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SUPPORT THE CAGE TEAM THE PLAINSMAN SUPPORT THE CAGE TEAM T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT 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. (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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. PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930 Sty* flatnaman Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $3.60 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 A. V. Blankenship Walter B. Jones Business Manager ..Editor-in-chief EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Managing Robert Hume Associate Rosser Alston Associate Gabie Drey —News Victor White Dick Jones News Sports A. C. Taylor Associate Sports Murff Hawkins ..Exchange Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor REPORTERS A. C. Cohen, '32; K. B. McMillan, '33; K. G. Taylor, '33; J. C. Johnson, '33; R. P. Greer, '33; A. B. Hanson, '33; J. R. Chadwick, '33; C. H. Currey, '33; R. K. Sparrow, '33; S. A. Lacy, "33 R. T. Wasson, '33; J. R. Wilder, '32; R. P. Boyd, '32; H. G. Twomey, '32. BUSINESS STAFF Hugh W. Overton Advertising Mgr. Charles Davis ..Circulation Mgr. 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 Hlfi^-: wku :-_:'y\: M v.S.M • „ :-::;:: 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. tit . 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. r-- Always Ready To Serve You BANK OF AUBURN Bank Of Personal Service A. MEADOWS GARAGE AUTO REPAIRS CARS FOR HIRE TIRES TUBES U-DRIVE-'EM GAS ACCESSORIES OIL PHONE 29-27 GREASES 150 rooms, every room with bath and showers Circulating ice water and oscillating f a n s STRICTLY FIREPROOF The Greystone Montgomery, Ala. Wolff Hotel Company Charles A. Johnson Operators Manager Ward's Place Washing *> Greasing Motor Fuel THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES HAGEDORN'S Opelika's Leading Department Store. THE BIQ. STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES 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."— * 'Tis Fine to Dine at the PICKWICK MAY & GREEN Men's Clothing Sporting Goods Montgomery, Alabama HEY! We Are Always Ready to Give You the Best Of Meat MOORE'S MARKET Phone 37 — 4 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. Patronize our Advertisers. 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." Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager VARSITY BARBER SHOP Located Next to Tiger Drug Store We Appreciate Your Trade •»--»-~^* KLEIN & SON Jewelers GRUEN WATCHES Montgomery, Ala. GEO. CLOWER YETTA G. SAMFORD Clower & Samford Insurance Co., Inc. (Established 1872) OPELIKA AUBURN Member Mortgage Bankers Association of America Kratzer's Ice Cream Your Local Dealer Has It Have the satisfaction of knowing that our products are pasteurized, and of the finest ingredients, thereby making it one of the very best. KRATZER'S Montgomery, Alabama Local Dealers Homer Wright S. L. Toomer Tiger Drug Store 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. Room and Board-342 South Gay Street $26.00 per month MRS. R. T. DUBOSE "TRY THE DRUG STORE FIRST" We Carry A Complete Line Of A. G. Spaulding & Bros. Golf Equipment We Have New Standard Golf Balls In Stock TIGER DRUG STORE WE DELIVER PHONE 200 Take Our Advice and Select Your Second Semester Books Now Before the Best Second Hand Ones are Sold Burton's Bookstore 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." STRAIGHT SALARY:—$35.00 per week and expenses. Man or woman with rig to introduce EGG PRODUCER. Eureka Mfg. Co., East St. Louis, 111. STUDENTS ATTENTION! We invite you to open a checking account with us. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Your Interest Computed OPELIKA PHARMACY INC. Prescription Druggist YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED Phone 72 Opelika, Ala. "Say It With Flowers" And Say It With Ours FOR EVERY SOCIAL OCCASION Rosemont Gardens Florists Montgomery, Alabama Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn. TOOMER'S WILL GIVE YOU SERVICE DRUG SUNDRIES DRINKS, SMOKES THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY ON THE CORNER Its the . |MAS JEFFERSON tgjgT^ BAKER HOTEL 2nd Ave.—17th St. Downtown 350 ROOMS Each with Bath, Coiling Fans and Circulating lot Water. TWO LOUNGES • BALLROOM DINING ROOM COFFEE SHOP .RCHESTR^ PLAYS FOR RATE DAILY CONCERTS AND UP • THE MOS^MODERN "HOTEL IN THE SOUTH t>ANCIHG
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Title | 1930-01-28 The Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | SUPPORT THE CAGE TEAM THE PLAINSMAN SUPPORT THE CAGE TEAM T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT 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. (Continued on page 4) 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 (Continued on page 4) 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. PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930 Sty* flatnaman Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $3.60 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 A. V. Blankenship Walter B. Jones Business Manager ..Editor-in-chief EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Managing Robert Hume Associate Rosser Alston Associate Gabie Drey —News Victor White Dick Jones News Sports A. C. Taylor Associate Sports Murff Hawkins ..Exchange Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor REPORTERS A. C. Cohen, '32; K. B. McMillan, '33; K. G. Taylor, '33; J. C. Johnson, '33; R. P. Greer, '33; A. B. Hanson, '33; J. R. Chadwick, '33; C. H. Currey, '33; R. K. Sparrow, '33; S. A. Lacy, "33 R. T. Wasson, '33; J. R. Wilder, '32; R. P. Boyd, '32; H. G. Twomey, '32. BUSINESS STAFF Hugh W. Overton Advertising Mgr. Charles Davis ..Circulation Mgr. 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 Hlfi^-: wku :-_:'y\: M v.S.M • „ :-::;:: 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. tit . 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. r-- Always Ready To Serve You BANK OF AUBURN Bank Of Personal Service A. MEADOWS GARAGE AUTO REPAIRS CARS FOR HIRE TIRES TUBES U-DRIVE-'EM GAS ACCESSORIES OIL PHONE 29-27 GREASES 150 rooms, every room with bath and showers Circulating ice water and oscillating f a n s STRICTLY FIREPROOF The Greystone Montgomery, Ala. Wolff Hotel Company Charles A. Johnson Operators Manager Ward's Place Washing *> Greasing Motor Fuel THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES HAGEDORN'S Opelika's Leading Department Store. THE BIQ. STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES 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."— * 'Tis Fine to Dine at the PICKWICK MAY & GREEN Men's Clothing Sporting Goods Montgomery, Alabama HEY! We Are Always Ready to Give You the Best Of Meat MOORE'S MARKET Phone 37 — 4 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. Patronize our Advertisers. 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." Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager VARSITY BARBER SHOP Located Next to Tiger Drug Store We Appreciate Your Trade •»--»-~^* KLEIN & SON Jewelers GRUEN WATCHES Montgomery, Ala. GEO. CLOWER YETTA G. SAMFORD Clower & Samford Insurance Co., Inc. (Established 1872) OPELIKA AUBURN Member Mortgage Bankers Association of America Kratzer's Ice Cream Your Local Dealer Has It Have the satisfaction of knowing that our products are pasteurized, and of the finest ingredients, thereby making it one of the very best. KRATZER'S Montgomery, Alabama Local Dealers Homer Wright S. L. Toomer Tiger Drug Store 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. Room and Board-342 South Gay Street $26.00 per month MRS. R. T. DUBOSE "TRY THE DRUG STORE FIRST" We Carry A Complete Line Of A. G. Spaulding & Bros. Golf Equipment We Have New Standard Golf Balls In Stock TIGER DRUG STORE WE DELIVER PHONE 200 Take Our Advice and Select Your Second Semester Books Now Before the Best Second Hand Ones are Sold Burton's Bookstore 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." STRAIGHT SALARY:—$35.00 per week and expenses. Man or woman with rig to introduce EGG PRODUCER. Eureka Mfg. Co., East St. Louis, 111. STUDENTS ATTENTION! We invite you to open a checking account with us. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Your Interest Computed OPELIKA PHARMACY INC. Prescription Druggist YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED Phone 72 Opelika, Ala. 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