lions clubs in
this- district, according to a report on
such matters. Lions are urged to
aid in raising the record of the local
club.
The new officers are as follows:
president, F. M. Orr; first vice-presi­dent,
R. D. Doner; second vice-presi­dent,
F. E. Guyton; third vice-presi­dent,
J. L. Seal; secretary, W. T.
Ingram; Lion Tamer, J. A. Bain; Tail
Twister, J. D. King; and directors,
C. P. Townsley, C. E. Pease and H.
C. Dillion. They will be installed
during th*e first week in February.
Ten Games on 1930
Football Schedule
Seven Conference, Three* S.
A. A. Teams To Be
Played
University Women
Honor Miss Dobbs
Dean of Women Appointed State
Chairman Committee on Inter­national
Relations
By Elmer G. Salter
Auburn's 1930 football schedule
includes seven conference games, and
three against strong S. I. A. A. op­position.
Spring Hill, Wofford, Mis­sissippi
A. & M. and the University
of South Carolina are new opponents
appearing on the schedule. The Uni­versity
of Tennessee, Clemson and
Howard are teams played last season
which are not included in the 1930
schedule. It is the first time since
1922 that the Plainsmen have under­taken
an attractive ten game sched­ule.
The 1930 campaign opens again
with Birmingham-Southern in Mont­gomery.
This game has been played
during the past two .years under the
giant arc lights. The date has not
been definitely set, but will be Fri­day
night, September 26 or Saturday
afternoon, September 27.
The scene of the annual Auburn-
Georgia game has been changed back
to. Columbus. Two games will be
played in Memorial Stadium as the
Plainsmen also meet the South Caro­lina
Gamecocks on Thanksgiving in
Columbus.
Georgia Tech will be met on Oct.
18, instead of Thanksgiving as in the
past 14 years.
The schedule follows:
September 26 or 27—Birmingham-
Southern at Montgomery.
October 4.—Spring Hill at Auburn.
, October 11—University of Florida
at Jacksonville.
October 18—Georgia Tech at At­lanta.
October 25—University of Georgia
at Columbus.
Nov. 1.—Wofford at Auburn.
Nov. 8.—Tulane at New Orleans.
Nov. 15—Mississippi A. & M. at
Birmingham.
Nov. 22—Vanderbilt at Nashville.
Nov. 27—South Carolina at Colum­bus
(Thanksgiving.)
Alabama College
Glee Club Not To
Sing Here Friday
Cancellation of Engagement
Announced Today By Glee
Club Officials
CALL RECEIVED BY PHONE
Director Says Concert May Be
Given At Later Date
The cancellation of the engage­ment
of the Alabama College Glee
Club to appear in Auburn was an­nounced
today by Howard Upchurch,
business manager of the Auburn Glee
Club; the concert was scheduled for
Friday night at Langdon Hall.
According to a phone call received
at Auburn today from Colin B. Rich­mond,
director of the Montevallo
musical organization, unforseen ob­stacles
made it impossible for the
Glee Club to come to Auburn on Fri­day.
Mr. Richmond said, however,
that the engagement could be filled
at a later date.
The concert was to have been given
under the auspices of the Auburn
Glee Club. The Montevallo Glee Club
has not appeared at Auburn for sev­eral
years.
Gamma Sigma Delta Be
Installed Miss. A. & M.
Fick and Guyton will Represent Na­tional
Organization
State Laboratory To
Analyze Fertilizers
At a recent meeting of the execu- Chemical Testing to Be Carried On
Membership Drive Is
Started by A. I. E. E.
Prize to Be Given Student Getting
Most New Members
Plans for increasing its member­ship
have been formed by the Au­burn
branch of the A. I. E. E.; the
program will be carried out in the
form of a contest, the winner of
which will receive a prize.
Any member who is successful in
getting the greatest number of new
active members, provided the number
is more than three, will be given the
prize, which will be awarded at a
smoker of the society,
t Meetings of the A. I. E. E. are held
each Thursday evening at seven
o'clock at room 109 Ramsay Hall.
tive committee of the Alabama or­ganization
of the American Associ­ation
of University Women held in
Montgomery, Miss Zoe Dobbs, Dean
of Women, was appointed state chair­man
of the Committee on Interna
tional Relations.
The American Association of Uni­versity
Women is composed of the
women graduates of the colleges and
universities placed upon the accredit­ed
list by this organization. Its stan­dards
of rating are high and rigid,
very similar to those of the American
Association of Colleges and Univer­sities.
It is notable that the two women
selected by Secretary Wilbur to serve
on the committee for the study of
education are from this group. They
are Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president
of Mount Holyoke College and presi­dent
of the National Association, and
Dr. Lois Hayden Meek, formerly edu­cational
secretary of the association
and at present associate director of
the Institute of Child Welfare Re­search,
Teachers College, New York.
The Auburn Branch, under the
presidency of Mrs. D. C. Harkin, has
a membership of thirty.
Here
Thcanalysis of fertilizers produced
by Alabama manufacturers in the
1930 season is being started by the
state chemical laboratory here. The
first samples arrived this week and
Dr. B. B. Ross, state chemist and
dean of chemistry, announced that
chemists in the laboratory will devote
much of their time to fertilizer work
from now until summer.
The samples which are analyzed
here are gathered throughout the
state by representatives of the State
Department of Agriculture and In­dustries
at Montgomery. They are
analyzed to determine whether or not
they are as claimed by the manufac­turers.
The work is done under the
State fertilizer law.
Last year the State Department of
Agriculture and Industries gathered
and sent to Auburn 1800 samples of
fertilizer. Reports of their analyses
reveal that only ten of the 1800 fell
below the guarantee. These were
only slightly out of line. On the
other hand the records show that the
average analyses of all brands sold
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To install a chapter of Gamma
Sigma Delta, Professors George L.
Fick and Fay E. Guyton will leave
Auburn Friday for Mississippi A. and
M. College at Starkville, Miss.
The installation ceremonies will
take place Friday night. Guyton
and Fick will represent the national
organization. Fick is president and
Guyton secretary of the Gamma Sig­ma
Delta chapter at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. They are both
professors in the college of agricul­ture.
Gamma Sigma Delta is a national
honor society for agricultural stu­dents
and faculty members.
Postoffice Receipts
Set New Record In '29
Mark Much Higher Than Previous
Record
Receipts of the Auburn postoffice
set a high record in 1929 when busi­ness
totaled $27,180, according to
L. A. Knapp, postmaster. The 1928
business was $23,000, it being larger
than any previous year. •
In reporting the business totals
Postmaster Knapp said that the Au­burn
office is in a class with post-offices
in towns having a much larger
population than Auburn. A report
of the same has been sent to Wash­ington
to support Auburn's claim for
a Federal building to house the post-office.
Large Number Students
Register For Semester
Proof that the new buildings and
the added curicula of Auburn are
attracting students is shown in the
number of students registering in
the institution.
.The students that had registered by
noon Tuesday numbered 1564. This
figure is expected to be raised con­siderably
within the next few days.
This record shows an increase of 89
students over last year's figures.
This number is 37 more than the
total registration for the second se­mester
of 1929.
Allen Chosen Leader
Of Chemical Society
The new officers of the Auburn
Chemical Society that were elected
for this semester at the regular meet­ing
of the society Tuesday night are
as follows: President, O. W. Allen,
vice-president, J. F. Turner; secre­tary
and treasurer, John Blette.
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THE PLAINSMAN
feels that much praise is due the Social
Committee in its tireless efforts in making
the dances such a huge success.
—is of the opinion that those forced out of
college this semester are missing an im­portant
era in the life of the institution.
Criticism Must Be
Tabooed From Games
Certain members of the Auburn student
body have the niggardly habit of contin­ually
razing the visiting and home players
at the basketball games. Just why this
should happen is a mystery unless, it is
because of the small-town stuff prevalent
in a group of students this large. The only
thing this ungentlemanly conduct does is
to show an utter lack of appreciation and
consideration of the ball players. They are
not affected by it, for they are big enough
men to overlook it; but it does not help
the conclusions drawn by the other specta­tors
at the games.
The opposing players say nothing about
their reception, but they carry tales, which
are unfortunately true, back home concern­ing
the Auburn student body. Each little
tale sticks a hole in that clean white sheet
we so proudly yet blandly call the Auburn
spirit. At the present rate the sheet will
soon look as though it has been riddled
with a shotgun. We wonder if the thought­less
students intend to keep up this ridicu­lous
practice in the future. It is time to
call a halt—not next week but tonight
when we gather for the game.
Blue Key to Honor
Outstanding Man
With the announcement that the Blue
Key Honor Society is to present a bronze
loving cup at commencement time to the
student who has rendered Auburn the most
conspicious service during the year, the
realization comes that there is a decided
trend on this campus to publically recog­nize,
the general worth and efforts of stu­dent*.
Honors convocation, the loving cup
given to the best reporter on the Plains­man
staff, the saber presented the captain
of the best drilled battery are all evi­dences
of this trend.
The basis upon which the receiver of
this cup is to be chosen and the order of
its component parts are; moral and spirit­ual
life, leadership, scholarship, coopera­tion,
democracy and loyality. Blue Key is
to be congratulated upon the selection of
these standards for not only can they ser­ve
in the judging of the winner of this cup
but they also form a very good basis upon
which one can be judged. It is only a sup­erhuman
who can make a perfect score in a
contest of this sort because of its sweep­ing
scope, yet the very nature of such a
contest under such a set of rules as these
will tend to correct the weak spots in the
contestants.
Still another thing upon which Blue Key
is to be congratulated is its very wise
choice as to the selection of the committee
which is to judge the winner. By naming
no students on this committee this Honor
Society has eliminated almost all chance
of that element which plays too large a
part in the selection of many of the re­ceivers
of honors—politics. In many cases
in addition to having high grades and be­ing
a leader on the campus a man must
have some sort of a pull in order to be the
recipient of any honors at college.
The Plainsman congratulates the Blue
Key Honor Society in its efforts to pro­mote
conspicious service to Auburn and
also in its method of the selection of the
winner.
Students Overlook
Important Phase Here
How many in Auburn have ever attempt­ed
to make a public speech? Very few
have and a goodly percentage of those
failed most dismally. The reason for this
is that the average student is afraid to
face an audience; he often memorizes his
speech and then proceeds to forget it at
a critical time.
We have seen this occur so many times
it is well nigh impossible to laugh at an­other's
misfortune any more, but more a
sense of pity and apprehension comes over
one. This has occurred in the innumerable
meetings one is subjected to in Auburn
and it will continue to take place when
college days constitute but a vague and
distant memory in one's lif«. It will hap­pen
to many when opportunity—the big
chance of a lifetime—comes simply be­cause
they have not the power to command
the attention of men and because they do
not have confidence in themselves.
The most regrettable feature of being
unable to speak after having attended col­lege
is the lack of appreciation shown by
students of the forensic facilities offered
here. Classes in public speaking arranged
to suit the students are available; a chance
to enter inter or intracollegiate debating
and oratory can be had; opportunities
gained and used from individual interest in
various societies are at the command of
everyone. And yet, all these, constituting
one of the most important phases of life
confronting us today, are neglected, dis­counted
and discarded in search for some­thing
much less profitable.
It is not our contention that we can be­come
a polished speaker unless much time
is spent in forensic pursuit, but the rough
edges can easily be smoothed; the platform
can become familiar, and fear will be of
the past. The advantages of being able to
appear easily and dignified of the cultiva­tion
of the voice, and the impression cre­ated
are quickly discernible if the members
of the student body will only open one eye
for awhile.
THE CULT OF YOUTH
Of all curious American doctrines, one
of the strangest is the worship of youth. It
has become a kind of national cult. The
popular journals are flooded with fiction
extolling youth. Stage anil screen have
small use for anything else. It has usurp­ed
the major part of novels. It has pene­trated
into business to such an extent that
the upper limit of useful service has de­creased
from a one-time standard of sixty-five
to a new limit of fortyfive and even
forty.
Surely the blantant idolaters of youth
do not mean that is omniscient, that it is
the paradise of earthly existence, that it is
the fulcrum and pivot of matters universal,
temporal, general and specific. Conscious­ly
or not, it seems rather another result of
an essentially child-like habit of thinking,
if one may flatter the process by calling
it thinking. This worship of anything that
is new, this mad search for a new idea, a
new star, for youth in everything, probably
reflects two trends. On the one hand, it is
a pandering to that large part of the senti­mental
public which wants a vicarious illu­sion
of youth. On the other hand, it is
probably nothing more nor less than adoles­cence
in the gratifying process of wor­shipping
itself.
We could wish for someone to point out
the mellowing influence of time, the ma­ture
harvest of middle-age. It is likely that
we shall wait in vain for some time to
come. But lacking that, we could wish for
a few individuals to look at facts occa­sionally
and not at sentimental delusions.
—Minn. Daily.
The influence of youth is felt today more
than it has ever before. Those who have
grown old in years and in service vie with
the cradle. Why? It is something the
human mind finds hard to answer; it is
something the human follows eagerly until
it becomes trite and worn with age.
The Gecko
I'm the Gecko who steals everything I
can get my hands on. I know my friends
don't suspect me of being a rogue, but I
am just the same. I am doing my best to
keep it in the quiet too, for they will throw
me down if that ever happens. I even steal
things that can do me no earthly good, and
I can never find any use for, but I find
that I can't help it. I have to hide every­thing
that I can; I am afraid for one to
come in my room when I am away and I
get nervous when I am there.
I know there is a chance for me to get
in trouble, but I am in college and I feel
that I can get away with anything here.
They always forgive men. When I finish
(if these darn profs will just pass me),
and if I can't find anything to do, I can
take my underhand profession. On the
other hand, I may do it anyway; I don't
have any regular hours. But no matter
what happens in the end, I am having a
great time right now, slipping things away
from unsuspecting friends, and until I
get caught, why should I worry any. I like
to do it.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
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Here we are back
at work with the new
semester before us. I
wonder h o w many
students realize that
had they worked hard
at the beginning of
last semester their
grades at the end
would have been very
much higher and they
would have been saved an infinite amount
of worry. A good many have said this to
me. Low grades at the end of a semester
are generally the result of careless, indif­ferent
work or neglect during the early
part of the semester. I am writing this
paragraph to urge every student to start
in this semester in the right way—attend
classes and other exercises regularly, clean
up the work as you go and leave nothing
behind you.
* * * * *
How much we need these new buildings
few can really appreciate. I have not found
out how many new students have come in
this semester yet but, in facilities for teach­ing
during this semester, we will move from
the old Chemistry building, where inade­quate
equipment has handicapped the teach­ing
of a fine faculty, to a new, modern,
up-to-date laboratory. That will be move
number one. About April 1 we will move
into the Animal Husbandry-Dairy building
and begin to teach these two subjects with
modern equipment in adequate quarters.
But there will still remain many sections
of the institution poorly and inadequately
housed in old and inferior buildings far be­hind
the progress of the institution itself.
We have many very fine outstanding fac­ulty
members doing their work under dis­tressing
surroundings. If I should try to
mention all who are in that situation it
would take too long a time, but the Depart­ment
of Physics, the whole School of Ar­chitecture
alid the Department of Agricul­tural
Engineering stand out as departments
where the equipment is totally inadequate.
There are some other facilities equally as
important such as an Infirmary or small
hospital to take care of contagious or in­fectious
cases in the early stages; a sta­dium,
and a fully equipped plant for physi­cal
education. A lot of things are needed.
These are only a few which stand out with
great emphasis.
* * * * *
While I was at the University of Illinois
I noticed the students changing classes.
It was a cold day. Most of them had on
dark canvas or corduroy fleece-lined coats.
I noticed presently that quite a number of
these students had a peculiar combination
of letters which were translated to me as
being the letters U. I. (University of Illi­nois)
in a monogram. I asked one of the
members of the staff what these signs
meant on student's backs and he said those
were all seniors. The seniors had a right
to wear monograms on their backs. I did
not find out whether juniors had another
designation or another method of being
known on the campus or not. The whole
scheme struck me with a great deal of in­terest.
I wish there was some way in which
we might designate seniors. Could they
not have some insignia, not the "A" reser­ved
for athletics, but something} which
could be put on their clothing or caps or in
some other way worn so that everyone
would know a "senior? It is a mere sug­gestion.
Is it worth thinking about? I
know of some colleges in the olden days
where the seniors wore their caps and
gowns their whole senior year.
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
"Far and away the best prize that Life
offers, is to work hard at work worth do­ing."
There, are the words of a noted
American who made his minutes count—
Theodore Roosevelt.
Are we willing to adopt this slogan for
a guide in our endeavors during this new
semester? College work is certainly
worthy of conscientious efforts; why
shouldn't we do our best during the pres­ent
semester?
A present graduate student at this insti­tution
was recently heard lamenting over
the slovenly way in which he applied him­self
while obtaining his Bachelor's degree.
Too bad all of us can't realize our mistakes
sooner.
But why turn a deaf ear to this man's
confession, when we know beyond a doubt
that he is right? There is something about
our weaker self that encourages putting
things off. And well repaid is the man who
turns a deaf ear to procrastination, doing
his work thoroughly and completely as he
goes.
Perhaps we can't visualize the worth*
whileness of such matters at the moment;
but it is inevitably brought home to us
with pangs of regret after we have'passed
on by; yet there's nothing to be done about
it then.
Nothing else will put pep into conversa­tion
like a religious controversy.
il AUBURN FOOTPRINTS TB
It seems that Geist Potter pulled two parties preparatory to the dances. He
must have been awfully vague in telling her when the dances were to be held or she
must have been determined to play a joke on him, but whatever the case it still re­mains
true that she came down a whole week before the dances started. Maybe she
wanted to see Potter that much. If she did, he may as well go on to see the preach­er.
* * * * * * * *
A few days ago, Harry Lloyd, termed by sports writers as Auburn's prospective
first sacker, thought he was Patrick Henry and was telling the boys how a Lloyd
could run and fight, too. It seems that Nosedive Hines played the role of Daniel
Boone in this little scene. ^
* * * * * * * *
Now that the struggle is over the students can rest a few days and get ready
for the coming semester. The physical and mental, not to mention the moral, of
most is such as to warrant careful consideration the coming week.
* * * * * * * *
Have you ever seen so many peroxide blondes?
If you have, don't tell us; we don't even want to know.
* * * * * * * *
They have started using old stage-coach horses in staging movie scenes to pre­vent
stage-fright on their part.
Then there was the dame
Who had no name
But drank her liquor just the same.
* . * * * * * * *
By the way, who was the girl who couldn't tell the floor from the door? She
wanted to go through it awfully bad.
* * * * * • * •
It is generally understood by Jim Crawford's friends that he is sitting on top
of the world, for during the coming semester, he has a possibility of having three
dates a week in Opelika and two in Auburn. He awfully kind-hearted too, waiting
until five o'clock to take one home. She should appreciate that. Strut must have
power in his bones.
• * * * * * . * *
We understand the fraternities that gave houseparties are going to concentrate
this next week in straightening up their houses. Probably take that long.
The Opelika .highway made a name for itself this year. No one was killed on it.
* * * * * * * *
The professors had quite a jovial session recently. More failed than even
they had anticipated.
• • • • • • • •
Who will be the next victim of the prom-trotters?
* * * * * * * *
TEMPTATION
"Why not? he again demanded.
It was a crucial moment in his life. Temptation faced him and he knew he
would have to decide for himself. "Don't do it," he, heard a small voice whisper.
"You'll be sorry."
"Why not?" he again demanded of himself. "Others have done it and lived
through it. I'm old enough to decide." His strength lessened as he recalled Omar
Khayyam's philosophy. "I'm young," he thought. "I may never have another
opportunity. Besides who else will know?"
Came the crisis. A feverish wave inundated his brain and made his head swim.
Cold beads of perspiration appeared on his brow. A stubborn inward force urged
him blindly on. He decided to yield. Yes—he would yield. He thrust a nervous
hand forward, then—
"Give me a nickel's worth of jelly-beans," he barked.
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES ->
COMPULSORY
Within ten years the homes of all fra­ternities
at Emory must be located on the
campus proper, according to the latest
official ruling from the university. In
order to aid the fraternities to build them
on the campus, the college is willing to
pay sixty per cent of the cost. It is to be
repaid monthly by the fraternity. The
fraternity must have forty per cent of the
necessary cost of construction and must
have plans approved by the college. The
building must cost more than twenty
thousand and less than thirty thousand
dollars. We can find better offers than
that nearer home—maybe.
* * * * *
"IT"
One hundred and eighty-two colleges
in this country and Canada have an endow­ment
of more than one millions dollars.
Harvard with eighty-two million to her
credit is the leader in heavily endowed in­stitutions,
whil Oberlin with fourteen mil­lions
leads in being the most highly en­dowed.
* * * * *
THAT'S EASY
What is the worst thing noticeable about
the modern collegian? According to some,
it is his terrible English. He never shows
his total ignorance of the subject until he
tries to make a favorable impression on
some occasion. Not only is it extremely
simple, but it is disgustingly crude. The
biggest thing we fail to see is why any one
is questioning this fact; everyone knows
that a college student's English is hardly
passable.
* * * * *
WHAT A JOB
Down at L. S. U., some enterprising
feature writer picked up most of the local­isms
and whatnots, and blended them into
an article.
If your best friend suddenly says, "Aw,
suffocate!" the only proper thing to do is
to quickly come back with "Sez you!" If
you don't, you fellow students. For at L.
S. U. are a "mere woolly worm" to you,
everybody who is anybody must know the
latest collegiate slang or it's "just too
bad!"
"Imagine my embarrassment" is still
probably the most popular bit of slang, al­though
it is often varied by "Imagine my
chagrin" or "Picture my predicament!"
After the embarrassed collegiate asks,
"What should I do in a case like that?" he
is still sometimes advised to "be nonchalant
—light out!"
No longer does the co-ed say, "Don't be
funny" to "just another Freddie Fratpin."
Instead she asks, "Are you real ly that
stupid?"; or she solemnly inquires, "Am I
supposed to laugh?" Later she moans,
"How could I go for him? He's so languid
and plaintive!" This is the effect of the
song, Chant of the Jungle.
Lately "don't poke out your neck!" has
been prevalent on the campus. This is just
more slang for "you haven't got anything
on me!" And "O. K.!" has been changed
to "O. K. by me!" This is pronounced with
a rising inflection, giving a somewhat bird­like
effect.
The flowery manner of speech in use
forty-or-so years ago makes several addi­tions
to campus jargon. Now one doesn't
tell his friends goodbye with "so long!";
instead he says "Farewell" or even "Fare
thee well." However, the more ultra-mod­ern
remark, "Be good." The examination
returns often cause students to wail, "Oh,
the bitter irony of it all" or "Life is but
a weary path of thorns!"
If you don't "get a break" you will prob­ably
exclaim, "Well, blow me down!" And
a particularly effective method of low-rating
an acquaintance is to say, "She may
be the world to her mother, but she's only
a bunch of spinach to me!" If there is a
run in your best hose, you should philoso­phically
sigh, "Oh well, it runs in the best
of families."
One is no "longer in the social swim if
she mentions "my S. L." or "my heart­throb"!
she should talk about her "fascin­ation"
or "suppressed desire." Or perhaps
she might murmur, "He's so unusual!"
But the most favored slang epithet which
is undoubtedly most effective is, "You
egg!"
* * * * *
AN INCENTIVE
The Crimson White from the University
of Alabama comes out in an editorial say­ing
that an intensive research study by an
insurance company shows that honor stu­dents
live longer. If this is true, there
should be a general effort towards attain­ing
distinction every semester.
* * * * *
WORTH IT
Sweet Briar girls have voted to be indi­vidually
responsible for the conduct of
their dates on the Sweet Briar Campus. In
the past the girls were permitted, it seems,
to receive friends on the campus, but this
privilege was refuted. Now, however,
they are responsible, but it will go doubly
hard on them if the male friends from
Washington and Lee decide to forget them­selves
at any time. Such a life!
THOUGHTS IN SILHOUETTE
'fflerr THogenese ^eufelsdrockh
EDITOR'S 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.
* * * * *
THE dances have come and gone. A
good time was had by all, although
some had to prove just what perfect
yokels they could make of themselves be­fore
they were able to enjoy the occasion
thoroughly.
It seems a most peculiar trait in some
people that they have to go the limit before
they find the most satisfying situation.
Take the dances for example, a great many
could not wait to get off the floor before
putting on their natural faces with the
result that quite a number were surprised
at apparent revelations. However, such
things could not be termed as revelations;
they were merely the actions and out­bursts
of some backwoods animal who could
no more pose as a gentleman than a pig
could be clean in a sty.
When one considers that only a few,
comparatively speaking, participated in
some crude ribaldry on the floor, the dances
were a great success, music, femmes, visit­ors,
and all. Everyone was enthusiastic
in his praise of the music and the leader
of the orchestra with his "dynamic person­ality."
The little things that prevent the
music from becoming boring and monot­onous
were supplied by the personnel.
The girls cannot be left without a word
of praise. The slogan 'more and befter'
seems to be used in nearly every case. More
power to the boys.
The members of the Social Committee
was due more credit than is ordinarily
given. It took a lot of hard work and per-serverance
to put the affair over so com­pletely
and successfully. One little thing
that will tend to help the institution was
the recognition given the visitors from the
University. This may help unite the stu­dent
bodies of the two colleges in friend­ship.
Something that is hoped for in the
near future by leaders and supporters of
both.
ALREADY sighs of regret and groans
of anticipated worry are finding a
place in the minds and utterances
of too many students. It isn't a time for
that, but rather one for the undoing of
some of the rotten work credited to them
the past five months. And there was a
great amount judging from the reports
coming in. On the other hand, the first
semester was terribly chopped up by num­erous
holidays and football week-ends, but
this semester a new cry should be heard
across the campus.
* * * * *
SEVERAL weeks ago we went to a
basketball game down at the gym,
and was amazed at the manner in
which the students booed both the oppos­ing
players and home players. The referee
came in for his share too. Those on the
sidelines apparently were trying to play the
game on the court, but they could at least
remember that no bull or dog fight was
being carried on, and that the contestants
were supposed to be fellow college men
instead of jungle savages whom they are
trying to frighten by hideous and un-gentlemenly
remarks.
These uncommendable phrases usually
come from one who can't play the game,
knows nothing at all about it, but who must
do something to gain the public eye and
to amuse himself. He is like a little child
playing with his toys and chasing around
in circles trying to get everyone to see
him. They are unfortunately tolerated,
but the happy thought is that they can't
endure the realities of life very long at this
gait; possibly it would be best if they were
unable to do so at all.
* * * * *
THE town seems to be living in the
narrow domain of blindness. When
one sees the scattered rubbish and
debris littering the town like stones do a
cemetery, the opinion is quickly and force­fully
formed that it is not inviting enough
to be remembered very long. The town
should get someone busy on the streets to
clean up and make up for the past months
and years of negligence, and also see if
the property owners wouldn't see about
taking at least half decent care of the pre­mises
surrounding their place of business
or residence.
Everyone in Auburn wants to see her
grow, but they must remember that the
old style of pioneering is out of date, and
if one is to make his home here, he must
receive sanitary inducements, anyway.
COME GIRL, AND EMBRACE
Come girl, and embrace
And ask no more I wed thee;
Know then you are sweet of face,
Soft-limbed and fashioned lovingly;—
Must you go marketing your charms
In cunning woman-like,
And filled with old wives' tales' alarms!
—Frank Prewett.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Pope Pius Condemns Many Modern
Movements in Educational Systems
Vatican City—(IP)—Co-education
sexual education of youth, too much
physical training and public athletic
displays by young women, sending
children away from home to school
at too early an age, the new natural­ism
movement in education, bad films
and bad radio programs were con­demned
by Pope Pius in his first en­cyclical
of the new year, under the
title, "Of Christian Education of the
Young."
The Pope upheld his educational
theory that the education of youth
is the business, first of the Church,
second of the family, and lastly of
the state.
The document, the first in history
to be published in Italian instead of
the traditional Latin, has been trans­lated
into all other modern languages.
"Every method of education found­ed
wholly or in part on a denial or
forgetfulness of original sin and of
grace, and therefore on the sole
forces of human nature," the Pontiff
said, "is false. Such are generally
those systems of today, under va­r
i o u s names, which appeal to the pre­tended
freedom and unconfirmed lib­erty
of the child and diminish and
also surpress the authority and work
of the educator, attributing to the
child 'exclusive privacy of initiative
and activity independent of all supe­rior
natural and divine laws in work­ing
out its own education."
Of co-education, the Pope-said:
"Similarly erroneous and pernic­ious
for Christian education is the
so-called method of co-education, al­so
founded for many on naturalism
which denies original sin besides, for
all upholders of this method, on a
diplorable confusion of ideas which
confound ligitimate living together of
human beings with promiscuity and
equality which reduces every one to
the same level.
"The Creator ordered perfect liv­ing
together of the two sexes only in
unity of matrimony. Besides, there
is in nature itself, which makes the
two sexes different in their organ­isms,
their inclinations and their at­titudes,
no argument which can ,or
may legitimatize promiscuity, or less
still, absolute equality in the educa­tion
of the two sexes.
"The two sexes, in conformity with
the wonderful designs of the Creator,
are destined to compliment each oth­er
reciprocally in the family and in
society, precisely on account of their
diversity, which must therefore be
maintained and favored in the educa­tive
process with the necessary dis­tinction
and corresponding separa­tion
of pupils in proportion to their
various ages and circumstances . . .
In gymnastic exercises and sport
they must specially be applied • with
due regard for Christian modesty of
feminine youth, with regard to all
forms of exhibition."
The Pontiff had this to say of sex
education:
"Extremely dangerous is that type
of naturalism which now invades the
field of education in such a delicate
subject as the rectitude of morals.
Very widespread is the error of those
who, with dangerous presumtiousness
and ugly words, pro-mote so-called
sexual education, falsely believing
they can forewarn young people
against the dangers of the senses with
purely natural means, such as fool­hardy
preventative initiation and in­struction
for all without distinction
and even publicly and, which is worse,
exposing them to temptation in or­der
to accustom them, as they say,
and harden their hearts against those
dangers.
"They err gravely in not wishing
to- admit the inherent fragility of
human nature, of which the Apostle
speaks, and in neglecting also the
lessons of experience which teach
that, especially in young people, sins
against morality are not an affect of
intellectual ignorance as much as of
weak wills exposed to temptation and
not supported by means of grace. In
this delicate subject, if all things be
considered, some individual instruc­tion
becomes necessary at the right
moment on the part of those who
have the educative mission."
YOUNG COLLEGE PREXY
FINDS DUTIES TIRESOME
Chicago—(IP)—Dark circles have
been formed under the eyes of Rob­ert
Maynard Hutchins, 30-year-old
president of the University of Chica­go,
after three months at his new
job.
Many of the laudable goals for
which the youthful prexy set out at
the beginning of his term of office
are still far in-the future, and while
Hutchins is not discouraged, he is
very tired.
Hutchins has been making from
eight to ten speeches a week besides
attending to his other many duties at
the head of one of the country's
largest educational institutions.
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Modern Styles 3000
Years Old Says Prof.
That modern modes are merely a
return to those approved by the wom­en
of the Minoan civilization on the
Island of Crete between 3,000 and 1,-
500 B. C, was made clear by Dr. W.
D. Woodhead, professor of classics
at McGill university in a talk recent­ly.
"The elegant young thing of today
with her "moulded" silhouette and
her long skirts is about 5,000 years
behind the times, if some charming
little figures of the Cretan Snake
Goddess be taken as standard."
Pictures of models of this up-and-coming
feminine deity thrown on the
screen by the lecturer showed her
wearing a modish tiered skirt of
ivory, each tier bordered with gold.
The skirt, which reached to the
ground all around like the most ad­vanced
evening models of today, fit­ted
snugly over the hips and was
held snugly into what looked sus­piciously
like a corseted waistline, by
a girdle. The daringly abbreviated
bodice was in advance of the 1929
models as far as form-fittingness was
concerned.
Dr. Woodhead also threw some in­teresting
light on the myths of the
labyrinth and the Minotaur, which
the Greeks, who overcame the Minoan
civilization, built up about the con­quered
country. The palace of King
Minos as Cnossos was built inform­ally,
with rooms and wings added on
from time to time as they were re­quired,
he explained. Compared with
the highly conventional style of Greek
classic architecture, this rambling
palace was a veritable labyrinth. The
story of the Minotaur he attributed
to the Cretan custom of having bull­fights.
Sanitary arrangements in the
labyrinthine palace were better than
those at Versailles during the reign
of Louis XIV, he sa(id.
More Students Attend
College For The Life'
There are many alumni who assume
that colleges have been steadily de­generating
and that somewhere in the
past lies a golden age. They refer so
frequently to "the good old times"
that one becomes curious to how good
these old times really were.
In a recent article in the Saturday
Evening Post, Christian Gauss, Dean
at Princeton University says that
"until fairly recently few men came
to college for "the life." They came
because they earnestly wished to be
preachers, or teachers or lawyers or
doctors. The hardships made of them
a highly selected group, and this
perhaps, more than the old curricu­lum
or the old life is responsible for
their successes. They grumbled, and
•with cause, and it was just because
the college proper did so little for
them as social beings, that by way of
compensation, they created, by muni­ficent
gifts and other means, that
strictly American development—"col­lege
life."
In the 70's Yale men no longer
hewed their own wood, but they did
draw their own water, for there were
no spigots in the domitories, and
every man was his own chamber maid.
In the second half of the 18th cent­ury,
it was necessary for the student
to carry his own knife and fork to
the dining room, and when he had
dined he wiped them on the table­cloth.
ELIMINATION OF TIP-OFF
MAY ADD TO CAGE GAME
Lawrence, Kan.— (IP)—Dr. James
Naismlth, member of the faculty at
the University of Kansas and in­ventor
of basketball, commenting re­cently
on the attempts to eliminate
the center tip-off, said that elimina­tion,
while making the game more
monotonous, tended to make it a lit­tle
faster.
The plan was tried in a game be­tween
Kansas and Mexico in an ef­fort
to do away with the inequality
that exists when one team has a cen­ter
much taller than the other.
The change was particularly no­ticeable
in the trial here because of
the short stature of the Mexican
players. However, it was not possible
to determine how much of their scor­ing
was due to the absence of the
center tip-off and how much to their
agility and team work.
RECEIVES DEGREE
New York—(IP)—General J an
Christian Smuts, former premier of
the Union of South Africa, has been
given the degree of Doctor of Laws
by Columbia University.
Girl Students Place
Ban On Gold-Digging;
Favor 'Dutch Treat'
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—The
college girls here recently condemned
the art of "gold-digging" and declar­ed
themselves in favor of that last
straw in the maintenance of a single-standard,
the "Dutch Treat."
At the New Jersey College for
Women teams officially representing
the senior and junior classes debated
the question "Resolved: that all col­lege
dates be Dutch treats."
Both the unanimous decision of the
judges and the sympathy of the stu­dent
audience were overwhelmingly
for the affirmative, as upheld by the
seniors.
The affirmative defined "Dutch
Treat" simple as a "fifty-fifty propo­sition"
and "date" as "one of those
not so rare occasions of a frivolous
nature when the man thinks twice be­fore
selecting his necktie and the girl
adds an extra dab of powder to her
nose."
Here are the arguments which won
the day for the college boy's pocket
book:
1. Most college boys are supported
by their fathers, as are college girls.
While the fathers of the boys may be
luckier than the fathers of the girls
they are not necessarily wealthier.
Girls are therefore economically as
able to pay for dates as men.
2. The Duth treat habit eliminates
gold digging among college girls who
can earn money as well as men if they
set their mind to it, but who usually
pick the easier course.
3. The Dutch treat is wise from a
moral standpoint; it causes mutual
respect and enables a girl to be her
self with a man instead of using a
"line" to show her gratitude. It
makes it possible for a girl to ask a
man for a date without embarrass­ment.
The negative team attempted to
present the masculine viewpoint and
pleaded for the present convention on
the grounds of precedent, the fact
that men are able to earn money more
easily than girls and finally, that
"chivalry" is not yet dead and the
Dutch treat is an insult to manly dig­nity."
Prizes To Be Given
On Best Race Essays
As in previous years, the Commis­sion
on Interracial Cooperation, a
Southern organization with head­quarters
at 409 Palmer Bldg., At­lanta,
is offering to students in
Southern colleges two cash prizes of
$100 each for the best papers on
"Justice in Race Relations." Papers
should be between 1500 and 2500
words in length and must be deliv­ered
to the commission or placed
in the mails not later than May 1.
The commission has prepared sug­gestions,
reading lists, and pamphlets
which will be helpful to those desiring
to submit papers. These will be sent
without charge to anyone applying.
More than fifty colleges were rep­resented
in this contest in 1929 and
many fine papers were submitted.
The winners last year were Miss Eve­lyn
Vann, of Sam Houston College,
Huntsville, Texas; J. Neal Hughley,
of Morehouse College, Atlanta; and
Hollan King, of Henderson-Brown
Cc liege Arkadelphia, Ar.
ANYWAY WE ARE NOT LAZY
The world's richest and most pow­erful
nation is also the world's hard­est
working nation. How far Uncle
Sam exceeds other countries in his
output of labor is shown by Dr.
Thornton Read, professor of mining
at Columbia University, who esti­mates
after careful study, that the
United States, with one-sixteenth the
population the world, completes about
half its work. This country accom­plishes
one and a half times as much
per person as Canada, her nearest
competitor, and thirty times as much
as China.
By calculating the relative amounts
of actual horsepower generated by
men from the food they eat and by
machines from the fuel and water
power they use, Dr. Read has arrived
at his conclusions regarding fifteen
leading countries. He also reveals
that China and India are first in
the amount of work done without
the aid of machinery, but are far
behind the United States, Great Brit­ain
and Germany in the work done
by man with the aid of power ma­chines.
For instance, the labor done
by men and machines together in this
country equals the manual work that
could be done by ten times the num­ber
of men in the United States.
Impurities Found In
Air Are Being Studied
Akron, O.— (IP)—Death rains from
the skies.
This is not the start of an H. G.
Wells story of an invasion from Mars.
It is part of a report prepared by
scientists with whom the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co. airship fleet is
co-operating in a bacteriological sur­vey
of the upper strata of the air.
Results of the observations made
by Dr. Charles Barton, noted Pacific
Coast research worker in the airship
Volunteer, are said to justify the old
theory, founded mostly on superstition
that death comes from above in the
form of mysterious stellar influences,
rare atmospheric gases or germs.
The germ spores, or seds, come
down from the clouds at periods when
atmospheric conditions force them
earthward, Barton reported.
The bacteriologists report that
germs do not usually float around in
full grown or adult form, even on
the earth's surface.
Those that are in suspension in the
air have been classified as spores.
So long as they remain dry and are
not subjected to destructive chemical
action or the ultra-violet ray they ap­parently
live forever.
According to scientists, these tiny
spores do most of the spreading of
disease germs.
Their natural habitat is the clouds,
where they are safe from the deadly
rays of the sun, but from where they
are conveyed earthward in rain or
snow.
With the aid of the airship and the
airplane, medical research is learning
that the upper air is far from pure
and that rain and snow and damp
weather may bring worse ills than
"old rheumatics."
IDEAL GIRL?
"Intelligence is just about the last
thing a Princeton freshman likes to
find in a girl, if any generalization
can be drawn from a vote recently
•taken among the 490 freshmen there.
The vote also indicated that, to the
mass mind, constancy was a rather
trival consideration, and that if a
girl was beautiful or if she was a
good dancer or a ready conversation­alist
she could be a nitwit for all it
mattered to the majority of first-year
men.
"The freshmen were asked to
name 'the most essential quality in
the ideal girl.' Seventy-four, the
largest number to agree on any sin­gle
quality, decided that the one most
essential was "physical beauty." Six­ty-
five, less esthetically declined
voted for 'personality.' The third
highest vote, 45, went to 'ability to
dance well.' 'Good sense and humor'
appealed to 35 of the youthful
Princetonians as most essential.
"Thirty-one favored an 'interesting
conversationalist.' 'Constancy' came
in fifth with 29 votes. Twenty-four
of the freshmen looked upon 'brains'
as most essential. Only 18 of the
freshmen admitted that their taste
was influenced by money; they voted
for 'wealth.'
"Sixteen came to the conclusion
that the most essential quality in the
ideal is that she musn't smoke. Sixty-five
gave up determination of the
'ideal girl' as a bad job and didn't
vote."—
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DUDLEY HARELY WINS
PRIZE ESSAY CONTEST
A college man—Dudley L. Harley,
Lehigh, '30—has shown his heels to
many thousands of entrants in a na­tional
essay contest for a $10,000
first prize. Harley, whose home is in
Martinsburg, W. Va., is a candidate
for a Rhodes scholarship from his
home state, and expects to use his
new wealth in furthering his educa­tion
and his ambition to be a writer.
The essay which won the contest
for the Lehigh undergraduate was
composed, written and bound into
book form during an enforced ex­tension
of his summer vacation, while
both wrists were in splints. The wrists
were broken in a fall from his horse,
Friday, September 13, and the fact
that he could not return to school led
to his decision to enter the contest.
This is not the first contest he has
won, however; his education has been
furthered by two scholarships won in
essay competitions sponsored by the
American Chemical society.
SHAKESPEARE USED LESS
WORDS THAN AMERICANS
The average American, whose ev­eryday
conversation sometimes seems
confined to a few stable bromides,
really knows four times as many
words as Shakespeare used.
The creator of "Hamlet" was the
world's greatest employer of words;
he used 15,000. The average Ameri­can
knows 60,000 says Professor
Miles A. Hanley of the University of
Wisconsin.
He hasn't a speaking acquaintance
with that number however. He mere­ly
recognizes them as distant ac­quaintances.
Shakespeare knew his
intimately.
"Just take a dictionary, run down
a few pages at random under each
letter of the alphabet and see how
many words you recognize," said Dr.
Hanley here recently. "You will be
surprised.
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Artificial Creation
Of Life Is Discussed
New York—(IP)—Dr. Paul R.
Heyl ,physicist of the United States
Bureau of Standards described here
recently the latest step of science to­ward
the task of learning whether or
not it can create life artificially.
That step, he said, is the recent dis­covery
of Professor Hans Fischer,
of Munich, Germany, of a way to
make artificially the substance called
the "respiration ferment."
This material is the red part of
the blood corpuscle, both in humans
and in animals. It carries the oxy-gene
from the lungs to the tissues of
the body, and without it a person
would quickly suffocate.'
After seventeen years of research,
Fischer succeeded in making the fer­ment
from ordinary chemicals which
included carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
and nitrogen.
"I am quite satisfied," Professor
Heyl said, "that eventually we shall
come to a solution of the life mystery.
Then we shall understand all the life
processes as well as we now under­stand
the burning of a lump of coal."
"Protoplasm is the basis of all mat­ter.
Some day we shall learn how to
produce protoplasm. It may not turn
out to be living. If it is alive, we
shall have created life artificially."
MEMORIAL BUILDING IS
ASKED AT SYRACUSE UNI.
Albany, N. Y.—(IP)—A $600,000
memorial in the form of a new build­ing
at Syracuse University's school
of forestry, in honor of Louis Mar­shall,
prominent New York City law­yer
and Jewish leader, who died in
Switzerland last August, has been
asked of the New York State legisla­ture
by Governor Franklin Roosevelt.
"Probably more than any other
man," the governor said, "Mr. Mar­shall
was responsible for a greatly
increased interest throughout the
State in preservation of the Odiron-dacks
and at the same time in the
practical development of the science
of forestry."
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930
Trollope Urges
Early Hatching
More Eggs and Better Prices in Store
For Poultrymen
More eggs, better prices and larg­er
profits are in store for poultry-men
who hatch early. This state­ment
was made by Prof. G. A. Trol­lope,
head of the poultry depart­ment,
and he gave exact figures as
evidence.
Ten early-hatched pullets produc­ed
2,394 eggs, valued at $79.63, in
51 weeks in the Alabama Egg-laying
contest at Auburn," Trollope stated.
"Ten late-hatched pullets in the same
contest produced 1,722 eggs, valued
at $59.06, in 51 weeks."
He gives February 1st, as a good
date to begin and April 30 as a good
date to complete hatching. Some
advantages of early hatching were
stated by him as follows: "Pullets
grow more rapidly and become more
vigorous; pullets secure better size
and body weight; chicks are brooded
with fewer losses; more eggs are laid
during the season of highest prices;
and chicks are less susceptible to
disease."
MAN STILL DOUBTS THE
WORLD IS GLOBE IN SHAPE
Chicago—(IP)—Although C o m-mander
Richard Byrd has crossed
both the north and the south poles in
an airplane, Wilbur Glenn Voliva,
overseer of Zion, 111., still refuses to
believe the earth is a globe.
In telegraph messages to editors of
daily papers recently, Voliva said:
"Without any desire to detract from
the theoretical or practical accom­plishments
of Commander Byrd and
his sturdy comrades, we say unequivo­cally
that his flight reported in the
papers does not proves the earth to
be a globe.
He simply flew to a point which
he believes to be 90 degrees south
and then back to his starting place,
according*to the popular theory of
a globular earth.
"Commander Byrd must know the
sea is a vast outstretched plane ill-fitted
to become any part of a globu­lar
surface."
DUNSTAN DESIGNS
SHOCK ABSORBERS
(Continued from page 1)
Another claim allowed is the use
of ports in the plungers and the cross
section of these ports is variable so
that the resistance offered to the flow
of the oil depends upon the position
, of the plunger.
Another claim allowed is the ad­justable
feature whereby the point
at which' the shock absorbers begin
• to restrain the spring motion is ad­justable
separately for the up and
down stroke.
Definite arrangements for manu­facture
of the new devices haVe not
been made, but Professor Dunstan
has asked about options for American
and foreign rights.
The inventor has been professor of
electrical engineering at Auburn
since 1899, and has taught some of
the most famous engineers of the Na­tion.
Books of Interest
"Cannibal-Land" Recounts Experiences of Martin
Johnson and His Wife on Trip to New Hebrides
CANNIBAL-LAND BY MARTIN
JOHNSON
Reviewed by Hugh Cameron
This particular book of Martin
Johnson's is based on a trip he and
his wife made to the New Hebrides
some twelve years ago. He always
takes his wife on his various trips.
They have narrowly escaped death
several times; they have nearly been
eaten by cannibals and lions, and
have nearly succumbed to the tropi­cal
fevers.
This book could by no means be
classed as a great literary effort, a
book of the month or a book to grace
a professor's library shelf, but one
would call it a good book, a book
that would be better enjoyed than
many b o o k s circulated by t he
"clubs."
The story is simply told; the author
S. H. Gibbons Accepts
Position With Growers
S. H. Gibbons, county agent for
Baldwin county, has, resigned to ac­cept
an appointment as director of
field courses of the National Pecan
Growers Exchange, with headquarters
at Albany, Georgia. The appoint­ment
became effective January 15.
Mr. Gibbons is an alumnus of Au­burn.
Immediately after graduation
he became extension horticulturist,
from which position he was trans­ferred
to Baldwin- County, where he
was an outstanding success as county
agent.
Before coming to Auburn Mr.
Gibbons taught in public and high
schools of the state. He came to Au­burn
direct from Hamilton, where he
was principal of the secondary agri­cultural
school. He will be succeed­ed
by E. E. Hale, also an Auburn
man, who has made a distinct success
as county agent in Marengo County.
As a junior Hale was the winner of
the Gamma Sigma Delta loving cup,
given to the best all-around junior
in agriculture.
CIVIL DEPARTMENT TO
BE FEATURED NEXT ISSUE
OF THE AUBURN ENGINEER
(Continued from page 1)
Atlanta of building the new terminal
station in "Atlanta's New Terminal
Is Modem in Every Respect."
"Engineers Work from the Air,'1
by D. C. Summerford, is an article
discussing the methods used in mak­ing
aerial surveys, and the relative
merits of this method of surveying
for map making.
"Alumni News," "Engineering So­cieties,"
"Technical Tidbits," and the
'Safety Valve" occupy their regular
place in the magazine.
The editorials of this issue discuss
the many fields of endeavor in which
the civil engineer finds himself after
graduation from college. The fact
that civil engineers are often called
to hold executive and administrative
positions as well as technical jobs
is clearly brought out.
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Fifty-one Years Old and Still Growing
does not try to impress his readers by
using big words that are not needed.
He tells of his adventures among the
cannibals of the New Hebrides. He
is not a big-game hunter. He is a
man who has the wandering spirit in
a big way; he is always going to some
far away little known place. He al­ways
carries a»movie camera. He
took some very excellent pictures of
the natives of the New Hebrides and
illustrated his book with several of
them. In one of the pictures his wife
is seen sitting by a cannibal king and
his prime minister on the Johnson
boat. She is a very pretty woman.
This trip to the New Hebrides was
concluded in 1919. Since then the
Johnsons have been to several other
far away places. They made a com­plete
movie of the African plains
and jungles showing lions and other
animals in the wild state. This movie
was called "Timba," and no circus
lions were used in the making of it.
"Cannibal-Land" is written by a
man who loves to travel, a man who
takes keen enjoyment in photograph­ing
primitive races of people right in
their own homes. This book reminds
one slightly of the well remembered
"Trader Horn" but it does not con­tain
numerous tall stories as did
"Trader Horn."
To Place Scout Work
Here On Larger Scale
Special Boy Scout Program to Be
Broadcast From WAPI
L. E. Bates Discusses
Airport With Knapp
In the interest of aviation and to
arouse local support to establish a
permanent airport near the highway
between this city and Opelika, Mr.
L. E. Bates, a representative of the
Southern Air Express Company of
Montgomery, conferred with Dr.
Knapp recently.
Auburn and Opelika are on the
established air route of the company,
but a detour must now be made by
the company's planes to Columbus,
because of the absence of landing
fields in this vicinity.
Dr. Knapp, himself an enthusiastic
aviation enthusiast stated that he
realized the importance of the estab­lishment
of a landing field near the
city to be jointly maintained and
controlled by Opelika and Auburn.
Various civic organizations in both
cities have discussed the airport ques­tion
for over a year. A site has been
selected about midway between the
two cities for the airport and ap­proved
by national airway officials,
it was disclosed. Interest was cent­ered
in the conference while citizens
of both towns look toward the ulti­mate
establishment of a dream which
will mark Auburn and Opelika among
the most progressive of the smaller
cities in America.
MINISTERS ATTACK LACK
OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Champaign, 111.—(IP)—A 1 le g e d
lack of religion in the teaching of
the modern college and university
was attacked from all angles during
the annual convention of ministers
and religious workers from colleges
and universities of fourteen states
which was held here recently.
Dr. Joseph C. Todd, dean of the
Indiana School of Religion, said that
a process of education which "does
not transmit the accumulated litera­ture
accomplishments, thinking and
personalities of religion is fatally in­complete."
N. A. McCune, of Michigan Agri­cultural
College warned the conven­tion
against stressing a "denomina­tional
god," which, he said, "fre­quently
is nothing more than tribal
deity."
STATE LABORATORIES
ANALYZE FERTILIZERS
(Continued from page 1)
in the State contain more plant food
than is claimed. This fact is accept­ed
by Dr. Ross as evidence that Ala­bama
manufacturers are complying
with the law. The same view is held
by Seth P. Storrs, commissioner of
agriculture at Montgomery.
Associated with Dr. Ross in analy­tical
work in the State laboratory are
Prof. C. L. Hare, J. B. Jackson, P.
R. Bidez, George Kellar, T. H. Bur­ton,
and H. W. Nixon.
Fertilizer work is done in combin­ation
with other chemical., analyses.
Insecticides, oils and many other pro­ducts
coming in the regulatory ser­vice
are analyzed by chemists in the
laboratory.
Plans for conducting Boy Scout
work on a larger scale in Auburn and
elsewhere were adopted at a confer­ence
here, presided over by Dr. Brad­ford
Knapp, chairman of the Auburn
committee on Boy Scout work. The
plan was proposed by John J. Sieg-wald,
field executive of the East Ala­bama
district with headquarters in
Opelika. It was adopted by the Au­burn
committee.
Work for the district includes a
special Boy Scout program from sta­tion
WAPI on February 7. It will
be presented in conjunction with
Boy Scout anniversary exercises
throughout the nation. Dr. Knapp
appointed P. O. Davis and A. L.
Thomas as a committee to arrange the
program.
The meeting was attended by chair­men
of local and district committees,
including S. L. Toomer, A. L. Thomas,
A. Meadows, Rev. S. B. Hay, Dr.
Bruce McGhee, Lieut. C. , P . Towns-ley,
Dr. B. F. Thomas, Prof. M. L.
Nichols, Lieut. G. B. Barth, W. T.
Ingram and G. L Fick, who is Scout­master
of the Auburn troup. Lieut.
Townsley is assistant Scoutmaster.
To facilitate Scout work in Auburn
Dr. Knapp appointed three members
of the group to compose, with him,
an executive committee, they being
Dr. Toomer, A. L. Thomas and Lieut.
Barth. Mr. Toomer was elected as
a voting member of the East Alabama
Council.
STUDENTS TO GET LEAVE
FOR PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—A
plan whereby certain students desig­nated
jointly by the engineering facul­ty
and by representatives of industrial
concerns would receive a fifteen
month's leave of absence from the uni­versity
at the end of their junior year
'in order to gain practical experience
in industry, was voted recently by
the board of trustees of Rutgers Uni­versity.
When the period has been complet­ed
the students would return to Rut­gers
on a nine' months' leave of ab­sence
from the employing concerns
to complete their course and receive
their degree.
Those favoring the plan declared
it will aid the student in "finding
himself before his formal education
has been completed."
SOCIAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE
FILES INCORPORATION PAPERS
•New York—(IP)—Announcement
has been made here of the incorpora­tion
in Delaware of the Research
Committee on Social Trends, Inc.,
with Wesley C. Mitchell, professor of
economics at Columbia University as
president, for the purpose of conduc­ting
a survey into the social changes
in American life recently ordered by
President Hoover.
The board of directors of the in­corporation
are Charles E. Merriman,
professor of political science at Chi­cago
University; William F. Ogburn,
professor of sociology at the Univer­sity
of Chicago; Howard W. Odum,
professor of sociology at the Univer­sity
of North Carolina, and Shelby
M. Harrison, vice general director of
the Russell Sage Foundation.
POISON OAK POINTER
CAUSES PAIN IN CLASS
Blackshear, Ga.—(IP)—Mrs. Ed­ward
Darling, a teacher in one of
the public schools here, wanted a
small twig to use as a pointer. One
of the boys in her class went out
and cut one just the right length.
Mrs. Darling used it effectively in
directing the affairs of the class and
several of the pupils used it.
Then things began to happen. Mrs.
Darling's face and hands and the
hands of children who had used the
pointer, were badly swollen. The
swelling was painful, but the doctors
said it was not fatal. The new point­er
was made of poison oak.
IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENTS
URGED TO ENFORCE DRY LAW
Washington— (IP)—Impeachment
of the present or some future Presi­dent
of the United States for failure
to enforce the Eighteenth Amend­ment,
has been urged in the House of
Representatives by Congressman Lor-ing
F. Black, wet Democrat of New
York, as the only means of determ-ing
judicially whether the dry laws
ever can be enforced.
Bankers Join Farm
Agents In Program
A program calling for more cows,
more hens and more 4-H club boys
and girls is being sponsored by
bankers and county agents in 20
Alabama counties. This is reported
by J. T. High, district agent of the
extension service, after attending
three banker-county agent meetings
in that section. The chief aim is to
improve the financial status of farm­ers.
Details of the program were stated
in concrete form by Mr. High. To
increase the farm income they hope
to induce 10 to 25 farmers in each
county to become cream dairymen
and 25 to 40 farmers in each county
to begin raising poultry. A unit in
dairying, as defined by the county
agents and bankers, consists of five
cows, one brood sow, and 100 hens,
or five cows and two brood sows, or.
five cows and 200 hens. In poultry
a unit consists of 100 to 300 hens,
they say.
The program also includes educa­tion
of farm boys and girls in better
farm methods and development of
better farm homes. The bankers
and county agents recommended
that at least 20 per cent of the farm
boys and girls of club age be enrolled
and given maximum instruction in
4-H club projects.
• Other tenets of the county agent-banker
farm program are the produc­tion
of sufficient feeds and pastures
for all livestock, proper fertilization
of crops, use of the right varieties of
field crops, and the practice of soil
building. In all these things they
advocate Auburn recommendations.
The meetings were held at Gads­den,
Decatur, and Hamilton. They
were called by District Agent High
and J. S. Wittmeier, president of the
First National Bank, Oneonta, and
Chairman of the agricultural com­mittee
of the Alabama Bankers Asso­ciation.
'Ukelele Ike' Leader
In His Profession
Architects And Civils
Hold Joint Meeting
Professor J. A. C. Callan spoke to
the Architectural Association and the
A. S. C. E. Monday evening on the
development and beautification of
Westchester C o u n t y by t he
Westchester County Park Commis­sion.
The purpose of the Commis­sion,
he explained, was dual.
First they were to obtain as much
park development as possible, and
second to increase the accessibility
for New Yorkers. He pointed out
that the land in this section was gen­erally
swampy before the Park Com­mission
took it in hand, and was bar­ren
of any improvement whatever.
With stereoptican slides he showed
how swamps had been drained and
filled, debris cleaned up, and grass
and shrubs planted.
Numbers of very beautiful bridges
and viaducts were built to accom­modate
the traffic and enhance the
beauty of the streets. A'lso numbers
of new amusement parks were built
and old ones improved, and as a re­sult,
he pointed out, the income from
these parks alone for four years has
been sufficient to cover the expenses
of the Commission, amounting to
roughly $1,500,000,000.
Next Monday, February 3, all ar­chitects
and civils will be excused
from their nine o'clock classes to
hear a talk by a representative of
the National Lumber Manufacturers
Association in the Architectural lec­ture
room, Main Building. The speak­er,
himself, says, "It will not be a
sales talk for lumber, but an educa­tional
effort toward an intelligent
use of wood to prevent its misuse in
construction." He will speak again
at another joint meeting of the Ar­chitectural
and Civil Societies Mon­day
evening, and as he is an expert in
his line everyone interested in wood
construction should avail themselves
of the unusual opportunity of hear­ing
him.
W. C. Taylor Resigns
To Work With Father
!
Prof. W. C. Taylor, of the animal
husbandry department of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, has re­signed
and moved to Tuscaloosa to
form a partnership with his father
and engage in general farming near
Tuscaloosa. His plan is to combine
livestock with crops, thereby making
t a diversified farm which he and his
father have had in mind several years.
Taylor was graduated at Auburn
in 1925. Since graduation he has
been with the college at Auburn and
also a teacher of vocational agricul­ture.
"Ukulele Ike" (Cliff Edwards) is
the originator of ukulele ballad sing­ing
in American vaudeville and musi­cal
comedy, and is its most famous
exponent. Other professionals have
always given him full credit, and one
of them said honestly: "Edwards
never left us a chance in that field."
His income from stage appear­ances,
published songs, and phono­graph
records is now said to approxi­mate
$300,000 a year, but he worked
his way up to it, in the best American
fashion, from an honorarium of $2 a
week.
That was in a St. Louis "nickelo­deon,"
when he wore short trousers.
"I had a very complicated job,"
Mr. Edwards relates. "I was trap
drummer, I sang an illustrated song
or two, swept out after the show,
and beat the drum outside as a bally­hoo
before the picture started.".
His famous nickname was given
him by a waiter in a Chicago cabaret,
before he was featured by any title.
That name has since become synony­mous
with ukulele playing itself. On
Commander Byrd's North Pole ex­pedition,
one of the officers was
known as "Ukulele Ike," for his prow­ess
with this instrument, with which
he was expected to keep up the mor­ale
of the expedition.
Since then, "Ukulele Ike" has been
starred in the Ziegfeld "Follies" and
other outstanding musical comedies,
and has sung, by the Prince of Wales'
request, in London, for the King and
Queen of Spain. But he is especially
popular on the Pacific Coast, a signi­ficant
fact, for those states are close
to Hawaii, the ukulele's home, and
Far-Westerners know the genuine
thing in this type of entertainment.
In the phonograph field, one has
only to hear any of Ukulele Ike's
records to understand the reasons
for it all. Take the single matter of
clarity in vocal recording, an admit­tedly
difficult accomplishment. One
hears every word of Ukulele Ike's
songs—and hears them with unvary­ing
pleasure. For his personality
carries ever the disc, too, and the
listener somehow feels at once in
sympathy with the singer. This is
partly because the clever instrument-
Student Hears Of
Radio Jungle Party
Americans In Nicaragua To Be
Rescued
In communication with U. S. Ma­rine
base radio station NNCAB, lo­cated
at Porto Cabez, Nicaragua, G.
H. Fahrubel, an Auburn student ope­rating
at W4AQ, recently, Jan­uary
11, received news of the forma­tion
of a rescue party to bring back
a party of Americans, from the Nic­aragua!!
jungles, where they have
been stranded for more than a year.
Over a year ago the Nicaraguan
bandit Sandino attacked a mine of
the Bonanza Mining Company, where
the Americans were employed, and
killed two of the party, taking the
rest prisoners. The prisoners were
set free in the heart of the jungle
with no means of escaping, and even
after being located by the Marine
fliers could not be rescued because
of the lack of a landing place. How­ever,
food and clothing sufficient for
their needs has been dropped from
time to time by the airplanes flying
over. Last week the party had fin­ally
been successful in working the
way to one of the navigable rivers
of Nicaragua, and according to plans
the rescue party was to start up the
river Monday, Jan. 13th.
The operator of the Nicaraguan
station stated that the signal of the
Auburn station was loud and strong.
The stations have a scheduled con-tinned
communication next Saturday.
al accompaniment is usually done by
the singer. IPs a one-man show in
two parts, both of them perfection.
"Ukulele Ike" was a star in the
"Hollywood Revue" and in "Mari­anne."
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