1929-11-19 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIU AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929 NUMBER 21
Pretty Girls To
Present Prizes
Winning Frosh
O.D.K. Cake Race Will Be First
Event of Its Kind Here
DATE TO BE GIVEN LATER
Numbers of Rats Announce In­tention
of Competing
The many cakes which are to be
presented to successful runners in the
cake race being sponsored by Omega
Circle of Omicron Delta JCappa will
be- awarded by pretty sponsors it was
given out today by the special commit­tee
of ODK'consisting of Hayley Mil-ligan,
Rosser Alston and Carmon
Teague. This committee has formu­lated
plans for the coming event'.
It was said today that the exact date
of the Cake Race which will be partic
ipated in by all fresmen will be an
nounced in the Plainsman next week.
The race, the first of it's kind ever
to be staged in Auburn, will not con
flict with any meetings planned for
that week. Omicron Delta Kappa is
working in collaboration with the ath
letic department and officers of the
administration as well as student' or
ganizations to make the event a sue
cessful annual affair.
It was pointed out that arrange
ments have been completed to give a
large number of cakes to participants.
The coveted prizes will be furnished
by Ingrams Sanitary Bakery of Ope-lika.
They will be on display in the
windows of the Students Supply Shop
previous to the race, it was said.
According to reports much interest
in the event has been demonstrated
by first year men. Although the
course to be run and the length of
the race will not be difficult a large
number 'have expressed their inten­tion
of training for the event. Those
wishing pointers about the race are re­quested
to see the Physical Training
Instructor or any member of Omicron
Delta Kappa. Further announcements
will be made to each section of the
classes in Physical Training in regard
to the race and the giving of credit
in those classes to participants.
F. J. Bryant Speaks To
A.S.C.E. on Astronomy
Tells Club That Geologists Search
Skies for Signs of End
Of World
At a meeting of the A. S. C. E.
Monday night, F. J. Bryant, promin-ant
member of the senior class, dis­cussed
the periodicity of geological
epochs. Mr. Bryant brought out the
fact that predictions concerning the
end of the world by modern fanatics
have usually been regarded as a joke,
but at the present time geologists are
attempting to determine the time when
humanity will be destroyed on the
earth, by their study of the sunspots.
The direct effect is the manner in
whiqh sunspots affect the weather,
according to the meterologists at the
Smithsonian Institution.
According to geologists, sunspot
maxima cause geological epochs by
causing crustal upheavals within the
earth due to affected weather con­ditions.
Mr. Gillette, author of Mr. Bryant's
topic, advanced the theory that two
planets outside the obit of Neptune
cause the sunspots.
With the use of one of Einstein's
formulae Mr. Gillette deduces the age
of the earth to be one hundred mil­lion
years; he divides this time into
thirty-six epochs. The end of each
epoch coincides with a great crustal
uplift and glaciation.
Mr. Bryant concluded his interest­ing
talk by assuring his hearers that
as the present epoch has just begun,
no one had anything to worry over
as far as the world suddenly coming
to an end was concerned,
EDUCATION SOCIETY
IS ESTABLISHED AND
OFFICIALS SELECTED
New Club Elects Victor Savage
President for 1929-30
MEMBERSHIP OF FIFTY
Executive Cabinet
Announces Names
Of Committeemen
EDWARD O'NEAL WILL
GIVE MAIN ADDRESS
CORNERSTONE RITES
Noted Alumnus to Visit Alma Mater
Louie James Appointed Chair-
Senior Invitation
Committee
m a n
Next Meeting Will Take Place
on Night of November 25
The cornerstone of what promises
to be one of Auburn's most active
student organizations was laid Tues­day
night when a group of approxi­mately
fifty students of Education
met to form the A. P. I. Education
Club.
At this meeting, the election of of­ficers
to serve for this semester con­sumed
a greater portion of the hour.
For president the club elected Victor
Savage; vice-president, W. B. Story;
secretary, Louise Rowe; treasurer, Joe
Henderson; Plainsman reporter, W. C.
Kelly. By a unamimous vote, the club
elected C. A. Brogden Sergeant-at-arms.
.Following the elections, the next
meeting time was discussed. After
a great deal of discussion, the date
was set for next Monday night, Nov.
25, at seven-thirty. The purpose of
the club and other points which or­dinarily
arise when an organization
is in the making were cleared up by
the acting chairman, Mr. Brogden.
That there is a social aspect to the
club was impressed upon those at­tending
when the call to cakes and
punch was sounded. The' response
was 100% strong.
All in all, the enthusiasm shown
at the initial meeting of the Education
Club proves that the students in Ed­ucation
are interested in forming a
club where they can meet to discuss
problems that are common to all of
them, where they can hear of the lat­est
educational movements in the lead­ing
educational centers, and where
the students can have a chance to
express their opinions.
Lions Club Discusses
Improvement of Roads
May Combine With Other Civic Clubs
To Work for Better
Roads
A discussion on the improvement
of roads running through Auburn was
the feature of the weekly meeting of
the Lions Club which was held Tues­day
at noon at the Thomas Hotel.
Lion Cauthen told the club mem­bers
the condition of country roads,
suggesting ways of improvement. A
proposal was made for the Lions Club
to unite with the other civic clubs
and the town afficials to see what
can be done about the situation.
President Townsley called a meet
ing of the board of trustees to meet
at seven o'clock Tuesday night.
The members were entertained with
piano and banjo selections which were
played by Bob McKinnon and Abie
Hardin.
The secretary of the club informed
the Lions that they had been invited
to attend the laying of the corner­stone
of the Animal Husbandry Build­ing.
FIVE MEMBERS IN GROUP
J. K. Smith Announces He Will
Collect Money for Train
Damages
At a special meeting of the Ex­ecutive
Cabinet Monday night a senior
invitation committee was appointed
by President Carmon Teague. This
action was necessary as several had
been inquiring about senior invitations
and some immediate action was de­sired.
The committee is to consist of five
members, President Teague appoint­ing
three of them, and Hayley Milli-gan,
President of the senior class, ap­pointing
the other two. Those who
have been appointed are: Louie James,
chairman; John Christian, and Hous­ton
Odon. The committee is to pre­pare
the invitations; that it, it is
decide on its contents and the picture
in it, and submit it to bidders.
J. K. Smith, chairman of the Fin­ance
Committee, has decided to see the
presidents of the various classes to
arrange for the payment of damages
due the railroad for recklessness on
the special carrying students to the
Auburn-Florida game in Montgomery
early in the season. The amount
paid will be about nine cents per stu­dent.
PLANS DECLAMATION
CONTEST COMPLETED
Contest Will be Held on Nov­ember
26, Is Announced
FOUR SOCIETIES TO MEET
AUBURN PLAYERS
PRESENT COMEDY
"Sweet and Twenty" Is Name Of
Farce Given Monday
NOTICE SENIORS!
There will be a meeting of the se­nior
class on Thursday at 11 o'clock
in Langdon Hall. This will be an
important meeting, and all seniors are
urged to attend.
The Auburn Players presented a
comedy, "Sweet and Twenty" at its
regular meting on Monday night.
Mildred Wood and Herbert Green
played the leading roles. This pres­entation
was one of those scheduled
to be presented to the club members
and visitors at the regular meetings.
The play portrays in a comical
manner the actions of an escaped
lunatic, Wimple Hawkins, who has
been given a job as a real estate agent.
He is giving a philosophical discourse
on the evils of marriage when sudden­ly,
interrupted by a guard from an
asylum, from which Wimple escaped.
The tangle is finally straightened
out and the play comes to a peaceful
close. The humor furnished was very
much enjoyed by the small audience.
Plans have been completed for the
annual declamation contest which is
to be held November 26. The con­test
will be held at a meeting of the
four literary societies who are to
have entrants; visitors will be wel­come
to attend this event. The decla­mation
is the first of three contests to
be held, sponsored by Phi Delta Gam­ma,
honorary professional forennic
fraternity, the other two being the
oratorical contest and the annual de­bate,
which come at a later date.
According to reports coming from
the various societies, the competition
is keen and many promising speakers
are out to represent their respective
organizations.
Last year several new "finds" were
unearthed in these competitive match­es,
and many of these are to attempt
to defend their laurels from the at­tack
of the newcomers.
Each contestant is allowed to write
his declamation and then learn to
give it in the mast forceful manner,
or he is allowed to select his subject
already written and give it as he
desires.
There are to be three judges, picked
by Phi Delta Gamma who have had
experience in deciding contests. Last
year forty ballots were prepared and
given out to various responsible people
in the audience, but according to the
president of Phi Delta Gamma, this
did not work out as well as was hoped
so this year the method of judging
was again changed. -
The preliminary tryouts take place
in most of the societies tonight. The
winner in each of them is to go to
the finals which will have representa­tives
from all the literary societies.
The winner is to have his name
with his society and the year he won
engraved on a silver cup, the property
of Phi Delta Gamma. There is a
cup for each contest. The leader of
the organization said that this had
been found to be the best plan for
recognition of winners.
J. M. Pearson Will Officiate at
Ceremonies Wednesday
DR. KNAPP WILL SPEAK
Animal Husbandry and Dairy
Building Third on Building
Program
Edward A. O'Neal, president of the
Alabama Farm Bureau Federation,
will be the principal speaker at the
cornerstone laying exercise at the new
Animal Husbandry building on Wed­nesday
afternoon.
James M. Pearson of Alexander
City, grand master of the Grand
Lodge of Masons of Alabama, will of­ficiate
at the ceremonies.
The program for the afternoon is
as follows: music by the band; open­ing
ceremonies, Grand Lodge; lower­ing
of stone; continuation of cere­monies;
brief address, President
Knapp;_ introduction, Dean Funchess,
Professor Grimes, Professor Burke,
Professor Trollpoe, Professor Sal­mon;
address by Mr. O'Neal; conclu­sion
of ceremonies by Grand Lodge.
The building, which is being erected
at a cost of one hundred thousand
dollars, is the third of a number of
modern structures included in Au­burn's
building program. It will be
ready for occupancy in April, 1930,
Dr. Knapp announced.
Those expected to assist Grand Mas­ter
Pearson with the ceremonies are
Robert F. Lovelady, deputy grand
master of Birmingham; William L.
LOB of Columbia, senior grand warden,
Samuel A. Moore of Gadsden, junior
grand warden; Joseph Dixon Mat­lock
of Ensley, grand marshal; John
Wilson Terry of Montgomery, grand
treasurer; and George A. Beauchamp
of Montgomery, grand secretary.
Tiger Rat Reserves
Will Play Lanier Hi
Teams Will Clash In Montgomery
on Friday
BAND NOTICE
All bandmen meet at Langdon
Hall in full uniform Wednesday,
November 20, at 2 p. m., for
cornerstone laying exercises.
The Auburn Rat Reserves are get­ting
into shape for their game with
Lanier High School team on Friday
in Montgomery. This game was re
cently arranged by the coaches of the
two schools.
The reserves of the freshman team
will participate in this contest, as
the members of the team who made
their numerals are barred from com­peting.
A great game , is in prospect as
the Lanier team has lost only one
game thus far this season, this being
to a team from Alabama. The rat
reserves, many of whom have been
in games for a short while, are com­pleting
their training for this con­flict.
Friday's game will complete the
rat's schedule for the season, which
has been the most successful an Au­burn
rat team has ever experienced
With the teams in fine condition, the
supporters of both are firm in their
statements that one of the best games
of the season is on tap in this game.
Matthew S. Sloan
To Visit Auburn
On November 23
Returns to Scene of College
Days by Invitation of Dr.
Knapp
WILL RECEIVE DEGREE
Will be Honor Guest at Many
Parties While Here
MATTHEW S. SLOAN
Rho Chi Gives Bid
Pharmacy Student
R. G. Hightower Only Student
in Pharmacy To Receive
Signal Honor
A signal honor has come to R. G.
Hightower, a senior enrolled in the
four-year pharmacy course here, in
that he was the only member of the
Pharmacy Department found elegible
for Rho Chi.
Hightower is a member of Phi Delta
Chi fraternity and hails from Moulton
Ala. A bid to Rho Chi is said to be
the highest honor that can be bestowed
to indicate a recognition of excellency
in the art of Pharmacy.
Rho Chi is a national organization,
founded at the University of Michigan,
in 1922, for the purpose of promoting
the advancement of pharmaceutical
sciences, and a higher degree of ex­cellence
in the practice of pharmaceu­tical
pursuits. The Zet'a Chapter was
installed here, April 6, 1925.
Alpha Mu Rho Elects
Eleven New Members
Only Seniors Receive Bids to
Honorary Philosophical
Fraternity
Auburn Engineer For
November Off Press
Character Analyst
Speaks Here Monday
Addresses Members Of Architectural
Association
A. W. Lamar, of Atlanta was the
speaker at the meeting of the Archi­tectural
Association, last Monday
night. The subject of the address
was character analysis.
Mr. Lamar brought out the points
of one's appearance which indicate
one's character. According to the
speaker, blondes make better provid­ers
than brunettes, while the latter
are usually more lovable and artistic.
Girls born in May and October are
more beautiful than those born in
other months.
Mr. Lamar then asked the question
that the male Auburnites have often
longed to have answered, that is,
were any of the co-eds born during
either of the lucky months?
"Tl ! iii utlemen prefer blonds,"
Mr. Lamar said, "brunettes, as a
rule, make the best wives."
Is First Edition Since Admission To
Full Membership E.C.M.A.
The "Auburn Engineer" for Novem­ber
was off the press Saturday, being
the first issue since the admittance
of the magazine to full membership
in The Engineering College Maga­zines
Associated.
"A New Type of Highway Bridge,"
"Flying Blind," "An Empirical For­mula
As Applied to Success," and
"Effect of Choke Coils On Voltage
Surges In Transmission Lines" are the
student articles included in this is­sue.
"Timely Advice to Young En­gineers"
by Prof. C. A. Baughman,
of highway engineering at Auburn is
also featured.
In "Alumni News" for this number
the whereabouts of several members
of the class of '29 is given.
The December issue is to be put
out by the Architectural students,
while the January number will be
the work of the students in civil en­gineering.
The other issues of the
year will be put out partly by the
various societies and by the regular
staff. According to the editor, this
arrangement will give a closer view
of the various engineering courses,
no single one being allowed to pre­dominate
too much.
The feature sections of the maga­zine
are to be edited as they are now
being done. It was stated that the
routine of getting up special fea­tures
would not rest on the temporary
staff.
Alpha Mu Rho, national honorary
philosophic fraternity, last week hon­ored
eleven members of the Junior
and Senior classes by extending them
bids to become affiliated with the
fraternity. Election to membership
"depends on a high scholastic stand­ing,
coupled with general prominence
in campus activities. Above all, the
candidates must possess a mind al­ways
open to the admission of the»
truth."
The object of the fraternity is to
"encourage and promote the search
for truth in the colleges and univer­sities
throughout the United States."
Those honored at the recent election
are: Harry A. Emrick, General, Au­burn;
A. A. Strauss, Electrical en­gineering,
Birmingham; Audrey Ful­ler,
Home Economics, Bessemer; John
J. O'Rourke, electrical engineering,
Selma; W. W. Bryant, electrical en­gineering,
Ensley; Maryline Cauthen,
Architecture, Auburn; G. M. Collins,
Architecture, Montgomery; Elizabeth
Brownfield, Home Economics, Ope-lika;
George C. Brinson, Architecture,
Birmingham; Kenneth Giddens, Archi­tecture,
Mobile; Lane Graves, Home
Economics, Mobile.
An election to Alpha Mu Rho is
held every year. The local chapter of
the fraternity was established in the
spring of 1926.
KIWANIANS PLAN
CHRISTMAS PARTY
Members Plan Big Banquet For
December 13
NOTICE STUDENTS!
Student tickets' for the Auburn-
Georgia Tech game in Atlanta
Thanksgiving will go on sale at Alum­ni
Gymnasium Monday, November
25. Coupon number 8 and fifty cents
is all that is required.
The Tiger-Yellow Jacket encoun­ter
is always attended by several hun­dred
Auburn students and this year
is not supposed to be an exception to
past years.
Committees to carry out plans for a
Christmas party were appointed at
the luncheon-meeting of the Auburn
Kiwanis Club Monday.
The party will be held on December
13, the date being chosen so that all
members can attend. The celebration
will include many musical numbers
and a large banquet; further plans
are to be discussed at the next meet­ing.
Mr. Hoffsomer sang two selections
for the Kiwanians. After the meet­ing,
the members sang some of the
well-known Kiwanis songs.
Dr. Showalter Speaks
On Care of Children
Giving Series of Lectures on Child
Care Over Radio WAPI
Dr. B. R. Showalter is giving a
series of lectures over W. A. P. I. on
the care of children, mentally and
psycologically. This series of talks is
both interesting and beneficial to
parents out over the state.
Up to the present time Dr. Sho­walter
has delivered two talks one of
"Good Homes and Bad"; the other on
"In the Beginning." These were
given first so that the radio audience
could become familiar with the all
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As a climax to one of the most
spectacular careers in the annals of
public utilities and 29 years after re­ceiving
the degree of Bachelor of
Science in electricial and mechanical
engineering at the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, Matthew S. Sloan will
return, on November 23, to his alma
mater by special invitation from
President Bradford Knapp to receive
the honorary degree of Doctor of
Engineering. He will come to Auburn
direct from Lock 12 Dam of the Ala­bama
Power Company on Coosa Riv­er
in Chilton County where he will
be the principal speaker at the dedi­cation
of this dam to the honor of
Captain William Patrick Lay of
Gadsden.
During his brief stay in Auburn,
where he was once popular as a stu­dent
and athlete, and since when he
has been the admiration of Auburn
men and all Alabamians, Mr. Sloan
will be busy. He will be the guest of
honor at a dinner party given by
President and Mrs. Knapp in their
home, after which faculty, members
of the board of trustees, students,
townspeople, and visitors will as­semble
at eight o'clock in historic old
Langdon Hall where he received his
first degree 28 years ago. There
President Knapp will confer upon
him the degree of D. Eng.—the first
degree of this kind to be awarded by
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
It was recommended by Dr. Knapp to
the board of trustees and received
their unanimous and enthusiastic ap­proval.
Following this ceremony, Mr.
Sloan will be the guest of Dr. and
Mrs. George Petrie in their home,
and will be glad to greet old friends
there.
Conferring of the degree of Mr.
Sloan received the official endorse­ment
of the faculty at a meeting Tues­day
afternoon. After being recom­mended
by President Knapp a motion
was made By Dean John J. Wilmore of
the college of engineering that the
degree be conferred. Dean M. J.
Funchess of the college of agriculture
seconded the motion which was un­animously
and heartily approved.
In presenting it Dr. Knapp de­clared
that what Auburn does in foot­ball
is of minor important but that
what Auburn does in turning out men
to be 'leaders is paramount. The
faculty approved by applause.
Few men have a career as colorful
and as successful as that of Matt
Sloan, who graduated at Auburn in
1901. He received the M. S. degree in
1902. (In 1911 he was awarded the
professional degree Electrical Engin­eer.)
As a student he played varsity
football in 1898, 1899, and 1900. He
was on varsity baseball in 1898,
1899, 1900, and 1901. He was cap­tain
the two last years of his college
career. The last year the Auburn
Tigers were southern champions.
Leaving college, Mr. Sloan's first
job was as manager of the municipal­ly
operated electric light plant at
Dothan. He was manager, wireman,
bill collector, overseer of the water
supply, general contact man, and any­thing
else necessary to make a suc­cess
of the job.
From Dothan he went t'o Memphis
Street Railway Company and from
there to Schenectady, N. Y., where
he entered as an apprentice in the
plant of the General Electric Com-pany.
He was in the steam turbine
department, the year when this com­pany
developed the first big turbine
of 2,000 watts. He advanced with
this company until he resigned in 1906
to become chief engineer for the Bir­mingham
Railway Light and Power
Company. Two years later he was
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THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929.
Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
A. V. Blankenship Editor-in-chief
Walter B. Jones Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Thomas P. Brown Managing Editor
Robert Hume Associate Editor
Rosser Alston Associate Editor
Chesley McCaskill Associate Editor
Gabie Drey News Editor
Victor White News Editor
Dick Jones _ - Sports Editor
A. C. Taylor Associate Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange 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.
Art Exhibit of G r e at
V a l u e t o All S t u d e n ts
The art exhibition, held here the past
two weeks, from the Southern States Art
Exhibit League of which Auburn became
a member this year, was undoubtedly of
great benefit to the students enrolled in
the School of Architecture, especially those
specializing in Applied and Commercial
Arts as it gave them a chance to view
some of the best oil paintings of the day,
and in that way formed for them a more
concrete basis of comparison for their own
work.
This exhibition which was sponsored by
the School of Architecture consisted of
thirty-three pictures carefully selected from
two hundred and twenty works of art ex­hibited
at the ninth annual exhibition of
the Art League held last April in San An­tonio,
Texas. Eleven southern states and
the District of Columbia were represented
there. The exhibition which came here was
for the most part oil paintings of a variety
of subjects, although southern subjects pre­dominated
as it is the policy of the League
to encourage the use of southern material
by southern artists and to present these
artists to a wider public.
Auburn's entrance into the league is of
unquestionable value to the school as it in­sures
the bringing here every year of a
similar exhibition. The value of this is
not limited entirely to the architectual
students but should find a fertile field
among the other students of the college. The
fact that a person studying engineering does
not mean that he should pursue this line of
work excluding everything else. It is very
true that this is an age of specialization,
but this specialization should* not be carried
on to the point of narrowmindedness and
the formation of a one track mind good only
for the solving of long equations. A little
appreciation of the fine arts along with a
good knowledge of engineering will do much
more towards the achieving of success than
will the studying of engineering and noth­ing
else. The bringing of these exhibits
here will do much towards helping the
students here gaining a little knowledge of
a field too often neglected in the educa­tion
of the boy and girl of today.
Societies Can Be Aided
By F r a t e r n i t y Rulings
Within the past few weeks the student
activity situation has changed slightly for
the better, but it still remains in a some­what
deplorable state. Without student sup­port
and management activities will un­doubtedly
suffer greatly, while if they are
strengthened by attendance, the kind and
amount rendered determines the usefulness
of any organization.
The present state of affairs in Auburn
needs the attention of every one concerned
in the welfare and existence of the societies
if they are to produce worthwhile results
instead of merely clinging on for dear life.
The older students usually make up the of­ficers
and a good percentage of the mem­bers,
while the freshmen are to be con­sidered
the workers and body of an organi­zation.
At the beginning of the semester the
new men showed a sad lack of interest in
-anything pertaining to extra curricula
work, and this condition has changed but
little since then. A few have begun to at­tend
and participate but very few at that.
If this continues, there will be no strong
organizations on the campus within three or
four years.
We are at a loss to understand the rea­son
for this sudden departure from this
certainly worthy work, and we feel that
something should be done in the near future
If it is the fault of the upperclassmen, it
must be immediately remedied by them.
They must work to create a desire within
the first year men to go out for activities,
and they must see that it is done.
Another way in which interest can be
made paramount is for the Interfraternity
Council to take action on the question and
see if there is not a ruling that can be
made to get the freshmen to take an active
part in other work than studies. Some may
raise the question of whether or not it has
the power to do such, but we feel certain
that it does possess the necessary power
since it is working for the best interests of
fraternities on the campus. We will ap­preciate
fraternity men giving this some
thought as soon as possible.
THE COLLEGE LAD
In a talk to educators in New York,
President Lowell, of Harvard, assailed
the old belief that the young are liable
to fall to temptation more easily than
the older folks. He instanced that his
great-grandfather sent his grandfather
"to colleg at the age of 13, too young
to dissipate and it worked out excep-
" tionally well in that case. The audience
"smiled approvingly" in recognition of
the fact that the grandfather was James
Russell Lowell, who stands with Ralph
Waldo Emerson as the greatest Ameri­can,
man of letters. President Lowell
advised that if only "the dear mothers
who are afraid of their boys going to
college so early would look over our
figures at Harvard, "they would see
that the temptation to go to the devil
increases with age. Anybody who
knows anything about the devil un­derstands
this." Di\ Richmond Hard­ing,
we believe, will agree in the pro­position
the younger the boys are, the
better scholars they are and the better
behaved they are.
—Charlotte Observer
The opinion of the great educator may
be correct in some cases, but it is diffi­cult
for us to bring ourselves to the point
of believing it to be true in Auburn. From
the childish habits exhibited by some we
are led to believe that they should have
waited several years at least before ven­turing
forth in the collegiate world.
The records in Auburn showing the, dif­ficulty
with which freshmen and many
sophomores with even a sprinkling of
juniors and seniors remain in college, prove
that far too few realize the purpose of at­tending
an educational center; it seems that
a man must attend school a while, becom­ing
oriented in the meanwhile, before he
can fully place a value on his education.
Even then he finds trouble and hard work
ahead before he can achieve what he de­sires
to do.
Letters to the Editor
My Dear Editor:—
Mr. Billowheel is to be commended for his
searching investigations. He seems to have
wandered over to the library, and in some
manner found the door and without any
help whatsoever—walked in. Mr. Billo­wheel
had a literary urge! (Why doesn't he
develop it?) He walked up to the desk and
repeated "what he wanted eleven times
right quick" and left the desk without wait­ing
for an answer.
Who but a man of the Billowheel type
would look for an engineering book in a
shelf of English books? He also says that
he " went behind the stacks" and after a
"nice uneventful and entirely unsuccessful
hunt" failed to find what he wanted. He
probably forgot that he may have taken
the book on one of his searches last year and
now has it in his room.
Mr. Billowheel, let me offer this as a
suggestion. When you have a literary urge,
by all means go to the library to satisfy
it but know what your literary urge is;
state it in English; have a little patience;
and don't ge behind the stacks without be­ing
courteous enough to ask permission as
you evidently did on that historic occasion
mentioned in your "Ravings" in the Plains­man
last Wednesday.
Yours sincerely,
Baldasarre Galoppi.
The Geckette
I am the geckette who goes to the library
on the pretense to study, but my real pur­pose
is to see some friends who are there,
and are trying to study. I know that it
may annoy them, but everyone must ad­mit
that it is pretty smart of me to do
this. Everyone thinks I am very popular
with the boys and my other friends, and
it is all right even if I do disturb them.
I don't have many dates on the campus,
but I like to see if the boys won't, ask me
for one if I keep talking to them. I am
just going to keep pestering them until
they will give me one but not in the library.
The librarian looks at me in a peculiar
manner-as though she would like to throw
me out, but I am used to that by now. May­be
I shouldn't talk there, but it is an ideal
place—everything is so quiet and peaceful
I do not have the least bit of trouble in let­ting
everyone know I am around.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
I was sorry to be
absent last week, but
a number of us were
at an important meet­ing
in Chicago where
we were able to be in
touch with the pro­gress
of similar
schools in every part
of the country. It
was a fine meeting
and well worth the time spent.
* * * * *
I do not know how many others noticed
one thing in the Fresman game Saturday,
but one incident filled me with a great
deal of hope. Whenever a football player
has to be led off from the field begging
and pleading to be left in, and whenever
that is the result of his putting forth as
much effort as this freshman , player had
been putting forth, it gets pretty close to
me because I know there is a real man. It
was a great game—one of the first Fresh­man
games I have seen this year—and I
am tremendously encouraged over it. I
have heard from good authorities that our
varsity team played a good game against
Georgia. I think they did from the score.
What we need now is a little old-fashioned
enthusiasm for this Tech game on Thanks­giving.
I never liked to see a bunch yell
themselves out before a game and then not
do any yelling afterwards, but I do think
there is a good psychology in working up
some enthusiasm, and so I would like to
see us put some effort into trying to get
for once a real enthusiastic rousing of the
student body and alumni of this institu­tion.
I am wondering if we can't make
"WAR EAGLE" the usual salutation on
this campus from now until Thanksgiving
Day. Another thing I would like to see is
to see someone yelling across this campue
"BEAT TECH". This freshman class out­side
of the football squad have not done so
much this year. We haven't put a heavy
burden on them. I am wondering if we
could insist that every time an upper-class­man
points his finger at a freshman he
be compelled to yell "WAR EAGLE" or
"BEAT TECH". I may be going against
wishes of the faculty, but I am willing to
have that going on all day long every day
except for those periods when the classes
are actually in class. What I mean is
when we are changing classes, let's rouse
it up. I believe in scholarship and there­fore
I don't believe in spending all night
yelling and not getting the necessary work
done, but I don't care if we could hear some
yelling between 6:00 and 7:00 or 7:30,
and then if a fellow felt really jubilant and
happy, if he went out into the open air
and let out a war whoop before he went
to bed for a good night's sleep, it would not
worry me in the least. What do you say?
Are you ready to go? Gee, I am all fed up
on being glum. What's the use? Win or
lose, let's go up to Tech in a different at­titude.
This is a peach of a bunch of fel­lows
out here playing football for us. Let's
go up with a smile on our faces. If we are
bound to get licked, we will take it with a
smile on our faces and standing up too, but
if we don't have to get licked, let's don't.
" L i t t l e T h i n g s"
By Tom Bigbee
Our guess is that Freshman Chemistry
students, along with those-to-be, are not
too much enthused over the discovery of
the new metal, Konel, since it means an­other
source for quiz questions. Still it has
its importance otherwise.
A new sign for ye old flivver—"Seven
days in this makes one weak."
Recently in an English class, a student
was asked to write upon the board the
names of some magazines which the pro­fessor
was dictating. Ye gods!—the stu­dent
couldn't write.
"I will study and get ready, and maybe
my chance will come," said Honest Abe.
We wonder if he was subjected to quizzes
too?
"Give me just one hour a day, and in
four years I will make you a scholar and
a philosopher," says Will Durant. What
an avenue of relief for the present student,
if this can be true. A much less laborious
process than spending full days throughout
the entire four years, in classrooms and
laboratories.
But listen to this remark from Mr. Du­rant:
"Perhaps you are a college graduate
and are ready, then, to begin your educa­tion"
Meaning, presumably, that college
training does not educate a man. Well, we
agree with him, at that.
Some sophomores return "to college as
fresh as a raisy, and others as dazed as a
freshie.
If the insured would all die off at once,
what a fortune it would leave for the rest.
Some prominent man states that clothes
have more to do with sex appeal than they
have as a protection against inclement
weather.
Another reason for the alarming increase
of unhappy marriages is that too many
girls marry before they are fully able to
support a husband.
Professor of American Government to Foggy student: "In what two ways
may a person be born a citizen of the United States?"
Foggy: "Professor, I didn't think that there was but one way."
We understand that Jimmie Coleman has been helping Professor Baughman
teachsome this semester. Prof, has such big classes and so many hours than the
strain has been telling on him, so Jimmie to the rescue.
* * * * * * * *
It strikes us that many college graduates are like the two tramps meeting
in a town. Upon inquiring one found out that the other was looking for work.
Whereupon he quickly informed him to leave town at once as plenty was to be had.
* * * * * * * *
Will Rogers thinks that because the senate is meeting at night it is investigat­ing
many things that would stand out too well in the day time. Maybe he's right
at that.
* * * * * * * *
From appearances Duck Hillman has as many girls as he has orderlies.
Wonder if they obey him as well.
* * * • * • • •
Her father was a contractor so she found bridge very easy.
* * * * * * * *
Once, upon a night of splendor,
With a maiden, young and tender,
I slowly strolled beside a stream
And pressed the hand of my adored—
And my throbbing heart was thrilling,
As with love my soul was"filling,
And I asked if she were willing
To re-enact romantic lore—
Accept my love, and yield her own.
She spoke the words that I adored:
"I'll love you, dear, for evermore!"
Now, just see how things are altered,
Because I once in weakness faltered:
I've changed my mind, and love no more
The tender maid I once adored—
And the thing is simply killing,
For(with deep and dark misgiving
I asked if she were willing
To grant me freedom's welcome door;
Forget the past, and part our ways,
And this is what I found in store:
"You're mine, you hear, so say no more!"
Ex. 939
* * » * * • * *
Business man: "Well, Miss Smith how would you like to take a business trip
next week?
Miss Smith (chewing hard): Say, I may be your typewriter, but I'm not
portable!
* * * * * * * * *
The congregation of a village church read this announcement in its weekly
bulletin: "The ladies of this church have cast off clothing of all kinds. They may
be seen in the basement of the church any afternoon this week.
* * • • • • » •
Was your old man in comfortable circumstances when he died?
No, 'e was under a train.
* * * * * * * *
Dear Bill: Is there a book in the library which deals with the modern petting
problem? Student.
Dear Student: Yeah. The name of it is "Wanderer of the Waistland."
* * * * * * * *
The absent-minded professor has finally been killed. He jumped from an
airplane and didn't open the parachute because it wasn't raining.
-:- WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
AIN'T WE SORRY?
This column will be neglected this is­sue
of the Plainsman owing to the fact of a
clipping previously appearing herein, be­ing
called to task, along with the Plains­man
Staff, the school and her students.
Following will be reprinting of the clip­ping,
and as nearly the letter as we could
make-out. We hope, that since the letter
accompaning the clipping is so educational
and inspirational, that we have not made
any serious mis-interpretations of the
handwriting, so that it's author will not be
given undue credit in any way what-so-ever.
It is the policy of the Plainsman to
run in its columns letters to the Editor
only when the letter is worthy of the space
to be occupied and when signed by its
author. This particular letter, being
neither, will be run, however, because it
is the humble wish of it's author. We hope
that the author's name was not omitted be­cause
of his or her being ashamed of the
comments therein. We think that they are
great. Anyway, here goes the clipping
followed by the letter:
THE ONE YOU LOVE TO TOUCH
"The Co-eds at Birmingham-Southern
have become very much engrossed in the
game of touch football. Instead of tack­ling
each other's shoe-strings in this game,
which resembles the real football game as
closely as an elephant does a baboon, the
idea is to touch the one in possession of
the ball. Since these girls are freshmen,
and have adopted this game, we would
have reason to believe that their cry may
be, 'touch me not.' College has strange
events in store for the younger generation,
and in another year or two their cry has
apparently met with a fumble and reversed
the field. Do we care?"
Dear Sirs:—
I, being a reader of your 'Plainsman,'
could not help but notice enclosed clipping
in last weeks edition. If it is in keeping
with your policy I would ask that you in­clude
in some later edition this little para­graph
I am sending you.
NEXT.
After noting a rather crude bit of print
referring to the athletic activities of co-eds
at Birmingham-Southern College the ques­tion
arises—What will they do if 'touch
football' is not installed as a sport for the
supposedly weaker sex?
One thing is certain; they do not wish to
emulate some of their follow co-eds at Au­burn
and become proficient at such things
as would resemble a lady as much as a
bath sponge. In regard to this new foot­ball
'which resembles the real football -as
closely as an elephant does a baboon', it
is my humble suggestion that some of the
co-eds and eds at Auburn start playing
such a game in order that they may burst
into print or perhaps that they to might be
able to get some ideas besides touch the
one in possession of the ball (they need
some ideas). I also would suggest that
some of you had better get the beam from
your own eye before trying to tell your
sisters (and brothers) of the mote which is
in their eye.
Please sir, make an effort to let this open
someone's eyes by letting.it take a position
in the colums of your paper.
A Reader in B'ham
P. S.—I still read the 'Plainsman' and
like it except for such occasional criticisms
of other schools.
May we all be forgiven of our sins!
* * * * * *
HOW'S THIS?
Emory students will not get any holi­days
in which to celebrate Thanksgiving.
"A break in the quarter's work with final
exams within sight would mean that many
students would not be prepared to make
as good grades as they would otherwise,"
said the council of deans, following a pro­posal
from the Student Activities Council
which was voted down unanimously.
At first the committee asked for a week­end
vacation for the entire student body,
but failed to get any consideration on ac­count
of the professional schools having
classes on Saturday. This would be impos­sible,
as the professional schools could not
afford to loose any time.
Then the committee proposed that holi­days
be given to all the students except
those in the professional schools. This was
voted down unanimously because many
student's would go home and "dissipate so
much over the week-end that they would
never catch up with their work in two
weeks." Well, Merry Christmas. Also, give
the deans an apple once in a while. That
helps out.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
^By cAaron tBillolvheel
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.
* * * * *
I HAVE explored the great arctic re­gions
and caused a breathless world to
marvel at my daring adventures . . . .
I have been a drunken outcast upon a south
sea island and was saved from utter ruin
py a girl, who restored me back to manli­ness,
brought me back to civilization and
with whom I lived a happy and useful life
for ever afterwards. . . . I have been the
most youthful and sought after criminal
lawyer in America The United States
Senate has hung upon my words and clam­ored
for more. . . . I have written subtle
drama that clutched at the throats of hard
boiled broadway audiences I have
tramped from London to Scotland, crossed
the North Sea, hiked across the Scandina­vian
countries, meandered down through
Germany and France, stopping overnight
at little village inns and always keeping
winter behind, and on over the Alps into
Italy. . . . I have been a Casonova in dis­guise.
. . . I have proven a find on the foot­ball
field and slithered my way through
a broken field to cross Georgia Tech's goal
line time after time and inspired Auburn
once more to great football heights
I have been a Rhodes Scholar and written
novels. . . .
All these things I have done in my
geology class. It would be not unlike my
professor to suggest, now that I have done
about everything in the world, it would be
a good idea if I turned in and learned a
little about geology. . . . The ol' rascal.
* * * * *
THERE is a feeling down inside some­where
very much akin to a hunch that
anonymous letter writing is going to
get a nifty right cross to the tip of the chin.
Perhaps the columns will also be unku-kluxed.
That will be bad. Aaron Billo­wheel
is a very pretty name—original too.
Yes that would be bad.
* * * * *
ALL HIS friends will be interested to
know that The Somewhat Reverend
Thomas Bigbee is the proud father
of an idea—his first one. We are glad to
learn that both The Somewhat Reverend
Thomas and the brain baby are doing nice­ly.
The one and only fuzzy-headed old
Doctor Billowheel officiating.
* * * * *
DRUG STORES are the world over
simply drug stores. But our drug
stores in Auburn are more than just
that. In Auburn, one can buy for a modest
consideration, a drink spiked with the
What's-wrong-with-Auburn-football nectar
that delights the soul. With a packet of
cigarettes one may have thrust upon him
The-inside-dope-of-the - Chemistry - Depart­ment.
In short, Auburn drug stores deal in
other lines than drugs; in lines that trend
toward the imaginative and abstract. But
then, I only go to a drug store to buy un-spiked
drinks and cigarettes not tipped with
sweet bits of heresay, so we would not be
interested.
* * * * *
TO MOST of us there is some definite
time out in the future from which we
shall begin to live. We are merely
marking time, so to speak, until we reach
that objective and then, life thenceforward
on will be facinating and constructive. To
some it may be graduation from college.
To others it is the acquiring of a certain
sum of money. To still others it may be
the ownership of property or a business.
Pardon me, but marriage may be the time
that to some will be the time when life really
begins. It is hard to realize that we are
actually living today. Life does not begin
out in the dim future, it has already begun
and we are being swept onward (YMCAish,
I'll admit), and we must begin to grasp
whatever there is around us that is useful.
We must date our lives from today and
not tomorrow.
* * * * *
IT OCCURS to us that the new ruling
regarding the sending home of reports
of class absences is not so much cause
for hair-raising horror as some have repre­sented
it to be. It is thoroughly possible
that the new ruling is designed to avoid
the pain which inevitably follows an in-fringment
of the twenty-per cent, absence
law.
FROM "THE GENERAL ELLIOTT"
No upstart hero may usurp
That honoured swinging seat;
His seasons pass with pipe and glass
Until the tale's complete.
And paint shall keep his buttons bright
Though all the world's forgot
Whether he died for England's pride
By battle, or by pot.
—Robert Graves.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
AUBURN AND TULANE FRESH1ES
END IN 7-7 DEADLOCK SA TURD A Y
By Dick Jones
Time drew its kindly cloak over the
unique proceedings of the game be
tween the Auburn Freshmen and the
Tulane Freshmen in the "Village of
the Plains" Saturday afternoon, with
the score deadlocked at 7 to 7. It was
the Tiger rats last game.
When the game ended Tulane was
in possession of the ball on Auburn's
11-yard line and first down. They
had started a "deadly march" from
the 50-yard line and were halted when
the final whistle blew. The first halt
had likewise been called to a close
just after1 Auburn had advanced the
ball to Tulane's 10-yard line and \O.K
it on downs.
The two teams battled on almost
even terms throughout the first quar­ter.
Then at the beginning of the
second quarter West, Tulane's quarter
back, intercepted an Auburn pass on
the 50-yard line and was downed in
his tracks. Felts, Tulane back, made
a pretty run around right end that
was good for 26-yards and placed the
ball on Auburn's 24-yard line. Tu­lane
then gained 8 yards on three
line bucks and Hardy passed to Felts
on the fourth down, who caught' it
on Auburn's 1-yard line and stepped
over Auburn's goal to score their 6
points. Reed added the extra point
from placement.
Coach "Bull" McFaden must have
given his Tigers a "red-hot" talk dur
ing the half, for they came back into
the game in the third quarter deter­mined
not to be defeated. Tulane
kicked off to Auburn to open the sec­ond
half and Auburn returned the ball
to their 45-yard line. It was a short
punt. Auburn made first down with
four line plays. Phipps made 1 yard
on another line buck and then Auburn
attempted a pass that was incomplete
Jimmie Hitchcock dropped back and
Arkansas University
Given New Theatre
Fayetteville, Ark., Nov. 16.—(Ap)
—Gift of an open air theater to the
University of Arkansas by the Na­tional
Organization of Chi Omega,
in commemoration of the founding of
this Green letter sorority in Arkan­sas,
was announced today by Presi­dent
John C. Futrall following a
meeting of the board of trustees of
the University which formally accept­ed
the building.
This is believed to be the first in­stance
in the history of Greek letter
fraternities or sororities that the na­tional
organization has presented a
memorial of its foundation to the in-institution
where it was founded. Chi
Omega, chartered as a sorority here
in 1895, also is the only women's
Greek letter order to have been
founded by a man.
The theater will be of concrete
and will seat 2,750 people. It will be
read for dedication next June.
punted the longest punt of the game to
Tulane's 1-yard line where Porter
Grant, Auburn's end, grounded the
ball. West, of Tulane, attempted to
punt behind Tulane's goal and dropped
the ball. Grant quickly covered the
ball again, this time being behind
Tulane's goal, and Auburn scored
their touchdown. Hitchcock passed to
Grant, who caught it behind the goal,
to add Auburn's extra point.
It was nip-and-tuck battle every
minute and was filled with thrills as
time after time an Auburn back or a
Tulane back would get away from the
field, only to find himself blocked by
a opposing tackier.
The stars of the game were every
man that played.
"Sleepy" Brown, Montgomery boy,
played a great game for the Tigers.
The two teams not only tied in
points, but tied with eight first downs
each.
Lineup and summary:
Auburn (7) Pos. Tulane (7)
Mason LE Guy
Miller LT... Hill
Wood LG Schroehei
Johnson C-. Mack
Jones -RG Scafidi
Prim RT Cunningham
Money _ RE Ray
Shackleford QB West
Brown FB. _ Reed
Bassett -LH Felts
Hitchcock _,_..RH Hodgens
Score by quarters:
Auburn 0 0 7 0—7
Tulane 0 7 0 0—7
Substitutions: Auburn; Parker,
Gormon, Childers, Neal, Arthur and
Curley. Tulane; Hardy, Conrad,
Tchin, Gianfala, Lodrigues, Simmons.
Touchdowns—Auburn; Grant. Tu-lan;
Felts. Points after touchdown,
Auburn; pass Hitchcock to Grant. Tu­lane;
Reed kicked from placement.
Officials: referee, Johnson (Ga.
Tech); umpire, Knowlton (Tufts);
headlinesman, Paterson (Auburn).
Auburn Boys Scout
Georgia Tech Team
Red Floyd, Boozer Pitts, George
Bohler and Wilbur Hutsell occupied
points of vantage during the Tech-
Alabama game, while the entire Au­burn
team had a pretty good view of
the Grant Field activities. They
were the guests of the Tech Athletic
Association, and Capt. Shorty Long,
who is a new backfield man at the
Plains, by the way, said his team
was bent on making it interesting for
the Jackets.
Coach Floyd pointed out the high­lights
of the Georgia game. He was
enthusiastic about the fine work of
Red Harkins at center. Floyd said he
experimented with his boys during the
practice session before the Georgia
game and he discovered that Long's
presence in the backfield was a tre-
The Best New Records
Personal Criticism of New Records Made Each
Week by Buddy Glennon
This column is a personal criticism
of the new records each week. I
sincerely hope it will be an aid in
selecting the best records available.
First, you must hear Jonny Marvin
sing "If I Had A Talking Picture Of
You." This tune is destined to be
one of the most popular as you radio
fans well know. It is right up-to-date
and is the first tune about the
"Talkies." The words are really
clever. The accompaniment will thrill
you. The other side "I'm A Dreamer
(Aren't We All?)" from "Sunny Side
Up" has exceptional accompaniment.
And is Oscar Grogan good? He's
better than good as his two new
records prove. On one is the already
popular tune "Tip Toe Thru The Tu­lips
With Me" from the "Gold Diggers
Of Broadway". Note the trumpet in
this one. "Where Are You Dream
Girl" on the other side is still one of
the best tunes. Oscar Grogan does
it to perfection. On his other record
is the "Web of Love" from "The Great
Gabbo." It is a most delightful tune.
Oscars appealing voice would make
any co-ed sigh. "Pal of My Sweet­heart
Days" is an ordinary tune but
appealing.
Ben Selvin plays "The Web Of
Love"—our best tune—and "I'm In
Love With You" from "The Great
Gabbo" which is good except for mys­terious
sounds at the end of one
chorous.
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L
McGeehan Impressed
With Cheers Used By
University of Mexico
W. O. McGeehan, sports writer for
The New York Herald-Tribune, saw
the University of Mexico's first foot­ball
team play Louisiana College in
Mexico City recently. One of the im­pressions
he got of the game that
lasted his memory was the set of
cheers that was used or might have
been used by the spectators at the con­test.
The following is reprinted form
his column in The Herald-Tribune:
College cheers in the North are in­comprehensible
enough, but translate
the cheers of the University of Mexi-|
co. I will give you the entire six
so that you may try them on your
own thorax.
Here goes for No. 1:
"Intlixochitl, Reyna, Xochitl, Cuauh­temoc,
Lihuicamina, Axaycatl, Caca-ma,
Mexico, Mexico, Gananara!"
This one seems to mean, among
other things, that Mexico is bound to
win the day, which was as unprophetic
as similar songs have been in colleges
to the North.
Cheer No. 2 is simpler. It goes:
"Pon, Pon, Chile, Pon, Pon Chile,
Chile Ra. Mexico, Mexico, Ganan­ara!"
The third is a locomotive yell,
which is the big noise, and which will
be to the University of Mexico what
the "Bulldog" motif is to old Yale
men. This one runs triumphantly to
this effect:
"Jooya, Jooya, Cachun, Cachun,
Ra, Ra, Cachun Cachun. Ra, Ra,
Jooya, Mexico Universidad." The
fourth rus: "Cachis, Cachis. Columba,
Cachis, Cachis, Columba, A Mexicole
Resumba!"
Like Cornell in New York State,
the University of Mexico is a co-edu­cational
institution, and the fifth
cheer is for the co-eds in particular.
It sounds like a tongue twister, but
if you heard it in that stadium you
would think it was music. This re­frain
is: "Tlachique, Chiquite, Tlabuv
cole, Con Atole, Con Atole, Con Pozole
De Verdad, Mexico Universidad!"
The sixth and last cheer was in
honor of the visiting team, and it was
given with more ringing sincerity than
visiting teams get in the North. This
cheer runs: "Requiticas, Cas, Cas,
Louisiana, Louisiana, Ay, Ay, Ay!"
fendous factor in keeping down the
Bulldog score.
Coach Floyd also was enthusiastic
over the prospects for next season.
"Bull McFaden is sending up some
fine boys, Bassett and Brown especi­ally,
who are ready for varsity work.
Parker and Hitchcock also will be a
big help. Prim is an excellent tackle.
With this fine talent coming along
and the added experience for the
present members of the varsity I think
we'll begin to make an impression in
the conference next season."
Holding Georgia to four touchdowns
wasn't considered a "moral" victory
by Floyd, but he said he was satisfied
that Georgia was extended to win by
that margin.
Every house should have Guy Lom-bardo's
new record of "College Med­leys."
Guy is now seeking fame on
Broadway, and he'll find it, too.
Now for some real pep, hear Ted
Wallace play "Campus Capers" and
"College Days" both from "So This Is
College." Ted never disappoints us.
Most of you have heard Rudy Vallee
play "You Want Lovin' (But I Want
Love)." and "Lonely Troubadour,"
but if you have not, now is the time.
Everyone wiH be delighted to know
that Blue Steele has come out of se
elusion to play two dreamy waltzes,
and his appeal is greater than ever
I'm sure you remember that captivat­ing
trombone. He plays "Rock Me
to Sleep In Your Arms" and "Mis­takes"
Blue Steele achieved fame when
he played "Girl of My Dreams" sever­al
years ago.
Ted Lewis fans will thoroughly en­joy
his record of "Lonely Trouba
"dours" and "Through."
One of the treats of the week is
"I Don't Want Your Kisses If I Can't
Have Your Love" by Ted Weems and
his Orchestra. We all crave Ted's
records. On the other side is "Until
The End" by Nat Schilkret and his
Orchestra. The first is an ideal dance
record with some real drumming. "Un
til The End" is a sentimental waltz
Both tunes are from "So This Is Col­lege,"
The Ipania Troubadours play
"Sweeter Than Sweet" which you will
enjoy whether you have se<
"Sweetie" or not. "My Strongest
Weakness Is You" is on the other
side.
"Satisfied" played by Henry Busse
and his Orchestra is well worth, your
time. "By The Way" is just another
"Other Side."
Gene Austin attempts a "come-back"
with "How Am I To Know" and
"Please Come Back To Me."
Ukulele Ike plays a snappy tune
called "Sophomore Prom."
Get hot boys. You will when you
hear Fred Rich play the "Revolution
Rythm" and "When The Real Thing
Comes Your Way."
Watch for next week's records.
Mace-Petrie Textbook
Adopted For Lower
Grades In Alabama
University of Hawaii
Doing Excellent Work
The air today is permeated with in­ternational
friendship. Evidences are
everywhere that education is making
a vigorous effort to bring about bet­ter
understanding between the na­tions
of the world.
In Honolulu, there arrived this
week a party of American college
students who are on their way to
China. They will seek for a sympa­thetic
study and understanding of
the conditions and problems of the
Orient. Later on, a group of Chinese
students will come to America with a
similar purpose.
This week the University of Ore­gon
announces an essay contest for
the promotion of friendly feelings
between the United States and the
Orient. To interest the American
youth in international relations, the
sum of $800 has been donated for
this contest by one Mrs. Murray War­ner.
And in Hawaii, "Cross Roads of
the Pacific," our own University is
conducting an oratorical contest with
a view to developing interest in the
study of "Pacific problems."
It is a truism that no one individ­ual
has all the essentials to a happy
fully developed life—cultural and
otherwise. This applies, in a larger
measure, to the races of mankind.
Each county has something definite
and of value to contribute to the
world. Realizing this, educational
circles have adopted the practice of
exchanging professors and students
between countries. This practice,
which is becoming more and more
common, is a right step and a very
effective one in the direction of fos­tering
a spirit of international frind-ship.
George Petrie, co-author of the
Mace-Petrie American School His­tory,
recently adopted for the elemen­tary
grades of Alabama, is a native
of Montgomery, and had his early
educational training in the schools
of that city. His advanced work is
represented by the M. A. degree
from the University of Virginia
(1887), the Ph.D. degree from John
Hopkins University (1891), and the
LL.D. degree from the University of
Alabama (1924). He has also had
special courses at the University of
Vermont, and at. the University of
Pennesylvania.
Dr. Petrie's teaching experience
has been, for the most part, centered
at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
Auburn, where, in 1887, he be­gan
his work as adjunct professor of
modern languages and history. For
several years later he combined the
teaching of Latin and history, but in
1922 left the language field to give
his entire time to historical study and
research and to the teaching of his­tory.
From 1908 to 1922 he served
as dean of the academic faculty at
Auburn. Since the latter date he has
been dean of the .graduate school of
the same institution. During several
summer sessions he held positions at
the University of Virginia, at George
Peabody College for Teachers, and
at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Petrie holds membership in a
number of educational and historical
associations, and has contributed
widely to publications. He is the ed­itor
of a series of Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute studies: Studies in
Southern History, the History of Ala­bama,
Comments on Current Events,
and Problems of the College Dean.
By aptitudes and training essen­tially
a scholar, Dr. Petrie has lived
many of his days in the land of books.
Yet his sojourn there has not left
him bookish. Instead, he has learned
to get from the characters that live
in a book many of the good things
each has to give and to pass the
qualities on to those he knows and
to those for whom he writes. Of him
it may be said that he has extended
Solomon's famous injunction to read,
"with all thy getting get wisdom—
and fun," for his trigger-like wit and
zest in laughing are two of his well
known characteristics. — Alabama
School Journal.
AUBURN HIGH GRIDDERS LICK
COLUMBUS INDUSTRIAL 20 TO 6
Coach Bynum's hustling Auburn
High eleven licked the Columbus In­dustrial
gridders 20 to 6 last Friday
in Columbus, Ga., to win their sixth
successive victory this season.
The Bynum grid men were dopped
to lose in this fray by a big margin
and it was due to this fact that Coach
Bynum 'said was the reason they won
such a decisive victory. The Auburn
High men were out weighted at least
10 pounds to the man, but the team
work of the smaller boys easily made
up for the difference in weight.
The Auburn High aggregation will
take on their seventh foe of the sea­son
when they clash with Roanoke
High next Friday.
When the Auburn High mentor.
showing in the Technala than any
previous senior class.
So no longer our artistic tempera­ment
will be offered by the monoton­ous
sight of page after page of
similarly dressed seniors; by the sight
of stiff-necked girls, trying in vain
to keep their caps at a becoming
angle. We can scarcely expect a great
transformation, but let us hope—yes,
I would say, let us pray—that there
will be an improvement.—Montevallo
"Alabamian".
INTERCOLLEGIATE PRESS
FLASHES
Boulder, home of the University of
Colorado, voted last week to have Sun­day
movies. Several other college
towns in the United States are wag­ing
fights to allow the showing of
films on the Sabbath.
The University of Virginia recent­ly
dedicated a new medical school
building, which was built and equip­ped
at a cost in excess of $1,400,000.
The Oxford (England) University
debate squad is now making a tour of
the United States and Canada.
who graduated from the University of
Alabama a few years ago and is now
enrolled in the Electrical Engineering
Department at Auburn, made his ini­tial
call for grid aspirants at the first
of this season, there were only four
regulars to report for duty. The rest
of his team was quickly whipped into
a strong machine.
In their game with the Columbus
Industrial gridders last Friday the
Auburn High mentor only made one
substitution.
Auburn won the toss and recived.
They made a first down with three
line plays and threw a long pass to
score their first touchdown. The ex­tra
point was added with a line buck.
Auburn then kicked off and held
their opponents for downs on their
40-yard line. Auburn made another
first down with an end run off-tackle
tnd then threw a long pass to place
the ball on Columbus' 8-yard line.
A reserve play made the next score
from there. They failed to add the
extra point.
Score: Auburn 13, Columbus 0.
Columbus tightened up and no
more scoring was done in the first
quarter.
In the third quarter Columbus re­ceived
and with six successive first
downs they scored a touchdown.
They failed to add the extra point
with a line play.
The remainder of the game was
played in mid-field until Cook inter­cepted
a pass and carried it for Au­burn's
third and last touchdown. A
pass netted the extra point.
Score: Auburn 20, Columbus 6.
When the game ended the ball was
in Auburn's possession on Columbus'
20-yard line.
The twelve men that played in the
game for Auburn were: Cox, McClen-don,
Earnest, Cameron, Friel, What-ley,
Bains, Howard, Rutland, Powell,
Cook and Moore.
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SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS
Readers of school news perfer such
solid aspects of education as progress
of pupils and methods of instruction
to the "fads and frills" which receive
so much space in the newspapers, it
is indicated by the answers to a ques­tionnaire
which is part of a study
just completed by Dr. Belmont M. Far­ley,
assistant director for educational
interpretation of the National Educa­tion
Association, Washington, D. C.
A class has been discovered which
combines the distinctive characteris­tics
of each class in school. It has
the optimism of the freshmen, the
laziness of the sophomores, the dar­ing
of the juniors and the dignity of
the seniors.
For in the 1930 Technala, the se­niors
will appear unadorned with caps
and gowns. In taking this step, the
seriiors did not consider caps and
gowns necessary to their appearance
of dignity. They ' have shown dar­ing
by breaking a habit which num­bers
of senior classes have formed.
They have, unconsciously displayed
a quality of laziness in that they pre­ferred
to make four poses for pictures
instead of eight; and incidentally, to
pay two dollars instead of four. They
have been able to express optimistical­ly
their expectations to make a better
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PAGE FOUR
THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929.
Robot Teachers, Radio
And Talking Pictures
May Displace Teachers
Boston, Mass.—"Canned education
in the form of robot teachers, radio
and the talking movies may soon dis­place
teachers in the American educa­tional
system, just as "canned music"
is replacing musicians today, Prof.
Robert E. Rogers, of the Massachus­etts
Institute of Technology, told the
joint convention of the teachers of
Norfolk and Middlesex Counties at the
Boston Garden here recently.
Education in America has already
become so thoroughly mechanized, ac­cording
to Professor Rogers, that it
has produced a "half-baked popula­tion
intellectually," who are not il­literate
because they can read, but
who read nothing but tabloids.
Visualizing a schoolroom where the
pupils sat listening to the standard
daily lesson sent out in the form of
talking motion picture films from New
York, or perhaps radiocasts from a
single source to all schools in the
country, while, a little normal school
graduate sat turning the crank or
changing the reels, Professor Rogers
warned the thousands of teachers
present that the picture was no more
ridiculous than that of musicians put
out of work by radio and talkies
would have seemed 10 years ago.
Speaking on the subject "Aaron's
Rod, a Parable," Professor Rogers de­clared
that just as in the Bible
Aaron's rod became a serpent, swal­lowed
up all the other rods, and then
was used by Aaron to bring a plague
on the land, so the present tendency
to stress method and detail in teach­ing,
rather than original thought, was
a serpent which was swallowing up
the rods of individuality, originality,
broadmindedness and basic knowledge.
The blame for the present tendency
to mechanicalize education Profes­sor
Rogers placed chiefly on the ed­ucational
courses in the normal schools
of the country, which, he declared,
teach a "bewildering mass of little
facts," a confusing and useless moss of
"tricks of the trade," under the name
of "the science of pedagogy."
What is needed, Professor Rogers
concluded, is a return to the "old
school of common sense," teaching the
pupils the few simple things that they
have to know, instead of a confusing
mass of details which they immediate­ly
forget. '
Training of the youth is not nearly
so good no wonder the present system
of "scientific pedagogy," he said, as it
was under the older and simpler form
of education, wherein the individuality
of the teacher played an important
role.
New Species of Homo
Sapiens is Discovered
Cleveland, Ohio—(IP)—According
to W. E. Lawrence, assistant profes­sor
of Cultural Anthropology at West­ern
Reserve University, there was dis­covered
recently not far from Peking,
China, a new species of prehistoric
man, which may prove to be the
crowning achievement in the search
for the so-called "missing link."
It is believed the man recently found
may be a cousin of the American In­dian.
College authorities who prevent stu­dent
driving of automobiles should
be told that 5,000,000 persons are in­jured
annually in their homes.
Bootleggers Caught
On Senate Steps
Arrested at the entrance of the
Senate office building, George L. Cas-sidy,
once, known as 'the man in the
green hat," was at liberty on $3,000
bond, posted on charges of transpor­tation
and possession of intoxicating
liquor.
Cassidy was prominent in the news
several years ago when he was iden­tified
as the man who had, when ac­costed
by an officer in the House of­fice
building, dropped a brief case,
containing a bottle of liquor and fled.
The policeman in question remember­ed
only the color of Cassidy's hat
and a search was instituted for "the
man in the green hat," which finally
resulted in his arrest.
The second arrest came yesterday.
Police had followed him from his home
to the Senate office building where
he left his automobile and entered.
A few minutes later he emerged, took
a package from the car and started
again toward the entrance. Then he
was arrested.
The police said the package he car­ried
contained a bottle of whiskey
and that two more were found in the
machine. A search of his home, they
said, disclosed a stock of 266 quarts
of assorted liquors.
MATTHEW SLOAN TO VISIT
AUBURN ON NOVEMBER 23
(Continued from page 1)
made general superintendent in charge
of operation and from 1912 to 1915
was assistant to the president.
He left Birmingham in 1914 to be­come
operating manager of the New
Orleans Light and Power Company.
Two years later he became vice-presi­dent
and general manager and held
this position until he resigned in 1917
to become operating manager of the
New York Edison Company.
On August 1, 1919, he became presi­dent
of the Brooklyn Edison Company.
Nine years later a consolidation -re­sulted
in his becoming president of
the New York Edison Company also.
Mr. Sloan is now president of five
companies which comprise the larg­est
electric and power system in the
world. They are the New York Edi­son
Company, Brooklyn Edison Com­pany,
Inc., the United Electric Light
& Power Company, New York &
Queens Electric Light & Power Com­pany,
and the Yonkers Electric Light
& Power Company.
He was born in Mobile, September
5, 1881, and was only 19 when he
graduated at Auburn. In 1911 he was
married to Miss Lottie E. Lane,
daughter of General James H. Lane,
for many years professor of civil en­gineering
at Auburn who was a dis­tinguished
Confederate General. '
DR. SHOWALTER SPEAKS
ON CARE OF CHILDREN
(Continued from page 1)
important care of children from the
beginning, the fundamentals being
taken into consideration by Dr. Sho-walter.
Dr. Showalter lectures every Fri­day
night.
Four students at Washington State
are working their way through school
running a barber shop. Which re­calls
the old barber shop yell—
Shave 'em; Shave 'em! Raw! Raw!
Raw!
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Books of Interest
The Dark Journey" Arouses Storm of Controversy
in French Literary Circles
"THE DARK JOURNEY"
By Julian Green
Harper & Brothers, Publishers •
Reviewed By K. M. McMillan, '33
Not only has Julian Green's "The
Dark Journey" won the $10,000
Harper's Prize Novel Contest for
1929-30, but it has also been chosen
by the Selection Sequana (French
Book-of-the-month-Club) in France.
Upon its publication it aroused a
storm of controversy in French liter­ary
circles, and since that time has
gone through fifteen separated
printings.
It is a tragic story of the unhappy
lives of a small group of people in a
French provincial town. The prin­cipal
character is Gueret, an unhap­py
married man of about forty.
Madame Londe is a vain middle aged
woman who runs a little cafe and
keeps Angele, an orphan girl, to at­tract
men to the cafe. Gueret falls
in love with Angele, but she despises
him because of his weak nature.
His utter misery, along with the
knowledge of Angele's reputation,
Co-eds Claim Prisoner
As Near Relative
Evanston, 111.—(IP)—Danny Mills,
according to the Associated Press, re­cently
held a little popularity contest
all by himself in an Evanston jail
cell. The cause of his confinement
was his overzealous interference in
behalf of James Hurlbut, a fellow
Northwestern University student who
was arrested for speeding.
"I'm Danny Mills' sister," explained
a pretty co-ed to the desk sergeant.
'I've brought some things for his
breakfast."
The sergeant weakened and led her
to Danny's dungeon cell.
Ten minutes elapsed.
"I'm Da'nny Mills' sister," smiled
another co-ed sweetly. "I've brought
some things for his kreakfast."
She was permitted to pass a bunch
of grapes through the bars.
And so in the course of time it
came to pass that ten co-eds bore
their gifts of cheer and a ten-course
breakfast to Danny. The desk ser­geant
paused at Danny's cell door to
inquire after his family.
"I haven't a relative within miles,"
Danny admitted cheerfully.
So Danny languished, solitary, until
fraternity brothers produced $50 to
pay his fine.
EINSTEIN RECEIVES DEGREE
FROM UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
Paris—(IP)—The University of
Paris recently bestowed upon Profes­sor
Albert Einstein, he of the relativ­ity,
the degree of Doctor of Nonoris
Causa.
Other foreign schdlars to be so
honored by the French university are:
Edward Jenks, English jurist; Drl
Sesar Roux, of Lousanne; Professor
Ignace Moscicki, President of Poland;
and Franz Cumont, of Brussels. The
Polish president was unable to attend
the ceremonies because of political dif­ficulties
at home.
FIFTEENTH CENTURY BIBLE IS
DISCOVERED TULANE LIBRARY
New Orleans, La.— (IP)—Wrapped
in moth eaten paper, a fifteenth cen­tury
Bible was recently discovered
in Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane
University by H. L. Webb, head li­brarian.
The book was stored away in a far
corner of the library. Its condition
is very f ragil.
COLLEGE PRESIDENT RESIGNS
AFTER 21 YEARS OF SERVICE
Hiram, O.—(IP)—After 21 years
as president of Hiram College, Dr.
Milner Lee Bates has presented his
resignation to the Board of Trustees.
Dr. Bates declared that the work he
had wished to accomplish when he
took the presidency, had been accom­plished,
and he wished to see the reins
in younger hands.
FORMER DOPE FIEND WILL
OPEN SANITARIUM SOON
Halle, Germany—(IP)—Dr. Fritz
Meyer, for 12 years a' dope fiend,
who cured himself, is planning to
open a sanitarium here soon in which
he claims he will be able to cure folks
of the dope habit in six weeks.
His means will be a course in
psychoanalysis.
drives him to distraction, and he at­tacks
Angele and beats her almost
to death. While in this fit of insanity
he kills a harmless old man, and thus
becomes an outlaw. He returns later
and is captured by the police. Angele
dies, and Madame Londe is forced to
close her cafe and retire from active
life because of the inroads of old age.
The story is a dramatic novel,
marvelous in its originality of con­cept,
and is unanimously admitted to
be Green's best.
Although the book holds the read­er's
interest to the last, the plot and
characters are a bit unreasonable.
The tragedy is too universal; there
is not a single happy character in
the story. In the conclusion all the
characters of any importance have
died except Gueret, who is in prison
on a murder charge, and Madame
Londe, who Green says "had one foot
in the grave."
Despite the prevalence of tragedy
the characters are wonderfully real
and true to life. Gueret's actions are
not according to the ordinary dicta­tions
of reason, but he is a splendid
creation of an utterly miserable man.
The book is not only a master piece
of tragedy, but one that will com­pletely
absorb your attention.
Director of Orchestra
Wants No Applause
Philadelphia—(IP)—During a re­cent
program of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski, director
of the archestra paused to request his
audience that it consider stopping its
"medieval" practice of clapping hands.
"This strange beating together of
hands," he said, "has no meaning.
To me it is very disturbing. We try
to make sounds like music, and then
in between comes this strange sound
which you make. I am not criticizing
you. I am criticizing a custom. I
don't know where it originated, but
probably back in some dark forest in
medieval days.
"I rebuke nobody. But I want' you
to think this over and later in the
season decide whether you want to
show your appreciation by clapping
hands."
He concluded, bowed slightly, and
the audience returned thunderous ap-plaus.
KICKS 11 GOALS OUT OF 12
TRIES FOR EXTRA POINT
Blytheville, Ark.—(IP)—B. F.
Brogden, 135-pound and of the local
football team, is believed to have es­tablished
a new record when he re­cently
drop kicked nine consecutive
goals for points after touchdown in
his team's 76 to 0 victory over Os­ceola
high school. Brogden's tenth
attempt was blocked by the Osceola
linesmen, but his eleventh and twelfth
were successful.
STUDENTS REFUSE TO ATTEND
GAMES AT UNIV. OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Mich.— (IP)—Students
of the University of Michigan are
threatening to strike and refuse to
attend football games here.
The cause of the trouble is the be­lief
by the students that university
athletic authorities are selling the best
football tickets to outsiders, and forc­ing
the student's to buy tickets along
the end zones.
Tiger Theater
Wednesday and Thursday
GRETA GARBO
in
"THE KISS"
Greta Garbo, the divine
beauty, in a sweeping dra­ma
of a woman storm-toss­ed
by life.
A new triumph.
Also short subjects—News
Friday
JOHN GILBERT
in
"HIS GLORIOUS NIGHT"
Brave in battle and dar­ing
in love—what a char­acter
for dashing John
Gilbert in his first talking
picture.
Saturday
"RED HOT RYTHM"
Dramatic picture of song
pluggers and a music rack­eteer
in Tin Pan Alley.
. . - — 4
Chemist Believes Corn
Important To Future
Ames, Iowa—(IP)—Dr. Henry Gil-man,
professor of organic chemistry
at Iowa State College, believes that
corn, thus far regarded almost en­tirely
as a food or drink, is scheduled
to play an increasingly important
part in future civilization, eventually
replacing many current necessities of
life.
Already in the laboratory, the pro­fessor
reveals, there have been secured
from corn bases for dyes and perfumes
a substance said to be 300 times more
sweet than sugar; flavoring extracts,
drugs, insecticides, fungicides, a high­ly
absorbant compound and other prep­arations.
There are hundreds of other
uses yet to be discovered Dr. Gilman
believes.
It will some day be possible, he
says, for a man to eat a meal com­posed
of corn cakes, corn bread and a
drink similar to coffee prepared from
corn and sweetened with a grain or
two of a derivative of the corn cob.
The eater, while waiting for this
meal, may read news printed in ink
colored by dyes taken from corn cobs,
on paper made from corn stalks, by
illumination from a lamp buring a gas
secured from corn cobs.
An anesthetic prepared from the
corn would ease the pain of injured
persons, while wounds would be steri­lized
by another byproduct and danger
of tetanic infection eliminated through
an injection of still another deriva­tive.
Hospital air would be purified
through use of charcoal prepared from
corn cobs.
That's as far as Dr. Gilman's pic­ture
goes at present. How far it may
go, he refuses to predict.
Few Big Games To Be
Played in South Nov. 23
Victor W. Smith Goes
With Frigidaire
A South Birmingham, Alabama,
boy who was a leader in Alabama
Polytechnic Institute activities until
he was graduated in 1928, has chosen
an expansive unit in the industrial
WOrld—the electrical refrigeration
field—to continue the advancement he
started in college.
He is Victor W. Smith, who holds
his B. S^ degree in mechanical engi­neering,
a member of the Lamba Chi
Alpha fraternity. The American In-stiute
of Electrical Engineers, and the
American Society of Mechanical Engi­neers.
Smith is one of 20 honor men
from 15 leading universities and col­leges
of the United States who are
members of Frigidaire Corporation's
junior executive training group.
At Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Smith participated in interfraternity
tennis, was a member of the pistol
team and the Evans society and was
lieutenant in the R. O. T. C.
The Alabama Polytechnic graduate
is now well along in an intensive 48-
weeks' training program consisting of
practical experience in engineering,
sales, service, materials, production,
finance and inspection. He is at the
Frigidaire plant at Dayton, O.
This is the second year for the train­ing
course. Twelve of last ^year's
class of 15 are now occupying junior
executive positions with the corpora­tion.
Television To Be In
Homes, Commissioner
Washington—(IP)—That football
games, and world series baseball
games may soon be watched by peo­ple
sitting in their own parlors, was
predicted by Harold A. La Fount
Radio Commissioner, speaking recent­ly
from here over a radio hook-up.
"It is my belief," he said, "that
the day is near when you may wit­ness
not only moving pictures, scenes
and spectacles, but even football
games or a world series. I believe you
will be able to follow the progress of
a transatlantic flight, and I believe
also that planes may be flown without
a pilot, just as battleships may be
controlled by radio signals."
Smiths Hold Pivot On
U. of Missouri Teams
Columbus, Mo.—(IP)—For the
eighth.consecutive year the name ap­pears
in the center position of the
lineup of the University of Missouri
football team. And' it bids fair to
remain there for at-least another
year.
Since 1922, when Glenn Smith won
the position, he has been succeeded
by two other brothers, the latest of
which is Ray Smith, a junior, who
as a sophomore last year stepped in­to
the vacancy created by the gradu­ation
of Clyde, who held the pivot
post from 1924 to 1927. The broth­ers
live at Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
Chicago—(IP)—With the 1929 foot­ball
season drawing to a. close, most
of the important games for Saturday
Nov. 23, are scheduled to be played
in the West and Mid-West.
Important mid-west games are those
between Chicago and Washington, De­troit
and Oregon State, Indiana and
Purdue, Kansas and Missouri, Kan­sas
Aggies and Nebraska, Michigan
and Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin,
Northwestern and Notre Dame, and
Ohio State and Illinois.
In the West there are games be­tween
New Mexico and Arizona, Ore­gon
and Hawaii, Southern California
and Idaho and Stanford and Cali­fornia.
The South offers Duke against
Wake Forest, South Carolina against
Florida, and Southern Methodist
against Rice.
The Harvard-Yale game is the big
Eastern encounter, with contests be­tween
Army and Ohio Wesleyan and
Navy and West Virginia Wesleyan
also of interest.
Duke's Buildings To
Be Of Native Stone
Durham, N.C.— (IP)—Thousands
of tons of a peculiar native stone
have been quarried by Duke Uni­versity
here for use in construction
of its buildings, all of it from Duke's
own stone quarry.
It is estimated that when every
building in Duke's extensive program
is completed there will be enough
stone left in the quarry to build a ten
foot wall around the college's 5,000
acre campus.
Classified by geologists as belong-to
the Cambrian era, the Duke stone
has a number of tints and colors
which are said to blend beautifully
with Gothic walls and trimmed lime­stone.
By operating its own quarry, the
University has saved thousands of
dollars in the erection of its build­ings.
Jungle Trees Fight For
Sunlight, Say Scientists
Cambridge, Mass.— (IP)—A battle
for existence is going on every day in
the jungles of the Canal Zone, accord­ing
to Dr. R. H. Woodworth and
Professor R. H. Wetmore, two Har­vard
Scientists, who spent the summer
in the vicinity.
The war, they say, is for life-giving
sunlight. Giant trees of the jungle
150 feet above the forest floor teeming
with ferns and low plants, constitute
a ceiling which, with myriad vines,
cut down the amount of light pene­trating
to the interior to a minimum.
Scarcely a day goes by, the Harvard
scientists report, but that a huge tree,
loaded down with vegetation, gives up
the struggle and crashes to earth.
Unique Method of
Selecting Football
Champion Planned
An authoritative attempt to se­lect
the championship college foot­ball
team for 1929 will be made un­der
new and novel circumstances
during the coming autumn, accord­ing
to an announcement just made
by the committee which will under­take
the task.
Under the charmanship of W. O.
McGeehan, nationally known sports
columnist and newspaper writer,
and with the sponsorship of a com­mittee
of prominent amateur sports
patrons, the aid of 250 newspaper
sports editors is being enlisted to se­cure
an "exhaustive and satisfactory
national selection" for the Albert
Russel Erskine Award.
A preliminary ballot will be taken
in December among .the 250 sports
critics and a final ballot will then
be voted on the few teams which lead
in the first ballot. Between the
halves of the New Year's Day game
in California, the winning team will
be announced. The coach . of this
team will be presented a Studebaker
President Eight motor car. The com­mittee
plans to make the award an
annual feature of the football sea­son.
Average Age College
Student Will Go Down
New York—(IP)—In an informal
address here recently before the As­sociation
of Medical Colleges, Presi­dent
A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard
College declared he believed the ave-erage
age of the college student
should and will go down.
"My greatgrandfather," he said,
"sent my grandfather to college at
the age of 13, and I believe the boy
benefited by being so young.
"I believe the younger a boy is
when he goes to college the less like­ly
he is to be influenced by the im­moral
and harmful condition he may
find there."
The President drew laughter from
his audience when he said that if a
man of 40 should go to college he
would almost immediately go to the
dogs. He said:
"A cigaret would be a thrill to a
boy of fifteen, but it would take a
good deal more than a cigaret to im­part
the same thrill to the 40-year-old
freshman."
STUDENTS AT DENVER DATE
AND SHAVE AS GAME IS WON
Denver, Colo.— (IP)—By virtue of
Denver's victory over Utah Aggies, a
six-week period of beards, no powder
and no dates came to an end here last
Saturday. Men of Denver University
swore they would not shave until Den­ver
won a game. Girls foreswore cos­metics
until such an event should come
to pass, and dates were out of style
while Denver remained on the losing
end of every game of the season.
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